Handy Woman!!!!

Well, I must say I am ever so pleased with myself. I single handedly installed lights under our cabinets in the kitchen! This may be minor to most, but to me, it is a great accomplishment. I'm finding that I really, really enjoy home improvement! I've found a great site www.be-jane.com and am making a long list of projects to tackle. We went to Home Depot the other day to buy a drill and I tell you what, I was getting a little bit too excited about the power tools. It's no wonder they are called "power" tools! I love it! Anyway, next I'm going to do something about the retro paneling in our den. I may need a new tool....

Now for Corgan news! He went to the audiologist for a hearing test and did very well! He hears perfectly with his hearing aids in and his hearing has not changed at all. We are optimistic that his hearing won't get any worse. I absolutely adore his audiologist. She is such a sweetie.

Oh! A couple of new things Corgan has done:

-Signs book. He loves to be read to and will read to us. His favorite book to read to us is Goldilocks. He does a really deep voice and points to the Papa Bear. What a nut.

-Travis taught him to point his fingers and say "Duuuude!" Cracks me up!

-He went to his first movie in the theater this past weekend! We went as a family to see "Over the Hedge." Cute, cute pic. Corgan didn't fuss or anything, just sat mesmerized during the whole movie! He started jabbering a bit, but didn't get loud or anything.

We have speech therapy tomorrow, followed by Gymboree, followed by ECI. Whew. That's all before noon! I think we're both going to need a nap!

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(this picture cracked me up!!!!)

Pics

Just wanted to post a couple of pics of my cutie patootie! He is getting bigger and bigger every day!

Holy Crap.

Well, I made a huge mistake today. I watched a talk show (first mistake....) that focused on teen girls' "secret lives" and it scared the CRAP outta me. These girls looked like every day, All American, sweet girls that I would let babysit Corgan and they were hooked on major drugs, "pharming" (which is buying over the counter drugs like Nyquil and getting high on them), have multiple (like 40) sex partners, experimenting with bisexuality, posting nude pictures of themselves on the internet, you name it, these girls did it. The sad, sad thing is, the mothers had NO CLUE any of this was going on. Their daughters were getting high when they were TWELVE and they had no freakin clue. Where were the parents?! One of the most consistent things was the girls came from either single parent homes or both parents worked. The parents just weren't involved in their daughter's lives.

My ten year plan used to be to start going to school when my kid(s) were in school, become an RN and work full time. This show got me to thinking. What the heck would I do with my kid(s) when school was out? What about after school? How was I going to be actively involved in their lives? I've decided that my full time job is being a mommy. I want to be there on field trips to the zoo. I want to be a room mother. I want to bake cookies for bake sales and be there for the kid(s) when school is out for the day. How can I do that if I am focusing on a career and making more money?

I still plan to go to school and get my degree, and who knows, maybe eventually I'll work outside the home part time. Who knows. But my first priority is raising my children.

The show also made me realize that kids need a solid foundation to build from. I talked to Travis and we are going to start having family prayer before Corgan goes to bed every night. We are going to continue with Family Home Evening, going to church and are going to start reading the scriptures as a family. Fifteen years down the road I don't want Corgan to be sitting on a couch across from some talk show host, saying his mother was never there for him.

Anyway, I'll get off my soap box. My next blog will be more uplifting. Just had to get this off my chest.....

Wonderful Husband!!!

I have to have one of the most wonderful husbands! Yesterday I was sick as a dog, barfing my guts up (pleasant picture, I'm sure) and Travis stayed home from work to watch Corgan and take care of me. He was fantastic! He let me rest and really took care of me. I think I had food poisoning from some chicken I ate because I feel about a million times better today. Sometimes it takes feeling really really horrible to realize just how great you truly do feel every day.

Today I've been taking it easy. Corgan and I have just hung out this morning, reading books and playing with toys. He's down for a nap now, so I think I'll try and get some rest, too. TTFN!

Good Weekend...

We had a good weekend! I worked in Paris on Thursday and half day Friday, getting home around 6:30 Friday evening. Saturday my parents came down and we went to Michael Tom's 40th birthday party. His whole family was there and Michael made chicken fajitas... mmmm.... Anyways, it was fun. Corgan danced to the music that was playing and ran around with the Michael's dog's pink princess purse. What a goob.

My parents spent the night on Saturday and Corgan would NOT go to sleep. I think he got a hold of someone's Mountain Dew because he didn't get to sleep until 1:30 in the freakin morning. We had to wake him up Sunday morning at 11:30. I think he would have slept in until after noon. Lazy butt.

We had lunch with my parents and the Michaels and just had a nice quiet Sunday. I took a much needed and deserved nap, and then we attacked the garage. I can now park in the garage!!! Woo hoo! Seriously, this is a big deal. It's been SIX months since we've lived here and have had the garage crammed full of all of our crap. Summer is fast approaching and I don't want to put Corgan into a hot car, so having a garage was essential!!!!

Today Corgan and I read books, played with cars, played outside and ran errands. He did so well today with his hearing aides! I was so pleased with him! He wore them for about seven hours total today, which is really phenomenal for him! Tomorrow is ECI day, with Chelle coming to work with him developmentally, Abbey coming to do speech therapy, and Diane as the parent advisor. Should be a full day!

Let's catch up!

It's been a few days since I wrote in my blog., so I have a bit of catching up to do! Life is great! Corgan has a couple of new tihngs on his list of accomplishments....

1. Tantrums. Boy did he have a doozy last night! I was in Paris working for my dad and was gone all day at the clinic. Corgan stayed home with Nana, which he loved, but after dinner Mom and I went to Walmart and left him home with Grandpa. Boy was he ticked that I left. Dad said he was grumpy the whole time we were gone. When I got home, he started crying and really got himself worked up to the point where he flung himself into a door and head butted me, busting my lip. Not good. We're going to have to nip that in the bud. My mom took him from me because she could tell I was pretty much at the end of my rope and he calmed down after a few minutes. Mind you, this whole thing lasted a bit over an hour. Oh boy. Is this what I have to look forward to?!

2. He points to his eyes and nose now and names them! Too cute!!!!

3. He LOVE LOVE LOVES to say, "uh oh".

4. He has this really cute angry face (I think he got it from me) where he draws his eyebrows together. Dang cute.

5. He shrugs his shoulders like, "I dunno."

6. He's cuter today than he was yesterday and I'm guessing he'll be even cuter tomorrow....



I really love being a mom. Some days are pretty crappy, but you just roll with it. They grow up too fast....

Something wrong with my Blog...

Something was screwy with my blog so I missed a couple of days.... It wouldn't publish what I'd written and was just all jacked up. But alas! Now we are back in business! I'll get back up to speed...