Time and Time Again!

This has probably been the LONGEST hiatus I've taken from my blog since I started it! There was no real reason for not blogging, per se, but man! Managing two kids is a LOT LOT LOT of work!!! Add Jon either being at work, school, or studying all of the time and it's even more so! To all of the people out there with more than two kids - I salute you. No really - HOW DO YOU DO IT??? I suppose the question would just be that you adapt and figure it out as you go, but right now even the thought of any more children puts me into a week long migraine. Ugh.

Anyway, I feel like I lost a lot of my steam with blogging, so I guess that may have been a reason why I just haven't done it in a while. The thing is, though, is that I love to talk about useless crap on here, even if no one reads it. It's a sort of therapy for me, ha ha! Especially since my last post about my PMDD (that was kind of a really long downer, sorry!) I will say that the PMDD situation is well under control and I'm happily medicated to the point that I'm level and not completely off my hinges insane for 2 weeks out of every month. Yay Prozac! (Yes, I'm one of "those" moms - but at least I'm not going crazy and crying every time I do anything!) With that now under control (again, yay for Prozac) life has continued on and we have all figured out a pattern or rhythm for our day to day life. The kids are getting insanely big (insert cliché "where did the time go") and are growing more and more every day. I know that some people truly seem to fear their children getting older, and while in some ways I can understand and agree with that, in others I just LOVE each faze that they go through!

Blake turned 1 on May 22 (insert cliché "My little baby is all grown up!") and started walking soon after. Because he's so tall, this has been a bit of a problem for everyone. For one thing, he keeps smacking his head on things because he doesn't realize how tall he is. He has mostly overcome this by now, but every now and then he forgets to duck when trying to go under the kitchen table. Also, he just falls down a lot, and the taller you are the harder you fall! For another thing, he can already reach up onto the kitchen table and the computer desk, and it's only a matter of time before he can reach on to the countertops. THAT'S what terrifies me about him growing up - the stage where they don't understand the word "No" or "Stop" yet and think that everything is their play thing. His favorite things to try and grab are soda cans (just tonight he spilled Mountain Dew all over his front while trying to sneak away with Jon's drink), paper of any kind, the keyboard and mouse, and any type of electronic device that is near you or that you are using (cell phone, iPod, remote, Kindle, etc.) He is still fantastic at climbing stairs, but the one time he tried to go down we were at a friend's house and we didn't know he had gone up the stairs...so you can imagine how that ended. Luckily, our friends had very soft plush carpeted stairs, so Blake walked away unscathed. He can open out doors now, so that's been fun, ugh. Oh, and he climbed out of his crib twice before I finally thought "Hmm, I should probably lower the crib to the lowest setting". Yeah...sometimes my brain doesn't work for a minute...or ever. Anyway, he's safe now, but I know it won't be too long before he figures out how to climb out regardless of the height of the mattress. Oh, and he has stayed in about the 75th percentile for height and weight.

Sophia - oh man. This girl will be the death of me. She is pure D-R-A-M-A. I finally got her to stop talking about her boobs all the time, (as well as mine or anyone else's that she saw) so that's good, but she's always finding new things to freak me out. Tonight she was telling Daddy how Blake has a big peep, and she has a little peep. I'm not talking about the candy marshmallow things. That and when she starts getting all sassy with me, she'll wiggle her bum while she walks and stick her hip way out to the side when she stops. Not even sure where she got that from! She's always talking about her outfits, and how she needs to put on some pink lips, and her imaginary friend is Prince Charming and she takes him everywhere. She is so strong willed - I love it but at the same time it sure makes being a parent more difficult! That and she just says the most random things, like when she tried to tell me that some random older lady in Wal-Mart was my special grandma and that I needed to go and give her a hug because she misses me and loves me so much. Um...yeah I didn't hug the stranger, and Sophie threw a fit. That was a really minor example.

The most exciting thing at this point for our family though is the fact that Jon only has 21 or 22 days left of classes and then he's in rotations!!!!! He's in his LAST LAST LAST year of pharmacy school, and because of the accelerated program this is his last quarter of classes and then August through May will just be his advanced rotations, and then he graduates on May 22, 2014! I'm so excited I can hardly think about it or my brain will explode! We still need to figure out where we're going to live afterword (which will entirely depend on where he's offered jobs) and that keeps me up at nights, but all we can really do is start applying (next month - we start applying NEXT FREAKING MONTH!!!) and see what offers he gets. It's like applying for school all over again...only bigger. :-\ Anyway, he has done really well in school and has made the Dean's List several times. I'm so proud of him and all he's done! Plus while working as a pharmacy intern at the same time - it's amazing that he's able to do so much so well!

Anyway, I just wanted to touch base and let you all know that I'm still alive, I haven't completely forgotten about the blog, and I'm not in a padded room or anything. Life is good, my family is GREAT, and even with the stresses of daily life we couldn't be happier. :)

Peace out!

M.