HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO.....

Getting ready for the party day.....

Making cookies

Pinata time!

On a treasure hunt....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELANEY!

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Ryans turn!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!

How many adults does it take to put together a kids toy???

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY DELANEY!

HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY RYAN!

Lookie what I found! Delaneys 1st year!

Little, cute girls in green are my enemy!

Tis the season. They are everywhere. They smile at you at the Walmart door, plead at the grocery store, and if they don't get you in one of the more public places, they attack you at your house. You know what I mean....cute, little girlscouts dressed in uniforms with smiles on their faces asking you to buy their overly expensive cookies. I am a total sucker. And I love girlscout cookies. But I have been trying to be good. And was succeeding....till Saturday.

I would through walk the doors of Walmart and avoid their pitiful little begging eyes. I would smile and look away from the mothers who watched you walk by their tables in the grocery store. But then they stepped foot on my doorstep. Now I would have done the 'run and hide' move myself. You know, like you do with people who come knocking on your door with religious books in their hands and you run and hide so you don't have to answer the door! Yeah, that move! But those girlscouts were in luck. Todd was home. And Todd answered the door. I am not sure what he was thinking. One cannot win against some cute little girls begging you to buy their wares. It is a proven impossibility! But he did it. He opened the door! He took away the only barrier between them and us! He didn't stand a chance.

And in turn I lost too. I am out $14 for COOKIES. And those cookies are now 1/2 gone. You cannot put me in a room with thin mints or peanutbutter cookies. They are in my cabinet calling my name and I am doomed!

*sigh*

Thanks Todd!

Who is the sucker now!?

Things not to say to a sick woman!

I have been dealing with a cold. Just a good old fashioned cold. But this one is tough. It just is not going to give in and go away without a fight! It started a week ago and I am STILL trying to get it to head to someone elses house. It seems to favor mine though!

But now it has moved to my sinus. Not only do I get to sniffle and hack all over those brave enough to sit next to me but I am now dealing with a headache and my teeth hurt. My TEETH hurt. I sneeze and go 'ouch'. I blow my nose and my teeth protest enough to tell me they are going to leave if I do it again.

I am going to give it one more BANG with some decongestant and if it doesn't work it might just be time to call in the big guns.......my dr. Sniffles I can deal with. Walking around with a tissue stuffed up my nose all day is no big deal. But sneezing and feeling like my head is going to explode just might be drawing the line on my pain threshold.

Anyway, last night I have a headache....and teeth ache.....and I have to take Megan to her dr for her allergy shots. I debate on if I should stay home and let Todd take her cause my head hurts. But then if I stay home I am the one responsible for making dinner. And even the thought of bending down to put in already made mac and cheese and fish sticks was not appealing. The dr visit won out.

So I go and take Megan and get to sit FOREVER in the waiting room that is almost empty. Then they call us back and we sit FOREVER again for the dr to come in and give her the shots. Seriously, I cannot understand what is taking so long. No one is there! BUT I don't complain cause I am sitting and not moving and taking a few minutes to read about "You and your pregnancy". A much needed magazine for me that I simply could not have done without reading.

Did you know you can now buy a padded roll that looks like a dumbbell to put between your breasts when you are pregnant so that they don't touch when you sleep on your side? Wow. Doesn't everyone need one of those?? Cause I want to sleep with a hard rolled up thing smashed between my overly sensitive to the touch pregnant breasts! Yeah....

Anyway, we are sitting there waiting and the door opens. It is the new dr. I don't particularly like him. He reminds me of a much more dorky version of Doogie Howser , MD. And I seriously am doubting that he has the same intelligence. I think he was still in highschool about the time I delivered Megan and now I have to sit there and smile while he gives my baby a shot. But his comment when he opened the door was "Oh! No one gave you her shots yet?"

No, seriously, I had nothing better to do with my time than to sit for an hour reading about padded breast supporters and what my baby looks like at 20 weeks! COME ON DOOGIE, WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE SITTING THERE IN THE EXAM ROOM?????!!!!

What he got was a not so nice look on my pain filled face that said "I dare you, Doogie, to say one more stupid thing!"

I think that look made him nervous cause he almost fell off his little rolling chair. And I am not ashamed to say that I took some gratification from that!

