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January 18, 2007 Where's my mind at???
Have you seen it? I wrote yesterday but didn't post it and Yahoo kicked it off. Darn it. Last night I got to take a bath....A BATH! It was so nice that I feel asleep in the tub and then I heard the phone ring. Good thing, my neck was so stiff had I spent much more time like that I would have suffered greatly today. I watch K & G's kids today, and I felt terrible. I was in the middle of cleaning up the block and then I was going to change B and they got here. Of course I had just picked her up not 10 min before and she was fine, but I thought that she might be due. They boys were kicking the block and they were bouncing off the entertainment center so I decided I'd clean them up and then change her...of course when her mom picked her up she had soaked through. I feel AWFUL. Lesson learned, change the baby before boys try to bounce blocks off the tv, if they poke an eye out, they'll learn their lesson and the baby will be dry. We had a good time, it was short but Sunshine liked having visitors, but didn't like sharing his toys. He played by himself for quite a while. The brother and sister had a more difficult time sharing, but that is to be expected, new toys and only one of each. I then suggested that we all build together and it worked out great for a whole 3 minutes then B went off on her own and the boys and I built together....until Sunshine pushed it over. All in all it was a good play date and gave K&G time to get done what they needed to. I think we should do it more often. K - sorry about the diaper thing...I really do feel like an idiot! Next time I promise to changer B before I clean up the blocks.
Today's food list
B - Cereal and water (we were out of milk) - .35 cents ( I didn't have time to eat ) - PB&J sandwich for Duck (go figure??) - .15
S - 4 apples eaten - .80
L - 2 cans of veggie soup, 4 grilled cheese sandwiches and 1 peanut butter sandwich. Juice to drink (Kool-aid for me) - 2.15 (this fed 3 children and a nursing mom with left overs)
D - Tuna sandwiches with mac & cheese and a corn dog for Sunshine - Kool-aid to drink (still out of milk) & a PB&J sandwich to top Duck off - 1.82. So we spent $5.27 on three meals and snacks.
Gotta go get muchkin talk to you later.
Love,Katy

January 16, 2007 I have a fan...
I was told today that I haven't written in my blog in a few days....that means that I have a fan. Someone actually reads what I have to say...and I'm sure that she sits there shaking her head durning most of what she is reading. I took Sunshine to K&G's house while I took MC to the doctor today. He has to stay on his breathing treatment for atleast the next 6 weeks. Then we left to go to my doctor's appt only to find out that I didn't have one today, it's next week. Not very good news in the love department, but hey, what's one more week??? I think that I may be getting mastitus again..or a plugged duct. That just means that MC will have to start nursing on that side first everytime and I will have to pump the other if I become too engorged. I would like to take this moment to say that I am very proud of myself...I am breat feeding my son. I am giving him what he needs, when he needs it. The bond that we are creating is priceless to the plastic thing that sits between a mother and her child. Not that I'm knocking bottle feeding, I bottle fed Sunshine. It is just a very wonderful and unique experience. Okay, well I wrote for my one fan today. Thank you for watching my Sunshine and sorry he threw a fit at your lunch table, he has no idea what a wonderful lunch he missed. I can't wait to get a turkey. Thanks for lunch, your friendship, advice and your support, both you and G.
Love,
Katy


January 12, 2007 The hospital stay...
Wednesday I took MC back to the doctor for congestion and she put him in the hospital. 24 observation and breathing treatments. I'm not sure that it was a good idea to put him in there. I could have done the breathing treatments at home and gone back the next day. They only listened to his chest 4 times, and it was all different people listening. How are they going to determine what they did or did not hear if they didn't listen before and after a treatment??? So we left with ANOTHER breathing machine, we now have 3. They also said that he has bronchitis (spelling) and asthma. I didn't want to go down this road again. So I'm very tired and I think we are going to have to plan a trip to Riley one day soon to the respiratory specialist. Nothing else is really new, just trying to get as much sleep as possible, so I'm going to lay down since both boys are asleep.
Katy


January 09, 2007 The good, the bad and the ugly
The Good: I'm only 4 pounds over my pre-prego weight. (it's all milk and breast) I now have 85lbs. to lose. And the march is on!
The Bad: I have to wait a week for birth control, I was offered the Depo shot, and my response was HELL no. I bled 87 out of 90 days last time I had the horrible thing. They say it's either one way or the other. The doctor did seem adamant on strictly informing me that I'm fertile. DUH! What exactly does he think I went through with him for the past 9 months.
The Ugly: MC is now having blood come out when I suction his nose. I feel so sorry for him that I could/can cry. He just screams and cries when I have to suction out his nose. He doesn't realize that it helps him and I can only imagine how much it hurts. I have blisters on my hands from doing it so much. I just don't understand why this is happening. I know that he was born without an immune system, but he has been congested for way too long. I'm ready to have a healthy baby. I can't put him down for more than 10 or so minutes before he is hysterical. At night he only sleep on me or on a pillow, or I should say he only sleeps well. If he is in his bouncer or swing I'm lucky to get 45 min to an hour in between screams. And it is so dangerous for him to sleep on the pillow. There is just no other way to make him comfortable. I don't know what's going to happen when he goes to daycare, they will not accommodate him the same way. Duck is going to apply at some new places to see if he can switch jobs. If he can make a dollar or two more an hour, it would greatly help and perhaps I wouldn't have to work as much, or I could work around his schedule. MC is so precious and beautiful I just wish it were easier for him to breath. We are going to try kicking the cat out and when we get our carpet cleaner sent off and back we are going to clean all the carpets to help remove any allergens in the carpets.
Sunshine has been really good, and starting to speak so much more. I'm very happy with his progress in speech. I think that part of it is because he is exploring more and just becoming more vocal and I think that the other part is because of his speech therapist. She is helping us coach him and trying to draw new words out. She is much better than his development therapist, whom I don't feel is benefiting him in any way.
Okay well thanks for listening or should I say reading! I need to get up and do about 30 minutes of power cleaning.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference.
Katy

January 08, 2007 By the way
We are trying to set standards around our house as far as the children are concerned. As children we grew up in very different households. My parents (mother and her husband) were drug users and alcoholics. Duck's Dad drank and joyrode(???), but they went to church. Growing up the only time we ever went to church was when we went to our Dad's house. It's a huge long story, basically we were brain washed that people who believed in God were weak and so on. Today we all sat down at the table, which we never did as children, and prayed at lunch. We want Sunshine and MC to both understand the meaning of family meals, and the love of God. I do hope that this is the start of a family trend. Next we need to find a church to go to. If you knew the troubles we have had with this in the past...we both believe, but our believes are on different religions..so we have a dilemma in picking a church. Okay well I did more than my 15 minutes and I'm waiting on Duck to get home to remind him that it is trash night, I've already rounded it all up, he just needs to take it out front. Good Night and God Bless, even if it makes me a weaker person!
Me.