A little update

I am feeling a bit overwhelmed because I haven't blogged in what seems like an eternity and I feel like I have so much to say. I don't know where to start. For the last 6 weeks Bjay has been in Cali working hard (or hardly working, not sure which) and looking for a home for us to live in for the next year. Well the search has come to an end. He found us a cute home in a great area! I think I am ready to get settled down and get on a good routine. I have loved being here with family and I am so very grateful to Shelli and Ross for letting me stay in their home all this time. It has been so much fun but I am sure they are ready to get their routine back too. I just want you (Shelli) to know how much I appreciate all you have done for me and my kids... for making your house our home too.... for letting me sneek off to the gym when my kids go to bed.... for letting us take over your basement.... for being there for me when I have had a rough day and just need to vent, or run away..... you are the best. I love you so much!!!!!! We are heading out to Cali in a couple of short days and as sad as I am to leave I am anxious to see this home and make it a home for at least a year. :) It is bitter sweet. Peyton is heartbroken about leaving his school and his new friends. It is funny because I was SOOOO worried about how he would do coming here. How he'd adjust, because the schools are so different here. I think as a parent you always worry about how they will do at making new friends, new routines, etc... but he did amazing. Better than I dreamed. He made so many new great friends. The class each wrote him a little goodbye letter. He does not want to leave. He wants to take his school, teacher, and friends with him. Now I worry about the next step. Another new school, new routine, making new friends, it is never ending. But it is what we have to do and I guess as long as we stay positive he will be okay, right???

It has been a busy month... I took both the kids to the dentist last month and both kids had a couple of cavities. Fun stuff. So Peyton went first to get his fixed and he was my little champ. No problems at all. Later that week I took Pajha, I thought after seeing Peyton do it with no whining she would be cool with it all. When he went to give her the little numbing pinch she completely freaked out. Now what I should have remembered was that my little princess also has a very wicked temper. She has been known to attack. For example, getting her ears pierced she went after the girl who did them. Kicking her, hitting her, screaming at her... I had to hold her back. She did the same thing to the poor lady who gave her the last set of immunizations she had. The Dentist then gave me a card of someone who I could call that could "deal" with her better. By that he meant someone that could sedate her. Nice. So we made the call and last Thursday I took her back in for her "sedation". I was really nervous to begin with and wasn't really sure what to expect. But I have to admit (very guiltily).... it was hilarious. They gave her the medicine and put us in a little room with a TV and bean bag chair. This is where we sat while we waited for the meds to kick in. I had no idea how long it would take or what it would do to her but she was drawing a picture for her dentist, when she suddenly stopped, looked up and turned to me and said "Hey mom!!!! Why does that guy have TWO heads?" and then she just started laughing and so did I. We both laughed until I had tears streaming down my face. She repeated that a few more times, and each time we just laughed and laughed, and then she could no longer hold her body up so she laid there, asking me why I had 3 eyes, then I had 4 eyes and then it became a bunch of mumbling that I could not understand followed by her little giggles. Apparently this affects all kids differently and she went through a few stages. She got angry at one point and yelled at me (though I have no clue what she yelled), and then she cried. They said that once they took her back she was pretty difficult, but they got the job done! PHEW! She cried and cried the whole way home, she cried because she leaned out of her booster seat and couldn't lean back up so I had to pull over a couple of times to resituate her. By the third time I decided there was no point in pulling over because she would just do it again. Once arriving at home she just cried and cried. Still mumbing, still hallucinating (trying to catch things flying by my head), still seeing double, we all had 3-4 eyes (which my nephew Jayce thought was HILARIOUS) and still unable to walk which really ticked her off. She saw popcorn and wanted it so I put some in my hand expecting her to take it and instead she attacked my hand with her mouth and chomped it up (biting me on accident). This she did over and over. After a couple of hours she was almost back to normal. She asked me how we got home so fast. Doesn't remember a thing but her walking was still not wonderful. She would stand and start to walk, which turned into a run so that she wouldn't fall over. What an eventful day that turned out to be. She is one funny kid. It was really hard for me to see her so helpless... funny aside... I hope that if there is a next time she just lets the dentist numb her.