What A Week!

First I'll start off with my very very exciting news! My little brother is getting Married!!! He asked her Wednesday night. I'm so happy, she's great! They are not planning it for another year or so. Which is good I need time to save up! He told me he got her a Build-A-Bear and put the ring around it's neck on a chain and left it on her bed. How sweet is that! I know my brother is such a great guy....Sorry girls he's off limits on!!

I spent the day with my Mother-in-law today. We haven't seen her in about a month, so it was nice to spend the day w/her. We went to this really nice mall that I've never been to before, and walked around. I tried to find M a Christmas dress, but no luck I may be making her one, I'm not sure yet.

Anyways, she asked me about N's speech. Which I was starting to get a little worried about, but I thought maybe it was getting better. I also had the lady from the Early Steps program ask me about it about 2 weeks ago, but I just told her that he was doing fine before M was born and then started the baby talk after she was born, but I was trying to work on it w/him. I know a lot of toddles revert when they get a sibling or something BIG happens in their lives, so I wasn't to worried. I've been telling him to talk like a boy not a baby, and most of the time he'll talk "normal" after that. Then there is also him not talking, he'll get mad, upset, or want something and he'll just point or just "say" aa aa(baby talk). I went through speech therapy so I know a few things so I tried to get him to tell me what it is by asking-the apple or banana and showed them to him, but he would just point(smartie pants). So now I ask him to tell me what he wants, or what's wrong and I try not to guess or anything unless he's getting really upset like he's frustrated. So now that the Early Steps lady and my Mother-in-Law made a comment about it and it doesn't seem to be getting better, I think I'll call the Early Steps Lady Monday and try to get him evaluated. If we catch it early enough maybe he will only need a few sessions to get back on track. We'll see what happens!

Only Some Love Bugs!

I found out today that my darling son is scared of bugs. Well, I sort of knew he was, but I figured it was just those yucking palmetto bug(aka roaches). I hate the things I will not even pick up a dead one they freak me out. They are very common down here. When I do see one in the house they are already, and I yell for hubby to get it for me, or vacuum them up. Now when N sees one he'll say "Daddy, Daddy, bug!" or "bug, bug, bug!" I didn't thing anything about it, till today that was. It's low Love Bug season, right now(their high time is in late May early June and they are bad, it reminds me of the movie Birds, but bugs). So I had to go to the store today and 2 landed on the cart(well, of course cuz the fly in pairs hence love bugs). N was in the cart and I was getting M out of the car. He started crying and yelling "bug, bug" He wouldn't calm down till I got the bugs off the cart. I hope he grows out of it by May otherwise I don't think I'll be leaving the house much those few weeks that the Love Bugs are out.

The Little Things

When I was little my mom always told me to notice the little things. How the butterfly was sitting on the flower, the bird sitting in the tree. She also taught me not the take things for granted and cherish the time you have. And I have been trying to do that my whole life. After she passed I was a lot better about it. Then we moved, and I still cherished every minute I got to spent with my brother and sister and the rest of my family when we went home for the weeks we did, but here in Florida I didn't do it so much. Yes I loved the date nights w/hubby, and I was excited when N started cruising, then walking, and when he said his first word. I still remember when he learn new things or did something we didn't think he could do yet. But everything comes so easy for him. Once he starts something give him a few days(now more like a few hours) and he'd have it down.

Then came little M. At first it seemed little she was headed for the same path and I think in some ways she is. She does learn things fast. It's just that her body has to train harder. So every time she does something it's this being thing. I'm not taking for granted her milestones. Like yesterday she rolled over again. Again it was just the one time, but she did it again and that's all that matters. She also has been getting up on her knees, only for a few seconds, but that means her legs are getting a little looser. Well at lest her hips are.

This is just making me cherish the things that M AND N more. Even his new "tricks" are more exciting now. And some of them aren't so great(ie getting into my sewing box getting a needle, thread, and some fabric and trying to sew and in the process spilling all the pins all over the floor and unraveling the thread so that Noel can play w/it). So even thought they are both doing things at different paces, Both of their milestones are special and even more important.

