Joining the Wii-volution

We finally got a Wii yesterday. Yay! We bought it at Best Buy. The only reason we did is because Hubby won a GPS at the conference he went to a few weeks ago, and we already have a GPS, so we returned it for store credit at Best Buy. And they just happened to have Wii's in stock. Yay. So today, my arm hurts. A lot. But it is a good hurt. Now I just have to wait for somewhere to get Wii Fit in stock.

Totally not me...

So I don't normally blog about the political circus going on in America right now, but I have to get this off my chest. Really. IF you don't like it, tough. But check back later for a non-political post.
I have serious issues with the delegate system, and the electoral college in general, but they are in place, and it isn't going to change. But that is not what I want to write about. What really torks me off is the Florida and Michigan delegates for this year's primary. Rules are rules, people. (And really, this applies to things other than politics too.) Why is it that YOUR STATES broke the rules, but it is the DNC's fault your delegates weren't going to count? What is our country coming to that makes it okay to break the rules and then whine about not getting what you want (i.e. the delegates you 'deserve') Yes, voting is a right, and an important one to boot, but why didn't someone say, "If my vote won't count, why should I go out and vote." Tell your elected officials to put the primary back to it's proper time. Stage a protest against your state, who is so needy and power hungry that they wanted to shape this election, and therefore broke party rules so they could vote earlier than the rest of the country. Don't tell me they didn't try to schedule their primaries before the caucus and primaries of Iowa and New Hampshire. Moving their primary up so far caused a lot of problems for those states, and you don't hear them whining about how having a caucus on January 3rd ruined their holiday vacations. (For the record, it did, we had to cut ours 4 days short.)
So Florida, Michigan, step up, and be adults. Don't say you will never ever vote for Barack Obama because HE stripped you of YOUR delegates. HE had nothing to do with it. The DNC and the candidates did what they all thought was fair to give you the delegates you lost fair and square. Don't say "I'm switching to Republican," or "I'm voting independent" because you didn't get your way.
Okay. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. Please check back soon for our regularly scheduled, non-political post. Oh, and don't hate me for my opinion. :)

As Promised...

Some pictures. Bad ones, but pictures all the same. I don't have any of me standing with any of the bridesmaids, but I will post a picture of each.

This is me. Don't I look happy? Two of the brother's in law had on matching pink ties.

These are two of the bridesmaids.

So the colors were REALLY close. It worked out really nicely! All of the wedding pics I took are poopy, so I'll have to get better ones from the rest of the family. :)

Ahem, An Update

Sorry it's been so long, I have been busy. And tired. And for some reason, I could not log into blogger yesterday. All poor excuses, I know. But too bad. :)
So I am WAY behind right now on NaComLeavMo. Because like I said, I couldn't get blogger to load yesterday. Annoying.

The wedding was fun. I didn't take many pictures, because the Little Man chose to cry starting 30 minutes before the wedding, and didn't stop until 10-15 minutes into it. So we missed the walking down the aisle, and the homily. We did get to see the vows. Which made me happier. I just couldn't believe that my happy boy, who rarely fusses, was all out screaming for 45 minutes, at that particular moment. Oh well. I think he was tired, and hot, and hungry. Not a good combo.
My dress matched the bridesmaids dresses wonderfully, so the pictures all look pretty neat. I have to find the camera, and I will see if there are any good ones on it.
Well, that is all for now, I need to do some actual work today. Yeah.

Today is the big day!

Hubby's sister is getting married today! The wedding is at 5:30, but this place has been chaotic since about 9 this morning. Two of the siblings are staying at another one's house this week, and between the three families, there are 8 kids, so it is a madhouse! Right now, I have bright pink fingernails and toenails, to go with the dresses the bridesmaids are wearing. I am not a bridesmaid, but the dress I bought is almost the same color as their's... not that I will ever wear a bright pink dress ever again. Really. Apparent;y the wedding colors are Raspberry and Champagne. Kind of makes me think of Steel Magnolias, with her Blush and Bashful shades of pink. In this case, I would say the raspberry is more of a fuchsia, no raspberry. Oh well. People probably thought my red was too much also... :) I'll have to post pics of the dresses later.

