Andrew's Frist Day of Pre K

Well after getting home from Granma and Granpa Blankinship's last night...we literally had to ask questions to get Andrew to tell us about his first day of Pre K. From what we gathered he did not get to play with the big heavy blocks only the stuff on the tables the teacher put out. His teachers name is Mrs. Tennedy (which is actually Kennedy). He left his Mickey Mouse quilt there and was very very upset. And even more upset when we told him the Firemen said they have to take a 100% cotton towel instead of blankets for rest time. Lets see oh yes they have a rest time and he does not have to close his eyes just rest. They read a book about a crocodile and even sang a song. In in passing conversation with his Granma Moffat last night heard he ate a hamburger in the lunchroom and something else after that but he could not remember. He and the rest of the kids did not want the daycare people to take them back to daycare when they were picked up some even got upset, one being our son. So goes his first day of school...We are hoping as time goes on he will tell us a little more with each day. This morning was a little different story he did not want to go to either school and cried even harder when he heard that Daddy was not taking him to school. And crying got even louder when he remembered that his Mikey Mouse quilt was still as his Pre K school. I am hoping that all went well today when I pick him and his sister up in a short while.

Heard from Jake today and he says he loves welding school although he is the oldest out of a class of 16 year olds said it reminds him of highschool and he says he can live with that but could tell was getting on his nerves...Good luck little brother we know you will do great...
Paul picked up Madison's pictures from Walmart and spend the next 45 minutes going all over this town to find the beach towel for Andrew's school. It is hard to find one in this town at the end of August he finally found one at Albertson's but it is not the Spiderman one that Andrew requested today. But hey with limited picking it is as close as we can get boy looking beach towel. Paul said that her pictures are good...so get ready clean out those wallets and find those picture frames we finally have pictures of our baby girl to give out....

I am doing okay kinda think am coming down with something hoping just allergies or sinus...will see what I feel like tomorrow as to if I will call the doctor or not my one doctor is out on vacation and I think the other one is working tomorrow.

For those that want to come out and watch the awesome Bunney Electric Team play softball Paul plays tomorrow night at 7:30 pm out by the airport.

This is some of the damage that we came home to Friday night after that storm blew through. We were eating in OKC with my folks and missed this limb falling and thank heavens so did my car. We had some other limbs down from some trees by the goat pens and out east of the house. Andrew took this limb falling very very hard he was very upset and wanted Daddy to fix the tree. Then the next day he wanted me and him to go out and move the tree so that we could get in and out of the gate he said that we could do it without dad. But Dad came home that night and cut the tree up into pieces and Andrew seems to be coping well with the limb falling now. There are tons of pears on the ground so we have to watch where we step and for the red wasp and the yellow jackets that seem to take to the rotting pears. 

This little is Garrett and he is in Andrew's class at daycare he has another friend Justin from daycare that is in the same class as him. His teacher's name is Mrs. Kennedy.  

Andrew told us last night when we laid out his clothes that he wanted to look "Handsome" for school today. So here he is cheesing and looking handsome. 

Our littleman's first day of Pre-K. Paul took him to school and took some pictures of him. Paul said he was so pumped when he woke up this morning and wanted to make sure that his daddy would show him his classroom. Can't believe that he is big enough to start school.We have not heard how his day went yet he is at Granma and Granpa Blankinship's tonight so hopefully when he gets home he will let us know how his day was and I will fill everyone in tomorrow.  

Made it

Well my first day back at work was Monday and stayed the whole day. We are really really really slow at work so it can make for a long day.

Last night after work we finally got it all figured out which school Andrew will be attending except he has not been assigned a teacher yet and his folder has not been sent over to them. The school is Skyline he will be a Skyline Cub. They had their meet the teacher last night from 5:30 to 6:30 and we took him over there to see the school. We found two of the three prek classrooms and showed them to him. He is really excited about it hope he stays that way. It was total chaos there last night Daddy and me were way over stimulated from all the kids and parents and had about given up trying to figure out from the map where his classroom was when a teacher caught us and helped us find the classrooms. Thank goodness...

