Life unscripted, tragedies and all

Since my last post, things have been bad and good. The girls are ok, Kara is teething very badly, causing her to be cranky and have a lot of diarrhea. She slept thru the night 3 times in the last week, so there has been progress.
Sometime after the last post, I received work from my friends from high school, that one of my classmates lost her 3 year old daughter. The pain I felt when I heard that was almost too much to bear. No mother should ever have to bury her child.....no matter what the age. I am not sure of the final cause of her death, but there was double pneumonia and E. Coli. Awful and tragic.

I made it thru my 10 days stretch and setted into my 4 day weekend, then, BOOM, just when I was starting to get up from the last kick in the gut, I was kicked down again. The 17 year old son of one of Randy's best friends (his business partner's brother), was killed in a car accident early saturday morning. Gerald, the dad, was in DC when it happened. If this is God's way of population control....I'm becoming an athiest.

Tonight, Randy was at the wake when more disaster struck. One of Christopher's football team mates was leaving the funeral home, turning onto the 2 lane road, when he was t-boned. Randy's partner Jesse was outside taking a cigarette break when it happened. It's a good thing, because the truck was on fire. Randy looked outside with everyone else and saw Jesse smashing the window in to get the kid out. As Randy ran outside to help, he saw Jesse pull the kid out and not 30 seconds later, the truck blew up. Jesse saved this kid's life. He was burned pretty badly and was life flighted because the nearest hospital was too far to drive. Jesse has some cuts and minor burns but will be ok.

Please let this be the end. Our hearts need time to heal.

New leaf...turned over...

Randy and I started to walk/run. We are really out of shape. Pregnancy caused me to be LAZY!!! We go out on the mornings that I am off. We've done a lot more walking, than running, and I always end up with a headache after...but we are determined to keep it up. This morning we saw around 30 turtles under the walking bridge on the green belt. A few of them were huge!!! We also saw a snake. The snake didn't scare me, Randy grabbing my arm did !!! Today we may have over done the distance, we think we went 2 miles (I left my pedometer at home). On Tuesday, we will go back to 1 mile, with the goal of running more of the mile each time. I am hoping to lose the extra 10 pounds sitting on my belly. Hopefully Randy will lose weight and his sleep apnea and snoring may disappear (wishful thinking). We are also hoping to increase stamina so we can keep up with the kids!!!

Kara is teething badly, which has caused her to be a poor sleeper yet again.....will I ever get 8 hours of sleep again?

Princess Kara...

Kara is so funny sometimes. She is generally a good baby, but her experiences with teething are a bit worse than Jordana's. She seems to be more sensitive and she currently has some sort of blister on her gums. It doesn't seem to bother her and her appetite has not waned. She just seems to cry a bit more than usual. She also has woken up earlier in the morning than usual. She'll fuss and cry, then she'll look at you and this big grin shows up on her face. She can be a bit dorky, but we love it!!!

Saturday in Waco....

We went to visit BeBe in Waco on Saturday. It took about 3 hours to get there with one stop. Kara slept most of the way and Jordana watched Ice Age an Ratatouille on the DVD player. BeBe was very excited to see us. She got a "pink slip" from the nursing home for a day pass, so we wouldn't have to go to the nursing home. Jordana was a bit hesitant at first, but she was a trooper and gave BeBe a hug. She took an instant liking to Aunt Debbie, who sent her home with a bag of toys.

(Jordana takes horrible pictures....she says CHEESE and closes her eyes or looks away.) Kara was great the whole time, but fell asleep the second we clicked her buckles in her car seat. She was exhausted. She sat in the infamous rocking chair that BeBe's grandaddy made for her. I have pix of Jordana in it.

The drive home was ok. Kara was a bit fussy, due to her teeth, but we stopped in Magnolia for dinner and headed home. Both kids were in bed and out like a light!! It was a long day but a trip that was overdue. BeBe needed to meet her second Great-granddaughter!

