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Monday, November 16, 2009
It has been a while.
It has been a while since my last post and lots has happened since then. I'll make it short and sweet and try to catch up on events.
As we left off we were planning a trip to Playhouse Disney Live. Two days before a kid that sits next to Alivia was out of school with the flu. Of course Liv got a fever the next day and was also confirmed to having the flu. We went to the Disney show anyway because the kids were heart broken at the thought of missing it and we were a good 75 feet from anyone at the show cause our tickets were so cheap. The kids loved the show and had a great time. They still talk about it over a month later.
Two days after Alivia had the flu we all had the flu. It sucked but wasn't the worst illness we have had. We all recovered in about a week and were ready to take on The Georgia National Fair. Livi loves the fair but Dylan could take it or leave it. I of course got stuck riding all the rides with Alivia. Not that I really mind. And Cam and Dylan watched on the side. Dylan is not into riding things to much... unless it's a tractor or something of course. Livi rode the ponies and Diggy petted ponies. We laughed at the cows and then the kids picked their favorite scarecrows to take a picture in front of. Oh yeah and we can't forget about the famous pig races. They both enjoyed watching the pigs run for Oreo's.
Towards the end of October Alivia had a fall festival week at school. One day they got to go to the schools pumpkin patch and I was able to bring Dylan along with us. Dylan had a great time and quickly made friends once the other boys noticed he had race cars with him. On pumpkin patch day we took a hay ride around school grounds, has face painting, got to pick out a pumpkin to take home, did pumpkin story time, and went through a little maze they had set up for the kids. I forgot my camera so I only have pics from my cell phone.
On that Friday they had a festival feast and games. This day they had to dress up as scarecrows or farmers. I had to work fast and make her a scarecrow with two days notice but I think she was cute and she got lots of compliments. They ended their day with fun games. Dylan didn't get to come to this one and good thing because it was kinda crazy and someone would have probably gotten lost. My wonderful mother was kind enough to watch him. I think he kept her outside all day playing with cars in the dirt.
That afternoon we continued our battle to find a seasonal flu vaccine for Alivia. She should have gotten hers when Dylan got his but she was still recovering from having the flu. When she was well enough to get it I called to make an appointment and was told she didn't qualify for the vaccines at the dr's office because we have health insurance. Bunch of crap. So we ended up going to the county health department and paying for her to get a flu shot. The place was horrible and there was no where to sit, not that I wanted my kids nor I sitting in their cramped up waiting room. We ended up standing in the entrance to the bathroom for an hour and a half. We got it done but that reminds me that I still need to file that bill with the health insurance because I have nothing better to do....
Anyway later that night we had Trunk or Treat at Livi's school. The kids were super excited to finally get to wear their Minnie and Mickey costumes we had been working on. We didn't go to all lengths on the dress up for this night but they were both super cute if I do say so myself. Everyone thought Dylans tail was hilarious and he didn't spend the night chasing his tail so it all worked out nicely. Getting them to sit still for a picture is hard work now a days!
Then we had actual Halloween. I didn't get many pictures unfortunately. We did a hayride for our group of trick or treaters this year at mom and dad's house. It was fun, fast, and the kids didn't really care if we skipped some house because they were enjoying the ride. We painted Dylan's hair for this night because he IS Mickey Mouse. Just ask him. Alivia decided against painting her hair and that was ok too. I didn't really feel like washing it out of hers.
Since Halloween we have not had an exciting outing. Alivia had her cheer leading meeting that we went to. I think she will love it. The first practice starts on Dec 1 and she should get her uniform and pom poms then. I think she will finally believe me that she is a cheerleader then. She will have to remember a recite a Bible verse every week and I am ready to she my Lovebug be the star that she is! The first game is on January 2nd. Diggy is an official car-o-holic. He loves anything to do with cars or motors. Cam has been off work this past week and Diggy has been in Heaven working on cars and lawnmowers everyday. We did all have a stomach virus 5 days out of the 8 that Cam was off but we are all feeling better now. Our goal for coming weeks is to not get sick again. I don't think there is much out there left for us to catch so hopefully we can make it through the holidays healthy!
Until next time...
