Getting Ready for a NEW ADVENTURE

Well in two days the kids and I will be making a first GRAND ADVENTURE for us. I will be driving by myself down to California, I have driven down there many times but never by myself with three kids, I must be out of my mind. We will be leaving Thursday going to Roseburg spending the day and night with my grandparents and then leaving very early Friday to head to Sacramento. There I will stay the weekend and then go to Bakersfield to pick up my a friend of mine and her two wonderful kids then we are going to SeaWorld for 3 nights and then back to Sacramento for me for another week. All this driving by myself. Really I am looking forward to it I remember taking road trips with my mom and it was so much fun and we made so many memories. So while I am driving I am sure I will have my moments where I will feel like I am going INSANE, WHAT WAS I THINKING, and I WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN, I am sure I will. Well I will be sure to post pictures of our LONG trip and try and update my blog, I know I don't have many followers but for those of you that do I am sure you will enjoy it. TTFN

Some People Amaze Me (and not in a good way)

I recently had a close person to me leave this status on Facebook, i will be using Anonymous for the names plus numbers.

Anonymous status updater; Our Daughter cried for about 2 hours last night while we tried to sleep. This "letting her cry" thing is difficult! :(


These were the comments left by other people.

Anonymous commenter 1:
This too shall pass..that is one of the hardest things to do.

Anonymous commenter 2:
Agreed...remember those nights like yesterday. Its only seasonal though :) Will come & go thru the years...

Anonymous commenter 3:
The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley. This book has worked well for both of our children. The crying it out is just really hard on the parents and the kids...

Anonymous commenter 4:
It is very hard....I started my daughter at 7 months doing that and it took about 2 weeks. Just be consistent, it will pay off when your getting a full nights sleep! Good luck :)

Anonymous commenter 5:
It is hard to hear your little one crying and doing nothing, but it will be well worth it. Trust me.

Anonymous commenter 6
That's why God invented sound machines!

Danielle Carlson
Anonymous commenter 4 and 5 are right the first few nights to couple weeks depending on child are rough but it is so worth it, Kaleigh already puts herself to sleep and she doesn't cry but she did for about the first week, Jacob never cried, and Judah lasted the longest his was a month not screaming that only lasted about a week but he would cry and whimper for... See More about a month but now he goes and puts himself in bed. It is very hard and for some reason it was a lot harder with Kaleigh than the boys to let her sit there and cry but it is so worth it in the end. Plus I read this baby book one time that it teaches and is one of the process of them learning to be self reliant. It is tough but YES WELL WORTH IT.



Anonymous commenter 3 again:

(as i duck and hide - because the comments will probably start flying. ...and since i am the only one on this side of the fence.)

it is interesting that everyone is saying "let her scream".

i wasn't going to say anything else, but this made me LOL... "teaching them to be self-resiliant"... ... See More

Sorry, but that is funny. might as well let them touch the stove and get a third degree burn to teach them that it is hot, or let them try drugs so they know the dangers of overdosing. That logic is bogus.

Babies cannot be self-resiliant...if you think they can, don't feed your baby and see what happens. But a funny point that probably a lot of people buy in to.

Help your child transition lovingly - they need you...and it isn't necessarily about how comfortable you want to be. Those cries are a signal. What if something is going on, and you discover that you neglected legitimate cries simply because you wanted your "own" time.


well first off I didn't comment again but believe me I wanted to so bad, I think if I would have though I might have offended some people so now I am going to vent on my blog:) First of all I would have told this commenter I didn't say Self-resilient I said self RELIANT. Second their hand getting burnt and trying drugs are completely different. If I warned them or told them no no about touching something hot and they touched and got burnt guess what they are not going to touch that again and will listen when you tell them its HOT, and you job as a parent is to teach your child the difference between RIGHT and WRONG so if they do try drugs did you do your job as a parent right. Now I know kids are going to do things and you cannot control them all their lives, but if my kid ever did try drugs ( which I pray and teach him why not to that it is bad) I pray that when he did try those drugs it made him so sick that he felt like he was dying because you know what then he would learn oh man MOM was RIGHT. Third feeding your baby also has nothing to do with this I said it was ONE OF THE PROCESSES didn't I and your baby does eventually learn to eat on his own. He is right cries are a signal SOMETIMES, sometimes your baby just cries, if you are in tune with your baby and know your baby which in my opinion I beleive a good mother is
a mother can differentiate those cries, babies have several different types of cries, they have a mad cry, a defiant cry, a lonely cry, upset cry, hurt cry, pain cry, and many more. I KNOW MY BABIES CRIES and if it is a cry I am concerned about then Yes I go check on them. I have in my opinion some of the best kids, yes they have their flaws, but they are GOOD KIDS. I am always complimented in public places on how good my kids are, and even in restaurants. I would like to see what Anonymous commenter 3 kids are like. And another thing I have 3 kids I take care of, a house I keep spotless, my husbands business I am constantly helping him with plus many other things, so yes usually when my kids go to bed at 8 or 9 that is MY time to unwind after a hectic day before I go to bed, and also I am usually doing dishes or laundry so I don't have to worry about the kids there are many other things I have to do. I AM A STAY AT HOME MOM SO MY JOB NEVER ENDS.

