the month of may.....

has been pretty eventful for our family.....and i don't know that i can remember it all. hmmmm, let's see........

bambam....he received a good citizenship award for the year. he had his fist severe asthma attack while in my care and it scared the heck outta me. one weekend the older girls were both gone and it was then that i really realized he has no friends. so skeeter and tatertot and i took him to ride the metrolink since he loves trains. his last day of regular session is june 3rd and then he'll start summer session june 9th. i soooo love how my special needs child w/ an IEP that designates he receives door to door pick up, an aide, wears a seatbelt, and his bus has air, received his bus card for the summer session and his assigned stop is two and half blocks from the house. um. no. i don't think so.

puddn.....she's had another bought w/ her unexplained/undiagnosed incapacitating abdominal pain. she now has a referral for GI on june 23rd. she decided to forgo her 4th grade fishing trip, knowing she can never get this experience again, to go to lunch w/ skeeter. they had a good afternoon walking around the mall and grabbing lunch. she's met her teacher for next year. they have a small ceremony tomorrow to induct next years members of the civil rights team. they also have an overnight camping trip coming up next week. i'm not all that excited about it, but it's just one nite and she'll be 30 mins away. skeeter and tatertot and i spent the morning of the 23rd w/ her at her school for their annual field day and then celebrated her bday w/ her classmates.

twiggi....we left from an eventful morning w/ puddn to surprise twiggi for lunch on the 23rd. she's a lil monkey! man! she was all over the place on the play ground. she's one agile, flexible little girl. her last day is the 30th like puddn's, and they opted to go to summer school w/ bambam at his school. she has her end of the year picnic friday at noon. o yay. note the sarcasm.

tatertot...she's 16 mos old now. and still the sweetest lil evil thing you'll ever meet. she's still so little. like a walking babydoll. she's got personality for 5 babies! she now points at my belly and says "baby". it's hilarious when she points at daddy's belly and says the same thing. someone might wanna think about do a crunch or two. lol

skeeter...he's out of town right now w/ his job. he's been promoted to a welding position. he's in cleveland learning the safety ins and outs and how to program his machines. his new schedule has him off on fridays unless they have to work o/t, so that's pretty cool.

i am just miserable. two trips to l&d this month. the friday before mother's day i had some sudden gushes of clear fluid followed closely by bad cramping that turned into contractions 2-3 mins apart 45 mins after getting to the hospital. luckily, my water was still in tact. however, my cervix was then "extremely soft" and had shortened two cms in a week's time. so my next appt is monday, june 2nd....but i ended up in l&d today after one of the most terrifying moments of life. started out w/ an asthma attack. then i spent the nite trapped in my bed. couldn't get up to walk off the excrutiating cramps i was having because i was too dizzy. long story short i made a trip into the hospital today for them to do a chest xray and tell me it was normal and i'd had an asthma attack. no crap! although i requested it and gave plenty of just cause to support it, they never checked my cervix. so here i sit again, contracting, having lots of pressure in my under regions and have no idea what is going on in there. lovely.

i think that might catch us up to speed. i'm sure there are so many things i'm missing.