Very Inappropriate

Yet kinda funny!

My kids have been saying some things lately that I have to share. Why would I share the inappropriate things that my kids say you ask? Because I can't stop laughing about them. And from reading everyone else's blogs it looks like everyone needs a good laugh.

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You know the song "So What" by Pink? Well, it came on the radio the other day and I heard Princess singing it all the rest of the day. She only was singing the chorus. Here is her version "So what! I'm still a rock star. I've got my rock BOOBS and I don't need you ..."

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Little man pooped his pants and took of his diaper (again) so I was giving him a bath. While getting him out I hear a strange voice in my house talking to someone. I got Little Man out of the tub to go see who it was. I walk back to see that my cousin that lives down the street was walking in my back door with Little Dude. Come to find out they had a pretty interesting conversation while trying to find me. I guess she walked down the street and saw Dude in the front yard and asked where his mom and dad were. He said that we were in the back yard. They walked into the back yard but we weren't there. So he said oh maybe they are in the house. So they started to head inside. When they didn't see us right away he told her "Well, maybe they're making out!"

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We had some friends over the other night to roast marshmallows in the fire pit. While sitting there Princess somehow blurted out that she thought it was funny that mom and dad had the door locked to their room early one morning while they talked about her birthday! Then she yells over to me "Mommy, why would you need to lock the door to talk about my birthday? Can't you just whisper?" Ok this one she didn't really catch onto, but EVERYONE ELSE sitting there totally did!

Gotta love kids!

Focus

There has been a lot of that going on here lately. Looking past the things that are weighing me down and focusing on the things that are important in life. This last week has been an interesting one and I hope to never forget it. I haven't been more happy in months.

I wish I could just spit it all out and tell you why things seem so bright right now. Honestly, there really isn't just one thing. So many things have happened this last week that have really just lifted my spirits. Lots of family time, visiting with friends until the wee morning hours, playing on the water slide in the back yard, campfire confessions, impromptu BBQ, girl's night out to the movies, preschool graduation, and let's not forget the American Idol finale. (It's the little things people and yes American Idol makes me happy!)

I know this isn't going to last forever, it never does with us, but I am going to soak it all in while I can.

I want to know....what are you doing that is making you happy right now?

There is something crazy going on with my blog. Sorry for everyone that is getting the error. I have no idea how to fix it.

I am working on it though! So stay tuned!

Micro Blogging

Is for those that are lazy.

Like me lately.

So this is how is it going to be today. A bullet point blog post. If you want me to elaborate let me know.

- Mission Organization should have been picked on a better week.

- Hubby took a quick trip to Houston.

- My niece caught her hair on fire while blowing out her birthday candles.

- I had a geyser in my kitchen today. Flooded my entire kitchen and basement.

- Stayed up until 2 last night visiting with a friend.

- Little man smeared poop all over everything.

- My chickens are on the "boiled water" list for eating the starts in the garden again.

- Went to see Star Trek and 17 Again. LOVED LOVED LOVED Star Trek!

- Went to another Endocrinology appointment. A1c is 7.3!

- Found out the effects of Sudafed is not what I expected.

- The preschool videos that I have been working on are all done.

- Decided to start p90x with my hubby on Monday.

and decided that I am going to move to Texas to live in a plantation house and run a bed and breakfast.


One of these isn't true. I'll leave it up to you to decided which one.

Mission Organization

I am heading off a week long computer and TV fast. (with the exception of American Idol) The purpose is to catch up on some much needed organization projects that have been taunting me for months. I have a plan to get everything done! Wanna hear it? Sure you do! That is why you are here right?

Ok so some of you know that I took a Marie Ricks House of Order class a year or so ago and LOVED it. She had some great ideas that I have been wanting to try. I am not going to be stubborn or lazy any more! I am going to get what I can done this week. Here is a list of what I want to accomplish (many of the ideas came from the House of Order book)

#1 Make a plan for each room. What I want to accomplish and the ideas I have for organization.

