stupid favorite boots

so, i am a little irritated at the moment. i am having heel pain. so much so that it hurts to flex my foot when i walk. but, only when i walk without high heels on.
so we went for our 14 minute run today at lunch time. it was pouring down rain, i think there was even some hail it seemed as though. so we didn't get our full pre run walk to warm up in and we just started going. about 7 minutes in i noticed my left foot was hurting some but it was ok i figured since we had only 7 more minutes. i went to the locker room, got dressed, put on my lovely high heeled boots and went on my merry way. no more heel pain. a few hours later i came home and took of those lovely boots and wow, my foot just doesn't work. it hurts! once again i curse the multi level living that eric has worked so hard to provide for us, but not because i am tired of going up and down the stairs like before, but because the stairs hurt my foot. i go up and down the stairs like seamus - both feet hit each stair. i feel like monica in that episode of friends where she spent some huge amount of money on boots that she totally loved but then couldn't wear because they hurt her feet too much. she eventually loses them when she stops to take them off on the sidewalk somewhere. i won't lose my lovely boots because my feet weren't hurting while wearing them, but they have been packed away and i will wear the clogs for a few days and hope the heel gets better soon. i thought the slooooow ramp up would prevent this type of thing. hopefully it is just a fluke.

oh, i ruined it!

so, i was supposed to floss last ngiht but i didn't!! i was only day 4 of the new year and only the 2nd time of the new year that i was supposed to floss and i did not do it!!
ok, so I kind of have an excuse and by saying that i will do it at least 3 times a week makes it so i can floss today to make up for it. but still, i wanted to stick to my schedule. my excuse was that i don't think i could have phisically done it. here is the whole story:
so at lunch time, the coworker and i went for out 8 minute run (friday it will be 10!). while i was getting ready though, i kind of had a headache but then during the run and after i was feeling fine. as the rest of the day went on though i started to feel a little not well. by the time i left work i was feeling very not well. on the drive home i started to worry that maybe i had food poisoning or something but i am pretty sure it was just a migraine. i felt like i was going to throw up but was all worried about throwing up all overmyself and then having to drive the rest of the way covered by puke. anyway, i made it home puke free and went straight in to take a shower in case it was a sinus headache, and maybe that would help. eric and seamus were eating dinner with sirus looking on. after my shower i went right to bed, i couldn't function at all. i was so sad because those babies are so darn adorable and i only saw them for such a short time. i did get up at around 7 and hung out with them until their bedtimes. it was the first time eric had put sirus to bed and it all went well, so that is good. then i began asking eric to do all kinds of various things for me. i was still in my bathrobe from my shower so that i how bad i was. i got hooked on the biggest looser family edition and stayed up until 10 in order to see how it ended then we went to bed. i was still feeling not so well, but the horrible headache was pretty much gone and i had eaten some toast and had some water, but i could not get myself up the stairs to the bathroom to pee let alone brush my teeth and floss. sirus woke up 3 times during the night, each time i fell asleep in the chair while holding him. i still felt a little like arse this morning and then i have gotten a little worse as the day has gone by. i am not so sure about this.

resolve

so i have a bunch of new years resolutions this year. i usually don't have any because there usually isn't anything that i want to work towards. this year there are a bunch and i will mention just a few here. one being that i will floss my teeth at least 3 times a week. i do not floss enough, so 3 times a week will be way better then none at all. to make sure I do it, it will be a monday, wednesday, friday thing.
while on maternity leave i used the company sponsored gym membership every other day and it was great. i could use a travel pass for the gym right by my house. now going back to work i want to schedule it into my day which if i want to use the gym, its like 238277236 miles away and will eat up way too much of my day. so i have convinced two of my co-workers to go on lunch time runs with me. this accomplishes two things - i can save money by not going out to lunch all of the time, and i can work on my fittness a little. this works well because the one had already commiteed himself to running the vancouver marathon in april - committed by registering, reserving his hotel, buying his amtrack ticket all of that. the other we confronted today and he was like - what the hell, ok. so we will start out slow because we are all pretty much out of shape. i am all concerned about the shin splints because that is what plagues me most, but i felt fine yesterday after my 5 minute jog. yes, i said 5 minute jog but i also said we would start out slow. tomorrow we will do 8 minutes, and the rest will be walking.... and it will gradually increase over time... i would like to do the st patricks day dash which is "nearly" 3 miles i think and it would be fun because we could bring seamus along and then eric and i want to do the sea fair half marathon in july or august if they are having it this year. depending on how that goes we might try the seattle marathon, but i did a marathon in 1998 and that was all fine and dandy and i don't know if i really need to do another one, unless i am feeling ok with this whole running thing. i hate to run but its not like cycling in that it doesn't make me so super hungry that i wind up eating my own hand or anything. i also want to do the danskin triathlon, ugh but i don't know about this whole lake swimming thing.... anyway, those are some of the things i want to accomplish this year.
i also want to be a better mom, wife, daughter, friend and accomplish more at work. i have some specific goals around each of those, but i don't want to put all that here because someone might make me be accountable for them if i do.

