maricar tagged me!

Here’s the game. Choose five occupations from the list below and fill in the blanks. If I tag you, you’re supposed to answer in your own weblog. If you don’t want to, let me know so I can tag someone else, but c’mon, be a sport!

If I could be a scientist. If I could be a farmer. If I could be a musician. If I could be a doctor. If I could be a painter. If I could be a gardener. If I could be a missionary. If I could be a chef. If I could be an architect. If I could be a linguist. If I could be a psychologist. If I could be a librarian. If I could be an athlete. If I could be a lawyer. If I could be an inn-keeper. If I could be a professor. If I could be a writer. If I could be a llama-rider. If I could be a bonnie pirate. If I could be an astronaut. If I could be a world famous blogger. If I could be a justice on any one court in the world. If I could be married to any current famous political figure.

here goes!

if i could be a farmer…i would be a vegetable or fruit farmer. i love animals but i don’t think i could handle the smell of them!

if i could be a musician…i would play the piano and the guitar beautifully, sing as i do now, write as i do now, and i would make my own lullaby album without any difficulties.

if i could be a doctor…i would be a pediatrician. they get to see adorable kids and don’t even have to give shots to them, so most kids like them.

if i could be a athlete…i think i would like to be a runner. i have always liked the idea of running, but actually doing it is another story.

if i could be a bonnie pirate…a bonnie pirate? ok…i would be capt. jack sparrow. hehe!

i tag………..everyone who visits my blog who has a son!!!!!!!!!!!

jeremiah had his 15 month appt yesterday. it went fine, i guess. the np who saw him said he was the most well-behaved 15 month old she’d ever seen in her life. she said this several times. she also would not STOP saying how cute, adorable, handsome, beautiful he was. i was like come on lady! stop it! lol. she finally said, “i don’t just say that = i’m really serious = he is beautiful!” or something like that. it was funny.
he is 23lbs 11oz = only 40th percentile
and 31″ = only 45th percentile
i admit it’s always a little annoying when he is below the 50th %. i always worry. they say not to worry, because he’s developmentally perfect, advanced even, but STILL. rolls eyes.
he had to get two shots. the nurse said they are the most painful ones too. he was SOOOOOO upset from them, and was actually mad at me over it. i think he blamed me for holding his hands down. he was screaming, walking around hitting things and wouldn’t come to me!!!! finally got him with a nilla wafer.
afterward yesterday, he was grumpy and clingy, and right before bedtime he started limping. poor baby. so i gave him tylenol before putting him to bed. i hate it when he’s in pain!!!
today he has been doing ok. you can tell when he gets up that his legs still hurt tho, he acts like he can’t walk on them until he gets them working. kind of scary.

pregnancy fun: these two photos were taken last night, when i was 23 weeks pregnant with josiah:

these two photos were taken in september 2003, when i was 23 weeks pregnant with jeremiah:

can you believe it? i look almost exactly the same, don’t you think?? i think josiah may be a little bigger, but not much. hard to tell really. the jeremiah pics were scanned in, so they look strange.

is it me, or has this week seemed to fly by?!?

ttyl! have a great day, and God bless!!

hi, it’s me, josiah! today mama is 23 weeks pregnant. that means i’m 21 weeks old!
here’s what american baby’s development guide says:

Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound. His skin is red and wrinkled. Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare him for breathing. He can swallow, but he normally won’t pass his first stool (called meconium) until after birth. Loud noises heard often in utero — such as your dog barking or the roar of a vacuum cleaner — probably won’t faze your baby when he hears them outside the womb.

i like to kick mama all the time! i roll over and hit her so she can feel it too. i’m not trying to be mean - just stretching and moving for exercise.

i know mama and papa and my big bubby love me. i hear mama sing to me and bubby all the time, and she reads to him too, and i get to listen! bubby likes old mcdonald and he likes to hear his book about being a big brother. mama says my name when she reads it!

i am growing and growing and i can hardly wait to come out and see the world! i will like to meet you someday!

i’d been trying to get a pic of jeremiah up at american baby forever. the photo i really wanted to use would not upload for some odd reason. but i got ONE to work! so please vote!! click here! you can vote up to 5x per day. oh yeah - only vote if you think he’s cute.

