Missed a few days

I missed a few days of blogging for no particular reason. I don’t have an excuse other than I forgot lol.

Kathleen failed two hearing tests because she had a cold. We went to the pediatrian and she had fluid on both ears. She’s on a round of antibiotics. Hopefully that will clear it up. We’ll take her back for a well check in a bit and check on that and all the other glorious things for a well check.

Sam has an appointment tomorrow to followup on her ear infection. Hopefully she’s cleared up. We are thinking about getting her hearing and speech tested if they are.

Shea’s got an appointment with for his sleep apnea with a doctor in two Tuesdays, we hope he can get a sooner one so he can sleep better.

And my test came back normal. yay! Second year in a row.

First Check!

Today around 3pm I got an IM from Shea. He started with “OMG OMG OMG” and that is not something my husband every says so I knew it was internet speak for excitment lol.

He told me that Kathleen got her first behavioural check mark for not working and talking quietly. This is her first behavior mistake at school. It’s a big deal. Shea told me that she was starting her jouney to the dark side. I just laugh lol

Shea has called his parents and my parents and he’d probably call more if he could lol. It’s just a funny thing to pick on her about we are by no means upset at it. It is bound to happen sometime. She still came home with a green, it takes more than one to go yellow. But it’s a milestone.

Strep and other things

It seems that Sammi has strep AND an ear infection. Poor thing. She’s on an antibiotic and home from school for the remainder of the week. She’s sad she can’t go to school. I feel bad for her but it’s for the best. She seems to be doing well this morning after 2 doses of antibiotics.

As for my appointment I won’t have results for about 10 days. The doctor gave me Natzia, a new BCP. We’ll see how it goes. There looks to be only 2 sugar pills in this one, we’ll see how it works out. I know I’ll have to give it some time but we’ll see how it goes.

And I’m off to work so it’s all I can write right now.

Missed yesterday

I missed yesterday. But in my defense I worked through lunch as I have to take off 2 hours early for my doctor’s appointment today. I’m working through lunch today and tomorrow to make up the time. Taking a 15 min lunch is the easiest way for me to make the time up and not feel like I’m cheating.

Sammi has a doctor’s appointment today as well, for her ear. She didn’t do so well last night. By the time I got comfortable in bed she was up about 20 times cause she didn’t feel well. I tried to let her stay in my bed so I could sleep but that didn’t work either. I eventually laid down with her for a while till she was sleepy enough to sleep with me gone. Hopefully the doctor will figure something out and we can get this ear taken care off.

Party!

Yesterday was a good day. We went grocery shopping. Sammi and I picked up Kathleen’s cake. Then we went to the roller rink.

We were there a half hour early, we paid for it and the girls put on skates and we made a lap before Mam and Pawpaw showed up. Kathleen went through real skates, plastic ones and then finally real skates due to Pawpaws urging. He took her out and she did wonderful from then on out.

We had three kids from Kathleen’s class show up. They all had a great time. We had the usual crowd of family minus one. One uncle and his family couldn’t make it, but that’s okay. Everyone had a great time.

I have pictures just not off my camera yet.

However we did have a few bumps in the road. Sammi had a fever and an ear ache. Shea took her home early and Mam and Pawpaw gave Kathleen and I a ride home. Kathleen had a blast. The other bump is I hurt my back again. I didn’t skate. I think it was a combination of standing for pretty much 3 hours, rocking Sam on the icky bench in the party room and stooping to talk to the little ones so I could hear them talk over the loud music.

All in all it was a good day. Kathleen’s birthday is officially over! Now to wait for Sam’s.

Birthdays

Kathleen’s birthday was the 29th, but her party isn’t until tomorrow. We’ve had 2 possibly 3 (I think only 2) RSVPs from her class. She wants a skating party. So that’s what we did. RSVPs being important with limited number of tickets for the price we have right now. Though not worried, if they didn’t RSVP well then their loss.

Tomorrow we will go grocery shopping. Get Kathleen’s cake and head up to the skating rink at 2pm. Then play “hostess” until 5pm. Thankfully it’s pretty scheduled at the rink so I don’t have much to do, tho I’m a poor picture taker when I’m having to hold Sam’s hand cause she won’t skate by herself. Thankfully Aunts and Uncles will be there too and they can help too.

She picked out a marble cake with a Rupunzel theme. It was the first princess theme she saw.

Jerry Lee’s had a Phineas and Ferb cake this time. So maybe if Sammi’s up for it thats what she’ll have. But she insists on a beautiful race car cake. She loves her cars lol.

Kathleen is 6. It’s really hard to believe. Sam will be 5, it doesn’t so much as boggle my mind that she’ll be 5, it’s that she’s going to be 5 and I can STILL carry her. By 3 Kathleen was too heavy to carry for long stretches. And Kathleen is not fat by any means, she’s dense! Kathleen has meat on her bones and has her little curves. Sam, she’s straight in every direction. She can’t wear pants that fit her length cause they literally slip right off her butt. She ends up wearing high-waters. Might have to learn how to sew on some ruffles to her pants that fit.

