Dominic's PT Conference/Evaluations

Wow. Last night's PT conference was so indepth and educational, totally different than your normal preschool or grade school PT Conference. We were in the conference for 35 minutes and one of the teachers had to take Damien for a walk because he was getting tired and pulling all my hair in his grumpy rage. The other two were in the gym playing. They had daycare!! I just didn't want to overwhelm them with a baby so I kept him with me.

First the good news is, Dominic has room for major improvement so he'll be in the program again, under an IEP. What this means is the school has found he is not at a preschool 3 yr level and he needs some help and because of that his schooling is free under the State of KS. He'll be going next year M-F 8-12. I asked about the whole improvement thing, if he suddenly gets smart mid year, would they kick him out? No, at March they'll do their evaluation and let you know if they are in for the next year. So this is a BIG BIG BIG BIG relief for us. If he was dismissed at the end of this school year and told to go to a normal preschool, we'd be so screwed first because of his language/speech and then second his behavior and attention span. Since we got him in so early to the program, he'll go next year for the full 3 yr preschool year and then March 2007 is when we'll find out if he'll be in for his 4 yr preschool year.

The teachers were very informative and told us if we had any questions on anything to make sure to ask. I didn't think they were going to have graphs and percentages just a bunch of scientifical things you don't normally see during a PT Conference. Below are his scores but we knew alot of this was correct already from observation of other parent's kids so it was no big shock.

Dominic's 37 mth evaluation:
Receptive Language: He's at a 25 month level 1%ile
Expressive Language: He's at a 24 month level 4%ile
Physical Therapy: Not recommended
Cognitive: overall 24 month level 2%ile- there's a few things he scored at a 12 month level
Social: 24 months 1%ile
Self Help/Adaptive: No need for special instruction, still needs to potty train.
Vision: Passed
Hearing: Passed

They said the checklist I filled out matched their findings pretty well. He's your normal little 3 yr old on stacking blocks, running around, tumbling, pouring a drink, taking his clothes on and off, etc. It's just the whole school learning thing we need the improvement on. They had a hard time doing the tests and told me 3 minutes is about the longest they can keep his attention. I knew that one! The speech therapist says that he says a lot of baby babble then will throw in a real word which I see that all the time here.

On Cognitive he can name pink, circle, square, and a star is a twinkle. LOL He counts to 3 and can recognize his name on paper now! On his language, he'll speak in 2-3 word sentences and now says his name. He demonstrates understanding in, on, and over. With Social he is still very aggressive, resistant, and it's hard for him to transition from one activity to another. He's been put in time out a few times. I actually forgot to mention on here the other day that he came home without shoes on. He kicked them off on the bus in a mad fit and was fighting the teachers to get on the bus. The reason was rather stupid. His bus driver was not parked in her normal spot and as soon as he saw that he flipped out. I know that makes no sense at all but that's exactly how he acts here about certain things too so I know they are telling me the truth! For example if I moved one of his favorite toys from his dresser to his bed he'd flip out and throw a tantrum. Maybe the teachers should just tell me the truth and say he's ANAL. LMAO

Wild Weather

To See what this playground equipment normally looks like, view the pictures a few posts below. I heaved it over this morning somehow. I weighs a few hundred pounds so I'm glad that it broke apart making it easier.

So we had a Tornado blow through our town yesterday and I had no idea till it was already passed!! The only reason I knew was from opening the front door window because I was hot. The wind had been blowing 60MPH all morning and I heard sirens. Sirens? We usually don't hear any Tornado sirens out here but I think with the wind blowing so hard, it was pretty clear!!! There's a golf course community that privately paid for their own Tornado Sirens since we are so far out and can't hear anything but still the course is about 4 miles away. It was so windy but the sky was just cloudy and the sun was peeking through so I turned on the TV thinking it was a false alarm. Apparently there was a Tornado that touched down in our town at this highway intersection. Let me just say I'm sure as hell glad I wasn't sitting at this 5 minute light (no lie 5 min) at that time because I would have flipped the fuck out. It damaged cars at the car lot at the corner then went back up down this highway till it came down again around Applebee's and ripped down some electric lines then bounced back up and stumbled across to our hospital where it broke out tons of car windows and then again bounced back up and started down K-61, the highway I take to my house. Luckily though, I live on the West part of town, this all happened on the East side but still the tornado was at an intersection 7 minutes from my house. Nice to know. We survived though, no one died or was injured so that's a good thing. They are saying it was a small tornado so maybe that's why no one noticed till it was too late.

Some how after all this mayhem had happened, 3 huge grass fires started also on the East side outside of town burning 15,000 acres!! They don't believe it's because of the tornado but these fires were so large we could see them from my house and we live about 25 minutes from the area. This pic is from one of the fires. I'm guessing that was someone's flat bed trailer.

Another Confrontation

Today was it. I had to let off alittle steam or my head was just going to explode from this Chicken Little movie being dropped off daily. Note: Last 2 posts. Just because I do daycare, doesn't mean I let the kids watch TV all day. We paint, color, do puzzles, crafts, spend time outside ALOT lately, constructive play. We are NOT going to watch this damn movie again, once was enough.

K (the 3 yr old) pulls the movie out of the bag as soon as her mom puts the bag on the floor and says "mommy I want to watch Chicken Little." Now I can be a bitch but instead I kept my cool and said "K, we just watched Chicken Little on Monday when you brought it over, remember?" She starts to bawl. Then her mom says (OF COURSE BECAUSE SHE HATES INTERACTING WITH HER KIDS), "that's ok, we'll watch it when we go home." then to me "this is the last day we have the movie." She's going to be here at 5 and will sit her infront of the TV till bedtime when she goes home. I told her mom, "I'm sorry but I really hate to have her watch movies all day" then I try to cheer up K by saying "K what are you going to do when you go to school? They don't have TV at school." LOL

It's not that I'm against the TV, I think there are so many shows that help kids learn now, it's a great tool. Now if kids were watching Pokemon, Yu gi Oh, or Spongebob all the time, that would bother me but with the shows like Little Einsteins, Dora, and Blues Clues that teach the kids things, those to me are great shows. I LOVE Little Einsteins by the way and how they teach music.

Maybe now she'll get the point with this bawling fit K had this morning that she's letting her watch too much TV. I was as nice to her mom as I could be but I was stern and said I was NOT playing a movie more than once when she brings it. Her mom will bring the same movie for days and days wanting me to play it for her everyday. She even asks. It's pretty sad though when you're fixing lunch in the kitchen and can hear K quoting the movie. For instance when she brought Chicken Little on Monday she knew all the song lyrics and all the words to the movie. That shows you right there that there's a problem. I frankly could care less what her mom thinks. If she wants to pull them from here, power to her. That's exactly how I felt when I used to be a manager and someone disagreed with me. It's my way or the highway. LOL

Last here's some pics of our outdoor play yesterday. We were out for a whole hour but it still didn't help Dominic crash out. He was up till 10:30 PM! Ugh.

