M's Party

Today we went to Build-A-Bear for M's party! It was really nice and fun, I didn't really have to do anything except keep an eye on where my kids where. Hubby was in charge of taking pictures and I have to say I'm very proud of him. He managed to take 48 in all and only one bad one(though he would have said it was good cuz it was of my butt lol). Usually I only get a few pictures from him~he just doesn't like to do it, so I was very happy.

Bear cupcakes I made

Everyone sitting and telling the lady what there name wasM wanted to go shopping for outfits

M giving her bear a heart.

Everyone gave her's one so she had lots of hearts in there!M stuffing her bear.

She doesn't like the machine so she was mostly just crying at this point

Making sure her bear was huggable

N's turn to stuff!~He's a pro by now!

S making sure her bear was huggable~
this was her(and her brothers) first Build-A-Bear
S stuffing his rabbitK brushing her bear, she was really liking this part

She's also a pro!

S brushing her bear. She was being so gentle it was cute!
M wondering why no one was brushing her bear
Got to love her thinking

Everyone picking out shirts for their bears.

N picked out a really cool guitar shirt

Everyone getting a picture with their animals.

The lady also took a picture of this and gave us a copy in a cute frame

M's got her bear she's ready to go have some cupcakes!Everyone enjoying their cupcakes!

The lady said that they all where really good for being so young. She told me normally that age is all over the place. That would have just been M she didn't really participate very well. But she loves the getting the outfits and accessories the best. I do have to go back tomorrow cuz M got a special addition one that's suppose to come with a pin and I didn't notice it didn't have it till we got home. And it was so busy(and M was ready to go) by the time we where done that I didn't let the kids go back and use their gift cards. It works out cuz we got coupons with their "goodie bags" so they can get a little extra.

She turned TWO!

Today my little girl turned two. It was a weird day, hubby got the day off, but helped his dad with his air conditioner so it was just M and me most of the day. Even thought I know and kept telling her she was the birthday girl today, it didn't really seem very special. I was already feeling bad about not getting her balloons since she isn't having a party at home, and then with it just not feeling right in the morning it made me feel even worse. So after I picked up N from school, him and I went to the party store and picked her up some balloons. She was so excited and happy about them when we got home.

M and her balloons(sorry my batteries were dying so no flash)

N decorating the room for M

Hubby was done helping his dad for the day so I made dinner then M opened her gifts.

Being a good girl and throwing away the paper

Opening more presents

And then it was time for her cupcakes.

She blow them out all by herself

She seemed to have a good day I hope she thought she had a Great Birthday. Now it's the wait to Sunday for her party which I know her and N are really looking forward to.

Feeding her doll her new food

Got to love the tongue out to help the doll eatDancing in her new dress

Big Girl

In a few days M will be getting a twin size bed. I'm getting it from a friend of mine that has it in storage so once her hubby gets it out we'll get it. Anyways, yesterday I decide to take her mattress out of her crib and lay it on the floor to get her use to the idea. She thought it was cool, especially since I had put it inside her tent. Nap time was a little rough, you would think cuz all she wanted to do was play~wrong! She was just screaming and crying, after five minutes I thought ok, I'll put her back in her crib, maybe cuz the crib is still up is the problem. Nope, she managed to climb out of her crib(which she's only done one other time), and managed after a few mins to open the door(I always close it for nap time so it's quite in there). I ended up putting it back on the floor, she would have just climbed out again and gotten hurt. I had to put up the gate at the door to get her to stay in there, but she even pushed that down twice. After 20mins she finally just laid down and napped.

How I found her once she finally took her nap

Bedtime went really good. She did want to sleep with N in his bed which was super cute cuz N wanted her to too. He put a pillow in the middle of the bed so she had the top of the bed and he had to bottom, and that's how they fell asleep. I did end up moving her before I went to bed cuz her legs where totally off the bed and I didn't want her to fall...that would have been a great way for her NOT to want her new bed. But she slept the whole night and even this morning I went to get her up and she was just playing inside N's tent.

Today's, nap time was also a little rough, but a LOT better then yesterday. She cried a little, but didn't try to get out or anything, and it only lasted a min or two. I can't wait for her to get her bed she's going to be so excited. I guess this means she's officially out of the crib. I'm so happy for her, even though this really means she's not a baby anymore, I'm happy not to have to lift her up into the crib anymore the girls heavy!

