~Oops, I did it Again~

I don't have much time this morning.

It is a busy busy day at work this morning.  Just two of us in the office today, doing the work of 4.

So, I wanted to take a mini-break and stop in and say hello.

About the title.

I let Zachary sleep in bed again with us last night.

I couldn't help it... And really, I like sleeping with my babies so I didn't mind.  I just was so worn out yesterday that when he got up and fussed and didn't want to go back to sleep in his bed, that I took him to bed.

The only thing is, is that when he sleeps in bed I get a little worried that he might fall off of the bed or will get squished.  So, what I do is basically sleep with my arm under his neck and around him.  Cradle him of sorts.

Well, my shoulders are so jacked up from swimming and water polo that I wake up in extreme pain!  They either "yell" at me or they fall asleep and then "yell" at me after.  Can you say Ouch?

So, Oops I did it again.  I let my little baby boy sleep with me :)

Oh well...

Rowan's gymnastics went really well last night.  My Dad and I both went... So you know she was showing off a little bit.  She loves that class... And I can't believe how much she is excelling.  I look at the "big girls" and hope that she'll enjoy it so much that she'll want to continue and be able to do the things that those girls are doing.  Oh, they amaze me!

Tonight is dance.  Woo Hoo.  She knows it too.  Its funny, we'll go to gym and she'll say something to the fact that she is going "to gym tonight and then dance tomorrow".  Funny stuff she is! 

I just hope they do some more stuff in class today.  I hate to see Rowan looking bored out there... I swear I'm afraid that she'll just come out and say to one of the kids not behaving "Come on.  Get with it!!"

Speaking of Rowan and coming out and doing something...

I was on my way home from work yesterday when I got a call from Derek.  I just barely answer the phone and he informs me that "your daughter gave me a bloody nose".  I was shocked!  Come to find out, he was teaching her one of those UFC moves where the person grabs the other person behind their head and then proceeds to shove the head into their knee.  Well, I guess she was able to do it before he could block her and she got him good enough to make his nose bleed.

I told him that is what he gets for teaching her those things :)  But really, I don't mind that she is learning this stuff... For self-protection and all... But I just don't want her to haul off and beat up some kid later down the road in school because they pissed her off.  I guess we'll just have to keep instilling in her that it is only for protection and for playing with Daddy!

And that ladies and gentlemen is all I've got!!!

Hope each and every one of you has a wonderful Tuesday... Mine is going to be (as if it isn't already!!) pretty darn busy!!

::Toodles::
~Jennifer~

~Me No Likey Mondays~

Me no wanna be here today...

Me no likey Mondays at all.

But because I have to be here, I thought I'd share some pictures with you guys.

The first are of Zach doing some naked crawling.  You can't see anything, but I did try to get a booty shot.  I wasn't able to because my battery was dying, but my mom did.  I'll have to have her send it my way when she uploads it...
  
  
Can you see his dirty face?  He had enjoyed Spring Vegetable Medley with Oatmeal for dinner. 

Zach figured out he can really crawl and get places yesterday.  Mainly that is why I was posting these pictures.  He was all over the house yesterday.  Pulling up on things and following his sister around.  It was too cute!

He is also feeling much better.  He has gotten his appeatite back and is sleeping a lot better too.  The only thing is is that he is really gassy.  Like bad!!  I have been giving him baby gas meds, but thats about all I can do.

And here are the promised pictures of Rowan from Dance Class.  My daughter is such a ham, as you all know, so getting her to take her picture wasn't too hard :)
                 
                               Doing some posing at our house... 
                  
                              Where she gets it, I don't know...
  
                 At the dance studio... Being a silly-billy little girl...
                   
                                           My Little Ballerina Girl...

Well, there are the pictures.  I still haven't tried to get pictures of her in the class, I'm not sure if they'll come out.  But I do hope to maybe sneak in next class- if the teachers let me- to take some!

So my Sunday was nice and quiet... Just how I like them.  We spent part of the day watching Football- of course- and then just relaxing.

