More observations

My little Sydney has been FULL of questions and observations.
We've had this discussion before, but today there was real thought behind the questions.

Let me set this up for you. I'm standing over Spencer at the changing table. Sydney has crawled up on the side of it, as she so often does, and is watching me.
"mama, what's that?" putting her finger ON Spencer's penis.
"that's a penis honey"
"a penis ?" she asks.
"Yes, please don't touch it" I move her hand away.
"what's this ?" she now points to his sack.
I had to think of how to answer this one....balls, sack, "those are his testicles, babe." I decided to be anatomically correct.
"his testicles" she confirms with exact pronunciation.
"yip". I discard the diaper and begin putting a clean nappy on.
"mom, I had a penis when I was a little baby too."
"no honey, you've always had a vagina"
She looks at me a little pissed, like this was not ok..."a vagina ?"
"yes, that's what girls have. Spencer is a boy so he has a penis."
She then climbed down and walked off with a look on her face like she was robbed.

I finished changing Spencer and was thinking that if she were older I could explain that girls have it made. We get to bleed and have cramps, worry about yeast infections and infertility.
When I finished having this conversation with myself I think my face looked as if we were both robbed.

I can't wait for the "Kindergarten Cop" conversation to slap me in the face during pre school or dance class.
"boys have a penis, girls have a vagina"

Toe Hair

I'm sitting in the glider feet up on the ottoman both boys in tote. Syd climbs up and is sitting on my legs turned towards my feet.
I'm exhausted and with my head back staring in to space I hear Syd begin, "Mommy what's this?"
"What's what honey ?"
"What's this?" Syd points to my big toe
"It's mommy's toe honey."
"No-uw, what's t-h-i-s ?"
I look down again and see her finger pointing to the coif of hair I have been growing since Friday on my thumb toe.
Feeling a slight amount of judgement it took me a minute to realize that I was talking to a 2 year old....someone who didn't know that stubbly black hair growing from a woman's toe was considered repulsive and very unattractive.
"It's hair babe."
"Hair?" Syd says a little confused.
"yip, hair" I repeat.
"oh", after a brief pause, "mama, it's ok"

All of these feelings came flooding to the surface. Was now a good time to break it to her. That not only will she inherit the "toe hair", but has a good chance of obtaining the boobs, stretch marks, moles, butt, that one little whisker on my chin.
I looked at this beautiful little girl, flawless, full of life, full of possibilities.
"When you get bigger, you will have toe hair too" I said.
Because screw that.....I WISH someone would have warned me too.

Later I was sitting on the couch feeding Spencer and I felt Sydney playing at my feet...she leans down and kisses the top of my toe...something she does if you have an owie. She then moves over to my other foot and kisses that toe too.
I'm glad that she was able to come to grips with her lot in life already.
That's my girl.

Sickly in Seattle

That moment to exhale, to relax, hang, dine, shop. It didn't happen.
My wife gave me bronchitis. Oh yes she did.
As the plane dropped several thousand feet in to Seattle, someone sitting behind me took a pair of scissors in both hands and jammed them in to each of my ears. Or that's how I imagined it. The pain was so intense that I closed my eyes and dug my fingers in to and around my ears trying to massage away some of the pressure.
I felt like I was in a tunnel for the next several hours and after that was more of a blur of coughing attacks, and near death hacking.
By the next morning my voice was gone and my eyes were blood shot.....(blood from the small capillaries that had burst in my eyes, and shot from the feeling of my eye balls being shot out of their sockets each time I coughed)
I didn't make it to the dinner that night, but instead saved up my energy to go out for some drinks with everyone. Priorities, priorities.
25 work people, 6 of us were gay.....where did we go...THE GAY BARS !!!! WOO HOO !
It's funny to soberly sit and watch a bunch of straight people dancing all up on each other....because hey, when in Rome. I kept thinking, you are all going to wake up tomorrow with regret and humiliation looming over your heavy hungover heads, and will have to face these people at work on Monday. God, I'm glad I'm sober.
The eye contact was but a quick flicker and a brief smile at breakfast the next morning. :) ha ha ha
Shit closes down early in Seattle. I thought it being a bigger city, and not Utah for hell sakes, that you could find a drug store open at 11 pm in the city. Not so much.
I was asking the bartenders, front desk, the nice security guy...all of them for Musinex.
Needless to say, I checked my groove in on my plane out of Salt Lake City and it was apparently lost en route.

