Weekend Plans

Plans for the Weekend:

Enough said.

:)

Consignment

Noah has WAY outgrown all of his toys.  The light up toys and and connecting rings are just not doing it for my grown up boy.  He is bored, and we are too!  :)

I have been counting down till the consignment comes to our town...and one (of the two that we have) is here this week!  I came home with this nice collection of "big boy toys" for him ($29!!!).  I really debated about that milk jug (with the blue top) in the back.  It was three dollars, and not much to it.  But I got it, and my boy LOVES IT!  He has put the cookies into the slot so many times already, and the best surprise was when you pour them out, the milk jug Mooooos.  :)  The plastic bag on the left is a bunch of velcro food halves.  It came with a knife and a cutting board too.

I put away all his other toys...maybe I will try them out again in a month or so.  When he forgets all about them...pull them out, and maybe they will be fun again!

Also, I'm consigning a few things myself...a swing, 2 car seats, and some clothes.  We don't want to move all of that with us, and you can get in the consignment earlier if you sell things.  So far I have sold $48 dollars worth, so I'm pretty happy about that!

I LOVE consignment sales!  I'm excited to maybe live in a city that has them year round!

What We Did

We went on a double date.  We went out with our friends Anna and Robby.  His parents kept both boys (aren't they adventurous).  And it was wonderful.  We used a restaurant.com gift that we had, so we hot to splurge and eat something really nice.  Then we jammed some ice cream in on top of that.

We watched The Hunger Games movie.  After I finished reading all three books in less than a week, I thought it would be fun to watch the movie.  It was okay.  It left a lot of good details out.  Maybe if I didn't know how much better the book was, I wouldn't have criticized the movie.

We are getting ready to set a date for our Charleston house closing.  Hopefully early November.  I really hope to be rid of this house by Christmas!!!  Right now they are just working through financing, etc for the buyer.

We are also getting ready for tropical storm Isaac to head this was early Thursday.  Yikes.

We slept in!!!  Noah surprised us by sleeping in till NINE on Sunday morning.  Seriously, that was so huge.  He has only slept past 7 TWICE in his whole life, so it was totally unexpected, and really great.

We took lots of walks this weekend.  Noah is really into walking. Throwing rocks into the creek, kicking pine cones (so cute watching him learn to kick), and going up and down hills.

We went swimming.  After swimming, he was walking around the patio naked (cause that is what we do in Mississippi).  He was bending over playing with a bowl of water, when all of a sudden (ahhhhh!!!) I noticed a poo log under his butt.  After screaming that Noah just poo-ed on out patio, I had it together enough to grab it with a piece of garbage and throw it out into the yard (cause that is also what we do in Mississippi).  And then Riley came running over...and ate the poo log.

And then we spent the rest of the weekend trying not to think about Riley eating the poo log, and gaging each time we did.

Hope you had a good weekend too!

How Dinner Goes

I hate to cook.
I'm not good at it, I have no interest in it, and I dislike everything about it.
I hate shopping, I hate cooking and I hate cleaning.

But I cook.
If you can call it that.

I defrost chicken and turkey.
And I grill it.  Or bake it.
And usually throw in some rice or pasta of some sort.

The boys (Jeremy and Noah) don't eat vegetables.
I try to sneak a few in here and there, usually unsuccessfully.
And we really only like the basics: tacos and spaghetti.
The boys don't eat anything unusual, like feta cheese, artichokes or broccoli.  :)

So I'm somewhat limited.
A typical evening goes like this:

Jeremy: what are we having for dinner tonight?
me:  MC (or MT)
Jeremy:  what is MC?
me: mystery chicken
Jeremy: what is in MC
me:  I can't tell you what is in MC or it wouldn't be MC

so we eat.

me:  well...i've made worse.  (that is my typical response to every dinner I cook, and it is usually true).

And then I angrily stare at the dishes until they wash themselves.
Or until I get over the fact that they are not going to wash themselves.

Then Jeremy scoops Blue Bell, which almost always washes down the mediocre taste of MC.

And that is how dinner goes in my house.  Just a few more hours till we do it again.

Bite Meter

And the bite-o-meter goes up.

Today we add a total of 4 new bites (all done today) to the count.

I am REALLY frustrated about it.
Don't let me light hearted blog fool you.
I almost cried when they told me.
I did cry on my way out the door.

Is there anyone in that class that he hasn't bitten by my child?

I just take it so personally.
Like him biting reflects badly on me.
But there is little I can do about it.
I just continue on disciplining at the house.
Which is quite obviously not working

Fortunately there is not a "bite limit" at daycare.
And the assistant director assured me that he would not get kicked out.
I'm relieved about that, but wish he would just quit biting.

