Cortney's Crew

Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. Ok, I can believe it because I know how crazy my month has been. A few weeks ago I had some moles removed. They ended up being benign!! Thank goodness! I was pretty worried especially about one of them. And now I'm just waiting for the stinking spots to heal. It's getting there but they are still itching, and it seems I'm allergic to band-aids. (I have huge itchy red spots around the edges of where the band-aids touch my skin. I keep trying to reposition the band-aids in different spots, so now I have a huge, itchy, red, round circle around where the band-aids have been. I also started getting some symptoms of PPD. So they have upped my Prozac and I've been in to see the psychiatrist once already. It hasn't been bad like with Alexandra, but I'm just glad I caught it before it got that bad. My doctor said they can up it again if we need to if I don't feel like I'm at 100%...

I will be trying to update my blog today at some point, hopefully, but in the mean time if you would like to enter a drawing for free Dinosaur craft stuff, click on this link! http://toddlerboredombusters.blogspot.com/2009/09/giveaway-3-dinosaurs.html It's open for entries until tonight at 9pm.

I can't believe it's been 3 months already!! Boy time flies by! Sunday I decided she needed a bow! Unfortunately my little baldy (compared to the other two) has nothing with which I can attach hair accessories. So I improvised (with a little Caro Syrup)! She's getting stronger with her grip so we got some of her toys off her floor mat to see how she would do holding them, and of course I had to take some videos! Friday was Alexandra's teacher's birthday. So we had the whole class wear party hats and give her flowers on the way into class. They also got to have cupcakes too!

Since Dean works 2pm to 2am, he's been staying on that schedule even on his days off to take the middle of the night feeding so that I can possibly get a decent nights sleep (as long as Scarlett cooperates). Dean will stay up till about 3:30 waiting for her but if she wakes after that then she's mine. Or if she wakes up before he gets home from work. But she's been really good about waking between 2 and 3 (I think she's enjoying having some Daddy time.) Also since he's home, if Scarlett is still asleep during school drop off time (7:45) or Kindergarten pick up time (10:30) I will just leave her sleeping and turn the monitor on for him. So Wednesday morning she hadn't woken up by the time we needed to leave for school. I could tell she was about to get up because I could hear her starting to make noise. So I hurried and dropped the girls off and came home and she was just waking up when I got home. I got her up and changed the fullest diaper she's ever had (1...

So today was the "Real" 1st day of school. Here are pictures of the girls in their new "Grammy-Made Dresses". If you click on the picture (it should give you a big picture) you can see the designs on the material better. Alexandra's is an ABC Raggedy Ann and Andy print (perfect for a 1st day at school dress - I think I had one that was black with ABC's on it one year too!) and Riley's has dragonflies (bugs for our Riley-bug.) And they did a flag ceremony again this year. Here are pictures of Alexandra. And I had trouble finding Riley in the huge crowd of kids, but I got a picture of her as they were headed back to their classrooms. They both had great days! Although Alexandra was upset at the end of her day. They had homework over the weekend to put 5 items in a brown lunch bag for a show-and-tell about themselves. Well, what show-and-tell about Alexandra would be complete without some sort of Pokemon? They didn't get through the whole class, so they...

For those of you who know me from my before being married days, you may recall how much I loved Lucky Charms. I could (and did) eat them all the time. They were one of my favorite foods ever! Well, I got married and had kids and became poor and so all I have been buying has been: And while I was trying to gag them down, I thought to myself "Maybe I have outgrown my love of Lucky Charms". So I stopped trying to eat those horrible fake imitations. Then a few days ago while I was shopping, Sams didn't have the huge boxes of Marshmallow Mateys, so I bought: I made Alexandra a bowl yesterday morning and thought to myself, I'll just try a few. OH MY GOODNESS!! Lucky Charms are still magically delicious!!!!!! Now while Malt-O-Meal may try to imitate some of the other name brand cereals and do a fairly good job, they apparently have never tasted Lucky Charms compared to theirs. I have had 3 bowls since yesterday and I now remember why I used to eat them all the time! I...

Even though this is a sad face, I had to show it off! This outfit is one of my favorites!!! I got it from my Aunt Cami when Riley was born. So Riley has worn it, Alexandra has worn it, and now Scarlett gets to wear it too!!!!! I was trying to get a video of Scarlett either smiling or talking. Here is the closest I got: The rest of these videos are productions of Alexandra. She is quite the little director! "Can you put it on your blog?" "Cut!" "Now zoom in!" If you listen close when she sings Rock-a-bye Baby she says "Rock a my baby". I love that! It just makes me think that she's claiming Scarlett as hers. There were other videos that Alexandra shot, but I will not post them because it shows how messy my house is. (It's been a rough week for Mommy!)