She’s now tasted blood and she likes it!
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Thursday Bloody Thursday
September 13th, 2007
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It’s true, the shirt doesn’t lie
September 12th, 2007
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We are still alive, but…
September 11th, 2007
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…been busy catching up on some laundry.
…been busy playing in the exercise saucer.
…been busy jumping in the jumper-roo.
…and most importantly, been busy catching up on our naked reading!
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Still submerged in snot
September 9th, 2007
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Tobie here:
This is a whopper of a cold. I thought Drew was turning a corner and getting better, but then tonight he started getting all stuffed up again. Cole is just one big booger. We have pics to torture him with in high school when he starts introducing us to his “lady friends”. Paige has lost her voice. Eric and I joked that this could be a good thing. He was reflecting tonight that if her vocal cord hadn’t healed that this is how she’d probably sound for life. I think her own voice was causing her to giggle hysterically tonight at dinner, either that or the sickness got to her brain. At one point in this fine evening of whining, crying hysterically, and moaning Drew was losing his mind in his swing and Cole went over to him and laid his little head on Drew’s chest. It was one of those moments where in the midst of insanity and wanting to pull every hair out of my head that I knew this will all be worth it. Eric has been a stellar dad during this sickness too. He’s really reached deep down (that’s a line he likes to use). He usually starts each morning with “eewww…gross…don’t touch me” but about 20 minutes into the day he’s a snot wiping fool. We don’t know how single parents manage during these tough times. In order to get the babies to take their medicine he has to physically pin the babies down while I pry their mouths open and insert the syringe. Then I have to clamp their mouths shut really fast before they can spit it out. I can’t wait until they can understand that the medicine will make them feel better. I was able to fake them out with the medicine on one dose by spoon feeding them. I think they thought it was yogurt. The doctor last week when I brought Drew in said this cold should last 10-14 days. Geez…that’s a lot of snot filled days of boredom. No one coming or going and a lot of whining. Can’t wait!! One appointment I know without a doubt that we’re going to keep is Cole’s feeding evaluation at Children’s Hospital feeding clinic (the one that takes 6 months to get into). I’m supposed to bring food I know he’ll eat…ummm….pretzels? And food that he won’t eat but that I think he should be able to eat…ummm…every other food out there? Oh yeah..and I’m supposed to starve him. He’s sick and not eating much as it is. This should be an interesting evaluation.
Speaking of not eating much…Karen you were right. After two days of Drew not eating much I’m kind of drying up. I should have pumped. I’m going to keep at it because it’s mind over body, right? Okay one last eating thought for the day….Eric has bet me that I can’t lose 16lbs by December. Anyone who knows me knows I love competition. I told him I’d like him to lose 16lbs and we’ll see who can do it first.
Oh yeah..here’s one more eating story. So yesterday I made waffles for breakfast. Paige fed her waffles to Moxie then after breakfast ate dog food. Eric says she prefers dog food to my cooking. All my ex-coworkers can probably appreciate that story after my feeble attempts at Holiday Cookie Exchanges. And Roy….was this the reason you didn’t want my waffles when you visited? Am I the only one who likes my waffles?
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Still down–send reinforcements!
September 8th, 2007
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Tobie here: We’re still down. All of us. No one is really eating. Drew ate 1/2 a boob in the last 13 hours. That’s unheard of. Cole has been coughing non-stop and doesn’t want his bottle. Paige just looks ragged. Eric brought the sleeper sofa into the family room in hopes that we’d all set up sick camp and watch movies all day. Ha! Maybe normal toddlers would find this cool….our kids just want to move even when they’re sick as could be. We cancelled swim lessons for today…that makes me sad. I was tempted to just take Paige sick. The water would feel wonderful on her skin and they really humidify the air which would help her breathe. I won’t take her though because I wouldn’t want to swim in another kid’s snot. I may need to call the peed again about Drew if he doesn’t wake up ravenous. I don’t want him to get off his growth curve. I also can’t decide if I should wake him to feed him or let him get his rest. It’s so hard for him to sleep when his nose is stuffy I’m opting to let him rest. We better get over this soon!
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Babies Down
September 6th, 2007
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I have never seen so much snot in my life. Tobie and I were talking about what we hate the most, poop, vomit, or snot? For some reason snot is sooooo disgusting to us. We’ve had tons of vomit on us (Drew is definitely a reflux kid). We’ve even had poop on us (sometimes not even realizing it, I know gross, right?). But snot…oh my…It’s hard treating the kids you love like lepers. As I see Paige walking towards me:
“Ummm…hey Paige, why don’t you go play with mommy. Tob, get your snot rag ready, she’s a coming!“.
The more we wipe their noses, the faster the snot comes out. I guess a cold was to be expected, after all this past weekend we exposed them to: Chuck E. Cheese, the zoo, a house full of kids, and the play area at the mall. The only highly contagious place we missed was the hospital. I guess it’s good to get it out of their system before RSV season, right?
We brought Drew into the peed, bad news is he’s sick and miserable, the good news is he’s gained over 5 ounces in a week. Oh did I mention that I talked to the insurance company and they have no record of Drew being added to our plan? Our conversation went like this:
Me: Hi, we tried to fill a prescription for my son and the pharmacy said we don’t have insurance.
Faceless Insurance Agent: Well let’s look him up in the system, what’s his name?
Me: Drew Colin
Faceless Insurance Agent: We have no record of him. When was he born?
Me: 4.19.07
Faceless Insurance Agent: Nope, can’t find him in the system. Anyways, congratulations on the birth of your son.
Me: Yeah, that was so 4.5 months ago.