kittytoo

eric put a temporary tattoo on seamus's arm. he told her it was a tattoo, but she seems to think he is saying cattoo because she keeps pointing to it calling it a kittytoo.

goopy eye and leather chair

this morning when seamus woke up her eyes were totally gooped up. once the goop was washed off though it looked as though the goop was coming from her left eye only. sirus was shooting out snot and coughing, so eric made a doctor appointment for the two of them this morning.
since i am addicted to the internet and to saving money i went to costplus.com and checked on the leather chair that we bought at the beginning of the month. i was just casually looking, not expecting it to be 38% less then what we paid for it. but it was so i said wholey shiat we need to do something about that. so i called them up asking for a price adjustment, but they told me it was longer then the standard two weeks after purchase, so i told them that what i really wanted was to get the price adjustment on the one we already bought and then buy another one. they were fine with that so we went and took care of it and then that was that and it made me happy. i love cost plus and think we will wind up getting our bedroom furniture there someday, too.
after that we took the bebes to the doctor and he basically said it looked like we all had colds but that seamus has a super infection, yes he said super. anyway its because she got a bacterial infection - the eye goop, on top of the viral thing everyone else has. she got some ointment for her eye ball and will eagerly tell you about her eye goop. i hope sirus sleeps well tonight and doesn't get any sicker. same for seamus, that would not be fun.

sleep, glorious sleep

so, last night was a night that we hope repeats itself - often. well, at least some of it. i have been feeling like arse the past few days. so has everyone else in the house, excpet for sirus, who has been feeling fine, so that is good. anyway, i started back at work on tuesday and combined with feeling like arse and waking up during the night i have been very tired. last night i was done. sirus went to bed 15 minutes early and even before seamus was tucked into bed at 8, i was in my room, lights off and ready to pass out. now here comes the glorious part that i hope repeats itself - sirus didn't wake up until a little after 1:30!! That means I got 5 1/2 hours of uninteruppted sleep!! it was beautiful!! I was back in bed by 2 and slet until seamus started crying at around 5. she woke up sirus, so i went in to him and eric took care of seamus. poor seamus has been sick with a cough and sneezy runny nose for quite some time now, i hope she gets better soon. when i went to check sirus, though, i was suprised to see that he had turned himself about 120 degrees counter clockwise. either that or he had turned himself 240 degrees clockwise.

so they all rolled over and one fell out

ok, so know one fell out sirus rolled over gain yesterday - a few times in a row. he and seamus were both laying on the tummys on the floor and then his giant noggin started to lean to one side and once it got far enough over the rest of him just kep going. seamus thought it was pretty funny so i rolled him back to his tummy and we both started cheering for him to do it again and he did. each time seamus laughed and then we would try it some more. finally we called eric in to see it since he doesn't quite beleive it, and we sat there telling sirus again, again, again - seamu even reaising her voice yelling it a few times and alas, it was too much pressure and the poor kid just put his face down on the blankent instead.
he has been sleeping very well the past two nights, which is making me very happy in anticipation of going back to work in just a few days. he got up a 12:45 and 5 last night and 1:45 and 4:45 the night before. things are looking pretty good on that front. i sure am going to miss these kids when i go back to work. i had the hardest time falling asleep last night and then a hard time each time i woke up after....

