What's happening?

Not much here, actually. Since we got back from our Tday trip, we've been taking it pretty easy. The Girl has vastly improved her health, so we are all happy about that. The only thing is now she has decided that she is an early to wake up type of kid. I know that some of you wouldn't think that 8:30 is 'early', but I very much enjoyed quiet time by myself before I had to start my day and now that she is up with me... well, the time is not so quiet or spent by myself anymore. This year, I will be accepting babysitting coupons for Christmas presents! LOL The good thing is that she is enjoying her classes at The Little Gym more now though, b/c she is awake more to participate in them! :)

C has been practicing at the church for a small Christmas program that we are doing on the 21st. You are all officially invited to attend and hear C sing and play his saxophone... not at the same time of course...or I'd have to sell tickets! :)

We did have some sad news this week, our former pastor in IL passed away on Monday as well as one of the ministers in our church here. The passing of Bro. Joy is especially sad b/c it was a shock and he was young and has kids at home. The passing of our former pastor is bittersweet. For the past few years, his health was no longer permitting him to live a quality life. We are sad b/c we will miss Pastor Switzer and we know that the family has to bear this pain, especially around the holidays; it does help to remember that he is no longer suffering.

I've been spending my time decorating for the holiday and the winter season. I'm hoping to get some good scrapping time in to make a few gifts. I'm also hoping for some time to spend baking some goodies in the kitchen. :D I don't think I've made a cheesecake yet in my new oven! It's also the time of year for Snowflake cookies... YUMMO!!! I need to do some clean up and then I'll take pics of my decorations for you to check out! LOL Someone needs to see them! I can't think of a time when we'll get to have people over. :(

Hope you are all doing well!!!


~til next time...

As promised....

I didn't like it one bit!

Ro- In the last 2 pix, do you see what she is holding in her hand? :D

So NOT fun.

The Girl has been sick. Like 15 diapers or more a day sick. EW!! And we are out of town. Called the ped dr on Wed she said to just make sure she drinks plenty of fluids, try to get her to eat starchy food, cut the dose of the meds that I gave you on Monday for her ears in 1/2... blah blah blah. Yesterday we called her again, no change, what do we do? "Go to the ER" AAAACCCCKKKKK!!!! Sooooooooooo we go, and wait for 2 hours and in those 2 hours have 4 diaper changes. FINALLY get to see the ped er dr and they say the meds are tearing her up inside and she is dehydrated. So they said they'd give her some saline and a new med for her ears. 1st of all, I don't even look when I take my dogs in to get their shots. Poor C had to practically lay on The Girl to keep her down while they searched for a vein. I'm leaning against the wall focusing on taking pictures with my phone b/c that helped me not focus on what they were doing to my daughter. They finally get the needle in and the vein blows. That is when I had to walk out of the room. After much screaming by the girl and much hair pulling and big sighs and tears from me, they find a TINY needle and a vein that they can get it in in her thumb. When about 1/2 the bag of saline was in her she really started to perk up, that's when we had a lot of hospital staff coming in to peek at her and play with her and remark "awww all we had to do was water her and she blossoms like a flower" (GAG!) She even did her tricks; which by the way my favorite is when you ask her what a beatle says, she answers "Yeah, yeah, yeah" (as in 'she loves me yeah yeah yeah')
We got to leave around 9pm and headed to our friends house, where we are staying, where they we also hosting a party for us and another couple that had come back to town for the holiday, to visit with everyone. We arrived fashionably 2 1/2 hours late. ;) I had SO MUCH FUN playing cards, pictionary man, and chatting with our friends... gonna make me HATE leaving them all again. Visits are fun but so hard too.
All in all, Thanksgiving was nice, the food was great, I enjoyed the company of my friends, but C and The Girl should have been feeling better. C woke up on Tday morning with some kind of stomach virus, he managed to come up stairs for about an hour, but then went back downstairs and slept for a few hours.
We are heading to St. Louis today to go see my 'adopted family'. Hopefully, no one will be or get sick!

OH yeah, after all the excitement of last night, the girl didn't go to sleep until almost 3am!!!! We are one set of tired parents today!!!


When we get back home I'll be able to download my pictures from my phone so you can see how FUN it was at the hospital!

I threw in the towel.

I just couldn't take it. I had to tell the mom of the baby I've been watching to find someone else. The schedule didn't work out; the baby gets here before 7am and stays until 6pm, then we are up until midnight or later. That is just not enough sleep for me and that makes me VERY CRANKY. The Girl was adjusting to having L around, so it wasn't that anymore. I didn't like that I felt like I couldn't go anywhere and not b/c the mom didn't want me to take them out, it was b/c once the two of them where in the shopping cart then what??? Where do the items go? Plus I wasn't buying a double stroller until I KNEW this was going to work and for the past 2 weeks, The Girl and I have been missing our walks. (and my body too) :( I told her that I was willing to stick with it until she found other arrangements. I feel SO BADLY about it though, I know it was helping her out.
In other news, we are going North for the Thanksgiving holiday. YAY!!! Get to see friends and 'adopted' family! I can't WAIT to hug my boys!!!! Man, I miss them!
The Girl has been sleeping in her high chair for the past 2 hours. My back hurts for her! LOL


~til next time!

14 and 1/2 hours!!!!

Holy cow!!! The Girl fell asleep last night at 8pm in her high chair, it had been a L O N G day and she didn't quite get the nap that she is accustomed to and just crashed where she landed. We figured we'd let her sleep for about an hour and then wake her up, well when we tried to wake her up she just was not interested. So C brought her upstairs to her crib. Like fools we stayed up and watched a movie and I chatted w/ a friend online. Around 11:00, I said, we'd better go to bed b/c The Girl is going to wake up early tomorrow. So we headed on up, but b/c I can't go to sleep early simply b/c I am going to wake up early, so we did a few crossword puzzles and finally around 12:30 I turned out my light. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I opened one eye at 9:30 and thought for sure that I had missed The Girls early morning cry and that she and C would be downstairs, but lo and behold C was still in bed! So I asked him if she was alive and he said that he had heard her squawk once around 7. I went into her room and peeked, she was uncovered, but still breathing and totally sound asleep! Saturday mornings are big breakfast days in this house, so me and the Pancake Man went downstairs to get started, finally at 10:30 I couldn't stand it anymore and went to wake up The Girl. As soon as I opened her door her head popped up w/ a GIANT smile on her face. She's been awake for about 40 minutes now and is the happiest person alive, which of course makes C and me the happiest mom and dad alive. Today should be a very good day.

~til next time!