Book Review: Why the Chickens Crossed The Road

This morning has been insane. What's new though?! Alex was supposed to be watching for the bus while I fixed my hair but was instead watching the TV and just about missed the bus. Then there was Dominic who was supposed to be eating when he starts screaming "pill! pill! pill!" He was pointing to the nook bench where there appeared to be a puddle of pee since there were not other liquids nearby. I cleaned that up and got him changed and then a few minutes later his bus comes pulling in the drive. Damien decided that while I took Dominic to the bus that it'd be a perfect time to self-feed. He pulled his rice cereal all over himself in his highchair then threw the bowl on the floor. He was COVERED and happily jumping around when he saw me coming back towards the kitchen. I had 2 daycare kiddos (K &K) screaming when they were dropped off because they were ripped out of bed just a few minutes earlier. After their mom left K comes up and says she brought Chicken Little again and wants to watch it. I told her no. It's a rental and she knew all the words the other day when I played it, I swear her mom just has her watch TV all night at her house. I doubt she interacts with her kids and to me that's sad for her being a teacher.

When we had kids I knew I wanted my kids to have their own library. Seriously. Their own library. We have about 500 kids books if not more. I'm bad. I'd like to thank CBOMC,Scholastic, and can't forget Amazon for tempting me with all their sweet deals. A few other thanks go to Pizza Hut's Book It Program and McDonald's Reading is a Magic Trip for the free food when the kids complete their reads for each month. As Alex has grown, we've went from board books, to preschool books, and now we're to the young child books. One I bought this month for her is Why the Chickens Crossed The Road by Mark D'Arcy. This book is so cute yet great for adults to read because it has some hidden humor to it for the adults reading. An example in it would be the two seals who are watching the chickens and say "I think those chickens smell funny." and the other seal says "no, they're just fowl." A bit corney but after reading a zillion books to the kids, I'll take anything that might make me more interested in it. The book is quite funny though and I love the chicken pictures. Mainly it's about two chickens who don't know what they are and they visit all sorts of animals thinking maybe that's who they are but when they try to do things such as swimming like fish, they find that maybe they aren't that sort of animal. I guess you could call them pretty stupid chickens and the illustrator really made them look like stupid chickens. Note the pictures below. LOL

Church

Since having kids, I've become a slacker on going to church. Everyone will scream when they hear that we've went to church once since Alex was born. ONCE. That's pretty bad. My dad goes to church twice a week and I've went once in 5 1/2 years. I really would like to find another church, get involved, get the kids involved but it's a matter of finding the right one. The two I went to all my life are really out of the way from where we live now and I don't feel like driving 20-25 minutes to get there. We have a church in eye distance from our front porch that is a Methodist church and everyone in our subdivision goes there. We've actually went to some of the functions they have put on in the past (craft fairs, pumpkin patch) but never have jumped out of bed on Sunday morning to go. There's also other churches in the county that are LARGE which maybe those would be better so if we're not there, we're not missed!!

You really want your kids to realize who God is and why we thank God for all he has done for us. I haven't even tried instilling Faith in our kids yet and yes, I feel like quite the loser for that.

Sims and Polygamy?? Possible? We'll find Out.

Mom I do daycare for showed up this morning with the Chicken Little Movie this morning for her daughter to watch. I swear the woman wants K to watch TV 24 hours a day. I know if I don't let her watch it, she'll cry as soon as her mom gets here telling her and then her mom will say "it's ok, I'll let you watch it again when we get home." You'd think with her being a teacher she'd be keeping her from the TV. Guess not. Pretty sad when 3 yr old can quote every word from a rented movie.

After an exhausting day in Wichita with the kids, I settled on the couch for 2 hours and watched Sopranos and Big Love. Damn you HBO. I have to say we are just loving up Big Love. The show is hilarious and Margene is my favorite character. Dave keeps teasing about going Big Love Style so I finally told him we could.......with the Sims. I'm not sure if it's possible, but we're going to try to make a Polygamist family on the Sims tonight. I'll be SURE to tell how it goes. Hopefully it's not too funny because I have a hard time trying not to pee myself playing that game. I figure he can start making wives by inviting the neighbors over and flirting. LOL

I begged Dave about making a weekend trip to OKC and Tulsa this weekend just to get out of the house and go check it out. He said no though. Mainly because he wants to see if the company will pay for a hotel and gas. Oh well. I discovered Realtor.com and now I can't help but play on it constantly. I checked out housing around Wichita, Tulsa, and OKC. It's a fun site when you're house hunting. You can enter how big of a house, lot, special features, etc that you want and it'll pick them out in a percentage that meets your demands, and believe me I have big demands.

We did go to Wichita though for fun. We were almost there when Dominic said "oww-eee oww-eee" but we didn't know what he was talking about. I kept smelling something and I thought it was my imagination till finally I asked Dave, "do you smell throw up?" He didn't but we pulled over at Burlington Coat Factory to check since Dominic has been known for throwing up in the car and sure enough. ALL OVER HIMSELF. Thankfully I have a huge tote diaperbag and I carry a spare set of clothes for each kid so all I had to do was change him and we were good to go. I had to cram myself in the back row of the van to change him though since we were in the parking lot and the wind was blowing 40 mph. After that we went to the mall and to Sams for some groceries. Dominic was so hard to manage, I wanted to do more but with all the fits I basically said lets do what we have to do and get home. We had so many stares and dirty looks from people. Old people were having problems due to their hearing aids exploding in their ears from his screams. Other people we're laughing from his throwing himself on the floor and us trying to ignore it. When I'd put him in the double stroller he'd put his feet on the front wheels so I couldn't push it so I was putting my weight on the back and just using the back wheels to push it around with Dominic's end of the stroller in the air. I'm sure Damien was getting a headrush while he was sleeping. When we went to Sams he was pretty good because every Sunday is sample day at Sams and he had all kinds of goodies. On the way home they all took naps which was so nice.

And last I share another bright move I made this weekend. I forgot to unclasp the lock when I opened up the hot tub with the cover helper (i'm not sure of what it's called) anyways when I went to shut the lid after we were through Saturday night, we heard a pop and when the lid came down it broke the lock off the wood on one side. Nice! So Dave's going to try to find one but until then we have to keep looking outside to make sure the cover hasn't flown up on this one side since Kansas has these horrific winds. The wind was so bad yesterday I could barely keep the minivan on the road on the highway. Ugh! One bad thing about living in Kansas is it's flat, not many trees, so the wind is terrible.

As Carlos Mencia says DEEE DEE DEEEEEEE!

Dominic didn't want to sit for this picture till I begged him with M & M's.
And Damien says "Thanks mom! I love airing out my ass and crawling super fast!" I know everyone said stay off those boards but I did go back to see if that woman responded when I told her I think she's overreacting on diagnosing her son with a speech problem but she never responded back. Hmmmm.....

