Abbey's Preschool program

Okay here is our little sprout at her Christmas program, I was so sad that the camcorder was out of batteries, we had just used it and for not very long plus since porter was sick and i spent the day holding him (literally) I just hadn't checked it until the morning of, oh well thank heaven for camera phones the quality may not be there but it is better than nothing!

Sorry I can;t get the volume to work, and Tim is busy right now so..... well it's still cute to watch her actions of course I'm her mom so anything she does is cute, well almost anything.

Thankful for the little things

Okay I've decided to list all the little things I'm thankful for since I last posted. I think we remember the small bad stuff so often and tell about it that we forget the little wonderful things too. Careful the cheese-o-meter is running high lately and I apologize!

• Thursday morning busy day ahead and my hair took all of 5 minutes to do, silly I know but it made my day easier
• Kids were ALL happy and got ready fast! and we were out of the house by 9:00
• Went to Tuckers school Christmas sing and Porter made it through the whole thing and it was over an hour long!!!!
• Stopped snowing just before we left the school.
• Cute little size 4 feet that stopped to step in every mound of snow on the way to the car I think it took 15 minutes to get to the car. But I couldn't pick him up.
• When I got home I had a little pity party & a few minutes later my honey spontaneously started dancing me around the kitchen to Harry Connick's Christmas CD it was just what I needed. (he was still home recovering from the stomach bug)
• Little people who understand that mommy can't pick them up right now (this one is hard for me, I've had to do this too much of my kids lives)
• Kids who help with the laundry and even some of it was voluntary.
• SINGING, my kids love to sing. And I love hearing them especially Christmas songs.
• hot chocolate (doesn't that make everything right)
• Tucker helping neighbors just because he wants too.
• Kids making Christmas crafts, they had sooo much fun.
• Hearing my kids having fun during their time-out together, at least they stopped fighting so I guess it worked.

I'm sure I'm forgetting many things here I know I am but isn't it sad how we (or should I say me) so often focus on the crap and not all the good, so I personally needed to do this one. I need to do it more often too.

Okay I'm shutting down the cheese factory, and hopefully I'll post some cute kid pics soon.

I want a new model!

I'm just saying this to vent not to have you feel sorry for me. It is kinda humorous too.

I'm considering trading in my current body model anyone have any good suggestions I would preferably like one that does not require any surgeries!!!!!!!!!! I'm really getting tired of them and one that doesn't have any other funky weird medical complications or procedures, I'm a current freak of nature. The only problem with getting anew one is I might possibly have to go through surgeries I've already done, so I guess I should just keep the lemon I have because I already know what problems it has had. For those of you who are confused here is a synopsis

• 12/24/98 Appendectomy hospital stay one week (this was our first Christmas after getting married, Tim still kept me)
• 12/19/00 gave birth hospital stay 2 days (this one was at least fun and planned)
• 9/1/02-10/24/02 spinal fluid leak for 2 months and birth(who gets these during pregnancy and not from an epidural, only ME)
• 12/04 beginning of major sciatica nerve pain (multiple injections to follow)
• 5/24/05 emergency c-section at least there was a great reward in a little 3 lb 14inches healthy baby boy
• 12/15/05 back surgery for the before mentioned leg pain

And to add to the list my c-section scar has been bugging me, the Dr. thinks it's either a pinched nerve or an incisional hernia. Most likely the hernia since it is slightly bulging. He gave me some numbing shots today and if it was a pinched nerve that could cure it completely if not it will give me temporary relief, well temporary is for sure it's already coming back :( Oh well at least none of it is an emergency just mostly an inconvenience. There are many worse things that could happen and I know this ,I just had to get it out of my system, so thanks for letting me vent.

At least my honey doesn't want to trade me in!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUCKER

Well....for Tuckers 7th birthday he received the stomach flu from his brother what a great gift!!! and last year he received the chicken pox from an unknown gift giver! Porter came down with it first while at Aunt Janene's house and again when we picked them up (all over me) and again in the car and yet again in the tub Monday night. Tucker came down with it last night but informed me that he was not sick and would be going to school today, he didn't want to miss his school birthday party. Well after having a few more episodes he was convinced that he was sick. This morning he was feeling a little better than last night but we kept him from school anyway. He is now back to himself jumping off the walls and all the furniture and looking forward to his school program tomorrow. His cute primary teacher called earlier and is bringing him over a cheese pizza, they asked the kids what their favorite treat was and that's what he picke out, he'll be excited!

Happy Birthday!!!!

Today my honey is 32 years young. I told Tucker this morning that his dad is old and he didn't agree I told him that his dad was 25 years older than him and he said well I'm just glad I'm his kid. It was sooo sweet. They are such buddies.
Wow I just realized I've almost known Tim for half of my life! I'm currently 30 years young and we've known each other nearly 14 years and married for almost 10. And we've been through a lot in those 10 years and I wouldn't trade any of it for anything!! Not all of it has been fun but it's brought us closer together and I love him more now than ever! He has always taken such good care of me when I've had all of my crazy health problems and I appreciate it so much. I got a new appreciation for it after helping him through his back surgery, it's not easy being the care taker I prefer the patient roll, he says he doesn't like being the patient, so at least we agree on that. I'm most thankful that he is feeling so good these days with regards to his back, he sat for 2 straight hours last night at the concert we haven't been able to do that in years it was wonderful. I would still keep him even if he weren't doing better but this way is much more fun for both of us!
Anyway Happy Birthday honey!

