Happy Easter!

I actually have a quiet moment this morning before the busy-ness of today starts. The kids are actually still sleeping! I'm looking forward today. The Easter Bunny couldn't bring much this year, but the kids will be fine and we will create other, more meaningful memories later today. I am looking forward to going to church and dressing the kids in the Easter best. I am looking forward to spending time with my family and only hope that Lee will be able to join us. I am looking forward to the delicious food that my mother has been planning and slaving over for the last week!! And the desserts that I slaved over all day yesterday! The children will have an Easter Egg hunt, which is always fun to watch and exciting for the kids. With Kailey being almost 2 now, she should be more fun to watch. My kids were always excited every time they found one egg, not caring that every other child was racing around filling their bucket with eggs. I wonder what Kailey will do this year. She likes to follow her big brothers and do whatever they do, so I guess we will see. I think we should watch the video from last year to see how they have changed. :)

I hope all of my friends and family have a warm, sunny and wonderful day! Don't forget to Thank God for this day and every day and every blessing he has given to you.

Happy Easter!

Booger Face

I know, great title right? Well, I was just sitting here trying to get my 3 year old to settle down before bed and he started singing. Have you all heard the song "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga? P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
Well, Jakob is walking around singing B-b-b-booger face, b-b-booger face.

Just had to quickly share my funny story. lol

Snowy weekend

Saturday morning I had to teach my Cardio-Sculpt class at MissFits in Hartford. I took the kids with me this time since I had plans after class. Scott, the boy who came to watch kids in the 'kid korner', had never watched my children before so i was a little nervous how things were going to go. I was 30 minutes early so I could open and get things set up. The kids ran around and played until it was time for class. I had one victim, uh, I mean client, for class...so we concentrated on form. Before class even started, Jakob came running out and hid behind the kickboxing bags. I told him he needed to go back to the kid area to play. He said, "That kid is being a jerk and he's not even watching me." Actually somewhat apparent to me since I found Jake before I saw the kid step out of the area to call for him. So I tried to bribe the child with a trip to McDonald's including the play area! He says, "I don't want to go to Donalds, I want to go to someone's house" So I told him he was going to have to behave while I was teaching class and then maybe we could go to someone's house. The rest of class went on without a hitch.

So my plans were to go to Hobby Lobby and purchase some scrappy items for a friend and then possibly stop in by my cousin Melanie who I haven't seen for a while. But I called my mom on my way to West Bend and she has been pretty sick with a nasty cold and possibly allergies...who knows since she won't go to the doctor. She was going to go out to get some more NyQuil, but I told her that I could pick it up for her.

So, the children and I went to Hobby Lobby, Starbucks, Wendy's for lunch, Melanie's house to visit for a couple of hours, Walmart for mom's medicine, Subway (because mom told me what she was planning to make for dinner and there was no way I could eat those)...and then we finally got to my parent's house. Both kids were sleeping and stayed sleeping when I brought them in. It was almost 5:00 pm. It started snowing about 5:30 or 6:00. *sigh* The kids woke up, we ate dinner, I helped mom with dishes and we went home...at 30 mph in the stinkin snow!

So today, I decided I wasn't leavin for nothin. I am sick or the cold freakin weather. It will be funny to look back at this post come the end of August. LOL
Well today, i haven't done a darn thing. We actually slept in because the roads were too bad to get to church according to my husband who came home from work around 7:45 this morning. I'm really not enjoying my husband working nights...and it's not even been a week. :(

Another week

My mom came home from visiting relatives in Louisiana on Tuesday night. Just in time for us to go over and see mom and dad on our normal Tuesday night when Cameron is at his Catechism class. Mom brought the kids t-shirts and some other presents. She brought Jakob a croci-gator. He got a thrill out of seeing her pictures. She had a few photos of crocodiles that they saw in various places. Jakob had the "sharing bag" for school on Thursday which is their "Show n Tell". They only allow one child to bring one item when they get the bag. The kids always get excited when they see the bag in their cubby at the end of the day. :) I put the crocigator in the share bag and Jakob tried to sneak in some other junk from the toy pile. Kids are so funny. He doesn't have very many 'special' items to share so for him, he will just throw any old thing in it.

Lee went to nights this week and the whole family is trying to adjust. It's obvious how Lee is trying to adjust and it can't be easy trying to sleep during the day here with Jakob and Kailey playing. We all can't wait until it's nicer outside.

So Lee's first night of work, my first night to get the bed to myself, I ended up with a little girl with a fever.

I took Kailey in to the doctor yesterday as she has been crabby and whiny and chewing on her fingers again (plus the fever the night before)...which tells me that she probably has an ear infection. She was just in a month ago and had the start of an ear infection and the doctor had said I could give her an antibiotic if I wanted to, or I could wait and see if it gets worse and then give it to her. I opted to give it to her right away in hopes that we would get it taken care of right away. Well, then the poor little thing developed a nasty yeast infection from the antibiotic. Now that it's gone, the ear infection is back...either that or it had never really fully healed. And this time it wasn't just a little one...both ears, full blown. Poor lil thing.

Last night, my second night without my husband and the possibility of sleeping alone, I ended up with a 3 year old in my bed. He hasn't been in our bed for a couple weeks...it's like he KNEW! Daddy is gone! And he's so sneaky! I didn't even realize he was in there until I woke up around 3 am to a crying little girl. Now, this will probably come back to bite me, but I didn't take him back to his bed, i just left him sleep.

