Banning the Binky! Day 2

So the first whole day without the bink went resonably well.  She did ask for it first thing in the morning and a few other times during the day.  I went shopping with the oldest girlie, and when I got home she had a bink in her mouth!  I flipped out, took it from her and told her no more bink.  I asked were she got it but no one knew, How the heck did she get it?  The damn thing was on the window ceil in the kitchen above the sink!  She didn't like that I took it from her but she handled it pretty well I gotta say.  I was worried about how things would be come bed time.  The older two wanted to sleep in the basement and so did Kara but I told her no, I think she was more unhappy about that then not having her binky!  She wimpered for a second after I told her she couldn't have her binky.  She sat with her daddy on the couch to watch tv (futurama if you need to know).  Within minutes she was asleep, with no binky!

Night Number 2 was successful!  She didn't wake up once all night (she must have been exhausted!) and she has yet to ask for her binky today.  I hope tonight goes just as well.  I'm so proud of how wonderful she is doing my only problem I am having is if I tell her how proud I am of how well she is doing she may end up asking for her binky and I just want to keep her mind off of it.  So you see my problem here?

Have an Oh So Wonderful Day!
Catrina

not my intentions....

Is it just me or.... Has this blog seemed to turn more into a weight loss blog?  I never intended it to happen that way but I guess since starting this weight loss journey it has incompassed most of my life.  Believe me, I know my family gets tired of me talking about the weight I've lost or how I can't eat this or that because there are to many calories in it. 
I had decided this morning that this were going to be different I was going to get up early, doing a bit of laundry, empty the dishwasher out, clean up a little bit, and then exercise for (at least) 30 minutes, since I didn't exercise yesterday.  But as I went to bed (later then normal), my Oh So obnoxious 2 year old decided that she wasn't ready for bed and stayed up until 2am!  Little miss Carly woke up multiple times last night as well and to top it all off I just could not sleep worth a crap!  And if that wasn't all bad enough, the school bus was early this morning and I had to drive Devin to school.  So today we started off horribly bad!  But I did start doing laundry, got the dishwasher emptied and took a nap (sorry I had to!)  But now I still need to exercise and do all the other things I wanted to do, like try to attempt to potty train my 2 year old who, hates to be wet but pees in her underwear every chance she gets....   Maybe this is a sign that she is just not ready yet?  And yet I just received another sign.  I had to take a break from writing this post because Kara woke up from her nap is sering pain.  The poor thing has another ear infection!  That is her third ear infection this year alone.  The poor baby is really upset right now, extremely cranky and just down right miserable right now...  I feel so bad for her, she is in a lot of pain...

I'm sure I'll share more tomorrow.

Have an Oh So Wonderful Night!
Catrina

Me and My Crazy Kids....

So its been a while since I last posted some pictures of the kids and I.  So how about a little up-e-date?

Me?

I'm doing good. I'm tired (as always) but I'm managing to function some how (not sure how).  Taking care of the children's.  I'm exercising and the weight and inches are coming off!  The picture above shows me wearing a shirt that as you can see is baggy on me. Well the last time I wore it, it was tight all over.  So I'm sure you can understand my excitement.  I don't want to get into it to much since tomorrow is sucking it in saturday and we can talk about it more then :)

Devin?

Devin is doing well.  She is doing good in school. Although she is constantly telling us she is bad in certain subjects she really isn't but for some reason she believes she is.  She has yet another cavity that needs to be filled and will eventually need braces.  She use to be so excited about braces, wanting them  before her adult teeth started coming in but now she doesn't. Go figure I don't understand kids...

Brooke?

I think Brooke is going through a growth spurt, this child is constantly eating!   She's still her drama queen self and still very emotional.  I hope its just a phase but I guess only time will tell.  She is extremely interested in playing Nick Jr. Games on the computer right now.  She has learned a lot from pre-k and is doing so well in spelling.  She can spell her first name, last name and her sister Kara's name. She is turning 5 soon. They grow up so fast!  If you have kids of your own then you already know this don't you?  Of course you do!

Kara?

What can I say about my Karbear?  She is an extremely active 2 year old! She loves her binkie and her blankey and refuses to potty train.  She is a stubburn little butt monkey!  But her smile keeps me from being mad at her.  She loves to be naked, even during these cold winter months and no matter were we go she trys to take her shoes off (even at the store).  When she is shirtless we call her gibby and she loves it! (iCarly reference).  She has piercing ice blue eyes that can melt your heart!

Carly?

