Going Bananas!!

I Realize I have been off the internet for a while but WHEW!! Trying to keep up with my friends is exhausting when I've been MIA for a while.

I'm glad to see that everyone had a nice thanksgiving and is moving happily into Christmas. We have started our shopping and we are almost through. I do my shopping little by little throughout the year and when I pull it out to wrap it its like "WOW, didn't realize the boys had that much stuff."

We received our first Christmas card of the year and it was from Jarod and Katie. They have two adorable dogs. Which reminds me...for those of you who do not know, Allen got me a Great Dane for Christmas. I've wanted one for so long and now i have one. He is full blooded, black with a white star on his chest. The boys love him. His name is "Momma's Big Ben" we call him big ben. Before you ask yes, I named him after Big Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburg Steelers. I also have a kitten we call Polly she's named after Polimalu of the steelers.

We have finally started getting answers on Austin, he is NOT having seizures but we still do not know where we stand. He's not speaking much at all so we are trying to learn and teach him sign lanugage. His teacher thinks this is a great idea and has even enlisted the help of the sped office to help us locate materials for him.

Aubrey is doing well, just being mean. He likes to pick on his brother and poor Austin doesn't really defend himself. Ah the joys of parenting boys. :)

I'm sure there are THOUSANDS of other things I have planned to say but I can't remember them now. I wish y'all all a Merry Christmas and I'll try to stay in touch better this time. :D

OOOPS!!!

Katie, being the WONDERFUL friend that she is reminded me that I have not updated my blog in quite sometime. OOOPS!! My apologies. I've been off the internet for some time but I do however get on everynow and then to see what is happening with the rest of you.

Aubrey and Austin are undergoing a series of test this month and it's not a happy mth for me. October 5th they BOTH go for hearing test but Austing has to go to a urologist also. On October 8th Austin will be admitted into the Blair E Batson's Children's Hospital to undergo a video EEG and some sort of MRI thing that test Lactate levels in the brain. Don't ask me I dunno....

I have a new cell number and if you need it contact Heather Walker...( I don't like to post those things on the internet).

They boys are doing EXTREMELY well in their class and they are looking forward to a trip to the "pumpkin patch".

Austy's First Day

I have been hoping and dreaming about this day ever since he was 1 and a half and hit the terrible twos. Austin started pre-school today!! He was very easy to get up and he was soo excited when he put on his transformers backpack. He could hardly sit still. Allen had to be at work early so he drove both boys to the end of the drive way to wait on the bus. Austin was a perfect angel sitting there with his backpack in his lap. The bus pulls up and Allen let's Aubrey go first and when its Austin's turn all heck breaks loose. Poor kid starts crying and screaming and grabs ahold of daddy's neck and refuses to let go! When Allen finally pries himself loose Aubrey reaches over grabs ahold of Austin in a big hug and says "It's ok Bubba. Ssshhh it's gonna be ok". I thought this was soo sweet because the two of them have spent pratically their whole lives fighting and when Austin needed him the most Bubba was there.

On the other side, I thought I'd sleep in and be soo happy that I would FINALLY have peace and quiet. Well I did go back to bed and sleep in but i kept waking up thinking I was hearing people. Then I felt soo weird and outta whack that I didn't have one single person to care for. I went stir crazy because there is always someone to take care of but not today.

I'm very proud of both my boys and they are both enjoying school.....Let's just hope mommy makes it through the year.

