Totally Annoyed with facebook and complaining about other things :)

Yea, so I am going on my blog to complain that I am annoyed with facebook. I haven't been able to get in due to "site maintenence" what a bunch of crap the last time this happened I couldn't get in for 2 days. And I actually do use facebook for work sometimes so...... it is annoying. Needless to speak of all the useless junk information I'm missing that I am addicted to. :)

As of last Friday I am now 37 weeks pregnant. Uggggh I am wishing away my weeks because I soooooo would rather not b`e 8 and any months pregnant. I am getting to the point I would like to have my body back, thank you very much my beautiful son. But it feels like I am a 6 ton whale everytime I have to swing myself out of bed in the morning or stand up from a sitting position. Through a lot of the day I don't bother to sit down it takes more energy to get up then it does to stay standing lol.

Bailey is learning a lot about dressing herself. Today when I laid her down for her nap she was wearing no socks. When I went in to check on her and found her sleeping she was wearing 2 different socks from the clean laundry basket in her room. Yup she is adorable. She also thinks because Aiden is sitting on the potty, so should she. So I have put on and taken off more pants today then in my entire lifetime. But oh well, maybe they will train each other (here is hoping ;).

We finally have most of the babies room done, the clothing is washed and put away, the couple decorations we bought are hung, and the crib sheets are on the crib basically as a decoration. Ben and I are both wishing we had painted the babies room a rich cream color instead of the green but.... hindsight.

And I'm thinking something is wrong with the dryer. It smelled really really bad earlier so I shut it off and haven't used it since. When Ben comes home I'll make him look at it and smell. Sigh I really really hope it was a fluke smell because I don't want to pay a repair man to fix it nor do I want to deal with having a stranger in my house. Nothing against repair men, most of them are really nice but I hate hate hate having my routine of the day interrupted by people waltzing in and out of my house with this or that part and (dare I say it) talking to me. Which sounds like I'm being terrible but it really is only to do with the "I don't want to be distracted" thing. Plus, I do not think strangers in your home is ever a terribly comfortable situation.

The planning for the One Stop Shop is not going terribly well this year. Nothing can ever be simple.......

Enough complaining for one day. Ben will be home soon (crossing my fingers) and I need to change Bailey's diaper that I can only deduce is poopy since she has been sitting under the kitchen table grunting the entire time I have been typing. I asked her if that is what she was doing and of course she denied it but...... Mommy Noses know these things (plus it is one of those diapers where a half smelling impared person would know it was poop).

The Weekend

This weekend was unusually eventful but really nice. Ben's mom and sister came and stayed with us on Friday night so Ben and I got to go for a little date night, which we don't do very often and it was nice to be alone together. Our night started by attempting to go to the Toasted Frog downtown but...... we decided we were going to be stubborn and not wait.... big mistake! As we ended up at Guisseppe's Italian Resteraunt instead. Which we did not like. The marianara sauce that was flooding all of the food was not good. It was like the consitency of Paradiso's salsa and tasted like extreme garlic extreme garlic. Like we could still taste it the next day garlic. Yuck. When you can't taste the cheese at all through the marinara sauce that is a not good situation. Uggh. Plus the decor, plates, flatware ect were ordiary lunchroom issue which did not make it feel like you were in a nice resteraunt at all. We could have gone to Pizza Hut and gotten more Italian flare and class. Sigh....

Then we went to the movie "Whiteout" at River City Cinema ( I love that theater!) The movie was alright. It was a kind of murder mystery that takes place in Antartica. Ben and I laughed a little at a seen where a cup of coffee falls of a bench and instantly freezes to the floor.... but it is apparently still warm enough where the actors need no facial protection whatsoever other than ski goggles. Yup thats how cold weather works..... it affects your coffee, your whole body but not your face....nope that stays warm and toasty. The lady lost her fingers to frost bite but her face stayed uncovered the whole time.... yup I'll try that here in 60 below... not.

