Saturday, 6. February 2010
I think I can successfully say that Alessia is finally potty trained. It seems the eight (or ninth or tenth, I lost track) time is a charm.
Let me tell you it is so nice having her completely potty trained. She still needs me to be in the bathroom when she does a number 2 but I can handle that.
And now a potty story about Curtis. He was going #2 yesterday and some how he has gotten it into his head that you only go #2 if you eat too much food. So from the bathroom I hear, “mom you fed me too much food today”. The things kids come up with.
Now we just need to potty train Micah. Lets just hope he isn’t as fascinated with taking off his diaper as Alessia was.
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Wednesday, 3. February 2010
Today I had to take Alessia and Micah in for their well baby visits. My appointment was scheduled for 10am. I got to the office about 3 minutes before my appointment, hoping that it would speed up the process. No such luck though. After a 40 minute wait in the waiting room we were taken to our exam room where we waited another 15 minutes for the doctor. Mind you the well entrance to the office was empty so who knows what was taking the dr so long. No one went in to see the dr before us unless the doctors were seeing sick kids (there are two separate entrances).
By the time the doctor came in to the room Alessia was jumping off the walls. And then the dr tried to touch her and she went even more bananas. I was trying to hold a naked Micah and the dr was telling me I needed to help him with my little tarzan. It really was an appointment every mother dreams will not happen to them.
After a bit he told me that Alessia had no social skills and that I needed to send her to preschool so she could interact with her kids and not so much with mommy. I was quite offended. I could tell he could tell that I was. Later he offered a little apology. But then later he also told Alessia to make sure I got a babysitter for her the next time I came in for Micah.
My whole problem with this whole situation is I was already flustered and at my whits end dealing with a crazy child and a baby I couldn’t put down anywhere and instead of getting help or sympathy I felt like I was getting the opposite. Now to be fair to this doctor, he is old school. Kids are meant to be seen but not heard. And he means well. He doesn’t mean to be rude. He is just outspoken.
I just switched my kids to this dr because I thought my other pediatrician spent too much time infront of his computer during visits than actually examining my kids. Are there no decent pediatricians out here in Vegas? If someone has a good one please let me know who they are.
In the end both Alessia and Micah are healthy. Alessia now weighs 33lbs. Well over what her cousin Kaitlin, who is a year and a half older weighs. And Micah weighed in at 17lbs.
The doctor was a little worried about Micah’s hips. If you look close at his creases in his legs and butt cheeks they don’t line up. I didn’t know they were suppose to. But I guess they should. So he wants us to get x-rays of his hips to make sure nothing is wrong with them. So I guess I need to find a sitter so I can do this trip to the doc without Alessia.
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Wednesday, 27. January 2010
This kid is a genius. He just turned 6 months this week. (Where have the last 6 months gone?). Not only is he crawling all over, he is starting to talk. And you know what his first word is? Mama. Ahh, makes my little heart swell. I tried to get a video for proof and while the sound is good the color is bad so you can’t even see him well. So tomorrow I will attempt to get it on video.
I guess third time is a charm. The other two kids learned Dadda first. I must be Micah’s favorite.
Micah is also learning crying gets him what he wants. He will cry to be held and he even cried the other day when someone else was holding him and he saw me. My other kids didn’t really do this so this is a new thing. He still goes to other people but it is nice to know that I am loved. Especially after Curtis told me tonight that he and Alessia didn’t like me.
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Saturday, 23. January 2010
John is a a person of a thousand ideas. He is always coming up with something new to try. When we tell our families we are thinking of moving somewhere they listen and nod their heads but know not to take us serious until we have actually moved. The same is with the ideas John comes up with. We listen, nod our heads, give encouragement but then move on knowing a new idea will replace the old one soon.
Well, John has had this business idea that he came up with almost 4 years ago. He entered a business plan competition 4 years ago and stunned both himself and myself and won.
He won a sizable amount of money. Half went to the gov’t and tithing. Another chunk of it went to our trip to Italy and the rest went into the bank account. We toyed with the idea of him starting up his business but then went on to other things. Mostly, finishing grad school and having two more kids.
Fast forward a few years and at the end of last year he entered another business plan competition with the same business idea. Yesterday was the award ceremony. We weren’t sure how he would do. We were fairly confident but with only one winner out of the five remaining teams we weren’t banking on it.
Well he won. Yes he won! Wahoo! My husband is a genius. It was fun to be with him when he won (the first time I didn’t even go because we didn’t even think he would win). It was fun to see him being awarded for all his hard work.
What did he win? Two big checks. Do you know how fun it is to walk through a casino with huge cardboard checks? Pretty fun.
