Well today is the last saturday of the month. It's been a lazy day. Haven't done much. But I have a million things to do before the weekends out.
I have to go to work in an hour. I work part time in the Church Nursery. Today they are having coir practice. So we are watching their kids. But we get pizza out of the deal & I get paid. Tonight we work 4 hours, but we are breaking it up 2 hours at a time. I'm on the 2nd shift & go in at 6 until 8. I get to take the boys. All 3 with me. So it's not bad.
The boys have been fighting off & on all day. I can't wait till they go to bed. Well gotta go get the boys & myself ready. They have been in their pj's all day. lol
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Twins getting bigger & older
It's hard to believe the boys are growing up so fast. They turned 3 in December. I'm not sure where the time went. They are very active boys. Austin is the more dominant one. Where as Landon is more laid back & easy going. Landon relies on Austin to do things for him. We are trying to get them more independent.
Both boys have been slow on talking. They always did this thing I called "Twin Talking." They could have conversations in their own little world & understand each other where others couldn't. It was so fun to watch. So we started letting them have in home speech therapy. Austin started picking things up quickly but after 6 months Landon had no improvement. We found out last May that the reason Landon wasn't improving was because he could not hear. I took him to a specialist & they did surgery on him. Putting tubes in his ears. He has perfect hearing now. The tubes are still in his ears & he has lots of ear aches & drainage. But he is learning to talk at last. In January they got to start taking speech class in the public school. Each have their own class. They go twice a week for an hour. I think they both have improved greatly. I can see a big difference.
We are currently working on potty training. For some reason we are having a hard time getting this done. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Most of the time I take them & they have already gone before we get there or we just sit on the potty. I have tried stickers, targets, books, you name it. I have to get them potty trained before summer is over because they start preschool in the fall.
I can't hardly believe it's time for them to start pre-school. I have no idea where the time went. Seems like they were just crawling on the floor learning to walk.
They have been such a blessing in my life.
This May we are taking them to Florida to Disney World. I'm looking forward to the trip. We are going to be gone almost 2 weeks. On the way home we are going to NC where I'm getting to see my childhood friend Shari whom I met when we were 6. We are both 36 now so it's been a 30 year friendship. I'm so excited to get to go see her. I haven't seen her in 16 years.
I'll be sure to post how our trip goes & all about our reunion!
Both boys have been slow on talking. They always did this thing I called "Twin Talking." They could have conversations in their own little world & understand each other where others couldn't. It was so fun to watch. So we started letting them have in home speech therapy. Austin started picking things up quickly but after 6 months Landon had no improvement. We found out last May that the reason Landon wasn't improving was because he could not hear. I took him to a specialist & they did surgery on him. Putting tubes in his ears. He has perfect hearing now. The tubes are still in his ears & he has lots of ear aches & drainage. But he is learning to talk at last. In January they got to start taking speech class in the public school. Each have their own class. They go twice a week for an hour. I think they both have improved greatly. I can see a big difference.
We are currently working on potty training. For some reason we are having a hard time getting this done. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Most of the time I take them & they have already gone before we get there or we just sit on the potty. I have tried stickers, targets, books, you name it. I have to get them potty trained before summer is over because they start preschool in the fall.
I can't hardly believe it's time for them to start pre-school. I have no idea where the time went. Seems like they were just crawling on the floor learning to walk.
They have been such a blessing in my life.
This May we are taking them to Florida to Disney World. I'm looking forward to the trip. We are going to be gone almost 2 weeks. On the way home we are going to NC where I'm getting to see my childhood friend Shari whom I met when we were 6. We are both 36 now so it's been a 30 year friendship. I'm so excited to get to go see her. I haven't seen her in 16 years.
I'll be sure to post how our trip goes & all about our reunion!
A little about me & how I became a mommy. :)
When I was growing up I always wanted twins. My great grandmother was a twin & so I figured I was a shoe in to have a set of my own. Little did I know my wish would come through. It was a long road a head of me.
