N, N, N!

That's about all I have to say about today! This morning was M's follow up ear appointment, she's doing great everything looks good including her nose which is GREAT! Even with all this great news I had a little cloud hanging over me all day. On Saturday night daddy and N were rough housing like boys do, when I noticed that N had a red mark under his lip, I wasn't to worried about it just though he hit a toy or something while him and daddy were playing, but I still wanted daddy to look at it really quick. He said it looked like he was getting a cold sore. No big deal he's gotten them before, I just have to really make sure M doesn't steal is sippy cup and he washes his hands really good, for the next few days. Then yesterday it seemed to look a little different then normal(cold sore) or so I thought, I've never had one, but daddy assured me at every phone call it was fine. But still the whole day is just seemed to get worse, and the cloud started to form. Well, today it looked really bad and when daddy called at lunch I asked him about it again and him knowing I was worried told me just to call the dr, so I did, at 4:25pm-35mins before they close. I love our drs office they were like, don't you just live just a few mins away, just come right now we'll get you in really quick. So off we went 30mins later, N has a cold sore that turned into impetigo, which is some kind of bacteria infection thing...at lest that's what I understood. She thinks that cuz of his runny nose(thankfully the only sign of a cold that he's gotten) caused the cold sore to get the impetigo. Now he has 2 different ointments for the next 7 days, one is for 5 times a day and the other 3, but the dr wants them put on at different times, so it means that he'll be having to put ointment on it almost every hr of the day for the next 7 days. Got to love kids!!

Another Catch Up!

I know I know I've been really bad about posting. M still has her infection she's on her second course of meds-fingers crossed it works this time. Then last week I got really sick-I basically slept through two days, I think I had some kind of sinus infection or something, I still have a terrible cough. Now hubby's sick, thankfully N's seemed to miss it. Other than that not to much has been going on. We went to the beach the Saturday before Father's day which was fun. The kids and I also went today too, M LOVES the beach that girl is all smiles when we go! N likes it he has fun, he likes play grounds better.

Don't worry next week I'll be much better, it's a busy week, Monday is M's follow-up ear appointment and Tuesday night-Wednesday morning is her sleep study.

I do have a few photo's I wanted to share of the kids. We were having a little photo shot the other day and I got some cute pictures.

N when I told him to say cheese!

N's Silly Face

N HAD to read this magazine well going potty the other day.
It was to cute not to take a few pics!

M after she dropped her bik out of her mouth

M laughing she gets this funny mean look when she laughs which makes it even funnier!

Close up M!

This was about an hr before bedtime, I had just given them a snack and finished up doing the checkbook really quick before getting on PJ's and bed. I turn around after finishing(maybe 10mins) and this is what I found!!

Long time coming

I know I haven't posted in a while, I've just been so tired this week. I don't think my body has caught up with it's self since Monday's surgery.

Anyways, M's culture came back, she has a sinus infection, the technical term(just cuz they told me :) ) is Streptoccus pneumonia, it's a pretty common one they told me. They even were able to figure out what medicine was going to work the best for her, but it only cames in pill form so I had to find a pharmacy the could compound it into a liquid(didn't know they could do that did ya....ok well I didn't!). Of course the closest one was 20mins away, good thing it's only a one time thing! She's doing really good, she's been in a great mood this week, loud nosies are still bothering her, she'll start crying, but it's to be expected, I'm sure her ears are still sensitive.

Today we found out that she can climb on to N's bed. He has this stool that we got him to get into his bed when we first got it, and M has been able to get to the top of it for a few months now(about 4 or 5), Well, today she was at the top and I walked into our bedroom and came back and she wasn't on the stool, I looked in their room, didn't see her, and then I heard her laugh, and she was on his bed jumping into his pillows. N thought it was great!

N's last day of school was Wednesday. He got this HUGE as big as him dinosaur book from his teachers. I guess he asked if he could take it home and they said yes. So now we have this book that will not fit anywhere, I'm going to have to take a picture of it. Anyways, it's a good book, it has about every dinosaur you can think of in there. Well, on Tuesday his class had a little program they did for the kids that were going to kindergarten (the ones in the graduation hats). It was really cute, though as you can see from the pictures N wasn't happy! When we first got there they were just about to start and N looked happy, then he saw me and he just started doing his wiper face and it stayed til the end. The little guy had me almost in tears by the end, cuz he wanted to get down and see us so bad, he was almost crying. (sorry the pictures are so dark I'm not sure what was up with the camera, I tried the whole time to fix it)

N is in the red shirt to the right, in front of the teacher in the white.

N also got to play our Wii for the first time this week. I got Wii Fit for Mother's Day(by the way I love it!! if anyone was wondering:) ) I was talking to another mom that has it and she said her 3yr old loves the soccer game, so I figured I would let N give it a try. He helped me make him a Mii(the little people that you play with that you can make look like you or how ever you want). He had a ball, he even did better than me.