Today would be a good day to buy stock in Duracell, Energizer, and Rayovac. I have went through my house and found about 25-30 toys that need batteries so I'll be stocking up on batteries this weekend. Most are AA's but then there's alot of C's and D's that are going to cost a fortune. Damien's toys are all dead. The Fish Aquarium, Leap Pad World Of Learning toy, Tad, Fisher Price Piano, and The Leap Pad Desk. Then there's about 10 or so V-tech toys that are dead and buzzing or clicking around here because the batteries are all dead. My daughter informed me her Leapster was dead and that thing takes like 4 AA's!!! I usually ask for batteries for Christmas but forgot to. Now I'm screwed. I'll have to fork out some cash. (sigh)

Oh yes! Dominic's Parent Teacher Conference! I'll just tell you we didn't go because he's just so awesome, I didn't need to hear it from the teachers. HA HA! No seriously, DEE DE DEEEEE! I'm such a dumbass. That's NEXT Thursday. Uhh yeah I felt real smart after realizing that one. I've been looking forward to it all week. Now I have to look forward to it for one more week!!

And last a video of yet another meltdown at our house. It's really short but I thought you'd all want to see what I had to go through all day. His meltdown was over a freakin poptart and magazine of mine that he wanted to rip up. I mean look at. This is getting so tiresome with all the fits, no naps, bouncing off the walls all day. Daddy and I are at our wits end anymore. We just don't know what to do. He's so explosive over the stupidest things. A poptart and a magazine?? WTH!

The Overactive Imagination Parents Posess

I've been using the Babycenter website for years now but just started venturing around to see some of the other chat boards on there. I found one of interest called Speech and Language which I was pretty happy to see with all the problems we've had with Dominic and his speech problems. Uh yeah what a joke! The women on this board are so CONVINCED that their children have some sort of major speech disorder but when they list why they think their 3 year old may have it, I have to laugh. They have no idea!

I started having Dominic tested at an Early Intervention Center at 2 1/2 years when we noticed that my sister's daughter was saying all sorts of things but Dominic would just say one word sentences to us. "drink" "bath" "no" etc. They knew there was a problem but said they weren't concerned till he turned 3, the preschool timeframe. Tested him again at 2 yrs 10 mths, failed miserably, he started right after that on an IEP at the center. His schooling is free under the state till he has some major improvement. I've noticed a big difference in his speech in just the few months he's been there. He's saying sentences, just 2-3 words, but sentences!

"Mamma Drink"
"that's mine"
"Go Away"
"My toy"

There's still so many letters that he can't sound out. S, P, L, T, H, G, M, K, R, F, for example. So words sound like this

Robot= "O-baa"
Thomas= "Ta=is"
Trains- "Tw-ains"
Alex- "Ah-x"
Dinosaur= "Di-oar"
Damien= "Day-en
French Fry= "ench-I"

It's just really frustrating seeing people with kids the same age act like there's really a problem when there's not. I would LOVE for Dominic to do 1/2 the things the kids are doing according to their mothers. Here's an example of what I'd like to say to one post on there. "Your kid at 1 month older says 'Oh, I dropped my pen under the table?' Get the hell off this board! There's nothing wrong with your kid you moron!"

Headstart called yesterday about Dominic being on their waiting list. Headstart is in the elementary school Alex attends so it'd be great if he could go there, but then he wouldn't have a Speech Therapist unless the school would have one come work with him. Alex was in Headstart last year and the program was great! The teachers are awesome but the ones at Early Ed are too. If he gets in free under the IEP next year, then I'll keep him at Early Ed. I think Headstart will cost $50-75 a month. We won't find out till May what's going on as far as his schooling. I'm getting so anxious for his Parent Teacher Conference tonight. I always worry about the worst. I still have my ADHD concerns and I think they do too. The "One Track Minded" observation has came out of his teachers mouths a few times. I don't think they do the ADHD tests till next year though when they are 4. Not sure, but pretty sure it's just before they go to elementary school.

On the Oklahoma news, I searched for housing yesterday. My husband is just happy to see me looking at things and considering. He talked to his boss more yesterday and it looks like they would want us to move as close to the Tulsa area as possible so all my searching yesterday for houses around OKC area and in Norman were pretty much useless. The market is pretty much the same as here, much more new housing though.

Oklahoma Revisted, PT Conf, and 1 Very Cranky Boy

So I've been thinking hard on this moving thing AGAIN. I just don't know. How can you just pick up and leave everything and move? Does anyone have any stories? A friend of mine moved from Kansas to Colorado (her family was here) and her marriage fell apart, she was homesick, etc. The little boy I watch Nicholas, I've been friends with his mom since birth and they just moved here from Ohio back in September. They seem to be doing ok but they can't sell their house back in Ohio so they're renting here AND paying a house payment. The whole thing with the kids has me worried too transfering schools, new friends, etc. Then the house, getting it ready to sell, buying a new one, etc. Changing all your address info, tags on the cars, etc. It's a bit overwhelming when I think of doing it. I know if I said yes, Dave would be SO SO SO happy.

On the home front, Damien is a teething mess. He's grumpy nearly all day and wants held all the time. It's been rough for both of us. I've used almost a whole tube of Orajel on him. Thankfully Deanne, first time mom of Haley 8 mths, was on Yahoo Messenger yesterday and told me to put some cold grapes in my mesh feeder and see if that helped. Sure enough! He was happy as ever sucking on those grapes. Even first time mom's have great advice!

And just so everyone can see, here he is saying "Thanks Deanne! This is yummy and my mouth feels better."








I have Dominic's 1st Parent/Teacher Conference tomorrow night. We'll be reviewing his evaluation of how his speech therapy is going. His speech is so much better but we're not out of the woods yet. He's also speaking in sentences now! Here's some examples.

"go away!"
"That's Mine!"
"No Alex!"
"Give It To Me!" and then the polite talk
"Thank You Much"
"Hi. I'm Dominic"
"See Ya"
"I Love You"

He's improving. I'm curious to see if they think he'll be able to get in on an IEP next year and see what the speech therapist thinks of his progress. I also wonder about his behavior issues and if the teacher will have some improvement on that. Wish me luck!

Oklahoma Where The Winds Go Sweeping Through the Plains!!

Like Kansas doesn't see that! HA! Dave just talked to his boss at work. Seems that the regional manager would like him to transfer to Oklahoma for the same position, alittle more money. He's going to be going down there to train with him soon. I don't know what to say about it yet. Oklahoma city is less than 3 hours from here so we'd be close to family, sort of. That's a big freakin city too! God I don't know. The whole packing up everything and moving is what I worry about, and schools. Dominic does go to a Speech Therapist now. I hate moving, but Dave's out to impress and this would do it. He can still take the position in Wichita for Service Manager if he doesn't want to move. If we do and it doesn't work out, then what? How much of a pay raise are we talkin here?? Should we take a chance and do this?? So many more questions lingering through my brain.

Spring Break Is OVER!

I woke up at 5:45 this morning! Can you believe that? I can because I was so ready to usher my kids out the door and onto the bus it wasn't even funny! I fed them, dressed them, and put their coats on 10 minutes before the bus got here. Then I stared out the window waiting and waiting. LOL I loved having them home for a week, we had fun, but my schedule was so off and they are just plain bored here at home. They LIVE for school which is good. I hope that never changes. I don't want to be the parent that has kids who hates school and refuse to get out of bed or on the bus. I was a bit worried this morning too because we are supposedly getting a foot of snow but so far only a trace. I hate putting the kids on the bus when it's yucky out. It's so warm out I can't see this snow really doing much. It's about 35-40 degrees out.

