Friday... so far.

This morning we went to WallyWorld. Fun times. Needed new air filters for the house... some bread, Goldfish... the important things. My kids were good. S rode in the cart while Ike stayed with me and walked along side. Mags slept in her seat. No problems.

The we went to the post office to mail a package to our new nephew. I sat in the car for a good 2 minutes staring at the building trying to decide if I really wanted to attempt it. See, post offices and I/or my children don't mix. I don't know what it is about walking in a post office that sets them off. Ike, usually my sweetest child, immediately grows six inches, turns green and rips off his shirt. *sigh*

And I can't seem to walk in one without the PO workers getting after my kids. We'd been in the door maybe... MAYBE five seconds when they immediately began swinging on the chain. I was trying to tell them to stop and come over to me, "Look! See! Mommy has M&Ms. Come." And the postal (teehee) lady starts in on them. I turned to her and said, "I got this!".

Gheez, lady. Back off.

I got this.

And I did... have it, that is. Yes, someone was still in tears when we left, a normal occurence, but at least I finally got that package mailed...

And what's up with people driving the wrong way down the Walmart parking lanes?! Ugh HEllooooo...

*in a snotty mood*

*need a cookie*

A Rant... for venting purposes...

SO. We've lived in this neighborhood for over a year, it was a year in March. They've NEVER had any issues with us. Ever. ever. The girl that works in the office just moved in next door. With her family. They have the two boxers that live in the garage. (see photo below)

Enter SamBam. Since the dogs have been poking their heads out everyday, S has taken to sneaking out to see the "funny doogies." Yes, I spelled that phonetically according to S. Anyhow, I can't keep this kid in. Our front door is not viewable from the living room, it's down a hall, and he can open the locks. Just Saturday afternoon I placed N's bike, the double stroller, a chair, and giant heavy blanket, AND the baby gate in front of the door just so we could watch a movie and not have to worry about him sneaking out...

The neighbor has been complaining to us about S. He "needs to leave the dogs alone or they'll bite him." First of all, if they were going to, they would have already. Second, boxers can actually be quite gentle (my mom had a few), and third, fix your dang HOLE!

So S sneaks out Sunday morning and draws on their front door with chalk. Okay, my bad. First time he's done that. Sorry. We go over with soapy water and clean their door. Monday, N puts a chain on the door. The end of S sneaking out. Hasn't been able to all week, except the one day when we were potty training but I was right behind him and I caught him on the drive way in the nude trying to escape. He wasn't near their house. Anyways...

Today we get a letter on our door saying that if our child continues to go unrestrained (!) and continues to cause damage to others' property, we'll be fined or evicted.

E-FREAKING-VICTED!

And we can't do anything about it, cause she works in the freaking office. UGH.

N went over and talked to the hubby, who seemed to not know anything about it, and said, basically, look, we cleaned your door after you said he did that. If you have a problem, we'd really rather you came and talked to us about it... etc etc.

Like I said, the dude acted like he didn't know anything about it.

SHE's A BEAST. I'd use a stronger word, but there may be young ones reading... The day I called her at the office and told her that her dogs had chewed through the vent and I was worried they might cut themselves, her response to me was, "Oh, those jacka$$ s***heads!" Okay. Classy.

I was SO upset about this letter though. He's three for crying out loud and I try TRY to watch him, but what if I have to PEE!!!! I have a baby, who I occasionally have to put down for a nap!!! And we did just get a chain on the door and he hasn't been out there all week!!!!!

Everytime we go out there and she's out there she gives him the evil eye. SORRY. My kids LIKE to play outside!!!

I need to move. I need a house. I need people who are charitable...

Oh yeah, and the pediatrician is having him tested by a developmental behavioral - ist... doctor... person... (mildly autistic? Maybe... but I don't think so, but it'll be good to have him tested anyhow... I know he has speech language issues and I need to call the school about that tomorrow.......) *sigh*

Pictures!

My wild man helping momma sweep while potty training... and with the "funny" dogs!


End of year pack meeting and a cute baby.



And a few of Mags and her silly brother!






