A little free time

Today will be my first day since both Samuel and Joseph started school that I will have a completely empty and free of commitment house for two hours.  I did not plan anything from 12:45 until 2:45 today.  Normally I have appointments or I plan to run errands while they are both gone, but today I decided that I am going to do whatever I feel like doing.  Maybe I will go for a walk and then take a bath or read a book. I have no idea, but I am pretty excited for complete quiet time.

Samuel and I are going to run errands this morning after I take Joseph to school and then I plan to take him to lunch, drop him off and have some freedom.

I am getting pretty tired lately.  I get worn out really quickly and by the end of the day I just don't function well.  The boys have been pretty good lately, making nighttime much easier to manage.  The baby is also slowing down in the middle of the night.  I am getting about 3 hours of sleep at a time without having to go pee or be kicked to death.  Last night before I went to bed I think the baby was practicing karate or something.  It was going nuts.  It finally calmed down around 10:30 and I was able to sleep until 1:30.  I felt so refreshed.

George seems to be feeling a little bit better.  She is still eating grass and isn't her normal spunky self, but I can tell she feels a little bit better.  Tomorrow I am taking her to the vet, so we will see what they say.

Last night I was home alone with the kids because Dave had to go to a baseball game for work.  We were relaxing on the couch and I told Samuel that I loved him.  I asked him if he knew how much I loved him.  He used to always say "sooo much" and hold his arms out wide.  Last night he looked at me rolled his eyes and gave a huge sigh.  My little boy is growing up and is already annoyed at me.  It was like I had a peak into the future.  I know I will be seeing a lot of that eye rolling and I know I will be getting looks like I am a complete idiot.  So many things to look forward to.

On another note, when I was reading a book to Joseph last night before I put him to bed he counted from 1 to 12 all by himself.  I knew he was pretty good at counting to ten, but I had no idea he could count to 12.  It was pretty exciting.  Then, before I put Samuel to bed we turned on his night light turtle that put stars on the ceiling and he started to count all the stars in Spanish from 1 to 12.  It was pretty cool.  Now that he is starting Spanish school again, he will randomly say things in Spanish.  I am slowly learning what everything means.  The other night he brought me half of his snack and just said "No mas".  It is really cool to hear him speaking and understanding another language at such a young age.

I am off to get the boys ready to leave.  Have a great Wednesday!

Another week

As I mentioned before we had a pretty busy weekend.  We went to Yo Gabba Gabba on Saturday afternoon and it was actually a ton of fun.  The boys loved it and it was really entertaining.  The Fox Theatre was packed with parents and kids.

We were planning to go to the Balloon Race at Forest Park after but it was so busy and Joseph passed out in the car on the way there.  So we drove around a little and went to an early dinner.

So far no sign of the baby coming.  I think I may start working out a little this week and see if I can get things moving.

Of course things can't always go completely smoothly.  I am taking George in to the vet on Thursday morning.  She hasn't been feeling well.  Starting this past Thursday, she just hasn't been herself.  She has been throwing up and having pooping issues.  I took her to doggie day care on Friday because we thought she needed some activity.  When Dave picked her up the day care lady said that George wasn't being herself during the day.  She was acting really tired and wanted them to pet her a lot.  Not only has she been acting funny, but Dave felt a lump under her rib cage.  We are kind of freaked out about her getting sick.  We are trying not to talk about it or think about it because it makes us too sad.  She is 8 years old and I feel like she is just too young to be having issues.  I don't want her to be in pain, so I want them to check her out and make her better.

Here are some pictures from this last week:

Samuel was obsessed with wearing my rain boots.  He was walking all around the house.  They were huge obviously.  

Last Wednesday I went to pick Joseph up from school.  He goes from 9 until 3.  They normally put them down for naps at 12:30 pm. Joseph isn't much of a sleeper, but he always takes a good nap at school.  They said that he was completely worn out on Wednesday.  That was no joke.  When I came at 3 to pick him up he was still asleep on his cot.  I always wondered what he looked like sleeping on the cot at school.  He was so passed out.  The lights were all on, everyone was talking and kids were playing in the room. The teachers said that the kids even went by him and were playing and he still didn't wake up.  He looked so cute and peaceful, I didn't want to wake him up either, but I had too.  I snapped some pictures of him sleeping though:
 

Joseph is crazy about wearing whatever Samuel wears.  He wanted to put on Samuel jacket and he looked so cute.  I was trying to take a picture, but he was mad because he wanted my phone.  He still looks pretty cute.

Here we are at Yo Gabba Gabba.  The boys were so happy to be there, but they didn't want to have anything to do with Dave and me.  They were happy as long as we weren't trying to take pictures with them.

