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Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all those out in Blog land.  This has got to be my favorite time of year and this year we spoiled our kids rotten.  I can not wait to be woken up tomorrow with my kids jumping up and down blurting out what Santa Claus brought.



Have a safe holiday!!
~Brianne

Update on my little offspring

So this is what my little ones have been up to lately.

Cameron is becoming more and more independent everyday.  The word NOOOO!! is his favorite right now.  Little man is starting to become a tad bit more civilized when we take him places.  If you tell him to do something he understands and "usually" does it, he is a genius I tell you!!  So this morning I put Elmo on and he could seriously not give a crap.  Then this afternoon Spongebob comes on and he freezes, sits down and quietly watches??  Aye yi yi!! Did I just openly admit that I allow my almost 2 year old to watch T.V. (Don't worry I gave up on my mother of the year award long ago:)

Landon could not be more excited about Christmas.  The decorating speed is not quite to his liking, he wanted the tree, and Xmas lights up last weekend.  Well if mommy & daddy didn't go at 12:00 am on Black Friday to do there Christmas shopping it probably would have been done last weekend.  Then last night we kicked off the holiday season with his words not mine and yes I snickered loudly:)  "Who ha the red dose reindeer".  The lights and tree will be up this weekend so he should be a happy camper. 

Ryan has made huge strides the last 12 weeks.The medication we put him on helped tremedously with his ADHD but he was still having a hard time with Chase working out of town.  It was so bad that he would cry before school, baseball, or if I wasn't going somewhere with him.  It was a constant fear that something horrible was going to happen to me. I made an appointment with a child psychiatrist and he was diagnosed with ADHD and an anxiety disorder.  Fast forward to now and he has jumped up 3 reading levels, tested at a 97% in math, and received a life skills award at school.  I could not be prouder:)


Chase is still currently working out of town and I could not be more happy that his amazing company has steadily kept my husband working.  I'm holding down the fort here while he's gone:)

I'm back!!

I'm back!!

I needed to take a little break from blogging for a bit.  Some of my favorite must read blogs were going in a direction that after I read them I felt like crap.  I'm the type of parent where when I disagree with something I think to myself okay not my style but whatev.  Another reason for my little break if you will was all of these annoymous posters who feel they have balls the size of Texas and post little stabs at you while annonymously hiding behind a computer screen. First off why would you care so much about someone whom most likely you have never met??  Kind of stalkerish if you ask me...  and if you do know the person and don't like them great way to show them they get under your skin by visiting there blog and then commenting stupid stuff. I see bloggers respond with if you don't like my blog don't read it but my approach is more if you don't like my blog you can SUCK IT!! I can really give a flying fadoodle what you think of me.

Textbook

Those are the words our pediatrician used when I took Ryan to his appointment last Monday. Let me back up for a minute. When Ryan was in Kindergarten he missed a lot of school. The reason for this is that from the end of Nov. to Feb. he had about 13 ear infections. Good times let me tell you, oh yeah and then go ahead and add asthma on top of that. Not fun!! So at the beginning of April he had surgery and his tonsil's and adenoids removed and talk about a huge difference. Since he missed so much school I discussed with his teacher about holding him back and it was her opinion that in doing so he would be bored out of his mind. So on to first grade we went and start week 3 my son is crying to go to school everyday.


The cool thing for me is that his teacher sends home a daily folder letting me know what they learned, did, and of course how well he behaved. Well my little social butterfly brought home a couple of warning's and some work that he didn't complete:( The awesome thing about me is that when something like this happens I assume the worst... The kids are being mean to him, he is struggling with his reading, and I'm a total failure as his mother. So after a very upsetting phone call from him on a Friday while he was at school I scheduled him an appointment to have him checked for A.D.D.

I pick him up on Friday and talk to his teacher about what is going on. Mrs. M explains to me that Ryan gets along with everyone, his reading and math are exactly where they need to be at this stage, and he is getting warning's because he talks when he should be doing his work and has a hard time staying on task. Go figure!! I finally found one of my gene traits. Sorry Kid!!

In case you don't know, Chase works out of town Sun-Thurs. and it's hard on everyone but I guess I didn't realize exactly how hard it's been on the kids:( So we have an amazing weekend and Sun. comes and he is sad all day knowing daddy is leaving again. We get through it and after going back and forth on whether or not to keep his appointment for Monday I decided to take him and see if she has some suggestions for me.

