again?!?!

THE one perk to this is that they just LAY LOW and are catchable, EASY and such....

Over the weekend Isaac had a terrible sore throat, bad enough that it prompted an after hours visit Sunday afternoon.. No strep but a fever(I was surprised, he didn't have his trademark flushed cheeks) So no school for him on Monday.

Today Norah woke up and I took 1 look at her, crap!!! T:101.8 crap!! I am starting to wonder when and if the Doctor's office checks for mono in little kiddo's....

Really since her last 24ish hour fever she's been paler still, not her normal active self, appetite VERY off, complaints of aches in legs/arms/feet/head and off and on stomach aches that don't resolve after a trip to the bathroom......

Yesterday for example she said she felt fine, ate like a bird(NOT NORMAL FOR ANY OF MY KIDS) They all eat like grown men...

Then at pickup yesterday she told me that while at school she had a stomach ache again.
Now this afternoon she tells me that she doesn't want to talk much because her mouth hurts, so I look and it's not a blister inside but she tells me she didn't bite her cheek either AND it appears to be starting on the other side, also the back of her tongue has HUGE bumps on it..........

THESE are the things that make me go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

easy as 1 2 3..

In typical Norah fashion, show her once and it's done.

She's been wanting to learn how to tie her shoes for quite some time now but every time she asks were in a hurry or running behind....
This morning she says, can I try tying. Sure
I see her fumbling a bit so I ask her "hey, want me to show you on one"? Yup she says.
I show her how to cross, go under, make bunny ears (you know the drill) well I then sit to put socks on Ari and she goes mom mom MOM!!

and this is what I see:
Typical Norah, she is so so smart and SO proud of herself!!
Everything new she tackles like it's no problem. Potty training, from day one (at exactly 3) no accidents, I should also add we did pullups for MAYBE 4 nights. To date I think she's had maybe 5 all together and only 1 was in bed(the child is soon to be 6)
Riding a bike without training wheels, take off training wheels and off she goes, riding fine with 2.........
Tying shoes, show her exactly once and she's got it!


This she wanted me to take bc wow look it's just like the butterfly box mom!!!

He turn's 3, sniffle sniffle

His day started with a request of chocolate/strawberry milk with hotdogs for breakfast....

showing his new outfit
Gotta see the dino
Posing with big sis before going out to lunch
lunch time, notice his wonderful expression(we had to leave before we were done to not ruin other patron's lunch's)
The dinner request, personal pizza's

The best part of the day

THE cake

His very own scooter
Pillowpet "Triceratops"

Not to shabby for a self photo. I'm never in the pics so I snapped a quick one....

The last kiddo's birth story.............................

3 years ago, yesterday actually I told myself 1 more appointment and THEN I can have this baby. It was 3 days before my due date and I was more than ready but knew that it would be MUCH easier if I took 2kids to this apt not 3.
I was driving home from that apt at 11:45am actually when I felt the first contraction!(I KNOW) and they continued and I ignored them, I was alone with 2 kids and it was a work day........
At QT I decided to see if this was in fact real and layed down on the couch. Contractions didn't stop, slowed maybe but didn't stop.....

I think it was around 4ish that I called my sister and asked if she maybe would want to come over and take a couple big kids to her house..

SHE EXPLODED WITH EXCITEMENT AND WAS ON HER WAY......

I think it was around 6 when we made the decision to go to the hospital, the contractions were getting MUCH harder and I knew that I was in active labor because I was unable to talk during them. Could hardly stand actually during them, bent over or kinda squatting was how intense they were..

Gowned up and in comes a nurse or someone with scrubs(who really cares at this point just want a baby out), my history equaled prompt service... :)

I was checked and to my surprise and horror I was at 1!! I am no novice to natural childbirth and KNEW I should be farther along than that!!

I decided to try an epidural, see what those are all about, would probably get one and shoot right up to 7-8.....

See my head was so screwed up from the previous "birth" that my body wasn't able to "due" what came natural to it.......

The epidural worked for all of maybe an hour or 2 and then was gone, well on one side anyway, then all together as far as I was concerned.
The nurse that waked in after said crappy epidural was no longer working was the same nurse that I had the year before. Colleen was her name I think. She was an early to mid 50's nurse that knew her stuff...
When she came in I told her "hey I remember you from last May" Really she say's "yup you were the nurse to come in and give me an IV after I fired the one who tried first. I delivered a stillborn little man.

Here's where it gets interesting(to me anyway) She say's "yup, now I do remember you" "You know what, tonight was my night off but I came in to help with the phone's because it's such a crazy night"

After that she NEVER left my side. At one point I looked at her and said, I think I'm in transition?! She says yup I think you are to honey and your doing great!
"you tell all the girls that I'm sure" Apparently she does NOT tell all the laboring girls that :-)

5 HOURS after begging someone, anyone to break my water so I could have this baby already I hear MY doc outside my door.....
I YELL TO HER DR. A@#^%%## GET YOU BUTT IN HERE AND BREAK MY WATER ALREADY!!!!!!!

She laughs and comes in and does just that. THEN wouldn't you know it 2 immediate pushes later I have a baby...

This is when I realize just how screwed up my mind really is because I bust out in tears(never did that before) and my head says, "it's not right, he's the wrong color, he's not moving, or crying, this can't be happening" While I'm saying this in my head I hear my blessing of a nurse say "Janet, look at this baby you worked so hard for, he's perfect"!!!!

AND I'm crying as I type this, it was such an emotional time..........

Oh and Chris was there for just about all of it :) He was just a "silent" partner...


Happy Birthday Ari Maxim, what a blessing you are!!!

My latest batch of homemade goodness. The bigger side is nut free :)
The nut side, slivered almonds with the dried blueberries and yogurt covered raisins. By far the best batch yet!!

Look how many pretty fish I can catch in one shot! See I'm the predominant feeder of all things living in this house so I'm followed or approached so to speak wherever I go in this house...