Should be doing my homework Part 2

so... instead of writing a much dreaded response paper (I secretly dont even know what i am supposed to respond to.. i dont pay attention in class..) i am chooseing to do two things instead... blog stalk other people and create my own blog entry..
this entry will be without pictures seeing as the camera is with the husband atnerd confrence..... so.....
today i took Korbin swimming with Carly and Lannett and their offspring. It was so much fun! Korbin really loves the water and it is fun to see him get so excited when he plays in it. I hope he will love it as much as i do when he gets older.. and not so much the other sports (wink wink russell :P) But we will see!
So when i was driving home i noticed the snow in the mountains... and this makes me happy and botherd.. one the snow is still FAR away.. and that is where the snow should be, for those who like snow they can go and see it there.. WAY up there... and down here us normal folk we can remain untouched by the nasty wet cold stuff...Two .. Snow brings the inventable death cold.... I HATE being cold.. THe only pleasant thing abuot being cold is getting warm... rumor has is that the snow will be creeping its way down here to my level this saturday.. this does not please me... well it except in one way.. it will cover up my very poor excuse of a yard and stop the city from yelling at us for our lack of grass and massive amounts of weeds...
now i am rambling and Korbin thinks he is done with his dinner (gound beef and peas..ew) i know this because he is now feeding the dog...so have to go bathe the child before he starts to smell again..
ps.. russell it is sad to look out the window and see your truck and not have you here... :( come home

Yesterday I was productive... Today I am not

Yesterday I made:

made toast
went grocery shopping
made peach jam (freezer)
made peach jam (normal.. not freezer)
made peach syrup
peach cobbler
peach pie
canned peaches
made frozen peach Popsicles
cleaned up mess from peach mania
changed two MASSIVE blow out diapers (children under teh age of potty trainign should not eat burritos....lesson learned)
painted my whole kitchen
painted my whole kitchen again
picked up after the small child (several times)
cleaned up dog poo (stupid zoey.. you would think that after three years she could poo outside.. how am i ever going to potty train the small child???)
choose a color for my white boring living room
did homework
did homework some more
bills
AND
worked at the pool....

Today I:
dodged a yet another phone call from my visiting teacher supervisor (poor lady.. you think she owuld give up after six months)
ate a WHOLE bag of popcorn (health for the holiday does not start till two more weeks!.. bring it)
made this blog

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

So my dear sweet wonderful husband agreed to take me to the So You Think You Can Dance concert tour thing last night! Can i just say it was freaking amazing! i am still in awe at how coordinated some people can be! I mean really how do they do that! If you don't know what i am talking about...Google it ..or better yet you tube So you think you can dance .. and you will see...

We even brought Korbin with us--with high hopes of him being good-- we were even shot a few looks of "what were you thinking" when we sat down with him in our laps... but they ALL ate their words -in fact on phrase we heard was "he should win the baby of the year award" :P our child SLEPT the ENTIRE time! He was fussy at first with all the screaming and the music but... he gave up and laid his head on my shoulder and PASSED out and did not wake up until we left.. dang good child:)

The concert really was so fun to watch! the only draw backs were the stinky foot girl in front who assumed that everyone behind her can see when she stands up or SITS on her legs to get a extra few inches higher.... stupid stupid girl.. and the neck breather behind Russell and the fact that we did not have a remote to turn down the sound.. it was INCREDIBLY deafening between the music and 4000 screaming girls +10 boys...... but the hearing loss Russ and i will have to endure was very much worth it!

APA my A$$

So i have to write a paper.. in APA format. Which is not really that bad.. i am a SUPER senior in COLLEGE, this is not the first time i have had to do this. My original major was ruled by the world of APA format.... I USED to know how to do this.. i USED to have the stupid manual that told your how to write according to the STUPID guidelines... but seeing as i HATE clutter i did what i do with anything that has no real value in my life... THROW IT OUT... I now regret this decision A LOT...

