OF COURSE!!

This has been my phrase for..well a while but specifically the past few days...
We have been busy for a few days helping my mom get settled in as best we can, with out trying to be in the way. The girls have enjoyed the distraction and of course seeing some family.

On the other side, Ive been having hard time adjusting to the move and to several private things that have been going on in our life. There is a lot of stress and I seem to have been experiencing some depression signs. Our family as well as both our extended families have been dealing with some things that have added to our concerns as well as my school. It's a bit much and I've been feeling a little overwhelmed. So, Ive been trying to find a way to shake myself out of this slump I am in and so far I've had little luck. So, I have decided to take some time off of school, about three months or so and concentrate on me for a while. I hope this will be enough time to start working on some things that will hopefully help me.

In the meantime, The girls are out of school for Summer now. They have been home for one day so far and I've decided it's going to be a long summer if they can't remember how to get along better!
We had an incident a few days ago with Makenzie and Alexandra "play fighting" that turned into real fighting and then a kick in the face. This resulted in Alexandra having a trip to the dentist today for an xray and a subsequent tooth extraction- no worries it was a baby tooth and was already loose, so all is well in the life of Alexandra again! Makenzie felt bad, at least for the moment, and hopefully this will deter anymore fist fights...for a while!

Jacqueline on the other hand had her dental check up today and we had some not great news at all!! Turns out her teeth themselves are healthy and shiny.. no cavities. However, her thumb sucking that her pediatrician kept assuring me was no problem and not to worry about it.. has caused some pretty major damage to her mouth. This includes, a miss alignment of her upper jaw, where her "aggressive thumb sucking" has caused her upper jaw to shift to the right so she has an over bite to the left.. also, a pretty big over bite in the front. If she continues to suck her thumb, she can get a thing called pallet collapse that will require surgery to repair.. OF COURSE!!! So, they are going to fit her with this thing called a dental appliance. This a device that is added to her two back molars by a sort of cement and then a metal band/wire goes between them, keeping her from being able to create a suction in her mouth. Also there are little prongs in a wire that will run her jaw line and this will poke her thumb when she puts it in her mouth. This device will run about 450.00! ouch! This will stay in for about 8 months or so.
After her 6 year old molars come in, she will be getting a retainer to help realign her top jaw where it should be, ( push it back to the right). After about a year of that, when her two front teeth fall out and come back in as adult teeth, she will most likely end up with braces for about two years to correct the sever overbite and teeth misalignment she has caused in her upper jaw.

The dentist said, thumb sucking is not bad for babies, but once they start really getting teeth in, it can be tricky, and it must stop before adult teeth come in. So, its' been a fun day for us around here!

ahhhhhhhhh

I am also rebelling against... okay well everything. I don't want to turn 28 this year, it's too close to 30! I like my bday, but I am pretty much done adding candles to the cake. I've decided this is an unnecessary thing once you have reached 21!
I'm also rebelling against my long and lovely hair! Yep, my down to my waist, strait hair is no more! I cut it off yesterday! Not all of it, it's still down past my shoulders but its' short by comparison and has some nice brown undertones added to my blond hair.
Maybe it's part of the reconstruction I am doing on my self. I am not sure, but I think it looks good and Adam does too, so there ya go.

Too old for Tinkerbell

They grow up faster then you think... It goes in a flash...Where did the time go... common phrases that all describe our children who all too often change before our very eyes with out our knowledge or permission!!

And so it has began for us!
The other day Makenzie came into the kitchen and bluntly said, "how old do I have to be before I can stop calling you mommy and start calling you mom?" Ugh.. I said, "well, I guess you can do it anytime you want." It didn't really bother me too much and I didn't put too much more thought into it. Until, a couple of days ago, she walked into a room and said, "hey mom..." It stopped me for a minute and I kinda smiled at the thought that it obviously makes her feel more grown up... Adam on the other time, was not thrilled. He has proclaimed more than once that he disapproves of the girls getting older and that with each more "grown up" act she has, he hates it more. Yes, we know the alternative to growing up is not good, that's not what we mean. It's just hard to see that sweet little girl who's followed him around like a shadow for years, pulling away into her own world. Just as he thought that was bad enough for the moment, Makenzie told us the other day, that she is in fact too old for Tinkerbell sheets. I was personally crushed since Tinkerbell is my idol... but she said, she was okay with having Tinkerbell stuff, and decorations, but...too old for "cartoon sheets" okay, that was enough for Adam, he proclaimed that her growing up was crap and left the room for me to deal with it =0). I told her fine, we would get her some regular sheets with out cartoons. So, looks like we are in the market for sheets, as every sheet set the girls own is in fact some character of some kind.
The girls officially finish up school in two days, this will put Alexandra into the second grade!!!! YAY she made it, and Makenzie into the 3rd grade.. where in deed is the time going?!?!?