She is still crazy

I forgot to mention earlier that we went to see the movie "Up" over the weekend and she cried 4 times.

She looks pregnant

We had some friends in from St. Louis this weekend to visit and Andrea kept up with only the occasional nap needed. We went to the zoo, Station Square and down to the Point for the Fireworks after the Pirate game on Saturday. I did notice for the first time at the zoo that she looked pregnant. The belly is starting. Nothing crazy, but I did notice it. She is feeling better, has only been sick sick every few days. More tired than anything. No other big news now, next Dr. apt. is next week. We are going to start clearing out the guest room for the babies so if anyone wants a queen size bed, dresser or night stand let me know. Free to good home.

Pickles, Ice Cream and then blame the dog

The storms that rolled through last week still plague Andrea. She has been very busy and is working 12 hour days today through Thursday. We then have some friends from Missouri coming to see us for the weekend. Andrea did have a pukin session last night but they have been fairly rare. She continues to take the nausea medicine on a daily basis. I thought the whole pickles and ice cream thing was an old wives tale but there I was the other night being sent to Giant Eagle for coffee ice cream, Clausen pickles and the modern day addition of "squeeze cheese". How disgusting! I could not watch her eat it but she actually did consume all three at the same sitting. What a surprise that the gas problem continues in the house. She often blames it on the dog but I know better. I have been pulling that scam for years. I am on to her tricks.

What would Paul do?

I am guessing fathers day will mean more to me next year than this year. This year my responsibilities for caring for the twins are fairly small. They include the occasional trip to the store for their mother for whatever craving has just struck and understanding that it is the raging hormones that makes her cry while watching a stupid reality show like "Brooke knows best" like she did last night. I am looking forward to the challenges of fatherhood and know that I will get through just fine. Awhile back I saw a bunch of people wearing these bracelets that said W.W.J.D. on them. It stood for "what would Jesus do". I guess if you were in a situation that you did not know what to do you would look at your wrist and ponder what Jesus would have done and there was your decision. I think that I will revise that a bit. Whenever presented with a dad question I think I will ask W.W.P.D. The "P" is for my dad Paul. He has been teaching me for 38 years how to be prepared for this. I know I am going to have a bunch of sleepless nights and long days ahead but I can't wait to be a dad. Happy Fathers Day.

Chasing Dominick

One of the downsides of your friends having kids and you not having any is that you never get to see them. We used to see our friends Russ and Darci all the time. Then Dominick joined the family. We do not get to see them much anymore but did last night. They were on a Cranberry Walmart run and stopped by the house. It was great to see them and even more to see Dominick and see how big he is getting. Even more important than seeing them though was the lessons I learned last night watching Dominick. They were in our basement for an hour. Out of that 60 minutes Russ chased Dominick for about 54 of those 60 minutes. First lesson learned is with 2 on the way we had better be ready to do alot of chasing. Darci started a blog a few months ago on this website called "chasingdominick". It is now clear why she named it what she did. The second lesson I learned is that a 22 month old MUST touch everything in the house that he can get to. Andrea and I quickly realised that our house is not childproof at all. Between Darci telling him "that's not yours" and Russ moving quicker than I thought he could Dominick made it out safe but we have alot of house clearing to do. I used to say that raising a kid could not be much harder than training a Labrador Retriever puppy. I may be rethinking that though. At no time did I see Russ using a shock collar, rolled up news paper or a crate.

She looks like a natural

A big congratulations to Jolene and Shawn Cernicky on the birth of Sophia on Tuesday. We went to see them at Magee when she was only about 10 hours out of the oven. All went well and mom and baby are good. Andrea got a little practise time in with the baby. She looks like she is a natural at it. I did try to hold the baby at one point and Andrea growled at me. The hormones are still raging. She has been feeling a little better but now is getting killed at work with all the storm claims this week and more to come. She got over 20 new claims yesterday and has appointments set for all day today. She may not be employed much longer because if I hear one more person yell at my wife on the phone because they don't have the correct insurance I am going to go off. I am fairly confident that her employer will not like when an employees husband threatens to kill one of their customers but I may not be able to control myself much longer.

CVS Sucks

Time for me to vent a bit. I got Andrea's new medicine filled last week at CVS. At the time it was only filled for 9 pills. I did not ask why at the time, just didn't catch it. You can take up to 3 pills per day. She has averaged only one though. I went to get the prescription refilled today and found out that the reason she only got 9 pills is that Blue Cross will only pay for 9 pills every 25 days. I asked how much they would be to buy without insurance and they were $166 for another 9 pills. This medicine is used for cancer patients on Chemotherapy and sick preggos. So let me start by saying shame on you Blue Cross for only paying for 9 pills for 25 days. That means that if someone were to take 3 pills a day it would cost them over $1,200 for 25 days. I told the pharmacist that I did not want the prescription filled yet. We would of course pay if we had to but I thought I should make a few calls first. I called Walmart to see how much they were there. Same prescription, 9 pills- $36. That is $130 less or over $14 less per pill. CVS is robbing cancer patients and pregnant women. Hey CVS, wanna go out to the dog park and kick puppies? Or maybe we could go to a Bingo game and trip old ladies. Oh, I know why not send pictures of food to starving children in Africa. I wonder if CVS stands for "Consistently Victimizing Shoppers"?