B's first trip to the ER

I spent most of the day irritated......

I have yet to figure out a schedule for having these two kids home as well as teaching Mike to use Excel over the phone......

Aside from the fact that I am now 100% positive I CANT finish one task at a time....

For example: It took everything I had on Sunday to finish 2 loads of laundry. I would put the clothes in the washer, and go get B milk, then realize the trash needed to be taken out, now Mike has a question about Excel, Wait - did I put soap in the machine? Or start it? No!

So, last night I was super excited to finish everything EARLY! I poured myself an after dinner drink, and went out to sit in the sun....B started chasing Janee up a hill and fell. And hit his head on a rock. Bad.

So, drink untouched, we were off to get his head stiched.

We got into the room and the Dr. followed quickly....she scrubbed up, and then answered her cell phone.

WTF?

So, she scrubbed up again, all the while telling me how she spent the morning in Divorce litigation afrter 2 years, ect. ect. the lawyer was expensive. Ect. Ect.

Um, not appropriete!

B's worst nightmare is being held down. he hates hugging, unless it is on his terms. He hates snuggling, unless it is on his terms...ect. And when I say hates, I mean, HATES!

So, when I had to hold him down for what the Dr said should have been 3 stitches, that didnt go so well. Jesse was holding down one side, I was holding him from the back, and the Dr. barely got one sttch in.

She decided rather than try to put anymore in and traumatize him further, she would stick the rest together with steristrips.

So, he came home with 4 steri strips, and 1 stitch.



Excuse the cookie all over his face - I guess I could have waited to clean him up before taking the picture. But I am mean like that......

TV Wall

We moved the TV to the other wall and hung it.....the wall is not completely finished because M started work. Maybe on a free weekend of his...



And all this took place in 1 year. Not your average year.

M got a job with a new company and started last Monday. To celebrate M's last weekend of being a slacker ;) we had Jennifer, Donny and little P over for a BBQ. Love to see them and gossip as always...and H had a good time teaching P how to jump.

M started work in Irvine. When he first got the job, he was told he would be doing something at UCLA....which is not exactl around hte corner from us. But a job is a job. So when he called the super to make arrangements and was told he would be working in Irvine, we were stoked!

Apparently this job is on an impossibly tight schedule..so on his first week back, he worked on a Saturday...and I am told the whole job will most likely go like this. Back to reality.

Same goes for me, who, by the way, has never been home ALL DAY with both little kids. Last time I was home alone, it was just B - now I have the two of them.

It is interesting.

I just need to figure out a schedule and teach my Brody to behave and it will be all good.

Overwhelmed with laundry...

Again - I sort of wish I had pictures of before.....but I would also like to leave it a distant memory....






Re-did the laundry room...

Got Pregnant -

Redid the kids old room - to make the new hallway to the addition......And then building Harlee's room.









Had a baby......

The Bathroom

I WISH (kind of) I had before pictures. It was reeaaaaallllly pretty.

The demo of old ugly thing attached to our house...

and the add on of our 3 new bedrooms....

What a year -

My husband is back to work after a year off. Together. Wow! And what a year it has been. The next few posts are to sum up the past year. Isn't this what most people do in a year?

The Shed.







New Power Pole and Relocation







And a special picture for Ron:

Mother's Day and some Updates

Things have been going ghetto fabulous around here as always....



Baby toys are such a rip off. Which makes me mad because how do you know ahead of time if your kid will hate it or not? But one thing that makes me most irritated are those floor mats. Seriously? $60.00? I think not...

But because my husband is a plumber......



And I can interchange the toys with ones she already has and change the length.

Mike has been working his butt off around here trying to finish up some BS before he goes back to WORK! Yes, he got a job. he goes off disability on the 15th, and starts work on the 17th. How is that for timing? He will know mroe details about where he will be working this week but it is looking like UCLA. Nice way to get thrown back into a work commute. But we will take it!

Anyway, one of the things we have been trying to get done is hanging to TV on a wall to rearrange the living room. This would create more floor space across the room which we can use for all of H's crap....like her excersaucer and other HUGE toys that take up way to much room for someone as small as she is.



So, here is what we did with some paint and a few 2 x 6's. It serves the purpose, and all the cords and wires are hidden behind the wood in the wall. Once I get the rest of the room rearranged I will post some pictures of the whole space.




My plan for letting H cry it out has been working to fabulously. The first night, she woke up at 10:45pm first. What?!?!? She hasnt done that since she was about 1 month old!! But I ignored her (not hard), she cried for about 10 minutes, then fell to sleep not to be heard from again till 5am.

Night two, she woke up 3 separate times, each time screaming VERY loudly for abotu 5 minutes each, then falling asleep...up for good at 5am.

Night 3, woke up 2 times....

Night 4 Once

Now, I dont hear a peep at all. This has been about a week so....I have semi-high hopes.

B finally sat on the potty. In clothes. And for abotu 2 seconds. But at least he sat on it rather than screaming bloody murder and crying.....I don't think we are anywhere near potty training yet...but this was a huge milestone for him...so, as promised, Mike bought him an ice cream cone.




And of course because today is mother's day - Yesterday we took a trip to the OC Marketplace....Which was not relaxing. M is always on a mission regardless of where we are...so rather than wandering around. It was like lets go here. Now there. Okay, done. In and out in 2 hours. Since we were in OC and were planning on being at my mom's house for dinner that night, we decided to drive down PCH stopping to take the ferry across balboa bay. B's first boat ride.



Baking Mother's Day cookie bars - actually eating dough....



We ended up at mommy's house for a BBQ with my old neighbors who are soon moving up north...

Nothing much going on today - Mike isn't big on Mother's day. He thinks it is a Hallmark Holiday so he told me today I should put my feet up and relax and he will do everything around the house and take care of the kids for me....I am sure, if you know Mike, you can imagine how this is turning out......Regardless, the kids picked out some flowers for me and Mike did get me a little something - and none of the kids have gotten into a fight yet, so Happy Mother's day to me!