Well, there is so much to update about..I'm sure I'll forget something but here goes!
Things have been going pretty smoothly so far, just a few bumps and bends in the road but nothing major. The girls and I have been doing okay, I'm still waiting for my inevitable break down to take place. I've been told that every wife has a breakdown at some point, and I have yet to have mine, hopefully it doesn't happen! Tim has been gone 12 weeks and 3 days, or 87 days. I'll be relieved when we finally hit that 100 day mark, come on..it's 100 days closer to him being home!
Speaking of Tim, we've been having some health issues with him. A couple weeks ago he went to the clinic and was told that he suffered a SLAP tear in his shoulder and that he would need to come back to see the doctor. When he finally went back to see the doctor, a week later, the doctor told him that rather than a SLAP tear, he had a torn rotator cuff. Lovely! He is scheduled to go back to see the specialist on May 9th to see what they are going to do. They are hoping that it heals on its own, but with how bad it constantly hurts him..I see a surgery in his future. The possibilities are to send him home for his surgery, recovery and rehab or to throw his arm in a sling and wait til he comes home from deployment for surgery. We're torn on what we would wish for, of course we want him home..but he wants to stay and serve his country. I can't wait til I can see it for myself when he comes home on R&R this summer, whenever that may be.
Speaking of doctor's and what they think, tomorrow I go back to the cardiologist for my echo. I will also be getting my heart monitor in the mail, which I am dreading having to wear. They have prescribed me the monitor for 30 days, but if it records enough data on my symptoms prior to the end of the 30 days, my doctor may allow me to stop wearing it. So bring on the coffee and exercise!
School is almost out, I couldn't tell you how many weeks/assignments are left, I haven't checked! I am thrilled to be so close to summer and relaxation. It stinks when I have to chose between cleaning the house and staying caught up on homework, or taking the girls to the park or taking the time to get in the kitchen and cook a good meal. This whole single mom and student thing is tough stuff! I rarely catch a quiet moment..and when I do..I want to enjoy it! I am so looking forward to relaxing with my girls this summer without homework constantly being on the brain! I had planned on taking two classes this summer but with Tim coming home somewhere in there..its not worth it. I want to enjoy my husband and kids!!!
Mackenzie is almost five, can you believe it!? Yeah, me either! I am once again planning her birthday party on my own, thanks Army, and I absolutely hate it. Parties and holidays aren't my thing. Ask my husband how many birthday/Christmas/anniversary/valentine's gifts I have bought him in our seven years...he can probably list the items on one hand. It's just not something I do. I don't see the need in showing someone appreciate/love through tangible items, and I most definitely don't want people to do it for me. I would rather be able to spend the day with them and show them love..not have to go out buy a cake, presents, food, decorations. So planning birthday parties is a hard thing for me to do, but I do it for her because the look of happiness that will be on her face.
I know I haven't put anything down about Madison, which I feel guilty about..but no news is good news with Madison. Nothing crazy or drastic to update about with her, thank goodness!!!
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Monday, August 23, 2010
I keep putting this off
I keep putting off writing this blog update, because I'm lazy.
Everything is FINALLY unpacked in our house and it feels like home. The only thing we have left to do is put up curtains in our bedroom and our living room. To me, a home doesn't feel like a home until those generic white blinds are covered, plus it adds life and color to a room. Madison's room is complete and all that is left for Mackenzie's room is her letters over her bed. Tim went out and bought a new tv for the living room, it's huge. It's a 50 inch flat screen LED-LCD and I love it. Next month I'm going to buy a new washer and dryer, a lawn mower and weed-eater, that's all we lack for the house.
Our life up here is a nice one. Our street is quiet and we don't have nosy neighbors or anyone who speeds down the roads or plays their music loud. If you walk outside after 9pm, it's silent. It's nice that all of the neighbors have kids so they understand and aren't loud or obnoxious around bedtime.
Today was Mackenzie's first day of school, I'm anxious to pick her up at 3:15 and ask her how it was. The school is half a mile from our house so I'm able to walk her to and from it every day. Kindergarten and Pre-K have their own hallway and entrance so they don't have to mingle with the big kids, which I like. This morning there was someone waiting at the door and the parents told their children goodbye and the staff would personally escort each child to their classroom. Mackenzie told us bye and gave us kisses and ran through the doors, she was so excited. I saw a few moms crying, but I'm definitely not that type. I can't feel upset or sad when she is so excited and eager to go.
Speaking of school, I'm officially a college student, again. I dropped out of college back in 2005 when I was pregnant with Mackenzie and I'm finally going back. I am taking online classes through Temple College, working on my associates. They always told us back in H.S, just go to college and you'll figure out what you want to do when you're there. Well, I hate taking classes if I won't need them so I have waited til I knew what I wanted to do. I've decided I'm interested in being a History teacher, so that's what I'm pursuing. I'll be able to have my summer and winter breaks with my children and won't have to work 12 months a year, my kinda job! Plus, I love History. My game plan is to take three classes a semester and two classes in the summer, in the beginning and then eventually go to four classes a semester. This will have me out of school with my Bachelor's when Tim is leaving the Army. I'll be able to have my job while he finishes his degree in Intelligence Operations (he already has 3/4 of it) and then we will both have our careers.
Everyone told us we did this backwards, having children, getting married and then school. To me, we did this the best way. When I'm forty, I'll have my degree and my job, but i'll be able to relax while my two girls (20 & 18) are in college! The ones who did it the 'right' way will be 40 with their careers and college educations with children still living under their roofs! See...I did it the right way, I'll be sipping margaritas on the beach ;) ::this is how I justify it, haha, totally kidding of course!!::
On a different note, Tim is deploying. We don't know specific dates but it will be after Christmas but before the end of February. He has a two week field training coming up and then he'll be gone for a month starting at the end of October. We know where he will be going but we don't know how long he'll be gone for. Could be 6 months,12 months or 18 months..we're hoping for 6 months, but expecting 18. With the Military, you hope for the best but prepare for the worst. I'm thankful he'll be here for Christmas but bummed that he'll be gone for our 5 year wedding anniversary. Every five years we plan on renewing our vows in some weird way. Five years was suppose to be married by Elvis in Vegas..guess we'll put that off til our 6 year ;) Such is life in the Army.
Well I know there is more to write about..but frankly, i'm too tired to keep writing..so The End.
Oh, an update on Duke. He is now 9 weeks old. He rarely has accidents in the house and his bark sounds more like a cat meowing than any type of noise that should come out of a dog..we love him.
Everything is FINALLY unpacked in our house and it feels like home. The only thing we have left to do is put up curtains in our bedroom and our living room. To me, a home doesn't feel like a home until those generic white blinds are covered, plus it adds life and color to a room. Madison's room is complete and all that is left for Mackenzie's room is her letters over her bed. Tim went out and bought a new tv for the living room, it's huge. It's a 50 inch flat screen LED-LCD and I love it. Next month I'm going to buy a new washer and dryer, a lawn mower and weed-eater, that's all we lack for the house.
Our life up here is a nice one. Our street is quiet and we don't have nosy neighbors or anyone who speeds down the roads or plays their music loud. If you walk outside after 9pm, it's silent. It's nice that all of the neighbors have kids so they understand and aren't loud or obnoxious around bedtime.
Today was Mackenzie's first day of school, I'm anxious to pick her up at 3:15 and ask her how it was. The school is half a mile from our house so I'm able to walk her to and from it every day. Kindergarten and Pre-K have their own hallway and entrance so they don't have to mingle with the big kids, which I like. This morning there was someone waiting at the door and the parents told their children goodbye and the staff would personally escort each child to their classroom. Mackenzie told us bye and gave us kisses and ran through the doors, she was so excited. I saw a few moms crying, but I'm definitely not that type. I can't feel upset or sad when she is so excited and eager to go.
Speaking of school, I'm officially a college student, again. I dropped out of college back in 2005 when I was pregnant with Mackenzie and I'm finally going back. I am taking online classes through Temple College, working on my associates. They always told us back in H.S, just go to college and you'll figure out what you want to do when you're there. Well, I hate taking classes if I won't need them so I have waited til I knew what I wanted to do. I've decided I'm interested in being a History teacher, so that's what I'm pursuing. I'll be able to have my summer and winter breaks with my children and won't have to work 12 months a year, my kinda job! Plus, I love History. My game plan is to take three classes a semester and two classes in the summer, in the beginning and then eventually go to four classes a semester. This will have me out of school with my Bachelor's when Tim is leaving the Army. I'll be able to have my job while he finishes his degree in Intelligence Operations (he already has 3/4 of it) and then we will both have our careers.
