Milestones

I meant to post a long time ago, but alas, I didn't.

Girly went to her regional science fair awards on April 15th. Out of 1000 kids in the county, she got a silver medal! She did awesome. She was very upset that she didn't get to go onto the state competition, but we reassured her that going onto regionals and winning a silver medal was nothing to scoff at! We are so proud of her. When I upload the photos, I will be sure to post them.

I also wanted to say that on May 4th,2009 I will have been a non-smoker for 2 months. On March 4th, Baby Boy and I were on a mission. He went on a Nuk detox, and I was on a nicotine detox. We did it together and now we are both free of our habits. I felt horrible taking away his nuk, and I felt like I was being a hypocrite for telling him he didn't need it and then I could turn around and walk outside for a smoke. It wasn't fair. So when we both had our fits, we could sympathize with each other. lol

The kids had their dentist appts. last Wed. Crazy had his 1st cavity. It didn't surprise me, as he eats to much junk and doesn't brush his teeth as well as he should. But Girly also had her first cavity around that age. She hasn't had any since her permanent teeth have come in. So on Monday, he gets to go in and have it filled.

This is the last weekend of spring break. I don't know why I bother to call it a spring break, it was nothing close to a break. Here is how our week went.

Monday-Dr. appts. with shots
Tues.- Get Girly to science fair thingy to do her setup and judging.
Wed.- Dentist appts.
Thurs.- Get Crazy to his school to do some prepping for Pre-K graduation.
Friday- we actually didn't have anywhere to go on this day, so I did all the yard work and helped Crazy plant his pumpkins.
Sat.-Hub's old Marine Corps friend came to visit, so we grocery shopped and cleaned up the house.
Sunday-I am sitting here playing on the computer and drinking coffee. Ahhh a day off????? I doubt it! lol

Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Well yesterday was the 1st weekday of Spring Break and the kids went in for their shots. Crazy for his Kindergarten ones, and Girly for her 11 yr. tetanus booster. Fun times I tell ya, fun times. The whole morning started out crappy. Our appt. was at 9 am and they didn't call us back till 10:45. Then they proceed to tell me that Crazy is going to have to give a urine sample. You mean you couldn't tell me that an hour and 45 mins ago while we were waiting? Sorry, uh this 4 yr. old already went. Do you know how hard it is to try to force a 4 yr old boy to peed on command, then expect to catch it in the a cup the size of a dixie cup? Yah, it's hard. Then, they proceed to tell me that they don't have the tetanus booster for Girly. They are out. Uh, you couldn't tell me this an hour and 45 mins ago either? Yah, guess not. Then the worst part...having Crazy sit on my lap and cry because the shots hurt. I thought it wouldn't be as bad because he's not a little baby anymore, but it was almost worse when they are older and you can't shove a pacifier or boob in their mouth! lol Poor guy. But he got suckers, and stickers and candy and a toy for doing so well. I guess they are gunning for the dentist too!

Girly took off this morning for her regional science fair setup and judging. She was a nervous wreck, but after allot of reassuring and getting her hair and makeup done, she felt better. I guess tomorrow night when we go back to San Bernadino for the awards ceremony, we will once again see if her hard work paid off. So much for her spring break. Every day, except Friday is booked!

Changes

Thought I would share a few photos I took on our evening walk tonight to the dairy. Isn't she beautiful. Mama couldn't have given birth to her much more then a few hours earlier. I am sorry we missed it. Spring is in the air.




Alas, Spring is bringing about a few more changes. Look at this bullshit. Little Dora and Strawberry Shortcake are all grown up. I am surprised they didn't put some boobies on these girls. I mean why not? They have completely changed the look of them, so why not give her some tits and fishnet stockings while your at it. lol Geesh, can't they just leave well enough alone?

Thinking Positive

With all the aggravation I have been feeling lately with the kids, I have decided to write a post only consisting of the good things that have been going on. Bullet style.