Why cant i just say where i got the quote in a simple sentence. Why do i have to claim my findings in some STUPID nonsense formation that just makes things look to complicated to even care about. It is not like i am claiming that i wrote the quotes i am using, they are TOO far above my intelligence and written by someone who has WAY too much time on their hands... there is no way i want to even pretend to be them. so why cant i give them their credit how i want to and not in the stupid APA format wants me to.. GAY .... that is all i have to say....

I should be doing homework....

so.. i THINK i have kicked korbin of his NASTY habit.... key word THINK... he has slept through the WHOLE night every night this week and I have loved life--if only i could let myself sleep in now.. i guess one step at a time eh... getting up at 6 am isn't THAT bad....

Korbin has a new nasty habit now.. he HATES his car seat and it has become a game to get him into his car seat which FYI is LOTS of fun when you are in a hurry or when it is raining. .cant wait to see how it is when is it snowing.......... he thinks it's really funny to stand in his seat and laughs really hard when he does this..but when it;s time to sit down and get

buckled in he arches his backs and trys to get out..

this picture is crap..cuz it's with a cell phone.. but it

gives you an idea of what i am up against.. naughty

little boy......

I win..... or it's a MEAN trick

So I am proud to say that Korbin did sleep through the entire night... he didn't make a peep the whole night through..but sadly that did not allow me to sleep the whole night through.. I still got up, sadly out of habit, around three..... dang.... BUT the fact is he slept the WHOLE night... so therefore I win... :) Now this can be a big mean trick he is pulling on me... would be the first time.. he is awfully smart... so keep your figures crossed!

SLEEP TRAINING : AKA : HELL..... HELP

SO I KNOW THIS PIC IS REALLY WASHED OUT BUT LOOK HOW BLUE HIS EYES ARE!!

So we had Korbins one year doc apt. today- and i am glad to say that he is a healthy thriving one year old... he is 22 lbs, and 30 inches long, with a big head (we knew that already hence the c-section.) The Doctor asked if I had any concerns or questions like all good doctors do... I said YES! My lovely child for the past MONTH has found it in his heart to WANT to wake up around 3 ish and demand nothing but a bottle.. now keep in mind I did try other methods such as, plugs, ignoring it, and water in his bottle... NOTHING worked, the kid knows what he wants... so I being the mother climb out of bed with flashbacks of when he was a tiny newborn, for these "late night feedings"....

WELL... the Doctor did have something to say about this... apparently I am in the COMPLETE wrong with this and I need to so what is called SLEEP TRAINING, and now that a month has gone by it will be EVEN harder to break this late night snack habit... lucky me... according to the doc I am to let him cry until he falls back to sleep, and continue this till he is rid of the nasty habit.. easy enough... he even said it will take about two weeks.... I can do that!

So night one....



Three a.m.... I hear him start to whimper... I stay in bed and pretend not to hear it.... the whimper begins to turn into a cry.. which leads to pissed off I hate the world cry.. and then to the my mom doesn't love me, sad cry..... to silence....and then back to the whimper...etc....

This CRY CYCLE (as I will call it) continued for ONE HOUR.... I am sure it would have gone on for more than an hour but his pissed off I hate the world cry turned into really bad sounding coughs bc his thought was so dry..poor kid... and I could'nt take it anymore..... so sadly I GAVE IN.. .and went to comfort him with the thoughts of..., I CAN get up every night for the rest of my life at three for a few min to make my child happy (I was sleep deprived and CRAZY in this thought process)...........

Well he had been crying so hard he was really warm and had a small fever... ( I feel like a horrible mother) so I gave him some Tylenol and rocked him to sleep. (which by the way is the best feeling in the entire world... holding your sleeping child... so i placed my sleeping child back in his crib and went back to bed at 5:00 a.m. this morning... NOW i am sure i will here several suggestions and PLEASE DO! I apparently need them..........my goal is tonight I WILL NOT give in.... so stay posted and hopefully you will read a success story and not a failure one......