Toddlers + A Dozen Eggs = O.M.G!!!

Awhile back..............  one morning I woke up ........ and I found this........

IS THAT EGG ON YOUR FACE?

And then ...  this morning ............ what happens????

I'm sitting there - taking a moment to myself, check my facebook and ........... the boys are quite.

I AM ENJOYING THE QUITE NAGNAMIT!!!!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo  I can't enjoy the quite anymore... because it only and always means ONE THING ONLY ......

T-R-O-U-B-L-E 

(growl)

I just got a dozen eggs.  What happens when you mix toddlers and a dozen eggs????

A homemade Slip and Slide!!!

Worse part about it ...... I was literally - ten feet away and didn't hear a SINGLE egg crack.....

TIP:  If you ever want super soft kitchen floors ------- break a dozen eggs on it!  It's amazingly soft!!

(walks away) ....  what is it with these dang kids and breaking eggs!?!?!?!

Final Grades ...........

(favorite building, the library)

So ...... incase you missed it, I've been a College Student since September :D  I looooooooove it.  I love going to college, so much!

I had three classes this past quarter.  English, Multimedia & College Success (which is mandatory for all new students)

My final grades!!  3.7 in English (B+) ... College Success I got a 4.0 (A+) ... and 3.9 in Multimedia (A).  YAY!!

I had to go in and talk to one of our advisors on the 12th ... We agreed that it's best for Dennis to take at least this quarter off and work on getting better - and then re-evaluate at the end of this quarter.  If he needs help getting accepted on financial aid again (due to failing his classes) ... she said she'd help.  In addition to that, she said - with everything going on (croup for Kaedyn, upper respitory infection for Nathan, Pneumonia for me, and this loss of feeling in his legs for Dennis) ... she was SHOCKED to see how well I did ... I knew I had been pulling A's in all my classes prior to it, I missed the last 2 weeks of school, and it sucked.  I figured that my A's would fall to C's :(  But YAY!!  They didn't!!

So we got my schedule set up for this coming quarter...  I have two classes I'm on the waiting list for, one being the photography class I wanted to take, and the other a writing class.  And a filler class, with hope one of the two open.

I got an email from the photography professor saying there is a chance to go from the beginner photography to the intermediate one if we have photography experience.  One of the questions on there was understanding F-stops and all that - it's been 20 years since I learned that.  But I was honest.  So she wants me to come to the beginning class and we'll talk during the break.   ::: shrugs :::

Guess we'll see :)

Quick Update on Dennis......

Since one of my readers asked about Dennis.... and I haven't updated ... I wanted to update :)  (Especially since I can't seem to leave her a note!) ....

Dennis has been home for about 9 days....  He's had visits from two (different) nurses, and PT.  Social Work still hasn't come.  There is still absolutely no diagnosis - and he sees both our regular DR this week and Neuro.  Hopefully, we'll have some course of action after the appointments.

I am hoping that it they are going to do another spinal tap (as much as I DON'T want Dennis to have to go through that again) ...  and do the protein panel to check for MS that way.

Otherwise - things are just unknown.  They are thinking it might be linked to his depression ... last time this happened (in 2007) they thought it might be linked to his migraines.

I think they are grasping at straws....

Currently - he has talk walk around the apartment with his walker.  He can't even take a few steps on his own really.  If I'm not hope, and Cal isn't home... he has to be in bed.  They don't want him anywhere else due to the fact that they don't want him falling and can't call anyone.  It's not easy.   Right now... he is either in our room on the bed, at the computer, or in the bathroom :(

It's not easy, at all :(

I had to go into the college at the beginning of this past week (on the 12th) and had to talk to one of our advisors.  She has MS and recently went through something very similar to what Dennis is going through.  I was telling her what happened, and she immediately said it sounds like MS.  With her legs - it was blood clots.  Once they tackled those, she was better.  She had been in the hospital for heart issues, and they accidently discovered the blood clots.  She was with in weeks of getting her legs amputated :(   It's scary.  I told her that this happened in 2007 too (not as bad) ... and she said it definitely sounded like MS to her - but she's not a doctor - she was sure to point that out.  There are cases of MS where lesions never show up.

It's frustrating ...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY .......

It feels as if we've known each other forever ....... that we've always had each other in our lives......... and yet, it feels like such a short time.

It's our 5th Anniversary ......  wow :)

FIVE WHOLE YEARS ........

It all started with a chance wink on a free dating website.  My thinking - this guy is in North Carolina and I'm in Wisconsin .... we could be friends.  He says he knew as soon as he saw this picture, that I was the one.

I don't know how he knew that ...  but he knew.

I had been talking to some other guys ... some who seriously proposed ... or talked about marriage, and all that did was make me back off.  But when Dennis did it - it felt different. It didn't make me want to run the other way screaming .... cuz I got a weird feeling.  But I was totally drawn in.

He had moved up to Wisconsin, we were engaged ... I stared planning a fall wedding.  October 13, 2007...  I knew I wanted ....

I loved the autumn colors...  roses, and I wanted Calla Lilies ..... Flame ones.... A bouquet that looked like this with the fall leaves and those flowers (plus the Calla Lilies)

 I wanted pumpkins and a BEAUTIFUL dress ... I saw this one ... and loved it....