• We saw Monsters Vs. Aliens this afternoon and the kids did great!
• Listening the boys talk on the walkie talkies to each other when they are only a few feet from each other.
• Hearing Baby Boy sing the song from the original Transformers cartoon movie.
• Seeing the boys give each other a hug for no apparent reason.
• Girly doing extra credit for school on her Sunday off. Without being told.
• Listening to the wind howl outside, but staying all cozy on the inside.
• Baby Boy's kisses
• Watching Hubs do the dishes.
• Listening to Crazy Boy tell Baby Boy a story.
• Putting makeup on Girly before we went out for the movie and teaching her how to do it herself without looking like a tramp! lol
• Getting the whole kitchen cleaned up after dinner with Hubs.
• Watching TV with Hubs while he rubs my head.
• Seeing the lawn look all pretty and manicured after a Saturday of mowing, weedwacking, and cleaning up.
• Getting a good start on my summer tan from doing all the yard work in a tanktop!
  
• Watching the kids swing on their tree swings that Daddy put up for them.
• Watching the boys play with a fuzzy caterpillar.
• Going on our walk around the dairy and listening to the kids talk about the cows and ask silly questions.
  
• Having the boys pick me flowers on our walk.
  
• Getting all the chores done on Saturday so Sunday can be a day of lounging and being lazy!
  

Wow, my shadow looks huge! lol

Irked

Remember the FIL coming to live here?

He's leaving back for Michigan. Already, and with a weeks notice.

The boys are hurt and upset. He leaves just when they have gotten used to having some sort of family here to see and spend time with. They have grown up with no family living near them. So when he came they were super excited.

And you know what? It pisses me the f*ck off. Everyone knows he irritates the hell out of me, and most of the time we bicker and say stupid shit to each other, but what pisses me off is that he is hurting the kids. I could care less what he does, but they are only 3 and 4. They don't understand why or how, they just know he's leaving them. They ask all sorts of questions like "why is Papa leaving us?" and "doesn't Papa like it here anymore?" and I haven't a clue on how to answer them. What I'd like to say is "Your Papa is an asshole that only thinks of himself." but ha, that probably wouldn't be the greatest thing to tell them. I should have known he would somehow hurt them..he has that special way about him.....

Neglect

Yikes. I guess this is what happens when you become a Facebook addict! lol

I don't even know where to begin. Spring break is coming for both Girly and Crazy.
Girly participated in her school science fair. She won for her school, and then competed in district competitions against the other schools in town. She WON! lol So now during her long awaited spring break, she gets to compete in regionals. So if she wins the science fair regionals (county), she goes onto state competitions. Then, nationals. We are so proud of her. She has worked hard, and as with any kid, when they work hard and then get a long awaited reward for all their work, they are elated! Science was never one of my strong suits, so this makes me hopeful that she wont be like me when it comes to certain subjects! lol

Crazy is going in for his Kindergarten shots next month. This is nuts to me. My little boy starting Kindergarten. I just hope I do not get as nervous with him as I did with Girly. I am so grateful though, that Girly is at the same school and can be there to help him out and get adjusted those first couple weeks. He has been sick non-stop through this winter. He is sick again after a couple months of being well. He has that hacking cough, and a slight fever. It feels like it is a never ending sickness around here.

Baby Boy is no baby anymore :( He had his 3 yr. well baby check, and he is in perfect health. They are a bit concerned with his speech, and would like him to have his ears checked, but as soon as they referred us out, the boy started speaking. He is saying things that he wouldn't have attempted to a couple months ago. It may not come out exactly the right way, but it pleases me that he is trying. He is completely diaperless during the day now, and that pleases me even more! lol He is the most defiant little boy, and everyday he does something that makes me think he is going to be hell on wheels when he gets a bit older.