Tomorrow will be a fun day I’m sure.

Sorry so long

Everythings been so busy I’ve been kinda out of it with my writing lately. For a few months actually.

I love my job. The girls are doing great. I don’t really have much to say.

Christmas was really good. We went to the in-laws on Christmas Eve, so we got to stay home on Christmas. The girls got very few toys, but I think they enjoyed everything they got 100%. Shea and I got them a new flat screen TV for their room, Grandma and Grandpa got them a digital point and shoot camera with accessory. Gram T got them an mp3 player (they got a camera and mp3 player for each of them). Mam and Pawpaw got them their very own towels, some more sheets and a school memory book, among a few other things. The aunts and uncles got them mostly clothes, a new wii game, and Cars 2 and a leapfrog tag book and amazon gift card for music.

Kathleen’s had part of her birthday, he party is on Jan 7 so most of her presents haven’t been opened. But we got her a game called Skylanders. Her and Daddy played on Friday so long that Daddy forgot to cook supper – Bad Daddy. Sammi isn’t so happy with it, but that’s okay I think she’ll get it eventually.

Wish everyone a happy New Year!

A Letter to Kathleen

We were asked to write a letter to our children for an “all about me” day for each child in Kathleen’s class. Here is my letter:

Dear Kathleen,

We are very proud of you. You have come a long way in so many things. You are an excellent big sister. I love the way you help your sister. She is lucky to have a big sister like you.
It was like only yesterday me and Daddy were taking you home from the hospital. We love you with all our hearts. I loved holding you and rocking you and playing with you.

Each year as you got older the more we could do together. You are a wonderful helper. I know your dad loves your help as well. You are such a big girl.

I’m glad you like school. I’m glad you like your class and I’m glad you’ve grown so much in the past year. You are off to a great start, keep it up. I know you will do great in everything you do.

We all love you very much.

Love, Mommy (and Daddy and Samantha)

I am so proud!

I am so very proud of both of my girls. They are growing up so fast and I love the people they are becoming.

First with Sam, she’s been going to school for two weeks. She’s received outstanding every day for the past two weeks. Awesome! Her teacher told me she is the loudest in the class when they start the verbal repetition of things – days of the week, counting etc. Today she was playing with her food instead of eating it, her teacher said she was lining her pears up on the table and counting them. “At least she was counting,” is what she said. My baby is growing up so fast.

Even though it’s only been two weeks Sam has showed a marked improvement in her language. She’s loving to tell us stories now and she’s making more sense. I’m proud of her. We have scheduled an eye appointment for her, she was complaining of a headache, but now I think it’s part of her cold she’s got – a fever tonight it looked like. But she’s in good spirits and now a sleep.

Kathleen is a much different person this year. We had no fights at drop off, she eager wanted to go. She even told me, “Mom, you can drop me off at the door.” It hurt for a micro second that she didn’t need me anymore, but the pride overwhelmed me. This is a girl who wouldn’t stay at daycare without a fight. She loved it there, but she just didn’t want to stay. She’s gotten green on both days, she’s doing well. She’s not had any accidents either, so far so good. I’m very proud of my little Kitten.

I truly hope that my girls will enjoy school for the entirety of their life. I want them to be eager to learn, because no matter what you think you never stop learning. And you never should.

In other news, I have a job interview on Monday for a Web Developer. It’s not a firm job it’s specific for one company. I’m fairly certain it’s a full time gig. I hoping it is. It’s local. Did I say that before? No, well its local. It’s right over the 14th Street bridge from the house that I pass every trip to Walmart. Wish me luck, cross your fingers and pray. We really need this job. No pressure right! I hope that it works out at least it’s an interview. Oh yeah, and I just applied for it today. So yay! It had only been posted for 2 days too, so yay! Maybe that’s a good sign. I’m praying and crossing my fingers and thinking good vibes.

Kindergarden & Preschool!

Kathleen had her discovery day for Kindergarden today. I went in with her at 7:45a and she ate breakfast, she did fairly well on her biscuit, but with out her bottom two teeth, eating an apple wasn’t going to work. She ate lunch and a snack at school.

We went to Walmart and got a lunch tote for snack and another jumper so I can make sure she has a change of clothes for school. After breakfast she went with her teacher with out an issue. She came to me after her half day of school with no issues. No crying nothing. We had a good day.

Sam is got all O (outstanding) for the week, she did really well. Though we had an issue leaving, she wants to eat lunch with them, so we’ll pay the $10 for her to eat each week. Which is fine with me.

Kathleen has free lunches at school and free breakfast (they are free to everyone yay – lunches not though). a

She has a lunch number she’ll have to remember in order to get lunch so we got her a card with it laminated so she can have something easy to take with her to lunch. I will have to pay close attention to the lunch menu though there are several things she just won’t plain eat ie: hamburgers of any time, sloppy joes, basically anything with ground up meats.

It was quiet while they were both at school. Shea was even gone, he went to pick up the lawnmower at his parents house. I put all the laundry away and did some work for a website before I had to go get Sammi. It was productive.