Everyone told us we did this backwards, having children, getting married and then school. To me, we did this the best way. When I'm forty, I'll have my degree and my job, but i'll be able to relax while my two girls (20 & 18) are in college! The ones who did it the 'right' way will be 40 with their careers and college educations with children still living under their roofs! See...I did it the right way, I'll be sipping margaritas on the beach ;) ::this is how I justify it, haha, totally kidding of course!!::
On a different note, Tim is deploying. We don't know specific dates but it will be after Christmas but before the end of February. He has a two week field training coming up and then he'll be gone for a month starting at the end of October. We know where he will be going but we don't know how long he'll be gone for. Could be 6 months,12 months or 18 months..we're hoping for 6 months, but expecting 18. With the Military, you hope for the best but prepare for the worst. I'm thankful he'll be here for Christmas but bummed that he'll be gone for our 5 year wedding anniversary. Every five years we plan on renewing our vows in some weird way. Five years was suppose to be married by Elvis in Vegas..guess we'll put that off til our 6 year ;) Such is life in the Army.
Well I know there is more to write about..but frankly, i'm too tired to keep writing..so The End.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Just for Sexy Slushie Sarah
So at the request/demand from Sarah...I will write an update blog.
Tim has been gone for 2 weeks and 1 day. It actually, surprisingly, hasn't been as hard as I was expecting. Yes...yes...I know, everyone told me I'd be okay..but watching the days get closer and closer for him to leave..it was hard. I was able to speak to him pretty regularly from when he left til he went down range for basic, which was Monday, Nov 9th. They were allowed to have their phones and I think most of that was due to the Ft. Hood shootings. A lot of them were pretty shooken up, as was the nation. The night before he went down range, Sunday the 8th, he was able to speak to me on the phone for about 45 minutes and he was depressed. He said he was ready to get it over with so he could come home, but that he really missed us. I don't blame him..what those guys (when I say that, I'm including women too) were about to go through is pretty rough stuff. Especially the drill sergeants telling the fathers 'don't worry about your kids, Jodi (what the military refers to as the man who steps in when you're not around) is taking care of them and fucking your wife' Yeah, pretty heavy shit. Doesn't sound too bad written out, but those soldiers will tell you, that when you're sleep deprived, privacy deprived and homesick..it gets to you. We ended our phone conversation on a good note, with him laughing, excited and ready to get it all taken care of.
He called me Monday morning for 10 seconds telling me they needed a scanned copy of my drivers license, that they needed it for DEERS. He then called me for another 15 seconds on Tuesday morning to tell me his mailing address. Within that 15 seconds I asked how he was doing and he said 'awesome, i'm enjoying it.' I asked if he had been 'smoked' yet and he said 'oh yeah...we all have'. And that was the end to our phone convo's. I haven't heard from him in a week but have written multiple letters. I miss him like crazy but I'm not letting it get me down, gotta stay positive. He told me in the beginning, 'you can't get depressed because I need you to be strong for me. If you get depressed, I get depressed, and we don't want that!' So I've been staying positive. 29 days til I am able to pick him up from the airport and he is wearing his ACU's...hot stuff. And yes, I've already bought a new outfit for that occasion. :)
On to another topic, I quit my job. HOORAY!!! I'm not going to talk about how awful that place was or how management was all screwed in the head, because lets face it, everyone knows by now. I am so excited to be a stay at home mom again. Tim always jokes that I am allergic to work and that if he can make it work, he'd rather me never have to work another day in my life. I support that decision, lol. I do want to go to school one day to make myself a bit independent..but right now..I am happy to sit at home with my girls watching cartoons in the morning, baking blueberry muffins for breakfast and going for walks and going on playdates. :) I plan on, hopefully soon, buying a double jogging stroller so the girls and I can start going on LOOONG walks and I can get some more excercise. Except the really nice strollers are fairly expensive, at least in my opinion. Hopefully I can get one of those strollers soon though.
Madison has started sleeping in my old twin size bed that is in her room. When you see me say 'her room' what that means is..we are living with my mother, and my bedroom was left the way it was when I moved out back in 2005. What we did when we moved in was, we emptied the closet, since I obviously can't fit into any of that crap anymore, and we put the girls clothes in it. We then assembled Madison's bed in my room. So my old room, is now, her room. Well she started climbing out of the crib and climbing into my twin size bed and started sleeping in it. Right now I have the crib pushed up along side the bed so she can't roll off (the bed is against a wall so it only has one open side). It's working for now, I just need to get one of those bed rails that hooks on under the mattress, so I can FINALLY get rid of the crib. I can't believe Madison will be turning 2 on the 7th of next month. Where does the time go? Really!?
Mackenzie's attitude is finally improving after being home for awhile and not around the kids at her school. For the entire time she was enrolled, she was terrible. Hitting, kicking, spitting, talking back and being disrespectful, and not just at school but at home too. Everyone was getting tired of it quick and despite the discipline, talks and things being taken away..it wasn't getting any better. I think she was just desperate for attention, she has spent her entire life with one on one contact...she gets bored easily and likes to always have something to catch her attention..and I don't think she was getting that while I was working. Mackenzie is spoiled and not the bad kind of spoiled, not spoiled with toys and materialistic things, she is spoiled with attention and interaction. She doesn't want you to throw a toy down infront of her and walk away..she wants you to play with her. She doesn't want you to give her some crayons and paper..she wants you to talk to her while she does. This kid is a full time job :) but it makes for a healthy toddler. It was hard on her being away from Madison also. They weren't able to play with each other, and by the time they got home from school..they were both so tired and grouchy they fought until bed time. It's nice to see them playing together again and laughing.
Well Sarah...how was that for an update? lol
Tim has been gone for 2 weeks and 1 day. It actually, surprisingly, hasn't been as hard as I was expecting. Yes...yes...I know, everyone told me I'd be okay..but watching the days get closer and closer for him to leave..it was hard. I was able to speak to him pretty regularly from when he left til he went down range for basic, which was Monday, Nov 9th. They were allowed to have their phones and I think most of that was due to the Ft. Hood shootings. A lot of them were pretty shooken up, as was the nation. The night before he went down range, Sunday the 8th, he was able to speak to me on the phone for about 45 minutes and he was depressed. He said he was ready to get it over with so he could come home, but that he really missed us. I don't blame him..what those guys (when I say that, I'm including women too) were about to go through is pretty rough stuff. Especially the drill sergeants telling the fathers 'don't worry about your kids, Jodi (what the military refers to as the man who steps in when you're not around) is taking care of them and fucking your wife' Yeah, pretty heavy shit. Doesn't sound too bad written out, but those soldiers will tell you, that when you're sleep deprived, privacy deprived and homesick..it gets to you. We ended our phone conversation on a good note, with him laughing, excited and ready to get it all taken care of.
He called me Monday morning for 10 seconds telling me they needed a scanned copy of my drivers license, that they needed it for DEERS. He then called me for another 15 seconds on Tuesday morning to tell me his mailing address. Within that 15 seconds I asked how he was doing and he said 'awesome, i'm enjoying it.' I asked if he had been 'smoked' yet and he said 'oh yeah...we all have'. And that was the end to our phone convo's. I haven't heard from him in a week but have written multiple letters. I miss him like crazy but I'm not letting it get me down, gotta stay positive. He told me in the beginning, 'you can't get depressed because I need you to be strong for me. If you get depressed, I get depressed, and we don't want that!' So I've been staying positive. 29 days til I am able to pick him up from the airport and he is wearing his ACU's...hot stuff. And yes, I've already bought a new outfit for that occasion. :)
On to another topic, I quit my job. HOORAY!!! I'm not going to talk about how awful that place was or how management was all screwed in the head, because lets face it, everyone knows by now. I am so excited to be a stay at home mom again. Tim always jokes that I am allergic to work and that if he can make it work, he'd rather me never have to work another day in my life. I support that decision, lol. I do want to go to school one day to make myself a bit independent..but right now..I am happy to sit at home with my girls watching cartoons in the morning, baking blueberry muffins for breakfast and going for walks and going on playdates. :) I plan on, hopefully soon, buying a double jogging stroller so the girls and I can start going on LOOONG walks and I can get some more excercise. Except the really nice strollers are fairly expensive, at least in my opinion. Hopefully I can get one of those strollers soon though.
