My husband is so going to kill me, but it's too funny! I can't help it!
Then again, he is a man, and takes great pride in all things immature..
Then again, posting it may make some people decide that I'm not mature enough, or well-mannered enough, or something enough to be their friend...
Warning: If you find potty-humor offensive, then don't read this entry. Or talk to my sons. Or my husband. I don't think they'll ever grow up!
Oh well...for the sake of a good laugh and an embarrassing story, here goes!
I just have to tell you this becauase it's so funny and immature and gross and funny...did I already go over that?
Michael gets off at 6am and comes in by 6:30. Because Logan sleeps in our room, he goes to bed at 10 or so as Michael is leaving for work. Therefore, he sleeps until 10:30 or 11 the next morning.
When Michael comes in, Logan will even tell him hello in his sleep, but at least doesn't wake up to hearing his voice anymore. Those early mornings made for a cranky baby!
Well, this morning, Michael & I were talking because we had things that we had to do today and needed to work out the logistics of our schedule and him getting sleep for work, etc, etc. Logan does his normal, "Hi, Papa!", never waking up. We talked for over an hour, never once disturbing him!
Then as we're settling in to sleep, Michael rips this big old fart, and Logan bolts upright in his bed, and starts cracking up, "Papa farted!!!!"
I couldn't stop laughing! So then Logan gets all serious and scolds ME, "Be quiet, Grammy! My Papa seeping and he farted and woked up!"
Which made me laugh harder..."It woked him up?" I asked.
And he was like "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It did! I heared it!" Saying with the most dramatically big eyes and voice you could imagine! And yes, that's HEARED and WOKED...that's how he still says it!
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Please Join Us in Welcoming Officer Squarepants
As in, Officer SpongeBob SquarePants!
Anyone that knows Logan knows that he's, well, smitten, with his Papa. Life for him revolves around his Papa. And Papa is a police officer. Papa doesn't drive police cars; he drives Papa Cars. He collects Papa cars. All police cars anywhere on the road, regardless of color, shape, or size, are Papa cars.
For some reason that we may never know (I mean, who really knows how the mind of a 2-year-old works?), Logan got it into his head that SpongeBob was going to work with Papa. I explained that Papa was already AT work, and SpongeBob was staying home with us. No, that wasn't good enough, and SpongeBob needed to get ready to go to work in Papa's Papa car.
So I called Papa, and asked him if he could think of anything that would have confused him so, but nobody could think of anything. Papa talked to him and told him that SpongeBob wasn't coming in tonight, that he was staying here to sleep with Logan. However, Logan is also a HUGE talker! Even after talking to Papa, all he could talk about was his concern that SpongeBob was still here and Papa had not picked him up.
Being that I really wanted to get him into bed so that I could start my laundry and such for the night, I used my 2-year-old reasoning skills to get SpongeBob ready in the event that Papa might have the time to come get him. Of course, WE all know that can't happen, but it was good enough for Logan, and I didn't have to fight to get him to bed!
Officer SquarePants, waiting for duty!
Or perhaps, his duty is watching over Logan!
Whichever the case, he seems pretty happy doing it!
We'll see if these "accessories" become a permanent part of SpongeBob's wardrobe!
Too! Funny!
Anyone that knows Logan knows that he's, well, smitten, with his Papa. Life for him revolves around his Papa. And Papa is a police officer. Papa doesn't drive police cars; he drives Papa Cars. He collects Papa cars. All police cars anywhere on the road, regardless of color, shape, or size, are Papa cars.
For some reason that we may never know (I mean, who really knows how the mind of a 2-year-old works?), Logan got it into his head that SpongeBob was going to work with Papa. I explained that Papa was already AT work, and SpongeBob was staying home with us. No, that wasn't good enough, and SpongeBob needed to get ready to go to work in Papa's Papa car.
So I called Papa, and asked him if he could think of anything that would have confused him so, but nobody could think of anything. Papa talked to him and told him that SpongeBob wasn't coming in tonight, that he was staying here to sleep with Logan. However, Logan is also a HUGE talker! Even after talking to Papa, all he could talk about was his concern that SpongeBob was still here and Papa had not picked him up.
