Baltic Amber Teething Necklace

Has anybody ever tried these? I ordered one for Elyse today. What it is?  It is Baltic Amber. Uses- relieves pain due to teething. I've read all types of reviews and people seem to think it really helps. Elyse seems like she might be teething. She chews on everything, even bites down really hard on her gums. Plus she seems a little fussy, too. She's not typically a fussy baby, and she's not running a fever, so I'm assuming her teeth are moving up. I'll let you all know what I think of them after they get here and we try it out!

Happy Independence Day

This year I decided to take the kids to the fair grounds for water games. The  sad thing is, is there weren't any... All they had was the fire trucks, which is pretty lame!! They usually have a lot to do! Alex and Jonathon loved it!! Cam was too scared, and Elyse is just a baby. She didn't appreciate getting sprayed with the cold water (they kept spraying us..). While Jonathon was running through the water, one of the firemen decided he was going to walk across the grass to spray some people who were standing on the outside of the water being sprayed. What he didn't notice was Jonathon standing behind him, and he proceeded to walk, running Jonathon over with the big, heavy fire hose!!  He'd stopped walking, but Jonathon was pinned, by his neck, under the hose!! I was rushing over to free him when his cousin Davis ran over to him and pulled the hose off of him. He was scared and so was I. Thank heavens Davis and I were paying attention because the fireman was NOT! Jonathon was unable to remove the hose himself. It really could've been bad. 

Danny is working tonight, so the older boys get to go to the fireworks with Grandma Markosek. They are so excited!! I'm going to stay home with the little ones so they can sleep. I wish I could go, but to save my sanity, I'm staying home. Jonathon get's super fussy around 7:30. I couldn't imagine keeping up until 9:30, 10:00!! Maybe next year we'll all be able to celebrate together! (We can only hope..)

My Funny Kids.

My mother in law just told me I should start keeping a little journal of the things my kids says. The truth is, they are honest, smart, and hilarious! Alex can keep me in stitches all day! One day we were over at Aunt Lara's house talking about girl stuff, like periods, manicures, pedicures, and Alex was just in a crappy mood!! I finally asked him, "Dude! Why are you so cranky?!" and his answer... "Because I haven't had a period, a manny, or a peddy!!" I laughed so hard I cried! He just didn't understand why this was so funny. He was dead serious! More recently, I was in my bikini. I'm not going to lie.. I just had a baby and still have my post baby body. It's not pretty.. But, we were going to go swimming in our pool. I'm allowed to let my fat hang out in my own back yard. He looks at me and says, "mom, you need to work out more." Me, "I know, Alex." Alex, "you're getting fat." Me, "Geese, Alex! Thanks!" Alex,  "no, really, Mom, you are!" Me, "no really, Alex thankyou! Now go away...". I'd be completely offended if it were to come from anybody else. My kids blame the bad the things they do on a "ghost". Our house tends to become full of paranormal activity when the boys are bad. There are ghosts EVERYWHERE!! They even push the boys down, they hit, and they steal toys (gasp!). They steal food out of the pantry and give it to the boys. It's horrifying, lol! Cam calls Delilah "Diarrhea" and he has "itchy palmades" I have no idea what that is, but it's a very serious disease! He wants to eat "eagers" for breakfast, which Alex just translated into "anchors". Yesterday, I was just watching some t.v. with Danny and Cam comes up to me and asks, "mom, can I have some coffee? I'm sleepy..." I don't drink coffee. Danny does when it's cold outside. He prefers it over hot chocolate. It made me laugh! I wish I could remember all the funny stuff that they've said. I'm going to do what Grandma Trudy told me and write this stuff down. They're funny little boys!

Girls Shopping Day :)

Since Father's Day is Sunday, I decided I would go to walmart to get Danny a present. I left the boys with Grandma then Elyse and I went to Mesquite. While there we got Elyse's ears pierced. I was a little nervous... I have my ears pierced, but it's been so long that I have no idea what it felt like. It has been 20 years!! (I feel so old when I can say something happened 20 or more years ago!). I then thought of immunizations! No way getting her ears pierced would be as painful or stressful as those are!  She did good! She sat on my lap while two ladies pierced both ears at the same time. She was upset for a minute or so, then she was perfectly fine! I gotta say, she looks adorable! I don't dress her in a whole lot of pink, I'm not a huge pink fan, so I get asked a lot if she's a boy or a girl. Even though she looks like a girl. I don't dress her in boy clothes, all of her clothes are girly, but she wears a lot of blue and yellow. So, of course that makes her a boy, right?! GGRRRRR.... Anyhoo..  She looks so cute with her little 14 KT gold pink heart CZ earrings :) . It was so not a big deal! After getting her ears pierced, we got her some new onesies. It's too hot for any actual clothing this time of the year! Got Danny's present, which is a pool! I can't wait to lounge around in it for the rest of the Summer, even though my body is so NOT swim suit ready right now. I don't care.... I'm going to let the flabby flab all hang out so I can get a tan. Then, we got some hot and ready's and came home. I gotta say... I LOVE SHOPPING! I spent all my spending money for the next two months on our pool, but it'll be worth it when I'm tan and the kids are happy!