Madison has started sleeping in my old twin size bed that is in her room. When you see me say 'her room' what that means is..we are living with my mother, and my bedroom was left the way it was when I moved out back in 2005. What we did when we moved in was, we emptied the closet, since I obviously can't fit into any of that crap anymore, and we put the girls clothes in it. We then assembled Madison's bed in my room. So my old room, is now, her room. Well she started climbing out of the crib and climbing into my twin size bed and started sleeping in it. Right now I have the crib pushed up along side the bed so she can't roll off (the bed is against a wall so it only has one open side). It's working for now, I just need to get one of those bed rails that hooks on under the mattress, so I can FINALLY get rid of the crib. I can't believe Madison will be turning 2 on the 7th of next month. Where does the time go? Really!?
Mackenzie's attitude is finally improving after being home for awhile and not around the kids at her school. For the entire time she was enrolled, she was terrible. Hitting, kicking, spitting, talking back and being disrespectful, and not just at school but at home too. Everyone was getting tired of it quick and despite the discipline, talks and things being taken away..it wasn't getting any better. I think she was just desperate for attention, she has spent her entire life with one on one contact...she gets bored easily and likes to always have something to catch her attention..and I don't think she was getting that while I was working. Mackenzie is spoiled and not the bad kind of spoiled, not spoiled with toys and materialistic things, she is spoiled with attention and interaction. She doesn't want you to throw a toy down infront of her and walk away..she wants you to play with her. She doesn't want you to give her some crayons and paper..she wants you to talk to her while she does. This kid is a full time job :) but it makes for a healthy toddler. It was hard on her being away from Madison also. They weren't able to play with each other, and by the time they got home from school..they were both so tired and grouchy they fought until bed time. It's nice to see them playing together again and laughing.
Well Sarah...how was that for an update? lol
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Couches aren't for jumping
So last night we were at Jon & Kim's playing Phase 10. Well our two girls and their daughter Payton were playing in the living room.
Well Mackenzie was jumping on their couch and Tim stood up in the kitchen to tell her to sit down and she jumped down to land on her knees and when she did she leaned forward and smacked her mouth on a wooden part of the couch. She started screaming and Tim held her for about 15 minutes..he even checked if she was bleeding and she wasn't. So Tim held Mackenzie and we kept playing our game.
Well she ended up crying for about 35 minutes so I asked Tim to let me see her. Well I pulled her top lip up and the entire top of her mouth was covered with blood.
I wiped it off her teeth and I saw that she had knocked her top left tooth back.
So we left and went straight to HEB and bought Tylenol and apple juice, her request. We brought her home, gave her the Tylenol and then I moved her tooth back forward.
She cried and it bled a lot, so I put ice on it. I got the blood out of her mouth and she saw it on a paper towel and to keep her from freaking out I said.. "Did you eat fingernail polish!?" She told me "no..." I said.."well what's that then?" and between cries she told me it was fingernail polish. It was adorable. I had painted her toenails and fingernails red earlier that day, so it was the first thing to pop into my head. lol.
Last night she ended up rolling off her bed twice and smacking her face, which is strange because she NEVER falls off her bed. Poor kiddo doesn't have any luck. Her bed sheet had blood spots all over it this morning when she woke up, so today is laundry day!
Poor baby girl! Her mouth is all swollen and her gums are bruised. :(
Well Mackenzie was jumping on their couch and Tim stood up in the kitchen to tell her to sit down and she jumped down to land on her knees and when she did she leaned forward and smacked her mouth on a wooden part of the couch. She started screaming and Tim held her for about 15 minutes..he even checked if she was bleeding and she wasn't. So Tim held Mackenzie and we kept playing our game.
Well she ended up crying for about 35 minutes so I asked Tim to let me see her. Well I pulled her top lip up and the entire top of her mouth was covered with blood.
I wiped it off her teeth and I saw that she had knocked her top left tooth back.
So we left and went straight to HEB and bought Tylenol and apple juice, her request. We brought her home, gave her the Tylenol and then I moved her tooth back forward.
She cried and it bled a lot, so I put ice on it. I got the blood out of her mouth and she saw it on a paper towel and to keep her from freaking out I said.. "Did you eat fingernail polish!?" She told me "no..." I said.."well what's that then?" and between cries she told me it was fingernail polish. It was adorable. I had painted her toenails and fingernails red earlier that day, so it was the first thing to pop into my head. lol.
Last night she ended up rolling off her bed twice and smacking her face, which is strange because she NEVER falls off her bed. Poor kiddo doesn't have any luck. Her bed sheet had blood spots all over it this morning when she woke up, so today is laundry day!
Poor baby girl! Her mouth is all swollen and her gums are bruised. :(
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Mackenzie is three!
So yesterday Mackenzie turned 3, we had an awesome day planned for her, until we looked at the weather yesterday morning. There had been a forecast for rain but it wasn't suppose to start til the afternoon, so we had planned on hitting up the zoo in the morning and leaving in the afternoon when it started to get rainy. Well, we decided against that when it showed the rain was suppose to start at 11am. It ended up raining all day yesterday.lovely.
But we made a fun day for her anyway. Here are some photos.
The birthday girl and her daddy
The birthday girl and her momma
Yes, we got her the Lady Gaga cd. No it's not normally what a 3 year old wants, but she has been begging non stop. So we did, she was THRILLED!
Then we took her up to her Oma and Opas and she got her presents there. All of my pictures turned out blurry for some reason. She got a purse with cute head bands, and lip stuff. She also got a wallet with some money in it so she could go shopping. Along with that she got the wagon we were suppose to use at the zoo, a movie and a puppy (not real).
The girls waiting!
We also had cake, which Michelle and Sandy made, delicious!
Later that day we went back to Grandmas and opened more gifts and had another cake. Her Grandma got her the movie Bolt, and the trip to the zoo.
Her blowing out her candle!
Madison licking the icing off the container top
But we made a fun day for her anyway. Here are some photos.
The birthday girl and her daddy
The birthday girl and her momma
Yes, we got her the Lady Gaga cd. No it's not normally what a 3 year old wants, but she has been begging non stop. So we did, she was THRILLED!
Then we took her up to her Oma and Opas and she got her presents there. All of my pictures turned out blurry for some reason. She got a purse with cute head bands, and lip stuff. She also got a wallet with some money in it so she could go shopping. Along with that she got the wagon we were suppose to use at the zoo, a movie and a puppy (not real).
The girls waiting!
We also had cake, which Michelle and Sandy made, delicious!
Later that day we went back to Grandmas and opened more gifts and had another cake. Her Grandma got her the movie Bolt, and the trip to the zoo.
Her blowing out her candle!
Madison licking the icing off the container top
Sunday, May 3, 2009
An update
An update about our lives.
Mackenzie turns 3 on the 16th, oh my gosh where did the time go?! She has grown so much, I am so proud of my beautiful baby girl.
Her first professional photo
Her daddy holding her, look how small she was.
Madison has started saying 'no', which is very exciting. I know everyone thinks its cute the first time their child says it, and as they get older and say it more frequently the charm fades, but right now we are so happy. She doesn't talk, she just babbles. At this age Mackenzie could speak, tell you animal sounds, body parts, the whole deal. Madison...no speakage...just babbles. So the fact that she says no, is awesome. (It has been discussed with her pediatrician that if she isn't speaking by the time she turns 2, we will look into speach therapy.)
Anyway..on to the stuff that everyone wants an update about, Tim and the military.
Tim had originally thought he would join the air force, but he has been offered higher pay in the Army. He will be paid more for doing ROTC in high school and for speaking fluent German. The air force wasn't willing to pay him anything more for those two, so we decided Army. He was also having a hard time finding a job that he was interested in within the Air Force. He had planned on studying for about a month then taking the ASVAB, but on Friday our plan was set in to fast pace when he was laid off at work. The economy sucks...
So he is studing for his ASVAB and will take it within the next two weeks. Tomorrow he is going to go talk to an Army Recruiter just to see what they have to say. He has been speaking to my brother Trenton, who has been in the Army for a good while now and he has been talking to his dad who was also in the Army. Trenton has been speaking to one of his friends who is a recruiter and he has been completely honest with Tim. He has no reason to lie to him, seeing as he wouldn't be the one signing Tim up.
