Boogie Woogie BRAINS

So it's been pretty crazy around the arms household - i have been so busy with my photography side job i dont have time for much else after trying to be a full time legal assistant, a mother to 2 who keep me incredibly busy and then on top of all that i still have to be a wife of SOME SORT! lol yea i have like 2 maybe 3 wifely duties that i have to keep up with.

here are the kids on easter... pardon the "cracked out" crazy messy mouths - they had chocolate for breakfast! LOL HEY DONT JUDGE ME! it was Easter damn it!

Kay is getting to big turned 18 months on Friday the 13th, the older she gets the more her little personality shows and i tell ya she has got a little "MEAN GIRL" attitude. It's just been here recently so i think she having a growth spurt or just testing the boundaries.  
Currently her favorite things to play with: SHOES and she says "she-ewws"
funny word is "KEY-KACK" that'd be Kitty Cat.
FAVORITE word is NO... and she says it often in her little sassy pants style. no no and shakes her head to reiterate! lol
Her teachers tell me how smart she is and her and one other girl in her class are already talking so well that you can carry on a conversation with them.
She does sign language also - she says more and please all the time. it's pretty cute when she thinks your not paying attention to her and as soon as she gets a glimpse of you getting ready to look at her she is swiping her chest with her hand - saying MORE MORE

BRAT!

Tre is less than a week from turning 5.. yep, i said it, FIVE!! Only 4 short months from starting REAL school and im sure that's just a whole other adventure in its self. I haven't considered him a "baby" for a long time but this whole starting school thing is really pushing my "baby button" he is just so "grown" now and its awesome at the same time as scary that he is getting ready to start school because he is very intelligent and i know he is going to ROCK it out but it's just the feeling of putting your child "out into the world" i know it's school but there are more choices and decisions he will be able to make for him self and it may sound bad but im just not sure he is will make the right choices! We have been having some issues about his decision making skills here recently so im sure the i am glad we have already had our second and final child because i would REALLY be having some baby fever right now.

I recently did some newborn shoots for my photography business and OH MY GOODNESS.... how i LOVE a new fresh baby! the tiny, squishy, warm little bodies, the newborn smell, the velvety skin the teeny tiny little toes and fingers... SWOON! <3
These types of shoots make my ovaries ache... lol i know that's a super weird thing to say but baby fever is nothing to play with. but LIKE I SAID... Kay is our final child... no more, we're DOOOONE MAN... just like those dishes (old school peeps should know what im talking about HINT: "Don't tell mom the babysitters dead")

Mark and i have been trying to work out as much as possible since December... i am pretty sure i have lost somewhere around 5 pounds or something but i know im losing inches because my pants are all fitting a little looser than they use to.

It's an everyday routine, since Tre started Karate too... I wake up, get the kids together, they go to school, i go to work, i work all day, pick the kids up, get home around 530 or so to a husband who is ready to go, i get my gym clothes on while mark gives the kids a snack, we run to the gym and by run i mean we drive! lol in time for my 6pm class, we work out for and hour and a half while the kids play on the playground/kid sitting area and then we go home and eat, take baths and go to bed.

This was the routine monday thru friday - mon, wed and fri for my classes then tues and thurs for tre's karate... ahhh the things we do for our children. But he moved up so fast in his karate class that he is already in the next class up which starts at 645 instead of six so on tues and thurs we get a little break and can eat BEFORE we go to the gym... that IS if Tre even wants to go. For a couple weeks he hasn't wanted to go he would rather play outside with his daddy... which i totally get because the weather is getting nice and it's time to be outside... maybe we'll just keep karate a winter sport. idk.  :o)

Anyway - life is good and yay for that... i hope to update more often but with things going like they have been.. idk. Im sure all FIVE of my readers are going to be terribly upset. :P

It's not the weekend!

Cuteness and monster noises have been happening at the Arms household!


Kaylin does this grr sound that is super funny only because when you repeat the sound she laughs hysterically like you just poked her rib or something. So cute... I wish I had video to share! IDEA!

So yesterday on the way to school Tre got upset with me and was pouting about something trivial and Kaylin looks over at him and "grrrrr" at first Tre just rolled his eyes, trying not to laugh and said "sissster" and looked away. she did it again and Tre said... "you wearin me out sister!" which I thought was funny n I laughed and then she did it again to him which this time made him react the way she wanted and he laughed and grrr'd back!



Just a few moments before that Tre had called his pawpaw to wish him happy birthday and he was talking and I heard him tell pawpaw it's not the weekend.. didn’t think anything of it and when I got on the phone to talk to nana she said pawpaw asked Tre if he wanted to come over for some birthday cake tonight and Tre told him no pawpaw it's not the weekend. LOL my kid is so cute with his grown up reasoning and understanding of things.



I think Tre got beat up for the first time :o(

I am very, I don’t even know the emotion I was having... at first I was like... well that's just what boys do but then when Tre told me the details of what happened I was PISSED!

I took both the kids to the gym with me last night so that Mark could work some OT and not have to worry about the kids and what they are destroying or who just fell off what. Dropped em off at the child care at the gym for a buck each and went to my cardio combat class for an hour and a half. When I came back to pick them up and go home the sitter was holding Tre's hand and walking with him while he had the other hand in his mouth crying. not just a regular old cry but a hyperventilating type of cry. So I asked him what is wrong and he said that some kid kicked him right here and pointed to his penis. I said someone kicked you right there? was it an accident? he said no so I tried to take him and calm him down and get sister at the same time and when the culprit was put in time out for his wrong doings I realized, this kid is like 4 inches smaller than Tre... what's he got, LITTLE MAN SYNDROM already!?!?! So here I am 32 years old with my two babies in my lap mean muggin a 3 or 4 year old and thinking GOOD you get what you get what you deserve you little shit head, because he was crying that he was getting a time-out. LOL ughh my life. So we leave and get in the car on the way home I am grilling him like what happened and why did he do that and what'd you do and all that jazz. He tells me he was watching a little boy play Mario cart and the boy didn’t want him to watch him and all he was doing was watching and then he got "punched" in the eye (looked more like a scratch) and he said he "turned his head" like this and hurt his neck which when demonstrated looked like he was trying to break his neck... then he kicked him in the ding ding... I mean SERIOUSLY!! All just for wanting to watch a video game... yea that just switched me over to flaming hot... I was pissed. I told Tre that if that happened again I wanted him to come back and hit him harder... he said ok mom I also said I don’t ever... EVER want him to START a fight but he better finish that crap!



