Doctor's Visit and Mother's Day

Getting the boring stuff out of the way, my doctor's appointment this morning was, again, the basic stuff.  Everything looked good, Garrett was well behaved, and I'll see the doctor again in about 2 and a half weeks.  After that appointment, it will be a weekly visit till D-day.  Hard to believe we're already at this point!

My Mother's Day weekend was greatness!  Keith had been asking me periodically what I wanted for Mother's Day and most of my responses had to do with spending time together, either just us, or the 3 of us as a family.  (My Love Language is Quality Time, with a good dose of Acts of Service thrown in there, in case you couldn't tell.)  And Keith enjoys quality time as well, but I guess he figured that he also should get me something tangible, so he kept hinting around trying to get me to tell him something I wanted.  I really couldn't think of a specific item that I was needing or wanting, so I wasn't much help, but from the things that he said I suspected he would be getting us a new TV for our bedroom.  

We're one of the few families in the US who do not have cable or satellite and instead watch our TV via antenna (not bunny ears or tin foil, by the way, but an actual antenna that we've put in our attic rather than on the outside of the house.)  What this means is that when all the TV stations switch to digital signals next month, the TV in our bedroom will be rendered obsolete.  Yes, we can buy a converter box that will make it work, but this TV is 19" and 10 years old, that I had in college.  I should confess that it has a nice, melted spot on top of it where I had a lit candle sitting on it back when I was in college and the candle melted all the way down and the candle holder got hot enough that it melted a hole about the size of a silver dollar in the top of the TV.  It looks lovely.  And this TV does not have the ability to be hooked up to a DVD player, so really, we'd rather have a new one.  (Just FYI, the antenna picks up digital signals, so our living room HD TV works perfectly fine.  There's no way you can tell that it's coming through an antenna except for the smaller number of channels.  And hey, it's free!)

OK, back to the topic at hand.  I assumed a new TV was in the works, so I was excited.  On Saturday morning, Keith and Garrett headed out to buy my gift and run some errands.  Garrett had told me the night before that I was getting a necklace for Mother's Day, so I had no idea if he had heard this from Keith or if he was just making it up.  He has the knack for saying things with such conviction that you assume it's the truth, but that isn't always the case.  While they were gone I was able to clean the kitchen and mop the floors, along with organizing the cabinets in our laundry room.  It was a productive morning.  (And yes, I'm nesting.  Thank you for asking.  Or as Keith said the other day I'm "building my nest".)  

Keith and Garrett came back a few hours later and Garrett ran in the house shouting "Surprise!  Happy Birthday!".  He had his holidays a little confused.  Then Keith walked in with a Nintendo Wii.  I was thoroughly surprised.  We had talked about getting one last Christmas, but never did and I think that was the last time it was mentioned.  Keith is not into video games.  They don't really appeal to him, so I know this was bought solely with me on his mind, which makes it that much sweeter.  It took a little work to get it hooked up, Keith was thoroughly impressed with my electrical engineering abilities.  He sat back and held a flashlight for me while I dug around in our cabinet to get everything connected.  

Once everything was hooked up, I turned it on and proceeded to set up our family Mii's.  That was hilarious.  Garrett kept saying "That does NOT look like Momma!" or Daddy or Garrett.  I told him we were just doing the best we could.  I was going to name myself Lydia, seeing as how that is my name, but Garrett insisted my name was Momma, so that's what I went with.  My how life changes when suddenly I'm the Momma in the game instead of that designation being given to my own Mom.  I bowled the first game and once Garrett saw what it was all about, he took over.  He's spectacular at pitching, terrible at batting, takes a lot of work (and a sweet forever) to bowl a full game by himself, along with being a pretty good boxer (provided he's paying attention to what he's doing and not attempting to play some unseen game with the joystick on the nunchuck controller.)  Keith bowled one ball for Garrett and once he discovered that you actually have to go through the motions of bowling and that the sensor picks up how fast or slow you roll the ball, he was pretty impressed and will probably play a little more frequently.  But so far he hasn't actually played a full game of anything yet.  I was excited when my sister told me that I can download the original Super Mario Brothers to play.  I LOVE that game!  And Keith was excited when I told him we can download the internet channel and surf the web on the TV.  He's always wanted to be able to do that.  Now he wants to know if they sell some sort of computer mouse-type controller so that he can feel like he's on the biggest computer ever.  

  

Right now we just have the basic Wii package with the Wii sports game, but eventually we'll add another controller or two along with additional games.  I'm excited to get the Wii fit because I've heard a lot of good things about that.  It will go into my workout rotation once I'm no longer pregnant and actually working at losing weight.

I will briefly share the rest of our weekend now that I've rambled on (for 16 pages, FRONT AND BACK.  Name that show!).  After playing with the Wii, we went and ate lunch at Jalapeno Tree, which is a local Mexican food restaurant chain.  We had never eaten there before and it was ok.  I've had better Mexican food, but I've definitely had worse as well.  We took Keith's mom some flowers for Mother's Day and visited with his family for a bit.  (I sent my mom flowers too for those who were wondering.)  Then on Sunday we went to church and had lunch at Baker's BBQ afterwards.  Garrett spent most of the afternoon outside with Keith while Keith fixed the a/c on his truck and Garrett played.  I mostly relaxed inside.  Then we noticed Garrett's eyes getting red and puffy so he came in because apparently he's allergic to something outside right now.  He took a shower and some Benadryl and went to bed a little early.  This morning his eyes still look a little red, but not as puffy (and by red, I mean underneath his eyes are red, not his eyeball.  He's always done this with allergies, but they've never swollen up like they did.)  This morning I gave him some Children's Claritin and that seems to be working even better than the Benadryl.  After he went to bed, Keith mowed our yard, which was another Mother's Day present for me, as far as I'm concerned.  He had spent all day outside working on his truck and then proceeded to spend more than 2 hours on the mower because he knew the tall grass was bugging me.  

I hope all the other moms out there had a wonderful Mother's Day!  It's so nice to feel appreciated.  I'm going to have to be sure we celebrate Father's Day early because this year it falls the day before my due date and I would feel badly if we end up spending it in the hospital or with a newborn, so we'll have to celebrate the Sunday before.  I already know what I'm going to get for Keith, I would post it because he never ever reads my blog, but on the off chance that he might over the next couple of weeks, I'll keep it a secret.  But as far as he's concerned, what I'm going to get him will be every bit as exciting as a Wii, so I can't wait to see his reaction!  (And Keith, if you are reading this, no, it's not a '69 Camaro.  Sorry!)