SLACKER!!

Sorry I've been such a blog slacker lately. Life has been insane!! Our digital camera broke and I can't figure out how to make the video camera take regular pictures (coz it apparently has that feature) and get them onto the computer.... where, oh where, is my super computer husband when I need him?? Oh yeah, that's right, he's working like a mad man... again. Right now the baby is in her swing watching Veggie Tales while I try to do this and catch up on Christmas Thank You cards... I'm seriously the biggest slacker I know right now.

Ok, so my baby is huge. She is so much bigger than she was even just a month ago. Here's a pic that I took from before the camera decided it didn't like to turn on.
She has the craziest belly ever!! She was busy trying to eat her hands and her wrist rattles when I took this picture, so she was a little confused and a teensy bit upset about being interrupted while she was so busy. It was quite funny actually. Here's one of her smiling at our friends' house. It's their 2 year old's head that is in the way.
I absolutely LOVE her smile. Her whole face lights up and it's a little to the left, so it's a cute crooked smile. AND she's going to have dimples, like me! :) Yay! Finally something from her mom instead of her daddy!!

A few weeks ago, life really came crashing down on the Hecht household. On Sunday and Monday Matt had the flu and was puking every half hour for 13 hours straight. EWWW... poor baby though, I felt horrible for him and couldn't do anything to help. Tuesday Mackenzie got her 2 month shots, that was not fun. 4 shots in her legs and the poor thing didn't know what to do. Luckily I took our friend Karen's advice and gave her some baby tylenol beforehand so it helped with the pain. She was getting Tylenol for every 6 hours for the next 2 days and it seemed to seriously help her and she was just a little cranky rather than the completely inconsolable that our friends' baby was after he got his shots. Then on Wednesday we had to take Hank, our cat, to the vet. He wasn't going to the bathroom, eating, or even drinking for a whole day. I was worried sick about him. Tuesday night he slept in his litter box. I called my friend Sarah, who is studying to be a Vet Tech and has worked in a Vet office for 8 years, and asked her what she thought was going on because it was past closing time for our vets office. She said she was 98% sure that he was having some sort of bladder blockage issue. So I called on Wednesday morning and got him in 2 hours later and it turned out he had bladder crystals. The only way to relieve that is to have surgery (or a procedure, not sure which actually) which the vet said needed to be done immediately. So they toted my baby away (the cat baby, not Mackenzie) and he went into surgery right then and there. $1200 for the surgery and 2 nights in the hospital later, my baby is better. He has to be on special food and a supplement for the rest of his life. They also have him on a form of penicillin for pets for a while too. I bawled my way home after leaving him there. I knew he would be okay, but I was still terrified. She (our vet) wants to check him out every 2 weeks to do a urinalysis and check up and prescribe me his supplement, so that's at least another $100, and Matt's getting upset that he's costing this much. So I'm calling around to see if any other vets are cheaper... let's hope so. Goodness, I really do not want to ever relive that week. It was not fun. And not cheap, either.

This past weekend, we b0ught a new car. Well, new to us. The lease on my Saturn is up in a week or so and so we needed to get a second car. (the local bus system is pretty non-existent and there are errands and groups I belong to that I need to get to while Matt's at work and he has to be able to go anywhere at the drop of a hat, so 2 cars are necessary-dangit!) We went to a few different dealerships in town and didn't see anything and then we went to the Hyundai dealership-they were awesome when we were looking when we moved here, so we thought we'd try there again. Unfortunately, we had the baby with us, so I couldn't test drive anything and sat in the show room while Matt drove around. We found a 2004 Hyundai XG350 (it's their old luxury-ish car) that had 22,000 miles on it--INSANE! and was in fabulous condition. To get us to buy the car on Saturday instead of waiting till Monday (all dealerships and most businesses are closed on Sundays around here) they gave us $3,000 off the Kelley Blue Book price and are paying for the Saturn to be repaired (there is some minor damage on the bumper) and return it to Vegas for us since there is no Saturn dealership closer. So, we got the car. It's a pearl-ish color and has tan leather interior. It's perrrty and I'll post a pic of it later.

This upcoming weekend we are going to San Jose for a wedding, so I want to see YOU, Miss Bianca! If there's any way that you can meet me there, let me know. It'll be fun as I am going to meet more of Matt's crazy family that I haven't yet. Should be a good time. I hope!

Well, it's time to feed lil missy, so I hope to hear from all of you soon and I hope the pictures I posted are sufficient for now! :)

better...

