Day 3

Day 3 - I'm waiting in line to pick up Matthew. He sees that I'm a few cars back and I can see that he's telling his teacher that he sees me. I see her hold him back (nicely). So I pull up in front of them...and she's walking with him. I hang my head, this is only day 3 and the teachers walking matt to the car. Oh dear. She comes up to the passenger side window and I just nervously laugh. She promptly tells me that everythings fine that she just wanted to give me a note. "A NOTE??" I thinking..."..not good..." And this whole time Matt's climbing into the car with a confused look on his face saying that he didn't do anything. The teacher tells us both to rest easy, that it's a good note. I think we both sunk back in our seat with relief and scramble to open the note to see what it says. I'll be danged, it was a good note. She said that Matt was a joy to have and was a great participant at discussion time........... Hummm, who'd a thought that :) Way to go Matt!

Day 3 was great again for Nat. Still pumped about band and partially still stressing about not having a flute yet. I told her to chill and she said she would...she's just excited :)


Here they are in their Day 3 outfits and if you look closely, you'll see that we had an odd occurrence that morning. Yes, yes...that is rain reminants you see :)





Beth asked how Brayden was with the kids gone. He's pretty much back into his old routine of eating, sippy cups, snacks, naps, and Oobi!! Here he is dancing to the Backyardigans.






...hard to capture dancing on camera...





Hope you all have a great weekend. This will be Matt's first football scrimmage. He has 2 on Saturday. One at 9am and one at 11am. That's gonna be one pooped and sweaty boy! I'll post pictures Sunday or Monday.

Day 2

Day 2 of school went great. Jim was able to get the kids afterschool, so by the time I saw Matt he was done with "story telling time" and was ready for snack and toons. But did manage to tell me that he had a great day. Nat on the other hand couldn't wait to tell me about band. She gave me the paperwork and explained that she'd be playing the flute and that we needed to buy or rent her one and that it had to ba a good one and not a cheap one...yadda, yadda. She's very excited, so we'll get her what she needs...I won't cheap out.. this time :)


Here she is showing of a suit that her and Grandma picked out.





Matt looking quite handsome I must say :)





Today they went to school on the bus. They were both excited to get to ride and did all they could not to go into a full out run as the bus came up the hill.














Now here come some extra shots that I just thought were cute:



I took this picture while Nat and Matt were cuddled up by Jim and making Brayden VERY jealous! So of course Brayden won and plopped right up in Daddy's lap :)








No, this isn't a hair bow. And no, we didn't place it there. Nat didn't even know it was in her hair. Pretty cool!

First Day of school

Well we made it to (and thru) the 1st day of school. Both kids were very excited to start, especially after seeing all their friends at the Meet the Teacher nights. Matthew is in the same school he was last year, but now at the very back hall (where all the big kids are - 3rd & 4th). So he's thinking he pretty big stuff now :) Nat's Intermediate school moved into the old Middle School bldg. This is a much bigger and more complex layout. Plus they have lockers with combinations on them. So she was a little stressed about that and the fact that she had a top locker and couldn't see the numbers that well. But, she was still very pumped to get to gab it up with all her friends!



They both popped out of bed with no problems, gobbled down their food, and we were off.







Nat was dropped off first. And per her request, she was not walked in. So hug and kisses were done as we drove up and off went my big girl.







Matt was next. And after seeing sister not being walked in...no way was I gonna get to walk him in either :( But he assured me that he was good and could take it from there :)







I went to pick Matt up from school and decided to get there about 10 mins early. ...35 mins later...I finally had him loaded. We had to haul buns to get to Nat's school cause it was now 3:25pm and her school got out at 3:20pm! He said he had a great day, nice teacher, and 3 of his friends were in his class. One of them being Evan..his BEST friend!




When we got to Nat's school it was total mayhem, but we got to her fairly easy and we flew out of that mess. Nat was much more at ease about her new school. She loved her teachers and how the class rotations worked. She was also very happy that the girl that has the locker below here wanted to have the top locker since she was tall and hated to crouch. Then they hit it off and she's all Nat could talk about. She said that all her friends liked her too..so she was in hog heaven. Nat said she's new and was alone and wanted to make her feel not lonely..sweet kid!






I'm sure more great adventures will happen today, so I'll post more tomorrow. Plus I have more pictures to share, but Blogger's being stingy. Hope you all have a great day!

