Fish still alive

The goldfish the boys won last Saturday are still alive. This is a big deal for us because we tried this a couple of years ago and we couldn't keep them alive for two days.

Every night when Hubby comes home from work he sees the fish and says "Those things are still alive?"

The boys have named them. Big Cubby named his Goldie and Little Cubby named his Retro. We have no idea where LC got that name.

Every couple of days Hubby and I have to clean out their bowls because I bought two small plastic fish bowls for them. That is kind of a pain.

Goldie and Retro and doing well and that is all we can ask.

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Can't believe it has been a week since I posted. So here is an update on the week.

We have been busy with T-Ball/Coaches Pitch for Big Cubby. He has games on Tuesday and practice on Thursday nights. He loves it!

Our town had its Heritage Festival this weekend. It literally happened around the corner from where we live so it makes it very convenient you walk there. Unfortunatley we hear the fireworks each night of the fest around 10pm Not fun.

We went on Saturday and the boys had a blast. They got to ride the carnival rides and see Spiderman. They won prizes and ate a lot of food.

Ladybuy was so good the whole day. It helped that we could take a break and walk home for naps.

The boys both won goldfish. I went out and bought bowls, food and rocks for them. Believe it or not they are still alive. I am amazed.

I got sunburned on my back I guess I did not put sunscreen on my back very well.

On Sunday at the theater around the corner, they had a special event for the fest. Mark DeCarlo was there talking about animation and voiceing for cartoons. If you don't know Mark DeCarlo does many voices but is famous for Hugh Neutron the father of Jimmy Neutron that is on Nick. The boys love that show. So I took just Big Cubby to see him talk. It was an interactive show and he got people on stage to do voices for cartoons and such. It was funny and entertaining. Big Cubby did get antsy toward the end. Afterwards, Mark DeCarlo signed postcard with Hugh Neutron and the family for people who wanted it. So we waited in line and Big Cubby got to meet him and get a personalized autographed postcard. Mark DeCarlo was very nice.

We had a fun and exhausting weekend. I will be posting pictures of T-ball and carnival as soon as Hubby resizes the photos for me.

PS. Nothing in writing yet but Hubby was told from his boss he has a job. Now it comes down to what he will be doing and what the pay will be or even if he wants it. Hopefully this week there will be a definite answer.

Happy 1st Birthday Ladybug

Happy Birthday Ladybug! One year ago today you were born into our family. This year has flown by. You are getting to be such a big girl. You can pull yourself up on everything and have taken a few steps while holding onto the couch.

Things you love: your brothers, singing, dancing, nursing(yeah trying to wean her of this), music, your blankie, cake, kisses, smiling at everybody, and yelling at your brothers.

You were a wonderful surprise and we love you very much.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Update

Just a quick update about Hubby's job. We still don't know if he has a job yet. There have been meetings and figuring out where people fit. If there are redundent positions then one will have to go. It seems that the higher ups in his company are lobbying for him but there are no quarantees.

There is no word on when the decisions will be made. He is hoping to hear the beginning of next week.

So for now we sit in limbo. I am so happy that we did not buy a house.

Thank you everyone for your kind comments and keeping us in your thoughts.

Unknown

For the past couple of weeks we have been living in the unknown. You see there were rumors going around that the company my Hubby works for was going to be sold. The rumors started looking like they might be true as the days kept coming.

Well, yesterday it became official and was announced to the media and Hubby's company. They have been bought. The company that bought them is a pretty big company and they are adding Hubby's employer because they don't cover that market.

What does this mean? Well we don't have any idea. My Hubby could be out of a job. Today they are having a big company meeting explaining things. We hope to find out today if he still has a job or not.

This is very scary. I am just praying and having faith that we will be taken care of. It is all I can do really. Worrying doesn't do any good.

Please keep us in your thoughts.

Movies

Last Saturday I took the boys to see Kung Fu Panda. Overall I thought it was ok and kinda cute. There were a couple of times I laughed.

Big Cubby loved it. He thought it was awesome. There was one part when he leaned into me and said he was scared but it did not last long because there was always action.

Little Cubby was a different story. He did not like it. He was afraid most of the time. He sat on my lap and wimpered till the movie ended. He kept saying he did not like it.

Back at home both boys got Happy Meals from McDonalds and the toys were from Kung Fu Panda. Little Cubby liked them. He even like the preview of the movie my Hubby pulled up from the Internet. Funny because of his reaction to the movie. Maybe he was too young to see it. There were a lot of little kids his age and younger at the movie. It was rated PG.

I try to stick with G movies but it is hard now that Big Cubby will turn 7 and Little Cubby will turn 4 soon. There is a gap between what they like.

Both boys love the superheros even though they haven't seen any of the movies.

School's out for summer

Today was Big Cubby's last day of school. He is officially a first grader now. He has come along way from the beginning of the year. Remember when he cried and threw a fit going into the classroom. Well, now he doesn't want school to end. He likes it that much. Amazing.

