2 years Old
Aug. 27, 2002
Desi is so sick. Yesterday and the day before she had a fever, she has been coughing so bad at points where she pukes, her nose is running to her chin and she is just all around groggy and crabby. We went to the dr. yesterday and he couldn't find any infections at all so concluded that is has to be some viral thing. She started coughing while there and he said that her cough sounded kind of "croupy", so he gave me some cough medicine to see if it would help. So I gave her some of this medicine and for the first time in a week she slept the whole night through. So I thought things were going to be good. We found a new daycare and I was going to take her to that, until she woke up. She had a fever this morning of 102.1. Daycare facilities won't allow children with fevers so I am stuck missing another day of work as Don went back yesterday. This totally stinks. I wish she would feel better for 2 reasons, I hate missing work, and I hate having my babies sick.Today I was also schedulded for her 2 yr appt but they had me reschedule it as she is due for a new shot. However I did get her weight and height. She is 28-1/2 lbs, and about 32-3/4 in. High. So if I think of it right, that is about 2 ft 9 in. and she will be 5 ft 6 in at adult height. So around the same height as Don and I.
Sept. 11, 2002
I can hardly believe it has been a year already since the September 11th attacks. I still have not recoved from this event. I am supposed to have Cub Scouts that night, but I didn't think I could really do much for it. I found out that my work is sponsoring a memorial service at Tucson Electric Park (the minor baseball teams field). In addition to the memorial service when the sun goes down there is going to be a huge human flag on the field with glow sticks and there will be an aeiral picture done for this in attempt for a poster to be made. Because of this going on and I felt it is a great opportunity to share with other people the feelings we still have to this day, I am bringing all my Wolf Cub Scouts in my den with me to this event. It gives them a chance to express how they feel about this and it is such great patriotism to share.
Luckily from some friends, from my moms group, Emily and Laci I will be able to take pictures of this special event and thanks to Christine, I will be able to use my new supplies to create some wonderful scrapbook pages.
Anyways, I just wanted to share my thoughts on this and my surprize that a whole year has gone by. Do remember I do love each and everyone of you and if anything ever happened to any one of you my life would be forever changed.
Tonight was absolutly amazing. We started off with an introduction to the service. There was a parade there with all the police and fire depts from our local areas and the Air Force. It was so cool. Don't think my pictures will turn out as cool though, but I won't complain, at least I was able to take pictures. Anyways, afterwards we had a nice little speach from the head of the air force, police and fire depts. Very nice. After all was done we went down on the field and got assembled to make our logo. I thought it was a human flag as that is what we were told however it ended up being "9/11" with glow lights. So cool, Desi suprisingly did very well in the dark in such a crowded area. The glow sticks helped. If I can find a picture of it I will post it for you all. There was fireworks afterwards. I did so good the whole time with crying until the fireworks. I just got so choked up thinking about how we are a free country and it is terrorism that tried to shake us and only made us stronger. Anyways, I loved the ceremony tonight and hope to never forget the feelings I had tonight.
Sept. 26, 2002
Desiree is getting so much clearer in her speaking and getting better at mocking us on everything we say now too. I'm amazed how it has changed so much in the last 2 weeks. About a week ago now we had a little scare with her. She woke up from her nap and would not walk on her foot. It lasted 3 days of that and then we took her to the dr. He told us that if it wasn't better in 2 days to call back and get x-rays done and find out if anything happened. By Friday she was walking on it much better and now she is completly fine. We don't quite know exactly what happened. Only thing we can figure is she pulled a tendon in her foot or possibly even sprained her ankle at some point. But at least it's done now and we don't have to worry anymore. She is back to her cute self.
Oct. 5, 2002
I went to Wal-Mart today to get Desiree new shoes and a few things for Diane's wedding gift (scrapbook). As I finished picking out Desi's shoes I heard an announcement saying if anyone wants to participate in the toddler race to go to the infants dept to sign up. So I went over there got Desiree signed up and we were just hanging out for a few minutes for the race. When the race was getting ready to start they had all the toddlers at one end of the isle by infants and had them run all the way down the isle to the beginning of women's ware. DESI WON!!!!!! The lady had them running to a big stuffed Winnie the Pooh and Desi just charged for it like it was her best friend. When she got to it she hugged that thing for dear life. I asked if that was the prize and the lady was like heck no you get this. It is a Tricycle. Really nice one too that I wouldn't have been able to afford if I wanted to get it for myself. Desi thinks this is just the coolest thing. I wish I knew about it before and I would've brought a camera or something. At least I got pics of the prize once it was assembled. She is so excited. So am I.
Oct. 16, 2002
Well Jared came on Thursday and left on Tuesday. Hope him and his wife had a nice time. Man was it a busy weekend.
Thursday Don, Jared and Holly went to the Indian Casino. It was the first time she got to go as you only have to be 18 to get into the indian casinos.