My baby bundle... Carly is doing a lot better since her stay in the hospital due to RSV, Bronchiolitis and Pneumonia.  Her breathing is noticably better.  She doesn't even sound sick anymore.  She needs to get an updated x-ray to make sure her lungs are clear but I don't doubt that they are.  She's on the move now a days learning to scoot and crawl.  She is extremely close to sitting up on her own. and she has 2 teeth.  She wants to be held all the time which doesn't allow me to do much, unless I can find a way for her to be occupied with her toys.  Thankfully she likes playing (sometimes haha).

And there you have an update on me and the kids. 

Have an Oh So Wonderful Day!

Catrina

Potty Training kids...

If you've read my blog at all or even my bio you already know I have 4 kids, girls to be exact. For a lot of things I have already dealt with it with the 2 older girls, you know things like being sick, milestones, first teeth, potty training, learning the alphabet, getting rid of the binkie and other such obsticles that parents go thru. 
Well can some one please explain to me why after already doing it with 2 other children, why on earth am I having complications potty training and weaning Kara off the binkie? 
Devin was easy to train, she hated to be dirty so it worked out perfect when she pee'd her pants because she hated it and in 3 days she was completely trained.  Brooke on the other hand could care less if she was dirty so, it took slightly longer to train her but it wasn't to complicated or difficult.
I've been on both sides of the fence with potty training having one extremely easy and one harder.  But Kara on the other hand is a totally different story, this kid will go potty in the toilet (big or little), she will tell you when she has gone.  The problem?  Most of the time she hates wearing underwear, and obviously she will pee in her underwear, for some reason she just doesn't want to potty train......  What am I doing wrong here?  No seriously this isn't just a ritoricle question, what am I doing wrong here?  What worked for you?  What made your potty training experience a success?  Also I am not to keen on giving candy as treats for peeing.
I know I haven't tried "everything" just yet but I just need to figure out how in the world to get her interested in potty training and wanted to be a big girl.  If anyone has any suggestions give them to me please! :)

Have an Oh So Wonderful Day!!
Catrina

I don't really think this was my intended post...

I'm just not sure what to say here today because well so much is not going on, haha. Devin, oh my poor Devin she has yet another ear infection. The poor girl has been having so many problems with her ears for the past few months that I have a feeling she may end up getting another set of ear tubes placed, and if she does this will be her 3rd set of tubes. She is again on antibiotics (isn't there like a rule that they aren't suppose to have antibiotics to much?) well she has an appointment with the ENT in March so I will be able to update you on whats going on with that, then.

Kara, oh man Kara, what do I tell you about her? Well lets see she is 2 years old, so yeah she is going through the terrible two's for sure. Tantrums are her new thing right now, along with getting into everything and doing everything that she shouldn't be doing. I bet your wondering what kind of things she's doing that you know she shouldn't be? Well lets see how about, eating cat food, eating yogart off the carpet, washing her hands and face in her food (at basically every meal!) you know the normal stuff (haha).

Theres really not much to update with Brooke because other then the fact that she is very sensitive, not much is going on with her. Right now she honestly has to be my most quite child seriously!

Yeah I said Brooke was my most quite child you know why? Because Carly whines alot! Why? Because she wants to be held constantly and not just by anyone by me! I try to get her to spend time in her frog jumper and she will for a few moments, and I try to get her to spend time on her play mat and thats last a little bit to but then she rolls onto her tummy and instead of rolling back to her back she gets angry and cries until someone picks her up, yeah your thinking well why don't you just roll her back onto her back? Guess what I thought about that too, it doesn't work trust me!

So yeah I don't know if you were coming here looking for an update on my kids but guess what you got one (haha)

Have an Oh So Wonderful Day!
Catrina

My 2 year old...

This is my 2 year old with a Chicken Nugget from Meijers.

This is my 2 year old taking a bite of said Chicken Nugget.
This is my 2 year old realizing that the sauce on the Nugget is not only spicey but Super HOT!

This is my 2 year with a mouth that is probably on FIRE!

Not a Happy 2 year old - panting like a dog because her mouth is on FIRE!!

Have an Oh So Wonderful Day!

Catrina

Its her Birthday and she'll do what she wants to.....

Happy 2nd Birthday

Kara Jennifer!

2 years ago today at 7:21pm I gave Birth to a 7lb 2oz baby girl
She was 19 3/4 in long, with dark curly hair and blue gray eyes

She is now a walking, talking toddler who amazes me everyday

with the things she does and says.