So where we are at right now is, Tim needs to take his asvab, see what his score is and talk to a recruiter.
I will update again, when the next steps have happened.
I am also looking for a job between now and then so Tim can stay home with the girls as much as possible before having to go to basic and AIT. If you have any good job suggestions let me know. I don't do food, retail or pet poop, haha.
Mackenzie turns 3 on the 16th, oh my gosh where did the time go?! She has grown so much, I am so proud of my beautiful baby girl.
Her first professional photo
Her daddy holding her, look how small she was.
Madison has started saying 'no', which is very exciting. I know everyone thinks its cute the first time their child says it, and as they get older and say it more frequently the charm fades, but right now we are so happy. She doesn't talk, she just babbles. At this age Mackenzie could speak, tell you animal sounds, body parts, the whole deal. Madison...no speakage...just babbles. So the fact that she says no, is awesome. (It has been discussed with her pediatrician that if she isn't speaking by the time she turns 2, we will look into speach therapy.)
Anyway..on to the stuff that everyone wants an update about, Tim and the military.
Tim had originally thought he would join the air force, but he has been offered higher pay in the Army. He will be paid more for doing ROTC in high school and for speaking fluent German. The air force wasn't willing to pay him anything more for those two, so we decided Army. He was also having a hard time finding a job that he was interested in within the Air Force. He had planned on studying for about a month then taking the ASVAB, but on Friday our plan was set in to fast pace when he was laid off at work. The economy sucks...
So he is studing for his ASVAB and will take it within the next two weeks. Tomorrow he is going to go talk to an Army Recruiter just to see what they have to say. He has been speaking to my brother Trenton, who has been in the Army for a good while now and he has been talking to his dad who was also in the Army. Trenton has been speaking to one of his friends who is a recruiter and he has been completely honest with Tim. He has no reason to lie to him, seeing as he wouldn't be the one signing Tim up.
So where we are at right now is, Tim needs to take his asvab, see what his score is and talk to a recruiter.
I will update again, when the next steps have happened.
I am also looking for a job between now and then so Tim can stay home with the girls as much as possible before having to go to basic and AIT. If you have any good job suggestions let me know. I don't do food, retail or pet poop, haha.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Mackenzie's first haircut and a pool!
So today was pretty neat, our camera was used a lot so I figured instead of posting photos in a bulletin, I'd just write a blog.
Well Mackenzie got her first haircut today. Yes, I know, by the age of nearly 3 most children have had multiple haircuts. Well between how slow her hair grows, the bounce in her curls (making the hair appear shorter than it really is), and family members complaining every time I mentioned it, we had been putting it off. But finally Tim and I decided, it was time. Her hair was two different lengths, one at her back, the other at her shoulders. Well Tim and I told her that if she was a big girl and sat still and let the nice lady cut her hair, we would buy her a pool. She has been screaming the past two weeks for a pool, and wanted to go swimming. Well, she was a perfect angel for the stylist, and didn't move once. Her hair is very cute and only about an inch or two shorter, you can't even tell unless it's pointed out.
Patiently waiting for her name to be called, while reading a magazine.
She was listening to the stylist tell her how pretty she was, haha.
Snip snip!
She was thrilled.
Then she got a sucker.
After we left Fantastic Sam's, we went to HEB and bought Mackenzie a neat pool. Perfect size for the girls, and has a slide with a sprinkler. Tim and I realized whoever designed this silly pool put the sprinkler in the wrong place. It's directly in front of the slide, so as your child goes down the slide, they get shot in the face with a nice stream of water. What a terrible design flaw. Mackenzie loved her pool and couldn't wait to get in..
Madison on the other hand, was NOT impressed.
Well Mackenzie got her first haircut today. Yes, I know, by the age of nearly 3 most children have had multiple haircuts. Well between how slow her hair grows, the bounce in her curls (making the hair appear shorter than it really is), and family members complaining every time I mentioned it, we had been putting it off. But finally Tim and I decided, it was time. Her hair was two different lengths, one at her back, the other at her shoulders. Well Tim and I told her that if she was a big girl and sat still and let the nice lady cut her hair, we would buy her a pool. She has been screaming the past two weeks for a pool, and wanted to go swimming. Well, she was a perfect angel for the stylist, and didn't move once. Her hair is very cute and only about an inch or two shorter, you can't even tell unless it's pointed out.
Patiently waiting for her name to be called, while reading a magazine.
She was listening to the stylist tell her how pretty she was, haha.
Snip snip!
She was thrilled.
Then she got a sucker.
After we left Fantastic Sam's, we went to HEB and bought Mackenzie a neat pool. Perfect size for the girls, and has a slide with a sprinkler. Tim and I realized whoever designed this silly pool put the sprinkler in the wrong place. It's directly in front of the slide, so as your child goes down the slide, they get shot in the face with a nice stream of water. What a terrible design flaw. Mackenzie loved her pool and couldn't wait to get in..
Madison on the other hand, was NOT impressed.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Moving, Schnuller, bye bye baby food
So, I figured I would update on our lives.
I'll start with the parents, I always write about us last but i'll write about us first today!
So at the end of April we will be moving out of Colonial Grand and into my mother's house. We are ready to move tomorrow if we could. I am so tired of
living in this stupid apartment. It was nice when we didn't have neighbors, but gangsta boy upstairs drives me crazy. He is the loudest person I have ever experienced. He probably weighs 100lbs soaking wet, but he stomps like an elephant. Not only that but him and his buddies like to hang out by our front door and yell...and let their door slam...at all hours of the night. And don't even mention the rat they own that they believe is a dog. Damn thing stands in the stairwell and barks. Their stairs are smack dab in the middle of our apartment, thank you rat dog. So we are ready to move out of here. It will be nice to be able to let the girls play in my mother's back yard, instead of having to stay inside all day. We will put our stuff in storage while we are there. We plan on staying with her through the summer, so come August we will start looking for somewhere new..hopefully a house.
Tim gets to reapply for his plumbing test as of today. He won't be able to do it today though, he is in South Austin and his paper is here at the apartment. He only has to retake the questions portion, so he will be once again studying like crazy for a straight month. Who knows when his retest date will be, hopefully before May.
His birthday is next month, April 4th. I am trying to plan a fun night for him, i'm not sure what we will be doing yet though. I had thought we would go to a bar or a club or something, well he informs me today he would rather go to a sports bar and eat wings and drink and stuff. I'm not sure how many people would be interested in doing that. Of course his guy friends will, but I'm not sure that the girls will. Oh well, it's about him and what he wants.
He has been on a motorcycle kick for the past month. I posted a picture of him on a bike the other day, it's a bike he is really interested in. He has wanted a bike since he was 14, so it's just a matter of time before he gets one. I'm okay with it, as long as he stays off 35. He has decided to wait another year before he gets one, he wants to save up for a big down payment so his payments will be good.
So I have been chosen as a donor by another couple. I received a phone call from Texas Fertility Center yesterday and the woman said I was picked and the recipients wanted to know how many children I have and if I have anything coming up in the next 2 months that they should know about. I told them the only thing was my husband's birthday but that it was no big deal. I'm excited about it. Everyone keeps asking me if I'm just doing it for the money, which I'm not. While the money will be nice, it's not why I looked into it. I wrote a blog about why back in November/December, check it out if you don't believe me. So when they start doing the fertility drugs they will have to remove my Paragard IUD. All of the family is scared that I will get pregnant, and if I was to get pregnant, it would be a multiple pregnancy for sure. (The fertility drugs I would be taking would make me release 15-20 eggs at once, wow!) But ya'll don't be worried, you have to abstain from having sex for about a month. So basically, Tim will be locked in a basement, haha. But when they take out my Paragard I will be having the Mirena put in after. Has anyone used the Mirena?
I donated another eleven inches of hair to locks of love. My hair went from this..
to this...
It's quite a change, one that I'm not use to yet, but I love why I do it. There was a woman in the salon when I was doing it. My stylist, Kim, turns and looks at her and says "she's donating to locks of love again." The woman looks at me and says "thank you, you don't know what it means to us that people like you do this. I have been cancer free for 5 years, and you don't know how grateful I am that someone donated so I could have hair, but I love having my own hair again!"