on to less stressful events... Kaylin likes when you smell her feet and act like you’re going to throw up! HAHAHA her big ol belly laugh is awesome and I swear I could smell her little "popcorn butter" smelling toes for hours and she would continue to laugh hysterically! must have video of that too!

and here is my little boogie sleeping - this is my project 52 with the chic critique forms... thought i'd share :o)

Your baby can read

You know your baby can read? Yeah... we have that video system... it was too boring for Tre - by the time we got it for him he was already into Elmo and Sesame Street so that was just too drab for him to sit and watch repetitive screens and words.
BUT he is only 4 months away from being 5 and is learning to read. For the longest time he has known all the sounds that the letters make, vowels were always particularly tricky but he knew at least the short sound to most. He told me over the weekend that he could spell play. i said ok how do you spell it... he said puh, P...ell, L... aye, A... what do you think comes next? i said you tell me, you told me you could spell it, he thought for a moment or maybe he was testing me to see if i would give him the answer but then he says... im gonna think it's a Y. WOW THAT WAS AWESOME! applauded applause for my baby genius! LOL j/k
So YEAH my 4 year old spelled PLAY! whoo hoo... i was then of course quizzing him on all the words he knows how to spell and he has all the 2 letter words i could think of down pat and the 3 letter words and he gets the rhyme (change the first letter to make a new word) concept. So my boy is well on his way to actual reading!! I am so proud of him.

He is also a writing fool - he writes random things like anytime he has free time he is writing in his notebook, his name and mom and nana and more of his name and then proceeds to copy every word in sight and then comes to ask me what it says, says being with a long A sound lol i love that because he gives me that "my little baby" feel. but generally i correct him intently when he says words wrong. Like that 2 equals 2 is 4 thing... oh my gawsh that makes me nuts! but at least he is getting the fact that if you have 2 items and add a certain amount you get a new number... he is so quick to catch on to things, SMART, like his daddy.

My little boogey is 15 months today!! Friday the 13th and boogey turns 15 months, right along side my little brother who turns 15 today! but i digress.. my little kay bug is getting so big and her opinion is just as big if not bigger... she has been cutting so big teeth for a while now and make me CRAZY in the process... how come Tre cut teeth and i never even KNEW about it and when Kay does EVERYONE knows!! lol SO not like her brother, not that i expected her to be... i actually knew she was going to be more opinionated and not as laid back because 1 she is a FEMALE and 2 she is child 2! She is a mess tho - i wouldn't trade her for anything in the world. Love that squishy little eating fool to death... and those big blue eyes combined with those big kissable/punchable cheeks of hers i mean how can anyone resist her?? i think she needs to be on toddlers and tiaras, even tho we dont do pageants... my kid is BEAUTIFUL!!



PS Happy birthday bro - you will never know how much you truly mean to me.

Top 11 of 2011

 The following photos are of my family - these are the top 11 of my favs. 


11. The first photo i took of my little boy that i felt had professional quality. Obviously it's "over edited" but i was just starting out and well... i dont have to explain how NEW photogs can get when getting use to editing and learning new skills.

 


10. my family SOOC- taken at Red River Gorge - Mark and I use to make several trips a year to this area and do primitive camping, until we "almost died" while camping one memorial weekend - then we had kids! 

  


9. SOOC - i love this photo for the expression on his face, we were at the KY State fair and dad just won him this HUGEMONGOUS sword and he thought it was the coolest thing in the world, for a moment!

 


8. My babies SOOC, they were both in Cousin Stephanies wedding at Hubers in Indiana and they were just looking too darn cute and i had to snap a few photos of them all fancied up. They do a good job posing and ROCKED it out for the Photogs doing the wedding.

 


7. SOOC -The day after Thanksgiving, while getting our Christmas decor out, all Tre could talk or think about was our OVERSIZED santa hat it's about 7ft long. He was so happy when we finally got to it he ran around like a crazy man for 20 minutes after we found it.

 


6. SOOC- Tre at his finest... playing!! Love the expression on his face because you KNOW he is having a good time. I mean seriously, would you even have to ASK if he is having the time of his life?

 


5. My first mini session with my baby girl - she is 10 months old in this photo and it was the first time i really took a moment with my brand new "professional" camera and made some great photos of my baby girl. at this point, i still had no clue what i was doing with it, i was just pushing the button and hoping for the best. they turned out pretty good but i love the reaching for me that she is doing here.

 


4. The very first day i brought my new camera home... taking pictures of this one is like cat n mouse, you have to bribe or it's not going to work. but he must have known i NEEDED to shoot because he did really good and let me take at least 12 photos that day. i love this one because you can see his long lashes and for some drama i went with a black and white conversion.

  


3. My beautiful baby girl on Christmas day - this pic is a fav because she just looks so dang on BIG *cries*

 


2. SOOC- I believe this is the first family photo we have of us after the one that was taken in the hospital - this is me n my family on Kaylins special day. Being baptized!