We still haven't heard on Sally the dog. We talked to our vet and he said at most the surgery would cost $500 but the pound vet is supposed to give us a price too BUT we still don't even know if those other people who put dibs on her first were going to do it. It's a freakin mess. The pound also wants shot records of all my dogs and to make sure their spayed or neutered. This is stupid, they've all been fixed and all 4 are up to date on their shots. Since the city took over our pound 2 months ago, now they have all these obstacles to adopt. I'm getting a bit pissed and may just tell them to eat it. My vet told me he thinks they're trying to be dog police and come after people but HA! I live in the County and they can't do squat to me as far as how many dogs I have or shots because there's no requirements in the County. So the city can eat a fat one. So we don't know what's going to happen with that.

Oh good news! My Cell phone is working! It seems leaving your cell phone for 10 seconds in the bottom of the toilet is ok if you let it air dry for a day. I couldn't believe it still worked. I'm just hella glad I realized it fell in before I sat and peed.

Our weekend was pretty good. Saturday night I decided to be brave again and take the kids to Braums for icecream. Ugh, yeah. It wasn't as bad as Applebee's the other day but Dominic was really wired at 7:30 PM/no nap and was hard to control. He loved his chocolate icecream though. We went to Walmart for a hour and a half last night and it was a decent trip believe it or not. I had noticed alot of people using strollers in Walmart lately so I thought I'd try it out. We took our double stroller in there and WOW! It was awesome. Damien slept, Alex checked off things on my list and Dominic was pretty mad that he was strapped in the stroller but oh well! He did ok for the most part. I'm starting to dread going anywhere with kids because it's so hard. Last night we hurried around when we got back from Walmart, got the baths done and the kids to bed so we could watch The Sopranos. Wow. I can't believe Tony's on Life Support. It's strange seeing Carmela so dramatic. I loved that scene where she broke down on Christopher. I'm also really diggin Big Love and that girl Margie. "Can I have a Car?" LOL

Blessed

I made a picture video today. Let me just say it took forever BUT Dave wanted me to do it and was actually really good taking care of the kids so I could get it done. He's such a sweetheart. After making it and watching it I bawled. Then I watched it again and bawled. LMAO. He of course thought that was funny. I had a whole bunch of other pics i wanted to throw in but I decided to stop, it was just taking so long, like 8 hours to get this thing done! 8 hrs for 4 minutes. LOL It goes in order from us getting together back in April 2004 in highschool to now so you'll be able to see all 3 kids grow up! Cool huh?

It's The Waiting, You See, That's The Hardest Part

I was such in a hurry to go out to eat last night that when I pulled my pants down to pee, my cell phone fell in the toilet. I'm waiting to see if it'll air dry out and work again. If not I just lost 8 cool ringtone songs. Grrrrr.............

It's not very often that we just say "Hey let's go to Applebees!" But last night was one of those nights. It doesn't happen often because you have to go through a dang checklist it seems everytime you try. You can't just jump in the car and go, everything has to be just right.

I just made that up but that's pretty much everything we look at before attempting to get out the door. Kids were hungry, we got there and was informed there was a 15-20 minute wait. Dave cringed, I sighed and said "it'll probably go faster than that." I wouldn't doubt if we waited 30 minutes but we didn't have a watch or a cell phone on us to confirm that. I went in twice asking if we were about to be called and finally we were and they KNEW I was annoyed let me tell ya. LOL Our wait consisted of Dominic trying to run circles around people, Damien whining as we traded him back and forth, Dominic giving everyone hugs, Dominic crawling on the dirty floor, Dominic crying because he hit his head on the door, Dominic kicking Alex in the head when Dave tried to restrain him from running around, Alex crying from being kicked in the head, and Damien pulling wads of my hair out. Now THAT was just the wait. We sat down, ordered drinks, Dominic kept peering over the booth saying "hi" to this old retired couple who left soon after Dominic started playing with his Toby Train on the back of the booth by the dude's head. Damien jumps around in his highchair annoyed and starts getting that vocally agitated voice, not crying but the grumpy "you'd better do something soon before I start bawling" voice. Started him on crackers which he just kept throwing on the floor on purpose. Alex was pretty good but kept saying "I'm hungry, when's our food going to be here?" OVER AND OVER AND F'in OVER. We waited and waited and waited, finally the food shows. Next a couple sat behind us for about 5 minutes. Dominic constantly saying "hi" sticking his arms over the booth, we reason over and over with him to stop it, finally 5 minutes is up and the couple and their kids move one more booth down the row. We get our food, eat and get the hell out of there but not before Dominic starts screaming because he wants a balloon because he sees other kids getting them as their leaving.

This is where you'll see why I'm so against dog breeding and breeders. I had the pleasure (saying that sarcastically of course) of visiting some asshole couple 6 yrs ago that had a puppy mill where my Father In-Law got a free mini pin puppy because his nose was deformed. I never knew what they were till then and since then breeders are scum sucking shit in my eyes. There were dogs in rabbit cages everywhere with crap caked to their bodies, syringes laying everywhere, and a single car garage with rabbit cages attached to it all the way around with about 100 dogs or so in the cages. It smelt so bad, I went back to the car and cried and when Dave's dad got in he told me he was so sorry for bringing me but he just had to get this puppy away from here.

I'm sure I've mentioned in previous posts how I'd love to have another Dachshund so Bailey would have a friend. I'm always on Petfinder looking in our town or nearby towns that may have even a small dog. I found a Pug a month ago and she was gone by the time Dave got there, well just so happens there is a dach named Sally at our pound who looks identical to our Bailey and is 7 1/2 yrs old like him too. I BEGGED Dave to go down there with me yesterday and he did. He's not so sure of another dog, we have 4, 3 are huge. He looked at her, looked at me and shook his head. Sally looked at Dave while she layed on her little bed in her cage and walked up to the fence to him and stood on her back legs just staring at him. I had been there earlier and she wanted no part of me. LOL It was a sign. I told him "Dave look she likes you!" He still wasn't going for it. We took her in a getting to know you room while someone came to talk to us about these tumors on her belly. He told us they were called Inlet Mammary Tumors and they just need to be taken off but they weren't sure how much that was going to add to the $100 adoption fee. I was so stupid that I didn't fill out an adoption paper when I was there the first time that now I'm the 2nd in line for her if the first person won't pay the surgery cost. Her belly is full of these tumors, they look like marbles all in her lower area by her little nipples. Her crotch is so swollen. After studying a few things on her I told the guy "this dog was strictly used for breeding, you can tell, and I'm sure the tumors are from blocked milk ducts not being taken care of." How wrong was I. We left with the please let us know ASAP deal. I was crushed that someone was before me on wanting her. We came home and GOOGLED the condition. I heard Dave say "oh no" while I was in the front room dressing kids for bed. Come to find out it's a cancerous condition from breeding a dog too young and too often.