here are some photos

of the bebes:

ok ok ok

so, the hair i think may be getting better. it hasn't shown the extra pair of ears that it was originally doing and the color is good. i have an appointment for wednesday to get it fixed but maybe i will leave it.
when i opened my email this morning it said there were 87 new emails and not one was anything other then spam.
sirus slept well last night. i think he knew it was because we are going to try and help him sleep through the night this week so i can get some decent rest before going to work. anyway, he went to bed at his usual 730 and woke up again at 1am. thats a good stretch. i got up with him because i am ok with getting up once. then he woke up again at 418am. i got up again because that is close enough to 530 i decided. then we all slept until after 7 when eric got up with seamus and i stayed in bed until after 8. tonight we will try to push the 418 close to 530, and lets hope the 1am thing sticks.
i have been feeling quite inadequate and depressed the past few days. i am not sure why but its not a good feeling. i have also been having some pretty hefty allergy attacks, especially last night.
so today i start a new diet as i do almost every day. but it is the last week before i head to work again and i need to see some progress. i wore my super skinny jeans that eric got me for xmas last year but as i told him, sure, i was able to get them on, but i runneth over... i have to work on that runneth over part.

bad hair day

so, i went to get my hair done yesterday. i told the lady i wanted something dramatic and different, and my main thing was that i no longer wanted to look like a 30 something mother of 2. so i walked out looking like a 40 something tv sitcom lady. bad bad bad. but then it got worse. i washed it last night and it looked ok until i woke up this morning. i am so depressed. i have never been so depressed over a hair cut. i remember once when i was younger being so excited to go to get my hair cut and then they totally did some weird stuff to it with the curling iron and all and breaking down in tears on the way to the car. that was ok because as soon as i washed it out it looked fine. this is not the case this time its just bad and i feel frumpy, old and depressed, not young, pretty and happy. not one bit. they guarantee their hair cuts so i can go in and see if they can fix it, maybe i will do that if i can't get it under control today. ugh.

xmas tree

we went to get our mas tree on friday! it was an adventure! most of my photos of seamus are of her running away from me. this is pretty much the only one where you can see her face.

we have moved into the basement and now have a dining room table on which to have dinner as a family. here is sirus sitting on dad's lap at the table and then the kids giving a tour of the basement remodel.

seamus and sirus play nicely together
and sirus just is too darn cute on his 2 month birthday.

i go back to work very soon and i am sad about that. i have had so much fun the past 11 weeks that i am going to miss seeing my 3 favorite people all day every day.

and here is seamus napping. she is so cute when she is asleep, i can hardly beleive it!

huge!

sirus accomplished a huge milestone today!! he rolled over! 3 times!! this is huge since he is pretty young to be doing that!!

also, tonight is his first night sleeping in his crib in his own room! i hope he does ok! seamus has adjusted very well to her new room and seems to like it!

eric and i have asjusted quite nicely to our new room and i totally love it!

slappin that arse

so i had just rememberd something that i had to put down so i wo'nt ever forget how darn cute it was - the other day seamus was running around nekkid. i can't remember if it was after a bath or one of the times she had wanted to sit on the potty and then just be nekkid after or what, but she was nekkid none the less. while nekkid and running around, she was running the funny way that she does sometimes where she keeps her legs strait and kind of kicks them out in front of herself as she runs. she was moving all over the place very quickly like this and all the while she was slapping her little rear end with her hand. it was so funny and just so strange.
i was also thinking the other day that i need to make a list of words she knows. i was going to do it when she turns two - along with getting her a real haircut, but i think now would be a good time, too. maybe its because this past week is seems has she started calling me mommy which makes my heart melt. she will stand outside my bedroom door and call out mommy to me!
so these are the words she says through out the day. She will repeat many more and if you ask her to point to many more she knows what they are, but these are the ones she uses on her own regularly:
mommy, daddy, kitty, cat, puppy, doggy, cow, moo, pig, chicken, chick, duck, quack, birdie, elephant, eat, cup, green, yellow, blue, purple, red, tractor, truck, airplane, baby, bath, color, high chair, tv, teletubbies, bed, blankie, towel, potty, fork, pears, fishies, broccoli, bottle, help, farmer, lion, one, two, three, bye bye, car, seat, sit, jump, hand, head, teeth, cheek, chin, elbow, knee, feet, toes, boot, sock, pant, shirt, bike, swing, slide, park, out, no, whee, pillow, cracker, toast, grandma, back pack, hello kitty, pretty, bracelet, glasses, ring, whoa, elmo, happy
there are likely more, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

