10 on Tuesday

I'm starting this early since we're heading out Tuesday. So here goes.

1. I've been following this blog recently. http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com. They update it all the time. The misspellings alone are hilarious. The funny thing is that the misspellings often times come from bakeries!
2. I asked Sarah what she's looking forward to most about Gammy's house. She told me "You going with me Mommy." How sweet.
3. Any doubt that it is indeed summer in Arizona is gone. We were so spoiled by the upper 90's temps this June but they are gone. Farewell cool mornings, hello heat waves off the black top. Welcome to the oven preheating that is July. The oven isn't completely ready until August. UGH! San Diego here we come!!!!!
4. Tested the DVD player to hang between the front seats and make sure that both earphones reach.... they do. It's a pretty cool system and we'll see how well it entertains the kids. Question is how long will Will watch Barbie????
5. Is anyone else sick of Michael Jackson yet? I don't mean his music just his news. He was a great artist but not worthy of the 24/7 news feed that has happened since his death. Is it just because news is slow right now that they drag it on and on and on. I must admit though that it is a nice change from all the political news for once.
6. I am bringing books and magazines to San Diego in hopes of finally getting caught up. I am the last in my little group to get the borrowed books - for good reason. I am a fast reader and I love to read, it's just a matter of starting the book and taking the time to read it!
7. On the subject of books, my little one is 4 1/2 and I already can't wait for her to read all the books I loved like Little House on the Prairie and Ramona Quimby and Anne of Green Gables. They are all sitting on bookshelves taking up well deserved space waiting for her.

8. My kids have long tongues, Will especially. The picture above doesn't even do him justice. He refused to stick it all the way out. Andy had him stick out his tongue yesterday and was calling him Gene Simmons. Maybe he has a future as a crazy rock star - fantastic.


9. Sarah slept in a little Ikea tent in her room in her sleeping bag last night. It was very cute but she only lasted about 20 minutes and then she was back in her own bed. She got scared and decided her bed was much safer.
10. I felt bad for the guys at the car wash this morning because my car is that dirty, until I realized that they didn't do a very good job vacuuming. Oh well - that's the trade off for having to watch the guy climb on the hood of my car to scrape off the caked on bug guts.

Insurance and 3's

Ok - so my annoyance has moved on from medical records at Dr.'s offices to insurance companies. Seriously!!! I am in the midst of trying to change health insurance companies to save us a bit of money. This is the first time since I was right out of grad school that I have had to fill out such a detailed application and be put under such scrutiny. Normally I'm just on Andy's insurance through work or through my own work. We found out that setting up a separate individual insurance for me and the kids is cheaper than through Andy's job. Now I'm wondering if it's worth it. I am sitting here with a waiver that basically tells me that if I get cervical cancer they won't cover anything related to it. ARGH!!! I'm getting so angry. It's not like I plan to get cancer but I'd like to be covered. Without going into "too much information" detail - I've been perfectly normal since 2005 (and even normal before then) which is the border of the 5 year medical history. I guess I should have been a liar and not put everything down on my form. I figured that since everything turned up normal in the end, it was all good. But no, this insurance company is extremely strict on prior "conditions" (like I even have one!)

I was getting upset with the place I went to right when we moved here and where I spent 5 months of my prenatal care until my Dr retired the week or so BEFORE Sarah was born. They told me they didn't have my records that I had to chase my 2nd Dr down but in reality they did have them. Their wonderful medical records lady just sat on the phone with me for 15-20 minutes going through my records and having me tell her what the insurance company sent me and telling me her experience with them and just answering every question I had. Did I mention that I haven't been a patient at this place since 2005???? It was incredibly helpful.

So now I am debating what to do. My health and the kids health and begin covered is not something I need to be risky about.

Woosh, thanks for letting me vent. In another completely unrelated note - Andy and I are firm believers in the idea that famous people die in groups of 3. Not that they know each other but just that 3 seem to happen within a week or so of each other. I present the most recent example: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and dare I say, Michael Jackson is not doing well as of this blog. Very interesting group and depending on how Michael does, possibly further proof of 3's, may they rest in peace and/or get better.

10 on Tuesday

1. I have noticed in the past few weeks that I whisper on the phone if the other person is whispering. It's not like I need to be quiet in my own home, especially when Will is pounding on something in the background. Still I feel the need to match the tone of the person I'm talking to. I have a feeling that's a pretty common thing.
   
