Sweet Child of Mine

This is Jess...

She is...

Smart

VERY Decisive

Loyal

Funny

Artistic

Determined

Set-in-her-ways

Private

Never conforms

This is Jess...

She is...

My Baby

Growing Up

Sprouting Her Wings

Use to be Blond

Has one eyebrow that needs some serious waxing

Loves the term 'hippie'

Apples are her fruit of choice

LOVES Summer

She cuts her own hair

Has the most infectious laugh

I look at that second photo and see the young lady she will become, she is the polar opposite of her older sister and she made sure we knew it...she flat out told us 'I am ME and I am not going to be like Abby, I am going to be like ME!'

Good for you darling...you be like you...I wouldn't want you any other way....

My confession for today: Roots and Wings...

Word!

Because I wanna remember a time when the word 'WHATEV' was NOT part of her vocabulary! She's 8 here(12 now) and I am pretty sure she still loved me and thought I hung the moon...

Okay MAYBE I never hung the moon...but I'm pretty sure she didn't know the word WHATEV okay okay okay she probably did BUT she still loved me...I think...

My confession for today: Amy and I are working very hard pairing everyone up for the SSS

Through the eyes of a bean

We spent Saturday at the beautiful Woodward Park in Tulsa here are some pix lilest bean took-her view...

And a couple of my views...

My confession for today: Yes Life is grand...

Field Trips

So several weeks back lilest bean went to OKC to visit our States Capital and the Memorial on a 5th grade field trip-I REALLY wanted to go with her but mr gp was working doubles and cheer practice conflicted with travel times.

All hope may not be lost since middle bean is now going to OKC on the same field trip in a few weeks-of course there will be conditions if I make the trip... like:

I have to act like I do not know middle bean
I can not talk to middle bean at any point
I can not ride on the same charter bus as middle bean
It would be great if I pretended to be someone eles's mom while on said field trip
If I could be sick that day middle bean would not be upset
I MUST be ready to go by 6:30am
I can not have lunch with middle bean
I can not walk in front of,behind or near middle bean at any point

Maybe I will just enjoy these pix that lilest bean took, middle bean has too many stipulations

My confession for today: I am going to try and get caught up on everyones blogs

Beans

You all know oldest bean right? In case you don't...

That's her, my sweet, darling oldest daughter, the one, who the minute I found out I was having a girl, I knew her name would be Abby Lain...

okay now that we all know who I am talking about...I get a call from her school today from the attendance office asking where she is..."HUH?" No really that's what I said-the attendance lady who apparetly has nothing better to do then scare the crap outta June Clever-esque moms like myself....Okay okay I am more Peg Bundy Suck it!

So I say "well I know she got on the bus this morning" the lady replies "well we have her absent in 1st -5th hours"...then it hits me...Abbys IEP teacher was going to make 2 classroom changes/switches so I let her know that I am certain my daughter was at school and that she needs to check with her IEP teacher-that must be the mixup...the attendance lady soooooo did not believe me...

Come to find out they switched 5 out of 6 classes and never told oldest bean...she went to her regular classes,while her new classes marked her as absent...On the bus ride home from school she calls me in tears because she doesn't want her classes changed...So the school gave me a panic attack and now my oldest bean hates me because no one elses' beanie mama is as involved as I am....

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Lilest bean had a play tonight so we all get gussied up and I bring my camera so I can snap pictures of the next Katherine Hepburn in action....

Here is lilest bean before she makes her debut....

Here is the stage...BUT you won't see her grace the stage OH No No No....look to the left of the stage

Here is a close up...

Yes that's her...The Sound technician!!!!

My confession for today: My lilest bean made your bean sound good...

Digi Fun contest

Linda @ Short Pump Preppy is having a digi fun contest and I have decided to play along

If you click that cute lil button up there you can find out all the cool 411

so here is my submission...BUT don't tell middle bean-it will ruin his cover-then I will have legions of screaming teens outside my window....

Saving the world...

I am keeping this post short N sweet lilest bean had oral surgery today-we thought she was fine(we sent her back to school-the dentist okay'd it)-the school nurse just called and said her mouth is bleeding bad and she looks pale and is lathargic...typically dental appts are no big deal but she has a small lil ♥ condition(somthing I don't talk about much) so dental appts with her are nerve-wracking for me...

Can I have a do-over for today cuz I so would NOT have sent her to school if I would have known the looks I would get when I picked her up....