Weirdo. ;-)

The day after my Birthday and Mother's Day. Nice.

Pics from David's bday party!

Of Betas, Bare Bums, and Baseball...

Okay, once a month, not too bad. Could be worse... Let's see. D had Field Day this month. Daddy went and played with him. A good time was had by all. No pictures. Naughty daddy.

We celebrated D's bday earlier this month. We rented a bounce house from the MWR on post. It was pretty cheap and we've never gotten one before. We had to put it in the field across the street cause, obviously, we have no yard. We had about 20 kids come and play. It was a Doctor Who themed party, complete with homemade TARDIS pinata and TARDIS cake. We are geeks. No question. Pictures below! He used his bday moola to buy a fish, a beta he named Rowley. *eyeroll* :D

Mother's Day was the next day and I was spoiled with cinnamon rolls brought to me in bed, flowers, some fun kitchen tools, and brats for dinner. YUM! For my birthday I just hung out and then went to get a pedi with a friend and bought some KFC for dinner and a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake. YUM! That was nice! :)

We've been working on potty training Sammy. I kept putting it off. I knew he'd do it when he was ready. And he's ready! He would scream everytime we went near the potty until a few days ago when he was getting in the tub. He saw his brothers going and decided to give it a try. He's been doing it at bath time everyday until yesterday when we decided it was time to go hardcore. He spent yesterday naked and today has only had one accident. He's doing really well!

Our next door neighbors have two boxers. They keep them locked up in the garage ... all day. The dogs have chewed through the dryer vents in the garage and they poke their heads out all day. At first I was worried they were gonna cut themselves, but the owners don't seem to care. Hmm. So everytime we go outside these two heads poke out of the wall. It's quite hilarious actually... Maybe I'll go take a picture...

Anyhow, Sammy loves the heads. "Funny Doggies!" he says. He's tried to water them with the hose. They've told me to make him leave them alone several times. Thanks to those silly dogs, Sammy has lately taken to escaping out the front door, just to see them, and we had to put a chain on the door. He even escaped yesterday when the chain was off, in the nude, cause we were potty training.


Baseball... where do I begin?! I am really glad we signed D up for BBall this year. It was a good learning experience, he made some good friends, and it was fun. Our team finished at 10 wins-6 losses. We played our first tournament game on friday night. We lost. The other team creamed us. But they were one of the better teams. We were probably second or third to them. We got done at 9:00 friday night and had our next tourny game on saturday morning at 8:30! We got there on time, all of our players were there, but the other team was missing people. The coaches from that team stalled, because their team was short and they'd have to forfeit. The sprinklers had come on and so the fields were a bit wet. They stalled stating the fields were unplayable for AN HOUR while the ref tried to figure out what to do. He had us switch to a different field and they put sand down on the wet spots. They still had to move the bases up 10 feet to get them out of the mud. We just wanted to play some ball! At this point, the other team was still short a player. They should have been a forfeit. The game should have not been played, but the coach dressed up a team sibling in someone's spare jersey and the ump wasn't listening to our coach and their first baseman was taunting our batters (not allowed in rookie division!!!... or anywhere!!!) and the beat us by one. Our coach felt bad about the whole thing and felt that if we protested it'd just be because we lost, but his wife went ahead and contested the game and some of the other teams parents admitted that it should have been a forfeit and their coach lied. UGH! If she had taken it up within 24 hours, we'd still be playing in the tourny but as it is we're out because of that game. Double elimination. TOTAL BUMMER. ARGH. I hate cheaters...

Anyhow, the Mags is screaming and I need to make dinner. I'll update more later, with pictures!

An update in pictures!!!

My Ike Ike
S wants to play baseball so bad! Here he is in D's uniform! :D
Beautiful Mags (This is the dress I bought for her as a gift from Aunt Sue.)


Cute boogar nose!!!
Race for the Cure, downtown San Antonio, May 1st 2010. Maggie was exhausted afterwards!! :D
Ready to go! We were both so tired! It had been a late night!!

Update? Not quite...

So I haven't blogged in awhile. I wonder why...