Really the checks appear larger than they really are. He did win some money but most of it was in kind services. Which is still great because now that 4 years have passed since we toyed with the idea of starting up the business I think we have finally decided we are actually going to do it. (Now remember we do change our minds a lot). The one scary part about starting your own business is benefits for our family. So we aren’t leaving UNLV just yet. (At least I don’t think we are). John is going to start working on the idea here in Vegas. See if it works here and then if it is successful we will move on to the rest of the US. So wish us good luck. We are going to need a lot of it.
When I told Curtis that his daddy had a big presentation yesterday morning and he could win a competition he was all excited. He told me we needed to get him a cake on it that said, “gladulations”. So we went to the store and picked up a cake for John. They didn’t have any that had “gradulations” on them (can you believe that?) so we made our own topper when we got home. Curtis was very excited this morning to see what Daddy won, a big piece of cardboard. Perfect to race cars on.
So in the end John was the big winner of this competition, soon we will have a little more money in our bank account and everything else is just as it was before. Dishes need to be done, kids refuse to eat what has been given them, Alessia still isn’t 100% potty trained and Micah is still pooping every twenty minutes from the nasty penicillin he took earlier in the week. Life is good.
Click on the pictures to enlarge (sorry about the dark pictures)
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Friday, 15. January 2010
How can something that takes up so little space in our house take up so much space in our hearts?
Oh how we are all love our little Micah!
Every time I see these pictures it just makes me want to squeeze my baby even more. Isn’t he just too adorable?
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Thursday, 14. January 2010
Micah is starting to feel much better. He is back to being his happy self. I just love this kid. How could you not love him?
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Thursday, 14. January 2010
I haven’t done a post in awhile about all the crazy things Curtis says and does. I need to do better and do this more often because John and I laugh on a daily basis over the things he says.
Monday as I was getting Curtis ready for school I realized the hole in his mouth looked bigger. I took a closer look and he was missing another tooth. Yet again, he was completely clueless as to when he lost it. I keep telling him he needs to write a letter to the tooth fairy but he doesn’t seem to want to. I guess the tooth fairy isn’t that important to him.
This morning we were playing Memory with a deck of cards that are meant to teach good eating habits. So the cards are pictures of good healthy foods. Curtis found the potatoes and ever so cleverly he says, “I made Matched Potatoes”. And laughs. Get it matched=Mashed. Now that he got a good laugh out of me from it I am sure I will be hearing “matched potatoes” over and over again.
Curtis doesn’t always get a long with Alessia. Most moments of the day the two are fighting. It is annoying. Yesterday the were fighting and he told her to leave. That he didn’t want her any more. I told him he had to be nice to her and be respectful. I then explained how there are so many kids out there who want a little sister and they don’t have one. I then told him about one of his friends who parents want to have a baby and she wants to have a sister and they can’t have one. I told him he should be grateful that he had one. Without skipping a beat he tells me, “Mom if so and so wants a sister so badly why don’t we just send her Alessia since I don’t want her”. Such a good problem solver. Why didn’t I think of that? After I told him there would be no treats after dinner if they didn’t play nicely together he decided playing games with her wasn’t so bad.
Even though Curtis doesn’t always love Alessia he always loves Micah. So much so that we have to beg him to leave him alone. He was devastated when I told him he couldn’t play with him the last couple of days because Micah has pink eye and I did not want Curtis to get it. Well yesterday I lifted the ban because Micah’s eyes are back to normal. He was so excited. I had put Micah in his exersaucer in the same room with me. All of a sudden it was quiet and I looked and Micah was missing. We have a double fire place and I looked through the glass and there was Micah in the other living room. Curtis had dragged him into there to play. They were playing for awhile and then it got quiet again. I looked through the fireplace and I couldn’t see either one of them any more. So I walked in there and saw this..
If you can’t tell that is our sectional split into a fort. Curtis had lifted Micah onto the fort. This is Micah’s reaction…
When I asked him what he was doing he said, “I wanted him to come on an adventure with me”. I told him Micah could go on an adventure but that he had to be on the ground. So Curtis drug him as close to the entrance of the fort and played with him through the “doorway”. Both Micah and Curtis were loving it.
Last night Curtis broke a mug that I had made for him for Christmas. It had pictures of all the kids on it. He was crying before this happened. And then bawled afterward. He took himself to his room for bed. And I heard him playing with his horses yet he was still crying. I asked him why he was still crying. He said he was crying because someone knocked over his tower. I told him to re-build it and left him. A little while later I checked up on him again and he was still crying. I asked him if he was crying because I got mad at him because he was being super annoying before he broke the mug. He said no and then started bawling hard and he told me he was just so sad that he broke his mug. I didn’t even know the kid was attached to this mug. Once I told him I’d see if we could make one that was plastic he quit crying. We re-built his tower and he went right to sleep. Poor kid is sensitive after all. Sometimes I think he always puts on a hard exterior. Especially when he is being naughty and getting in trouble. But really deep down he is just a sensitive little kid.
