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January 30, 2007 Shots
Today MC got his first set of shots. Sunshine went with us for a follow up on his ears and to evaluate the dry patch on his knee. He got a script which I will fill as soon as I find out whether or not it is the same as what I had. If it is, it will be okay to use for him. MC didn't really like the shot process, but the nurses worked together and they gave them at the same time. Nothing new is really going on, I'm just VERY tired and mentally exhausted. MC has cried out several times tonight, so I assume tonight will be rough. I'll see if I can walk strait in the morning. Sunshine said the word "stuck" today, it was cute. He has also started bonding with his brother. It is very relieving to experience. Okay, well I'm kinda blah today, perhaps more tomorrow. I officially don't work at TE anymore, her full time person got fired last Monday and she is without anyone. But I don't have daycare that I can afford and don't feel the need to burden our friends with two more children. She said that she may have me come in part time when Duck is on nights, lets see what happens. MC won't drink from a bottle.
Night, K.
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Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 09:35pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
January 28, 2007 $1.81 and cloth diapers
Yesterday we went to K & G's so I could do Tae Bo with her, we then did Yoga and Duck and G went to see their other house. Sunshine was a menace while they were gone, pushing B and being unruly. I don't know what has gotten into him. He has started grabbing people by the throat, ie. pushing B over in such a way. I'm against spanking every time, but next time and there after I feel it may warrant such a punishment. I hate to do it, but I see no other way at this point. I don't know where he got that from, but I will certainly be watching him a lot more closely while at play with other children. Often times he plays off in his own little area and uses the "defense" tactics when other children approach, as if he feels like they are going to take his toys. They don't even have to take his toys, they just need approach and it seems as if he feel threatened. Again, I don't know where he got that from except perhaps daycare, which he doesn't attend anymore. I will also try to make it a point to play with him and other children. At least he isn't biting. Okay so to the $1.81. That's how much I spent on gas yesterday. I had a ton of errands to run after the workout session, and Sunshine was sooo hungry and tired it made it completely unbearable to get his hair cut. So we went to get a quick bite, and he feel asleep as soon as we pulled up to the restaurant. So we grabbed a quick bite and went to Big Lots to get some more rubbers for the baby diapers. Luckily they had them, but they only went up to size small. I'll have to find the Mediums for the next level. For now I'm set, and since he is still pretty small I'm not going to go by the weight limits on the packages. So then it was off to Kroger where they had a bunch of the 10/10 sales. We picked up about $74.00 worth of food for about $37.00. And that put us over the $100.00 mark for .10 cents off per gallon of gas. What luck, I was on "E". So we went over and payed $1.81 per gallon. Down the street it was $2.09. Duck was so proud. So then we stopped and got Sunshine a bite to eat and headed home, he was so hungry he could've eaten more. Since we had Turkey Dinner for G's birthday Friday I was going to make Turkey soup out of the rest of the Turkey, and so I started that LONG process. It took about 4 hours but I was done finally around 9. And let's say, I HORRIBLY messed that up! I put (6) 16 oz glasses of uncooked rice in the pot. OOPS...that was way too much. I now have no room in my deep freezer at all, and i have 4 lbs of meat out to make lasagna. So for the next month I will be eating Rice with a little bit of turkey soup for lunch. Last night we started using the cloth diapers. I have 24, so I think I'll be washing them ever day, which is a good thing this I don't exactly have a stink free pail thing, nor do I have the room. If they work out very well, which I think they may and don't really have much of a choice, I will buy more with our tax check. Well I need to get up and get the kitchen cleaned, it isn't really all that dirty just cluttered and I want to get everything done so I don't have to do so much tomorrow since we are going to work out again. Until next time...
Katy
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Sunday January 28, 2007 - 12:12pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
January 26, 2007 4 kids and I still have my sanity
I must admit, I wasn't too sure about today. I had K's boy C (4) and middle daughter B (almost 2), Sunshine and MC today. I was very amazed that I got as much done as I did. I folded 6 loads of laundry, washed about 3, cleaned the kitchen. Duck helped with the dining room and the table. It was G's birthday, and we had a turkey dinner with chocolate cake for desert....yummy! A salad would have topped it off, but I didn't have the supplies. The kids were good, typical grabbing, pushing thing on all three sides. It was cute to hear B say, "go away" when the boys would hassle her. I did my absolute best to make sure that she didn't over wet herself. I changed her very often, and I think that may be part of the reason that we nearly ran out of diapers, I washed three of them to make sure we were going to make it through dinner. It was all great in my opinion. Thanks to G for cutting the turkey, Duck and I are chicken! I will use the rest for Turkey soup tomorrow or Sunday. It should turn out great. I got to use my pretty new table clothes that I got for Christmas for Dad and D. It looked great! Well Sunshine and MC are both asleep, it is 9:30 and Duck is in the garage so I going to curl up on the couch to a movie and pass out, just as soon as I put the Turkey carcass away for tomorrow. Too tired to deal with it tonight. Okay....well good night to all!
