It's Broken Mommy!

I have to admit, we've been guilty lately of taking LB to the golden arches. Yes the evil empire that is known as McDonald's. He loves it. He'll eat and eat and eat there. His favorites are the chicken nuggets, fries, and the apples. He washes them down with the 1% white milk. It got to the point, when we would drive by, he would yell.. "I go eat! I go eat!" No sweetheart, not tonight. With that I would get such a blood curdling scream, for the rest of the drive home. And people wonder why I like to drink? Anyhow, on our drive down to Charleston on Christmas morning, Mike had yet to have breakfast when we got ourselves on the road. We figured, we'd stop at McD's. It was closed. CLOSED! My two year old looked at those golden arches and screamed, "I eat! I eat! I eat!" We tried another location. CLOSED! Well, shit! What to do, with a screaming kid. We told him that it was broken. Sorry Honey Bunny, it is broken. We can't eat there today. Well, it worked. To this day, when we drive by, he says, "Mommy, Donald's broken, no go eat." I smile and say, yes baby boy, it is broken. I wonder how long we can keep up that rouse????

Crawling!

Our little girl actually gave us a first event at home this afternoon! She began crawling. Her point of interest that made her move, a remote. Yeah BB!

Pictures of the Day

Playing with Daddy
Look at that face!
Told you I owned a tiara.
Mike started to sing some dumb country song to me when he saw me like this, hence the pictures. Being that I don't like most country music, I don't know what song it was. Hey, if he wants to sing me some cliched redneck song, so be it! At least I think he's funny.

Something you might not know...

I own a tiara. Yes, I do. I got it for my 30th birthday to wear in celebration of me. For months, I had said I was going to wear a tiara on my 30th, because damn it, I made it this far and I was excited about turning 30. Some people dread their decade birthdays. That one, I didn't. In my mind, turning 30 was great. I made more money, had less debt, and I wasn't as big of an asshole any more. My 30's were going to be great. And so far they are fantastic. The reason I bring up the tiara, is that I still have it. I actually wear it on occasion. When do I wear it, you might ask. When I clean the house. I'm the queen of my home, and therefore I shall wear my crown. I happened to be wearing it yesterday afternoon, when Mike had BB out, yet again to the doctor (she's doing better, had a shot of antibiotics instead of oral ones, now she isn't puking her guts up!) and LB was watching me fold laundry. "OOhhh, a happy to hat mommy!" Yes it is kind of like a birthday crown. "My turn, mommy!" With a smirk and a bit of a chuckle, I placed it upon his head. He laughed and grinned and said, "How pretty mommy!" Good thing Mike wasn't home for that one. He might have had a coronary.

De-lurking Week

I apparently didn't know last week was de-lurking week. If you stop by to read and never comment, please feel free to say HI!

Tired of sickness

My lovely little one is having trouble with her antibiotic and my doctor's office has yet to call me back with a new prescription. I hope it's soon. Every time I give it too her, she pukes all over me. I've done more laundry this week then I ever have before in my life. I should buy stock in Downy!

Crisis Adverted

Mike took over the health insurance this year, so I can have a few extra $$$ in my paycheck to pay for all the days I'm going to miss due to illness. And there is the hope that in another year or so I can either stay home or work part time, so he needs to be in charge! ANYHOW, Baby girl is SICK AGAIN! I know it's an ear infection. I'm listening to my mother's intuition and I just know she has one yet again. My loving husband stayed home with Baby Bear so I could work most of the day, and I had him call to make an appointment to get her seen in hopes that we get her an antibiotic and get us all back to school and work tomorrow. Well it turns out some where along the line, either Mike's place of employment or Kaiser f-ed up. As of 9 am this morning, no one knew where our paperwork was. He had to make several phone calls. I was about to take her to a doc-in-the-box and pay $143 to get the prescription. He made one more phone call at 2:00 this afternoon, and they RUSHED our papers through and BB has an appointment in after hours care this evening. YEAH! It is a scary to feel as if you have no health care with 2 young children. Hopefully BB will be feeling better this evening and I can get us all back to our normal routine.

Aquarium

While at Grandma's, we took the kids to the aquarium. LB LOVED it! He got to explore the touch tank, see sharks and turtles! We kept looking for Nemo, but alas, he was not there. The Charleston Aquarium only hosts animals found in SC rivers, marshes, and the coastline. Nemo doesn't live there. We did however find Nemo in the gift shop. Luckily, it only cost us $10 and no major meltdown.

Pictures with Uncle J.

Here they are!

Christmas in Charleston

We left Christmas day and drove down to Grandma's and Poppa Woody's. For the most part, it was an uneventful trip down. We made good time, leaving at 10:20 in the morning and arriving at 8 pm. The most eventful part was leaving the house in the utter choas that it was. Gifts, wrapping paper, bows all strewn through out my living room. Not the kind of thing that you want to come home too!

We did many fun and exciting things while at Grandma's. The most important things were meeting Uncle J. and his family and Poppa Woody! We also got to have lunch at Uncle J.'s new restaruant Ladles. I highly recommend it if you happen to find your self in Charleston and want a great lunch place! I would post the pictures, but they happen to be on Grandma's computer, and I need her to send them to me.

I can post the pictures of Grandma and Poppa though!