#2 In each room get rid of close to half of the stuff. This means throwing it away, giving it away or storing it away. The philosophy behind this is the less stuff I have the less cluttered my house will be.

#3 Make small, easy and cheap adjustments to my organization or for the little things that annoy me. For example, I am pretty tired of the kids getting out of the bath and trowing their wet bath towel just anywhere. We don't have a place in the bathroom for them to each hang their own towel (thanks to my sister's family they each got the most adorable towel with their names embroidered on it for their birthdays!) I have a plan to hang hooks on the back of the door for them to be able to hang them up.

#4 Set up a system in each room that will best suit the needs of that room. This is to cut down on the time that is spent in that room. Marie ricks did an awesome presentation of this in her class. Let me do it for you now. First start by drawing a picture of your kitchen. Then take your pen and trace your steps in making a meal. If you have something that looks like this...

There are changes that need to be made. It could be as simple of relocating your pots and pans, or the utensils that you use when cooking. Maybe moving the spices closer to the stove. I plan on looking at every room to see if there is something that can be changed.

#5 Revising my "Brain Box" (again from Marie Ricks) My "brain box" is a box that holds every chore that needs to be done around the house. This includes things that are done daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly. It is a system to help you keep on top of things. Every day you go pull out the cards that are to be done that day and do them. The bathrooms get cleaned once a week, laundry gets done every day, the ceiling fans gets dusted once a month, and so on. If I could not be lazy and actually do it, it would be a great system. I am determined to make it work!

So there you have it guys! My plan. This is why I won't be around for a week. But for your entertainment I will be setting a post of some crazy things that have happened to us in the last little bit. One of which includes a little girl catching her hair on fire!

See you next week!

It broke my heart.

I think I found out the majority of why the Princess is running high so much in the last few days. I found one of her 15 carb snack bags on the floor today.....EMPTY. This could only mean one thing, someone ate it. I first asked her just to make sure. She came right out and told the truth. "Yes Mom, I ate it. I was hungry." My first reaction was to get mad, but I stopped myself. "Think of how she feels." I thought.

I asked her if she thought if that was a very good idea. She sat down on the floor in the hallway, put her head down and just said "It isn't fair Mommy."

I instantly started to cry (it is making me cry again just while typing it)

She is right it isn't fair!

I sat on the floor next to her. I grabbed her in my arms and we cried together. I told her how special she is and how proud that she told me the truth. We talked about how eating food without insulin can make her really really sick and that she needs to be extra careful. I promised that I will help it seem more fair.

What more can you say? This is one of the first times that she has rebelled (other than the time she drank a huge glass of milk after we got home from the hospital, but it was all new then. It wasn't rebelling.) I feel for her. I wish she didn't have to deal with this, but this was a trial she was given. She is entitled to break downs. Heaven knows I have had my fair share. I just wish I could make it better.

She admitted to doing it more than once. So my frustrations with diabetes really ended up being a sign that my little diabetic 5 year old was having a hard time. It still doesn't change how much I dislike diabetes. Seeing her struggle actually makes it worse.

After our cry we both felt better. Diabetes may not be what I wanted for her, but holding her close when she is crying? Now I will take that any day!

Diabetes...you stink!

****Warning: If you are tired of hearing about diabetes or if you get bored with all the diabetes jargon then just skip over this post. I will have something more interesting for you tomorrow.


I am frustrated with diabetes.

When am I not? (I knew that was what you were thinking!) The Princess has been running really high for the last 2 days. She doesn't have any signs of being sick or stressed or anything else that factors into being high. I am pretty sure that there needs to be a dose change to her carb ratio again. Right now it is 1/4 unit : 8 carbs. I am thinking it needs to be somewhere around 1/4:6 or maybe even 5 carbs. How knows. But what I DO know is that it is annoying!

She starts swimming lessons tonight. This will be interesting to see what happens. I set it up to be right after dinner so she will have less chances of having issues. We will see how it goes though. This is the first "sport" she has been into since she was diagnosed. Hopefully she won't focus on her diabetes and just fun. She can leave the stressing up to me.

