HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEANA!

I'm glad you felt better before your birthday came around!


Friday night I had a "movie night" at my house for some moms in my mom's group - about 9 of us were there and we watched Juno. Great movie! Robert moved the front couches into the back room and made us popcorn in our new popcorn maker before he took Kyla and Kade to my moms house for the length of the movie. We drank wine, ate junk food and actually revelled in the fact that we all got to watch an entire movie from start to finish in silence.... what an amazing concept!

The weather was so hot this weekend, it was a HORRIBLE time to have a garage sale, but the only one we really do anymore is the sponsered neighborhood block sale. We brought our stuff over to my moms house and although we thought it was a horribly slow day - we actually made quite a bit of money... so it's always nice when it's worth it. I hate them, I don't know why I participate - it must be part of the DNA I got from my mom, but it's paying for the b-day party so that's good.

Becky and Randy came over to bbq on Saturday night for our weekly dinner - the kids love their Auntie Becky who very graciously replaced their stolen soccer balls, which they slept with Friday night! I was so happy to see that Jack can run and kick the soccer ball across the yard too (o:

The kids spent lots of time between the pools and the a/c - and were unbelievably self entertaining, it was good timing for that for me, I can not snap out of being tired! Jack was so funny this weekend - he wanted the kids knee pads on his legs and got so upset when we took them off, I wish I would have gotten a picture. Kade spent 2 hours by himself outside doing a water project... I just stared at him out the window and was so impressed with the care and concern he was putting into filling up certain bowls, water guns, and carefully watering and cleaning various items throughout the back yard. SO CUTE. Don't you just marvel daily at the wonders of children?

Can I not get away from theives?

Seriously - it makes me so unbelievably mad that someone can steal from another person - ESPECIALLY when it's clearly for a child.

Becky works at Vizari and got my kids decorated soccer balls - someone stole them from off of our porch. Right next to a car seat that has been there for 3 weeks.
Robert was even home - his truck was in the driveway. He just didn't hear her knocking - but the theives didn't know he wasn't sitting right in the living room.

I'm just so irritated. I guess Mark Tafoya who lives 2 streets over just had his house actually broken into a week or so ago! Ang, I bet that doesn't happen in Mission Viejo! Robert said if we could afford to live anywhere and it had to be in California it would be Mission Viejo.

Anyway - I'm rambling. I'm tired and now I'm pissed.

some weeks are harder than others...

some of this might be repetitive...

Monday night: Kade is laying on Robert and he stretches his arms up and literally pokes Robert in the eye with his fingernail. It happened so quickly - we thought it was just a scratch and it was irritated but upon closer look, we could see an actual gouge out of his iris. GROSS. We patched him up and made him look like a pirate so the kids didn't freak out.
Tuesday: His eye is SO much worse, he can't look at any light and it's all swollen and red, etc... We get him an eye doctor appointment and the doctor said that he was 2mm away from having vision damage. He gave him antibiotic drops -
Through out Tuesday as well my mom tells me that she can't break Jack's fever and I should probably take him to the doctors. It finally breaks but I make him a doctors appt for Wednesday morning to see if his ear infection came back -
Tuesday 2:00 a.m. - I wake up to Kyla screaming and running around the house because she has to pee so bad and she's sleeping so she's disoriented. I take her to my bathroom and she SCREAMS and crys the whole time she is peeing saying that it's burning. I thought perhaps it was just her tummy hurting from holding it too long.
Wednesday: Jack's appt was at 9:00 a.m. and Robert was supposed to be able to take him, but he can't drive because it's too bright and it's killing his eye. I reschedule his appt for 4:30 and take him myself. No ear infection - must just be settling of a bad cold / infection but if it doesn't clear up he'll need antibiotics by Saturday.
I decide I need a break and tell Robert he's watching the boys and I invite myself and Kyla out to dinner with my parents to Domenico's on 2nd street... all is going well UNTIL Kyla says she has to go to the bathroom - we get in there she must have remembered that it hurt to pee and starts totally freaking out and kicking and refusing to go - begging me not to make her go. We leave the restaurant and my parents take me and Kyla to urgent care. My mom stays with us because Kyla begged her to ( did I mention the 15 minutes of sreaming: I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE DOCTORS!, DON'T MAKE ME GO that absolutely broke my heart ) They get us in in 30 minutes and of course she has to pee in cup. We actually had to restrain her and it took 15 minutes to get her to go. It was unbelievably sad.
She has a really bad bladder / UTI ( they said it's the same, I didn't know that ) They gave her antibiotics but said she wont feel better for a couple of days.
She insisted that she stay at my moms house last night - which I was so glad because my mom said that she had 4 accidents through out the night and screamed with each one... she would have woke up the boys if she was home.
I wont even mention how work has been - but lets just say it's been about equal to how it's been at home

My husband is a Pirate!

