My son is so funny and sweet! He woke up about 5 minutes ago and came in here and said, "Wow I didn't think you were even here!" I said, "Did you think you were home alone?" He said, "No I saw Cassie and Chelsea in your bed. And now me and Chelsea are married." I asked, "Why are you and Chelsea married?" Nathan said, "Well I kissed her on the lips and now we are married." I laughed. And he says, " Well I really did kiss her on the lips." OK bud. haha
What a sweet goofball!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Good night!
Last night was a good night after about 4 in a row of not so good nights for Miss Chelsea. She cried for only about 15 minutes or so. I had to change her sleeper because she smelled like smoke and I always have to change after going to my grandmas because of the smoke smell. Well while I was changing her she flipped out. This was screaming on an entire different level. She was red with arms and legs sprawled out and holding her breath. I picked her up while she was naked trying to calm her and she peed all over my shirt. I thought oh great this is the beginning of a long night. I dressed her while she was screaming. Then sat in the chair and fed her. She calmed down and ate. She ate for like 30 minutes and fell asleep. This was before 10:00 pm!! I again thought this is too good to be true. So I held her for another 30 minutes and laid her down in our bed in her pillow. I went back out to the living room to await the screams that usually follow laying her down the first, second, and sometimes 3rd times but there was quiet. The other 3 Brownies went to bed and stayed there and fell asleep. There was a strange quiet calm in the Brown house last night. It was much needed!!! I laid down around 11 pm. I woke up around 3 am to feed Miss Chelsea. She fell back to sleep around 4 am and slept til the kids got on the bus.
I forgot what it was like to sleep and not have your head be pounding all day with every cry or cartoon song on TV. It was great!!
Chelsea Belle is 6 weeks today. I go to the doctor on Friday. It seems like the last 6 weeks were a blur. The days and nights seem long but the weeks have gone by so fast.
Braddy is going to be working 10's tomorrow and over the weekend after that he finds out if he gets laid off or if they are going to keep him on or move him somewhere else. So we will wait and see.
I forgot what it was like to sleep and not have your head be pounding all day with every cry or cartoon song on TV. It was great!!
Chelsea Belle is 6 weeks today. I go to the doctor on Friday. It seems like the last 6 weeks were a blur. The days and nights seem long but the weeks have gone by so fast.
Braddy is going to be working 10's tomorrow and over the weekend after that he finds out if he gets laid off or if they are going to keep him on or move him somewhere else. So we will wait and see.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
No Sleep and Bruised Booty
Night before last I got to sleep from 12 am - 3 am. Then AJ came into our room. Then at 4:00 am Chelsea woke up. After that Brad's alarm goes off. After that what is the point of laying back down when Chelsea is just going to be up in another hour or so and I have to get up and get the kids ready for school. So I started doing laundry at 5 am. I did not get a nap because Cassidy stayed home from school yesterday. (whole other story) And last night I held a screaming girl til 12:30 am she finally fell asleep and stayed asleep. I got to sleep around 1 then woke up around 4 to feed Chelsea got back to sleep around 5 ish and then woke up at 6:30 to get the kids ready for school. I could probably sleep standing up now. I might be asleep now. Who knows.
Ok so Sunday night the kids are all in the boys' room watching a movie when we hear this bloody murder screaming. Cassie comes running out of the room holding her butt and screaming in a language that I do not speak. She is going crazy. Crying and Screaming about her butt and falling. Finally she calms down enough to tell us she fell off the bunk bed ladder and hit her butt on Bumblebee ~ the transformer in case you didn't know. She is still going nuts. I inspect her butt and she has a red mark on her cheek but nothing major. I tell her to go lay down. She says she cannot sit down because it hurts too much so I have her lay on her stomach.