The kids did fine. Spencer was and still is a mama's boy. I don't know when they will be willing to take him again :) He was very needy.
Cameron did fantastic. My sister-in-law cried when she dropped him off. Cameron also came home with pink eye again....on to the Amoxacillin.
Sydney had A BLAST at her grandma and papa's house.
My mom was putting her down for her nap....finished reading her a book and kissed her forehead. Sydney says, "Grandma, you're my best friend"
It makes me so proud and happy when she says stuff like that. I can't stand how much I love my kids. I missed them very much.

Now....THE LAUNDRY !!!!

CLAP YOUR HANDS !!!!

One of my daughters favorite songs comes to mind right now.
Everyone....sing along !

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it, then you're face will surely show it.
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

My hands are so damn happy they hurt.



Tomorrow I will leave my 3 beautiful children in very capable hands and will be off to the city that never sleeps. I have no idea what Seattle theme is...but never sleeps will apply to my being there.
HA...who am I kidding. I'll bet we stay in our room the entire time watching movies, ordering room service and sleeping.
I WISH ! My vacation dream scape.

Spencer has an ear infection. Poor little sweet boy. He slept reasonably well having an ear infection. If it would have been his sister at this age we would still be "hearing" about it...ironically enough.
Cam was checked for Strep, as his throat was pretty red, it came back negative. (thankfully) Just a cold, give him Tylenol and Motrin.

I don't know how many out there have had to suction a baby with the bulb...but that seems to be the heaviest load to carry this weekend. My brothers and wives do not have children and haven't been exposed to them all that much. I fear that the congestion and suctioning is going to really stress them out.

I am SOOOOO tired of talking about sick babies. I can't WAIT until the weather changes and hopefully our immune systems too.

Until Monday my fellow bloggers.
You may all live vicariously through me :) I'm going to get my groove back.
A small glimpse in to the next 2 days....written in quote formation :

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!
~Dave Howell

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they
wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're
going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra

The Count Down

2 days !!!! TWO MORE DAYS until parental freedom.
Really it's only 1 3/4 days....because today's already slightly over and then all day tomorrow, we fly out early Friday morning.

The question now is....will the boys come down with moms bronchitis which amounts to infant RSV and end up hospitalized which would be the only thing that could prevent me from going to Seattle ?

Well they are both sick. I have to take them to the doctor today....she will tell me that they have colds, pat me on the back and tell me to administer Tylenol and Motrin....and then in 1 3/4 days it will turn in to something hairy. Something with symptoms of the flu, strep, pneumonia, bronchitis....RSV !

Finally the good, the bad, the ugly....and the sad !
*First the Bad....they are sick....they are clingy and needy....there are two of them and only one of me.

*The good.....they love to cuddle.....they are clingy and needy....there are two of them to love and hold.

*The ugly....hey it was late and I was tired

*The sad....my no more breastfeeding boobs which amounts to no more boobs PERIOD.
Where are they you ask ? I ask myself the same thing every day !
My cup runneth over no more.

Am I blessed or what. They share mom reasonably well. Sometimes one will try and take the most space on my lap, but for the most part they stay on their own sides and let me love both of them.

When Syd wants to join in she sits on my feet which are propped up on the gliding ottoman and we all rock together.
Who says you can't have it all baby !

(A key point to this picture. Notice how they both have a fist full of my shirt. It's their own built in alarm system. This way, when their hands become detached from my shirt they will then be notified of their sudden separation from me and can wake up and cry for mom to pick them back up. Smart little shits aren't they.)

Seattle

Did I mention that we are going to Seattle this weekend. Woo Hoo...Woo Hoo !!
NO KIDS !!!! Are you freaking kidding me !!!
No....I'm totally serious.
It's through J's work....all of the employees and their spouses are invited. Absolutely NO KIDS allowed. It's all paid for, hotels, transportation, dinner, spending money.

When I had Sydney I was a freak about being away from her. The first time I had a night away from her was when I was forced to spend the night in the hospital when I was pregnant with the twins. 2 1/2 years I didn't spend a night away from her.
Now that I have the boys, sadly to say....I'm SOOO looking forward to this break.
I had to farm them out to my family members. Nobody could handle 3 babies....so one brother has a baby boy, the other brother has the other baby boy and my parents are taking Syd.

