Everywhere else but where I would like it...

I use Myra as a patient to test for diabetes at a diabetes research center. Good start huh? They mailed me a package to get a blood sample from Myra. It has been sitting on the shelf for a couple of weeks so I decided to take it down so I could see it and when I am in the mood to make her cry I will get the sample. In this package is a kit on how to take a blood sample, a needle thing that you push so it will poke your finger, a numbing thing, some band-aides, and a tube to put the sample in. Well Myra found them. There were 2 needle things because you can only set it off once...so Myra set off one but somehow didn't poke her finger. She thought it was cool and played with the broken one for a while.

Explanation for why she thinks this is cool: Whenever Mason pokes his finger to test his blood sugars Myra is usually right there beside him because she wants her fingers poked too. Mason pretends to poke her finger and then pokes his.

Okay back to the story...well she found the other poker, grabbed that and actually poked herself. I heard her crying from a different room and when I came in she was wiping her bloody finger on the table trying to get the blood off. Now I figured that since she poked it, all I had to do now was put some blood in the little tube and have it be over with. So I tried...I first put Kandie down in her bumbo seat in front of the crime scene and tended to Myra. Because she had wiped her finger so many times on the table I couldn't see where she actually poked herself so I am squeezing her finger to get some more blood out and she is screaming and because she is screaming Kandie starts to cry as well. I figured it was about time for me to cry too since everyone else was right? Now this was at 6:00 in the morning when she did this just to give you a idea of what I am feeling at this moment. I couldn't get any blood in the tube. You would think this would be easy but it wasn't. It was as if the tube had been bathed in oil because nothing was going in that tube. It would just run down the sides and on top of that try holding a screaming 2 year old, a tube and a finger. They just don't blend well together...So I just gave up and put a band-aide on it.

In the end my house looked like a murder scene. In all the panic we happened to get blood all over the walls, the table, up my arms, on both our clothes, and somehow on the bumbo seat...everywhere else but the tube...

A couple of Myra stories

Here is a little update of Kandie and how big she is getting. I have been saying she is 3 1/2 months but realized that it is actually almost September which means she is almost 5 months. Wow how time goes by...

I went out to change the laundry. Myra was sitting in her chair and when I came back this is what I saw...

Every time I want to leave the house Myra has to grab as many toys as her arms can carry. So this is her getting ready to go to her friend Abigail...It was cute at first. But after a while she started getting smarter. She is now trying to make me carry a bunch of toys too!!!

Myra has a couple of cute little things she has been saying lately:
"Wow...Cute pants Kandie"
"Okay okay I'm commin" she says this when I am asking her to come hold my hand as we cross the street or when I use my serious voice
"don't touch tv...I beat you" I hope you can guess where she learned this one...
"mmmm...I don' know"
"Ohhhh Mannn" from Dora the Explora (Swiper)

She also says the prayer now it goes something like this:
"Heavenly Father...Food...daddy work, mommy work, Kandie work, mumbling...good girl...mumbling...AMEN"

Myra found the Scissors

Before and after. Her beautiful hair before she found the scissors and after. I knew this was going to happen sooner than later. Everyday she would look at me and say, "I wanta hair cut like mommy and daddy" so eventually she found them today. She decided it needed to be short. I guess she didn't want me putting it up in braids anymore. I am kinda regretting trying to fix it because I think it looks worse now. I found out it is hard to cut a two year old's hair while she is jerking and moving her head all over the place.

Parenting

So I have been having a hard couple of weeks with Myra. Most of it is me I know but I like to blame it on someone else. Here is what a typical day is for Myra:

* drawing on the couch with a pen
* touching the projector
* getting into my makeup and worst of all my eyeliner
* bringing juice into the living room and spilling it(not to mention that it is cranberry apple juice...so a stain is involved)
* getting into the kitchen cupboards and dragging everything out
* not holding my hand while crossing the street
* getting chairs and other objects and stacking them until she is able to reach things that she is not supposed to get into
* laying on top of Kandie
* getting into things while I am feeding Kandie because I can't get to her fast enough
*getting on the computer and pushing buttons making our computer download things that make it slower
*getting into the wet wipes


And the one that I wish would be over with already

NOT POOPING ON THE POTTY AND MAKING ME CHANGE HER STINKY DIAPERS...

