It’s been a long week and it’s not even half over yet. On the plus side of it, Pato is finally taking my computer today to get fixed. YAY! I miss scrapping and designing. Miki’s released a couple of kits that are gorgeous and I haven’t been able to work with them yet. :(
Christiano is teething and is craaaanky. Last week was rough because he had his 4 month check on top of the teething that I swear has been going on for a month or more now (I can feel a bump on top and a bump on bottom finally.). At his check up he was 17 lbs 7 oz and 26 1/2 in long. I told you he’s a big boy. He’s not overly chubby, just solid. Heavy. Kills my back when he’s having a bad day and I have to swaddle him then walk the floor with him to calm him down. It does make me giggle, my 9 month old niece had her check up last Friday and she is 16 lbs 5 oz and 26 1/2 in long. So Christiano is 1 lb heavier and the same length as his cousin who is 5 months older. She’s a petite little thing though. Such a doll baby. Our Dr told me for the first time ever not to start him on food yet because he is getting enough calories from me. Not bad for nursing after a reduction huh? I’ve been thinking about starting him on some rice cereal though. I know excessive drooling is not only a sign of teething but also a sign of carbohydrate readiness. And that child gives you your own personal bath Christian style when you hold him. Not to mention that fact that when he nurses he goes until I’m dry then sits there pulling and fighting and getting mad because he wants more and there’s none left until the next let down. I bought some rice cereal yesterday just in case I decided to go ahead with it but haven’t tried yet.
Jordan had his 10 year appointment at the same time Christian had his and Jordan is doing well too. I pretty much knew that though.
Then there was my horrific experience at the pool on Thursday. I was with the kids and my neighbors. Things were going so well. I had the girls right beside me, Christiano on my lap. Christian was splashing me and my glasses were covered in water. It was too the point I couldn’t see. I asked Jordan to take my glasses over to the stroller to dry them off on the towel. As he walked away I felt like I should look for Katiana. Now, I’m blind without my glasses/contacts so I was looking for her bright pink bathing suit. I couldn’t see it. I yelled at Jordan to bring me back my glasses and he’s arguing that he’s not done yet and I’m yelling to bring me back my glasses, wasting precious time. I looked around the outside of the pool thinking she had gotten out. Nothing. Looked towards the deep end. Nothing. I started panicking. I can’t see Katiana. Where’s Katiana? It just didn’t register that she could be under water. My neighbor took off running to the deep end and pulled her out by her bathing suit. Kat started violently vomiting up water all the way around the pool. It was like a movie that way the water was coming out of her. I handed the baby off to my other neighbor, popped Alyce out of the water and got Kat. She seemed ok, but I was so worried. I packed the kids up and we headed to the doctor where they proclaimed her fine. Just keep her quiet the next day and hydrated. You guys do not know how hard I was beating myself up for a few days. And Pato is always on me because we’re always home. I never take the kids out. Well, do you see why? A few seconds. That’s all it takes. A few seconds to clean off my glasses and someone takes a few steps away from me to where she can’t reach and then she starts to frantically kick and pushes herself the wrong direction. If I didn’t have such bad eye site I would have seen her when I went to look the first time I’m sure of it. See, I was mad at myself for something that I have no control over (being freaking blind as a bat pretty much.) The same thing could happen at the park. I take my eyes off one to help another one and someone would sneak on the monkey bars fall off and break their arm. They are just too young for me to try to do it right now.
When I told my other neighbor about it she asked where the rope was that was supposed to go across the shallow end so the little ones don’t wander into the deep end? I don’t know. It hasn’t been up in a couple of years. I called the apartments yesterday and told them they needed to put it up. Not for my sake because I am never taking the kids to the pool again without Pato, but for any other kids’ sake. It still wasn’t up yesterday though. I took the kids for a walk (I could have the 2 youngest buckled into the stroller and then only have to keep track of the 2 oldest. LOL) When we walked by the pool there was no rope up. Do they legally have to have that up to differentiate between shallow and deep? or is it just a courtesy thing? I’m not sue happy, have no intention of it, it’s my own fault I took my glasses off, but for other people, they seriously need to have that up.
