Friday Night Leftovers - the amended "got run over by a truck" version

Okay most of these I'd written out last night. The very last one is brand new.

• Simple breakdown here - being sick isn't fun, having sick kids isn't fun. Having sick kids while you (and hubby) are sick, wow, "isn't fun" just doesn't cut it. Guess we got spoiled as they never got sick their first year but what a pain.


• Speaking of, the girls are finally on antibiotics after getting the "sinus infection" determination. Now both hubby and I are sick but not quite to that stage. With my history of major allergies, a general sinus cold and such doesn't bother me - however this time we have a lovely cough that's pretty much kicking my butt and winning. Lungs are not happy! Although, as gross as it sounds, phlegm has to be a nice point value in Scrabble right?


• As a side issue, my right upper arm has been felt like it's on fire - this happens once in a great while but nothing like this past week. Had to pull teeth to get into a dermatologist; he was actually very nice but I could tell his assistants were like "hurry up so we can go home." Gee, thanks. For now we're going with "seborrhoeic dermatitis" (nice way of saying just really ticked off skin) If that's not the case, his other theory requires a biopsy so we'll just hope the first thought is right.


• Hmm, so if the first idea is right, one of the main triggers is stress. Hahaha, okay, really? I work (no less with my hubby and my family), don't sleep well, have twin toddlers... you get the picture. Doubtful that removing a lot of stress is in the near future.


• Had a parent-teacher conference at their school. Yup, our girls are nearly 19 months old and we're already meeting with teachers. They clap when we arrive at school so they must like it, right? Seems Audrey is more the thinker and Allie is the active one. Audrey likes to do little projets while Allie wants to run around the playground and go up the "big" slide. So we're banking on Allie being the first to visit the ER. Although they did try one assessment with colors: Allie wasn't interested in it at all, but Audrey apparently could identify all her colors and color in-between the lines. Progress, right?


• As in what seems to be a complete void of intellect, hubby and I may try to get out and play golf this weekend. Eh, enough cold medicine and we should be good to go. I may be paying for it later.

Now the "new" addition.

• I wrote that, right - about paying for it later. Hah. Started to feel a bit funny during golf and came home to find out I had a 103.5 temp. Okay, wow. Went to the urgent care where the idea was just a nasty, non-flu virus. Stayed well above 102 for five hours and just now dropped to 101. Feeling like total crud. Hmm also burning up, go figure.

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Audrey needs some new material

Hoping this morning goes just slightly better than yesterday's. Audrey's been feeling a bit under the weather and was not happy when we woke her up. (Apparently they need their beauty sleep - due to coughing and such, they were up most of Sunday night off and on and didn't get up until 10am on Monday - nice!) Allergies, teething drainage, who knows? (Common bug being passed around like wildfire at school - probably)

Anyway, back to yesterday. Audrey is whining and moaning all over hubby and sounds quite pathetic. (Yes, poor thing)
"Audrey, do you want to get dressed and go to school?" - No........
"Do you want to go back to bedl" No............
okay, um - "are you going to say anything else today?" And as she buries her head into hubby's lap, "Nooooooooo............"

Meanwhile Allie is dressed with lovey dog in hand yelling "schoo!" (school) by the door.
Then again, once we get Audrey dressed and in the car, they both applaud upon pulling up to the school. It was also picture day so can't wait to see if Audrey even remotely tried to smile. Bet she told the photographer "no!"

Friday night leftovers - the "yeah I got nothing" edition

• We may have to buy a duplicate of every item in the house; if that solves all the screaming and crying fits, so be it. Who knew a little drum set could cause such problems?
• The girls love ceiling fans, having the car windows rolled down, and anytime you fan them or blow in their face. They hate the hair dryer. Makes sense, right?
• Hubby and I got into a slight argument last night (actually a rarity, we really don't argue) I said he was being "huffy" and he looked like I was crazy. Tell me someone else uses that word.
• Not that I blog just to have followers or such, but yeah, I've been a bit lax with the blog and got called out on it - um, if you read it but never comment, I really don't know that you read it, just saying. (Someone please hurt me now that I typed "just saying" since that phrase drives me crazy!!!!)
• I can't complain as it is all our fault - the girls are already sports fanatics. I turned on the Ryder cup last weekend and Allie instantly went to retrieve her golf set and both girls will eagerly do the touchdown signal if asked. All major sports are in their vocabulary. Sadly, pretty much food and sports are the majority for the girls' lingo.
• Speaking of food, I know the girls are picky eaters. Vegetables, forget it. But brand allegiance? Audrey will not touch ketchup that is not Heinz. Really?

