The Mayo Knows!

When I was pregnant with Jamie, I had some mayo in my fridge that expired on my due date. I thought that was funny and even a bit funnier when that became his birthday too. "The mayo KNEW!"

So I bought some knew mayo awhile ago. I never look at the dates before I buy them, only after they've been opened in my fridge for a bit. Well I looked today and it's June 7, Erin [my niece's] birthday.

I think this mayo expiration date thing is on a roll. I'll have to remember it next time I get pregnant and see if it's right. Maybe I'll hurry up and use my mayo and get another one and see if it predicts my SIL's baby's birthday...

Marcus' Camera

I got Marcus a kid camera for his birthday and I've only emptied it once. Well he brought it up to me because it wouldn't take pictures anymore because it was full of 668 pics! So I took them off and we're going to journey through his photography skills.

Marcus' arm and chest in white, my jeaned leg and jamesen's foot

couple self portraits

one of gary

LOTS of jamesen!

he even got me in there!

and some randoms

Lots of coughs

Whatever Marcus had, Jamie now has. Well, Marcus' after croup whatever he had. Jamie's coughing pretty bad now, poor baby! If you could keep him in your prayers. I'm worried it'll turn into something worse. Marcus is still coughing too so it's no fun. We've had some pretty LONG sleepless nights the last couple days.

Something has it out for my knee...

or my kids and I'm just that good.

a few weeks ago, we put a baby gate in the arch doorway thing between the stairs and the living room. Most the time if I'm holding both kids I will go around because it's not worth it to me. This one day... pardon me saying it if you don't want to read it, but I had to pee, bad! So I took the short cut. Only problem is, Jamesen's little walker was right on the other side of the gate because Marcus likes to make his hopping over the gate easier with it. Long story short, I stepped over the gate and went to put my weight on my foot but my foot went into the handle on the walker. I had one chance to free my foot and it failed. Luckily the kids were fine, but with them in my arms it was an extra 45ish lbs all onto my one knee.

You should have seen my bruise. It lasted forever.

About a week ago [give or take] my bruise was finally gone. My body heals itself really slow when I'm pregnant or breastfeeding so I had the bruise for about 3 weeks. Anyways, back to the point. I've climbed the stairs with a kid on each hip countless times. Multiple times a day for 7+ months and I've never had an incident. Well I don't know what it was, but I tripped up them tonight and would have face planted with both kids had I not stuck out my knee [yes the same one]. Sadly Marcus slipped out of my arm on impact and hit the back of his head on the stair. Luckily though I had fallen most of the way already so it really didn't hurt him. The kid's got a hard head.

Lucky for us, Sabe was home. He's got a 6th sense, I swear. He knew to go home from camping the night before Marcus was born and he was on the phone with his mom, telling her he had to go so he could help me up the stairs when I fell. He's been on the phone before and I carried both kids up by myself without incident. I actually thought to myself as he was telling his mom that he needed to go so he could help me "That's strange. Usually he just meets me up here" and that's when I fell. It's a good thing he was here because it took me a second to pick myself off the floor and Marcus was crying. I probably would have had enough adrenaline to get up and pick him up again but my knee was throbbing. I limped for a bit after it happened.

So either something has it out for my poor knee, or for my kids. I'm thinking it's my knee though, because anybody who's a mom or knows a mom, knows that she will sacrifice any part of herself to keep her kids from harm. They know I'll stick my knee out and they think it's funny to see me desperately try to keep my kids in my arms and out of harm. It's the stupid binkie stealing house elf!

Poor Mister Man take 2

He's got croup. After I posted the last post, I called the on call dr at his pedi and she heard him coughing over the phone, said it was croup and told us to go back to the ER, so off we went. They gave him some steroids and said that it's something that goes away on it's own, but the steroids should help. They seemed to help yesterday, but he woke up today hacking up a lung again and refusing breakfast. My poor kid :(

I host a playdate every Wednesday and it's gotten to the point where if someone's kid is sick, I ask them not to come because Marcus seems to catch everything. He's been sick back to back to back all winter. It's so sad :(

Though it's a good thing I"m still breastfeeding the Jamie man because everything has passed right over him without effecting him at all! Speaking of the Jamie... He is sleeping SO crappily lately. I'm feeling allergies coming on and *luckily* I passed them onto the boys. His nose has been running really bad and he's been having a hard time breathing, so sleeping sucks. He tosses and turns and whines and cries and sits up and cries and whines... it took me and Sabe an hour to get him to go to sleep last night. He was asleep, but fidgeting a lot when I was watching the olympics last night and then woke up right before I went up stairs. It wasn't fun! Then of course he woke up super early like kids do. Crazy! You'd think they'd sleep in but nope!

I found myself last night wishing Jamesen would hurry up and get out of this stage. And then I thought about what I was thinking and took it back, lol! It's one of those "be careful what you wish for" things. Not only will he speed past this stage as quick as a blink of an eye, he'll soon be in High School, married, having kids of his own and I'll be wondering where the time went. Though I have to admit, being a grandma is going to be the BEST! The baby without the sleepless nights?? Heck yeah!

Ugh, Poor Marcus

My poor little Mister Man :( First he was puking, now he's wheezing. Yesterday he was fine, then he woke up from his nap barely able to breathe at all. I gave him some Ibuprofen and then we waited for Sabe to get home to take him to the ER. I opened up the front door and we stood by it. By the time Sabe got back, he was breathing a bit better. Sabe said that he was acting fine at the ER, that he ate and drank, unlike the rest of the day, and that his breathing was fine. They run the ER cold so I know it helped him breathe better. They said they couldn't hear anything and his breathing was because he was crying so hard when he woke up from his nap.

So then he woke up this morning and was wheezing again. So much for the ER's thoughts on it seeing as how he hasn't been crying. SO LAME. I hate that ER with a passion. Seriously they're the most idiotic dr's I've ever been to. They don't listen to you at all, they just take a glance and tell you "oh you just gotta wait it out!" I hate them so much, it's so ridiculous. If Marcus had the tendency to not breathe while he was crying, it would have shown up a long time ago, not at 2.5.

I'm so insanely frustrated and tired. And I can't get a hold of Sabe to get the car to take him to Dr. S. either. I'll keep you posted.

Oh and my MIL reminded me... I forgot to update everyone on Jamie's bump. The neurologist called me back and she's sending me to another one up in Louisville. She said the bump is where a vein and and artery meet. She left me with pretty much no information but I have some nurse friends and they helped me from googling since googling medical stuff can be scary, lol. I'll know more when I go to his appointment to the other neurologist.

I hate all these no answers!

So Blah

We've been pretty blah lately. It's been really snowy so we've not done much of anything. Poor kids are stir crazy!!

Anyways, Marcus is sick. He got the flu and puked everywhere multiple times on the night of the 14th. He hasn't puked since like 6 am on the 15th, but he barely ate anything at all yesterday. He ate breakfast again to day [a couple bites, like yesterday]. I hope that means he's getting better. On another note, he cut two of his 2 year molars! Well, part of them.

And on even another note, here's a cute vid of him singing.

Sorry if this is short and crazy, but I'm really running on barely any sleep. The last 3 days I've gotten like 3 hours max each night. Sick/teething kids and puking husbands mean no sleeping for me. Yes you read that right, Sabe caught the flu from Marcus, bringing his flu count for this season to 2.

Ok, sick kids are calling, gotta run