For Sophie!

http://teespring.com/runfeetrun if you read this please go and look at the tshirts we are selling for sophie to raise enough money to take her to a conference for people with her condition. She really deserves to go. SHe has worked so hard and been through so much pain. She needs to be with people who understand that this isnt like your brothers friends cousins neighbors milk man who had a broken leg once. People who understand this is a lifelong issue and a lifelong battle. She needs to see people with her condition who have jobs, have children, and husbands and live the American dream. http://www.gofundme.com/2bpy20 is also a fundraiser for the same conference. We have to have all reservations in by May 28 for July conference. I am a very giving person. I give everywhere I can. I help anyone who needs it. This time, not for me, but for my daughter, I am asking for help. So far we have had 3 donations and 2 commitments to buy shirts if we reach our goal. If we do not reach our goal no shirts will be printed. we do not even have enough for ONE plane ticket, much less hotel costs conference fees meals and a ticket for Me to take her.

oooook

so police and police dog respond to armed man drinking in the alley. man starts shooting and they shoot him dead. in the process, one of THEIR bullets hit the dog. and now dog and officers are up for medals? makes perfect sense. shoot someone dead and get rewarded. they couldnt shoot him in the arm or leg or do something else to difuse the situation? no they shot him dead. how noble.

we are in Germany

we had to go through security TWICE here. Once after exiting our flight from US to Frankfurt before being allowed to go to the concourse. then again before going into the specific gate. seems kind of redundant but I figured as long as I had to dig my lap top out of my bag AGAIN I might as well make a post!  We are tired but not exhausted. we did sleep a little on the flight from US.  Between babies crying we did.  There were several young babies and once one started crying others started in. one cried for most of the trip. I felt so bad for the mom and for the little one who was obviously NOT HAPPY with this whole travel thing!  Didnt bother me any. I just tuned it out. It is 130m back home and  830am here.  I finished the book  Twilight and loooooooved it and had to buy the second book, new moon. I am about half way through new moon. I love it. Might have to pick up the next one while we travel(if I can find it in english)Our feet are all swelled up and I had to loosen my sandals a notch to get them back on my feet after the long flight.  We munched our way across the ocean with Lufthansa.  We have a 955 flight to our final destination. Hopefully someone will be there to meet us, and we will have a place to stay. I never heard anything from the girl helping us with our adoption as to where we should stay or if she  found something or we should find something. Everyone keeps telling me this will work out and the girl who is helping us is very busy but she will be on it. Let us hope they are right.  So tomorrow we have an appointment and then I hope its off to P-town after there. not sure how that works.  Just wanted to let everyone know we made it across the pond. 

very later wordless wednesday

me and my girls

ethan was playing playdough and built a tall tower like mountain. He called it Moscow on the Hill(which is a russian restraunt we went to once)

Maia while digging around in my drawar for something to play dress up: Mama? your bras are so beautiful.


snort. that kid kills me with her precious sweet histerically funny and innocent comments.

funny maia these days

Maia wants corn sticks for dinner. (corn on the cob)
and recently asked if we could have peas on the cob. she meant pees in the pod.

yesterday she asked her dadddy this question "When Danielle, our big sister, was little was she your age?" huh?

and an Ethan funny, I heard him singing in the bathroom. what was he singing? I'll say hillshire! You say Farms! HILLSHIRE! FARMS! GO MEAT!

thinking of a haircut. maybe this http://www.short-hairstyles.com/short/s121.htm
or this http://www.short-hairstyles.com/short/s97.htm

it doenst matter how I cut it I wont like it after about a day anyways.

maia...again

at lunch she couldnt understand why I dont like the cheese puffs. I said I just dont like them. I am sure there are some things you dont like. Can you think of something you dont like? she sat thoughtfully and quietly for a moment and then said softly "I don't like owls very much." I laughed and said I meant FOOD you dont like then she said oh you mean like mustard? I said yes. she said she didnt like mustard, but she still doesnt like owls very much.

no owls were harmed in this interaction.