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Tuesday, 12. January 2010
We are alive. At least I think we all are.
I am exhausted. Two trips in a row will do that to a person. Then add in two sick kids who seem to be tag teaming who keeps mom and dad up during the night.
Is it really asking to much to sleep the night through. It probably has only been a week and half since I got a full, uninterrupted nights sleep but it feels like ages ago.
Like I said in my Utah post, Alessia got sick while we were there. She is now doing much better. At first she wouldn’t take her medicine. Now we tell her it is strawberry milk and she takes it like a champ. She has got all her old energy back. It is nice to have the old Alessia back but very exhausting as well since she is so energetic. She has also decided to start wearing underwear again. Lets hope the third time potty training her works.
Micah got a cough when we were in California and it has slowly gotten worse. Then he got two new teeth. And a runny nose. Then his eyes became crusty and then he was pulling on his ears. So today we went to the doctors and he has a double ear infection and pink eye. He started his antibiotics today. Hopefully they start to help him feel better soon.
Even though he is sick he has energy. He doesn’t sit still. He wiggles all the time. He is heavy (14lbs) and he jerks his body so much that sometimes you feel like you are doing to drop him (or you actually do). He is just a mover and a shaker. But the little guy has almost mastered crawling. He can do it. I think by the end of the week he will be crawling everywhere. I can’t believe he is growing up so fast.
What I remember from my other kids is that they were crawling by about 6 months too. (Micah is 5 1/2 months). But they could not sit up until about a year. Micah is learning to sit up now too. It is so cute to see my baby do these seemingly grown up things but I also miss when he was just my little ity baby. It is just going by so much faster this time around.
So yes we are alive, we are making our way to being healthy again and maybe just maybe I will get back on track and be more organized in the future.
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Tuesday, 12. January 2010
The rest of our time in Utah was spent sick.
Alessia got to be so clingy and emotional. She was coughing a lot at night and not sleeping well so she was tired in the day time. But then she started to tug on her ears. She we decided to just head home early. I decided to take her to urgent care before we left and we were told she had an ear infection and strep. The doctor advised us to stay in Utah for two days so we did that.
It ended up working nicely because Micah was acting sick too. I didn’t know if he was sick or just teething but it was nice to have extra help to deal with two clingy kids.
So we stayed in Utah for two more days and then headed home.
Here are the remaining pictures from the rest of the trip there are a lot.
There are some at Chuck E. Cheese. Alessia rode the merry go round almost the whole time.
We were able to celebrate Alessia’s birthday with her cousins. She was kind tired and not feeling well when we ate cake and opened presents but she still loved everything she got.
We did a lot of playing with cousins.
I did a lot of shopping at the DI.
We took pictures of Reagan. She is tiny. Her head is so small. When I saw that my dad had bought grapefruit I decided to compare the grapefruit to Reagan’s head. They were the same size. A grapefruit is small. I compared Micah and Reagan too. (when did my baby get to be so big?)
Remember to click to enlarge the pictures.
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Tuesday, 12. January 2010
When we got back from California we unpacked, did laundry and re-packed. Then Alessia, Micah and I headed off to Utah to play with Shannon, see my parents who flew in, and visit Janeen and see her new baby Reagan.
John and Curtis stayed home so they could go to work and school. Thanks to the many people who helped take care of both my boys while I was gone. We really couldn’t have done it without so many friends who were willing to watch Curtis every afternoon that I was gone.
We will break this trip up into little segments too.
Saturday we drove to Utah. We got there in the afternoon so Alessia had plenty of time to play with her cousins before being sent to bed. She was a good girl the first night I sent her to bed. The second night when she was suppose to be sleeping she dumped all the travel shampoo bottles out all over herself and the comforter. She also found a box of cereal in the room and opened it and was eating it when I went to bed. That little girl always gives up plenty of laughs (and cries too).
Sunday we all drove to Janeen’s so we could attend Reagan’s blessing. First let me say that Janeen has the smallest babies I have ever seen. Reagan weighs 6 lbs but I don’t know how because she is so small and when you hold her I swear the only weight you feel are her clothes. I think in person she looks so much smaller than the pictures Janeen had on her blog. Second, she also looks exactly like Keegan in person.
The blessing was good (at least what I heard of it. Alessia was a major pain in the butt at church). After the blessing we went to Janeen’s for lunch and had fun spending time as a family and with Rod’s family too.
Here are pictures from Reagan’s blessing day…
*click to enlarge and see a caption
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