Cut to Monday morning ~ She claims her butt hurts so bad she cannot sit at all. Not even on the cushy couch or recliner. I am thinking Oh great she broke her tailbone. So I let her stay home because I can't make her go sit on a hard chair all day or have her standing all day at school. So I tell her she will be my little helper today and clean her room and basically be at my beck and call all day. She starts cleaning her room ~ for Cassie this means she goes in her room and stands amidst the mess and does nothing. This is at 8:30 am. I tell her she can watch TV while cleaning if she cleans 9:30 TV gets turned off. She comes out of her room in a dress and is flipping it up. I notice she has a blood spot on her underwear the size of a quarter. I ask her if she hurt her pee pee when she fell. She says yes so I have her take her underwear off and do a more thorough inspection. She has two small scrapes on the top of her pee pee and two huge bruises on the insides of her legs that are blue with red in the middle. I feel so bad that I did not see this the night before but she didn't say anything about these areas hurting last night.
She then says in her exasperated dramatic voice 'OK I have to tell you the truth about how I fell.' I said what did you fall at the top of the bed? She says Well not exactly. I was actually on AJ's dresser skateboarding and fell off onto the box of toys with Bumblebee in it.
Good to know. She says Please don't be mad I am sorry I lied to you. I said why did you lie? I didn't want to get in trouble for being on the dresser. I said well I guess you learned why you don't skateboard on the dresser didn't you? Yeah I will never do that again. Then she says the guilt of lying to you kept me from falling asleep last night. (Oh geesh) We then had a discussion about telling the truth and she then had to clean some more.
Nathan quote:
This morning I asked Nathan if he had any lunch tickets left at school.
Nathan: I don't kow maybe not.
Me: Do you need money to buy a lunch ticket or do you have some?
Nathan I don't know
Me: (joking) Well what good are you? You don't know nothing.
Nathan: (loudly and matter of factly) Well I know what 2+2 is!
Me: Well then you should be able to count your lunch tickets!
Nathan: Ok I will.
Ok so Sunday night the kids are all in the boys' room watching a movie when we hear this bloody murder screaming. Cassie comes running out of the room holding her butt and screaming in a language that I do not speak. She is going crazy. Crying and Screaming about her butt and falling. Finally she calms down enough to tell us she fell off the bunk bed ladder and hit her butt on Bumblebee ~ the transformer in case you didn't know. She is still going nuts. I inspect her butt and she has a red mark on her cheek but nothing major. I tell her to go lay down. She says she cannot sit down because it hurts too much so I have her lay on her stomach.
Cut to Monday morning ~ She claims her butt hurts so bad she cannot sit at all. Not even on the cushy couch or recliner. I am thinking Oh great she broke her tailbone. So I let her stay home because I can't make her go sit on a hard chair all day or have her standing all day at school. So I tell her she will be my little helper today and clean her room and basically be at my beck and call all day. She starts cleaning her room ~ for Cassie this means she goes in her room and stands amidst the mess and does nothing. This is at 8:30 am. I tell her she can watch TV while cleaning if she cleans 9:30 TV gets turned off. She comes out of her room in a dress and is flipping it up. I notice she has a blood spot on her underwear the size of a quarter. I ask her if she hurt her pee pee when she fell. She says yes so I have her take her underwear off and do a more thorough inspection. She has two small scrapes on the top of her pee pee and two huge bruises on the insides of her legs that are blue with red in the middle. I feel so bad that I did not see this the night before but she didn't say anything about these areas hurting last night.
She then says in her exasperated dramatic voice 'OK I have to tell you the truth about how I fell.' I said what did you fall at the top of the bed? She says Well not exactly. I was actually on AJ's dresser skateboarding and fell off onto the box of toys with Bumblebee in it.
Good to know. She says Please don't be mad I am sorry I lied to you. I said why did you lie? I didn't want to get in trouble for being on the dresser. I said well I guess you learned why you don't skateboard on the dresser didn't you? Yeah I will never do that again. Then she says the guilt of lying to you kept me from falling asleep last night. (Oh geesh) We then had a discussion about telling the truth and she then had to clean some more.
Nathan quote:
This morning I asked Nathan if he had any lunch tickets left at school.
Nathan: I don't kow maybe not.