Tears, folks, Tears formed and I started to bawl. Dave felt horrible for even looking it up. I told him she didn't deserve that at all, she's the sweetest baby, so timid, no wonder. Who knows if those tumors are painful. I had a very hard night after finding this out when we got home. Even in bed I was up late just thinking how SICK this bastard was for taking her to the pound because she was no longer good to them. Can't breed a dog with fucked up mammary glands can ya? I'm so upset about the whole deal. I'm going to call my own vet while we wait for the pound vet to put a price on the surgery. If they're cancerous she'll need chemo, radiation, the whole 9 yards. If you met her you'd understand why this is worth it. I was so sad leaving her there shaking from fear of the echos of 50 dogs all in the same building as her. I don't know whether to hope and pray that other person will take her and pay all the costs or pray that we'll be blessed with her. So for now we just wait.....tears form again.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

So I know how much everyone loves watching kid videos and I just happened to make another for your viewing pleasure. It's all about Lil D so you just KNOW it's gonna be good. Even put alittle AC/DC in there. Please no kool-aid out the nose from laughing, k?




Thanks for all the comments about my son's eh hem, favorite toy. I'm glad there's other's out there who can let me know that it'll pass. Best part is, I'll probably be dealing with this fun subject when Damien's older. Maybe he can be alittle more low key about it.

Lisa- Sad thing is I'm SUPPOSED to wear glasses. LOL Here I even have a picture of how totally dorky I look in them. And just look at Damien staring like "who the hell are you?" or maybe that's the "I'm going to rip those things off your face in a second when you're not looking."

Kooki- you made me feel so much better. If you have a blog, I'd love to read since you have BOYS! I know I have alot more coming to me down the road and I'm sure you have all kinds of stories. Maybe you could email me a link.

KristiAnn- oh yeah! Sammy's the same age! I'm glad you're "there" as well. LMAO

Thanks to Angi, Tawny, Tuesday, and then Rhonda, Sheri, and Sara who will probably be there down the road sooner or later. LOL

I think our whole town has been deeply saddened by the fact that a newborn baby girl was found dead in someone's yard. I joked awhile back about Baby Jesus being found. Someone had stole him from a Nativity scene and placed him out about a 1/2 mile from my house at this intersection. It was funny. Well this was only about a mile from here as well but it was a real baby girl. Someone obviously was hiding their pregnancy and dumped her body near a creek out here in the country. This man's dog was down at the creek, found the body and brought it to his back porch. The freakest part of all this is, it was a house that Dave and I looked at buying about a year ago a nice 5 bedroom 3 bath. If we would have bought that house and this would have happened? I'm sure I'd be dead from the mental aspect of it. It would have traumatized me if I would have found her. She weighed 5 lbs and was 20 inches long, full term. The autopsy didn't show how she died, and they can't tell her race. Our town even has a thing where you can drop any baby off at a police station or hospital no questions asked. This woman didn't even do that. I'm sure it was a young girl too afraid to tell her parents. So sad!

Other than that, not alot going on here today. Daycare is the same ol Same ol. I honestly wish I would have taken Spring Break off just to spend with the kids. I've only got 2 daycare kids this week but still. I really should do a contract to where I get paid a minumum amount when parents don't bring a child for a week. I'm missing out on $140 not watching the teacher's kids this week. K and K's mom was supposed to call yesterday for her total she owes me and she didn't. Grrrr............. Off to making lunch.

Enough With The Hair Already!

Damien has become quite the hair puller. I may have to wear it in a bun for the rest of my life, or at least till he's around 2 and understands that hurts like hell! I can't hold him at all now with out him grabbing a handful and ripping it out of my head. He enjoys looking at my painful expressions while I try to pry it away from him. He always has such a big grin like he knows exactly what he's doing when he does it. Grrrrrr.......

Yesterday I dropped Alex off with my Grandma to take to her sister's house for a sleepover. Does that sound a bit strange? First off my Grandma is in her 60's but her sister (My Great-Aunt Cindy) is in her 40's. My Great-Grandma popped out like 12-15 kids I'm not even sure in a very big amount of time. Then on top of that, my Great-Aunt Cindy had a daughter while in her 40's that is about a year older than Alex. Alex has been bugging me daily about spending the night with her daughter. It's eerily odd how much they look the same. They really could be twins. When dropping Alex off yesterday, Dominic went bezerk in the car. He was kicking the TV between the seats, choking himself with the seatbelt and just flipping out all together. I feel bad for him because he gets excluded from being left at my mom or grandma's house or other family for that matter because they have a hard time with his temper and him not behaving. He's been acting alot better since starting school but everyone is still scared to take him. Alex should be back late this afternoon after they go to one of the indoor waterparks in town.


Damien is really starting to crawl all over the place now. I took this video two days ago when he first started to do it. He's also pulling up alot more on things. Hard to believe in a few months he'll be walking. Where does the time go?


In other news, my ears are clear! I can hear again! I'm so happy about that. Nothing worse than your ears popping constantly and everything sounding like you have towels shoved in them. Hopefully I'm on the mend.

I Know What Boys Like

Last night I was hurrying around at 7 PM trying to get baths going so I could watch my shows on TV. I missed Wife Swap but was done with the kids in time to see SuperNanny and Miracle Workers. Dominic may not be potty trained yet but he loves going before getting into the tub. He stood at the toilet, grabbed himself, back arched just enough to shoot it in the bowl. I told him what a good boy he was for doing it and then he looked down at his "weenie." Uh oh. He saw a drop of pee still there so being the gross boy he is, he stuck his finger on his weenie, got the last drop on his finger, and took a little taste test with a big smile on his face and smacking his lips with delight. NASTY! I told him that's gross and you don't do that but he blew me off and jumped in the tub and started playing with his weenie toy some more.

Everyone used to tell me about sick stories about what their boys used to do with animals, eating dirt, etc. None of them told me about the weenie affair that boys have. My child plays with his ding-dong more than his toys! I remember at a year old he started noticing he had something there but now at 3 it's a toy sent from Heaven in his eyes. You know it's bad when you catch him in the Al Bundy pose when sleeping. He's got his hand in his pants all the time. Sometimes he'll just rip his diaper off and run around cupping himself saying "weenie weenie heee heee!" He loves giving himself lil' stiffies and then come show me. It's all quite embarrassing and I really don't know what to do about it. I've been told in the past that you're not supposed to make a big deal out of it because then they think it's a bad thing. Well trying to ignore it does not work and I've tried telling him, "That's not nice" but that doesn't work much either. Is there any hope? Will he be terrifying all the girls on the playground when he's older with his hand down his pants groping himself? Will the Principal call me and tell me to come get my pervert child? Will other people thinks think I'm a bad mom because I have a groper?? Will he grow out of this? Someone give me hope.

