The Nasty GI Bug

Well the past couple of days have been plagued with the GI bug at my house. I had it yesterday and Ian had it today. I was sick for about 24 hours, but have felt much better since this afternoon. I even went to Mom's Night Out and had a great time. Ian, on the other hand, has been absolutely pitiful today. His poor belly is just plagued with this wretched bug. I hope he is over as quickly as I was. He's barely eaten but I know that is exactly how I felt. (I am sort of glad that I had it first since I know how it felt and it helped me with knowing what made me feel better. I guess that's the silver lining to being sick myself.)

Bill finished booking our vacation for the end of the month (March) today, too. We are going to California to visit some family and to go to DisneyLand and Sea World. When I asked Ian if he wanted to see Mickey Mouse he was not feeling well and actually said no. I know the boy is sick when he doesn't want to visit Mickey. We used our Hilton Honors points and only had to pay airfare and the rental car. Our Disney tickets should be fairly cheap since we can use the Active Duty military deal and Sea World will be free since we can use the military deal there, too.

Officially a Texan

Well at least on paper, that is! I received my Texas driver's license so I guess that makes me official! Now I just need to get my tags on my van to seal the deal!

First off I have to shout to the world that both of my children slept through the night from 8pm until 6 am! Someone pinch me!


We got up this morning and headed to library time and enjoyed that. Ian really enjoyed the songs and the parachute time with the beach balls! We then went to Chick-fil-A for lunch with the other moms and kids before coming home for naps. 3 hours later and both boys were still sleeping so I had to wake them up to go to Wazoos with another play group. Ian enjoyed bouncing around and running with the other children. We then came home and got dinner ready before Eliana came over to watch the boys while Bill and I went on date night. We ran to Temple to go to the bank and had dinner at BJs. It was yummy!

We came back to Killeen and stopped by Walgreen's to pick up Bill's script and was told that my schedule was changed. ARGH. I am not too thrilled about that, but will deal. I had to revamp a few things, but am hoping that this works out to my advantage since it gets rid of the 4 days in a row. We'll see!

Arithmetic

Brains and Brawn

Ian is my little brainiac. Of course I am TOTALLY biased, but I do think that he's quite advanced in verbal/math skills for a child who just turned 3 in November. Ian is spelling and reading 3 letter words pretty well and we've started math work in addition. I'm going to post a video that showcases his arithmetic prowess! :) Like I said, I'm totally biased, but I am proud of him. He does miss one problem, but gets it correct when questioned again.


Aaron is my brawny little dude. He's so much stronger than his brother ever was and I have a feeling he's going to be my athlete. He's a crawling maniac and is trying to pull himself up already! He's just over 7 months. He's into everything and he's so quick!

My 2 Favorite Boys

Figuring this stuff out!

Well, I know my page here is pretty darn boring and so I am trying spruce it up a bit. I found a little website that had some templates already in order so I added that to my blog today. I know there have to be other interesting things that I can do, but I am slowly learning. I feel like a baby blogger!

Today was just your typical day around here when I have to work. I try to keep Ian quiet and in bed until around 8am and managed that this morning, but Aaron was up at 7:15am to nurse. I really needed that 45 minutes of sleep, but mommyhood seems to interfere with that. There are days I long for a nap or just a moment of peace and there is none to be found. Oh well! But I digress....

I managed to get myself ready for work, get the boys dressed and fed only to have Aaron crawl under the coffee table and knock my glass of tea everywhere. I really hadn't wanted to clean like that today, but there you go with that whole mommy issue again!

Work was pretty okay today. We weren't super busy and managed fairly well. I must admit that I am not loving this 4 days in a row thing, but I know that I will feel better on Wednesday when I have 5 days off. The boys seem to be adjusting to Eliana being here and Ian gets really excited to when she rings the doorbell. This makes me feel like I have found a good person. Ian tells me that they read stories, etc, so that is a good thing, too. Aaron is still a picky little dude when it comes to his milk and isn't taking bottles uber well, but he seems to take enough and eat enough solids to hold him over until he can nurse. Of course that makes for a long evening for me, because he wants constant attention from me. I think he'll get used to the whole thing eventually, but it's been a little rougher on him than I had thought it would be.

Well, it's late and I have nothing earth shattering to share so have sweet dreams and a blessed day tomorrow!

A New Beginning

I realized that I somehow had created 2 blogs with 2 different google accounts and quite frankly it was too annoying to keep having to flip back and forth. I had only made 3 tiny entries on the other blog and felt like it was best to start fresh. Besides, day is a new fresh start for me anyway.

For those of you that know my "internet life," I have deleted my account on a web forum that I was a member of for around 4 years. I have mixed emotions about it, but for the most part feel a large sense of relief to be ridding myself of an unnecessary distraction that was bogging down my life. I have learned many things from the ladies that were/are members of the group and have watched some pretty amazing little kids grow into some really vibrant 3 year olds. I guess that's the part that I will miss: seeing the kids grow and hearing the crazy stories about the things that preschoolers say and do.

To those who have reached out to me, you are a valuable part of my life and I do hope to keep in touch with you in one way or another. To those that are glad to see me move on, I wish you only the best. To those that are just really confused by all of this, be glad that you are confused and don't understand the dynamic of what brought me to this place. To those that feel the need to keep drumming up the drama, just let it go! No one can take away the past, but you can always try to make a brighter future.

I am going to attempt to make this a little diary about my day to day life. I am a scientist not a writer so please forgive my lack of artistic style, poor punctuation and all around boring drivel. Read what you like. Comment where you will. I look forward to taking this blogging journey with you!