WOW I need to update this more often

Well a lot has happened since my last post. I have been so busy with numerous things I have neglected to keep everyone posted, shame on me, LOL. Well first of all let me start off my saying HAPPY NEW YEAR, so far it hasn't been the best but it hasn't been the worst. LOTS OF EVERDAY STRESS. Our eldest Miracle turned 6, I cannot believe it, I didn't think it would bother me but as the day draws closer for him to go to school I realize it really is bothering me, I AM GOING TO MISS HIM. But he is ready he asks every day how much longer. I ended up having a Tonsillectomy, that was an interesting experience but I am so glad I did it. My wonderful mom and mother in law were here to help me through my recovery. If you are considering a Tonsillectomy and Adnoidectomy and would like to know anything, just ask I will tell you the absolute truth. I turned 25 yahoo, although on my birthday I wasn't in the celebrating mood, because I had my surgery the day before my birthday. I am now :). I was so excited cause my insurance will go down and I can rent a car without my husband. I know the little things that excite us. Jeremy and I celebrated our 8th Valentines together and Lou Lou's first. She was so cute in her pictures. Jeremy had his 30th Birthday, He was totally surprised by his parents showing up and having family and close friends show up for his birthday dinner. It was great he had no clue and he is the hardest person to surprise. Jacob lost his first tooth, that was interesting all on its own. I was getting aggravated with him and brushed his teeth for him and did it a little to hard which popped his tooth which was already loose out. He freaked at first cause he saw blood, the kid does not like blood mostly on himself and then he was worried that we was never gonna get another tooth, so we had to explain to him the growing up process. After that talk he was fine especially after he found out he was going to get MONEY, that makes everything better. Then this last Thursday he had to go to his 6 year appt and get one shot so he would be ready for school next year. If you know Jacob in the past years of getting shots I have had to make Jeremy go with me so Jeremy could hold him down while they gave him a shot. I told Jacob he had to be a big boy and let them give him the shot because he had to get that shot before he could go to school, at first when he first saw the needle his eyes got huge, the nurse asked me to hold his hands, she gave him the shot he didn't flinch, cry, nothing, I was so proud of him. Later that day after the shot he had said something about going to school tomorrow, I told him he had to wait 240 more days first. In the past week our lives have been chaotic, Kaleigh got sick I had to take her to Urgent Care and found out she had Pneumonia (which all my kids have gotten with asthma problems around 9-12 months) so we got a antibiotic and baby albuterol for her. Then two days after taking her to the docs I had to take Judah to the docs, because he had had a fever for the past 3 days, was having some coughing and slight breathing problems found out he may have had a little bit of what Kaleigh had but his main problem was that he had a SEVERE EAR INFECTION, so had to get an antibiotic for him. I am so sick of antibiotics. LOL. Anyways that is basically all that has been going on in our lives and most of it has happened within the last month, hence why my blogs have been neglected.

Kaleigh Lou is 7 1/2 months

Wow it is hard to imagine that Kaleigh Lou is already 7 1/2 months where does time go it seems like I just had her, anyways she had her 6 month doc appt yesterday and we think she is the fattiest thing we have seen, well she isn't, for us she is but for everyone else she isn't. She weighs 16lbs 4oz and was 27 inches in length and her head was 17 inches around, which makes her 20% on weight, 90% on length, her doctor called her long and lean, I looked at her and chuckled, he kind of chuckled with me. Then I said yep she is definitely a girl always looks like she weighs more than she really does, LOL.

Pulmonary Stenosis

Well Kaleigh had her Cardiologist appt last Monday, it went very well she still has the heart murmur due to the Pulmonary Stenosis but it is VERY MINOR. It is something she is going to have to grow out of, if you don't know anything about Pulmonary Stenosis it is hard to explain but you can google it and it will pop up an explanation. She is doing so good Dr. Chang didn't think it necessary to en Ecco so she goes back in 6 months right after her 1st birthday for another Check up and they will do an Ecco then. Thank You so much for all your prayers, they are working.

My Poor Kids

LOL a week ago Jeremy and I left and went to Vegas for 3 days for a business seminar, which was interesting but not my thing so I got bored. While we were gone my wonderful parents watched all 3 of the kids at our house, here are a few things that were said and done,

Judah only wanted to eat Sour Cream
Jacob asked if he was ever gonna see his mommy again, lol poor guy
Kaleigh got excited when my parents put her in our bed with them
Judah was MOODY MUDAH as always

I am so thankful and grateful my parents were able to watch them, I know my kids had fun and it is good for them to get away from mommy and daddy and spend some time with just their grandparents. It was also nice to get away for a couple days even though just sitting wore me out more than what I do everyday, I didn't realized how much I missed them till I saw them. My dad picked us up from the airport and had Jacob and Judah with him, they were excited to see us, Jacob said "hi mommy I missed you so much" and then fell asleep, Judah grabbed my arm and held it and talked my ear off, and when we got home Kaleigh was not sure what to think, she was a little upset at me, the next day she wouldn't let me out of her sight everytime I went to where she couldn't see me she would start crying. But all in all they had fun and it was good for them, they need to get away more often.

Cardiologist

Well we were supposed to have Kaleigh's Cardiologist appt almost a month ago but we all got the little piggy (H1N1) so we thought it best to cancel it and reschedule, so it was rescheduled for Nov 16th which is Monday, I very nervous and doing my best to not worry and leave it in God's hands. That is easier said than done and I am not sure why, I KNOW God will HEAL her, PROTECT her and LOVES her more than I do. I think it is just being mommy I want to have complete control over it and it isn't mine to have control over, so please continue to pray with me/us. And I will keep you all updated.