Been Awhile

So it has been awhile, I have been busy.
Im now 25 weeks, and huge. Chubs McGee is measuring 2 wks larger every doctor visit so Im looking forward to little baby chuck, which Zack never had.
When It rains it pours. I think I have done pretty good paying people off with Matt working all these hours so far, Express, Best Buy, Menards, Target (mine), Target ( matthew), Providian ( well half and transferred the rest off the 34% card to a 4%) Continental Diamonds ( who forgot we owed them money), Gary, and Tony. Yikes. But I still have Both Wells Fargo cards, Dodge credit card and Matts Parents. and I havent saved a penny.
I got notice starting June 2nd I have to report for jury duty too. Geez. It states I will be on-call for 4 WEEKS! having to call in the night prior to see if I need to report. Yeah that works good at my new job where there is only 2 of us. So who knows how much I will get to work. I hope 1) I either get dismissed right away due to my pregnancy or for any other reason I dont care just find one. or 2) I get chosen for a case right away so I can be done. They say they last around 1 to 3 days (90%)
Next, I knew our property taxes were increasing 2000%, but I thought if we paid the difference is wouldnt effect our mortgage. Well I was wrong. We just got a statement letting us know that starting July 1 we will owe 1550.00 a month instead of 1387.00 and that is only if we can pay the 1800.00 shortage in our escrow account. If we cant come up with that money by July 1, we will owe over 1700.00 a month! Geez, think of the house I could have with 1700.00 a month mortgage... not this one in the boonies. Now I know why we people are going into foreclosure. Nancy is going to help me apply for the property tax rebate or something. The two requirements are you grossed less than 98,000 and your property taxes increased more than 12%. yeah we meet both of those.
So in addition to the 3000.00 I pay in bills for June I need to find 1800.00 AND Im on Jury duty where I get 20.00 a day. hmmm. sucks to be me.
I think all this is happening because they saw us getting caught up and we had gone to Menards to price out a deck and were going to pay CASH for it and they were like no way..... you have to have debt. So Gary was available to put our deck on the second weekend of June.... not happening. Unless I win the lottery.
Speaking of the lottery, Zack hasnt had an accident in about a month. He pooped in the potty this week at Grandma Barbs and announced to her that those two poops were for her to take him to Disney World, she responded when she wins the lottery. Zackary will now tell you he is going to disney world when Grandma wins.
Another Zack story, its been awhile, we were watching Americas Funniest Home Videos, My favorite last night, when a video came on of a little 2-3 year old girl covered in paint, the camera than fans to the wall and carpet, very nicely fingered painted,
Matt states
"Zack if you ever do that you will be in BIG trouble"
" Oh I will be in big trouble?"
"Ya"
"Whats Big trouble?"
"You would be on time out for a long long long time"
"Oh, (pointing to the wall) Is Grandma Barb in Big trouble then?"
She painted our living room earlier this year..... I just looked at matt and laughed... explain that one.
The Wii remotes have needed batteries for the last two days, I have some, but think its time for a wii break. Every other minute Zack asks when we are getting batteries, this morning he tried it a little different.
"Mommy you can do Everything"
"I can?"
"Ya, you can do bills on the computer, you can go to Walmart and buy batteries for my wii remote so I can play...." ( sly smile grows as the sentence got longer....)
What a stinker.

Candy

Im not a Cat person, I hate most of them. I really really like dogs, but we are unable to have a dog. We dont have a fenced in back yard, Matt doesnt have patience, and I dont have time. So we got a Cat from my mom ( after she paid for it to get fixed and declawed), but this isnt a normal cat. I think it knows that I dont like cats so it acts more like a dog, which is nice. Candy is chunky which I like, Zack isnt always very nice, but she doesnt care. She is not anti-social, but for the most part she will give you space, for the most part. When we come home she is always in the foyer or at the top of the steps to greet us. She will then follow us around and continue to be in the same room as we are. I recently discovered she likes coffee Ice cream from hagaan daazs and she insists on taking showers with me. I know that is weird, but she likes to climb in between curtains and sit on the edge of the shower with the clear liner protecting her. She will either sit and watch (weird) or meow me a song. Apparently she likes to sing in the shower, just not take the shower. If I close the bathroom door for my shower and open it at the end, she will be sitting outside the bathroom door giving me an evil look, she truly likes to take showers with me. Weird Cat. Thats probably why this may be the only cat we will ever have. Zack likes to refer to her as his baby kitty, she is like 2 years old and is not a baby but its really cute. "Oh my baby kitty loves me" as Zack is pulling her tail and she is running away.... "Yep Zack she loves you, but mostly if you are across the room"

