Curious George and other Random things

OK so i am not the greatest at blogging everyday. LOL I just cant seem to keep up.
So Saturday while I was at work, I called home at lunch time and asked hubby how things were and he told me H had colored G's nose and drawn whiskers on him. Not just colored the end of his nose, his whole nose. How did she get him to sit still that I long? Then when I got home hubby told me he had good news the kids had found our two missing brushes (missing now for about a month). I asked what is the bad news? He says L cut her hair again. Damn it! Why does this child always have to be in something? I just don't understand. Then last night we put the kids to bed, and hubby and I went to Wal Mart leaving the kids with step son. We were gone for about an hour maybe a little longer. When we got home it was after 10pm. The girls were still awake. Hubby and I had been home about 30 minutes when we heard H ask L why she had him in the bed? Him being the hamster. Hubby went in and L was holding him up by his tail. Poor hamster. How long did they have him in their bed? Who knows. She also colored the walls while I was at work on Saturday. And yesterday I was going to take a nap, hubby was going to watch the kids. He ran to the store leaving step son in charge, well the kids were running through the house screaming, so I couldn't take a nap. I got up, and L had an egg one that had not been cooked and was headed to her room. Um no I do not think so. Can you imagine the mess that would make?
We bought a new Christmas tree yesterday, but I haven't gotten it out of the car yet because I didn't want the kids to see and want to put it up already. We will wait until after Thanksgiving to do that. Now I need to get my shopping started. Well I guess that is all for now. Till next time remember to hug and kiss your family and tell them you love them, today is gone and tomorrow may never come.

MOMS Club, and Houses

Well I haven't exactly been blogging everyday like I was supposed to, but I am doing my best. LOL I don't know if I mentioned before or not that I was considering starting a chapter of MOMS Club here. There isn't a MOMS Club here and in the past it has been a great resource for me. So a little over a month ago, I sent in the paper work to get a chapter going here. So today I got a call that now I am just waiting on my manual to get the chapter started now. So hopefully it will go well. In the past I have not always had the best luck getting things going, so we will see. I just know that I need other mom friends, hell who am I kidding I need friends period. I had one friend here my neighbor, but I don't talk to her much anymore. So now I really don't have anyone. I rely on my step mom mostly, and she has her own things going on, so I know she doesn't want to listen to me complain all the time. But she is great and she listens no matter what. I love her for that!
Also I have never really liked this house we are in, in fact I hate it. It always has this funky smell, and the floors in this house are horrible. Anyone who knows me knows I am a floor person and I cant stand the floors to be dirty all the time. Well in this house short of pulling up all the floors there is no way around them being dirty. I have cleaned the 3-4 times to no avail. And I just really don't like the house. Hubby did a great job painting it and trying, but I still just don't like it. He had a very short time to find the house and did the best he could, so I have tried to make the best of it. I didn't want him to think I was ungrateful, but yesterday I mentioned that I would really like to find a nice newer house, and he agreed he would like to as well. I felt relief that he was on the same page, so now we are going to start looking for a new house. We are in no hurry at this point, he signed a month to month, so we have time. We will look until we find something we both like, hopefully with no carpet! We went and looked at a few tonight, well just drove by them. We found one in a neighborhood we really liked, but the house is a little small. But like I said we are in no hurry, we can take our time. So I think that is what we will do.
I think between finding the job, making friends, and hopefully finding a new house it will improve my outlook on life. Anyway that is all for now. Till next time remember to hug and kiss your family and tell them you love them, today is gone and tomorrow may never come.

Happy 4th Birthday To L

4 years ago today I gave birth to my sweet L. I cant believe she is 4 today. My sweet little curious George. I love you.

Here is the birth story I posted the day after she was born 4 years ago, on my previuos blog. Man have I really been blogging that long?

