bare BOOBIEs strike again!

I'm sorry to do it but I have to gripe about a Nursing cough cough mom!












Ouch, now that I have been slapped repeatedly! I will get on with my story!

So I took Cameron and Bailey to the Library today for story hour. Tons of fun for the little ones, personally I feel like I am trapped in an episode of Barney) Besides the point, So there are about, oh, 6 mommy's in the group today, Ranging in age from Granny on down , the kidos are allowed to runaround and play while the sweet little old lady reads over noise and running around. there is one lady in particular that is there with her (cough cough) baby. Nice lady appearing to be the little one's granny, she inquired about bailey and Cameron's ages, and I responded and asked about "her little one" Now in my head I wanted to ask her if it was her granddaughter, Normally my big mouth would have open up and inserted my foot, but for some reason today it just didn't like the taste of my shoes, so I kept my mouth shut and turned my attention back to sweet little old lady. Story time is over I gather up our belongings and turn to leave to find "Granny" fully exposed Left breast in hand nursing HER baby! I tried to smile sweetly and say good bye hoping beyond hope that she didn't notice the shock and disbelief in my eyes!

it just caught me soooooo off guard, because in my mind I had determined this women to be this babies Granny, then to be slapped in the face with the realization that she is the mom really threw me for a loop! and I have never seen a 45+ year old women nurse a baby! It just doesn't look right, But the part that really shocked me was SHE WAS COMPLETELY HANGING OUT! I'm talking NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC here people!


I am a big advocate for breastfeeding, I do think that it is THE BEST for our little ones and that you should do the deed for as long as possible. But I am also a big advocate for being DISCREET! I do not believe that you should have to leave the room to nurse, or have to miss out on anything just because the baby needs to eat, but I do think that you should do your best to keep your business covered. Either use a blanket or nursing tops that allow access to the goods with out hanging out, or even if you don't have nursing shirts or a blanket you can still nurse with out letting our 45+ year old girls that were already laying on your lap before you had a baby hang out for everyone to see!

OK I'm sorry I'm sure I'm gonna piss of someone with this post, so sorry you should have been there!

Haydenism

Hayden singing this morning:

"Row row row your boat gently down the street, merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a scream" aaaaahhhhhh!!!

happy frickin Birthday

Well its official I'm in my last year of my 20's! I look back 10 years and think about how far I have come.......its unreal!
Lets wander down this section of highway in my life, shall we ...

after a rough and tumble freshmen year of college with many firsts, first time being away from home, first one in the immediate family to "go away" to college, Lost something very close at heart, first time trying pot, failing a class, lets make that classes, came home for summer, had my first and only shoplifting adventure (turned out much worse than I had anticipated) went back to NC for round 2, this year was much better!

19 (1998) I finally realized that I needed to improve my image If I ever wanted averyniceguy to pay attention to me. So I went from wearing PJ's to class everyday to short skirts that I had to borrow from my friends! (It paid off as only a short skirt can!) In case you were a little fearful of the mental image I was a size 8 then.

20 (1999) Rockin steady balancing classes, softball, a steady man, partying, insane friends That did the best partying! To many great memories this year to recount all of them!

21 (2000) Senior year of college, softball finished up! (and nontosoon, talk about burn out, still haven't picked up a glove since that last day!

22 (2001) Student teaching, 9/11, passed out in front of Brian's mom, ended up needing a pace maker

23 (2002) got my pacemaker put in, got my first job, moved 3 hours away from Brian, (that sucked), had my first place (that was cool, to bad I didn't know anyone in the area to make it that much better) Brian realized that his arrangement sucked too! got engaged!

24 (2003) Got married moved back to where Brian was, got new job

25 (2004) got pregnant

26 (2005) Quit job, to stay home with baby! (that was so worth it) oops got pregnant again!

27 (2006) Gave birth to little man Cameron! Moved back to the place of my birth after being gone nearly 10 years... Stressful, straining time on the marriage and all, but we worked through it and ended up:

28 (2007) pregnant again! (2008) moved AGAIN!

29 (2008) I'm sitting in whatusedtobe my bedroom typing on my moms computer completely oblivious to what my 3 angels are doing in the living room! how time flies and the memories flood back! I have had a lot of happy memories over the past 10 years a couple fuzzy blurry time this I/we could forget, but mostly this has been a great ride so far! and I am very excite to think about that the next 10 years will bring! Hayden will be 13, Cameron 12, bailey 11!

I could embellish in any of these year but, I don't like this key board, so as you read leave a comment if there is any year you would like me to describe further! I'll do so when I get home on my computer!

Allergic to Sunscreen? Or maybe not!

