My parents stopped by tonight to visit the kids. Saige was running around and my mother pinched her butt and told her she had little buns. So Saige stood up pointed at my moms butt and said "big buns" LMAO. We all laughed so of course she has been running around screaming big buns at my mom for the past 5 minutes. They just walked out the door and she goes, "I sure had fun with big buns"
She doesn't forget anything she will be referring to her as grammie big buns for a long time to come.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
pictures
He really likes to be in boxes, Saige likes to push him around in boxes pretending he's a car.
She lets him pull her hair, she encourages him to pull her hair. All I can say is she acts a lot like her dad, lol.
I just liked his face
Saige showing me how she will push baby brother when he is bigger, lol.
They look like their dad too, lol. Poor kid desperately needs a haircut. I've decided we should grow it out and I wont have to cut it every couple weeks, and it will give the giant chunk she chopped a chance to fill back in. With any look she will look normal by the time she starts school this fall.
Three of the four kids I actually like... most of the time :)
Jellyfishing.....
She lets him pull her hair, she encourages him to pull her hair. All I can say is she acts a lot like her dad, lol.
I just liked his face
Saige showing me how she will push baby brother when he is bigger, lol.
They look like their dad too, lol. Poor kid desperately needs a haircut. I've decided we should grow it out and I wont have to cut it every couple weeks, and it will give the giant chunk she chopped a chance to fill back in. With any look she will look normal by the time she starts school this fall.
Three of the four kids I actually like... most of the time :)
Jellyfishing.....
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Do I always have to have a title?
I can't think of one at the moment. Maybe a little bit of everything?
Rylan is moving much quicker and keeping me on my toes, lol. He mostly follows Saige to try to get whatever she has. I can't blame him, for months he was stuck sitting there while she ripped things out of his hands, now it's time to retaliate. Saige wont touch a toy for months but the second Rylan shows any interest she has to play with it RIGHT THEN. I think he is trying to say his first word Bye bye. At first I thought he was just babbling, but when he waves he clearly say baba every time. He has progressed to waving byebye with both hands while screaming bababababa. He looks at one hand and then the other waving and gets all excited looking back and forth between them. His pulling up is driving me nuts though. He still bypasses his knees. He pulls himself straight to his feet (always at an angle) and the cries or falls over. The way he pulls himself up is resulting in a lot of banging his face or falling sideways which scares the crap out him. Of course then I have to laugh at him and that makes him cry harder. I know I'm mean but I can't help it.
We (Saige) has a mini trampoline and I let her bounce in the house. It doesn't have much give, she gets no higher than bouncing on the floor, it's just quieter, lol. A few days ago it was on the floor and she came into the room talking. Rob and I were sitting here watching her as she walked across it yapping the whole time, paying no attention and walked right straight off the other side face first into the floor. She was STILL talking until she hit the floor. She wasn't hurt but it was hilarious, she started crying when we laughed at her. I wish I had it on video it was the highlight of the week. I would have sent that one to AFV, totally priceless. The girl NEVER stops talking, I see lots of trouble headed her way in school.
Yard work is really coming along... it's been SO nice this week, but they say it will be snowing this weekend :( Makes me want to cry I don't want to see anymore snow for months and months, I wouldn't complain for a long time if it never came back again. I don't dare say never I'm sure I would miss it eventually for a second or two. I love fresh snow, it's so pretty but it doesn't last it turns yucky and brown so fast.
We live where they throw sand on 4 inches in the road and them plow when there is nothing there, sparks flying. Then they complain they have to repair the roads all summer long.... it's always nice to see our tax dollar at work. Whoever said NY has four seasons winter, winter, winter and construction hit that one right on the head. I can't help but think if they used half a brain when caring for the roads how much more money there would be for other projects, and how many less road rage as a result of sitting in your car trying to get through the construction. Seriously, I live on a state road, we have lived here for three years, for three years I have watched them repave the same road in the same sections every summer. The traffic sits and sits in front of my house throwing garbage out their windows, cigarettes in the dry parched grass. People are idiots, but it's not their lawn so who cares right? And it's always the same there are 12 guys, all well paid by the state. 11 are standing around scratching themselves while one maybe two actually do something. I should apply great benefits and I would get to do far less than I do chasing around a couple kids all day.
