Saige's first pet

Saige got her very first furry pet today. Our favorite fat goldfish died Sunday and Robby and I discussed getting Saige "her" first pet of the four legged variety. I wanted to get her a rat, they are clean , smart, and friendly, they make terrific pets. Robby said a guinea pig... well I believe his exact words were how about a hamster like the wonder pets (which by the way is definatly a guinea pig- not a hamster). He came with the name Hairball but I told Saige she could name him anything she wanted, she said I want to name him House. So here is her rodent House.
This is big, for her to pick a name that is. Everything so far has been named exactly what it is, her blankie is blankie, piggy is piggy, dolls are all named dolly, even the fish are named fishies. So I was thrilled to call him anything other than guinea pig. He likes to be petted and she happily did so ALL day long.

I figure I might as well add the rest of zoo: here's Nala, she reminds me of Lenny from Of Mice and Men... she is sweet as can be but she is big, and well, she's pretty dumb too, but we love her anyway.

This is Dekan, he's my first baby, I got when I was 13, he was so tiny and now he's so old he just lays around all day. Despite the funky looking eyes- they are not evil. This is Boo aka: Satan with fur. I think she may be the worlds smallest cat but despite being tiny she is throughly evil. Enough said.

pics

Saige, Kayden, and aunt Rose at the pumpkin farm. Halloweens is getting closer- I can't wait!!!

Saige insisted I take her picture with the biggest scarecrow in the whole world, lol.
Not much new with Rylan, I swear he gets cuter everyday, and it's starting to look like he's getting some hair.

Mom? Can you hear me? Mom?

Growing up I remember trying to get my mothers attention while she was doing something else. Repeating mom? mom? mom? until she finally turned from the tv to scream WHAT? I'm starting to understand that. Saige is a marathon talker, in fact from the moment she wakes up until she is asleep again her mouth is going non-stop. Now, I try to answer her as much as possible and pay attention to her but lets face it, I just don't have the time in the day to listen to EVERYTHING.

She will repeat herself over and over- even after I have answered. For example if she asks for ice cream and I say no, she will continue to ask for ice cream over and over. This works with dad- not me, she hasn't figured that out yet and still continues to ask over and over. Although even if I say yes that doesn't guarantee the repeated questions are going to end, and if they do she just moves on to a new ?. I'm ready to invest in some high quality earplugs. So I ignore her after the first time and finally I get mom? can you hear me? Of course I can hear you- did you not hear me say NO? I'm at a loss on how to deal with this short of continuing to ignore until I get so annoyed that I scream WHAT or NO or whatever else is applicable to the situation. I think it's her master plan to give mommy a nervous breakdown.

I have developed a couple plans- no solutions but some temporary silence. #1 I lock myself in the bathroom and turn on the tub so the water is all I can hear for a couple mins (of course this only works when the baby is napping) #2 when I get lucky and Robby is outside working on something or another, I simply say hey I think daddy needs your help! (this is my favorite but Robby is gone 8 hours out of her day). #3 Pennies. Yup pennies, she loves to put money in her piggy bank so I give her ONE penny at a time so she has to go up the stairs to her room to the piggy bank and I get approx. 3 seconds of quiet. This I thought was ingenious however we are running out of piggy banks, she has four full ones and I have to wait until she is gone to remove the pennies to start over. I can't take all the pennies, she would notice so I take a few at a time (note to self- buy yet another piggy bank). I think the lady at the store thinks I'm insane when I ask for rolls of pennies every time I go in. #4 (this one doesn't work so well in 4 feet of snow, though) I have her do yard "work" or races, this means I have her go to the farthest length of the yard either to find sticks, bugs, leaves, or whatever and bring them back... then race back as fast as she can to find another.

That's it, I am not a creative person and it's the best I can come up with. So if anyone reads this, and, has any ideas to help my sanity, by all means please share. LOL Now I must go, in the two minute sit took to type all this she has been in the bathroom saying "mom don't come in here" over and over. Now it's mom, mom, mom, ( I don't even get to open my mouth to answer) can I stay in here? Strange child- the bathroom is MY hideout.

