Croup cookies..

Croup Cookies....
Im selling them for $1.00 a peice. Now, heres the story behind them....

Zack and I made some REALLY cute cookies for Christmas yesterday. They turned out soooo good! We iced them and decorated them and tried to get Wyatt to come and act interested so 10 yrs from now when he asks me "Why am I not in the pictures, Mom?", I can pull it out and say "seee - here you are." LOL Wyatt was wacthing his beloved Choo-Choo movie (polar express) and absolutely had ZERO interest in what was going on in the kitchen...anyhoo... so Zack and I made the cutest cookies. (pics to follow later)

EVERY single batch I got out of the oven, Zack coughed allll over. Let me remind you he has the croup. At first, I was being nice and telling him to "watch out, honey" or "Make sure we dont cough on the cookies" and "PLEASE cover your mouth!" Then, I just realized it was useless and let him cough lol...He proceeded to cough and gag all over the whole batch of cookies. Every single one of them - I dont think even one tiny one was sparred.

So these are our "croup cookies." Im selling them with a sign that says "gauranteed to give you or anyone else you dont like, the croup within 48 hrs of consumption." ......

Want one?? ;)

The night before the night before Christmas....

Well lets see, both of my kids are sick. It all started Saturday morning when Z had a fever.... z never has fevers.. so this was odd... It got progressively worse over the course of the weekend ending with a 103.6 fever last night before bed! I normally do ok with fevers.... 102 kind of gets me edgy, but 103 and above really scares me.. he didnt know it at the time, but he was 2 popsicles away from a trip to the ER if it didnt come down soon! Luckily, with Tylenol and motrin, it did..... Then Wyatt started... I could tell he was getting sick when the whineyness started and the no eating. You can always bet if Wy is not eating, hes sick lol. So I took both the little sickards into the Dr today. The diagnosis is Croup for Z that has attacked his vocal cords.. poor guy cant even hardly talk lol.. I laugh at him bc he laughed at me when I was squeaking at him when I had it lol... Wyatt is basically the same thing Z has... he gave me some amox in case I feel his ears are getting infected over the next few days since he has that predisposition.... so....hopefully everyone will be fine for Christmas!

Which brings me to my next point.. Christmas...

today is 12/22. Tomorrow is 12/23 - aka the most boring day in the world. I remember when I was little, I use to dread the 23rd bc it was the day before we did all the fun stuff! We always opened ours on the 24th and I would drudge around the house looking for something pass the time.... 20 yrs later, this is no different. I still dread this day... its the day before everything starts. What in the world do you do all day!?? Then its Christmas day and then you open all the gifts then on the 26th Im all depressed bc its over. All there is left to do is take down all the junk and find places to put all the new junk... Dont get me wrong, I love Christmas, but this is just the reality of it lol...

On a good note, we got to see our "Emma" today :) Mrs.Knight was on her way to the mountains and had the dogs in the car and dropped by so we could see her! Shes soooo sweet! And soooo TINY!!!! Im scared to death we are going to fall on her and smoosh her. we should get her next week :) Yay!

Another thing on my mind....Babies.

Im wishy washy when it comes to baby 3. Yet, I had the weirdest feeling today.... I just heard of someone that is having twins (you know who you are hehe) and another friend just had a baby today... and it made me for a sec get that feeling in the pit of your stomach that you want one too.. if you are a woman - you know what Im talking about. Its really weird bc I havent felt that way since I felt that way about wanting to have Wyatt... weird.... I also recently found out that I will have to take Heparin ( or some variation of) shots if I DO have another.. that makes me iffy too.. but ... anywhoo.....that was weird lol..
Well Im off to watch the Duggars :)
night :)

Wow its been a looooong time, huh?

I've really wanted to sit down and blog lately, but just haven't really had the time or patience to do so. Everytime I sneak upstairs lately, I have a follower in about 2 seconds, so that leaves me no time to write my thoughts lol....

A bunch of stuff has been going on in the past month.. let me see...

- ummm I maxed out my credit card for Christmas...oops did I just say that outloud? lol..

- Ive been subbing at Zack's school a lot and that is taking up a lot of my internet time... sigggh

- we are getting a puppy :) Zack has named her Emma.. more to come on that later...

- I got a new camera... ok this is boring stuff, isnt it?

