Finally Friday

It's been a big week here, but a very quiet and uneventful week! Isn't that what everyone strives for?! School has gone very well with Olivia, no complaints, no worries, and she even gets up for school and is pushing me out the door for the bus! WHAT A RELIEF! I am looking forward to the next three days off, I have to admit, it takes some time for me to get used to her not being around all day. Me & Logan do get lots of time to play, and it is nice cause I get to spend lots more time one on one with him now. I wonder what he's thinking when Liv is not here all day. She got to wear her cheer outfit to school today and that's a big deal!! So of course she had to explain to Logan why she got to wear "that" outfit and that under no certain terms is she aloud to get it dirty or wipe her hands on it!! We shall see what it looks like when she gets off the bus.

Overall, the week went really well and it's nice to have that happen every now and again. My next big project is to go through this house now and get rid of half of it that just keeps hanging around for no reason. I need to sale some baby items and clothes (it's a tear jerker) and make room for "older" toys and clothes now. I did not have a chance to do this in the spring like normal and figured I would just let it go until next spring, well it has gotten the best of me...................

First Day of School

First day, of the First grade! (For those of you who listen to Veggie Tales). Today went off as well as you could expect and want. Although this happened last year and she was worse the second day, so I know what to expect, but hopefully it will all be good. Olivia did have a major meltdown last night before bed and practically had hives all over her with crying and worrying, but she got calmed down and was ready this morning. I dread it, she was me when I went to school, I hated going the first day, your nerves got the best of you and whew! you made it through, but does anybody really like the first day of anything!!!.................

First Haircut

Apparently, Logan wants nobody to see him, he kept closing his eyes for the camera, but I caught him once when he wasn't paying attention. First haircut, went really well, and it looks absolutely priceless on him. I didn't realize his hair was actually as long as it was until now that it's cut! Gotta run and get things put together for school tomorrow! (Kim, Logan will be wearing size 12 & 18mos. this winter)

Butterflies

We had open house last night at the "new" school. We got to meet the teacher (which she seems really nice), see the building, and learn all the rules. Olivia is going to ride the bus this year, last year she only rode it home and that was at the end and with her cousin. This year I decided it would make everything easier if she just rode it. She seems ok with everything. Although, Olivia is not one to really come out and tell you something is bothering her. She has a ton of the same friends in class as last year, so that is awesome. The ones that aren't in class, we see at cheer leading.

I get butterflies worrying about the first week of school. I've done this now for 4yrs. of school(2yrs.preschool, and K and now 1st grade). I get so nervous worrying about her all day and if she knows where she's going and don't get lost and if she'll find the right bus home, etc. It's as bad as when I went to school the first day! For crying out loud, are your children really suppose to do this to you! So this weekend we are off to get the remaining supplies we need and prepare for the dreaded first day. One good thing is Labor Day is coming and that leaves 2 weeks of only 4 days! and pappy & grandma Nesbit will be coming, which always helps out!!!!!!!!

A Whole Lot of "Firsts"

We are once again doing a lot of "firsts" around here. First,(no funny intended)Logan is doing a whole lot of "commando" crawling. He doesn't get up on his hands or knees, but crawls like a army guy through the trenches. After watching him, realizing that he really is crawling, just commando style. He gets around pretty darn good these days, even more than when my parents were out, and he's into everything. He loves ribbons (the ones left on his b-day balloons) and cords, loves cords, they are very interesting ,you know.
Another first, that i have hesitated on for awhile now, was the car seat. I really needed him to be able to balance to put him in a grocery cart. So I finally did it and he wasn't sure what to think about the new seat or the direction he was now sitting in, but by the time we made our way back home, he was being giddy in the back, so I'm thinking he started to like it by then.
Another task we are going to do is getting the hair cut. I need to get Olivia's cut anyway for school, so I thought it was time for him to look like a boy! His hair is honestly so thick on top you can put in a barrette(not that I've tried, ok, I did!) So we are getting haircuts on Monday, right before school.
Another is, well maybe not a first, but we are going to make it that way. First b-day pictures! I always got Olivia's done so often when she was a baby and now even we have so many w/sports and school, and poor Logan only has a select few. The pictures turned out way too good! He was the best. Once upon a time Liv was the same way! I had a hard time choosing what I wanted, but we managed and now I just can't wait to get them.............adorable!!
That ends the first for now........I had some time to write since Liv went over to her friend's house to play today and Logan is sleeping. Oh also Logan is getting teeth like mad now. He's getting another bottom tooth, pretty soon he will have a mouth full, but he won't let you in there too good to see what is going on, so it's hard to see them! Maybe I should add that Olivia is going into "First" grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Birthday for a Prince

It truly was, like his crown said, "A Birthday for a Prince!" I was so happy with the way everything worked out. The weather was perfect, Logan never cried once, and we utilized our garage to fit our purpose. Olivia was such a huge helper. She was so excited to put decorations up and help where ever she could. She even said she was so happy she has a little brother and it's his first b-day! Now that's love! There was no jealousy, no matter what we got for the party or did. That took a lot of stress off of me. Once again, my mother saved the day and if it weren't for her, i could never pull the whole thing off. I did forget to take a picture of the cake before we cut it, I don't know how i forgot that one. So we made it through one whole year and hopefully the next year will sail just as smooth!