Bed time is an issue again with her numbers. I don't really know what to do. If she is low before bed and I give her 15 carbs to bring her up she ends up being WAY too high by 2 or so. Then if left alone it is still high when she wakes up. If corrected she goes way low again. I have tired a few things. First, giving her less carbs. She still goes high. Second, leave it alone. Guess what happens when I leave it alone? She STILL goes high. What is the deal here? Is it the meal dose that is doing this to her? Oh the guessing game. Too bad I feel like I can't win here.

Her monthly appointment is next week. This will be very interesting. We are making a family trip to the doctor with her to have the boys tested for a study her doctor is doing. They will be tested to see what their chances of getting diabetes is. I have been worried about my little man at times to see if he is showing signs. The highest reading we have gotten with him is in the 170's. It will be good to know what the test shows.

Diabetes why can't I figure you out?

Family Adventure - The Mayan

(Holy crappy picture! Sorry! I didn't take it! But it gives the general idea for those that don't know what the cliffs, waterfall, and trees are like there.)

We took our family adventure a little early this week again. We went to the Mayan Restaurant. When we bought our car last year we received free meal coupons and they were expiring soon so we thought we would use them. Since I had 10 of them we invited our friends to go with us.

This really turned out to be quite the adventure too. It started with Dude's baseball game at the park. My hubby got stuck in traffic and wasn't going to make it to the game. Not a big deal he planned on meeting us at the park with our friends so we could just head out from there. Oops! I forgot Princess' insulin. KIND OF need it! So my hubby ran back home while Cherie (my friend) all the kids and I headed to the restaurant.

We got a table that has 9 chairs crammed up to 2 TINY tables. There was NO way we were all going to fit. We had 5 kids there for heaven's sake. So I asked the waiter if we could move to a different table. He told me NO! I wasn't happy. We finally got him to move over another table to ours so we would have more room. This was just the beginning of an interesting evening.

When they started the cliff diving show we had to move away from the table to see around the big tree. Everyone got up and moved, but I found a spot close to our table. I was standing there with Little Man watching the show. When some RANDOM lady walks up next to our table to watch the show. She plops down her purse and started to take pictures. No biggie. Until I watched her turn to the basket of chips on OUR table and helped herself to some!! She even dipped it in our dip!!! REALLY! I looked at her and said in a rude sarcastic way "Hey! Why don't you help yourself to our chips and dip! GEEZE!" She just looked at me like I WAS THE CRAZY ONE and said "Oh sorry." I couldn't believe it! Who has the nerve? Even if we were done WHO walks up to an empty table and eats off someones plate? Not only that EVERY TABLE gets the complimentary chips and dip. SHE HAD HER OWN AT HER OWN TABLE! I was in shock! It provided laughs for the rest of the evening, but I still can't believe it!

So even though there were a few hiccups in the evening it will still be a night that I will never forget! That is what this is all about anyway right?

Today, I am not laughing!

My Little Man is a little turd.

First of all he got into my purse. When he brought me something from it, I went and cleaned it all up and put it up high. I shortly realized that there were a few things missing like

my debit card

my cash for tithing

my check book

I looked all over the house but couldn't find them anywhere! Well, I kind of forgot about it until I went to the grocery store today to get a few essentials. I unloaded the cart at the register and reached into my purse to get my card and like getting hit with a 2 x 4 I remembered. I had to pack the kids in the car, drive home, get a new book of checks, drive back to the store to get my stuff. I was trying to be patient.....but everyone knows I am not a very patient person.

Fast forward to this afternoon. I was on the phone with my hubby...."Hi honey, the jeep got impounded today for parking in a parking lot that is apparently made to NOT park in. I just got it back. I am on my way home now." (an arm and a leg later) I walk into the kitchen where Little Man was just 2 minutes before. He wasn't there! "Honey, I can't find Little Man. I will call you later!" I started to look everywhere. I couldn't find him. I started to look outside. NOWHERE! I was panicking! The phone rings "Hi! I have a little visitor down here. He was knocking on my door. Just thought I would let you know!" He had walked to the end of the circle to go play with the kids. No surprise he went there. That is all my kids favorite place to be! But still totally unexpected!

