Linked In {and Louse Update}

No, not like the networking site.  Although I might have a profile there too, not sure.  I meant I am completely linked in as far as the CTMH stuff goes.  Now I'm just trying to get things started for a Launch Party.

Well, I'm not trying all that hard.  Mostly I'm trying to keep the rest of the house louse-free.  And so far, success.

Here's what happened.  Little d came home from school Tuesday (of last week) and as I was getting her hair ready for dance, I noticed these small white dots in her hair.  Firmly attached.  What the hell??!


I immediately called my BFF.  She answered her cell with "Can I call you back I'm at Ellie's?" (the hairdresser)

I told her "No!" so she knew it was serious.  She confirmed that I was probably looking at lice eggs.  Ugh and Ick.

They offered a few suggestions, and I also called the pediatrician.  Over the counter stuff first his office said.

Off to Walgreens.  Again.  And this time I didn't even stop to look at the polishes.  Yeah.  It was for real.  First  I let her eat dinner because I knew that she needed that before we even started to work on the hair.  To do the shampoo I laid her out on the counter and washed her hair over the sink.  I didn't want her soaking in a tub of pesticide.  Next began the nit-picking task of umm well nit picking.

All total we spent about three hours on the process.  About two thirds through the nit-picking, Little d was getting incredibly tired, cranky and started crying.  My back was killing me and I was freaking out over whether or not the whole thing was going to work and whether or not I would be dealing with this with the other two...or me....or D.

So I did the only thing I could think of.  I started singing.   I can't stand the rain....outside my window....bringing back sweet memories.  Do do do do dah  Do do do do do bop bop.  


Little d stopped crying.  "What are you singing??"

"A song from when I was little."

"Sing it again."  So I did.  I mean the little I knew of it.  Then I had my mom find it on her laptop and we all jammed to it.

"The tide is high and I'm moooovin' on....I'm gonna be your nuuuuumber one.  I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like thaaaaaat noooooooo."

"Oh I know that one mom!"  So then we sang to that together.

D poked his head in the dining room.  "Hey that sounded pretty good!"  He of course knew none of these songs.

For the grand finale?

"Won't you take me to....funkytown....won't you take me to funkytown!?"

By the time we were through, all of us were laughing.  I have to say even though there were lice involved....one of the best nights ever.  My daughter is one amazing kid.  What a blessed mom I am.

Let's Re-cap

stomach flu

stomach flu

pink eye

cold

severe cough

week long fever

pink eye

two week cough

pink eye

LICE!

You didn't see that last one coming did ya?? Yeah, neither did I.

Little md

Today (as has been our schedule for the past few days) he woke at 1130am.  He tends to fall asleep just anywhere around 6pm.  Then (and this is the part I heart the most) he stays awake until 3am.  In the ever loving morning.  Sigh.  Can't wait for D to be off nights so he can help get him back to normal.

Good thing he's so stinkin' cute....

This evening he was hanging out in his room on the new bed watching Nick Jr.

I sneaked in and got a picture.  Notice how he didn't move.  Just looked at me with his eyes.

So many times a day I am thankful this little boy made it into my life.  What a great addition he is to our family.  He's very lovable, even though now he's entering the terrible twos.  His tantrums are marvelously epic.  But he has just now started giving kisses.  Before he would just turn his cheek for you to give him a kiss.

He hardly takes the 'baa' (pacifier) out of his mouth.  And he would drink a bottle several times a day if I let him.  I try to keep the pacifier from him so he will start talking.  He's got a few words in his vocabulary.

Baa:  pacifier
Bah-uul:  bottle
Pees:  please (followed by "pe pe pe pe pe pe" with hands clasped under chin)
Dah: which can mean Dad, ice, yes, or many other things.  Just depends on the context.
Nowah:  no
Meh:  Me or his name, he always says this when pointing to his chest.
Mah: mom
side: or something like it to mean outside
Go: go
Mowah: more
bye: bye
ni-ni: night night
hi: hi
Wah wah: water
pow: shooting a gun noise
mote: for remote
beh: bed
gah-ya: got cha!
moo-it: move it! (like out of my way!)

And my all time favorite....neuw-won, which means new one.  As in baa.  As in new pacifier please I can't find my old one.  It's so adorable, I must get it on video.

He eats just about anything we give him, then finishes what's on everyone else's plate.  He's very tall and muscular.  Such a little man.  Still--no hair to speak of.  So more like a little bald man--ha.  I love it.

Almost two, my baby.

Spring Break

has been wonderful!!!  A whole week of NO school!

For starters, I somehow managed to get the house cleaned.  We also got a new twin bed in Little md's room which means I have room to move the treadmill in there.  It already has a TV, so now I can workout in the mornings and keep an eye on the kids.  Skinny butt here I come!

The kids are completely off schedule...it took about nine seconds of Spring Break for that to happen.  I'm okay with it.  For now...

I got a Cricut Imagine.  I know...it's huge.  But I think I got it for a pretty good deal.

I actually am finding small blocks of time during the day to work on the 'new' CTMH business.

And yes, yes I am still buying nail polish....but I told myself after the last purchase that was IT.

:)

Started a little something, did I?

Well the new blog is up and running.  Oh yeah.  And I signed up for CTMH again.  My new upline seems awesome.  She lives in California and we've already exchanged a couple of emails.  I'm going to try to make this a working business more than a hobby.

So the new blog.  It's called Everything She Touches.  As in all the crafty stuff I do.  I desperately don't want to link it here.  The reason is I don't want feedjit traffic over there to show this address.  In case MIL goes snooping.  I'm planning on linking that blog to my FB and whatever else.  Plus using it strictly for 'business' craft stuff.  I'm not going to tell personal family stuff over there and have pictures of the kiddos.  That's what this blog is for.  So I also would never link to here from there.

I asked my brother for advice about putting a link here for my other site and he worked on it and couldn't get the address cloaked-so to speak.  But reading through someone else's blog I found out that I could just type the address here duh and not link it.  So if you want to visit there, you'd have to copy and paste.

Here is it.   http://everythingshetouches.blogspot.com/  So hopefully that works to keep them separate.  :)  If not, ah hell.  I haven't told any lies on here anyway.  :)

If you do pop over and check it out, let me know what you think.  It's very much a work in progress.  I am planning on adding links to my FB, Pinterest, and maybe eventually MyCTMH page if I get one.

I'm going to try to keep it upbeat, humorous, and fun.  So not like this blog at all HA!

Okay--off to play on that blog for a while.  Oh and guess who has pink eye again--that's right, this girl!!  I can't even make this shit up.