Crazy...or just plain nuts

Um that pretty much sums us up as a family in a whole. Man are we nuts. And really....in no particular reason. We are nuts for getting children the way we got them. By putting up with what we do, with living on eggshsells. But what can we say, God gave us these two beautiful babies for a reason. We went through hell and back trying to concieve our own, and then these two miracles, literally, fell on our laps. We were shocked. We were unprepared. We are their parents. We love them very much. I guess we have to keep following in Gods plan for us.....whatever that may be.....sigh...hehe.

Now for the really insane nuts. We are leaving for dickinson friday after Brent is done with work. Then we are returning prompptly on Sunday morning, to pack buy groceries, run all over town doing errands, and dropping the dogs off at daycare to leave for the Cities at 5 o clock in the morning. Oh and by we....I mean me......I am the one who will pack and do errands and go nuts and be a crab trying to get the house a decent clean and out the door friday night AND tuesday morning.
sigh

Ahhh...he's learning!!

So yesterday I got this terrible allergy/flu/head cold thing going on. I mean I got the chills, my head was super stuffy, I felt like I was going to puke, I can't breathe through my nose. I seriously wanted to skip the last day of school, but meaning that it was the last day of school and we were going on a field trip, I figured that was out of the question. So all day I froze my BUTT of watching the kids play baseball trying to hold down my stomach praying for 3:20 to hit. Finally it did, and I CRASHED on the couch. Thank God my sister is an angel and watched my two boys while I moaned in pain and literally passed out on the couch. But Devon was so cute because he kept going...it's ok mommy. I am here, and he was stroking my face. Then he would pull the blanket way to my face and kind of hide my eyes from the light. Then he rubbed my back, the best he could and kept saying over and over, it's ok mommy, I am here. Shhhhhhh. I am here. It's ok. If I could, I seriously would have cried and hugged him so incredibly hard. It was the cutest thing ever. Then he kept telling me I needed to drink water and to take a rest and then mommy will feel all better. ahhhhhh. My little cupcake. For all those people who tell me my little muffin is behind...........beat that!!
To no avail I still feel like my head is going to burst today and I can't hear myself think, talk, breathe, or even function. sigh. Well off to try more medicine. I am digging deep and hard into my medicine cabinet now!!! Motherhood just cannot take a sick day!

Fisher Price has my money..and apparently everyone else's

So my mom gave us this jumper for anthony. It is a Fisher Price Rainforest themed jumper. Well when we went to go buy the highchair, I happened to see the Fisher Price Rainforest High Chair. Cool. We got it. Then I was looking around, and I noticed there is a playpen, a bathtub, a tummy time play mat, a toddler booster seat and a rearview car seat mirror, among other things. I went cRaZy! I wanted it ALL! So I managed to snag majority of it, like a bouncy chair, the high chair, the jumper from my mom, the tummy time play mat (which I ordered last night weehoo!), but the play pen I want oh so badly. I even threw a fit to Brent stating how bad I want this play pen. Finally we look all over Grand Forks, all sold out. I send my sister looking all around Fargo, all sold out. My mom around TRF, all completly sold out. Fine. I go online and I will order it from online....ALL SOLD OUT! WHAT THE HELL!!! Who else wants my Fisher Price Rainforest Play Pen!! It's mine! Needless to say, while I was hyperventilating about not getting my Fisher Price Rainforest Play Pen, I managed to find it at Burlington Coat Factory. I have to pay an extra 40 bucks to just get it here. grrrrr. Awe well! At least I will have my Fisher Price Rainforest themed baby collection complete! Now if only I can get that bathtub...........

Solids, Garage Sales,...Vacation! Oh my....

My little man started solids today! Woohoo for sweet potatoes. He took them really good. He also slept through the night for the seond night in a row, but only for me to keep waking up every hour to ensure my little man was still breathing!
Today we got up early to garage saleing. We got some neato things, but only after a couple of hours, I got bored of looking to try and buy other people's crap and having the urge to go to WalMart. Blast mom and dad for always spoiling me and now making me want nothing but "the best".
I just realzed today that there are only 2 more weeks until vacation. Our big family vacation. Which includes my mom, my dad, my sister, my brother, his wife, their 1 1/2 month old son, me, brent, and my two boys.....ALL IN ONE HOTEL SUITE! ahhh. We are going to die by killing eachother. I am sure it will be fine, but yikes! I am a little nervous. Thank goodness for the pool and hot tub! (not to mention happy hour! weehoo).
Im off to Wally World, yet again, because I also realized today that my kiddos crib mobile batteries' are dead! And when I have to wake up several times and just to push the little remote control for it to work again and for Anthony to fall right back asleep...there is no way I am going a night without it!!!

Also thanks everyone for their wonderful thoughts and comments!! I (we) truly appreciate it!! It feels good to have a family!!!

Holy Insta-Family

So ok, all day thursday and friday, I was thinking of a new post to talk about, and I was going to talk about attachment with our 3 year old. Since we got him at age 3, I have always been worried about attachment with him, because he has been "tossed" around so much, and he still is not getting the point to come to us when he is hurt/happy/sad/sick/ whatever. He tries to do it himself, or he goes to the nearest person. Drives me nuts.....but I could go forever into that (which I eventually will), but I wanted to announce our latest news! On friday I was teaching, and I get a phone call literally asking me if I wanted a 5 month old that was sleeping in our social workers office. I called Brent (he was gone for 2 weeks due to annual training for the guard), and he said sure ok (not in that exact words, but he did say yes), and so I ran to Walmart grabbed anything I could of real quick (car seat, forumla, bottles, diapers, wipes, some clothes), and then I ran and picked up our Anthony. Then I ran and picked up Devon, got the dogs, got everything thrown in the van, and headed to Grandma and Grandpas! Whew. Our life since anthony is great. I am tired, exhausted, and look like poop with baby spit up all over me. But I am so happy I could cry. I do sometimes. This is exactly what I wanted, and I am SO happy. You could not burst my bubble I am so happy.....now only if school would end faster so I could stay home with my two sweet boys!! :)

Credit...

Ok I have to place credit for the picture I have on my blog. I would never have seen it if it wasn't for my oh so long distant friend across the pond, Lisa, who has a picture from the same artist. Well I checked out where she gave her credit to, and wow! I fell in love with this one. So thank you Lisa and thank you Ting Shao Kuan.
Now for real, check out the rest of the pictures. They are amazing!
http://www.nymuseum.com/art/ting/

First Timer...Round 2??

Ok so last time I said that I am going to post and I am going to be a blogger, but man! Everytime I get up to post and to blog, it's like I never have the time! But I have become a RAVID fan of reading other peoples post on their blog (holla when you get one! I will start stalking you!), and I just read this amazing post from my dear friends Lisa sisters, Janet, blog (I know, a bit of a stalker!)that no matter how busy she is, blogging makes her feel great and to get out all the frustrations of the day and what it all may have held. Even if I dont write everyday, but if I try to get a couple of posts a week in or something, that would mean a lot. Not only to my friends, to my family, and to ME! Seriously, cause this is AMY show. Everything needs to revolve around me anyway! ha! And seriously, I have begun to think that I am starting to go crazy. Not like crazy, but like crazy crazy. I know, I know, I just need to chill a bit. But yah. Alright, I am off to make my blog cool super cool (or at least try!!)