Cholocate Man

I always like to have my kids take there vitamins. I realized childrens vitamins are barely above candy. Yet over and over again when we miss taking them we get colds. Right now is a perfect example. During our drive I miss four days worth of vitamins and am still dealing with the consequences of that. This blog is not entirely about taking vitamins though. We always get the gummy kind and usually whatever brand is cheaper. This particular time we ended up with Flintstones. Of course it brought back many memories of Saturday morning cartoons and was more fun for me than my children I am sure (since they have absolutely no idea who the Flintstones are). Today I heard something that I have been trying to peace together for along time. My sweet daughters were fighting over whose turn it was for chocolate man. Fred has been dubbed chocolate man. I am not sure why. The vitamins are fruit flavored. They have Fred, Pebbles, and Dino. Fred is chocolate man, Pebbles is chocolate mans daughter, and Dino is chocolate monster. WE CLEARLY HAVE AN OBSESSION WITH CHOCOLATE! I now know what the kids are talking about when they refer to chocolate man though. I do wonder what they are talking about when Z asks if we are going to visit chocolate town today. *grins*

**if any of you find chocolate town I would be really interested in its location!
E

Sweats,paper,noise

We finally made it back home and let me tell you it was so good to sleep in my own bed. I was able to go see some friends last night, with my family of course. D took the kids to our friends house. I was able to have some girl time as part of a rescue party (broken down cars will do that). It was so good to see every one and start getting back into my routine.

Unfortunately D didn't have as good a night as I didn't. Baby J cried for about 3 hours straight! D thought he just wanted me cause nothing worked to sooth him. When I got there he was very calm after he ate. So I thought D was on the right track. (I'll admit that I kind of like having a mamma's boy. The girls were never that way) Then we got home and he was grumpy again. I figured that he just was ready to lay in his bed. That is what he does. We change him, give him a bink and put him down, with in minutes he is out. That happened last night.

About 1 am J woke up just screaming. D brought him to me. He didn't want to nurse (I was tired enough I would have let him). Then I noticed he was very warm. So we walked the floors last night and finally I have him some Tylenol. He went to sleep and didn't wake up again until 7:30. But he woke up screaming again which is not like him at all. That was when I realized my baby is sick! Our first cold.

So I put on my sweats this morning, held the baby while he cried and cried and cried, then started peeling wall paper from the girls room so that we can paint. The girls are enjoying helping peel, although I sent the them outside to enjoy the sun for the 5 minutes it will be out today. Lets face it, it looks like rain is in our future. S has on a long sleeve shirt, coat, and just asked for gloves. I refused to give her gloves just on principle. It is not that cold, still August for crying out loud!!

Girls woke up the baby on there way outside, NICE! Wish me luck. Hopefully I will still have a brain by the end of the night!!
E

Girl Time

I just had me second girl time with my sister in law since I have been visiting. Clearly I don't do this enough!! It is so nice and I feel a bit refreshed. It also helps because for the past couple of weeks I have had a baby sister (thanks for all the help everyone!!). So to have time without my girls, I mean kiddos is huge. We saw Journey to the Center of the Earth. It was great! I enjoyed it!

Side note: I was having a reaction to the pain medicine. I switched to different one and everything was so much better. I have not taken any pain meds for a few days now. It is a so nice, except for when it hurts(hehe). I just want to know when I am doing something that hurts.

Big D comes down to visit next week. I can't wait, this was too long to be away from him. But it has been so nice to be here (my girls are nice and brown despite there spf 50). I have had visits with family and blogger friends (Kids have played together-thank you so much Jodi). Oh but I sooo miss D!! He will be here about five days visiting family too and then we will start the super fun, super long drive home! We are going to stop for a day to visit our friends in CA on the way. I can't wait to see him and I miss my home alot!
E