yeah, baby is sleeping and puppy is chewing.

and I thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and get a puppy. So we could train her before Marshall started to crawl. Oy vey! She is so very sweet and sassy but she chews on EVERYTHING. She's under the bed as we speak chewing, never on her toys, no. We've purchased nearly $100 bucks worth of stuff for her to chew on but she prefers socks and dirty laundry.

Things are going good though, she's definitely a mess. She wants to nip and love on everyone. She is particularly fond of my daughter.

Here she is:

Caca facial

I seem to have a reoccurring theme amongst my children. To this date, they have both painted themselves with caca. Yes, they are truly both poopie-faces.
As I was checking out on Sunday at the local Walmarts, I hear that old familiar sound of a diaper being soiled. I pay and rush quickly out knowing I'm going to have to lay him down in the back of the vehicle to change this diaper. I wheel him around to the back of the car and tell Abigail to get in. I decided to crank the car and open the door for Abigail to go ahead and get in. Once I walked back around the side of the vehicle, this is what I discovered. This picture does no justice to the massive amounts of poo on everything. It was EVERYWHERE. It was running down his fingers (did I mention he was sucking his fingers at the time?), it was on his eye lids, it was up his nose, it was in his hair...you name it there it was. Poop face. I had to lay a blanket in the back of the Edge because he had caca all up his back. I finally got him wiped off enough to get to his diaper. When I took it off, I swear to you, the only clean spot on the diaper was where his two buttcheeks were at! He apparently blew it out the side of the diaper and that is where his hands came in contact with it. He really had me hopping to get it cleaned up. Thank goodness he is alright (didn't get sick) but still. What a story for the baby book.

wow, I'm not liking the picture I posted...

eeek, I really need to do something about that picture. Not my favorite. Thought it might work there but I need a replacement. Stat!

For those that loved the Evil Pig

There is a whole slew of those precious little gems on youtube.

Should you be interested, visit this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lleQl8Qm2bo

for more pig and dinosaur videos.

who'da thunk...

It is amazing to me how you can have a machine that is literally useless without a small key component part such as a seal or stopper. You know that magical part that is only a couple of bucks but renders a valuable necessity useless without out it...?

This is my second child. I breast fed my first and I'm breastfeeding him. I pump at work and other times when necessary. I am very diligent about having all my parts packed early in the morning so that nothing is left behind. Why? Glad you asked...because no matter how Cadillac your breast pump may be, it isn't going to operated without a key component. That wonderful little diddy would be the membranes that help create the suction on your device. Without those small, white rubber pieces, your breast pump it absolutely worthless.

My twisted sense of humor found this video funny

My twisted sense of humor found this video to be totally hilarious. Perhaps it's the drugs from being sick, perhaps it's the lack of sleep...I dunno. There are two of them but for some reason the second one won't load.

Well, there you have it.

boobs. Operative word of the day is boobs. Apparently I can't breastfeed in public because of boobs and worrying about them being seen. Of course what I'm about to share is a very funny little diddy about my husband and I.

Wednesday dh asked for me to get dinner and meet him at work so he could see the kids. I agreed and made my rounds picking everyone up. Got dinner, got back to his/my office and was actually able to eat in peace for once. Well Marshall wakes and I tell hubby I need to feed him. He tells me I can't do it in their breakroom because enough people had seen my breast... :>O. Now I know he's not being serious but I'm curious as to what he means by that statement. So we proceed to have a discussion about how folks from his office saw them while I was in the hospital with little man. So we agree to go across the hall to my side of the building and go to my office.

So we get into my office and we are by no means quiet. We are all over the place. I made a comment about the hall light still being on and that someone must have forgotten to turn it off. I sit down, take out my breast and put Marshall to it. He latches on and eating commences. Well hubby is trying to help my daughter get on the pc to play games and low and behold a coworker just goes walking by. At that point, I'm sitting in a chair feeding my son, facing my door. He quickly turns his eyes away and just carries on. I had to giggle because this guy's wife has fed all three of their children by the breast. He was cool a cucumber about it thankfully.

The irony of it all is that now I have coworkers that have seen bits of my breast. :>)

It is with a heavy heart that I blog this:

It is with a heavy heart that I blog today. I've avoided this blog for nearly a week. In ways perhaps it has helped but in others it has not. We lost our beloved Topaz Friday 9/12. In the mist of preparing for a hurricane and dealing with a sick child, we had to make one of the hardest decisions a doggy momma ever has to make. Do you put your dear friend out of their misery, or hold on to them? Are you holding on for you or them?
I've always had a relationship with both my dogs that I felt was an understanding between me and canine. I feed you, you give me unconditional love. I take care of you, you take care of me. When I'm in need you are there, when you are in need, I am there. Both of my dogs have lived good, good lives.
Two summers ago, I had to make one of the hardest decisions of my life. I had to put my beloved golden retriever down. She was 11 years old and my first baby. Very much a part of our family. On Friday, we had to make he same decision on our equally loved furry family member. It was with a heavy heart but the understanding that live had to go this way. Topaz was tired and I made a commitment to him to not quit him until he was ready to be quit. That sad day came on 9/12.
Goodbye old friend. Tenacious, crazy, fun-loving protector. You will always hold a special place in our hearts. I know you were told to stop doing the very thing that drove you often. Don't do this or don't do that. We loved you none-the-less! Even when you howled, talked, and broke windows to get to kitty-kitties, we loved you. We know you loved us too.
It is only fitting that this picture of you have a halo on your head. You were always the protector and the guardian.

well we weathered the storm.

