We have a new family member. :)

His name is Chester Copperpot (for those that don't know a Goonie reference).
He is five months old and is just a doll! Really shy but he comes out of his shell when he is outside and playing with Aiden. Aiden ADORES him. So happy we got him. All he wanted today was to go outside and play with the dog (no trips to Mars mentioned AT ALL!).

Here is his piccy:



Awwwww. :)

I also got a few soaps done tonight. They are cute!

It is NASTY out there.

N-A-S-T-Y NASTY!

Poor hubby this morning was well on his way to the office when he had to pull off due to a broken windshield wiper, he then had to return home to take the truck...all in all a nice almost five hour commute. All the more reason I'm sure he'd love to move closer to work. I am disheartened by that as what we can afford closer to Cambridge is going to be small. :(

Anyhow, I'm glad I rushed him out his winter coat or he would have been soaked. I just went out to rescue our trash can (we lost one already this winter from the wind) and our recycling bins and was soaked to the bone within minutes. At least I was smart enough to put on a ski jacket and winter boots and only had to change my pants. BLECH.

We are having a movie day. All hunkered down in the family room watching movies on the projector. :) Right now we are watching Meet the Robinsons. Aiden LOVES this movie. He calls it Meet the Robibus. I enjoy it because it has a great lesson. I am excited for the boys to be a bit older so we can foster/adopt. I feel the need to help out that 'kid' out there. But really feel it would be an injustice to my own children if I do it before they are older. Not to mention I'd prefer a younger child vs. an older one for my boys.

Need to find some more inspiration...if any of you would like to help me out by showing me some sites or threads and what have you about parenting/mothering/etc I'd love to check them out. I'm trying to become the best mom I can be for my boys. I'll admit that I had a terrible model so I'm doing this all from scratch. I'm finally embracing this whole stay at home mom thing, it has taken me long enough you think? My most important job is mommy.


** Updated to add that Aiden had some QT. While the CMan was down for his nap we played a game of Chutes and Ladders (I won hehe) and then made some Chocolate Chip Cookies, two batches, one for me (gluten free) and one for Sam and Aiden. He really helped make them, so that was wonderful. I will add pictures later, but right now the desktop puter is dead. :(

Puter is fixed. YEAH!

I think there is a light...

at the end of the sickness tunnel. I think that Conor is on the mend. He had some rice cereal this morning and didn't immediately vomit. He is primarily having the big D, but at least that means some nutrition is getting into his system (hopefully). Yeah! It has been a long week.

Aiden has a head cold and is being really clumsy (bruise on his chin and on his head into two days) uggg. He claims that his ears don't hurt though, so I don't think he has an infection throwing him off balance, he is just a spaz.

On a business note, I had had a drought as far as soaps were going. However, I got a bulk order for 20 bride and groom soaps, which sparked four more bride and groom soaps and then two baby shower soaps! Weeee!! Not to mention I have a friend coming by in a few to pick up two Valentine Soaps for her sons for tomorrow. :) Sweet! I'm going to make a few for Aiden's speech pathologists for Thursday (perhaps that will spark even more orders...we shall see). Especially since my Etsy shop has been dead dead dead lately.

Eating lunch while the weee one naps, best get to it!!!

Remember your children...

I was directed to this post via another blog. It is a wonderful reminder.

"Less is better. Little things done daily are better than grand plans. Give your children lots of tiny moments. When they approach the computer turn your chair around and look them in the eye and if you find more in their eyes than on the screen get up and take them on a nature walk or read a book to them." It will all still be there when you return.
http://dominionfamily.com/blog/2008/01/buenos-noches-mis-amigas/

Sick day...

Well not literally. Wednesday night Conor started throwing up around 7 pm....and continued until midnight. He had three really big vomits (TMI sorry) and then continued w/ bile, poor guy. I put him to bed in his old carseat carrier in our bed and I'd hear his stmach start to gugle, I'd sit him up and have him spit up/throw up into a towel or diaper rag...then switch them out and have them ready for the next time. He was so tired, he'd scream for a second and fall right back asleep. Needless to say, I didn't sleep well. Finally around 4:30 pm I noticed him moving, he was trying to sit up or move around in his seat so I knew he was finally feeling better. I took him out of the seat, laid him on our bed and gave him 4 oz of pedialyte, because up until that point he wouldn't take anything. He wanted more, but I didn't want to shock his system and make him sick again...so I held off. Yesterday he was better, just had diarrhea and was fussy...I had to hold him all day as he took naps off and on throughout the day. Last night he slept in our bed again so that I could keep an ear out, and good thing as he had a very bad diarrhea episode around 5 am this morning. He hasn't had any solids and hardly any formula but I'm trying to get him to take some, along with the pedialyte. He woke up this morning with a high fever and now has a green runny nose, he's been hit for sure, and hit hard. Poor guy. I'm hoping he'll have some solids today...going to try some rice in a bit. Thankfully Aiden is still feeling just grand...let's keep it that way huh?