well i made a new layout, kinda. i really just made a new header and copied one of cheryl’s layouts (with her permission) and changed a few things on it. the pics are jeremiah’s first swing at the park! he loved it so much! i wish jerry had been there too, because i was so worried trying to hold the camera, thinking jeremiah would fall out of the swing. lol. i want to get a little swing for him to put here…but we have no tree or anything to hang it from! any suggestions?

this pregnancy and my toddler are wearing me out!!! i need an energy infusion people! help!

that’s it for now! thanks to all who have registered so far. if you haven’t done so, please do! (see sidebar).

also note that in the sidebar you can choose which ‘theme’ you like best for viewing my site! you say you liked the other pics of jeremiah better? just choose april dreams under the theme switcher, and you can view april dreams! i think the only thing is, when i make a new theme and want to show it, it will switch to my newest one. but you can always switch back to your favorite. (this would have come in handy before, huh?!)

God bless!

just a simple generic layout while i figure out what on earth i’m doing. thanks to jerry and cheryl for doing most of the legwork. you guys rock!!
for those of you who are wondering what i’m talking about: i upgraded to the new version of wordpress! finally! so for you to comment, you must register. (if you registered yesterday, you won’t need to register again!) i know it’s a pain, but it helps on spam and hopefully no one’s comments will be lost now!
God bless!!!

dear friends and family,
i would appreciate if you would register for commenting on the blog. i would appreciate it SOOOO much. we can try it and see how it goes. i hope it makes things easier for everyone.
if you are a friend, family, frequent commenter, or just a visitor who wants to say howdy, please fill in as much info as possible for me. if i don’t know you and don’t get a good feeling about it, i probably won’t approve you. but please don’t take offense.
God bless!

ok by now everyone knows that when you comment i have to approve it. this usually takes only a while. but there are still people who’s comments are not showing up. if you are one of them, and have NOT let me know, please do so by emailing me: gigowski at sbcglobal dot net.
the question is this: if i try the membership thing, where you would log in to post a comment, would you be up for it? it might make things easier in the long run, it might not. but then i wouldn’t have to approve the comments, and it might help out. we could try and see and if it doesn’t work, then go back the way it was. i just don’t know what could be causing some comments not to come through. jerry has been way too busy to look at anything, so i haven’t asked him about it. he has a really full plate right now.
anyway, i’m also feeling a bit better today. the tooth still hurts when i eat or drink something and it happens to get on that side, but otherwise it’s ok. not the non-stop throbbing of yesterday! praise the Lord for that blessing!

please let me know your answer. God bless!

for some reason, wednesdays are not good for posting. sigh. i am 22 weeks and one day today! i wanted jerry to get a belly pic yesterday, but since his car isn’t working, i had to run to the grocery before he went to work, then when i got back, we ate lunch and he had to leave. so no time for a pic. he’s off tomorrow, so i’ll try to get him to take one then. i feel like i am as big as a house, but in reality i know it’s not that bad. josiah is VERY active now. i think he had me fooled before, into thinking he was a calm, peaceful boy. yeah right! he and his brother are gonna run circles around me together! sigh. how do some women do totally fine when pregnant? i am so miserable. more on that in a minute!!

sorry to alarm anyone by not posting for a few days and not keeping up with my reads. things are ok. just so tired. jeremiah is feeling a lot better, tho his nose is still really runny. snotty more than runny. tmi? lol. the rash, according to the dr, was just part of the virus he has. it went away, except his skin is still a little bumpy where the dots were. strange.
he is getting back to his normal routine, sleeping and eating. so that’s nice.

unfortunately for me, i am at the exhausted point in the pregnancy. the point that no matter what, i am DEAD TIRED. when jeremiah woke up this morning, i was SURE it was seven or earlier. nope it was 830! i was sooooo tired. my head was nodding and my eyes were drooping all day. i took a nap when jeremiah did i was so tired (and skipped my shower, since that’s when i usually get it in, so that made me even more tired because a shower usually helps to wake me up a little). on top of the exhaustion, my right molar is KILLING me. i’m going to have to get a root canal i’ll bet. it hurts SO BAD. i can’t even drink lukewarm water (can we say EWWWW) without it hurting. :( and you know how a bad toothache is; when your tooth hurts, your whole head hurts. UGH!

this is one of the reasons i didn’t want to post. i hate totally down, gloomy, whiny post. but this is what’s going on right now. it’s one of those weeks i could use a flower just popping up in the yard. lol. with the weather like it is, i doubt it. just dandilions.