Holy smokes folks. This was Ike as it prepared to barrel onto the Texas coast. It was a force to be reckoned with. NO joke. Inland 90 miles from Houston, we got our fair share from this storm. Sustained winds were around 30-40 mph with gusts of upwards to 65-75 here in town. Fortunately we all made it. We were on the east side of the storm. Winds died down around 1-2:00 pm today but we still had squalls of storms that came through as late as 6-7:00 pm. It is quiet now. The birds have begun to chirp again. That's how you know it's going to be a bad storm. The birds leave. Seriously. Mark had to work yesterday afternoon and evening but got the heck out of dodge by midnight. It started to pick up here around 4:00 am all though we had been experience sustained winds between 10-20 all day Friday. We had a sort of a slumber party downstairs last night, in the event of tornadoes. Thank God we were spared. In fact I don't think this storm threw nearly as many tornadoes as they had feared it would. Of course it has consumed our lives for the past two days. I am very grateful that we sustained everything with minimal damage. We've had a small leaking issues and our smoke detectors went off today during the heart of the storm. We had to unplug several of them but I believe that CO set them off since the doors had not been opened in HOURS. We have one that is waterlogged and will need to be replaced. Otherwise, I think they will all be alright.
So, that's it on Hurricane Ike at this point.

Hunkering down for Ike

Welp...lots has happened since my last update but for now I'm concentrating on hunkering down for Ike. Today has been exhausting. I'm so glad that work was canceled today. I had to put my beloved Aussie down today (which I will blog about later), and had to prepare for this storm. I have no idea how bad it's gonna get here. It is currently 10:30 pm and we are starting to get sustained winds from 18-25mph with gusts up to 35mph. If this storm had a female name, it'd be a bitch. For sure.
We've moved tons of stuff and are hoping that all survives and that we aren't flooded out. I took pictures today of the house and managed to catch these two at sunset.

Well, it's been three weeks but we do have a new baby!!!!

Sorry I've been delayed in getting on. C-section took a little out of me. We are struggling with breastfeeding and it has been a rough road.
We went in early Thursday morning and then waited. And waited. They hooked me up to a monitor and I was having contractions especially when he moved. He was even moving right up to being wheeled in for surgery!

I finally got back to surgery around 9:30. It was fast. So much was going on. I ended up getting a little sick and I've had tummy issues since surgery. I guess it was the tugging and pulling on me...shoving my stomach into my lungs! My doc is great and had him out in less than six minutes! She had to wrestle him out of the womb. He pinked up right away and daddy walked him down to the nursery. There we found out that our little Marshall weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 2oz and was 20" long! Shew. He's a big boy.

We stayed in the hospital for three nights. On Saturday he was showing signs of jaundice so he went under the lights all day. I only got him when it was time to feed.

I've had issues with breast feeding. I've had issues with swelling. I've had issues with my digestive track. Luckily my incision is healing nicely and my stomach is going down but I'm having internal issues.

Anyway, I'll post a little more but basically we are six days post surgery. Marshall has dropped to 8lb 3oz and we are having to strictly feed every two hours daily and three hours nightly and supplement formula. I've had a long road with breastfeeding and it was a blow today when I was told this. Not to mention the fact that the nurse was less than nice to me today. I'm sure my hormones have a lot to do with it but even hubby said she was quite harsh to me today. It was all I could do to keep from bawling right there in the office.

Oh my Jesus...home waxing kit. What the hell was I thinking?

Wow, ten bucks and the thought that I could wax all the unwanted hair? By myself? That's what I get for trying to save money. Oh my Jesus. What was I thinking?

Reading directions: went well. Heating the wax: went well. Application on right eye: a little sloppy. Put paper on to pull excess brows...nothing. You have to pull away from the direction of the hair. Okay, in the mean time, I've managed to wax my lid to my upper lid and I had what looked like boxer's eye without the swelling. Apply paper again, pull in OPPOSITE direction of hair growth. BAM, success. I'm thinking gosh, it's looking pretty good. Move to next eye. This time I know what to do right. Put it on, pull and boom, theres a little more missing on one side than the other. Never mind that I'll clean that up with tweezers.

Move to my sideburns. Start on right side again...I guess wax had cooled a little more than needed. Application was a little thick of course I don't find that out until I rip the skin (well it felt like that) off the side of my face. Apply paper again and riiiippppp. OMG that hurt so friggin' bad. Look at paper, very little hair, LOTS of wax on side of face. gulp. Apply another sheet. RIIIIIPPPPP AGAIN. Tears are starting to well up in my eyes. More hair but now I had clumps of hair on the side of my face with wax in them and very little hair on my paper. Apply another and it was no different that the two times prior.

Forget this crap. I turn the faucet on, heat a wash cloth pull out the wax remover and start scrubbing.

so here I sit with my eyebrows done and cleaned by me, mind you and only half my face waxed with hair still there so I'm gonna take a break. I should probably go and have the rest of my face done but I'm exhausted.

Getting ready for baby.

Time is 5 days down and counting. Marshall will join us in less than five days. It is so hard to believe. It seems like this pregnancy has lasted a lifetime. I know I'm going to miss being pregnant but I also know that I can't wait to meet my little boy. I still have lots to do but we are chipping away at it piece by piece! One thing's for sure he's got clean clothes and a bed to sleep in.