Friday during the day Don, Jared and Holly went to Mexico. Got a bunch of cool things. Don got me a really cute wolf family statue. It has a mama wolf and her three baby wolves all howling up to the sky. I didn't even realize it until Don mentioned something to me about it last night but it is very symbolic of our family with me and the kids. Very sweet. Friday night we all went to Old Tucson. That is where all the old western movies were taped back in the day. They were having a haunted house thing there. It was so fun and we all had a really great time.
Saturday we all headed to San Diego for the guys Chiefs/Chargers game. We stayed at a motel called the "Fabulous 7 Motel". All I have to say is this motel was fabulous for something but it wasn't for the rooms, LOL. Man that was the worst hotel I have ever been in.
Sunday while the guys went to the football game, Holly and I went to the ocean. We found a really cool scenic view of the ocean off the naval base. Didn't even mean to get on it but we did and it was so beautiful. I think I might've taken a couple pics but I am sure it is not going to be as good as seeing it in person. We headed to a beach also. Turned out it was a dog beach, but it was still pretty cool. The kids got a ton of seashells. Desiree and Jasmine got sand everywhere and Andy just loved playing in the waves. The guys had a great time at the game also by what I hear. I guess Jared got on TV but I will never know for sure as I couldn't watch the game and I didn't have a VCR on hand to tape it. Right after the game we all headed back home.
Monday, Don, Jared, Holly and Jasmine all went to see some of the mountains. We were going to go to Mt. Lemmon which is a really mountain here but it didn't work out in time nor money to be able to do that. So they went to see the other mountains here. They never did tell me if they enjoyed themselves with that one, but by what Holly told me is that they were wanting to hang out around there to see the sun set. Which is beautiful here in the mountains. Jasmine really started calling me by my name on Monday. Instead of calling me mommy like she was earlier, she started calling me "Ambadee Dora" for "Auntie Laura". It was so adorable. I can't get it out of my head. She was a really good girl. The only problems we had with her was the fighting with Desiree. As neither of them know how to share or really interact with kids the same age as them. But they got a little better as time went on.
Tuesday, nothing but a chill day. Jared left at around 6 at night. I just about cried when they left that I got to a point I couldn't talk. I know no one caught me do that, but it was there. It was just so sad to know I won't be seeing him for a while again. At least when I do see him again it will be another happy time. Now just to get my sister and my two nephews down here. Maybe bring my other brother along also. That would be great.
Anyways, that was my weekend. Nice and busy, but at least I got to see my brother again.
Nov. 14, 2002
Okay, well it has been a while and I know you are all dying to know what is going on in our house. I'm home from work today for being sick. Well here it is.
Desiree - She is growing by leaps and bounds. Speaking so much more lately. We are in the process of teaching her to be polite. "Tank Ou""Fuk Em" (which is really Welcome but it sounds like the is telling you what to do with it Fox also sounds like a bad word also.) "Bess Ou" and "Peas". Anyways, she is so cute and I sure can't complain about her being naughty or her high pitch screaches when she throws a fit because she does something cute to hide it.
Nov. 24, 2002
Okay, I know now what I want to get as a present for Desiree. The movie "Barbie as Rapunzel". It was on Nick today and it is so cute. Desiree sat and watched the whole thing through. She loves Barbie as it is and this was only something to enhance the love of Barbie. I think this will be a great stocking stuffer from Santa for her
Dec. 4, 2002
Desiree was in the emergency room for 4 hours last night. I got a call from day care around 4 saying that Desiree just threw up. Got another call at4:30 saying she threw up again. Don picked her up shortly after and she threw up again in the car. He picked up Andy and she did it again. They went to the emergency room and called me shortly after to tell me to come up there. While we were there she threw up at least 3 more times. The dr. thought maybe she swallowed something so they did x-rays to see if there was any foreign objects. Luckily there wasn't, but if there was it would have explained it. The only thing the dr. and us can figure out is that she had one of two things happen. She got food poisioning at day care or she is getting the start of a stomach flu. When we got home she threw up one more time. I am leaning towards the food poisioning theory as today and all last night she hasn't puked. Although she doesn't seem back to herself today it has been quite. What is aweful is that we asked the daycare what all she had for lunch and they told us they didn't know, maybe french fries and some other stuff but couldn't give us a definate answer. Not too comfortable with that at all, I think we are going to be looking at our options here if they don't even know what they feed my daughter. Anyways, I am home from work again to be with her. I swear I miss so much work it's not even funny. One day I'm going to get in so much trouble, but I don't care. My family comes first.