The Demons Have No Plans on Leaving

There's still demons in my ears. Ugh this just sucks. According to my dr I have

Otitis media with effusion is a buildup of fluid in the middle ear behind the eardrum without symptoms of infection. Which means there's no ear infection, my ears are just in a pressure cooker right now since my tubes are blocked and this fluid has no where to go. An ear infection would have been nicer to have because meds would have gotten rid of the pain that first day. Here we are 4 days later and my ear is still pounding and I'm having a hard time walking straight. I've been constantly plugging my nose to get my ears to pop but it's not enough to make the pressure go away. The echos are the worst.

This weekend was so nice. We stayed home all weekend, no plans at all, those are the best. The weather was awesome so we were outside a bit. We played kickball with Alex, Dominic ran and round and played on the swingset and Damien got to ride in the wagon. We BBQ'd both Saturday and Sunday. Dave cleaned the hot tub since we had some junk in there. It was almost like someone had chipped away at a bar of soap and put it in the water. I think either our suits had soap in them or there was some chemical reaction. Who knows it's fixed now.

Damien has started crawling the correct way, forward that is. Before he was going everywhere backwards but now he's learned to shuffle his knees and move his arms to go forward. Another thing we noticed was that Dominic's language skills are just unbelieveable now. It's still hard to understand him but he's saying alot more words and sentences now. He's saying "I love you Mommy" or "Thank You Very Much" and my favorite that he says to us about 20 times a day is "Hi, My name's Dominic" LOL

Last night was a veg night as The Sopranos and Big Love were both on. The Sopranos was great as usual. I can't believe AJ's hair is so long! Silvio looked like he'd gained some weight. Then came Big Love. After watching Big Love, Dave has decided he's going to move us to Utah and look for a few more wives to live with us. HA HA! Right! He really liked the fact that each night the guy switched to a different wives bed. Obviously he's never heard much about Polygamy and how it all works. I think I was well informed back in 2002 from Tom Green when he went on TV talking all about it with his 7 wives. Anyways as much as Dave might want it, we will not being moving to Utah. LOL Here's a few more pics before I go from this weekend.





Dave showing Damien how to play Need For Speed 2









Here's Alex wearing her Cinco De Mayo Dress. She's been in this "I wanna wear a dress" phase. Ugh! This is the one she picked out. I tried to tell her this was a special occasion dress but she won't listen so I let her wear it but told her we couldn't just buy another if she got it dirty or messed it up since it's from some poor villager down in Mexico that stalked my dad till he bought it.

There's a Demon In My Ear Or More Possibly

I woke up this morning at 1:30 AM to a certain stuffiness of the ear. As I rubbed on it I realized PAIN! First thing to do is wake up Dave. He had no interest in the fact that I had an ear infection and that my ear was pounding. He tried to roll over twice but I made sure to keep waking him up because if I can't sleep then I don't want him to either. I got up took some leftover Amoxicillin we have laying around and 2 Tylenol and went hunting for the heating pad. It took a bit but I finally did drift back to sleep.

So here we are now, 4 kids and a nice ear infection to start the morning. Thankfully this happened on a day that Dominic has school so I don't have his wildness driving me nuts. I have the whole offkey echo voices going on in my ear. These kids babbling and talking in their high pitch voices sound more like that little girl on Poltergeist when she gets sucked into the TV. "Mommmmeeeeeee!" It's driving me crazy and it's only 8:30. I hope the Dr's Office calls back soon.

I have some new videos. I went to Clip Shack because it's alot easier to get the videos to play vs Castpost.

Damien Dancing/ Dominic doing Dance Dance Revolution



Alexzandra doing her Little Cats Cheerleading

Alex has Daisy Scouts tonight. I hope things go better at the meeting this week than last with her. Dave created a monster last Thursday. I forgot to share!! Oh You'll love this. My daughter wants her own cellphone now. She's 5! Long story short, Daddy= dumbass. No that's mean, but what happened was that Daddy had a bright idea, speaking sarcastically of course, to give Alex his cell phone so he could leave her at Daisy Scouts and she could call if she was scared or had a problem. I had to stay home with constipated Damien who was screaming and throwing himself all over the floor in pain. A suppository fixed all that. He had just got home and the phone rang. I looked at the caller id and saw my name on it. Dave walks in the door.

Me: "Did you give her your cell phone?"
Dave: "Yeah, is that her on the phone?"
Me: "yes. Hello?"
Alex: "hi."
Me: "what's wrong."
Alex: "nufff ing"
Me: "why are you calling then?"
Dave: "tell her she's only supposed to call when there's an emergency."
Me: "You're only supposed to call when there's an emergency Alex."
Alex: muffled talking (which was her putting the phone in her Daisy Smock pocket)
Me: "I'm hanging up now Alex." No response. "Bye Alex." Click.

5 Minutes Later Phone rings again
Me: "It's her again, You get it."
Dave: "Hello?"
Alex: "Hi"
Dave: getting angry "What do you need Alex?"
Alex: "we're making bracelets."
Dave: "that's nice, you have fun."
Alex: "bye" Click.

5 Minutes Later- Phone Rings Again
Dave: "Alex what do you want?"
Alex: muffled whispering
Dave: "Hello? Alex? Hey I'm hanging up if you don't say something." Click.

5 Minutes Later- Phone Rings Again
Me: "Alex you need to quit it."
Alex: "When are you coming to get me?"
Me: "Well you've only been there for 30 minutes and you still have 30 minutes till 7:30. Remember Daddy said I'd be there at 7:30 after I fixed Damien up?"
Alex: "Oh." Click.

After the 4th call I decided I'd get down there. The two troop leaders said she was fine and just wanted to play with the phone the whole time instead of making Easter Bracelets. I told them we wouldn't be doing that one again and if she wanted someone to call home, they could have her call me using their cell phone.

Walking Timebomb

The past few days have been really rough emotionally. I'm not sure what the heck is going on but last night in bed I silently cried while we tried to go to sleep. I woke up at 2:30-4 same thing and couldn't sleep at all and tears just streamed down my face. I was up for 2 hrs the night before too. I'm not unhappy at all with my life, I don't need Happy Pills, I'm just unhappy with myself as of lately. Things with ME are just going all wrong. I'm really upset with my weight and health mainly. First off my weight before Alex was about 170, overweight for sure but I would be so much happier with that than the the 185 I'm at right now. I know 4 pregnancies in 4 years, bad eating, and no time to exercise have alot to do with it. I might be able to lose some weight if my feet weren't always in constant pain. For about a year or so my feet hurt like hell and feel like they pop when I walk. A lot of people have told me it's because I wear so many different pairs of shoes. I don't know, I really should get into the Dr about this. I knew last night I wasn't going to last more than a minute on the treadmill so I didn't even work out, I just watched Alex do her gymnastics. Along with the horrible pain in my popping feet I have tons of pain in my wrists. I know this one is from hauling around Damien, it has to be. I had really bad tendonitis after Dominic was born so I'm sure this is the same thing. I'm just tired of having something always in pain in which the logical thing to do would be go to the Dr, but with the kids it's just not that simple. I may have to take a few days time-out (parent's will love that!) so I can get in and find out why I'm falling apart.