I hate it when toddlers learn to open doors!

Thank Jen for saving him!

Tis the Season for Baseball

A few years ago my dude was playing around with a baseball and a bat in my sister's back yard. He would hit the ball almost every time it was pitched to him. For lack of better words I was blown away.

He has been wanting to give it a try so we got him on a team this year. He has games once a week and from what I can tell he really enjoys it! His very first practice he was sliding into bases, catching the ball and throwing it to where it needs to go. And once up to bat he does a great job!

These are pictures from his game last week. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for coming to cheer him on! Sorry all the pictures have the chain link in them. I was being a good mommy and not crowding the field. (aka hovering over my boy)

We have really been enjoying all this. It is so rewarding for him to find something that he likes and something that he is really good at. Plus it is super cute to see all the kids pile on top of the ball, and running the bases! Gotta love little kid sports!

Hannah Montana Guitar Birthday Cake

For this Princess' birthday she went back and forth a million times with what kind of cake she wanted. She finally decided (and this is exactly how she said it) "I want a Hannah Montana cake in the shape of a guitar. Made out of rice crispy treats because I don't like birthday cake. Oh and with strawberries."

This is what I came up with...

Not easy I tell ya! The problem I was having was how was I going to make it look "Hannah Montana-ish" without putting a picture of her on there. I wasn't going to do that! I was hoping that if I copy the writing it would be good enough. I still don't know if you can even tell, but she was happy and that is all that counts!

As far as the strawberries go, well I just made chocolate covered strawberries. It was a perfect companion to rice crispy treats with strawberry frosting. I really don't think the carb count was any less than regular old cake. But when it is the diabetic's birthday I wasn't going to complain.

Anyone have a good low carb substitute for frosting?

So there are the birthday cakes for this year. I am so glad to have the last 3 months over with. Why didn't someone warn me about having a child in February, then one in March and again in April? Come May I am pretty tired!

Check back in December for my hubby's birthday cake request of the Millenium Falcon.

She is 5!!!

I know I can't believe it either! Her birthday was on Tuesday (April 28th). She has been counting down the days till her birthday since Thanksgiving (or longer) so it is nice that they day finally came!

THREE years ago I wrote THIS post about her and her birthday. If you haven't read it I suggest you click on the link to read it. I still can't believe at the age of two her spirit and ability to teach me was so strong!

What do I say about this girl? Honestly, every time I go to talk about her on occasions like this I get a little teary eyed. I have been saying since she was born that she has a special mission on this earth. That is a statement that I will forever hold true for her. With her coming into our family so unexpectedly, me having post partum depression after she was born, to breaking her femur at 7 months old and being questioned for child abuse, and now diabetes. Every incident, with every step along the way she teaches me something new. She is stronger than most kids I know! Where she finds her strength and her will to succeed is beyond me. She has alot to teach and so so much to give.

When I found out I was pregnant with her (3 months into the pregnancy...again click on THIS link to read all about it) and her daddy and I were trying to get our world to stop spinning we went to the temple. While there, I kept thinking of the song I am a Child of God. The words to that song are this:

I am a child of God,

And he has sent me here,

Has given me an earthly home

With parents kind and dear.

Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,

Help me find the way.

Teach me all that I must do

To live with him someday.

I realized that I have a duty. A duty to teach my beautiful Princess WHO she is and WHERE she belongs in the crazy world. That her life is so much more than playing with toys, dancing and singing songs. That she has a gift. Many of them actually. And as her parent I am here to guide her. She has been given many challenges already at such a young age. Some that I seem overwhelmed with most of the time yet she never batts a tear over it. As crazy as it is, I think again to the song that has almost been the theme of her life. The second verse says this:

I am a child of God,

And so my needs are great;

Help me to understand his words

Before it grows too late.

