So we have successfully caught 2 mice in our house.  At first I didn’t think we even had one.  I mean I guess I was in denial.  Until the lil fucker ran across the kitchen the other night.  I think they are hiding in our laundry room which is unfortunately off the kitchen which is unfortunately too close to the living room.  So I thought we only had one, we set up traps and caught one.  We had 2 traps and in the same day caught 2.  Well just when I thought we saw the last of lil mice in our house we realized we have another.  I am so pissed.  They are getting desperate now and coming out in the middle of the day.  I have seen them and so has Nicki.  I am just hoping that the lil ones don’t come across any. 

I just can’t believe we have more than one.  I can’t believe we have caught 2 and there is more.  I am just pissed beyond words.  I have been trying to keep the kitchen and such extra clean so they have no reason to come back but I think that is why they are coming out more, they are getting desperate.  I am not sure where they came from, our attic or what.  The first signs of one was in Nicki’s room.  She has a hamster and she noticed the bag of hamster food was chewed into.  AAAHHHHHHH, I just wish they would go away.  If we can’t catch this last one I will be calling my landlord to get in here and exterminate or whatever.  I can’t have these critters in here with my lil ones.

Unfortunately money is a little tight these days, as many of you probably are experiencing the same.  So we decided not to take the lil ones out trick or treating.  I realized they won’t really remember it anyways.  I went to Wal-Mart this morning to pick up some Halloween candy and WOW was it a mad house.  I was in and out, I certainly didn’t want to get caught up in all the crazy crowds.  I picked up 2 BIG BAGS of candy.  I wanted to be prepared, I thought we would get at least some trick or treaters. 

Well as I said we decided not to take our lil ones out.  Nicki is at that age where she is just at the border of “am i too old to go”, but she decided to go with her friend across the street.  They wanted to go as twins, somehow.  Well they decided to go as twin Daniel Middle School pep girls.  They had a pep-rally the other week and wore shirts that were painted and pom-poms in their hair and face paint so that is what they decided to do.  I was a little, not happy with it but oh well.  She had a good time and got lots of candy.

My friend offered to come get me and all of us go out trick or treating together. I said we hadn’t planned on taking the kids out due to not really having the money to get a costume and knowing they wouldn’t really get it anyways.  She offered to let me use one of her sons old costumes.  The only problem is her son wore it last year which would have made him 4 yrs old, my son is only 2 so it was going to be big.  But I thought, heck, why not.  Well as I was waiting to hear back from her on the plans, it was getting cold, windy and it was drizzling.  I didn’t really think my kids needed to out in that, they have been fighting colds for the last month. 

We decided just to stay home and hand out candy.  Unfortunately our street sucks and we only had one trick or treater, it was the lil girl across the street.  I was so bummed.  Not only because I bought all that candy and I don’t really want it all in my house, we don’t eat a lot of candy and I feel we will end up throwing more than half of it away but I like when all the lil kids come to the house.  I like Halloween.  Thankfully my friend said even though her boys got a lot of candy, she thinks it will only last a week or so, so I offered to bring them some of our candy.  LOL!  Lil Tony only had about a handful of candy since like 5pm and he had the hardest time falling asleep.  We don’t need all that candy in the house. 

So another day has come and gone.  Tony had to work the night shift, Nicki went out with her friends and my and the lil ones stayed home. Sounds like a typical Saturday to me. 

Before I know it, Christmas will be here and then we will be ringing in 2010.  Where does the time go?

Yesterday was Tony’s day off.  Pretty uneventful.  We did our usual, homemade breakfast and then just lounged the morning away.  After the kids took a nap we went to Walmart.  Oh wait the good news that happened while they were napping is I got a call for an appt. from an Early Interventionist.  When we took the lil ones to the doctor last week we expressed our concerns for Lil Tony not talking.  The doctor referred us to an EI.  I thought I was going to have to wait months for someone to see us, at least that’s what a lot of people were telling me.

So a lady came out today.  Yippee!  Well all the lady really did today was get some information from me.  Insurance info and background info on Lil Tony.  She needs to submit all the paperwork for eligibility.  She said within 45 days from the original referral we should have a plan in place as to how to help Lil Tony express himself.  I don’t believe he has any medical problems keeping him from talking, I think it’s mostly behavioral.  With everything else, I wanted to wait until he was ready, he has been really good in doing things in his own time.  Most of the milestones have been done ahead of schedule though so that is why not talking kinda concerned me.  The reason I didn’t feel I could wait anymore was because he is increasingly getting more angry. 

In the beginning Lil Tony would just yell a little to let us know what he wanted.  Now it just seems like he is screaming all the time.  It is getting really frustrating for everyone.  It puts a big stress on me being home all the time with him, it puts stress on Tony and I together because sometimes when Tony doesn’t have the patience for him I may or we both don’t have the patience and it causes arguments between us. 

Now with the arrival of baby Max in 6 weeks, I just can’t handle the added stress of him not being able to express himself.  I can handle him getting in to everything and being mischevious but to add the obnoxious screaming on top of it, it’s overwhelming.  Not to mention, Isabel is starting to behave like her brother. 

So overall I am really excited to get this ball rolling.  I would really like to have my son talk to me.  I told Tony, when that day comes we are having a party.  I’m gonna back a cake and maybe even gifts.  It will be a wonderful time!