8:10am, L and I are doing well they have her in the nursery right now checking her over. She is such a good baby. She hardly cries at all, she even got a shot yesterday and didn't cry. She is very mellow. H absolutely loves her, yesterday the nurses were working on L and H said mommy I want my baby back. L is not mine and Hubby's she is Hs. Step Son has warmed up to her now and even wrote a story about her for his homework assignment yesterday.
I thought I would post my birth story for those of you who wanted to know what is going on so here goes-
Monday 3:15- I had my regular dr 37 week appt, and my blood pressure was 154/78, so it was a little high and I had a trace of protein in my urine. My doctor sent me to Labor and Delivery to have a non-stress test and get some blood test run. I had H with me and could not bring her to labor and delivery, so I called Hubby to come get her. It took him about an hour to get her, so I sat and waited in the waiting room with her asking me are we going to have L today mommy. She was really ready. I finally got upstairs to labor and delivery, and my pressure had risen to 178/96. Really high. They were very concerned, they planned on doing the c-section right away. They sent off all my blood work, and put me in a room to wait for the results. They continued to monitor my blood pressure and although it was still a little on the high side, it was coming down. They hooked me up to the monitors, and I was having contractions every 3-5 minutes. I think L had just decided she was ready! My labs cam back and my potassium level was low, so they started me on potassium and checked me I was 1 centimeter dilated at that point, but my blood pressure was staying consistent, so they decided to keep me overnight and keep giving me the potassium and wait until my doctor could see me in the morning. So I waited contracting all night.
Tuesday 8:30am- My doctor arrived and checked my cervix was 2 centimeters and my blood pressure was at 140/90, so we decided today was the day and he scheduled us for 11:00am c-section. At this point I started to get really really nervous! But I was so ready to see her. They came in and gave me my epidural about 10:30(man was that horrible). They came and wheeled me back to surgery at about 11:15, and at 12:11 Lainey arrived. She weighed 7lbs 11oz, and I though my goodness if she had gone three more weeks she would have been huge.
We are now doing well and my blood pressure is down to 140/70 still a little high but good. We are glad she is here!

Friday, Dr's, Curiuos George, and shopping

Happy Friday to all. We started the day off with getting ready for L's well visit. As I was giving them a bath, L pulled something brown out of her private parts, I knew it didn't look like poop so I asked her what it was. She said a marker, it wasn't a marker, but a piece of a crayon. How do you get that in your girl parts? I am not sure. But she did, and last night when I got home from work, she had poured an entire thing of powdered chocolate mix on the floor and mixed it with water. Step son did his best to clean it up and I was pleased that he tried but why oh why does she do these things? So when we went to the Dr I was determined to seek out help for these issues, I soon learned I need a new Ped. This is not the first time I have thought this, in fact this is our third visit and two of those I was not impressed with. Today when I was explaining to her that L is like no other 4 year old I know, she is always into something. She was very dismissive, so I again tried to explain to her, that I do not know what to do. I love L with all my heart but I cant handle this behavior and I don't want to be yelling at her all the time. And at this point I am. She asked what I do for discipline, I again tried to explain that everything I have tried is not effective, and I need help. She said she is a strong willed child that knows how to push your buttons, and you need to find something that is special to her and use that as a reward for good behavior. I tried again to explain to her that it is not just her pushing my buttons, and yes she is strong willed but I need help. Well this help is obviously not going to come from her. I know that now Ped's are really focused on not only the health of the kids but moms mental state as well. And I really need help, if she cant help me, I thought maybe should could direct me to someone who could help, but this was just not the case. I was very displeased with the outcome. Maybe I am wrong, but I was seriously asking for help. I came home and tried to find a solution on my own and as far as behavior issues, all you can find info on is ADD/ADHD, and I don't think this is the problem. I do not know what the problem is but I need help.
After picking the kids up from School, H and I went shopping for me. I was given a 50% off coupon for graduating from training to sales associate. But I had to use it by Saturday. So my mom offered to let me buy some clothes and they would be my Christmas. I was fine with that. I was excited. So I got 5 pairs of pants, 4 shirts, 2 dresses and 2 pairs of Cole Haun shoes for $495.00. I was very excited. So now I have some nice work clothes. It felt good to buy myself nice clothes. I will wear them to work tomorrow. Sunday is L's 4th birthday. So we will have a small celebration for her. Well that is all for tonight. Till next time remember to hug and kiss your family and tell them you love them, today is gone and tomorrow may never come..............

Escalators and kids dont mix!

Well Last night I left my phone at work, so this morning I had to go pick it up. Of course L wanted to go on the escalator, so we went to go up. I am not exactly sure what happened, but I think this is how it went. We got on her first G and I behind her, I think she tried to grab the railing because she didn't have her foot all the way on the step, but she didn't realize the railing was moving. SO she lost her balance and tumbled down the moving escalator, I was holding G's hand and I couldn't get to her quick enough. All I could think was she was going to get to the bottom and get stuck, but she fell about 5 steps and hit her head on one of the steps and this stopped her before I could pick her up. She of course was terrified and was screaming at this point. I felt horrible. I picked her up and we went continued up. When we got upstairs I was able to put G down so I could take a look at her and console her. She has a few scratches on her back, and she did bump her head but she was fine. I think she was more scared than anything, as was I. I felt so bad for her. I held her for a long time and tried to get her to clam down. When I finally got her calmed down, after many employees concern we went down, not the escalator the elevator. I think it will be a while before she want to ride the escalator again. That was our fun today! Wish you were me? Till next time remember to hug and kiss your family and tell them you love them, today is gone and tomorrow may never come............................