the baby seamus

oh, poor baby seamus! she is sick! it is so sad to see her this way. this is the first time she has been sick to the point of throwing up. she can't eat or drink anything without it coming back out a few minutes later. she just lays there asking for water to drink but even if we just give her the tiniest of sips she throws it up. she is so tired and weak that she will walk a few steps then lay on the floor and fall asleep. she went to the doctor yesterday and he said she should be feeling better today so lets keep our fingers crossed that not only does she feel better but also that sirus doesn't wind up getting sick, too.

I LOVE BABIES

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too

seamus is in a funny stage where she seems to be comparing things. this morning we had everyone in the bed and eric told seamus she was all warm and cozy. she then turned to sirus and said "sirus warm and cozy, too" she the said "sirus eating" because he was but eric said, no, sirus is sucking on a boob. so seamus repeated "sucking on a boob". ahhh, my child is so well versed.
we will go for the family jog again tonight unless eric is injured. he woke up this morning with his back totally tweaked and the slipped on the ice and fell on his arse while crossing the street this morning. hopefully he is ok. he has a race on sunday so hopefully hje is ok by then at least.
we went to sushi land for lunch today where the sushi comes by on a conveyer belt. its cheap and tasty. we used to go to this place called the eating factory which was an all you can eat sushi buffet like place but it closed down. it grossed me out alittle that it was called the eating factory but i got over it.
i was thinking the other day that i have been either pregnant and/or nursing a baby every day since may of 2003. that means it has been almost 3 years since i have known what it is like to be normal. i forget what it is like! i can only imagine.

family jog

so yesterday when i got home from work seamus noticed i had a bruise on my leg. she said mommy ouchie. then she said seamus ouchie too and lifted her pant leg up to her knee to show me. i didn't see any ouchie on her but i made a fuss anyway since i thought it was cute. then the family went out on a family jog. eric picked up a double jogging stroller the other day so that everyone can come along and so that pushing the kids would slow him down enough to stay at my pace. sirus fell asleep and seamus talked the whole time. it was dark out on the trail and it was raining but we had fun. we started out where i had left off - 14 minutes and it went well. by the time march 12 comes around we will be ready for the st patricks day dash. both seamus and sirus will come with us which i think seamus will really like. she seems to think its pretty neat that sirus gets to sit next to her as it is.
as i was getting ready for work this morning seamus told me several times no boots on the carpet which is correct but i never went on the carpet in my boots, i guess she was just warning me. she is a funny one.

february fun

Lots happened in February. Valentines Day for instance. For Valentines Day Sirus got a new red shirt with a big blob of slobber on the front of it. Apparantly that is funny.

Seamus got a valentines day outfit, too, but she is much more mobile and therefore it is much more difficult to get a photo of.


Also in February is Eric's brithday. He turned 32. I made him this hotdog cake:

Everyone wanted some of the hotdog cake.

Eric liked it because he could pick it up and eat it with one hand.

Seamus liked it because it was cake.


It has been very chilly but sunny out. we went and test drove some more cars yesterday. test driving cars is both so much fun and very depressing at the same time. i will likely be driving the pontiac forever. sigh....

it snowed the other day

so on monday night when we went to bed there was some crazy lightning and thunder. i don't like those things at all and i wanted to go grab the babies and stick them in bed with us. but i didn't. in the morning when i woke up there was snow on the ground! not a lot but enough that there was maybe an inch on my car. good fun right there. this week its suposedly going to be the coldest week in 10 years.
i picked up my orthotics this morning and can't fit them into the shoes i have on today. this is never going to work, but i will see what i can do about it.
sirus has been sleeping quite well the past few nights - waking up only at around 230 or 3 and then again at 530 or 6. that is perfect for right now. i would be more then happy if he managed to keep it this way for a while.
so i think we ahve the new car figured out, now we just have to wait to the cash muney to roll in. should be rolling in the beginning of march.
this morning seamus drew a circle which she does quite often but something about this circle she was very excited about. she came running over to me saying "i drew a circle".
grandma says that sirus rolled back to front yesterday which is pretty exciting but then seamus of course came and rolled him back to how he was to begin with. he is getting so strong. last night he was lifting himself up on his hands and managed to get his knees under him a bit so that his whole tummy was off the ground for a little bit. he did this for quite some time and it resulted in him scooting backwards a few feet.
seamus has become quite the acrobat. she will lay on the couch and slide backwards off so that her head is on the floor then she will kick her feet over. also, if eric lays on the floor on his stomach and has his knees bent, she will climb up onto his feet and "super man". she will then scoot herself forward and sumersault off of his feel. she flings herself all over the place.
ok, so that is all!

