Wednesday, April 29, 2009

All done plug

Well we fianlly did it! We packed up all of Austin's plugs(pacifiers) and this weekend when we saw Sussa(Melissa) we gave them to her baby before we left. I had been telling Austin for about 2 weeks now that we were going to give his plugs to Sussa for her baby. He is 2 1/2 and a big boy and I'm tired of him always having a plug in his mouth. We all relied on it way to much, it was just too easy to put a plug in his mouth if he got too loud or was crying. I didn't want him to be like Andrew was and not get rid of it until he was over 3 years old.
So monday before we left to come home we put all his plugs in a gift bag and gave to Baby Poppy. It was Austin's present to her, at least that's what we were telling him.
I literaly took the one out of his mouth and handed it over to her. He said goodbye to them and in return Sussa gave him a bag of his favorite treats, Reeses Peanutbutter cups.
So we drive off into the sunset and austin seemed just fine, not a tear.
Austin fell asleep in the car on the way home just fine without it too... and then we get to Victoria. He saw that we were near home and the water works began. The first night was ugly rough, the next morning wasn't much better. Yesterday was rougher and harder than we thought it would be. Last night was a little easier, but he was up and asking for his plug at 6 am this morning.
We will make through though...
Now I just have to make sure he doesn't steal Baby Poppy's plugs out of her mouth cuz he wants it back.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Everything rides on hope now...

I have fantastic news! I went to the doctor yesterday in San Antonio about the problems I am having with the arm I broke 3 times when I was little. I really didn't think anything could be done but I went to this doctor because my mother swore he could do something for it. Well as it turns out he can fix the nerve problems i have been having with surgery. I don't care about the bone itself but if I can have some relief from all the pain in it that will be a huge life changer!

I have been dealing with problems from breaking my arm for 20 years now and have had what seems like a dozen doctors tell me they wouldn't even come near it. If you've ever seen it you know how ugly it looks; I mean don't get me wrong, I love making grown men feel weak when they see it and it's a great halloween trick but not too good for anything else.
But in the past 6 months or so the pain in it has been more than I can take... so seeing this doctor couldn't hurt anything.

He said it was an entrapt ulnar nerve with muscle atrophy... basicaly i have a pinched nerve and because of it there isn't any muscle in that arm to help me do anything. Small things even...
So he is going to go in and fix the nerve and put it in a place that it can't get pinched again.
I was overwhelmed by the thought of relief from this and couldn't help but cry. 20 years of hearing NO and now a doc who says YES he can help. It was too much to take in. I scared the doc when I started to cry cuz he thought he said something wrong, but he said everything right!
I'm actually not too scared of the surgery because I have HOPE for a good outcome. SO EXCITING!!


and in other news: we have adopted a new dog.... we she adopted us really
on my way to SA I stopped in Lavernia cuz when a 5 year old says he has to pee, you stop!
We were on our way out of the store and this dog who looks about 6 months old runs right up to us and rolls over to show us her belly. Poor girl looked liked she'd missed a few meals, an old man said he was feeding her beef jerky but that she had been hanging around the store for 2 days. He also said that if i took her with me he would buy her dog food....hmmm...
So I open the door to get the kids in and she jumps in my car and plants herself in the passenger seat. then she looked at me with those puppy dog brown eyes and i just couldn't leave her behind. So we have 2 dogs and 3 cats and 2 kids = time for a maid
We named her Lady and she is a sweet addition to our family.
And I did stop back at that store on the way home just to see if anyone had asked about her and they said no, so home she went and there she stays.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Broken glasses and a broken heart