Being that I really wanted to get him into bed so that I could start my laundry and such for the night, I used my 2-year-old reasoning skills to get SpongeBob ready in the event that Papa might have the time to come get him. Of course, WE all know that can't happen, but it was good enough for Logan, and I didn't have to fight to get him to bed!
Officer SquarePants, waiting for duty!
Or perhaps, his duty is watching over Logan!
Whichever the case, he seems pretty happy doing it!
We'll see if these "accessories" become a permanent part of SpongeBob's wardrobe!
Too! Funny!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
December Busi-ness
For the first couple of weeks of December, we just hung out and rested. That kind of trip was hard on both Grandma & me. Chad, Jennifer, & Kaylei were still staying with us at the time.
The first real order of business we had was taking care of Logan's birthday party. His birthday is actually in October, but he was in Tennessee with his Daddy & Rachel for his birthday. We decided to have a party for him during his winter visitation.
Logan's Second Birthday Party, December 15, 2007
The next day, we went to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags in Arlington. Logan LOVES Scooby, so he was so excited to meet him!
Logan meeting Scooby Doo, Holiday in the Park, December
16, 2007
On the other hand, Nikiya hadn't been feeling well for a couple of weeks. In fact, she was pretty miserable. She still insisted on going with us to Holiday in the Park after making arrangements with her dad to trade weekends and all. She rode with me in the wheelchair most of the night.
Nikiya & Grandma, Holiday in the Park
Family Entertainment, or Child Torture
You Decide!!
This was not the first time that Miss Nikiya has had a bout like this. In Kindergarten, she ran a fever of over 102 every single day and just plain felt miserable for over 2 months. She was in the Dr's office every day at first, then every other day after awhile. They ran blood work & checked vitals at each of those visits. She also went to Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth on 6 separate occasions for further testing and evaluation. While her blood counts were "off", whatever that means, they could never pinpoint anything. Then after about 9 1/2 weeks, the fever and misery went away just as mysteriously as they appeared. Every now and again, she would still run fever and feel bad, though now when it happens, it's also accompanied by severe headache & nausea. This has happened a few days at a time for the last few years.
Then in December, it started again at the beginning of the month. She'd already missed a few days of school for a day or two here and there for this, but that day it started as a constant again. High fever every day, blinding headaches intensified by noise, extreme nausea. She went to the Dr on Monday, the day after Holiday in the Park. He put her on some pain meds for her headache and nausea meds for her tummy, and ran some more blood work. The next day was unbearable though. Nikiya is NOT my cry-baby! I have 4 kids, 4 step-kids, 4 grand-kids (hmmm...never realized that before now!), and was a daycare provider for years when my kids were little. I have them at all ends of the spectrum. Cody will ask for Advil & Tylenol & Excedrin if he thinks he MIGHT get a headache tomorrow. Nikiya is on the least end of the spectrum, having broken bones I didn't even know about because they didn't really hurt. She fakes WELL to go to school. If that child WANTS to stay home, she gets my attention. She leaves early every morning to spend time at the school visiting. Strange. But, whatever. The point is, she'd missed several days by now, was worried her teacher would be mad at her, was miserable, was throwing up every day this time (when normally she had nausea, but not vomiting.) So that day, Grandma & I took her back to Cook's.
Nikiya getting her IV at Cook Children's Hospital
December 18, 2007
After the relaxation drugs to perform her tests that day
I'm not kidding...that was the first smile I'd seen in days! Nikiya is the one that you hear laughing throughout the house for NO reason what-so-ever. She laughs at anything, everything, everyone. It was good to see!
And frustrating that while this time we got some meds that are controlling the symptoms MOSTLY, we still have no answers. She's in the Gifted & Talented program at school and may be held back this year for attendance only. Being held back for any reason gets her kicked out of the program, and she devastated over it and now on days she doesn't feel good, I really have to be in tune. She does everything she can to avoid me, so I won't know, so she can go to school. Not that that works either because it's OBVIOUS and they send her right back home. Now when she's rushing off "just because," I stop her and give her a once over before letting her out the door!
Anyhow, still dealing with the attendance issues. Forget that she's always been a Straight-A student, or that her teacher, who works with her daily, thinks it's crazy to consider holding her back. We are still fighting the school board to pass her on to 4th grade.