New Phone

About a year ago, hubby and I got new phones you can read about here. I got the LG Shine, it was not my first choice, my first one was a Pantech slider, but the guy at the store talked me out of it. Since then.....I've had lots of issues. The shorter version~I had it replaced twice cuz it froze up on me(you can read about one of those times here). This last one, has also had issues, it shuts it's self off whenever it feels like it. It also goes through battery power like it's candy. Hubby got me a new battery for it thinking it would help...it did help a little with the power issue, but not much. And I refused to talk to the phone company cuz last time they wouldn't do anything for me and I just got so mad. My plan was just suffer through the next 8 months til I could upgrade my phone again. So hubby being the sweet husband he is (and getting tired of me complaining) called and got them to upgrade my phone at not charge. I'm so happy, and I got the phone I wanted in the first place! See my beauty

Around Here

There isn't to much going on here, this week hubby changes over to his new work schedule, so he gets extra days off which is great, and I only work two days and they are spread out so I'm happy about that. One of the really nice things about the new schedule is that I will have a day in between working, hopefully this will help me not feel so drained like I have been the last few weeks.
On Wednesday after I came home, M started fussing a little in bed so I went and checked on her she had a 103 temp. After some meds and 45 mins later we did get down to 101, before we decided to try and get some sleep too. Thursday she woke up fine didn't seem warm was playing. She didn't eat any dinner, then we went to therapy found out she couldn't be there til 24hr after a fever, about an hr later she was back up to 102. The girl has never had a fever over 101 so twice in 12hrs I called the dr to get her checked out. The dr thinks it's just a start of a viral infection, so we are just to keep her drinking, and if she gets really bad runny nose or coughing call them. She's a tough cookie, she's still playing(not quite up to her par but playing). She's still not eating a ton, and having some really fussy moments, but doing good. The fever is still coming and going so we'll see.
N is doing great he's talking up a storm. He's excited about M's party and his best friends party and his cousins coming. It's really cute in the morning he'll be excited about one thing and by afternoon it's another then he'll switch it up again. I guess he just can't decide what he's most excited about.
Talking about M's party I still can't believe she'll be 2 in 2 weeks! After a few weeks of debating, we decided on a Build-A-Bear party. Since it will only be 5 kids(That's counting mine) it will be the same amount as getting all the food and supplies this way everyone gets a bear and I don't have to clean up or set up. I will still make cupcakes for everyone, just cuz I LOVE doing that. And M loves Build-A-Bear(so does N). It should be fun!

Where I've been

Sorry I've been "gone" for awhile. It's all cuz of my new hobby! I taught myself to crochet about a month ago and since then I've been working on a afghan for N every chance I had. I have had many moments that I thought "I want to blog about this" then it comes time for the kids to go to bed and I'm off to crochet more on the afghan I haven't even played on World of Warcraft in a month which is crazy I was jumping on that almost every night for at lest an hr. Anyways, besides that it really hasn't been to interesting around here. I've been working a lot, which is crazy since work has been slow, but someone left and we had inventory so the store has been short people. Works out for me, though I feel like I've been busy everyday for the last few weeks.
The next few months are going to be crazy! Our good friend's son's party the next week, we have M's 2nd birthday, which I'm still not sure what I'm doing yet. Then we have all of hubby's siblings and all their kids coming down for Easter break. Which I'm so excited about. First we haven't seen them in a year and all the cousins haven't ever all been together, so that should been really neat! After that we have a few weeks before it's more birthdays and then Tony and Sarah's wedding! Another big thing I can't wait for! So that's all the fun stuff to come up in the next 2 months!

Another post-op appointment

This is from the other day....I must have been tired cuz I posted this on my craft blog

I was so nervous about this appointment today. I just haven't felt like my jaw is opening as much as it should and was very worried about that fact. The dr told me today that everything looked good and my opening ability was coming along good. Which was really nice to hear since I was worried about it. He also said the the few "pops" I'm hearing when I open really wide sometimes, is ok. I just have to watch how much I "push" myself on what I'm eating. I'm so relieved I don't need to go back unless I have an issue in the future, which is great.