I got a postcard the other day from the post office telling me they were sorry I wasn't home and I had a certified letter. I was home... I am always home, I waved to her from the yard that day. I put it off thinking it was nothing and finally had Rob go get it, it was obvious the mail lady wasn't getting her butt out of the car to deliver. It actually was important. Our doctor quit.
A few months ago while we were at an appointment for Rob and had the kids with us, the new guy at the practice introduced himself, said he would love to see our kids. Oneida pediatrics where we went to before was great- the billing office was anything but. Three woman and all completely incompetent. I spent hours and hours after every visit fighting over insurance... going back and forth between BCBS, the drs office, and occasionally the hospital. EVERY VISIT and hospital (lab) bill that came as a result of them. I should add afterwards I never had a problem again... never had one anywhere but there, and over the years there have been visits all over the place. Why these women have a job is beyond me, they obviously don't do it.
Anyway... we switched the kids to a family doctor, and we ourselves switched to him (same place, same nurses that Rob and I have been going since we were kids) Saige loves the guy, and I liked him a lot too. Most importantly he spoke great clear English... I am not saying anything bad but I like to completely understand my doctor when he says something. He is leaving :( After all that the letter was telling us we need to find a new dr. well Rob and I don't but the kids do. They referred us back where we came from, not surprising pediatricians aren't overly abundant here. So I called them and they were so rude. Whoever I talked to was like you were obviously unhappy if you left I had forgotten all about and just like that I remembered the bills. She said she would call back and let me know if they would allow us back. I hung up the phone and decided to go further away.
I found a place in Rome, it's a much farther drive but they seem great and I have heard great things, so I have my fingers crossed. Saige was absolutely heartbroken when I told her she yet again has a new doctor. She wants Dr O'brien and say we can go where he goes, lol. I told her I didn't know where he was going and she cried. Really cried, moaning how she will never see him again and she is just SO SAD. I knew she liked him, didn't realize she liked him that much, I feel bad. She didn't care for her old ped. I am not sure why, I think he sacred her and he had a thick accent (I was constantly asking the nurse to repeat him so I was sure about what he said), but she did like Rylan's who was a woman... so I made sure we got another female doctor this, and hopefully, last time around.
Rylan is moving much quicker and keeping me on my toes, lol. He mostly follows Saige to try to get whatever she has. I can't blame him, for months he was stuck sitting there while she ripped things out of his hands, now it's time to retaliate. Saige wont touch a toy for months but the second Rylan shows any interest she has to play with it RIGHT THEN. I think he is trying to say his first word Bye bye. At first I thought he was just babbling, but when he waves he clearly say baba every time. He has progressed to waving byebye with both hands while screaming bababababa. He looks at one hand and then the other waving and gets all excited looking back and forth between them. His pulling up is driving me nuts though. He still bypasses his knees. He pulls himself straight to his feet (always at an angle) and the cries or falls over. The way he pulls himself up is resulting in a lot of banging his face or falling sideways which scares the crap out him. Of course then I have to laugh at him and that makes him cry harder. I know I'm mean but I can't help it.
We (Saige) has a mini trampoline and I let her bounce in the house. It doesn't have much give, she gets no higher than bouncing on the floor, it's just quieter, lol. A few days ago it was on the floor and she came into the room talking. Rob and I were sitting here watching her as she walked across it yapping the whole time, paying no attention and walked right straight off the other side face first into the floor. She was STILL talking until she hit the floor. She wasn't hurt but it was hilarious, she started crying when we laughed at her. I wish I had it on video it was the highlight of the week. I would have sent that one to AFV, totally priceless. The girl NEVER stops talking, I see lots of trouble headed her way in school.
Yard work is really coming along... it's been SO nice this week, but they say it will be snowing this weekend :( Makes me want to cry I don't want to see anymore snow for months and months, I wouldn't complain for a long time if it never came back again. I don't dare say never I'm sure I would miss it eventually for a second or two. I love fresh snow, it's so pretty but it doesn't last it turns yucky and brown so fast.
