Cortney's Crew

Boy I suck at blogging - or at least I have the last year and a half.  Facebook has really become my blog, it's just been easier to type a little tiny funny thing then think about a blog post.  For those that don't know, I have suffered from depression since I was a teenager.  I finally got put on medication after Alexandra was born (thank goodness since people were seriously about to die).  I am horrible at remembering to take my meds and then when I get in that depression fog I have no desire at all to take my meds.  It's a horrible vicious cycle.  Plus then you add post-partum depression on top of it and yeah I'm a mess.  I have figured out it takes me about 3 years after each baby to return to my normal depression versus the whole post-partum thing.  Well it takes about 3 years before I feel semi-normal anyway.  And I've finally hit that 3 year mark - well 3 1/2 this time, but close enough.  I think it has to do with the sleep d...

One of Scarlett's new favorite song to sing is : She loves to sing it. But mostly she loves to have someone sing with her. The other night she asked me for Bumblebee and I'd sang it 3 times with her. Then when she asked again, I told her to sing it herself. She told me "I don't want to sing it!" So I asked her "But you want me to sing it?" "Uh-huh!" Also that song has 3 more versus that her sisters have taught her, but I didn't think you wanted to listen to the licking up, puking up, and sweeping up verses. And then today she was in the other room when I hear her calling "Mommy! Help! Help! Ayudeme!" (Which is Spanish for help me) Apparently she really likes her Diego books and videos. I love listening to her talk and pick up new words and phrases every day!

We were at the library yesterday for a program on science and to turn in our reading logs. I had taken Scarlett into the little kids bathroom to change her diaper. I got her down off the changing table and was packing up the bag when I hear a splashing. I turned around to see her with both hands in the toilet! She looked up at me and very sweetly said "Washing my hands Mommy!" UGH!!! By the way the science program was awesome! Alexandra, my little scientist, loved it. And now I'm gonna have to figure out a way to hide all the diapers because they did an experiment with polymers (I hope that's how you spell it) and then told the kids how they could do it themselves if they had any diapers around the house.

So yesterday we took the girls to the amusement park near us that gives out tickets for summer reading at the library. We'll get to go another time (if not two more times). Yay for 3 different libraries near me!!! We decided we would go and try with Scarlett to see if she would be okay on the little kid rides. The next time we go, we'll get a sitter for Scarlett and Dean and I will get tickets and ride the big rides with Riley and Alexandra. Scarlett loved it! Unless we put her on a ride that had any sort of up and down motion. By the 3rd ride that went up and down she started screaming, so we avoided those from then on. She loved the horses. She loved the boats - and yes Alexandra loves them too, even though she doesn't look like it. She sat like that for every ride and would ask to ride again. She loved the racing cars. She did not like the motorcycles (they had little up and down hills.) She liked the carousel. By this time we knew about the up and down - so we ...

So we're only almost a month late getting into see the doctor. Between school ending and vacation, I just kept forgetting to call. So here's her stats - 32.5 lbs and 35 3/4" - I don't remember what the percentiles were. The doctor usually writes them down so I wasn't paying full attention. They were both somewhere in the 90's though. She is doing great developmentally! The doctor even commented on how we didn't even have to account for her premie-ness. She is either where she is supposed to be or above. In the little question form you fill out you're supposed to give examples of them talking in sentences and things like that. I didn't put this down but I kinda wanted to - We were on the way to the doctors office when I heard her say something that sounded like crap (cwap) so I asked her what she said. "I said cwap Mommy!" I think that also worked for the question about does she understand when you ask her questions....

Back in March, Alexandra kept asking if we could go on vacation this summer. (Really she just wanted to go and stay in a hotel somewhere, like we did last year for the family reunion.) So we talked and decided that we would go to Colorado Springs! So we looked at the vacation bid for Dean's work and the ONLY time he could take off in summer was Wednesday and Thursday last week. So we booked the hotel and planned away. On Monday we left at about nap time (hoping for a nap for the whole drive, didn't happen though.) And we went to Cave of the Winds. Alexandra had been so excited for this, but when we entered the cave she started to get a little scared. I asked her if she could be brave and be my photographer for the whole tour. Which helped her overcome her fears. I must say - although they say it's a family friendly tour (including toddlers) it really isn't. Or at least for us it wasn't. Scarlett was fine as long as we were moving. But we had to stop in e...