update

I wrote this on Sunday and here it is Tuesday and I am just posting it.

So these last couple of weeks have gone good. I am getting used to having 4 kids I think. I pretty much am done working at SMD, I trained the wife of my boss and there are a few things I might help with now and then but I don’t have to worry about day to day stuff there anymore. It seems like I have a burden lifted off my shoulders, not that I spent that much time working there, but every week I had to figure out when I was going to go over and get my "mail" (bills) and enter it into the computer, and then it seems like a week would go by and it was time to go again and I felt like I was slacking. Anyway, I am still doing my payroll twice a month which won’t be bad. They pay me so well, that it is just SO worth my time. I still stress a little trying to figure out who will watch the kids, but they are also cool with me bringing the baby so I did this last week and I just had a friend watch Kara while Trent and Tyler were at school. We use these baby sitting bucks in our ward, (it’s fake monopoly money) and we just trade that. I have built up quite the stash. It has been a lifesaver.

Albertson’s had a sweet sale last week, I wanted to take a picture of all my stuff, but I didn’t want to take it all out of the bags put it on my table, take a picture then have to reload it to take it down stairs, so no picture. I ended up getting 15 boxes of fruit snacks for free, which just made my day, they will be handy for our summer time trips. All in all I got 60 items (ok most of it was junk like cake mixes, cookie pouches, frosting, granola bars and grands!) I figured each thing averaged 22 cents.

Kyle is doing good. His hair fell out on top so he looks like a little balding man, but it should grow back because Trent'’s did the same thing. He got over his cold and I am just trying to keep him healthy along with everyone else. We (Me, Kyle and Kara) haven’t been to church since before Kyle was born and I was thinking we would go next week but I have heard that RSV is going around big time, so we might just stay home a couple more weeks. My main concern is sending Kara to nursery, she seems to have an endless cold when she attends and what ever she has she will pass on to Kyle most likely. Plus because we live so close to the church (and I have connections with a certain bishopric member) I have a little receiver thing that I can listen to Sacrament and Sunday school on. It works the best while I am laying on Kara’s bed trying to get her to nap, or the rocking chair in Kyle’s room while I am nursing. Why go to church when I can just listen from home?

Here’s a good story for you (and just more evidence of the cheapskate / weirdo that I am). 2 weeks ago I went to a Shade warehouse sale. I was with Tennille and two friends. We were looking at the swim suits and they only had Small and Extra Small tops, they were only 3 dollars each piece and we thought they would stretch, plus I thought maybe by summer I could get into it. Anyway, instead of just getting one and being good with that I got two (a black one and a purple one) because we are going to California this summer and I need more than one suit. Anyway, I was so excited. I came home and pretty much could not get the top on. It was not as stretchy as it appeared. Once I did get it on I didn’t know how I was going to get it off and almost pulled some muscles getting it off. Anyway, I came to grips that there was no way that this swim top would ever, EVER fit me. I only spent $15 on two tops, 2 bottoms and a skirt so no big loss, right? Anyway (this is the evidence part) there was another sale on President’s day. Ray had to work and I wanted to go and see if they had any large tops. I took all 4 kids (I wanted to go that bad) and it was a MADhouse. There were so many people there it was insane. Anyway, I found the swim area and there were only Extra Small tops this time. There were tons of people getting them. One girl had a purple one and she said to her friend, I will just have to make it fit. So I told them that I had bought a small black one and a small purple one and wanted to know if they wanted to buy them. I told them that I only paid $3 each piece, and they wanted them. So the girl came with me and the 4 kids to the van. I was trying to be funny and I said, I feel like I am selling drugs out of my van, Trent heard me and he is like what? You are selling drugs, - - no just trying to be funny. Anyway, the girl said "since they are selling them for $5 inside I will just pay you that." So she gave me $20 and she didn’t even want the skirt because she already had one. So, not only did I get rid of the suits, I made 5 bucks. I was so excited! Anyone want to buy a small black swim skirt?

Over the weekend My parents came up for the day and Tennille, Brett and Jack came over too. We just stayed here and hung out.

Yesterday I went to the Health department to get Tyler’s birth certificate so I can register him for kindergarten. I figured since I was there I better get Kara’s and Kyle’s. They had Ray’s b-day wrong on Kara’s so I had to pay $5.00 extra for the lady to type on the back what needed to be fixed, then Ray and I have to sign it in front of a notary, and the take it back and the state will fix it and I will get the corrected one in 6 weeks. What a pain!

Last night the kids played with play dough, it seems to be the one activity that all three can enjoy together.

3 weeks old

Kyle is now 3 weeks old, crazy. I figured I better update my blog. Things are going pretty good. I came home from the hospital that Wednesday after I had him. I have felt so much better with this delivery, I think it was the fact that the doctor did NOT use forceps on Kyle. I was on my own for two days then my mom came and helped (a ton) for a week. It was so nice to have her here, she did a lot and kept my house clean and the laundry done plus more. The carpet down stairs finally got installed while she was here so we worked on moving Trent and Tyler’s clothing and toys down stairs to their new room. First we had to go through the toys, that took FOREVER because they have so many and most are items that have small parts (LEGOS, Legos , legos, trains, lincoln logs, tinker toys, more legos - etc.) and for the past who knows how long I have just thrown everything into the toybox. Anyway, we got that all organized and down in their new room. They have a huge closet down there so I am very excited! They have done really well sleeping down there. It also seems so much quieter up stairs when they are entertaining them selves down stairs. I need to take some pictures and post them.

Kara has had a little bit of a hard time with Kyle I think. One day when I was holding him and he was facing her she yelled at him "my mommy, not yours mommy!" Later I asked her who Kyle’s mom was and she said the doctors at the hospital. She is doing a little better now and will admit that I am his mom too. We moved her into Trent and Tyler’s old room and she has been sleeping on her big girl bed (Trent’s old twin bed). She keeps telling me that she had two beds, her big girl bed and the crib (which Kyle sleeps in). She also asks frequently to hold baby Kyle and take pictures. She also likes to put "hanitizer" on (hand sanitizer).

I took Kyle to his 2 week check up last week and he was back to his birth weight plus some. The doctor said he looked perfect. The next day he got a cold. I am sure he picked it up from Kara, the day I came home from the hospital she had a runny nose and a cough and it just went away the day before Kyle got sick. I feel so bad, my tiny baby is so stuffed up and congested. He sounds horrible. We have been running the humidifier, suctioning him out with the bulb thing and spraying saline solution up his nose. It seems to be the worse at night, he just sounds like he can not breathe! I called the nurse on Friday because he seemed worse and it looked like he was having retractions (sucking in on his ribs when he took a breath) Anyway, she said given his age and the fact that it was going to be the weekend they probably should look at him. So Precia watched Kara and Tyler and I took Kyle in. His oxygen level was fine and she said that it wasn’t in his lungs (yet) and she told me to just keep doing what I was doing. I hope he gets better soon, it can take like 10 days, he is still really stuffy. I was convinced it was RSV.

It seems we have just had sickies at our house. On Wednesday night, Tyler was up 3 times saying his ear hurt, he has been having hearing issues and Ray thought he needed his ears cleaned out, so Ray took him to the Pediatrician and it turned out to be an ear infection. Kara also has had a fever on and off yesterday and today. She had a vaccine on Monday, so it could be a fever from that or maybe she is getting something, we will see. I just hope Kyle can not get anything else!