Park Fun

We took a little trip to the park today. It was too nice not too.  We all had a great time.  

As you can tell, Devon was not too sure of the slide.  He loved the swing though.

Jake is a rock star

Jake loves to sing and play his guitar.  He loves all different types of songs, and makes a lot up himself.  Recently Colby and I started to listen to more of Michael Jackson again. He may have been a sad man that as a mom I would never let my kids around, but he made some great music.  Anyway, MJ's videos were on a lot lately and Jake was very intrigued.  1- he LOVES ''Beat it". 2-he is very interested in "why are there 2 Michael Jackson's" (dark skin and light skin), 3- "why did he have a bad heart" "cant we just put a new one in him" and "what color do you think his heart is?"  

As a result of his intrigue I overheard him telling some kids at Jazzercise this week. "hey, did you know Michael Jackson died? His heart stopped working, do you know 'beat it' ?"  to which one of the kids responded in a confused face "My friend Jackson didn't die"........I feel old, but very entertained

Burning the midnight oil?

I took Devon to the Dr on Wednesday because I was up all night the night before.  Devon would wake up crying and acted like he was in pain, and pulling at his ears.  Because he just got over an ear infection, I thought that he had another one.  Well, as it turns out Devon's near crawling is most likely the culprit. His ears, nose, throat, etc look great.  Yes, he is getting another tooth, but most likely that isn't keeping him up.  Dr Wichman confirmed what most of us moms knew already.  When these little guys are working toward a milestone, they wake up and practice...then can't figure out how to get back to sleep, or calm down enough to sleep.  So apparently Devon was too busy trying to crawl in his bed, that he couldn't sleep.  What to do?  Let him cry until he goes to sleep.  I'll tell ya how that turns out.

Determination

This summer Victoria has been at the pool most days.  I don't even mean that as an exaggerated statement.  Most days she is at the pool.  It is more a social scene than anything. But I figure that it is not too bad of a place to spend her time.

Normally, Colby or I take her to the pool in the afternoon, then pick her up a few hours later.  Since we are short a vehicle, some days she has to walk to the pool.  Yes, I said it, we torture her by making her walk to the pool. I mean walking a whole 1.8 miles each way is equivalent to child abuse right?  Having said that, she still goes.  She isn't about to go without her friends for very long (I made her stay home yesterday...gasp). She even makes sure to take a shower before she goes so she is clean (I tell her she will be sweaty by the time she gets there, but she doesn't understand).  So, here she is hoofing it to the pool. : )

P90X

This past week, I started a home workout program called P90X. It is extreme!  The program includes a nutrition plan as well as the exercise video.  My good friend Ashley did it a couple of years ago and it helped her look awesome.  My cousin Cari started doing it about 2 months ago and is toning up (She was already a stick).  I am in dire need to do something.  I do Jazzercise, but it is at 9am and sometimes I don't want to go because it is too much work to get the kids together and out the door happy (Devon snoozes at this time).  I know that  this can be done at home on my own time, so why not?  Colby is doing it with me too, which is a nice.  The whole premise of why it works is muscle confusion or mixing it up so much your body never gets used to the exercises.  There are 3 phases each one lasting 30 days (hence the 90 in P90X).  I love it! I am very tired and sore, but it feels good.  I admit that I am not following the diet to the T as it is very limiting and I still Nurse Devon.  I do the best I can to stay close though.  I am going to stick to this and keep cycling through until I reach my goal weight.  I can't wait to have my old body again!

Visit to Public Saftey

Lately Jake has been having bad dreams about Policemen taking either him or us away. I am not sure why, but he has.  It has upset me because I don't want him to be afraid of the Police.  So I decided to let Jake meet some of Gardner's finest.  In Gardner, the Police and Fire are one and the same hence Public Safety.  This morning Jake and I baked some cookies(frozen dough...not Nestle though we aren't trying to poison them) and brought them up to the station.  At first Jake was afraid, until they asked him if he wanted to see the fire tucks.  His response "oh, that's so cool".  Because it was 100 degrees out, we made it a short trip, and home we went.  Now, I hope to use the good experience with Policeman Jacob (that was really the name of the officer who showed us the truck).  I hope it helps, at least it was fun.

Teething Woes

Poor Devon, this has been a very rough few days for him.  Since Thursday (our Anniversary) he has gotten 4 teeth...well 2 plus another 2 part way through.  He ran a fever over the weekend, and has been super congested, as a result coughing and hacking up nastiness. He has the diaper rash from hell and I also think he has sprung a leak in his mouth (notice the soaked shirt?). Did I mention that he will just randomly take a bite out of my shoulder?  The worst part though is I can just tell how bad he feels.  He doesn't know what he wants, he is so congested nursing him is hard.  He doesn't want to eat any solids, and I couldn't get him to sleep for me (though he slept the day away for Colby yesterday...go figure).  Having said that he is sleeping for 12 hours at night, so when he wakes up, he is a starving madman.  I feel bad for the poor little fella.  I am glad that teething is something we do before we start having memories, I don't want to remember that.