It was nice.
So Mackenzie has officially stopped using her nooney (new-knee). I finally asked Sandy what it means...apparently that is what Tim called his pacifier as a baby since he couldn't say 'schnuller'. Schnuller is german for pacifier. I think it's adorable to think of Tim as Mackenzie and Madison's age, very cute. Anyway back to Mackenzie, she no longer needs a pacifier to go to bed. I don't like when kids past the age of 2 use a pacifier and it was driving me crazy that at nearly 3 she still was using one. So we just took it away cold turkey. It took one night and now she doesn't even ask for it anymore. YAY!! She is also going to the bathroom by herself which is exciting. She will be playing and jump up and say "Mackenzie is going potty, you leave me alone, i'm a big girl, I do it myself" haha. She is getting so big..it's crazy. Look at this picture I took the other day..doesn't she look so grown up?
Madison, oh Miss Madi. I say it every time, but she is just amazingly precious. I think every single person needs to spend at least 30 minutes with this child to understand why. She is just so sweet. She slept through the night last night, big thing. She normally wakes up at least once, but last night she slept straight through. Of course she was also up at 7 something..which sucked! She is officially eating normal adult food, no more gerber graduates or baby food. She won't eat if you try to feed her, she wants to do it all by herself. Such a big girl. She is also wearing 18-24 month size clothes, which is funny because she is sooo tiny. My baby girls are getting so big!!
I'll start with the parents, I always write about us last but i'll write about us first today!
So at the end of April we will be moving out of Colonial Grand and into my mother's house. We are ready to move tomorrow if we could. I am so tired of
living in this stupid apartment. It was nice when we didn't have neighbors, but gangsta boy upstairs drives me crazy. He is the loudest person I have ever experienced. He probably weighs 100lbs soaking wet, but he stomps like an elephant. Not only that but him and his buddies like to hang out by our front door and yell...and let their door slam...at all hours of the night. And don't even mention the rat they own that they believe is a dog. Damn thing stands in the stairwell and barks. Their stairs are smack dab in the middle of our apartment, thank you rat dog. So we are ready to move out of here. It will be nice to be able to let the girls play in my mother's back yard, instead of having to stay inside all day. We will put our stuff in storage while we are there. We plan on staying with her through the summer, so come August we will start looking for somewhere new..hopefully a house.
Tim gets to reapply for his plumbing test as of today. He won't be able to do it today though, he is in South Austin and his paper is here at the apartment. He only has to retake the questions portion, so he will be once again studying like crazy for a straight month. Who knows when his retest date will be, hopefully before May.
His birthday is next month, April 4th. I am trying to plan a fun night for him, i'm not sure what we will be doing yet though. I had thought we would go to a bar or a club or something, well he informs me today he would rather go to a sports bar and eat wings and drink and stuff. I'm not sure how many people would be interested in doing that. Of course his guy friends will, but I'm not sure that the girls will. Oh well, it's about him and what he wants.
He has been on a motorcycle kick for the past month. I posted a picture of him on a bike the other day, it's a bike he is really interested in. He has wanted a bike since he was 14, so it's just a matter of time before he gets one. I'm okay with it, as long as he stays off 35. He has decided to wait another year before he gets one, he wants to save up for a big down payment so his payments will be good.
So I have been chosen as a donor by another couple. I received a phone call from Texas Fertility Center yesterday and the woman said I was picked and the recipients wanted to know how many children I have and if I have anything coming up in the next 2 months that they should know about. I told them the only thing was my husband's birthday but that it was no big deal. I'm excited about it. Everyone keeps asking me if I'm just doing it for the money, which I'm not. While the money will be nice, it's not why I looked into it. I wrote a blog about why back in November/December, check it out if you don't believe me. So when they start doing the fertility drugs they will have to remove my Paragard IUD. All of the family is scared that I will get pregnant, and if I was to get pregnant, it would be a multiple pregnancy for sure. (The fertility drugs I would be taking would make me release 15-20 eggs at once, wow!) But ya'll don't be worried, you have to abstain from having sex for about a month. So basically, Tim will be locked in a basement, haha. But when they take out my Paragard I will be having the Mirena put in after. Has anyone used the Mirena?
I donated another eleven inches of hair to locks of love. My hair went from this..
to this...
It's quite a change, one that I'm not use to yet, but I love why I do it. There was a woman in the salon when I was doing it. My stylist, Kim, turns and looks at her and says "she's donating to locks of love again." The woman looks at me and says "thank you, you don't know what it means to us that people like you do this. I have been cancer free for 5 years, and you don't know how grateful I am that someone donated so I could have hair, but I love having my own hair again!"
It was nice.
So Mackenzie has officially stopped using her nooney (new-knee). I finally asked Sandy what it means...apparently that is what Tim called his pacifier as a baby since he couldn't say 'schnuller'. Schnuller is german for pacifier. I think it's adorable to think of Tim as Mackenzie and Madison's age, very cute. Anyway back to Mackenzie, she no longer needs a pacifier to go to bed. I don't like when kids past the age of 2 use a pacifier and it was driving me crazy that at nearly 3 she still was using one. So we just took it away cold turkey. It took one night and now she doesn't even ask for it anymore. YAY!! She is also going to the bathroom by herself which is exciting. She will be playing and jump up and say "Mackenzie is going potty, you leave me alone, i'm a big girl, I do it myself" haha. She is getting so big..it's crazy. Look at this picture I took the other day..doesn't she look so grown up?
Madison, oh Miss Madi. I say it every time, but she is just amazingly precious. I think every single person needs to spend at least 30 minutes with this child to understand why. She is just so sweet. She slept through the night last night, big thing. She normally wakes up at least once, but last night she slept straight through. Of course she was also up at 7 something..which sucked! She is officially eating normal adult food, no more gerber graduates or baby food. She won't eat if you try to feed her, she wants to do it all by herself. Such a big girl. She is also wearing 18-24 month size clothes, which is funny because she is sooo tiny. My baby girls are getting so big!!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
an update
So here is my update, since I haven't since December.
I will start with Madison since she has the longest list to write about.
She is seriously one of the sweetest babies I have ever seen, and not just because she is mine. She loves to cuddle and give kisses and hugs. She is a quiet girl but she lets you know she is around.
She has been pretty silent for the past 6 months, but in the past two weeks has just become a jabber box. Its pretty cute. She said 'Opa' last week, clear as day. Twice too. Tim's dad had come over to help set up the wireless internet so Tim could play xbox live, and he was standing in the kitchen and she was sitting on the couch and goes "opa". I was the only one who heard it that time but then she walked into the kitchen, lifted her arms to him and said it again. It was really cute!! So far she has only said, mama, dada an opa. haha, seriously that's it, oh and uh-oh. Told you she was quiet. She loves to climb up in your lap with a book and have you read to her, her favorites are the ones she got for Christmas. They are sesame street beginnings books.
She is also pretty tough for her age, anyone who knows Mackenzie, knows Madison has to be. She doesn't really enjoy playing with kids her own age but prefers older toddlers, around 2-3 years old. She can hold her own with them too. Children at that age don't really understand the concept of sharing and tend to take away toys a lot. Madison will hold tight to a toy and if a child tries to take it she will scream to get an adult's attention. I'm pretty impressed that she doesn't just start crying like most kids. She also doesn't cry if she falls or trips, she just stands up and dusts it off.
Oh yeah, she's still sleeping through the night, woohoo! She also has a new interest in the potty. Thank god. Mackenzie is helping with that one, which is pretty cute. Every time Madison goes to the potty Mackenzie tells her 'be a big girl and go in the potty', Madison will sit there and then Mackenzie will tell her 'good job'. It's cute.
Mackenzie has a new cute thing that she does, she sings. Not those kiddy songs either, songs off the radio. Her favorites are "I'm yours", "Heartless" and "Womanizer". She's actually pretty good too. Quite cute.
She is starting to take naps in panties. She doesn't wear diapers during the day, but normally when she sleeps. She has recently started waking up with dry diapers after a nap so I'm starting to do panties. She still wakes up with a wet diaper in the mornings though, so I'm not THAT brave yet.
So Tim's test is on the 4th of February, and he is very nervous. I know he will do great regardless but he is still nervous. He is going to be studying like crazy from now til then. Our friend Matt has 7,000 hours and works with the Union so he has been helping Tim study. I'm so excited for Tim to finally be a licensed plumber and hopefully get his own truck, soon!