When I was 10 my mother suddenly past away. I had to grow up very quickly. I had to go from being a kid to running a house. I learned to cook very quickly. I hardly ever read a recipe, I just made things up. I'm still that way today. lol I lived with my dad & a few new step-moms until I was 14. Then I had all I could stand. I moved out & moved in with my grandparents who treated me like a daughter. I was allowed to have fun & be a kid again. I graduated high school in 1993. Then went on to college & graduated in 1996.
I met my future husband in 1996. We were both desk clerks at a local hotel. We never dated the entire time we worked together. In 1998 he moved on to a new job & I was still that lonely desk clerk. Or so I thought. 1998 was an interesting year for me. I got a promotion & soon became front Desk Manager & Sales Director of the hotel. If you want to know the truth, the pay wasn't that good & the job was mostly a title. I only had a $1 raise. Big deal! Like a $1 was going to take me far. lol I still worked the front desk alone from 7am to 3pm. I still had to clean the lobby, get house keeping going, check people out, check new people in & now I had to do sales on the side as well as manage the other Front Desk people.I also got my own office. Lucky me. lol Being a front desk manager meant that you were the one that got to deal with the un happy customer because the desk clerk on duty wouldn't deal with it. One thing that being a Front Desk Manager & Sales Director did for me is that I got to go on special trips. I went to Washington DC that October. I had the time of my life. Well the most fun a singer person in DC could have. I went with my boss to a hotel convention! We had a great time. I also got to go to other out of town meetings. That was a lot of fun. It meant getting out of the hotel & letting someone else do my job.
In early 1999 my future husband Kevin started stopping by to visit at the hotel. We would chat while I worked. Little did he know I had this furry smushed faced pug dog named Shad. My birthday is in February & that year I was given a birthday party at work by the maids & my grandparents. My grandparents thought it would be funny to send me flowers from Shad. The next day I was un decorating my office when Kevin showed up. He didn't know I had a dog. He had planned to ask me out that day, but saw this bunch of flowers with the card that read "Love your room mate Shad" lol He assumed that Shad was a human & that he was my boyfriend or something. Well after a few more visits he decided to get up the nerve to ask me out. Of course I said yes. On the night of the date Shad met him at the door for the first time. It was then that he found out Shad was a pug. Each time we went out as we would look toward my apartment we would see Shad sitting on the back of a chair by the window. He would stand on the chair & put his paws on the window looking like a Garfield Clingy Doll. He was so cute!
Kevin & I dated until December. Then on December 12th 1999 he asked me to marry him. We planned our wedding for May 27, 2000. There was a lot to do & so little time.
We went to Disney World on our Honeymoon. It was magical!
I worked at the hotel until November 2000 when I was in an auto accident & hurt my back. I have a degenerative disk & am not able to work full time anymore.
Soon after we married I went to the dr learned that I had some cysts & needed to have surgery. So I had that done. When the dr was done she told us that there was no way I'd ever have kids. This was heart breaking to me. Here I was newly married & was told I wouldn't be able to have kids of my own. I was told I had endometriosis, a fibroid tumor & PCOS. I went to another dr & was told the same thing. This time the dr told me I needed to have a hysterectomy. Of course I didn't do it. I ended up going to a 3rd dr. This dr said yes there was hope. She put me on monthly lupron shots. When after a year I still hadn't gotten pregnant she sent me to a specialist. Dr D was wonderful. The first time I meet her she said that she would do everything she could to make our dream come true. First off she did surgery to remove the tumors & cysts. We decided to go with the IVF program. The first time we tried IFV it was not a success. My eggs were not healthy & in fact I just had one semi good egg. We fertilized it & implanted it. I soon lost the baby. So we tried again a year later. This time I had several good eggs. We had 5 that became embryos. Because of the last experience we never dreamed that it would go so well. We ended up using one & freezing the other 4. I carried that baby until 7 weeks & 1 day. It was Due December 12, 2005. I lost it on April 25th 2005. It was a hard thing for me to go through. I started believe those other drs were right. I went through a depression. I ate maybe once a day & not much at that. I didn't leave the house or anything. except when I had too. I met a lady online names Melissa. She too had just lost her baby on the same day I did & her due date had been the same. We bonded right off.
