More Randomness

For the record I don't know why I haven't taken any pictures lately, maybe it's because we have all been sick or something I don't know. Anyways I am just full of randomness this morning (no I don't care if randomness is a word or not because it fits how I am feeling). I was laying in bed last night with yet another migraine and I had my trusty ice pack. As I was laying there trying to relax enough to be able to go to sleep I got thinking about this dumb ice pack. We have three ice packs that the cloth covering, yet they are three different brands and are three completely different ice packs from the way they freeze and thaw, to their shape. Yet I always go back to this one, it's the first one we bought and the crazy thing is we didn't buy it for my headaches, I bought it years ago when Shawn got a wisdom tooth out. I went to Rite Aid to pick up his prescription (because Wal-Mart wasn't open here yet) and while I was there I figured I would get an ice pack that didn't have to be wrapped in a towel. Little did I realize that this would become one of the few things that would give me relief (if even for a short time) from my headaches. This ice pack is oddly shaped because it was made to be able to wrap around knee's and elbows and the such. The best way I can describe it is that it looks like of like and misshapen plus sign. Years later and we have three ice packs but I always use this one first and foremost. The other two just aren't as comfortable or something, one only has fabric on one side and the fabric is almost too thick and it seems to have picked up smells from the freezer (which if I wasn't using it on my head I probably wouldn't notice) the other one we bought most recently is like a brick that is the best way I can describe it. The thing freezes SOLID as a rock and then by the time it's thawed enough to be "comfortable" it's lost all of it's coolness... Maybe I should go into designing ice packs for people with headaches and migraines!

Other complete randomness for the day is I have found the perfect torture treatment. Just lock someone up with my kids for a couple of hours when they are grumpy! Because we go from happy screams to sad/mad screams in the blink of an eye and they are all high pitched. The sound is pitched just right that it hits a certain nerve in your brain and sends electrical pulses through your body, doubly great when you have a migraine.

I have to go to three different websites for work... everyday... I technically should go to 5. I have at least 6 different passwords and at least 4 different id's that I have to use to log into various things for work. I am getting an email every day telling me how many days I have left to change my password for one of these things but I haven't changed it yet because I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS TO LOG IN AND CHANGE IT!!! (it's one of the ones I should be logging into every day but I don't). The worst part about all this is 3/4 of the passwords have to be changed every 60-90 days. Honestly people... I'm not a machine, I can't remember all these things.

Finally the cat... Izzie (the "3rd cat") is silly, I believe I have said it before but she isn't a cat she is a dog. She prefers to go to the bathroom outside (which is completely fine by me) but she completely cracks me up about how she goes about wanting to go outside. She doesn't meow or scratch at the door, if I am sitting in my chair she comes over and paws at me. Or she comes over and jumps and throws herself into my leg. And the longer it takes for me to respond to her the harder she hits. The reason I bring this up is because she is going crazy this morning! I have gotten up to let her out three times now but it's snowing so she sticks one paw out the door then backs up and comes back in. But because she still needs to go to the bathroom she come back to me every 10 minutes or so and goes through the same routine.

So that is my randomness for the morning!

Things

Just a few random things this morning...

First I just have to say I don't understand why Zach thinks he needs to get up at 4:45 am. He doesn't go back to sleep, so by 7:45-8:00 he is completely exhausted. The kid is nuts! I have to laugh though because he is really completely opposite of Alex. Alex loved to rock and be rocked, Zach HATES it! However he has really gotten into "reading" books and loves to be held and rocked while he is reading, go figure. For as much of monkey as he is, it's really cute to see him sit so contently and look at a book.

Second, we have been working with Alex on potty training the last few days. I decided it was time to sink or swim! For those of you who know Alex he is a good kid but is INCREDIBLY stubborn! If he decides he isn't going to do something he goes into this zone and there is no getting him out of it. Which is why the half a dozen times we have tried potty training we have just given up. However yesterday we finally had a brake through! He went pee pee in the toilet 3 times yesterday and we only had one accident on the floor! So now if we can just get over the battle of him actually going to the bathroom we will be doing good! I know it will be a back an forth battle for a while but it is just so exciting to finally see some progress forward with him!

