Uh-Oh

Monday night Kaylie said two girls in her after school class told her the Easter Bunny wasn't real and that it was really just your parents.  Bryan immediately said, WHATEVER that is not true.  Kaylie, not satisfied with Daddy's answer looked to me.  Of course I told her the Easter Bunny was true but she just knew...it was really a sad night b/c she started crying and no matter what I said she just knew by looking at me.  So I tried to explain that sometimes the Easter Bunny just needs "help" from Mommy's and Daddy's.  All this did was open a can of worms b/c we went from the Easter Bunny to the Tooth Fairy to Santa.  :(  I think I managed to get her to swallow Santa for a while longer but I think the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny are out.  So sad...my baby is growing up - way too fast!  The kicker is that yesterday she went to school and told her friends that the Easter Bunny  & Tooth Fairy aren't true.  I was so mad last night about this b/c now my kid is ruining it for everyone else just like the two girls on Monday for her.  I told her last night if the girls bring it up again today to please not say anything.  I tried to reason with her about how sad and upset she was when we talked about it Monday night and why would she want to make her friends sad like that too.  I think she understands.  I'm sorry to any of you Mom's that read this blog and may have had to explain all of this to your kiddo all on account of my kiddo.  :(  I feel terrible about it and wish I could press rewind, but I don't think I could have done anything different to change the outcome.  I guess as parents we all know this day will one day come but geez in 2nd grade?  Well...that might be about right...I think I was in 3rd when I found out so I guess it was just a matter of time. 

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was nice.  On Good Friday we went to the beach and my parents took their new jeep.  I wish I had taken pictures but I didn't :(.  It was fun and such a pretty day.  We got out of there just in the nick of time b/c I swear every teenager in Houston starting arriving around 1pm.  I kept joking that a tweet must have gone out and that in fact was exactly what happened, crazy teenagers!  Saturday we went to Cyndi & Jumer's with Nana & Pop.  The kiddos decorated Easter eggs and Jumer BBQ'd, we had Nana's beer bread and yummy dessert.  Then the kids had an Easter egg hunt.  Good times.  :)  Sunday we went to church and then headed to Grandma & Grandpa's.  My Aunt Cindy & Uncle Phil came and we all ate a wonderful lunch.  Unfortunately, my brother and his family didn't make it so Kaylie and Blake couldn't do the egg hunt together...so I did it with Kaylie.  It was still fun and Kaylie totally beat me in finding the eggs. ;) 

 Look at this little chunky monkey!!  :) 

 Bryan's garden is kicking a$$! 

 Kaylie Easter morning...please excuse her hair!!

Is this what we've come to??

UMMMMM - NO!!  I refuse to drive this although the thought has seriously crossed my mind.  However, every time it does I throw-up just a little.  No offense to anyone that drives one b/c I can appreciate and see the value.  We have been hard core looking for a vehicle for almost a month now and still nothing.  Bryan is so high maintenance I swear!!  You would think it would be the other way around but it's not...I'm all let's get something economical and good on gas but roomy for 3 kids - especially since 2 will be in car seats for the next 8 years!  And Bryan is all, ya-ya-ya whatever...I want a 4x4 Tahoe fully loaded, all terrain tires, beach ready.  Well - I don't want a truck note for a $45,000-$50,000 vehicle!!  So then I test drove a GMC Acadia and it was a used one and much more affordable with low miles and really had everything we needed.  Okay, I wasn't in love with it and it somewhat reminded me of a minivan, but it's not and it seemed perfect.  Bryan was like NO, I hate it.  We keep going round and round about this and at the end of the day I have to drive this thing not him and I have to get 3 kids in and out of it on a daily basis so Bryan is going to have to settle on something that fits our lives (and pocket book) for the next few years.  Wish me luck convincing him of this!

Tid-Bits

Kaylie can be so sweet at times that I just want to hug and kiss her all over.  Every morning when I drop her off she tells me to wait so she can wave to me at the door.  Then she runs as fast as she can to the front door of the school and turns around and yells, "Bye Mommy - I LOVE YOU".  It's the sweetest thing ever!  It really makes my morning.  I can't imagine her doing that in a couple more years so I'm really enjoying this while it lasts.  :)  Kelly-Belly might be starting to feel a little bit better.  Not 100% yet but I could see in her eyes this morning that she looked less sick. 