 


1. Its interesting that i call myself a photographer and i find myself anxious at the thought of a "session" with my own kids. i can run and play and be totally understanding when clients children run and don't want to sit still, i have NO PROBLEM chasing and playing and making a game out of it. But when it comes to my OWN children... i have NO PATIENCE and it just seems like so much work. Maybe because i have to be the parent AND the photographer i dont know what the reasons are but i wish i could figure it out because being the beaming proud momma that i am i feel like i have the cutest kids in the world of course and they should be shot... LOL love the play on words but i mean shot with a camera :o)

 

They are so funny!

Couple of days ago i am in the morning routine, trying to get Tre out of his bed to get his clothes on so i can get sister dressed and we can be on our way. he is giving me trouble, because he doesn't want to go to school and he wants to stay home and he wont get out of bed and get his clothes on he just keeps laying there. so i figured I'd go get sister out of her bed who is over there just sitting in her bed like a good girl. i walk over too her and when i reach down to pick her up she grabs her blanket and covers up with it as she is throwing herself on her pillow like, 'i don't want to get up' JUST LIKE BROTHER!! omg the two of them crack me up - mark and i being only children growing up really had/have no clue what sibling interaction is like or suppose to be but every time i see them interact and enjoy each others company it does the following:
1. makes me melt
2. makes me jealous that i didn't have a brother growing up lol of course that is a normal reaction because i have only child syndrome "everything is about me" haha

i mean... look at that picture - how stinkin cute are they? This was taking this weekend trying to pull together a Christmas card photo that we can give to people... it didnt work too well. it was cold even tho the sun was out and kay was tired and had been fighting naps all day and tre was crazy cracked out on (smh) i have NO CLUE what he was cracked about but yeah it was a total of 10 minutes of chaos! lol Tripod set up marked the spot with a golf ball and how awesome, they totally move out of the spot when they all come outside so i have to reset and refocus and kaylin is getting cranky and lol it was pretty much FUNNY! im sure that if the neighbors were watching us they were laughing too. but regardless of all that it really doesn't get any cuter than the two of them!! Those are my babies right there... your looking at the reason i call myself mommy and the whole purpose of my life. LOVE!

Hair Cut bites

a hair cut has happened.... it was not with Kaylin or mom or dad... it was Tre.
Tre got a hair cut yesterday... nothing new, not a big deal in any way other than the fact that DAD cut Tre's hair.
Dad is not a hair stylist... or a barber!
This isn't going where you think it's going...
Dad was fixing the hair cut that TRE GAVE HIMSELF!!!

YES that's right... the 4 1/2 year old boy during craft time at school decided he was going to CUT OFF HIS WIDOWS PEAK...

he said i am sorry i did that, i wont do that ever again.
i asked him why he did and he said it was too big.
i said your hair was too big? he said yeah.

LOL

his poor teacher was freaking out. she kept saying i was going to kill her. lol i just told her its no big deal... kids do things like this... no worries.

don't have a picture cause mark took care of it while i was at zumba - he did a pretty good job.


KAYLIN: got bit at school 2 days ago for taking a toy away from another kid. she turned around and the other kid bit her in the back... BIG bite... almost broke the skin bite... which is now a huge bruise! :(

NEW THING she has been doing for the past week or so... when she is eating... she likes to give you kisses... you know how babies kiss... mouth wide open! yep FOOD EVERYWHERE! lol she is so stinkin cute cause she does it where ever she can reach... which happens to be your pant leg most of the time.

EDNA!

Kaylin has renamed our cat - Bizkit... his new name... EDNA! She gets in his face and makes sure she can see his eyes - she will bend down to do this if need be... then she will say... EDNAHHH it's pretty funny to hear her yell at the cat like that and call him edna. So now Tre calls him edna. HAHAH too funny!

Tre keeps talking about when he is big and can do the things me and mark do when he becomes an "adote" pronounced: uhhh d ohh t basically he is talking about when he is grown and becomes an adult. it cracks me up everytime he says it because who ever is around and listening looks at me like wth did he just say? lol you know ADOTE~ ;o)

Baby Steps

So last night while i was at the hospital with my mother my child decides she is going to walk across the living room.

Explanation of mom being in the hospital.... SCARIEST THING EVER!
Friday no one had talked to her all day - we all thought she was in deep with getting ready for a craft show the next day but what really happened in she was SICK... deathly sick and didnt even know it. She had pneumonia and never even had the first symptom. it turned into a blood infection called Sepsis that goes and attacks all the organs in the body, one by one until it's shut down and dead. My mother was so close to dying Friday evening!! Her blood sugar was 16 and her blood pressure was 63/34 on top of that her oxygen levels were low and she had no clue who we were. She could talk tho and she kept asking why people were yelling at her and anytime they would move her she'd say... WAIT A MINUTE...
on the way to the hospital the EMT gives her a glucose shot and she comes out of it but almost as quick as she came out of it... she went back into it.
So we get her to the ER and they are drawing blood and doing EKG's and xrays and all kinds of stuff, that's when we find out she has pneumonia but we still dont understand what is going on and why she is like this.
Within a few hours they put her on a ventilator and strap her arms down to the bed... i am REALLY freaked out and worried and confused and emotionally drained already from marks grandma just passing away earlier that week.
she was moved to ICU and i stayed the night with her... that was the most awful experience just being there and watching her breath, knowing it wasn't HER breathing... the words LIFE SUPPORT is just a terrible thing to hear especially when a loved one is on it.
So i got about 3 maybe 4 broken hours of sleep in an uncomfortable chair - went home Saturday since they said they were going to keep her sedated and on the vent to rest for the day and see about getting her off the vent Sunday. Sunday being Kaylins first birthday party!
Kays party came and at the same time it was time to get mom of the vent. she fought the nurses when they took it out she was ready to go home and they had to sedate her again to calm her down. after kays party i went up to see her and she was talking... she asked what happen and i told her she had pneumonia, i figured i'd keep the details limited until she was in her right frame of mind. she made a face and i told her to relax as i rubbed her forehead and hair. She said she wanted to go home and i told her she was really sick and had to stay and she made the saddest face! it was pretty much heart breaking leaving her that night but i just couldn't sleep in that chair from hell again and then sit in it all day again. so i went home and got some sleep, woke up, took the kids to school and went back up to sit with her. She was already doing much better, talking and more coherent than before but her motor skills weren't back to normal. i stayed all day Monday and took care of her. Tuesday she was even more back to normal and by Wednesday, even after having the cath/heart test thing done to see how much damage was done to her heart she was EVEN MORE BACK TO NORMAL.
She is going home today, leaving the hospital with merely some fluid on the lung and a cough... but just a few days ago was so close to death she was gray and almost unresponsive. Just goes to show how much things can change from one moment to the next and how much we take for granted the people we love, that they will always be around or because they are still young that they will be around for longer than we think.
My mother is my best friend and the thought of loosing her was so emotional for me that i could never even fathom the thought... well Friday evening FORCED me to stop and think about it, that was too close for comfort. Sunday night i finally felt like i could cry and think about the "what ifs". Any emergency situation that i am in i am FINE emotionally until it's "over" and i start thinking about WHAT IF this happened or that happened... then i become emotionally overwhelmed and loose it. I felt like i could do that Sunday when i told mom it was good to see her awake and she told me to shut up... that's my mom!!!