My Very First Meme

Hi there! I've been tagged for my first Meme! Anne from HERE tagged me! Yay! So here it is:

10 weird, random facts, habits or goals about me:

1. I have slight OCD when it comes to socks. I can't stand them, and when I do wear them, the elastic in my socks has to be exactly the same, and hit at the same height on my leg.
2. The light switch at the top of our stairs has to be in the down position or I cannot sleep.
3. I lived in England my sophomore-junior year in High School.
4. I have an insane fear of my teeth falling out, breaking or anything happening to them in any way.
5. I have a bachelors in Architecture, and have recently started back to school to work on a second bachelors and/or Master in civil engineering. My goal is to finish my degree before the kids start college. :)
6. My pinky toenails grow straight up, not out.
7. I like salt on my watermelon.
8. I can't stand the sound of static. At all.
9. I love to read, and I am not very picky about what I read. In my life there have only been two books I could not finish.
10. I hate to drive. The day I got my drivers license, I told my parents, "There, now I never have to drive again." And I didn't for almost two years.



Okay, there it is, my meme. I'm going to tag some of you NaComLeavMo folks! If you decide to do it, let me know!

**forgot to link to Anne's blog. That's what I get for blogging late late at night.

NaComLeavMo

Well, so far, not off to a great start with NaComLeavMo. I tried to make up for lost time yesterday, since we just got back from a weekend without internet access. So today I have to leave LOTS of comments, to correct the deficit. Plus, I am going to be gone, AGAIN, this weekend. So I have to build up a store of comments to make up for the time I'll be away. Hmm. Oh well.

This is a very short work week, I had yesterday off for the holiday, and we are leaving straight after work tomorrow to go to Omaha for my Sister-In-Law's wedding. So basically, I get to go home tonight, unpack my suitcase, and repack it with new things. Since we just got home from a six day trip last night, I don't really want to spend my evening packing. I would just like to relax a little.
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In the biting world, Little Man has not bitten anyone in the past few weeks. So yay! Thanks for all the support ladies! His ear infection is also cleared up, and he has been sleeping through the night for almost two weeks, with just a few nights of waking. (Like last night, but I don't blame him, he spent the whole day in the car!) Yay to sleep!

Biter!

Little Man has been biting people. Kids, teachers, mama. You know, people.

The first person he bit was one of his daycare friends, and she is actually the daughter of a couple of our friends. Good choice kiddo. At least her parents were understanding! The daycare send home an "incident report" (gotta love the Army) when accidents, fights, whatever, occur, so there is a written record in case something develops from it. They don't tell you WHO your kid bites, or who bites your kid, just that the incident happened. We only figures it out because their's said "Was playing by the cribs and another child bit her on the hand," and ours said "Was playing by the crib and bit another child on the hand."

So if anyone has any ideas on getting him to stop biting, please, let me know!

Water Pictures

As promised, here are a few pictures of the flood.

This first one is looking east towards the government bridge, which is how hubby and I get to work in the morning. He works in the building with the tower in the upper right part, just on the other side of the bridge.These two pictures are looking West, there is a park between the left side of the picture and where the river is SUPPOSED to be. The small double fence area in the top picture is the same as the double fence area in the second picture.

This is another picture towards the east, the trees and fence to the right are at the edge of the river bank.

This is the bridge to nowhere. It really goes from second street, across river drive to the Casino. The parking lot is now filled with water, leaving just a little bit of the river end dry.

Poo and Peas

So the Little Man has been just a wee bit constipated lately, so we took him to the Dr to see what she suggested. I mean, we have changed his diet (less dairy, more water, fruits, bran flakes andother types of fiber). He really likes beans, baked beans, refried beans, whatever. He eats them up. The Dr. suggested trying MiraLax, so we are. Hopefully it helps and we can slowly wean him off of it. Poor baby. He also has an ear infection, so hopefully we can get that cleared up and we can get back to sleep at night. Mom is tired.

So one food that is supposed to help with constipation is peas. Well, Little Man has never been a big fan of peas. Until this week that is. We gave him a few, knowing he wouldn't eat them, but low and behold, he ate all of the peas we cooked (only like 10 of them, and they were covered in cheese, but still!) This is the kid who would separate the peas from other food in his mouth and spit just the peas out. So we though, that was a fluke, so the next night we made him more peas, plain this time. He ate almost all of them. Almost a half of a cup of peas. That is a lot of peas. So yay, he likes peas, now we just need to get him eating green beans and broccoli. Especially since we cook those more often than peas.

And the water keeps going up...

