the girls' last day of school was yesterday.
twiggi had an amazing report card and although she didn't get either of the two teachers she really wanted for next year, she also didn't get the one she did NOT want, so she's content. she's pretty easygoing, doesn't take much to make her happy.
puddn met her teacher earlier this week, and she's fine w/ her. i told her to be watchful of her classmates. she only has an issue w/ one person, but we're already planning to head that one off by asking the teacher to please keep them seated separately to avoid issues. her report card is coming in the mail.
this is what puddn's teacher replied in response to a quick thank you email i sent for a productive year:
You have a beautiful, talented, lovely daughter. Thanks for giving her such a supportive family.
Leslie
and twiggi's teacher:
Alexa was a true pleasure, when I could hear her, to have in class. She did help to make the class better. I'm glad she was with us this year.
Matt
bambam's last day is this coming tues and then they all start summer session at his school the following monday thru july 18th.
i went on a nesting spree here yesterday and if you'd been in my house yesterday morning and then again late last nite you wouldn't think you were in the same place! i'm taking it easy and slowly. i actually feel better when i'm moving. it's when i sit still that i'm in agonizing pain, but maybe just maybe it's because i have time to actually pay attention to what i'm feeling. i did get checked after that bogus trip to l&d, at the office, and wonderfully, my cervix has regained some of it's length. but i'm still on stricter bedrest w/ a new goal of making it 5 more weeks, which would put us at 32weeks. wow.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
he's home!!!!!!
so skeeter had to go to cleveland for a three day welding safety/programming training. the older girls just bawled and bawled when he left. caught me way off guard. anyhow, he's finally back home, and i didn't realize how much i actually missed him. his flight out of cleveland was delayed due to weather in chicago where they had a 20 min stop. he was due in stl at 835p, and they didn't land until 1155p. once they left chicago our weather had gotten pretty rotten and stl wouldn't clear them to land and they hadn't fueled up in chicago and didn't have enough fuel to circle stl for an hour so they flew on to kc,ks to fuel and wait. of course, as soon as they landed, stl gave them clearance. they finally got here right before midnite and then had to sit on the plane for another hour because they wouldn't open the ramps during lightening. he got home right before 2am. ugh. i haven't flown since i was 13 and i'm in no rush to do so, esp now!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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.
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.
Monday, April 28, 2008
WELL IT JUST SUX!!
that my captions didn't line up w/ my pics, but yall are smart enough to figure it out.
pics from my bday...april 5th, 2008
I FIND THEIR MATCHING EXPRESSIONS...PRICELESS.
BAM-BAM GETTING A FRESH CUT
AHH, TO BE YOUNG AGAIN...
THE MAIN REASON WHY I HAVEN'T VISITED SEARS YET...I'M NOT GONNA SPEND ALL DAY THERE TRYING TO GET A SMILE...
MY GIRLS ARE GROWING UP!
OK, THE REASON I SHOULD GO TO SEARS!
YEH, YOU TRYING TAKING HER POPCORN PUFFS FROM HER, I'M NOT!
ME IN ALL MY 22W GLORY! HUGE FOR ONLY A 4LB GAIN!
UM, WHERE ARE MY TOES?!
I FIND THEIR MATCHING EXPRESSIONS...PRICELESS.
BAM-BAM GETTING A FRESH CUT
AHH, TO BE YOUNG AGAIN...
THE MAIN REASON WHY I HAVEN'T VISITED SEARS YET...I'M NOT GONNA SPEND ALL DAY THERE TRYING TO GET A SMILE...
MY GIRLS ARE GROWING UP!
OK, THE REASON I SHOULD GO TO SEARS!
YEH, YOU TRYING TAKING HER POPCORN PUFFS FROM HER, I'M NOT!
ME IN ALL MY 22W GLORY! HUGE FOR ONLY A 4LB GAIN!