Another B-Day

I need to give my sister a Happy Birthday!! Logan was so close to having his day the same, but chose to have his own day and let Aunt Nicole have hers!!

Happy Birthday Sissy!!!!

Mom....I Think I Really Like This Stuff

I decided to buy 2 (Big Sis was being so good to him on his "big" day that I thought she deserved one also, but explained why she got one and that she wasn't going to get something every time it was Logan's b-day) special cupcakes. Believe me, cost way more than I would normally spend on a single cupcake, but you only turn "1" once. I gave it to him and just let him do whatever he wanted with it and this is the mess we ended up with! Towards the end of his fun, he had both fists in his mouth and I think by bed time was on a sugar high!! Needless to say, he got a bath and went to bed!!

I was all excited about finally getting rid of the infant car seat and turning Logan to face forward. I get the car seat out, and guess what, no straps. Appartenly I took them out and used the car seat belt once Olivia got bigger. Now after how many years you really don't expect me to find them, do you? I can't, I've looked. They probably got thrown around, nobody knowing what they belonged to and eventually got thrown out. I don't believe the stores sell replacements for them. We are making a trip to Babies R Us tomorrow and I'll check there and hopefully they have them, if they don't nobody does!

Happy Birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!! As you can probably tell I am sooooo excited about his b-day! We got through a whole year with all the ups and downs we've had and we made it, healthy none the less! It's fun too when you have a big sis to put your party hat on, and sing to you and really be excited for you too, that it's your b-day! I might just get a "special cupcake" and let him go to town tonight on it, but i don't know how well he will do eating it, we are not to that stage yet in eating solid foods. Olivia also decided for lunch she should make him a smashed banana cupcake with a candle on it. At least she is thinking of him!!

Anniversary & a Concert

Things have been starting to get a little crazy around here again. With cheer leading, and trying to figure out some kind of schedule there, and getting this house cleaned up again outside, since I decided I was done weeding for a while (who really likes to weed anyway and it was getting old). Of course Logan has appts. next week and so on! School starting soon is a whole other crazy story. Can't decide where to send her for sure (since they closed her elementary school down), and not knowing is just bothering me. Let's not forget, I'm a extreme planner, so those things bother me!

Me and Rich also had a anniversary on Aug.3, nothing spectacular. He did do the dishes once for me and we went and got ice cream and eat out. Nothing great, but this time last year, I spent it in the hospital with Chinese take out and Olivia bouncing on my bed and a nurse checking stats............anything could be better than that one!

Our neighbors are such wonderful neighbors to have. They have won tickets to a Poison concert this Thurs. and of course Rich took them up on it right away. They didn't want to go and they know we don't get out much, so they gave them to us. In a pavilion for the radio station w/free food and drinks. So I simply say, "how do you plan on doing everything this week and getting up Friday for work and I have company coming?" let alone a almost 1yro. that loves to get up before 7am. Seems funny to call him that!! Yikes. We are going he says, ok fine, we will go. Now as the time gets closer (now Olivia has cheer leading practice that night too) I am wondering what it is seriously going to be like. I haven't been to something like that in a looooong time. You know how you change when you have kids and kind of forget how to act like you used too, maybe it's b/c your always trying to set a example or your motherly instinct kicks in, who knows. My kids are young, so i still act like a mother instead of being 21 again!! Maybe Rich should find a new date for that night!! I will let you know how it goes.

Kudos to my cousin Natalie who also now has a blog and is showing her artistic skills like my other cousin Kim. Apparently I missed that gene pool and got cheated cause I only know how to copy!!! But girls, I know who to go to when I need ideas!!

Till next time.............

Pics Finally

Take a train ride! He loved riding, too much for him to see. Olivia was quite bored with this ride, I assume since it didn't go high and upside down!

Above is Logan with Grandma & Grandpa Nagle, just hanging out at the lake. He really is so spoiled!!

Olivia beside her Bicentennial drawing. It was nice to see it again, being none of us remembered what it looked like! Funny b/c you really can't see it too well, but it says 2008 on the cake and her 2 is backwards!!

Logan loves watching Baby Einstein. I never had these DVD's for Liv. Comes in very handy when I must get stuff done and he will not cooperate.

This is a rare photo opt that only happens twice a year, and yes, Jimmy will probably kill me for posting this! It's Jimmy, actually cutting his grass.