In June I found this parenting website called Expressive Parents. The ladies there were awesome! Their friendship is nothing like I ever had. All of these ladies became special friends to me. I'm thankful for them. They helped me get through a very difficult time in my life.
In March of 2006 we decided to try the IVF 1 more time. We planned to use the frozen embryos. We decide that if they didn't work that we wouldnt try IFV again because it was such an emotional roller coaster. Personally I wasn't sure if I could handle another miscarriage. So in April I started taking the shots again. I hated sticking myself with needles. But if it worked I was willing to try. We actually did the the transfer on May 2nd. That morning they took all 4 embryos out of the freezer. One did not survive the thawing but the other 3 did. So we implanted all 3. Then two weeks later we found out I was very, very, very pregnant. A few weeks later I had my first u/s & we learned we were having triplets. I'm not sure who was more surprised!! I was so happy! At 9 weeks I started spotting one morning. By the time I got to the dr I learned that I had lost one. That after noon I had to go to a family get together with my father in law. He knew I had lost the baby but thought that the get together might help get my mind off of things. We decided not to tell anyone yet that I had lost the baby. All afternoon the family was buzzing with excitement of having triplets. I was some what down. I was scared to death that I would loose the other two. When I made it to the 2nd trimester I was sent to a regular OBGYN dr. Dr D was the other Dr D's brother in law. He was wonderful! Kevin says he reminds him of Wilford Brimley. lol And I have to admit they look a lot a like. Being pregnant with twins through IVF I was high risk. As a precaution I was sent to yet another specialist for high risk pregnancy (at 15 weeks) so that I could be regularly monitored. It was a good thing I went because on the first visit I was told that I had to have emergency surgery to have a circlage put in the next day. Which happened to be a Saturday. We later found out that the hospital normally doesn't allow this type of surgery done on Saturday because they like to keep the OR open for births. But they also said that had we not found this in time I would have lost both babies. At this time we found out that one of the babies was a boy. That was Baby B. (aka Landon) A few weeks later we found out that Baby A (Austin) was also a boy. I'd love to be able to say that the rest of the pregnancy was uneventful but it wasn't I was put on bed rest from then on out.
In August I started bleeding again. I woke up in the middle of the night bleeding. It felt just like I had started my cycle. Kevin rushed me to the ER. I was 19 weeks pregnant at this time. They admitted me. Dr D was away in Hawaii on vacation so I saw another Dr on call. I spent a week in the hospital before they could figure out why I was bleeding. They finally learned that baby A's sack had a blood clot in it & everything was ok. So I was sent home to do nothing but rest. I went to see Dr D weekly by this time & I went to the specialist twice a week to be monitored. Things were going great & I was getting as big as the house. Friends had started planning my baby shower for October. Well the end of September came along & I started having horrific pains. I couldn't stand it. I hurt so bad. Kevin was gone & I was home alone one day. I called my grandparents to take me to the dr. They took me to the ER & we found out I was in labor. The babies were not due until January 19th & this was the last week in September. I was about 25 weeks pregnant at this time. I was scared that I'd loose them both. They started giving me shots to control the contractions. As long as I had the medicine in my system I was fine, but the minute it wore off I had more contractions. So they put me on a medicine pump. After spending a little over a week in the hospital I got to go home a few days before my shower. This time I wasn't allowed to be left alone. So now when Kevin went out of town (which was Monday-Friday) I had to go stay with my grandparents. They, my aunt & my father in law would take turns taking me to the dr. Other than having a hard time breathing & sleep apnea I did great the rest of the pregnancy. The boys were born December 22, 2006 at 36 weeks. There were 5 sets of twins born that day & they were the only set that did not have to go to NICU. I got to take them home Christmas Morning. It was the best Christmas I ever had.