In other news, I drank a teeny-tiny glass of red wine this weekend.  I never did this with my last two pregnancies and to be honest I REALLY needed a glass of wine during Kelly's pregnancy, I was under so much stress.  BUT whatever it was 1 small glass and I didn't feel guilty about it.  Bryan gave me a mega hard time and couldn't believe I was actually doing it but whatever!! I'm not planning on making it a regular habit and I think when I'm really showing it might look bad but this one time was okay...and maybe all I needed to last another 6 month.   

Exhausted

I don't like to complain (well a little bit, sometimes) but I honestly feel so exhausted about my life and everything in general.  I'm sure being almost 3 months pregnant, working full time, taking care of a 7 month old (sick) baby and a 7 year old (thinks she is 14) and not having Bryan around all week is not helping either.  BUT it really sucks.  I feel like killing everyone on the road (although, this is somewhat normal for me) I want to quit my job (also kind of normal for me) I want to send both Kaylie and Kelly to my parents house for a week and be able to drink so many margaritas that I throw-up all night AND I want to fit into my size 4 skinny jeans again - that I just bought in December and can NOT fit in already!!!  None of this is going to happen any time soon so I will suck it up and put on a happy face for the next 6-12 more months of my life until I get back to some sort of normalcy again. 

Mommy Knows

Well...Kelly does in fact have another ear infection.  Poor baby she is only 7months old (almost, April 7th) and has already had 3 ear infections.  Her Dr. said if she gets 1 more then we need to go see an ENT specialist.  We didn't have to do this with Kaylie so this is all new to me.  I will have to ask Erin what goes down if your baby needs tubes since her oldest had them.  It's funny how kids are so different, with Kaylie she would run high fevers at the drop of a hat, 104, 105 one time it was close to 106 (I was very scared)!  And we really had issues with strep throat but not so much with ear infections.  With Kelly she never seems to run a fever but either way I can just tell when she's not feeling good.  The first hint was last Thursday her missing a feeding.  She just didn't want to drink her bottle....I knew right then something was wrong.  Anyway, fingers crossed this is the last ear infection for the next 6 months at tthe very minimum! 

Manic Monday

This weekend was pretty good.  Friday night Kaylie had a softball game and she played well and had a good hit and made it to 1st base, unfortunately the girl running to 3rd base got out so that was the end of that inning.  But we were happy for her that she had a base hit!  Saturday Kaylie went with Nana & Pop to Austin for Colt's birthday party.  She wanted to stay the night after but we said no b/c Kaylie had a bad report on her Friday folder from both her teachers.  Apparently, she is talking in class A LOT.  This is not such a surprise b/c she is a talker and we battle her on this constantly it seems.  The hard part is that she also does really well in school.  She got her report card this week too and of course had all A's & B's.  So on one hand we have to punish her for the behavior but also recognize she did well on her report card. Fingers crossed this week will be better b/c otherwise I told her she will NOT swim in Grandma & Grandpa's pool over Easter break. 

Kelly has another ear infection.  Actually, I'm not certain of this so we go to the Dr. in an hour to check.  BUT I'm pretty sure.  No fever, but she has gotten really fussy the last day or so and not wanting to drink like her normal self.  Poor baby...this will be the 3rd ear infection in 6 months. :(  And it always seems to be the same ear.  I hope we don't have to put tubes in her ears, but then again I don't want her to suffer either. 

So today will be another crazy Monday for me.  This morning goes like this - Kaylie school, Kelly sitter, me work.  Run around work try to do as much as I can...leave work back to sitter get Kelly, take Kelly to the Dr. then run back to sitter (if Kelly is okay to go back) me back to work, then rush out of work at 4:30, back to sitter get Kelly, pick up Kaylie, straight home and start my evening routine of running around like crazy. Bryan is working late all this week again so I'm on my own again with the kids/evening duties.  Oh and I forgot somewhere in all of this I need to get Kelly's prescription, if she does in fact have an infection!!! 

Yep - just another manic Monday.