People

It's amazing to me some of the things that come out of random strangers mouths - and from the people you know too. Paul and I have 3 girls and are very happy about and with them - YES WE HAVE 3 GIRLS AND ARE JUST AS PLEASED AS PUNCH!!!! I have never in my life heard more people say to both of us - "Wow! Three girls huh - YIKES!!! Guess ya'll were going for the boy on the third one and the old man just couldn't produce." Who in their right mind feels it's okay to walk up to people and say that??? Or we get - "What's wrong with you that you can't get that boy?" How about what's wrong with you that you'd say that to a person with their girls standing there number 1 and number 2 that you think it's ok to say that period. This has actually bothered me for years. People would say it to us when we had just 2 girls. Oh wow, 2 girls, Dad's going to be in trouble....things like that. People really need to think before they speak. Maybe we're meant to have a boy one day and maybe we aren't. Maybe we'll have more kids and they'll all be girls (which both Paul and I are fully prepared for) then we'd just have girls and that would be that. We'll take what we're given and as long as a baby is healthy and grows and thrives like it's supposed to what in the world does it matter if you have 50 girls or 50 boys and that's that. So to all the people out there who think it's ok to give your two-cents just think a little - just a little before things pop out of your mouth.

Yuckity Yuck Yuck!

The sickies have descended upon us - boo. Paul and Paige have been battling that good ol cedar fever for a few weeks now but poor Paul had it terribly terribly bad. There were nights when he just couldn't breath period thru his nose and those turned into even longer nights for me and Riley (every time Daddy decided to blow his nose or do a little snoring baby Ry would be wide awake.......nice) having to listen to his poor struggle. Paige is an even sadder allergy ball but she hasn't been too too bad. Her asthma has started acting up though over the last day or two so hopefully another emergency room visit isn't in our near future. Too many scary nights of that. Maddie has been the lastest one though to get the yucks!!! Comes home from school and says she feels like she needs to throw-up (but what kid doesn't feel pukey every now and then) but apparently she meant it this time. She was laying in my lap getting me to rub her arm when all the sudden she sat up and walked off. I thought she was going to her room to lay down but Oh No......next thing we hear is SPLAT......SPLAT......SPALT....all over the bathroom FLOOR!!!! So I started telling her "Get to the toilet, get to the toilet!" Well she moved to the toilet BUT the lid was down. Threw up all over that so I say "Get to the tub sweetie, get to the tub" and that's where the carnage finally ended. Poor thing!! She's the most pathetic looking thing when she's sick like that because she only weighs about 20 pounds as it is (more like 40 lbs but she's a teeny little thing :) ) so seeing her sick is just the saddest thing ever. So into bed with toast and gatorade and water and a bucket by her bed - which she used like a pro several times that night and she eventually got some much needed rest for her poor body. She managed to not have anymore of the sickies and after 24 hours went back to school. Maddie had actually been crying that next morning when I told her she had to stay home from school....loves her school time! No one else has gotten the little virus (knock on wood)that Maddie had but if it goes around the house then I'm sure I'll be that last to get it after taking care of everyone else - very Momesque huh :) I'm just praying that Riley doesn't get any of it because that won't be ANY fun at all.

Here's to wishing us all good health around here :)

My Oh My She's Already 5......

months that is!!! Well yesterday Riley hit the 5 month mark and I just can't fathom how fast it's gone by :( She's "talking" and smiling and cooing and semi sitting up on her own and rolling over both ways and grabbing objects (and my hair :) ) and she's found her SCREAM!!!! She's still the sweetest baby though!

What a sweet 5 month old baby!!

She's over the picture taking.....

24.....Is It Natural....???

So 24 starts tonight and I couldn't be more excited!! It's been a long year without my Jack Bauer fix - there was a miny 2-hour show in November but come on that's just not enough! I'm kinda obsessed with the whole 24 scene. When Paul and I were deciding to get pregnant again I was just set on the name Jack if we had a boy - but I guess we'll have to save that for the possible next baby. Maybe my 24ness goes a bit far sometimes....I will completely stop whatever I'm doing when a 24 commercial comes on and just watch it like I've never seen it before although it just played 15 mins ago and I shush anyone who might be talking at that moment - but that's completely normal and natural right???? Jack is on my "freebie" list as well - and again I realize he's not a real person but still......

Thank God Jack's back to save us all.....
Yeah he's an ass-kicker.....


1. The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.
2. Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the goddamned bomb was.
3. If everyone on "24" followed Jack Bauer's instructions, it would be called "12".
4. Jack Bauer could strangle you with a cordless phone.
5. Jack Bauer arm once wrestled Superman. The stipulations were the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his pants.
6. Sun Tzu once wrote, "If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're f***ing dead."
7. Jack Bauer doesn't speak any foreign languages, but he can make any foreigner speak English in a matter of minutes.
8. Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.
9. In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the hell have you done with your life?
10. Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
11. When Google can't find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.
12. If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.
13. Jesus died and rose from the dead in 3 days. It took Jack Bauer less than an hour. And he's done it twice.
14. Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.
15. 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.