Week In Review...So Far

Happy Thursday all! I know, I have been slacking this week and this is my first post. I'm sorry. Unfortunately, when you have 2 little kids at home with you all day you just DON'T get around to doing everything you need to. Hence why I have a list of things about 10 miles long I have been trying to finish for the past {almost} 9 months. Shit happens, we wipe it up and hope that the next day will be better.

So, I guess this is just gonna be a random post today talking about all kinds of whatever. Let's get you caught up on my SUPER exciting life, shall we?

Saturday morning I got up and went and had my hair chopped off some more by the lovely Kenzie Veurink of ImageZ Salon. If you are ever in Indian Trail and need an awesome place to get your hairs did or your nails did or whatever, this is THE place to go. The staff is friendly, the atmosphere is relaxing and it's just a great place to be. I had already chopped off all my hair earlier in April, and I just needed to get rid of the rest of the hair around my face. I LOVE my new pixie and in the next couple of months I'm going to change my color too. So stay tuned. If you don't follow me on Instagram, you can {and should}. You can find me at @thismommyofthree. I came home and Michael looked at me and said, "it's shorter than it was before! you are going in the wrong direction!" He loved my long hair, and while I admit I did too, it was just too much for me to handle with the kids and I could just never do anything with it. The good thing is, it's just HAIR. It will grow back if I want it to! That's the awesome thing about hair. It's not permanent. I'm sure someday I will want to grow it out again bc I will get tired of having short hair, and when I do, I will. For now though, I'm pretty content with it.

Mother's Day was good. I did a little more housework and laundry than I would have preferred, but when you have 3 kids, it's just how life goes. I was woken up by my sweet baby at 6:30am {but I let Michael change his diaper and get him out of bed cause I'm nice like that...} and he got into bed with us and we laid there and watching fishing with daddy for a little bit. Michael asked me if I wanted him to go out and get breakfast and I said no, even though I really WANTED a Sausage McMuffin from McD's...I was good and didn't cave. I was saving my calories for Starbucks later that morning anyway. I must confess, I am waiting for the Mother's Day when I can ACTUALLY sleep in and get breakfast in bed from all 4 of my guys. I know that's a few years away, but I'm looking forward to it! We got everyone up, had breakfast and got ready for the day. Michael got me a bottle of Duck Commander Pink Moscato. If you know anything about me, you know I am OBSESSED with ANYTHING Duck Dynasty related. So, I was super excited about this one! He did good. I told him not to get me anything but of course he didn't listen. We all got ready, headed to Starbucks and then to Target. Michael said that I had the option to either let him get me what he originally wanted to for Mother's Day or I could pick something out. I knew the moment he said that what he was talking about and we headed straight for the kitchen appliance section. We turned down the aisle with the coffee makers and I told him, "this is the third holiday in a row you've tried to get me to buy one of these, you know that right?" He laughed and said, "yep!" He's been trying to get me to agree to buy a Keurig because when I'm home by myself I always make wayyyyy too much coffee. I have every intention of drinking more than one cup, but one all the kids are up and the day is started I always forget I have made it and then it gets wasted. I don't like wasting things. So, after I stared at it for about 20 minutes I put it in the cart. I have to say it's been awesome so far! I am loving it and can't wait till our grocery store does Super Double Coupons again so I can get some cheap K-cup packs! Yay coffee!

On Tuesday morning I had to take B and C to their dentist for their 6 month prophylaxis {cleaning and exam in layman's terms...but these big words sound cooler, don't they?} B was a champ as always, let's the hygienist scrape, brush and floss with no problems. We found out however that even though he is doing better brushing and flossing, that he has to have 2 of his front bottom baby teeth extracted and a spacer wire put in. His front bottom teeth are all super crooked and so he can't get them clean the way he needs to. I am not looking forward to this but it has to happen. So, we scheduled the appointment for the week after he gets out of school so that I don't have to worry about him missing any days with the end of the year testing coming up. C....was a whole different story. The last time he saw the dentist {in November} he was an ANGEL through the whole process. This time, it's like he was possessed. He screamed and tried to claw his way out of the hygienist cleaning his teeth. I had to literally hold him down so she could brush his teeth. The same thing happened for the dentist. I was not happy. It was TOTALLY unexpected since he was so well behaved at his last cleaning. Everything looked good for him, we are brushing well and flossing. Unfortunately though, the fact that he has been chewing on his blanket "blue" for the last year an a half has caused his front top teeth to push forward a tiny bit and if he keeps it up he will develop a bad overbite. That means braces in the future, and I really want to avoid that if at all possible since B is going to need them in a few years. So, we only have "blue" at nap time and bed time. I went cold turkey with him and he seems to be doing ok so far. Its just easier to do it this way since he will be going to preschool when he is 3.