How Can Somebody Be So Evil?

  I don't know if you've heard of the Jodi Arias trial, or not. I've been completely sucked into it!!  I'm going to share my thoughts and what my theory is what happened that evening and what she says happened. 

First of all. She is so full of crap! She wouldn't know the truth if it slapped her in the face! What she said when she was brought in for questioning about his death. "I haven't been to Mesa (AZ) since April. I wasn't any where near there."  Interrogator "What if I told you I had photographic and DNA evidence that you were there?" Arias, "Are you sure it was me? I was no where near Mesa at that time, I hadn't been there since April.". Interrogator-" Yes you were your DNA was mixed in with his.". Interrogator leaves, Arias starts singing and does a handstand on the carpet.

Next story, because she was there. She was heading to Utah to meet up with a guy. When she told Travis he told her to come To Mesa first, so she did. When she got there, there were two Caucasian people there in ski masks. Travis was on the floor screaming, there was blood everywhere and one of them held a gun to her head and pulled the trigger and the gun misfired. So she took off running down the stairs and out of the house, where she left Travis to die. She stuck with this story for a couple of years.

Next story. What she said "really" happened. Like I said there was photographic evidence of her being there. So, she was there, Travis invited her. They had sex took a bunch of risky pics of each other, he gets in the shower and she starts taking pics of him. They were trying different poses for her portfolio. He then got mad, lunged after her, she ran into his closet, got a gun and shot him. First of all, he didn't own a gun. Secondly, the same caliber gun that she used to shoot him was the same caliber gun that was "stolen" from her grandparents house one week prior. (will get into that story when I go into my theory of what really happened.) She didn't remember stabbing him 29 times or slitting his throat and nearly decapitating him. she "was in a fog". And- autopsy report said that  he was already dead by the time he was shot. in his head....

 My theory. About two weeks prior to his murder he and Jodi had gotten into a huge fight. He told her she was evil and the worst thing that ever happened to him (was he wrong? no!). Nobody knows what she'd done, but him and her. One week later, a her grandparents home was "broken" into where a few items were stolen including a .25 caliber hand gun. She makes plans to head to Mesa before she heads to Utah. He doesn't know she's coming and she goes right before so she somewhat has an alibi. She was out traveling on her way to Utah and got lost and drove over 100 miles out of her way (she left messages on his cell phone after she killed him and this was one of the messages she left). She'd rented a car, dyed her hair brown when it was dyed blonde before and on her rental car she'd turned the license plates upside down. She did these things so she wouldn't be recognized. She had filled five-five gallon gas tanks up with gas so she wouldn't have to stop for gas on her way to AZ. She drives all night and gets there about 4:00 in the morning he's awake, in his office watching youtube videos. I think she was hoping he'd be in his bed asleep where she could just kill him and head out. But, he was awake. She stood in the office door way watching him for 30-60 seconds before she said anything to him.According to her they had sex in the office and went to bed, woke up at about 1:00 p.m. had sex again and I'm assuming they ate lunch and whatnot. He goes and takes a shower, I think that she'd pretended to leave and he thought she'd done so. He's in the shower she comes in and starts taking pictures (which does not know. The flash is not on in these photos) then he realizes she is taking pictures of him. In the picture he looks completely surprised, like "you're still here? and what are you doing?" It was two minutes later that the camera snapped a picture of her shoe and the bottom of her pant leg standing over his profusely bleeding body. Another picture seconds later of his body being dragged across the floor. He fought like crazy for his own life. His hands and arms covered in defensive wounds. He tried to run... Now, if what she said was true, he was attacking her, she would've had to run out of his bathroom, through the bedroom, down the hallway, down the stairs, into the kitchen, where she got the knife and then back up the stairs, down the hall way, through the bedroom, into the bathroom, where he still was? If her life was in danger like she said it was, don't you think that he would've been chasing right behind her? I'm assuming he was a faster runner, he was bigger than her, and stronger. Don't you think that this would've had a completely different ending if that were true? And if he was, wouldn't you have just kept running out the front door? It was 5:30 p.m.. People are just getting home from work at this time. You could find help! I think that she had the knife somewhere on her while she was taking pics of him. Either tucked in her pants, or tucked in her bra. She took pics because in her sick twisted mind she wanted to be the last person he saw before he died and she wanted it to be evidence of the last time she saw him before he died. The first place she stabs him was in the heart. He comes out of the shower coughing up blood all over the bathroom sink. He starts running down through the bathroom hallway where I think he collapsed, she slit his throat, drags him back to the shower, just tossing him in there. naked, just, yeah. Shoots him in the head with her .25 caliber, deletes all the photos off the camera, sticks it plus bloody sheets and towels into the washing machine. Starts it. Washes the knife she used in the dishwasher and leaves.

