Our Week... In tons of Pics! (well words too!)

Well here is my entry for today ... update on the last week (so pictures can be posted and certain grandparents can stop nagging - lol) ... ENJOY! For those of you who are pop'n over to collect your award, scroll down!!

Monday ...

I don't remember much of Monday ... I seriously don't how sad is that? Babies and I played a lot, I know that.... I tried to give Kaedyn some grapes in his mesh eater, but he wasn't interested .... and HE IS GETTING UP ON ALL FOURS AND ROCKING (see photo #3)

Tuesday ...

I ended up getting a call from Cal saying he needed me to come and pick him up because his ears had broken out in blisters from the sunburn he had gotten on Saturday (and been out on Sunday too AFTER my harping on him to put on sunscreen) ... needless to say he came home on Saturday completely dehydrated (he was hurting and not feeling well) but we didn't see the burn then. I had noticed Monday he was looking a tad red. He wasn't complaining about it, so I didn't think anything of it. Well, I go and pick him up and sure enough, he has these HUGE blisters on his left ear, and a couple smaller ones on his right ear. So I broke them, treated them, and continued to harp on him about sun screen....



Calahan took these pictures of me practicing talking with Nathan in the mirror (one of his speech therapy exercises) and Kaedyn was looking at himself in the mirror on the opposite side. It was hilarious!

Alright boy - you are GOING to eat out of the meshy eater! OR ELSE.... today's attempt, banana! See Photos below Nathan... and my hat
LOOK!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY GOT HIM SMILING!!! I ACTUALLY CAUGHT NATHAN SMILING!!!
My hat of LOOOOVE
Kaedyn vs. the banana..... what do you want me to do with this????
Why do you keep shoving it in my face??????
Okay okay - maybe... just MAYBE ... it might be good, but that's stretching it Mom!!
Happy now??? It's all mush that you will have to clean out of this thing - ha ha - good luck!
It was so hot and the kids were just miserable all day... Kaedyn spit up SO MUCH and Nathan was just crabby, even Noah couldn't sleep. FINALLY they all passed out - Nathan got laid in bed 3 times, the first two he came out - the middle time everytime I would lay him in his comfy spot on the couch, he would throw himself on the floor, so finally after a few times, I said fine - let him throw his fit - and he stayed there, fell asleep in 2 minutes it seemed...
Poor sweaty Kaedyn... he's usually ALWAYS covered by his fav blanket there... but not that night

Wednesday ....

So Wednesday was HORRIBLY hot... we got up over 90 degrees (our seasonal average is around the 70's) ... I had gone downstairs at 5am to pull up all the fans I could find, put a little desk on in the kitchen, had the ceiling fan in the dining room on high, there was a box fan in the hallway bringing the cold air from our bedroom out into the rest of the house, our ceiling fan in our bedroom was going, and there was an oscillating fan in the living room. I then went in our bedroom and put the A/C unit in the window and turned THAT on high. It stayed about 80 degress in the house all day with all that happening. YAY... not in the 90's or worse! (We have a temp gage/clock that gives us the temp both inside, outside & all that - even the humidity levels) ... so the kids and I stayed in the house all day, and Noah was home from school cuz even HE got sick the night before from the heat. I know most people are probably laughing right now thinking that's not hot at all, but even Dennis admits that 90 degress up here is something WAY different then 90 down south! LOL...

Here is Kaedyn sitting infront of the education shelf (homeschooling books and such)... he has been sitting up ALL on his own (not just sitting on his rolly polly bottom but getting from belly to sitting on his own)...
laying down drinking his bottle...
I made dinner.... "Crock Pot Slop" that I make... one of two versions. This one, it's a can of each veggies (corn, carrots, peas, green beans) cooked ground beef, onions, peppers if you want, I ended up throwing in what was left of Dennis' home made salsa (which was AWESOME) ... 2 cans of cream of potato soup with water ... any left over half bags or what not of potato products, I ended up throwing in hashbrowns and wedge cut fries... that was all I had, so I substituted and threw in some rice too. This was before when I got everything tossed in there...
and this was a few hours later, then you just toss some cheese in there and it's a great mean for those kids who don't like veggies, it's how I got mine eating them! Now my house LOVES veggies! We love to buy them fresh at the Farmer's Market.
Kaedyn sitting up
Nathan caught in the hall with his horse (ignore the messy onesie, he loves to droll his chocolate milk and stuff, I just came to the realization that I am not going to change him 100 times a day)
Noah "helping" by swifering the kitchen all on his own (totally his idea)

Nathan waiting to see if his boy Kris won Idol or not!! AND HE DID!