We live where they throw sand on 4 inches in the road and them plow when there is nothing there, sparks flying. Then they complain they have to repair the roads all summer long.... it's always nice to see our tax dollar at work. Whoever said NY has four seasons winter, winter, winter and construction hit that one right on the head. I can't help but think if they used half a brain when caring for the roads how much more money there would be for other projects, and how many less road rage as a result of sitting in your car trying to get through the construction. Seriously, I live on a state road, we have lived here for three years, for three years I have watched them repave the same road in the same sections every summer. The traffic sits and sits in front of my house throwing garbage out their windows, cigarettes in the dry parched grass. People are idiots, but it's not their lawn so who cares right? And it's always the same there are 12 guys, all well paid by the state. 11 are standing around scratching themselves while one maybe two actually do something. I should apply great benefits and I would get to do far less than I do chasing around a couple kids all day.
I got a postcard the other day from the post office telling me they were sorry I wasn't home and I had a certified letter. I was home... I am always home, I waved to her from the yard that day. I put it off thinking it was nothing and finally had Rob go get it, it was obvious the mail lady wasn't getting her butt out of the car to deliver. It actually was important. Our doctor quit.
A few months ago while we were at an appointment for Rob and had the kids with us, the new guy at the practice introduced himself, said he would love to see our kids. Oneida pediatrics where we went to before was great- the billing office was anything but. Three woman and all completely incompetent. I spent hours and hours after every visit fighting over insurance... going back and forth between BCBS, the drs office, and occasionally the hospital. EVERY VISIT and hospital (lab) bill that came as a result of them. I should add afterwards I never had a problem again... never had one anywhere but there, and over the years there have been visits all over the place. Why these women have a job is beyond me, they obviously don't do it.
Anyway... we switched the kids to a family doctor, and we ourselves switched to him (same place, same nurses that Rob and I have been going since we were kids) Saige loves the guy, and I liked him a lot too. Most importantly he spoke great clear English... I am not saying anything bad but I like to completely understand my doctor when he says something. He is leaving :( After all that the letter was telling us we need to find a new dr. well Rob and I don't but the kids do. They referred us back where we came from, not surprising pediatricians aren't overly abundant here. So I called them and they were so rude. Whoever I talked to was like you were obviously unhappy if you left I had forgotten all about and just like that I remembered the bills. She said she would call back and let me know if they would allow us back. I hung up the phone and decided to go further away.
I found a place in Rome, it's a much farther drive but they seem great and I have heard great things, so I have my fingers crossed. Saige was absolutely heartbroken when I told her she yet again has a new doctor. She wants Dr O'brien and say we can go where he goes, lol. I told her I didn't know where he was going and she cried. Really cried, moaning how she will never see him again and she is just SO SAD. I knew she liked him, didn't realize she liked him that much, I feel bad. She didn't care for her old ped. I am not sure why, I think he sacred her and he had a thick accent (I was constantly asking the nurse to repeat him so I was sure about what he said), but she did like Rylan's who was a woman... so I made sure we got another female doctor this, and hopefully, last time around.
Monday, April 7, 2008
9 MONTHS
I think spring has finally arrived, and we've been outside, I want to enjoy every bit of it before it gets too hot. Those seasons of nasty heat and nasty cold seem WAY longer than those great in between times. I was playing with my camera trying to figure out what the 8000 functions do, messed it up and forgot all about it, I'll add pictures later. I try to take a ton because there are literally thousands of Saige her first year and I'm trying to be fair, lol. At least this time we got smart and used digital, I bet I've saved hundreds in black, blurry prints. The ones you see here are my better ones (I know I suck ,lol) and there are thousands far worse than those, that some day I will just delete. I thought maybe if I played with the settings.... I really should avoid "fixing" or "adjusting" all things electronic.
Rylan turned 9 months yesterday. It's hard to believe he has been here as long as he was in there, lol. It came with a couple surprises too! We found him sitting in his crib, that was a first. He has mastered how to go from laying to sitting. That is going to make my life so much easier! He is saying mama mama mama a lot. I don't think he knows what it means, both me and daddy seem to be mama but it's a start. Just a few minutes ago RJ walked out the door and he sat there going babababa and waving at the door. He's moving faster by the day, and now has starting schooching around on his butt everywhere. I prefer that, on his belly he spends far too much time picking things naked to any other human eye out of the freshly vacuumed carpet to put in his mouth. I love this stage, moving and sitting he can entertain himself for a few minutes at a time and I don't have to hold him or sit him up every 30 seconds and much less crying. We less crying until next week when he starts crying in frustration until he's walking, lol.