K
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Friday January 26, 2007 - 09:17pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
January 25, 2007 A long week
Tuesday I had an 8:30 am appt with K to do Tae Bo. I over did it on some parts and under did it on other. And MC ate in the mean time. It was fun, and we are doing it again at 3:00 today, I think. Then I ran home, didn't have time to shower, but I had taken one the night before, and ran to the doctor. I forgot that my appt was at 10:45 instead of 11:00. No matter, he was running 2 hours behind anyhow. He got through all the patients pretty quickly and I only ended up waiting about 30 minutes. Then he set me up for the IUD. There I was vulnerable, and all the sudden I hear (click, click, click). He was messing with hemostats. Then the next thing I know...OUCH. I have NEVER felt a pain like that there. I haven't decided if it was the hemostats or an injection of Novocaine. I started to feel a warmth come over me, and then I could taste the medicine in my mouth. I felt two more "warmth's" come over me and then all the sudden...>WHOA NELLY. My uterus started contracting and I was having flash backs of when I was in labor with Sunshine. He then told me that he had to dilate my uterus to put it in. All in all, I'm glad that I won't have to worry about birth control for the next 5 years, but I think I would have rather had my wisdom's pulled out without the Novocain while I was awake. On the final note he asked me if I had any pain killers left from the c-section. And I said yes, I had only taken 1. He said, "Great, if you need more just give me a call!" OH BOY, this doesn't sound good. Thank goodness the only pain killer I have had to take was Motrin for my soar throat. It was really bad yesterday, so I started the antibiotic and I'm going to gargle with salt water and take Motrin as needed for pain.
Yesterday I went shopping with K after the non-LLL meeting. We had a blast, well at least I did. I got way more stuff than she did, but I won't need half as much next month. I hope to have Sunshine potty trained by then, and we won't need the 25 lbs of flour, rice or the 50 lbs. of potatoes. Duck was set back by the amt of stuff I got, he thought I had spent a fortune, it was only around $135.00 and that includes the pull-ups. Sunshine stayed with G yesterday, he was passed out when I picked him up. I could tell that he missed me though, when we got home Duck came and got him out of the car since he was shoeless and still groggy. He cried at the door until I got MC out of the car and came in. He just wanted to be held for the next hour or so. So his 10 min nap put him in bed around 9....HALLELUJAH. We stopped at Olive Garden and had a great lunch and fun harassing the waitress...she took it in great humor. We also go several compliment on our babies and just about everyone stopped and looked at them...one of the joys of being a mom. We also had a few people ask us if we were sisters or related...which was a compliment to me at least. I didn't however like the look that we got at Sam's for the employees while we were sitting there feeding out babies. It isn't like we were walking around topless, and we weren't showing our selves. I just try to let things like that roll off my shoulders, they have no idea how much we are doing for our babies. Oh, well...
I'm in the middle of making 3 batches of banana bread, then I'll make one apple, two pumpkin and one peanut butter...a new one for us. I've burnt up my good mixer though, so I'll see if we can swing a new one, the back up one is a cheap one and I'm sure it won't last very long. They also sent us a new carpet cleaner, guess the motor was too bad on the other one. Duck is going to clean the upstairs so MC can try to sleep up there. We are also going to play some soft music. Okay, well I need to go, I think I burnt the first batch of bread, or I got it too dark, Sunshine and I will love it!
Katy.
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Thursday January 25, 2007 - 01:18pm (EST) Edit Delete Permanent Link 0 Comments
January 22, 2007 Oh what a day!
MC was upset and crying/fussy between like 12ish and 4:30 ish. I thought I might pull my hair out. He was so tired and I'd nurse him, he'd fall asleep and then I'd lay him down. He'd either wake up on his own and realize that I'm not there or Sunshine would run through the house screaming (playing) and wake him up. So I'd nurse him again. I would've used the sling, but I was washing dishes by hand, and cooking and cutting things....not a very good idea to have him in a sling when I'm doing such things. Tomorrow I'm going to start doing Tae Bo with K, I hope that she has a DVD player...yup she does. Well MC is asleep, and Sunshine is watching a movie, so I'm going to finish the laundry up and mop the kitchen and bathroom floor. I want to be in bed within the hour and MC needs a bath still. I will pick Sunshine up tomorrow after my appt and come strait home to vacuum and clean off Duck's desk. I also want to dust the living room if I don't get to it tonight.
Wish my luck with tomorrow...80 lbs. to lose. AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LOST.
K~