Random Things

Well the weekend is here! The kids and I went out for a little ice cream on Friday night after dinner. We went to Sonic for some shakes and malts. I was apparently drinking mine too fast and got freezer head. hehe. So I told Katie that I had freezer head and asked her if she had freezer head. She said, "No, I have hot head." Gotta love it!

We ran some errands yesterday. We headed to Walmart to pick up a birthday gift for Katie's friend Christen. Her birthday is on Wednesday and she will be 4. Fun stuff! Katie had a great time picking out about 200 things that Christen needed. I narrowed it down to 3 items and off we went. While we were checking out we saw Christen's daddy. He said that Christen was in the store somewhere with her mommy so of course Katie wanted to run and find her. I had to break her heart and say no. We were on a mission! Next stop: A.C. Moore for some Halloween crafts!

Not much on our plates today. We are going to see if the Broncos game is on down here (which I am sure it won't be) and we'll check in on the race periodically. The kids have their Broncos jerseys on today and are ready for the game. I really need to mow the lawn so I am about to head out there in a little bit to do so. Good times!

Oh, I forgot to mention...yesterday we passed by one of those signs that displays the temperature. It was 96 degrees! 96 degrees! When will it start cooling off?

Today was rough for me.

I dropped Katie off at daycare and then headed over to the clinic to get Kasey's eye checked out and my arm checked out. I got an ant bite yesterday while I was cleaning out my van and it appeared to be infected this morning and was super painful.

They told me to go to the ER for my arm and to give Kasey some Benadryl. If the Benadryl didn't do the job or it looked worse we were to take him to the ER.


OK.


So I took Kasey over to Katie's daycare provider and asked if she could watch Kasey while I went to the ER. It's just not fun chasing kids around in the ER.


Sure enough. Infection city! So they put an IV with an antibiotic in me. The doc was satisfied with that as the redness faded a bit. He traced the red area and told me not to wash it off until I had my followup appointment with my PCM. Ok. So I look funny...Katie thought it was cool. See below:

I headed back over to the daycare to pick Kasey up. It was right at 10:00 so I was only going to be a few minutes late for work. I gave him some Benadryl and put him down for a nap. I myself took some Benadryl because MAN WAS MY ARM ITCHY! Holy cow! I wanted to rip it off or rub sandpaper on it or something. Sheesh!

Kasey slept for 3 1/2 hours! WOW! When he woke up he could barely open his eye and he was just screaming. So I grabbed some zip lock bags and filled them with grapes, a bagel and some goldfish crackers, filled up a cup with milk, made a few phone calls and headed back to the ER.

Kasey was flirty with the nurse and offered to share his bagel and grapes. The awesome thing was that the same people were working the front that had helped me earlier in the day so they got us in and out of there fairly quickly. The doc gave him some Atarax (which is the medicine Katie takes) and it seemed to help.

It just ended up being a very long day.

Kasey got a few bug bites while playing outside yesterday. Poor guy!

Thankfully the weather over the past weekend wasn't too terrible. We had rain - and lots of it, but nothing too bad. We were stuck in the house all weekend due to the rain, but I had the kids working on crafts and I did some much needed scrubbing.

I've also been doing a lot of online shopping for upcoming birthdays/Christmas. I have many saved shopping carts with many different retailers. I figure I will purchase a few things at a time. Maybe that will help save some money in the long run. I like to wait and see if the price drops. :)

Brian's been gone for a week already. It's gone by quick. Of course every time Katie doesn't get something she wants it's "I want my daddy". Ha!

We are planning on visiting Brian for Thanksgiving and Christmas now. We are going to go to Build a Bear for Katie's birthday with one of her little friends. It should be fun. I think she will like it! We'll have to go to Destin Commons...I might try to stop in to Williams Sonoma while I am there. I would LOVE to pick up a few things there!