Rowan went with my parents to see their house and how fair along it is... So, for a while it was just Zachary and I (Derek was napping).  So he and I went into town to pick up his heart meds.  Of course they didn't give me the big bottle like I requested and now I'll have to go back in a week or so and get it refilled again!  Oh well.  The lady working there told me to call next time and ask for her and she'll see what she can do... Good thing too.  It gets annoying going there so many times a month.  I'm suprised they don't know me by name by now ;)

After my parents and Rowan got home yesterday, Rowan and I went outside and washed our PT.  It was so so so dirty.  I drive in the country to work and we only live about a block from theorchards-where they are harvesting- so my car was nasty.

Rowan quit about a quarter way into it... lol.  She just wanted to play with the water hose.  Just like any three year old I suppose :) 

We also got some suprising news yesterday from my brother and his fiance about their wedding.  See, they were originally planning on getting married in a Catholic Church (she is catholic) and having a reception some where in the Bay Area.  Well, they called yesterday to inform us that they will be now getting married in HAWAII!!!!

So I guess we will have to start saving now for the trip there.  But hey, what a good excuse to go to Hawaii though, huh?  I have been to Hawaii for my high school graduation trip, but the rest of my family hasn't.  Oh I can't wait... I just hope they don't go and change their mind though!  I wanna go to Hawaii!!

Well I need to run.

I hope everyone has a great Monday... I know I will.  Rowan has gym and mom is making a Yummy Dinner tonight :)

::Loves and Hugs::
~Pickles~

~I'm Done~

Ding.

There went the timer.

I'm officially done.

This goose is cooked, let me tell you.

I even had about an hour nap on the couch today but I could so go to sleep right now.

I guess all the stress and the lack of sleep from the last few days is really kicking me in the arse.

Oh well.  I guess that all comes with being a Mommy, right?

Right.

So no more complaining, okay?

Well, shite, maybe some later down the road, but no more today :D

Today was actually good.

My nieces were on their best behaviors and we had a good time.  We spent a good hour outside playing and just enjoying the lovely weather.

Then once Miss Rowan started to misbehave- yes, she gets awful when she is tired- she went to take a nap.

That is when the rest of us crashed out on the couches!

Ah, bliss I tell you.

The bliss lasted a good hour until my damn dogs decided that they'd bark to the door bell ringing... the door bell that was ringing ON THE TV!!!!  Ugh, Crazy Mutts I tell you!!

After a while, we all loaded up into the car and I had to take my oldest niece to her Youth Football game, where she is a cheerleader.  The silly thing wanted me to take her at 5pm when she didn't have to be there until 715!!  She has found that she likes boys :)  She is too cute... Much older than her 13 years, I swear.

Once we dropped her off, the kiddos (Rowan, Zach and my other niece Jess) went to Target...

Goodness, do I love that place.

I didn't have to get anything, but I wanted to waste some time and obviously some money... lol... So we went.

We ended up walking out with a Giant Jack-o-Lantern, a bag of Candy Corn and Peanut Butter M & M's, a book for my niece and one for me (Janet Evanovich's "One for the Money") , a movie for Ro ("Alice in Wonderland") and a movie for Derek and me ("Family Guy"), three pairs of slippers- two for me ($5.99 each what a steal!!) and one for Rowan, and then two puzzles for my puzzle loving daughter!!

Am I crazy or what?  I didn't need anything in Target and I came out with all of that!!!

Shopping at Target always makes me feel better though... I walk out with a smile each and every time!!

haha, I'm such a goof.

Dinner was El Pollo Loco for me and McDonalds for the girls.  I really enjoy their salads from there.  Very tasty and pretty healthy.

Derek should be home soon.

He had to go to a Stanislaus County Wide SWAT dinner.  He wasn't too keen on going, but because the Sgt had bought tickets and pretty much told him he was going, he went.

Thankfully he didn't want me to go... Those things are so boring and the wives of the other guys from the other SWAT teams are so weird.  Two years ago we went to a dinner and the wives from another SWAT team were calling themselves and each other "SWAT Bitches".  Um, yeah.  Weird huh?

