I'm DONE and thoughts........

I am so over winter. I am over the rain too. What I am really over, though, is the constant change in temperature. Don't tease me with spring. Don't let me plant my poor tomatoes. Don't make my kids get their 28 millionth cold of the season because it was 70 degrees over the weekend and 38 degrees yesterday.

OK. Done complaining.

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Now for my random thoughts on the week thus far.

As mentioned above, the kids have the cough again. Anna-Kate's is dry but pretty constant. Ryan's isn't too bad I guess. I just hate seeing them sick. Again. (I"ll just add here, Ryan didn't throw up today, but he did yesterday...)

We are supposed to have an Easter party tomorrow if the rain will hold off. I'm really hoping for it. I can't wait to see what Ryan will do at an egg hunt. :) ha! I'll be sure to get pictures. :) I cannot believe tomorrow is April! This year is absolutely flying by!

This weekend my in-laws are coming to town for my niece's baptism. My brother and sister in law and their kids are moving to Dallas Ft. Worth next week, so this is the last family weekend in Atlanta for a while. Should be a busy weekend with family!

Next week is spring break from Anna-Kate's (moms morning out) school and my parents are generously going to keep the kids from Tuesday to Saturday so we can get some projects done around the house. I cannot begin to tell you how long my 'to do' list is and how excited I am at the prospect of working for more than 2 hours in a row on something. Uninterupted!! Wow. :) Can you tell I'm near giddy? I am definately praying that Ryan will do well with the change of scenery (and, minus me). This is his first trip away from home. Anna-Kate and I have been talking about this for weeks and she wakes up most mornings asking if today is the day she is going to stay at Nana and Poppy's like a big girl (aka, all by herself). Sweet. She told me she was going to be brave and help Ryan be brave if he starts to miss Mommy. I have no doubt she will help him too--she is so sweet with him. She always wants to "hold" him and his hand, she earlier tried to dance with him (to U2--"daddy music" that she requested by saying, "umm Bono please")and just generally loves on him.

That's all I've got. Hopefully party pics tomorrow. :)

Saturday update

I almost posted earlier to say, "we're in the clear", but thought I'd wait until it was "official" that the whole Saturday had passed without a throw up incident.

At dinner we hear the familiar coughing, and sure enough, threw up all over everything. I can't even say I'm surprised at this point. It's kinda like, what would a Saturday be without Ryan throwing up (as that now brings our total to the last six weeks.). So, we'll stick with giving him smaller servings of milk, maybe this week will bring a change.

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Anna-Kate and I went to a 1/2 price day consignment sale this morning. It wasn't spectacular, the only highlights being I got a precious smocked Christmas outfit for Ryan for $3 and a new with tags outfit from gymboree for $5.

The Southern dialect

Anna-Kate has gone Southern on me all of a sudden (not that I'm complaining, I LOVE it! Ha!).

A list of words you just thought were one syllable:

Help (you know, "hay-elp Mama!")
Wait
Eight
Four
Hair
Yes
Ow!
Ouch
Ear
Sick
Their, they're, there
Well
House

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Looking forward to a relaxing day at home today. It's rainy and icky, but we are still in our jammies. :) Hopefully Ryan's (3!!) tantrums of the morning will not continue through the day.
Love the beginning of the toddler phase...oh, those sinful natures...

Update on the morning...going on 5 tantrums...

Seriously? I mean, seriously. Come on now!

So Ryan threw up again on Saturday (seriously?).

Then again today (I mean, seriously?).

Our total, for those of you keeping track, the last 2 Tuesdays and the last 5 Saturdays. (Come on now!)

I called the ped back again who assured me that for him without fever he wasn't sick (just covered in throw up...as was the car, his carseat etc etc. Again.). As we tried to talk through stuff to find any sort of answer she suggested that since he's so small his stomach might just be smaller and to not give him more than 4-5 oz of milk at a time. So, now we are to do a 4-5 oz cup at every meal and one snack. And trying not to put him in the car (in case he gets carsick) right after drinking milk. (Oh, so practical what with driving to church on Sunday mornings and to MMO on TR am's...) But, we'll see if that helps. His spirits are good, as always, as soon as he throws up he is his same sweet self walking around playing. Poor guy threw up on the way to school today, so had to just sit in it for about 15 minutes. Still didn't cry. What a good kid.

Again, prayers are much appreciated.

Quotables

Upon seeing a picture of me in my wedding dress:

"Oh Mommy, you a beautiful princess here...just like I am!"

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When I told Ryan it was time for his nap and went to pick him up he made a noise.

"Mommy, Ryan says he needs oooooone more minute, OK?"

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She recently has been learning her limits and learning to regulate herself. Imagine my surprise when we were playing...

AK: "Mommy, I need to go to time out now".
Me: "Ok..." (we don't really do "time out" so this is kinda out of nowhere).
AK: (about 5 minutes later) "I back! Now I ready to be sweet."

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Her new thing that I thought was way in our past is taking her socks and shoes off in the car (urgh.). She likes to put her socks on her hands as puppets and talk with them. Whatever. I told her to put her shoes back on since we were about to Publix. I hear her talking to her shoe, struggling to get it back on.

"Come on shoe! Come oooooon shoey, come on now!"

Doctor, doctor

So in our special time (after Ryan goes down for nap, before she does) we were playing doctor. She announced this by saying, "you so sick Mom, lie down". "You too Daddy, lie down". As the doctor kit was in the playroom, and we were in her room, she improvised to use a big book (about 10x12) as a thermometer on our heads and as a stethoscope to listen to our bellys (to which she says, "I hear your heart-beep"). She said, "mommy, you so sick with fever". I asked her what she was going to do to make me better. She held out her hand under my mouth and said, "spit it out". I said, "what? spit what out?" She said, "your fever, then it all gone".

Ahhh, the secret has been revealed. It really is so simple. :)

The doctor's appointment ended rather abruptly when she said, "wait right here, I go poo-poo real quick and be back". We stood up and she said, "No! Lay down and wait riiiiiight here."

Update

Well, I took Ryan to the pediatrician yesterday. She said as weird as it was that he throws up every Saturday, that isn't techinically a "pattern" and that he's 100% fine. She also said that if he throws up next Saturday and there isn't fever to assume he isn't sick and go on to church. Sooo, I guess that's good?

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Anna-Kate thinks it is hysterical to sing "and many moooooore" (like, after the birthday song) often throughout the day. She gets all broadway on me and leans in does the hands out thing--it's pretty cute. Anyway, we were at dinner last night and she totally ripped a huge toot, smiled, and instead of saying "excuse me" sang, "and many moooooooore"! The little toot. :)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day to all. We are all dressed in green and while Anna-Kate was in school today I took Ryan to the park for the first time in his life without Anna-Kate. It was like he didn't know what to do with all the attention. Poor second child. We've had a fun day so far!