Decisions

So I have decisions to make

#1 Baby stroller- I want one of those sit and stand, a spot for baby and a spot where Zack can easily sit or stand or get out to walk... Problem is I dont want it too girly for Zacky or too boyish for the baby. I found one I really like that has a car seat you can buy that fits right on it... but its dark grey and little bit of lighter grey, nice mircofiber fabric but really no pattern. Thats not the kind of carseat I wanted for my princess... I could also just buy the stroller and not the carseat and just buy a seperate more girly carseat, but then the baby really couldnt use that stroller until it was able to sit up and support its head, because its a more adult seat, which doesnt really recline. I dont want to buy a combo set and an extra sit and stand thats a waste of money. I could just buy the sit and stand and the matching carseat, but Zacks carseat was more neutral than this....

Baby Trend Sit-‘n-Stand Stroller with Parent Tray

Baby Trend Flex Lock Infant Seat

#2 decision is a name.... Matt is so ambivilent to everything its annoying. I say a name and he'll usually say its okay... Never comes up with any names either. If I really like a name is the only time he'll be like... um I dont like it.
Opinions on
Kora -maiden #384
Paige- young servant #76
Quinn- counsel #540
Kyra - lady #195
Zadie or Sadie - princess #157
Sage -wise and healthy #416
Marah - has a horrible meaning and maybe is why its so unpopular but I think its pretty -means bitter #640
and the only one Matt has said he likes Reese, but I like it Reece which is the boy version.....
- enthusiasm #159
Middle name is completely undecided
*just for Nikki on this list Rowan was #640

P.S I am getting fat
Im trying really hard not to gain as much weight as I did with Zacky, but its not working too well. It didnt help that my baby was chunky at the ultrasound weighing in at a whopping 12oz at almost 20 weeks. She does measure about a week later due date at 8/22, but since I had that blood test, and was put on the BC I know exact day of conception so its either the ultrasound error which measures exactly how much bigger she is or she really is a chunk.
7 week ultra sound was due 8/27
13 week due 8/21
20 week due 8/22 so hopefully she comes early even though the 7 week is the most accurate.

Well let me know what ya think.

PPS only I can call myself fat, you cant

YEAH!

Well we had our ultrasound and its official its a girl... Well as official as an ultrasound can be, but I had gone online reading ultrasounds to see what girl and boy ones looked like and I have a pretty good picture to tell me its a girl. He went back and checked 3 or 4 times and gave me a 99%... so pink everything here we come! Yeah I really really wanted a girl, but was okay with having another little man. Especially since Tara had Brennan it brought back a lot of Zacky memories and kinda made me want a Boy again. I have about 12 bins of boys clothes now that neither I nor Nikki will be using so.... I can finally get rid of them without people yelling at me to keep them.. Garage Sale May 3rd in Isanti I dont work and I will be participating.
I also started at Twin Cities Dental yesterday after a nice week off ( I was able to get Zack to go poop in the potty consistently and it continued to Nancy and Rons yesterday which is awesome.) We had a little set back last night but it was only a turd in the undies so Im not upset at all. Anyways back to work, we only had one patient in the morning at 9... but I hadnt been there since they set up the ops so I had no idea 1) where anything was 2) what we had and didnt have 3) some of the products are different than what we were using at SC and so I hadnt a clue how to use them... so I set up for a prophy (cleaning) he was 7 then it turned into a filling on A, luckily just an occlusal because I couldnt find a toffelmire anywhere... then an extraction of F.... geez. Three different set-ups, plus it was the first time I was going to do digital xrays by myself... I thought I had everything set up like the lady showed us, but my bitewings turned out really light... and at the end of everything he asked me to take another PA of the lower teeth on this little boy because his adult teeth hadnt been coming in for awhile which is fine, but then I had to reset up the digital machine which takes a second and then I just thought I would click the mount that I had used for his front teeth xray I had taken at the beginning, like an idiot. It turned my lower upside down! Duh it was an upper anterior mount I had chosen, but Dr and I figured out how to flip it, but that was my struggle with my first and only patient. But I decided in all of that, that I really will like our office... We are providers now for all insurances so come on down!!! We also scheduled 6 appts yesterday so about 1 a day for the next week... I a little scared of Saturday because I will be alone to do front desk (entering and start up of a patient!) , lab, and ops... one patient should be fine but if we have more... yikes.
I also got my last paycheck from the Smile Center today :( and my last bonus check Tuesday, but since they paid out all my vacation I really only worked one week I got about 1400 and plan on paying off my Target.. yeah!
While I was typing this Zack went poopy in the potty YEAH!
The way scheduling works for this clinic I end up having 5days off 5days on which I think is pretty cool!
This whole blog has been a Yeah, so lets throw in one more yeah for good measure all these days off has made it so I am almost caught up with House cleaning and laundry... YEAH!