On the positive side, Noah had a first word (?) tonight.
He says "mamamamama" now, but I'm not positive he knows that is me.
But tonight Beagle was ignorning me (or not hearing-more on that later), and he was galavanting all over the front yard.
I yelled "BEAGLE!" over and over to get him to listen to me and come inside.
The whole neighborhood probably laughed at me.
Noah pointed to Beagle and yelled "Ah Ga" too.
Doesn't sound like much, but I knew for sure he meant "Beagle".
There was definitely 2 syllables and a "g" in there.
It doesn't sound like much, but I means a lot to a mama whose baby-at 15 months has yet to say or understand a word besides "no".


Ahhh...the ups and downs.  This too shall pass.  And one day, when N comes home from school with a bad report card, or his first car wreck, or a fight with another boy at school...I will look back at this day and say "what was I thinking getting all worked about a few bites???"

Guess The Injury

This is a Guess The Injury game.

Find a bruise, scrape, bite, whatever on his body...identify it, and win.

Let's start with the scrape on his forehead.  

??

Head first dive off of the front walkway step.

How about the bruise on the left cheek and over his left eyebrow?

Walked square on into the doorway.

As of tonight's blogging, there is currently a matching bruise on the other cheek from walking into a table.

Spots all over both legs?  Didn't count, but defiantly over 6.

Mosquito bites.

Red all around mouth and chin?

Cherry cobbler.  :) 

Gotta love this kid.

Totally fearless.

Broken Fridge

Our fridge is B-r-o-k-e-n.  

This is a bad situation.

Jeremy noticed it Sunday morning.

We are fortunate to have a mini fridge and a deep freezer.

We consolidated our food into them and this blue cooler.  

Jeremy flew to Birmingham today.  

He was going to buy the new motherboard (???) there.

But it was $50 more than he could buy it on Amazon for.

Gotta love that frugal husband of mine.  :)

We will buy the part today.

2 day shipping (I hope!!!).

And our fridge will be back in business (I hope!!!).

Busy

It is really hard to get pictures of my little man right now.

He is soooo on the move.

It is hard to keep him from catapulting onto his head and take pictures at the same time.

He has found a new love for walking up and down hills.

Actually it involves "rolling" down usually.

He is bumped and bruised up from head to toe.

But I braved the kamikaze 14 month old for these picture.

They aren't the greatest, but you can see how he is growing.

And how busy he is.

Too busy for his crazy mama with the camera.

But I love him anayway.

Lately in MS

Ahhh...where to start?

1.  Just got back from doing a few errands.  Pet Smart, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Kroger.  Coupons and good deals at all 4.  I've taken a 3 week break, but I'm glad to be back in action.

2.  My face is really broken out.  I caught it last night at bible study.  Some of my pimples deserve their own zip code.  Thank goodness for make up.

3.  My boy is a little sick.  Nothing bad, just a little yellow/green snot.  So I got my sucker out.  Wow.  It is hard to suck snot out of a 14 month old.

4.  My boy cried halfway through his afternoon nap today.  Normally, my heart-of-stone self would have let him "work it out", but I didn't.  I had just finished working out, and hadn't showered yet.  But we snuggled in the rocker for an hour.  And I really loved it.  Cause he is only going to be little for so long.  And he didn't mind my smell of B.O.   And just like that, it was over.  I thought his eyes were closed, relaxing...then all of a sudden he was walking across the room to get a toy.  I don't know how the child can possibly wake up that fast.

5.  I'm really thankful for Jeremy working so hard and being supportive of my part time work.  I do love my job and love having a "break" every day, but I'm so glad to get to come home every afternoon to play, and love on my little boy.  It helps me not take time with him for granted.

6.  Enough of that mushy stuff...we started time out with Noah.  :)  Mostly for hitting.  And it is going great.  He totally gets it (though he is somewhat nonchalant about it at times, and even tries to sneak out sometimes).  Time out is also a nice time out for me too...to collect myself and not get mad.

7.  Our Charleston house sale is still going strong.  Working on some of the final paperwork.  Would I be too positive if I thought we might close in early October?  Maybe, but worth a shot.

8.  We are prepping (well, me technically, since I forgot to mention it to Jeremy) for all you can eat pasta at Olive Garden this weekend.  2 big questions:  babysitter?  and how many bowls?

9.  I have heartburn.  3 days in a row.  Not really sure what is going on, cause I would be so sad to have to skip tacos and spicy food (especially since tacos are one of the two meals that I can actually cook).  I have a large supply of tums and maalox from when I was pregnant, so I have been busting into that.