With all that has been placed in her path nothing has gotten her down. She has such a deep understanding of so many things: diabetes, love, charity. It is my prayer that she never forgets this. That as she grows older that she will she the difference she has made in the world. I love this girl. I know she is not done teaching me.

I promise I will always be here to listen.

And just because the third verse is so powerful:

I am a child of God.

Rich blessings are in store;

If I but learn to do his will

I'll live with him once more.

Happy Birthday Princess. You are an amazing little girl. I am so blessed to be your mom! Thank you for the spirit you bring into our home. I love you!

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Just a few things about her.

She loves:

Littlest Pet Shops

Polly Pockets

Her bike

Whistling

Her Brothers

Her bear Dot

High School Musical

Hannah Montana

Singing

and Playing Dress Up

She is:

Sensitive

Creative

Silly

Helpful

Curious

Super fast learner (she can already read a ton of words)

and Playful

And just a quick side note. The pictures of her coloring on the sidewalk was how she spent the afternoon on her birthday. She colored the ENTIRE sidewalk with the chalk that our friend NaTasha gave her as a gift. She really is silly I tell ya!

Monsters vs Aliens

The rain was not a pleasant site this weekend when we were trying to plan our family adventure. Then my hubby had the best idea. We got a gift card to the movie theatre for Christmas, so we decided to use that and go see a movie.

We went to see Monsters vs Aliens in 3D! It was awesome! Everyone really enjoyed it! Little Man couldn't keep the glasses on, and watching it without wasn't any fun so he got a little restless. The other two were really funny to watch. They would try to grab stuff that would come out in front of them. I remember doing that as a kid. Even ducking sometimes thinking that I was going to get hit by the 3D movie.

This week our adventure turned out to be pretty awesome! Let's hope that it isn't supposed to rain for this weekend. I am not sure how many free/super duper cheap indoor activities I can think of.

Anyone else planning any fun adventures this summer? I want to hear about them!

I am sitting here watching Little Man dip his cheetos in his pear pudding....a little from his plate and a little from his brother's (without Dude even knowing).

He is in his own little world.

All that I said in that last post is true, but yes I was laughing.

What is it about the 3rd child that makes all the 2 year old stuff seem funny?

Maybe it's that I have too many other things to be stressed about.....

Either way, I can't help but think right now that life is good. Despite the insane things that happen to us and the never ending block hole of unemployment (sort of) that we are living in. We are blessed. We are healthy. We are happy!

I need to stop getting caught up in the not so good stuff and focus on the wonderful things. There really are so many wonderful things.

I think I will start with enjoying the silly things my 2 year old does. Even if it is dipping cheetos in pudding...yuck!

In the Last Few Days...

My 2 year old has........

~Colored on almost every wall in his room the hallway, and the family room with bright pink sidewalk chalk.

~Ran into my guitar lesson TOTALLY BUCK NEKKID! Making my almost 8 year old student laugh so hard I thought he was going to fall off the couch.

~Bit into a package of grape sugar free Kool Aid staining his mouth, arm, tummy and fingers black! And yes this was about 1 minute after he did as I mentioned above!

~Snuck out of the house and ran through the muddy garden with just socks on.

~Got into the mini tube of tooth paste (while I was in the shower) and ate almost half the tube.

~Been carrying around a bag of elbow noodles thinking they are raisins.

~Been yelling NO WAY at almost everything that I say to him.

~Threw away one of his brand new shoes. Causing his dad and I to empty out the OUTSIDE garbage can onto a tarp in the garage to see if we could find it before garbage day.

~Shoved 3 DVD's into the player at once almost breaking the thing. Good thing they all came out!

~While birthday shopping for my princess he grabbed 5 shirts off the rack at once causing the entire rack of shirts to come off the hangers. It took me 5 minutes just to untangle them and put them back on the hangers and onto the rack.

~Put sunglasses on the cat.....he is doing that while I type.

~Hid his tie that I put on him for church in the DISHWASHER! When I asked him why he clearly said "Don't want it!"