We are very proud of him and happy that he likes school. We will see how he feels when school starts up in August.

Mom night out, Sex and the City

The title is two different things sorry to get your hopes up.

First, Mom's night out. Last week the Kindergarten moms got together for drinks. The first time I felt really uncomfortable and wasn't sure if I wanted to do it again. I am so glad I did because I had a great time. There were more moms there and everybody seemed more laid back. Got a little buzzed and really some fun. Don't worry I was in walking distance from the restaurant so I walked there and back.

Now school is out in two days and I am not sure if I will be in contact with some of these mom over the summer but I sure hope we do this again.

Sex and the City. I went the movies on Sunday to see this film. I enjoyed the show when it was on HBO. The movie was ok. There is nothing like sitting in the theater and the grandma and grandpa in front of you act like they are in their living room and talk a lot. Also, when the sex scenes did appear it was uncomfortable because granny and gramps are there and it felt like they were my grandparents. Weird huh?

Any way the movie seemed like a lot of episodes thrown together. I am in no way like any of these characters but I did find some points that I could relate to. I went home and thanked my husband for being patient with me and loving me.

The movie does not disappoint in the sex part. There is a lot. Overall, it was entertaining.

That was my weekend.

Memorial Day

For all the men and women who have served and are serving our country THANK YOU!

I'm a winner

I was one of the winners in the Manic book drawing for Emily Giffin's new book!! I am very excited!

I will post a picture of it when I receive it in the mail!

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House update

We have looked a quite a few houses. A couple of weeks ago we made an offer on a house. Hubby went to our realtor and filled out paperwork(I stayed with the kids at home trying to do all that with kids would have been impossible)I really wished I was there you see our realtor told us to make this offer amount and we wanted to go lower but Hubby went along with it. The seller came back with a counter offer. I told Hubby it was too much and that we should have told our realtor no this is the offer we wanted. We declined to make another offer and stopped the process. We told our realtor we need time to get things order ie money before we proceed any further.

I just checked on the house and they have dropped the price again. I bet they wished they took our offer. Oh well it really wasn't a dream house anyway.

The stress of the whole process made me physically sick. Good advice from our family was don't put yourself into a situation where all you are doing is paying a mortgage and not being able to feed or clothe your family. That is where we might have been.

So for now we are staying in the house we are renting. Our landlord owns two more houses next to us and they might be available soon if so we are going to pick one and more there. We won't be behind a business and will have a yard also they have washer and dryer in them which would mean I could stop going to the laundrymat.

They say it is a buyers market right now but I will tell you where I live the people are delusional about what they want for their homes.

Moviegoer

For the past couple of months I have been going to the early movie on the weekends. That is a couple times a month. By myself.

That's right I have been taking mommy breaks while my hubby watches the kids. It has been great.

First the early movie only costs 5 bucks. I don't buy any of the food or drink there to save money and my waistline.

The lists of movies I have seen so far are as follows:
Juno (funny and sweet)
Definitely,Maybe (ok, Ryan Reynolds is hot)
Run Fat Boy Run (very funny)
Saving Sarah Marshall (very, very, very funny)
Baby Mama (funny and sweet)



It has been fun and relaxing.

A quick story about going to see Baby Mama yesterday. I went to the early movie and when the trailers started showing there was an obvious problem with the sound. The music would be really loud and when people would talk you could barely hear them. Several people got up to tell management about it. The movie started and you could not hear. A customer goes down to where the manager was standing in the theater and starts very loudly complaining and telling them to stop the movie until they get the sound fixed. The manager wouldn't so the woman said then we should get our money back and a free pass. Finally the manager relented and announced that she would do that. Everybody got up from their seats and got the refund and free ticket.

The movie was showing on two screens, so I went back later in the afternoon knowing that the time for the one I wanted was on the other screen. I got to see the movie for free.

I do like going early because it is usually under 20 people seeing the movie. It is like being in your own living room because everybody is spread out. The afternoon show was crowded.

I plan on seeing more movies in the future. I know that I will be seeing Sex in the City movie when it comes out. After that we will see.

house hunting

Last Sunday, we looked at 6 houses that are for sale. After we were done I wanted to throw up. I was so stressed. You see we have started the process of possibly buying a home. We have never done this before.

We are taking advantage of the VA loan that my Husband qualifies for. Good news is that there is no money down. The bad news is we found out that there is a considerable amount of money we have to come up with such as earnest money, closing costs, inspection costs, etc.

Yeah, we don't have that. We haven't saved anything because we live pay check to pay check. We made the decision that I would give up working and stay home to raise the kids. I feel strongly about this because I would basically be working for daycare anyway and it would not be worth it.

I can see why both parents work because unless one of them makes a whole lot of money they would need both incomes to get by.

I am scared and stressed right now. I don't know if this is a good idea. We have just recently got our financial side in order. We have paid off debt and our living comfortable right now. I don't know if I want to throw ourselves into debt and not be able to afford clothes and such. We have three growing kids. One a girl that has no clothes from hand me downs.