The Dress

I had to go to the mall today and had to walk through Dillard's. So I sort of glanced at the kids section like I always to(who wouldn't they always have something cute and I like to look). Well, they had this really really cute dress. I loved it so much I had to look at it even though I know it was going to be pricey. The smallest size they had was at 2T, but the lady told me they haven't gotten the infant ones yet and may get that style in M's size. There wasn't a price on the tag so I still don't know how much it is but I'm sure it's in the $40-50 range since I saw this cupcake birthday dress that was fancy and it was $50. See how cute it is!!(sorry the pictures are from my phone so they aren't that great and I was trying to do it one handed so the ladies wouldn't notice.
Isn't it to cute. I just have to get it for her she'll look so pretty and it will be easy to get N something to match it. I know, I'm not that much of a girly girl, but a girl's got to dress up every once in a while, right!

The Verdict

M had her evaluation for the Early Steps program today. This was the second step to see if they would cover her physical therapy. Our grant sponsor told me not to worry about it she would be covered and set up her physical therapy evaluation(that's for the therapist to see where she can help her and how). So M and I where there for about 1.5hrs. I got asked a lot of questions-does she do this; what does she do if you do that. M was played w/to see what she could and couldn't do which she thought was fun. In the end it came out that she is at her age level in development(a few things were at 6 month level) and technically she didn't qualify since all her numbers were above the qualifying level, but they will cover the PT evaluation since the Neurologist wanted her to see one. If we didn't have that we probably wouldn't have been covered. But that's fine I really didn't think she would need to go all that often maybe every other week at the most.
I'm just a little frustrated cuz I know she's a little behind. It's just these few things that she can't do or hasn't; rolling, trying to crawl, and she barley sits, everything else she's just like N was and is doing early. I can tell it's cuz she can't do them. Hopefully this means she will grow out of it and she just needs a little extra work to do new things. Since she has been sitting more and getting better at it, but I've really been working w/her w/it. I'm hoping and praying that I'm right.

The Magic M

First off let me tell ya yes when I was little I was a little deprived of McDonald's foods since my mom was a manager for them. So usually if we went out for fast food it wasn't McDonald's. So yes now when we go out I usually take Nathan to McDonald's, not that we eat out all that much it's usually about 2-3 times a month.

OK so to my story, we were driving home from the bookstore today-I got a good book about helping your credit-so we are stopped at this one light we usually always get stopped at, (I don't think I've ever not been stopped at it) and N goes-bye, bye(or I thought. Some days it's so hard to understand him). I was like who are you saying bye bye too? He said no no and said it again then I realized he was saying french fries and pointing at the McDonald's. Now mind you we have never been to that McDonald's we go to the one by our house or closer to the malls. So it was those darn arches they have. His other thing is whenever we do get fast food to go you have to give him a french fry. He gets that from me and hubby always taking one out of the bag as soon as we get them. I know I'm so bad, but who can wait you have to try one!

Bad Credit, Good Credit, I hate Credit

I called a mortgage lady today. I was so nerves about it, everything was running through my head. I thought it was going to take her a day or two to find out. It was only about an hour though it was a long hour let me tell ya. And it was a little better than I thought it was going to be. Our credit is low, but not bad. We are doing everything right we just have to up the score some. And I have to call/write some people about a workman's comp issue I had like 4 years ago that managed to get on there. So we will not be getting a house quite yet, but we are close-hopefully. I'm still a little nerves that we will not get our numbers up, but we have to move. The opportunity here has been great, and I'm so grateful for it. But, it's been a little to long. I should have looked into this a while ago. O'well live and learn.

Am I or Not

I'm so confused. hubby told me that I told him I was working tomorrow(Monday), but I don't remember. I did copy the schedule, but they messed up Wenesday and had me working in the morning, but M has one of her evaluations so I can't work. Anyways, I gave that copy to a manager to go over to see what they could do for me. And now I can't tell if I'm working or not. I called my friend who will be at work a few hrs before I will need to be there(if I work) and she's going to call me and let me know. So at lest if I do I shouldn't be too late, but I'm 99% sure I'm not working. They usually have me on Sundays, so I'm freaking a little bit.

Change Of Plans

I was hoping that M was going to wear N's old tigger costume. I had tried it on her and it fit well, and N seemed all excited about her in it, till I took it off her. Then he wanted to try it on, which of course didn't work well for him. Then he wouldn't let me put it away. So I figured I would just make M a fairy. Which of course isn't all that bad since I really wanted her to be one anyways, I just hadn't found a cute one. So crafty little me made her a skirt and head band to go w/some wings I found.This is the skirt a little closer. There is 3 layers; the bottom satin then 2 tulle layers the top one has some sparkles on it.

