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SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! Copy the text below, erase my answers, then use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things.. nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial.. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Alexia 4 LETTER WORD: Alto BOY NAME: Andrew GIRL NAME: Abby OCCUPATION: Anesthesiologists A COLOUR: Ash SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Angora Sweater BEVERAGE: Apple juice FOOD: Asparagus SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Air Freshener PLACE: Alabama REASON FOR BEING LATE: Accident SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Alright!!
wow, genetics are strong. at all of 15 months old (almost 16 months), kellen has become a groupie. his all time favorite band - alvin and the chipmunks. thanks to the new movie, he has been exposed to a few new, and a few classic A and C tunes, and let me tell ya, he is a fan. if he had control of the computer he would put his favorite song on repeat and listen to it all day long. he is a fan of just about any tune that has a tinny chipmunk voice with it, but he likes, more than any other, he likes 'baby, baby, baby' by alvin and the mini-munks. lyrics include: baby baby why you whining? are you cranky, are you colic, are trying to tell me that you need some sleep, maybe a game of hide and seek. i only wish i knew what i could do for you. baby baby why you crying'? which is actually all of the song that he has heard because to hear the rest you have to purchase the cd and i-tunes doesn't have it, so we would *gasp* have to wait for it to be mailed to us. still. he loves it. will smile, dance and groove, and sing along every time he hears it. it is amazingly cute. we have some video that i will post as soon as we get it in the right format of him jammin to some other chipmunk tunes. he is a MUNK LOVER!!! ROCK ON CHIPMUNKS!!!
Tue, Dec. 18th, 2007, 08:34 am
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Soooooo - listen to my merry fun-ness: So I worked on Sunday night. I was soooooo tired. From like 3am on, ALL I could think about was getting to go home and go to sleep. I gave report to the next two nurses take over my assignment - and practically RAN to the car. I was so happy to be going home and going to sleep. I called Jason. We chatted as I drove, all was well, then his boss called him into his office so he had to go (no worry, that was nothing, a computer issue he needed jasons help with). Anyway, so I called my mom, who had the kids, and she shatters my hope of sleep and at the same time gives me one of the biggest scares of my life - Kellen (my 15 month old) was vomiting violently, about every 5 minutes, and was acting lethergic. Loooooong story short (too late - haha) we eventually decided she just needed to bring him home to me (I had made it home at this time), he was too sick for her to try to take care of him, while trying to work (she takes him with her to work for a few hours when she watches him on Mondays), and we needed to assess the situation - did he somehow come across some dropped medication (always a possbility - I mean, my house, my parents house - with my brother's apartment....you NEVER know), did he get into a chemical somewhere/somehow, was he having a reaction the cleaner my parents used to clean their carpets the day before....or did he just have a virus (btw, the reason we were suspecting something more than just a normal virus was that it came on SO suddenly and SO violently, and he seemed to lethargic and out of it, whereas minutes before he was perfectly fine...we're not just crazy). We eventually ruled out all sinister possibilities. He hadn't been out of adult immediate eyesight at all that morning (and he'd only been up like an hour and a half when it all started). Anyway, my mom hung out and helped take care of him, while he continued to vomit every 5 minutes, and it was just sooooo awful, while Jason fought rush hour morning traffic to get home since I HAD to get some sleep. There was just no way I was going to be able to keep a close enough eye on him being so tired myself. Adrenaline only takes you so far. And then, if I decided it was time for the ER, Jason had the car with the car seat in it, so I would have no way to get him there without calling my mom (which depending on where she was and what she was doing, could have taken forever) or called EMS. So, Jason, whose least favorite parental duty is being the vomit cleaner (if I'm there, this is usually my duty), had to take care of our poor guy, who had at least slowed down to every 15 minutes. He was sooooo tired so I had put him in his crib (on a couple of layers of towels so that we wouldn't be changing sheets constantly), and Jason worked out a system where each end of the crib was set up with a blanket with towels under. When he would mess one side up, Jason would clean him up and switch him to the other side, clean the dirty side, replace it with new/clean stuff and then when he would vomit again, he would do the same process. By early evening, the throw up part was over, but he was still very out of it. I must have checked on him a million times last night - thanks again to my sister in law for the video monitor - and this mornin he is a little cranky, but otherwise MUCH better! *sigh* What a scare. Thank god it was just a virus and he is all better now. Anyway, thought I'd share my uber fun story of the joys of parenthood! Gotta run, crabby pants wants to sit in my lap and I am HAPPY to let him!!! Oh, and just so none of you think I didn't, I was in close contact with his Ped office about this all day! They were supportive, but generally unhelpful. :)
I think this is a cute idea. I write 10 comments about people on my friends list without saying who it is. You can guess, but I won't tell. There might be just one about you or more than one, or none. Have fun thinking!
1. You've taken on a lot and I think you have no idea the long-term implications of it. I hope you can rise to the occasion.
2. Haven't heard from you in a while, but you did just have a baby, so you're forgiven.
3. You've also taken on a lot, but I think you are going to make it just fine, if for no other reason, for your conviction to give the best to your child.
4. You disappointed me recently. You don't even know. But you're still a good friend and I hope you get things figured out before someone gets hurt.