Christmas Day

Santa was very generous to our family this year. The kids got a new kitchen to play in, and LB got a few Thomas the Train toys. This is the first time we've seen him get that attached to a toy. He carried them with him all over the house and when we left later that morning for Grandma and Poppa Woody's house, he had to have them in his lap the whole time! So cute. But along with getting excited about his new toys, he also now doesn't want to share! We're hearing a few times a day.. My choo choo! My car! Mine, mine, mine! Ah well, that and the melt downs are happening with more frequency. What are you gonna do????

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas eve with Uncle Matt and his family. LB enjoyed his new Little Peoples Airport and Mater car. Little girl enjoyed eating wrapping paper. Mommy enjoyed her new Deceptively Delicious Cookbook (woohoo! Thanks Chrissy!!) and Daddy enjoyed his new XBox 360 games.

Finger Foods

After Baby Girl chewed off a paper airline tag off Mike's suitcase last night, I decided she might actually be ready to try self feeding. Amazing how fast they grow up! There she is with her Zwieback Toast. Yeah! After we get the hang of the toast we'll try Cheerios.

The Crack Monster Live

Mike and I finally felt like real live parents this weekend. We took LB to his first live performance: Sesame Street Live... Elmo Grows Up. At first, LB didn't know what to make of it. He was excited. We had talked about seeing Elmo all morning. He ran to the car saying.. "Go get Elmo!" We got to the center, and had to walk up the large stadium stairs to our seats. He was very quiet. I think all the noise and confusion and hundreds of other children silenced him. When the room got dark, and he saw all his favorite characters running from behind the curtain, he was enthralled. I was so excited to watch his expressions! The one thing about the show that I would have changed was the length. We watched for 45 minutes and towards the end of that time, LB was starting to fall asleep. There was then a 15 minute intermission, then another 30 minutes of the show. During intermission, Daddy got suckered into buying an 8$ Elmo balloon, which I've seen at the grocery store for less, plus a blue snow cone. That snow cone left his lips and tongue blue all afternoon. Then the next day, it reared it's ugly head in his diaper. I've never seen such a shade of poop before. It was green and it stained his ass. I had to scrub it clean!!!!!!!! As we rushed out the door to make the show on time, I thought about taking the camera, but forgot. So Bad Mommy am I, no pictures of the big event. I do however have his ticket, so I can start up his collections of ticket stubs. But these days, most people to have actual tickets, just print outs! The concession stand did not sell beer. I heard that they did sell beer at the Wiggles concert a few weeks ago. Maybe the next family event will have beer!

Santa came early

To our house, and look what he left under the tree!

Saturday afternoon...

Guess what I did??? Can you, can you??? I had 6 hours to myself today!!! I Christmas shopped and had lunch with the ladies I work with. LOVED IT! I needed that time to myself. Granted, I didn't get all my shopping done, but I sure did get some of it. I'm just thankful to have hours to myself. And guess what? I made a bet with myself that when I got home the kids would still be in their pj's. I got home at 3:45 pm, and my kiddos were in pj's!!! Too bad I didn't bet money on it!

It's Friday...

I've had a crappy day.. yet Mya sent me her copy of this and it made me laugh, so I decided to do it myself
Check out my family of Elves.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1229842438

TV

I admit it. I now use the TV on a regular basis to pacify my son so I can do things like cook, laundry, and occasionally sleep. Yes I know the daily allowance for TV should be no more than 30 minutes to an hour. I fully admit that LB gets more than that on the weekends. This past Saturday morning, we had him watching a movie at 6:30 in the morning in our bed, so that Mike and I could get a few more minutes of sleep before the baby got up. Because he had already watched over an hour of TV, I had asked Mike not to let him watch anymore. Mike shut it off, and went to get a shower. I had Little Miss and was putting away laundry and Mike was in the shower. I thought LB was with him. No. He wasn't. Mike went downstairs, to find that he had turned back on the TV (which was already on Disney) watching the Little Einsteins. Mike went to turn it off. LB looked at his father, and said: "No! My Einsteins!" and continued to watch his program. We've created a monster. At least when the show was over, he willing shut off the TV to play with his play dough.

Six Month Stats

Baby Bear was actually 6 months on the 11th of November, but we didn't have our appointment until the 28th of November.
At this time she currently weighs 16.4 lbs
Length 26 inches


This puts her in the 45th percentile for weight and the 47th for height. At LB's 6th month appointment he weighed 21.7 lbs and was 28 in long. Quite a difference!!
You can now see a bit of similarity in their cute faces!

Decorating

Last weekend after the men cut down the trees, we actually did decorate the tree. It's just taken me a bit of time to post. It's been a CRAZY week. But more on that later....

We did decorate the tree with LB's help of course. Nana was still visiting with us and she was a terrific help keeping on eye out on baby girl while we got out all the boxes. And I mean boxes. It's amazing to me that much of my storage is taken up by boxes of Christmas decorations. And each year it seems that we add one more.

Now every night when we get home from school, LB takes off the ornaments and plays with them and then puts them back on the tree or in the box, whichever he feels like at the time. This year, we won't have the most beautifully decorated tree, but we will certainly have a very well loved tree. I'm sure it will wind up looking like Charlie Brown's tree shortly.