Kaylins birthday party went great... she did awesome even if she did have an early nap!
when it was time for cupcake, we couldn't even sing happy birthday for the quickness she laid upon that thing. lol she grabbed it from the bottom and squished all the cupcake out and then proceeded to eat the paper! HAHA we took the paper from her and she started eating the cupcake... and she at it ALL - every single bit of it without hardly any mess on her!

I did the door measure thing like i do every 6 months for Tre and found that tre was one whole inch taller than kaylin is right now.

Busy Bee

So with this new adventure in photography i have been super busy and with less free time on my hands i find it hard to update my bloggy blog.

couple of weeks again Kay started saying "uhh ohh" which sounds more like uhhh ooo it's so stinkin cute yet i know what is in store - a bunch of throwing things down and saying uhh ooo so i can retrieve and give back... i hate that game, i mean seriously am i a dog or something. lol im sure she will get a kick out of it and i know she has been playing this game with her daycare fav Ms Connie. She has been eating for the past month or so big people food for breakfast and lunch - AND eating like a big person too! lol she is an eater, just like Tre use to be, she will eat the house down. At some point tre turned picky but more than that the reason he doesnt eat well is because he doesn't sit down and take the TIME to eat. just like peeing his pants, if he is playing he doesn't want to take the time to stop and go pee so he will hold it until he can't hold it anymore, sometimes he makes it to the potty on time to erupt like a volcano and sometimes he has wet pants. UGHHH it's so annoying because i KNOW he knows when he needs to go. he holds it!! i KNOW this, HE knows this and HE KNOWS I KNOW THIS!! lol

my goal for this year is to get my kid out of my bed. and to get him to stop relying on diapers/pull ups at night and go to the damn bathroom!!!

he was arguing with me this morning about what clothes he doesn't want to wear etc. and i told him cooperate with me and i will cooperate with you it's a compromise. he walked away and yelled from the other bedroom... YOU CAH-LOP-AH-LATE WITH ME!!! im not your friend anymore! LOL i of course told him - i wasn't put here to be your friend i was put here to be your mom and keep talking to me like that and imma bust you up! LOL i love our little morning spats. if it's not trying to get him up, it's something about the clothes i have picked out. i mean COME ON it's preschool not a fashion show- the real problem is it's getting colder out and i want him to wear long sleeves, he feels like the sleeves should be well above his wrist, while i of course feel opposite in that regard. shaking my head!! these kids will be the death of me!

especially since kay has learned the steps. a couple of months ago she realized how fun the steps were but fell off the first step and bumped her head so it took her a little longer to actually try again. well... she is on a ROLL now. loves em. can't get down them. but loves them. she gets to the stop and sits there like - YAY look what i did. then cries to get down or GOD FORBID tries to go forward down them. mini heart attack!!!!

Kays bday is coming up in about 3 weeks, i can't believe she is already getting ready to be a flippin year old!! this year has freakin FLOWN by, im like in disbelief - denial!! like if i dont plan for the party it wont come. hahaha now im rushing around trying to get things done for it. ISUCK! it's a cupcake theme - was going to do princess but im sure i will have my fair share of those to come. Cupcake is fitting cause the girl likes to EAT, and she is my little Kaylin (Kay)kes
your my cuppycake gum drop schookums whookums your, the apple of my eye! :o)
anyway i gotta go there is work to be done.
sorry for my spacey rambling and bad grammar but that's how i roll yo!

Kid Pics updates

I know it has been a crazy long time between updates here... my apologies. i have been super busy with the new photography business and of course the (now) 10 month old that is crawling around begging for everyone within a 30 foot range to give her attention. She has been crawling for a while now, getting around great. She crawls with EXUBERANCE now her hands and knees slapping so hard on the hardwood floor, she definitely turns heads! ha

she waves hi and bye bye and if it's late and she is getting sleepy and wants to go to bed... if you tell her it's BED TIME and are you ready to go NITE NITE she stops what she is doing and sticks her little hand in the air and waves like... "yep, im ready for bed, bye bye"

the best thing about her right now is picking her up from daycare. when i peek in and she sees me she gets so excited!! if she is sitting she will take all four extremities and move them rapidly up and down like she is saying omg omg mom is here of course she gives me that big ol' baby girl smile that i crave and will crawl over to the door and if someone doesn't get her and give her to me... she starts getting attitude!