Well folks, it is very exciting here in Davenport, as we watch the Mississippi River rise up out of its banks and flood downtown. This is the first time since I've lived here that the river has been this high, and I'll admit, I really just want to stop the car and rubberneck. It's not really that exciting to watch, but I have this gross facination with it. I don't really understand. The husband says that currently they are predicting that the river will get to 19.5 feet. That will be in the top 10 floods on record for the area. And it is supposed to rain/snow tonight, which won't help either.

Here are some links to pictures/articles:

Downtown calm as Mississippi nears 19-foot mark

River levels

Breaking news - The Quad City times

If I can, I'll try to take some of my own at some point. They aren't really letting people downtown though.

OMG! No bumps, scrapes or bruises!

It's been a whole week, and little man has only had one accident report at daycare this week. (And it totally was not him, he got bit!) His nose isn't scratched, he forehead isn't bruised, and he looks pretty normal! I may actually get his 1 year pictures this weekend! Wow!

And it's official, Round Two of baby insanity has started, we have (at least) two pg friends, and I'm sure there will be more to follow! Will we join them? We will have to see what happens!

So apparently clumsiness is hereditary?

Last post I wrote about how little man fell and scratched the corner of his nose. Well, yesterday, he fell and did the SAME THING! How does he do this? He has a little bump on his forehead, the side of his nostril is all scraped up, and he has a scratch UNDER his chin. But nothing anywhere else. And this is after meeting the concrete face first. Hmm.

Okay, so he fell down at daycare. Then we get home and we are making dinner, and I step to the side, just as Little Man walks by, and he trips on my foot and slams his forehead into the cabinet. The little bump on his forehead is now a HUGE bruise with some little scrapes in the middle of it. What a great mom I am. He cried and cried and cried. We put some frozen peas on it. Still pretty blue, but at least the swelling is going down some.

So today he is back at daycare. Guess what? He fell down again! And whacked his forehead in the same freaking spot, AGAIN!! Argh! We are never going to get 12 month pictures done!

I have to tell myself he is a little boy, he is going to get bumped and scratched and probably haveb roken bones. Too bad that doesn't make me feel any better.

3 Years

Yesterday was our third anniversary. I got flowers. :) I figured I wouldn't, since hubby tends to forget to do that kind of stuff. He says he thinks about it, then forgets to call the flower people.

It was kind of funny, because my coworker called into my office that someone was bringing flowers in, and I came out to get them, and our secretary was holding the flowers and hugging the delivery guy. My first thought? Well, maybe I'm not getting any after all. But it turns out that the delivery guy was an old friend of hers, and the flowers really were for me. Yay!

We didn't do much last night, because I usually have class until 6:30 on Wednesdays, and don't get home till almost 7. So we are going to go out on Friday or Sunday I guess. We'll have to find a babysitter.

Speaking of the baby, he got his first real "owie" yesterday. I guess he fell over on the concrete and scraped up his face. He has a lump on his forehead and a scrape on his right nostril. Not sure HOW he did it, but he did. I mean, how do you get JUST that part of your nose on the pavement. Anyway, we shall be postponing 12 month pics again. We may get them before he's 2.

Year old, big head, no words.

So a few weeks ago we had little man's 12 month check up. He was at 22lb 9 oz, 29.5 inches tall and his head was a whopping 49.5 cm. That is 19.5 inches. The nurse took the measurements, and told us our percentiles, (about 50th for height and weight, above 97 for Head circumference) When the doctor came in, she seemed a little concerned about his head, so she measured it again. And got a BIGGER measurement. She said they will need to monitor that. I guess it can be a bad thing.
Everything else the the appointment went pretty well, his iron level was a little low, so he has to have vitamins. The Dr was also a little concerned that he doesn't really have any words. I mean, he talks all the time, I just don't know what he is saying. Daddy is convinced that he calls his binky mama. I keep telling him, I am mama, not the binky. Now, almost a month later, I think he is starting to get it. He also says something that sounds like, "I can get it" or "I can do it," which is most commonly used when we try to feed him.

This is the week!

So little man's birthday is Friday. I am very sad that he will be turning one, but excited too! We are having a little party on Saturday to celebrate. Oma and Opa are coming to visit also.