big baby

so, its been a while and while not a lot has happened, a lot has happened. sirus turned 8 weeks on monday. he went in for his appointment on tuesday and weighed 13pounds 15onces! huge! 95th percentile! seamus was 95th percentile at her 8 week appointment too, but as a girl she was a little smaller. sirus is doing great, cute as can be and he will smile for us, too. his blonde hair is in an adorable fau-hawk, especially after i put pertolium jelly in it to try to help with the cradle cap.
(as i sit here, i hear that eric has just changed a sirus poppy diaper only to walk back in the living room to a seamus poopy diaper. i am safely hidden in the bedroom for a little longer - whew! )
seamus is growing her vocabulary in leaps and bounds. as eric was just commenting on it being his lucky day because of all of the poopy, she was spouting "lucky day" as he carried her into her room. when eating, she no longer just asks for more, but instead will ask for more of the particular item she wants - more pears, more chicken, etc. instead of askin "where'd it go?" she will now ask "where'd daddy go? where'd mommy go? where'd farmer go? where'd kitty go?" she is a cutie that is for sure.
eric is working hard on the basement. it is almost done! our tile is in and the carpet will be installed on monday! we should be getting our interior doors today, too. it looks so amazing! he has done a phenomenal job! once the carpet is in we will be moving our bed downstairs and seamus into our room and then sirus into seamus's old room. hopefully everyone transitions well. we have also started looking at furniture options for the upstairs - mainly a dining table. oh the drama and the stress of it all.
i go back to work in just a few weeks which i am sad about. i have had so much fun home with seamus and sirus and eric when he isn't holed up in the basement. we are planning on taking seamus sledding before i head back. i am totally looking forward to it and to getting our christmas tree.
that is all for now.

halloween

so, i have refound halloween. i used to think it was lame, but now with kids it is very fun. last year i started working on seamus's costume in august. i was very pleased with the results.




this year i had been planning for months and months trying to figure out a family theme, most of which involved eric dressed up as something that would inevitably embarrass him. it wasn't on purpose. it just seemed that every idea came to that. i settled on just dressing the babies.
but it makes me wonder - do babies imitate cats or do cats imitate babies?

rashy mcrashelstien has left the building

poor baby sirus - he had a rash. i took him to the docotr because no baby as young as him should have a rash. the doctor said it as a virus and that he most likely has a cold and the way he is showing it is through his rash. makes sense since both eric and i have sore throats and seamus has been super crabby, so she must be sick, too? at least she isn't showing any signs of the flu shot like she did last year.
so i was all depressed the other day. we went to the mall to pick up the family photos and the stupid lady from the photo place said they lost our photos. she said the would give us a call but then haven't yet. they are lame, i have had about enough of them - sirus isn't going to be 2 weeks old ever again so that makes me sad.
to make up for my sadness i convinced eric to get some video games and in exchange for that i would get some boots. i like my new boots. i opted for the pair that were $79 less then the other pair, so i was happy about that, too.
eric has been working reall hard getting the basement ready. its almost ready to paint! the new washer and dryer came - i am so happy with them - the clothes ome out of the dryer smelling clean which never happened with the old ones!

big

sirus went to the doctor today because when he went for his two week appointment his belly button stump was looking more like chiken fat then beefy. today it was looking quite beefy and not very much like chicken fat at all, so its on the road to a nice recovery. our doctor likes to speak in reference to raw meet products. but, the big news is that he gained another pound. he is now 11 pounds!! he is huge!!! but that is a good thing in the world of babies.