BONKERS

Tim and I were able to got to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert last night. It was fabulous by the way. Well just before we left Abbey was twirling around and fell down on the edge of a table and smacked her forehead, I thought for sure it had split open and that we would need the babysitter for a different reason, well luckily it didn't, but it was close. We iced it up good and gave her some medis (medicine). This picture was taken this morning and I just couldn't get a picture that showed it very well, the camera hides it nicely it looks worse in real life! She took a little more medicine again this morning because it hurt still, and it is still slightly swollen, so she did a good job on it. At least she is smiling! and what a pretty smile she has, she used to scowl all the time and these days she is always putting a smile on her face, and when I get grouchy she says mom look and points to her pretty smile, who could grouch at that?

Happy UN-Birthday Party Tucker (Dec. 7th)

Okay So I'm behind in blogging this event!! We decide to let Tucker celebrate his 7th birthday early this year. Who wants their birthday 6 days before Christmas? What kind of parents do that to a child? well let's see umm us, my parents, Tim's parents. Oh well that's life right, and after trying for 7 months....Anyway this gave him time to enjoy his gifts before the Christmas day festivities. We invited our new neighbors and friends the Huber's over to celebrate with us, they were told NO GIFTS. But they didn't listen to these instructions and were kind enough to bring this awesome hot wheels motorcycle racer thing, it's pretty cool even I like to help Porter with it, and I do it a lot!!!

Not only that but Emily was nice enough to bring over a relish tray and ice cream (which she said she had but they went and bought that too the stinkers) it was fun for Tucker to have more people over for his UN-birthday Even is 8 and Eli is well 6 today actually, so they are just around him. For his b-day from us he got a K'nex roller coaster set he was soooo excited!!!
Tim found a great deal as usual on this, I think he was just as excited as Tucker! All the boys went to build it and Emily and I chatted it was really fun, I didn't get a picture of all those boys gathered around all those parts and instructions. (yes they used the instructions)

Here's the final project!!! He took this picture to school for show and tell yesterday!!!

We almost forgot to have cake and ice cream!!! We were reminded by the kids of course.

Abbeyism and other isms

Okay I remembered what Abbey said the other day. I was reminded this morning as she was
snuggling with us in our bed and she had her pretty smile on her face and Tim and I both commented on it at the same time. The other day she was grouchy and I asked where her smile was (we play a game of finding it sometimes) and she informed me that she had left it as school, she wasn't smiling as she said it either!!! I told her that was too bad since she didn't go back to school for 5 days. It's a good thing she found a spare one because it sure is pretty.

During church today she asked "Is today fast Sunday or slow Sunday?" I started to laugh and then she said "because I'm hungry" Lets just say it was hard to keep my composure during Sacrament meeting after she asked that question.

If you've recently read other posts you know that we celebrated Tuck's birthday last Friday (post coming) anyway Friday morning Tucker was getting ready for school and had presents on his mind when he said "I'm a Todd" I was thinking what is he talking about? "I'm a Todd so you need to buy toys for me." He was thinking of "Toys for Tots" I was laughing inside soooo hard, "I'm a Todd" So I explained what it meant and he pipes up "well are we going to?" I loved that he understood what it was for and immediatly wanted to help other kids, I think it's hard for them to even imagine that other kids don't have what they do.

Well Porter didn't have anything to quote but he did try to excape from nursery more than once I'm told, they refered to him as an escape artist, I didn't think he was tall enough to open the doors but they reassured me he did it quite well, and that every man he saw was his daddy, I can assure you that HE is wrong in that respect!!!!

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We are still here!!! Somewhere

Well it's been busy, but I've got to write down the funny things that kids say. So last night I'm getting ready to go to Enrichment Night and I didn't have any pockets so Tim put my cell phone down my shirt as a joke (well we all know I couldn't hide it there if I wanted too!!) Anywho Tucker asks "did he just put it down your boob thing" We were laughing soooo hard I think Tim almost started to cry! The fun part is when I got home they had been doing paper crafts Tim had printed out pictures of their favorite Disney characters and then the kids had cut them out (which i have to say they did a fabulous job of) and they made them into standing characters. They were so proud!! Porter's new thing to say is "oh crap" he says it when someone drops something, it's really quite cute. I just had him evaluated today for speech therapy and they got him to qualify by using his 30 months old that he will be in 2 weeks. He's a great talker don't get me wrong he copies everything, BUT he just isn't making his own sentences so I hope this will help give him a boost, better now than later!!! Abbey is still our little princess and she said the cutest thing the other day too and now I've forgotten, bad, bad, mommy! If I remember I'll post it. I know it was post worthy cuz I put it in my post file in my brain I guess that file has since been deleted or put in another directory. Can you tell I'm married to a computer geek. We are going to celebrate Tucker's Birthday tomorrow since it's so close to Christmas that way he has some space between gifts. He's pretty excited!!!