Happy Boys!

Not so happy to be getting his picture taken with Dad.

Samuel is down right pissed to be taking a picture with me.  This is just too funny.  I love his face.  

Sunday morning all the boys were having cereal.  It was so cute.  Joseph was clearly happy to be making a huge mess.  

It is only 1 pm and I am so exhausted. I have been so busy this morning and I only have 2 more hours to myself.

This past weekend, Oma and Opa came in town to visit. It was Opa's 60th Birthday on Sunday (sorry I didn't post a happy birthday yesterday, but I was super lazy in the afternoon). So we were busy all weekend playing and celebrating. Oma and I took Samuel to the St. Louis Magic House. It is a really cool place. It is a hands on educational museum/play centers for kids. There were musical instruments, bubble rooms, water rooms, sand rooms, etc. I could go on forever. It was a really cool place and we wore Samuel out. We also wore us out too. I have pictures below.

This morning was Samuel's second day of Mother's Day out. He was so excited to carry his lunch box again. When we were walking in an older boy was crying a little and holding on to his mom. Samuel pouted a little bit, but I told him it was okay and he stopped right away, which surprised me. When we walked in the door, he started waving as soon as he saw the ladies who take care of his room. I sat him down and he ran right away from me to play. He didn't cry at all, even when I told him bye. I was really surprised. I can't wait to get a report from the teachers to see how he did today. I have to pick him up in 2 and a half hours and I have barely done anything for myself today.

I had to take George to the vet this morning. He had some spots on her body that didn't look normal. They weren't growing any hair and she has never had a problem like that before. Also her left eye was really red and I was worried that she might have scratched it at her doggie day care.

We an hour and a half later, she was diagnosed with an eye infection that may move to the other eye and a skin infection. She has to have drops put in her eye twice and day and she has to take pills twice a day for the skin infection. They aren't sure yet if the skin infection is contagious, so I have to keep Samuel away from her skin for the next two weeks. That is going to be difficult because Samuel loves to give George hugs and kisses. It completely grosses me out to think that she may have a skin infection that we could catch. Hopefully the medication will work and there will be no additional issues.

So, I had plans to run a ton of errands and grocery shop, exercise, shower and write, but I am not going to be getting that much done. Hopefully Samuel will cooperate in the next few days and run all my errands with me.

Here are some pictures:

Samuel looks so ugly in this picture, but he loves to put Dave's swim goggles on. He goes through Dave's gym bag until he finds these goggles and puts them on. It is really funny.

Here are pictures from the Magic House. Samuel is trying his hand at a little fishing:

He loved driving the truck:

He was making some very interesting music on the piano:

Here he is really getting into it:

Some other musical instrument:

The Birthday Boy with Samuel:

What a night

Well last night Samuel slept great.  If it wasn't one of my babies keeping me up, it was the other.  Yesterday George had her teeth cleaned and they told us that she may not feel well and may throw up.  Boy did she.  I woke up in the morning and let her out because her stomach was making lots of noises and she was not able to sit still.  After I let her out and then back in and then got back into my nice warm cozy bed, she started acting like she was going to throw up again.  This time I ran down stairs, let her out and then turned the light on in the dining room. When she gets sick it is normally by the back door and under our dining room table.  Anyway, when I turned the light on I almost started gagging myself.  She threw up about 7 times under the table.  So at 5 this morning both Dave and I were scrubbing the carpet under the table.  We gave her a pain pill and an antibiotic that was prescribed by the vet.  We gave it to her with bread and some peanut butter.   Within 5 minutes she had thrown all that up too.  I have never seen something so disgusting as regurgitated bread and pills.  I won't even go into the description.  She has been going out every 10 minutes this morning probably to throw up and eat grass.  What a morning.  

Samuel slept in until 8 this morning.  It was so nice.  When he woke up he was in a great mood.  Here are some pictures:

Yesterday, because I felt so crappy, I decided that I needed some retail therapy.  I bought a mandolin (you know for in the kitchen and it cuts things perfectly), sheets, an apple peeler and best of all a running watch (thanks Megan for the suggestion).  Dave said he was expecting me to have a need to shop since I wasn't feeling so great.  

Today I had to take George in to get her teeth cleaned.  There were tons of dogs when I dropped her off and I was holding Samuel and wrestling with George.  It must have been a very funny sight.  A lady who was holding her very clam and obedient dog asked me if I needed help.  Everyone else was looking at me, but I have to say George was not the worst dog in the group there were many others, but I also had a kid to deal with.

We have to pick her up this evening.  I feel bad for her because she has no idea what she was getting herself into and she was super excited about it.  

Samuel is just now waking up.  Got to run.