Halloween Before the rain

Bailey arranged his blankets in his cage like this. I think he was calling for help to get out of the cage one day:-)

October 30th 2009

Natalie's first text message

I got a new cell phone the other day and Natalie has been bugging me to use it. I’m being a mean mom and won’t let the kids play with it. Then last night it dawned on me that they may NEED to use this phone one day so I better show them how.

I showed William how to open it and dial it then push the green button to make the call. Then I showed Natalie. Then Natalie asked if she could send a text message. Ed was out so I decided to let her send a message to him.

She wrote:

Hi Dad
Xoxoxoxoxoxooxoo

Love NATALIE


Ed wrote back:

Watch out I just punished a kid for receiving a test from his mom


I let her read it and she laughed.

Sweetest Night Terror Ever!

About 10 minutes ago (8:50 PM) William came running out of his room. I thought to myself, here we go with a night terror. He came right over to me Looked right at me (which he doesn’t usually do during a night terror) and said

W: Mom? Its ok Mom, I’m right here.
M: Ok William I’m glad you’re right here
W: Mom, I love you Mom. I really, really love you.

He hugged me, curled up on the love seat under the blanket I was dehairing with a sticky roller, and went to sleep!

I like that kind of Night terror, early in the night and so sweet:-)

Growing teeth

Natalie is home sick to day. I think I posted about her loosing SOOOOOOOOO many teeth over the last part of the summer. Well they are ALL growing back in now.

The poor kid’s gums are so swollen. She’s getting them on the top and the bottom. She is running a fever but my thermometer is broken so I don’t know how high it is. I keep giving her Motrin to keep it down and make her feel better.

Last night she didn’t eat dinner and started complaining that her stomach hurt and her throat hurt and her mouth hurt and everything hurt. I called the Dr. and I’m taking her in to have the throat checked out because even with the Motrin she is still complaining that it hurts too much to swallow.

Last night I let Natalie go to sleep in our bed, then I moved her to the love seat and I slept on the couch. She as a loft bed and I didn’t want her trying to climb that if she needed to throw up.

Not sure what time in the early morning hours but William joined the party at some point. He woke me up and asked if he could sleep on the love seat. I told him no, because Natalie was sleeping on the love seat. So he lay down on the other end of the couch, I curled up into a ball (one of my favorite sleeping positions) so he had some room. At 4:30 AM Natalie woke up and woke me up because she needed medice because EVERY THING was hurting again.

I put William back in his bed and Natalie and I tried to go back to sleep, but never did. Ed got up and walked the dog, then about 6:15 I ran to get him a box of munchkins and a box-o-JOE (Dunkin Donuts drive through!)For his meeting this morning.

Now it’s a little after 9, I dropped William off at school and I’m starving so I told Natalie we were going to WAWA. She said

N: But I’m in my pajamas
M: That’s ok, it’s Wawa, I go to Wawa in my PJ’s all the time
N: You DO?
M: Yep, and so do a LOT of other people.
N: Ok, I’m goin to Wawa in my pajamas (she got a real kick out of this)

I got my hoagie and I told her she could get an icee and maybe that would help her mouth and throat to feel better. We got our stuff and got back in the car. As I was pulling out of the parking lot she said to me

N: Mom, do I have to pay you back for the icee if I throw it up?
M: (laughing a lot) No honey you don’t. Just make sure if you throw up you get it in the bucket!

SNORING

I’m sitting at the computer listening to the sound of snoring. I’m thinking Ed must have fallen asleep without his machine. I just went into the kid’s room to check them before I got to bed and to my surprise, its William snoring. OH NO! He’s so loud!