Mid Week Update

Okay, so maybe the title is slightly misleading since we are really one day past midweek but how exciting is a title like "One Day Past Midweek Update". Anyways, on to the update. Jolie continues with swim camp and is loving it, I actually have a picture to share but I am on the I-Pad so that will have to wait. But she is doing really well and even has been jumping off the diving board and doing great.

Rich is finished with work for the year and is home for the summer, he will be watching Avery for the summer so he will still be very busy. Avery will be 6 months old tomorrow...that just doesn't even seem possible. But she is doing great in her first two days home with Daddy.

I have yet to get much done while at home because I haven't felt very well. I saw the surgeon yesterday and he found the same hernia that my primary care physician had found last week. The surgeon went ahead and scheduled surgery for Tuesday of next week and then also ordered a CT Scan for tomorrow to get a full idea of the scope of the surgery Tuesday. I have pre-op scheduled for Monday morning. I am glad to know they will be fixing all this but a little nervous for the procedure itself as well as the recovery process. I am not suppose to lift anything over 15 lbs. for 3 weeks to a month and I have an almost 20 lb 6 month old so the logistics of that makes me super nervous. So we'll see how all that goes. But it should help with the pain and bulge in my stomach area so that is exciting! I will be home with Rich and Avery until July 5th and Jolie is going to NC with my parents on the 25th. I will be missing a sorority conference in Atlanta the weekend of the 24th but nothing I can do about it, as this surgery is somewhat of an emergency.

Well, that is it for mid week in the Perillo House, we are just trying to enjoy the first week of summer!

First Day of Swim Camp

Today was Jolie's first day of swim camp, I can't even begin to tell you how excited she was.  In fact, her excitement started at about 1:30 am this morning when she was in my room asking me when she was going to swim camp?  I of course quickly explained to her it was the middle of the night and not time for swim camp!  Rich had fallen asleep on the couch and wasn't in our bed so I let her crawl into our bed because I figured it was going to be easier than trying to get her to go back to sleep in her own bed.  Then of course not long after I got all that settled and back to sleep myself, Avery woke up in the middle of the night a little before 3 am, so then I was up for that feeding.  So needless to say Momma didn't get a very good night's sleep!  Good thing I started vacation today!

But this morning at 9 am Jolie started her first day of Swim Camp at Berkley Prep, the school my Aunt and Uncle teach at, they gave her two weeks of Swim Camp for her Birthday, what a great gift.  We went to the gym to finish her registration and see Jolie's Aunt Ciara who works there in the summer and pick up her Camp T-Shirt, she really liked that.  We then headed over to the pool for her to start her lesson.  Her group this week only has 5 kids in it and there are 6 instructors so obviously she got a ton of one on one attention and latched on to one teacher in particular named Corey, she was so sweet with Jolie.  Today they evaluated their level of swimming which with Jolie is okay for her age but we want her to get even better.  Jolie is not at all afraid of the water but needs to learn more how to get herself from point A to point B.  So they started with blowing bubbles and learning to go under the water and Jolie did pretty well except she wanted to keep jumping in the water, it was kind of funny.  She also did a lot of kicking while holding on to the edge and even her kicking is already getting better.  But I think by the time she is done with the two weeks she will be doing really well and we will be trying to keep her in the pool all summer and practicing all she has learned.  I will say though that it is amazing how hot it is outside at 9 am outside....I left the pool after the hour camp in a power sweat from sitting out there watching her!  She of course was cool as a cucumber from being in the pool.  I then took her to school and dropped her off there and she couldn't wait to tell everyone that she had been at swim camp, she just loved it and that was so sweet to see!

Update and Countdown

I will start with the countdown because it is more exciting than the update, we have exactly 1 day until our big 20 week ultrasound where we should find out the sex of Baby Perillo II.  I have to say I am really excited about it.  I just can't wait to know the sex of the baby, I feel like it is just so important.  Even Rich says this is when it makes it so real for him, knowing what we are having and being able to call it by name.  We have talked and talked about names and have for sure decided on a boy name but the girl name is still in a little bit of limbo so once we know the sex we will finalize the name selection and share it with the world.  I have to say with Jolie I just knew she was a girl, well I may have even willed her to be a girl, I wanted a girl so badly it wasn't even funny, I would go on all the Chinese Birth Calender websites and everything and they all kept saying Boy and I would cry because I wanted a girl so badly, I know it is absurd but I blame it on the pregnancy hormones.  But this time I just don't have a "feeling" like I did with Jolie and so much of the Old Wives Tales point to Boy but the Chinese Birth Calender says Girl so I am confused.  I would like a boy only because Rich would love a son but at the same time we both love having a daughter so I really feel like either way we will be happy, we just want to get a healthy report tomorrow since this is the ultrasound when a lot of health issues can be discovered.  So wishing for a healthy baby tomorrow and we will see from there about the sex.

Update on the cleaning goes as follows:
I didn't do anything yesterday!!  I know I am bad but I just felt like relaxing and I figured since this is technically my vacation I would go ahead and relax.  I promise today I will be getting back in gear.  I am going to the dollar store and BJ's this morning with my Mom for some random items and then I will be back to cleaning upstairs.  I have to say the downstairs looks GREAT!!  My cousins are coming over this afternoon to see Jolie so that will give me even more time to get stuff done so that will be GREAT too.  So hopefully tomorrow there will be more to update on!

