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April 19, 2003
April 19, 2004
Jay is almost 12 weeks old
Dylan is 3
Liah is 5
I know I'm overdue for an entry, it's just been first hectic and secondly rough this past week and a half.
I had a wonderful weekend at my mom and dad's house over Easter. Tommy's parents came up and had Easter dinner with us, and Ashley and Corey were actually able to make it too! This is the first time that Corey and Jay had met, and it really was sweet. Unfortunately, Tommy was not able to be there, and it breaks my heart, and probably his as well. He works so many hours, and being the manager of a retail store, he often has no choice but to be there when the company says be there. They were open on Easter sunday this year (which I think is *wrong*, but who am I?) and of course Tommy had to work. So I took the kids alone on the 4 hour drive to visit with my family, without him. Please don't misunderstand me, my husband works hard at his job to provide a good salary for us; he supports all of us and works hard so that I don't have to have a job outside of the house. It's just that I miss him. And I feel so badly for him, because damn it, it was his family there, and he wasn't able to be there. I know, I know, life's not fair. I never expected it to be. But you know, sometimes it just plain sucks. I digress... We had a nice weekend, the kids enjoyed finding eggs, and it was really great to be able to visit with Tommy's parents. They love Jay to pieces. It really is sweet.
Jay is thiiiiiss close to laughing! I just can't wait until he's able to - I love those little baby belly laughs. He is starting to make ah-goo sounds. My husband cracks me up. He is a *huge* University of GA (UGA) fan, so he keeps trying to get Jay to say "uh-ga". If you're in the south and watch SEC college football, you surely know what a huge deal this kind of thing is. Jay just raises his eyebrows at Tommy and feigns indifference, but it is truly cute.
Liah and Dylan have spent much time outside, as they had been doing in previous weeks. Liah's latest determination is that she just has to catch a bird. Being sly, I told her a couple of weeks ago that the only way you can catch a bird is to put salt on its tail. Smart little thing that she is, she comes into the house yesterday and says "Mommy, can get the salt to put on the birds' tails so I can catch one?" Sure! So I let her. She came back in a short while later with an empty salt shaker and no bird. But it sure was cute! The kids have made friends with other kids here in the neighborhood, and it makes me so glad that we have moved here where they can play and roam some. It's nice that they have their freedom. They were so cooped up in our apartment.
We joined a family membership at our local YMCA, and it is absolutely wonderful!!! They have a ton of workout equipment, many many classes for all of us, personal trainers, indoor and outdoor pools, the works. We have a great Y community in this area, and I can't wait to utilize all of the options we have available to us. Liah and Dylan will be taking swimming lessons together every Tuesday and Thursday morning in the month of May. I am able to go work out while all three of the kids are in the (free!) child care area. So, we joined last Wednesday, and I started in the gym Thursday and (wonder of all wonders!) even dragged myself back on Friday. I was pretty worn out and sore, but it felt good to be a) getting out of the house and b) doing something to tone up the flabby belly that three babies in five years has left behind. I came home feeling the burn Friday afternoon. A couple of hours later I had an achy red breast, and thought uh-oh, hope I don't have a plugged duct. But no, I wouldn't be so lucky. I woke up in the middle of the night with a 102° fever, and my left boob twice the size of my right, swollen and bright red. Geez, mastitis. If you've never had mastitis, consider yourself lucky. It is painful. Extremely. It makes you feel flu-ish (word?) and generally terrible. Body aches, fever, stiff neck, sore chest, the whole nine yards. So, I spent all of Saturday and Saturday night and most of Sunday with this 101°-102° fever that Tylenol and Advil just would not kick. Finally, yesterday afternoon I was able to get some antibiotics, and already I am not *as* sore. Such is life.
Okay, for those of you who are unaware, Babies Online is no longer supporting our photo galleries. So, I have gone to Ofoto. Please bear with me here; I seem to be having a little trouble figuring out which link to use to share our photos as they want you to sign in. So, I *think* that if you go to this link: http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?Uc=l13gg2l.515gfq0h&Uy=pcn3ge&Ux=1&collid=217084651105&page=1&sort_order=0 then sign in to Ofoto (they only want your email address and a password), that you should be able to view April photos. I have created albums from last October (which is when we got our digital camera) until now. If you want to see any others of us, just drop me a shout-out on my old TTM board (yeah, this is redundant that we have to give links to our old boards because OUR NEW BOARDS STILL DON'T WORK - HINT, HINT) Anyways... drop me a line at
http://interact.iparenting.com//postlist.php?Cat=&Board=ptcara and I'll gladly send you invites to any or all of the photo albums I have.
Everyone take care and have a great week!
Cara and everyone else
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