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So you think you can dance
September 6th, 2007
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Weekend Recap
September 4th, 2007
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Tobie here:
This weekend went down in the history books for a most fabulous weekend. My aunt and cousin flew in Friday night to hang out with us for a couple days. Saturday morning was the first swim lesson at the new swim school. Cole went first and he LOVED it (we are alternating weeks with each baby). Both kids are coo-coo for swimming now. I can’t even take Cole on his swing in the backyard because he just points and moans at the swimming pool. Anyways, we have a guy instructor (who was awesome) and I’m curious to see how Paige responds to him as 90% of the people that are in her life are female. Later on Saturday we took everyone to Chuck E Cheese for the first time. What sensory overload! I can’t believe P& C can still be afraid of the vacuum after being in that place! There were lights flashing, music blaring, kids running and screaming everywhere….everyone seemed to have a great time. The pizza was surprisingly good too. Well, we could only stay so long there because Cole’s feet were hurting because I had him in shoes that were a size too small and two widths too small. Who knew?
Eric here: Somehow I deleted the last part of Tobie’s post. Ooops. Drew isn’t feeling so hot right now (you should hear him, he sounds so sad because his voice is really hoarse) and so she’s got no time to rewrite it. So I’ll do my best to pull it from memory…we also went to the zoo for the first time on Sunday (sans Eric). It was hot, very hot. The peed has been on us to see the zoo and all the animals, but it’s been 110+ degrees since May. We thought we could beat the heat by going at the crack of dawn. By the time we got to the zoo it was already 9 am. So much for an early start. I wish I could say C & P could appreciate the animals, but they were more focused on the people, path and railings. Did I mention it was hot? We didn’t stay long, but on our way out, more families were just arriving. I guess they have grown acclimated to the AZ heat (unlike us house people). It was a great weekend with a great aunt. And of course a
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Hobbit Hell
September 4th, 2007
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What a weekend. Tobie wants to blog about it later, so I won’t now. However, we did take the kids to the mall today for the first time as a family. We ended up parking in the expectant/new mother parking. While we were unloading, another car probably waited a few minutes for us to shut our doors so they could park next to us. Out of this car comes this mom with two children. Her youngest daughter couldn’t have been younger than 3. So my question to you is, when is a new mother an old mother?
First stop was to Old Navy so Tobie could buy some shorts. Even though Labor Day marks the end of summer for most of the country, we probably will have another month of 100+ degree days. The mall was packed. There were so many parents there with their kids. Speaking of which I need to address a few things. Firstly, what is the deal with kids in this day and age having kids. We must have seen at least a dozen couples that looked fresh out of high school with children. It brought up one our ongoing debates about about how people can make it in this day and age by having kids so young. You look at them as babies themselves. They ditch one sex education class in high school and they get to skip their twenties and go straight to parenthood. And what’s the deal with the direction people cruise the mall? There are rules to this right? It’s like driving a car, you stay on the right, right? We had to dodge too much stroller and young punk traffic as they were not obeying the rules of the road. Stupid punks!
Anyhoo, the main reason for going to the mall was to buy Cole some shoes. Even though we have a new pair, about 1 hour after wearing them he flips out because they are two tight. So off to Gouge Stride Rite we went. Cole definitely has a big foot. He’s a 6 with a double width. Apparently my Hobbit feet are to blame for this. I honestly was expecting to pay $12-15 for the pair. How about$46. He seems to like them so that’s important. When we about to leave the store, Tobie asked the gal to measure Paige’s feet. Yep, she needed new shoes because she was also part of the Hobbit clan. Luckily the store had some on sale for $15. They weren’t that pretty, but worked, so off we went to cruise more of the mall. And what’s the deal with these kid shoes costing as much as adult shoes, they are like 1/8 the size but still have the same price. It’s like the time we bought a new couch for the house and we were going to get a sofa seat which was more than 1/3 smaller than the main couch,but the price only had a $50 difference. It just doesn’t makes sense to me. Ayways, the nice girl who helped us with the the sell said “see you in a few months for another foot resizing”. Damn her!
Next up was to Kaybee Toys. This place seems very overpriced with some questionable offerings. We ended up getting one of those expandable tunnels for the kids to run in. Now you can’t leave the mall without getting some mall junk food. So we headed over to the Dairy Queen which is usually not that crowded. It was this time. We got a couple of soft serve cones to share with the babies. Paige couldn’t get enough. You stick the cone in her mouth and about 1 second later she would “grunt” for more. Cole was also pretty funny about it. Cole hates cold food. I would jam the cone in his mouth, he would make a terrible face like “what did you just do to me?”. Then about 1 second after looking confused, he was trying to grab the cone for some more.
The more we looked at Paige’s shoes, the more we hated them. They looked like orthopedic shoes my grandma would wear. So off we went back to Stride Rite to pay some dollars for the ones we originally wanted. After we returned the shoes, there was a huge play area in front of the store. We decided to let the kids play for a little bit. First I had to coax Paige into the play area. She did a 180 andtriedto run into the children photo place, but ended up running into the glass. It would have been kind of funny if it weren’t my kid.There were 100 crazy sugar high kids of all ages running around. It was a little overwhelming for the kids (was this the source material for Lord Of The Flies?). They did have this giant crocodile that Pagie liked. Every time we would go near it I would be like “Are you my mommy” and she would smile (that’s from one of the books we read about a baby croc who lost his way…snap snap).
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Swim
September 1st, 2007
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Today we started swim lessons. We’ll be alternating the lucky recipient (today was Cole’s turn obviously) each week as we have more kids than available hands because for some reason you can’t just throw them in the pool and let them figure it out.
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