I don’t know what my problem was today or the kids problem but I feel really overwhelmed.  My head hurts, not like a headache but like a very uncomfortable pressure.  Kinda hard to explain.  My heart is beating hard and fast and I feel really ill!  For starters my son had me up at 6:30am and I had tossed a turned a good amount last night so I didn’t have solid sleep.  Then both lil ones just pushed me and pushed me today.  If I try to wash dishes, pick up around the house or do laundry, they either scream at me or take advantage of the fact I am not giving them my full attention so they are doing all sorts of things they shouldn’t be.  Isabel mostly SCREAMS at me to hold her.  So I decide I can’t take it anymore and I go sit on the couch.  As I am walking to the couch the 2 of them are racing to the couch to get to be the one to sit on my lap, in the “prime spot” (which is right in front of me) and then they are pushing and shoving to move the other out of the way so they can be first.  Then all they want to do is sit on my lap all day. 

Lil Tony pushed my buttons beyond words can explain and my 12 yr old barely acknowledged my existance today.  Oh wait she talked to me when she needed something.  I have been smacked, pinched and head butted (is it head butted or head butt, I dunno!).  I just feel so…..I DUNNO!

Tony and I are on the fence about what we should do about the car situation.  Do we spend the thousands to fix his dodge or buy a cheap car to just get him to and from work.  I mean we really don’t have the money for either but something has got to give.  There was a time that I was down to my last 2 diapers that the babies were wearing and I had to wait for him to get home so I could get more, hoping the kids didn’t poop.  LOL! 

So every now and again when Tony gets a chance he looks online to see if he can find any decent cheap cars for sale like maybe an older Chevrolet Silverado or something maybe smaller.  We want something that gets good gas mileage and doesn’t need any immediate work.  We found several cars online that need major repairs like engine work and some that need minor repairs like a brake job, the problem is we don’t have any extra money to dish out right away.  We will be lucky if we could come up with money when we actually find a decent car. 

My friend that lives near Dallas says she knows a place, Dallas auto repair that does good work for her.  The good thing for me/us is that Tony is pretty handy with cars, he can replace brakes and do other minor repairs.  When it come to an engine or tranny, he could probably fix it but it would take time and we don’t have time to be without a car. 

So basically I am just not sure which route to take, I guess we will just take it one day at a time.  If we find something decent before we have all the money to fix the dodge, hope we have the money to get the car.  LOL!  Otherwise hold off until we get all the money for the dodge.    I wanna win the LOTTO!

So the other day I found some light bulbs under the sink, they were left there by the landlord or something that is why we didn’t know we had them.  Well it was a good thing because a bunch of lights around the house had burnt out.  Well on Tony’s day off earlier in the week he went through the house and replaced a bunch including the bathroom lighting.  I never realized how dark it was in that room until he put 2 new light bulbs in, OMG I was totally not expecting it.  I flipped the light on and I was almost blinded, literally it hurt my eyes.  Kind of like a really sunny day, you can’t really open your eyes when you step outside, that was how my bathroom was.  We also got to replace the one in the hall.  Lil Tony likes to sleep with his door half open and the hall light on, it makes it a little more difficult for me to sleep so I have to make sure my door is completely closed but at least he is happy again!

That’s right my bad day continued until the morning.  How is that possible you might ask?  Well let’s see I put the lil ones to bed just before 8pm, I felt so relieved and they fell asleep pretty quick.  I immediately decided I needed a nice hot shower.  I love taking showers that are so hot that my skin is red when I am done.  Unfortunately our water heater is not that big and since I am usually the last shower of the day, after Nicki showers and the babies bath, there isn’t much hot water left.  Sometimes I can get a really hot shower and others I have to take a shower with no cold water on, it is straight hot water.  Well unfortunately last night was one of those not so hot showers.  The other problem with our shower is the shower head.  It kind of sucks, it kinda sprays really rough beady water, hurts a little and it has a wide spray.  I am thinking about replacing it with a Delta faucet for the shower.  I want one that you can adjust the spray.  Anyways, I had to take a quick shower because I ran out of hot water.

So Tony is closing, not due home until about midnight.  I am exhausted so about 9pm I climb in to bed and watch some boring TV, there is nothing on.  I finally fall asleep around 11pm.  Tony is on his way home at this point.  I barely remember him getting home but from 11pm to 3:30pm I got up at least 3 times to pee.  I hate this stage in the pregnancy, I can’t find a comfy position to sleep and I pee a bazillion times in the middle of the night.  I climb back in bed after my 3:30am pee and as I am about to fall asleep I am awoken to the nasty smell of DOG POOP.  At first when I climbed out of bed I didn’t see anything so I thought my dog just farted, then I turned the corner of my bed and say a huge pile of SHIT!  I was pissed, I took her outside where she peed and pooped MORE, then I had to put her in the basement.  See now this is for a whole other post but my dog is having problems lately, not being able to hold her bowels.  So I came back upstairs cleaned the poop and mopped.  By the time I finished it was damn near 4am. 

As I was starting to doze off AGAIN, I heard Lil Tony crying.  He just cried out once but I couldn’t go back to sleep right away because I was worried he was going to cry again.  Well then as I was about to fall asleep AGAIN at 4:30am I heard him cry out again.  OMG, when will it end.  All the while, Tony is passed out and not hearing any of this.  Well just after 4:30am I fell asleep.  It was pretty tough though because I once again had to pee but I REFUSED to get out of bed, I just held it.  So then from 4:30am – 7:30am my sleep was pretty light because I had to pee really bad and I couldn’t find a comfy position.  Thankfully Lil Tony woke up in a MUCH better mood. 

So all in all my bad day ended this morning at 7:30am.  Today was a much better day!