But you know what? She's doing better. So far they have found no signs of any of the bad things that so many other children go through. She's been screened thoroughly for cancer and tumors and other illnesses. Maybe I'll just be thankful instead!
The first real order of business we had was taking care of Logan's birthday party. His birthday is actually in October, but he was in Tennessee with his Daddy & Rachel for his birthday. We decided to have a party for him during his winter visitation.
Logan's Second Birthday Party, December 15, 2007
The next day, we went to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags in Arlington. Logan LOVES Scooby, so he was so excited to meet him!
Logan meeting Scooby Doo, Holiday in the Park, December
16, 2007
On the other hand, Nikiya hadn't been feeling well for a couple of weeks. In fact, she was pretty miserable. She still insisted on going with us to Holiday in the Park after making arrangements with her dad to trade weekends and all. She rode with me in the wheelchair most of the night.
Nikiya & Grandma, Holiday in the Park
Family Entertainment, or Child Torture
You Decide!!
This was not the first time that Miss Nikiya has had a bout like this. In Kindergarten, she ran a fever of over 102 every single day and just plain felt miserable for over 2 months. She was in the Dr's office every day at first, then every other day after awhile. They ran blood work & checked vitals at each of those visits. She also went to Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth on 6 separate occasions for further testing and evaluation. While her blood counts were "off", whatever that means, they could never pinpoint anything. Then after about 9 1/2 weeks, the fever and misery went away just as mysteriously as they appeared. Every now and again, she would still run fever and feel bad, though now when it happens, it's also accompanied by severe headache & nausea. This has happened a few days at a time for the last few years.
Then in December, it started again at the beginning of the month. She'd already missed a few days of school for a day or two here and there for this, but that day it started as a constant again. High fever every day, blinding headaches intensified by noise, extreme nausea. She went to the Dr on Monday, the day after Holiday in the Park. He put her on some pain meds for her headache and nausea meds for her tummy, and ran some more blood work. The next day was unbearable though. Nikiya is NOT my cry-baby! I have 4 kids, 4 step-kids, 4 grand-kids (hmmm...never realized that before now!), and was a daycare provider for years when my kids were little. I have them at all ends of the spectrum. Cody will ask for Advil & Tylenol & Excedrin if he thinks he MIGHT get a headache tomorrow. Nikiya is on the least end of the spectrum, having broken bones I didn't even know about because they didn't really hurt. She fakes WELL to go to school. If that child WANTS to stay home, she gets my attention. She leaves early every morning to spend time at the school visiting. Strange. But, whatever. The point is, she'd missed several days by now, was worried her teacher would be mad at her, was miserable, was throwing up every day this time (when normally she had nausea, but not vomiting.) So that day, Grandma & I took her back to Cook's.
Nikiya getting her IV at Cook Children's Hospital
December 18, 2007
After the relaxation drugs to perform her tests that day
I'm not kidding...that was the first smile I'd seen in days! Nikiya is the one that you hear laughing throughout the house for NO reason what-so-ever. She laughs at anything, everything, everyone. It was good to see!
And frustrating that while this time we got some meds that are controlling the symptoms MOSTLY, we still have no answers. She's in the Gifted & Talented program at school and may be held back this year for attendance only. Being held back for any reason gets her kicked out of the program, and she devastated over it and now on days she doesn't feel good, I really have to be in tune. She does everything she can to avoid me, so I won't know, so she can go to school. Not that that works either because it's OBVIOUS and they send her right back home. Now when she's rushing off "just because," I stop her and give her a once over before letting her out the door!
Anyhow, still dealing with the attendance issues. Forget that she's always been a Straight-A student, or that her teacher, who works with her daily, thinks it's crazy to consider holding her back. We are still fighting the school board to pass her on to 4th grade.
But you know what? She's doing better. So far they have found no signs of any of the bad things that so many other children go through. She's been screened thoroughly for cancer and tumors and other illnesses. Maybe I'll just be thankful instead!
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Grandma Comes for a Visit
My Grandma came to visit from Colorado from December 8, 2007 - March 1, 2008. She was lucky enough to be with us through illnesses, court hearings, sibling fights, hospitalizations, among other fun things. Something tells me she needed a vacation from her vacation and may not be returning next year! We can hope...She has been here the last couple of years during the worst of the Colorado winter to avoid illness, falls on the ice, and general aches from the cold. We sure do enjoy her visits! I'm not so sure she enjoys surviving our teenagers.