Lets see.....Zack told me the other day that he is in "love." Emma is his new girlfriend and she asked him to hold her hand in Library, so he did "bc thats not bad." lol..... Hence the name of the d-o-g.... we have absolutely no sayso in this matter.. but its ok, Emma is a cute name :) She is a mini Dashund and will be ready soon after Christmas! We are all excited.

I subbed for Kindergarten the other day and boy, it totally reminded me WHY Im NOT cut out for teaching K! Oh my.. I thought everything was going fine and it wasnt too bad until I realized someone was crying bc I told him to stop and sit up. geeze lol...

Zack has his school party tomorrow and I will be there all day pretty much....Im tired and going to bed..

Oh heres a pic I found earlier on this crazy funny blog about cakes... its hilarious! LOL

2 days going on 3....

With ZERO paci in my son's mouth! wow!!!

He did this all by himself - I had been cutting the tip off for a few days now and cut it down a little further on Monday. He could still get it in his mouth, but just didn't want it anymore. Sooo, we havent been giving it to him. Its been laying around and it currently on my nightstand and he has seen it several times, but just doesnt want it :) Im excited and sad at the same time over this!!! He will be 2 next Thursday also! :( :)

He has also been using the potty really well! I have been sick with a monster of a cold and havent been working with him as diligently as I should or could, but this morning he told me he had to peepee... we went and he DID!!!!! I have one pack of huggies left and after that pack, its PULLUPS!!! His vocabulary has been expoding this week it seems like.. he has been saying lots of new words....hes getting to be such a big boy!!!

I dunno....

I don't know what to title this post... just a few things that I have learned over the last few days.
I know this is going to sound really conceited and arrogant of me, but I have learned that my child, Zack, is really a good kid. YOu know, you worry about these things alot and you just don't know. Well, Ive had the opportunity to do a little spying at school lately, and he really is just one of those good kids. Now, I hope and pray this continues and doesn't change for the worse as he gets older.

I subbed Thurs and Fri at school. Thursday, I was the Kindergarten Intervention teacher and Friday, I was one of the 1st grade teachers. I was able to do lots of spying and checking up on friends, ect... There are a few boys I do not want him even breathing the same air as, and others that are not as bad as I had once thought. It was a very eye-opening day for me. I learned that Zack is really well behaved in class. He does what he is suppose to do, is not rowdy and basically just sits and listens and does his work. Im so proud of him. I have the opportunity to eat lunch with him and his friends on both days and just sat back and watched for the most part. Zack was sitting in between 2 girls. The girls were fussing and doing the typical "tell her I said this, tell her I said that.." thing and Zack was the go between guy. Well, long story short, one girl told Zack to tell the other girl not to be this one girl's friend.. and Zack said "no, Im not doing that." I asked him about this later on the way home and he said that its not fair for someone to tell you who you can and cannot be friends with....( insert big huge smile from me here)...he also went on to tell me that later in the day on the playground he told that particular girl to stop saying that to others. He said " A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others." :) :) :) (He heard this on Barnyard for those of you who havent seen it) I was unbelievably proud.

I know he has issues sometimes with drama and not listening, as all kids do. Im not saying hes perfect, but I got to see him in a new light last week.. the Zack he is when noone is around. I was so proud of him and so proud to see him behaving like he should. He really is a good kid and I do love him sooo soo much! :)

Politics from a 6 yr old

Zack voted at school yesterday :) He got in the car and I asked him who he voted for and he said "well, its not nice to ask that and tell anyone who you voted for." (snicker)

Allright, fine.. I said, "you are right.. but Im your mommy and you can tell me." He said "Barack Obama." I said "oh, ok." (greeeeat, I think.)

Well, later on, we were sitting in the living room and he said "Mom, why did you not vote for Obama?" I said "well, he just believes in some things that we don't think is right and dont believe in." He thought for a second and said "oh, like he believes in fairies?" (lol) I said "yeah, probably." LOL

Halloween is over...

I am normally all excited and looking forward to Halloween..not to say I wasn;t this year, but on a much smaller scale. By the time the actual date rolled around, I was pretty much trick-or-treated OUT. We went a million different places it seems, before the actual date of Halloween and already had tons of candy. And I don't know about you, but about the 5th time I struggle to dress my almost 2 yr old up like a mouse, Im almost over it.

