Race for the Cure 2010!

Once again our 5th year in a row, doing the race for the cure! Always such a special time with our friends! This year was extra personal for me, my Aunt Susan was diagnosed (Mom's Sister) about 6 months ago, she is doing well, and I'm so glad my Mom has been able to be there to help also with her 4 daughters. I hope I'm able to go the the Phoenix walk next year to be with my family!




7 out of the 11 the kids that were in our group!

Braedens first class party

Braeden started the year in half day kindergarten, and 2 weeks ago we got a call from the school that there was an opening in all day! Braeden was the first on the waiting list, so they gave us a week to think about it, and we took the whole week! At first Ross and I were a little apprehensive about it, I wanted to make sure I was making the right decision for him, not me! But the more we thought about it the better we felt about it, and he LOVES it! As do I! lol Don't get me wrong it was like he started Kindergarten all over again that first day! I was a little emotional!

So this class party was with his half day class, and was his last day with that class. I thought it was a good farewell!

Fun at the Farm

This last week Reece's school had a field trip to the Orr Family Farm. And she had tons of fun! The weather has been beautiful! We went off into groups, I had Reece and her bestie Peyton. The girls had a blast!

Trying to get a picture, but as you can see the sun was shinning right in the girls eyes.

bunnies

Here was a rooster just walking around!

Reece, Owen ( my two red heads) and I on the train that takes you around the farm!

on the train

jumping on the big bouncy pillows

Fun Fun day! I think we will go back next week when Ross's parents get here!

Hallelujah!!

Ok so as you can see, Owen is taking a bottle!!!!! And why is this so exciting....well up until about 2 weeks ago, I was it, meaning he would not even suck on a bottle, didn't know even what to do with one! My fault I know, I should have been more consistently giving him one early on. I'm nursing, and I enjoy nursing other than the fact that it makes me fat, like I actually GAIN weight while I nurse. My Doc says its actually normal, that your estrogen levels when you nurse are VERY low, and there for your body thinks its in Menopause, and what ever happens to your body when your in Menopause, is likely to happen to you while you nurse. Yeah for me, right? What happened to burning an extra 500 calories a day??? Apparently not true for every women, again yeah for me! So I guess that is a little bit of Motivation to say, well he's almost 9 months, we've had a good run, right? I would like to loose 20 pounds, like yesterday! I know that as moms we are sacrificing many things for the good of our children, including our bodies! Anyway but I think just the fact that I'm not his sole food source for now is exciting! Well he is eating tons of baby food and finger/table scrap type stuff now.

So the last 2 days Ive nursed him 3 times! All day!!!! Now here is the funny part....so in order to get him to like the bottle, I first had to find one he would like (Playtex drop-in system with the brown latex nipples) and then get him to drink apple juice, highly diluted of course! He would not touch formula. So then once he got good at that, I mixed a formula bottle with half water/apple juice! I know Mother of the year award right....but it worked! And he loves it, and is drinking out of a bottle....with formula....seriously amazing! lol For me anyway. I am gradually weaning the apple juice out, don't worry, and I think I will continue to nurse at least in the morning and at night, and maybe even a time or two during the day, so I don't explode! But seriously its a MIRACLE :)

Some People!!

Reece with her Grandma Su this summer

Ok so.... I took the kids to Mc Donalds Friday as I promised for like a week. A friend of mine came with and her little girl who is almost 3. The kids were having a great time, playing for about an hour. At a table close by was an older lady, I'm guessing in her 70's with her 2 grand or great grand Children, I'm also guessing 3ish and 2ish. Anyway after we had been there for an hour or so, she (old lady) came out of the bathroom with her two grandchildren and I guess found Reece at their table, doing who knows what..... anyway she came out of the bathroom and I'm not kidding SCREAMED " GET AWAY FROM OUR TABLE"! Seriously Screamed it!!!! At Reece... my 3 year old! My friend and I were stunned as was everyone else there! Reece of course started to cry, and ran to me. I cant even tell you how MAD I was! I guess my mother protection instinct kicked in. So I told Reece that she needed to say sorry, and got up and walked over to there table with her, and she said sorry through her tears, and than I said "Mam, I'm sorry that she was at your table, I didn't know that she was, but that is NO excuse to scream at a 3 yr old!!!! It took everything I had to walk away then, I sooooo could have said sooooo much more! Try not to sink to her level right? Man it was hard! I hope she did feel bad though, is that bad of me? I wanted to say if she talks to her grand kids that way, I would feel really sorry for them! Or a million other things! Anyway we of course rounded up the kids to leave, I was afraid for the kids lives at that point, seriously this lady was a little unstable! OK so I think that Reece may have been messing with their food....and I know If some kid was doing that to ours, it would be a little annoying, but I would have nicely said please don't touch our food, or told their parents, and so on. But REALLY?? Scream at a 3 year old.....It was like she was treating Reece like a pesky fly, screaming and shewing her away from the table....Crazy huh??? Like I said some people... especially people like that make it very hard for me to love one another the way I know I should!

Oh baby Owen!

Oh how I love this baby boy! He is such a cheese! Although he is obsessed with Mom right now, and that doesn't leave me much if any free time, he is such a joy! I had to share this picture, I just LOVE it! :)

Preschool here she comes!

Here is Reece today on her first day of Preschool! She is soooo excited!

Reece and her bestie Peyton! They are so cute together! Reece is little miss take charge and had to show Peyton were she was supposed to put her lunch and backpack, even though Reece only knew this info, less than 5 min before Peyton got there! lol she is too funny! I had to tell her Teachers "make sure she isn't bossy!"

Braeden is in half day kindergarten so I pick him up 2 hours after I drop Reece off. And as I was leaving her school, I told my friend (thinking I just had baby O for the day) "hey you want to go to lunch" So I get in the car, and 1 min later I realize oh crap, I have to get Braeden at 11:20! lol Man its a good thing I remembered! Could you imagine....him waiting for Mom! I'm sure I wouldn't have forgotten but in that 1 min, I was so focused on Reece and picking her up at 2:30....man I'm such a space cadet sometimes!