She Brightens my day with her smile!

Her 2 year check up isn't until the 15th so I can't give you her new

stats yet. I'll update them next week.

Have a Great Day!

Catrina

Did you ever figure it out??

Did you ever figure out what the pictures were of in this post? No one posted any guesses so I was just wondering if everyone was stumped.

Well I finished it and I will finally tell you that it was.....

A Tutu Dress for Kara's 2nd Birthday Party

I'll be posting more pictures and having another photo shoot with her but I just did a quick shoot with her because I finished the dress.

I need to iron out the dress and make it a little more presentable and not one hot mess. But I gotta admit I love it!
Kara loved getting her picture taken but she also loved her shoes!

I'm glad I decided to make the dress and think she looks so cute!!

and she really enjoys her dress too!

Have a Great Day!

Catrina

Ha, Who needs sleep?

I've had some interesting things happen today that made me think twice... First I had not really a rough night but Kara woke up early 3:30 to be exact I hate when she wake up that early, not nessisarily because I am up, because I turn on her Nick Jr and she watches her educational shows while the rest of sleep (yeah I'm a horrible parent for letting my kid watch tv in the middle of the night I know but seriously would you like to be up at 3:30 in the morning? yeah I didn't think so!) but when she wakes this early or issues comes with some days she doesn't want to just lay silently and watch her shows some mornings she likes to start with "Mommy, Miwk Pease!" okay Kara I'll get your milk. Then once that cup is finished she is opening the door yelling "Mommy miwk pease!" but this morning while Brooke slept in her bed Kara decided that not only was she not going to lay quitely but she was also going to open the door and turn her bedroom light on. Thankfully Brooke stayed asleep, but not me I was woken quite a few times because of the noise and other such things going on in their room. Not only that but Carly was very quite all night, she actually slept all night I'm talking like almost 12 hours! Of course I was flipping out the whole night checking on her because I was afraid she wasn't breathing. But Thankfully she was fine! After all her sleeping all night she finally woke up at 7am to eat and like most mornings I layed her in bed with me after she was done (yeah I know again I'm a bad parent for allowing my kid to sleep in bed with me) sorry she likes to sleep in bed with me in the morning . When I had to get up to get Devin ready for school Carly was chewing on her hand. When I came back up stairs after Devin left (don't worry folks the bus stop is in our driveway so I didn't go far) I noticed there was blood on Carly's blanket (she was chewing on her blanket when I came upstairs). Of course I panicked why was there blood on her blankey?? I looked in her mouth but seen nothing so I wiped her mouth with the burp cloth and again blood, what the heck is going on I was flipping out everytime I looked in her mouth there was nothing but when I wiped there was blood, finally I looked very intently in her mouth and sure enough the little butt nugget had scratched her gums while she was chewing on her hand (I just cut her nails and they are already long, no not at all they were just short and sharp).

The rest of the day or mostly the day was basically uneventful, although I have to say I thought is was absolutely sweet when Kara and Brooke come out of the bathroom and Brooke is saying how proud she is that Kara pee pee'd in the potty, I was a little shocked because well I had no clue that she needed to potty because she never told me! But I guess her big sister Brooke helped her to go potty, now how sweet is that? Very I would have to say!
Another thing happened that I'm not really sure if I am imagining it or not (because someone kept me up alot this morning) but today after Carly ate she was really crabby, had to be held and kept whining and we just couldn't figure out why? Well finally I decided maybe just maybe she was ready for bed, (of course why didn't she just go to sleep when I was rocking her?) So I took her to her room changed her diaper, changed her jammies and tucked her in and sure enough out she went! Sorry I don't think I have ever had one of my babies wanting to go to bed A) that early or B) on thier own in their bed without being rocked to sleep first. I wonder if perhaps she will sleep as long as she did last night? I hope she will but again I hope that Kara will not wake up at 3:30am either.
Today was a lazy day for me, I read alot of blogs today (in between taking caring of my kiddos) I am now following many new blogs that caught my interest.
I need to finish my project that I started this week and get it ready for Kara's party this Saturday. Which by the way did you know she will be 2 in just 2 short days? I know how crazy is it? Speaking of Birthday's okay its more like an anniversary but this month I will celebrate my first full year on my blog! Yep I've been blogging and boring you for almost a whole year can you believe it? Well time for me to go finish some unfinished work and get ready for tomorrow, no I don't have huge plans but damn I need to go to bed some time right?

Have a Great Night
Catrina