Paul called me this afternoon and they have assigned Andrew a teacher and told us what couple of items to send with him tomorrow for his FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. His teachers name will be Mrs. Kennedy and a little friend of his from daycare has that class as well. Paul is going to take him to his first day of school and I have requested that he take pictures of that for me, he thinks I am nuts but I can remember my daddy taking pictures every year of us on our first day of school.

We are taking Andrew to get a new pair of shoes after work tonight so he can run fast and as he says LOOK LIKE A ROCK STAR, not sure where this has come from but he wants his clothes when he goes to his new big boy school and shoes to make him look like that....He seems to have his Uncle Jake's knack for talking and talking and talking to all those that he does not even know and those he does so we are anxious about how long it will take to get that note, Your son seems to talk a lot, hehehe

Madison is doing great so far still taking her medicine for her ear infection and upr..she is back to smiling and be the twinkle in her daddy's eye and her big brothers as well...She already screams and hollers at him when he talks to her and gets close to her...boy is he in for some fun times the older she gets. We get her pictures from Walmart that we had taken a couple of weeks ago tomorrow so we will have pictures for family and friends, yes finally.....

Want to send out a BIG THANK YOU to Uncle Chris, Aunt Jenniffer and Hannah for letting Andrew stay the night with them Saturday night and taking him to the movies as well. He enjoys that so much more then you know and he lets everyone know what he did more then once last weekend with you all.

Well getting ready to leave work to go get my two munchkins...Made it through another day of work am a little tired and kinda dragging but feeling much better then I did before all this.

THANK YOU ALL !!!

We are very very very very very thankful to all the family and friends that helped us with the kiddos, came to visit and called to chk on us during this time. We are not sure that we will ever be able to say this enough for all that was done during this time but we wanted to try to say a few words from the bottom of our hearts to you all.

It has been a rough but we are thankful that I am still here to raise my kids and be with Paul. The doctor said that maybe we should count our blessing with the two kids we have since there will be no more and I told him we count our blessing every day and every hour with Andrew, Madison and with each other, and will until we go.

We are truly blessed to have such wonderful family on both sides that helped us out and also blessed to have such great friends that care for us as well...ya know who you are :) Paul and I thank each and everyone of you from the bottom of our hearts and we love you all very very very much.

We are alive and kicking

Well for those that have not heard or seen from me I am alive and doing much much better.

I ended up going to doctor a month ago and got put in hospital due to a massive infection in my insides they put me on antibiotics from iv for couple of hours and did some test and saw that I was full of infection so dr wanted to do lapscopy surgery and when he went in it was pretty bad. Things the next couple of days did not get better and he then decided that we needed to do a total hysterectomy on me and that was done two days after my first surgery. I was in the hospital a total of 5 days. And on top of all of that they took out my appendix too.

Kinda bad timing we had to put off Granpa Blankinship's bday and Andrew's but we made them up and then was sick for Paul's bday. We had a combined party for Paul and Andrew a couple weeks after I got home from hospital. Andrew is sat for tee ball with what he got for his bday.

I am off the teeball circuit right now I am still on the roster but can't play until I am better which will be the fall season. Paul's team has been doing great this time they have lost only one game and Paul has hit some in field home runs....If you get a chance try to come out and watch it is a lot of fun.

Madison is growing like a weed she is 13 pounds now and had her first URI and ear infection last week. This is the same time that Andrew started all his ear infections as well. So guess we are going to have that with her as well. She goes back next month for her 4 month chkup and her shots.

Andrew is starting big boy school next week. He will be going to Skyline since Richmond is too full. We go to meet the teacher and see his classroom on Monday night. He is really excited not sure how I am feeling about this yet. He has been so great since I was sick and out of commision for awhile he has been helping me get up and walk and with his sister. Andrew got his school shots and that was exciting and his allergy shots his Granma Blankinship is now giving him at home the drs office wanted too much money for them to give him a shot.

