Mom

After I had Vada I realized something. My mom is a rockstar. She fought for me and put up with me and I really can't ever repay her for everything she has done.

You see, when I was a kid I wasn't exactly the healthiest little girl out there. Thank god my parents had really really good insurance, that's all I can say.

I remember when I had to have an MRI when I was 6 or 7 to try figure out what was wrong with my brain, and how upset I was my mom couldn't be there in the room with us. My dad was there which was a big deal because my dad never took off of work to go to Dr appointments with us. I also remember the Dr (I think) gave me a stuffed lion because I held still enough to get the pictures taken and how I got some necklace making kit out of the deal as well.

I remember my mom driving me to countless Dr. appointments and specialists to slowly fix all of the developmental and physical problems I had growing up.

I remember the neurologist telling me that I had complex partial seizures and that "My brain would go to sleep, but I would still be awake.." (Those were the exact words he told me, I still remember them.) And how from that moment on, I had countless pills, blood work and EEG's.

I also remember having to get a frenectomy and getting Legally Blonde on DVD from Target to watch after we got home.

I remember finding out from the Knee specialist that I have congenitally bad knees and my mom was super supportive on the way home from the doctor and finding out that the only fix was surgery. I plan on going until my knees give out completely before I'll go in for surgery over something stupid like that.

I remember having to go to Vision Therapy in Wellington and having to wear an eye patch and how excited I was when I received a medal for completing the program. It's not like I had any choice.

I remember my mom spending hours and hours going over homework with me and forcing me to try. School was never easy for me, especially math and mom really tried everything to get me to understand.

I remember how excited my mom was when she found out I was pregnant with Vada. I'll be honest, I was terrified  to tell her I was pregnant at 20 after just getting married.

If I am half of a mom as my mom was to my sisters and I, then Vada will grow up to be a perfectly weird, well adjusted woman, with a bad ass grandma.

The Girls

Vada had a Dr.'s appointment today, no shots because she has to get them at the health dept. for her insurance to cover it. She weighed 17.7 pounds and is 26.5 in. long. She is in the 90th percentile for height and weight. She has a little bit of redness in her throat from being sick all last week but other than that she is perfect!

She also loves being around her cousin Charlotte, if Vada sees Charlotte she just smiles and becomes really happy. Charlotte gets somewhat excited usually as well, I think it's because Char knows that Vada will let her chew on her without a fight usually.

This is how most of the day goes, Vada falls over and Charlotte tries to crawl over her to get to toys,me, the remote,my phone or her bottle.

Here is another bit of big news (well to us anyway), we're getting cable! Well, dish network but you get the picture. After almost 3 years, we now can afford it, and I am pretty stinking excited. There are only so many things you can watch on Netflix. So it'll be nice to have that option. 

Every Thursday I try to bake something with the girls, I feel like it'll teach them measurements and it's something fun for us to do together. So far, I've only done it twice but they love the fact they get to help dump things into the bowl, and as you can see Charlotte is more than willing to help. I also try to take a picture of the girls with their finished product. Here is the Chocolate Chip cookies they made and they also made some Mexican Wedding Cookies.

Finally, here is a picture that just makes me laugh. Hard. 

Nailed it.

Today was what I like to call a Pinterest day. I did some crafts from pinterest and almost all of them turned out just awful.

I'm just going to go into it.

Here is the first one I attempted

 Nailed it.

 Nailed it. (Worst one of the day!)

 On the fence about this one, I'll give it a few days and see how much I hate it and then decide.

The only one I would give a win. 

It's Hereditary

Lately while trying to get Vada to bed, I'll rock her in our rocking chair, only have one lamp on and have our t.v. on low. While doing this I have watched quite a bit of random shows that look somewhat interesting and don't involve high speed chases.

This results in kids shows, psychics, ghosts and usually a murder show or two.

Last night, while watching a show called "Sensing Murder" (it's about 2 psychic mediums trying to bring closure to families whose loved ones were murdered and their cases have run cold) I became especially paranoid and scared.

Picture it, a young mother who stays at home with two babies all day and is by herself.

Sound familiar? Oh right, that's because that's what I do, and that is also what a lady did in 1979 when some  random guy just broke into her house and KILLED HER. He didn't just kill her, he bashed her head in with a bowling pin!

Fun fact, I had a birthday party when I was 9 at a bowling alley. And guess what they gave me as a gift... an old bowling pin.

Is anyone else scared right now?

Hey Baby Girl, Look At Mama!

On the second of every month I take a picture of Vada on a white sheet, with a sign stating how old she is. This past month she turned 5 months old, and I received a TON of compliments on the one picture I posted on Facebook. What they didn't see was the pictures before and after that one picture.

That's what usually happens when it's the picture of the month time, Vada is really cute in one picture but I have to take about 20 to get that one picture, and usually by the end of it she's so mad she can't even see straight.

Here are a few of the rejects of these past 5 months, starting with numero uno.

Enjoy.

Mom. Feed me. Now.

 What's that?

 And we were done with that session

Chatty Cathy.

Mom, this tu-tu and my hands are just so interesting!

Halloween

Is it just me or are people going a little bit over board when it comes to their kids halloween costumes?

I remember a local woman here in Fredonia talk about how if the costume is cute, she is willing to spend upwards to 100 dollars on her kids costumes.

She obviously didn't have a mother like my mom who I can only think of maybe one or two occasions where she bought a halloween costume for us, we either made it from our dress up box or mom made it herself.

While I would love to make Vada's costume, I don't really have any stores locally to buy the things I need so I ordered it online, I made sure I ordered something that could be worn by our future kids as well. And although it did cost me 20 dollars if all goes to plan it will be worn more than once and by multiple children.

Any guesses on what Vada is going to be for Halloween?