Hi again!

So I have returned. I hope to be able to post more often from now on. We'll see. I have started two jobs since I last blogged and my kids are still a handfull! A wonderful handfull, but still a handfull to say the least.

I've started working at a local book/movie rental/music/coffee store. It's fun! So far. The Hubster and I have worked our schedules around to where one of us can be with the kids. It gives me a needed break and a few extra dollars in our bank account. I'm also the song leader at my church which gives me a chance to actually keep singing because I really needed to start singing again. It fulfills a great big hole that was in my heart. I'm still teaching voice lessons and I hope to pick up a few more students soon.

Smasher is HUGE! He'll be two in December and is about the size of a three year old! He is all boy. He jumps off couches and porches and ends up black-eyes and bloody lips. He's usually fine a few seconds after the incident, but still, I hate to see him hurt. We're going to start potty-training him soon. I bought the stuff to make his "potty chart" with stickers and all. He seems interested in apparently peed on the floor of his dad's bathroom right next the toilet while visiting him this weekend. I get him back in an hour or so. I missed him this weekend.

BG is five months old today and I can hardly believe it. She is very long and skinny. She still weighs less than 14lbs which is starnge to me since I'm used to the monster-sized baby Smasher was. She's so happy and typically just sits and smiles at you. She loves to be on her stomach and I think she'll be crawling before too long. She also loves to talk. She's so pretty!

Everything is going well. Just hanging in there. We're trying to find a larger house. We've outgrown our two bedroom house and really are looking for a three bedroom. We would like to buy but just aren't at a place where we can right now. We'll probably start saving for a down payment and try to get a place soon. The Hubster's been going to school and working like crazy and I can't wait to get back to school. It's been a little crazy because all of our parents (except my dad) are living in Enid right now. Our kids will be SPOILED!!!!

It's been a while

I've been a little busy.

Smasher is getting into his terrible two's and things at our house are in constant disarray. I'm trying to stay clam. I'm trying to keep my patience with him, but it's getting harder and harder. Somedays I feel like selling him to the highest bidder. But...then the night time comes and I put him down to bed and he smiles at me and gives me my hugs and even says "nigh-nigh" sometimes, and I feel on top of the world. Last night was an exception. He cried every thirty minutes ALL night long! It was horrible. He finally chilled when The Hubster brought him into our room when he left for work this morning. We both got about 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep. It was blissful.

BG is doing well. She's growing up so fast and is developing her own little personality. She's so funny and usually a VERY easy going little girl. But when she does want something, she will let you know! She's 14 and a half weeks old now which is so weird that she's already that old. She's going to be such a neat little kid though, I can already tell.

Truth be told, my kids are incredible. My husband is amazing and I'm one lucky girl. Things aren't going so great right now due to some plumbing problems our landlord is not able to fix right now and The Hubster is waiting to hear back about a couple of jobs, but I know that when God does put things into motion, it's going to be incredible!!!

Kid for Rent

Smasher is being a MONSTER this evening! He was great all the rest of the day though. Maybe he's just super tired. I don't know, but it needs to end. NOW!

It's been a busy day around here. There is a six-feet deep trench that stretches the entire length of my front yard and driveway. Or there was until they hastily tried to fill it in so I could at least get over to the car parked across the street without having to drag Smash (who I have to carry for fear he'll run in to the trench) and a car seat down to my neighbors drive way to cross the street and walk back up again. It's an inconvenience but the plumbers (it's a sewer thing) are super nice and very considerate. They even offered to help me carry the kids but it was alright. Smasher is in heaven as there has been a John Deere back-hoe in my yard all day. He thinks it's a tractor, which he's obsessed with, and even said his first sentence today (that I've heard anyway.) He said, "Look, Mama. Tractor!!!" I was impressed and very proud of my little man.

I was trying to put Smasher's new toddler bed together when BG (Shy's new name - Baby Girl, thanks to her daddy) started screaming her lungs out! She screaming, not cried, for 45 minutes straight. It was horrible! Smasher would start crying when she did and then she's chill out and Smash would mess with her causing her to cry again and then for him to cry. Again. The toddler bed is still in pieces. I finally got them chilled except that Smash is being especially cranky. Early to bed for him tonight. Assuming I get the bed put together anyway. How is it that when you get a second hand bed, all the pieces are NEVER there? Oh well, grateful for it anyways!

