Life is crazy!

So I just got a job as the county's on-call medical assistant (the person that takes your blood pressure and gives you the shots when you go to the doctor). I am excited and have already been needed at 2 of the 5 clinics. I love this job. Also, I have signed up to go to school starting in January. Why not. I have decided that I want to get licensed as a daycare provider because seriously, Kyle would never give me fifteen kids of my own so I may as well enjoy my own + other people's kids.....ok, ok and the pay wouldn't hurt either :). Double chocolate right there. I have a lot of ambition and a lot of things I want to do and have slowly had to cut things out because there are not enough hours in the day or years in my life to do them. One of those things is re-vamping/ beautifying my house. I am ready for things to match and look good. Already I have One doorway painted and only a few more to go. First things first though, if I don't catch up on this sleep I am going to be permanently impaired, its happening already :). SO goodnight.

Busy Mommy!

Well, it's been almost a year since I've added to this blog and since I haven't been very good about keeping a journal, I am going to have a lot to say today. :) Kodiak turned 2 yrs old and Cheyanna will turn 1 in a week from today. Kodiak is cracking me up because he has become so bossy and tells Chey "don't touch that, that kodiak's, you'll be in big trouble, I'll kick your butt." Long sentence for such a little guy. The other day I told him I was going to take him to his playgroup and he yelled at me and said "mommy, get dressed now!" I asked him the other day if he was poopy and he said he doesn't poop...ok then. His favorite movie is Cars. He has almost everyone of the characters and hauls them everywhere with him. Lately he has been parking his tractors on their backs on the stairs saying they tipped over. Funny little boy.

Cheyanna has been crawling everywhere and fell down the stairs a week ago and fractured her tibia. She continues to crawl. She is starting to say words and is an exact replica of me. She teases and teases (everyone) until the person screams and then she laughs her head off. Her favorite thing to do is to sit behind Kodiak and grab his hair with both hands and pull. The louder he screams, the harder she laughs. She is definitely all girl.

Kyle is currently working as a mechanic and still working on his 4 runner (rock crawler). Although his boss has now gotten him into wanting to build a buggy (rock crawler with just a frame) and a tough truck (for racing and mud bogging.) Ambition is high at our house.

Meanwhile I am on a homemade obsession right now. Mr friend Anna has gotten me on this kick of wanting to refinish things and make all this stuff and the snowball has grown to include all my sewing, knitting, crocheting, stitching, woodworking, painting, and other crafty ambitions that have laid dormant for a few years. I am also in the middle of taking foster care classes, we are becoming foster parents. Yes, I am aware of the stereotypical danger associated with it. Also, I just got a job offer as an on call medical assistant for the county. And in February, I am auditioning for the local college's ballroom team. Needless to say I'm very busy. But I am loving every minute of it.

Another blog

I have started another blog called developingdivinenature@blogspot.com and it just has sewing and cooking and other fun ideas on it. It is a personal development blog. Hope you enjoy it.

Brotherly love...at 14 months

We (being Mom, Whitney, Myself, Kodiak, and Cheyanna) went grocery shopping today and put the carseat with Cheyanna in it in the main part of the shopping cart and had Kodiak in the seat and the groceries in another cart. Well, Kodiak has decided that he has to keep his eye on Cheyanna at all times so as we were pushing the cart, he turned around so he could see the carseat and spent almost the entire time pulling the blanket off the carseat so he could see his sister, then putting it back, just to pull it away a few minutes later. Well, then he pulled the blanket off the handle and let it fall on her lap and reached back and grabbed the handle and started rocking the carseat with her in it. It was so sweet, I can't even begin to describe how touching it was for me. I was so worried about him being jealous or something and he has been nothing but absolutely loving towards her. If I am holding her and she cries, he'll run over to see what is wrong. She dropped her binky out of her mouth in the car on the drive home and he got my attention and showed me and wouldn't stop grunting at me until she had it safely back in her mouth. He'll pull on my mom's leg when she is holding her and make her bend down to show him and then he breaks out into fits of giggle and delight. It is absolultely amazing how well he takes to her. I have never seen a little boy so attached so soon. We have only been home a day.

Cheyanna has arrived!!

Monday, September 27th, 2010, beautiful Cheyanna arrived into our lives! We drove to Mountainview Hospital and checked in at 1pm and I got ready to be induced. I was induced with Kodiak so I kinda knew what to expect but for some reason I was ten times more nervous. I got in the gown and they placed the IV and started the ptosin. The nurse was telling me that my Dr. has a gift and he sends his patients to the hospital and times it perfectly so that the baby is delivered between 5pm & 7pm (although usually closer to the latter which is shift change :). Well, I thought there was no way for her to be born within 4-6 hours. Well they started the medication and I waited a couple hours and then decided I had better get an epidural before the labor pains got too bad. So they call the anesthesiologist to come and when he shows up, he has a student working alongside him. Of course, the student needs to learn so I expected to be practiced on. Little did I know that instead of 2 tries to get the epidural in (which is what happened with Kodiak), it took 3 and even then, it was a close call (yes, that was 3 sticks with the huge epidural needle, plus several to numb it, and several pokes with a needle to determine if they were following the bones correctly.) Needless to say it took a while and it didn't feel too good. By the time they had placed it, my doctor had showed up. Turns out that after 2 hours of the medication, I had only gone up 2 cm, as is expected. Over the next hour, I had progressed 2 more. So we had expected Cheyanna not to come for at least a couple more hours (where I was only a 5). Well, the nurse started setting things up and we were laughing about how early she was setting up and how it was better to be prepared. As she was setting up, however, the pains were increasing and the epidural wasn't kicking in as strong as it should. I asked the nurse if there was any way to get a little more medicine and she said she had to check me and then we'd decide. Well, come to find out, I was now past a 10 and it had only been 45 minutes from the time I was a 5. The doctor had gone home and had to be notified to come in immediately and the nurse told me that under no conditions was I to push until the doctor showed up......he showed up minutes before she came. :) She was everything we expected and more.

Pictures don't do her justice. We had to switch rooms and in the process, discovered I had major headaches caused by a hole poked in my epidural space from all the attempts. The next day I had to have a blood patch (which is where they draw 30cc of blood out of my arm and inject it into my spine to fill in the hole and clot up) followed by lots of laying on my back. However, despite all of this, I can't help but think of how perfect this delivery was.

Birthday Boy

Kodiak had his first birthday and it was a lot of fun. Just had the inlaws over for cake but it was fun to give Kodiak cake and ice cream and let him make a mess of himself and my kitchen.

Wyoming and South Dakota

Well, the first week of July we helped my parents move to Wyoming. It was fun once we were there but the drive was the most boring, most lack of scenery, and longest of my life....and I slept for half of it. We stopped off at McDonalds for breakfast and this is what the tables were like in the play section of the restaurant.

After helping them move in, we took a trip to South Dakota and drove through Bear Country which was pretty cool. They told us to keep our window closed (wild animals, self explanatory) and there was an 8-10 year old boy in the car ahead of us leaning out the window to try and pet the Arctic wolf. Not so smart of child or parents.

We Then were able to walk through the baby animal part of the zoo and see all of them, which Kodiak loved. My favorite were all the baby bears trying to knock each other out of the trees.

We then traveled a little farther and were able to see Mt Rushmore. It was really cool but I was bummed we couldn't get closer.