Ranchin...

My kids are Ranch Dressing addicts. Alexis and I picked up a pizza on the way home yesterday. As soon as we sat down, she jumped up to grab the ranch. After she had squirted some on her plate, Daniel started pretending to dip his pizza and started signing "more! More!" an reaching for the ranch! So I put a bit on his tray and he gobbled it up! He kept asking for more and more until I finaly had to put it away haha

Alexis wanted pizza in her lunch today, so I went into the fridge this morning to grab a slice for her....couldn't find it! Looked all around, i had put it in a fairly large container, where was it?

Finaly I looked in the cupboard where the container is kept when it's empty...sure enough, there it was. In the cupboard, full of spoiled pizza!

So, Alexis got the cold lunch at school today :) She loves that trix yogurt they always have, full of sugar haha

no wonder he always looks cracked out!

Ass supplement

I've started drinking this protein supplement, Myoplex. It has 42 grams of protein in a 17oz drink with only 310 calories. I wonder how many I'll have to drink before I have abs like the guy on the box? It says it's "great tasting", I would like a moment for rebuttal. It tastes a bit like ass. So I hold my nose and down it goes.

Alexis is obsessed with eating snow. She was outside for 1/2 an hour last night just scooping up snow and eating it.

Daniel loves soup. He will sit and sign/say more, more!! He especially loves the soup I canned last fall. I'll have to make more soon, I only have 4 quarts left.

Ignorance is bliss

Yesterday morning I was SO hungry on the way to work that I stopped at McDonalds. Afterwards, I decided it would be a good idea to look up the nutritional information for my breakfast. It turns out it was not a good idea. At least if I wanted to keep having McDonalds for breakfast! 1390 calories and 63 grams of fat later... McDonalds is off the list. wow!

So for lunch I had the turkey soup I had made Sunday and dinner was butternut squash with sauteed onions and a protein shake. Hopefully I made up for it a little.

Alexis was SO tired after school today, when I walked in at 5:30 to pick her up she burst into tears because she and Mr. Kevin were going to play basketball. She gets so emotional when she's tired. When we got home I gave her a peanut butter sandwich and some of my smoothie and sent her to bed. Poor thing is having trouble with her eczema too. I made her an appointment next week for her 5 year old physical and to get her tested for allergies. I know eczema can be an allergic reaction to a food...let's hope it's nothing big so we can correct it easily!

Daniel was his usual sunny self until he got tired, he always starts throwing things if he gets too tired. He's learning how to draw out bedtime cause I'm a sucker hehe When he's ready for bed, I cradle him in my arms and we sing "Jesus Loves Me" and then he gets put in bed. He knows if he sits up in my arms during the last line, wraps his arms around me and puts his head on my shoulder that he'll get more cuddles and another song before I lay him down. I'm so blessed with such an easygoing baby. When I lay him down he looks for his baby, his water and I cover him with his blanket and say "night night!" he says "ni niii..." and closes his eyes.

Poor Barney the cat. He'll be 15 in March. We think he has a stomach cancer like his mom did. He used to be close to 20lbs, now he's lost so much weight, it's crazy. He can still jump over the baby gates, but he'll sit in front of them and mrowr a little for us to open them if we're in the kitchen. He doesn't seem able to eat the solid food anymore. We've been pureeing his food for a few weeks now. My baby kitty is an old man now. *sniff*

On the blog again

Ok, so don't actually have interesting things to write about other than my kids.

Daniel has been a real jokester lately! He loves the wiggles. Jeff Wiggle is apparently narcoleptic and falls asleep at a moments notice. When the other wiggles have noticed Jeff is sleeping they say "one, two, three....WAKE UP JEFF!" and Jeff will jump awake. Daniel will now crook his head to one side and do this loud, open mouth snore-with his eyes wide open-until Alexis or I say "one, two, three....WAKE UP DANIEL!", when he will put his head straight and reward us with a sweet grin only to go back to sleep, seconds later. He has such a good belly laugh.

At Church we have a 'secret sister' where we get a name of another woman in our church. Over the course of a year we send little gifts and cards to them, and pray for them. We reveal who our secret sister has been at Christmas time. My new secret sister sent me a fluffy scarf that is open in the middle so you could wear it like a hood as well as a scarf. I went into Alexis' room last night to tuck her in and she was wearing my scarf for pajamas. She looked like a little worm with my blue and green scarf around her whole body.

When I started researching my band surgery I found a great site, ObesityHelp.com. I have learned more from those people than any one doctor could possibly know. On New Years, a friend posted a "New Rears Eve" challenge, challenging us all to post our new butt pictures so we can compare later in the year.

My butt actually fits into the too small jeans that I got from Mona for Christmas!
I had 2cc put into my 10cc band last Tuesday, that was quite a trip!
It turns out my port, which is under my skin and where the saline is injected, was almost turned completely over! "Oh dear!" you say? No, no! They'll just pull my insides around until it's flipped back over! I went to my happy place while they repeatedly poked me trying to slip that 2cc into my band. I'm glad it was under flouroscopy or it could have been even worse!! I'm glad that only happens once a month right now.

Alexis is 5!!

Alexis turned five years old today! After school we went to see SANTA! What a treat to get to see Santa on your birthday!



Daniel wasn't so thrilled, but Santa understood.





We had a great time at Chuck E. Cheese! We rode the roller coaster,

ate cotton candy (thanks junkfood Grandma!),

Gave hugs to the mouse himself,


And had a GREAT time with family!










What a great birthday!

Halloween Tricks

Tuesday was halloween! Alexis went dressed as Stephanie from Lazytown. She had a party at school, then all the kids had a big parade around the neighborhood. After picking up Daniel, we went to my Dad and Stepmoms. They live out in the sticks, so we were their only trick or treaters, but they still dressed up like mummies for us! After Papa and Lori's, we went to Papa and Grandmas for trick or treating with Aunti Karen, Mike, cousin Catie, her friend Erin and us! Things were going very well for about an hour, when the temp dropped sharply. Poor Daniel was freezing, even though he had on a shirt, jacket, flannel costume with hood, mittens and thick slipper shoes, and was making little cry noises, so I took him out of the stroller and stuck him in my shirt. He was still makeing little noises when all of the sudden, he made one BIG noise and PUKED ALL OVER ME. Couldn't believe it!So there we are....1/2 mile from my inlaws....i have to walk back, 21lbs of baby on my front along with milk, hot dog and the culprit Augmentin, all over my front. I thought Mike was going to be the next to throw up, while Karen was laughing so hard I though she might pee her pants. Trick for me!!! The treat came later after I had drove 30 minutes back to lansing, put Daniel and Alexis to bed, i finaly got to strip and take a shower. EW

Football Tragedy

So alexis and I went to Eaton Rapids homecoming game tonight....ouch
Final score: Eaton Rapids 6, Ionia 48.
Alexis had fun which was good :) She sat with Uncle Doodoo and Catie, and snuggled with Papa when it started getting too cold. She got ahold of a pom pon and was shaking it in everyones face...and bopped one of Andys friends in the mouth! she was feisty around all those teens! Papa didn't help though, telling her to put Andy in a headlock and give him noogies hehe