So I am feeling better; however, Matt isn't so lucky. He caught my nasty bug right before he left on a business trip to Orlando for 4 days. poor dude. But I don't feel too sorry for him becasue I've gotten a few phone calls from him since he left and when they're not stuck in classes (it's for a program that the company has been trying *unsuccessfully, I might add* to use for about a year now) they are wandering around finding "kick ass Irish pubs and awesome 80's live cover band clubs". Ahhh, how I love to hear him yell in my ear while listening to a Queen cover band sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the background.... that was sarcastic if you couldn't tell.

Saturday we went to a birthing class, hoping to learn something and perhaps giggle while doing silly breathing exercises. We got lots of info on POST birth but not so much on the actual birth process... which is why we went. Kinda annoying, actually. Then last night I go to the Wellness Center (the gym/learning center run by the hospital) to take a breastfeeding class so I have as much info as I possibly can. I get there at 6 because that's when the lady on the phone told me it would be, even though all the flyers I saw said it started at 6:30. But, I figured, better to be early than to be late and have missed 30 minutes of information. They had quadruple booked all the conference rooms and there was nowhere for us to go. So you have 6 VERY pregnant women wanting to know what is going on, why there is no teacher (who never showed up by the way) and where in the world we are supposed to meet. After being there for an hour and asking the front desk people (who know absolutely zilch except for how to scan a card and give people towels) like eight times what was going on, we all decided just to leave. I'm angry! :( I wanted information, dangnabbit! Oh well, guess I'll just have to ask the dr and look up la leche league to get more info. Se la vie (I don't know how to spell in French!)

So this week, next week, and the following (until the 31st) I will be helping at our church's annual Pumpkin Patch. I miss living somewhere where you can go to an *actual* patch and get punkins and drink cider and just have a fabulous time (aka greenbluff). Instead what we have here is a truckfull of pumpkins were delivered and sit in our church's front area (not a yard coz there is no grass :( ) on pallets. However, I do get to read silly pumpkin stories and have fun with 2nd grade and younger kids. Makes me miss working with them on a daily basis. But I'm still working on my degree-just taking a break till January- and this helps me get more excited to be a mommy too! :) I know she won't be poking around in punkin patches any time soon, but I can still think of the future and smile, right? :) I'll take some pics of the fun punkins that sadly don't get homes until the end, you know, the ones with lumps and the gords and the ones I always pick! :)

baby update:)

So I'm officially 8 months pregnant now! How crazy is that? Just 8 more weeks and my little angel will be here. I'm so stinkin excited that it's crazy. We had a dr appointment on Thursday and he said that I'm growing fine and gaining enough weight (which has been an issue for me throughout this whole pregnancy) and that it seems as if she is doing well. She did kick him when he was measuring me though, which was kinda funny. We registered at walmart.com so that if we get something as a duplicate or we change our mind, we can return it in town instead of having to drive the 2 hours to Vegas or 2 1/2 to Flagstaff. Her room is painted, pink and brown with teddy bears, will post pics soon. It turned out really cute, now we're just working on decorations because the pink is just a little overwhelming. (Silly Matt decided to paint the ceiling too)

Last weekend (as in the first weekend in September that's not Labor Day) we flew up to Spokane for Mark Olson (Molson)'s wedding. It was so much fun and so great to see all those we did. I miss that crazy town and more that I knew it, I miss GREEN!! There is some here and we do have trees and grass in our yard, but it is so sparse in the rest of town that it makes me sad. But all in all it was a good trip, minus the 4 1/2 hour late planes that didn't get us home until midnight Monday evening. I want to go back now and hang out with good college friends and their hubbys/wives and those that aren't married too :). I want to see EVERYONE in one place again, let's just go back to college, okay? The place where I could run across campus to see my loved ones, instead of having to go across states, countries, and even the world to see them! Ahh, how life changes. Can you believe it's been two years since everyone graduated (well, minus me, but that's a technicality) and six since we lived in HobJob (which is no more :( sad) and met as freshmen? Wow, how fast and amazingly life has changed.

On the plus side of living in the desert, it's finally under 90 during the day and cool at night which is perfect weather for me. I just need some rain, and not the crazy monsoon stuff either. I also need my mommy, my Onca, my Clairb-forever friend, my ADD, my misc roomies, late night chats until we fall asleep talking, and Pizza Pipeline cinnamon stick thingys. :) But I live vicariously through blogs and myspace and facebook, so that does help a little. I just wish I could talk to you all more! Here's to happy lives, splendid Septembers, and phone calls that will happen soon :).