The randomness that is now September.

I am completely amazed that it is September 11th, I cannot believe the time is going by so fast now-a-days. Isaac will be 2 in just over 2 months. He is growing up very nicely. He is in the perfect learning stage of development, every day is something new. He can name at least 10 body parts, count to 10 (sort of), know what people are talking about, understand some shapes, like a circle, or a square. He understands that an oval is sort of a circle.
He is still really pickey about what he eat, but is eatting a lot more now, he is mostly all about chicken nuggets and french fries. He can say fries and know what they are, lol.
It has been raining almost all summer, which is so unusual for Calgary. We usually have a pretty mild summer. The warmest we got all year was 31C, and for only one day, normally we have 3 weeks of hot hot weather. And with the rain, the husband has been home more often again, unable to work in the mud.
Things are going well. Its in the plans to move in January, so I hope I have time to update. More later.

And now for something completely different

Yesterday was my husband's birthday. He decided he wanted to take our son to see his work site. He is a heavy equiptment operator and drives a gigantic earthmover. They are currently building a new community in the North West of the city. I have been to his job sites before, but have never really cared much for it. Yesterday I really appreciated it. I am not sure why, but I think it was because it was a nice escape. I know this city inside and out, and there is rarely a place I have never been, but here it was, this beautiful place, out in the middle of knowwhere, you could see rolling hills, wheat fields, mountains... It was beautiful! And Isaac really enjoyed himself. We let him run a round a little and play in the dirt. My husband showed me a different terrains in the rock beds, a natural spring pouring from the side of the hill, that the beautiful red rock that caught my attention was actually a lump of clay, that the rocks were smooth, made from soap stone... It was as if I actually had a chance to relax and enjoy myself for once. It was beautiful, and I regret I didnt have a camera when I experienced it.

Potty Training...The beginning.

Isaac has started to show interest in potty training. He has started to refuse to wear diapers. Takes them off as soon as there is any indication of wetness. We bought some Pull-ups, but I find them a bit of a waste of money, and since we bought the ones that get cold, i find that Isaac thinks they are burning him, he becomes extremely aggravated and rips them off the first chance he gets. We are still not quite to serious about it though, just attempting to get him to know what peeing in the potty is. I am sure he isn't quite ready yet, but we will get there.

Peanut Allergy or not?

Its a little hard to see the picture of Isaac's rash, but it came right after eatting a couple of peanuts. He came to me crying and gagging, and I thought it was because peanuts can be sharp, and he isn't used to that kind of food. Then he is making a little hack noise, and a deep cough. I panicked! His cousin Alexis has a peanut allergy, she gets anaphylaxis from peanuts, so we are normally really careful, but he has been fine eatting peanut contaminated food before. But the rash came so fast, I knew. And he was crying and having problems breathing. I made him drink some juice and he told me he was itchy, I made a million phone calls and finally called the poison control center, who told me to give him benadryl. I do not recommend you panic like I did. Call 911. Which is what I should have done, but, thank God, he was fine after the benadryl. Now we go see the the Doctor to get a referal to the allergist.

Summer has started

It is finally nice here! We have had non stop rain and/or snow here all year, but just over the weekend it started to get warmer! We took Isaac to the splash park for the first time, he had a blast! Got himself soaked. I had so much fun too. I did wake up to thunder and lightning at about 4am, but its gone now.
My mother has been here since June 8th, she went home today but may be comming back in August. It has been nice having her here, definatly spoiled me! Some one who did the dishes, cleaned up after the baby, bought dinners and lunches, haha. I enjoyed having her company, after 11 years it was quite nice to have our visit. It was sad to say good bye, Isaac has become very attatched to her too. I hope things work out for her though.
Back to the trying to concieve road again. I am not ovulating, at all. With my PCOS before Isaac, I had always ovulated at least 90% of the time, but since I have been off the pill I have not had one temperature spike through out my cycles, and no positive ovulation tests either. I really don`t want to go through the fertility clinic again, that was so stressful. I think we will probably be going the clomid route in August. But, if that doesnt work by December, I will be looking at the option of a hysterectomy. PCOS has never really bothered me, but laitly I have been going through menopausal issues, and if I go through pary-meno, I will just get the hysterectomy. Alas. .. Other then ttc, life is good. Summer is here.

Isaac is 18 months old!

Today my baby boy is officially a toddler. He is 18 months old. Weights 26lbs, is 2 foot 8, and speaks about 30 words. He uses a fork, has an attitude, likes to spit out food, and his favorite show is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I find it so hard to believe that a year ago he couldn't even sit up or crawl. Life is so amazing. Happy Toddler day little man.

...4,5,6....Um.

Well it looks like the road to conceive again will be a hard one, again. My cycles have become so infrequent and erratic that I still have no idea if I ovulated or not. I really didn't want to conceive with Doctor intervention. Next month I will be taking my temperature everyday. The husband went back to his old job, so we are spending more time together, more then I would like actually, but what am I going to do, ha ha. He has been off for two weeks because of the rain we have been getting, but today he went back to work. Which on one hand has been a great thing, but one the other had horrible because I threw my back out about 5 days ago, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. We were going through boxes in our storage room trying to get a little bit of spring cleaning done, and I must have picked them up wrong, I severely bruised my Trapizius muscle (the V shaped muscle between your shoulder blades) and was put on some muscle relaxants and Tylenol # 3s. I haven't been able to take anything today because I don't want to be a bad parent and fall asleep while watching the baby, but I did manage to get him to have a 3.5 hour nap today, which was also a 3.5 hour nap for me.
We are going to be moving soon. We found a great rental rate on an apartment suite we used to live in. Its a great size, family oriented, and in the area that we wanted Isaac to go to school in. The rental rate is also a nice dramatic change, we will be saving about $300+ dollars a month. The only downfall is we won't really but close to anything, where we are now I can walk to the train, the mall, the walmart, but there the closest thing is a 7-11, and I have to take the bus anywhere. But our doctor is right there in the same place as the 7-11.
Isaac is talking a lot more, he is 17 months old now, and seems to know what cause and effect are, its funny because I know people who know less about common sense then he does. He is so intelligent.
That's all for right now. :)