We are also still doing speech therapy for C, and it's still too early to see any difference just yet. He loves his therapist and she does a great job with him. He is trying to say words, I can tell but they just aren't coming out. He can say his entire alphabet and count to 10. We just learned how to spell our name and I am working on spelling everyone elses names too. He is incredibly smart, it's truly amazing to watch him. I really can't wait for him to be able to talk and I know the first time he says an actual word, I'm gonna cry like a little baby. I have started doing some sensory activities with him and am hoping to get a few more things made this weekend. I made sensory rice and colored it with food coloring. Today I am going to make colored sensory pasta noodles. I've been trying to get him to play with the rice in a big bowl on the kitchen floor but I need to get a tub at the dollar store so it's easier for him to play. His caseworker stopped by this morning so I could sign some paperwork to have him evaluated in August by the school system to see if we can get him into preschool for FREE when he turns 3. I hope that he qualifies because right now we can't afford preschool for him.

Noah is just about to start crawling! He gets up on his knees and rocks back and forth and tries to move forward with his hands but his legs don't follow just yet. It's adorable to watch. He has his bottom two front teeth and his top two eye teeth have come in so he is my vampire baby right now. He claps and is starting to make new noises. It's just so amazing to watch him grow and change. He is still very clingy and doesn't like his rear-facing car seat but once he is big enough we will turn him around and hopefully that will make him happy {I know it will make mommy and daddy happy...}. He's a trip and I love him so very, very much.

Lastly, if you follow me on IG or Facebook {my personal page is private} I am taking part in the FedUp 10 Day No Sugar Challenge. Let me just say this now. This. Shit. Is. Hard. Not only can I not have sweets or Splenda in my coffee but I also cannot have ANY foods with sugar in them. Crackers, cereal, peanut butter. It's amazing when you actually take a second to read the labels on your food and see that EVERYTHING has sugar in it. BACON has sugar. PLAIN CHEERIOS have sugar. It's seriously depressing. I've been really good about not eating foods with sugar in them, but I have to make a confession. While I am doing my very best to stay sugar free, when it comes to dinner for my family, even though I'm trying to make foods with low to no sugar, I can't make separate food for me. For example, I made chili the other night. The tomato sauce I used had very small amounts of sugar. I don't know if that is natural sugar or processed sugar but it had sugar in it and I ate it. I washed and rinsed all the canned veggies I used to get rid of all that sugar. My problem with all these "challenges" is that even though I am trying my hardest and doing pretty well I think, is that I cannot afford to clean out my cabinets that are full of food {and not unhealthy food at that} just so I can replace it all with foods that have no sugar, real or artificial. My family is on a strict budget for groceries every 2 weeks and I can't spend an extra $200 or more just for myself. I control what my children eat and they {Noah excluded because he is still an infant} don't consume that much sugar on a daily basis. I didn't restrict them during this time or my husband. He flat out told me he wasn't going to do it. That's fine. I can control what he eats at home but as soon as he walks out that door at 6am I can't do anything. He is an adult and knows what he should and should not be eating. Yes, he came home on Tuesday and told me he had a sleeve of mini-doughnuts. Yes, he brought me home a sleeve of them and I hid them so I'm not tempted. Was I mad because he ate them? No. Was I jealous? Hell yes! Will I actually eat those doughnuts after the 10 day challenge is over? Probably not. I'm not a big doughnut person for some reason. Now...if it was a cupcake, that's a totally different story. You best stay outta mama's way if I have a cupcake to eat! So no, I'm not being 100% clean on this challenge but I am doing the absolute best I can and staying away from every kind of sugar that I possibly can. I'm not afraid to admit that. I'm not perfect. Never said I was. Never will be.

That's about it! Come back tomorrow for my Friday Fabulous! post :)

xo