Did Someone Say Chocolate?

Happy Halloween

I don't like Halloween. Never have. It's a dumb holiday. I don't like people knocking on my door for hours and I'm uncomfortable going to other people's homes and doing the same thing myself. Cody and Sarah will trick or treat with Doug tonight. Justin, myself and Daniel will stay home to hand out candy. Justin decided to dress up and he's excited about giving out candy, so be it. I thought I'd dress Daniel and Dexter up too for fun! I still think I should get Bella a costume, but because we're not actually taking the dogs "out" this year, we'll wait and buy her one next year.

I had an idea from someone on the mommie forum I read on what I could do with the baby for his first Halloween. I decided that I'd dress him up once I got to my office 'tis morning in his little pumpkin costume and we'd go from office to office handing out candy to all my co-workers. So, yesterday I sat and did up little bundles of chocolate bars using orange napkins tied with white ribbon. I filled up two pumpkins full of them to hand out today.

I noticed that Daniel felt warm when I got him out of bed today, but I figured he was just warm from being snuggled in blankets all night. I decided to go ahead and go in to work. By the time I got him dressed in his costume, he was fussing. We managed to make it to a few people's desks along the way to his class for a temp check. They have a strip that lays across his forehead and it reads his temperature. 102 F. Homeward bound we headed. Poor little guy.

Here was the scene when we got home.

I had him dressed in just his undies. He was tuckered out! He slept for almost 2 hours when we got home. After he woke up, he drank a whole bottle and managed a little smile for me before he got to fussin' again. Back to sleep he went!

Halloween sucks. The only good thing that came out of today is that I got one full bucket of chocolate leftover!

Easy day

Cody was home sick today from school today (he's basically feeling better now, just a sore throat). I went into work late. Hubby is in the kitchen handling supper. Frozen lasagna rocks when you don't want to cook! Things are looking good today. Now to top the night off...hmmmm.

Oh boy!!

Chris: Do you want to go out with me?
Sarah: What do you mean?
Chris: You know, be my girlfriend.
Sarah: yes

Hehehehehehe Sarah's got her first boyfriend!! She says he's cute too! We're going to find something girlie to do this weekend just for me and her to celebrate it! What fun! First boyfriend!

Fuzzy pickles

Here are the proofs from Daniel’s portrait sitting yesterday. They are downloaded images from the website, so the quality isn’t the absolute greatest. A few are in soft focus as well and I haven’t decided if I like them or not. I mean he’s cute in them, I’m just not sure about the focus.

As you can see with the first two shots, he’s pretty happy. We missed a lot of happy shots because when he smiles he always rams his fists up into his mouth or turns his head. By the time we got those two smiley pictures, he was pretty unhappy, so we went with the serious baby looks and I think they are adorable.

And finally the last two shots as I mentioned yesterday, he was out like a light. I even changed his clothes for those shots and he stayed asleep. All and all I’m pretty happy with the photos. I’m just not really looking forward to doing it all again in three months!

Peek-a-boo

I'm beat. My back aches, my legs hurt and my knees are paining. I feel like I've run a few miles. My eyes are heavy, I'm so tired and I've got a stupid ingrown pimple on my chin that hurts like a bitch! Poor Doug he's been fighting The Cold for a couple of weeks now. The symptoms keep coming and going and from mild to worse. Two weeks ago, he got a sore throat, then a bad headache that landed him bed for 13 hours, then nasal drip, then cough and now he's got no voice.

So of all days, I decide to take Daniel to have his three month portraits taken. I was going to go to Kiddie Kandids (the place at BabiesRus) until I discovered my coupon expired. I knew I didn't want to go to JC Penny's, so we ended up at Sears. I suppose now that I think about it, I could have went to Walmart, but god everytime I go by that studio, it's so packed! Anyway, we got there at 3:00 and I never got out of there until 5:50. Daniel was good for the first couple of shots. We got him smiling for two, the other smiles we kept missing. Then he got cranky.

You name it...he wanted a bit of his bottle, then he pooped a bit, then he fussed a bit at having to sit and pose again, poor little guy! He just wanted to be left alone! Finally he got so tired, he just passed out. So our last two shots are sleepy time shots. Sigh. Oh well he is still really cute in those shots too, it was just a really long day. I can't believe I want to do this every three months. LOL What was I thinking? I'll be sure to post the link to view the photos when they are posted.

The staff at Sears were wonderful with us though. I had called about an hour before arriving, they put us right in and were very patient and helpful with me and Daniel; continually reassuring me that they were on babies time, not theirs. It's nice because it would have been much more frustrating for me and him had they been trying to get us out of there quickly! It took me almost an hour to pick out the sheets that I wanted to order. Gah. I'm so horrible at making decisions.