Dec. 7, 2002
This time it's Andy. He has strep throat. My poor baby. It is really bad too. The toxins from the strep has given him a rash on his entire body. He looks like he has a really bad sunburn. At home he has been refusing any kind of medicine. So I told this to our dr. when I talked to them on the phone and she said to mention that when I go to the emergency room and maybe they can do a shot of antibiotics instead. WOOHOO! They did it. And although Andy didn't like the thought of getting a shot we both liked the idea that it will only be a one time dose of medicine instead of 10 days of antibiotics. So we did that. Hopefully he will be able to swallow again soon. He hasn't eaten nor hardly drank anything for 2 days now cause it has hurt him so badly. Anyways, on the road to recovery for him now too.
Oh btw, Desi is feeling much better now. Although she keeps eating the get better bear sucker/cough drops I got for Andy. She likes the grape taste I guess, lol.
Dec. 28, 2002
Thanks to my wonderful mother and father sending us the gift cards we were able to have a Christmas for the kids. We waited though till after Christmas to use the Sears gift card and get me and Don a present. We went today to Sears and bought us just one nice gift. We bought a new DVD/VHS player. Very nice. Now we can play either type of movie. The VCR is broken in the kids room and the DVD/Playstation 2 has been freezing up our movies lately. Probably from too much use. Hopefully we will find this to be just the right gift for us.
Jan. 4, 2003
Well of course it is that time of year when Andy is about to have another birthday. I swear, I'm freaking about him turning 8 in 8 days. Like I was telling my mother, just when I finally get used to his age he goes and adds another number to the equation. I don't want my baby to keep getting older. I know he does and has to, but WAHHHHH!!! He is getting so big. Pretty soon Desi will be this age before I even know what happened. Anyways, I'm just having a breakdown as I do every year when his birthday comes around. I still remember birthing this child. Boohoo, LOL.
Jan. 6, 2003
Desi is as cute as ever. She got the Barbie as Rapunzel DVD I wanted to get her and she has watched it at least 2-3 times a day if not more when we let her, LOL. She is still adjusting to day care. She just doesn't like it and gets very quiet and shy around all the kids and adults there. Usually when Don drops her off she will just stand there and look at him like "how can you do this to me?" and then when I pick her up at the end of the day she is often playing on her own and when she sees me is quick to jump up and leave. Pretty pitiful.
Jan. 30, 2003
Man I really scared myself last night. Here is my situation. Everyday I take the kids to day care and pick them up. When I get home I can't get away by hiding in my room, I'm stuck. Last night between Desiree throwing her fits and than Andy pouting and then crying on this Cub Scouts thing. I about broke last night. I couldn't take it. There was one point that I had Andy up against the wall in his face just yelling at him. If I didn't tell him to get out of my sight at that moment I would have hit him. I was crying quite a bit last night after that happened. I just snapped and I didn't like that. I told Don after it happened and told him that I need to get a break from these kids. He said that he would take me out this weekend. Honestly I don't think it is enough cause then I go back to the same old crap. Yesterday Don told me earlier in the day that he thinks the house being a mess is what is making him sick. I told him that I try every weekend to make this house clean and that a little help is in order. He didn't have Desiree all day on Monday or Tuesday before he went to work and what did he do? He played on the computer and slept. And Monday he didn't work at all and STILL didn't pick her up when he was done with what he had to do and I ended up picking her up after work. So literally he had an ENTIRE day to himself. Must be nice to know that he can have a break whenever he wants, and it just makes me resent him more. And surely has made me more agitated the last few days. He just doesn't understand what I am feeling and I'm about to freak on it. Actually I already have. Not cool. I talked to Don later today and on Sunday I am going out to my scrapping store where they have a studio there. I am going to take a few hours to scrap and be by myself doing something I love and haven't had time to do for over 3 months now. I have other stuff going on here latly with work and stuff, I won't get into all that right now. I'm trying to not think of all the bad stuff all the time. Keeps piling on though and starting to have a rough time with it. Obviously
Feb. 8, 2003
Desiree is the Queen Brat lately. Her temper tantrums are getting completely out of control. I don't kow what to do anymore. Time outs don't work. Of course she doesn't get spanked. We try to ignore her when she has the fits but she will just keep going and going. She is the crying energizer baby. Have you ever seen the movie Austin Powers on the part where Fat Bastard says "Baby, the other other white meat!"? Do you think I could use that line too and just cook her up? Hehehe.
April 15, 2003
I am so tired of diapers that I just want desi trained already. she has been naked all morning. Well after about 3 hours finally i could tell there was some action going to happen. she sat on the potty seat and crying. turned out she had some poopies that needed to come out. she was alittle scared about it but she did it in the potty seat. WooHoo! After she was done I cleaned it out. Left the seat in the bathroom. Sadly she just peed down her leg. So I guess it's going to take some work, but this is the first time of having this potty seat that she has done anything in it. So I am still excited about that. Do I think she is ready for this step? Well quite frankly I'm not going to push her. I have always said she will go when she is ready. However, I feel she has hit that point. She pulls down her pants when she feels it coming. She tells us when she has to go poop. She sits on the potty on her own. I think she is intimidated with it in the actual act. My main thing of why I am wanting to reinforce it now is not only cause I do think she is ready but because quite frankly I can't afford the diapers and pull-ups anymore. I am tired of them too. Be much easier to just go in the pot. But if she showed no interest I wouldn't push her at all. However, she does and so I start the training. She peed in it once yesterday and poopied too. And she was so excited about it and felt like such a big girl when she did it. I have to say I am quite proud of her. And all night she was saying "I'm a big girl!"
