Run of the Mill...

Well, I haven't posted in a few days. And not because nothing has happened, but I've just been busy. But not busy with "too exciting to keep to myself, I must blog about" activities. Just "run of the mill, day in, day out" activities. The kind that would bore you into not checking in here ever again. Let's see what I can post about...

Well, I started my part time schedule this week and I really like it. I try to get up before Andrew does. Which getting up isn't the problem, it's the "before Andrew does" that is sometimes tricky. We are trying to get him to sleep in a bit, since he now needs to stay awake until after lunch. And let me tell you...about 2 hours after he gets up, he is READY for a nap. He turns into Mr. Hyde (or is it Dr. Jekyl) unless he has your constant entertaining attention....or food. But I want him to get on day care schedule. So...that's what we are working on.

Work is fine. Somedays is a absolutely, crazy, can't stop to get a sip of water, busy. Others...it D..R..A..G..S.....on forever. That was yesterday. Today was a good mixture. But I was there until 4:30 (not a problem) to cover phones again.

Well, I'm not sure what else. We are half way through our week and that means half way through our sitter issue. It's going fine so far and Andrew seems to be doing fine, thankfully - even though it's different everyday. Our evenings have been fine as well. Monday, Marc went fishing and we hung out. Yesterday the Stoll's came over and we grilled on our tiny charcoal grill. (except our fire kept going out, so dinner was at 8 - and we started well before that) But it tasted good.

Tonight is clean, clean, clean. We have our friends coming over to the house tomorrow and Friday to watch Andrew and well, since they are going to have run of the house, we need the place clean. Not just that part that everyone normally sees ('cause you know they just might snoop) :)

Ok, well, I need to get more done. Have a nice night.

This is what happens when you refuse to take your second nap. 

I know I said I was done with it, but...

AUUGHH! Click here and here. Sorry you have to hear about it again, but it's my blog and I can vent here if I want. :)

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Remind me to breathe

I had to get a TB and an MMR shot today. OUCH! I totally understand why my toddler holds his breath (the nurse had to remind me to breathe), then lets out a scream followed by tears. IT REALLY HURT! And it STILL hurts. The MMR one, that is. I can't feel the TB one anymore. Hey, at least they were totally free. The ups and downs of working at a hospital.

I got to pop home at lunch real quick today and little man was napping. I was bummed, but didn't want to wake him. Well, about 10 minutes before I leave, he woke up. Which I think was actually worse than him sleeping. It made it harder for me to go back to work and harder on him to see me (but I was still glad I got to see him). :)

Today was CRAZYNESS at work. I was almost running trying to get everything done. I've been given a new responsibility at work. I will be covering the phones at BOTH campuses during lunch (12-1) everyday. Which is fine - it will be busy, but will be fine. But I also start my PT schedule next week. Which means, after I finished covering phones at 1, I will only have until 4 to complete the chart copies. It will be tight! At least I won't get bored and will get my exercise. Gotta keep those steps up. Did I mention many of my steps are stairs? Each of those should count for two steps. Then of course I come home and many of those steps are lugging around a toddler or pulling a wagon with a toddler. Those steps should count as two also. I'm at 11,100 now.

Well, Marc talked Ryan (who he stayed with in Detroit last night) to go fishing with him at Uncle Arts tonight. So, they drove back to our place to pick up the boat and headed down. That's two nights in a row, Marc's been gone. However, I think it will be great for the boys. First of all, Ryan is one of Marc's best friends and Marc misses him much since Ryan moved to Detroit. Second of all, Ryan's life is stressful since his wife is currently pregnant and on bedrest (she's already gone into labor once at only 25-ish weeks), so he's currently working and taking care of thier 16 month old (who was also was an early bird). So this will be nice for the both of them.

Well, now I am trying to watch a Legally Blonde, it's almost 10pm and little man is STILL CRYING since I put him down at 8:30pm! I've been up there many times, which quiets him down for about 5 minutes, then he starts right back up again. Ok, Have a great weekend.

Early bedtime for all.

Well, I made it another day and today was another busy day at work. It's 9:44 and I'm at 11,000 steps. And I'm tired. Marc has to be in Detroit tomorrow so he spent the night at the Sischo's house tonight.

So it was just me and the little man. We got a quick dinner, played inside for a while, played outside for a while, and took a nice walk with the wagon. So by 7:30 Andrew was so tired he was crying constantly over everything....he wanted something, so I would give him what he wanted, then he still wasn't happy. Nothing pleased him. So at 8:00 (an hour earlier than bedtime), I gave him his "B" and paci, and rocked him and he totally calmed down. We just rocked for about 15 minutes and I put him to bed. Hopefully he won't wake up tomorrow at 6am.

