Kale's first crush

I promised myself that I would never go overboard with little kid "relationships" and I'm sticking to it. I'll never tease my kids about having a boyfriend or a girlfriend. I just think there's something wrong about that. I mean come on, they're just kids! But I have to blog about Kale's crush - not his girlfriend - but I'm pretty sure it's his very first crush.

Her name is Tiffany Nelson and she is a cute, blond college-age girl who helps out in Kale's Sunday school class twice a month. He pretends he's shy around her but eventually warms up and eats up her attention. She loves to hug him and play with him and showers him with attention. A couple weeks ago we were at a picnic and Tiffany told Kale she'd play with him after dinner. After they ate Kale went up to her and said something like "So Tiffany do you want to play ball or something?" He had not forgotten that she said she'd play. It almost sounded like he was asking her out. Of course he has no idea what I'm talking about but that's what it sounded like. And true to her word she went and ran around the park with him and tackled him. He loved it.

Then last night we were at church for our Wednesday night service and as we were coming out the door to get into the car she ran over to Kale, picked him up and gave him hugs. Kale pretended that he didn't love it but you could tell he was eating up the attention. Once we were strapped in the car she came over again to say goodnight. As she was walking away Kale says "Mom, Ms. Tiffany's so cute. She's just so cute!" He probably said it a half a dozen times and all I could do was smile and try and keep from giggling. It was so funny to hear him say that about a grown woman. Tiffany knows that Kale adores her so she loves to feed into it. She's an awesome lady and I'm fine with Kale crushing on her. But she's not his girlfriend! She's a far away first crush and it's pretty cute.

My last minute "adventure"

No baby yet. Just wanted to start with that :) but I did go to the hospital this afternoon.

For the past week I've been experiencing an irregular heartbeat. I can feel my heart beating forcefully in my chest and it feels like it's skipping or adding a beat. It caught me by surprise the first time. It kind of felt like Jack had kicked straight up and knocked every organ in the way. I didn't think too much of it until it started to happen more and more. Over the weekend it became more frequent so I decided to call the midwives this morning and find out if I should be concerned. I'm usually not one to worry unless told to so it was weird to call but I figured it would be better to look like a crazy pregnant lady who's just fine than have something really be wrong. The midwife called me later and told me to go to the hospital when I could and get an EKG just to be on the safe side. Thanks to my friend Jo, I was able to go after lunch with no kids. Otherwise they probably would've seen stress on that test because of me trying to keep my kids away from all the cool hospital stuff. Anyway, it turns out that they test you for 10 seconds total and of course I didn't have a "palpitation" during those 10 seconds. So I'm totally normal -- whatever that means :) And of course I had palpitations walking out of there, driving home, sitting on the couch, etc ... But I'm okay with that. I'm sure things are fine.

So I just wanted to fill you in and let you know the latest news about the baby and me. Still hoping he'll come soon!