Paul is staying busy. He was up there every night at the hospital with me and finally think we have both caught up on our loss of sleep from up there. He has been great through all this as well. We lost three goats while I was sick on top of that. He and his dad got the babies pulled off the nannies Wed night and so now we hope that no one will turn us into the sheriffs dept for them being on the road. Paul got a new truck for his bday this year. And WE all love it is a 4 door and we all can fit in it. Mommy does not get to drive it yet. And Andrew wants to take it all the time when we go places. Also for his bday we took Madison to get her pictures taken at walmart and her little ears pierced (the pictures will be in next Thursday before you go hunting me down to see when you will get your copy :). Now everyone says she looks like a little Paul with earrings.

I am thinking about starting back to work on Monday and will see how I am feeling to see if I make it a whole day or even the whole week. The doctor said to see how I am feeling and see if coming off my antibotics will ease the stomach trouble I am having. Need to build my strength back up and am ready to get back to walking and working out, I know slowly do that..

So this is it for now...now since I am feeling like getting on a computer I will try to keep this thing up dated for you all...If I forgot something just chk out dad's page...

PS Beat ya Randi... :)

Had to add this one of him holding her hand and her looking like what the heck did you lay me by him for...she just lights up when she sees and hears her brother. I am sure that will change soon when she is crawling or walking and in his room... 

Another picture of the two of them. Madison is our TV watcher and Andrew is our picture ham. 

Andrew at his bday party. He was being shy while we sang happy birthday to him. He got all the stuff he needs to play tee ball next season and is showing and telling mommy how to bat and throw the ball imagine that :) 

Here is a better picture of the whole outfit. She actually surprised me and wore the hat for some time.  

Is she not the most adorable thing alive? This was taken in her new outfit from Granma Blankinship on the day that we were going to the Amey reunion up the road at Ingalls. 

This was taken the day that we had Andrew's bday party. 

Hello from Andrew and Madison. This was taken one morning when Madison wanted to get big brother to wake up. 

Why Women are Crabby

We started to "bud" in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find that anything that came in contact with those tender, blooming buds hurt so bad it brought us to tears. So came the ridiculously uncomfortable training bra contraption that the boys in school would snap until we had calluses on our backs.

Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner). Along with those budding boobs, we bloated, we cramped, we got the hormone crankies, had to wear little mattresses between our legs or insert tubular, packed cotton rods in places we didn't even know we had.

Our next little rite of passage (premarital or not) was having sex for the first time which was about as much fun as having a ramrod push your uterus through your nostrils (IF he did it right and didn't end up with his little cart before his horse), leaving us to wonder what all the fuss was about.

Then it' was off to Motherhood where we learned to live on dry crackers and water for a few months so we didn't spend the entire day leaning over Brother John. Of course, amazing creatures that we are (and we are), we learned to live with the growing little angels inside us steadily kicking our innards night and day making us wonder if we were preparing to have Rosemary's Baby.

Our once flat bellies looked like we swallowed a watermelon whole and we pee'd our pants every time we sneezed. When the big moment arrived, the dam in our blessed Nether Regions invariably burst right in the middle of the mall and we had to waddle, with our big cartoon feet, moaning in pain all the way to the ER.

Then it was huff and puff and beg to die while the OB says, "Please stop screaming, Mrs. Hearmeroar. Calm down and push. Just one more good push (more like 10)," warranting a strong, well-deserved impulse to punch the ***** (and hubby) square in the nose for making us cram a wiggling, mushroom-headed 10lb bowling ball through a keyhole.

After that, it was time to raise those angels only to find that when all that "cute" wears off, the beautiful little darlings morphed into walking, jabbering, wet, gooey, snot-blowing, life-sucking little poop machines.

Then come their teen years. Need I say more?

When the kids are almost grown, we women hit our voracious sexual prime in our early 40's - while hubby had his somewhere around his 18th birthday.

So we progress into the grand finale: "The Menopause," the Grandmother of all womanhood. It's either take HRT and chance cancer in those now seasoned "buds" or the aforementioned Nether Regions, or, sweat like a hog in July, wash your sheets and pillowcases daily and bite the head off anything that moves.

Now, you ask WHY women seem to be more spiteful than men when men get off so easy INCLUDING the icing on life's cake: Being able to pee in the woods without soaking their socks...