Some of the things that I'll go over during the next few days will include pictures and excerpts from her time here so that she can have them at home. Grandma, I know they're late, but I hope you enjoy them just as much! Michael also assures me that he's working on getting the before & after pictures of his car ready to send to you. He took care of a few more interior pieces today that we did both before & after shots of.
Logan & I flew out of DFW Airport early December 8. Being from the DFW Metroplex, snow is a rare site, and Logan being only 2 years old, hadn't seen it recently enough to remember it. It was early in the winter season, so we hadn't really even talked about snow at all. When we got into Denver, it was snowing. He was too excited about the plane and such to notice, until we walked out of the terminal and out to our rental car. It was a fairly perplexed voice that had me cracking up all morning on the drive from Denver to Greeley saying, "Grammy, what's going on here? That's not rain!" Over and over. When we got to Grandma's house and got out of the car, he kept saying, "It's so beautiful!" And he was in the best mood!
Logan's first view of the snow:
However, the beautiful site was too much to bear and wait for Grammy to get his gloves out of the car. This was the face for the rest of the day:
Watching the planes & the snow was ok.
Beautiful Colorado Snow:
When we got home, he told Papa about that nasty, cold snow that hurt his hands! Sadly, we never got the word beautiful about the snow again...
Some of the things that I'll go over during the next few days will include pictures and excerpts from her time here so that she can have them at home. Grandma, I know they're late, but I hope you enjoy them just as much! Michael also assures me that he's working on getting the before & after pictures of his car ready to send to you. He took care of a few more interior pieces today that we did both before & after shots of.
Logan & I flew out of DFW Airport early December 8. Being from the DFW Metroplex, snow is a rare site, and Logan being only 2 years old, hadn't seen it recently enough to remember it. It was early in the winter season, so we hadn't really even talked about snow at all. When we got into Denver, it was snowing. He was too excited about the plane and such to notice, until we walked out of the terminal and out to our rental car. It was a fairly perplexed voice that had me cracking up all morning on the drive from Denver to Greeley saying, "Grammy, what's going on here? That's not rain!" Over and over. When we got to Grandma's house and got out of the car, he kept saying, "It's so beautiful!" And he was in the best mood!
Logan's first view of the snow:
However, the beautiful site was too much to bear and wait for Grammy to get his gloves out of the car. This was the face for the rest of the day:
Watching the planes & the snow was ok.
Beautiful Colorado Snow:
When we got home, he told Papa about that nasty, cold snow that hurt his hands! Sadly, we never got the word beautiful about the snow again...
Catching Up...
In an effort to catch up the last couple of months, I'm going to attempt to get on for a few minutes at a time each day and work my way forward. But first, I wanted to share a picture from yesterday morning. This has actually been our morning the last 2 mornings, as we've had Kaylei since Monday night.
Papa, Kaylei, & Logan
I mean really...is there anything better to wake up to? Logan is normally smitten with Baby Sister, but the last couple of days he's actually been a little jealous. It was nice to have a moment that he wanted to hold her. That one second before he SHOVED her off of Papa's lap was pretty special!
I'm not sure yet if Kaylei will be going home tonight or if we'll take her to her mama in the morning, but for now we're enjoying her, and have had the great privilege of helping her cut her second tooth! I suspected the first when they were here on Easter with her extra drooling and crabby demeanor, and that first bad boy made it's appearance Monday. Go, Kaylei!
Papa, Kaylei, & Logan
I mean really...is there anything better to wake up to? Logan is normally smitten with Baby Sister, but the last couple of days he's actually been a little jealous. It was nice to have a moment that he wanted to hold her. That one second before he SHOVED her off of Papa's lap was pretty special!
I'm not sure yet if Kaylei will be going home tonight or if we'll take her to her mama in the morning, but for now we're enjoying her, and have had the great privilege of helping her cut her second tooth! I suspected the first when they were here on Easter with her extra drooling and crabby demeanor, and that first bad boy made it's appearance Monday. Go, Kaylei!
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