I'm so excited..da da da da....and I just can't hide it..da da da da..I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I like it...I like it !

Who cares that I feel as if my throat is made up of tiny little razor blades...and each time I swallow they cut into each other and send sharp pains through my entire body.
Come sickness, or high water I'm going to have a BALL this weekend damn it.
Nothing is going to stand in my way !
ROAR !


The Doodlebops sucked. Sydney liked them, but we just thought they were incredibly lame. $75.00 for the 3 of us to go. Next time we will send her by herself :) ha ha
DeeDee, Rooney, Moe...we're the Doodlebops, the Doodlebops oh yeah

The last of the Little Guys

It got us. Spencer got pink eye Saturday night and I started with the coughing, aching, stuffy head fever so you can't rest crap last night.
AAAAH HHHAAAA (me crying out loud) Damn, damn, damn it all to hell.

We are supposed to be taking Syd to Doodlebops today. (OH MA GAW MARSHA) She's 2....she will love them.
Personally I hate the Doodlebops. They are even too gay for me.

HOW ABOUT THAT L-WORD !!!
I called it : so much sex...so little time !
I can't tell you how much I am loving it. It's about time.
Cybill Shepherd's character was even funny yesterday.
I am going to live vicariously through Alice. Oh how would it be.
The only thing that could have made it better is if Tasha would have used handcuffs and a gun in some twisted sexual encounter in her office.
mmmmmmmmm LOVE IT ! Love her !

Previews for next week.....again BLAK with Tina. "I miss you Bette...blah blah blah" Don't let her back in Bette. NO WAY !
Especially when you've got a tart like Jodi on your arm.
(wow, Bette has really got the sign language down...she's so talented)

If you don't have showtime.....it's time to sign up. We just get it through the L-Word season and then turn it back off. TOTALLY WORTH IT !

Single Motherhood

My wife has Bronchitis. She is So damn sick !
She's been sick with something for the last 6 weeks. I am to the point that when she mentions not feeling 100 % I cringe and roll my eyes.
It's her card to pull that allows her to sleep and freedom from taking care of the kids....something that I NEVER get to do.
I share the responsibility, but the responsibility is ALWAYS there.
This last time she said she was sick I didn't even acknowledge her. She laid around, whining every once in a while. Syd was getting over her pink eye and so I had to take her temperature...she resisted this procedure and the only way I was able to get her to consent was to let her take mommies temperature. I took hers and it was 99.8. She walks over and takes mommies temperature....101.0. I stepped back...oh shit, I guess she is sick. Something I didn't say out loud of course.
I woke up on my scrapbooking day Sunday, she had been hacking all night long. I called to cancel and J scratches "go, I'll be fine". My skin crawls....the only thing I had to look forward to. A few hours to myself to do something that I love.
I called the neighbors and asked them if they wanted to take the boys to church (something they love to do) and called my mom to take Syd.
It was set in play and I spent the next 9 hours working on a total of 4 pages. Yes I know, I am SUPER productive. :)

Throughout the week there was more pills, syrups, whining, coughing. By Wednesday even the guys at work were telling her she shouldn't be there. As she couldn't stop coughing even for a few minutes she decided to call her doctor.
They couldn't get her in until Thursday, it's a good thing it wasn't life threatening. It was confirmed....she had bronchitis. She came home her eyes were blood shot from coughing so hard. She went to bed and by Friday she hit rock bottom. She coughed so hard that her eyes were swollen, she peed a little, puked a little and started her period. She hasn't had a period in 6 months (menopause...lucky bitch) I went to get medicine yesterday and again last night after everyone was in bed. Poor baby.

I tell her every night as I crawl in to bed after a day from hell, "I hope you feel better tomorrow". I really do hope she feels better, but I feel as if it's a little selfish on my part and not something endearing you say to someone you love who is on deaths door step. I always finish it up with, I love you and I stretch my foot across the empty ginormous bed to find hers. (the boys are now sleeping in their cribs...another blog, another day)
Today she has at least been up. Her voice is still gone but she doesn't look half dead.

If you give this to my babies, I will kill you :)....I love you honey !


In other news....Cam got pink eye this week. Not as bad as his sister...so far no fever or ear infections. Just eye drops for him !
He also got another tooth.