5. You're the love of my life. ;) You could go away and I would still love you forever.
6. I miss you! I bought you something the other day. It's beautiful. You will love it. Need to get around to shipping it. That AND last year's present too! Gah!
7. You're one of my best friends. We're so different, but I love ya!
8. Oh my, child, I am so proud of you! So many changes recently. (I know you are going to guess this as you!) I'm so glad to see things going in a positive direction instead of the self-destructive behavior you were doing before.
9. Oh Clairee, I love ya.
10. I think you are amazing.
So so sorry that I haven't logged on to update before now - haven't meant to alarm anyone! :) So, the surgery went well, I LOVE my result. They are so cute and perky. I get most of my "bandages" off on this Tuesday (I'm still wrapped in gauze and an ACE bandage), but I've seen them unwrapped a few times and they are VERY cute. I love em. Grope myself constantly. All of that said, there was considerable more pain involved in the whole process than I had expected. I woke up after surgery and just remember crying because the pain was so intense. It was crazy! So bad! But, in the end, worth it. All total they took out a little less than ****8 pounds**** The pain is much better now (less than a week out), and I expect to be feeling much better very soon! After Tuesday I will snap a few snapshots (CLOTHED of course!) and put them up so that you can all see the BIG improvement! Okay, so typing is not comfortable so this is it for now. Will post again when I am up to it! Thank you all for your thoughts and well wishes!!!
Thu, Aug. 23rd, 2007, 11:23 pm
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So tonight is almost over (Thursday) - I work all weekend from Friday through Sunday night. I'll get off on Monday morning, come home and sleep off and on throughout the day and then I will be at the hospital early early Tuesday morning (530am!!!). Today was my last real day to get stuff done before my surgery so I got the bras I need for immediate post-op, got Bron's school supplies (she doesn't start until the 4th, but I was afraid I wouldn't be up to it after surgery), got a little birthday gift for Kellen, AND (my most proud purchse-how silly of me) A PORTABLE CRIB!!!! for Kellen to use at my mom's house. *sigh* I hope it works - he's been having a hard time sleeping there in the playpen. Hopefully this will work better. Makes me feel better about all of the night's he will be spending there - hopefully they will go better than the last attempt (didn't go well, obviously) with my mom!!! I Just need that to not be another stress! Wish me good thoughts! Thank god for Ambien or I wouldn't sleep - my mind is going a mile a minute! And I think working this weekend will keep me busy and distracted! I hope at least!!!
Okay, so I never ever post. Yes, I'm a bad bad friend. Kellen doesn't like when I am on the computer, so I tend to read everyone else's blogs and catch up and then jump off. I promise I am keeping up with everyone! So, there is SO MUCH going on here! Well, first, the kids. They are great. B is about to start first grade in a few weeks and she is really excited. We have had a good summer - lots of quality time spent together! I think she will be happy to be back in school soon, though. I think she misses her friends, and the structure that school provides. She will be going all day this year, so that will be different for me! She went to all day pre-K, so she should be fine with it, but it will be so different for me to just have Kellen all day!!! Speaking of him, he is growing like a weed! Almost a year old....so incredibly sweet. He's very good-natured, very loving...not as high maintenance as B was, but he is quite the mommy's boy - which I love and hate (when I am trying to get something done!), mostly love! So, the BIG news - I'm having surgery on the 28th (of August, less than two weeks) - I'm FINALLY getting my breast reduction! My back and neck pain has gotten progressively worse over the last year and then a few months ago I started having muscle spasms that were debilitating (and sent me to the ER more than once for IV valium and dilaudid). I have been on so many pain meds - from vicodin to a fentanyl patch, to now methadone (!!!!!) and percocet for the pain! That was a wake up call for me - I simply cannot continue to abuse my body this way and just try to take medications to cover it all up. At this rate my body would give out way before I'm ready - and I just can't stomach the idea of that! Besides, being 28 and in chronic pain...yeah, I feel old, I act old, and it just isn't fair! My surgeon isn't convinced that the reduction will cure all of my pain - he thinks I should see a spine specialist for further testing - but hopefully it will alleviate a lot of it! Anyway, so yes, we are VERY excited around here. Lots going on! Kellen is starting to cry, so I need to wrap this up. Let me just throw in that Jason is taking another pre-req this quarter and he is excited to be making progress on that as well! I will try to finish updating again soon! I love you all!!!!
Okay, someone really needs to remind me why we moved here.
I have been in and out of the hospital the last few days with back spasms. I am unable to pick up Kellen, Jason has been off for 3 days because of this, he has to go back to work, and my family has decided they are "too busy" to help us until it is more convenient for them.
That, on top of the fact that my mom springs the following statement on me while taking me to the ER while I was in excruciating, blinding, pain - "Um, yeah, you're going to need to fine a daycare for the kids. It's just not working out for me to watch them anymore". Yeah, she watches them for 4 hours every Friday and 4 hours every other Monday, and the occasional other thing here or there (maybe one more time every other week).
Fucking assinine. Thu, May. 17th, 2007, 11:36 am
We're so cool!
So, we have even MORE pictures up on our site now! From her birthday, Mother's Day Tea Party at her school (an incredibly special time for her and I), and the Open House at her school. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!!
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