Me: Do you need money to buy a lunch ticket or do you have some?
Nathan I don't know
Me: (joking) Well what good are you? You don't know nothing.
Nathan: (loudly and matter of factly) Well I know what 2+2 is!
Me: Well then you should be able to count your lunch tickets!
Nathan: Ok I will.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Brownies to the 4th power
OK so I have officially been a mother of 4 for about 5 1/2 weeks. And about 3 of those weeks have been with Braddy working 12's from 6 am to 6:30ish pm. This is about to drive me crazy!! I am missing my partner in parenting! haha Did I mention this shift is 7 days in a week and last time I checked yep that is all the days. So I get my partner for about 2-3 hours a day. I have been trying to be extra patient with my children while I am here by myself. Cassie and Nathan have been very good at helping out and AJ is growing more patient with Mom not being able to get his chocolate milk or start his movie at the drop of a hat. I can't really complain about the outage because it is good money and it is a job period. And if they lay him off after this he may go to LaSalle for 2-3 weeks for their outage. LaSalle is 90 miles away which is 1 hour and 30 minutes of drive time. So he would have to stay in a hotel closer to there so he can work 12 hour days. This is good and bad and I told him he had to decide because I didn't want to. haha
I am cleaning my house today because for the last 2 weeks I really haven't done anything. I washed chocolate milk cups and that is about it. People are running out of undies and socks so I guess it was time to break down and do some laundry. My sink was piled up high with smelly dishes so I broke down and did the dishes. I could barely open the bathroom door so I put the dirty clothes in a laundry basket in the hallway and it will eventually make its way to the washer. I haven't folded any clothes yet but I have about 6 baskets of clean clothes and that is all ya get.
Chelsea Belle has not been crying as much at night which is great. And I probably just jinxed myself but oh well. She slept in her swing for about 4 hours last night. I think the crying is belly problems because if she is screaming and I lay her on the floor and massage her stomach she is quiet and then after about 10 or 15 minutes of that she toots and poops and feels much better.
She loves her baths. She love love loves her siblings. And they love love love her! Sometimes too much. AJ is constantly kissing her, hugging her, high fiving her, giving her 'baby bumps' it is too cute but you gotta watch him!
I am tired most of the time lately but that is to be expected and spread the word: new moms that 'look tired' don't need to be told they 'look tired'!! We know we look tired!!! We are tired!!!!
That is all for now!!
I am cleaning my house today because for the last 2 weeks I really haven't done anything. I washed chocolate milk cups and that is about it. People are running out of undies and socks so I guess it was time to break down and do some laundry. My sink was piled up high with smelly dishes so I broke down and did the dishes. I could barely open the bathroom door so I put the dirty clothes in a laundry basket in the hallway and it will eventually make its way to the washer. I haven't folded any clothes yet but I have about 6 baskets of clean clothes and that is all ya get.
Chelsea Belle has not been crying as much at night which is great. And I probably just jinxed myself but oh well. She slept in her swing for about 4 hours last night. I think the crying is belly problems because if she is screaming and I lay her on the floor and massage her stomach she is quiet and then after about 10 or 15 minutes of that she toots and poops and feels much better.
She loves her baths. She love love loves her siblings. And they love love love her! Sometimes too much. AJ is constantly kissing her, hugging her, high fiving her, giving her 'baby bumps' it is too cute but you gotta watch him!
I am tired most of the time lately but that is to be expected and spread the word: new moms that 'look tired' don't need to be told they 'look tired'!! We know we look tired!!! We are tired!!!!
That is all for now!!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Today I slept in. I let my children sleep in. They were late for school. And I do not even care!! I got about 3 hours of sleep last night and usually get 4-5 hours but they are never a straight 5 hours it is broken up. So I made the executive decision not to wake my kids up and rush around to get them on the bus. We all slept in and had a stress free morning. It was much needed!