TOP SECRET

Well, I accepted the job.
My last day at The Smile Center is Friday and I actually needed this Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday to train at the new place.
It is absolutely beautiful office, Hi-Tech, State of the Art, whatever you would want to call it. TVs and Computers in Every Op. All Digital, completely Paperless, Spacious and just jaw dropping. Im overloaded with information and hopeful all aspects of the construction process will be complete by the time we plan on opening... I mean we still have to set up everything in terms of products and such and the little stuff you forget, but so nice.
The other assistants are wonderful and hopefully we will all get along, I have no problem with either of them and I think we will all mesh well.
I got a mini-van too, 07 Dodge Caravan with 15,000 miles if Im doing the Math correctly since we traded in Matts Yukon we will actually save about $500 dollars a month. They even put in the DVD system for free since that was one thing I really wanted for Zack and seriously like the only thing this van doesnt have...
It also makes me feel good because my credit score has recovered after almost a year and half in the dumps to a 701.... If I could get it to a 750 that would be ideal... Matts needs to improve a little too he was at a 691 so hopefully paying down these credit cards will help that.
Im also sad that I was warned not to finish my basement by the banker.... She said do not put yourself anywhere near the line right now with the market the way it is... I have to agree even though I dont want too. The A/C will have to be alll... but at least this way I have the opportunity to maybe just do the patio, deck, and fence this year and basement next year. That way all those tasks we can pay cash for and wouldnt put ourselves anywhere near scary lines.....
April 8th I find out what I am having. yeah!

Possibly

Today I was offered a new job, under the table. There is a possibility I might have a different opportunity than the Brooklyn Park Clinic. Absolutely no details were given to me because I was at work and 1) the doctor is not allowed to say he is leaving or where he is going and 2) I dont think you are allowed to take assistants with you. I was asked if I was interested, was let know the rumors are true, and was slipped a cell phone number to give the Dr. a call tomorrow, so we will see. This would be a job handed to me in a Horrible Job Market ( for assisting) in a small private practice ( which is what I really wanted) Exact locations on the practice were not given but I was told 694 and Central which would be closer than either clinic ( not by a lot) but even more convenient after work... For me it would be a Big Risk.. but one I might be willing to try. Im not normally a risk taker especially since we do rely on my income, but since at the moment Matt is making better money than normal this might be the only chance I would have to take a risk. If it falls apart.... maybe the Smile Center would hire me back. Or I could be stay at home mom......... I could do temp. assisting you make a lot more hourly and I have the availability with Nancy and Ron. My biggest things will be... if he is taking over an already established clinic, the hours, and of course WAGE... I will update.

Update

Another cute Zack story from last night...

Driving home from Grandma Barb's house....

"Mom I'm this many" ( holding up three fingers)
I look back
"Yes you're right you are 3 years old"
In a very irritated tone " Then why does Grandma keep calling me her Number one Boy?"
Laughing now " because you are her favorite"
"Well I want to be her number 3 boy because I am 3"
"All right Zack I will call her and let her know you want to be called her number 3 boy"