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It was a very long summer. Late Spring I found out I was pregnant. I was so sick with this pregnancy, from morning until night. I felt icky all day and then around 4:00 I was positively ill. Luckily Joel usually came home around 5:30 so I only had to survive an 1 1/2 before I could go off duty. We decided to call the baby Jack Jack. Sam and Oliver were very into The Incredibles at the time and because I was so ill we called the baby Jack Jack to explain that just like the movie, our little baby could turn into fire or a ball of lead and make me very sick. This was as clear as we could make it. I would tell them that Jack Jack was on fire and that meant I needed to be left alone until he turned back into a regular baby. I realize that it probably only made sense to a 5 and a 3 year old but at least it worked. We have been debating about whether or not to move Oliver into Sam's room and when I talked to Ollie about it he said, "I don't think that it would be very good to have him in there and then turn into fire." I guess the explanation needs to be clarified so that he doesn't actually think that our baby will burn our house down.
This summer was also a ridiculously obscenely awful heat wave. I don't really like being hot at the best of times and this was just the pits. Joel always says that he doesn't really understand why it snows when he can't go and play in it, I have to say the same about the hot weather. This summer it was so hot you couldn't play outside, so while it was nice to look out the window at the beautiful day it wasn't really useful. We may as well have been in a blizzard but at least then you could have bundled up, you can only take off so many clothes before someone calls the cops. It did have the World Cup in it which is a fun time in our house
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Brookgreen Gardens
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Once I found out I was pregnant I signed the boys up for every imaginable camp to try to give them something to do while I felt so awful. We joined the pool, which turned out to be a necessity. We went to Charlotte to see Phish, Asheville to see fireworks on the 4th of July and Pawleys to see the ocean. Sam started swimming laps at the pool and Oliver got his own big boy furniture for his bedroom. Now it seems that it's getting chilly and with every drop in temperature my mood is improving. Now, I am going to have to come up with a new web address for the blog now that we are going to be the 5 Simpsons...
This summer was also a ridiculously obscenely awful heat wave. I don't really like being hot at the best of times and this was just the pits. Joel always says that he doesn't really understand why it snows when he can't go and play in it, I have to say the same about the hot weather. This summer it was so hot you couldn't play outside, so while it was nice to look out the window at the beautiful day it wasn't really useful. We may as well have been in a blizzard but at least then you could have bundled up, you can only take off so many clothes before someone calls the cops. It did have the World Cup in it which is a fun time in our house