Monday night Kade was laying on Robert, nearly asleep and stretched his arms out above his head... instantly Robert jumps off of the couch and says that Kade poked him in the eye. It was red and watery and I figured it had to just be a scratch that would annoy him for a few days. After closer inspection, Kade had actually taken a little gouge out of Roberts iris. Literally - there was a like a little flap of it detatched from his eye. Gross huh.
We put a make shift eye patch on his eye and tied it with a scarf. He refused to let me take a picture for the blog, but the kids asked him why he was pretending to be a pirate! lol
He wouldn't go to the emergency room because he thought an eye doctor would be more qualified - stubborn.
I got him an appointment yesterday and turns out the eye is the fastest healing thing on your body and he should be ok in a couple of days. The doctor did say though that he was 2mm away from having vision damage. He got some antibiotic drops to put in every 2 hours and has to go back today to see what kind of damage was caused. Yuck!
Jack has had a fever the last couple of days, so I think his ear infection is back and he has an appt this morning to see and Robert was supposed to take him because I can't miss work today but now he doesn't know if he can drive - so what to do?!?!?! All other options are already occupied. You know though, if he goes he wont have an ear infection, and if he doesn't go, he'll continue to be in pain - typical.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! ROBERT WILL BE BACK TO GETTING UP EVERY SINGLE MORNING AND GOING TO WORK! He just passed a test, and scored high enough that they will let him pick his facility. He just has to go through a quick technical 15 minute interview, but should be starting by early May.
This isn't the job that he is actually pursuing for long term but it's getting him back in with a little bit of extra money even.
This has been a very long 16 months.
We've gone through stuff like this before with his previous jobs or lack there of, but once he got into Edison, I thought that was all behind me... all it takes is a damn knee surgery and my love of stability is thrown out the window again. Granted, we couldn't have had all of the side jobs, moving would have been 1000x worse, and he wouldn't have gotten to spend so much time with the kids - but I'm over it and ready to have him appreciate the working world again (o;

Overanalyzing is going to be the death of me someday!

So you would think that I was planning a wedding or something with how rediculous I have been on trying to decide what to do for the 3 kids and celebrating their birthday's this year.

Back and forth back and forth, and my mom is even worse! She would call me every day with a different suggestion and thought on what to do and it was driving me nuts.

We agreed we weren't up for 2 big parties 2 months in a row that was step one. Now, what to do besides that is what killed me. Kyla has been wanting a princess party, but the other night I asked her if she felt like just doing something special for her birthday with mom and dad and she said, and I quote: " Sure, that sounds good - lets just go out for dinner." SHE IS SO MY DAUGHTER, I LOVE IT. I giggled and asked if she's sure she didn't want to do something more exciting. She thought again and said: "Well, I really liked Disneyland and that's bigger. I want to take Kade this time though."
I told Robert that and a few days later he basically insisted that he and I just take K & K to Disneyland. This literally felt like he ripped my heart out because Jack wouldn't be with us. He tried to reassure me that he wouldn't know the difference right now, but I didn't care. I said he will know when he's 10 and wants to look at old pictures and asks what we did for his 2nd birthday ( being I have a million pictures from both Kyla and Kade's 2nd birthdays )
Sooo... finally deciding on having Jack's b-day be celebrated when we have our bbq has given my over analyzing, over protective, over stressed brain a breather and I'm so glad!
On to Kade: I haven't been pushing the potty training, but Jeana has inspired me. Kade's answer to every time I ask him to pee is: I already went in the toilet once, and I'll go when I'm bigger. So what I'm going to do now I think is measure him and act like he's bigger every day and be specific that I need him to go pee in EVERY toilet, not just our old one and see if that helps. He's almost at the point of being in trouble for not going but I really really really wanted to avoid that - it feels like it would cause him to rebel because that's just what he does.

The most beautiful pictures I've ever seen...

These are my baby's 1st two experiences with crayons. He usually just throws my hand out of the way.
I'm so proud of him!!!! he's really catching up nicely... so many little things I notice during the day that he didn't used to do even 1-2 weeks ago. Just now I glanced back and saw him climb up onto the couch so he could sit by his daddy. Normally he would just be happy wandering. He also has to sit by his brother and sister at the little table now, and hates his highchair. He also finally held a spoon and fed himself some applesauce the other day ( this also used to get thrown across the room when I tried to give it to him )
I'm just so happy to see his progressions and had to share!!!