The comings and goings of the fab four

Well I THOUGHT that last week was rough, I hadn’t seen anything yet! Saturday night I started feeling nauseous as I was putting Miles down. I went to bed around 10 and was up about half an hour later throwing up *VERY* violently. Wow. I was by myself – mom and dad are still in Italy, and Emily was at a concert. I didn’t know what to do so I figured I’d try to ride it out. Around 12 I couldn’t take it anymore and was pretty sure I was going to be headed to the hospital. I seriously have never felt so alone in my life. I did not know WHAT to do. I called Kathy Alden, who is my second mother, and she came over and took care of me. She had just gotten home from a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic that night at 7, so I know she was exhausted, I am just so thankful that she is such a kind and loving person! Emily came home around 1, and stayed with the kids while Kathy took me to the ER. They got me back fast, luckily it wasn’t busy, and they gave me drugs and fluids. Kathy knows the nursing manager there, and she did a little name dropping, so that may have helped too! We left around 5:30 in the morning. Yesterday was hard because no one had slept except the kids, and I was still a little looped out. My blood pressure was low because of all of the fluid loss – I lost 7 lbs of fluids in 12 hours… so I tried to take it easy. Judy, my third mom, and her daughter Allyson came and got Lydia and took her to fill my prescription, and on a few errands. Then they took her to their pool and let her swim. It was so nice for me, and I am so glad Lydia could get out of the house and have some special attention, and EXERCISE! She came home very happy and went straight to bed. Last night she slept all night, and Miles only woke up once. Everyone slept until about 6:45 this morning, I feel 150% better now.

I tried out Lowes Foods to go because my cousin had mentioned it on Friday. I am SO glad she did – I picked up my groceries this morning, and it was fantastic. If anyone tries it out for the first time, use me as a reference, and I’ll get 1000 green points. It’s very much worth the extra $6, or you can cash in 5000 green points and it’s “free”. I am bummed that there’s no Lowe’s in FL (at least I don’t think there is?) because I could really use a little extra help sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and dad come home tonight! I am counting the hours. I cannot wait to see them and to have a little support. Be it moral or physical!

Well I THOUGHT that last week was rough, I hadn’t seen anything yet! Saturday night I started feeling nauseous as I was putting Miles down. I went to bed around 10 and was up about half an hour later throwing up *VERY* violently. Wow. I was by myself – mom and dad are still in Italy, and Emily was at a concert. I didn’t know what to do so I figured I’d try to ride it out. Around 12 I couldn’t take it anymore and was pretty sure I was going to be headed to the hospital. I seriously have never felt so alone in my life. I did not know WHAT to do. I called Kathy Alden, who is my second mother, and she came over and took care of me. She had just gotten home from a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic that night at 7, so I know she was exhausted, I am just so thankful that she is such a kind and loving person! Emily came home around 1, and stayed with the kids while Kathy took me to the ER. They got me back fast, luckily it wasn’t busy, and they gave me drugs and fluids. Kathy knows the nursing manager there, and she did a little name dropping, so that may have helped too! We left around 5:30 in the morning. Yesterday was hard because no one had slept except the kids, and I was still a little looped out. My blood pressure was low because of all of the fluid loss – I lost 7 lbs of fluids in 12 hours… so I tried to take it easy. Judy, my third mom, and her daughter Allyson came and got Lydia and took her to fill my prescription, and on a few errands. Then they took her to their pool and let her swim. It was so nice for me, and I am so glad Lydia could get out of the house and have some special attention, and EXERCISE! She came home very happy and went straight to bed. Last night she slept all night, and Miles only woke up once. Everyone slept until about 6:45 this morning, I feel 150% better now.

I tried out Lowes Foods to go because my cousin had mentioned it on Friday. I am SO glad she did – I picked up my groceries this morning, and it was fantastic. If anyone tries it out for the first time, use me as a reference, and I’ll get 1000 green points. It’s very much worth the extra $6, or you can cash in 5000 green points and it’s “free”. I am bummed that there’s no Lowe’s in FL (at least I don’t think there is?) because I could really use a little extra help sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and dad come home tonight! I am counting the hours. I cannot wait to see them and to have a little support. Be it moral or physical!