Hey, I'm VERY VERY proud to be the wife of a police officer... But I will NEVER refer to myself as a SWAT Bitch.  Come on now... 

SO anyways, he should be home soon.  And it will be nice having him here.

Tonight I hope to get Zach to sleep in his crib.  He is doing so much better that I want to get him back in there before he gets too used to being in our bed.

Derek has a hard time sleeping when he is in there... He feels like he is going to squish him.  And truthfully, I'm afraid he will too :)  Derek sleeps like a rock and sleeps all over the bed... Shoot, half the time he sleeps on me and doesn't realize it!

Zach still doesn't have too much of an urge for food.  He has had maybe a total of 3 bottles today... When he usually has one every 4-5 hours.  But he did have some Apple Sweet Potato mixed with Oatmeal at lunch... So, I guess he is okay.  He has had plenty of Poopy Diapers (ewww!) and pee diapers... So I know he is getting plenty of fluids.

I just can't wait until he is 100% back to normal... I'd say we are a good 80-85%... But 100% is just around the corner, I know it!!

Well, I think I am going to go watch "Alice in Wonderland" with Rowan, even though I'm not too hot on the movie.  There is just something weird about it :)

Plus, I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me ramble on!!

Have a great evening and see you all soon...

::Hugs::
~Pickle Jenn~

~Stopping in Real Quick Like~

Okay guys.  Just to let you know, Zachary is doing MUCH better.  He is almost back to his good ol' self if I do say so...

Last night he was able to keep down 2 ounces of formula plus the juic/pedialite combo.  And when he woke up at 2 this morning, he was starving!!

I gave him 4 ounces of formula and I crossed my fingers :)

He did great.  Nothing came up.

He even slept in until 745 this morning!!  Can you say Woo Hoo??

Just a bit ago, he downed almost 6 ounces and really seemed to enjoy it.  Now he is playing on the floor with his sister... Laughing and what not.  Actually trying to pull himself up on the coffee table :X

Because he is in such a great mood, I am able to leave him and get some things done!!  I've already started a load of laundry and am picking up the house now.

Gotta get the house in some order before my nieces (Sis 13 and Jess 10) get here later this morning...

But I really wanted to thank everyone for the well wishes...

I gotta run now.

Have a great Saturday...

Love to all...
~Pickles~

~Rambling Friday~

You would think because it is Friday, I'd be all excited and have a bunch of stuff to tell you all.

Well, I don't.  Sorry to disappoint you :)

Zachary's Well Baby Check Up went pretty well yesterday afternoon.  He is still weighing in at a good 19lbs and is almost 28 inches long.  The doctor said that his Loosie Goosies were more than likely caused by the antibiotics and because his ears aren't still cleared, she gave him another prescription.  This time for Zithromax (sp?).

She seemed very impressed by how well he is.  Him crawling and having a tooth with another one on the way, she seemed very happy with his progress.

He took his shots like a champ.  Thankfully Rowan was there to distract him after they happened... She made him laugh :)

Unfortunetly, that is where the happiness ends.

A few hours after we were home from the appointment, my mom was giving Zach a bottle of juice.  Well, he didn't seem too interested in it, but was taking sips.  Not 5 mins after he had stopped drinking from the bottle, he threw up.

I really didn't think too much about it.  In fact, I thought of it as more of spitting up than throwing up.  But I was proven wrong because not more than an hour or so later, after a few ounces from a formula bottle, he really threw up.

On me.

All over.

Nice huh??

He also was really lathargic and not acting like himself.  And I'm sure you can guess that I went into panic mode... Oh well.  I don't care. 

He was throwing up and if he couldn't keep him meds down that he had to take later in the evening, he'd have to go to the hospital to get them through an IV.

So, I call the Emergency Number for his doctors office and put in a request for the doctor on call to call us back.  Ironic thing is, his doctor was the doctor on call :)

She called back not 20 mins later and I told her what was up.  She said that more than likely him throwing up had nothing to do with the shots.  That he had probably caught a bug or something.