Life returning to normal...

By Wednesday, the world has almost righted itself. Kara woke up fever free. Although Jordana had a fever on Tuesday night...totally random...she was fever free on Wednesday as well. Both went to school...I got a hair cut and ran some errands. NORMALCY!!! Kara is still not sleeping thru the night but at least it is not a 3 hour ordeal. She still has not crawled yet. She tries so hard but give up easily and cries...hope this is not a glimpse of her future personality. Jordana did everything early and quickly (except potty training) that I took it for granted. As for potty training....we have enlisted Primrose's help. We send Jordana to school with undies and plastic panties...and let them do the work. Jordana did great on Wednesday....then proceeded to poop in her pants at home Wed night, right after Randy asked her if she needed to go potty. Yesterday, she had a pooping accident in school but woke up dry after her nap. Last night she peed on the potty and was accident free, but woke up with a dirty pull up. She peed in the potty this morning.....things are looking up. I am a bit worried about the weekend, with Randy being alone for 4 days while I work. We'll see.
As for other things, currently reading Mary Higgins Clark new book, tried to catch up on sleep and scrapbooking (failing miserably there). I was sad to hear of the horrible fire at Gallery furniture last night, but I know Mac will recover. I'm glad So you think you can dance is back...but I hate Sonia!! I thought she was going to have a BIG O right there on TV last night!! Hope all is well in your world!!!

Monday crappy Monday...

It started with a 3 am wakeup call from Kara...and again at 5 am. Jordana woke up and insisted on wearing underwear. Randy believed her when she said she would pee pee on the potty. Within an hour she had peed in her pants, which I discovered 2 minutes before I tried to walk out the door. So I had to stop and change her. I got to work...and had a tech call in within an hour of me starting my shift. Then I get a phone call from Primrose...Kara has 101 fever. Argh!!! Randy picked her up and I called the dr...just in time for them to start lunch. Randy was able to get an appointment at 5:15, which means I had to leave work early. So I worked until 5:30 with no lunch break, then went to get Jordana. On the way to Jordana's school, a rock hit my windshield and chipped a large portion out of it. After getting Jordana, we had McDonalds for dinner And Kara was finally seen after 6 pm. Kara has a double ear infection and she is on her third course of antibiotics. She is home from school on Tuesday. Last night was no better, she woke up at 2am and was in and out until 7am when she woke up to be fed. What a crappy day....the only bright point was picking up Jordana and finding her in a pair of pipe cleaner glasses making her look like Harry Potter. she wore them all the way thru dinner!!

Kara inherits the Dorfman ears...

Seems like Kara has the weak Dorfman ear parts. It started on Saturday. Kara always runs a fever because she has teeth coming in but Saturday her demeaner was a bit off. By Sunday, she was very whiney. At dinner time she cried for what seemed like no reason at all. We finally got her to sleep and she woke up at around 10:30 crying. After I fed her she went back to sleep with a dose of Motrin but at 3am she cried...and cried for 2 hours. Randy took her to the dr on Monday and found out she had a ruptured ear drum. I've done it twice before, I know how painful it is. My dad has bad ears too. Sorry Kara. After some antibiotics (oral and drops) and motrin around the clock, she seems better. I only hope the bacteria is not resistant to the antibiotics...since I read an article that there is a stain of ear bacteria that is resisitant to 18 different antibiotics. Kara will probably need tubes too...but they worked out great for Jordana, so it doesn't bother me.

We tried to crash potty train Jordana this weekend...and failed miserably. This girl just likes sitting in her own poop!! So we took away the underwear that she was wearing over her pull up and told her they were for girls who pee pee on the potty all the time. She will not get them back until she is ready. She just doesn't seem to understand what they are for.

Randy took Jordana fishing on Sat night. He bought her a little girls fishing rod. She loved it. She even petted the fishes (5 of them ) before they were thrown back. What a Daddy's girl.