Well I THOUGHT that last week was rough, I hadn’t seen anything yet! Saturday night I started feeling nauseous as I was putting Miles down. I went to bed around 10 and was up about half an hour later throwing up *VERY* violently. Wow. I was by myself – mom and dad are still in Italy, and Emily was at a concert. I didn’t know what to do so I figured I’d try to ride it out. Around 12 I couldn’t take it anymore and was pretty sure I was going to be headed to the hospital. I seriously have never felt so alone in my life. I did not know WHAT to do. I called Kathy Alden, who is my second mother, and she came over and took care of me. She had just gotten home from a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic that night at 7, so I know she was exhausted, I am just so thankful that she is such a kind and loving person! Emily came home around 1, and stayed with the kids while Kathy took me to the ER. They got me back fast, luckily it wasn’t busy, and they gave me drugs and fluids. Kathy knows the nursing manager there, and she did a little name dropping, so that may have helped too! We left around 5:30 in the morning. Yesterday was hard because no one had slept except the kids, and I was still a little looped out. My blood pressure was low because of all of the fluid loss – I lost 7 lbs of fluids in 12 hours… so I tried to take it easy. Judy, my third mom, and her daughter Allyson came and got Lydia and took her to fill my prescription, and on a few errands. Then they took her to their pool and let her swim. It was so nice for me, and I am so glad Lydia could get out of the house and have some special attention, and EXERCISE! She came home very happy and went straight to bed. Last night she slept all night, and Miles only woke up once. Everyone slept until about 6:45 this morning, I feel 150% better now.

I tried out Lowes Foods to go because my cousin had mentioned it on Friday. I am SO glad she did – I picked up my groceries this morning, and it was fantastic. If anyone tries it out for the first time, use me as a reference, and I’ll get 1000 green points. It’s very much worth the extra $6, or you can cash in 5000 green points and it’s “free”. I am bummed that there’s no Lowe’s in FL (at least I don’t think there is?) because I could really use a little extra help sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and dad come home tonight! I am counting the hours. I cannot wait to see them and to have a little support. Be it moral or physical!

My computer battery is about to die, so hopefully I can get a little blogging in…

Sunday was a fun church potluck so we got to hang out with everyone. It was tasty too! We started packing a little that afternoon… Monday, Christy, Gray and Parker came over. Tuesday, we went over to Christy, Gray and Parker’s house.

Last night I went out to dinner with some of the girls from church/book club. I am going to miss them so much. I can’t even believe that we’re leaving. I know, I’m a broken record.

Today we ran errands – did all of the record releases from the dr’s offices, got vacuum bags for our stupid vacuum that is broken (it is driving me NUTS!). We went to the mall and Lydia rode an actual horse (up until now she has always ridden the “seat”). She didn’t want to take a nap, though, and pitched a fit the majority of the afternoon. She finally took a quick nap and then we were able to play some before Daddy got home.

Tomorrow we’re going to try to see Kerri and Nathan and Emily and Jack once more. Emily is teaching me all about cloth diapering, and I am slowly making the transition from disposables to cloth. And I love it! I am so glad to have Emily as my cloth diapering mentor. I’m embracing my inner earth mother.

I can’t believe we’re winding down here. It’s sad, but sort of exciting. I CANNOT WAIT to go to Florida and find a house. I can’t wait to see all of our friends and family, and we will have Miles baptized (FINALLY) on July 1 by Pastor Nagle. One of my best friends and former roommate is getting married on June 29th, and I cannot wait to see her walk down the aisle. It will be bittersweet. I know I’m going to shed some tears when we leave Dallas.

Update, update, update…. I keep thinking of things I need to put on here so I don’t just forget. I told Robert that I wish I could just soak up every minute of the kids’ lives, and never forget anything. He looked at me like I might be a little crazy.

Miles is getting big and cuter every day. He is just laughing and smiling all the time. He is sitting up now, getting better every day. He is starting to try to get up on his hands and knees, especially when he is in his crib and doesn’t want to go to sleep. He is making looots of noise now too. A few nights ago he woke up about 3:50am and was just talking and talking and talking. I finally stuck a paci in his mouth and walked him around the downstairs until he (finally) went to sleep around 5. He is teething, and the teeth seem to bother him a little every day. I have been using teething tablets (love!), and they seem to work really well. It’s so funny because he LOVES the camera – he starts smiling when I pull it out, and as we all know, he gets a lot of practice. He seems to be a major momma’s boy, sometimes when he is sitting with Robert and he sees me walk upstairs or into another room, he does his pitiful routine and sticks out his bottom lip and starts crying. It is adorable. He is still sleeping pretty well, this week, but I am sure the next few weeks are going to rock EVERYONE’s world!