My confession for today: They pulled 2 teeth and I think they pulled the wrong one...ACK!!!

 

Happy Birthday

Today 11 years ago I was holed up on the maternity floor at St Francis Hospital awaiting the arrival of my lil bundle of joy...

This was my 3rd birth and I had a new obgyn-I LOVED Dr T who delivered oldest & middle bean but didn't feel it was appropriate to use the same obgyn with my new hubby(mr gp and I were married that Feb-and before anyone gets all Mathy on me YES I was preggers when we got married BUT that is NOT why we got married-so so SUCK IT!)-I know I have weird hangups, so Dr H would now deliver my lilest bean.

We arrived at 6:30 am for the induction-by 7:30 I was in a bed and hooked up to the drip-by 8:30am I was feeling the pain and I wanted my epidural dammit-Dr T NEVER wanted his mommies to be in any pain so this type of pain 'a 10 on the richter scale' was to much for this wuss-I asked,begged,pleaded even offered mr gp up for sexual favors to Nurse friggin Ratchett NO luck on the epidural. pffft

Nurse friggin Ratchet did offer me a shot of something to help with the pain-for the record It.Did.Not.Work! The dose musta been for someone like Kate Moss's waif thin figure-Again I beg and plead to no avail...apparently Dr H is a by.the.books.obgyn and makes you wait till your a 4 or 5 dialted grrr Old school just my luck-'Is it to late to get Dr T?'...now if ANY of this info would have been in the patient handbook I was given I can guar-an-dayummm-tee ya I would.NOT.have picked.him! yanno like a lil disclaimer...*we give epi's when you are dialted to a 5*

My mom,mil,fil and mr gp were there with me...my mil is rubbing my back trying to make it all better-I remember saying "do they NOT know this is my 3rd delivery?" "things go faster the more babies you have had!!!" she just kept rubbing my back...

I start feeling these major pains,my tummy is getting hard and it's friggin moving-I briefly see flashes of the Alien movie and have mr gp get Nurse friggin Ratchet-who comes in and checks me

NR-"whoa, your dialted to a 6 and almost fully efaced"

me-"ya think???" can I PLEASE have my epidural NOW!

NR-"well it may be too late for the epi now with as fast as you are progressing

me-GET.ME.My.FRIGGIN.EPI.NOW

NR-"I will call the Dr"

I now can say that I know what cave-women went through...well almost I was in a clean,sterile environment, not squatting by a rock but the Pain Oh Lord.ta.day the pain-that we had in common...

The next thing I know here comes the most handsome man I had ever seen in my life-he had this 'epidural' glow about him and he was there to take care of me-I asked him to marry me...ahhhhhh by 10:45 I was good and drugged up by 11:10 I was feeling this major urge to push  and Nurse friggin Ratchet is yellin at me to 'do Not push do Not push'-the Dr isn't here yet!

I yell at mr gp to get everyone OUT.of.the.room-sorry mom and mil...then I see the Dr in the hallway carrying on a conversation with some peeps and Nurse friggin ratchet is still yelling 'don't push' then yelling "Dr H she is going to have this baby now-we need you in here"

At 11:17am after 3 pushes my lilest bean was born weighing in at 9lbs 1oz and 21inches long and she was 10 days early-no tellin how big she coulda been if I had went into labor on my own.

She was perfect and beautiful and if'n I had a scanner you would see pics but I don't so you are just gonna hafta trust me on this one!

We were going to name her Ashlyn Morgan and at the last minute mr gp pulls a "I don't know if I like Ashlyn-I do like Morgan tho" so for a whole day lilest bean was baby no-name-we could NOT agree on a name-we finally agreed on Jessica Leigh...

At 7 days old my precious baby started running a fever so I took her to the emergency room-she was moaning and burning up-it was awful...they check her out and decide to do a spinal tap and some other tests-they wisk my baby out of my arms and I am left there stunned and in tears...

A Nurse comes and gets me and I call mr gp and tell him he needs to take oldest & middle bean next door to my moms and get up to the Hospital NOW! I am ushered to the PICU floor where mr gp and I will hold our all night vigil-finally a Dr comes to meet with us and informs us that they really don't know what is wrong with our lil Jess-it could be a bacteria infection and thats is what they will treat her for and hope that it works-HOPE THAT IT WORKS???? She will be spending the next couple of days in the PICU until they feel she is doing better-they take us to her...