When I was 10 my mother suddenly past away. I had to grow up very quickly. I had to go from being a kid to running a house. I learned to cook very quickly. I hardly ever read a recipe, I just made things up. I'm still that way today. lol I lived with my dad & a few new step-moms until I was 14. Then I had all I could stand. I moved out & moved in with my grandparents who treated me like a daughter. I was allowed to have fun & be a kid again. I graduated high school in 1993. Then went on to college & graduated in 1996.
I met my future husband in 1996. We were both desk clerks at a local hotel. We never dated the entire time we worked together. In 1998 he moved on to a new job & I was still that lonely desk clerk. Or so I thought. 1998 was an interesting year for me. I got a promotion & soon became front Desk Manager & Sales Director of the hotel. If you want to know the truth, the pay wasn't that good & the job was mostly a title. I only had a $1 raise. Big deal! Like a $1 was going to take me far. lol I still worked the front desk alone from 7am to 3pm. I still had to clean the lobby, get house keeping going, check people out, check new people in & now I had to do sales on the side as well as manage the other Front Desk people.I also got my own office. Lucky me. lol Being a front desk manager meant that you were the one that got to deal with the un happy customer because the desk clerk on duty wouldn't deal with it. One thing that being a Front Desk Manager & Sales Director did for me is that I got to go on special trips. I went to Washington DC that October. I had the time of my life. Well the most fun a singer person in DC could have. I went with my boss to a hotel convention! We had a great time. I also got to go to other out of town meetings. That was a lot of fun. It meant getting out of the hotel & letting someone else do my job.
In early 1999 my future husband Kevin started stopping by to visit at the hotel. We would chat while I worked. Little did he know I had this furry smushed faced pug dog named Shad. My birthday is in February & that year I was given a birthday party at work by the maids & my grandparents. My grandparents thought it would be funny to send me flowers from Shad. The next day I was un decorating my office when Kevin showed up. He didn't know I had a dog. He had planned to ask me out that day, but saw this bunch of flowers with the card that read "Love your room mate Shad" lol He assumed that Shad was a human & that he was my boyfriend or something. Well after a few more visits he decided to get up the nerve to ask me out. Of course I said yes. On the night of the date Shad met him at the door for the first time. It was then that he found out Shad was a pug. Each time we went out as we would look toward my apartment we would see Shad sitting on the back of a chair by the window. He would stand on the chair & put his paws on the window looking like a Garfield Clingy Doll. He was so cute!
Kevin & I dated until December. Then on December 12th 1999 he asked me to marry him. We planned our wedding for May 27, 2000. There was a lot to do & so little time.
We went to Disney World on our Honeymoon. It was magical!
I worked at the hotel until November 2000 when I was in an auto accident & hurt my back. I have a degenerative disk & am not able to work full time anymore.
Soon after we married I went to the dr learned that I had some cysts & needed to have surgery. So I had that done. When the dr was done she told us that there was no way I'd ever have kids. This was heart breaking to me. Here I was newly married & was told I wouldn't be able to have kids of my own. I was told I had endometriosis, a fibroid tumor & PCOS. I went to another dr & was told the same thing. This time the dr told me I needed to have a hysterectomy. Of course I didn't do it. I ended up going to a 3rd dr. This dr said yes there was hope. She put me on monthly lupron shots. When after a year I still hadn't gotten pregnant she sent me to a specialist. Dr D was wonderful. The first time I meet her she said that she would do everything she could to make our dream come true. First off she did surgery to remove the tumors & cysts. We decided to go with the IVF program. The first time we tried IFV it was not a success. My eggs were not healthy & in fact I just had one semi good egg. We fertilized it & implanted it. I soon lost the baby. So we tried again a year later. This time I had several good eggs. We had 5 that became embryos. Because of the last experience we never dreamed that it would go so well. We ended up using one & freezing the other 4. I carried that baby until 7 weeks & 1 day. It was Due December 12, 2005. I lost it on April 25th 2005. It was a hard thing for me to go through. I started believe those other drs were right. I went through a depression. I ate maybe once a day & not much at that. I didn't leave the house or anything. except when I had too. I met a lady online names Melissa. She too had just lost her baby on the same day I did & her due date had been the same. We bonded right off.