God bless! hugs.

jeremiah is 15 months today!!! wow.
it’s hard to say what new things he’s doing, since he’s been sick off and on so much. he is still getting over his cold, with the snot and all, and he’s also really having problems with those molars coming in. he’s pushing and pulling at his ears all the time. not sure if that’s from the molars or the pressure from his cold. probably a bit of both. then, to top it off, today he woke up with a rash. it was on his front and his back. a little bit behind his ears too. it has since gone to his forehead as well. i called the dr’s office at about 5, because we hoped it would go away. nope. sigh. so if it’s not gone by tomorrow, i have an appointment for him. i hope it goes away. i hope it’s nothing serious.
i have been worrying about his verbal development lately. he doesn’t seem to say as many words as he once did, and he only chooses a few words to say over and over and over. dadadadada, ma-me-ma-me, me-me-me-me. he says ‘oh’ a lot too. should i be worried? or is it probably just because he’s not feeling well?? if we go to the dr tomorrow, i’ll ask.
we got a toddler bed the other day. a nice garage sale find. we haven’t put it in his room yet…i’m still working on figuring out a few safety issues and also thinking about how i plan to bed train him. i don’t ever want sleeping to seem like a punishment to him…

i went to my appt today, and jerry stayed home with jeremiah since he was still feeling so icky and grumpy. everything was fine. heartbeat sounded great, bp was great, measured great, oh and i’m up 5 lbs! the first weight i’ve gained in this pregnancy. hopefully i will stay at maybe a pound or two a month or so. that would be nice! i saw the NP, and she was really nice. she was the same np who helped me with my problem almost a year ago…she loves the boys’ names.

guess what i did today? i locked us out of the house. we were headed for the library to drop some movies off. i looked in my bag before heading out the door and saw the lamb keychain. so i pulled to door shut and locked it. when i got to the van, i saw it was the decoy lamb keychain, the one that i let jeremiah play with, not the one with keys we use. so i couldn’t go anywhere (like jerry’s work to get his key) and i couldn’t get back inside. and jeremiah and i both looked ragamuffiny! sigh. finally, someone next door pulled up so i asked to borrow their phone. called my mom and jerry and jerry eventually came to unlock the door. i felt SO DUMB. sigh. this preggo brain is such a pain!!!!
we went to the library and i used the drop box. we were then gonna run over to the hometown ice cream place right down the street from the library. turning onto the road, i noticed a big group of kids with adults at the front, middle and end, headed you know where. ‘we can beat them!’ i said to jeremiah. not like he knew what i meant. we would have beat them, had there been a decent parking spot. by the time i found a spot, parked and got jeremiah out, they were in line. like 30 of them. no way. so we headed back to the van and came back home. sigh. oh well. it sounded soooo good too.

i am trying to sell some princess dresses and hair bows for my friend zhou. she’s selling them for money to get her parents over here from china. a very good cause. they are VERY cute. if you’re interested, let me know and i will post the pics. don’t have them uploaded yet.

hope everyone has a great night. God bless.

my readers must be totally bored with me, or their lives must not revolve around me, as i’d thought.
well i didn’t go to the appt yesterday because jeremiah was feeling way too icky and grumpy. i couldn’t get anyone to watch him either, sooooo rescheduled for monday. it’s with a nurse practitioner, but that’s fine with me.
an online friend jana called me out of the blue and said she was in indy, did i want to get together? well, sure! so last night, jeremiah and i went to texas roadhouse to meet her and her fam, and also cara lynn and fam, another online friend, who happens to live in the same state as i do but we just have never met. it was nice, except jeremiah started feeling really bad again; he was tired and very grumpy and just not feeling well. so we left early. i am still glad we went tho - it was neat to meet them!! i think if texas roadhouse had accepted our call-in reservation, it would have been fine, but it took too long waiting, and toddlers are generally not the best waiters.
jerry is home this weekend (wooohooooo!!!!!!) and we are going to hit some garage sales and get some things for the house. like a sink for our downstairs bathroom. very much needed!!!
hope everyone has a great weekend!!! lots of love and hugs. God bless.