Someone give me a full course of antibiotics, STAT!

Okay, so it isn't THAT bad.  Soren has been sick with something nearly all winter.  We FINALLY got the doc to prescribe an antibiotic.  Two days later he was spiking a fever and pulling his ears.  Now, I have gone to the doc several times with this same complaint to be told "he is just discovering his ears".  Riiiiight lady.  Have you met my kid?  He has known about those things hanging off the side of his head for the past 6 months thankyouverymuch.  So, the umpteenth time he went to the doc - same clinic different doc- we were told he had "dull" ears and was given a stronger antibiotic.  And guess what?!  He seems so much better!  Even his acid reflux cough is nearly non existant, which makes me wonder if he has reflux at all.  I will continue his Zantac to see if it makes a difference and then probably taper him off later and see how he does. 

Now, if I could just stop getting sick.  Every time Soren or Jonas gets something they cling to me like flies on sugar.  Then I get sick...but I never get a chance to heal because I am always working, taking care of them or working at home on stuff there that has been neglected.  Todd has the best ever intentions of letting me rest and sleep, but I don't think he gets it, you know?  For one, the guy can't multitask to save his life.  He can't start dinner and then work on doing up some dishes while the water is working on boiling.  He can't let Soren crawl up his leg while he folds laundry, and he most certainly cannot keep track of when Soren had a bottle last or when Jonas had a snack.  This results in a very cranky baby, who then gets a bottle late and throws his whole night out the door, and a 4.5 year old who is ridiculously hungry and wants a snack but it is just too close to dinner to hand one over ( prompting a breakdown).  And how can I not hear it?  The crying, the whining, the absolute misery.  So, up I go to fix things...and yet he complains when I say that I am tired.  "Hey, I offered to let you sleep.  It isn't my fault you are tired.  You didn't have to come out of the room and see the kids."

*sigh* Men.

My life is just not that interesting.

The most exciting thing that has happened lately was that our landlord fixed our toilet.  I think we need to get out more...but with gas prices topping 3.60 a gallon, we are stuck here.

Holy Cow!

Jonas is reading!!  Okay, okay...*deep breath*  Gah!!! My little 4 and a half year old boy is a reader!!! 

While this may seem like not a huge thing to a lot of people - it certainly is to Todd and I.  We are huge bibliophiles.  We. Love. Books.  All books.  I am secretly ( okay, not so secretly) hoping that my kids learn to love books as much as Todd and I do.  I can remember reading all day long when I was a kid.  I remember spending all summer tearing through everything the library had to offer ( Nancy Drew rocked!).  So, anyway, this morning I dropped J off at his preschool class and his teacher pulled us aside and pulled out her flashcards and Jonas started reading away!  She said he was one of about 5 kids ( there are about 20 in his class) that can read all the words and if he is unsure he will sound them out.  I love my smartypants kid!  And here is a pic of my little monster!



While we're at it, I wanted to include a picture of my littlest monster.  Here is Soren Jasper.  Love him and adore him!!



And here is Todd.  He's hot.  I know.



And here's me...with Jonas.  I usually tend to stay on the OTHER side of the camera.



Also, I just noticed that the pic of Jonas and I is taken in the bathroom.  I don't know why.  That's just how we roll I guess.

I guess that is it for today.  At some point I have to tell you about this amazing group of women I talk to each and every day...

Well, this is going well

Okay, so obviously I am not going to be able to post each and every day.  Wow!  Hats off to those of you who can do it.  Not me.  I am currently working a gazillion hours a day, fighting with a cold that never seems to leave and I have a 4 year old and an 8 month old that are complete attention guzzlers.

Nothing too new here.  I am just wrapping up a 14 hour day, my first of 2 this week.  Looks like next week I will be having to do a few overnights as well seeing as I have 3 open positions and it is spring break at Lock Haven University.  This means all my college student staff are abandoning me for warmer parts.  It's okay, though.  I rarely ever have to work extra hours and I have some pretty darn good staff out there.  Almost all my part timers and zero scheduled hour staff suck up the hours the minute I put them on the calendar.  I can't complain about having to do the odd overnight.  It does take me away from my family and I really REALLY don't like that.  Especially today.  I came to work at 9am and I am not going to make it home until after 11pm when they are all snuggled up in bed.  *sigh*  Todd did drop by work so I could see them, which makes it better, adn I don't feel as if I have completely abandoned them.

Soren is fighting some sort of cold.  I thought he was finally going to break a tooth through, but nope.  No teeth.  Just a lot of green/yellow boogies and a cough that racks his little body.  I broke down last night and gave him a baby dose of cold medicine.  I don't care what the docs say.  If that were me with all that congestion and coughing and I couldn't sleep because of it I would take something.  Why can't my kiddo?  As for the medicine being "ineffective" for babies...I call a big load of BS.  Obviously they have never had a sick baby that just needs some relief so they can sleep and regenerate.  Jerks.

I guess that is enough for now.  I promise to get some pics on here as soon as I get a free minute at home.