My 2 scouts

Our Recent scout activities:

Blue and Gold Banquet! David was the first to earn the Outdoor Activity Award

The pig roast

First Place cake: Darn those Paynes!

Our cake- 2nd place -don't know why it keeps turning when I post it

Emily's cookie booth!

I'm Busy

Yup, I feel a little crazy right now and that being the case I thought I'd take a minute to blog my crankiness. Too much going on and not enough chocolate in the house equals complete mayhem! This is what I get for trying to do it all, here's my agenda this week

-->2 consignment sales, enter items, tag, hang, sort and deliver

-->girls scout cookies, sell, sort, booth sales, deliver

-->boy scout blue and gold, cake decorating contest (we came in 2nd so I'll take that)

-->girl scout activity- I'm in charge and need to plan it

-->RS activity-plan, execute

-->sick kids

-->2 school projects

-->laundry laundry laundry-we are still on a wash everything every 2-3 day schedule to rid the house of infection and it has created a monster backload

-->baseball tryouts

-->lunch with old school peeps

-->not to mention school, preschool and homework for 3 kids

Now instead of doing this I am hear blogging about it. Lovely.

My party anthem

If I were to make a playlist of "my" songs and this would be on it

An Emilyism

Today I was going through that mound of laundry that never seems to disappear. Emily and Erin were playing some make believe fairy do da. She was trying to make her room expand by adding chairs from the dining room, I don't know how that was supposed to work but more power to you. As I'm walking by putting my mammoth pile of towels away I tell her that I'm coming to her room next to clean and put away clothes and she says

E--"but mom we need a little privacy please"

Me--"that's fine"

E--"but what if we're not done with our privacy when you need to come in?"

Me--"well I'm coming in whether you are done or not"

E--"but mom (sassy hand on hip and head jerking) we need more privacy in here"

Me--"well Em, you can have privacy or clean clothes, you pick"

E--"oh mom (dramatic pause), you are so silly! (waves me away and shuts her door)"

Oh, I can't wait until she is a teenager. Boy will that be some knee slapping fun.

Parasite infection take 2

Yup, you guessed it. Another kid is struck down with the nasty of all nastiness infection. I had already treated the kids when Erin got it but somehow Eva still got it. Not sure how you get an infection you are currently on meds for but whatever. Thankfully she has minor symptoms. Guess this means it round 2 for laundryfest. Yippee!

I just read up and found out that the meds that they gave the kids are a different dosage than the ones for adults so I guess I'll be calling my doc to get rx's for CD and myself. Great. Luckily the older kids are still symptom free so I'll take that small blessing. And if it was even a question about retreating them in 2 weeks it's not anymore. Everyone will get retreated regardless.

Booyah.

Another Milestone!

On a whim I took down Eva's crib and set up the toddler bed yesterday. Normally I'm a little bit more prepared for things like that but after thinking about it I realized that I usually have moved the kids by this age anyways so I was a bit behind.

She was a bit nervous at first so I had to lay her down for her nap. She didn't actually sleep during nap time but she did stay in bed. Last night she was so excited for her bed she couldn't wait. The older kids were making a big deal out of it for her so she thought she was so cool. She stayed in bed and didn't get out one. single. time!!!!

I know, it's crazy.

She wouldn't even get out this morning until someone came to get here. I think she's scared to leave it. All I know is that is was much quieter this morning. There was no "Hey! Emily, come get me!!!"

I wish all transitions were this easy! Next step: potty training. Wish me luck. I'm gonna need it (and a grande diet coke).

Eva

Just a few cute pics of sweet Eva. She is a doll and always up for striking a pose.

sneaking off with her pizza

stuffing her face with her fav-beans and rice pose

her playtime pose

her pretty pose

her grumpy morning pose

Post op pics

Another post op post. I finally found my usb cord so I can put pics up. Last night was a good night and it looks like after Lysol-fest and some meds she is on the mend.

3DS time- her new obsession

she dressed up in her sparkly fru fru dress to make herself feel better

time at the park

Thundersnow!

Finally we got some actual winter weather. Gone are the 70 degree days in January and BAM! Here's a freak snow storm filled with thunder and lightning. Literally one second it was just a little cloudy and then whoosh, I turned around and there was a tons of wind and snow blowing like crazy. It was kinda fun :). Emily and I were at the store but we hurried home to finally break out some winter gear.

Oh Bugger!

I'm already over the year 2012 and ready to move on to greener pastures! UGH!

This month has been particularly difficult. Trouble at preschool, hernia, surgery, find a new preschool, car accident, infection from surgery blah blah blah. And to top it off I'm out of diet coke. WTH?

Erin and I spent last night in the ER fearing a post surgical infection. She does in fact have a raging, contagious, nasty of all nastiness infection but it is not a by product of her surgery but it is definitely something she picked up at the hospital. It's been a long couple of days and last night took the cake. You know it's bad when you have 5 nurses and 2 doctors tell you they have never seen anything like it. A few of her nurses even teared up seeing her in such pain. One nurse took pity on me and let me steal an extra dose of litocaine to help her out. She told me she was going to leave the room and if she came back and it was missing there was nothing she could do about it ;). Good thing I have sticky fingers and a big bag.

Erin truly suffered last night and the meds will take up to a week to fully rid her body of the infection. She gave us rx's for the other kids since they will in all likelihood get it also. The problem with that is that not only is it hard to find this medicine stocked at our local pharmacy but our insurance will only allow 1 pill per day and I either have to pay without insurance or come back each day for a dose. Luckily it wasn't $$$ to get it so I just got it all in one day so allow me a little bit of sanity.

We are spending our Saturday washing all blankets, bedding, stuffed animals, towels etc. hoping that the other kids don't get it but let's face it, someone will get it. Yippee.