the test

Tuesday we took Saige for her echocardiogram. To say it was not fun, is a huge understatement. She had the biggest, longest fit over the sticker things they wanted to put on her chest. She immediately shot up off the table, as soon as the girl peeled it back to put it on. She screamed, she cried hysterically, I think everyone in the hospital heard her. I doubt they have noise like that coming from labor and delivery let alone one little girl. I do have the loudest two children in the world.
They said if she didn't calm down we would have to reschedule. I was NOT going to reschedule. It will be a couple weeks before we hear back anyway. Rob took the day off of work and I didn't babysit. It was a 45 minute drive. Rob asked if they could just strap her down, they said no she has to be calm. Reassuring her wasn't working, and well some things in life just have to be done like it or not. A guy put the stickers on her back while she was standing and screaming, she ripped them off. They finally said they would do it without the stickers. Too late she was already hysterical. I held her down and told the girl to start so she could see it didn't hurt and we could move on. She was hesitant but she did it. I told Saige as long as she kept fighting it would never end, I was out of patience.
That seemed to work and she calmed down. 5 minutes later it was over. It only took 45 to calm her down. By the time we got to the parking lot my little angel was back asking for ice cream.

ouchies and flowers

Today was a busy day. Zailor spent the night, and the day. What a handful, not him, he is a great baby but chasing him in one direction and Rylan in the other at the same time tired me out. They both want to play on the stairs, we went to my moms and she has no baby gates up :( Zailor seems to see the stairs but he just keeps walking anyway He goes up just fine, down not so well, also thinks running towards the road or trying to jump in the ditch are no big deal, lol.

After he went home, I left the kids to play with Robby while I planted some flowers, dug up and replanted some others. My MIL gave me a bunch of plants from her flower beds. Then Robby yells Rylan's bleeding and that was the beginning of the end, lol. His poor little toe was sliced and bleeding all over the place. Saige was crying, because HIS toe was bleeding. I rinsed HIS foot off in the sink and she started screaming, he was pretty okay with it though. Then I poured some peroxide over it, she went hysterical, screeching nonstop at the top of her lungs like I was sawing off her leg. After hearing Zailor have a crying fit, I am once again convinced I have the loudest children on the planet. She didn't stop until after he had a bandaid on and I picked her up. If it hurt him he didn't let on, he was staring at her, silent the entire time. She insisted I carry her around for awhile after that, she never fully recovered, lol, she ended up having a fit and stomping up to her room, she was asleep two minutes later. I am SO glad she wasn't the one bleeding.

Robby was letting him do something that I have told him not to over and over not to do. He makes it absolutely no fun to be right. Things that I think of as common sense Robby thinks of as fun and it goes no further than that. I can't take my eyes off of them for a minute, sometimes I think I should get a babysitter for when I leave them alone together.

10 months

Rylan turned ten months old Tuesday... and I forgot, lol. Last night I realized it was the 8th, the days are getting away from me. He's a little monster, he is really fast! he has become obsessed with the stairs and wants them in the worse way. This presents a problem because we can't block them off the way they are and Rob hasn't come up with a solution yet. We have two steps and a landing before the rest of the stairs. We can gate them at the landing which is what we did with Saige, but she a month older when we built them, and she was very cautious, went up and down the two perfectly and carefully. He isn't cautious and would think nothing of launching himself backwards. Figuring that out, even if it means building a wall is on the agenda for tomorrow so I can relax and not have to use the pack and play to block off the entire corner of the room. This bugs me because I have given ideas and Rob disagrees because it wont look nice. This from the a guy who deserves a nomination for redneck of the week. (one of these days I'll get past the embarrassment factor and post some pictures, lol) We currently have like 439 projects started and abandoned by Robby, not looking all too pretty. I bitch about these all the time and how nice it would be to have one completely finished room that looks nice, but this one tiny insignificant thing sets off Robby's sense of style. We wouldn't wouldn't want to sacrifice that for the safety, he will never cease to amaze me ;) I pray everyday that at the very least, I live long enough to be assured my children are old and smart enough to survive daddy's bright ideas, lol.