I have been reading a book on disciplining your toddlers and younger children and it is funny how most the anger and frustration is from the parent. First the parent talks to their child. Next tries to persuade them to do what they want. Then they argue and yell until they eventually hit their child out of frustration. They call it the talk-persuade-argue-hit syndrome. The toddler is just testing grounds to see what they can get away with.

How come parenting is so hard!!! Some days' (like today) I wish that they came with a manual. 'When a child does not listen or throws a tantrum, unscrew the back and pull out the batteries'. Oh how I wish that were true.

To control myself I find that I have to sit down and read that book until I realize that I need to teach them that I am the boss. And not by throwing fits. She learns those fits from me probably.

Now the potty training thing...boy how I do I start. She was so anxious to sit on the potty when we first got it that I pushed her too far and now she's not interested at all. The only reason she sits on it is because she used to get cookies. I have changed the rules though. She gets a sticker for trying and a cookie when she actually poops on the potty. But she hasn't gotten that yet. She looks at me, "mommy I want a cookie"...then she remembers that when she poops on the potty she get one, so she takes off to the bathroom, pulls down her pants, sits on the potty and say, "cookie mommy cookie mommy". And I know that is the only reason why she sits on it. When she finds out that she doesn't get the cookie she's done. It makes it so that I don't want to take her to the potty because I know that she won't go.

Oh the treasures of potty training...Can I switch places with her one day so I can be the one to drive her crazy...

The white stuff

I caught Myra with the oreos. She ate all of the white stuff out of the middle of the cookies and left the chocolate part. I just thought of this song...

What is my kid turning into???

Was it really worth it?

I was really tired today, so as soon as Kandie was asleep I decided to take a nap with her. I got a pillow and blanket out and slept on the floor in the living while Myra watched Toy Story 3, that way in case she needed me I would be right there. I woke up to her telling me that I needed to change her diaper. On my way to get a diaper I noticed all my dried beans were scattered across the house. Next I went to change Myra's her diaper and I noticed she had tucked her shirt in her diaper so you can only imagine what that looked like. She has been eating sand at our friends house a couple of days ago and it is still going through her system so throw that in your imagination. I can't help but laugh out loud thinking about it. I threw her in the tub and began picking up the beans off the floor. And apparently I slept through the UPS knocking on my door. Who knows what else I slept through. I kept thinking was the nap really worth it? But I'm sure if all of that happened without my nap I probably wouldn't have handled it very well so YES the nap was worth it...

Huh?

I tried about a dozen times to get a good picture of these two hugging each other but clicked at the wrong time. This is just hilarious to me. It is good for me to look at these two and remember how cute they are. Kandie's shirt has a picture of a peach and it say's I'm peachy...which is kinda how I feel. Yesterday was a hard day for me. I got a phone call from the owners of the apartment telling me that I was parked in someone else's spot. So I go out to do some shopping with the kids and move the car in the process and the guy is standing next to my car ready to yell at me. What kind of person yells at someone with kids? But that didn't bother me too much. I could understand cause he had to park farther away. What really bothered me was when I went to the bank to cash a check. The ATM was down so the parking lot full. I drove around 2-3 times and finally found a spot. Right after I park and get out of the car someone decides to come up to me tell me that I was parked in their spot. They apparently had been driving around for 10-15 min and were quite irritated. It was like I had a sign on my head that said, "I park in peoples spots, yell at me." I was in the mood to tell him that if he really wanted it he could have it in 2 minutes because I wasn't going to move it, then I walked away as he was fuming with steam and yelling some more. What a day!!!

Static Electricity

Static electricity is an interesting thing. I knew how it happened but I thought it was interesting to see how to help eliminate it.

Static Elimination Tips

1) Increase the humidity in your house and workplace. Air is much drier in the winter, which increases the frequency and severity of shocks. Use a humidifier.

2) Change clothes - switch to natural fibers, since synthetics pick up more of a static charge.

3) Change shoes - there are special conductive shoes in a variety of styles. They are made for people working in the electronics industry. You will need to find a store or catalogue that sells or can order them for you. (Search online for "esd shoes")

4) If your skin is very dry - try an anti-static hand lotion (also available for the electronics industry.)