Reasons That I Need You

I am happy to report that I survived Joe being on the road with FE for 11 days. Yep, you read that right…ELEVEN! On the first night that Joe was gone I was telling him over the phone that he has to either be done traveling by the time I’m 40 or he has to be making enough money to hire me a driver because I HATE driving at night. Hate it. It kills my eyes. We laugh about this quite a bit…even though it kinda freaks me out. Anyway, this gave me the idea to text message him any time when I think of a reason that I need him in my life. It ended up being really entertaining. (Anything in parentheses & italics is just info I added for your benefit, it wasn’t included in the text.)

Reason #2 that I need you…I’m not strong enough to carry the large bags of dog food (it was 48lbs and I nearly died)

Reason #3 that I need you…your eldest daughter & I have too similar personalities

Reason #4 that I need you…it’s a heck of a lot easier to get out the door in the mornings with your help

Reason #5 that I need you…”output” (Remember, I handle input with the baby & he’s in charge of output.) Reason #6 that I need you…blowout followed closely by reason #7…another blowout! Seriously.

Reason #8 that I need you…you would handle our daughter playing with a rubber ducky in the toilet better than I did

Reason #9 that I need you…you keep me from listening to Christmas music year round

Reason #10 that I need you…hot pocket lunches are a lot more enjoyable when you’re here (Pretty much the only perk of us both working at the same place is that we get to eat “nutritious” lunches together on a regular basis.)

Reason #10 that I need you…you make me to go to bed at a reasonable time (I ALWAYS stay up way too late when he’s gone) Joe responded with, “that’s 11″…and I said, “oh”

Reason #12 that I need you…2 brief conversations with you a day is not nearly enough to get me through the day

Reason #13 that I need you…you force me to squeeze the toothpaste from the end of the tube (Don’t judge me, people. I squeeze the tube from the middle.)

Reason #14 that I need you…our oldest child is trying to send me to the nut house!

Reason #15 that I need you…I’m craving a cheeseburger right now (it was 11:04pm so obviously I couldn’t leave the house due to sleeping kids)

ERs, CTs & EEGs Oh My!

Yesterday was one of those days that went a completely different direction than expected.  At 6:30 last night I wearing a super heavy smock & holding Elle’s hand while she was getting a CT scan thinking to myself, “Hmm, I didn’t think I’d be doing this today.  Hmm, I should be more freaked out right now.”

Yesterday Elle fell off the swing at Ms Laurie’s house.  She ended up blacking out for a few seconds, had some tremors in her arms & legs & wet her pants.  By the time I got to Laurie’s, Elle was acting completely fine but when she wanted to sleep in the car as we were leaving I thought that I should at least call her doctor.  (Btw, I LOVE our pediatrician.  If you ever need a good one, shoot me a message.)  The doctor wanted us to keep her awake & take her to the ER just to be safe.

We got in pretty quickly!  I was prepared for swine flu central, but it wasn’t too bad.  Anyway long story short, she had a CT scan just to be safe.  She was such a trooper with the scan.  She acted a bit nervous but not a tear or panic moment.  Plus I was SHOCKED at how still she held her little head.  It was wonderful that I got to hold her hand throught the whole thing.  It may  have been a different story if I handn’t.

Everything on the scan came back normal.  The think that she had a “breath holding spell”.  Basically young kids get so scared or cry so hard that they black out momentarily.  Many times they will have some shaking while they are out.  The one thing that threw the doc for a loop was that she had wet her pants (which is a very seizure like thing).

After talking to the pediatrician today, we have scheduled an appointment with a neurologist for next week.  She’s concerned with it really being a breath holding spell because she has never done anything like this before.  Typically a child has a history of doing this & Elle hasn’t ever.  They’ll do an EEG.  I’m sure that will be interesting.  They want to do an awake EEG & an asleep EEG.  The night before I have to put her to bed 2 hours after normal bedtime & then wake her up 2 hours earlier than normal.  Great, nothing like a 4:30 wake up call!  She’ll be tired alright, she’ll also be in a lovely mood.

So we thought we had answers, but we are still playing a bit of a waiting game.  Thankfully Elle is acting completely normal so that really puts my mind at ease.  I’ll keep you all updated, but say a pray for her (& her mom).

This is a completely unrelated pic, but I thought the pitiful face was fitting!

You Say Tomato, I say Tomato

I was chatting with some ladies at work this week about words that our kids mispronounce…but it’s so darn cute that we don’t EVER want them to stop saying it that way. Elle used to say “efalant” instead of elephant. Adorable, right? She STILL says “glip gloss” instead of lip gloss. Seriously, I melt every time. If she’s still calling it glip gloss at 32 I’ll be a happy mom.

What are some of the things that your kids mispronounce in the most adorable ways?

Six

Six, it’s a good number right? Not too big, but not too small. Nice middle of the road number. Well, six is the number of bags that we need in order to get out the door in the mornings. Seems like a lot larger number now, doesn’t it! Ugh. Babies require so much stuff. There is the diaper bag, the thermal bag for breastmilk (sorry*), elle’s backpack, elle’s lunchbox, bag for my breastpump (sorry again*), and my purse, plus occasionally I’ll have a bag with lunches for myself & Joe. It’s quite ridiculous. Every evening before heading off to bed I spend a solid 30 minutes getting everything ready & lined up on the kitchen table to make the morning routine a tad easier. Then in the mornings I make about 4 separate trips to the Jeep to load up. A trip with each girl, a trip for the bags & then at least one trip to get something that I forgot (or to find my keys which are hiding in my purse %99 of the time).

Ok, I gotta head to bed…I just remembered that I have a lot to do in the morning.

*I’ve tried really hard not to talk about breastfeeding on here…but I didn’t know how to avoid it this time. Sorry Dad!~ Sidenote: anytime I want to make my dad really uncomfortable I just say the word “period”!

Halloween

Whew, what a busy weekend!  On Thursday I was able to go to Elle’s preschool and watch their little Halloween parade.  It was one my favorite days that I have had recently.  I took the whole day off and felt like a real mom.  Rediculous, right?  Obviously I know I’m a mom every day, but going to her school & spending the day with both girls was great.  On Friday we didn’t do a whole lot, but Elle was anxiously hoping that some trick or treaters would come to our house.  No dice.  But the poor kids waited by our front door with a bucket of candy all night.  Then on Saturday the girls & I went to Illinois to pay a visit to the grandparents…and stock up on sugar.  Then today, after church, we went to a birthday party for one of Elle’s friends at Bounce U.  I highly recommend going to Bouce U the day after Halloween.  Great way to burn off sugar.

Sorry for the massive amount of pictures.  I couldn’t choose my favorites so you get them all.