The downside, I am going to have to baby proof. So far this morning he has managed to unscrew and attempt to eat the handles off my entertainment center, break my plant, and tip the lego wagon over four time pulling himself up it, climbing is bound to happen in the very near future. He likes being outside, so far he has been content to sit in the wagon for hours on end out there. The ground is still too wet to let him play, and I want to get some yard work done before I commit to spend the summer prying bugs, dirt, and rocks out of his mouth.
Rylan turned 9 months yesterday. It's hard to believe he has been here as long as he was in there, lol. It came with a couple surprises too! We found him sitting in his crib, that was a first. He has mastered how to go from laying to sitting. That is going to make my life so much easier! He is saying mama mama mama a lot. I don't think he knows what it means, both me and daddy seem to be mama but it's a start. Just a few minutes ago RJ walked out the door and he sat there going babababa and waving at the door. He's moving faster by the day, and now has starting schooching around on his butt everywhere. I prefer that, on his belly he spends far too much time picking things naked to any other human eye out of the freshly vacuumed carpet to put in his mouth. I love this stage, moving and sitting he can entertain himself for a few minutes at a time and I don't have to hold him or sit him up every 30 seconds and much less crying. We less crying until next week when he starts crying in frustration until he's walking, lol.
The downside, I am going to have to baby proof. So far this morning he has managed to unscrew and attempt to eat the handles off my entertainment center, break my plant, and tip the lego wagon over four time pulling himself up it, climbing is bound to happen in the very near future. He likes being outside, so far he has been content to sit in the wagon for hours on end out there. The ground is still too wet to let him play, and I want to get some yard work done before I commit to spend the summer prying bugs, dirt, and rocks out of his mouth.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Checkers
It's been a rough couple days. I think (I hope) Rylan is getting another tooth. He has been SOOO miserable, crying and whining for days. Prying my glasses out of his hand led to a 45 minute screaming fest. He has stopped sleeping, quick little naps for 5-10 minutes. Up until a few days ago he was napping for an hour or two at a time and it was much much nicer around here, lol. I hope it hurries up, teething tablets are doing NOTHING for him :(
I took Saige with me to the dentist Thursday, we were sitting in the filled waiting room. A black man wearing a red hoodie walked in and Saige says mommy look what colors he is, he's black! I wasn't sure what the big deal was, half of the people in there were. I said so? She goes "but he's wearing red like a checker board!" everyone though that was pretty funny. I was a bit nervous she was going to say something about the heavy woman sitting next to us in orange....
She is so much fun and such a good kid. With her help I managed to get an hour worth of raking and happiness from Rylan in, at this rate I'll be done raking in July, lol. She pulled her brother around the yard for over an hour in her wagon. He didn't cry, not even once. I only had to yank him out out a couple soggy spots when she couldn't pull. She pulled him over to the swing set and showed him how she slides, and swings. She explained it the entire way.
"First you sit, then you use your feet to push and then you go like this and that makes you move back and forth like this. First you climb the ladder, like this with your hands here. Then you sit like this, but don't fall off mom says she will be mad, and then you go like this and do it again."
Rylan clapped and waved (his new trick) at her, strapped in the wagon the whole time. My kid who hates to be strapped anywhere. She showed him the trees, and the driveway, and where the flowers will be, where the strawberries and poker berries are (raspberries, the thorns poke, lol) He loved every second of it. He didn't like the wagon when I was pulling them, he cried. Sometimes I swear the boy just doesn't like anyone but her.
I took Saige with me to the dentist Thursday, we were sitting in the filled waiting room. A black man wearing a red hoodie walked in and Saige says mommy look what colors he is, he's black! I wasn't sure what the big deal was, half of the people in there were. I said so? She goes "but he's wearing red like a checker board!" everyone though that was pretty funny. I was a bit nervous she was going to say something about the heavy woman sitting next to us in orange....
She is so much fun and such a good kid. With her help I managed to get an hour worth of raking and happiness from Rylan in, at this rate I'll be done raking in July, lol. She pulled her brother around the yard for over an hour in her wagon. He didn't cry, not even once. I only had to yank him out out a couple soggy spots when she couldn't pull. She pulled him over to the swing set and showed him how she slides, and swings. She explained it the entire way.