I told her that I was worried about him and keeping his heart meds down.  She said to not even give him the new antibiotics and to give him fluids via 'eye dropper' every few minutes.  That the main thing was to make sure that he kept his heart meds down.

So, my mom and I gave him apple juice (all I had) every few minutes with an eye dropper and then when it came time to give him his meds, we did it slowly.... Real slowly.

We took about 45 minutes to give him 1.8cc.  We weren't going to take a chance of him throwing it up... And thankfully he didn't.

After that, we went to bed.  He slept really well too until 330 in the morning.  He of course, still having some of the runs, pooped his diaper.  So after I changed him, I gave him some apple juice via dropper.  Well, he was taking to it like he hadn't eaten in a while- which he hadn't- so I thought I'd make him a small bottle.

I made him a 4 ounce bottle and he downed it.  He went to sleep right after and I thought he would be fine.  There I go thinking again...

When Derek got home at 430 that morning, he threw up...

All over the bed.

Thankfully I had a towel down.

Smart move Jenn :)

SO there went that idea that he was doing better.

Okay, to make a long story a little bit shorter... (I know you are glad!!)

He seems to be doing better now.

All morning and afternoon, he was getting apple juice and pedialite by the dropper.  He must of had a good 4-6 ounces.  After our nap (YES!! I got another Nap!!!) I was able to give him his medicine and he kept it down.

So I because he hadn't thrown up all today, I gave him 2 ounces of formula just a little while ago... Maybe an hour ago or so.

So far and with some luck, it hasn't come back up.

But boy, is my boy cranky!!!

One tired little monster and one sore thing too.  You touch his legs where he got his shots and he screams.

I hope that I'll be able to give him some more formula later and keep him from getting too dehydrated.

Wish us luck that we can get him all better... And SOON!! 

And that I don't go insane!!!

I have to watch my nieces tomorrow too.  Plus I have at least 6 loads of laundry to do... OMG.  Am I crazy or what????

I hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful Friday!!!

::loves and hugs::
~Pickles~

~Please Kill Me Now~

Last night was horrible.

Horrible I say.

If it hadn't been for my wonderful father, I probably would have gone insane!

Let me just say, I can't wait for my poor little Zachary to get off those damned antibiotics!

Not only did Zach have a horrible poopy night but our electricity went out!

At 320 in the morning!!!

Yeah.  I woke up right when it went off too.  Don't know how I did.  But I did.  Do you realize how hard it is to walk around your house when it is pitch black inside AND out?

So, not only did we have to deal with it being dark... But we had to find some way to make sure we were up when we needed to be.  I tried to find the alarm setting on my Nextel (if it has one) but was unable to.  Luckily, Derek remembered he had a battery opperated alarm clock and he set that.

With us all over the place last night, the kids both woke up.  And you know what happened?  We all piled into our bed.  Derek, Rowan, Zach and I.  It was nice and cozy, let me tell you :)  But we all were able to crash out again really easily.

And not 30 minutes later, the electricity came back on... And woke me back up :)

So my night was pretty busy huh?

Let me tell you.  I am looking forward for tomorrow and the possibility of a nap with the kiddies :)  How funny am I?

Anyways, enough of me bitching about how I am so tired all the time!!!

This afternoon Zachary has his 6 month check up appointment.  Yeah, his 6 month one and he is going on 8 months :)  Oh well.  We are going to be a little behind from now on, but at least he is getting in there.  I am going to talk to his doctor about his loosie goosies and what not.  Plus about the fact that he is such a cranky monster.  I know there is probably nothing we can do about that, but at least I can ask!!  I am just dreading him getting his shots.  I hate to see him in such pain... lol.

Anyways, I am going to run.  My mind is foggy and I have tons of things to do before I leave today.  I need to get them done because I have to leave early...

Have a great Thursday!

~Pickles~

~Have You Heard????~

                             Have you all heard???

                  Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey are splitting...
                                                  (story here)

                                                        and!!

              Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are going to have a baby!!!
                                                   (story here)

                      Just thought I'd share this "exciting" news :)

                                                    ~Pickles~

                                Ps. Can you tell I'm bored?????????