~Snuck into the strawberry's I bought today for the Princess' birthday party.....He is done with the cat and is now eating the strawberry's all up.....

LOOKS LIKE I AM DONE POSTING FOR THE DAY!!!!

Anyone else with a 2 year old that is as sweet and dear and A HANDFUL and mine is?


****UPDATE****
I know it has only been 10 minutes since I posted this, but I had another that I wanted to add.

~Empty ALL of the DVDs out of the entertainment center. Really! This kid doesn't stop!

Not sure what to say right now.

I'm feeling "IT" again.

"It" meaning sorry for myself.

I hate being here. In this rut.

It stinks.

Where is the way out and when do I get to see it?

Looks like I need a little service in my life. Time to do my Visiting Teaching, send letters to those I love, make cookies for the neighbors, and lend a hand to someone in need.

Not to get the blessings guys, to feel better.

However the blessings would be nice too.

Updates coming later. For those that don't know me or what is going on in my life (if you care) feel free to read almost every other post in the last 10 months of my life. Gotta love unemployment, diabetes and just bad luck in general.

P.S. Why is blogger not letting me put spaces like I want them? Guess this post just gets to look weird. Sorry.

The kickoff!

Last year when my hubby was laid off from his job we knew that it wasn't going to easy. Not just financially but to keep our family strong. To not let the stress of everything get in the way of a happy family. We decided that it would be good for our family to take a day every week and do something fun. We started calling them our Family Adventures. We did some really fun things. I tried to blog about them, but there are so many that I didn't blog about. This year will be different, I plan on blogging about every one of them.

We have some good friends that came with us on almost every adventure that we went on last year and they are excited to do them with us this year. In fact we have 3 more families that most likely will be joining us. All 5 families had a Family Adventure kickoff BBQ at the park yesterday. It was pretty fun! I was able to get a few pictures. Check them out!


Baseball is Dude's new thing. He is pretty dang good at it. He was given a scholarship to play on a league here and has been enjoying it!

The Princess has been practicing the monkey bars at school but the ones at the park where up kind of high. She really wanted to try to do them, but I was being lazy. Our friend Brandon went over and helped her for the longest time. She had the best time!

This is just funny! You remember that Little Man has an obsession with hats right? Well did you know that he makes me put jackets on him just so he can wear the hat? Silly kid!

Princes has been trying hard to learn how to swing too. I sat there forever trying to teach her. She is the world's most uncoordinated little girl. But she still had fun!

So that is it. Our first Family Adventure of the season. We sat down and wrote out all the things that we want to do this year so stay tuned for more fun with our crazy family and occasionally an appearance of our crazy friends.

Easter

I know that it was a week ago, but I promised my mom that I would post these pictures. Ok, she really didn't twist my arm. But I still made a promise.

Easter was the best. I went to bed feeling really crappy about myself and all the things that are going on in my life. But when I woke up Easter morning the sun was shinning bright in the windows, and my kids were super excited. I couldn't help but smile and push all my stress aside for one day. The Easter bunny did come which made the day even better. The Princess was so excited that the Easter bunny knew that she was diabetic and brought her sugar free candy. This made her day. The day was looking even better.

The Easter Bunny also brought the kids the cutes Easter clothes. I loved that the boys were dressed alike again, and the Princess couldn't stop twirling in her beautiful flowy dress. I tried to have this quick photo shoot, but you know how it is to take your own kids pictures. It never works for me. I always catch a bit of their personalities. Dude really wanted to do his own hair. I wasn't going to fight. This was his best try at a sharks hair do. Gotta love this kid!

Little Man couldn't have been more happy as well. He has a sucker in his mouth before all the eggs where found. This kid loves candy! He looked super handsome in his new get up too! But when I tired to take his picture he was more excited that he was outside he wanted nothing to do with getting his picture taken. I can keep up with him playing. I got a few good ones.

I had taken a few hours off of work so that I could spend a little time with the family before they headed off to church. I was so bummed that I couldn't go with them. I helped get them ready and took their pictures, and was getting ready to send them off. I checked for time off and wouldn't you know it I got it! It was a miracle! I ended up not having to work at all. Not good for the pay check but awesome for spending time with my fam!