Anyway, that's my update.
And just because we got a kick out of how small Madison's bites are
I will start with Madison since she has the longest list to write about.
She is seriously one of the sweetest babies I have ever seen, and not just because she is mine. She loves to cuddle and give kisses and hugs. She is a quiet girl but she lets you know she is around.
She has been pretty silent for the past 6 months, but in the past two weeks has just become a jabber box. Its pretty cute. She said 'Opa' last week, clear as day. Twice too. Tim's dad had come over to help set up the wireless internet so Tim could play xbox live, and he was standing in the kitchen and she was sitting on the couch and goes "opa". I was the only one who heard it that time but then she walked into the kitchen, lifted her arms to him and said it again. It was really cute!! So far she has only said, mama, dada an opa. haha, seriously that's it, oh and uh-oh. Told you she was quiet. She loves to climb up in your lap with a book and have you read to her, her favorites are the ones she got for Christmas. They are sesame street beginnings books.
She is also pretty tough for her age, anyone who knows Mackenzie, knows Madison has to be. She doesn't really enjoy playing with kids her own age but prefers older toddlers, around 2-3 years old. She can hold her own with them too. Children at that age don't really understand the concept of sharing and tend to take away toys a lot. Madison will hold tight to a toy and if a child tries to take it she will scream to get an adult's attention. I'm pretty impressed that she doesn't just start crying like most kids. She also doesn't cry if she falls or trips, she just stands up and dusts it off.
Oh yeah, she's still sleeping through the night, woohoo! She also has a new interest in the potty. Thank god. Mackenzie is helping with that one, which is pretty cute. Every time Madison goes to the potty Mackenzie tells her 'be a big girl and go in the potty', Madison will sit there and then Mackenzie will tell her 'good job'. It's cute.
Mackenzie has a new cute thing that she does, she sings. Not those kiddy songs either, songs off the radio. Her favorites are "I'm yours", "Heartless" and "Womanizer". She's actually pretty good too. Quite cute.
She is starting to take naps in panties. She doesn't wear diapers during the day, but normally when she sleeps. She has recently started waking up with dry diapers after a nap so I'm starting to do panties. She still wakes up with a wet diaper in the mornings though, so I'm not THAT brave yet.
So Tim's test is on the 4th of February, and he is very nervous. I know he will do great regardless but he is still nervous. He is going to be studying like crazy from now til then. Our friend Matt has 7,000 hours and works with the Union so he has been helping Tim study. I'm so excited for Tim to finally be a licensed plumber and hopefully get his own truck, soon!
Anyway, that's my update.
And just because we got a kick out of how small Madison's bites are
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
My baby girl is ONE!
Okay, so I haven't wrote in a bit, so here is my update.
I will start off with updating about the birthday girl, Miss Madison. Her birthday was on Sunday, and I can't believe she is already one, isn't that insane!? I can't believe how fast the time really does go.
She is such a funny child too, for the first two months of her life, she cried..constantly. Turns out she had acid reflux, so we got her on medicine. She improved, and up until recently was a pretty quiet kid for the most part. Now she is gibbering, and talking and her favorite thing to say is uh-oh, which started last week. She walks around, drops things and says uh-oh. Tim noticed it first, it was funny.
She is sleeping better too, last week she slept through the night about 4 times, it was great! I feel so much better after being able to sleep a whole night. She is getting better at running now...she is always on the move which leads me to the next point.
Yesterday we had her 12 month check-up, and while she is an inch taller, she hasn't gained a single ounce. That had me worried at first, until the doctor pointed out that she is more active now than she was at 9 months. Good point, she is constantly running.
Guess who can say the ABC's perfectly, Mackenzie can! (okay so V sounds like B, but whatever) She also can count perfectly to 10, and sometimes all the way to 18 if her daddy helps her.
For the past week or two she had been sleeping in our room with Tim and I. She got in a bad habit of getting out of her bed and waking up Madison, so after a couple nights of laying down in our room we have moved her back into her room. Last night was the first night and she laid down and didn't get up, not once. It doesn't matter that she only did this because I told her she could eat birthday cake for breakfast if she stayed in her bed, does it? Well who cares, because it worked! haha, and for those wondering..yes I let her have cake for breakfast this morning.
On Saturday she made Christmas cookies with her Oma and Michelle, and she loved it. Shoot I loved it, I got a tin of cookies at home to munch on now. Speaking of Christmas, she can't wait until her Uncle Trenton and Aunt April come to visit, so she can see their new puppy Tinkerbell. She keeps telling us "Trenton is bringing me a puppy to play with." Trenton and April...ya'll better bring that dog, she will be crushed!
It's so fun to be able to finally start traditions of our own for Christmas. We decorated stockings and put up our Christmas tree, and can't wait to buy presents for the girls. Mackenzie is kinda freaked out by a man coming into her house while she is sleeping, and leaving gifts. She told me "No mommy, he can't come in here, make sure you lock the doors so he stays out." haha. I asked her how would she get gifts then? She told me "he can leave them on the porch, but no come inside"
Well, I want to chop my hair off short again. I asked Tim if he wants me to just trim it or go short again. He told me he doesn't care but if I go short, wait til it's long enough that I can donate to locks of love again. I love that, I love that he knows that it meant something to me, and he wants me to do it again. So I will probably wait a few more months, and around march or so cut my hair for locks of love.
Speaking of March, that will probably be when I donate my eggs. My recipient wanted to start the next step around January..and to get our cycle's aligned I will have to take a month of birth control, so if we started around the middle of January, I will probably be donating at the end of February to beginning of March.
Do you know how proud I am of my husband? Do you? I am stinking proud. He finally has his 4,000 hours that he needed to take his tradesman test and submitted them yesterday. They told him that it normally takes a month or two to get his test date, and they will let him know. He is excited, while nervous at the same time. This test will increase his paychecks by $400-$500 a week, which will be amazing. He will finally be a licensed plumber, not just an apprentice, and will be able to work on his own truck. He is so excited, and everyone should be proud of him and tell him how proud you are. He has worked long and hard to get to where he is!
Life is good.
I will start off with updating about the birthday girl, Miss Madison. Her birthday was on Sunday, and I can't believe she is already one, isn't that insane!? I can't believe how fast the time really does go.
She is such a funny child too, for the first two months of her life, she cried..constantly. Turns out she had acid reflux, so we got her on medicine. She improved, and up until recently was a pretty quiet kid for the most part. Now she is gibbering, and talking and her favorite thing to say is uh-oh, which started last week. She walks around, drops things and says uh-oh. Tim noticed it first, it was funny.
She is sleeping better too, last week she slept through the night about 4 times, it was great! I feel so much better after being able to sleep a whole night. She is getting better at running now...she is always on the move which leads me to the next point.
Yesterday we had her 12 month check-up, and while she is an inch taller, she hasn't gained a single ounce. That had me worried at first, until the doctor pointed out that she is more active now than she was at 9 months. Good point, she is constantly running.
Guess who can say the ABC's perfectly, Mackenzie can! (okay so V sounds like B, but whatever) She also can count perfectly to 10, and sometimes all the way to 18 if her daddy helps her.
For the past week or two she had been sleeping in our room with Tim and I. She got in a bad habit of getting out of her bed and waking up Madison, so after a couple nights of laying down in our room we have moved her back into her room. Last night was the first night and she laid down and didn't get up, not once. It doesn't matter that she only did this because I told her she could eat birthday cake for breakfast if she stayed in her bed, does it? Well who cares, because it worked! haha, and for those wondering..yes I let her have cake for breakfast this morning.
On Saturday she made Christmas cookies with her Oma and Michelle, and she loved it. Shoot I loved it, I got a tin of cookies at home to munch on now. Speaking of Christmas, she can't wait until her Uncle Trenton and Aunt April come to visit, so she can see their new puppy Tinkerbell. She keeps telling us "Trenton is bringing me a puppy to play with." Trenton and April...ya'll better bring that dog, she will be crushed!
