There's no place like home…
You know I love the original, but did you know my kids did as well?
On a side note I just realized NICK HAS A LOOSE TOOTH. Sorry for shouting, but my tiny baby boy HAS A LOOSE TOOTH. I hope tomorrow he doesn’t have plans to start driving or get married.
What have we been up to? So glad you asked! Let’s see… last month I got strep throat, my first time ever! Then I gave it to Mike so that was fun. Urgent Care, antibiotics, yadda yadda yadda. Then my little brother was visiting from Florida so we put him to work renovating our bedroom! I’ll put up proper before and after pictures later but for now here’s one of the guys working:
And while things are getting done we’ve taken up residence in our dining room. Not so bad actually.
We went to Mission Days and once again I got a terrible sunburn. Every year, honestly! Will I ever learn? I took this picture for the sake of posterity but I think I’ll be submitting it to Photobomb instead.
And then of course there was the Birthday Party. Whoo! If only I was more on the ball there would have been some pictures. I’ll put the few I have on Karrmedia at the end of the month, but for now let me share the awesome (I’m a little proud of these).
And the boy got a Hot Wheels bath ramp jump water toy thing from the Grandparents (Hi Dad and Liane!) that the kids LOVE. Nick completely put it together himself and I took a video of all the muttering for two reasons:
1. The muttering is hilarious
2. I thought it would be fun to have a video of the way he talks now to compare to later in the Summer after Speech therapy. Oh yeah, that’s happening. At his evaluation he tested at the 99.7th percentile for comprehension and the 4th percentile for intelligibility. Yep.
I have to say, just in case this post has made little to no sense at all it is because I’m laying here on my couch, sweating with fever and hopped up (down) on Tylenol with Codeine. It’s strep throat again! Because I didn’t get enough of that the first time.
Oh hello there! Yes, since I removed the ads I sure do post less often but you know… life and all. I have some catching up to do, including letting you know the new pictures are up at Karrmedia for March. Here are some highlights:
We had our older model child upgraded to include hearing and clearer speech. We had to remove tonsils and adenoid, which came standard but we never cared for them. All in all I’m really happy with the addition of the ear tubes but I guess we’ll see when we get the bill 
So excited for surgery! Afterward he was heard saying “I thought I would like it but it turns out I didn’t.” At least he got to drive a little Jeep before they knocked him out.
We had a rough several days with him but he did really well and only needed Tylenol for a week. Brave little dude. In fact the worst thing was trying to give him the GOOD drugs which he hated, Tylenol with Hydrocodone. He had no idea how many people would gladly take that for him! Also: ear drops. 5 doses = $40. That was our COPAY after insurance. Crazy!
Next up we have the last big snowstorm of the season, hooray! We got about a foot of snow real quick-like so Mike took the kids out to build a snowman. It was pretty gigantic!
After it was built they got in a pretty good snowball fight — can you guess who did all the pelting of his children with wet snow? Nick took refuge up by the front door which really just made him an easy target.
The aftermath.
We came back in and had some delicious hot cocoa. It warmed up a ton and in just a few short hours things had melted so much the snowman’s head fell off.
24 Hours
48 Hours
To finish things off completely we had another snowball fight in t-shirts and 70 degree weather. Let me tell you that snow was still plenty cold, especially when I got hit in the back and it slid all the way down into my undies.
Next up is Easter. Not much to say there, pretty much all the standard festivities. However the Bunny looked FABULOUS.
I wish we had a picture of the dude bunny. He had a matching sequined VEST. We did and egg hunt and had some ultra traditional Easter pizza for dinner. Everybody does that right?
I need to be scrubbed, boiled and sterilized. Then probably also committed. Just a taste of the highlights of my afternoon:
1. Not one but BOTH of my children clogged the toilet back-to-back.
2. Not one but BOTH of those times required me jamming my bare hand in there to try to salvage things in a hurry when the overflow threatened.
3. One of those times I did not succeed and the overflow happened, resulting in more grossness on the floor, in the basement (sigh), and on several towels.
4. While I was in the basement trying to do nasty poo-water laundry the children were upstairs flinging around a jump rope and as a result, a cup of green juice.
5. Knowing I would be angry Nick fled to the upstairs and drug his sister along — in a minute you’ll know why that was a Very Bad Thing.
6. Zoey slid around in the green juice and hello Spray-and-Wash, mopping the kitchen and cabinets, and her shirt had to be put in the garbage.
So in what I consider to be an absolutely stellar moment that I will forever pride myself on, I did not beat my children, scream at them, or shout a stream of profanities that would make any sailor blush. Instead I stripped Zoey down and cleaned her up, put them both in their room, and calmly informed them that it would be in their best interest if they stayed in there for a while and were completely silent. I think calm mommy was infinitely more terrifying than raging mommy and so far, not a peep. Good thing too.
Well what I mean is please vote now, and then vote tomorrow and Friday before 5pm CST.
I entered Zoey’s picture into our local paper’s costume contest and I would be much obliged if you would help her win it! You have to register for the contest… but if we win we will get $1000! Here’s the link:
She’s pretty wicked cute if I do say so myself. My friend Stephanie made the costume — she’s Max from “Where the Wild Things Are.” Or you know, a bunny. Whatever. Too bad I couldn’t enter this picture also. We’d be a shoe-in.