So, while I love being a woman, "Womanhood" would make the Great Gandhi a tad crabby. Women are the "weaker sex"? Yeah right. Bite me.

Update

Well things have been going and going here at the homestead..

First Happy Birtday to my father in law Roy today!!!

Madison is growing like a weed and spent the last two weeks with Granma and Granpa Moffat before starting Daycare today. She is spoiled rotten actually she was that way a little before she went there. Thank you guys for that...I was a little nervous about dropping her off today but figure that big brother will take good care of her. She has her 2 month chkup on the 19th. She got her 2 month shots last Tuesday and that was not a good thing. As big brother will tell you she was SO FURIOUS.

Andrew is doing better now the Thursday before the 4th he came down with strep and impetigo so we treated that and he had to stay home that Friday. So he and daddy spent the day together they had a good time. He will be turning 4 on the 20th of this month hard to believe and he will get to have his dreaded 4 year chkup and shots then too before he starts big boy school in August. He has been going to practice with us and wants to practice just like we do he loves baseball..He was even showing mommy how to hold the bat and hit the ball like him the other day that is pretty sad.

Paul is back to work and so am I. We started our summer league of softball last week. Our first game we won by forfit but we played them just for practice. We have been practicing on Saturday evenings and either Tuesday evening or Wednesday. I am not doing too bad. Have a couple of bad blisters from trying to practice hitting the other day but it was fun. And am sore beyond sore from squatting behind home plate and hitting the ball I guess. Paul is playing 3rd base and I take turns with another girl as catcher and right field. Paul hit about 5 home runs balls over the fence at practice on Saturday evening. He is pretty pumped, hoping he can do that at a game or too. Dad has our schedule posted on his web site. The games are either Thursdays or Fridays. Thanks mom and dad for helping out with Madison during games and practice.

Paul has a big bday coming up as well on the 29th.

Had a good 4th of July we had a party on the 2nd at Paul's aunt and uncles, then we had dinner at Phil and Tammy's on the 3rd. Paul had to work on Monday and I was sick but we ran over to my mom and dad's for a little bit and got to see my Uncle Mike. I have been fighting a sinus infection and allergies for the past week. Am really getting tired of this...

Took the kids swimming yesterday will not be doing that for a while without some help or somewhere to leave Madison. She is not my outside person and the heat had her not happy and Andrew swam for a short while so we did not stay around long. I took some pictures will have to get them on line at home can't post them at work. We stuck Madison's feet in the pool and that was a TOTAL MISTAKE...she flipped out and screamed and screamed and so on for 30 mins. And if you ask Andrew he will tell you that she was FURIOUS. So guess she won't be our water baby right now.

We lost our beloved 36 goat yesterday. We are not sure what is going on we found her dead in one of the huts. She had triplets this year so we still have her babies. Our other goat that climbs all over Paul and stuff is not doing well either Paul got some stuff and gave her a shot last night and then treated the water for cocsitiosis thinking maybe that is it. We are hoping that this is not something that will go through the whole herd and wipe them out. We have not told Andrew and dread when he notices that she is gone.

That is about it for now...I am sure that I forgot something...For those that are wondering we have not got pictures of Madison taken yet. We are planning on doing that REAL soon as well as we are going to get her ears pierced against big brothers better wishes. So as soon as we get pictures we will get them out to everyone...I now know what they mean that you do more picture taking with the first then the second. We are also planning on getting pics with both kids and then a family picture as well...Just have to work it in the non stop schedule...hehe

This picture is not real good but wanted to get it on here...Paul plays third base and loves it. News Flash: I am going to attempt to play with his team starting next month for the summer league. We will see how long they and Paul let me stay playing for fear of making them look terrible...But I am kinda looking forward to playing with them got a glove and Paul has kinda helped me practice a little, we still have a lot of work to do... 

Here he is getting ready to hit the ball as you can see behind him the score with 47 mins to go was 5 to 0. They ended up Paul's team winning by run rule of 22 to 0 last night. Last week they beat the team in the league that has not been beaten so two wins in two weeks makes this team a happy team.. 

Paul warming up before his game last night they played Hideaway Pizza team. This is thier second to last game before the spring season is over and summer season starts.