No more monkeys

Over the last 2 years Prince has displayed actions that seemed normal. Things that normal boys do. He is rough and he is tough. He does make scenes out of the minor things that he does, if he bumps his head or if he kicks something. I try to brush it off. Usually if he is really hurt he cries for a few then he is done. 

Not this time

Prince jumped off the couch like he does daily. Sometimes once, sometimes 5 times, sometimes even 10 times, over and over again. We have tried to stop him, my fear is he would break something. 

You see, he seeks these types of pressure. Deep impact.

Last night, while jumping off the couch my fear came true.

 

Prince has a broken leg. 

I was told he has a spiral fracture. 

His break is pretty clean. 

I was told that he will probably be in a cast for 6-8 weeks and he should not need surgery. 

We are leaning towards 6 weeks in hopes that it is off before SD can get home. 

I am hoping he is not in to much pain. We will know more later after I go to the doc for the plaster cast! 

I did not plan for this to happen on deployment but I am sure I can get through this as well

Quotable Thurdsday #31- Mothers

 

Welcome to Quotable Thursday!

This week's topic is mother's. Five years ago this week my life was changed for ever, for the better. My little girl turns five on Friday. 

My mom is also coming out to help me get through it, in reality I am a mess about it. I will get through. This has to be the easy part righ?!

• A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  Tenneva Jordan

• Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  Mildred B. Vermont

• The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  Jane Sellman

•  The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  Rajneesh

•  Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.  Pearl S. Buck 

• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.  Margaret Culkin Banning

• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

•   If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  Milton Berle 

• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.  Meryl Streep

• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.  Lisa Alther
  
   

  

Update on the Prince

I tried to come up with a catchy title but I drew a blank.

All is well. His speech has improved and he now has a vocabulary of a standared 3 year old. The little boy who gave us no hope has come full circle in the speech department. I really owe it all to his speech teacher, if I ever come upon large amounts of cash that lady will be gettin some ;)

Prince was recently diagnosed with Sendory Processing Disorder, we knew he had sensory issues but I was not away that there was something to diagnose it as. He has come along way but he still has a long way to go. May of 09 I pulled him out of a center where he recieved therapy because they did not work on his social issues. Now he goes to a place that he actually likes going to and he seems to be doing well.
We have started Therapeutic Listening and he seems to be doing really well with it. If I get him to listen first thing after he wakes for his speech is a bit better, no the mumbo jumbo he used to give me. He also likes to take it with us in the stores. It takes his mind off of what is really going on around him. He really seems to like it.
We have days and times where I would love to tell you that there is no issue in my home. Where my kids are perfect in every way, then the littlest thing goes wrong and we have a melt down for hours. Yes, I said hours. Sometimes it is about the simplest thing and others not so much. I want more then anything to try to understand my son. To be able to be on his level in the slighest way. I have started reading The Out of Sync Child, I am not to far into the book yet, I am not a reader, but there are already things that help me out. I can not say that I will every be able to understand my son, but I can vow to try.

I knew this deployment would be really hard for Prince, he is really close to his dad. I have to say that I am really proud of him. We started getting him mentally ready a month ago. We wanted him to know and understand that Daddy was not leaving for good, that he was going to come back. SD, decided to tell Prince that he was going to go fight pirates, clever huh? So now my little boy tells everyone his daddy is gone fighting pirates. While it really bothers me, I have to add that he is in the Navy, it helps me to know this is how my son is getting through this.

As we travel back and forth for his appts I am happy that he is getting therapy, I am happy that we will most likely be able to have him in a private school when the time comes, I am happy that we have been given hope. I am thankful that he will not slip through the cracks.

 

Prince, listening to his music

*For anyone in the San Diego area looking for services for speech and occupational therapy, Please feel free to contact me. We have TriCare and we really like the places we recieve service. I would be more then happy to give you their information*

This week's Quotable Thursday topic is Courage. 

Enjoy and hope you had a great Thursday!

• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin 
• The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Dubois 
• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt
• We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.Helen Keller
• Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James Freeman Clarke  

Works For me Wednesday - Saving workbooks

 

I have been really blessed that my mom was able to pass down a lot of things from my nephew, one of those are the work books that she bought his to get him ready for school. These work books are not cheap and I am hoping that I can get use out of them for all 3 babies. 

Princess is at the age to use these books now, what I have done is get page protectors and place them over the page, there will be 2 layers of plastic between your munchkin and the page. You can take the page out of the book but that is at a risk of it getting lost. 

That is What works for me. 

Please head over to We Are THAT Family for more Works For Me Wednesday

EcoFriendly Shipping Fail

I have ordered many things online. I have never had something come shipped to me like this.

I ordered a roll of 17 inches X 5 yards of iron vinyl, that is not what I got but I will tell you about that later. 

What I ordered came in this box 

 

Inside view of the box

The package padding the package padding that came with what I ordered. Since you know, vinyl is breakable?

 

The packaging slip to show you what I ordered

 

Ta Da what I got with all that

 

Yep! That is it! 

I actually ordered 5 feet of the vinyl but received 2 feet. 

I called customer service and they are going to ship me out 2 more packages to make it right. Shipping is on them. Should be here in a week. 

Great customer service for JoAnn's , now if my local store was as nice! 

JoAnn's lets work on not wasting packaging materials, thanks for the great customer service though

This thing haunts me

This lovely thing was brought home from school. Preschool, I might add. They treasure chest at school has lots of lovely things in it. This thing happens to be one of them.
The kids think it is great. Me not so much. This mama don't do bugs. Not at all. Nope, can't do it.
In case you haven't figured out this is a fake gigantic fly. It haunts me. I put it in the playroom and it weasels it's way out.

Who gives bugs in a preschool treasure chest?! I mean really???

Touching base....

Just touching base with my lovely readers. Lately I have been at a loss for words as to what is going on in my life.

Life is hectic.

Deployment for me is going well. Over five years of marriage has made me used to doing it alone. Since it is just me there are things that I am not able to get to. Laundry is one of those. I have about 5-6 loads that need to be folded. Hey, at least I wash them.

Prince, is not doing so well. We have 4 busy days a week. Our only off day is Tuesday. So he is always going but he really needs more interaction with other kids. I will write a post about this over time. It is taking me a bit to get my words together. 

Princess, is doing great! She is so used to this that it comes natural to her. She is trying to have patience with her brother but at times it just doesn't work. For the most part she is doing really well. She has school 3 days a week and loves it. 

Munchkin, is doing great! She is rolling around everywhere and stays sitting up when I put her that way. She is eating regular food now and has two teefers. She will be 6 months next week. So I will update more then!

Kipper (the dog) is a brat and loves his mama ;)

One day at a time... I take it, I take it one day at a time.

Wordless Wednesday: 25 weeks

-- Post From My iPhone

Whew, It has been awhile

Hey there folks. I know it has been awhile since I have posted but we have been busy. I have been juggling three kids, no break and loads of house work all by my lonesome.

Honestly, it is not that bad.

Untill....

I hear the words :Mommy, is daddy coming home yet?"

Stab me in the heart why do ya?!

The kiddos are handling it rather well. We have many things to keep us busy. One day a week is free. This week we have no free days.

I am really proud of the kids. We have taken on the challenge of doing many things that seem overwhelming and we have made it through them only stronger. We still have a bit to go but we will get through this....

One day at a time..