school day halloween party

nursing monster

Well there was one down side to my birthday and sleeping in. John got up with Camille so I didn’t nurse her first thing like I normally do. I heard her fussing and so I got up because I knew what she wanted. When John saw the nursing monster I had turned her into he put his foot down right then and there. No more. The longer I do it the harder it will be to stop. I know, I know but I don’t want to stop. We are though. She threw a fit for 45 minutes yesterday, which I knew she would because I have kind of, sort of, tried (not really all that hard though) to avoid it sometimes and I have seen the way she acts. It was breaking my heart yesterday. Knowing I was taking something away from her that she loved so much. Ugh I hate it. I’m not really ready to be done either but…..I know it must be done. Plus I have gotten mastitis again. My body just does not work half way when it comes to making milk. My supply is just too big. She didn’t throw much of a fit today. She is already onto bigger and better things. It's only my heart that is still breaking, I guess.

My 29th b-day......

........so what if it is the 4th year we have celebrated it.

My birthday was a great one. My family made sure I was a princess for the day. I am so lucky to have them. I got to sleep in and eat a yummy breakfast and then we got ready to shop for a camera that I got to pick out. John was even going to let me get a pink one. Boy is he nice. The girls made me the cutest b-day cards. I will cherish them always. After Avery brought them to me while I was still looking at them she disappeared and came back with a hand full of magnets to hang them on the fridge with. Guess she wanted to make sure they didn’t end up in the garbage (hehehe makes me feel horrible, I made sure she knew I would NEVER throw my b-day cards out). We had dinner with John’s side of the family which is always fun. There are 7 birthdays we celebrate with a big dinner every year with them. It just happened to fall right on my b-day this year.

Trick or Treating!!

Saturday was the big event. Trick or Treating! Avery was so excited. She was Charlie Brown again and Camille was Snoopy. PP had mailed them new trick or treat buckets and they were so cute. Camille loved hers although she didn’t want candy in it. She wanted to carry the candy around with her. She got mad when she could not carry it all. They got a lot of loot. I had to empty Av’s bucket a couple of times for her because it kept getting too heavy. We were out for almost 2 hours. Avery is so cute. We do not give her much candy/cookies/cake/sugar at all. She does not even like most of it (at least she does not think she does). During trick or treating or after it she never had any candy. Didn’t ask at all, although she inhaled the animal crackers our neighbors got especially for them. By 1:00 on Sunday she still had not asked for any of it. I wanted a piece so I made a big deal out of taking her candy. At that point she wanted to see it. She spent 45 minutes looking at it all, sorting it, doing who knows what with to finally decide what one piece she wanted. Finally decided on Skittles that she promptly decided she didn’t like. She thought they were M&M’s so we got those out for her. Still that is all the Halloween candy she has eaten. The b-day cake and ice cream she had last night makes up for it.

Halloween Party!!

Friday night was the Shuman’s annual Halloween party. We had a BLAST. This was the first year it was adults only and it was fun. We had a babysitter come watch the kids at our house while we partied the night away next door. Marci and I put the babies down while Jackson and Avery hung out with Heidi. They were so excited. Before Heidi or Jackson got to our house, Avery was looking out the front door. I asked her if she was waiting for Jackson. She said, “no Heidi!” She loves her. So Heidi watched the kids for us while we got in our costumes. As we were leaving for the party Jackson, Heidi and Avery were hanging out on our front porch getting ready to watch people arrive in their costumes. It was lightly raining outside and the kids were running around with their PJ’s rolled up so they didn’t get wet. John and I went over early before the party officially started. Soon after we arrived the doorbell rang. We went to open it and no one was there but we heard this little giggling. The kids had rang the door bell and run. The smiles on their faces were so big. Seeing a smile like that on your kid’s face is the best feeling in the world. The party was a big success. John and I were a cowboy and cowgirl. We stayed up too late and had too many jello shots. It was worth it though. The Shumans ended up staying the night at our house because they didn’t want to wake their kids so we had a sleepover. Saturday morning Marci and I were up with the babies. We came prepared though with bagels and a breakfast casserole. It was nice having company while up early with Camille. We all ended up hanging out for a while in our PJ’s. I have a feeling many more sleepovers will be in our future especially since the Shumans are moving.

day with Avery

Thursday was Avery’s first hippotherapy. We are just going to call it horse back riding. I was able to pick up Thursdays for Camille so she went to school. First Avery had speech. Speech has been going better but she still really had not been talking until this week!!!!!!!!!!!! She finally talked. I was so excited to hear she finally talked to Miss Angela. Apparently she talked and talked like she had been talking all the time to her and it was all the sudden no big deal. That just made me so happy. Then off to see the horses. She first receives some therapy in the clinic and then rides the horses. The therapy didn’t go so well. She cried and cried. At first they wanted me to wait in the other room so I did. It was horrible. I could hear her crying and calling for me. So hard to just sit there and listen to your child cry for you. Then they brought me in thinking it would help. It didn’t really. She just hates doing things on the spot when people ask her too. So silly. After that we went out to the arena to ride. Her horse for the day was a little pony size horse named Mickey. He was so cute. They helped her climb on him and away they went. She rode for half an hour. She seemed to really like it. She was stone faced the whole time but that’s what she does. They walked in a big circle, stoped and stated and walked in figure 8’s. All of it works on her core strength. Afterwards it’s treat time for the horse. She was so proud to give him a treat and really was excited that she rode a horse. I think she will end up loving the whole thing. It will just take her some time to get used to it. Afterwards we went home to play outside with Jackson and Blake. We played for hours it was so pretty outside. Then off to pick Camille up. It was a big fun full day. I think I am going to really like getting some one on one time with Avery again.

Molars already?!?!

Last Wednesday I was at work when I got a call from Camille’s school. She had been crying since she got there and they could not get her to stop. Very unusual for her so I left work right away to pick her up. She had actually slept in that morning and so we didn’t have time for breakfast before school. She cried pretty hard on the way to school but I just thought it was because our routine had been thrown off that morning since she slept in. I knew she would eat at school as soon as she got there so I thought that would solve any problems. Once home I really could not get her to stop crying either. I gave her some Tylenol and that kind of helped but she was still on edge. She napped for a bit but woke up screaming again. Finally I was worried and left her in her bed screaming to call the dr. They said it sounded like an ear infection and made an appointment for me. I really didn’t think it was an ear infection so I checked her over and found a big molar half out far back in her mouth. Seemed really weird to me. She has her eight front teeth but that’s it. I know they can get teeth out of order but it just looked like it was in a weird spot. So I kept the dr. appointment. Either it was her ears or I wanted the dr to look at the tooth. Everything checked out so it had to have been the tooth. I should have known, she was grinding her teeth last week and she only does that right before a tooth pops out. I guess she just wanted a day with mommy!!