eric had the vision

so, i found some photos of our house from before we moved in. what were we thinking? eric reminded me though, that i was totally gaga over the house when we first got it but now looking at the photos i can see just how much work eric has done. totally unreal.
here are some of the kichen before and after.
these two are taken from pretty much the exact same angle. the window in the before photo was turned into a door that will go out onto a patio. the stairs were flipped so now they go down from accross that door when in the before it was just a wall.

in the photo below, you can see that we moved the fridge over, opened up a doorway into the living room where the fridge was, and put the downward stairs in where that corner wall is.

these ones you can see how there used to be a kitchen nook. eric closed that up but left a passthrough, moved the sink into the corner with the windows and created a bunch more counter and cupard space. the nook was so small it was barely usable. we could fit a small table in there but with two people sitting at it, it was cramped.


there is still some finish work that need to be done, like around the windows and some trim like stuff, but it blows me away to see what eric has done!

major poundage

so, the kiddos went to the doctors today, seamus for her 2yr check up and sirus for his 4 month. sirus is now 16 lbs 12oz and 25.25 inches long. he is 75th% all around including his noggin. seamus is 30 pounds and 35 inches tall, 75% for height and 80% for weight. ther doctor said she was having a tough time examining seamus's tummy because seamus's abs of steel wouldn't let her poke around. seamus got one shot and didn't even cry! not even one little bit. the snoopy bandaide helped though. sirus got 4 shots and cried a little but not very much at all. seamus commented that he had stckers on his legs just like she did. eric put her hair in cute little pony tails and she wore the new outfit grandma got her for her birthday. after the appointment eric took seamus and sirus to cold stone creamery for seamus's free birthday creation! i came to work.

big weekend

Sirus was all bundled up to go get seamus's haircut. it was super windy that day and he was super concerned!
seamus did really well during the hair cut. she sat perfectly still but was more then ready to get out of the chair when it was done.on sunday we had a birthday party for seamus. she turned two and is ready for some cake!

seamus got a funny cow-in-the-box that she was suprised by every time it popped out!

eric built this slide in the back yard for seamus and her cousins. they must have gone down that slide at least 100 times each.
first co-ed bath time.
and sirus just recently found his feet!

cement be gone

last week the people who are tearing up our road took pitty on eric and came and hauled away all of our cement. they saw him stacking giant cement chunks in the driveway and came and told him that if he managed to get it all to the road and dump it with their cement debris that they would haul it away. after 4 or 5 wheel barrel loads they came back with a tracktor and 5 guys to load it all in one trip. this was a huge deal since it would have cost about $2000 to get rid of it all. this is seamus and the cement this summer.
I also thought i would post some before photos of the remodel, well, i guess they are in progress photos. here is our family room and here it is now. i posted the after photos back in december, but its fun to see them next to the in progress photos here.


and our bedroom:

here is our stairwell. the stairs come down from there, when they used to come down from the other side.
I will have to post more after photos and some photos from seamus's bday party when i upload them!

go hawks

so the seahawks will be playing in the superbowl this weekend. if they weren't playing i would likely not be interested in it at all, but maybe i would be just a little since the steelers are in it. i will watch the game this year.
seamus turns 2 on super bowl sunday. we are not having a superbowl birthday party but instead will have a hello kitty birthday party and then some football watching action afterwards. i am excited for seamus to turn two. we are having a small party this year with just family but some of her cousins are coming and seamus loves to play with her cousins.
seamus is getting her first haircut tomorrow in preparation for her big day. i have trimmed her bangs and the most recent trim was really very bad so hopefully they can fix it. this is a big weekend and i am all excited.
sirus has found his feet. he doesn't play with them too much since he always has jammies on but as soon as those jammies are off those feet are in his hands.
everyone goes to the doctor on tuesday for checkups and shot! oh my!

feet and tumbling

so, i kept forgetting to mention that seamus has learned to do summersaults all on her own. its pretty funny and she seems to like to do them. very impressive. she can also count like crazy these days. she will count her fingers and pretty much anything there is to count.
i went to the foot doctor yesterday and he made fun of my slow ramp up to 14 minutes of jogging. i wasn't offended though but told him i had to ramp up slowly to avoid injury and imagine what would have happened had i not! anyway, the heel issue is achilles insertion tendonitis or something like that due to some very tight achilles. i ahve to do some stretches and stuff and he is making me some new orthodics since mine are so 1992.
sirus was talking up a storm last night. he was sitting on eric's lap just talking away. he likes to talk. we don't remember seamus talking as much as he does at this age so he must take after his dad.

