tonight's the night....

to find a cure!!

tonight i will be walking in the ACS Relay for Life! woohoo! i'm pretty proud of myself, i just joined my team Aug 1st or so, and in 3 weeks i received $195 in donations. holla! plus at our tent, i am going to be doing face painting..not dinky little face painting on the kids cheek, but painting full-face animals on the kiddos. i was gonna practice on bubba but that didn't work out. he took off running! it might be a couple days before i update again, and add pics. relay is all night tonight, then i have my partylite party tomorrow afternoon. i'm gonna be exhausted but it's going to be totally worth it.

as for the boys, not too much new has happened. yesterday bubba took a 3.5hour nap...not sure what that was all about but i wish he'd do it more often! i got so much accomplished in that time. pooks slept for 2 hours, during bubbas nap, so it worked out well. i'm assuming bubba's sleep schedule is all jacked up because of his teething...he's been waking up at night just fussing. poor kid.

well, someone is covered in peaches so i gotta go. :)

Ah ha!

i've had an 'ah ha!' moment...

my last post i commented on how bubba is getting so fussy and having temper tantrums, well i figured out why: both bottom molars have cut through the gum line. OUCH! i should have figured this out, he doesn't want to eat as much either. i feel bad for the little guy, so now that i know, when he is fussy i've been giving him some tylenol and that seems to help.

thats all for now, its too late! i know, i'm slacking as a blogger but these kiddos are wearing me out! ;)

Busy, Long Weekend...

we had a very busy end of the week! B had to go out of town for work on Thurs and we decided to all go. free stay in the Hyatt regency on the river, why not go?? it was the pooks' first time staying the night somewhere other than at home and first time in a hotel. it was a first for both of them going swimming, and bubba thought that he was hot stuff sleeping in the middle of the king size bed with mom and dad. B's trip down there turned even more exciting when he bought a motorcycle. he's been wanting one since he got back from iraq, and since he resigned with the reserves, he used part of the bonus to buy his dream bike. its a Honda Shadow 750---a cruiser bike not a 'crotch rocket'. its nice. bubba is scared to death of it. it bawls every time B get on it/rides it. poor kid.


as far as the boys, they are both doing great. bubba is starting to throw more temper tantrums, which i guess is to be expected. pooks is really starting to talk, smile, giggle and squeal. they both did super in the long car ride, they even slept the entire way home!

well, here are some pics from this weekend.

*the boys are ready to go swimming!*


*won't bubba love this pic when he's older?*

This morning's photo shoot...

i've been trying to get some really good pics of the boys, especially pooks since he's almost three months old. i can't believe that he's already 3 months old! but i decided rather than paying sears or walmart to take 'OK' pictures, i could take some cute ones at home. this morning Elmo was our prop, the boys both have Elmo slippers, and we have 2 Elmo 'dolls', so it seemed perfect. but apparently bubba is a little protective of his elmos cause we got 2 pics that were cute before he yanked elmo away from pooks, then hit pooks in the head with the other elmo! after that, it all went downhill. so here are the pics of the boys together.

this one is my favorite! the looks on both of their faces is priceless...love it!


this one is 'ok' but i mostly like it because of the comparison of the boys' sizes. they are 13.5 months apart but pooks is already in size 3 diapers, bubba is in size 4! i haven't had pooks weighed recently but i'm sure he's almost 15lbs and bubba weighs 22lbs. pooks is catching up fast!

here is one of pooks looking ADORABLE! he's refusing to smile but still so cute!

here he is giving elmo a hug. seconds later, bubba swept elmo away and pooks started screaming...end of photo shoot!

wow! that lasted long...

so i am no longer a working girl! i know i know, i was employed for a whopping 11 days, working a total of 8 shifts but i just couldn't do it.

i won't even get into all the mgmt/schedule crap that was an issue. the main problem was i worked 5-6 hours without breastfeeding or pumping and my milk supply was dropping--fast! ultimately breastfeeding is more important. i'm not going to give pooks formula because my supply dried up, because i was working; then use my paycheck to buy the formula i wouldn't even need if i wasn't working. hypothetically, if i had continued working i would have ended up switching pooks to formula, which would cost a total of almost $165/month. i only make a little over $500. So is it worth $300 a month to be away from the boys and B 5 nights a week? i think not. so not only did i quit but i didn't give a two weeks notice either. that would kinda defeat the purpose of keeping my milk supply up, if i let it dry up the next 2 weeks.

oh well. i'll enjoy giving the boys baths, going on walks, and actually seeing my hubby for more than 5 mins a day!