Changes, Changes, Changes

Well, the only thing constant is change. I blogged a few weeks ago about what all was going on with my mother in law and such. Well sit back relax and here we go. I'm going to make this a short version cause I"m tired. My mother in law doesn't live here anymore after a huge fight (which she started). Anyway, now she's calling bugging us to mail her tv which she left. So now we have to keep ignoring her phone calls cause she won't take a hint and leave us alone.
School starts back August 5th. That means BOTH Aubrey and Austin will be gone and I'm here all alone. On one hand, I'm excited because both my boys are so big and I'll have more time to myself on the other, (this part is gonna sound silly) I think I'm having a touch of empty nest syndrome. =(. I'm doing well in my classes (yay me!!). I'm excited I'm working toward what I feel God is leading me to do.
I haven't been to church in a while and I'm feeling unplugged. I want to go but Aubrey's behavior is so awful and unpredictable that I'm afraid to take him. I need prayer I feel that being home with him is what I'm suppose to do but I feel bad that I can't do what I feel is "required" of me. OH THE STRESS!!!! I'm soo stressed out that my once beautiful brown hair is speckled with grey. At the ripe ole age of 25 I'm dying my hair!!!
Congrats are in order for a friend of mine who is expecting!! I feel kinda bad cause I was off of facebook for a while and I was one of the last to know. Oh well congrats anyway.
Please pray for me and my family, we're going through alot. Don't get me wrong, there's some stress lifted because my mother in law is gone. We're still going through alot with the boys and trying to adjust Aubrey's meds.
OH and if you want a kitten let me know!! I have a mommy cat who is due anyday!!!!!!!!!

What a day what a day

I'm not sure IF anybody still reads this anymore but for those of you who do..thanks and I apologize if my typing is horrible but my glasses broke today. Yep!! On top of EVERYTHING else my glasses broke. For starters, my mother in law is back living in my house. Her sister and brother-in-law nearly killed her. They didn't get her insulin, they told her she didn't need over half of her meds (cuz they didn't want to fill them) and a bunch of other crapp. So, here she is in my house and I swear I have seen bitter people happier. She sits all day with her arms folded and barely says a word to anyone. If you ask her what is wrong all she says is "i'm fine".
They have deicded to take Aubrey off his focalin(SP?) and see if that was exaggerating his bad behavior, NOPE, but now I"ve gotta try and get them to refill it. I'm still trying to get a handle on his behavior and yes I spannk and try time out but it's not reaching him. He's really into "giving shots" here lately and normally he pretends with a lego or somthing. Today, however, he broke an antenna off of an old radio and jabbed it into austins leg. LUCKILY it just scratched it but still.
All this on top of trying to go to school and stay in touch with friends and now my glasses have broken. I think I"ve had my fill of bad luck and could really use prayers. Jamie, if you're reading this I have Hayden and Alabama birth announcement canvas that I have yet to mail. Sorry.

Independence Day

I'm ALL for irony...most of the time it makes for great humor...except when your 4 year old is the one doing it.

I awoke this morning expecting a lazy day...boy was I WRONG!!! For starters, Aubrey decided it needed to be Christmas in July and got out my BRAND NEW Christmas tree. He opened the box and attempted to put it up...he even tried putting the stand up. If this wasn't bad enough, he gets two rolls of wrapping paper and attempts to wrap our 5 kittens up as presents to put under the tree. (No kittens were harmed).

Well, after we cleaned all of that up he went into our playroom to play with Austin. I quickly learned that was a BAD idea. They broke the bottom window (they broke the top one earlier) and proceeded to clean out the closet. They did this buy throwing whatever they could out the window. Well I cleaned that up and blistered both of their bottoms.

Well tonight since they broke the playroom windows they were playing in Austin's room. Guess what...they BROKE THAT WINDOW TOO!!!!

I'm all for declaring Independence but do they have to declare war on my windows. This has NOT been a good day.

To top it all off yesterday on the way home from town I had a blow out. Luckiy I was close enought to a business where I knew the owner that I was able to get help. This definately hasn't been my weekend.

Puzzled

'Tis the season for Bible School and our church is no exception. Normally around this time Aubrey is pumped to be "singing for Jesus" and cannot wait to go to VBS and when it is over he usually begs for weeks to keep going. This summer however was a different story. When I asked him if he was ready to go to VBS I expected the usual resounding YES!!!!!! BIBLE SCHOOOOOLLL!! Instead, what I go was "no I don't want to go" when I asked him how come he said "Cause church scares me". Now I'm terrified and puzzled as to what on EARTH this could mean. Aubrey has always LOVED church and enjoyed going. I even explained that he could sing dance and play and he refuses to go. What should I do here???