Super Tuesday

I voted. :) Did you?

Then, I went to the grocery store and spent $52 but saved $49!! SAWEET! I get so excited about my savings. Hehe. :) All that was mostly just shopping the sales, and well I also am doing a buzz (BuzzAgent) for YoBaby (and Yo Mommy but our stores don't carry it) yogurt so I had coupons for free yogurt for Conor. WEEEE...

Earlier today we celebrated MardisGras w/ a playgroup at Fayes. It was good. Aiden is so exhausted lately...time to get those tonsils out! Our apt. is on March 3 for our consult, I hope Dr. Licamelli schedules our surgery soon after. Aiden's last surgery was in September (I think??) of '06 so it's been a while since we've had one, he's older now, I hope he handles it okay. This will be surgery number 4. Poor dude.

Conor was a superfuss today. His teeth are certainly bugging him. He stopped his antibiotics two days ago so I'm praying that this fussiness isn't the start of yet another infection, otherwise I'll ask Dr. L. for a two-for-1.

Why am I so bad at this?

When I was younger, I used to write. A Lot. My parents swore that some day I'd be a writer. My English/Language Arts/Creative Writing teachers LOVED me and I still have my writing folders from grades 6,7,& 8. Geek right? Yeah per usual. Anyhow, I've always wanted to write a book and for some reason I can't even keep up with my blog...why in hell do I think I could write a book? A blog is easy, it's recounting my life, my daily events (errr...weekly, maybe even monthly? man I really am bad) and for some reason I can't even do that, what makes me think I could write a book? Not to mention, my brain is made of some sort of mush these days. I'm exhausted and can't sleep all at the same time. I'm sure it looks very similar to what I feed Conor on a daily basis...pureed with weird colors (seriously I fed the kid pears mixed with green beans tonight because he won't eat the beans alone - eww).
Talking to my sister tonight about the frustration of Aiden's imagination limitations... (he can imagine that the chair is a spaceship however cries when the spaceship doesn't really take off) She informed me that Aiden may look exactly like my husband, but he has my brain. Heh? Say what? She brings up a very vivid memory of hers (she is six years older) of me throwing the greatest hissy fit on the face of the planet under the kitchen table due to the fact that my mother wouldn't take me to the castle to go see my imaginary friends. I remember that hissy fit. So it must have been huge because I was three or four years old. I remember throwing my Mac and Cheese on the floor (first time I had been given Ketchup with it, I recall what it looked like on the linoleum)and freaking out screaming about my mom not taking me to the castle to see Johnny, Wonny, Conny, Fonny, Sonny, etc...or what I affectionately call the 'Onnies'. My imaginary friends lived in a castle, which was really a cool looking old church, in downtown Bangor, Maine. What child has imaginary friends that live too far away for her to visit on a regular basis? My dad did take me to that castle once and I was too afraid to go in, because Grover, in an armored suit, was standing behind the door. Okay there's all sorts of issues in that revelation. I don't think I ever met my imaginary friends and they lived too far away, separation anxiety issues much maybe? So yeah, she was right, he does have my brain. Thankfully my brain is on the normal side of crazy so I have hope for his future.
Speaking of being on the normal side of crazy, I'm not really sure how my sister and I are normal. As I grow older I find out more and more about my family and seriously there is probably a text book out there or two that could be written, I'm sure they could provide a pharmaceutical company plenty of business to not need to supply to anyone else...ever. Ten shades of crazy, and thankfully, I don't speak crazy. Well except that whole Onnie thing...

So on to the kids. Aiden still is on his Mars trip, not trip as in voyage because that is what he'd prefer. Not so sure how to deal with that except for the hope that one day he will grow out of it. Conor is sitting!! Yeah!! It doesn't last very long but he's soooo happy he's doing it...as am I because he WANTS to sit, he'd like to run actually...we'll get there eventually, probably too soon.