And then there was the relentless Jango Fett costume that Zack wore. I tried so many times to get this poor child to take his light saber with him, only to be reminded about a thousand times by my husband and 6 yr old, that "Jango Fett does not use a light saber , Mom..only JEDIS have light sabers." Oh well, excuuuuse me lol... I refused to buy him the $20 gun that actually goes with the costume... I know, Im a bad mom... but come on - the child has like 6 light sabers! Who cares if its a little detail that he doesnt use one in the real movie... cant he just pretend?? lol...

Wyatt is bound to have about 10 cavaties. All the child did from sun up halloween day till 10pm was eat suckers. Its the only thing he can open lol.... everytime I turned around, he had a dumdum sticking out of his mouth.

Noone in my n'hood was home :( Everyone does the church thing these days and while thats fun (We did it too), its still not the same as going around house to house and walking in the dark. There were only a handful of houses giving out candy and actually had their lights on.. I was soooo bummed. :( We still managed to walk around the n'hood till about 8:30 and get some good stuff, but I was soooo disappointed that more people werent into the fun.

I caught Wyatt laying down face first on the stairs about 9pm. Imagine a mouse butt sticking in the air and him laying on the stairs. He had a sucker in his mouth and was determined NOT to let us see it LOL... I asked him if he had one in his mouth and he said "ummmmm, nu-uh." LOL.. the little stink...this went on for about 10 minutes hehe

Well, I hope everyone had a spooky, chocolatey, fun Halloween :) Im retiring the mouse and star wars outfits till the next consignment sale lol..

Oh look! Now my kids have proof that I was there too! lol..

Im in a mood..bear with me....

Ok, so some of you all know from my myspace blog how I feel lately about a particular person that has said some nasty stuff.. well heres my dilemma... if Im a "good christian" then I am suppose to forgive her, right? Well, I don't wanna. lol.. I just want to part ways with her and not speak to her again but its kind of hard bc we WILL see each other again. Lots probably. Do I bring this to her attention? Do I tell her that she was wrong, even though I KNOW what the outcome is going to be? Or should I just gracefully NOT taker her calls, and basically part ties with her? The problem is, is that she thinks she is right about EVERYTHING and will most likely keep calling me till I pick up. Oh well, I know that was a whole lot of nothing, but if you know about my other post, it will make more sense lol...

Well my Fall break sucked, how about yours???

I spent the 1st day of Fall Break bowing down to the porcelain king. Yep, I was puking for my 1st day of the "fun" fall break. I had so much planned for that week! The weather was going to be beautiful, the perfect fall weather, and we were going to spend most of it OUTSIDE!!! I spent the entire Monday in BED. Mom came up and watched the boys for me while Scott was at work... I vaguely remember popping a much expired Phenergan I found from my sick days with Wyatt man around 10am, and then I remember about 4:30 when I rolled out of the bed and figured I should go see if the kids have killed Nanna yet... luckily, they hadn't.

I still felt yucky throughout the night and into Tuesday..once again I popped the expired phen and slept much of Tuesday away... one good thing about sleeping is that you cant puke at the same time! Wow, this is how I spent my whole 1st trimester TWICE. So I wake up and its Wednesday.. only 2 more days of fall break. My kids have rarely been out of their pj's, my house looks like DHS would be showing up any minute now, but by golly - we are doing SOMETHING. I managed to drag myself to CHuck E Cheese.. Pizza sounded good and the boys needed to get out.... Oh did I mention zack threw up tues night?? he was fine afterwards.. anyway...Thursday night we went to Boo again and then Friday it rained.. so that was basically it. Why must our fall breaks consist of someone puking? Ick......

A funeral for a crab...

It is my sad duty to inform of you of the smallest hermit crab's passing. I had seen it coming for awhile now, as its a rare treat for Zack to actually feed those things lol... no, seriously though, he was acting weird - never came of out of his shell, ect... anyhoo.. I found him the other morning. Nasty little legs all sticking out of his shell.. ick..I told zack and he immeditely said "We have to bury it." Hmmm.. I was thinking of chuckin it in the trash, but ok.. that's a little more humane I guess .... so we took him outside and I asked zack where we should put him. He chose, ahem, my flowers. lol...So we put him under the mulch and zack put an acorn on top of him to mark his grave (lol) It was really funny,but really sweet at the same time lol... poor crab.

