April 18, 2006
So the month is half gone and here I am finally getting to
update the journal. It’s getting tough to get much time at the computer these
days. Between the girls and work and attempting to have some semblance of a
life as a family, I just don’t get the free time to hang out and email, chat or
update my journal as much as I’d like. So, with that said (and in between updating
my work database) I’ll give you the scoop on what’s been happening with us so
far this month.
I went in for a blood draw and it came back that I was
extremely hypoglycemic. Extremely like normal is 100, they consider you
hypoglycemic at 50 and mine was 30. So they had me do a fasting blood draw
which came back fine and dandy. In reading about hypoglycemia however, a lot of
the symptoms do seem to fit me…just not all 24 hours of every day. When they
did the first draw, I had just eaten. I’m thinking I may have food responsive
(or something like that) hypoglycemia. I’ll have to mention that to the doc
tomorrow since I’m going back for another fasting blood draw. Basically, I turn
into a mush brain after I eat anything. That would explain why the fasting
blood draw came back normal. I’ll keep you updated on that.
My work is keeping me really busy lately. The audits seem to
just be rolling in every week. It’s a nightmare but luckily I keep really good
records so it’s not impossible to answer the auditor’s questions, just time
consuming. Time=what I don’t have.
I got the hallway painted and some of the trim in there
done. I planted a butterfly garden in the back yard last week and I’ve already
seen a few butterfly’s and a hummingbird out there. I’m also waiting for my
enrollment package for a local moms group. They have playgroups, moms nights
out, family stuff, book groups and lots of other things going on. I am mainly
interested in meeting some other moms who may be willing to trade off child
care duties occasionally.
For fun so far this month, we’ve gone to Bush Gardens again,
went to the Taste of New Tampa festival, went to the Italian festival in Ybor
City (which was bad), played in the sprinklers a few times, hunted for the
Easter bunny and eggs and just been our regular silly old selves.
Woody is doing well. He’s going out of town for two days
this week to the Ft Erie office and then he’s taking another two day trip to
Pace next week. Work is keeping him busy and he’s helping a lot with the girls
since my work has put the pressure on lately.
We are heading to
Lauren is saying more words and bouncing around like an
upside down grasshopper. She’s trying to dress herself and although she has the
undressing down pat, the dressing part seems to be causing her some distress.
She will rip off her diaper; scream “nakee ba-beee!” and run for her life if
you dare to get up and try to put the diaper back on. But if you tell her to
put her diaper on, she will comply by sticking her foot into the diaper and
letting it hang limply off of one leg like some sort of diaper flag. She has
also kind of gotten the hang of feeding herself. Kind of.
She’s also become quite fond of things that latch.
Especially her car seat. My number one goal in life right now is to limit the
number of stops we have on any given car trip. She will climb into her seat,
try to latch herself (prepare for the screams if you attempt to help her latch
in until she’s darn good and ready to give up the fight) and then unlatch
herself when it’s time to go. Sometimes getting into the seat is the issue. She
does the rigor-mortis shuffle which involves her making her entire body
impossible to conform to the carseat at all. Sometimes getting out of the seat
is the issue. It’s really a bummer of a phase though.
Lauren’s Easter egg hunting skills are superior. If nothing
else, this kid can find a brightly colored egg. The Easter Bunny hid some eggs
on the patio and the playroom just for Laurens hunting pleasure. She found all
of them right away and reveled in her chocolate bunny, jelly bean and
marshmallow breakfast. As did I…yes…As did
Speaking of Easter. We tried to go to an egg hunt at the
church but we thought it was at 10:30 on Saturday. I got the girls dressed and
we started to leave when Candace called to let us know that they missed it too,
it was at 10. Since we had the girls looking fine and their hopes up, we tried
to find another egg hunt. I found one listed online and we went there but there
was no-one to be found. On the way to the non-existent egg hunt however,
Katherine made up a new figurehead. The Easter Rooster who can often be seen in
the company of the Easter Bunny. Maybe eggs=chicken=rooster? I can not claim to
have any idea how this kids brain works but it was funny none the less. She
even expressed great hopes that she would have a chocolate bunny and rooster in
her basket. Note to ALL: if you happen across a chocolate rooster in the coming
year, please let me know. I’d like to start a new tradition befitting our
kookiness. J
By the way, the non existent egg hunt actually happened in 2003. When I googled
“egg hunt
So, we missed the Easter egg hunts but we thought we should
at least take the girls to the mall to meet the bunny so we did. They sat on
the bunny’s lap, had a train ride and went berserk in the 75% off toy store
full of junk. We got a giant bag of bouncy balls, rubber snakes and the like
for about $25. Good stuff to pull out for long car rides and such. After all of
that excitement we went to Ruby Tuesdays for lunch and registered the girls to
win an Easter basket. Katherine won the drawing so we went and picked up her
basket last night. It had a Barbie type doll and some candy in it. She was very
excited about winning something.
On Easter Morning, Katherine was beyond excited. Most
mornings she comes to the bedside and whispers “mommy, time to wake up” but
Easter morning you could tell she was trying desperately to keep her voice
quiet enough to not wake Lauren when she said “I found an EGG!” Wonder, awe,
shock and amazement all describe her face. She was so excited by the first egg
in the hallway outside of her door that she totally missed the basket full of
stuff in front of her bedroom door. She was literally shaking with excitement
and her pupils were humongous. It was kind of weird really, but fun at the same
time. She found all of her eggs, even the one that the sly old bunny had hidden
in moms shoe. Good hunting kiddo.
We went swimming that afternoon and while we were at the
pool, she was shivering again. But this time three was a reason, it was cool
and the wind was blowing. She proceeded to tell a few older people who were
sitting by the edge of the pool that “today the Easter bunny came to my house,
and we went to Busch gardens, and tomorrow we are going to the beach and my
mommy and daddy are getting married!” I immediately blushed and corrected her
by saying “the Easter bunny did come
to your house today and we did go to
Busch Gardens but we are going to a
beach wedding next weekend of one of
mommy and daddy’s friends. Mommy and daddy are already married”. She is obsessed with weddings since the Little
Bear episode where they have a pretend wedding. She puts her pillow on her head
and says “who wants to marry me?” and stuff like that. Yeah, she’s nuts.
But then she’s brilliant too. Like today, she started
reading. We were sounding out letters and I made the words cat, hat and boo
boo. She got cat and hat and with some prodding she got boo boo too. I was
astonished. She’s growing up. She also got her big girl bed earlier this month
and she picked out some lovely pink and pale green lacy flowery bedding. It’s
actually pretty cute.