All in all the day was awesome! It was just what I needed for curing the way I had been feeling the day before. A holiday, spending time with my family, sunshine and being able to go to church can do that to you!

The only bad part...I didn't get to see my parents.

Not So Bad After All

Last month when I took the Princess to her Endocrinologist appointment I came back feeling like a failure. Well to a degree. I know that wasn't really my fault that her A1c had gone up. But it is so hard not to take it personal. He made a ton of changes to her treatment last month that I feel have been really helping her.

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Let me take a minute to answer a few questions that I have received. First I take her to see her Dr. once a month, and we visit on the phone every week. This is partially due to the fact that since she was diagnosed in November she has never really been able to stay on the same treatment. Her body has been changing so quickly (due to slowly coming out of her honeymoon stage) that almost every week there have been changes made to her doses. Once they feel like things will slow down a bit they will have us come in every 3 months. And second, at the appointment every month they do check her A1c. As you all know this is to help us know how we are doing with things.

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So with all that said, last week we were due to take her to the doctor and I couldn't help but be nervous. All I kept thinking was if her A1c was back up again then I know that I am doing a crappy job at taking care of her. The day wasn't a pretty one. I ended up taking the boys with me to her appointment. I knew I was asking for trouble. When we got there they were pretty wound up. Little Man fell off a chair in the waiting room and was pretty much a pill the rest of the time. I even brought books for all of them to read while the Dr. and I talked. They were so loud that they Dr. said that he was just going to talk over them and asked if I was ok with that.

All that aside, I am here to report that I have nothing to worry about. Her A1c came down from 8.7 last month to 7.4 this month! A huge change and this is the lowest it has ever been. The doctor said we were doing a great job and she is exactly where he wants her to be right now. He didn't make any changes. This is even the first time that I get to go 2 weeks before I talk to him again. You can imagine how happy I was!

This really is the first time since she was diagnosed that I can honestly say that things are going good with her. Before I always felt that they were out of control. It ended up being a good day after all!

I know you were all dying to know!

Yes, they survived the winter. Dare I say just barely?

When we first got these cluckers last summer Mini was pretty small. She wasn't producing eggs yet. Now that it is spring I look at her and think she is Jane every time. I still try to find the "smaller" chicken who is Mini. I just barely realized how to tell them apart. First Mini is now bigger than Jane. Second, Jane has white wings and Mini has white feathers around her neck.

The kids think they are pretty cool still. The "Ba cocks" (pronounced like the sound that a chicken makes) is Little Man's favorite. He likes to wake up and feed them bread, he likes to chase them around the yard and he likes to try to pick them up.

I have learned to like them a little too. Jane is super sweet. Every time the back door opens she comes to your feet and will follow you around. Mini did climb up on my lap while I was taking pictures though. She started to peck at my pants so I kicked her off. Jane came shortly after. She asked to have her picture taken with me. I looked terrible, but I agreed to do it anyway. (lol)

Dude was able to catch Mini on a nice note. I just had to take a picture. Too bad that nice note ended quickly. Little Man tried to pick her up and he got pecked in the face.

See all grown up. Both are laying eggs now. Unfortunately it is never in the same spot. It is like an Easter egg hunt every day! Some days I don't even try. Did you know that egg shells are good for your garden? YOU DIDN'T? Well don't forget to post your gardening questions to get my hubby, Farmer "T" to do a guest post! Maybe you will learn some awesome things like that!

I know what you are thinking. This was taken before she tried to peck his eyes out.

OH! Did I mention my chickens do tricks? Here is proof!

Yep! They jump. Here they are trying to get worms. The kids think this is the best! You hold out bread, cracker, a worm and sometimes just your finger and they will jump to get it!

So there you have it! Proof that I am not a crappy chicken owner. Now let's see if they make it to Sunday Dinner....a hem.

I AM JUST KIDDING!

Well for now. We will see about that when the time comes!