It's so fun to be able to finally start traditions of our own for Christmas. We decorated stockings and put up our Christmas tree, and can't wait to buy presents for the girls. Mackenzie is kinda freaked out by a man coming into her house while she is sleeping, and leaving gifts. She told me "No mommy, he can't come in here, make sure you lock the doors so he stays out." haha. I asked her how would she get gifts then? She told me "he can leave them on the porch, but no come inside"
Well, I want to chop my hair off short again. I asked Tim if he wants me to just trim it or go short again. He told me he doesn't care but if I go short, wait til it's long enough that I can donate to locks of love again. I love that, I love that he knows that it meant something to me, and he wants me to do it again. So I will probably wait a few more months, and around march or so cut my hair for locks of love.
Speaking of March, that will probably be when I donate my eggs. My recipient wanted to start the next step around January..and to get our cycle's aligned I will have to take a month of birth control, so if we started around the middle of January, I will probably be donating at the end of February to beginning of March.
Do you know how proud I am of my husband? Do you? I am stinking proud. He finally has his 4,000 hours that he needed to take his tradesman test and submitted them yesterday. They told him that it normally takes a month or two to get his test date, and they will let him know. He is excited, while nervous at the same time. This test will increase his paychecks by $400-$500 a week, which will be amazing. He will finally be a licensed plumber, not just an apprentice, and will be able to work on his own truck. He is so excited, and everyone should be proud of him and tell him how proud you are. He has worked long and hard to get to where he is!
Life is good.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Just another update
So I have been putting off writing a blog, just because I have posted more than usual lately. I don't want to go blog crazy or anything. So here is everything I wanted to post about..in one blog.
Mackenzie gave us quite a scare the other night. As you may of read in my bulletin, she got out of her bed and was sleeping under it. Tim and I couldn't find her until I saw her two toes sticking out, so we were pretty scared for a bit. Well last night she did it again, but this time I knew where to check first. I don't quite know how she gets there...she is a VERY light sleeper and I just can't imagine her getting out of her bed and crawling under there, or sleep walking. To get under her bed she would have to belly crawl, cause of how low it is. It's odd. Recently she has been coming into our room around 1-2am and climbing in bed with Tim. She likes to sleep with her daddy and of course he loves it too. I have re-assembled the pack n play and it's in our room. I don't like her sleeping in the bed with us, but if she wants to be in our room she has to sleep in it. So this past week she has come in 2-3 times.
She is officially in a big girl seat, like booster car seat. I know of a few people with kids around Mackenzie's age that already use them. This made me nervous with Mackenzie just because on some of the boxes they say "Do Not Use Under Age 3". So being the researcher I am, I decided to try and find the Texas car seat booster law. Damn them to hell, the only thing that they have are weight/height limits. That's stupid. You can have a freakishly tall 14 month old who can qualify, or like us, you can have a really small 3 year old. Well she isn't 3 yet but you get my point. Anyway, Mackenzie couldn't keep doing the front facing car seats, she would get out. She is on this kick lately "Well big girls do this....Big girls don't do this .." and it is working great. So since being in her "big girl car seat" she hasn't been escaping. I also have a new favorite thing that Mackenzie says...bubble bath. Except in Mackenzie lingo it comes out.."bubble baf" too cute.
Madison is 11 months today. Oh my gosh...1 month til she is a year. (I'm a genius I know..I can do math) It has flown by, my baby girl is a toddler. She is such a hoot, and a big Momma's girl.
She is content sitting in my lap all day and especially if we go to a friends house. She is the quiet one of the family, but we expected that. When I was pregnant with her, she barely moved..was real calm. Mackenzie on the other hand was real active and well....she still is. Madison is content sitting in my lap and just observing the world. She barely makes a noise, unless something is wrong. She doesn't really talk much for her age, she mainly grunts. No words, just ma,da,ba. that's it. We're not concerned...she'll talk later.
This past week she has been sleeping pretty good. I think the girls finally have a schedule together, my goodness it only took a year. They go to bed between 8:30 and 9:30..and sleep til 7 am. Of course if you know my girls this doesn't mean it's straight through..they wake up a couple times a night.
We don't have anything planned for her birthday, money is a bit tight right now..and we really don't feel like throwing a party anyway. We will probably do a little family bbq and just have fun with our family.
Tim is still with Victory and is 100 hours away from his 4,000 hours. This means he will be able to get his test date for his license by December 1st. He is VERY excited, but also very nervous. The test he has to take is insanely hard and very complex. The book that he has to remember for this test is around....600 pages. It's not only residential plumbing but commercial as well. So some of the stuff he hasn't even encountered yet. His boss told him that since the economy is so bad, that Tim will get a test date immediately after he turns in his paperwork..normally they would wait a couple months. So he isn't quite ready to turn in his paperwork, we will probably wait until January just so he has more time to study.
He had been doing tubs with Santos, but since his company has been letting people go, they moved Santos off of tubs and onto Punch and put Tim on set-outs with Fred. Tim gets along well with Fred so this is good, plus Tim is doing more than just installing tubs, now he is installing sinks, water heaters, toilets and tubs in finished homes, custom homes. In fact today he is doing a house that has eight...EIGHT bathrooms. Ladies could you imagine cleaning 8 bathrooms?! His days are longer now..they work til about 6-7.
So as you read in the blog I posted a few days ago, I'm trying to become an egg donor. Well yesterday they called me and I have my consultation date set up for November 18th at 2:00pm. I am to bring in photos of me between the ages of birth to age 15. So I am trying to find lots of cute ones. I am so stinking excited about this whole thing. I did receive one hate message about this though. I was asked "How can you just give your egg to some random person you don't even know, that's like abandoning your kid". This certain person pissed off my husband very much. As Tim said "it's not ABANDONING her child, it's giving someone else a very important thing, a very special thing that they couldn't have else wise. It's giving them a child you dumbass." Sometimes I love him, haha.
Speaking of babies...Ashley is having a boy. Tim and I are THRILLED and can't wait for this little guy to make his appearance. YAY GO BLUE!!
Charlie boy is in surgery today. Tim and I dropped him off at 7:30 this morning in Austin. He is to be picked up this afternoon between 3-6pm. He also has to do the same thing tomorrow also. I hope everything goes okay, we're really nervous.
Mackenzie gave us quite a scare the other night. As you may of read in my bulletin, she got out of her bed and was sleeping under it. Tim and I couldn't find her until I saw her two toes sticking out, so we were pretty scared for a bit. Well last night she did it again, but this time I knew where to check first. I don't quite know how she gets there...she is a VERY light sleeper and I just can't imagine her getting out of her bed and crawling under there, or sleep walking. To get under her bed she would have to belly crawl, cause of how low it is. It's odd. Recently she has been coming into our room around 1-2am and climbing in bed with Tim. She likes to sleep with her daddy and of course he loves it too. I have re-assembled the pack n play and it's in our room. I don't like her sleeping in the bed with us, but if she wants to be in our room she has to sleep in it. So this past week she has come in 2-3 times.
She is officially in a big girl seat, like booster car seat. I know of a few people with kids around Mackenzie's age that already use them. This made me nervous with Mackenzie just because on some of the boxes they say "Do Not Use Under Age 3". So being the researcher I am, I decided to try and find the Texas car seat booster law. Damn them to hell, the only thing that they have are weight/height limits. That's stupid. You can have a freakishly tall 14 month old who can qualify, or like us, you can have a really small 3 year old. Well she isn't 3 yet but you get my point. Anyway, Mackenzie couldn't keep doing the front facing car seats, she would get out. She is on this kick lately "Well big girls do this....Big girls don't do this .." and it is working great. So since being in her "big girl car seat" she hasn't been escaping. I also have a new favorite thing that Mackenzie says...bubble bath. Except in Mackenzie lingo it comes out.."bubble baf" too cute.
Madison is 11 months today. Oh my gosh...1 month til she is a year. (I'm a genius I know..I can do math) It has flown by, my baby girl is a toddler. She is such a hoot, and a big Momma's girl.
She is content sitting in my lap all day and especially if we go to a friends house. She is the quiet one of the family, but we expected that. When I was pregnant with her, she barely moved..was real calm. Mackenzie on the other hand was real active and well....she still is. Madison is content sitting in my lap and just observing the world. She barely makes a noise, unless something is wrong. She doesn't really talk much for her age, she mainly grunts. No words, just ma,da,ba. that's it. We're not concerned...she'll talk later.
This past week she has been sleeping pretty good. I think the girls finally have a schedule together, my goodness it only took a year. They go to bed between 8:30 and 9:30..and sleep til 7 am. Of course if you know my girls this doesn't mean it's straight through..they wake up a couple times a night.
