it's definitely a monday...

that's been my thought all day.

no denying it's a monday.

we've had a big dose of "monday" here...

and since it's MY blog, i'm going to complain. because i can.

these pregnancy hormones have given me a headache pretty much every single day for the last 4 months. it's driving me nuts. that and the nausea still hasn't gone away entirely- it hits randomly, whenever it pleases. and now my spd is in FULL swing, making everything less tolerable. touch, sound, smell... arrrgh! of course, cole's new attitude isn't helping any- he's become mr defiant on a whole new scale. to top it off, i'm doing it all by myself 24/7. yup, i'm officially frazzled.

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alrighty... pity party's over.

i just had to get that all off my chest.

and now for the rays of sunshine in my life (even if sometimes they're responsible for brief thunderstorms, lol!):

madison's become quite the little entertainer- her most recent thing is walking half-crouched with her hands on her knees, giggling like a lunatic.

not sure where she learned it, but it cracks me up!

cole and his sister have begun REALLY interacting. like, on the same level. of course, since he's older, he likes to dictate what they're pretending, but she seems to have no problem with that.
yet.

miss madi got her first hair trimming on saturday night.

we were at mom and dad's for the weekend (mom did a lot with the kids so i could take it easy and get my braxton-hicks back to normal. they're much better today, almost normal.) so after madi's bath, her little "rat tail" in the back finally got too tangled to just comb out. i'm sure i could have worked it out, but a 21-month old has no time or patience for the comb and i'm sure it would have hurt. rather than deal with it and know that i'd just have to struggle with it all over again in a day or two, i decided to trim it off. i loved that the very back of her hair was long enough to almost reach her shoulder blades when wet, but it was such a small section that was that long, and it was starting to show some damage from the tangling.

unfortunately, i'm no good when it comes to doing hair, so i'm not totally happy with the bob look she has going on, but at least it won't tangle so bad. it lays better, swings a little when she's running, and it'll grow out quickly, i'm sure. i did save the trimmings, just like i did from cole's first hair cut.

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tomorrow is my 18-week appointment with dr h... i'll be 18 weeks on wednesday, but at this point, a day doesn't make much of a difference anymore, right? mom's going to come up after work and watch the kids while i go to the clinic, and i'm anxious to see what he says about my size. personally, i don't think i'm showing quite as much as i did with cole and madi, but i have a suspicion that i might be measuring a little ahead. we'll see...

i'm not sure i've got the patience to wait another two weeks for our big ultrasound, though. i can NOT wait for that! :)