how it all happened

so, i figured i should add some info as to how sirus was born. on sunday around 4pm i woke up from a nap. i was having some conractions, which i had been having pretty regularly every evening anyway, but this time, they felt a little different and they kind of hurt, but not a lot. they were every ten minutes and not getting closer and not getting any stronger, so i just sat there and kept track of them. ALL DAY LONG. eventually eric came home from his bike race and i eventually went to bed. i was able to fall asleep so i assumed that meant they must have stopped or something, until 2 am when i woke up to the contractions being a bit more painful, but still only 10 minutes apart. i layed in bed for an hour trying to decide what to do. around 3am i decided i was going to call my mom and ask her to come down - just in case. i was going to let eric keep sleeping though - no need to wake the bear. just then i thought i felt something leaking - was i my water? was it that other mystery fluid that seemed to be haunting me all through this pregnancy? i got up to go to the bathroom and when i did i disovered that no, it was not water at all but blood. and a lot of it. and then a giant blood clot the size of my fist came out. i kind of freaked out and woke eric up and told him we had to go to the hospital. i made him look at the blood clot then asked him to call my mom while i called the doctor. my mom came and we left for the hospital. by this time contractions were starting to hurt pretty good.
we went to triage and they hooked me up to a monitor and i dripped blood everywhere. then they sent in the intern. not the stupid one from before but an a different one, an insensitive ass hole one. my contractions weren't showing on the monitor so he was saying i wasn't having any. then he checked to see what was going on and said he thought i was only about 2 cm dilated. at that point i totally lost it and started crying pretty much histerically. how could i be 3cm earlier in the week and now only 2? and why was i in so much pain if i wasn't having contractions? the nurse then checked and said i was 4 cm and i asked her why no one beleived me and if i wasn't having contractions then something was seriously wrong and they needed to figure it out. we think they had a talk with the intern because then he came in and was all trying to be nice. they finally admitted me and once in the birthing suite my contractions were showing up on the monitor. since i was bleeding the way that i was, i wasn't allowed to walk around which made the contractions a little tougher. i told them right away that i wanted an epidural. by 730 the epidural guy was there getting me hooked up. by 8 i was at 5cm and feeling great! eric and i started calling people to let them know i wasn't coming to work, and to arrange stuff with my sister so my mom could be at the birth. the nurse said she thought it would be around noon, so we told my mom to try to be there by 11. eric took off to make some calls on his cell phone and to get a snack. a little before 11 i asked the nurse if i could roll over. she checked me mid turn and said i was totally dilated and baby's head was right there! she told me to call eric and get him back asap and she would call the doctor. she had me do a practice push and then had me stop because baby was RIGHT THERE. when the doctor got there - my actual doctor who i really like and was so happy that he was the doctor there that day - he had me do a practice push again and then had me stop right away. eric got there just in the nick of time! i pushed through 3 contractions and out came sirus!! my mom missed him coming out but she was there for his first moments, so that was good, too. sirus was pretty purple for a while so they gave him some oxygen then they took him from me and put him in the warming bassinett so he could stay warm and use the baby oxygen mask. he took a while to get pink but he was crying a lot so he was breathing fine. what a cutie, i couldn't beleive how small he was!

where does the time go?

so, it has now been two weeks and two days since sirus got here. i can't beleive it has gone by so quickly! i can't even beleive we have another baby living at our house. we are so lucky! he is already 10 pounds as of his two week doctor visit, so he is on his way to being a big kid. he already looks like a grown up kid in this photo. i had totally forgotten how soft and cuddly new born babies are. sirus will snuggle right up to you and give you little warm nudges. he is so sweet. so sweet in fact that i told eric the other day that maybe we can have another one some day. not any time soon. not in the next 3 to4 years, but maybe after that. we will see, but boy, sirus is a cutie.
seamus totally digs him. she likes to "hold" him and give him hugs and wants to help with anything that has to do with him. maybe its a jealousy thing - making sure to stay in with the action, but its cute and she really does seem to like him.
we are in the midst of buying a new washer and dryer. i am so excited. i can't wait. i feel so old at being so excited about new appliances, but i am so excited to have a washer that actually washes and a dryer that doesn't squel like finger nails accross a chalk board and that dries towels in less then 4 hours. i can't wait.

introducing!!!!

please welcome our new little boy,

Sirus John Atwood

born monday, october 3rd at 11:29am
9 pounds 0.6 oz and 20.5 inches long!














we are all doing great, big sister seamus is very excited to have a new little brother, she thinks he is very neat! i will post more later once things have settled down a little.