new car new car

now that i am back at work the drama of the new car is back. i have been itching for a new car for the past few years but now that my trusty pontiac is approacing the 10 year mark in may, i am thinking i might have to make my move. i want to get a volvo but eric doesn't really want us to be a 2 volvo family but when i ask him what else he is thinking of he says we should just look around. i have looked and i would like another volvo. if i am going to spend 1-2 hours a day in my car, i want it to be a semi luxourious 1-2 hours. we will see what happens but i am hoping it will be sooner rather then later.

seamus will be turning two in a few days and that is totally unreal to me. i can't beleive it has gone by so quickly. she is going to get a real haircut the day before her birthday, too. the ones i have been giving her just aren't doing her any justice. if she would be more cooperative when it comes to putting her hair in pony tails my hair cuts would be fine, but those pony tails last for all of 5 seconds on a good day. we will see how it goes.

there was lots of rain over the weekend. rediculous amounts.

we went to the bike store and got some new tires, a new chain and new cassette for my bike. that is very exciting. the plan is that when it gets nicer i will ride into work at least once a week, maybe even twice and then after work eric will come drop off the car and the kids and he then he will ride in the evening. i am looking forward to it. the morning works better for me since i haven't had much luck with ever being motivated to make the trip home - just too tired and totally uphill the whole way. now all i need is a new rear wheel. i wonder if i can still fit on a bike seat, it has been so long.

creepy glow in the dark butterflies crawl on my face

so, i went to the doctor this morning to discuss my foot. she doesn't seem to think that my pain and swelling and the likes are plantarted at all or maybe she does but she didn't say so. she says it looks like inflamation of where the achillies attaches to the heel. maybe its all the same thing i don't know, but she suggested i see a foot doctor since foot pain is not a new thing for me. i have an appointment for the 30th.
yesterday i went shopping for shoes that don't have high heels and that don't make me feel frumpy. the toenail on my right foot seems to be attaching itself so far so i decided it was ok to try on some shoes that weren't open toed. this turned out to be relatively sucessful. i wound up with two pairs. i got me some clarks, parsnips, new this season but also on sale, shown here:

they are cute and comfortable and even the doctor commented on them. the others are just some pointy toed black flats that i can wear with dress pants and even skirts. we will see how i manage to function 2 inches shorter then normal.

seamus and sirus were up to their usual shennanigans this weekend although seamus has now discovered the crack that is disguised as bob the builder. she wanted to watch it non stop and i have to admit i let her watch it quite a bit while eric was out riding his bike. the theme song is very catchy. it is performed by neil morrissey who i was hopping was the morrissey from the smiths but it is not. still, a very catchy tune. sirus sometimes sleeps very well and then sometimes doesn't sleep well at all. lately he hasn't been sleeping well. he is easy to get back to sleep once he wakes up but he just wakes up and gets so upset that i have to go get him. that plus he turns himself and will be bopping his head against the crib rails or he will get his feet stuck between them. he is so big!

the seahawks are going to the super bowl which is exciting and its all because sirus was wearing his sleepasaurus jammies yesterday that resemble seahawks colors. he also seemed to be very interested in the game while having tummy time.

i will totally win

so, the plantar is worse then ever despite the icing, the ibuprofining, the clog wearing, the no exercising, all of it. then, last night, to make everything even better, i was washing dishes, and turned to reach for something and managed to stubb the big toe of my other foot on the oven. ya know, on the totaly metal drawer that is underneath of the oven. now, i have stubbed my toes many times and it usually hurts but this time, it turned into a gory mess. blood was shooting out all over the place as the nail was ripped all the way back. totally gross, totally painful, totally throbbing. totally requiring me to not be able to wear even the clogs any more. my work wardrobe takes an even bigger step backwards. good thing i was all hippy dippy in my younger days and that i have kept my 20 year old birkenstocks because they are the only thing i can wear right now - with socks at least. so after they take off my fascia foot along with at least my big toe with no toenail, i will win the weight loss contest at work with little effort.

or is it that my fasciitis is plantared?