As far as potty training......N has been doing GREAT! He's only had one accident in the last 2 weeks and that was at school last week, he just didn't make it to the potty on time. So I am calling him 100% potty trained!! On a funny note, ok two! Last Saturday we meet grandma and papa at the mall, N did really good told us when he had to go. I got him this folding potty cover. It goes over a toilet making it smaller like his one at home. Well, on one of the trips, I must not had it on the toilet right, it broke in half and he fell in. Thankfully he hadn't gone yet! I started laughing cuz his face was like what was that. He then was laughing and saying "I fell potty!" He thought it was the funniest thing and told Daddy as soon as he got out of the bathroom. The second was yesturday. He was holding himself

Mommy-"Do you have to go potty?"

N(still holding himself)- "NO!"

Mommy-"Well why are you holding your penis?"

N-"I like hold penis."

Hubby and I started laughing so hard. He was so matter of fact about it. That was so not the response I was excepting.

And lastly. We have been looking/thinking about getting another car seat as a spare. We have 2 spares at the moment, but they don't fit in the Trans Am very nicely and we have been trying to see if we can find one that would let us fit two car seats in grandpa's truck in case we needed to in a pinch. Basically I've been on the look out for a good cheap car seat. I had one in mind it's a good price($45), but I wasn't totally sold on it, I wasn't really sure if the design would fit in the cars like we needed it to. Anyways, Tuesday I had to run to Walmart for somethings, I walked by the diapers and there on the clearance rack was a really good car seat for $50(normally $70), I grabbed it. It's really nice, and N LOVES it. We decided since N likes this one so much we would use the one he has now for the spare and he can use this in my car. This is how much he loves it.....I brought it in the house to set up the straps and everything, this is how he sat for a good 30 mins, he wanted to be buckled up and wouldn't let me unbuckle him.

After Surgery Update

Sorry it's taken so long to write this. Once we got home we got the kids in bed to finish the nap they started in the car then I went to lay down for awhile and ended up napping from about 12-3. Can you believe I'm still tired! We just got the kids down for the night so this was the first chance I've had to write.

Anywho, on to M. We were told to get there at 7am, we got there at 6:50am. Not bad, well I'm guess we were suppose to be there earlier, cuz the lady at the sign in asked when they told us to be there and I told her and she just seemed to be upset at the schedule people. Here's the "stations" that happen, to help explain the rest...

Sign in-They get all the info(insurance/history), co-pay
Triage-They check the vitals, ask more questions about history, what/when ate
Waiting room-play area and waiting for next station
Pre-op/Holding-This is were you wait to talk to the all the drs that will be working on your child.
Sugery(for the kids)
Waiting room #2(for the family)- This is a VERY small room that you sit in for about 20mins during the surgery til the dr comes in and tells you it went well
Recovery-is is well, recovery, but were you first wait to reunite with your child then sit for 30mins so the nurses can make sure they are good to go.

So we got to the first waiting room pretty quite, really even into holding fast. On our way to holding at first the nurses were saying that N couldn't go in there cuz he was under 12, so N and I stayed in the waiting room. About 5 mins later one of the nurses came and got me, and said she was so sorry "we don't like to separate the families I don't know what they were thinking". So we sit in there for a good hr. N was in heaven they had a TON of dinosaurs and even some volcanoes to go with them. M was getting pretty fussy she just wanted to go, we finally sat her in the stroller and she just watched the TV til the dr came. Then it was off to the small room, were N, daddy and I finally got to eat(I was smart this time and brought along donuts for us to eat while we waited.) Once the dr told us she did good, and gave us the drops for her ears, we headed to recovery to wait for M. It was sort of funny cuz N didn't really ask for M til we were there, then he kept asking when sissy was coming. We could hear her coming down the hall crying, not to bad, just upset. Once she got her daddy and blanket she was fine. She did really good only fussed a few times with in the 30mins we had to be in there. Totally unlike N that cried pretty much the whole 30mins, but she deals with pain much better than him.

For the rest of the day she's been doing great, when she does fall or bump into something, she does seem to cry a little more than normal, but who wouldn't after just having surgery. Hubby and I both made a comment that she seems much happier, it's hard to explain, but she just seems to have a smile on her face ever since she got up from her nap. Well, I'm off to bed, this mama needs more sleep!