So those are my random thoughts for the day. I hope everyone is doing well! I love you all!

Preschool Art Update

I scanned some more of Alex's art so here you go!

If you look at the train you see that he actually wrote his name. He is getting better about writing it and his teacher told me he is getting better at cutting things out all on his own too. We have him signed up for next year so he will be good and ready for kindergarten.

Remember

Several weeks ago I was visiting with my family so Alex missed a day of preschool. It happened to correspond with the week of Martin Luther King day so one of his days was already canceled. This happened to be the week they were learning the letter "P". I didn't think he would pay any attention to the fact that he would be missing this. It didn't come up until the following Monday when I was getting him ready for School and he asked me what letter he was learning that day. When I told him "Q" he got all flustered and mad and kept asking me "what about P?, when am I going to learn P?" Well... flash forward a month and we are still going through the same routine... "What letter am I learning today Mommy?" "Ahhhh, what about P????" I don't know how to fix it I don't know if I print out some pages that has a coloring activity and some letters for him to trace if that will make up for him missing P or not, or if I am destined to go through this every week until summer. Maybe he will forget by then...

Accomplished

This morning has been a good morning! I made it 38 minutes on the treadmill! I might actually be able to do the 5K by June.
I have lost 10 lbs since having Zach! (I realize it's been a year but I never lost the baby weight after Alex so that's major)
I made a batch of waffles this morning without burning/destroying a single one! (the last one was touch and go for a bit because I forgot to re-spray the waffle iron.)
I didn't eat a waffle smothered in peanut butter and syrup, I left the waffle eating to the kids and had a bowl of oatmeal.
Alex was running around this morning and then disappeared for a while then came back out and said "Mommy, this is my home on earth!" I was stunned for a minute because it was so out of no where then I said "yes it is!" Yea! He is picking things up in primary! I am grateful for the primary program because it picks up where I fall short!
I am starting to see glimpses of the boys getting a long and playing and it makes me so happy! There maybe hope for them yet. Now I don't expect them to always get along but to have them just play together with out screaming at each other for those few moments is just so nice.

The kid is nuts...

We have heard it before but I honestly think that Zachary is going to kill himself! The kid has no fear and feels no pain. This morning by 8:45 he had fell off of the couch directly on his head, fell off of the lay-z-boy and hit the end table on his way down and fell off one of the kitchen chairs, after all this he then climbed up onto the kitchen table and crawled across it to get Alex's food (which in turn made Alex dump his milk all over of course). So he got sent to his room for that. After I let him out he ran right into Alex's room and proceeded to try and pull the Super Nintendo from the wall and the TV then came out and climbed right back up on the kitchen chair... For which I promptly got mad at him and that is when he cried the hardest. I was like "are you kidding me???" The child makes me a nervous wreck! We have an entire house full of toys but no... he has to be climbing on something or into something to be happy. Alex went through a phase where he liked to climb up on the couch but after falling off several times and getting in trouble several times he eventually figured it out or got through that phase. I mean sure I have to remind him that we don't run on the couch and we don't stand on the arms but that is to be expected. I am so ready for the snow to melt and to be able to get the kids outside! Of course then there is a whole new world for Zach to get in trouble in and the kid hates to wear shoes so he will have to get over that really quick.

As much as Zach makes me crazy some times the kid loves to help.

This was a week or so ago unfortunately I missed the part where he had both the broom and the dust pan. (I do have to add a disclaimer... I don't normally let him run around in just a diaper but he was such a mess after eating that it was easier to just take his clothes off.) The other day I was making the bed and he was helping me by handing me the pillows and the blankets and after he would hand it too me before I could say "thank you" he would say "tanks!"

February

I'm not feeling 100% this morning but I keep forgetting to post this so I wanted to hurry and do it while I was thinking about it. These are the first two calendar pages/desktops I have made I am doing it as it comes because I didn't have time to get it done before the new year.