We get to the appointment and I fill out a questionnaire. The majority of the questions I filled out I answered with a 3. A 1 being rarely and a 3 a lot. Dr. D. comes in and begins to watch him while talking to me. I left out that when we were having issues with his ear's I brought up to the Physician's Asst. my concerns about him having A.D.D. since I have it and know the signs. We decided at that appointment to adjust his diet which really wasn't that bad but we didn't want to medicate at the age of 5. Now at the age of 6 we have adjusted the diet, and are doing behavior modification and we are still having issues. So Dr. D. tells me that by watching him she can tell that he is textbook A.D.D. and we can continue to do what we are doing which is great but so far his learning isn't affected by it but what if I do nothing and then he begins to slowly start getting behind. As his mother I felt it was in his best interest that since we were going in the right direction with his learning I don't want to do anything that can risk him getting behind and struggling to keep up. It was one thing to hold him back in Kindergarten but not something I want to have to do unless absolutely necessary at this age. I told her my concerns with the Ritalin so we have him on a very low dose and if we are unhappy with anything while he is on it we can modify it.

In the week he has been on it, Ryan has been playing quietly with his Lego's, brought home green which is great behavior for the last week and a half, and is looking forward to going to school. I have seen a 180 in behavior and am so happy that we caught this when we did.

YES!! I have 3 boys...

So it seems as if when I go shopping and complete strangers decide to strike up a conversation with me the first thing out of there mouth is "Wow, you have 3 boys?? "  "You must have your hands full." and then these people who I don't know will ask me "are you gonna try for that girl?" now I know that they are trying to be nice and have good intentions but did it ever occur to you that maybe I'm fine having 3 sons and if I ever decided to have another that I actually would want another son.   Having a daughter at this point scares the ever living crap outta me.

As a boy mom let me tell you all the wonderful things about these amazing healthy little boys that you may not know:)

1. A son loves his mommy and thinks she is the most beautiful mommy even when they get into trouble, and  they even love me with no makeup and my sweats on.
2. They love there little male parts from the day they are born
3. They love to pee outside
4. I am the first person they want when they don't feel good or are hurt
5. They always make sure that I'm taken care of
6. They don't like when I cry
7. They love to get dirty, scream, spit, climb, jump, and basically tear your house apart
8. I don't have to share a bathroom or my clothes with them when they get older and if I do we have way bigger problems then I thought:)

So yes they are a handful and I guess when people ask me this question I should simply reply with "Yes my hands are full but my heart is fuller and I wouldn't trade them for the world."

Friday the 13th!!

So we had a busy Friday the 13th.  Our morning started out normal and within a few hours turned into complete craziness. 

Landon had his 4 year old check up and passed it with flying colors.  His 4 year old stats are:
31 lbs & 36 inches tall.  We are all ready to start preschool and I'm hoping it goes according to plan.

Cameron is my little tank. My little chunk's stats are:
26 lbs & 32 inches tall.  Little man is quickly catching up with his brothers:)

After we left the Dr's office we decided to hit up Miguel's for lunch.  I didn't feel like unloading so we got it to go. We get home and I bite into my yummy little piece of heaven bean, rice, and cheese burrito and the phone rings?? Ugh!!  It's my grandpa who is on vacation out of state calling to let me know that their house was just broken into. But get this the peeps are still in the house with the police there!!  Crazy!!  So we load the kids and arrange to have my sister pick Ryan up from school.  We get to there house and there are police car's everywhere...  So we pull onto the street and I roll my window down to tell the police officer who I am and why I'm there...  He tells me to park and they will come get me when I am able to go inside... So we wait & wait & we wait... finally they come over to get me and have me take a look inside.  Chase's cousin who is also a police officer that lives right around the corner came over to grab the kids for us so we could take a look.  I was told by another neighbor that a girl that I went to High School with's grandma noticed a strange car and called the police:)  Thank You to Jaymi's grandma the police where there within minutes.
So this is what went down...  J's grandma and another off duty police officer notice weird car parked um hello right in front of grandparents house at 12:30 in the afternoon and call police, the police arrive and suspect is still in car, officer approaches car 20 year old guy refuses to get out, officer has him at gunpoint, Suspect #2 comes cruising outside with my grandparents flat screen TV and sees officer with gun drawn on his buddy in the car and nicely sets the TV down and flees out the back door with suspect #3... So the police set up a perimeter and take suspect #1 and car into custody:)  he snitched on his 2 buddies by the time I was allowed to leave.  So I go inside and am able to see what was stolen or rummaged through.  Luckily with the quick response from neighbors they only got away with some of my grandma's jewelry that wasn't too valuable and the TV that the guy left at the front door. They had to be some of the dumbest robbers ever:)  So the police got the 3 thief's and the thief's got nothing.  Chase hooked the TV back up and closed the window they popped open and replaced the screen.

We then finished off the rest of our crazy day with a little Chuck e Cheese chaos...