speaking of attitude... i was holding her last night trying to get her to be quiet so i could process some photos i had taken in a few sessions this past weekend. she would start getting tiffy so i would give her the paci, she would then be fine. so every now and then she would take it out of her mouth and start huffin and puffin so i would put it back in. LMAO last night she was sitting there whining so i put her paci in her mouth and she took it out and threw it on the ground.. i looked at her like she was CRAZY and picked it up and put it right back in her mouth and the little shitass did it again, like, i dont want it! lol so i smacked her hand and told her NO and she turned her head to stare me down! with her little crinkled eyebrows... those SASSY BROWS are gonna get her in trouble! lol i KNOW when your giving me attitude lil girl! ha

i got a new camera!! DSLR NIKON D7000 with a 18-105mm lens... i HEART it!~

all of the photos above were taken with my 3rd child. i am so excited to shoot with that thing... its so awesome. i love the images that it produces... ahhh im in heaven... where did this expensive camera come from, you may ask... and my answer is... my boss! YES... from my WORK, my boss purchased me a camera to do what i love most... isn't he awesome!!?!? oh my gosh i could have cried when he gave it to me... i was like a child on Christmas morning ready to open the box and play! i have been snapping off shots of everything in my path since! LOVE IT! i am learning how to shoot in manual mode so MOST of the time it's in aperture priority but when i get a person that will sit still in front of me.. it's ON!

till next time

Independence Day

Happy fourth of July!
I guess my little one took that as her cue to start her own independence and started CRAWLING over the weekend. AAAAAND she popped thru 2 teeth! REALLY?!
give an adult a long holiday weekend and we will show you how many cookouts we can attend, how many beers we can throw back (him! not me) and how long a house can go uncleaned before someone finally breaks down and cleans up the filth! (that has still yet to be accomplished) haha
give a baby a long weekend and she will make 2 teeth and learn to crawl and immediately move on to the next thing... she is now pulling up on her knees. she hasn't gotten the hang of getting to her feet but i just KNOW it's coming soon! jeez!!
she did take longer than tre to learn how to crawl but man... she is moving on to the next step faster than he did. SLOW DOWN baby girl!

My little man enjoyed his 4th events as well... we had a cookout/party/fireworks show everyday of this long weekend. but we first started it with a visit to a new baby. My Godchild was born June 29, 2011 at 5pm 7lbs and 19.5 inches long. SO PRECIOUS!
So we are over their house holding and oo awwing over this new little baby and the older kids are running around like little crazies... i pop in on tre touching something he shouldn't and i guess since i surprised him he felt he needed to convey is interest in the item he was touching with a wonderful... "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" as i start to give him an answer, i realize the AGE of the little one who just asked me what the hell is this and said... WAIT, WHATD YOU SAY!? he said... OOOhhhp SAWRY as he covered his mouth and walked away from me. LOL wow... he is his mothers child. i have really got a problem with having a potty mouth and even in that sentence i wanted to say shitty! i wonder how he talks with his friends when im not around - sigh.. but let me tell you he has never gotten in trouble at school for cussing and those little demon spawns spout off some SHIT, let me tell ya. one kid has told the teacher to shut up you fat bitch! LMAO... FOR SERIOUS!?! YES totally SERIOUS! so maybe it's a good thing i dont try to shelter my kid from language such as these because then he for sure would be curious about it and try telling me to shut up - then it'd be ON LIKE DONKEY KONG!! i kind of have learned in the past couple of years that i am not my child's ONLY influence, if i was, then i could shelter him from things i dont want him to know about or learn. but i am not... but what i AM is one of his most IMPORTANT influencers so i just gotta teach him how to make the proper choices and decisions in regards to the NON-SENSE i don't want him knowing about! LOL
welp - must get motivated

Updates Galore

So wow its been so long since i have done an update... jeez.. where to begin?
UPDATE on Kaylin:
currently 7.5 months old She is saying ma ma and da da and ba ba, she squeals with delight at her brother she lights up when he gets near her.. just about anyone will make her grin from ear to ear when she is playing by herself and someone walks near she lights up and if they keep walkin or ignore her she just starts crying so pitiful lol she is so SPOILED with attention - just ROTTEN! if she is trying to get your attention she does this really cute little wiggle... and then she will cock her head to the side, she is crazy!
last night mark and i were outside and as usual mark was swinging his golf club and every time he would hit the grass pretty good and make that noise she would laugh... it was so stinkin CUTE! took video of it!
yesterday as i was getting her ready for school i noticed she had a tick on her back so i freaked out and called mark and then called his mom to see what im suppose to do because i have only ever had to pull a tick out once before and that was from behind tre's ear - when he was like 2ish I WAS FREAKIN THEN TOO! so i go to pull it out and of course the head stays in... i can't remember if she started breaking out in this rash before or after i took the tick out but it started on her upper back and lower back like a heat rash by the time i got her to school it was on the front of her and more of her back and by the time nana picked her up from daycare to take her to the dr to get the head of the tick out it was from HEAD TO TOE! when i picked her up later that evening when i got off work she was dang near fine! didn't even look like there was a problem. KK said they had to numb her back and cut the head out :o( but they got it out and she is all better the rash is just about completely gone and they said it was just a coincidence that the rash happened at the same time and was just virual but started clearing up after the head was takin out. geeshh... idk!
i can't remember the last update developmentally where kaylin was but she is sitting up perfectly on her own now she has such great posture, straight back! on her belly she raises up really high with her arms but she doesn't really get on to her knees she pretty much doesn't like being on her belly but if there is something she wants TRUST me she will find a way to get to it. she pivots and scoots around on her belly when she needs to get to something... which is EVERYTHING in her near grasp! lol she is so curious about EVERYTHING... lil turd! she is definitely going to have my hands full when she starts getting around on her own. im glad she is waiting for that! lol also she has ZERO teeth right now but i have been giving her baby mum mum lil rice snacks that taste like banana and for the first time, last night, she had those little Gerber puff things also banana flavored. it was pretty funny watching her try to grab them since she doesn't have her pincer grasp yet she would smack her hand down on the tray real hard then scoot it over until the puff was near her fingers then make a fist and hope it was in her hand! but she never brought to her mouth, the ONE THING that she is suppose to bring to her mouth actually went over the side of her little booster / highchair seat. LOL GO FIGURE! :o)

