Laundry

Dear Husband

It is not considered participation in household chores when you only wash your laundry.


Management

Ming Dynasty

We took G3 to the Art Museum to see the Ming Dynasty exhibit. He picked out a dragon at the gift shop. We read all the articles on the wall. When we were finished we used the museum book. We sat down in one of the halls and looked at the pictures in the book. After about 10 minutes I had a group of children sitting around me. They must have thought I worked for the museum.

G3 and the bear 7 months

Don't worry

Be Happy!

Vacant uteri need not apply...

I have been feeling a little disgruntled lately with my doc. I suffer from endometriosis and have been experiencing extreme pain. Pain that makes you throw up. Pain that makes you sweat. Pain that makes you not eat. Pain that will not let you sleep. I have let the doc know this on several occasions and at multiple appointments. He gives me a script for ibuprofen. This is all nice, but it does not work. I asked him for something stronger. You would have thought I had two heads. He could not possibly prescribe a Narcotic. He must first do surgery and then we could talk about pain medicine. I understand that we need to know what we are treating. What am I suppose to do in the mean time? This leads me to have some other questions. Questions of why some docs are quick to prescribe meds without hesitation and without expertise.

During my pregnancy I was on a hormonal roller coaster. I called the nurse and told her that I felt " overwhelmed with emotion." She told me that she would speak to the doc. I received a phone call that they called in an anti depressant for me. The doc did not see me, speak to me or evaluate me. He felt comfortable enough to prescribe an antidepressant to a woman in a vulnerable state. Did he know that I wasn't suicidal? I did not fill the script. I just needed someone to tell me that it was normal to feel the way I was feeling. I talked to one of my friends and had a bowl of ice cream. All was good.

My second point relates to the Octomom. Why does it seem that anyone can get fertility drugs and treatment without having a psych eval? My doc and others are very quick to prescribe fertility meds.

Lets recap for all my sleep deprived sisters out there. Medical docs will freely give antidepressants and fertility drugs like candy to anyone who requests them. So we have all these depressed infertile women walking around jacked up on Lexapro and Clomid. This gives a " happy" and " full to capacity" uterus. But if you want a vacant uterus, it must be sad and full of pain. In other words vacant uteri need not apply.


That is all. Carry on!

The exersaucer

I Love the exersaucer!

Who stinks?

Daddy I have a present for you!

Why is it that every time G3 uses the exersaucer it has a laxative effect? He is always so happy in the exersaucer for the first 15 minutes. After the 15 minutes of entertainment.... we have a code brown.

Get out your highchair and jump around!

G3 is moving. It is hard to keep him still. He gets so frustrated that he can't just go where he wants. I think we are in big trouble when he starts moving independently.

G3 in his blazer

I'm busy..gotta check my email

Still lactating after all these years...months I mean

So, I went to visit little Miller today. I will report that everyone is doing fine. I brought over homemade lasagna for the parents. They thought I was being nice, but I was really just trying to get to the baby....G3 was able to bond with his cousin.

Now back to the title. I felt something wet in my shirt while holding both babies. I just thought one of them spit up. I felt it a couple more times through out the day. It wasn't until I took a shower that I realized that Niagara Falls was happening in my shirt. Why the sudden surge in milk production? This is so not necessary. I told G3 awhile ago that the well was dry. Do you think he has been praying for a refill?

I think I see a rabbit

Who did it?

eat your oatmeal

There are plenty of starving kids that would be happy to eat your oatmeal.

Movin on up

Movin on up, to a big tub with a big blue circle in the sky

This is funny
Now when do I get to lay down

Well at least I still have my duck

G3 gotta new car

Hey check out my new whiplook left look right
let's go

G3 going for a ride

Momma's Day Out

We had a lunch date today with Emily and Ella. Both kids were very well behaved and I think we are welcome back. Hopefully when the third arrives we can still maintain some form of control.

G3 and the new walker part 2..backwards

G3 and the walker2 from stacey budke on Vimeo.

Teeth and more teeth

12:00 Aren't you tired yet?

3:00 Please go to sleep! I will buy you a new car.

4:00 Okay I give up!

How many baby teeth does a person get?

G3 and the new walker

G3 and the walker from stacey budke on Vimeo.

G3 has outgrown his jolly jumper. We can no longer adjust it to meet his weight and height requirements. I needed to find something for him to use that would allow him to work on his thunder thighs.

It was not easy finding a walker. They do not make walkers like they used to. They claim the old ones were not safe. This walker is not to tip over. He still hasn't figured out how to move forward yet. He can move backwards at the speed of light.

Welcome cousin Miller

Miller 3/11/09

6lbs 3ounce 19 inches

Happy 6months!

Dear G3--

Happy half birthday! I have so many things I want to share with you and teach you. There is a lot to know about life and it is hard to know where to begin. I have learned a lot about life through experiences. Good and bad. Sometimes I didn't learn the lesson the first time and continued to re learn. We learn from our history. If only we could live life backwards, things might be easier.

Love. Love is a strange thing. I have been in love and I have thought I was in love many times. Love can fill you up. Love can make you feel unstoppable. Love should be given unconditionally and should never physically hurt. Love should not make you be someone you are not. Love can hurt when it is given and not returned. Love is always worth giving and should be done carefully. Be careful with your heart and with others. I was never really sure I knew what love was until the day you were born.

Faith. Faith is hard for me to trust and believe in. People will tell you to relax and have faith. Enjoy life. Please relax. Have faith. Things will work out.

Forgiveness. This can be a hard one. We often feel we are wronged, mislead, mistreated, and lied to. Please let the little things go. Sometimes things seem unforgivable. Forgive them anyway.


There will be more to come.

I will always love you!

Momma