Chelsea Belle may have a touch of colic. None of my other babies were cryers so this is very new to me. She just wants to cry from 9-12 ish at night. She eats and cries. She gets her diaper changed and cries. She has about 10 minute breaks in there where you think she is finally gonna give up and go to sleep but then she has to burp or poop or something and it starts again. This probably wouldn't be as bad but I am trying to get 2 other kids to bed. (I say 2 because 1 kid - Nathan goes to bed and goes to sleep) Cassie and AJ do not. I don't have the energy to keep AJ up all afternoon so I let him sleep longer than I should which makes him not tired at bedtime. If I could just spend quiet time with Chelsea she might be able to calm down and go to sleep without all the crying but Braddy is working 12's and has to get to bed.
I bought some gas drops today so we will see if that is the problem. I have never been one to give my kids medicine just because. I hate taking medicine myself. And don't think it is necessary to give the medicine every time they sniffle or cough.
So today I am probably not going to do the laundry or pick up toys or do much of anything but play with AJ, snuggle with Chelsea, and watch tv. If I am lucky maybe a nap!!
My kids are still saying funny stuff but I can't remember anything right now because my brain has been turned into mush and I am lucky to remember my own name or my kids names!!
Someone asked me what I named my baby the other day and I just stood there for about 10 seconds until it finally came to me! Oh yeah Chelsea that's it!! Geesh!
Chelsea Belle may have a touch of colic. None of my other babies were cryers so this is very new to me. She just wants to cry from 9-12 ish at night. She eats and cries. She gets her diaper changed and cries. She has about 10 minute breaks in there where you think she is finally gonna give up and go to sleep but then she has to burp or poop or something and it starts again. This probably wouldn't be as bad but I am trying to get 2 other kids to bed. (I say 2 because 1 kid - Nathan goes to bed and goes to sleep) Cassie and AJ do not. I don't have the energy to keep AJ up all afternoon so I let him sleep longer than I should which makes him not tired at bedtime. If I could just spend quiet time with Chelsea she might be able to calm down and go to sleep without all the crying but Braddy is working 12's and has to get to bed.
I bought some gas drops today so we will see if that is the problem. I have never been one to give my kids medicine just because. I hate taking medicine myself. And don't think it is necessary to give the medicine every time they sniffle or cough.
So today I am probably not going to do the laundry or pick up toys or do much of anything but play with AJ, snuggle with Chelsea, and watch tv. If I am lucky maybe a nap!!
My kids are still saying funny stuff but I can't remember anything right now because my brain has been turned into mush and I am lucky to remember my own name or my kids names!!
Someone asked me what I named my baby the other day and I just stood there for about 10 seconds until it finally came to me! Oh yeah Chelsea that's it!! Geesh!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Happy Birthday Cassie!!!
Cassidy Elizabeth Brown is 8 years old today!! I can't believe it!! She shouldn't be that old yet ~
I really shouldn't be that old yet!!! haha
I really shouldn't be that old yet!!! haha
Here are some pics of my 1st baby girl!!
She is crazy. She is moody. She is loving.
She is smart. She is loved. She is 8 years old.
She is a great big sister. She is funny.
She is a night owl. She loves her brothers.
She loves her baby sister. She is girly.
She is a fashionista. She talks to herself a lot.
She is creative. She is competitive. She is emotional.
She is and always will be my baby girl.
Happy Birthday Peedie!!!
We love you!!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Seven Things
My sister has tagged me in this Seven Things blog so here goes...
1. I had my 4th child 4 weeks ago. And yes we are done. And yes Brad is getting a vasectomy. Stop asking! It isn't really anyone's business but Brad and mine how many children we have or what our birth control choices are. I always wanted 4 and now I have four ~ the perfect amount 2 crazy handsome boys & 2 beautiful sweet girls!
2. As uncomfortable and sometimes painful pregnancy is ~ I will miss it. I always do. I won't get to experience it again and sometimes it makes me sad but I have all the kids we want and part of it is my post partum hormones talking.