The weather here has been absolutely wonderful. I am obsessed with being able to grow my own fruits and veggies, but alas, I kill everything I touch. So being the stalker I am, we went out and bought the Topsy Turvey. You know, the upsidown tomato planter? We bought 3 and planted tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they work. Crazy planted his cantaloupe, and later on around June he will be planting his pumpkins. I will try to keep updated on how well these plants are doing. I am hoping that with them hanging, they will not be bombarded with the horrid ants that we have out here, and will survive.
Girly after winning her district trophy!

Crazy watching his tv shows

Baby Boy checkin himself out in a mirror at the grocery store!

The boys being cute!

Girly on tv when she won her district trophy!

Been Awhile

I have to start off by writing a small post to my Baby Boy. He turned 3 on the 24th. But of course, his party got canceled. That's right, Crazy had had a fever for 4 days straight, and was horribly sick, so we canceled Baby Boy's party. We still had a cake, candles, and presents for him, but it was just us. He is a pistol. So far, of the 3 kids, he is the only one that has ever thrown himself on the floor in the midst of a fit. He despises it when we laugh at him for doing it, and stomps his feet. Cracks me up! He loves his Sissy and Brother, but is notorious for being a bully to them. He can get his brother and sissy to do anything for him! lol He is a charmer. He sure knows how to turn on that smile, give you a kiss, or wrap his arms around you when he wants something. He loves to cuddle. He's my only kid that still loves to sit and cuddle with me. He is sooo ticklish on the back of his head and neck, and giggles non-stop when I do it. He loves his Cars (the Disney movie) and any type of motorized vehicle. Trucks, cars, trains, planes, you name it, he will play with it for hours. He is my Baby Boy. Not such a baby anymore, but forever my Boogie Boy!


We watched the inauguration. Not that you could really watch anything else, considering every damn station had it on. For crying out loud, even Noggin was talking about it! lol My boys went around the house all day long singing "Rock Obama, Rock Obama!" And just as I was about to turn the station, trying to get away from all the presidential bullshit, Crazy asks if he can have his picture taken with Rock Obama. Uhhhh...well.....ok Hon, you go stand next to the tv and I'll take your picture with Rock Obama. He got the biggest kick out of it. This is what we got...

Brilliant huh? 20 yrs. from now, They can look back at that picture and say they were around when the first President of African decent was put into office. As Hubs says, he isn't African American..He is an American of African decent.

As I said above, Crazy Boy was horribly sick. 4 days of 103 temps, cough, runny nose, shakes, the whole shebang. 1 visit to the doc resulted in a strep throat diagnoses and antibiotics. 1 visit to the ER resulted in a chest x-ray, breathing treatment, steroid meds, and a diagnoses of Reactive Airway Disease. Holy shit, I have never met such idiotic doctors. Honestly, I think he had a nasty cold, mixed with that damn flu going around and his little body was just shot. He was on 4 different antibiotics for the last week. Today was his last day. And boy, was he a trooper. Never fought me, never really complained. He is doing well now. A slight cough, but overall he is feeling normal. He is happy to be back at school and happy to be done with the meds.



Girly is doing great too. Just got a report card today which had 3 B's and the rest A's. She is joining Yearbook at school, and was student of the month in December. She's so smart. She has adjusted wonderfully to her new school, has made lots of friends, and is becoming more and more a teenager everyday. I swear i don't remember being such a slob as a teen, but holy crap, this girl must take after her dad cause her room is a hogsty. lol A ton of thanks to whoever invented the door. If I had to see that mess everyday, I would pull my hair out. If the door is shut, and I can't see it, I'm good! lol

Oh and Sissy's trip out here went great! I loved them being here, and I loved having a coffee buddy in the mornings. I loved being able to see my nieces and have the kids all play together. I miss them! I'll leave you with a few more pictures of the visit to hold you over for the next month, as I am sure that will be how long it will take for me to blog again.

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Post Christmas Pics

Girly and Crazy making Christmas Trifle for desert!

Sokka's 1st Christmas!

Poppy relaxing under the tree!

Pook and her new ball!

Me and Baby Boy

Opening gifts

Girly and Baby Boy

Chaos on Christmas morning!