So, since I don't have much to write about here is a video I shot yesterday. It's choppy and don't turn the volume on since all you'll hear is loud popping, but still cute anyway.




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Well, I need to get to bed early. I have a 7am meeting so I need to leave at 6:30. Yikes! I pray my sitter (the same one I mentioned yesterday) remembers to be here early since Marc is gone.

Have a nice night.

Fireworks and Bubblebath

So - it's Wednesday and I get a call today from my sitter saying that she can not babysit for me next week. No "sorry", no "can you see if you can find someone else", nothing....just a "I just wanted to let you know that I can't babysit next week". AAUUGGHH!!! So guess whose been scrambling tonight to find care for Andrew. Fortunatley, I will only work part time (knock on wood) next week. I think I have the week covered, though. I just need to confirm with everyone. But still.... C'mon!

I thought that I would spoil Andrew a bit tonight and put a little bit of bubbles in Andrew's tub tonight. So I get the tub all already, get the little body all naked, and lift Andrew to put him in the tub. You would have thought I was attempting to put him in hot lava. He was terrified! So I finally get him in, but he is S.C.R.E.A.M.I.N.G. And this kid normally LOVES tubs!! So I crawl in the tub with him and continue to quickly wash him (because he truly did need it) while he is completely clutched to me.

That's two things this week that have totally freaked him out. Fireworks and Bubblebath. And he is not normally a kid who is scared.

Today was a decent day (other than the sitter issue). It was actually slow at work, which was actually kinda nice. When we got home, we had leftover roast for dinner and played outside for a while. Then there was the tub fiasco...another bedtime of Andrew having a hard time settling down at night. Other than that, pretty calm night. Marc and I are watching Law and Order, cleaning during commercials, and pretty much just getting ready for tomorrow.

I can't believe tomorrow is Thursday already!! Then the weekend is right around the corner.

More Importantly, Drink My Coffee

Did you have a nice long weekend? We did! It was really nice. Not too crazy, not too boring. Just a right mix.

Mom came up Saturday evening and we went to Applebees for dinner. Then we hit Meijer since we had less than one roll of toilet paper in our entire house. So we got a few things, got spoiled by Grandma a bit and headed home. We played outside until it was Andrew's bedtime, then mom and I just vegged.

Sunday, we played hooky from church (*sssshhhhhhhhh*) and just had a really nice day. We got up and played outside, and in the pool and took a walk and put Andrew's new wagon together and finally got his tricycle put together. When the guys came home, Kari and Andy came over and we all had a nice roast for dinner. We played outside until Andrew's bedtime then we broke out the poker chips and mom took us all to town.

Monday was more of the same...playing outside, playing inside, eating, etc.. However, toward the end of the day, some neighbors were lighting little firecrackers in the street. Andrew was terrified. Each time one would pop, he would stop playing, get this horrid look on his face, run over to Marc or I, and start crying until we pick him up. Then he would put his head on our shoulders and wrap his arms and legs around up and grib tight. Poor thing. I felt bad for him, but it was also nice that he was cuddly since this kid usually slows down for nothing but cheese.

Today was CRAZINESS!! Like I mentioned before, I was covering for the busy office this morning, by myself, after a long weekend. It was nuts. It would have been a super busy crazy day for the regular girl, let alone this newbie. I think I managed it ok and don't think I ticked off too many people too bad. :) But it seriously was so busy I didn't have a chance to stop and think, or more importantly, drink my coffee. I was exhausted by 1:00 when the regular girl came back. Then I had to eat in my car and head over the other hospital for my 'real' job. Which was also busy - due to the long weekend.

So needless to say, I pretty much just played this evening and didn't do too much. Marc grilled hambergers, so Andrew and I played outside. He had trouble going to bed tonight (might have been the fireworks still going on). So once we got him down (the first time), we sat out on our deck with rootbeer floats. They didn't last long, but it was nice still. Then it was time to get to work. We got Andrew down again (I think for the last time), cleaned up the house and got everything ready for tomorrow. So now I am blogging and Marc is playing PSII and talking on the phone to his folks. Now you are up to date on our lives. Not real exciting and if you have made it this far....I'm sorry there was nothing too earth shaking for you to read. Maybe next time.