Back to Rylan... He is extremely vocal (and still VERY loud) and now he "talks" constantly like he is having a conversation that only he can understand, lol. He is cruising around furniture and we are just waiting for him to take off at any moment. I'm not a hurry, he's hard enough to chase on his hands and knees or feet or combo of the two, lol. Walking is just a quick stop before running, plus thats another level of stuff for him to get into.
He finally has some hair, in the back. It's very blond but getting long and thick, I hope the rest catches up soon. He is totally a daddy's boy. He easts like a horse and prefers to do it himself. He will eat baby food but he really wants the good stuff. I'm hoping his top teeth will pop through at any moment and give us all some relief, his gums are so swollen and the drool is outrageous, lol. He likes playing with Saige's matchbox cars, he pushes them back and forth and drives them all over everything he can reach. He loves to get hugs and kisses, and he loves to give "kisses" too. Basically he opens his mouth as wide as he can and slams his face into whatever body part is closest to him and drools on you. It's adorable and if he is across the room and I say kisses he will come over and does it to my leg. Saige thinks it's hilarious but runs away every time in fear he is going to bite her, lol, he does look like he is ready to eat you.

Today I had him sitting on my lap and he was playing with the remote. I wonder if there is a limit to how many times dish network will replace them, this one is shot too :( Anyway he is pressing buttons and he keep holding it up and handing it to me. We went back and forth, then he lifted it up over his head and smiled at me before he wailed me in the face with all his might. IT HURT! I think he bruised my eye socket, it's still really sore. He thought that was the funniest damn thing he ever saw. He sat there laughing uncontrollably while I tried to wrestle it away from him, he wanted to do it again! He did manage to get it later when I was in the bathroom. I heard a crack and him start laughing, he had Saige's doll and was slamming it in the face with it. Uh oh, he is going to be a brute.

Throwing this one in here too, lol, thought it was something else.

These are Saige's "guys" as she calls them. She sleeps with all of them, well the two dolls sleep on the floor next to the bed but the other FIVE sleep with her. They all come down with her in the morning and they all go up with her at night. She has never insisted on bringing them anywhere and spend the night elsewhere without them fine just likes to "take care" of them. Two half bear, half blankets, one butt ugly piggy, one octopus, one baby alive doll. Most recently added to the line up one dog/berry thingy that smells like strawberry and one cabbage patch ice cream doll that smells like vanilla. Occasionally the furreal kitty gets dragged in the mix (not so much since her batteries ran out, lol). Seriously how many kids drag around 8 toys?

Today we got RJ moved to the basement so as of this afternoon my kids officially have their own rooms. Everyone cross your fingers that this will let us all get some sleep!

the big kid park

Sunday we went to Robin's, she lives right next to an elementary school, AND she has sidewalks, lol. We don't have those here, it's just the edge of the 55 mile an hour highway- so we we don't ride at home, it was a great chance for Saige to get a chance to ride her new bike. I had to keep giving her push as we went up the sidewalk, her tricycle she can pedal forward or backwards, on the big girl bike pedaling backwards brakes. She braked A LOT. We made it to the "big kid park" that's what she kept calling it and telling me because it was too big for baby brother and that's why he couldn't come. Most of it was too big for her too, but she had fun on the slides and the little rock climbing wall. I thought the cool swing was fun, mostly because I fit in it, too, lol.


Then she saw a little girl riding a strawberry shortcake bike and immediately wanted to ride her bike around the parking lot with her new 6 year old friend with battle wounds from falling off her bike. All of a sudden she could ride all by herself and took off following and talking to this little girl for a good 15-20 minutes non-stop. It was nice to see her talk with someone who has as much to say as does, lol. Saige fell off her bike once but got right back on without a word and listened as the girl told her all about EVERY time she has EVER fallen off her bike, while she followed in circles asking questions, lol.

Then Robby and Rylan drove the 25 feet over to pick us up to go home. I told Saige to say good bye and ride to the car. The little monster took off! She kept right on pedaling, I chased after her and told her to get back to the car, she went to the car and kept going in the opposite direction. She is growing an attitude way too fast.

Notice below, her looking one way and the bike going the other. She pays attention as well as her daddy. I don't even let her see me when she is riding her jeep around the yard, because if she does she just looks at me to see if I am paying attention then where she is going. It makes me nervous, lol, so I watch from the window and she does fine.
I swear the old barbie jeep is faster than it's suppose to be.
I can't prove it but knowing Robby it probably is.
He swears it's not but I still wouldn't put it past him. Either way that jeep cruises pretty fast and she rides it in giant circles around the yard, all day long. The battery never seems to die either, hmm. Only further convinces me that Robby has done something to "pump" it up a little. I married a redneck, lol. The other day I went out and caught the baby in the wagon hitched to her jeep and she was pulling him all around the yard. Then I had to explain WHY this was NOT a good idea. I also had to explain why it is not a good idea to let him ride in the jeep-with Saige, where there is no seatbelt for him. I can't take my eyes off any of them even for a minute.

