Poop Watch 2007

Kelsey has learned how to shake her head no! It's so cute! She does it to copy you and it's her new dance move!!!! Hilarious! She also did a "hands in the air like you don't care" dance in the car today for most of a Pink Floyd song. So funny! I can't believe Kelsey will be one next week! She is still so little - yet getting so big! No word on first steps . . . I will of course post that!!!

Poop Watch 2007:
We are still waiting for Poop #5 so we can get "Harvey" the train (see previous blog entry "Dirty Jobs" with the picture of the poo-poo chart). Connor has started pooping during naptime, so it's hard to catch him to go to the bathroom. (BTW, we do put a diaper on him for bed!!!) He went pee-pee standing up for the first time on Saturday. Dan was so proud and thought that deserved the final sticker. Men... :-)

Fire Truck

You know how kids, boys especially LOVE fire trucks. . . well we were searching for videos of fire trucks on You Tube for Connor to see and we came across this one!

Book Release Impending!!!

I just finished re-reading book 5. I finished it 2 days before the movie came out, which gave me a bit of a biased point of view. I kept pointing out to Dan when things were different between the book and movie.

I am going to re-read book 6 now and hope to be done by the release time. Here's a countdown!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

We went and saw The Order of the Phoenix today. It was really, REALLY good. Very cool camera angles and up to date stuff like that. Of course, there were many changes in the story line and some stuff was left out. But the book is the longest book in the world, second only to the Bible. Here's a

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Not a good way to get a "Colon Cleansin'"

Check out this headline!

Drain Sucks out Girl's Intestines

Not a good situation in any circle! Makes you want to cross your legs. Also makes you wonder what in the heck the girl was doing sitting on a freaking drain at the bottom of the pool! And for long enough to suck out her intestines????? Parents-hello??? Watch the child in the pool!!!!

"Dirty" Jobs

Well, It's day five of Sore Throat 07. It's not a good campaign. I think the nasal irrigation has taken my normal moisture away and I have the driest throat EVER. So, I now sound sexy, or manish, depending on what you think is sexy.

Connor went poo-poo in the potty again last night, so we started the poo-poo chart on the fridge. 5 Stickers and he can get Harvey!!! What's amazing is when he just disappears and then comes out of the bathroom with the good news.

Kelsey has started standing up in her crib. The problem is that she can't figure out how to sit back down for some reason and stands there SCREAMING her head off and biting the crib rail. She gets hysterical. It's really bad. We have tried to teach her how to slide her hands down the rail to sit back down, but she has not gotten the hang of it. What I don't understand is that babies just fall onto their butts all the time when they are first learning to stand or walk. But in the crib-where it's padded-it somehow becomes impossible to just sit back down???? Weird.

Trebs mentioned that she is currently watching The Tudors. Great show-if you missed it, rent it when it comes out. Speaking of . . . Did you see the season finale? The opening scene of the season finale was, for lack of a better word, grody! To put it as nicely as I can, in the opening scene King Henry is standing there pleasuring himself while a mae servant is kneeling in front of him with a cloth to catch the . . . well, you get the idea. Sounds like a new episode of ˆDirty jobsˆ. Ha ha ha!

If it burns, it's working?

I tried the "nasal irrigation" this morning (see post below). I think my nose was too stuffed up to snort the salt water. I got a little bit all the way up to my nasal cavity, but no burning. Hmmmmmm. . . Not enough salt in my mixture? Didn't snort enough? High tolerance for pain? Just a dumb thing the P.A. made me do thinking it was hilarious and laughing behind my back as I left the doc's office?

New Job :-(

Yes, I know, it's summer . . . but we must pay for our bills. So, I have gotten a summer job at Lane Bryant, which is about 1 mile from our house. I interviewed yesterday and had training today. It was pretty boring, filling out forms and watching videos on "Shrink" (which everyone seems to know is loos prevention, but being out of the retail market for over 10 years, I had no clue!).

One funny thing was when we had to go out into the store and create an outfit to certain parameters, then come back and talk about it. Afterwards, we had to return the items to the floor. I was waiting for this older lady to finish getting something off the rack, so I asked if I could help her. Once I untangled the shirt from the hanger she said, "OK Now I need some white pants with elastic waist." Which is hilarious in and of itself because that is to polyester-1970's and sooooo old lady! So I told her we didn't have any with elastic waists but I could find another pair for her. She wanted to sit down, and as she did she asked for the pants and for me to pick out 3 more tops for her that would go with white or black pants. What's even funnier is she had no idea what size she was and wanted me to figure it out!!!! Luckily the store manager heard all of this and asked some one to take over for me so I could go back to my training! SO funny! I guess I just jumped in with both feet!

