Life gets in the way.

So, so much for Nablopomo. Too much stuff going on. I'll have to try it another time. Quick update, tho, Josiah is getting better. Amox is fabulous. And I don't know how we made it thru Gennie teething without Hyland's Teething Tablets. I'll never do that again. They are a lifesaver. Sound a little like "Dr. Sleep-good's Miracle Cure" or something but they really work. Totally homeopathic and melt instantly in his mouth. Yeah, Hyland's!

Photos tomorrow with an update of our weekend.

Until then, goodnite.

Shout-out to my dad!

So, my parents are in Africa. They went over to Conakry, Guinea, as part of a missions work team to repair the missionary guest house on the compound where my mom's sister Cathy lives and works. My uncle Carl went also and he and dad have been working like crazy patching up the vent holes in the guestrooms with cement blocks and well, cement.

My mom has been busy doing the laundry . . . the team brought with them a bunch of stuff to outfit the guesthouse and all the new linens have to be rinsed before they are used. What a pile of laundry:

Anyway, the shout-out is because today is his Birthday!!! 57 years young! The team had planned a day off so they could do a little sightseeing but because the islands are so crowded on the weekends they decided to go today . . . and also as a birthday gift for him. When they get back tonite they are going to have brownies . . . which they brought in their suitcases . . . the mix, I mean . . . for birthday dessert. He's not much of a frosting guy so cake is kinda wasted on him.

(We'll celebrate when you get home, Daddy. Gennie has stuff planned that she wants to get for presents . . . but I convinced her you wouldn't really like dolls, that you're more of a sports guy. You're welcome.)

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Poor little guy

So, Josiah is sick. Pretty bad. I didn't post yesterday because literally if he wasn't sleeping, he was crying and wouldn't let us put him down. No swing, no bouncy-seat, no excer-saucer, nothing. We spent several hours last night trying to decide if it warranted a trip to the ER . . . we don't have a walk-in clinic here and all the dr's are closed by 7pm . . . but in the end we decided to see how he did thru the night and try to get in to his dr today. He slept okay, but since it's a chest thing I had to sleep sitting up on the couch with him on his tummy on my shoulder for him to be able to breathe without coughing. Second night of that, actually. The first night I kept having to shake him when he would start gasping to make sure he started breathing again . . . needless to say I didn't sleep much that night . . . but last night he did much better as long as he didn't start to cry. Then it was gasping and coughing and wheezing.

Just got back from the dr's and they said his lungs and ears are pretty clear, it's just that his airway and throat are REALLY irritated and probably hurt a ton. That's why he hasn't been eating . . . he only had a total of 12oz of formula ALL DAY yesterday and only 6 today so far . . . dr said that it's probably really hurting to swallow and since he can't tell us that, he just cries more. We'll start the amox drops in just a minute and get him feeling better. But since he's finally asleep right now wild horses stampeding couldn't make me wake him to give him the meds. I think I'll wait until he wakes up.

On a happy note, he's up to 15lbs, 12oz today. And only 3mos old. Our little ham!

1997

So, my friend Annie sent this quiz and usually I don't fill them out . . . but I love reading them and remembering . . . but I thought it might be fun to do this one. It's filled out about my senior year of high school - 1997. Here we go:



1. Who was your best friend? Kris and Annie and D'Et



2. What kind of car did you drive? My parents' 1986 Ford Tempo, incidently the only one of the ones we know of personally that didn't catch fire. Long story.


3. It's Friday night...where are you? Working at Subway - the first 3 months of senior year - or driving around town in Annie's Chevy Maverick - loved that beast of a car.



4. Were you a party animal? No because Kris's dad was the Justice of the Peace and my dad made weekly visits to chat with him and I didn't want to risk the wrath.



5. Were you considered a flirt? not senior year


7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Choir


8. Were you a nerd? I could never be confused with anyone who loves learning. If it's not something I'm interested in, I leave it strictly alone. Not into "knowledge for knowledge's sake."



9. Did you get suspended/expelled? Not since 7th grade. Another long story.



10. Can you sing the fight song? Yep because I was a cheerleader and not only that but I was the mascot. And it's pronounced Ky-yote, not Ky-yo-tee. That means you, Kev.



11. Who were your favorite teachers? Rasmussen, Abbott



12. Where did you sit during lunch? At the lunch table with the cool kids (well, my whole class, really. The senior class was the "cool kids" every year.) for about 5 minutes to eat ranch and soda crackers then outside on the front steps with whoever was out there.



13. What was your school's full name? Chester Public School



14. School mascot? Me. I mean, Coyotes



15. Did you go to Prom? Yes, with my 3-day romance guy from winter camp.



16. If you could go back and do it again, would you? Definitely. I loved high school.



17. What do you remember most about graduation? Seriously, the fact that it was understood that you buy gifts or everyone in the class, guys and girls. Good thing there was only 17 of us total.


18. Where did you go senior skip day? I think we couldn't because classes before us ruined it



19. Were you in any clubs? C club, because I lettered in Basketball sophomore year - for being manager! Pathetic, right? Then I lettered in music Junior year - made it actually count.