We had an accident this morning.... Andrew accidently stepped on his glasses as we were trying to get ready for school.
I feel really bad because I yelled at him and told him "I was very cross with him!".
In our house that is almost a kick in the teeth. Anyone who watches Thomas the Tank Engine knows that line.
So Andrew had to go to school without glasses and still somewhat upset from my comment. Poor kid couldn't see today at all.
Paul picked him up from school and took him to get an new eye exam and then to get glasses. I honestly thought it would go off without any problems, I mean how hard can it be... he's almost 6 and now he knows all of his alphabet. hehehe boy was I wrong!
First they had to wait for an hour before they even got back to an exam room and then the doctor decided to dialate his eyes. Well it took 4 people, including his dad to hold him down while the doctor put the drops in his eyes. And then they find out that his right eye went up a while notch in only 10 months!(from a +2.00 to a +3.00)
No wonder the boy couldn't see at school! his glasses werent strong enough!
We went and picked him out some very nice, non chicken-little looking glasses and today he can see much better and looks so nice!
And I appologised to him last night for saying what I did, he was fine....

Friday, April 17, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

some updates





Yesterday my friend Morgan got me out of a pickle! I didn't have a sitter yesterday and she lives in my neighborhood and offered to watch the boys for me. And to make my day even better she sent me these pictures of the boys playing. It made my day! Not only was it nice to know that they were well taken care of and Austin had a friend to play with but to be able to see them during the day was awsome.
I wish there was a better way to convey my appriciation to you Morgan. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! (that's all I can come up with)
Also, my mom got me an apointment for april 27th to see a doctor up in SA to see what we can do about my elbow. I broke my left elbow 3 times when I was little and I'm having lots of problems with it now. Here's hoping something can be done about it.

Take that bad guys! You can't keep Jesus Down!!

Easter weekend has come and gone and it was so busy you almost forget the reason for it.

Both Paul and I had to work at some point during that weekend and then with church and all it just flew by. It was nice though, we spent as much time as a family that we could. And we enjoyed our usual after church mexican food lunch.
So we get to church sunday morning as close to "on time" as we could get, only missed the first song so I count that as on time. Usually when we get there we drop off both boys to their classes, Austin in the 2 year old class and Andrew now goes to Kids Life since he is in school and they have a service just for his age group. He loves it! Since it was the Easter pagent Andrew didn't have his class so he came in to sit with us.

Andrew tells us all the time that he has God in his heart and I truly believe he does but since he is only 5 he doesn't get how bad Jesus had it when he died for us. I was worried about how he would react when he saw the blood on Jesus and all that came with it.

Well the part comes where Jesus is being beaten and carying the cross on his back and I have Andrew sitting on my lap so he could see. I wrap my arms tight around his just in case he wants to jump and run. He turns to me and says, "why are they hitting him? We don't hit! Mamma tell them to stop hitting Jesus!" I tell him that Jesus let them hurt him so we don't ever have to be hurt like that. "Remember, the good guys always win", I remind him.
He turns his face and i can see right into his tear filled eyes and he says, "But Mamma we love him." "I know baby, but he loved us more and he died for us and we will never have to hurt like that. This is why we thank Jesus for all he gives to us, even himself." I tell him just to keep watching cuz the better part will come.
He sees them put Jesus on the cross and covers his ears during the hammering part and then he held me so tight when they made it thunder and lightning.
Then the parts comes when the angel rolls the stone away and a bright light comes from the tomb and out walks Jesus with a white robe. The whole crowd started clapping and out of the mouth of a innocent 5 year old boy you hear, "TAKE THAT BAD GUYS! YOU CAN'T KEEP JESUS DOWN!!" It was a good thing everyone was clapping so he wasn't heard so loud but still those of us around him laughed.
I know he doesn't understand all of it but i was glad that he was able to sit through that and see why we do tell Jesus thank you for all he's done for us.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

HAPPY EASTER!



Happy Easter to all my loved ones, friends and family!

Don't get to hopped up on sugar!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Slow it Down People!!!

This morning while i was driving Andrew to school right in the middle of the road was a little dead kitty. I told Andrew to look the other direction so he wouldn't see this poor little black and white kitty dead in the middle of the road in our own neighborhood.