I posted a few weeks ago about a new beginning, talking about how I started taking the birthcontrol pill and was going to start working out so I wouldn't gain tons of weight from being on it, the plan failed miserably. I took the one pill early that morning then broke the fuck down to Dave that night about it. I told him I am so terrified I'm going to gain more weight. I feel like a cow already and I know I gained at least 10 lbs or so in highschool when I was on the pill. Another thing that I was so upset about was the fact that the last cycle I had was normal, the first normal 28 day cycle I had had since Damien was born so if I was "normal" again, I could just do my NFP (Natural Family Planning or Charting) and we could just miss the days like we had when not trying to get pregnant in the past. I prefer this way because you know exactly what's going on with your body, signs are obvious for the most part, and it's hormone free. We decided that we'd just chart since I've done this now for years. I started charting in 3/2002 after a GYN visit when I told her we'd been TTC for awhile with no luck. SO I took 1 pill a few weeks ago and stopped, how's that for messing up on BCP's?? About 4 days after I stopped I started researching the pill I was given (Yasmin) and came across a bunch of stuff on the internet saying patients have lost weight on this pill not much but a few pounds a year is better than nothing.

After reading Rachel's blog the other day about a C-section gone wrong and a blogger who died afterwards and then watching Discovery Channel's Babies Special Delivery that same day where a woman was near death because her placenta grew through her Uterus out of her old C-section scar, that was enough to make me realize NFP is not what I need to be doing right now. As soon as this cycle is over I am going to take the pill. I think 3 C-sections is enough plus I'd like to live to see my kids grow up! I've researched so much in the past on C-sections because I always have wanted the whole 2 boys 2 girls senerio and really it doesn't matter how many you have, it's what your uterus can handle. I've met gals online that ruptured during their 2nd and some who've had more but with lots of scar tissue problems so I was really lucky to have 3 with no problems. I think if we were to have another we'll adopt. Dave has never been to keen on adoption because of the money factor but I know he'd come around.

I hope I haven't bored anyone to death with this post but I know I certainly feel better getting it off my chest. I'm sure as soon as I get on this pill, get my feet fixed up and start working to lose this weight I'll be doing much better.

8 Months Old!!

Things are 100 X's better here this morning. I started feeling better almost immediately after taking a shower yesterday morning and eating a bowl of Cream of Chicken soup at 9 AM. LOL I was up today at 6:30 AM and got Alex out the door at 7:15 and Dominic has already ate and been dressed and it's not even 8 AM yet. I even started cleaning the house. Today is going MUCH smoother. I have to say part of this day going much smoother can be credited to Wife Swap and SuperNanny. Everytime I watch those shows for some reason I'm up late cleaning my house that night or the next day changing things in my schedule so I can be the best wife ever with the cleanest house and the most well behaved kids doing nifty little charts for good behavior. It's almost like the shows are sending subliminal messages or something.

I still can't believe we got the stomach flu again in the house. I used to brag all the time how I did daycare yet my kids were never sick but as soon as Alex started school a year and a half ago that all changed! I can't even believe so many strains of different crap can exist. Even though Dominic did end up having the stomach flu instead of eating issues, we did go ahead and start him on the Pediasure. I hope there's coupons for this stuff because it is HIGHLY expensive. Our Ped's office gave a bunch of samples of the different kinds and a Dr's office my husband does service for gave him samples of something called Resurgex for us to give him. We're giving him 1 can a day of the Pediasure at breakfast since it is a "kid energy drink."

So anyways Damien is 8 months old now! I can't believe how fast this is going. He's just about to start crawling, the normal way. I've never had a kiddo crawl all over the place backwards. He'll crawl about 3 movements forward and then fall but he'll crawl backwards everywhere. He loves to pull up on things, mainly me. If I sit on the floor with him he'll grab onto my arm and body and pull up. Another favorite thing he likes to do is pull hair now. This always sucks. He thinks it's just the funniest thing seeing our faces in pain. He also loves to poke his fingers in our mouth and have us nibble on them. If we don't invite his little fingers with our mouth open, then he'll grab our lips and pull and scratch the crap out of them till he gets in there.

OMG it's the Stomach Flu AGAIN!

OMG people! I have stomach flu for the 3rd time in like the past 6 mths!! I guess when Dominic was sent home for throwing up and hershey squirts, it WAS a stomach virus and not the fact that he hasn't been eating well!! Damien got the squirts starting Saturday. Saturday I cleaned all day but that night I felt really lazy and started laying around the house. Early Sunday I had a hard time sleeping and was so extremely sore like I was beaten with a 2 X4. I took my temp and it was 100 so I took some Tylenol and went back to bed. I thought I was ok but around 2PM my stomach started gurgling, I felt like I was going to puke and I had the nastiest indigestion burp going on. By 6PM that night I was still feeling like I was going to puke but it came out the other end!! I was up all night last night taking Tylenol, sweating to death, feeling like I could puke any second, and on the toilet. This just sucks something MAJOR!

So this AM I overslept till I heard K & K's mom dropping them off!!! I jumped out of bed quickly and threw some clothes on. I explained the situation and told her I felt alot better but my stomach is still a mess and then Alex's bus came and we had to wave to the driver to keep going because obviously she wasn't ready for school! My mother called and said she would take Alex to school since I probably shouldn't venture far from the toilet. Dominic's bus came at 8 and I threw a note in his Thomas bag that said: It was definitely the stomach flu because the baby and I have it now. Hopefully he doesn't get sick at school again because with a note like that, they should know it's going to be hard for me to come get him again.

He Cleaned it While I Was Doing All The Laundry

There's a few blogs that I read on a regular basis and laugh my ass off because I can SO relate. The one that got me the other day was Beth and her pictures of the Music Room of their house. As everyone knows I'm a housework FREAK. That's all I do around here and if Dave's home and I don't get help I have these sorta panic attacks and get a sudden case of Tourettes Syndrome. I'll say words that would make even Truckers run away and hide. Saturday is not a day to lay on the couch and sleep all day, it's a day to clean because instead of 6 kids here all day, I've only got 3 which are ours. I want the house cleaned. So with that, Today is Saturday! Dave will be home around 1 PM from work, I'll let him rest for awhile since he left around 6 AM but then I want the Computer area cleaned.

First let's start by telling what the computer area is. Dave has a passion for computers, hard drives and all that crap that relates to computers. He loves to take the apart crap and tinker with it. Dollar Store toys that have broke, he'll rip it apart and try to fix it even after I've thrown the dang thing in the trash. When given the opportunity, meaning when I'm not bitching for him to quit, he'll spend hours playing with computers. He told me last week, "I've been cleaning the Computer Area" when I inquired why I was doing all the 7 loads of folding laundry by myself. I went down there and sighed, this is not looking much better. So after Beth got so many people to side with her about how messy the room still was, I thought I'd show my evidence since Dave reads my blog. Maybe he'll get the hint because if not, I am SO tempted to call Clean Sweep. Then you know what happens to all his precious computer crap?? It goes to the garage sale!! HA HA HA HA!!! First we'll start of a room shot. Here's where all the gals reading will scream in HORROR........