As we left off we were planning a trip to Playhouse Disney Live. Two days before a kid that sits next to Alivia was out of school with the flu. Of course Liv got a fever the next day and was also confirmed to having the flu. We went to the Disney show anyway because the kids were heart broken at the thought of missing it and we were a good 75 feet from anyone at the show cause our tickets were so cheap. The kids loved the show and had a great time. They still talk about it over a month later.
Two days after Alivia had the flu we all had the flu. It sucked but wasn't the worst illness we have had. We all recovered in about a week and were ready to take on The Georgia National Fair. Livi loves the fair but Dylan could take it or leave it. I of course got stuck riding all the rides with Alivia. Not that I really mind. And Cam and Dylan watched on the side. Dylan is not into riding things to much... unless it's a tractor or something of course. Livi rode the ponies and Diggy petted ponies. We laughed at the cows and then the kids picked their favorite scarecrows to take a picture in front of. Oh yeah and we can't forget about the famous pig races. They both enjoyed watching the pigs run for Oreo's.
Towards the end of October Alivia had a fall festival week at school. One day they got to go to the schools pumpkin patch and I was able to bring Dylan along with us. Dylan had a great time and quickly made friends once the other boys noticed he had race cars with him. On pumpkin patch day we took a hay ride around school grounds, has face painting, got to pick out a pumpkin to take home, did pumpkin story time, and went through a little maze they had set up for the kids. I forgot my camera so I only have pics from my cell phone.
On that Friday they had a festival feast and games. This day they had to dress up as scarecrows or farmers. I had to work fast and make her a scarecrow with two days notice but I think she was cute and she got lots of compliments. They ended their day with fun games. Dylan didn't get to come to this one and good thing because it was kinda crazy and someone would have probably gotten lost. My wonderful mother was kind enough to watch him. I think he kept her outside all day playing with cars in the dirt.
That afternoon we continued our battle to find a seasonal flu vaccine for Alivia. She should have gotten hers when Dylan got his but she was still recovering from having the flu. When she was well enough to get it I called to make an appointment and was told she didn't qualify for the vaccines at the dr's office because we have health insurance. Bunch of crap. So we ended up going to the county health department and paying for her to get a flu shot. The place was horrible and there was no where to sit, not that I wanted my kids nor I sitting in their cramped up waiting room. We ended up standing in the entrance to the bathroom for an hour and a half. We got it done but that reminds me that I still need to file that bill with the health insurance because I have nothing better to do....
Anyway later that night we had Trunk or Treat at Livi's school. The kids were super excited to finally get to wear their Minnie and Mickey costumes we had been working on. We didn't go to all lengths on the dress up for this night but they were both super cute if I do say so myself. Everyone thought Dylans tail was hilarious and he didn't spend the night chasing his tail so it all worked out nicely. Getting them to sit still for a picture is hard work now a days!
Then we had actual Halloween. I didn't get many pictures unfortunately. We did a hayride for our group of trick or treaters this year at mom and dad's house. It was fun, fast, and the kids didn't really care if we skipped some house because they were enjoying the ride. We painted Dylan's hair for this night because he IS Mickey Mouse. Just ask him. Alivia decided against painting her hair and that was ok too. I didn't really feel like washing it out of hers.
Since Halloween we have not had an exciting outing. Alivia had her cheer leading meeting that we went to. I think she will love it. The first practice starts on Dec 1 and she should get her uniform and pom poms then. I think she will finally believe me that she is a cheerleader then. She will have to remember a recite a Bible verse every week and I am ready to she my Lovebug be the star that she is! The first game is on January 2nd. Diggy is an official car-o-holic. He loves anything to do with cars or motors. Cam has been off work this past week and Diggy has been in Heaven working on cars and lawnmowers everyday. We did all have a stomach virus 5 days out of the 8 that Cam was off but we are all feeling better now. Our goal for coming weeks is to not get sick again. I don't think there is much out there left for us to catch so hopefully we can make it through the holidays healthy!
Until next time...
Monday, September 28, 2009
Lliar liar pants on fire
That would be my Livi. I don't know what has gotten into her lately. She is always telling these stories for no apparent reason. It has really gotten bad this past week.