62-2000

Ok, the grasshopper plague "seems" to be coming to an end. They're still here, but not in the multitudes that they once were. Now it's the dadgum crickets!!! I pulled 62 crickets...that's right 62!!!...from underneath my sink night before last. That's not including the ones under Jim's sink and our closet. They are flat trying to take over the place. My neighbor took a picture of her garage, which she guesstimated to have 2000 crickets. My garage is bad, but not that bad.

So I throw it back out to you guys again... Is there a granule or bait that I can put out to make them either die or go away? I read on the internet that I should be able to control them with some kind of Sevin product or durisban. But I want what works! I'm gonna check with Tractor Supply & Lowes today...but I'll take any suggestions you give.

FYI...(too cute not to mention) Brayden's vocabulary has now expanded to include "up" and "down". And there's needed to be a lot of "up"s into Mommy's lap without the gugga being readily available. I think I'M the gugga patch!!

Kids are back...

We went this weekend to pick up Matt and Nat from my parents. Matt had been with them for 2 weeks and Nat for 1 week. We all still transitioning back into our old routine, but it's a good transition. We missed them and I think they missed us :) Brayden really enjoys having them back. They are much more fun that me and Jim.

But this routine won't last long since schools tarts back next Tues. From what I can tell, we are one of the last schools to start this late. No problem by me cause I still don't everything I need for them yet. Just piddly stuff, but still needs to be done. Matt will meet his teacher on Thurs and Nat will meet her teachers on Monday night. I think they are both ready to go back. I haven't noticed any apprehension...yet.

Matthew will start football practice tonight. This will be his first time, but only cause it's his first time to show interest. He's really pumped. I hope we have a good coach since Coach Dad won't be doing it. (but he's all in on basketball and softball) I asked Nat if she wanted to do any fall sports, but she's a softball girl and that's it (she said). Still doing art, but she wanted to take some time off, so we'll start back this Thursday.

Brayden is saying something new (and funny) everyday. His latest words are what and why. He's an expert at spotting the planes in the sky and loves to play with the water hose! We're currently trying to break him from the gugga (pacifier). It's going ok. He gets it (or is supposed to only get it) at sleep times. He's had a few melt downs, but he seems to be pulling thru ok. I think if they make a patch to help quit smoking, that there should be a patch for this!!

Hope you are all having a great week!

Davidson Family Get Together

This past weekend was the Davidson Family Get Together at Ricky and Cindy's house (Ricky is Kay's [Jim's Mom] oldest brother). We left Friday and stayed at Mom and Dad's house so that we could stay and visit with them and my sisters...and Matthew, since he'd been with Mom and Dad all last week. We headed out on Saturday morning around 9:30 and got to Whiteface about 12:30pm. We sat around and visited, ate GOOD, and watched the kids play outside. It was a really pleasant day. I never saw it get above 90. The kids had a great time playing on this huge water slide of Rylee's (Courtney's son [Ricky and Cindy's grandson]).

It was a really good turn out. There was (of course) Ricky, Cindy, Courtney, Rylee, Tanner, Jennifer, Kay, Granny, Pop, Larry, Angie, Kendra, Bobby, Chanda w/ new baby in belly, Bailey, Chloe, Delaynee, Casey (Bailey's friend), Jim, Me, Natalie, Matthew, and Brayden.

Ricky and Cindy - Thank you so much for having us all, cooking for us...it was all great! Ricky, you make a mean steak :)

Hope you all had a great weekend, and I hope that all of you get rain soon. We got about an hours worth of spittle last night and have a chance again tonight and tomorrow...Woo Hoo.

Here's a few pictures from this weekend...

Misdiagnosed!

Well I learned that bigger isn't necessarily better! Most of you read on Jim's blog where I went into the hospital about 2 weeks ago. I was very adamant that Jim take me to the Presbyterian hospital in Denton, instead of the little hospital in Decatur. I'd heard to many horror stories about the Decatur hospital from the locals. I did have Brayden there, but that was the L & D side of it and not the actual hospital. Anyway, so he took me to Denton. While in the ER the doctor that saw me suspected my appendix. But when the CT scan showed fluid from an unknown source and he didn't see my appendix, he consulted the gynecologist and she suspected a ruptured cyst and that's what I was admitted and treated for. They even when as far as saying that I still had another cyst there. So for 2 days they pumped the strongest antibiotics they could in me and sent me home. I did start feeling pretty good and by the time my one week check up rolled around, I felt human again. So the doctor said to come back in 6 weeks and that she'd check up on the remaining cyst and to call her if I start to have pain again. I left there thinking that this was a done deal and all was good. I stopped the antibiotics she sent me home from the hospital with on the day after my one week check up (7/20).