Saturday we went out with April and Kevin to Toasted Frog and had a yummy fun dinner, the food and atmosphere is always good there. I guess we also waited for our table at the Bella Wine Bar which is a really cool little place we totally need to go back to when I can drink something.... anything lol other than water.

Sunday morning we went and watched a soccer game at a Special Olympics tournament that was in town because my Uncle's girlfriend volunteers and actually gets to play with the athletes. So we got to see the game and visit with my Uncle for awhile which was nice. Sometimes it seems to be so long in between times that we actually get to see them.

Then Bailey and I had a wonderfully cranky afternoon, struggling for one of us to take a nap. She seems to think she does not need naps anymore and mommy seriously begs to differ. So.... after awhile I finally just let her get up so we could get ready to go to Isabella's Birthday Party.
I thought it would be fun for her to see me wrap Isabella's present. Yup I'm smart REALLY. I laughed because Bailey jumped and danced on the wrapping paper the second I put it on the floor (big mistake) then I spent the better part of a half and hour trying to fight to keep her from standing on top of the wrapping paper and present. Uggh

But we had fun at the party, aside from the wonderfully entertaining balloon incident. Yup could have died. :)

Then after I put Bailey to bed I realized I had 2 tests to do and a paper to write. It was a very fun and packed weekend. To bad more weekends weren't so entertaining. :)

Hello

So yup I feel fantastic now compared to yesterday. Pretty much as good as new! So we will cross our fingers to make sure it stays that way. I guess I have to call and schedule an appointment to see my doctor at some point this week just so she can make sure there isn't anything wrong, just to be on the safe side. But I'm great for now :).

Bailey and her "I refuse to take a nap for mommy" thing is getting very old. Even though she stays in her room she still needs her sleep so it annoys mommy when she doesn't sleep. She started throwing a fit and fell dead asleep tonight after supper, and Ben and I tried to wake her up to no avail. So then we decided that we were going to just lay her down and let her sleep, but I needed to change her diaper.... Yup when I changed it she woke up which prompted a screaming fit. All 3 of us eventually ended up watching Sesame Street in the basement on one of the most beautiful nights of the year. Grrrrrr

Our First Urgent Care visit for Bailey and more

Last night Bailey had Ben and I worried. She has had a cold of some sorts since Thursday night that has totally taken away her ability to sleep through the night, cough, runny nose, chocking on her mucus until she almost threw up, eyes watering all down her face, red rimmed eyes and a strange rash behind one of her ears. But that was not the worst of it when Saturday night she fell asleep in her high chair during super. She then slept in her bed for 45 min or so until she woke up screaming and did not stop. So after not to long we decided her behavior was to strange for her and we brought her in. She has been sick plenty of times before but never acted as strangely as she did this time.



As we checked into the Emergency/Urgent care waiting room, she continued to act so sick she hardly moved. And cried and screamed when the very nice nurse tried to take her oxygen level on her toe, she didn't like having her temp taken either and all but cried everytime someone looked at her.



By the time we get into the Urgent Care room to wait for the doctor however.... she is bouncing around like she feels totally fine and making Ben and I feel like morons. We left with a perscription for Amoxicillin (sp?) for the rash behind her ear and a slight "buldging" of her ear drum and a suggestion that the bad cough/gagging was caused by some croup (sp?) so basically she was totally fine. While I feel that the doctor was very nice and what in the world do you do when the kid appears totally fine. But we were kind of shoved of as crazy paranoid parents.

Now today her eye is super red but we are pretty sure at this point it is just the cold showing in her eye as there is not nasty goop that would be present with pink eye.

Super Saver deal of the year! We got two changing tables on unbelieveable clearance at target tonight. They were only 33 bucks a peice so we got one for daycare and one for the baby. Wow just wow. Sometimes I love Target. And Ben and his super sleuth eyes, I would have walked right by. If you want a deal on clothing or a handbag come to me but household stuff Ben is unbelieveable at spotting deals. We already got the dresser on clearance for 50 bucks. Exciting!!!!!!!