This week Daddy is in St. Louis. I have to have respect for all those single parents out there, because it is only tuesday and I am ready for him to come home. Little man was sick all last week (REALLY sick), and we are finishing up his antibiotics this week and he is on a nebulizer treatment. That, coupled with a time change (whoo daylight savings time) and the fact that mommy has a test on Wednesday that she really needs to study for, makes little man not want to go to sleep at night. Last night it was almost 10 when he finally went to sleep. So I didn't get much studying done. I guess I'll be up late tomorrow night.

I overslept this morning. Little man didn't want to get up either. I didn't have his bottles ready for daycare, and he had to have a breathing treatment before we left, and since daddy is gone, I had to drop little man off at daycare, so I didn't get to work until almost 9:45. Keeping in mind I need to be here by about 8:30, I was running just a little behind. Someday I'm going to get to work on time again, I swear.

Well, that is enough of my incoherant rambling for today I think.

Updates

Nothing new is going on in our life, at least not really. Little man is working hard on tooth number 2, and so cranky with it. This tooth is going to make me sad, because it is on the top, and soon his little gummy grin will be no more. I'm sure I will grow to love the new toothy grin just as much, if not more, but the new tooth will be just another reminder that my baby is growing up and isn't so little anymore. I get sad when I think about him growing up. As nice as it will be to have him be a little more independent, I'm going to miss his total dependence on me. It's silly, but I bet all moms feel that way.

He had his 11 month birthday last week, on valentines day. That made me sad too, because that was his very last "month birthday." From now on, he will be measured in years. People have said that I can still say he is 13 months old or whatever, but it won't be the same. He will also be one year and one month.

This baby growing up stuff is hard on his mama. I can see how people end up having more kids than they planned to. Wow, I'm a downer today!

In other news, we know some people who have been trying to adopt a child for a while now (as long as I have known them at least) and last week I found out that their dream has finally come true! They sent out a picture of mom and baby, and mom just looked so happy! Their daughter is a beautiful 5 week old! I am so happy for them.

Oh, and if you didn't notice, I updated the look of the blog, and added some pictures over there on the side. So you can see what little man looks like. I don't know if I like the new look or not. I'll have to give it a little time.

More of the same

It is snowing again. I like snow, really I do. But I like the kind that falls, makes a nice white blanket on the ground, and then melts in a few days. I don't like the constantly falling snow that we seem to have this winter. We have like 7 inches of snow on the ground right now, after melting and more snow. (Hubby will probably read this and correct me on that) It's cold, and I don't like it. I'm cold at work, I'm cold at school and I'm cold at home. In the car, my butt is hot and my feet are cold. (Yay butt warmers!)

This week the little man is working on a few new teeth I think. His upper right gum is looking particularly swollen, so I think that may be the next one to poke though. His little lower tooth is barely sticking out of his gums, but it is SHARP! (I know firsthand-ouch!)
He is gaining a lot of confidence walking, he walks all over the place, and has even started to master regaining his balance and going around corners. He walks at daycare more often now, so he must have decided the other kids weren't a threat.
They also started him on table food at daycare this week. Yesterday he had calzones, peas and pineapple. The peas and pineapple went on the floor, the calzones he really liked. We had steak at home for dinner, and I think he would have eaten half of my steak if I had let him, but hey, he ate it and didn't throw it on the floor.

I am back in school, and it is not going so well. Physics 2 is no fun, and I just don't get it. I have a test on Monday, we'll see how it goes then. :)

Walking, Walking, Walking

So little man is learning how to walk. He doesn't always choose to walk, but sometimes he just takes off. I'm pretty sure the ladies at daycare didn't believe me when I said he could walk on his own, since I'd say hey buddy, walk to mama, and he would sit down. That would be his way of saying, "I am not a circus monkey, you can't make me do it." He will not perform on command. It's been about two weeks, and now they have seen it. Yay! He is getting braver, and ventures off on his own occasionally. The other day he walked to his first inanimate object. Normally, he only walks to people.

It's February!

Oh man, where does the time go? I have just a few quick things I want to mention.

• First, my baby will be ONE in six (very short) weeks! I can't believe it.
  
• Said baby is getting so big, and learning so much - he took his first unassisted steps last weekend! Happy and sad, all at the same time!
  
• Houston, I see a tooth. At least one. I was checking out his gum line last night and there is a little white pokey spot on his lower left gums. That may explain the insane crankiness that the little man has been exhibiting the last few days.
  

I think that is all for now. Happy weekend!