 And I ended up trying it on ...  with my Mom...

Cal and Noah were now involved, we were blending into a great little family ........ this happened....

Yep...... so the wedding we were planning for October 2007 ended up being bumped up to December 2006.  Mainly, because we realized by November that things were NOT going the way they should for a healthy pregnancy, we were likely headed to the NICU... we were going to get married anyway - we just weren't going to get the wedding we both wanted :(

So we ended up having a little wedding .... got married at the court house...   so I got a cute maternity wedding dress .... (here I am trying it on)

And then came the big day ...

 My flowers ...... hydrangeas ... with some crystals... (they were suppose to be larger crystals)

 The guys buds....

 Quick family photo before I put my dress on.

 Dress is on!

 Bad luck to see the bride before the wedding .... oh well, we had to drive in the same car.

My 18 week belly ... with a Mr. Nathan inside....

The only photo during the wedding that turned out even remotely well....  :/

We had a little reception that weekend ... made home-made lasanga and had all sorts of goodies :)

 Our Cake ...

Family pic :)

 Dennis was married twice before me, this was his ONLY Wedding cake....

 I'm telling him that if he even THINKS about squishing that in my face, I was going to .... well.... I won't repeat what I said.

 Awwwwwwwwww :)

And 5 years later ...we've got a family of seven (counting the missing Princess of course) ... and all we did was hang out in bed, because that's about all we could do.  We had some pie, some fake champagne ...  and we watched tv and cuddled.  With him housebound, can't really go anywhere.  Had to take some pictures though...

 And then.......... someone came in and was cramping our style!!   (One of my BFF's said "See, a few years ago that's how things started too which resulted in that little hobbit that was trying to cramp your style! ;)"  LOLOL ... I told her to shush, it was immaculate ....  that one, however, was a surprise shortly after our first anniversary .. ha ha ha ha..

Who is this child and who does he belong to??? It's obviously NOT us.  LOL

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABY ...... I love you :) 

Awards!!

Not THOSE kinds of awards!!  I haven't gotten a blog award in forever!  LOL... NO!  These are awards the kids got!

First, Noah came home with this bracelet.  I noticed it on his wrist, and was like "what's that blue thing?"  I grabbed his wrist and looked at it and noticed it said "CAUGHT BEING GOOD" .... huh...

Meanwhile I'm thinking ............  Noah can be good???? 

Nah, I know he can be.   But Noah never owns up to his goodness.  He never seems to realize anything.  You ask him if he has any friends at school ... he says ....  "No."  .... Infact, I just asked him and his answer (with a big bullhonky grin on his face.  "Yes, NO........................... yes.  Why?"   LOL...  what a brat. 

So I naturally ask him "What did you do to get this?" 

He says............ "I don't know."

See......... he NEVER KNOWS!!!  Ever!

So I ask him.... "What were you DOING when you got this?" 

He says ..... "Helping my friends"

(shakes head in disbelief)  He said he has friends!?!?  Whaaaaaaaaat?

Heehee....   soooooooo, Noah got a little award :)

 Noah is sorta embarrassed and proud :)

So then, started to empty Nathan and Kaedyn's backpack and I saw these :) 

I found Nathan's first, and Kaedyn's the next day ... even though they were given the same day.   I guess they were given out during circle time for following participation directions :)  (I learned this at the Parent Meeting) ... 

Awwwwwwww .....  I have such good kids. 

It's good to know that other people get the best of them and I get the gremlins.... mwahhahahahaha...

Burnt Eggo ....

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who loved to cook.  He says he started cooking when he was five.

That little boy grew up to be Dennis ....

Noah decided the other day that he was going to start making his own toast.  She while I was doing something, he went in the kitchen and put some bread in the toaster, he then made the toast and took it out, put peanut butter on it and ..... (drum roll) ......... BACON BITS!

Yep, that's right .... peanut butter and bacon bits!

Er.....  num num ...   (no, I didn't try it - even though he asked me to) ....

Well, apparently ...  Noah gave Kaedyn a step by step and let him watch while he made toast for the first time.  And then later, Noah made his own Eggos and some for his brothers too.

Because.......... Kaedyn became fascinated with the toaster...

I woke up the other morning to the lovely swooshing sound followed by clicks that toaster makes when you press it down.  So I jumped up and ran into the kitchen... there he was.  He pulled a chair over to the stove and was standing on it, pressing the toaster down over and over again with new bread every time.  In the garbage it went and Kaedyn got yelled at.

Didn't stop him .....  next up for torture!  Eggos!!

Yep, the other morning my son put 4 Eggo's in the toaster, two for him, two for Nathan.  And one of the Eggo's was stuck on the lip of the slice hole, so he kept pressing it back down.... over and over... until they started to burn.  I walk in there..... see him at that stove again ...

Ugh....

But hey ....  at least he makes for him and Nathan!!  Seriously though.... he did get a tiny burn on the tip of his finger (I think on the coffee pot that was on) and he hasn't really done it since :(

Apparently Kaedyn thought he was a bad boy - because he put himself in the dog kennel and zipped himself up.