Playing Catch-Up

I'm not good at this blogging thing AT ALL. I love reading them, hate posting them and I really am not computer savvy enough to keep up with everything and make my blog cute... I do however LOVE to read them and find it almost therapuetic (sp?) to read things that I totally relate too and find that so many women say how good it feels to write out how they are feeling...

With that being said, I want to become a better blogger and keep a nice little journal of our lives! and since, I'm known for being a "blog stalker" (which my husband often teases me about), I'm going to keep this public for those of you who are like me. :) We'll see how that goes though and if I even end up sticking with it!

To quickly catch up...

Joey passed his HVAC journeyman test a few months back! He's still at the same job, doing the same thing. (Which he loves and is a complete natural at!)

Grant is now 19 months and I cannot express enough how fast the time has gone! Everyday, he does more and more and he is becoming such a sweet, smart little boy and of course, we think he is the most adorable thing ever! He's still VERY BUSY and is still into everything and anything. However, I have notice that this last month, he has relaxed a bit and will sit still for longer periods of time. He currently loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and will almost watch a whole episode or atleast half! (I know tv is not the best thing to want your toddler to do, but for my sanity, its very nice to have him sit and relax for a few minutes.) He is starting to talk alot more and will randomly mock the things we say too. We have had to be very careful with our words! For example, the other day while we were in the car, somebody cut us off and Joey said, "IDIOT" and Grant repeated it exactly like daddy! Although kind of humurous, its not a word I want him using! LOL And finally, the biggest milestone he's recently hit is potty training. I can't believe those words are even coming out of my mouth! I so didn't expect this until another year or so down the road. Grant made it very clear to us that he was ready... his diaper would be dry for hours and when he'd finally held it to long, he'd grab himself and whine as he went in his diaper and immediatlely wanted changed. Also, he'd wake up dry after nap time, so I realized that he had control of his bladder. We decided to just buy him a potty chair and let him play around with the idea. Well... the second night we had it, he wanted to go and went. I still feel like he's to young, but I've finally come to the conclusion that this is on his time and not mine. We are now putting him in "big boy undies" during the day and pullups at nap and bedtime. We fill him with positive encouragement and every time he goes, we let him flush it down the real potty, wash his hands, then he picks out a sticker. We take him every 20 minutes whether he goes or not. When he doesn't, we just say, nice try and we'll do it again in a little while. He is catching on quickly and went to days straight without and accident then only had one yesterday and it was a poo one and we were playing at the neighbors when it happened. So far, so good I think!

As for me,... I have started my new semester in school. Well, I'm almost half way through it already, thank goodness! Its Math 108 and its very hard for me! Math is by far my biggest weakness! I have class Mon through Thursday mornings and Grant goes to his grandma's. On one-two of the days, I leave him a little longer so I can do homework. So far, it has been hectic, but manageable and I've been doing okay keeping up. All of a sudden last night, it hit me hard and I"M SUPER STRESSED with everything going on. For those of you who don't already know, I will be having surgery on March 18th. My breast are very assymetric and have been since I first developed, but got wayyy worse after having Grant. (I know its personal, but I don't mind... one is a DDD and the other is a B!) I fought with insurance for six months, and they finally settled to pay half of the cost of surgery. Thank goodness because its expensive! I thought about waiting until after I'm done having kids, but I'm already have enough issues as it is and don't know what I would do if it gets worse with every baby. Also, its a rare case that insurance approves to help out at all and when they agree to, you have to schedule the surgery or it goes away after 90 days. I've had it scheduled now for four months and was completely excited to finally have it fixed, but now that its so close I'm nervous, scared, excited, stressed and a billion other emotions. I will be under for over 6 hours and will be cut from breast bone to armit on each side, then up to nipple, nipples taken off completely so she can resize everything perfectly. I will be a nice EVEN, perky ;), B when its all said and done. I will also be wearing a drain on the larger side for awhile and won't be able to lift for 4 weeks. I CAN'T LIFT MY BABY FOR A MONTH!!!! I'm so sad about that. Anyway, lucky for me, I have a great family and plenty of help through all of that. In the meantime, I have sooooo much to do to get ready. The quick run-down a crap load of homework and studying for my 2nd exam on Thursday, deep clean and I mean really deep clean the house this weekend, pre-op is next week and that includes alot of stuff, then one more "normal" week until its my 21st birthday (still need to figure out what I'm doing for it) then I have 4 days to get two weeks of math done because surgery is that Friday. The two weeks of math includes taking my 3rd exam a week early and no instruction on half of the homework! I will be missing a whole week of class then the following week after that is Spring Break. I will have two weeks off and then its back to the grind and hopefully I'll be healed enough. Wish us all luck with all of that, we will need it! :)

There's the quick or actually not-so-quick catch up and my rant for the day! Sorry for such a long post!