3 months

Rylan is 3 months old today, I can't believe how fast it's gone by. The top pictures are him today and the bottom ones are Saige at 3 months.
He's been rolling all day long and grabbing for his toys , he is actually getting them and pulling them to his mouth now.

Saige's new habit is "whatever". It is her response to everything, I am not sure where that one came from.

me: Saige are you hungry?

Saige: (sigh) Whatever I want peanut butter and jelly.

me: Saige stop torturing the dogs.. they do not want to be princesses

Saige: Whatever, I don't want to.

me: Saige do you know what whatever means?

Saige: Whatever, it means I want to go to the park, oh and it means you should give me cookies.

odds and ends

I took Saige to the doctors today, she has been complaining that her throat hurts- but only at night, other than that she's been fine. I kept blowing her off because she only complained when she was tired and cranky. The dr says it's allergies (I have so many, I don't know why it never occurred to me before) and gave her Claritin. Now, I have a strange child, she will beg for medicine, I have never battled her in that dept. and have a rougher time trying to convince her that she can NOT have as much as she wants. Sure enough I gave her her first dose and put her to bed and she came back down twice fake coughing telling me she is so so sick and needs more medicine, lol.

Rylan keeps rolling, he's only made it all the way (got his arm out) two or three times but he's close to being mobile. When he's on the floor or in his crib he spins in circles and turns around, it's cute. He still makes no attempt to roll from his belly. He laughs all the time now, especially when I'm changing him, to him it's the greatest game of peek a boo! I could strip and redress him all day long and he would be quite happy.

Some very kind soul from freecycle gave Saige a barbie jeep. It's in rough shape but it still goes (after Rob stole the battery out of his dirt bike for it, lol). It has two speeds and reverse, at first she was a bit scared, and still wont go fast, despite Rob's urging. She has a small four wheeler power wheels and cruised everywhere on it, Rob wanted her to have something FASTER. He even threatened to build her one himself (umm.... no). She spent yesterday towing all the rest of her outdoor toys (wagon, car, trikes) hooked together with bungee cords to her jeep. My husband is turning my daughter into a redneck. LOL

I've been making my own aio cloth diapers. These were pretty much the first thing I have ever sewn, and I'm proud of myself, lol. They are getting much nicer, hopefully soon I will make some really nice ones I can sell on ebay to get some money for more material. It's fun, in fact I like them better than all the others I have bought. So I thought I would just keep mine and sell the rest on ebay- they pulled my auctions, apparently you are no longer allowed to sell used cloth diapers on ebay- that's where I bought them all, new and used! The best part, I bought them after the change took affect, I guess it's only bad if you get caught. I had no idea until they sent me an email telling me I was in violation and they were going to suspend my account. Now I have stacks and stacks (not to mention tons of $) of diapers I am stuck with, including a few that were used maybe once or twice. I started with a bunch of different kinds with the notion I would figure out what I liked and resell the rest, not fair :(

I finally got him smiling

It only took 400 pictures or so, lol.

Rylan rolled over!!!!!!!!!!

Rylan just rolled over! He's been going side to side from birth, when I put him on his tummy he pretty much stays in one spot. From his back he gets all the way on his side until his arm stops him. Saige was watching the Backyardigans and he was trying to see the TV, he got further than ever before, stuck on his belly with his arm under him and started crying. I figured I'd give him a few seconds to see if he could flip back but instead he pulled his arm out and went completely on his belly!

He's only 12 weeks, I can't believe he went over and from his back! Robby had just left for work- he misses all the good stuff :( Saige wanted to know what was so great about it after all "I have been able to rollover since 2 days ago" I think we REALLY need to work on the concept of time, lol. Now if he would only wake up, so I can spend the rest of the night trying to get him to do it again :)