First week of fall, eh? It's still hitting almost 90 every day and with the heat index/humidity it certainly feels warmer. The air conditioner runs almost non stop still. I miss the cool autumn mornings and the changing of the leaves. It really doesn't look as nice down here when seasons change. Everything goes from green to brown. That's it. No red, yellow or orange. Just brown. I am hoping to get out this weekend and buy some Halloween decorations to spruce things up.

It looks like we will be experiencing our first tropical storm this weekend. It was super windy earlier today and started to rain this afternoon. I feel like we are prepared should the electricity go out. It doesn't sound like it will be too destructive, but we might get a glimpse of some very nasty weather.

Stay tuned!

We had a little pink visitor this morning. There was a baby lizard in the bathtub! The poor thing couldn't quite climb out of the bathtub and was running around like crazy. It was funny to see it moving around so fast. I stuck the cat in the bathtub with it because I thought he might have some fun...

The lizard ended up crawling down the drain.

The cat won't get out of the bathtub now.

Ha ha ha!

Brian left this morning. They allowed the kids and I to go past security and up to his gate. That was nice! Brian somehow dropped his ticket - luckily, someone found it and he was able to get on the plane! Katie ran around like a crazy woman and then got really sad when daddy had to get on the plane. No one cried today. I think I was too tired and I changed the subject with Katie quick enough that she didn't dwell on it.

He landed safely in South Carolina and called for some help with the directions. What would I do without the internet? He has internet access in his room which will be nice.

Kasey had his 18 month checkup today - he has moved up into the 75th percentile in weight and the 95th percentile in height! I guess he went through a growth spurt! He had to get a shot today and doesn't need one again until he is 4! YAY! He got a sucker and stuck sucker slobber in his hair. That's nice. He had poured his pineapple juice in his hair earlier (right before his appt) so was crusty and needed a bath.

OK, so it's not quite as shocking as may have led on, but do you see the missing bangs??!!

The hairstylist actually said to me...and I am NOT joking..."the only way I can fix this is to cut it like a MULLET!"

WHAT?!! I mean this isn't 1985, lady, and just because your hair somewhat resembles a mullet does not mean it is IN style! I told her that I would rather her head be shaved than given a mullet. A mullet...sheesh!

On a side note...

We found out on Thursday that Brian will be leaving on Tuesday for his 4 month TDY. I am going to have my hands full, but such is the life as a military wife. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

devastation.

seriously.

It is so awful that I couldn't even take a picture.

So mad....for several reasons.

1. The scissors have been in the bathroom medicine cabinet since the day we moved in. Katie got them out last night somehow, but what did I do? I put them right back. So I am mad at myself for not removing them completely now that I know she can reach them. (It's still a mystery as to how she can actually reach them, but she does like to climb...)
2. Why when it is bed time does Katie think she needs to go into the bathroom and be naughty?? Every night. She gets out of bed "M O M!!! I need this! I need that! Come up here!" etc...So I get her back to bed - about 8 times and she finally goes to sleep. Some nights she just plays in her room, but gets out of her bed nonetheless. Some nights she turns on music (I can only handle hearing the SpongeBob theme song a few times in a row....) Some nights she goes into my office and jacks with my computer or things on my desk. Some nights she goes into the bathroom and smears my makeup everywhere. MAD MAD MAD! Any helpful hints in this area would be much appreciated!
3. SHE CUT HER HAIR AGAIN!!!! Her hair had finally grown out from the last hair cut fiasco so we could put it in a ponytail or pig tails...sigh.

We are heading over to the salon in Walmart tomorrow morning (it opens at 8am and she needs an emergency cut!!). I think I'll stop by the "hair clip" section as well as we will probably need lots of clips.

I will post pictures. Prepare to be shocked. She cut her bangs as short as Brian's hair - see pictures below of Brian's hair. I don't know what they will be able to do to fix it. She has a mullet style going on the left side of her head. It's quite lovely.

Birthday gift idea: hats and LOTS of 'em!

Thankfully her hair grows pretty fast, but what is the fascination with scissors?

I know it's been a while since I posted! Here are some pics from Kasey's first hair cut this weekend. He still has some curl left :)