Thursday ....

I tried to do my vlogemotion but couldn't - everytime I started the boys would start hanging, the phone would start ringing, the sky would start falling... oh okay the sky never fell but that's not the point. I did bubbles with the babies for about an hour, if Nathan had his way I would be doing it all day long ... (if you look close, you can see the bubbles in the air in the pic below)

We went outside and was TRYING to get a picture of the 4 boys for my The 4 Brothers Ranch blog (homeschooling blog) but this is the BEST picture I got - and mind you - this is actually - two pictures pasted together! ROFLMBO!!!

We had a blast with Kaedyn, we ALWAYS have a blast with Kaedyn - he is the best baby - LOL but he had crawled into this thing and was just sitting in it (head in, feet out) playing with the toys Nathan had put in it, and then I started scratching the side with my toes and he would try to attack my toes, it was great laughs for awhile, then he got tired of it and couldn't figure out how to get out. So Daddy put him in it.. LOL...


Dennis had made some nummy food for dinner... he pounded out some beef something or others (I do not claim to be a chef like he is training to be, nor even a cook - I just follow the directions on the back of the box or do easy recipes) ... he made awesome mashed potaotes, and green beans with onions & bacon.

Friday ...

Friday was a long day.... we had to go take Noah to the PED to check that birthmark on his head (click HERE if you haven't read about that) ... which went exactly the way I expected - he referred us to the dermatologist and agreed that it was very concerning and warned us that he would most likely remove it and do a biopsy. I don't know how well all that is going to go down but it will have to happen on a Friday because Noah is VERY afraid of the DR. Everytime you bring up going to the DR he starts to cry - and I'm not kidding. Then he starts asking you a hundred times if he's going to get a shot. The poor kid has had more IV's, X-rays, CT/MRI, 3 surgeries, countless tests, 3 hospitalizations, countless sedations... it's hard. I mean the last time something major happened was the week Nathan was born (mid-April 2007) when his kidneys were failing from C-Diff bacteria (thanks to his antibiotics from an ear infection) ... I mean the kid has been through so much and it just breaks my heart to think there might be more.

Anyway - after that - we dropped Noah off at school and then Dennis dropped us off at home then ran to his job interview. He says it went really well and it seemed like the guy wanted to hire him on the spot but he wasn't the boss and had to do some more interviews. When Dennis had dropped off his application, they didn't even have an ad out for hiring - so it pays to drop off resumes anywhere I guess.

After that we hung out, played with the kids, kids got home from school and Cal's girlfriend came over, after awhile we started making dinner (pork chops, garlic rice & peas - nummy) ... and then Cal and Kayla said Kayla's parents wanted to know if her and her little sister (age 5) could stay here so that they could go fishing. So after (my) hesitation, Dennis said "we have enough food tonight for everyone, it's fine" .. so they stayed.

It was a nice - there was some bickering and all that, but over all it was a goodnight until the kids asked to go outside for awhile (I live in a large neighborhood of duplexes), and started being loud (Nathan and Kaedyn were both sleeping) so we went out to remind them to be quite, when my neighbor (whom I have been friends with for 9 years) started yelling about how she was tired of the swearing and this and that - I do believe the term "rotten kids" was thrown out there, and upon asking MY kids what was going on - Cal told me that some other kid named Bruce was going up the alley looking for someone's missing bike (Cal has had his stolen twice), and after he did something, Cal said goodbye and asked him to leave, and then the kid says the full out "F-U" several times, and was cussing both him and Kayla out and this and that. I know that my kids aren't perfect, and they aren't going to be growing up in this neighborhood... but it's good to know that my kids are apparently the "rotten kids" of the neighborhood. Must be nice to have such perfection. That is all I am going to say on the matter. Needless to say it put me in a really foul mood, and we have been looking to get out of this neighborhood for awhile, and we are just kinda stuck here right now. We can't afford to move and that's all it comes down to. So we stay, and try to keep to ourselves, but our back fence never got finished off so all the neighborhood kids think they can just walk into our yard whenever they please. Yeah, well - we can't stop that now can we? We'd love to but we can't. Can't seem to control EVERYONE in the world. So we are still looking to move, and have faith in the fact that when the time is right, then it's right I guess. I do regret moving over here though. I love my neighbor dearly, don't get me wrong. I can't stand living in this neighborhood.

Anyway, to end off, here is Nathan, trying to walk in his big brother (Noah's) shoes...