Little boy

I am blogging with a little boy on my lap this morning. I am drinking coffee and he is drinking apple juice! We are getting along great, I am trying not to think we are doing awesome incase we have a bad day or two in the later part of the week. Tucker is very brave and obviously very strong! He didn't hardly cry yesterday and he never really complained! He was great last night and didn't sleep much until at bedtime he finally gave up and fell asleep on the couch. He slept all night and finally got up about 7. He did not wake up for medicine at all in the night and did awesome. We are going to try to go to strait tylonel today instead of the pain medicine. He has ate great and even had some chips and dip last night. The doctor said to let him eat whatever, that he didn't believe with all the talk about chips and red jello, therefore we let him and it seemed to go fine, I broke them into little pieces. Also he has been very active. He has been playing, talking, squealing, and playing with Tayden. Tayden is struggling a little to be quiet and calm. (shocker I know). Thankfully Tayden goes to school at 9:30 and won't be home till about 4:00.

As for Brandon and I, we got along fine yesterday, I only got lost once at the hospital trying to get back to the one day surgery after I had went to get Tucker a balloon! I was sure glad I went for the balloon also. I took him a package to open and it was new Spiderman underwear, well I decided to get a balloon to go along with it. He held the balloon and underwear until 8:00 last night. I finally took the underwear off the balloon and added a soft puppy animal, he still calls it his balloon and holds it some this morning. Wow am I glad I decided that we would get a balloon. We got along fine and made it through the day. Do I have to confess that there was a small part of me prepared for an even longer day. I was a little worried with all of his issues, that we would be there all night long. I was also a little worried that they would decide not to do the surgery. But I am thankful and glad god was looking out for us that things went as planned and we only had to stay about an hour longer than planned. Thanks for all of your calls yesterday as well!!!!! Well I had better go, I hear a few fast footprints behind me!

Home

We are home from surgery, everything went okay and we are ready to snuggle and rocky!! More updates later, I knew some were anxious to hear!

I love

I love getting out of school before 1:00
I love the 100th Day of School
I love two loud rambunctious little boys
I love my little tiny lambs in the barn
I love snow(no I didn't say for 24 hours)
I love having a co-pilot or pilot depending on who's week it it
I love my husband
I love getting out of school early and counting it as a day done (that seems to be a challenge this year)
I love being caught up on laundry and dishes
I love eating hamburger
I love lots of things and I will love rocking a very sad little boy tomorrow- lots of T.V for me!!!!!!
With Valentines Day around the corner I thought it was fitting and I just want you to know it truly rocks when we get out of school early.

Church

We went to church this morning and our pastor is in Hondurus on a missionary trip, therefore we had an older man who preaches throw song come to do the "sermon". His name is Gary Russell from Bloomfield and he sang some great songs and was fun to listen to. Well when the children came up from Sunday School, thank you Lindsay for volunteering the month of February, Tucker asked who is that? I simply replied that is Gary. Tucker only being two said "papa Gary"(my dad's name is Gary). I said no Tucker that mans name is Gary also. Well I want to see papa Gary he says. Make a long story short, he couldn't get it out of his head, he kept asking to see papa Gary! We left and he was still asking if Papa Gary was going with us? If he ever hears my dad sing or he will understand that Gary Russel and Gary Utt don't sound the same and are not the same people. I thought is was very funny and continued to tell him that it wasn't papa!!! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Rockstar

Do you know what it feels like to be a rockstar? To have people tell you, that you did great and are so great! Wow that was awesome!! Well on Friday I came as close as I probably am going to get at being a ROCKSTAR!! It felt great- it was the same or maybe not quite as great as being on the State Volleyball team or the Tennis team, but well it was definately the closest I have been to a rockstar since I graduated High School and no longer have those teams to boost my self confidence.

Do I have to admit that the average age of believing I was a rockstar was 8 year olds. On Friday we had an assembly and the man asked the guidance counseler and I to pariticipate so of course I did(why wouldn' t I) it was throwing some type of ball and yes that is better for me than singing or dancing!!! After the small tasks of throwing and catching a ball with a long tail we had a seat and life went on! Well of course the kids thought it was great and the 1st graders (i had last year) thought it was wonderful!!

Make a long story short, it doesn't take much to impress kids and it is okay that they may be the only ones who think- I rock, at least some do. It was fun and definately reminds me of why I do my job. For updates, my class is improving their behavior and I beginning to enjoy MOST of them!! Have a great weekend!

cat

Well some of you may know, that my loving husband is NOT fond of cats. Therefore this morning when the boys and I left there was a cat laying on Casey's (the dog) blanket and I thought wow that cat is brave. Casey was out with the hound dogs so it was no big deal. But I remember her barking in the garage last night and I thought it was very unusual, well heeellllllooo Lori there was a cat out there. The crazy part is that this evening(thursday we have long days) when we got home it was still there. but not for long...
Like father like son, Tayden took of with a stick and chased the cat around the yard for about 15 minutes and then came in and said"I was getting rid of that stinkin cat"!!!!
Moral to the story- the cat probably won't come back!

If I was wealthy...

I would send our allergy doctor is Osky (Ron Graeff) a grand!!! He truly does care and is up for all the help and medicine he can when we call, even if it is 4:40 on a Monday afternoon and some crazy mom calls his cell phone.
As I pick the boys up on a regular routine, the babysitter(I would give her a couple grand- extra that is) tells me that Tucker has a small fever and is very wheezy. I am thinking - yes I thought maybe that would happen, he was breathing heavy yesterday and he was whinny this morning.- We were headed to Bloomfield anyway to grab a few groceries and get dog food. I called Dr. Graeff's cell phone because that is what I have programmed in my phone and left a message. In 25 minutes he called back and had a game plan, he prescribed medicine and told me to call with a report in 3 days. Therefore at 5:17 he called the pharmacy to put in drug order and by 5:27 I was headed home with the medicine. He truly is a blessing on days like today!!!!! Hopefully it keeps us out of the emergency room tonight!

Now what else would I do if I was wealthy... I don't know probably have the most elaborate classroom ever, pay a nanny to do the housework, not worry about monthly expenses, build a new house, buy more sheep, not worry about monthly expenses, give to the charities, go hunting with my husband more, not worry about monthly expenses, go shopping for a more in style wardrobe, not worry about monthly expenses - that one seems to be coming back to me!!!