10.  I've lost two things.  A bag of fresh jalapenos and 2 new packages of pacifiers.  If you know me, you know that I HATE to lose things.  I feel like I know where most things belong in my life, and it stresses me when I can't find them.  Especially when they are fresh jalapenos.  Weird, huh?  I mean where on earth could it go???  Also, I spent an hour looking for the remote control on Saturday, and we eventually found it behind Jeremy's plainer.  Apparently when Noah was "talking" on it the other day he found a better spot for it.  So there is really no telling.  But I'm on the hunt.  2 years ago, we lost the remote control to our bedroom lights.  We didn't worry about it because "it will show up".  But it never did.  I fear the same fate for my jalapenos.

11.  Lastly, I'm having an in internal debate about exercise.  I've finished the 30 day shred twice, so I'm looking for something new.  Something to stimulate the whole "muscle confusion" theory.  I'm too cheap for p90x, and also I'm not really into exercising for more than 30 minutes.  Any ideas or suggestions???

I suppose that is all for tonight...I'm impressed you have made it this far!  Happy Tuesday!

Ear Changes

Disappointed?  

Maybe a little.

Did I expect Noah to wake up from his ear surgery talking in full sentences? 

Maybe a little.

Have there been any noticeable changes?

no!!!  

I'm not at all worried.

It will happen.  

I just need to give him time to actually "hear" words.

He likes hearing sounds...like kisses and dogs barking.

So that is the status...fluid free ears (hopefully!), but no major changes.

It woon't be long before I can't get him to shut up!!

Lost

 Help!  I've lost my baby.  Something happened last week.  I went to AZ with a baby, and came home with a toddler.  Something about this little squirt...I can't get enough of him (most of the time).  I really dreaded my baby "getting old", but I'm continually amazed at how much fun he is.

Today

Turn your head sideways.  That is what we looked at for 3 hours this morning.  Well, technically 1.5 hours looked like this, 30 minutes was surgery and recovery, and the last hour he was hysterically crying.  

But overall it went really well.  

We arrived at 5:45.  Checked in, got a room, unsuccessfully tried multiple times to get a blood pressure on a squirmy baby, and the waiting began.  I was really worried about him being hungry, but it never seemed to phase him.  He is not really a foodie.  

We went to surgery holding at 7.  I got to ride in the bed with N.  He liked the ride, but not so much the hospital gown, so nudie he went.

He was so pitiful when the rolled him off.  Sort of tuned his head down, so defeated, and rode away, sad to be leaving his mommy and daddy.

They called from the recovery room...child screaming in the background to let us know he was out and waking up (clearly).  The doc said that they suctioned green fluid out and successfully got the tubes in.  He was back in the outpatient room soon after (probably thought they should get rid of the screaming kid before they scare anyone else).  And there he stayed, in my arms screaming, for the next hour.  Inconsolable.  The nurse said that was pretty normal.  

And after a 3 hour nap, there he was 0-60 in 2 seconds, ready to rock and roll, like nothing had ever happened.  Good as new.  

Gotta love that boy.  Life is a lot more fun when you can hear!

And on to my other boy.  :)

I won't post a picture, and I won't "live blog" his procedure either (though VERY tempting).  

Let's just say that the "clean out" process is working. 

He currently rates his day as a 3/10.  

Not wonderful, but not downright miserable either.  

Mostly he is just hungry.  

He shows up at 7:30 am.  And 3 hours after that, it will be all over.  

Jeremy plans to eat the following tomorrow:  a deli sandwich, chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, more cookies, and a cheeseburger.

Today, my biggest project is to figure out how I can get in on this anesthesia deal.  Surely we are ready for a buy 2 get 1 free deal.  I know I'm ready for a nap.  

Some Pictures

Don't even know where to start.

It was a wonderful week.

But it was busy and crazy too.

Try chasing after Noah...x3.

I'm glad my sisters brought their cameras (and used them!!!). Because I didn't get even one picture.

We wanted one (just one!!!) good picture of all three kids. 

We did manage to get this one...but two are very serious, one was not sure if he was happy for sad, and one was covered in watermelon. 

Oh well, can't win them all!

 I wasn't around for this one, but it does look like fun.  :)  They found a park about a 1/2 mile away from my mom's house.  It is hot hot hot to be outside!

 Dad, (popi) was such a trooper to give baths.  And to tackle everyone at once was so impressive.  We would get a call when our clean, wet child was ready for a towel!  (yes mine has a pacifier in the bathtub)  :)

There was a TON of playing...

And a little hitting... (but I am working very seriously on that!)...

 A lot of swimming (and floating on occasion)...

Of course eating...

 And a little snuggling too...

It was so great to get everyone together!   More pictures to come, but for now I need to do laundry, go grocery shopping, but "back to school" supplies for Noah and prep for our 5:45 am ear surgery!