20. Where did you go most often for lunch? We only got 25 minutes for lunch so we all ate at school mostly.

21. Have you gained some weight since then? Oh, shut up!

22. Who was your Senior prom date? As mentioned before, my 3-day romance guy from winter camp. I didn't want to go with any guys from town because I knew they'd be plastered by the time they got to the dance so I asked a guy from another town. He wanted to date exclusively but I was headed for college in CA and wasn't going to be tied down.

23. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? No, it's this year and I don't think anyone has planned anything. Usually they do an All-School Reunion every few years so we'll see then.

24. Who was your home room teacher? Didn't have one.

25. Who will repost this? whoever wants to

26. Do you still talk to people from high school? Some. I got reaquainted with some recently so we've been emailing and stuff lately.

I must post every day.......

So, I've caught Kev's cold. He's been over it for about a week or so . . . just enough time for me to think I won't get it. Ha. Here it is.

But at least I didn't wimp out on Nablopomo. One post every day for Nov. See you in the morning.

Nyquil, here I come.

yeah for us!

So, 4 weeks ago we decided to start this program:

We bought the materials on eBay for way cheaper than the infomercial . . . speaking of, when you are up twice a nite feeding a newborn and most of your cable channels cut out at midnight and the only thing left to watch is the TV Guide scrolling channel, you see all sorts of things for sale. Anyway, we decided that we both needed to do it so we got the stuff. It's not a fad diet like we were first worried . . . actually it's a complete change in diet and eating habits. For instance, for my body type and weight history (all the way back to high school, etc.) I should be eating 6 times a day, but in regulated portions . . . not just free-for-all. I get protein and fruits at certain times and protien, fruit, and carbs at other times. Most importantly, you are not allowed to skip meals . . . you MUST eat the midmorning and midafternoon snacks as well as the regularly scheduled B, L, D. And you get an evening snack if you want it. And the portion sizes are the size that we are supposed to be consuming . . . I get 3oz of protein and 1/2 cup fruit for breakfast and midmorning snack, 3oz protein, 3/4 cup carbs and 1/2 cup veggie for lunch, 3oz protein and 3/4 cup carbs for midafternoon snack and the same as lunch for supper. Sounds bad, right? Well, 3/4 cup carbs is about a medium potato and 3oz protein is about as big as my fist and really we can have all the veggies and fruit (specific ones) that we want. Funny thing is that we have been getting full eating like this even tho it's sooooo different than what we did before.

In the 4 weeks I've lost 10lbs . . . would be more if I really liked the excercising but I'm holding my own . . . and Kev's lost 14lbs. Not too bad considering he was sick with a cold for a week in there and didn't excercise at all. But beyond the number is the fact that our clothes are fitting better these days and we feel better health-wise. And we are determined not to go back to our bad eating habits once we've reached our goals . . . it'll help make sure the kids are eating correctly, too. We still splurge one meal a week when we go out to Sunday lunch with my parents after church, but overall we stick to the plan.

The only complaint Kev has is that with both of our body types we are no longer allowed to eat red meat or pork. Red meat takes too long for us to metabolize and doesn't process correctly for us. So it's all turkey and chicken breast . . . and yes, turkey burger tastes exactly the same as ground beef when it's in something . . . wouldn't you all like to know what I've brought to homegroup or fed you while visiting that wasn't really beef?!?! Hee Hee. Kev says that he'll still sneak in a steak from time to time but I'm sneaking Dr. Pepper so I can't really rag him for it.

So, if you see us at church discreetly eating sliced deli turkey and bananas in the nursery, now you know what we're up to.

National Blog Posting Month

So, I decided to follow my friends and join the challenge of blog posting every day this month. But to keep from boring you with photos of the kids only, I won't just talk about them.

Funny tho, this post actually begins with a photo of Josiah:

So, I think one of the funniest things in the whole wide world is the sneeze. Think about it . . . everyone sneezes . . . from the smallest baby to the most sophisticated grown-up . . . and there's nothing you can do about it. You lose complete control of your face and sometimes saliva, you have to completely stop talking, the urge overtakes you. It is said that it's physically impossible for you to sneeze with your eyes open . . . that if you could your eyes would pop out of your head . . . I'm sure there are those who have tried and you don't really hear about eyes popping out of heads that often . . . so I don't know if I believe that part.

One of our family's favorite actors-of-yore, Red Skelton, did a whole bit about sneezes. Here's two of my favorites:

The candy bar sneeze: HEEERRRSHEEEYYY
The Inquisitive sneeze: WHOOOO'SSSSHE???

The rest you have to see his face to do it but the Truckdriver's sneeze blows his shoes off. Really funny. Another of my favorite actors is Dick Van Dyke. That's another post for another time but he also did a bit about a sneeze that took almost 5 minutes to manifest itself and ran him all over the house looking for a kleenex.

Hooray for the sneeze! May it continue to bring me hours of laughter!

Edited to add: As soon as I got this posted and got up, I was attacked by a Vesuvius-sized sneeze that made Josiah cry. Go sneezes!