Bow down to the Queen please

My biggest CVS save to date!
I know most of you will not find this blog appealing, but to my fellow coupon-ers, get ready to bow down to me bc Im the Queen after today! lol...Alright, Im still not as great as some on A Full Cup.com, but Guess what I saved today!!!??

Here's what I got:
2 pcks Huggies
1 pck Pullups
2 packs of Clean Clear eye contact stuff
2 tubes of colgate kids
4 toothbrushes
1 pck 30 day rx essentials vitamins for Scott
1 pck 60 day rx essentials vitamins for me
1 childrens Motrin
1 Childrens Tylenol....

My total before coupons was $111...
I paid out of pocket $50 :) So I saved..... $61 bucks today! my biggest save to date!! I also came out with another $26 in free bucks to spend :) Im excited! j/k about the bowing down stuff hehe

Disney Day at school!

Today was such a fun day at school! I love Halloween and HATE that our kids don't get to even mention the word in school anymore.. Some of my best memories come from having dress up day at school with my friends in Elementary school. I totally understand WHY they don't anymore, but it still bums me out a little. Anyhoo... TODAY they have "dress up as your favorite Disney character day." Since it was the last day before Fall break for Knox County AND the school surpassed their coupon book sales goals, the principal made today a fun day! I was so excited... as were the kids.

I racked my brain over what Z could dress as....we had already bought his Halloween costume and I didn't want to spend too much money on yet another outfit... so I found this Pirate outfit at Target on sale for 14.99 :) He went as Will Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean - yes, its Disney..although, it was strecthing it a bit for some of these kids - I saw Batman and Superman today - both of which are NOT Disney, just so you know haha....

We went in today and everyone was dressed so cute! Only a few didn't dress up..there were LOTS of Hannah Montana's and Gabriella's from HSM ...Z's teacher, who has very blonde hair, dressed up as Jack Sparrow! She looked soooo cute!!! It was so strange to see her with dark hair after seeing her with this white-blonde hair all the time.. it was too cute! I went in and took pictures and hung around for the assembly program... Ms. Burnett promised there would be a big suprise and there was! She came in dressed as Hannah Montana too lol.. it was soo funny.. THEN she pulled the top 10 sellers up front and told them they were giong to get in their "tour bus" and go to Gatti's for lunch! We alllll go outside and this huge charter bus pulls up and they get on and go to Gattis! How cool was that!! Those kids' eyes were just gleaming.. it was so sweet of her to pull a big stunt like that!!

Here are a few pictures from the day. W had a blast in Z's classroom.. we ate lunch with him and W thought he was big stuff, let me tell ya lol.. all the girls were oohhhing and ahhhing over him and he was eating it up lol...

Will Turner....

The Pirates and the Ninja with Jack Sparrow

Their principal as Hannah Montana lol...

Wyatt thinks he the bomb lol..

Taking a moment to brag on my kids :)

Well I have to take a moment to brag on my kiddos.
Zack - This Saturday Zack will get his YELLOW belt in Karate! He passed his tests and will be awarded at a graduation ceremony on Saturday! Zack also got his 1st report card of the year and it was straight E's down the board!! Yay!! He is doing super well in school this year.. I just hope we can keep it up!

Wyatt's big accomplishment is peepeeing on the potty!!! We have been trying for weeks off and on and he would try everynight but just could never do anything.. well, last night, I turned on the water in the sink and he peed! lol... He was so proud of himself!!! I gave him 2 peices of candy corn afterwards and of course he wanted to pee all night, but he has tried again today all by himself :) Next week when CVS has their Huggies deal going on, Im going to buy him some pullups and we will try a little harder :)

My idiot neighbors...

1st let me remind you that its OCTOBER.. EARLY October.. we have some nuts up our road that actually have CHRISTMAS lights up and ON. Icecicle lights! I thought for sure they would be orange, but NOPE.. white. These are the same idiots that let their inside bird out to "play." Brandiee and I found it one day in the road and noticed its wings were clipped and it was in the road. We chased it down bc it was going to either get eaten by a cat or hit by a car, and we caught it and tried to figure out where it belonged. We took it from house to house and asked and actually asked the people it belonged to and they ran in the house when they saw us coming - what???! So we went on and then the man came over and took it from us.. no "thanks for bringing our bird back", nothing.... then he proceeded to let it "play" in the bush by the house again. idiots.