On a bad note, I came down with a sore throat about 15 minutes before my interview yesterday and feel awful today. I got drugs though and hopefully those will kick in ASAP! Another funny (but not ha ha) note, the doctor wants me to do "nasal irrigations" to loosen up the PND (Post Nasal Drip). DISGUSTING!!! Snorting salk water-eeeewww (which she warned me will burn). Why would I take this advice!?!?!?!? I'll keep you updated on whether or not I do this and if it is a successful treatment! Hee hee!

"School's Out For Summer!"

Yeah!!! I can't believe we are finally done! I shouldn't say finally since I was on maternity leave until December 4, but still . . . Yeah! It's done. Despite the fact that this year has been extremely trying with one particular class, they were actually pretty good today. I would say that this was a good last day. Most off the time I am so annoyed by the end of the day that I don't even care that they are leaving.

Just a few reminders: Visit my Avon Walk page and donate if you can (even small amounts-it all adds up!). http://www.avonwalk.org Click donate and search for me by name. Or send a donation to PO Box 7637, La Verne, CA 91750

Also: Visit the

Pray for Rod Cathey

blog. And please, PRAY!


A few headlines from around the country that I found funny:

1) Honey, the baby's spacewalking
“Baby monitor picks up NASA's live shuttle video.” Hilarious! Luckily the mom can still keep an eye on the baby with the other channel. Here’s the whole story:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/14/baby.monitor.space.ap/index.html


2) Mr. Mayor: Shut up and grow up
Oh this is even funnier! There is some kind of editorial on how poorly “Villareconquista” is handling his divorce on the LA Times website. They don’t go into much detail, because Villaraigosa is asking people to give them privacy, but I love that the LA Times is actually headlining this title! And just when I thought they were too liberal . . . maybe the pendulum is swinging the other way???
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez14jun14,0,6964079.column?coll=la-home-local

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Another BIG DAY!!!!!

Kelsey started crawling today!!!! Yea!

Guess what made her start moving . . . the vacuum!!!! So funny! She wanted to touch the vacuum bad enough and finally went for it. Just a couple of slow "steps", but she is on the way!!! Hooray!

BIG BIG DAY!!!

We have been working on potty training and Connor has gotten pretty good and going pee pee in the potty. He has even started telling us when he has to go. So, tonight he went POO-POO in the potty for the first time!!!!!! YEAH!! He was in the bath and he grabbed his bottom and I asked him if he had to go. He said no, but then a few minutes later he suddenly stood up and said "I have to go poo poo!" So he got out and went in the potty!

His reward was to go get "Harvey" (a crane-train from the Thomas the Train set). BTW, there is an emphasis on the 'h' and the 'r' sounds when he says it. It's hilarious! When we went to Target they were out of Harvey's so we got a Transformer instead. I think Dan was more excited than Connor (and Connor was pretty excited).

Tragedy

Unfortunately a tragedy has occurred. Last night some students from my school were involved in a car accident. One 8th grade bot was killed, another 8th grade boy is in critical condition and the driver (who is the injured boy's 17 year old brother) was also killed. It has been a horrible and emotional day for all. I briefly had one of the boys in 6th grade, but remember him as being a really nice kid and a good student. He will be missed.

My love-hate relationship with May

I have a love-hate relationship with May. I love the season finales of my shows, and the weeks leading up to it, but that means they are over for a while.

What an awesome episode of Heroes on Monday night! So cool that the girl that Matt saved is the "tracking device". I never saw that coming. I never thought it would be a person at all. Is D.L. really dead? What is Grandma Rose's power? More importantly, what is Sulu's (George Tekai plays Hiro's father) power? I personally think that Claire's Dad will die on the finale. I saw an interview with Hayden (Claire) where she said she must choose between something she loves and everyone else. So, that's what my money is on. I can't wait for the finale next week, which is supposed to be so awesome, but then that means no hero for a few months! :-( But, there is supposed to be a summer show where new "Heroes" are introduced and the audience gets to vote who will be on the show in the fall. FUN!

Can't wait for one of my other faves tonight! LOST!!! (Then tomorrow, everyone's favorite-Grey's Anatomy!!!! Yea!!!!)

for you mommy

Funniest thing happened yesterday!

Back story: We are potty training and Connor has gone pee-pee in the potty for everyone but me. He was also told he would get a train he wants if he goes poo-poo in the potty at home.

So, I was about to give Connor his bath last night and he was farting. So, I asked him if he needed to go poo-poo. He said no but I sat him on the pot anyway. He pushed and pushed and farted 3 or 4 times, then said, "that was for you Mommy". And he was completely serious! I almost died trying not to laugh!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!