Thank God for Old Navy

Ok...my little budda belly boy has suddenly grown into a slender toddler...this poses a problem in jeans.  The size 12-18 months fit him in the waist, yet they are WAY too short for him.  The 24month and most 2T are too big in the waist and a little long...but some wonderful soul at old navy decided to put an adjustible waist in the "t" clothes...therfore my son can wear jeans again!

Boo to you

Ok with halloween almost a week ago I finally am getting around to posting some pics of my little boos: Andrew got a lot of candy, but Isabel fell asleep at the second house and slept the whole rest of the time!P>

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My son the hunter...

OK...he really didn't go hunting, but he did pose with the deer my father killed....as did Baylee!

every wonder why?

Ok so I've been thinking...yeah I know...not exactly a smart thing to do for someone like me who hasn't had much to challenge my brain in a while.   Anyway back to me thinking...ah---yes I had just dropped Andrew off at daycare (I was supposed to back cookies for Mike's unit's Bake sale tomorrow...that's right ladies and gents...a marine corp bake sale...sound funny...and actually I remember a bumper sticker that I read that said something about "I live for the day the military has to have bake sales and schools have enough money"  oh btw the bake sale if for the Ball -- which we are not attending this year.)

--back to me thinking and driving.....as I drove past McD's I thought about getting a coffee but the line was way out in the Food Lion parking lot. ..and why was the line out to the parkinglot?  b/c of parents with cars full of kids going through the drive  through to get their kids breakfast.  Not only is this a problem in the morning, but as soon as school lets out the line is back with parents getting a "happy meal" snack for their kids.  Isn't there something wrong with this picture?  I know McD's offer "healthy side items" now, but how many actually get them for their kids?  What's even more ironic is the same parents who got schools to change their menu and ban soft drinks are probably the ones sitting in line at McD's.

Instead of going after the corporate man for making their kids fat how about parents stepping up?  Same with smokes....is it fair for kids to be forces to breath their parents second hand smoke?  I remember hearing at one time Arkansas was trying to pass a law that forbid parents from smoking with their kids in the car.   I think its great....

oooh what else...oh the last month there has been a rise in the increase of child abuse in Onslow County.  In the newspaper it said on one wekend a 18 day old was killed from his father beating him, a 6 week old was killed  and a 9 month old is in serious condidtion after his father slammed his head into the side of the crib then picked him up by the feet and slammed his head on the floor.  I was reading this as Andrew was playing in the floor in front of me and I was nursing Isabel.  What in the world could these babies do to deserve being abused?  It made me sick to think someone is capable of doing that...especially to their own son/daughter. 

The whole story

Ok i said a while back I'd post Isabel's birth story...so here it goes...

We were to call the night before to find out what time we were to be in pre-op.  When we called they told us 7:30...which was a relief since the originally said around 6am.  So we get up that morning and get to the hospital at...6:45am...and since they told us not to be early we sat outside in the car until 7:15 and then walked REALLY SLOOOW to pre-op.  Once there we were told that they were running behind so they put us in a room to wait....at 11:15 they came and got us...I walked down to the staging area and got my iv....I was then wheeled into the OR.  Then the anesthesiologist came in to give me a spinal....after 3 tries they decided to give me an epidural and see if it worked...if it didn't they were going to send me home and try again the next day....well it worked.  A few minutes later they brought Mike in and started cutting...a few minutes later she was born screaming her little head off.  Isabel went to the nursery while I was closed up and Mike went with her and to tell my parents the good news.  While they were closing up I had a panic attack so I got a nice sedative :) 

In recovery it took forever to get out...my blood pressure was running low (80/40) so they had to wait for it to go back up.  Once it did I got to go to my room....and they brought Isabel to me.

you can buy anything...

...at 2am on TV.  How do I know this?  Last night I was up at 2am breastfeeding Isabel and since I need something to do or else I will fall asleep I turned on the tv (ok actually I turn it on to drone out Mike's snoring). What did I find?  Anything worthy to watch?  Nope...over half od the 180 channels we get were paid programming.  Ionic Breeze (While I do value clean air I can't see paying 300 for 1 fan...lol), Ginzu knives (I always needed a knife that will slice a pipe and a tomato....I do that every weekend!), Oreck (it can pick up a bowling ball...but if you have dirt the size of a bowling ball on your floors I think it may be past the point of cleaning, bags to compress your clothes to store them (they even work in the bathtub...but why would you want to store your winter clothes there is beyond me) anyway  digress...but next time you feel the need to go shopping set your alarm clock for 2am and you can get just about anything from your bed!

On a side note I had to watch hours of football yesterday (I like football...but I prefer to watch college...unless that HOTTIE Peyton Manning is on....Yeah I know he was a rival Tennesseian...but he still is so dang hot :)  ...anyway I have no idea what channel it was but they had this sound effect going on with their grafics that sounds somewhat like a light saber...it got pretty annoying.  Mike didn't notice it until I mentioned it...now it drives him crazy too.. (yes I kow I misspelled several words, but there sint' spell check and I don't ave time to think it through...I have 2 screaming kids right now...lol)

Ernesto

Yeah yeah yeah...Ernesto came last night...dropped butt-load of rain and some wind.  I slept through it, thankfully Isabel did too.  Our neighbor didn't secure her trampoline and so it is now hanging over our fence...what a dumb-ass.  What part of 60mph wind does she not understand.  Anywho...I am sleepy and its time for a nappy-poo.