Opening gifts

Christmas has Come and Gone

It seems the older I get, the faster the time goes by. Especially around this time of year. It seems like just yesterday I was being bugged non-stop about how long it was till Christmas, and Crazy just made his Christmas chain, and was wondering why he couldn't take off more then 1 each day. Now the chain is gone, the tree is bare, and the countdown is through. Kinda depressing if you ask me. Now I am dreading the time when I have to take down all the gazillions of decorations I have put up, and pack them away.

Christmas was it's usual paper throwing, box ripping, kids whining, chaos filled morning. The kids got to much crap, and half of it is missing or broken already. Fights have erupted, and toys have been thrown because even though Santa tried his hardest to get 2 certain little boys the same type of gifts, 1 of them always wants the blue one over the red one, or the regular legos, over the cars legos. Or God forbid, they got Wiki Sticks instead of the beloved Bendaroos. What drama that was. Santa can never get the shit right, bastard.

Even with all that going on..it is still my favorite time of year! I love watching their faces as they open their gifts Christmas morning, the excitement when they go to bed on Christmas Eve, the insistence that Santa needs more then 1 cookie and a half glass of milk, and the innocence of all their questions (Why can't Rudolph play with the other reindeer? His nose isn't bad!")I better soak it all in while I can, because before I know it, it will be my grand babies doing this stuff!

So here are a few pics of our Christmas. I played with my photos a bit and did some neat effects.

Ok, blogger is being temperamental at the moment, so I will have to postpone the pics till it gets its act together!

Winter Desertland Take 2

I thought we got lucky on Monday with the dusting of snow, but boy, we got twice as lucky yesterday. It rained all morning, then about 12 noon, the snow started to fall. Allot. It was the kind of snow you see up in the U.P of Michigan where you can't see a foot in front you! lol It snowed until about 10pm last night. It was awesome! It reminded me so much of home in Michigan, and made it feel so much more Christmassy around here. By the time it was over, we had at least 8-10 inches of snow! The kid's schools got cancelled today, and Hubs didn't have to go to work till 10am. The highways in and out of To Hot Shithole were closed up tight. This town has all of 2 plows, and I am assuming none of them work cause the roads were shit yesterday! The people around here absolutely flip out at the sight of snow,and they don't know a lick about driving in it, so our venture out was fun to say the least. I guess you can't blame them, it's the damn desert. But now my kids can actually say they had a snow day! lol They are outside as I type playing in it. I told them they had better do it now, cause in the next day or so it'll all be gone!

Walking in a Winter Desertland

It snowed here in To Hot Shithole on Monday! In the desert. Is that crazy or what? I had heard for a while that we were suppose to get some of the beautiful, white stuff, but did I believe it? Hell no. But low and behold, what to my wondering eye should appear? No, not 8 tiny reindeer...but big, fat, white flakes.

Busy Bee

It seems as if time is flying and the holidays are coming and going so quickly. Christmas is right around the corner, and before I know it, it will be 2009. Weird.

I haven't really been up to anything spectacular. Gearing up for Christmas, and getting extremely excited that the temps have dropped here in To Hot Shithole, and it is pretty cold. Well in the mornings and nights anyways. During the days, it still gets up in the mid 50's. They are calling for possible snow this weekend, which excites the living shit out of me. Pretty sad, but it just isn't Christmas time without the white stuff, or at least being cold.

Thanksgiving went well. Quiet, and nice. Had a crapload of food for the 6 if us (Hub's dad was here)and had leftovers for to long afterwords.

We got our family pics done a few weeks ago. Finally. I usually try to stay up-to-date on that kind of stuff, but I have been slacking. But, I was on top of my Christmas cards...lol...we got the pictures for the cards with the first shot. It's craziness trying to get a self portrait of 5 people, and actually succeeding with the first pic. So those have been done up, and sent out.

