6 Days Left

...and William has the beginnings of an ear infection! Luckily, we got in to see the other doctor in the practice today. I told her I thought it was teething, but since we're flying in 6 days, I wasn't taking any chances. She checked him over and said his ear was red and possibly slightly infected, so she blackberried in a script for antibiotics. She said he'd be okay to fly. The doll that she is also said to call her on Friday and she'd send in the one for the ear numbing drops! Victory is mine!

I'm praying to have a nice picture of the boys to post after our trip, but until then...










Bobby Evan William

Their His Kids!

We've all read and heard the stories of the scary fertility clinic mix-ups. Honestly, I've never really been too unsure that weren't among those families. They have always shown signs of being Bruce's babies (hard heads and all). Today, though, sealed the proverbial deal!

Bruce and I drove 1 1/2 hours south to the Naval Air Station Wildwood Air Museum to donate some of his aviation books. As we arrived, the boys got more and more excited! They ran around the inside of the hangar touching and trying to climb into all of the planes and helicopters-even correcting me when there was a "jet" instead of a run of the mill plane. Not too much damage was done to the place, and while Bruce and I are a little tired after chasing them around (we didn't break out the strollers as they had been cooped up for the hour and a half), we're still pleased with both their behavior and their apparent like of airplanes. Let's just hope that keeps up after our flight.

Speaking of our flight, let me just rant a little that our pediatrician will NOT write a script for prescription ear numbing drops just in case they need them. She says that they don't need them. I say I don't want my babies in pain in case they do need them. She says she'll give them drops for an ear infection-WTF!! Argh!

9 Days and Counting

Yep, we're into the single digits now, folks! We have our realtor meeting us only certain days, and now I just have to book the rental car. I'm not sure how the boys are feeling about the trip, but I'm keeping them updated on the countdown. Just in case they forget, every time I see a plane I tell them that we are going bye-byes on an airplane very soon.

Black Friday worked out nicely for them. I just want to know where the hell the other people were! Value City was selling a train table for $49.99, and there were plenty of them! The highways were empty, and except for the check out line in Kohl's, there wasn't much of a crowd. Mom says that she thinks my aunt was helping out a bit!

Other than that, Thanksgiving was nice and quiet. The boys got to spend some time with their Great Grandmother as well as the beloved Na-Na and Pop. They enjoyed Na-Na's good cooking, too.

Good News and Bad News

First, the Happy News!! Friends of ours have just adopted and brought home their new son-6 month old Jorgie!!! They have been a brother and sister in proverbial arms for the better part of 20 years. They have also announced they are adopting their son’s sister very soon!

Onto the sad news, another fertility battling sister has gotten another negative beta test. We hope that she finds strength to keep going (if that’s what they choose).

In other news, the boys are doing great! We have a little parrot in Evan, and Bobby is starting to use 2 word phrases. William is counting nicely and knows his colors.

Humping

When I was in college, I had a sociology class with a crazy professor. He would only refer to people by their last names (I had the honor of the title Miss before my last name because there was an unrelated Mister in the class and because the professor said that assigning us numbers as in Smith 1 & 2 could give one of us a complex). He also told us that the people sitting in the first row would get A’s, the second row B’s, the third row C’s, and not to sit beyond the third row. The Mister sat way in the back, I sat in the front and got an A, I can only imagine… This crazy professor taught us that there are rules to social interaction. The one rule he never taught us was that a wife should never go about humping her husband’s friends.

Now that I’ve gotten your complete attention…. I came to the realization today that I don’t get to socialize enough. We stopped at the hobby shop Bruce works at every other Saturday to drop off some books for our friend/the owner’s son. As Bruce was inside, I noticed two familiar faces (who I will call Mr. Noodle and Mr. Noodle’s brother, Mr. Noodle (or N1 & N2)). I adore the Brothers Noodle. They are simply just great guys! That said, when I saw them I practically leaped through the open car window. I couldn’t get the door open fast enough. I was like a dog that gets excited to see people and stopped just short of humping their legs. And, I sadly admit, I probably had that same crazed look in my eyes as said dog.

Here I am, 20 months into the boys’ lives and I’m back to being like a dog again. When I was pregnant with them, I often said I felt like a dog given my heightened sense of smell. It was the strangest thing having my nose lead me around. More than once it lead me to strangers tables at a restaurant. Now, here I am leaping out of windows just for a few moments of conversation.

Hooray for Sesame Street

I've always thought that Sesame Street was a great children's show, and I never agreed with the critics that said it was too fast paced. Think of the target audience, people! And now that I've stepped down from my small soap box, I let out a cheer for the show. Yesterday and today featured a story line that has Gina, a single woman, adopting a baby from Guatamala. She sang such a beautiful song this morning about being the baby's mommy now. After battling with infertility and wondering if adoption was going to be the way that we would have a family and after following the struggles of my online buddy, Shelly, the story touched me. Sesame Street has also begun to tiptoe around gay and lesbian families during Elmo's World. For that, I also applaud them. Three Cheers: Hip, Hip Hooray!Hip, Hip Hooray!Hip, Hip Hooray!

In other news, my parents and I took the boys to Popcorn Park Zoo yesterday. As they are now animal nuts, they had an even better time than they did in June when Bruce and I took them. Being a little older didn't hurt any either. Evan and Bobby fed popcorn to sheep, goats and deer. William decided it wasn't a good idea, but he loved sanitizing his hands along with his brothers!

4 Weeks and Counting

As of today, we are 4 weeks from our trip to Vegas!! I'm getting really excited as we are now starting to consider new homes. By we I really mean me, but I digress. I'm now toying with taking them to Disney Land. Then again, I'm always toying with the idea of taking them to a Disney park! Evan, though, has become such a HUGE Mickey Mouse fan, that it's near impossible for me to not take them. In fact, Mom bought them all Mickey Mouse dolls at the Disney Store on Halloween, and all Evan has been saying is, "Mickey, Mickey, Mick." For several days he wouldn't be without it!

Halloween went by fairly unremarkable. The boys weren't really dressed up because they had been sick, and I wasn't going to buy costumes for a quick trip to the mall which is where we ended up. I had nothing Halloween to dress in-not even anything orange, but Mom came dressed in a Halloween sweatshirt. Honestly, I felt like a really sucky Mommy.

Here are some new things. I have been taking the boys to a story time at the library. They seem to really like it. Evan loves the books and takes tons off the shelves (eek!). It's the sheer excitement of the place. It thrills me. I had been trying to put the books back, but Evan's godfather (a librarian) has informed me that most librarians would rather that you not put the books back. Now I can leave them out without the guilt, and it also leaves me time to chase Bobby who loves to wander around the library meeting people and going where he shouldn't (like behind the circulation desk).