It makes me SO MAD to see stuff like this in the streets where it should be safe for pets and kids to play. I blame many of the teenagers that drive through there like bats out of you know where! So to those who read this.... SLOW DOWN!!!
It could be my pet or child next! It's a neighborhood for crying out loud!!!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Saturdays with Sussa

We have seen Sussa for the past 3 saturdays in a row now and i must say we quite enjoy it. Andrew talks about seeing her all week now and he thinks that come saturday we are just supposed to go hang out with her.
For some reason or another Melissa has come down here or as of this last saturday we snuck up to San Marcos and hung out and did a little shopping. I say snuck because Melissa is technically not supposed to do any traveling or driving long distances. We just couldn't help ourselves though so we met up there after I got off work. Actually I don't think she cared as much about seeing me as much as it was just to spend time with Andrew.
I took our wagon with us for the boys to ride in while we shopped and that was the smartest thing I could have done. They have one of those comfy wagons with seats and cup holders so they rode in comfort.
We didn't do too much shopping, with a pregnant girl and two kids you can't do a lot of shopping but we went where we wanted to go, got the boys stuff mostly and had a great dinner together before we went home. It was a great saturday with our Sussa!

And now I have two sick boys at home to take care of. We all have the crud. Cough, fever, runny noses.... *sigh* at least saturday was good

Friday, April 3, 2009

Baby Poppy's Room











So Melissa isn't the pink vomit all over the room kinda girl when it comes to this baby stuff. THANK GOD!!!




But if anyone knows Melissa you will know that she is artistic in the sense of what she wears and how her house is decorated. She is very stylish...




So when deciding how to decorate Baby Poppy's room is it any wonder that she recruted the help of my also artistic mother? (how did I get skipped in the creative catagory?)




So here are pictures of what her room will look like. I will post more when it's all done and decorated.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Report card

I was emailed Andrew's third report cart for the year yesterday. I think they have 4 semesters and I get all of the info pertaining to Andrew via email. Gotta love technology!





So they don't grade K5 kids like they used to do us where it was an A,B, or C. Now they have "mastered, almost always, sometimes or never" on the reports.





Andrew is by far the youngest in his class. Some of the kids are almost a full year older than he is. I think we may have jumped the gun on him going to school. he was too big for where he was at though and he needed a challenge. he turned 5 in july and started kindergarten in august. Because of his birthday he was old enough to start school, old enough but not mature enough. He has worked so hard this year, harder than I think most kids in the class. And he has struggled so much too, it breaks my heart. We do worksheets with him at night too to help him catch up to the other kids. Even with all the work we have done together he is still going to end up repeating kindergarten. But with his age he won't be any older than his classmates next year. Thankfully his best friend is going to a different school next year too ao he won't be behind him and in the same school. All of this stuff is a heart wrenching thought process. I have spent many hours thinking about this stuff. We want him to have a better foundation and if he's not where he needs to be for 1st grade than i would rather him repeat now and have an easy time is 1st grade.

Anyway... back to report cards

I got Andrew's and it showed he was greatly improved! He also came home with ribbons pinned to his shirt that said "most improved" AND "best conduct".
While I'm not too surprised with the best conduct it is still great to see. And i'm so glad that his teacher has noticed how hard HE has worked! I don't expect my kids to be the smartest in the school but we work hard on manners and being respectful and polite.
I am so proud of Andrew and all he has accomplished this year and i know next year will be even better!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Some more pics and ramblings







Here are some more pictures from the shower. Yes i know i have more than one chin so spare the jokes! And as you can see Andrew couldn't leave Sussa's side.
Oh, and you put Melissa and i together and we usually laugh that hard, always...like we are 12 years old again... go figure
Also, now i am stumpy. I barely have a voice wich isn't good when your job is talking to people all day. My head feels like that comercial where those people's head floats away like a baloon.
I think i just need some rest. I keep going and going and going and going... and I am not the engergiser bunny!
And taco night was soooo good. i wish i'd had some more for lunch today.