We don't have anything planned for her birthday, money is a bit tight right now..and we really don't feel like throwing a party anyway. We will probably do a little family bbq and just have fun with our family.
Tim is still with Victory and is 100 hours away from his 4,000 hours. This means he will be able to get his test date for his license by December 1st. He is VERY excited, but also very nervous. The test he has to take is insanely hard and very complex. The book that he has to remember for this test is around....600 pages. It's not only residential plumbing but commercial as well. So some of the stuff he hasn't even encountered yet. His boss told him that since the economy is so bad, that Tim will get a test date immediately after he turns in his paperwork..normally they would wait a couple months. So he isn't quite ready to turn in his paperwork, we will probably wait until January just so he has more time to study.
He had been doing tubs with Santos, but since his company has been letting people go, they moved Santos off of tubs and onto Punch and put Tim on set-outs with Fred. Tim gets along well with Fred so this is good, plus Tim is doing more than just installing tubs, now he is installing sinks, water heaters, toilets and tubs in finished homes, custom homes. In fact today he is doing a house that has eight...EIGHT bathrooms. Ladies could you imagine cleaning 8 bathrooms?! His days are longer now..they work til about 6-7.
So as you read in the blog I posted a few days ago, I'm trying to become an egg donor. Well yesterday they called me and I have my consultation date set up for November 18th at 2:00pm. I am to bring in photos of me between the ages of birth to age 15. So I am trying to find lots of cute ones. I am so stinking excited about this whole thing. I did receive one hate message about this though. I was asked "How can you just give your egg to some random person you don't even know, that's like abandoning your kid". This certain person pissed off my husband very much. As Tim said "it's not ABANDONING her child, it's giving someone else a very important thing, a very special thing that they couldn't have else wise. It's giving them a child you dumbass." Sometimes I love him, haha.
Speaking of babies...Ashley is having a boy. Tim and I are THRILLED and can't wait for this little guy to make his appearance. YAY GO BLUE!!
Charlie boy is in surgery today. Tim and I dropped him off at 7:30 this morning in Austin. He is to be picked up this afternoon between 3-6pm. He also has to do the same thing tomorrow also. I hope everything goes okay, we're really nervous.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
walking...talking..and bubbles
Madison is walking!!!! Not like a speed walker or anything but she can take more than a handful of steps before falling down. It's awesome. She started trying to take steps this past weekend (Sep 27th and 28th) and can now walk about 5-7 steps before falling. She has also cut her second top tooth, so she now has four teeth!
Madison has also started to wake up between 3-5 in the morning for a couple hours, it's not so fun. I know they say that happens sometimes when they are cutting teeth or learning new things..I wish it'd stop. I barely get any sleep as it is, I feel like I still have a newborn...without those long naps in the middle of the day.
She is such a hoot, and so much fun, I love this little girl to pieces. It makes me miss when Mackenzie was this age, where you could just lay her on the floor and blow raspberries on her stomach and she couldn't do anything about it but give you a deep belly laugh. If you tried that with Mackenzie now she'd start scream/laughing and yell "No mommy stop!"
My little duck
Speaking of the little monster also known as Mackenzie, that girl is getting sooo big. Sometimes she just amazes her daddy and I with the things she says and does. Her vocabulary is getting much easier to understand which sometimes isn't a good thing, especially becuase it's expanding. The other day we were sitting on the couch with my grandma and Mackenzie dopped a toy and said "oh damn". We all just died laughing as my Grandma tried to ask my mother what she had just said. She is starting to become a little parrot and we are having to watch the words we say around her.
She is also showing us that she will probably be the expensive daughter. She loves shoes, purses and clothes. But she is also incredibly smart and if you read a book ONE time to her, she can read it to her sister..well some of it, the Mackenzie version. She can also count to 7..sometimes skipping four, but hey she normally gets it right! She has really good balance as well, so we have been thinking about putting her in dance, gymnastics or possibly horseback riding since she shows such a strong interest in horses.
She is just getting so big and its a bunch of fun to watch her become this little girl instead of a toddler.
About Tim and I.
Tim just purchesed his Uniform Plumbing Code Study Guide and Book for $200 some odd bucks. This study guide is a must for every apprentice, journeyman, contractor and inspector. It contains questions and answers on every chapter of the UPC, plus nine practice exams, including plumbing layout drawings. He is so excited about it because in January he will have enough hours to take his test to move up from being an apprentice to a tradesman, which means he gets his own truck and he starts making the big bucks. I am seriously so proud of him it's not even funny. He will have to study his ass off to be ready..last night he studied for 3 hours before bed, which is a big thing, because he's never studied in his life!
Now about me...I don't even know why I update about me, nothing is ever different for me same old thing every time. ha. I am cruising craigslist today looking for a simple part time job, maybe doing receptionist work since I enjoy working on computers and I can work a telephone. ;) But that's all that's really new. Oh and I sold the majority of my infant furniture this past weekend at a yard sale. I made 56 bucks, yay.
Oh and to those of you that saw my bulletin about my blonde moment..apparently it's a very common thing and I'm not alone! I had so many people write me and tell me they had done the same thing, some of them multiple times! I was also asked to take a picture...well I did, but only after cleaning up the kitchen and getting rid of alot of the bubbles...so here is a picture with a couple left over. There is about two inches in the bottom of the dishwasher in this picture. This was taken on the last time I ran the dishwasher...yes I had to run it MULTIPLE times.
Madison has also started to wake up between 3-5 in the morning for a couple hours, it's not so fun. I know they say that happens sometimes when they are cutting teeth or learning new things..I wish it'd stop. I barely get any sleep as it is, I feel like I still have a newborn...without those long naps in the middle of the day.
She is such a hoot, and so much fun, I love this little girl to pieces. It makes me miss when Mackenzie was this age, where you could just lay her on the floor and blow raspberries on her stomach and she couldn't do anything about it but give you a deep belly laugh. If you tried that with Mackenzie now she'd start scream/laughing and yell "No mommy stop!"
My little duck
Speaking of the little monster also known as Mackenzie, that girl is getting sooo big. Sometimes she just amazes her daddy and I with the things she says and does. Her vocabulary is getting much easier to understand which sometimes isn't a good thing, especially becuase it's expanding. The other day we were sitting on the couch with my grandma and Mackenzie dopped a toy and said "oh damn". We all just died laughing as my Grandma tried to ask my mother what she had just said. She is starting to become a little parrot and we are having to watch the words we say around her.
She is also showing us that she will probably be the expensive daughter. She loves shoes, purses and clothes. But she is also incredibly smart and if you read a book ONE time to her, she can read it to her sister..well some of it, the Mackenzie version. She can also count to 7..sometimes skipping four, but hey she normally gets it right! She has really good balance as well, so we have been thinking about putting her in dance, gymnastics or possibly horseback riding since she shows such a strong interest in horses.
She is just getting so big and its a bunch of fun to watch her become this little girl instead of a toddler.
About Tim and I.
Tim just purchesed his Uniform Plumbing Code Study Guide and Book for $200 some odd bucks. This study guide is a must for every apprentice, journeyman, contractor and inspector. It contains questions and answers on every chapter of the UPC, plus nine practice exams, including plumbing layout drawings. He is so excited about it because in January he will have enough hours to take his test to move up from being an apprentice to a tradesman, which means he gets his own truck and he starts making the big bucks. I am seriously so proud of him it's not even funny. He will have to study his ass off to be ready..last night he studied for 3 hours before bed, which is a big thing, because he's never studied in his life!
Now about me...I don't even know why I update about me, nothing is ever different for me same old thing every time. ha. I am cruising craigslist today looking for a simple part time job, maybe doing receptionist work since I enjoy working on computers and I can work a telephone. ;) But that's all that's really new. Oh and I sold the majority of my infant furniture this past weekend at a yard sale. I made 56 bucks, yay.
Oh and to those of you that saw my bulletin about my blonde moment..apparently it's a very common thing and I'm not alone! I had so many people write me and tell me they had done the same thing, some of them multiple times! I was also asked to take a picture...well I did, but only after cleaning up the kitchen and getting rid of alot of the bubbles...so here is a picture with a couple left over. There is about two inches in the bottom of the dishwasher in this picture. This was taken on the last time I ran the dishwasher...yes I had to run it MULTIPLE times.
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