UGH, what to do. Tonight Hubby and I are sitting down and discussing if we can really do this now or should we wait. I know that the market is awesome right now for buyers but I don't know if it is worth it for us.

Like I said my stomache is killing me right now.

What I do for my children

Big Cubby has been taking swim lessons at our local YMCA. He has never been in a pool or gone swimming in his 6 years of life. So he is a little afraid of the water. He has been struggling in the class and I am not happy with the instructor there.

To help him out I decided to take him to the pool during family swim time to help him get comfortable with the water. I thought if he was with me he would feel more secure and safe. This meant I would have to buy a swimsuit. I have not put on a swimsuit in 16 years. You read right 16 years.

I decide to go to Target and look around. I don't want to spend a whole lot on a suit because I don't plan on using it that often. I walk up to the rack and quickly decide there is no way I am wearing a two piece. I look over the one piece suits find a couple I want to try on and head to the dressing room.

I get in and the room next to me has two young women possibly high school trying on suits as well. I know this because I can hear their whole conversation.

I try on the first suit and immediately hate it. My childbearing hips look so out of place. I try on the second suit. I feel like a sausage being shoved into its casing. I feel disgusting. Meanwhile, I am hearing the conversations of the little miss things about trying on two piece bathing suits and can't decide on which one so they want to buy both.

I feel old and disgusting at this point. I head back to the rack and look again. I find a suit that is two pieces. The top is a halter that comes down long and a skirt bottom. The suit seems to work. It hides my flaws. So I head out to buy it.

The links are the top and bottom of the same suit I bought.

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Bottom

When I got to the YMCA all the other moms had the skirt bottom. I guess very popular with the mom set. I did not feel so bad then and once I got in the water it did not matter.

What I do for my kids. No one can doubt it.

Opening Day

Starts Today!!!!!!!!!!!

Ticked off

I am so ticked off right now I need to get it out.

This morning when I took Big Cubby to school it was wet out from last night's rain and it was drizzle this morning. There is a door to his classroom where kids come in from outside so they line up there when the bell rings.

We walk up and two boys from his class are smacking each other with backpacks. A mother steps in and tells them to put their backpacks down. Big Cubby goes up and gets in line. This woman tells him to put his backpack on the ground because I guess she believes he will use it as a weapon. He comes running back to me and I tell him to pick up his backpack because the ground is wet and the bell is going to ring.

He goes back to get it and this woman stops him and tells him I told you to put your backpack down. I hear Big Cubby say something like the ground is wet and he points to me. She tells him then he better put it on his back.

At this time I am ticked off at this woman. I call Big Cubby over and she looks up. I give her this look that she better not be messing with my kid. I tell Big Cubby to stand by me until the bell rings.

I did not say anything to her because there were children around but I wanted to give her a few choice words.

I understand that the boys before us were being dangerous. I would have said something to them as well and have on different occasions when play turned in to possible harming but Big Cubby did not do anything to warrant her saying something. She just decided to lord over all the kids. I have told kids to stop what they were doing and get in line because the bell was going to ring but only to the ones that were doing something dangerous not every kid in line.

Here is the kicker, her kid is not even in Big Cubby's class. Her kid is in the other Kindergarten class and goes in a different door.

It really ticked me off. I take care of my child. I make sure he gets into class. I discipline him when he is not behaving.

I fumed all the way home about it. I called my husband to tell him about it and just get it out.

I am wrong to feel this way? I understand if he was doing something dangerous and I didn't see it. This is not that case.

Tooth Fairy

Last week Hubby pulled Big Cubby's loose tooth. This is his first tooth to come out. It had started to come loose a week before that. By the time Hubby pulled the tooth it was practically coming out. Big Cubby was scared at first. He asked me if he was going to die. After I told him that this was part of growing up and that he will get grown up teeth and that he was not going to die, he became excited.

The tooth fairy came to visit and left a dollar. Big Cubby immediately wanted to put it in his piggy bank.

He thinks it is cool now that he has a hole in his mouth. Boys.

So behind

8 months old


7 months old


6 months old

I am so behind with Ladybug updates so here are the 6 month, 7 month and 8 month update all rolled into one.

Ladybug you have flourished in the last three months.

You can roll over and stay sitting up by yourself.

You can from your belly push yourself backwards. You are really trying to get up on your knees and crawl.

You can say Mama, Dada, Lala, Baba.

You like to make noises with your lips and tongue. Like making the rasberry sound.

You can clap your hands.

You have two teeth now.

You like watching your brothers play.

You still get up a few times a night.

You are eating baby food now. You like everything but baby yogurt. That made you gag.

You are very smilely and happy.

You are pretty good when you go to a restuarant or shopping.

You like to smile at everybody we see.

When you do get upset you let us know with a very loud squeal.

You make lots of noises that makes Daddy question are you really a girl. You rival your brothers sometimes.

I might be missing something because you are growing and developing so fast I can hardly keep up.

You are a beautiful light in our family that makes us smile no matter what is going on.

We love you Ladybug.