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Friday Night Leftovers -the "can we just get this week over with" version

• All joking aside, it's becoming a slight annoyance with the girls and their "pro-dad" stance. Tomorrow hubby is playing golf and I usually would be fine with just us three but hell, Audrey won't even let me get her out of the crib without a complete meltdown lately. If I bring a diaper or clothes to Allie, she'll just take them over so "da-eee" can do it. I'm going to say if Audrey's out of her crib by the time he gets home, it's been a successful day. (I'm kidding.)


• I hate the sun. A bright sunny day (oh like this morning) with no pacifier for Allie = car-ride from hell. Of course the minute we get her out she's all smiles and giggles so no one believes us. Fraud-baby!



• Yes I'm lazy but I have no problems with the girls going as twins for halloween. They won't remember it anyone most likely. Better yet, maybe they can go as single babies; hubby's idea, not sure what he's thinking that should entail.



• Sparing an insane rant, but if you set a precedent, it may just tick someone off when you go and change it at your leisure.



• As cute as the stuff is in the stores, I just can't spend full price on clothes for the girls when they grow out of stuff so fast. It may sound bad, but honestly, a $2 gymboree shirt at a resale shop beats a $20 one in the mall. Of course this falls at a time when I'm considering a pretty expensive fix for the ab area so I can see the point of I should save money on both ends but ............ eh no decision on the latter anyway so far.
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  On a positive note though, I do love October. There are a lot of reasons but one of the top ones has to be that it's "the" cheesy horror film month - awesome!! Anything to feed the addiction, right?
  

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What a difference a day makes.........

Hmm, Friday the girls seemed happy and maybe just a bit stuffed up. Being related to me though, we tend to not think too much about that as I'm dealing with allergies almost year round and especially right now, not a great time. So we enlisted the grandparents and a friend to watch them in the evening so we could visit with some friends. I think hand and foot has to be one of the more addictive card games I've played (it's a variety on canasta)

Well if we thought things were a-ok on the health front Friday evening, we woke up to a big surprise - two completely stuffed up babies with major digestive issues. Props to the hubby as I almost had to leave the room. Ew. I'm sorry but I'm missing the gene or ability to deal with major diaper issues without being grossed out. We got them cleaned up (okay so mostly hubby) and put everything in the laundry. I had to run out to get a few things for later as due to an illness another family member couldn't host MIL's b-day gathering so we were. (Of course we said yes on Friday when we thought everyone was healthy.) On top of that we had a parents as teachers visit right before his family was coming over. I think I really need to start using the calendar that's on our fridge.

Laundry wasn't done by the time the sickies wanted a nap so Allie took one on her bare mattress. (Hmm, given the morning's events, kind of a risky move.) They did fine with the party but had the same diaper issues after the second lap. Laundry time again. (Yes we bought multiple sheets for their cribs, but only one mattress cover per crib - awesome!) Allie took quite awhile to fall asleep that night.

Sunday morning we woke up to yet another round of digestive pyrotechnics and hubby sick as well. Let's just say it made for a long day. It seems a lot of people I know post on FB and such how their sick kids sleep a lot. Our girls apparently have a destructive need when feeling ill. They got into everything. Cd rack, bookcase, bathroom supplies............ Now I guess it's kind of our fault for not shutting some doors but keeping them happy seemed a better option.

Let's just hope by some crazy miracle the girls wake up perfectly happy tomorrow and can go to school. Hubby stayed home today but we both could use going into work and sad to say, sometimes I just prefer a nice routine.