UPDATE on Tre:
Soccer season is over finally - Rain was terrible this spring so we had plenty of rescheduled /make up games he did pretty good this year and we found that he did BETTER when it was just me and him rather than everyone and their momma going. i understand that the grandparents want to cheer him on but he seriously did SO MUCH BETTER when it was just me and him... not even dad there. he got 2 goals this year and actually got dirty playing! he did great and got a trophy and the y medal - on the last game, i asked him how many goals he was going to get and he said 4 lol was pretty cute he was up and ready to KICK THAT BALL!! that was about the most i have seen him be determined to get the ball in the goal... GO TRE!!! he was on fire that game... of course it was the last one, we did have a make up game but it was too cold to play so i ddint take him...shame on me, i know but i have a baby to think about too and mark wasn't going to be there.
Tre had his first sleep over, Kaden spent the night the day of his birthday party which for the first time was SMALL and cozy. lol not alot of people there which was nice for a change. Kaden and Tre were awesome tho, i was nervous about kaden staying the night because i know how little 4 year old boys can be but Kaden, as rambunctious as he CAN be... was great. he listened when he was told to do something or told not to do something... i only heard "im not gonna be your friend anymore" maybe 3 times. they were super excited to watch ben10 and got CRAZY when it came on... but they were like A.D.D. because it was something new every 5 minutes... a new toy, a new game, a new movie.... then it was on to something else. Kaden was so sweet he gave me a few random hugs and i took that to mean he was having fun and was comfortable in my home, which made me happy because i could tell they were happy and having fun! then NIGHT TIME CAME.... i was worried that Kaden would want to go home or have issues sleeping or something but NOPE they both tuckered out watching ben10 on our fold out couch bed. sometime during the middle of the night Tre (in normal fashion) came up to our bed because that's where he thinks he belongs. we have tried so many times to get him out of our bed but nothing is working... idk what to do about it. SUGGESTIONS, TIPS, IDEAS etc would be great! thanks. bad thing is we have both babies in the same room so if tre is crying that he doesn't want to sleep in his bed while we are trying to MAKE him, he will wake up his sister. grrr!
on tre's 4 year check up doctor visit he weighed 34.5 pounds and his weight and height was right in the 50% area... he is getting to be a big boy so tall and starting to use all these... words. lol its too cute when you are talking to him and he says "WHAT?" like an "i don't believe it, you gotta be kidding me" what... AND he says you gotta be kidding me too which is funny because he totally uses these phases in context. the other day i guess he had gas or something because he told me he has beetles in his belly lol mark tried to explain to him what he was feeling and he smiled real big like he was trying to process it and said "no way" lol
Tre is well on his way to reading if you ask him what sound does *random letter* make, he will tell you and then tell you some words that start with that letter... "BUH BUH BUTTERFLY starts wis B mommy" yep son... your right... so smart!

UPDATE on the Husband:
everyone at his work had to do some kind of check up so the company would match their health savings account - they dr told him his good cholesterol is too low and needs to be taking pills now or eating healthy and exercising... early heart disease possibility if he doesn't CHANGE something!! sighh... not good!! so we got to work on getting us healthy again... jeezzz we are getting OLD!
to attempt in not having anymore children... EVER!! Mark got fixed. :o) yep... my man is now sterile. or at least we HOPE he is... i know a few years from now im gonna have baby fever again and want to have another one but our bank account is going to be like... NOOOO please dont do it! i guess if we ever win the lottery we can try to do a reversal and if that doesn't work we can adopt. :o) and NOT FROM AFRICA but right here... in the states (& maybe from Asia, i love little Asian babies). alright im not going to get all political but you know what i mean right... all these damn famous people with more money than they know what to do with go to Africa and see all these poor hungry pitiful looking kids and they want to take em home with them... that's great but YO... we got starving homeless and parentless kids in the states too right!?!? i digress!!

UPDATE on me:
i have recently started doing photography... yeah yeah i know, nothing NEW right... well i have recently started taking MONEY for my photography - not that i am charging a whole lot... i mean i probably wont even hit that -600 dollar maximum amount to get TAXED! haha but if you need photos... holla at ya girl!
FACEBOOK.COM/ALARMSPHOTOGRAPHY is where my work is at... i also have a website, but it's... meh.... ok.
wix.com/marknmanda143/alarms
CHECK EM OUT - LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE, LEAVE LOVE!!
mark is talking about me doing commercial photography for golf courses now too... i dont know much about it but im sure with marks help i can get some awesome stuff! :o)
i am super stoked (stoked? i don't think i have ever used that word about my excitement in my life) about this endeavour... right now it's a side business, just something to make a little extra to help out with... LIFE and it's expenses... considering "marks updates" maybe i should use it to go to the GYM! lol i have been complaining about not having a gym membership since i had Kaylin but it got me no where and i was going to do it when we got our taxes but we paid off some bills and never got around to getting a membership because i was trying to be frugal and not spend all our money in 2 months! LOL but whatever... the choices we make are what got us where we are today so i dont think we are doing tooo awful terrible... :o) if only we had a little extra is what we have been saying since FOREVER... and every time we get a little extra - it gets cycled into the regular BILLS/LIFE like it didn't even happen. but anyway back to my original thought... since kaylin being born i have gained about 2o-25 pounds... YEP that's craziness.. i am suppose to gain weight when im pregnant not AFTER but no that's how i work because i can't friggin be pregnant without having diabetes SOOOO.... i can't eat the GOOD TASTIN BAD FOR YOU food when im pregnant. BLAH so IM FAT!

our family is getting ready to go on a FLORIDA trip!! my kaylins first time time Florida and to see the ocean! yay.. excited! gonna be fun... even though mark and i are fat. haha

First Food n First Golf Outing

03-15-2011

Baby girl has been eating rice now for a WHILE... i started her the same time i started Tre which was around 13 weeks or so... Tre went for the spoon immediately, Kaylin on the other hand waited it out for a lil bit... from 13 weeks until 21 weeks she was just eating her rice in her bottle before bed time.

