Funny Story

I have to post this because it is hilarious and so worth remembering. We went to an engagement party last night for Kyle's cousin Jennifer and her fiance Kwasi. The house had a waterfall fountain out front and on the deck an in ground hot tub that they had open with little duckies floating around. From the deck you can look out over a lake. Early in the party it was mentioned that we could take all the kids on a walk around the lake to get out lots of energy and I asked how we were going to keep the kids out of the lake. Well the walk never happened. However later I hear Andrew crying and went to see what was going on and the boy was soaking wet. Apparently he was trying to play with the ducks in the hot tub and fell in. Of course he was pulled right out, no harm done. Once we got him dry and in new clothes all was fine. I just thought of course it would be my kid to fall in. Quite comical. Next time I won't joke about falling in the lake.

Kyle Update

Well I know many of you are wondering what is going on with Kyle and his work situation. We appreciate everyone's concern and love for our family. He still has not found a job but has had a couple of good interviews. Hopefully something will come through soon. It has been nice having him around the last few weeks. We have had a lot of good family time. The boys have really enjoyed the extra daddy time too. Next week back to the grind. I head back to work, the boys head back to day care, and Kyle hits the job hunt even harder. I will let you all know when something comes up.

Andrew-ism's

So I thought I should document some of the cute things that Andrew says so we can always remember them.

Opipics = Olympics
awful = waffle
no no = oatmeal
beisball = baseball
emonade = lemonade
dapple juice = used to describe all juice other than lemonade
acop = Jacob
lub you = love you
nope (self explanatory)


I am sure there are more but this all I can come up with at the moment. Of course he has his own little accent on most words. But he has really been getting better speech since he has stopped using the binky.

Ridiculous!

OK, I am so ANGRY right now. Kyle just called and said he had been let go from his job. Last I posted about this situation things had been going so much better. I really thought everything was going to be ok. But apparently not. This whole thing has been a joke. He was hired into a small company which merged to a corporation about a month after he started. Ever since then it has been a joke. It is an assisted living facility. Kyle got into it because he cares about people but the corp. only cares about money and the bottom line. There is so much I could say about this but I can't get it all out. AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I am so frustrated.

Bye Bye Binky

Well we finally made the leap to say bye bye to the binky. I borrowed an idea from Meredith because I thought it was really cute. We spent this weekend at Disneyland. There is a Build A Bear on the Disney Walk. So at the end of the trip we made one last stop. We took Andrew to Build a Bear. We had been talking about how he was too big for a binky and that we were going to make a binky bear and put his binky in the bears tummy. He had seemed excited about it and would even tell people he what he was going to do. Well we knew that even though he was willing to do it didn't mean it was going to be easy once the binky was gone. Here is a photo walk of the experience.
In the car enjoy the end of the binky.

Andrew is stepping on the pedal to stuff his bear.

Putting the binky in his bears tummy.

Hugging his new bear.

Carrying the bear back to the car. He really liked that box.

Looks great doesn't it. So smooth and a happy toddler. Ha Ha Ha. We wish. The first breakdown happened while we were in line paying for this bear. But we got him calmed down and headed out. It is 1 1/2 hours to drive back to our house from Disneyland. He cried, screamed, threw a fit, and was thrashing around in his car seat for about 50 minutes of that before he finally wore himself out and went to sleep. It was awful. I even cried with him some and of course questioned if what we were doing was the right thing and if I was being a terrible mother.

He slept the rest of the way home and transferred inside to finish his nap. When he woke up the "fun" began again. Big time fit. We finally got him calmed down and distracted doing something else. He did well the rest of the day. Then bed time. It was a rough night. He cried for his binky for a long time before finally going to sleep. Then he woke up 2 different times just bawling for his binky and was really hard to console. He went to day care yesterday and other than being tired did great. Let me follow up by saying he never uses a binky at day care, not even for naps. He was really only using at home to sleep. That is why the nights are the worst.

Well last night (night 2) was a little better. He only woke up once crying for his binky. Luckily he has not tried to rip open the bear. He has asked us to get the binky out but we keep saying we can't it all gone. So things are getting better. Hopefully they will keep going in the right direction. This was something we had to do before I head back to work. We know he is capable of being binky free but it is also his only security object. Why does parenthood have to be so difficult?

Home Sweet Home

Well after the kids and I being away from home 3 of the last 4 weeks we are finally back. That was way to much traveling to do all at once. We were all so exhausted and cranky. It is good to be back with Kyle and in familiar surroundings for the kids. We have decided to stay put. Kyle's job all of a sudden likes him again, we'll see how long that lasts, and moving so quickly would be a pain. Plus who wants to keep paying for a great house that they aren't living in while trying to live with others. Just doesn't make sense right now. I will post pictures and give more details about all our trips when I have more time.

Finally

Well the air was finally fixed on Saturday. Unbelievable! But at least it is finally working again and we can function.

In other news life is insane and full of twists and turns. Things are not going so great at Kyle's job and he probably won't have it much longer. Long story. Anyway, we are just trying to figure out if we should even stay in this awful desert that we both hate or just bail and head north back to my family. It is very tempting but it is so hard to leave a school when I just got tenure. Plus we would have to find someone to live with because there is no way we would be able to sell our house. So we would still be paying for it. It is hard to give up your own living space and change everything. So who knows what will happen. We are both applying for jobs up north and Kyle is looking for work here too. So only time will tell. Hopefully we will figure it out soon. It is no fun having your whole world turned upside down and not knowing what is coming next. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! That pretty much sums up how I am feeling right now.