Our week

It's friday morning, I got 5 hours of sleep last night, and the same for the last 3 weeks. Ezra was awake until 12:30am and then I finally went to sleep at 1am. Jason got home at 5:45am and of course, that woke me up. I got up this morning, telling myself that I have to have a good attitude and that'll make me have energy and not be so tired. Then some morning sickness hit me and Ezra watched me go through it and kept saying, "Ewww mom, you sick!" It was hilarious just seeing the look on his face while watching me. It made it much easier for me to get through it. haha! So we did our morning routine and I was struggling just focusing on what I needed to do, but got it all done except for making the kid's lunches. Here's to $3 hot lunches... yippee!! Hope's bus came and I walked her out and the bus driver says, "Oh dear, you look exhausted and burnt out, at least you can sleep in this weekend." No, I don't get to sleep in on the weekends with soccer and church. That's fine with me though, because I love being a mom and all that comes with it.

I went to my OB yesterday, who is amazing and has been my OB for 5 out of the 6 kids. I'm almost 37 weeks and I'm already dialated to a 1cm and 30% efaced. He said that was totally normal for how many kids I've had.  He said it's normal to be anywhere between a 1-3cm for 3 weeks. It'll just feel like the baby is going to fall out... haha! I'm happy to be progressing though. I would much rather do that then sit in the hospital for hours in labor. I want to show up to the hospital at an 8 and then have the baby within an hour. Wouldn't that be awesome! I'm hoping I won't have to get an epidural this time. I was so tired with Ezra because I had been having full on contractions for 3 days, so I got the epidural. And it was weird. So I guess we'll see what happens! Only 3 more weeks!

Isaiah has been playing a lot with Ezra and Elijah lately, which I love! I love that he's such a good big brother and willing to spend time with them and teach them things!! Most older siblings want nothing to do with their younger siblings, I'm glad that's not the case with him. Jason took the night off tonight to take the 2 older boys camping since we didn't get to go this last year at all due to Jason's work and our trip to my brother's wedding. Isaiah has been so excited and packing for the last 2 days! He loves nature and camping and survival things! I just hope they catch some fish!

Maci loves soccer and she works so hard at everything! She practices piano without me asking her, she does her homework without me asking her too. She'll go outside and practice soccer with Elijah so she can become better at it. She is on her 12 multiplications at school, and she's the highest in the class and has studied so hard to pass each one.  I just love how motivated she is!

Sadee went to the fish hatchery in Oroville yesterday for a field trip. She thought it was the coolest thing ever! She loved watching them cut open the fish and seeing all the eggs come out.  I was so bummed that I didn't go with her, I knew I wouldn't be able to walk around that much though.  She lost her first front tooth a few weeks ago and is about to lose her 2nd.  She's so proud of it too!  And she's doing very well in school!

Elijah's speech is coming along. I have to work with him more because he's so used to saying it a certain way. We need to retrain his mind to use his other muscles to say it correctly.  A kid the other day asked why he talks like that, and I asked the kid, why do you have brown hair? He got the clue that he was just born like that. He's definitely not special needs or anything, just taking a little longer to speak properly.  Just like his daddy! Jason was 4 years old before he talked! It's weird how he looks so much like Jason, he has the same speech problem as Jason did, and when I was prego with Elijah, I threw up the whole pregnancy 6-12 times a day and in labor and Lauren, Jason's mom, did too with Jason. Crazy!! I would love if Elijah turned out to be like Jason though.... because he is a wonderful man!!

Ezra is currently obsessed with Little Einsteins. He loves how we have on demand and can watch it whenever he wants.  I say no a lot and he throws huge temper tantrums.  So I just change his direction and find him something else to do. He loves the TV though.  I don't like that.... but it's been a blessing because I'm able to get a little rest at least while he's watching it.

I am so thankful to be able to have children. I think back to that dumb Dr. that told me that I wouldn't be able to and it just makes me want to scream to the world that Dr.'s aren't always right! To get to this point though, has taken a lot of prayer and faith.  While I was sick with the endo, I promised Heavenly Father I would have as many kids as He wanted me too, whether it was me having them or us adopting them, if He would just let us have 1 little McOmber.  I promised Him I would do my best at teaching them about how much He loves them and how to return and live with Him again someday.  I'm not always good at that and have to be kicked in the head sometimes when I just want to do my thing, but we do try hard to teach them and love them and just try to forget about ourselves and what we want. This pregnancy really has kicked my rear! I think one of the hardest things is the fact that my older kids have so many more activities now and they eat a lot more food. Before I could just lay around... but now I can't. Driving kids to and fro, helping them with homework, dr's appts, scouts, activity days, sports, piano, birthday parties, ect ect. I'm not complaining, but it is definitely harder when they're older.  And it seems as though they eat soooo much food now and I'm constantly running out of things, so I'm always at the grocery store.  Which is the hardest thing for me to do with the 2 younger boys. I do it anyway and thankful to have opportunity to do so.

 Twice a year, we have a mouse problem. It's usually in the spring and the fall. Always when the weather is changing. Last Spring we caught 8, trying to come into our house in one day. Ya, gross huh? They come in from the garage through this dumb open space where the cupboard and wall meet. Today I am buying some spray foam to seal it up and hopefully that'll keep them from getting into the house. Well, we knew it was that time of year and they would start coming, so we set traps up throughout the laundry room. Well, those smart little things kept getting the peanut butter and setting the traps off without getting caught. And Malcolm our dog, wouldn't eat his food or even go near it because he is scared of the mice. Then the other night we saw one in our family room! It was about midnight and I heard a trap go off and turned around and saw the mouse wiggle out and run back to the laundry room! ARGH!! I was so mad! So last night I was so done with them and with Malcolm crying about it and I set up glue traps.  This morning I got up and saw there was one, alive in the glue trap in our family room! Awful!! I felt so bad for it though and it made me want to cry. I went into the laundry room and saw that 1 of the traps was gone, so I ran upstairs and woke poor Jason up asking if he did something with it. He said there was another mouse in that one and he bumped it off and he'll take care of it when he gets up. I begged him to come downstairs and take care of the one in the family room, but he was just too tired. Poor guy! The mouse is still sitting there in the glue.... and it's crying now! I feel so bad, but I can't get near it. Those dumb things carry diseases and I'm pregnant and not taking any chances! So we'll just have to wait for Jason to get up and take care of it, because I definitely can not kill it, no matter how annoying they are! I'm hoping that there aren't anymore! Elijah is such a sweet boy and just came up to me and said in his broken English, "Mom, just be nice to the mouse and ask him nicely not to come into our house. Just talk nicely mom." :-) Such a sweet boy. It makes him sad too knowing that we will have to kill the mouse.

We haven't been able to find our camera, so Jason bought a cheapo one at walmart because we have to have a camera when the baby is born! I haven't had a chance to use it, but when I do, I'll post some pics. It's no fun reading without any pictures! BTW.... Jason has like 2-3 more weeks of nights! YAY!!!! Then he'll be home for me to have the baby and during that time he'll work at switching his sleeping schedule back to days and then go back to work 2 weeks after I have the baby. Ya, I get him for 2 weeks! YES!!!! It might be my only time to really be able to catch up on some much needed sleep and rest. So excited!