2. Geo Trax Jet Plane + long hair= scissors and screaming! Luckily, it was a tiny bit of hair and you can't even tell.
3. I love and hate Red Box. I love paying so little and having it be pretty convenient, until that is, they don't have the movie I want and worst of all, when it's too full for returns. This seems to happen WAY TO OFTEN at our Red Box. There is another one not far but when you have a screaming 2 year old and you're at your wits end, having to hunt for another one and hope that it's not full so you don't have to pay for a 3rd night is torturous. That's when I hate Red Box.
4. I also hate spider bites on the kids. Will got one and it was by his eye and it swelled up. I searched his crib but found nothing. Who's to say that the spider wasn't watching and waiting to take another bite.
5. Sarah has been napping a bit more lately. She still ends up staying up later but it's not as bad as it used to be. Maybe it's the heat but she seems to need it. The other day she slept so soundly that she got upset after nap because she thought Will had breakfast without her. I had to explain that it was just a nap and not bedtime. It took a second for that to click in her still sleepy brain.
6. Had a great time yesterday calling Dr's offices to get medical records since we are trying to change our health insurance. I was hunting down the doctor I saw 1 time who has since moved offices once, maybe twice! For the record, it took 7 calls (including the 1 Andy had to make since he was on fax duty) only to find out that it should have taken 1!!!!!
7. I am very scared to see our next water bill. Andy put the drip on along our back wall to try and grow the vines before he went out of town. He forgot about it and I didn't realize it was on until 6 days later. I think we lost a plant (Not a vine) but we'll see. He would choose the quietest drip to put on!
8. Andy and I watched a couple movies over the weekend - Passengers, a limited release movie starring Anne Hathaway. It was soooooo slow. We finally started to fast forward the movie to find out the twist at the end. It was not so good. AND Meet the Spartans by the people that do the Epic Movies and Scary Movies. It was pretty bad as well but made me chuckle because it knew it was that bad. Dancing Spartans is a funny site!
9. We are prepared for the monsoon now. With the chance of rain a few days ago, I realized that poor Will had no rain gear. So I let him pick out his own umbrella at Target. He picked a black and red Spiderman umbrella. I'm not so worried about a rain coat or poncho or anything but I really think every little kid needs their own umbrella - especially when it starts to pour in the afternoons and I need to run errands.
10. It find it both annoying and charming that my kids think holidays (pretty much all of them) last all year long. Will keeps wanting to read the scary, noisy Halloween book. Sarah loves Dora's Thanksgiving book and Will has pulled out his Triceratops Easter basket and is ready to find eggs.

And 2 photos to end on:

Sarah's 2nd Birthday - playing the dancing game with Daddy

Bitten!

After a week of washing Will's feet and feeding him antibiotics, I awoke to this:

What was a bug bite by his eye yesterday is now a swollen mess. The pictures don't even look as bad as it really looks.  In a panic after last weekend, I called the triage nurse, AGAIN. A different one was on call. She grabbed our Dr. to check with her (so thoughtful) and all is well. It just looks bad. It's not painful just itchy but I can't put anything on it because it's close to his eye. So for now, he looks like someone beat him up and I'm embarrassed to take him out in public today. I'll keep an eye on it but hopefully, it will just fade over the next day or 2.

What craziness! Andy doesn't get back until this evening so he's missing EVERYTHING! Lucky man.

Big Boy

I'm in a bit of shock from the transformation that happened today.  I was working on Part 1 of Father's Day and pulled down our little potty.  We got it out a little while ago but Will hated it, so back up it went.  This time, he is obsessed with it.  The minute I pulled it down and said this is a potty for you to go pee pee and poo poo in, he started carrying it around the garage!  He dragged it out to the driveway and informed me and his grandfather that he was going to poo poo on the potty.  All this from a boy who has never had any interest in getting out of diapers and refuses me every morning that I offer a pull up to him even though it has McQueen on it.  It didn't die down either.  He moved it around the house most of today and keeps sitting on it to go potty, fully clothed of course.  I told him he could wear a Pull Up if he wanted to sit on the potty and right before bedtime he asked for one. We went upstairs and I sat his naked tush on that potty. Nothing came out but he was so excited to sit on it and then to put on a Good Nite Pull Up. It's like a 12 hour change. Sarah was so gradual and then we did the 1 day deal. It's like someone turned a switch on Will and now he's interested. I still want to wait until the end of July, after San Diego but I'm so happy that we can finally start talking it up and he can try it anytime he asks. Hooray!

Good Morning!

I started my morning with a "I'm glad to see you too Mommy" from Will as I picked him up out of his crib. Isn't that just adorably sweet, especially considering usually I'm greeted with screaming and yelling from him in the morning and after nap.
This morning he yelled a bit right before 6 and I told him to read a book. He said OK and then all was quiet. I woke up and went in his room and that's when He told me he was glad to see me too before I could even say anything. I have no idea where he picked that up but I like it!