9-10 Friday Night Leftovers - the attempt from my new phone version

I'm "glad" it's Friday, I think. Not as glad though as when the weekends meant sleeping in beyond 8 o'clock.

• The girls are going to eat us (and their school) out of house and home. OMG, where does it all go? Dinner one night was a 9" pizza, 3 nectarines, a box of crackers, and by then I stopped keeping track. Last night they polished off a burger, curly fries, a nectarine, more crackers, rice chex, some of hubby's steak fries, and once again, I lost count. We used to joke how they eat more than I do for a meal, now they're taking out hubby as well.
• Of course Audrey's favorite words lately are "more," "please," and "snack." I think 90% of their vocabulary revolves around things that are edible.
• I hate weed pollen. We'll just leave it at that.
• Hubby's fault for trading in our (lemon of an) Accord for an Altima but oh what a fun little car. Makes passing people much easier. (yeah yeah, shouldn't do that.......... you get behind a tractor or such everyday and see what you think.)
• The girls have a very specific "how things are to be done" mantra lately. Audrey will only let select people take her out of the car. I am not in that category. Seems if you're male, you're allowed - both grandpas and hubby are among the chosen few. Allie, when she gets mad in our car, does not want a pacifier from hubby or me. We must hand Audrey the pacifier who then gives it to Allie. Really, girls? Picky, picky.
• We're a really grown-up couple. Neither of us were jumping up and down to go to the parents' orientation at their school so the "obvious" answer was we both go. Sad, isn't it? Hey, at the rate the Cardinals are playing, I only get a month more of watching baseball, okay? (I'm kidding - the girls' education and caregiving situation is more important than sports. Um, I'm supposed to say that, right?)
• If it doesn't come any sooner, I've run out of luck in my chicken little approach of trying not to travel with the girls. Seems next summer we'll have to make an outing to the lovely state of New York. Hubby says we'll drive but the girls hate the car. That sounds painful. But I don't like to fly. Hmm.........
  
  
  
  
  
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This and that.........

For fun, and I should say this is a "hearsay" story, but hypothetically speaking, what do you think? "Apparently" someone we know was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign. (This particular stop sign isn't in the best spot - anyone I know always pulls ahead of the line for better visibility) She questioned the officer and he had her come back to his patrol car to watch a video tape of what she did. (I don't know the conversation so I can't say he made her or what but ........) Well the problem is she had her two kids (one is five, the other is three) in the car and the officer had no problems with them being unattended. Hubby just thought that was odd - rolling through a stop sign sounds a lot less problematic than two kids alone in a car. Curious what your thoughts are.

Moving on............

I'm about to suck it up and go see my doctor about not sleeping. It's gotten way too old. It also has made my temper very short and things that maybe shouldn't drive me completely crazy easily do. It doesn't help that every morning one of the girls is screaming mad. It varies between the two so hard to pinpoint what exactly is the problem, but hubby and I are both tired of cranky mornings. We don't see the girls a whole lot M-F so when most of that time is with at least one upset and/or mad, it's just not a fun time. This morning they were in-stereo fussy, and same thing from the minute we picked them up. It's draining. I know part of the issue is they don't take nearly a long enough nap at their school but we're going to have to fix that in a hurry.

They have gotten very interested in certain tasks like putting clothes in the hamper or putting away diapers, except hubby and I both swear that tonight, when we asked Audrey to put her clothes away, her babble-answer sounded very close to "why me?"

The girls did get their first day-trip this past weekend as hubby took them down to the cabin. Apparenly all the rocks they could imagine was too much fun and they were completely asleep by the time I got home (I had gone out to dinner for a friend's birthday) Maybe if we had rocks instead of toys around the house, we'd get better results. They also had their first trip to the zoo compliments of their uncle and soon-to-be aunt. Seems the monkeys were the highlight as they now excitedly will tell you what a monkeys says. (That or the dippin' dots - hard call.)

Fun with rocks

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