PLEASE HELP ME. Does that first picture not make you want to cry??


So we'll start with the desk. Does this look clean to you?? Now this room is in the basement so no one sees this except us....but still. The boxes below. Full of computer crap. I'll show ya in a minute.

I can't even tell you the junk in these boxes. I see some Audio hook ups but the rest has been sitting in here for years. I don't even think he knows what this crap is. This is where things are dumped to make the room look clean. Remember that throw things under your bed trick as a kid?? I think D did alot of that when he was growing up.

This box I can tell there's a keyboard on top, again the rest who knows. I think there's some extra speakers and mouses in this box if anyone needs some. LOL

This is the bar. These chips or whatever have been sitting here for quite awhile. I'm not even sure what he's planning on doing with them. He's had them for a few years!!!
Ok that there is a picture of the bar (left of the desk) and another computer. See we have let's see I'm counting.....5 working computers, 4 are probably on right now using tons of electricity since he never shuts them off, and 2 that are sitting downstairs for him to tinker with. This is the laptop I use when the Toshiba dies. I'm on the Toshiba now BTW, I got it back and it's working good FOR NOW till it starts overheating again. That gray box thing there is part of the paper shredder and I have no idea what all that crap piled on top of it is. I see some floppy discs and a ream of paper!

Now I feel like crying. I would clean this up in a heartbeat except for one problem. It's in the basement and with the daycare and my own kids, I don't like to go down there for a long period of time. I can take my kids down there but Dom gets into everything and with the daycare, the kids can't go down there at all because I don't have a fire escape. So anyways, you examine those pics and let me know what you think. I seriously need a housecleaner.

I Give Up, I Must Be Doing Somethin Wrong

Well Dom was on the bus at 8:00 AM and the phone rang at 8:30. It was my mom. Shhhhew! 9:15 phone rings again, it's the school. (sigh)

Me: (gulp) "hello?"

Kristi: "Hi Sabrina, it Kristi. I'm sorry to have to do this again but Dominic has diarrhea. He's had two loose stools in 30 minutes time. He's going to need picked up again."

Me: "Ok, that's fine, I have to get the kids ready and we'll be there in a few. He's been acting fine he never got sick again. I still think it has to do with him not eating."

Kristi: "Did he have fruit yesterday?"

Me: "We got him to eat a few bites of Oatmeal, 1/2 a granola bar, a bag of chips, and about 20 grapes."

Kristi: "I thought he had grapes because the skins were all that were there besides the water."

Me: "Ok I'll be there as fast as I can."

By the time I got there, he'd had another loose one. I called the Nurse at the Dr's office. She's giving me samples of Pediasure to start him on AFTER the diarrhea passes. She also told me to stay away from sugary, greasy foods and milk for the time being so off to the store to buy tons of Pedialyte again. This morning I've also noticed Damien is STILL rubbing his ears. I luckily have an Otoscope so I looked in there and they are still red. I bought the Otoscope when Alex was 6 mths old with a reaccuring ear infection. I called the same nurse back and rold her so she's calling in Omnicef for him. I want to just scream, bawl, this is just so frustrating.

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Well Dominic hasn't thrown up anymore. For dinner he ate grapes and a few bites of chicken, bedtime snack he ate a bowl of Fruit Pebbles cereal. Breakfast he ate a few grapes and maybe 10 decent bites of Oatmeal. Grrrrr...... He's such a picky eater it's driving me nuts. There's no veggies now that he'll eat and fruits only bananas and grapes. If he ate nothing but bread and carbs all day I'd be happy but he won't even do that.

Dominic did decided last night though to break my MP3 player which I use at the YMCA. He dropped it on the tile in the kitchen and now it won't play. The screen comes on but it won't show the song names or anything and won't play. It's a Samsung and it's sung it's last tune I think. Now I'm on a quest to find a new one, cheap, I really don't need to put a zillion songs on it. Any ideas??? If I don't get anything soon I guess I'll just plug headphones into the mic part on the machines and watch TV.

Traveling Daycare

If my kids keep getting sick at school, forcing me to haul all the munchkins with me, I might think about adding the term Traveling Daycare to my profile at the Child Referral Agency. Just think of the nifty decal I could plaster on the side of my pimpvan. Need daycare but can't bring 'em to me? Hey I can pick them up! I'm on the road 95% of the time hauling barfing children home from school or taking kids to the Dr a few times a week for ear infections or bronchitis!!

I'm sure you know where this is going. Miss Priss left at 7:15, Dom at 8:00 at 8:35 I see on the Caller ID with Dominic's school is calling. School starts up at 8:30 why would they be calling so early? I MUST have forgotten to put something in his bag like a permission slip or money. It's Kristi his teacher.

Kristi: "Hi Sabrina, it's Kristi. Listen Dominic's sick. He threw up on the ride to school."

Me: "Oh no. He's been fine here. He was so excited when he saw the bus today and he ran right on with no problems. He hasn't acted sick at all."

Kristi: "Well I'm going to need you to pick him up, he'll have to stay home for 24 hours without vomiting again before returning to school. I'm sorry about this."

Me: "No problem, I'll get there as fast as we can." This meaning loading 4 kids and driving 20 minutes to town.

He hasn't had another episode at all. I know what the problem is already in which I told her when I got there I was sure it's because he hasn't hardly ate anything in days. It's either this or the sick new trend he likes to do which is gag himself with his fingers and make himself throw up. Yes I think I may have the occasional bulimic child. My first objective was to feed him so we hit up a place that serves hamburgers like McDonalds but you can get your burger ANYTIME not that after 10:30 BS McDonalds does, so he tiny bit of a hamburger and french fries at 9 AM this morning. For lunch he ate nothing but yogurt. (sigh) I'm thinking about trying Pediasure on him. Not sure if it'll help but I've heard kids love it. He won't eat anything we eat and the only way to get him to take even a few bites is to tell him the trains are going to be put away.

Now some new pics of Baby D. This is what he looks like a good portion of the day. He's been on Amoxicillin now for a week because of that double ear infection but his ears have to still be buggin him. These were only taken a few moments from each other.

Alright somethin is still not right here. I hear echos!
Maybe this will help if I muffle my ears.

I see no evil but I sure as hell hear it!!!

I'm not sure why the castpost deal isn't working below very well. When you visit the site it works fine. Dunno! May have to go there to watch it. He's such a momma's boy and always wants to be held. When he's down for his naps instead of taking it easy, I'm running around the house trying to do 100 things because as soon as he wakes up, all he wants is to be loved. That's ok though.........just annoying at times, like when I need to go pee, or shower, or fix lunch, or get the mail, or do the housework. Oh well.

Did anyone watch War at Home last night? We love this show. Last night, the mom was going through a "baby blues" episode where she realized her kids were all growing up and she wanted a baby but the dad (Dave) was all freaked out and said heck no, even skipping out on sex just to make sure. I can totally see that being us down the road. The show focuses on such real issues that happen to families but with a comic side thrown into it kind of like Everybody Loves Raymond, another fave show of mine. It was hilarious though.