"First you sit, then you use your feet to push and then you go like this and that makes you move back and forth like this. First you climb the ladder, like this with your hands here. Then you sit like this, but don't fall off mom says she will be mad, and then you go like this and do it again."
Rylan clapped and waved (his new trick) at her, strapped in the wagon the whole time. My kid who hates to be strapped anywhere. She showed him the trees, and the driveway, and where the flowers will be, where the strawberries and poker berries are (raspberries, the thorns poke, lol) He loved every second of it. He didn't like the wagon when I was pulling them, he cried. Sometimes I swear the boy just doesn't like anyone but her.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Camping in the city
It was so warm out today! We mostly stayed in, it rained on and off and I did NOT want to deal with the mud... and mud about sums up the driveway and yard right now. I opened all the windows and turned off the heat. It was SO nice to get some fresh air in here. It's suppose to be cold again for at least the next week though ;( It was a nice start to April but makes me want nice weather even more, I'm anxious to start the garden and clean up the yard. With Rylan I figure it will take all summer to get all the sticks picked up and the leaves raked enough to mow, lol.
Saige and I went to the store, on the way there we passed a cemetery. She got all excited "I wanna go there and camp at that city" huh? what city? she was pointing at the grave stones. Obviously I need to teach her what a city is, lol. I told her it wasn't a city, that thats where people are buried when they die. She said "oh like their bones when their brains go to god?" I said yes. I'm not quite sure how to explain that to a three year old and that sounded good, lol. "Even boys like Patrick that not use their brains to be smart?" I can only assume she is talking about SpongeBob, well at least she knows he's an idiot. So I tell her yes even people who aren't real and don't use their brains. "Cause everyone has a brain even if they are dumb and it'sonly this big(holding up her fingers together)" True but I have no idea where she gets this stuff.
She contemplated that for a few moments and then asks "Is that where we will bury Dekan?" Dekan is our very old dog, "cause he's gonna die because he is old like my fishy was, and my fishy died. Did daddy bury my goldfish there?" I told her we will bury Dekan in the yard but not to worry about it, he's still kicking around. I said nothing on the goldfish, I did not want to explain that the goldfish got a septic burial. "Will he grow a city in the yard? Like those dead people back there?" No cities aren't grown they are built and that wasn't a city they were stones.
Thankfully we got to the store and that conversation ended. She did tell me she doesn't want to camp there anymore when we got home. But, then it was forgotten. We did spend a few minutes before bed looking at pictures of cities, lol. All she cared about was why they didn't have cows and barns there. Oh and she doesn't want to camp there either.
Saige and I went to the store, on the way there we passed a cemetery. She got all excited "I wanna go there and camp at that city" huh? what city? she was pointing at the grave stones. Obviously I need to teach her what a city is, lol. I told her it wasn't a city, that thats where people are buried when they die. She said "oh like their bones when their brains go to god?" I said yes. I'm not quite sure how to explain that to a three year old and that sounded good, lol. "Even boys like Patrick that not use their brains to be smart?" I can only assume she is talking about SpongeBob, well at least she knows he's an idiot. So I tell her yes even people who aren't real and don't use their brains. "Cause everyone has a brain even if they are dumb and it'sonly this big(holding up her fingers together)" True but I have no idea where she gets this stuff.
She contemplated that for a few moments and then asks "Is that where we will bury Dekan?" Dekan is our very old dog, "cause he's gonna die because he is old like my fishy was, and my fishy died. Did daddy bury my goldfish there?" I told her we will bury Dekan in the yard but not to worry about it, he's still kicking around. I said nothing on the goldfish, I did not want to explain that the goldfish got a septic burial. "Will he grow a city in the yard? Like those dead people back there?" No cities aren't grown they are built and that wasn't a city they were stones.
Thankfully we got to the store and that conversation ended. She did tell me she doesn't want to camp there anymore when we got home. But, then it was forgotten. We did spend a few minutes before bed looking at pictures of cities, lol. All she cared about was why they didn't have cows and barns there. Oh and she doesn't want to camp there either.
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