Today for example:
She told her teacher her brother made her sick. She didn't feel good. Mrs. Young asked me when I picked her up if Dylan had been sick because Alivia told her that her brother got her sick and she didn't feel good today. Alivia of course played along with her sad puppy dog face and said yeah I'm sick, Diggy got me sick. We get home and I ask her if she is still sick and she says "no I faked my teacher out". Nice one chicka!
She later tells me her pants fell down on the playground and everyone saw her panties. She even had to go hide in the train tunnel to pull her pants back up because everyone was laughing at her. I asked her if Mrs. Young saw and she changed her mind about that one.
When I was looking through her school work I noticed they used their scissors today. It has been pretty funny listening to how every week someone gets in trouble with the scissors. Last week Emily (Cams little sis) Cut her skirt up the week before a boy cut a big chunk out of the front of his hair etc... So I asked her if anyone got in trouble with their scissors today. She said "Yes Emily cut her hair and Mrs. Young made her go outside and told her she could never come back." Hello! I don't think the teacher is going to do this to a 4 year old. She may think it but I don't actually think she is going to do it. I ask her if I can call grandma to make sure Emily is ok. The story changes. No one got in trouble today.
I don't know where these stories come from but I sure hope this is a quick phase.
My little Dylan has not been much better. I hope he is at his peak of tantrums and it gets better from here. This past week we went to the mall to get some shoes and grab some lunch. Easy trip huh? Not really! Livi was crying and whining that she couldn't have every. single. thing. she saw and Dylan was just being a gigantic butt. Our miserable trip ended with Dylan screaming so loud and hard that he puked all over the two of us. He spent the rest of the day wearing Alivia's pink shirt. He knows he was being mean because when you ask him how his Mickey Mouse shirt got dirty he promptly tells you "I was screaming like this AAHHH! And then my mouth spit on my shirt and got it all dirty."
I hope the rest of the week gets better cause I am exhausted! The weather change isn't helping much either. The good thing is we get to go to Clubhouse Disney this Friday. It should be fun!
Today for example:
She told her teacher her brother made her sick. She didn't feel good. Mrs. Young asked me when I picked her up if Dylan had been sick because Alivia told her that her brother got her sick and she didn't feel good today. Alivia of course played along with her sad puppy dog face and said yeah I'm sick, Diggy got me sick. We get home and I ask her if she is still sick and she says "no I faked my teacher out". Nice one chicka!
She later tells me her pants fell down on the playground and everyone saw her panties. She even had to go hide in the train tunnel to pull her pants back up because everyone was laughing at her. I asked her if Mrs. Young saw and she changed her mind about that one.
When I was looking through her school work I noticed they used their scissors today. It has been pretty funny listening to how every week someone gets in trouble with the scissors. Last week Emily (Cams little sis) Cut her skirt up the week before a boy cut a big chunk out of the front of his hair etc... So I asked her if anyone got in trouble with their scissors today. She said "Yes Emily cut her hair and Mrs. Young made her go outside and told her she could never come back." Hello! I don't think the teacher is going to do this to a 4 year old. She may think it but I don't actually think she is going to do it. I ask her if I can call grandma to make sure Emily is ok. The story changes. No one got in trouble today.
I don't know where these stories come from but I sure hope this is a quick phase.
My little Dylan has not been much better. I hope he is at his peak of tantrums and it gets better from here. This past week we went to the mall to get some shoes and grab some lunch. Easy trip huh? Not really! Livi was crying and whining that she couldn't have every. single. thing. she saw and Dylan was just being a gigantic butt. Our miserable trip ended with Dylan screaming so loud and hard that he puked all over the two of us. He spent the rest of the day wearing Alivia's pink shirt. He knows he was being mean because when you ask him how his Mickey Mouse shirt got dirty he promptly tells you "I was screaming like this AAHHH! And then my mouth spit on my shirt and got it all dirty."
I hope the rest of the week gets better cause I am exhausted! The weather change isn't helping much either. The good thing is we get to go to Clubhouse Disney this Friday. It should be fun!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Things have been going good around here for us. We have got our schedules on track and everyone is happy for the most part.