I am way to crafty sometimes. I blame it on my grandmothers. They both enjoyed some type of crafting so I got double the genes-I tell ya family.

It's Finished!!

I finally officially finished N's costume. I'm really happy with how it came out. I even stayed up till about 1 am to finish the hat. I don't know what I was thinking, but I was so happy I didn't mess up the shirt or pants this time I figured I'd run with it. I thought the hat was going to be hard to do cuz I had to pleat it and try and make it look even all round. But I just sectioned it off and kept pining it at the center till I used all the fabric and it came out GREAT! if I do say so myself.

As far as M's costume I've been debating about what to have her be. I did get this leopard outfit that's sort of like a tutu/ballet style. I thought it was cute and would work if I couldn't find anything else. Well, I thought about it and decided that she will be Tigger and use the costume that N had for his first Halloween. The scary part is that it's a 12 month and N fit in it pretty well when he wore it at 9 months and I tried it on M this morning and it fits OK, by Halloween it will probably fit really well. It's craziness I tell ya.

And Another Try

I had this GREAT plan to make N's costume this year. It all started cuz I saw this chief outfit but it was almost $40 with tax and shipping, but I decided to wait since it was SO MUCH. Well, about a week later I was walking through JoAnn's and saw a pattern for a chief costume. So I figured I could make it no problem. Well, I technically did, but the fabric I used was a little thin, but he can just wear a white shirt under it right. Then I tried it on him and it was a "little" tight, there was no way a shirt was going under it. So off I was to JoAnn's to get more fabric. Thankfully I work in a same strip mall that has one. I cut out all the fabric AGAIN and tonight I'm going to retry it. At lest the pants came out really well the first time. Though in the long run it still ends up being cheaper and it's sort of fun I haven't made any outfits in about 10yrs.

I also have been making M baby food. If I know it was so easy I would have started earlier w/N. So far I have made sweet potatoes, peas, green beans, and carrots. The other day I made nectarines. Those were very sticky when the juice get on you. And today I made pears. During all this I got myself a ricer for the potatoes, and ended up having to get a new blender cuz ours died. So I found this really cute single serve blender at walmart for $15 great price. I used it to make a shake last night and it worked well. Well, for the pears not so much it just minced them up. So I was trying to find something that would work. My mini prep would just do the same thing, so that was out. The ricer did nothing, just squish the juice out. Then I remembered my little hand mixer/blender compo thing. One of the attachments was PERFECT for it. I was so excited. I was laughing at myself cuz I've had the thing the whole time and never thought to use that. Silly silly me!

Welcome to the First One

This is a little look into my world. All about my two beautiful babies and everything that goes on with them and me. At the moment I am trying to potty train my son N who is 2 1/2yrs old. It hasn't been going so well. I've tried about 3 times now and it was just terrible. Each time it would end w/N in tears and me so frustrated. I was trying to do the whole one day training, which has worked w/everything else. So this time around I didn't totally give up, instead we are going the regular way-I guess that is what you would call it. We are using pull ups-which I said I would never do, but hey desperate times call for desperate measures. He will not wear big boy pants so that's the next best thing to being able to feel the wetness. So now I've been trying to take him to the potty every time I change him. Trying being the operative word.

Then we have my little girl named M who is 5 months. She's my little angel she looks like one too. I swear my mom and God sent her to me so I can have an angel to hold all to myself. We just found out about 2 months ago that she has hypertonia-High muscle tone. We are still trying to learn about it. All I have learned so far is that it makes her stiff all the time. Though she has good days and bad. Other than that it's pretty vague from there. I have found 2 other moms that have kids w/this but neither one has emailed me back w/help which makes me a little mad and upset that no one wants to help. I'm sure they were in this spot before. Weren't they this lost? Everything I read is not helpful, and the drs keep telling me, we have to wait and see. And to add to this at the same time we found this out I went part-time and lost my insurance, and my hubby doesn't get his for a few more months. So I also have been trying to get her into state and government programs to help with the appointments. She is also suppose to be getting physical therapy, but cuz of the insurance issue we haven't been able to get that started. But I finally got her into a program called early steps and they are going to help w/the cost of therapy. She will finally start them in the beginning of October.
Well, my world is starting to wake up.