Lydia is still keeping us rolling on the floor with her constant dialogue. Don’t let her fool you, she talks all the time. She enjoys using the phrase, “that be awesome”. So we went to Gray’s house the other day, I told her we were on her way, and she said, “that be awesome, mommy”. Yesterday she was sitting in bed with us before we got up to start the day, and I told her that we’d make muffins for breakfast, and she said, “that be awesome!”. She has also taken to calling me “Momma”. She is very interested in Mommas in general, and the little people serve as the Mommas in most situations. In fact, Pablo’s Momma is a little person. The little people zebra and giraffe both have little people as their Mommas. Who knows where she picked that up! She has taken a liking to “Maisy”, the mouse. It comes on at some ungodly hour like 4:30am (although many mornings I am up at that hour!), so it gets DVR’d. She also likes to ask to “watch a DVR”. We’re trying to talk to her about the move, and what will happen. I told her that she’s going to stay with Nina and Papa and Emkat for a few days while Mommy and Daddy go to Florida and find a house. Then we’re going to go to Mimi and B-Pop’s house, and then we’re coming back to Nina and Papa’s, and we’ll be able to play with our friends like Dylan and Mason and Makayla. She repeated everything, and then said, “And Gray”. I about started crying. HOW am I going to explain this to her!? I don’t even know. It just makes me cry thinking about it, but I guess we’ll just have to look forward to a long distant playdate at some point. She’s just hillarious, though. She LOVES her brother, and is very enthusiastic about it. She kisses and hugs him constantly and is always mashing a paci into his mouth. She tells me, “Miles is MY brother!”. Luckily, he loves her too and will smile and laugh at her. She loves to sit in front of him when he’s in his bouncer and make him laugh. It is truly precious. She is still boycotting the potty so I am going to put it away (again!). I am getting frustrated, but now is not the time and I need to just give it a rest. She will be potty trained eventually.

We are trying to get ready for my departure as much as possible. Robert has a few key areas that he wants us to pack up before I go, and it’s darn near impossible to do that during the day. I feel like my days are a series of little things that amount to absolutely nothing when you look at the house. It’s always a wreck, and someone is always screaming. Or eating. Or screaming to eat. I have been tired lately, too. Both kids are teething, Miles wakes up on random nights at totally random times wanting to eat. Lydia was waking up a lot last week, and I couldn’t figure out why. I talked to Mandy late last week and she said that Dylan had been having problems too, and she finally figured out it was b/c he was cutting molars. So the next morning I look, and 3 new molars have magically appeared in Lydia’s mouth (and I am sure she feels that way about them too!). I guess the 4th one will pop through soon. Poor child. I am very liberal with the pain relievers, I just didn’t know. Glad I didn’t cart her off to the pediatrician, though for an ear check. I feel like they think I am neurotic there. Although it would be nice to see our very handsome pediatrician one more time. Anyway, most of the packing will probably end up on Robert’s shoulders, which he has assured me is fine. I really, REALLY love that man!

I am starting to have a lot of anxiety about moving again. Not so much that we’re leaving Texas, but that we have made absolutely AMAZING friends here. Of course Christy and I have been close and very comfortable with each other for a while, but I have also gotten very close to my friends from church in the last few weeks. I feel like we’ve crossed the line of good acquaintances to good friends, and I am leaving them. I have a hard time getting to that point with people, so I really cherish it when it does happen. And now I have to go work hard for another year trying to establish friendships with new people. And that is so exhausting. But it will all be okay. I have to just trust that God will provide again like He provided here. What a wonderful blessing it is to have met these people in the first place, and to have had such a wonderful experience with them! I love all of my Texas friends, I will miss you guys so much. Thank you for showing me, “how it’s done in Texas”.

With that being said, I’m going to cram as much friend time in as I can this week. Fun!

Pictures are downstairs, and I am being lazy. So maybe later.