Well, I need to shower and hit the hay. Have a nice night and don't forget to comment on the video below.

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This is a test to see if I can post videos here. My test video is one of Andrew shortly after he started walking. Leave me a comment to let me know if you can or can't see the video, how long it takes to watch if you have dial-up, etc... and any other comments. Thanks!!




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This is Crap!

I am SO blogging about this...

So Andrew takes a nice long nap this morning from 11-12:45. We hear him waking up and chatting to himself, so we don't rush right in there to get him. Finanlly he starts fussing, so Marc heads into his dark room, picked him up and sits in the rocker to rock a few minutes.

Then and only then did Marc realize that Andrew had no diaper on and had pooped. I hear a "HELP!" come from his room. I run into the room to see Marc holding Andrew out at arms length and a big ol' poop in his bed.

We lay Andrew on his changing pad and find poop all over his legs, feet, inbetween his toes, on his hands and yes, even a little on his face. So I picked up the poop in his bed, we used a trillion wipes to clean him off and Marc puts him in the tub. However, we then realize that Marc had poop ALL over him! We literally had to roll his clothes off him in order to not get it on him. And he had JUST got out of the shower, too.

So Marc is washing Andrew, and I am cleaning up the room. I start to strip the bed and find "it" smeared all over blankets, sheets, etc... THEN, I look down and find another big poop halfway across the room on the floor with bounce marks along the way. Apperently, this poop was a projectile at one point.

So I get all the clothes, blankets, sheets, etc... in the wash with a prewash, hot water, extra rinse and a touch of bleach. Little man gets out of the tub and starts playing not caring one bit that he just totally pooped everywhere and on everything. This funny this is, is that his diaper was not poopy at all, so he totally did it AFTER he pulled the diaper off.

Moral of the story: Do not a put a toddler down for a nap without shorts over his diaper. E.V.E.R.

TGI Fourth of July Weekend!

Today, I found that on Tuesday morning, from 8am-1pm I will be covering the desk ALONE at the MAIN HUGE hospital. AUGH! Not that the work is hard, but it is SUPER busy and

A) I still don't know who people are and what they do which a huge part of the job
B) I don't have my distribution lists set up on Outlook yet for paging which is another huge part of the job
C) we'll be coming off a long weekend, which means it will be even more crazy than usual
D) I'm sure there are 100 little things that could pop up that are not an "everyday" thing, therefore I did not learn them in my few days of training.

Pray for me.

So right now, my son is happily playing with a clean baby food jar and about a gazillion bobby pins he found from last weekend's wedding. Bobby pins in, bobby pins out, bobby pins in, bobby pins out. You get the idea. It's better than a few minutes ago when I first gave him the jar and put three pennies in it and tightened the lid. He would fuss until I took the pennies out. Then sit and work real hard for a while picking up the pennies from the hard wood floor, putting them in and closing the top all by himself....then fuss because he couldn't get them back out. Funny man.

And today is FRIDAY!!! Woo Hoo!! Funny - how when I was a stay at home mom, Fridays were really no different than any other day, but now....yowzers! It's FRIDAY! Now lets just pray that Andrew will sleep in for me as well as he's been sleeping in for the sitter and we'll be all set. Although I have a TRILLION things to do before tomorrow afternoon. And I don't want to do any of it. In fact, instead I made sugar cookies (Grandma O's - Marc's favorite) tonight instead of cleaning or grocery shopping. Why?! Because my desire for something sweet overrode my desire to clean. Go figure. But I am up to 9,685 steps today already at 8pm, (I told you today was busy), so I don't feel too guilty.

So tonight and tomorrow afternoon, we'll just hang out and clean. Tommorrow evening, Marc is heading to 3 Rivers where he will meet my folks. Mom will leave Dad with Marc and they will fish and spend the night in the cabin and mom will come on up to GR. Sometime Sunday, the guys will come up the rest of the way. They will stay until Monday afternoon. Although, we really have no plans while they are here. Just hanging out.

Tonight I had to run all the way out to Allendale after work with Andrew to switch cars with Marc. He and his neighbor are fixing both of our cars. However, when we got home and our normally good dog got into our trash and it was EVERYWHERE!! I had cleaned out the fridge yesterday, so apparently, our "too old to eat" leftovers were "too good to pass up" dog food. But boy, it was a mess!

Anyway, I think I'll veg/play for this last hour before Andrew goes to bed and then kick it in high gear then. I hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday!!

Happy Independence Day!!