It was about the best thing that happened in that office while waiting! Well that.....and the new girdles that can suck you in after birth and give you back your size 4 butt within a week after giving birth! And I didn't even HAVE a size 4 butt to begin with! Who knew............

Lookie there....

...we have a hole!!!!!!!!

The tooth fairy is coming for her 1st visit!

You know you are best friends when.........

You know you have a great friendship going when you can share your food with her and she never complains about waiting till you done before she gets any. When she will wait in silence and not rush you or ask for some. Delaney has a friend like that in Cherokee, our dog.

Today Delaney happily inhaled mashed potatoes and left the skins on her plate that Daddy decided to leave on before mashing. When she was done with those skins, Delaney layed the plate on the floor for the dog and Cherokee, being such a wonderful friend, helped Delaney out by cleaning off her plate. Then Delaney picked the plate back up and started to load on more mashed potatoes. I notice all this going on and stopped her and asked why she was giving more to the dog! Delaney tells me, in her best 4 year old innocence, that she isn't. That the potatoes were for her! She was going to eat more ( off the cleanly licked off plate mind you ) and share her skins again with her friend, Cherokee.

Now THAT is some friendship! Two gals ,hanging out on a Sat night, having a meal together and taking turns sharing what they had. AND said friend will never tell you that you look too fat in that new pair of jeans you just bought. I want a friend like that............

What is the going rate for a tooth these days?

The other day Delaney noticed that one of her baby teeth was moving. That prompted Megan to get excited and tell her sister that her tooth was going to fall out. Now, Delaney is my third and I know what horror visions that can put in a 4 year olds head! And sure enough, Delaney came running to me and crying because Megan said her teeth were going to fall out and she did not want to look like Collin. Collin is one of my daycare kids and currently looks like this.........

Now I personally think he looks sweet. But to Delaney I guess he looks like a younger version of an old man without their dentures in. And she did not want to look like that! She wants to keep her teeth. She doesn't care how 'baby' they are! And so sat on my lap and cried.

It took some joking and showing excitment that she was getting bigger and talking about the toothfairy who would be bringing her money to get matters in control. I am sure telling her that she would be getting her big girl teeth in and not having to go toothless like Collin, helped some too.

Today she proudly showed me her wiggly tooth. And then said that her cousin Chey has a loose tooth too and so......it seems we have gone from being scared out of our mind with visions of having to gum her food in the future, to it being totally 'cool'!

So I have the tooth fairy box ready and waiting. It is the one I used for Ryan and Megan. The date of the their 1st lost tooth written on the back. And now it is Delaneys turn.........

My baby is growing up!

Nice and easy is my best friend today

I woke today, blizzard day, to not having to work. Everyone stayed home to bunker in yet another storm. So I decided it was as good a time as any to catch up on some me time. I took a nice long hot shower, shaved body parts that hasn't seen the light of day since August and painted my toe nails. Yes I know that no one will see them through snow boots but I did it anyway. Like clean underwear, you just never know when you will find yourself in the ER and would not want to be caught with winter feet! AND I dyed my hair too. I would have painted my nails but unfortunately they are the victims of winter and broke off last week. I figured 'why bother'. There was no saving them with any sort of pretty paint! They were done for!

And I sat on the sofa with my wet toenails and smelly dyed hair and watched the blizzard forming on tv in the safety of my nice warm house.

At least something good came from today. And I am sure some nice ER dr will be grateful for it too!

Hello sweet piggies. Oh how I have missed you! If only to be free and running in the warm summer sand. One day, I promise, you shall be happy again!

Where oh where oh where is Mimi?

My Dad took pity on us NJ'ans and drove down from NY state to bail us out.
And...decided to stay cause we have ANOTHER Nor'Easter heading our way on top of the pile we already had.

Are you getting tired of seeing snow pics? Cause I am tired of posting them! If we had won the lottery last night, I would have packed us up and taken the 1st flight out of here for the nearest warm weather place! Nothing is going to be moving again for another two days or more!

And to top it off, I think I am getting sick. Nothing like being closed in with a bunch of kids and feeling like all you want is your bed!

Today we have sun. The last of it for a while cause come rush hour, we will be in the throws of another blizzard.....................

I am getting low on snack supplies so off to start baking!