Justin's cross country finished up today with the districts. His school came in second, so they were pretty happy with that. Some girl held a party for the whole team at her house afterwards, so Justin went to that. I guess a girl fell asleep on his shoulder on the bus early 'tis morning. Ooooooooooo. Okay enough, I'm tired out and am determined to go to bed early. I got dickshit done today, so I have piles of housework that will be screaming at me tomorrow. Sigh. Yawn!

Growing up

Well you know me and pictures. I have some family squawking to see some pictures of the older kids, so I nailed them last night before they went to bed. They certainly aren’t professional photos by no means, but they’ll pass! * wink *

Here is Cody with his forced grin…

Here is Sarah looking all pre-teen…

Here is Justin looking all old on me…

Isn’t this a face only a mother could love…

And of course what’s Isabella without her sidekick…

While I was at it, I also uploaded the pictures of the boys on their first day of Alternate School. Don’t you think all schools should adopt this dress code? Lord shopping would be easy and I think they look pretty spiffy!

Cody

Justin

If anyone ever has trouble loading my page with this many photos posted, drop me a line to let me know. I can always start posting them as extended entries to ease loading pains!

Doh

I worked late today to make up for some lost time on Monday, so when I got home, I decided to make something quick for supper. Chicken strips and tuna casserole. Well after everyone was done eating, I took my plate to the sink and my own stupidity dawned on me. I forgot the tuna! I can't believe I was that stupid! Geesh no one even said anything about it either!

While I was dropping Daniel off today, one of the other moms wheeled her baby in and explained to the teachers that the baby was getting over her cold now, but that she was still pretty mucusy (sp?) and stopped up still, but wanted to know anyway if it was okay that she come to class?!! Okay what's up with that? The teachers are lucky they said no or my kiddo would have been working with me for the morning. I understand the mother's frustration, she said she really just needs a break, but gosh, come on... sick baby + healthy babies is a no no.

Trick or treat!

I got myself a little 'punkin for this Halloween!

Blah, hi everyone

Welcome to my new home! It took us awhile to decide on a name for our new domain, but we finally settled with 'It had to be you' (it's a song that Koric sang to Felicity a lot and well the rest is history now isn't it?!). I just haven't been in the mood to deal with my blog this week. It's like I've been cheating on my own blog with another forum. I've been spending most of my computer time trying to stay caught up with everything else I read, but I've finally settled with the realization that I'm never going to get caught up or stay caught up. I don't have enough time in a day and these gals post a lot!

Doug and I have fallen into a routine now with school, work and Daniel. It's working, but Doug really needs more office time than he's getting. I kick both our butts (MOSTLY his) because I had five days a week booked with Daniel's school (which they only allow employees to enroll that many days), but after he was born, we were pretty determined to limit his time at school as much as possible that we gave up two of the mornings and now Doug is sort of paying the price for that not realizing how little he can actually get done without having that extra office time. Oh well, we're on a waiting list and we'll see what happens.

Doug picked up my new pills from the doctor the other day and I got the advice to increase exercise and carb intake to help with my moods. I've not felt as bad as I did a few weeks ago, but I still don't feel like the same person as pre-pregnancy me. Doug says I’m still cranky more often towards the kids. I guess my patience is shot and my only interaction with them seems to be “do this or don’t do that”. I just can’t stand the bickering and I’m very sick of repeating myself a hundred times for something stupid that only requires common sense. I guess I need to work on that and find something that I can do with them one on one.

Anyway, sorry for my neglectfulness of the blog. I hope to post regularly again. I’m just beat.

Not much to say

I guess I should be updating some time soon. I just really got nothing to say. Work is going fine. Baby is fine. He's still sleeping like a champion. Kids brought home their report cards today (6 wk report). Cody got straight A's this time, Sarah got two B's and the rest A's and Justin one C (ouch! Tech is giving him some problems I guess), three B's and three A's. We're proud of them all. They are doing great. We pay them a dollar for every A and 0.50 for every B, so they made themsevles cash tonight! I'm surprised they didn't bug for Yu-Gi-Oh cards, or maybe they did and I didn't hear them.

Wrapping up this month's cycle of pills, so I guess I need to go to the doctor's office to get the sample of new ones she's offering me. My mood got so bad a few weeks ago, I called asking for them to switch my pills or do something for me. I wasn't sure what was causing such horrible mood swings for me. Their fear is post partum depression. We'll see. I'm not feeling as bad as I did three weeks ago, but I guess I'd have to ask hubby for the true version. *grins*

I'll be moving this blog this weekend. It's going to have a new home. Doug and I got our own domain. Partly because of the heated debate from a few weeks ago, but mostly because it is time we do it. I'm not sure why we didn't before. Chuck was a great host, never had a problem with his domain or his hospitality. We just didn't like watching some moron try to put him between a rock and a hard place over the issue at hand. Oh well, all this gives me tired head and I swore I was going to bed early and here it is 10:38. Where does the time go? Sigh.