Water Aerobics Day 2

I cannot walk. My thighs and calves hurt so bad. Today I had more women, four to be exact! We had even more fun! I had those older ladies laughing so hard, and to me laughing is great exercise! See just 15 minutes of laughter a day will burn 10 to 40 calories, depending on a person’s weight and the intensity of the laughter. That’s enough to shift between 1 and 4lb a year. I guess we could call it "Laugh Yourself Thin" ! So start laughing :)

We also went and got our glasses today! "Bright" Bambino looks so dignified in his! A little professor! And my, well lets just say (I'll have to take a picture and let you see for yourself). We went to Wal-mart to pick up those last minute items for scout camp and guess what, "Gigantic" Bambino picked out some hiking boots. We got home and he went to put them on. HAHA! He had two left feet. Are you laughing? Remember you will burn calories! HAHA! So I said we needed to go back and get the right one. But before that the boys dared "Princess" Bambino to lick the inside of a flash light, you know where the battery meets the electrode part. It was a big fight of fingers point of who said what, who did what and so on and so on. Finally, we figured out that just her lip touched it, but bad thing is, is that the boys did not know that a battery had exploded inside. We only knew once we opened the flash light up. YIKES. So threw her in the shower with water running on her mouth, washed the area clean and called poison control. They said the same thing, wash and run water on it for 15 minutes then an ice pack. So that is what we did. Glad we didn't have to go to the hospital and glad she doesn't have a flat lip anymore. Dance recital on Saturday.

A First For Me...

Yesterday, I started teaching water aerobics to the women in our church! We had a small group, just me, my mom and one other lady. Small is good for the first time and much more enjoyable! After our session, my friends daughter came out to swim (along with her mom) so I told her I would call "Hot" firefighter and the Bambinoes to come swim! She was so excited and couldn't wait. Poor "Hot" firefighter, he didn't get to swim. See the slide has been taken over by wasp, so he was taking care of that! However, in the midst of killing, one got loose and stuck in "Princess" Bambinoes hair. Oh NO! That's right, you got it, she got stung twice in the same spot. She had a nice big bump and a red mark. Good thing grandma was just about to leave and offered to go get some meds! We told "Princess" Bambino to get back in the pool so the cool water would help take some of the sting out. We let everyone swim for about 10 more minutes and then pulled them out. Grandma called and asked how much "Princess" Bambino wieghed. I asked her "Wet or Dry?" my mom was a little confussed needless to say and then caught on! She laughed and asked again how much she weighs "dry"? I informed her that she weighs about 37lbs dry and maybe 38 lbs wet! We got her some meds and the swelling went down and she felt so much better!

The boys all had scouts tonight, so "Princess" Bambino and I decided to go along for the ride! See "Gigantic" Bambino is doing a fundraiser for scouts and were selling chicken dinners, so we drove them around. Poor boys, only got a $20 donation and sold one dinner. Oh well there are still more weeks to sell!

A $1000 FOR YOU

If you had a thousand dollars, what would you do with it? Here's the thing, you can't save it, you can't share it, you can't even pay those overdo bills with it. The only thing you can do with it is spend it on yourself. So tell me, what would you do with it? Follow the rules and let me know! I'll tell you on Friday, what my plans for a thousand dollars would be!!!! I bet you can't guess. Leave your post and lets see who comes up with the most creative list. Most of all have fun!!!

Dentist

I love the kids dentist! She is really good with the kids and has such a charming way to please everyone! Today was "Princess" Bambino's first appointment to have a picture of her teeth taken (that is how we had to explain it to her). Last time, no way...she would have nothing to do with that. She thought she was getting a "picture" taken! But today, she showed us just how grown up she has be come! Not only did she get the pictures, she also sat and got her teeth cleaned without a fight! When she was done she said "are they as pretty as a princess?"
"Why yes my dear, but I think they are prettier!" The boys did great as usual and were excited to dig through the toy box! See their dentist is just awesome, she had Disney come in to design her office, have a Marshy Movie room, the Wii room, of course a waiting room, oh and get this, above the patient chairs are TV screens that play the same movie from the Marshy Movie room! The boys just love to go to the dentist just to play the Wii and always say the other one will go first! Boys will be boys.

The rest of the day was cool too! The boys were suppose to go to a friends house and swim, but "Bright" Bambino chose to act up and lost that privilege. "Princess" Bambino ask her grandparents if they would take her to lunch! "Bright" Bambino weaseled his way in to going with the grandparents too (good, gives them time to spend with his 9 year old ways). "Gigantic" Bambino went to his friends house and went swimming, made guns out of paper and masking tape, made a movie with their alien costumes and just seemed to have a grand old time! "Hot" firefighter and I had a date! Can you believe, we had a date! We weren't exactly sure what to do, but decided to go to the movies. Wish we would have gone to a different one, but just being together was worth it! We saw "Land of the Lost". If you want to see a typical Will Ferrell movie, then go for it. Yes, there were some funny parts and yes, there were some crude parts (you know Will). But I think one funny part was when the mosquito started to suck his blood. Man, I thought our mosquitoes were bad, and big! We did have fun and that is what it is all about...Now to finish our run on LOST! Season 3, here we come. Agggghhhh, scout camp is next week, we wont have LOST done by then. Oh well, such is life :)

Dreaded Day continued...