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a word from Maia

Maia hates to leave her playing to come in and potty and has on occasion just gone outside if she thought she wouldnt get caught but you can bet with two brothers and a sister SOMEONE is going to tell on you. Grandma has an outhouse outside for just that reason as they spend a lot of time outside. the difference being, we live in town and she on 70 or 80 acres. Fast forward to today
Maia comes running in to use the bathroom and said Mama? I want to build an outhouse!
No amount of explaining on my part seems to be able to make her understand we cant DO that here where we live. what a kid.

funny Maia again

out of nowhere she wants to know if it hurts when people take out utensils.
WHAT? you mean your tonsils?
yeah utensils.
you go to sleep and when you wake up it hurts a little.
well then I dont want to take out utensils.




background: there has been no talk of anyone having out their tonsils and she is hardley ever even sick so I dont know where she got the idea she was getting her tonsils out. do they even DO that anymore?

funny things from Ethan

"wow! I feel like a new woman!"
then after sounding out the word whip he said "whip YOUR wallet into shape!"
sometimes he cracks us up


Maia is very astute these days as well. after driving to the vet for flea stuff she announced mom? Fleas make dogs SCRATCH!!

conversations with maia

mama? what is this scar for?
its from my surgery.
when they took out your baby bones?
uhh no from when they took out my gallbladder.
your ballbladder? why did they take out your ballbladder? mama whats a ballbladder?

she knows I had my "baby making parts" removed but keeps calling it my baby bones because bones are the only part of the body she really can reference or understand. she doesnt know about all those other squishy parts so it must have been bones.

4H meeting

Ethan was so good tonight at 4H. the strattera is working great for him. and being 7 is helping too. he was a little goofy but NO more goofy and loud than any other kid there. It helped that they played kick ball for like half hour when we got there. wore him out a little. We had birthday cake tonight for him. Chocolate cake and chocolaate frosting. he loved it.

overheard yesterday

Ethan while dancing a pilot bear around: he won seventy three battles!!
Maia: well GOOD for him!

jon and kate plus 8

watching trash tv and they are talking about john and kate and how the kids say dad I dont want you to leave anymore. and take that as the kids are so in terror of losing their daddy. huh? what? MY 5 year old says that every day probably 10 times a day. and there is NO danger of her losing her daddy. she just wishes her daddy could stay and play with her ALL THE TIME, not just when he isnt working. she wants him to play with her when WANTS him rather than when he is available. another scene one boy says to the other Im gonna kick you. and they say its the cameras taking their toll and the boys are really damaged to say such things. THEY ARE BOYS! heck my SEVEN year old doesnt even warn he just does it! boys are LIKE THAT! they are! its been a hard lesson for me because my oldest son was NOT that way but the more boys I meet I find that boys are rough and tumble ALL THE TIME. it wasnt like these little boys were beating the daylights out of each other. they are just trying things out. and it was all blown out of proportion. I dont know what goes on with jon and kate or what will happen with their marriage but geezalou the press can twist things around! I do feel bad for the family that all this negative press is out there. why cant people just watch or not watch? if you dont like it dont watch. if you do like it watch it. its that simple. nothing i can do or you can do is going to change what they are going to do any more than yelling at a football player on the the tv. so why cant they just let it go?

I was thinking last night how the boy's new medication was working so well. silly me. thats what I get for thinking. today was not a good day for him. of course it doesnt help when his dad lets him get up at 6. he has been awful most of the day and now he has broken the trampoline AGAIN. so he is done. cooked. time to get ready for bed. no more outside today. stories and bed in short order. I am willing to bet ANYTHING that he will sleep later tomorrow because dad isnt here(he knows dad is a pushover) and thus will be in a better mood. but man today sucked behaviorwise. lots of time in his room getting himself together for smart mouthing. argumentative like mad today. wants to argue about anything and everything. a lot of sorry to hear thats today. I tried to teach him about time and the clock and he just refuses to think. even attempt to think. his automatic answer is I dont know. its cody all over again. Cody HATED school and learning. and would hide under the table when we asked him to read or write. I dont exaclty know what to do with him.

A trip to the grocery

I took chrysta to the grocery store with me and split the list with her. she took her cart and list I took mine. we were out of there in half hour! awesome! from now on Chrysta goes shoppin with Mama!!