My classes start tom. which is exciting. And my books won't be here until Thursday, which is not exciting and my fault for procrastinating until I had not choice but to order them. Dumb Dumb Dumb. But I can't beat myself up to much we have had a lot of stuff going on lately.

I still need to get Bailey registered for gymnastics that start this week and look into the whole dance class thing just in case I think I have lost my mind so much that she needs two activities but at the sametime, they teach her stuff, she loves seeing other kids who are pretty much exactly her age and they wear her out like crazy. :) (The last one may be the best part).

Ohhh and the dude with the flat bed cart at target wheeled it really really hard into the back of my heel (on accident) which hurt so bad I almost started bawling. It was a total accident and he was really nice but it still hurts how many hours later so lets hope hope hope it feels better by tom.

Grocery shopping and the misc crap that we needed was extremelly stressful today. Last day of the weekend before practically the whole country starts school what were we thinking? Oh yea it is Sunday and we can't do it any other day unless I want to shop at Walmart at 2 a.m. in my sleep which doesn't sound like fun and the people in walmart at that time of night are ridiculously scarey individuals that crawled out of a sewer system somewhere. :)

Tiny Update

I painted Bailey's toenails tonight for the first time. A neon metallic orange which is very trend of the moment right now. She was so cute walking around looking at her feet. I should take a picture. :)

I am gearing up for school to start again. Sigh.... I am excited and not excited at the same time. I am going to be taking Ethics and Intro to Sociology which I am required to take and finally by the stroke of luck got into them. Plus, an Intro to Spanish Class because that will look good on a resume. I emailed my advisor about the last 3 courses that I should need to complete for my degree on being an Internship so that I'm sure will be nerve wracking and hard to workout schedule wise given my current situation. But they claim they tailor fit them to the students schedule. hmmmmmmm. It will all work out somehow.

Just to brag. Not that it is a big deal to other people but since I have never been academically smart in my life I'm going to brag about what I feel for me, is a great. I have an overall GPA of 3.1 at the moment and that is still including my screw around courses I took at UND my first year. I had a 3.66 for last semester! This is amazing for me, so I'm bragging. :)

Pregnancy is starting to make it hard to sleep. Sucks! And the small amount of Mt Dew I drink everyday is my only friend. Sigh.....

We also need to have everyone over soon. It always seem so long in between adult activities around our house.....

Oooooo and bragging more. At a second hand store in fargo and I got a 6 service set of china - minus one cup for 10.99 and it is gorgesous! And was really expensive when whoever bought it brand new bought it. I just sat and stared at it for 3 days! I am way way dorky but whatever I'm me :)

Ren's new drops are not working and the old ones already stopped working. I have to call the Vet tom. it looks like surgery of some sort will be the only option. This may be having to remove his eye. The poor things really bad eye is totally red from blood vessels popping in it. His medication is the only thing keeping him comfortable and believe me, he doesn't look that incredibly comfortable if you look him in his eye.

Pants on her head

I could not decide which picture of her was more adorable. I had to work extremelly hard to get this picture. We were playing and putting different "hats" on our heads and then it was pants as a "hat". As soon as I take out anything that resembles a camera it is a race. This time she decided she liked the lenses cap.

Dress Up

Bailey playing dress up with one of Jadyn's old halloween costumes. She is the cutest puppy or "dalmation dog" as I recall from what Jadyn used to call dalmation puppies.

The picture on the top is her waving a shim (daddy had been installing doors) at me like a sword. She thought is was super and amazingly fun.

Current Pic

Halloween 2008

This is Bailey and I at Yonker Farm, sometime before the snow fell but ugggh maybe Ben knows when.