Pato got a bunch of water wings, inner tubes, etc. I said I’m still not taking them. Unless they have life vests on, those just provide a false sense of security. Christiano can’t sit up on his own very well so he can’t sit in one of the baby ones yet and I’m not having the girls in them where they can easily float away from me. I want to be right there with them.
And I’m having issues with a member of my family who shall remain nameless because I’m not out to humiliate them like they were trying to do to me. But, it killed our 4th of July plans I’ll tell you that. We’re now just going to go to the parade and to watch the fireworks. Kind of sucks. I love our family get togethers and so do my kids, but even my 2 oldest don’t want to go. They aren’t happy with what happened either. (No, this has nothing to do with the pool situation, it’s a completely different thing.) We can have fun with just our family. It will be fine.
On that note, I’m going to sign off and go get some other stuff done before Christiano wakes up. He has been finally going to sleep at 3 AM and getting up at 6. Here it is almost 8 and he’s still asleep. I should have stayed in bed shouldn’t I have?
You know, I think I might check out Amazon books while he’s sleeping too. I’m out of things to read, though I did restart Twillight again. I need some more of the Sookie Stackhouse books though. I haven’t read any of her more recent ones. I read all of them up to about 2 years ago. Loved them then forgot about them when the library didn’t have her newest one. I haven’t watched the series yet. I think I may by the seasons on DVD one of these days. I didn’t even know True Blood was about those books (haven’t watched it) until I read a thread at DST. Love the books so I bet I’d like the series.
Have a great day!
July 1st,2009
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I am sad. Yesterday while I was sleeping with Christiano, it must have been while Pato was vacuuming, someone spilled a glass of pop across my tablet, onto my keyboard, and down my computer (desktop).
Pato was able to save my tablet by taking it apart and swabbing it down with alcohol but my desktop is now not working. You turn it on and the monitor light comes on but it’s just a black screen. I wanted to cry. I haven’t backed up since April. That’s horrible, I know. And I just had a bunch of new stuff I had bought a few days before. I’m sure I can redownload, but that doesn’t save my pictures that were on there from May and June.
Pato is going to take it to a repair shop on Monday and see if it’s just something simple that needs fixed. Keep your fingers crossed because my laptop isn’t really strong enough to design on. It freezes when I run big files on PSP.
Tomorrow we’re going out to my mom and dad’s for Father’s Day. We’ll have to bring some outdoor chairs because everyone is coming. Mom is making scalloped potatoes and we’ll roast s’mores, have a bonfire, and lots of fun for the kids because all the cousins will be there. I’d tell you I’d have pictures on Monday, but it’ll probably be a few days until I have pictures again. 
Have a better day than I did yesterday!
June 20th,2009
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Actually, a new calcium supplement. You’d think I was taken some kind of horse supplements because the pills are so big. I just about choke trying to get them down. Do you think if I’m nursing I still should be taking an extra calcium supplement or is the prenatal good enough? I probably shouldn’t take the chance. I don’t think you can take too much calcium. Well, maybe you can, but not the dose I am taking.
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We had a busy day that culminated in going to my parents last night. We had a grill out then we were going to roast marshmallows. We started looking out to the back of the field and it was looking nasty. Lightening, dark sky, not pretty. So, we rounded up everything and took off. It took us longer to take off because for some reason my brothers don’t like to help pick up. (Hint hint boys) Pato was left gathering beer bottles, plates, taking glasses in the house, etc while I was nursing a cranky Christiano. We had forgotten the Tylenol at home and that child was not happy at all. We finally got on the road and as we were nearing the exit after my parents it started storming horribly. You couldn’t see, the hail was bouncing off my car. We thought it was going to crack my windshield. (Remember this was my new car, so I’m almost in tears driving down the interstate.) We ended up passing that exit because it’s in the middle of nowhere, no protection for the car. Before we even got to the next exit Pato had me pull under a bridge to wait it out with 3 other cars. Everyone was outside of the cars running their hands over them to see if there was hail damage, including Pato. He doesn’t think there was but he needs to see it in the daylight to double check.