I walk in and see my baby hooked up to tubes and this IV in her neck to administer antibiotics that would help her get better-I break down and cry and cry and mr gp holds me and tells me everything is going to be okay...We make all the calls to Family and Friends and work-Truly one of the darkest days of my life-factor in some good Ol' post-partum, swollen breasts that need nursing and we got the makings of a mommy going postal.

I never left the hospital-the Nurses made me go home and take a shower-I am guessing I was starting to get pretty rank-that was the 4th day-the day I leave to go home and shower they decided she was doing well enough to be moved to the regular floor-I come back to see mr gp and my mil carrying MY baby down the hall to her new room-I was hurt I shoulda been there-that shoulda been me carrying baby Jess not my mil-I say "GIVE ME MY BABY"

On a side note I am extremly protective of Jess to this day-something about that moment seeing my mil carry her down the hall has completely jacked me up...in some ways I still resent her for her being there and not me...another hang-up I hope to over-come soon...

We get to the room and see it's a double-meaning I can sleep in the other bed and keep watch over my baby-the next day they inform me that they are moving a patient in with us and I completely flip out-I say Nope,No way No How-bill our insurance for the other bed cuz I ain't moving-apparently they noticed I was crazed,leaking milk and found the other patient another room...

9 days later we are back home with Jess and she was doing fine-I aged about 15yrs through the ordeal BUT I had a perfectly healthy baby in my arms...again...

Happy Birthday Jessica Leigh-I Love you-there are NO words for the amount of Love I feel for you-I hope you know that you are the Joy of my Life-you are the reason my heart beats and keeps beating-

Here are a few pics of my baby-Jessica Leigh....

My confession for today: Dr H is the reason I am neutered oops I mean 'spayed'

My Budding Artist

*quick disclaimer* MAJOR bragging zone ahead...

My MIL is an artist, not professional but more as a hobby and lilest bean inherited that gene; because for the record there isn't anything 'artsy' about me. I can't even draw a stick figure properly...

So today we went to an art show. My MIL had entered a couple of lilest beans drawings last month and today was the showcase and awards ceremony. We didn't know what she entered just that she had a couple pieces of artwork in the show.

We show up and I see this:

The pic is entitled 'Viking' It won 'Judges' Honorable Mention(the ONLY Judges HM)-I of course am beaming and so proud-we walk around the room then we see this:

That one was entitled 'Lolly Pop' it got a 3rd place ribbon in the Juinor catergory-by this time I have tears welling up in my eyes-for many reasons...my lilest bean, Jess was the youngest in the Juinor cat and she won 2 ribbons.

The Judge- A College Art Teacher- was there and she talks about how important fine Arts are to our youth-then she points out lilest beans Viking pic and says it is "true art-simplicity in the truest sense"...tears are now rolling...Gawd I must be getting ready to be fraggin-it(I) was so emotional...

The ceremony starts and they call her name-I am just so proud,she is of course beat red and didn't even want to go up and claim her CA$H MONEY gift-we had to nudge her..."go Jess they called your name"...3rd place won $15 and a private donation came($20) in for the Viking pic with the Judges Honorable Mention

AH HA I think I see a smile!

By the time I had finished snapping the pic(below) The Owasso High School art Teacher had bought the pic!!!!

I was in shock! Someone bought my babies picture-I started crying again because I WANTED THAT PICTURE! I had NO idea you could purchase the items there-I just figured when the show wrapped on Friday my MIL would pick up Jess's artwork and ribbons and they would safely make it back to my home-I am seriously sick at my tum tum still about this-I actually feel a lil violated-it's weird I know but last yr when my MIL entered her drawing it won an Honorable Mention but it made it home to my MIL's house...

After I am somewhat composed the Art Show curator approached us and wanted to steal lilest bean for pics with the Judge...

 

So at the ripe ol age of 10yrs and 364 days my lilest bean has had her artwork entered into a show,won ribbons and prize money-part of the money by a private donator AND had her artwork BOUGHT by some art teacher faloozie...I kid I kid she wasn't a faloozie geesh-we actually feel honored that someone thought that much of her work-DAWN IF'n you know this Art Teacher PLEASE tell her if she ever decides to get rid of lilest beans painting-I would like to be the first to know!

There is the PROUD Grandma with lilest bean at the Pryor Art Show-

Middle bean saw lilest bean raking in the money and now is planning to enter next years show as well:

My confession for today: I am so so very PROUD!