Tube Surgery

Just wanted to update everyone, M will be having her tubes and sinus culture Monday morning. We have to be there at 7am which means we'll have to get up at like 5am(at lest hubby and I). Hopefully we can get the kids to the car and staying a sleep til we get to the hospital otherwise it's going to be a long day for me! Hubby wasn't able to take a personal day since we just found out Friday afternoon, there wasn't enough time to get one approved. On a good note it's scheduled early in the morning and the hospital is only about 20mins from his work so he'll be able to be there for most of it. Once I get home and get the kids settled I'll try and make a post, I'm going to say maybe around 2 or 3 I should be able to, since that's normally "quite" time around here for N, and I'm sure M will be sleeping most of the day since that's what N did after his tube surgery.

Another Busy Day

Early this morning M had her hearing test and then her ENT dr appointment. Her hearing test didn't come out so well, it was low moderate(not good). Her dr(which is also N's ENT dr) asked what was going on, we told him she had two ear infections and we were 99% sure she had another one right now(by the way she does). Basically she's going to have the tubes. She's also going to have a culture on her nose done, to check the sinus behind the nose(can't remember the name) since every time she has an infection her nose is also runny. The dr wants this done within the next week or two, to see if it helps with her sleeping at night. He thinks it will so then she will not have to have the sleep study though I'm not holding my breath on that one. He did give her some meds to help with the infection til we can get her for the tubes. We are just waiting for them to contact her Nero. dr to get the ok from her(even though she also wanted us to try for the tubes) then they will call back with when we can have the tubes done! The dr also checked N's (I guess he always likes to do that if the sibling is also one of his patients-nice no extra charge!!) and his were perfect!

N has now been accident free for 3 days!! He also filled up his star chart so he got to pick out a toy from Walmart today. Out of all things he picked out an Iron Man action figure. He was carrying around a bucket of Lego's for a while, then changed his mind. Worked for me it was cheaper :)!

Then there's me, for the last week or so I've been debating about something. About 2 weeks about at work I saw this lady walking out will this really cute hair cut(she also had curly hair) since then that's all I can think about. I've also been in dire need of a cut. So I looked up a bunch of pics of cuts printed out a few I liked and one I fell in love with, but just wasn't sure the last time my hair was that short.......it was a nightmare for me. I was also really young and didn't know all the neat tricks I do now. Since hubby took a personal day today I went and got it cut, even up to walking in the door I wasn't 100% sure what I was going to do. I showed the lady the cut.

She told me it wouldn't look good on me. So I ended up just telling her how I normally get it cut. After her questioning me on some of those "orders", she finally realized I knew what I was talking about. She was just about finished (I could tell she was checking all to make sure it was even), at this point it was starting to dry and she goes, it's sort of like the picture just a little longer, with that she takes my hair like she's going to layer (even though she already did that) and starts just chopping the hair away! At first I was thinking what is she doing and after she did it a few times I noticed that my hair was laying different. And the end result........

My new hair cut.....I LOVE IT!

At lest for today we'll see how it comes out tomorrow when I have to do it!

Exciting News!!

I've been holding off on blogging this week for one main reason(well, and the fact that I have been really tired this week), I was to afraid I would jinks myself. It happens all the time with kids, a parent says how great they have been sleeping through the night and that night they wake up on you. After all the praying and stress I had put on myself to get this done, I really didn't want it to backfire on me. So what is this exciting news that I'm just dragging out to tell you, N is pretty much almost potty trained!!! I am one happy, relieved, proud momma!

It all started Monday when he was dry the whole day at school from 8:30am when I changed him till well after 3pm when I picked him up from school. For months now we have tried to just get him to sit on the potty, which sometimes he does nicely, others well, it's not so pretty. So when we got home I kept sitting him on it til he wanted to get down then we would go back every 20mins or so. He also wanted to wear big boy underwear. He finally went and he got a Dinosaur.(Yes, I had gotten down to bribing, and I tried everything else; M&M's, gold fish, cars, this was the only thing that got him to at lest want to sit and try for). Tuesday he went to school with pull ups on did really good went on the potty at school once. Wednesday, the same, but told the teachers he had to go twice, though he had already gone in his pull up. Thursday, same. All these days he would come home and get on his big boy underwear. Thursday night, he wanted to wear his underwear to bed so after being dry the whole night before, we gambled and let him(after of course bringing the little potty into his room and making sure he knew it was there). We was dry the whole night!!! And it was a long night he went to bed at 8pm and didn't get up til 9:30am(we missed school cuz of this). Friday, he got to wear his underwear all day, only had 2 accidents, and was again dry the whole night. Today........we have been having him tell us when he as to go, otherwise all you hear him say is "No pee in potty!" over and over cuz he doesn't think he has to go. He made it once to the potty(just barely) and two other times where he was trying to get to the potty and started to go. Not bad if you ask me. Needless to say for the next two days we'll be "camped" out at the house, letting N get more comfortable with the whole thing, and come Tuesday he'll be going to school like a big boy!! I'm just so proud!!