More Creepy Eyes

Your options are: Bob, Kristie, Devon, Riley, Jake, Hannah, Glenn, Maggie & Zoe

How Silly

How completely silly is it to be grateful for Macaroni and Cheese? I am so glad that Burger King has added Mac & Cheese to their menu. Finally something other than chicken nuggets. They also have apple fries which are a big hit with the Tomlinson kids.

Maggie's Race for the Cure

On October 4th Maggie went with Grandma on the Susan G. Komen walk. They forgot to take a camera so there aren't any pictures of the actual walk, but when I took her to McDonald's for lunch I managed to get a picture of her face paint. Apparently, at the end of the walk a woman was standing in the crowd just painting people as they walked by. She has done the walk a couple of other times and she loves the medal's she gets when she finishes. I'm very proud of her for doing the walk. We like to support the foundation since Sharon is a breast cancer survivor and we know that research is important to help other women survive as well.

We got some new fingernail polishes yesterday at Wal-Mart and of course Maggie was about to die from anticipation of having her nails painted. When she got them all done and I was working on Zoe's she said "Mom, you're the best nail painter in the whole white world!" I don't know about that, but it is pretty fun to be able to do these things with my girl's.

Here is Maggie's fabulous manicure (with pink polish of course)

Zoe's gorgeous nails with the same polish as Maggie's. I'm not sure how the polish managed to disappear from her one finger. It's totally clean, not even a speck!

Tonight after we said prayers and were giving our goodnight kisses Maggie said that I don't have wet kisses and she never wipes mine off. Zoe had given her a very slobbery kiss just before me. Then when Glenn was taking her to her room he told me that Maggie has told him that I have a very soft kiss. Thank you Maggie, I love you sugar booger!

Maggie wore her patch for several hours today and then when she was trying to do a dot-to-dot she got frustrated because she couldn't see it very well with only one eye. After a few minutes of whining she said that it was OK. She was used to the patch now. I'm sure she won't remember that tomorrow when it's time to put on another one.

On our way home from school I was reminding her about our after school rules. Bathroom, wash up, snack, homework, patch. I let her watch Noggin while she was eating, and sharing her snack with Zoe. Shortly after snacks were done and before homework there was a little "problem". Zoe tackled Maggie and grabbed her glasses. During the tackle and grab she managed to hit Maggie's mouth and knock out her loose tooth. Too funny! At first Maggie wasn't sure if she should laugh or cry. Then she started thanking Zoe and hugging her for knocking it out. She really does not like the whole tooth pulling process. The whole situation was just too funny!

Just before bed she decided that she wanted to write Mrs. Cain and letter because she loves her. This is what she wrote:

Pretty Funny Kind of Creepy

I finally got to work on these pictures that I took while in Utah. I want to get a whole bunch more and add them to the collage, but for now can you tell who is who?

Here are your options:

Sadie, Cooper, Zoe, Maggie, Mom, Dad, Mandi, Lindy, Necia

Bring on the Headaches

Maggie had another follow up eye appointment on Thursday. Things are not going well. Or at least as well as the doctor would like them to be going. He said there is still not much improvement in her left eye. We have been putting the drops in her right eye to blur it, but her left eye is just not improving. So I have to give her the drops before school, she patches her eye for recess, then patch it again after she gets home until she goes to bed and then all day Saturday and Sunday. Yeah right! This would be where the headaches come in. From listening to all the screaming and whining about having to wear the patch. I understand that it is uncomfortable and I can see how it would give her headaches, but we have to do it. I have to keep telling myself, Glenn and Maggie that we JUST HAVE TO DO IT! The doctor gave us some really cool patches with designs on them, but the novelty of that only lasted about 20 minutes.

Random Shots and Painful Shots

I just came across these pictures and thought they were blog worthy. I used to do this to Maggie's hair too, but I don't think I ever got a picture of it. It always makes Maggie laugh and when I would do it to her she had to run to the mirror and look at herself. She looks like a deer in the headlights. Especially with her antlers!