We turned on 1040 WHO to listen to the news about the weather. All we hear is there is a bad thunderstorm west of my parents with golf ball size hail coming at us at 20 MPH. Um, what about the storm we’re in now? Want to tell me want to expect out of that? Please?
Finally stops so we start going again, we didn’t even get to the next exit before it started hailing again. (It was still raining hard when we left the safety of the bridge.) So, we pull up under the next bridge which only had one lone caravan under it. Do you think they could have pulled forward so we’d fit under it too? I mean, we got 3 cars under the last bridge. Nope. So, we sat there getting pelted, but it wasn’t as bad as if we were coming at it going 70 MPH. Ok, I wasn’t going 70, more like 35 MPH. LOL Hail stops again, we head on home. Now, here’s the weird part. We are driving a long, before we get to the next bridge in front of our exit, it’s storming, you can’t hardly see, windshield wipers going 1000 miles per hour, come out from under that bridge, completely dry. Not one rain drop on the ground. HUH?
We got home, Pato had me park the car in the front so that I could whisk the kids into the house before it started raining here. HA HA HA! I opened the door and the sky opened up and dumped buckets of water on us on the way into the house. Pato helped unload kids/stuff from my parents then he rushed off to the garage to make room for my car in it. (Don’t know why he always parked his car in it, his isn’t new.)
Came in, got some Tylenol down Christiano and the kids slept like babies through the rest of the storm. Of course Christian would sleep like a baby, but he is normally up and down all night. They all slept great last night. It did continue to storm for quite awhile out here, we watched the tree branches blowing in circles rather than one way or the other. Kind of freaked me out, but my baby was in the garage, so it was safe and my computers were unplugged. All good at this point. LOL
Great, just got this email alert from our news station -
A very warm, moist atmosphere, 2 frontal boundaries, and strong jet stream winds aloft have combined to give us severe weather in several rounds. Last night’s round has merged over Illinois. This morning’s round continues pushing across northern Iowa. We’re keeping a close eye on storms forecast to fire this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. There is a moderate risk of severe weather over big portions of the state for the next 36 hours, so stay tuned to Storm Team 8.
No thank you. You can send that back. I”m done with storms for awhile.
Here’s a few pictures from our running around yesterday - enjoy!
Christiano and I - he’s still putting up with in and out of the car at this point.
If you’re wanting an effect like that on your pictures and you PSP, I ran my Soft Wash script on all of these today.
My girls in their matching Disney Princess dresses they had to have.
A very very rare picture of me and all 4 kids. Must be scrapped.
So that was our day. Let me leave you with a link to mesothelioma. I think I’ve given it before, but why not again? It’s something near and dear to our family’s hearts. My SIL’s mother died of cancer due to being exposed to asbestos for many many years at a prominent tire company here in Iowa. Thank God they now know about the harm asbestos does. A little too late though for some folks.
Ok, before I leave you, here’s some more info:
If you’ve been following the Twitter information coming out of Iran, I’ve got some information for you. First, here’s an avi to use on Twitter if you haven’t already changed you’re picture to green in support.
Live Twitter Stream From Iran Something that one of the guys I follow/follow me (one of my first Twitter friends, in fact) set up. All the tweets about Iran are flowing through there if you want them all in once place, or if you don’t have Twitter.
Guide for helping those in Iran when you are Twittering.
Fake Iran Election Tweeters
Other info regarding tweeting, etc with this.
A quote that was tweeted from Iran -
“I’ve learned something today. Americans DO care about the world outside America. Their media just doesn’t.”
I’m so glad they can see that your average American does care what is going on and that we’re not these selfish people we are portrayed to be.
Have a beautiful day and to those in Iran our thoughts and prayers are with you.