The pig.

This is the pig that has traumatized my son.


Imagine walking thru Dollywood with your 6 yr old and walking by this. lol. It was BBQ fest and we went for BBQ, so we were bound to see it - why did I not think they would be doing this? And it was right in front too... not really a lot of getting around it. Soooooo, Z stopped dead in his tracks and proceeded to move closer and closer to this thing. Staring. not saying a word. Just staring. lol.. I know out of morbid curiosity, he couldn't take his eyes off of it.

We moved on, and did other things and didn't really talk about it much. Then he said "poor piggy." I said "I know."

Tonight, we were sitting at dinner. I made Chicken nuggets and some other things and z was only eating his rice. I said, " you need to eat your chicken." His reply? "Im not eating pig." LOL.... we reminded him that chicken is chicken, buut he didnt really believe us much.. but anyway.. heres a big old fat THANK YOU to Dollywood for traumatizing my 6 yr old. lol.

Oops, I did it again!

It all started a few weeks ago with this ....the purple crayon on the window seal in the kitchen....

Then it moved to this..... the all over marker on the body that is still there after 2 baths.

This was some of the mess I found this morning....

I swear it doesnt look like we watch this child! Hes sneaky!!! lol... watch the video for some more entertainment .... click the link... and turn up your speakers.

http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n63/myzackaroo/?action=view&current=100_7396.flv

Its a crab, I promise.

Wyatt has this cute little shirt that he wears a lot. Everytime he wears, it someone calls it something OTHER than what it obviously is.... Here are a few of the responses we have gotten while wearing this shirt...

"Ohhhh, you like Spiderman?" no, its a crab.

"Aww what a cute Lobster on your shirt." Nope, a crab.

"Oh look at that red monster on your shirt!" Still a crab....

"Oh you like cake!!" nope, just a crab

"Spongebob!!" (not sure about this one) but still a crab..

I promise you its a crab... hence the expression "crab cake" Now, if you see us and he has on this shirt, now you will know :)

Wyatt's ENT appointment today

I took W back to Dr.Belmont today for a follow-up visit from his appt in April when we were considering tubes. This was just a recheck to see how he had been through the summer.. W was fine during the summer - no fluid, no ear infections.. As soon as Sept.1 hit, the snot was pouring out of his nose. Yep, you can tell when it's Fall in my house.. So.....he has all this snot buildup and fluid in his ears. Great. Just when I was thinking things were looking up - here we go again. Soooo he thinks its allergy related and put him on a new antihistamine...we've tried Zyrtec, Claritin, Benadryl (this works just knocks him out), so now we are trying Clarinex. He wants to see him back in 3 months to recheck, unless we have more issues that we need to bring him in for.

Wyatt had a great time while we were there... he was excited that he got to push the elevator buttons and was waving hi and bye to everyone on the way out... There's not much shyness in this one, I tell ya...

He asked me how many words he says and I need to make a running tally of those...on the way down the parking garage (we were on the VERY top floor) he was saying "down, down, down." lol...

Bad Mommy of the Month award.....

Ok, I get this award.. go ahead and give it to me.. I deserve it. :( Here's what happened....

Today, I went to Walmart to pick up some allergy medicin really quick and walked by this huge display of those "Fur Real pets". Zack LOVES these things and has been wanting the bird forever and I wont ever buy it for him - bc A- he has too many stuffed animals as it is, and b- they are like 15 bucks and Im not paying 15 bucks for a mechanical bird lol...but today - they had them on sale for 10 bucks... I can do that and he has been getting great grades lately, so Ill suprise him with it after school...

So I pick him up and he shows me alll these E+ he got today and I pulled it out the bag for him and he was so excited! we got home and Wyatt sees it - he was staying with Scott while I did this - And wyatt looks all pitiful - snot running down his face, no pants on (scott just changed his diaper but still it only added to the pitifulness of the situation) and wyatt looks and gets this saaaaaad look on his face and says "Iwannabird....Iwannabirrrrrrrrrd." and he was soooooooo pitiful.. I felt like D-I-R-T. :( ...I just really didnt think he would want one.. hes not really into animals and things like Zack is...so I took him to walmart and got him a bird and his little eyes lit up and he says alllll the way home "my tweet-tweet. my tweeettweeet." LOL.. so there it is, tell me how horrible I am lol...

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