April 22, 2003
Desi has been potty training for exactly a week now. And I must say she is doing great at it. She was definatly ready for it. We keep her bottomless most of the time here at home and she just goes when she feels it. I am really trying to work with her now so that when she wears clothes she doesn't think of them as a cover up like the diaper and then wets herself. The last day or two she has been pulling down her panties and going. Last Friday we went to Wal-Mart where she had an accident (it was our first real test to leave) and she freaked out. She hasn't had many accidents out and about and tells me she has to potty, but when we get to the bathroom she doesn't go. LOL. Ah well at least she gets the concept. Today she went potty on the regular toilet here. All on her own. It was really good to see her using it. She is really making me proud and hopefully when we see Don again she will be completly potty trained. Now, I have not really worked on her at bedtime as she still seems to be addicted to the stupid bottle. But that is a whole other issue to deal with and with all we have going on here with sleep and potty and everything it is the last on my priority list right now. Well just wanted to let you all know things are going well with her going potty.
April 26, 2003
I got Desi the DVD for Strawberry Shortcake and Desi just loves it. It's about a 50 minute movie and she will sit and watch the entire thing. I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should have a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party for her in a few months.
It's wierd too because I had a Strawberry Shortcake doll when I was little. When you squished it's belly it let out a little scent out of it's mouth of Strawberry. The DVD case to Desi's movie has this same smell to it. Brings back a ton of memories. My sister and I used to have a record and we would run that thing raggid playing it and exercising to it. I still can remember doing the crab walk and all sorts of other things like that with Strawberry Shortcake. Ahhhh, the good ol' days! At least I can share in all this with my daughter now.
June 17, 2003
Well I'm sitting here working on updating Desiree's website and noticed I dont have any real updates on my daughter or anything for a while. I had such a rough couple of months that it was the last thing on my mind. So I thought I might post a little update on how everything is going here for everyone.
Desiree - she is handling things okay in our new house too. She has been having problems the last few days sleeping through the night. It's really starting to bug me. She says she is scared, so we sit in there and talk for a while so she gets all her fears out and reassure her that everything is okay. Then she will go back to sleep but only if I am sitting right next to her where she can see me if she awakes. I managed to stop that though and I can get as far as the computer desk and she will sleep. Good thing with that is I can go back to bed when I know she has been asleep for a little while. As to the potty training, she is completly potty trained now, except for bedtime. And that's really cause she still has the bottle for bedtime. I cannot believe she is going to be 3 in less than two months. Where did that time fly? It doesn't seem like it's been 3 years already. We are trying to figure out if we should do a theme party yet. We have now added to the options of Barbie or Dora to now also add Finding Nemo as a theme. We went to see the movie this past weekend and Desiree had sat up straight glued to the movie screen. She loved it and has been talking non stop about it since then. Even in the night time hours when we sit with her she is talking about Nemo and his Daddy, LOL. She loves to go swimming here (as do the boys) and she loves to let her feet off of us and she kicks and splashes and has so much fun with it. I will admit it will be kinda sad to go to work again after I have had so many things change with her and I will miss that again, but I need to support her and my family too so I guess I will just have to deal with it. Anyway, I will end this now, just needed to post a little update
June 22, 2003
A question posed on my moms group: What is your child's favorite characters? Desiree loves the following characters right now: Dora the Explorer Barbie Strawberry Shortcake Finding Nemo Blue's Clues Spongebob Jimmy Neutron Any of the dinosaurs from the Land Before Time I don't know if there are anymore that I can really think of but those are the one's she talks about quite a bit
July 27, 2003
I still am not sure what we are doing for Desi's party yet. Now she is saying she wants Blue's Clues. So until we actually have the party nothing is really planned. Don had his little party last night (his bday is Tuesday) and Desi had to help him blow out the candles to get ready for her own. She is so cute and so excited about it all.
Aug 3, 2003
Desi gets in moods where I wish to hell she would take a nap. Don still insists on her needing naps, but the way I see it if she didn't wake up till 10 or 11 then by the time she starts getting cranky for the nap it's dinner time and I know if I let her nap then she will be up late all night. So at that point I make her stay awake for at least dinner and then I will put her to bed. Although she is on a late schedule for bed too and usually goes to bed by 10-11 at night.