Twice in a row

Twice in a row now I have published a post with a misspelling in the title. I haven't noticed until I see the post pop up in my yahoo. Yes I get my own blog feed- it's the easiest way to get here, no typing or looking just a click and all my favorites are right there. I never proofread, I should but... firefox kindly points out all my dyslexic typing, except in the titles. So thanks to all of you who posted a nice comment and resisted the urge to point out that I can't even spell birthday right, lol.

I was right Vista will take some getting use to, it's strange. Some parts I'm loving and some I am hating.

I got an early birthday present

My mom gave me a laptop! It's a first for me, I've wanted one forever and contemplated buying one so many times but in the end I couldn't bring myself to spend the money when I had a perfectly functioning desktop. I was about to finally do it because my computer is dying an awful death :(

I'm so excited, lol. Thanks Mom! No more being stuck in one place it's little, I can go outside, I can go hide from Robby and the kids, I can take it with me. If you saw me sitting here you would be laughing at me

It's strange, the keyboard is compressed and the mouse isn't a mouse, lol. It will take some getting use to, I am very dependent on my wheel and I keep reaching for the side. Oh and it has Vista, that's will take some getting use to also, I would happily keep XP for another 10 years. I was just getting use to it, lol. So far so good.

A bit late but....

Last Friday my mother took BOTH my kids for the night. I had 24 full hours to myself without having to take care of anyone, well mostly, she didn't take Rob, lol. It was nice, I missed them but it was nice to miss them both at the same time. I would love to be able to say I did something constructive but... I did the opposite. RJ needed a ride to go get his bike in Brewerton, when I dropped him off I had this brilliant idea that Brewterton was the other side of the lake (Oneida) and since I was headed to Rome and the roads all connected I should just keep going as opposed to turning around and coming back home THEN going to Rome it couldn't be much farther right?

I was wrong. Very, very wrong. I was much much farther away than I thought. I drove and drove, wasted gas and an entire afternoon, it was after 8 by the time I made it to Rome did some errands and got home. I can now attest that Oneida lake is just as gross and stinky on the other side. In fact the entire town of Constantia stunk unbelievably. Maybe not the whole town but I was gagging going 30 and I couldn't get away fast enough. When we were in high school, RJ and I use to walk since we lived less than a 1/2 mile down the road. If we rode the bus we were the first stop and then had a 45 min ride to get to the school we could walk to in 5 minutes. One May someone hit a deer and the town left it to rot in the field between the school and home. The smell was too much and we rode the bus for the rest of the school year. It was the same smell. I'm sure the whole town doesn't always smell and my sense of smell has greatly increased since I quit smoking but I am in no hurry to ever go back through there again. LOL

Rylan is everywhere... and fast. He walks behind his push toys, and has started cruising around the furniture. His crawling is mostly on his hands and feet. He doesn't hold still for a half a second. Changing his diaper is nearly in impossible, I have to wrestle him and he screams bloody murder at being forced to hold still for 7 tenths of a second. I dread poopy diapers because I have to wrestle and pin him down so I am not scrubbing everything. I bet my neighbors think we are torturing him. As long as he is getting his way and his teeth aren't hurting to badly he is a happy baby, but he is stubborn as all hell. His top teeth are coming in and he is not a happy baby ;( and that means he hasn't been sleeping.... again :( We are all tired. Hopefully it will be over soon, I gave him some Tylenol earlier and he was much happier, poor little guy. Hylands teething tablets seem to have NO effect on him what so ever. Tons of moms swear by them but Rylan doesn't, lol. He is 19 lbs 5 oz as of yesterday at his 9 month checkup.

Saige is 36 lbs and 39 inches, she had her 4 year checkup. This was their first visit with their new doctor. She heard a heart murmur on Saige and wants her to have an ECHO? (Ultrasound of her heart). She says it's just to be extra careful and not to worry. Why is it the very words don't worry, make you worry? I guess I am not that worried, a little but I have one and as far as I know it's not a huge deal. I know it meant I had to take an over abundance of antibiotics anytime I needed to see a dentist and being born with bad teeth genes I became immune to them over the years. Every time I need them, I have to have something stronger. Saige is excited, she remembers the ultrasound is how we saw her brother and wants to see inside her too, lol. She piped up as soon as the doctor asked if I minded her having one that she wants to see her next brother in her. I wont even start on what is wrong with that statement, lol.

Saige told me today she doesn't want to go school anymore, I told her she will have to wear shoes in order to go. She hates wearing shoes... they have to come off the second she gets in the door- socks too. She drives me nuts taking them off and putting them on a zillion times day. Playing on her jump house thingy she wants me to put them on and off five times as often. The thought of wearing them for four hours straight while at school is apparently going to take some getting use to for her.