3 Things You Didn't Know

I saw a blog posting on my friend's blog (sorry I'm still to special to figure out how to show my friends and family on my blog page) about 3 things you didn't know about me & my family members so I thought I would do it about mine!

3 Things You Didn't Know About Avery

1. He Loves transformers, and I mean LOVES them he has 2 shirts and some PJ's a backpack for preschool and shoes that he LOVES showing off to anyone that is (or isn't) willing to listen to him about them, he has the movie memorized and he can sing the Linkin Park song word for word.

2. He will let you know (every 2 minutes) that he's HAPPY. He will come in the room your in and inform you I'm Happy and then simply walk out of the room, you think it's cute and funny for the first 15-20 times, but trust me after the 300th time of hearing him say it, it gets really really OLD. I'm pretty sure it comes from when he was younger I made him stay in time out until he was Happy. But overall I'm glad he's so happy he wants to share it with everyone most of the time I smile say I'm glad he's happy (he's happy with that answer) and continue doing what I was doing.


3. He is more scared of little dogs and he is big dogs, since my mom has big dogs and he's been around them since day one pretty much they don't bother him at all but when small dogs are around him and start to yap and jump around he just doesn't know what to do and will avoid them at all costs! It's really quite funny to watch he once told me that a the little dog we were petting was just plain weird and it needed to get bigger. So I asked him what you don't like this tiny dog? He said no it's to small and annoying! LOL The things this kid says!

3 Things You Didn't Know About Toby

1. When he was first born he would FREAK out if you put him in a dark room when he was trying to sleep he was the happiest sleeping on his Daddys chest, passed out GONE if he was there or if he couldn't be there he was OK sleeping in his car seat, now that he's 4 months old he really gets upset sleeping in light! He perfers sleeping with a blanket over his face (I really don't like it) but he will actually crab the blanket and put it over his face and then fall asleep. He still perfers to sleep in his car seat at night but everyonce in a while I can convince him to sleep in his crib.

2. He loves it when you allow him to stand, he still stiffin his legs and just stand there look around for a minute or so sit down and then a few moment later want to stand up again, he's been doing thing since he was only a few weeks old. Maybe I will have a walker sooner than 18 months old like his older brother!

3. He is an AWESOME sleeper! He will go to bed at night around 10:30 pm and will stay asleep until 8am the next morning! There are some nights he will wake up (usually when I try to put him in his crib) but 99 percent of the time he will sleep a full night even sleeps through when we get up to get Richard off to work, It's WONDERFUL!!!

3 Things You Didn't Know About Richard

1. His favorite Drink Is Mt. Dew....He can't get enough of that stuff!!!! When I first met him he would easily go through a 6 pack a day without even blinking an eye! (And he wonders why he can't sleep at night?!?) He's since cut down in the past few months

2. His Bubby is his favorite person. When I was pregnant with Toby he would come home and "pet" the belly, rub the belly and talk to him, now that he's here the moment he walks in the door Toby's with him pretty much the rest of the night and it's gotten to the point if Toby knows his dad's in the room he wants nothing to do with me!

3. Richard has 11 siblings!?! YUP! Because his parents got a divorce and then re married he has combined family members so it goes like this! His mom had a son from a relationship when she got married to Richards dad So there was Chris and then she had 3 kids with Richards dad Robert, Richard & Rudy. Then they got a divorce and Richards mom go re married and had three more kids Eric, Felicia & Emily and his dad got re married and had Virgil, then got a divorce and got re married a few years later to Debbie who has 4 kids of her own Chris, Kevin, Keith & Tammy. Sadly Chris (his oldest brother) passed away from a job accident when he was 12. But still it goes like this. Chris, Robert, Richard, Rudy, Virgil, Eric, Felicia, Emily, Chris, Kevin, Keith & Tammy!

Oh How I Love Visiting Hospitals?!?

So incase you didn't know about me I had the gastric bypass back on June 3 2003. Back when I had the surgery I told the doctor to keep my galbladder in if it looked healthy and it did so he left it. Well later on that year I got pregnant with Avery and well during the pregnancy they discovered (after several trips to the ER with me being in extreme pain that wasn't pregnancy related) that in the few months that I was pregnant my body produced several (about 100 plus) stones and the pain was comming from a stone being caught in the duct of the galbladder (trust me it's horrible pain, worse than contractions!) Anyways 6 weeks after Avery was born I had my galbladder removed and all was dandy! Well a few months later I had the same pain again as I did when I was pregnant comes out of nowhere and comes on pretty strong and usually I could control it with pain meds and laying down for a bit and eventually the pain would go away. About once a year the pain would get so bad that I would end up going to the ER to get the pain under control, and when I went to the ER they would give me pain meds and do a bunch of tests and claim it was the beginning of a ulcer, give me some meds and send me home drugged up. I knew it wasn't the beginning of a ulcer because over the years if it was an ulcer it would have devlopet by now! Then in 2006 I was tired of having the problems so I had several tests done, and they couldn't find anything wrong, they couldn't see a stone in the duct so after several test's and such I just gave up. When I was pregnant with Toby my OBGYN suggest it was a spasm of the galbladder duct or there was a stone left inside there that was causing the pain. Well not much I could do when I was pregnant with Toby and since it only happened about once a year where I required to go up to the ER I wasn't to worried about it. Well on December 12 2007 I was up at 4AM (getting Richard off to work) when the pain started soon after he left for work, and I took some pain killers and it kept getting worse and worse until I couldn't take the pain anymore (I was in tears by this time and the place we were renting at the time the landlord and his wife heard me crying and took me to the ER) where the hospital said your not having labor pains..DUH but wanted to keep me to observe me and later on turned into labor pains and the next afternoon I ended up having Toby. Well didn't worry about it still mainly cause it only happen once a year and the last time I had an "attack" was April 22 2007. Well come March 16 2008 I had another "attack" went to the ER got the good stuff and came home, thought maybe I should have something checked out but with work being as busy as it was I wasn't going to worry about it until after tax season. Well on April 11 2008 it happened AGAIN, so is got me worried went back to the ER and more pain meds and got an apt to see a specalist to see what my options were, and well they want a CT done again and do some more searching to find infact what I've know all along there is a stone still stuck inside, because since Friday the 11 of April I've had to manage the pain with a muscle relaxer (it seems to work the best) almost everyday. So this coming Monday I am going to have a CT done and then go see the GI doctor on Friday and go from there, so eventually I have another sugery to remove the stones! Go ME!