Vacation update, well more like housework update!

So here is the update to what got done yesterday.....
1.  Deep cleaned from top to bottom except floors of downstairs bathroom (I am doing floors today, I am borrowing my parent's steam clearer).
2.  Cleaned kitchen, including two cabinets and even orange glowed all the cabinet fronts (today I am going to clean all the decorative stuff on the top of the cabinets).
3.  Straightened up Jolie's downstairs toys (after her new room is ready a ton of them are going up there, we are going to start getting her to play in her room more now that she is going to have more room and she is getting to be more independent)
4.  Cleaned downstairs, have one small area to finish today (beside and the bottom of the the china cabinet is what is left)

I think I did pretty well as I also went the store and picked paint colors for Jolie's room and got boxes to pack things away for the painters.  Plus I did still take work calls and punched in orders.

I am hoping to get even more down today, the plan is the few things I mentioned above plus the upstairs hallway, linen closet, and laundry room.

Will update again in the morning

A week off....sort of

So I have a week's vacation this week although I use the word vacation loosely as I have a lot planned for the week.  I will be cleaning up and out as well as preparing for painters that will begin next week.  Beginning a week from today I have painters come to paint all of the downstairs, stairwell, upstairs hallway, and Jolie's new big girl room, and then depending on the sex of Baby Perillo II we will be having that room painted too.  On Friday of this week we have our big 20 week ultrasound where we hope to find out what Baby Perillo II is so I am really excited about that, I just don't have the feeling I did with Jolie of what this baby is but we have names pretty well picked out either way, we are set for sure on a boy name and are almost decided on the girl name.  I am hoping for a boy as I know Rich would love a son but a girl would be great too, although if we have a girl she is going to be living her life in hand me downs so for that fact alone I hope it is a boy.  After Friday I will know what I need to keep and what I can get rid of and that alone is exciting as I have spent the last 3 plus years just saving things "just in case", I haven't gotten rid of a single piece of clothing or anything.  Although today I will be cleaning out bottles and things like that as some of the ones that Jolie used were not BPA free as that wasn't a big thing when she was first born.

So here is the to do list for the week:
1.  Pick a paint color for Jolie's new room.
2.  Deep clean all three bathrooms and kitchen.
3.  Clean living room, including under the sofas and under the sofa cushions, pack up some of the pictures, etc. for the painters, it will make it much easier to move the furniture for next week.
4.  Clean out the china cabinet.
5.  Clean out master bedroom closet, get rid of tons of old clothes, pack up clothes that don't fit now but will have pregnancy, make room for Rich to have space in the master bedroom closet since Jolie will be taking over his closet.
6.  Clean master bedroom for paint, Rich is actually painting our room and bathroom since they are the least important and easiest instead of paying the painters more.
7.  Clean up and out Jolie's current room to make the move to the new room easier.

I think that is about it but as you can see it really isn't going to be much of a vacation because on top of all I have to do I will be taking calls for work.  Although as slow as work has been that shouldn't take up much time.

Home Sweet Home

So we spent yesterday unpacking and lounging around, it was really nice to be on vacation but I have to admit it is really nice to be home.  I feel relaxed and rested and totally unstressed, however, returning to work tomorrow I am sure will bring back all the stress but at least I felt no stress for a week.  Jolie is really excited to be going back to school tomorrow, she hasn't been in three weeks and she actually really loves school and is talking about her friends and seeing her teacher, they are getting their little garden ready for fall so she is pretty pumped about that.  Rich and I also return to work tomorrow and I have to say I have a new determination to hit numbers at work so I am excited to see if I can crush it this month at work.  Well, since today is my last day of vacation let's not think about work quite yet!


Today I have some cleaning to do and a trip to the grocery store and then I have to pack Jolie's school bag and get us all ready for the week ahead.  I am also embarking on my preparation for Baby Perillo II with some big house projects, will keep everyone posted as those things get done but in a nutshell I have things to do in pretty much every room of our small house to try to make room for another person to live here.  Rich and I have decided to do one little project at a time.  Today I am starting with a clean up and out of our Master Bathroom, I will be getting rid of old makeup and styling products that are taking over all our drawers and cabinets, I will be reorganizing all the styling products in the shower and then finally reorganizing all the linens in the linen cabinet in Master Bathroom.  And then it will be Rich's turn for his one project which is to recaulk the bottom of the shower.  I figured we would start with a some what small room and a relatively small project.  And if I am calling this small that means I am in for a lot of projects between now and December when Baby Perillo II arrives.  I do know on my next vacation from work I will be staying home and working on projects and that is when I have hired a painter for to paint all the down stairs of the house, the stairwell, the upstairs hallway and the two kid's rooms, that will make me have to do a lot of projects so that is cool.  Plus the best part is my parents gave Rich and I the painters for our Anniversary and we are finally going to cash in on it, so happy!!


Oh, and about the promised post vacation post, it is going to be delayed as we left the card with all the pictures on it in NC at Mom and Dad's, they are sending it so we will post soon!!

Quick Vacay Update

We are having an amazing time in North Carolina visiting my parents, it has truly been so fun and most importantly relaxing.  Our Blackberry's only work when we go "into town" and we only have dial up Internet, it has been so peaceful I have to admit.  We have taken some great pictures so I will put together a BIG post once we get back.  Hope everyone had a Happy Forth of July!!!