OK so Bailey had her 6mo. check up at the Dr yesterday (she is up to 15.5lbs and is 25" long) So while there I asked DR Meyers about Cameron's ER visit....and she said that his reaction doesn't necessarily mean he is allergic to sunscreen. She said that if I had gotten it in his eyes it could cause the same reactions. She explained that the runny nose would have been a direct connection with his eyes watering and the inability to open his eyes real well would obviously be because he had sunscreen in them, and as long as I didn't notice the rash anywhere else on his body that that is probably what happened. But she did recommend that I use the sunscreen that comes in a stick (like oversize chap stick) and she said I didn't necessarily have to change sunscreen (good thing it doesn't look good when the Mary Kay lady can't put Mary Kay sunscreen on her kids) She also told me that she had the same thing happen with her daughter and she didn't change her sunscreen. So, made me feel a little better! ANY WHO!!!


So the BIG APPLEUMPKIN festival is coming up THIS WEEKEND and I am so jazzed! I just need a volunteer to keep my children so that I can go and look at "crafty crap" and daudle (or maybe that's dawdle) and oogle and stare and walk slowly and not have to run little man to the over used porta potty, and not have to listen fighting and whining and If I happen to have, Oh I don't know $30 or $40 buck in my pocket I will spend it on crap for myself and my cute little house (that produced nothing from the open house, Oh happy day) and I can eat Kettle corn and not have to share it with 2 sets of dirty hands!

ANY TAKERS ON THE KIDS?!?!? DON'T MAKE ME BEG PEOPLE! I'm HAVE NO SHAME i WILL and I can whine really well too, Hayden has showed me how to do that he is an expert (if you didn't know) I am willing to split them up too, If you can only take one or two we can find arrangement for the others!!!!!!!

NO, OK then I will forgot going to the most amazing "crafty crap" event of the year (that is besides Letchworth) I will not spent my 30 to 40 bucks on things for myself or my cute little House (which didn't produce anything at the open house, oh happy day, Oh wait I already said that, sorry) Well my timer is about to go off that means that I have to vacate the premises and go for my power walk with the little ones and pick up the other little one from school!

wow what a weekend!

Well he had a great week, (till Saturdays scare) Friday I got to pick up mums from Hayden's school, they were beautiful! I decorated my front porch and walk way with them! (I will post a picture soon) Friday mom and Justin came for the weekend, we had a fun night and then Saturday we were up and getting ready for the Colgate football game, this is when the fun began! We walked to the game, and the boys fell asleep in the double stroller, so I stayed down on the grass with them till they got up (about half time) Then we went up in the bleachers with Mom and Justin, it was really sunny so when we sat down I put sunscreen on the boys. Then left to take Hayden and Justin to the restrooms and to get something to drink. When we got back (about 15 minutes later), there was something majorly wrong with Cameron. He was very glassy eyed, breaking out in a rash, his eyes were extremely blood shot and watering, his nose was running like mad and he was kinda droopy...(weird, very weird)...he hadn't eaten since breakfast, so I ran him down to the food stand and got him something to eat and drink, he didn't want the drink, and he only ate the cookie, all the while his symptoms seemed to get worse. I thought maybe I got sunscreen in his eyes, so I tried to wash it out with some water.....took him back up in the stands with mom, we went back and forth about what we should do, take him home or go to the hospital, finally got Brian's attention down on the field, and ran him down to Brian, (cause Brian's the level headed one) he said take him to the hospital, OK then (thankfully its right next to the football stadium) After checking in at the ER at 3:15 (Cameron looking like death with runny eyes and nose) we WAITED and waited and WAITED, and we waited long enough that whatever was wrong seemed to be going away....and by the time we finally saw the doctor...Cameron had gone from lethargic to bouncing off the walls...still with mildly bloodshot watery eyes and runny nose. The Doctor deemed him worthy of Benedryll and said he suspects that Cameron is allergic to sunscreen! WHAT!!! (I have used this same sunscreen all summer) At 5:45 we walked out of the ER with a perfectly happy 2 year old and a piece of paper saying that they would bill us for there expertise!

gotta love this Health Care System we have, I do have to say, Thank you God i guess it could have been worse!

what do you do with a fair skinned kid who can't wear sunscreen!?!

my two dream jobs!

Well, I have been told by several people lately that I need to start doing photography professionally! How do you do that? don't get me wrong, I would love to, I think it would be amazing to be asked to photograph someones children or their wedding! I took Cameron to get his pictures done for his 2nd Brithday, and the lady literally had a white sheet nailed to the wall, a couple different drop cloths, MY SAME digital camera, and one umbrella photography light! and her pictures (see left) came out gourgous! i want to do this, I paid (actually my mother-in-law) paid $30 for the sitting fee and then Erin (the photographer) does all the editing on photoshop, and sells you the CD with all the pictures on it for $50 bucks and you can print them where ever you want to! I CAN DO THAT!

My other dream job would be to open up a "crap" store, you know like one of those stores that has all the cute country style stuff in it, like the old post office in alexander, or the shop on Harper Rd in Darien! again, how do you get started and (wow the investment) and there are so many shops like that its rediculous!