This happened one day that Maggie didn't have school. They were finally playing so nicely together and it was quite so I figured they were probably in Maggie's room. A few minutes later Zoe came into our TV room laughing and so I looked up and this is what greeted me. Maggie had put her in some premie baby clothes that they use for their baby dolls. I think someone might be a redneck!

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Zoe had her 18 month check up on Thursday. She missed her 15 month check since we were in Utah when she should have had that done so instead of getting one shot she got two. One in each leg. Maggie had early dismisall that day due to Parent-Teacher conferences so she got to go with us. She was very sympathetic about the shots and tried really hard to make Zoe feel better. She is the best big sister ever...well most of the time!

Zoe is 50th percentile for height and 10th percentile for weight. The doctor said she is a healty skinny. To me she doesn't even look all that skinny. Maggie at that age seemed much smaller.

Although I have gotten after her many times and even the doctors have told her not to Maggie can not leave the rolling doctors chair alone. At least she has passed the stage of wanting to stand on them. My OB got after her about that one day.

This was after shots. She really doesn't cry all that often so this was very sad and just about made me cry. She cried so hard she was doing the hard sob sniff thing.

Luckily big sister was there with lots of hugs and words of encouragement. Maggie has had her fair share of shots and know how horrible they are. Thank heaven for sisterly love and compassion!!

She cried herself to sleep.

Still Waiting

We are still waiting for Chevron to sign off on the deal so we can continue with our plans, but here is what we know so far.

The company that Glenn is currently employed with, US Computer, offered about $3,000.00 for out moving expenses. We were totally thrilled and excited because we really didn't know how we were going to get up there. The woman that is going to be Glenn's supervisor in Evanston told him he should talk with the employment company up there and see what they would offer. They met US Computers offer and added...
1. Additional pay to be able to get insurance
2. Provide a truck
3. Provide a gas card
4. Review in 6 mo. for raise
5. Lots of holiday, vacation and personal time

Guess who we are going with?! We just need the Chevron boss to sign the deal and we will be on our way.

We are so excited we're about to jump out of our skin. Of course Maggie doesn't quite get what's going on yet. She's not sure she wants to leave Grandma's house and her friends from school, but at the same time she is excited that we will be in our own house. I haven't talked to her about the snow yet. Maybe that will be the clincher. She is always asking if it is going to snow and remembers a couple of years ago when it snowed here.

Zoe is just loving the stacks of boxes that I leave around that enable her to climb onto the pool table and get all the fun stuff we are trying to keep out of her reach. The poor pool table hasn't actually been used for pool for quite some time now. It's a very large "crap catcher" now.

Our original plan was to be ready to pick up the truck on the 15th, but now we will not leave until the first of November. Glenn doesn't work on Friday the 31st and suggested that we leave then. I had to strongly protest! I have worked too hard and put too much time into the girl's costumes for them not to be worn on Halloween. I'm planning to get pictures taken this week so I will post them later.

Completely Gross!

Yesterday when I was trying to get Maggie downstairs to go to school I saw this huge thing crawling up the wall by the stairs. I got close enough to see that it was a gigantic roach. Right about the time I was trying to keep my breakfast from coming up it fell off the wall and crawled behind the recliners. I was so sure that Maggie and Zoe were going to see it and totally freak out. Luckily neither of them saw it and while they were both sitting on the couch it scurried from behind the chairs over behind the couch they were on. I rushed them out the door trying to keep calm and not let them see I was about to loose it. My skin was crawling and I was so disgusted. I don't have a picture of the little darling, but just imagine about a two inch roach living in your house that you can't find. You know it's just hiding out waiting for you to start relaxing and think he's gone and then he will show up again with a creepy satisfied grin on his face. Or lying on his back with all of his legs flailing about just waiting to die. Yuck, yuck, yuck!! I have started referring to him as rocky our pet roach. Hopefully he has gotten back outside to his own home and will leave us alone!