Oh yeah... I have four kids.

And one of them is named Sammy.

*sigh*

Ok... have to go feed the bebe.... while Sammy is sleeping....

Health and Healthcare

Yeah, on second thought, maybe I won't go there.

Heehee!!

Actually...

The past few weeks have been very ... laundry-full. About two weeks ago S got a cough. It went away and almost the very same day, he started throwing up... four-five days of fever, vomitting, diarrhea, miserableness. Then it stopped (although the diapers are still kinda gross), and he got a rash. Started out raised and red and looked like Roseola (that's basically a rash that can develop after a high fever). Called the pediatrician this last monday about it and they said it sounded like Roseola. Ok. So I took D in that day cause he'd had a fever virus thingy for about 2-3 days. They tested him for strep and it came back negative. That night, Ike began throwing up with a fever and diarrhea. That lasted till Wednesday, when Isaac threw up all over the dinner table. That was fun. But that was the last time he got sick and has been acting normal since. D's fever went away on Tuesday (Yay!), but S still has the rash. It's not red anymore, hasn't been since Tuesday morning/Monday night, but he still has really leathery skin covered in little bumps. He acts like he feels fine, aside from the itching. So I took him to the doctor today. He said it was probably scarlatina... in other words... Scarlet Fever. Don't people die from this? :D No, apparently not. Thank goodness for modern medicine! The -tina on the end of scarlatina, however, means that it's an acute form of the scarlet fever. He'll be fine and is acting like his normal self and is no longer contagious. He just looks weird. :D I can't wait till he starts peeling... hmm.

That's all. My update for the week.

Oh yeah, I'll add some pictures...

Mags loves her saucer... so much so that it puts her to sleep (these are pictures taken two days in a row...) AND... for my mom's birthday, I bought some helium balloons and we let (one of them) go for her/ "to" her. Isaac cried and did NOT want to let his go. We had been talking about how it was Granni's birthday and we were gonna have brownies and let our balloons go for her. I think the idea of letting it go was too hard. Actually, seeing that balloon flying away was kinda hard for me too...

A while....

it has been! This post is mostly gonna consist of pictures. We have a lot going on right now. March has been busy like February, though not quite so much. Just busy in a different way. N has had a lot going on with school (lots of papers) and work (don't get me started). We've had a few illnesses... tummy flus and colds.

That's about it.

Oh, and D started baseball. I have some pictures but they're still on the camera and N has it with him.... he took D down to Corpus Christi with the cub scouts for a special trip. They are spending the night on the USS Lexington (very cool)!! When he gets home I need to upload a few more pics! :)

But for now, here's a few...



First, my little man turned three this month!!! Even just in the last few weeks, I can see he is looking more and more like a little boy and less a baby!


My sweet girl is becoming quite social! Very talkative... ticklish...smiley! So sweet!!!




I love this picture! The look on D's face...!!!! He is such a good big brother and I know they will be close. She always cheers up for him!



Well, it's late and I should get to bed!

February

... has been really busy so far. Just this weekend was enough to make me not wanna get out of bed! I can't even remember all that we had going on... it was a blur! Ok, I do remember cake. Lots and LOTS of cake. And sewing... no, not by me. And stuff. Lots of stuff.

Um, I ramble.

Anyhow. Here's some pics of what we've been up to. :)

We went to the Rodeo, which was very fun. We went in Houston a few years back, but I daresay this was more fun... despite my hormonal breakdown... *sigh*

The boys got real cowboy hats... so they had to strut their stuff! :)



It was very fun. The weather here has been so screwy though. It got hot in the middle of the day and by 6 that evening we were freezing. Crazy.



Her first rodeo. :)



And Mags was blessed. Daddy made her dress.





By the end, she'd had enough! :)

We also had D's Blue and Gold Banquet for Cub scouts. These are just 3 of the cakes I made for it (there were five).



They did the Wolf Skit and D pretended to pass out after smelling Den Leader (Daddy)'s socks. :) (Performing... It's in his blood!) He got his Wolf badge and won some books for the door prize.