My poor Ava just got over having a tummy bug along with teething, and now she has a cold and is still teething. She’s also getting these little baby zits on her face from all the snot and yuckie stuff running down her nose and then she wipes it all over before I can grab a tissue. Gotta love baby snot. Now she needs some kind of baby acne treatment or something. I’ve been putting this balm that my mom made under her nose because it’s all red and irritated from her rubbing it. Poor thing. That could probably be causing the baby zits too. She’s also going through this extremely clingy phase. She freaks out if she cannot see me or Preston. She’s also wanting to be held non stop. Of course this could be from not feeling well, but I don’t think it is because she hasn’t been like this any other time she’s not felt well. Call me a mean mommy but I refuse to pick her up every single time she cries. I don’t want to end up with one of those babies that can’t be put down and has to be carried at all times or else they throw a bloody fit. Don’t get me wrong, I do pick her up and hold her but not every single time she screams. You can tell she is just mad most of the time, that’s another reason why I think it’s a phase.
So with Ava feeling sick and uncomfortable lately, every time we get in the car she is really fussy. But… there is one thing and one thing only that will get her to stop crying every single time. Backstreet Boys. Yes. Ava loves the Backstreet Boys. It’s really funny because she will be crying and we will turn it to the one Backstreet Boys song on this mixed CD and she will be quiet instantly. It’s their newest song Inconsolable. So I’m about burned out on that song now because we’ve had to listen to it over and over. It’s also the current ringer on my cell phone. I really need to change it.
Emma on the other hand has done a complete 360 LOL 180 . I don’t know what happened but whatever it is, it’s good. She used to fuss what felt like non stop over every single thing. She was never content and it was really starting to wear on me. She would throw the biggest fits you can imagine. We’re talking like, bad. She would go from zero to sixty in a split second over the smallest things. Then, one day, she just quit. She’s a completely different baby lately. She’s so sweet and happy the majority of the time. She still has about one daily huge fit but it’s usually in the late afternoon and it only lasts a short time.
They both have always been very happy babies, always laughing and smiling and being friendly, and now that Emma stopped the fits for the most part it’s great. Now if Ava could get over this cold and get these teeth through finally I think she’ll be a lot happier. And hopefully this clingy I have to keep mommy or daddy in sight thing will go away soon. It makes it really hard to get anything done in a 3 story condo when your baby freaks the moment she can’t see you.
Anyway, I think Preston and I are going to go see The Incredible Hulk tonight. My brother is still here with us so we still get to enjoy free babysitting. The girls sleep all through the night so it’s not like it’s that hard of a job. They love their Uncle Catlin though. He’s a good babysitter. All kids love him.

I was sitting in the WalMart parking lot waiting on Preston to get out with formula, and this black woman who looked to be in her early 20s walked up to get into the car next to us. She had a very small baby girl in an infant carrier and a little boy who looked to be around 2 years old.
She opened the back door of her old car, put the infant carrier in the center back seat forward facing, NOT in a base, and NOT buckled in. She just set the carrier in the middle of the back seat and then proceeded to put the very small toddler in the back seat next to the infant carrier. She did buckle him in, but he was not in any kind of car seat or booster. I was completely baffled. She got into the drivers seat like it wasn’t any big deal and drove off.
When Preston got back to the car I told him about it and she said I should have gotten the license plate and called the police. I didn’t think of that at the time, but if she was so nonchalant about it, you can be pretty certain that she does this regularly. She didn’t appear to be in a hurry or anything… so there goes that excuse. Even if she was in a hurry, there is absolutely no excuse to but a baby and a toddler in that kind of danger.
Some people. Talk about Death insurance for her kids if she were to get into a bad accident. Those poor kids. I really hope someone else sees her putting them in the car like that and says something to her. It’s hard to believe that she might not know any better.

So, my parents have decided not to stay in Texas. They came down here this month and intended to live here, but they changed their mind. I think mostly because their house up in WA was not selling (thanks to the crap housing market up there) so, they are starting the drive back to WA tomorrow. I’m pretty sad about it, but I know it’ll work out for them how it’s supposed to. Maybe their house wasn’t selling for a reason. It wasn’t on the market for very long at all, but the realtor said it needed a lot more work then they anticipated in order for it to sell for a decent price. My sister’s boyfriend missed his family, they were very close, and my two nephews miss their daddy. And, Preston and I personally know that it is very hard for a kid to be away from their Daddy, so we really felt bad for the kids. I’m happy they will be close to their Daddy. They will be so much happier that way. So, I think it is a good thing they are going back, just to name a couple reasons. I guess TX just wasn’t right for them. Although they were not here very long, I think none of them felt right here from the start. I dunno. Like I said, I’m sad. But I’ll get over it, as long as they are happy.
So, that is what has been going on that has been stressful. They just got here this month and they couldn’t decide if they wanted to go back or not. Now that they have made a final decision, I think everyone will be a lot happier and a lot more stress free. I hope. I want my family to be happy.
Well other than that, things are great! There is a big change that is going to happen in mine and Preston’s life soon… but it’s a secret right now. I can’t tell you yet! Except family, family can know. I’ll tell everyone else when the time is right.
Alright well I’m actually on our laptop in the car right now driving with the hubby and kids to visit Preston’s parents again. We’re going to find some fun things to do down there for the rest of the week/weekend, so I probably won’t post again until Monday. I hope everyone has a good weekend!!!

p.s. I finished book 10 today, and I thought it was so good!!! It’s my favorite so far besides the first book. I can’t believe this one got bad reviews, I loved it!