Tuesday she had her first taste of real food... CARROTS!

she loved em.. kept leaning forward when i would go to scoop more on the spoon like she was being impatient. lol SO CUTE!

my baby girl is getting so big, she rolls over from her belly to back really EASY and from her back to belly fairly well... she gets on her belly and raises both her arms and legs like she is flying, getting STRONG! she can just about sit up on her own, she needs VERY LITTLE support. she has been doing breathing treatments 2 times a day for a while which have been doing her a LOT of good! but now she has a head cold her poor little eyes were so red and watery last night; plus she had snot running like crazy! poor thing!

on the Tre update:
he has been doing good - he was on a super long "GREEN" light run at school, meaning his behaviour has been great but just this week, MONDAY he got an attitude with his teacher and threw a chair... REALLY? honestly i think he didn't feel good or was tired but i can't even try to validate that one. lol im like when i get MAd... do i throw chairs? he said no i said ok so what does that tell you? he said.... i don't know. LOL NICE! I DONT KNOW being his favorite response for everything! especially when he is being disciplined. ughh isn't that a TEENAGER move? lol jeez!

he has soccer orientation this Saturday and his first game the following Saturday so SOCCER is back in season, even tho we said we weren't going to let him play a sport until he asked... we held him back so he would be playing in the same age group as last year hoping that this will get his confidence up a little... WE'LL SEE!! hope i didn't waste another 67 bucks! ha :o)

he has taken an interest in golf... I'm sure because he knows that's the sport he can play and practice with dad but he even went out on the golf course with mark and played for the first time and Mark said he actually did pretty well... as far as behaving goes!! yay for that!

Sweet Shot - My baby girls beautiful smile!

I heart PICNIK

Update on Kids thru Facebook Status'

Baby Girl Update:

"Kaylin holdin her own bottle!January 12 at 6:39pm"

While i was feeding her i looked down and she looked like she was holding her bottle, i let go and Oh my goodness, she WAS actually holding it! aww

"Just seen Kaylin roll over for the first time!! Such a big girl!!January 16 at 9:32am via Text Message"

She is rolling over!! yep! She rolled from her belly to her back all by herself and very unexpectedly for the first time - luckily she was on the FLOOR for some tummy time and just went on over ,i think it surprised her too but i put her back on her belly to see if she would do it again and before i could grab my camera and turn it on.... there she went!! rolled over AGAIN!!! such a big girl! and just a few days later i posted THIS....

"Baby Girl is trying to roll from her back to her belly now.. Ugh at this rate she is gonna be crawling in a couple months!"

January 25 at 6:30pm via Text Message

gosshhh they really do just grow too damn quick!

Baby girl is 16 weeks old and one day. she is getting so big so fast! last time we took her to the doctor - about a week ago, she had her FIRST ear infection... her brother was three years old before he had his first ear infection! :o( but at that time she weighed 11 pounds 10 ounces - almost 12 lbs, my big ol' 12 pound turkey! haha she is such a people person, she always lights up when people talk to her - she gets this big ol grin that totally makes my heart smile! *how do you know when your heart is smiling, you may ask? well for me it's when even when i DON'T want to smile or don't want to SHOW my smile, i can't HELP but smile, one of those smiles that is so hard to wipe off... there is NO HIDING IT!* she giggles when tickled and is so sweet when she is in my arms and I'm not paying attention to her figuring she is probably asleep, only to look down to see the biggest most beautiful almond shaped baby blues look at me so intently... it's like she isn't looking at me she is looking at my SOUL! i heart my kaylin faith!

Baby Boy Update:

"Excited that Tre slept in his undies all night n woke up completely DRY!!! Yay!!"

January 22 at 9:19am via Text Message
he actually only slept in his undies because he went to bed and we forgot to get a diaper and put it on him. lol we usually ALWAYS put a diaper on him because for ONE: he sleeps with us so yeah.. i don't want pee on my back! lol and TWO he pees BOAT loads during the night... so i don't know if it was just a fluke or what but yeah... first time EVER he slept with undies and woke up dry! haven't tried it since but i thought it was a pretty exciting thing!

lol he says some of the funniest things sometimes! ...and SWEET!

"Mommy, you have to go to work to get the monies to get the grapes from the walmart cuz i love them, right?" LOL 3 year old with work ethics!