Alivia still loves school. Which is great news to me. She has learned all her vowels, what sounds they make and knows how to write most of them. I am very proud of her. She has also dramatically improved on her coloring, which is a relief because she was not doing a very good job AT ALL the first two weeks of school. Here is a picture of her work on the third day of school:
It was a little embarrassing picking up work like that for a while when all the other kids stuff looked much better but I guess she just needed a little adjustment time. We finally have refrigerator worthy work now. I knew she could do pretty pictures because she does them at home all the time. Here is her picture from today... much better:
Diggy has figured out to use his free time away from sissy to play in her kitchen, with her barbie cars, play with his cars or just kick back in moms bed with some Mickey Mouse clubhouse and take a nap. He has adjusted well to telling her bye every morning but still looks forward to going to pick her up every afternoon. I keep an alarm set on my cell phone to remind me when we need to start getting ready to go and every time it goes off he has to get my phone and yell "We go get Ya Net(Alivia Jeanette)! Get her cup she hot. Lets go to ban(van)!" Its cute and I'm glad he misses her but that alarm allows mommy enough time to pick up all sissy's toys Diggy has been playing with so we don't get in trouble by the boss.
Speaking of boss. Livi sure is a miss bossy boots when she gets out of school. I think she has gotten corner time or a pop on the butt everyday within the first 45 mins. of getting out of school. Don't know what to do with that girl sometimes.
Livi had another dermatologist appointment this week. The stuff they had put on her bumps last time seems to have worked so they did the rest of the bumps this week. It was horrible! Last time they did most of the bumps on her back. She got big blisters, they popped and healed pain free everything was great. This time not so much. This week they did all the bumps in her armpit and down the inside of her upper arm. I guess this skin is way more sensitive than back skin because as soon as they started blistering she started screaming. The poor girl held her arm up over her head from about 2:00 until she finally fell asleep at about 8:30. The blisters got huge and she was even whimpering in her sleep. Cam and I went in her room at about 12:00 and popped all of her blisters since she had been so hysterical all day. She didn't even wake up and slept fine the rest of the night and was feeling much better by morning time. They look much better now and should be gone within two weeks. Hopefully this is the end of the bump war for us, unless more pop up in the next couple of weeks.
Alivia still loves school. Which is great news to me. She has learned all her vowels, what sounds they make and knows how to write most of them. I am very proud of her. She has also dramatically improved on her coloring, which is a relief because she was not doing a very good job AT ALL the first two weeks of school. Here is a picture of her work on the third day of school:
It was a little embarrassing picking up work like that for a while when all the other kids stuff looked much better but I guess she just needed a little adjustment time. We finally have refrigerator worthy work now. I knew she could do pretty pictures because she does them at home all the time. Here is her picture from today... much better:
Diggy has figured out to use his free time away from sissy to play in her kitchen, with her barbie cars, play with his cars or just kick back in moms bed with some Mickey Mouse clubhouse and take a nap. He has adjusted well to telling her bye every morning but still looks forward to going to pick her up every afternoon. I keep an alarm set on my cell phone to remind me when we need to start getting ready to go and every time it goes off he has to get my phone and yell "We go get Ya Net(Alivia Jeanette)! Get her cup she hot. Lets go to ban(van)!" Its cute and I'm glad he misses her but that alarm allows mommy enough time to pick up all sissy's toys Diggy has been playing with so we don't get in trouble by the boss.
Speaking of boss. Livi sure is a miss bossy boots when she gets out of school. I think she has gotten corner time or a pop on the butt everyday within the first 45 mins. of getting out of school. Don't know what to do with that girl sometimes.
Livi had another dermatologist appointment this week. The stuff they had put on her bumps last time seems to have worked so they did the rest of the bumps this week. It was horrible! Last time they did most of the bumps on her back. She got big blisters, they popped and healed pain free everything was great. This time not so much. This week they did all the bumps in her armpit and down the inside of her upper arm. I guess this skin is way more sensitive than back skin because as soon as they started blistering she started screaming. The poor girl held her arm up over her head from about 2:00 until she finally fell asleep at about 8:30. The blisters got huge and she was even whimpering in her sleep. Cam and I went in her room at about 12:00 and popped all of her blisters since she had been so hysterical all day. She didn't even wake up and slept fine the rest of the night and was feeling much better by morning time. They look much better now and should be gone within two weeks. Hopefully this is the end of the bump war for us, unless more pop up in the next couple of weeks.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Livi did it.