Spencer has been my sweetheart face. I want to kiss him all over. He's not sick. He's been so good. He's definitely my favorite person ! :)

Trivia Tuesday & Guilty pleasures

Trivia for the day....or just things to make you go hmmmm ?

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
If anyone can come up with one, please let me know. I've tried...and apparently gurple and gorange don't work.

My guilty pleasure is watching the L-Word. We TiVo it and watch it after the kids are asleep. If I'm not watching the first 20 minutes of the View (Tivo'd) while I'm getting ready....the only thing we watch in our house is Sprout and Disney Movies.

The L-Word last night was YUMMY!
I LOVED season 1.....didn't like season 2 at all....and haven't loved season 3 so much so far. Very mediocre....parts of the episodes are funny and fine (mostly the ones with Alice in them) but the rest is just so-so.
LAST NIGHT HOWEVER ROCKED. I don't know, maybe it's the mood I'm in when I watch them....but it was so good. We both agreed that it was the best one this season.

I will I'm sure get blasted for this but, I want Cybill Shepherd off of the show. I don't love her and she's too straight to play gay for me. I don't think she's attractive AT all. She ruins it for me. I also have to add....I LOVED Moonlighting...she was great in that. Just not on "my" show :)
Like Kit's boyfriend.....he's too gay to play straight. Get rid of him.
I really liked the new girl that Jenny was playing with and I secretly hope that they keep her on for a while. Very cute. Very real.
I'm ok with Max having a 3 second spot on the show, but no more. He/she bugs me. I know they have to include the story line but I don't love the actress.
I want them to write Tina off of the show (again, I'm sure everyone disagrees) she's cheesy and watching her play straight absolutely ruins "The incredibly true adventure of two girls in love" for me. She was such a cute little butch girl in that.
Bette and Marlee Matlin's character Jodi, are fun too. I don't know though....she doesn't like kids ? Oh, and I love how Bette sits down and learns sign language in a matter of a couple of hours. What's that any ways?! I thought for sure they would bring in the translator for a menage a trois. I can just see him sitting by the bed, or in this case art studio...translating "oh baby, oh baby".....oh wait, she wouldn't be able to sign..her hands would be a little tied up. That makes for some wordless sex I guess. :)
It's a good thing she can sound out the words...it could get complicated when the directions come in to play..."to the left, the left, a little harder...right there" :)
Oh....and I LOVE the new toy that Alice has. SUPER cute. I love the chemistry between them. We needed a real hard ass on the show...Angus just couldn't hold it on his own.
I just LOVED the show last night. The preview for next week was so vague it's killing me.
Can't wait, Can't wait !!

ok, now back from leather and lace to mommy mode again.
Cam is standing by himself !! He can stand for up to 10 seconds by himself.
He is, as I always describe myself, freakishly strong. (continuing with my own description...sexy, smart, witty, oh how the list simply goes on:) ha ha
He is 7 months old yesterday and is going to take off walking soon I swear.
My kids have these finger like toes....they get them from me (she says bashfully)
They make it easy to walk and stand as it not only adds length, but allows you to grip the floor. Ok, maybe not at their age....but I have written my name with these toes.....and I swear they make me jump higher than the average 5'9 white girl.
Oh the places we'll go my toes and me :)

P.S.

My Cam-man has a tooth. (bottom left)
Thus his present miserable condition.

These are the times I sit back and say to myself......NO WONDER !!!
Poor Guy ! Teeth are one of those things like cramps....I don't understand why they have to hurt. So that you appreciate eating food ? Babies/toddlers soon forget how much pain it caused to bring in those teeth....which makes me think that it's so we as parents can appreciate them once they HAVE teeth ? That must be it. :)

Please don't respond to this if you are one of those parents who had kids that just magically got teeth. No problems, no pain....they were perfect babies and have these new cute teeth. I know people like you.....and all you do is make me feel bad about myself. :)

Conspiracy Theory

I have a conspiracy theory. This isn't the same one that I've had when I feel like someone is out to get me. When everything goes wrong....so you are sure that some force of nature is after you.
You know, the one when you drop something, go to pick it up...drop it, bend over to pick it up again (irritated)....miss it, try yet AGAIN!! (now pissed off), while standing up hit your head on the edge of the counter/table/anything near you (now you KNOW that something and everything is against you) walk away swearing to yourself and going over the conspiracy theory in your head, and right then you stub your toe.