January 31 at 5:28pm via Text Message ·

Yesterday we were going to go out to dinner with Beth and Matt so we were going to drop Kaylin off so we could enjoy the meal... haha but we figured since we were dropping her that tre would definitely want to stay because he can't be having sister stay at nana and pawpaws and him not be there... JUST NOT GONNA HAPPEN! lol he DITCHED us couple weeks back to stay with nana and pawpaw and we were going SLEDDING! i mean... REALLY? Nana and pawpaw TRUMP SLEDDING!?!?

so anyway i told him he was gonna go to someones house and wouldn't tell him who, i was making him guess... i told him he was gonna go see his favorite person in the world and he said who, i said WHO IS YOUR MOST FAVORITEST PERSON IN THE WORLD? he said... umm. umm.... ummmmm.... mommy and daddy? LOL awww thats so sweet... but no that's not where your going! lol i said who is your 2nd most favoritest person in the world? he said, baby sister? lol i was like OK who's your THIRD most favoritst person and he said NANA? i said, YAY that's right your going to NANA's!! :o) he is so sweet!

he has been doing pretty good at school - behaviour wise we had a little issue a few months back where he was getting yellow lights and behaving less than GREAT! but since then he has been doing awesome. still acts like a DONKEY when he is tired but i guess that is too be expected, he IS however only 3 years old.

for the past few months or so i have had several people question Tre's age, and when i tell them he is 3 they seem surprised and i have heard "he doesn't look like he is 3" "he acts older than that and talks better, using big words and stuff" "he seems more mature than just 3" which all of these kinda surprised me at the time but since hearing it from so many different people it has made me take a step back and think about it and YEAH, my kid is pretty good for being 3 but i EXPECT him to be good and he KNOWS that i expect this from him. He also has pretty good idea of concepts that you wouldn't really think a 3 year old would have... that smarts probably comes from his daddy - he is a very smart boy and catches on to things so quick!

i am so very proud of him and the little person that he has become and curious to see whats next for him but and very very happy for this moment! the moments when i know that he is still my baby boy even tho he tells me he is a big boy, "BIG AND STRONG" he says, the moments when he will come sit in my lap and grab a hand full of my hair, the moments when he still needs his momma to hold him or love him just a little bit longer (makes my eyes tear up just thinking about it) the moments when for no reason at all and totally out of the blue he says "i love you momma" and the moments when he wants momma to hold him and even tho it breaks my back i wouldn't give anything in the world more importance than that, at that very moment.

Momma update:

"Sooo yeah... I got on a scale for the first time since Kaylins 2 week check up n i was right! I have gained 12 pounds over this 3 month period! I so need GYM!!!"
January 21 at 12:07pm via Text Message

ugh... i feel like a cow - i so need to get to my work out routine ASAP but i just keep finding reasons not to... like my gym having crap for classes now and i super HATE just walking a treadmill or something like that. BLAH! plus im so outta shape i did the biggest loser wii game the other night with mark and i am seriously SORE right now! lol so LAME! lol i only have 5 months until we go to Florida on vacation and i need to get this weight off of me NOW! lol ugh. other than that things are great, being a mother of two isn't as horrific as i previously expected, granted she isn't mobile yet... but by the time that happens tre should be really good at listening and understanding appropriate running off etc. lol lets HOPE! he is a great big brother tho... he helps me with his sister and loves singing with her and playing patty cake, i believe he lights up just like she does when he gets her to smile at him... i never imagined myself with 2 children but i cant see myself any different now, i can't even remember what it was like NOT to have children and honestly, i don't want to this is what i was meant to do, this is where i am suppose to be right now, at this very moment, i am doing what God intended and i couldn't be more proud right now of both my babies or of our family as a whole.
We are So Blessed!!
nothing but happiness in my heart and it's because of the 3 of them!!

First Sick Visit

Took Kaylin to the doctor today because of a cough that sounds a little deeper now i am worried about it going into pneumonia since tre had it at 3 months it makes me a little paranoid for her to have a cough that is deep enough to choke her up and for her to be gaging trying to cough it up, just doesn't sound right to me. so even though she didn't have a fever and wasn't acting sick otherwise, i took her to the doctor because i didn't want it to get worse over the weekend and not have the doctor be open.
First of all she weighs 11 pounds now... she is filling out very nicely! lol
Second she has broncolitis but no pneumonia, no medicine either tho so it was kind of a wasted trip. ughhh o well i know that she doesn't have pneumonia now so that's good.

Kaylin is reaching

She is getting so big... already starting to reach for things and PLAY WITH TOYS!! what the hell!?

I mean i seriously feel like it was just last month that i had her and here she is already holding her head up for long periods of time and now... PLAYING WITH TOYS she also talks to her toys too... she will ooo awww ohhh with them until she gets upset, over stimulated, etc. it's SO CUTE!

oh my goshhh... i just dont know about my baby girl growing so fast like this! LOL

Kaylin 2 months

Kaylin's 2 month check up: 10 lbs 2oz - 25% & 24 in long - 90% got shots... :o( poor baby cried so hard she wore herself out... Still sleepin!
she is holding her head up really well and has actually grabbed for a few things recently... she is getting so big.
still taking 6 ounces of formula - think i might have to bump her up to eight soon, seems like the 6 ounces are only lasting 2.5 hours instead of 3-4.

I LOVE Pumpkin Pie

Yesterday while feeling in the spirit of Christmas - i turned on my radio in my car to the channel that is ALL CHRISTMAS MUSIC all the time, until after Christmas!! i love this channel during the holidays - it's awesome to hear all that music to get ya in the mood!
so anyway - we are all in the car (me and the kids that is, cause the four of us in the rio isn't comfortable) i turned on the Christmas music and Home for the Holidays was on - "i met a man who lives in TN and he was headed for Pennsylvania and some home made pumpkin pie" and from the back seat i heard... "I LOOOOOVE PUMPKIN PIE" lol timing is everything kid! your awesome... but really...you've NEVER even HAD pumpkin pie! LMAO he is soo freaking funny sometimes... i love it!
every time i hear pumpkin pie now i think of that... and just about every time he hears it he says... I LOOOOVE PUMPKIN PIE!

SILLY BOY!
here are some pics for PROOF!

Kaylin has been smiling and being social for the past couple of weeks - she loves attention and knows how to get it... so cute to hear her little noises and look down to find her just CHEESING away at ya trying her bestest to get you to look at her... she is awesome!

Momma's SWEET pumpkin pie!


I LOVE MY BABIES SO MUCH... i am so GLAD Mark talked me into having 2! ;o) (never thought it'd be ME with two kids!)