Dear Readers
This is how my last 12 hours went. 10pm- me bed (alone aaron out of town) 11pm McKenzie cries . She finally has caught the cold Maire has been dealing with the past few days. I get her back to sleep and drag myself back down to the couch (where I sleep when Aaron is gone, with my pepper spray I might add!) 12am- McKenzie crying again. I see what's the matter, give her some medicine and get her back to sleep. Again I drag myself down to the couch. 1am- more crying but this time I just listen until she stops...terrible mom! 3:30 am- again with the crying and again I listen until it stops but this time I have to get up because now my head is pounding and I'm so stuffed up that i can't breath. I caught the cold!
Finally, able to get some sleep until time to get son up for school. Things were then going well until I announced to the girls we needed to go to the store for more milk and medicine! All Heck broke loose. No one wanted to get dressed but McKenzie was the worst. She had me rolling around on the floor with her with my legs wrapped around her waist trying to keep her still so I could get her dress over her head. But that girl is freaky strong! Every time I got the dressed pulled over she somehow managed to get it off. Add to this that Maire thought I was hurting McKenzie who was screaming at the top of her lungs, started to hit with with any toy she could find crying for me to stop! It was madness I"m telling you! After ten minutes of this struggle, i grabbed my cell phone, ran to Tyler's bedroom and locked the door. I sent a 911 call to my neighbor who said she could come over so that I could run to the store.
Right after that call was placed guess who comes knocking on the bedroom door carrying her dress asking me to put it on??? Yep, my little devil McKenzie who then started to have a fit because now she couldn't go "bye bye"!
Ugh! i hate when my children are sick! Lord help me today!!!
kristen
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
THe universe doesn't seem to be happy unless I'm covered in blood!!
Dear Readers,
My poor little McKenzie has done it again! It seems that she is definitely going to be accident friendly. During lunch this afternoon I set both girls at the table to eat while I snuck in the living room to catch some scripture reading. Hadn't done it in the morning yet and i was feeling like my crazy day was only going to get worse unless i got the "spirit"! I was only three versus in when I hard the loud bang of a chair falling. i held my breath to see if a cry was going to follow...it did! Though it was more of a scream than a cry.
I ran to the kitchen to find McKenzie face down on the floor . I pick her up to find she has blood oozing from her mouth. Remember she is my bleeder. Once she starts it's hard to get her to stop! I grab a towel stick it in her mouth because now I'm getting blood on me. I check her front teeth to make sure they are still in tacked and the move on to other body parts to see if anything else it hurt.
With the outside checking out, I pull the towel from her mouth and try and find where all the blood is coming from, praying with all my heart that she hasn't bitten so far through her tongue that she will need stitches.
Of course she is very upset that I'm trying to look in her mouth. I have her drink a glass of water in an effort to clear the settling blood from her tongue so I can check the wound. As she drinks the cup fills up with a mixture of blood and water. YUCK! She takes on swallow and gags it right back up. I don't blame her! Finally I rush to the freezer for my old remedy for mouth sores, ICE CREAM! It takes up a few minutes but she finally finishes the ice cream and lets me take a peak at the damage.
The very back of her tongue show indents from her four back molars but nothing that won't heal on its own. Plus she has a pretty nasty bump on her chin! My poor girl! She has got to learn to be more careful" I tell her.
She promises she will !
We'll just see about that!
Kristen
My poor little McKenzie has done it again! It seems that she is definitely going to be accident friendly. During lunch this afternoon I set both girls at the table to eat while I snuck in the living room to catch some scripture reading. Hadn't done it in the morning yet and i was feeling like my crazy day was only going to get worse unless i got the "spirit"! I was only three versus in when I hard the loud bang of a chair falling. i held my breath to see if a cry was going to follow...it did! Though it was more of a scream than a cry.
I ran to the kitchen to find McKenzie face down on the floor . I pick her up to find she has blood oozing from her mouth. Remember she is my bleeder. Once she starts it's hard to get her to stop! I grab a towel stick it in her mouth because now I'm getting blood on me. I check her front teeth to make sure they are still in tacked and the move on to other body parts to see if anything else it hurt.
With the outside checking out, I pull the towel from her mouth and try and find where all the blood is coming from, praying with all my heart that she hasn't bitten so far through her tongue that she will need stitches.
Of course she is very upset that I'm trying to look in her mouth. I have her drink a glass of water in an effort to clear the settling blood from her tongue so I can check the wound. As she drinks the cup fills up with a mixture of blood and water. YUCK! She takes on swallow and gags it right back up. I don't blame her! Finally I rush to the freezer for my old remedy for mouth sores, ICE CREAM! It takes up a few minutes but she finally finishes the ice cream and lets me take a peak at the damage.
The very back of her tongue show indents from her four back molars but nothing that won't heal on its own. Plus she has a pretty nasty bump on her chin! My poor girl! She has got to learn to be more careful" I tell her.
She promises she will !
We'll just see about that!
Kristen
Monday, April 19, 2010
Potty training!!
Dear Readers,
so potty training has officially started in our household. McKenzie has been ready for awhile but i have been putting it off not wanting to "deal" with the process. However, with summer approaching and a week on a houseboat coming our way...it's time to stop with the diapers. Marie is not so into it so I think I'll just concertate on McKenzie. She had only three accidents today and two of them were because I forgot to ask her if she needed to use the restroom. It seems that every forty-minutes she has to pee. I put a timer on to remind me but didn't hear it a couple of times :0. I can't wait until both girls are done with diapers. I remember with Tyler how wonderful it was to not have to change dirty diapers.
With the girls who poop (each) three times a day (6 poop diapers), it will sure make our house smell a lot better!!!
Kristen
so potty training has officially started in our household. McKenzie has been ready for awhile but i have been putting it off not wanting to "deal" with the process. However, with summer approaching and a week on a houseboat coming our way...it's time to stop with the diapers. Marie is not so into it so I think I'll just concertate on McKenzie. She had only three accidents today and two of them were because I forgot to ask her if she needed to use the restroom. It seems that every forty-minutes she has to pee. I put a timer on to remind me but didn't hear it a couple of times :0. I can't wait until both girls are done with diapers. I remember with Tyler how wonderful it was to not have to change dirty diapers.
With the girls who poop (each) three times a day (6 poop diapers), it will sure make our house smell a lot better!!!
Kristen
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