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!
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