We had another earthquake. This one was completely different from the last. Not that rolling wave feeling. This was full on walls shaking and it sounded as if a herd of cattle were running across the roof. Hubs and I were in the garage changing Christmas bulbs and before we knew what was happening, it was over. The epicenter was located about 20 mins from us. The news said it was a 5.1 I guess. Pretty damn scary. This mid-west girl sure needs to get her bearings when it comes to this earthquake bullshit. I mean, I'm used to tornado drills and sirens, and having get into a basement or whatnot. With this earthquake crap, there's no preparing, and there isn't shit you can do. I mean, if the fricken earth is going to open up and swallow you, you can't do anything but stand there and shit yourself. And it happens so quickly, what do you do when your kids are in a completely different room? Me and Hubs ran in to check on the boys because they were asleep in their bunk beds. We wanted to make sure nothing had jarred loose, and come apart. So now we are contemplating taking them down, and having the boys use separate beds. Girly was in her room watching a movie and came running out the front door asking if we had felt that. She said her Christmas tree and tv started shaking in her room. Scary shit I tell ya.

So aside from Christmas stuff, kid stuff, and earthquakes, there isn't much else happening around here. Just surviving.

Now I leave you with some pictures.

This is what happens during my bathtime, when I am trying to get a moments peace and privacy....
Baby Boy and Sokka in the bathroom eating and playing with my bubbles.

Conversations with a 4 year old

Random conversations in the truck on our way home from picking Crazy up from Preschool. We had Hell Boy with us.



Crazy: "Momma, why did the transformer and the truck cross the road?"

Me: "I don't know, why?"

Crazy: "Cause they thought it was funny.... (insert hysterical laughter here from Crazy, then a short pause and complete seriousness) then they died!" (insert hysterical laughter from me here)



Crazy: "See that church?" (pointing to the church we go to)

Boy: "Yah"

Crazy: "Do you go to church?"

Boy: "No not really"

Crazy: "We do, and when we went we got to play and climb things and it was really loud and my dad brought snacks." (which by the way there has never been any playing or climbing on things at church! lol)

Boy: "What do you mean it was loud, it hurt your ears?"

Crazy: "yah, it did, it was really loud, but it was ok cause we got snacks!"

Boy: "Oh ok"

Crazy: "Yah Dad gave us snacks then he let us leave cause it was to loud."

Boy: "oh cool"



Boy: "Do you still play Pac Man?"

Crazy: "Huh?"

Boy: "Pac Man?"

Crazy: "Pac Mac?"

Boy: "No Pac MANNNN!"

Crazy: "Oh no, I don't play that no more"

Boy: "Why not? It's fun remember?"

Crazy: "No I threw it in the dump!"

Boy: "No you didn't I was playing it at your house!"

Crazy: "No remember, I threw it in the dump. It didn't work. It shrunked!"

Boy: "It shrunked?"

Crazy: "Yah it shrunked and got small and stuff, so I threw it in the dump!"

Boy: "Oh then I must have played a different game"

Crazy: "Yahh, cause I threwed it away!"



Boy: "Did you see that?" (pointing to some sort of car or something)

Crazy: "OH MY GOOOSSSSHHHHH!" (said like a valley girl lol)

Boy: "Yah, oh my God!"

Crazy: "No, you can't say that!"

Boy: "Say what? You said it!"

Crazy: "No i said oh my gosh, you can't say god!"

Boy: "Why?"

Crazy: "That's bad!"

Boy: "Why?"

Crazy: "Because God doesn't like it!"

Boy: "Why?"

Crazy: "Cause your suppose to whisper God!"

Family Pictures

Just wanted to share our most recent family pictures!It cracked me up cause when the lady was trying to get Baby Boy to smile, he did his normal scrunch up his face smile. She kept re-taking the pics because she insisted he kept shutting his eyes. She finally called me over to look and I said, "Oh no, his eyes aren't shut, that's how he smiles!" lol She finally called another lady in, and insisted she try to take a picture with him having a "natural" smile. The photo of him on the end is the one she got. And, if you look real close, you will notice, his tongue is sticking out! lol