A trip to the doctors

Been having a horrible pain in my side for the past few days so I went to the doctors today. Of course he couldn't find anything wrong with me, but wants me to get an ultrasound and then if nothing comes of that possibley a ct scan. FUN!!! All of this and a dentist appointment next week where I know he is going to want me to take my wisdom teeth out. All these years with those suckers and they just NOW give me problems. Damn this growing old thing SUCKS!!

Rich had to stay home with the boys today while I was gone. Of course the only appointment I could get coincided with nap time and lunch. Rich didn't know what to do with himself. I have pretty much become a pro with getting Luke down without Eddie disrupting us but Rich couldn't do it to save his life. Poor guy. He's a great dad and I love him, but its a good thing he has me around to handle all the chaos. 

So my sweet baby boy doesn't want the boob anymore. He weaned himself and is now completely formula fed. Its all bittersweet, as it was becoming increasingly hard to nurse him and entertain Eddie all at the same time. I'm not superwoman, I can only do so much. But I miss that time with him. Its OK, he's still my boy. 

Off to get some sleep now, I hope I don't die from this pain. Let me tell you the Ibuprofen that my doc prescribed ain't really helping me a whole lot. 

History has been made

I am sure this has and will continue being said over and over again. History was made tuesday night when Barack Obama won the electoral votes for the presidency by a landslide. I will proudly say that I voted for him and I am so excited to see what the future holds for us as a nation now. I was insanely proud watching his acceptance speech late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. His ideas and what he stands for, I have just never been so full of hope. Call me naive but I really feel like finally we as a nation are coming together. I know (and trust me have HEARD) that several people aren't sure about having a black man leading us but I strongly hope that he goes to show them that its not the color of a mans skin but his character that makes him (and hopefully real soon!) or her a great leader. I really wish that we can get our economy back in order and that people can feel safe and secure again. And I am so proud that we have somebody in our current history that I can show my sons that you can go anywhere in life that you want to as long as you are willing to work hard for it. I really hope and feel that Obama will follow through with all of his promises and lead us to be a better nation.
Okay time to get off my soap box. Gotta go clean house. My mother is coming over tonight and would crap herself if she saw how unorganized I let things get!

Get out!

Get out and VOTE!!! Today is the day. I can't wait to vote, and I should have done it this morning but I was being lazy. History will be made today so I hope that everyone had their part in making it.
Its a good thing that I am accustomed to not getting sleep at night, cause I don't think I will sleep till I hear who won.
Well short and sweet today, just wanted to make sure that I got the message out. VOTE!!!!

99 days

Ok so Heather already posted this, but I wanted to share it too. On Oprah yesterday (yes that's what us bored stay at home moms watch...) she celebrated miracle children. She shared this movie from Youtube about this little boy named Eliot who incredibly lived 99 days but passed away due to Trisomy 18-a chromosome disorder that babies often don't even live through birth with. I sat there, after a long day with fussy screaming kids who thankfully finally went down for naps crying with each photograph these incredible parents shared with us, and thanked God for my little miracles in my life. This story is truly moving and inspiring. I do warn though to have a few tissues on hand. And perhaps your babies cause you will want to kiss them and hold them tight after viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6Njr-qkq0

Fall is here!

We took a little drive Friday and found this beautiful tree covered road. It was so gorgeous with all the trees aglow in red, orange and yellow. I love fall and really missed it living in Texas. You don't really get the major change in the trees and all. We also saw a couple of farms and Eds was pretty excited about seeing the cows. Its so funny how sometimes you just don't notice things. Sometimes your too busy to even see the things right there in front of your face, like all the leaves changing color.

Went to the pumpkin patch and got some pumpkins. Eds ran around and got into trouble-hello nap time!!! And Luke, well he wasn't too impressed but how else can you entertain a 8 month old? They had fun seeing the animals that they had out and Eddie nicknamed their horse Yeehaw. I was hoping to get some mums while we were there, but no such luck. We got a huge pumpkin and I can't wait to carve it out!! I am going to actually bake the seeds this year so that should be fun.

Got quite the scare Saturday night. We were eating dinner and Eddie as always was running around and playing in the living room. Rich walked in the room to find him with an empty bottle of hand sanitizer. It was just a tiny little bottle out of my MIL's purse and she couldn't remember how much was in there but still. We couldn't tell if he drank it our not and being completely scared outta our minds, we quickly loaded everyone up in the car and went to the ER. Of course they called poison control and were told that even if he drank the whole container (5 ml) that it wasn't enough to hurt him and would only cause him to vomit. So a $75 visit to the ER and turns out he was OK. Didn't even get sick or anything leading me to believe he didn't drink it. But better safe than sorry.

My mother in law was here this weekend too. Kinda nice for it to be just here and the boys got some one on one time with her instead of having to compete with all the other grand kids. I am sure we showed her a good time with cranky kids at the pumpkin patch and a night time visit to the emergency room. I hope she enjoyed herself. She didn't know what to do when we wouldn't let her washes the dishes!

All in all a great weekend. Just can't believe that the holidays are around the corner! Time to start getting ready for it all!

Yee-haw!!!!!

This is Eddie telling me what a cowboy says. Its just too cute!!!

She's gone. : (

Well two ladies of my life are gone away from me. I'll start with the more depressing one...

So my dog ran away...hahahaha well she did run away but more depressing is my sister left with my two beautiful nieces and my hysterical nephew on Sunday. She is moving out to Arizona to be with the love of her life. Depressing and sad, but I wish nothing but the best for her. I know how courageous it is to pick up everything and leave a place where all your family is and move somewhere where you don't know a soul. Trust me I did it myself a few years ago. It will be a good thing for her to get away from my parents and learn to be really on her own. Although the selfish part of me doesn't want her to be so far away, I know that it is something that she has to do, a sacrifice that has to be made, for her to truly find happiness. Plus it gives me an excuse to travel out west...

And the other lady in my life-my sweet dog ran away right before I left to Texas. We got Gracie right before we were married, she was our first baby and now she is gone. I get incredibly sad thinking about whats happened to her so I keep telling myself that a nice family picked her up and since she didn't have her collar on, the decided to keep her and are taking care of her. That's what I keep telling myself. I know that animal control didn't pick her up cause she was micro chipped so they would have contacted us already. Our other dog Molly is so sad, she keeps walking around the house crying. Poor thing.

My trip to Austin was amazing! I had such a great time and I was so happy to see my best friend. She has been through so much this year and I have been all the way out here in Ohio, so it was nice to finally be there for her. I didn't wanna leave but I was ready to come home and see my first born.

So yet again, nothing much going on. We are headed out today to hopefully get some Halloween costumes. My oldest wants to be an Elephant, he told me so himself so we will see.