UM, WHERE ARE MY TOES?!
the latest.....
skeeter has a business trip coming up next month. he'll be gone for 3 days to detroit, cincinnati, one of the two i don't remember now, for training on the welding machines. it was originally scheduled so he'd be gone and miss puddn's 4th grade fishing trip and he told them he coudn't do it. they actually rescheduled it. awesome.
twiggi was recommended by her music teacher to audition for the kirkwood children's chorale. pretty awesome there too! she's excited and nervous. she auditions on may 14th. whether or not she's invited in, kudos to her for even being recommended!
puddn has her dance this friday, the 70s dance....fun. it's conflicting w/ a slumber party that twiggi has been invited to. i'm letting them work it out. we'll see what they come up with.
bam-bam has a field trip to the zoo coming up and i just hope i'm in good enough condition to go enjoy it with him.
tatertot is learning to call skeeter's parents "gigi" and "pop-paw" and they're loving it!
me and johnny bravo are hanging in there. apparently, i don't sleep well, hence me being up since 3am. actually before then but i gave up and got up at 3am. i'm 22 weeks and a day now...2 more weeks until i enter the "safe" zone. baby is VERY active, esp between 9-10p every nite. so not looking forward to this kid being up al nite. i go see my plastic surgeon on tuesday to get marked so i can report back to the ob exactly where my mesh is located in case of emergency c-section, etc.
nothing else exciting i can think of. my days run into my nites. skeeter combed twiggi's hair on saturday. it was cute and at least he volunteered. didn't turn out too too bad either.
gas is 3.59/gal. there is nothing more to be said after that!
twiggi was recommended by her music teacher to audition for the kirkwood children's chorale. pretty awesome there too! she's excited and nervous. she auditions on may 14th. whether or not she's invited in, kudos to her for even being recommended!
puddn has her dance this friday, the 70s dance....fun. it's conflicting w/ a slumber party that twiggi has been invited to. i'm letting them work it out. we'll see what they come up with.
bam-bam has a field trip to the zoo coming up and i just hope i'm in good enough condition to go enjoy it with him.
tatertot is learning to call skeeter's parents "gigi" and "pop-paw" and they're loving it!
me and johnny bravo are hanging in there. apparently, i don't sleep well, hence me being up since 3am. actually before then but i gave up and got up at 3am. i'm 22 weeks and a day now...2 more weeks until i enter the "safe" zone. baby is VERY active, esp between 9-10p every nite. so not looking forward to this kid being up al nite. i go see my plastic surgeon on tuesday to get marked so i can report back to the ob exactly where my mesh is located in case of emergency c-section, etc.
nothing else exciting i can think of. my days run into my nites. skeeter combed twiggi's hair on saturday. it was cute and at least he volunteered. didn't turn out too too bad either.
gas is 3.59/gal. there is nothing more to be said after that!
Friday, April 18, 2008
EARTHQUAKE!!!!
in 32 yrs this is my first memorable experience w/ an earthquake. my mom tells me there was one when i was a tot and skeeter says his parents have told him of one in the 70s before he was born, so they may be speaking of one and the same.
all i know is, i don't have to ever experience another one in my lifetime! about an hour before it happened tatertot started whimpering in her sleep and then stood straight up and started screaming, eyes still closed....she immediately fell back to sleep when skeeter picked her up.
then an hour later skeeter and i were shaken awake, sat straight up, eyes wide. i looked out the window it was eerily quiet w/ the exception of the semi going by at the time. i was thinking there is no way that is making the building shake like this. we scrambled for the kids..tatertot asleep next to our bed, didn't budge. bam-bam...didn't budge. the older girls, didn't budge. it was over as soon as it began. the phone started ringing. it took the news over 10mins to give report.
final say at this point is a 5.2 mag quake centered about 150miles east of here. wow. the quake they keep predicting on the new madrid fault is now more real to us and i seriously can take a raincheck!
all i know is, i don't have to ever experience another one in my lifetime! about an hour before it happened tatertot started whimpering in her sleep and then stood straight up and started screaming, eyes still closed....she immediately fell back to sleep when skeeter picked her up.
then an hour later skeeter and i were shaken awake, sat straight up, eyes wide. i looked out the window it was eerily quiet w/ the exception of the semi going by at the time. i was thinking there is no way that is making the building shake like this. we scrambled for the kids..tatertot asleep next to our bed, didn't budge. bam-bam...didn't budge. the older girls, didn't budge. it was over as soon as it began. the phone started ringing. it took the news over 10mins to give report.
final say at this point is a 5.2 mag quake centered about 150miles east of here. wow. the quake they keep predicting on the new madrid fault is now more real to us and i seriously can take a raincheck!
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