The picture of Bailey sitting on the Haybail is from last fall on the pumpkin far near the Air Force Base, the cake is her first birthday cake. You have to love how on the ball I am, it's only... 6-7 months late? lol

Happy First Birthday Bailey

Floating surprises

Tonight was bath night at our house for the little princess. She was sooooo excited to go in the tub, so while mommy cleaned the tub she ran around the bathroom and kept touching the toliet lid Ewwwwwww and trying to take off with things like her body wash and the dogs shampoo from under the sink. But after awhile we finally had success at getting her into the tub.

"Ooooout"

"No honey, you haven't been in the bathtub long enough yet, we still have to wash you up"

"Ooooout"

"In a little bit ok?"

After a little while I heard a rumbling sound of sorts coming from under the water. I look down, and up floats the vialist looking poop that ever graced bathwater.

I pick up my beautiful surprised daughter and place her on the floor, while I was going to attempt to drain the tub before little peices of the oranges she ate for lunch attach themselves like cement to the sides of the tub.

Bailey runs over, stands next to the bathroom door then pees on her own little feet. Being shocked by this she starts to walk back over to me, when she slips and falls flat on her back.

After the very small amount of crying from the fall I laid her down on a towel on the floor to try and clean some of the small remainder of the floating surprise off of her butt. Then she said in a super cute voice one of the funniest things that she has ever said.

"I pooped"

Finger Painting

Today we did finger painting. It was really fun, Bailey was really not quite sure what to think of it at first. Especially when I put her foot in the paint to make a foot print on the paper. Her face was pretty priceless and I knew at least with putting her foot in the paint that was all for the day. But after she got used to the feeling she liked it on her fingers and painted mommy a picutre.

We were using the Crayola Non Toxic, Washable stuff for kids which was so far away from any paint I've ever used it was unreal. But it was a good daycare activity after she got used to it. The baby didn't mind so much when I did his foot print. We made 4 leaf clovers with feet, good idea that didn't work out so well but it was still fun and I guess thats all that matters.

We ran into one of Bailey's friends in Walmart on Sunday, Bailey immedicately shouted out her name which was very very cute and then they just sat and stared at each other while I and the other little girls parents talked, and then as we were all saying goodbye Bailey's little friends started crying. It was so sad I almost cried.

Next week is the end

So this next week will be my last hoorah with my 3 year stint with Altru. It is kind of bittersweet. I'm exicted to be done but sad at the same time, again. I'll miss all of the people I work with. But with every chapter that closes another opens. Who knows how the next part of my life will go but I'm excited to begin.

Bailey continues to amaze me. All of the things that she can do and the new stuff that she learns everyday. Wehn she was watching Barney for a few minutes they started singing "The Wheels on the bus" and she ran over and pointed to her book that we sing "Wheels on the bus" My eyes almost bugged out of my head. She wants to show me how much she understands things.

Tonight I asked her if she wanted to go shopping to get her some clothes and she looked at me, thought for a minute and then said "Noooooooo" with her lips all formed into a big O.

On a Mommy Wahooo note. Mandy found a site where you can apparently buy the real deal designer bags for practically next to nothing. They come with the serial numbers and the cards and everything so I guess I'll see when my $37.00 (that includes shipping) Channel bag comes!!!!! If it isn't real from the pictures online it looks amazingly real so I guess either way, I'll be thrilled.

And if anyone wants to laugh at me: I feel bad for the Chips Ahoy cookies when they get eaten in the commercials. LOL

Live Embarassing Dinner Theatre

The other night Ben, Bailey and I went to Applebees for dinner. We were having a good time and Bailey was chatting and playing Peek-a-boo and all was great. The suddenly Bailey did not want to eat any of her food and laid her head down on the table. Thinking that she was just starting to get tired from our long day and her difficulty taking her nap, mommy picked her up and let her sit on my lap so she could recline back and be more comforatable.

Thats when the vommit came. Lots and lots of vommit. All over the precious baby, all over the mommy, on the table, on the chair, on the floor. It was miserable. I'm sure the other dinners really appreciated our predicament. Bailey and I exited the resteraunt ASAP while Ben stayed inside to clean up as much of our mess was possible.