No....this isn't like that at all. This is much more serious.
I think that we are slowly being poisoned. Terrorists are releasing viruses and bacteria into our tap water, food, air. :) (It could happen) ha ha
How else is it that EVERYONE I know is sick or getting over something.
Whether it be the coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, so you can't rest virus (the one my wife has right now) pink eye...for hell sakes, or diarrhea/vomiting, the ONLY thing we haven't got in our house yet. (knocking on wood) ...........................
...............................................................................
(still knocking on wood.....hey, why take any chances)


I have been sucking down the airborne and so far it's missed me.
Someone has to stay healthy to take care of all these sick people around me.

I hope the otha motha is feeling better tomorrow because I've got a scrapbooking date and aint nothing holding me back. I've been a single mom for a few days now and can I tell you that this mama doesn't ever want to be the only mama, EVER !

I hope everyone starts feeling better out there.

Pink Eye and other Conjunctive Sentences

Sydney has pink eye. You gotta love pre-school.
The good thing is(yes always a silver lining) it's the bacterial conjunctivitis.
Now how is that a good thing you ask ? Because we can give her antibiotics to clear it up. Again, how is giving antibiotics a good thing. Because it clears things up in 24 hours, when a viral infection takes anywhere from 2-14 days to clear on its own.
You find with kids that 9 out of 10 times it's viral....and with viral comes a pat on the back and a prescription of Tylenol or Motrin every 4 hours.
Trust me...when you are on your 3rd day of the child from hell, and it's either kick the virus or call for a priest to come in and pray for the evil spirits to be gone...you wish that it were a bacterial infection so that it could poof be gone.

Sometimes with pink eye (bacterial)you get an ear infection and congestion.
Only sometimes.
Syd has an ear infection and congestion. (she's never in her 2 almost 3 years of life had an ear infection) Silver lining : When she's sick I let her just lay around, watch videos, rest. That gives mom 2 hands to take on the rest of the world.

At the end of the day......It's all good !

A complete 180

My Colts won !
I have to preface this with....I have actually been to 3 Colts games.
I'm not just one of those....they are playing well so I like them kind of girls. Hell I've been a Jazz fan for years.
I remember all of the Bulls fans. They LOVED the Bulls.....and why not, they were a winning team with the greatest players. When they lost the great players those fans became Lakers fans.
I will just say, I was never a Bulls fan, and will never be a Lakers fan.
(my wife would be so proud of me for talking sports on my blog:) I'm such a sports enthusiast after all. ha ha

The boys have completely done a 180 on us. They have switched personalities and now in talking with other twin moms, I have found that this will happen and could happen for the remainder of their lives.
I have been lucky that they each decide to switch at the same time. One becoming more demanding, the other even-tempered.
They are such opposites....from looks to their dispositions.
It's funny to watch them and think of them as grown men, and how they will have some of the same personality traits as they do currently. (I don't think it's funny when I think of their sister at 15 with some of her present personality traits)

These boys don't want to sit anymore...they want me to walk them around the house. That was fine to do with Syd but there are two of them and only one of me.
Cam is crawling already...he's such a muscle man. He pulls himself up to a standing position also. Spencer is just as happy to sit back and watch him.
Sydney was walking at 7 months, running at 9....we'll have to see if Cam has it in him to keep up with his sister.

Cool Slideshows

Off to watch the Jazz....and coincidentally the Bulls :)

I have but 2 words

GO COLTS !!!

Bedtime Boogies

Syd was having a hard time going to sleep last night.
She was very restless and called for us to go in several times.
The last time (10 pm) she stated...."Mommy, I have a boogie"
Jan said on her way in to Syd's room, "what did she say ?", in which I replied, "she has a boogie, get a tissue on your way"


I hear in the bedroom :
Syd : "Mommy, I have a boogie, I need a tissue"
Jan finishes wiping her nose.
Syd : "I have a lot more boogies !"
Jan : "you have a lot more boogies ?!"
Syd : "yes, I have 5 more boogies"
Jan (laughing) : "You have 5 more boogies !"
Syd states very matter of fact : "yes, I have 2 holes"

It reminded me of an email I got yesterday.

A father was getting ready for a trip, packing his bags in his room.
His young son comes in pointing his finger at him. "Daddy look"
The father grabbed his hand and said...."I'm gonna eat that finger!" gobbling up the boys finger.
He goes back to packing and the son says, "yes, but Daddy, where's my booger?"