Well Livi has done a lot this past week. Some good and some not so good. She started her first day of school on Tuesday and had a great time. She is the first line leader for the school year. I guess that is just the teachers helper and leader in line for a week. She has really had a good time and we have not had any problems getting her to school (you know about all of our dressing issues and sleeping in). As soon as you go in her room and ask her if she is ready to go to school she jumps up with her "Good morning sunshine" and a big kiss and runs to my room to get dressed. It's been pretty easy and fun.
Her first day of school she was excited to go but once we were walking through the parking lot she told me she didn't want to stay at school all by herself. She quickly forgot about that when she got to her classroom and saw all the fun stuff there. She got her crayons and paper and found a spot for her name tag and pushed us out the door. Cam and I went to an orientation in the fellowship hall so I didn't have to actually leave her. That was good. Her going to school was a lot easier than I thought it would be. We really like her school and are already talking about keeping her there next year.
She has gotten in trouble at school already. Well the whole class got in trouble because they wouldn't come in from the playground. She said she didn't want to come in that's why she didn't listen. Not to good of an excuse huh. She is also having a coloring problem. All the kids stuff is hung out in the hallway over their book bags and Livi's is the only one that is not colored and what small amount that was colored was scribbled and looked like a one year old did it. I asked her teacher what she was doing during coloring time and she promptly informed us that little Miss. Livi spends her color time talking... to her teacher. Imagine that! She also said that Livi has told her she doesn't like the pictures and doesn't want to color them. I guess they are working on it but I was totally expecting something like this to happen with my Liv. It has only been four days!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Next step.... school
Tomorrow is our big day. Livi is beyond excited to meet her teacher and I am so happy that she is ready for this next step in life.
Sitting here at 12:15am with my stomach in knots I relize that letting go sucks! I will not shed a tear in front of her and we will both make it through the day. I am so unprepared.
Sitting here at 12:15am with my stomach in knots I relize that letting go sucks! I will not shed a tear in front of her and we will both make it through the day. I am so unprepared.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The mailbox
I have been waiting very impatiently for Livi's school teacher card to come in the mail. I just knew it wouldn't come today so I was in no rush to go see. I go out to our sad sad mailbox and carefully open it, making sure the post doesn't break in half, and what do you know? It was there!
Turns out her teachers name is Ms. Young. This is a relief because Alivia can say Ms. Young. I thought for sure she would get some teacher with an off the wall name but nope it's just Ms. Young.
Alivia was happy to get a special note from her teacher and made me read it to her about 50 times today. She had to share her excitement with all the neighbors as well. I think she is really going to love going to school!
On a side note her Aunt Emily is also in Ms. Young's class. Hopefully we can get that problem worked out before school starts. If we can't oh well I will just be sure to let the teacher know to separate them!
Both the kids have been doing well with their bedtime. They have even started getting up earlier and making it through the day. The only problem I am having is getting Alivia to eat her breakfast. She has never been much of a breakfast person but the thought of sending her to school without eating bothers me. I can't see her being happy sitting in school from 8:30-12:00 without having ate something for the day. I am working on it and I'm sure we will work through this.
Turns out her teachers name is Ms. Young. This is a relief because Alivia can say Ms. Young. I thought for sure she would get some teacher with an off the wall name but nope it's just Ms. Young.
Alivia was happy to get a special note from her teacher and made me read it to her about 50 times today. She had to share her excitement with all the neighbors as well. I think she is really going to love going to school!
On a side note her Aunt Emily is also in Ms. Young's class. Hopefully we can get that problem worked out before school starts. If we can't oh well I will just be sure to let the teacher know to separate them!
Both the kids have been doing well with their bedtime. They have even started getting up earlier and making it through the day. The only problem I am having is getting Alivia to eat her breakfast. She has never been much of a breakfast person but the thought of sending her to school without eating bothers me. I can't see her being happy sitting in school from 8:30-12:00 without having ate something for the day. I am working on it and I'm sure we will work through this.
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