3. I plan to be at my goal weight before July 10th. That is 6 months from now if you are counting. That is when my little brother is getting married. And when I will be in a hot little bridesmaid dress. I have just started working out again. Can't wait to be strong again. To have that little bump on my arms (muscles). To not have to search for something that fits, zips, buttons, or covers.
4. I am gonna be on my own for the next 3 weeks. Brad is working 7 days a week ~ 12 hour days. Which means he is only home for about 2 hours before the kids have to go to bed. They miss him and I really miss him! So that means he is tired when he gets home and needs to go to bed at a decent hour. I will be the one telling Cassie to lay down for the 27th time and I will be the one taking AJ back to his room letting him choose sleeping on the floor over the bed. I will be the one changing all the diapers, waking in the middle of the night, sleeping 4 hours, then getting up to get kids ready for school, and I will be so happy when this outage is over and things get back to normal!!!
5. I let my babies sleep where ever they will sleep. Cassie slept in her swing several times, Nathan slept in his bassinet or in bed with me, AJ slept in bed with me, and Chelsea sleeps in her boppy pillow on our bed or lying right next to me. All of my kids were fond of nursing while lying in bed with me and usually I pass out during this.
6. I still have a stack of Christmas cards sitting in front of me. They have pictures of the kids in them and I wrote them out before Chelsea was born so I had to wait to get a picture of Chelsea to put in them. Maybe I will hand them out at Cassie's birthday party on Saturday (if I remember).
7. I have a new addiciton to the show Forensic Files. I currently have 10 episodes recorded on my DVR and that is how I plan to spend the rest of my afternoon. Even though my laundry pile runneth over and the kids rooms are a mess ~ I will be sitting in the chair watching Forensic Files and dozing off while my two little Brownies are napping. So good day I got to get to it.
1. I had my 4th child 4 weeks ago. And yes we are done. And yes Brad is getting a vasectomy. Stop asking! It isn't really anyone's business but Brad and mine how many children we have or what our birth control choices are. I always wanted 4 and now I have four ~ the perfect amount 2 crazy handsome boys & 2 beautiful sweet girls!
2. As uncomfortable and sometimes painful pregnancy is ~ I will miss it. I always do. I won't get to experience it again and sometimes it makes me sad but I have all the kids we want and part of it is my post partum hormones talking.
3. I plan to be at my goal weight before July 10th. That is 6 months from now if you are counting. That is when my little brother is getting married. And when I will be in a hot little bridesmaid dress. I have just started working out again. Can't wait to be strong again. To have that little bump on my arms (muscles). To not have to search for something that fits, zips, buttons, or covers.
4. I am gonna be on my own for the next 3 weeks. Brad is working 7 days a week ~ 12 hour days. Which means he is only home for about 2 hours before the kids have to go to bed. They miss him and I really miss him! So that means he is tired when he gets home and needs to go to bed at a decent hour. I will be the one telling Cassie to lay down for the 27th time and I will be the one taking AJ back to his room letting him choose sleeping on the floor over the bed. I will be the one changing all the diapers, waking in the middle of the night, sleeping 4 hours, then getting up to get kids ready for school, and I will be so happy when this outage is over and things get back to normal!!!
5. I let my babies sleep where ever they will sleep. Cassie slept in her swing several times, Nathan slept in his bassinet or in bed with me, AJ slept in bed with me, and Chelsea sleeps in her boppy pillow on our bed or lying right next to me. All of my kids were fond of nursing while lying in bed with me and usually I pass out during this.
6. I still have a stack of Christmas cards sitting in front of me. They have pictures of the kids in them and I wrote them out before Chelsea was born so I had to wait to get a picture of Chelsea to put in them. Maybe I will hand them out at Cassie's birthday party on Saturday (if I remember).
7. I have a new addiciton to the show Forensic Files. I currently have 10 episodes recorded on my DVR and that is how I plan to spend the rest of my afternoon. Even though my laundry pile runneth over and the kids rooms are a mess ~ I will be sitting in the chair watching Forensic Files and dozing off while my two little Brownies are napping. So good day I got to get to it.
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