Little feet are getting bigger!

This look just says it all.

Life

Ok, I've been MIA for quite a while according to the last post date. Didn't realize time had gotten away from me so fast. Let me just say, having two kids definitely takes a lot more time than one 6yo. I feel like a run all day with the two of them.



Let's start back on our vacation trip to Pa. Very nice, we actually had pretty good weather, and didn't do anything spectacular. I got really lazy, I'm talking really lazy, which seemed to be ok with Liv, she's just satisfied to be at the Grandparents house. I knew that once we got back, there would be no "being lazy" anymore, so I took advantage of it. I always figure the more time we can spend with our Pa. family the more my children get to know about them. So we hung out at the house and spent time with them. We had to come home one day early because Liv was starting Cheer leading. While we were there Logan started shaking his head "no" when you would say ,"no, no, no , no ,no" to him, which probably comes from me telling him that when he thinks it's so funny to pull hair. He also decided once again to cut teeth while we were there. I even looked right at the Oral Gel when I packed and thought I wouldn't need it, for what??? So, he cut two eye teeth on top at the same time, so when we go to Pa. apparently he will get new teeth. He wasn't as bad though as with the top teeth he cut the last trip.



We got home and the next day Olivia had Cheer leading fitting for their outfits and etc. She was excited and so was I for her. The next day they had cheer camp for 4hrs. in the heat and I wasn't sure that was going to go well at all. Luckily, 4 other girls she went to K with were there too and one she hung around with that was in her class, so she was over the moon with it. She wanted everyone to know she was now officially a CHEERLEADER. It was nice that she enjoyed something so much. The first set of practices are tonight, and she's still excited!!



We also found out while we were gone that they will be closing her elementary school. They are in financial difficulty here with the way they fund the schools, so now we have to start all over this year............can you hear my frustration!! After last year and thinking this year would be sooooooo much smoother since she knew the teachers, school, kids, principal, this year would be a breeze..........not so much. Needless to say, I'm not looking to the first WEEK of school.



This time a year ago, I was sitting in seclusion of the hospital. Pretty much stir crazy at the moment. It all started July 28. We did not know if Logan was A. a boy, B. healthy enough to live outside of the womb, C. or had Downs.......we did not know much about this little guy, except he was coming out one day. I remember it quit well as if it were yesterday.............sitting (laying) in that hospital wondering what I could do next. You couldn't read, cause you couldn't concentrate enough, you couldn't sleep (everybody knows you don't sleep in the hospital), you couldn't even go to the bathroom very long. I was hooked up to the fetal monitor and once he came off, here they would come! I felt like I was in prison, hadn't smelled outside air the whole time. It is was sunny and hot. I remember praying for rainy days, so I wouldn't miss so many nice days. After a while every time someone would come and visit it got horrible b/c they would leave and I couldn't. Then there was Olivia coping with not having me at home and her routine being turned upside down in literally one day. I cried, I cried a whole lot. Morning, afternoon, and night, it hurt so bad and there was nothing I could do about it. The not knowing when he was coming into this world was the worst. Any day, any time, nobody knew for sure. You have no idea how that felt until you have done it yourself. I just knew it would not be when Rich was there vi siting to make life simple and he would be there, no of course it couldn't happen like that and it didn't. I was so scared when they said it was time and his heart rate dropped and wouldn't come back up. A part of me, for maybe literally 1 second felt relieved that it was finally going to end, then came the fear of "oh crap, we are really doing this". There is not a more fearful experience than being wheeled down the hall and knowing what is going to happen next. It was so fast, so many people and right now. There I was, naked from the waist down, with a ton of people in there and nobody I knew. I just thought I would die, seriously, die. The last words I remember were "scalpel" and that was it until I woke up without any drugs cause apparently they were expired and they were a little slow getting them to the room..........let me tell you, pain like you've never felt. So there it was, done, over with, Logan was doing fine and off to Children's he went. I had a baby, but didn't have a baby.

So continued our journey of 6 weeks of NICU, we did not know what to expect, went in it totally blind. We now know a lot, and we know what other parents are going through when we see them, and need I say, A Wonderful Little *(Healthy) Boy!! What a year it has been as we prepare for Birthday #1. It's hard to believe it's been that long already and how far we come, but he's happy to be with us and God has blessed us with a beautiful family, long road, but we made it! A long the way, he taught me to not take things for granted b/c they can be taken away so quickly..............

********Olivia told me the other day that she could speak duck??? I laughed (b/c what else do you do) and she said, "When I yelled quack, quack at them by the lake, they moved off the path, I never knew I could speak duck mom". No one pays me to do this job, but getting paid by a laugh once in a while makes it all worth while.

Olivia also had her place in the spotlight over the weekend with the Bicentennial. Her picture will be placed in the capsule and buried. A small piece of history for our family....................