Bunch of things.

one.
Creighton had his first session with his speech therapist this morning. It was completely different than Cayden's were. But we're in different school districts since we bought our house. But this therapist, Katie, is great. She's very knowledgeable and full of ideas. From what I described from a typical day, she was able to pinpoint Creighton exactly. He loves to wrestle and be hugged. Katie says some kids crave the compressions on their bodies. Like squeezing. And I learned that Creighton uses a lot of cues I missed that he likes certain games or squeezes.

All this info came on handy not even 20 minutes later. Creighton got super cranky. All my usual helps weren't helping. He's gotten this way before and I'd just give him a bottle. This time I laid him on his back and started at his shoulders, giving somewhat hard squeezes and worked my way down. By the time I got to his ankles he was putting his feet in my hands to keep going. I continued to do this. Amazingly my busy body baby just laid there and got more and more relaxed. It was remarkable to see the change.

two.
Cayden is an attention hog when Creighton is getting it all. But I love him. He is so smart. And he just played me the first part of Twinkle Twinkle little Star on the xylophone! Crazy. I didn't teach him either. Maybe Adam played it for him. But he's a genius! He even tells me so! ;)

three.
I am 25. Weird. It sounds so old. I still feel 18 or 19 most days. But I've been married almost 5 1/2 years. I have a 4 yr old and an almost 2 yr old. Crazy!! And I'm a homeowner!! I'm shocked at my life sometimes! I'm so very happy with my life. There's tons of stress and things that go wrong but I love it. No matter what I have my family!! :)

four.
Adam is my rock star!! :) he made my birthday amazing. He has made our life together amazing!! I'm so lucky. He has made me feel pretty and worth it. He has made me confident. He is a great father!

It's my Birfday week!

In a perfect world I'd have the week off! Or even my actual birthday. But with my foot and having so many days off, I just simply forgot to ask for it off.

But I'm excited!!

The plan is to have Adam's mother come over with the crazies. We will go to lunch, get a massage and adjustment and then go shopping! I'm excited to have time with Adam alone. He has promised to make it special!

I think I feel like my birthday should be special because of how I grew up.

Every birthday morning I'd wake up to signs just for me all over the place. Some times when I was in elementary  school, my mom would get me out of school and take me to lunch and then shopping. I have very treasured memories of my birthdays. Except my 18th.... but I won't go there. Family is the only thing you can count on!!

My family Always made each birthday kid feel extra special! I have passed on some of the traditions to my kids. I just LOVE birthdays!!

Not feeling myself.

So lately I've been not feeling myself. I got what I thought at the time was a stomach bug on Sunday night. I couldn't sleep I was so nauseous and felt like running to the bathroom every five minutes. (Sorry) I was very feverish, so much that having anything rub against my skin would be painful. This lasted all of Monday too. Tuesday I woke up feeling almost 100% better.

I was excited to finally not feel chained to the bed.

Tuesday night came and I went to work. Started off good. Then by ten, I was feeling very feverish again. And then the nauseousness set in. And I was feeling the need to run to the bathroom. Not fun. Got off early due to low volume of mail.

Wednesday came and with sleep behind me I felt better. But I wasn't hungry. Food just sounded, smelled and tasted gross. But I got through the day and night. The day was far better than Monday.

Thursday, I woke up feeling about the same. Breakfast wasn't eaten. Nothing sounded good enough. I felt sick just thinking about food. But we set off to do groceries and my foot appointment.

At Costco I was suddenly STARVING!  So I got a slice of pizza. And if you don't know it is my favorite food of all time. It has even caused a fight between Adam and me.

It was amazing on an empty stomach. I wasn't nauseous anymore.
Go to dinner. Could barely eat it.

I am an eater. A picky one but obviously an eater. I wouldn't be the size I am by not eating.

So I'm confused. I'm barely eating. And I don't know why I'm feeling so sick. My body is not my friend right now. Hoping this goes away before my birfday! Not cool to feel this way on your birthday! :)

Dave Ramsey and such.

we've decided to get our financial crap together!!

so we got Dave Ramsey's book on CD and Adam's been listening to it on the way to work and back.

It has given us hope. And I'm excited to start using his ideas to help us become debt free and financially independent.  And I've come to terms that I'm going to need to work for longer if we want to get out of debt faster so that we don't have ANY debt when I quit. I don't want to quit and then go "oh crap" and have to go back. And to be able to have left over money to be able to shop. I mean what? haha

Fun fact for ya.... I just realized that the number months Adam and I were born in are the number days of the boys' birthdays.  Adam born in 09 (Sept) and cayden was born on Oct 9th.  I was born in Feb- 02 and Creighton was born on the 2nd of June. So cool huh? Maybe not but I have a big thing about numbers.

I need to do more pictures. Next time :)