The resteraunt was not very "understanding" of the cirumstances and when I apologized to the very very pregnant manager she did not even resond. While I very much understand their annoyance they could have at least said "well these things happen" or something of that nature. I'm sure once the pregnant manager has to take her little bundle of joy out for dinner something enbarassing will happen to her and I hope she remebers. Ugggh

All of this happened before I had gotten one tiny bite of my steak by the way. The JOY of being a parent. Not only did I feel terrible for my little girl but I felt terrible for everyone else around us as well.

On the up side: Bailey can now say "Happy" and she seems to be telling me to "get up" as she attempts to pull my butt off of the couch. It is really cute. I'm sure in a few months when she is telling me to "get up" it won't be as cute but for right now it is pure hilarity.

Bailey is a genius!

Of course, I am her mother so I am totally bias. Bailey had her 15 month well baby visit today. She is right around the 50th percentile for height, weight, and head circumfrence. She also apparently was enjoying showing off for the doctor as she showed where her nose was, talked, and hardly seemed shy at all. There were No shots today hooray and I guess she will have 2 more at her 18 month and then she will be done with shots until her kindergarden physical other than flu shots of course.

She had a lot of fun in the clinic where she discovered the medical records room and thought for sure that she should pull a chart or two off the shelf as she shuffled by but that stinky mommy prevented her from "helping" the chart management girls.

We also go to see Kylie on of the psycologists children. She is 3 months older than Bailey and I have known her her whole life, but we hadn't seen her since I left the clinic and it is so fun to see how kids grow. I keep thinking she should still be the same as she was when she visited Bailey and I in the hospital when Bailey was born.

Bailey and I are both sick. At least Bailey seems to be getting better, while I aparently am going to die because my cheek is going to explode from the pain. If I'm not better by monday I'm going to go to the doctor myself.

Housing updates and vocab expansion

By the end of the week we will have had a least 4 different people/couples look at our house. Which is apparently something to get excited about considering our realtor says that there are 2 other houses that have been on the market for 2 weeks and no one has looked at them at all. The feed back we have gotten back so far is pretty predictable. "The basement is disappointing" "I wish they had done more in the basement" "the basement ceiling is low" "they really liked the house but they decided its just to small for them" Yup duh, why do they think we are trying to sell? This whole process is really nerve wracking and I'm positive I will have a nervous break down before it is over. Or if it is ever over. Maybe my grand kids will come to visit me in my superiorly decorated first floor and never get to step foot in my ickly low ceiling basement. Sigh..... I didn't expect this to go quickly but it is really really hard to live in your house and keep it looking like a show peice.

Bailey can now say, daddy, mama, hi, BOOK, and ODDBALL! Isabella was being her adorably cute self and was playing with Bailey as we were getting ready to leave Karissa's and she was like "Bailey your an oddball" and Bailey was all sorts of like "oddball" totally clearly.

There was a little boy in the clinic today and his mom said "oh he can't talk yet hes only 1 1/2." I kind of wanted to say "REALLY my daughter says lots of words an babbles all of the time and she just turned 1 a few days ago." But of course I didn't that would have been mean and maybe he is just developing a little more slowly or maybe he just had tubes put in or something. Ya never know everyones circumstances.

My Baby is 1!

Bailey's birthday was fun. She was so cute of course and really wasn't interested in her gifts but thats kind of to be expected. She is really enjoying playing with them now though, lol.

I spent hours and hours making her cake. Which was so cute and she loved eating the frosting. I made it with a recipe from Karissa's Deceptively Delicious cookbook and the cake was tastey! Yum Yum.

On another note the first house lookers came tonight. We just drove around for a half an hour or so until the people left. I don't want to sell the house. I love love it. But we really need more space, especially if we want to expand our family someday. Sigh... of well I guess I knew we couldn't live here forever.