Well that Saturday (7/22)when our good friends Kim, Gary, and family came to see us, poor Kim ended up being in some pretty serious tooth pain and for the time of night that is was...ER was her only choice. So I was again adamant that she go to Denton. Well as this transpired I started feeling on and off pain, but just dismissed it cause it had to be all in my head. The next day we went to 6-Flags and the pain was still off and on, but by the evening is was ON and stayed on for the next several days. I confessed to Jim on Wed night that I was just hurting and I didn't feel right. So I told him I was gonna try to go in the next morning to the doctor in Denton. By the morning I was really convinced that it wasn't in my head. Well the doctor in Denton couldn't see my till today and I said that I was hurting NOW and I'd just call my doctor in Decatur. I went in to see Dr. Campbell (who's the doctor that delivered Brayden). It told him about the hospital visit and the pain and the pain coming back. He listened to all the info and was confused as to why they thought it was a cyst and not appendix. I told him that the ER doc thought it might be, but the Gyno convinced him otherwise. He did a sono and confirmed that I had not cyst and that my ovaries and such looked fine, but there was this fluid that he couldn't explain. I told him that that's what they said about the CT scan earlier. By this time the pain was pretty strong and when he helped me sit up in the table I almost kissed the floor. He said that we weren't screwing around and that he need to do a scope and see what was going on. He had me admitted...to the hospital I'm terrified of...right away. I begged that he not leave my side even if another doctor did the procedure. He promised that he wouldn't.

So to wrap this LONG story up. He did the scope and found that I had a retro secal(sp?) appendix (which means that is was inverted and that's why I guess they didn't see it on the ct). He said that it didn't rupture, but apparently was perforated and that's where the fluid was coming from. He washed it out with a lavage (sp?) He said that everything else was a picture of health and he supposedly showed Jim and Dad the pictures to prove it.

I got released on Friday at 3pm and each day I've been feeling better and better. I've been able to pick up the baby with no pain today so that's great!

So my lesson has been learned...bigger's not better. Just cause its a big named hospital don't mean squat. Doctors can make mistakes anywhere. And as my doctor pointed out, this was a mistake that could have kept me from blogging...to say the least :) And I have only God to thank for this one!!!

Diet

Thanks Martha!!! :)

I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina for my Labrador Retriever and was in line to check out.

A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall guy behind her.

Horrified, she asked if I'd been poisoned and was that why I was in the hospital.

I said no.....I'd been sitting in the street licking my balls and a car hit me.

I thought the tall guy was going to have to be carried out the door.

GGgggrrrr...ass...hoppers!!

Does ANYONE have any advice on how to get a handle on grasshoppers? I tried what Lowes said - Ortho Bug Stop for Gardens (it was the safest for the dog and kids). It did kill the ones I sprayed. But they come back, or just move to where I didn't spray. They've devoured (sp?) the leaves on all the fruit trees and there's just jillions in the back yard and I'm ready to KILL!

So anyone who knows an ole wives tale, industrial spray, anything...please let me know cause I'm going loco here :)

Hope you are all having a great week. Mine's going really good now cause the pools not a green swamp anymore, the grass is not as crunchy as it was due to some super duper watering, the doctor visit yesterday went great (so I took the rest of the day off and did some school shopping just me and Brayden - who rewarded me with extra sweet behavior), and I gave into the Toblerone bar that Jim bought me on Sunday...not the whole thing but 2 chunks of it,yummy!

We're in trouble now!

We are in deep trouble now! Little fingers knows how to open doors :0 Can you say "deadbolt"?

(If you haven't checked out our vacation pictures or stories, see the past 2 blogs. Jim's blog has the stories, just scoll down a bit on his. His link is at the right side of my blog.)

Vacation Pictures #2

This is a continuation of the post from yesterday....

Vacation Pictures

I'm gonna try posting the pictures that Jim referenced in his 2nd to last blog. These are out of order and where near all the best (of 245) picutres we took. If you wnat to be copied of all 246 when I order from Winkflash, let me know. Enjoy :)

















...stay tuned, more pics tomorrow...