Now, what do you think happened? I think she was a psycho, cold hearted woman! and that's putting it nicely...

Why Do I Get Myself Worked Up So Much?

Today we went to the specialist. I've been dreading this day since we left the hospital! I went in thinking the very worst! I relived our hospital experience and wanted to cry! I thought they would start poking Elyse with needles, prodding her and just doing all these horrible things, that they need to do, as doctors, but horrible for everybody involved. I made my very sleep deprived husband go with me, because I had to do the hospital thing by myself. No way I was doing it again, by my self. I also feared i wouldn't like her doctor. I'm picky about doctors. I've switched pediatricians three times, and OBGYN's once. I don't go to the doctor until I feel like I might die! I think doctors should all be people persons and pediatricians SHOULD be kid and baby people! That's just the way it's supposed to be!! Back to the specialist.... I really liked him! He talked to us like we were people, not stupid people, just people. He further explained the diagnosis. He told us they'd do an ultra sound in three months and the dye (can't remember the technical name for this) when she's one year old. She has to stay on antibiotics until she's one. They'll up her dosage with growth, then hopefully in a year, everything will be all good! No more reflux is what I'm hoping for!!

Here is Elyse being born. The cool thing about a c-section is you can take a pic of it!! I remember when I was in labor with Cam, it was only Danny and I in the hospital and my nurse was taking the pics and asked if I wanted any of him coming out. "No!" is basically what I said. Could you imagine that picture? YUCK! I didn't want to scar anybody for life, lol! C-sections, unless an open belly bothers you, it's kind of cool.  

Below is Jonny and Elsye. When she's on the floor playing he's not ever very far away. He loves her so much! He cant wait until she is big enough to play with him!

One Scary Day

Last week Elyse came down with a mysterious fever. All of the boys had had the same thing happen. They ran a fever for a short amount of time, then it went away and they got better within a day. When the same thing happened to Elyse I thought it was just the bug the boys had all had. Her fever would come and go and did this for three days when I decided to call her doctor. Her fever was never really high, but I just wanted to check things out because she is so young.  We go into the dr the next day, on Friday. I had the a/c on in the back of my car, so there was no explanation other than fever as to why she was so warm. I took her out of her car seat to go up to the office because she's getting heavy in that thing!! She felt extremely warm to the touch and her face was red.  She hadn't been crying or anything, she was asleep. We get called back by the nurse and she weighs Elyse, and she was 9 lbs 9 oz. She took her temp and it was 104!!! Her Dr. was standing right there and said you need to get her to Summerlin Hospital immediately!! We went into the examining room, and I was crying my eyes out! Dr. Mendoza checked her out quickly to see if it was her ears or throat causing the fever, but they were fine. We left as he called the hospital to let us know we were on our way. I called my family to let them know that Elyse was sick and we were on our way to the hospital. I cried the whole drive, sometimes having difficulty seeing through my tears!! We get to the hospital and were taken back to the pediatric E.R. immediately where they started testing as soon as we got in. They gave her a big dose of tylenol, drew her blood, started an I.V., put a catheder in and got some urine (it was cloudy), then, worst of all, they did a spinal tap! They did a quick urine test and determined that it was a UTI and informed me that she had to be on IV antibiotics for seven days. SEVEN DAYS in the hospital!! They started antibiotics and she was admitted. I cried so hard that day!! Her uncle Chris and uncle Nathan gave her a wonderful blessing that I cried through. I cried so much that my head throbbed! We spent the next seven days in the pediatric unit. Our first night, Elyse didn't sleep a wink and she pulled out her first IV. They replaced her IV and she slept for an hour, in bed with me... I hate sleeping with infants! I was so scared I was going to smother her... Our time there was pretty uneventful. Just IV antibiotics, a lot of napping, and sitting around. I did go to target on our third day. I had one pair of jeans that Elyse had pooped on. I was gone an hour...  On the day we were getting released the pediatrician came in and said they were going to inject dye into her bladder to see if they were backing into her kidneys because an earlier ultrasound showed that her kidneys were swollen. We got wheeled down to radiology where they did the test. It came back that her bladder was backing up into her kidneys. On a scale of 1-4 of severity she was at a 2. So, she is on antibiotics, once a day to prevent infections. We have to go see a kidney specialist. Should be fun.... My hopes are that it will just correct itself with time, but if not, we're looking at surgery. Thank heavens we know what's going on and can be proactive. It breaks my heart to have my eight week old go through this crap, but luckily, she wont

remember any of it.