The Dreaded Day wasn't as bad as I thought! However, it did take forever, like always and yes over and hour later we finally were done! My appointment was at 9 and "Bright" Bambinos was at 9:15. Well, 9 went by, and so did 9:15, arrrrgh...9:30 they finally called me back! Gosh, if I only knew that I wasn't going to get in till 9:30, I could have slept in a little longer. Typical huh? Every thing seemed fine, until the doctor came in and checked my vision. Remember I told you that I wouldn't have my contacts in? Okay, so I didn't have them in and couldn't see worth a darn. Informed him again that when I get my eyes dilated, I get a migraine. We talked about that for a minute and then he said "okay, but I really need to see if there is any pressure on your eyes" Great, pressure, of course there is pressure... I do not have my contacts in you goof ( I didn't say it to him, just thought it). He continued by saying "so, if this does not show me what I want to see, then we will have to dilate your eyes." By this time, he is already putting the drops in my eyes and is handing me a tissue. I wipe my eyes and what, what in the heck, my tears are dark yellow. "That's normal, don't worry it will go away in a while" So, not only can I not see, my eyes are yellow like werewolves.

As I wait, I go in to the room where "Bright" Bambino and "Hot" Firefighter are. Trying not to scare them of course. I should have just started to howl! That would have made the doc think twice about putting drops in my eyes again! HAHA! Anyways, "Hot" Firefighter asked how it went and truthfully I didn't know so told him "I don't know".

Memories were running through my head as I watched "Bright" Bambino sit and answer the "what letters can you see" quiz. I kind of felt like crying and wondering where the time went and how big he has gotten. I even told him that his first visit to the eye doctors, he couldn't even reach and had to sit up on his knees. Also that he impressed the doctor with his ability to talk to new people and basically tell him the square root to any problem. Hence the name "Bright"! But, then I remembered that I was crying yellow and didn't feel like having streaks of yellow down my face all day. Imagine trying to tell someone why you were all yellow. "Yep, was picking dandelions with my daughter, and felt something on my face and forgot I was holding a flower." I just held it in and wrapped it tight against my heart!

Finally the doctor came back in and said that "Bright" Bambino needed new glasses. Not because his vision had changed much, but because he has grown out of his glasses. I asked about mine, and he said that my left eye had changed. "Changed, what? Come again? I can see just fine out of my left contact" of course, he begged to differ. I am getting new contacts and a pair of glasses. I haven't had them in so long and I am afraid that with the big jump in the prescription, that I might have a hard to time seeing at all. Oh well, they are cute and you should have seen "Hot" Firefighters face when I was trying on the glasses! It was like, you and me and just those glasses!

One Dreaded Doctor down. Next week is another dreaded doctor. The dentist! At least for the kids...

Dread Day

Ugh, tomorrow "Bright" Bambino and I have eye appointments. Now, I don't know about you, but for me this is one of the worst appointments to have with a doctor. I truly do rate it up there with the other DREADED gynecology appointment. I hate getting my eyes dilated. I mean come on, I am going to the eye doctors for the mere fact that I cannot see and have been in glasses and contacts since 8th grade (um, never mind the year). Hello, that is why you are an eye doctor. I understand too, that as an eye doctor, they have to dilate the eye to be able to see the in's and out's of your eye. But I'm blind. I don't have glasses, I am a full time contact user! I need glasses just to have. So yep, tomorrow is the day. "Hot" firefighter has to drive us, since I have to take my contacts out (my very last pair), then "Bright" bambino and I get to sit there together while our eyes dilate. How fun! I can't even read to him, let alone look at a magazine. Just walking to the car is going to kill me. It is like having a white piece of paper outside and the glorious sun blinding you. Times that by 10 and that is how dilation is. Plus, after wards I always have a huge migraine and have to come home and sleep it off. Otherwise I puke. "Bright" Bambino, on the other hand doesn't mind going! Well, so that isn't exactly the truth. His trail to sight started when he was five and we learned he had a lazy eye. I was shoving carrots down him way before this so I think that is just a myth. Anyways, I would have to say that was a very hard year for us. Poor kid! First he tried wearing the patch over his good eye and even put a skull on it for fun. That wasn't working :( so we had to move to more drastic measures. We had to dilate his eye every single day for six weeks, then it was every other day, then every two. We finally got it down to once a week! We had to do the dilation program for a year. It stunk big time. Oh, lets not forget that we went through 12 pairs of glasses in that first year. Pitiful little guy, he broke the first pair just two days after we got them. I cried more than he did. HAHA! Four years later and no lazy eye. We had to do all kinds of exercises to help strengthen his eye and his eye sight in the eye that was lazy. His right eye was working overtime and now they are great! He does wear glasses and is just so ever handsome! But, still for me, the eye doctor is almost neck and neck with the gynecologist!

Calendar update

How could I possible forget something on the calendar for the month of June? How could I do that? Well I did, okay so get over it... it is you know my birthday month! So on June 22nd, yep the day after my birthday, I am scheduled for Jury Duty. Jury Duty, can you believe? I have never done it before and am pretty sure I wont be. See when you are married to "hot" firefighter, he isn't here every day or every night. So if the case, whatever case it maybe goes for a week, there is no possible way for me to do it. There has to be a better screening process for selecting jurors. Now, if I am wrong let me know. But isn't there some law that if you are employed your employer has to give you that time off? Well as a Domestic Engineer, I don't get days off. I am worth over $300,000, but it doesn't mean I get paid and boy gosh, George, I don't even have a nanny. A nanny, that is in my job description! So, I am assuming that it will not take place for me, unless they don't mind my three children sitting "quietly" in the court room. Yes, they are homeschooled, but they aren't your norms. They are loud and I have found that they are very talented at picking. Picking at each other is a new talent that all siblings have encountered from time to time. It involves their hands, feet, eyes, mouth, you name it and it is involved. I can see it now...we are just about to announce the fate of the accused and you hear a high pitched, bellowing "mom, he's/she's looking at me". They are so loud that everyone is unable to hear the verdict and dang the poor person is cuffed and put away or uncuffed depending on what they heard! That would be the last time I show my face in public. Oh, and the last time my bambinoes would see the light of day! :) Wish me luck!