so i haven't actually looked at my feet very much, but last night eric and i took a look, since it was our anniversary and all, and did notice that my ankle is a bit swollen. hmph. booshiat. and because i am all gimpy my back is tweaking and my right knee is starting to hurt. i need to figure out how to walk. i have a drs appointment on monday so i think i might just slide this one in under the radar while i am there.
i have been thinking about the dumb plantar fasciitis commerical and it makes me think about the other dumb commercials out there. for instance the one for Eaton Technical College where two girls are talking and one is depressed about her job prospects. her friend asks her if she has thought about Eaton and the depressed girl says she isn't concerned about her diet... har-d-har-har. so dumb.
the other dumb commercial i can't stand is the one for Check into Cash. ugh, i hate the way they say check into cash and they say it 2937420735872 times during their 15 second slot. it annoyes me to the brink.
last year's anniversary celebration ultimately resulted in the birth of wonderful sirus. while we love sirus very much and especially so since he woke up only once last night and the night before, conception is not an anniversary tradition that we would like to take on. neither is what we did last night - had one dessert for each year that we have been married. in 20 years that would be a lot of dessert. the year before the sirus conception i was way pregnant with seamus and we ate donuts all day to the point where we were all pissed off at each other. these are all things we don't want to repeat. we need to figure something out for next year.
i have joined the weight loss contest at work. silly silly but we will see what happens. i have lost 36 of the 40 pounds i gained while pregnant with sirus, but it would be nice to be able to wear the obscene denim cut off shorts from highschool that eric has been begging me to wear ever since he first saw them stuffed in the dresser drawer in my old bedroom at my mom's house. i will keep you posted. if they have to chop off my foot inorder to make it not hurt, i am sure to win.

my plantar is fasciated

so, allie has sent me her diagnosis and while i am not happy with it, i am pretty sure she is correct. she is an avid runner and has had plenty of feet issues in her time, so i think she is right on in her suspision of plantar fascitis. now, i am ok with it being plantar fascitis except for one thing - they have the absoulue DUMBEST commercials about it on the radio. i hate them and i hate how they say plantar and the dumb guys is like huh? and i dont want anything associated with that dumb commercial. but alas, that commercial was made for me.
so no running - i won't ever make it to 16 minutes at least not any time soon.
i also will not be able to be 6'1" for at least the next few weeks because i can't wear any of my heels. that blows. not only do i not feel the pain when i wear the heels, the only non-heel shoes i have are clogs, running shoes and sandals - none of which go with my work atire at all. i will power through this though. there are much worse things in life then wearing sandals in the middle of seattle's attempt at beating its record for most straight days of rain.

the agony of defeet

so, my running career is over i think. before i even managed to get myself to 16 minutes. ok, hopefuly that is not the case but my heel is KILLING me. the worse thing is going down stairs - something about how my foot moves while going down stairs is just the worst. walking kind of sucks, too, unless i am on my toes or in high heels. what am i going to do/ this is sooooo lame.
but there is sun today! i can see it out the bedroom window!! and the seahawks are 1 game away from making it to the super bowl. and i got some new sunglasses yesterday so i can try them out today. i won't even talk about the handbag.

is it justifiable?

how can i get away with buying a $450 hand bag? i am trying to convince myself as to how it would be ok to do, but really it isn't ok at all. but if my computer fits in it, plus a bunch of other crap, is it ok?

i cried, it rained, i went shopping

so this morning while at work and while partaking in my morning pumping regime, i just broke down and started to cry. it makes me sad to be away from my babies and i miss them so much. when i get home i am so tired but i have been trying to spend as much time with them as i can, but i miss them and i feel like i am missing out on so much stuff. to top it off i am having a hard time getting back into the groove at work. i am going to CA on monday so hopefully that will help with the work side of it, but not so much with the missing of the babies.
wouldn't you miss this little guy, too?

we have had lots of rain lately, like 24 days straight or something. and its not typical seattle drizzle, it is rain. i am thinking that is contributing to my sadness. i am hoping it will be sunny and warm in CA so that i can get a dose of it and maybe that will help.
yeah, so i went shopping because there wasn't much i could do about missing the bebes and there isn't much i can do about the rain. so shop i must.
my foot still hurts but not as bad as last night. i did not wear the clogs today. i wore some boots but they weren't the 3 inch stilettos that caused the problem in the first place. ok, the other boots aren't really stilettos but they certainly do not have a sensible heal on them at all. the bad arse motorcycle boots i have on today are a bit more sensible.