Lots of things are on my mind lately, lots of things are happening lately, and none of it I want to talk about right now. Some of it is stressful and some of it is really, really good. I’m hoping I’ll be in the mood to blog more about life again soon. I’m just kind of “bleh” when it comes to blogging right now. I don’t know why. I’ll get out of it though.

So I’m up to number 10 in the series of books I’ve been reading. Number 14 just came out in hardback and I’ll probably have to wait a year to read it until it comes out in paperback. I really love hardbacks but not for novels. I have to have novels in paperback so that I can take them with me in my purse everywhere. I just bought 13 at WalMart today. I’m going to need something to read while I wait for 14. I’m thinking about Sue Grafton, but I’m not sure yet. We’ll see.

Okay, so there’s my boring blog post for the day. I feel so boring lately in terms of blogging. Bleh.

Happy Father’s Day!!!

We are visiting Preston’s parents this weekend for the holiday. It’s so nice and quiet down here where they live, I would love to buy land out here some day. Everything is so relaxed and slow. I really like visiting down here. Preston’s dad built a guest cabin that is really nice. It’s kind of like a small studio apartment. It’s very cozy and on days when I feel stressed I just want to drive on down here and relax in the cabin!

Anyway, that’s what we’re doing for Father’s Day. On Friday my parents and I went to a really awesome Trade Days market that is just huge. I loved it. I got Preston’s Father’s Day gift there. You know those little bamboo plants? I got him one with three bamboo plants in it, one for each of his little girls. And it was only $5! They had so much neat stuff there. I’m going to see about renting space there some time for my boutique. They have a couple other vendors that sell baby gifts but none that sell just bows. So we’ll see what happens with that.

Anyway, I’m going to go relax and do some puzzles in this puzzle book I got. For some reason, I bought a word fill in puzzle book the other day and now I’ve been doing puzzles like crazy. I got another book today that has all different kinds of puzzles. They are so addicting! Ashton wanted to try some puzzles but they were a little too hard for her so we got her a Nintendo DS game that has puzzles on it. It’s really fun! It’s good for kids and it gets harder as you go so it’s fun for adults too.

I hope everyone had a good Father’s Day!

Sorry I haven’t updated all week! It’s been kind of hectic around here lately.

Preston got sick the end of last week, and then I got it the beginning of this week, so I slept all day Monday. Some yuckie stomach bug or something. But anyway, now the girls both have it, plus they are teething, so they are both needing lots of extra attention.

Plus, I’ve been spending time with my mom since I’ve been apart from her for so long. I will admit, it’s a bit tense having my family staying here right now. My parents are okay but my sister and I are basically exact opposites and we butt heads on a lot of things it feels like. I don’t know. So, I think she’s pissed off at me 90% of the time. Oh well though, not much I can do about it. We just see life from two very different view points I guess. It doesn’t seem fair to go too much into it on here.

Ashton will be with us all next week which will be nice. I wish we could afford to take her somewhere fun since this is the only summer time her mother will allow with us. But, we just don’t have the money to take a big trip somewhere this time. Hopefully next summer will be better for us, if we even get to have her at all next summer. Who knows. I don’t think Ashton will mind though. She doesn’t really care what we do as long as she’s with us. She had a lot of fun last time she was here playing with my sisters 5 year and 2 year old sons. Now they miss her and ask where she is all the time, so they were excited to find out that she’ll be here for an entire week.

Anyway, that’s really all that’s been going on. I can’t even believe it’s Thursday already. The days go by so fast with this many people in the house! I don’t think it will last too long though, my dad and sister and her boyfriend have been looking for jobs and I’m sure they will find some soon because there are a lot around here. On the topic of jobs, here’s a good site for Atlanta jobs if you are in that area.

Well, I think I’m going to go relax with the hubby before he has to leave to have dinner with Ashton. Normally I would go but the girls are sick so I don’t want to make them be out all evening.

Sometimes I want to throw my cell phone out the window! There is one spot in our house where it always drops calls, it’s so weird. It works in every other place except this one spot. I can’t get a signal, and the call just drops. I need one of those cell phone amplifiers just to be able to talk in one spot! Isn’t that weird though? How could it just not work in one little tiny area and the work everywhere else? It’s irritating.