In June I found this parenting website called Expressive Parents. The ladies there were awesome! Their friendship is nothing like I ever had. All of these ladies became special friends to me. I'm thankful for them. They helped me get through a very difficult time in my life.
In March of 2006 we decided to try the IVF 1 more time. We planned to use the frozen embryos. We decide that if they didn't work that we wouldnt try IFV again because it was such an emotional roller coaster. Personally I wasn't sure if I could handle another miscarriage. So in April I started taking the shots again. I hated sticking myself with needles. But if it worked I was willing to try. We actually did the the transfer on May 2nd. That morning they took all 4 embryos out of the freezer. One did not survive the thawing but the other 3 did. So we implanted all 3. Then two weeks later we found out I was very, very, very pregnant. A few weeks later I had my first u/s & we learned we were having triplets. I'm not sure who was more surprised!! I was so happy! At 9 weeks I started spotting one morning. By the time I got to the dr I learned that I had lost one. That after noon I had to go to a family get together with my father in law. He knew I had lost the baby but thought that the get together might help get my mind off of things. We decided not to tell anyone yet that I had lost the baby. All afternoon the family was buzzing with excitement of having triplets. I was some what down. I was scared to death that I would loose the other two. When I made it to the 2nd trimester I was sent to a regular OBGYN dr. Dr D was the other Dr D's brother in law. He was wonderful! Kevin says he reminds him of Wilford Brimley. lol And I have to admit they look a lot a like. Being pregnant with twins through IVF I was high risk. As a precaution I was sent to yet another specialist for high risk pregnancy (at 15 weeks) so that I could be regularly monitored. It was a good thing I went because on the first visit I was told that I had to have emergency surgery to have a circlage put in the next day. Which happened to be a Saturday. We later found out that the hospital normally doesn't allow this type of surgery done on Saturday because they like to keep the OR open for births. But they also said that had we not found this in time I would have lost both babies. At this time we found out that one of the babies was a boy. That was Baby B. (aka Landon) A few weeks later we found out that Baby A (Austin) was also a boy. I'd love to be able to say that the rest of the pregnancy was uneventful but it wasn't I was put on bed rest from then on out.
In August I started bleeding again. I woke up in the middle of the night bleeding. It felt just like I had started my cycle. Kevin rushed me to the ER. I was 19 weeks pregnant at this time. They admitted me. Dr D was away in Hawaii on vacation so I saw another Dr on call. I spent a week in the hospital before they could figure out why I was bleeding. They finally learned that baby A's sack had a blood clot in it & everything was ok. So I was sent home to do nothing but rest. I went to see Dr D weekly by this time & I went to the specialist twice a week to be monitored. Things were going great & I was getting as big as the house. Friends had started planning my baby shower for October. Well the end of September came along & I started having horrific pains. I couldn't stand it. I hurt so bad. Kevin was gone & I was home alone one day. I called my grandparents to take me to the dr. They took me to the ER & we found out I was in labor. The babies were not due until January 19th & this was the last week in September. I was about 25 weeks pregnant at this time. I was scared that I'd loose them both. They started giving me shots to control the contractions. As long as I had the medicine in my system I was fine, but the minute it wore off I had more contractions. So they put me on a medicine pump. After spending a little over a week in the hospital I got to go home a few days before my shower. This time I wasn't allowed to be left alone. So now when Kevin went out of town (which was Monday-Friday) I had to go stay with my grandparents. They, my aunt & my father in law would take turns taking me to the dr. Other than having a hard time breathing & sleep apnea I did great the rest of the pregnancy. The boys were born December 22, 2006 at 36 weeks. There were 5 sets of twins born that day & they were the only set that did not have to go to NICU. I got to take them home Christmas Morning. It was the best Christmas I ever had.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Testing New Blog
Today I started a new blog on this blog site. This is a test blog just to see how I like it.
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