Now, I'm sure that my week was more eventful than this, but I just cannot think of anything at the moment as Jakob and I sit and watch "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" I sure don't want to think about Christmas and snow...but I hear we probably have some more snow coming. I am so sick of the snow and cold. I am so ready for summer!

Well, stay tuned for the next episode of The Thorsens' boring every day life. I really need to start at least jotting down some of the funny things my children say and do. It would make this reading so much more interesting. ;)

Children's Hospital

Busy Day today. I had to work at MissFits from 8-11 and then rushed home to get lunch and Jakob for his appointment at Children's Hospital. We had taken Jakob in a couple weeks ago to our normal family physician for problems with his belly button. She felt that his belly button never fully closed, and so had an umbilical hernia and referred us to a surgeon at Children's hospital. I decided to not get myself all worked up and worried and only tell a handful of people so that I didn't hear all of the thoughts and opinions of everyone else and work myself into a scare. I just told myself, "It's just an umbilical hernia...nothing serious...can't be that complicated...we'll go in, they will set up the surgery, they will close him up and everything will be super duper. :)
The website for the Hospital informed me that there was construction going on around the hospital so be prepared to be 15-30 minutes early. The appointment was at 2, I thought I should probably leave around noon...which, in my 'always late' mind really means like 12:30. I think I left at 12:15 ish. We got to Children's around 1:30...perfect. I had plenty of time which was mainly what I was stressing about on the way down anyway. Jakob slept on the way down so I found a spot in the parking structure as close as I could get to the 2nd floor walkway to the clinic. I woke up Jake and he was still groggy and whiny and tired and probably a bit scared even though he really didn't know what was happening besides he was going to the doctor to get his belly button looked at. I ended up having to carry Jakob almost the entire way to the clinic...only setting him down twice. Jakob was quiet and stuck close once we were in the clinic. We got called into the back about 2:15 just after I heard them announce in the waiting room that anyone waiting for this particular DR, "We are very sorry, but she is running behind." The med student came in to ask all of the typical questions...about 10-15 minutes after we wee in there....and then about an hour later...oh, and two or three trips OUT of the room to take the 3 year old to the bathroom!...we finally saw the DR! She started it out by giving the boy a sucker. :) Then She checked his belly button while he was sitting next to me...then laying on the table...Dr: "When did you first notice something was possibly wrong?" Me: "Oh, since birth."....More pushing in the poor kids button...Dr. "HE is doing SUCH a great job!"
"Did you notice anything out of the ordinary when he lost his umbilical cord?" Me: "Um, hmmm, no, I don't think so." Now she does more pushing and poking as Jakob stands on the table...so his belly button is at our eye level. Dr: "Well, I'm sorry to tell you this (jokingly) but Jakob doesn't have an umbilical hernia...he won't have to have surgery." So, inside, I'm like, "Woohoo! No surgery for my poor lil man" And then, I'm thinking "Well, now wait...then what the heck is wrong with his button? The Doctor has now referred me to a dermatologist because he does have an obvious problem with the skin by his belly button. Sooooo, now, it is the fear of the unknown.
On the way home, I stopped at Dairy Queen because he was such a trooper. The kid declined ice cream to get fries instead!!
By the time we got home, it was after 5. Lee has a delicious dinner waiting for us at home. He has been such an awesome dad and husband these last couple of days. I am thankful for the help he has been giving, the dinners he has been making, and he has been working so hard and so many days just to try to keep things afloat here at home. Times are tough for so many people right now...including us. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to best help out our family. But that, is a whole new story...

Nothing exciting

Nothing exciting today...yet! Yesterday, I had stayed home all day with the kids because Cameron had woken up with a 24 hour flu bug, and Kailey had a face full of boogers from her eyes and nose and had taken off her poopy diaper when she woke up. So today has not been nearly eventful.

It is, however, almost 60 degrees here today in sunny Hustisford! Yay! I did have to work this morning at MissFits, where it is freezing cold until you start exercising. But that is only if you are doing some cardio. Since no one showed up for class today, I decided that the next time I go in, if I don't have a clean sweatshirt, I definitely need to bring in a blanket. Sure wish I knew how to get people awake and active and into the fitness studio in the morning though. I would have much rather taught my class...and I sure needed the exercise.

I've already started yet another load of laundry and yet another load of dishes...and I'm in the process of making myself some cayenne chicken for lunch. Later on we are going out to visit Grandma so she can see the kids before she leaves for vacation to Louisiana. I am so jealous. I am dying to leave this town and go somewhere fun...but don't tell mom that...she'll just give ya the old comeback of "When we were first married and had kids, we didn't go anywhere..." UGH! So, I've also decided that I need to find some further means of income besides my Mary Kay business and teaching and working at the fitness studio. Anyone hiring anyone who has very little experience with a lot of different things, and very little schooling, no degree, could use some great benefits and excellent pay, friendly, outgoing...anyone??

Inspiration

This morning I was inspired to create a blog based on our ever thrilling daily life. Life at the Thorsens is very rarely boring. Constant nose wiping, butt wiping, meal and snack making, mess cleaning fun. And I already have to cut the first post short....to go wipe a butt...sigh.