Oh and the screaming ensues!

Ciao

Playing the waiting game...

The Hubster and I are sitting up at the hospital waiting on the arrival of our friends baby girl. The Hubster thinks he's ready for another. I told him that when he can carry and deliver said baby, I'm ready. Just kidding. I'm sure Smasher and Shy will have another sibling at some point. All I ask is that the other two be out of diapers first. I like babies, I just don't like having them. Especially after having this last one just about ruined my life for 9 months. The passing out all the time and then not healing properly was just about more than I could bear.

This particular friend has been friends with The Hubster for a long long time and I just adore him and his wife. We spent the better part of our pregnancies being pregnant at the same time. And really there is nothing that bonds two women together faster than being pregnant together. She's going to be a great mom and he's going to be a great dad. I'm really excited for them! They're also having a little girl and since Shy and she will be so close in age, I'm hoping that they will be good friends.

So, CONGRATS GUYS!!!

A hard week

It's been a hard week. I miss Smasher. He drives me crazy most of the time when he is here, but the silence of him not being here drives me even crazier. I know that it's good for him to spend time with his dad's side of the family. It's good for everyone. But it's so hard to be away from him. I've seen several pictures of him from them past week and he seems so much older and bigger than the last time I saw him, which was over a week ago. It seems like it's been a year since I have seen him though. I have this vision in my mind of getting him back tomorrow and he's all grown up. In fact, in one picture that his Uncle Scott took of him yesterday he looks like he is four years old and has the most mischievous look on his face while he's splashing through the puddles. He likes splashing through puddles.

Oh WoW!

That's right, folks. I play World of Warcraft. Not as frequently as I'd like, but I have have two kids so it's to be expected. I've been playing, off and on, for about four years now. I'll play for a while, become bored and ultimately, cancel my monthly subscription. I usually come back to it about three-six months later. My husband and several of my friends play as well.

Well, The Hubster got a new (to him) computer. We got a new computer back in February for both of us to use but the other day he found a great deal on a 17in HP with some pretty awesome specs, so he got it. We were planning on getting another computer when his Pell Grant money came in since we are both planning on returning to school sooner rather than later. We'll I guess he already is, but I am too.

So, what am I doing right now? Loading WoW onto his new laptop. Fun stuff, huh? But it should be fun as we will both be able to play at the same time now and maybe do some dungeons together. Am I a nerd? Yes. But I embrace it.

I just started a new pali so I'm going to go play it on my computer.

And she smiles!

My daughter has the most beautiful smile in the entire world!!! Okay, so does my son, but I'm used to his, even though I still comment about how much I love his smile. But Shy's is NEW! In the last week she's started to smile and I mean really smile! She never really smiled as a newborn even we she did have gas. But I even got a little laugh out of her yesterday. The Hubster got one the day before. I was explaining to him how strange a baby's laugh sounds at first. I assured him that one day it will turn into the laugh that he loves so much from Smasher.

She was laughing at me trying to give her her pacifier. I've been extremely lucky as both of my kids never really seemed to take to the pacifier. Shy will spit it out after about five minutes and so did Smash. I have a strict no pacifier policy after three months anyway. I just don't like them and don't want to have to break my kids of them. So, Shy has one more month to spit them out and then they're all going in the trash!

The weekend should be fun. I kind of wish I was staying in town, but alas, we're going to Muskogee to visit The Hubster's dad. Smash is going to my grandparent's yet again, but they're going to meet up with Smasher's Apple and he'll spend the week with her and his aunt. The Smash Dad will pick him up and then I'll finally get him back next Sunday. I think I may go crazy without my little crazy guy running around here but I know he'll have a good time. It will give me some time to get some serious house stuff done. Like painting. But the next July 4th, he is all mine!

Well, everyone have a safe and fun holiday weekend! Remember while you're at that cookout or drinking at the lake, that men and women have died for the freedom's that we enjoy so appreciate it!