If it's not boke, don't fis it

For the past couple of weeks, I have had the hardest time getting G to stop unscrewing the footrest on the reclining sofa. He is not using tools, just perseverence and tiny hands, but he is getting the screws out and unhooking the footrest from the metal hinges they are suppose to stay on. It is funny to see actually, all you see is feet coming out from under the sofa.

He does this with everything... and everything ends up "boke". And he is always asking me to "fis it".. when I clearly can't.. even with my mommy superpowers.
Sunglasses (all 3 pair), check
Mobile, check
Hood to his F150, check

The boy takes everything he can apart.. thankfully, most can be put back together.. but now he is moving on...
He is moving onto things needing to be unscrewed...

Right now he is taking the stylus from his palm and trying to use it to unscrew the popper on one of his toys.

I wanted to get him a home depot set for Christmas... now I am second guessing it.

One very cool thing

If you don't know, I work on Ancestry stuff alot. Most every night. I want to go back in every branch of our tree as far as I can. I love it. I have found some interesting stuff since researching J side.

The, by far, most amazing thing I have found though is this.
He was J's great uncle. He was on the USS Gudgeon when it left port on April 7th and was never seen again. No one knows 100% of what happened, but on April 18th, 1944 it was considered lost at sea. This submarine is considered one of the 'mysteries of the sea'. I officially HAVE to have this book. Just to look over once and keep with the rest of the family tree information.

There are so many books I want that are dealing with family tree stuff... like family and geneologist that have already done so much work.

I love this stuff.

I leave you with a pic from my media file in my family tree.


These are the sons of Harmon T. Bass. Back row far right is Francis Harmon Bass, who had a daughter, Cader Thomas Bass, J's great grandmother.

Complete randomness

I just got finished reading a book about a family of 7 who lived on $20,000 a year and who had everything paid for... including their 3500 square foot home. Some of their methods were extreme... I mean, I am not going to move to a different town just to get more house for my money.. I will do what I can in the town I live... and even then, I am picky about the part of town I WON'T live in. But, I am going to keep the book around for "oh yeah" ideas.

One of my twin cousin's just recieved a scholarship award from the place my granny retired from 2 years ago. IBEW gives our a scholarship award every year. This year, they included an honorary 2nd scholarship in my grandmother's name and gave it to my other twin cousin. I wish I had people throwing money at me when I graduated.

I am sick and not feel up to par at all. I am hacking and stopped up and all of that. Upper respiratory infection is what the minor med said... they gave me a steroid shot in my butt on Friday.. I am still waiting for that to kick in.

I am leaving you with this crappy post, because I feel the need to. I leave you with a pic of the boys being seperated for the first (should have been 100th) time.

Weekend

Good Monday all. Hope the weekend allowed some restful nights.

We went on our yearly camping/canoeing trip to the Buffalo River this weekend. Our buds, Steph and Jay, meet up with us there this time and it was just the 4 of us.

Friday night, we arrived shortly after dark and pitched our tent, laid out the air matteresses and sleeping bags and made a drink. We started to watch 'The Bucket List' with the DVD player when the rain started trinkling down, so we jumped in the tent to finish it up... that is when the DVD player battery died. Oh well, we just went to sleep... as much as we could considering it poured down hard all night.

This was our view when we woke. (that is our tent in the pic).


Steph and Jay showed close to 10 and we got our canoes and got dropped off about 5 miles up river. We had a blast. Can't wait for the 8 mile next year.. or maybe the overnighter??

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and updates.

HAPPY BIRHTDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HAPPY BIRHTDAY TO YOU!!!!
We love you babe.


So I got the results of the evaluation and it looks like G is accepted into the program... but not because of delay. Out of 5 areas, he had a 15% delay in one area... that is it. NO other delays, but the records they got from the doctors showed that at one time he was diagnosed "Failure to Thrive". Because of this, he is accepted.
Let me clarify something. He is healthy as a horse, very. He just has a hard time gaining weight. When he was very little, like months old, he stopped gaining... for months. At 3 months old, he was still just 8 lbs after a month of weight stall. When this happened he was diagnosed with 'failure to thrive' and they began to run test for Cystic Fibrosis and such. He came up negative for all tests, rest assured.
I questioned whether or not to proceed with putting him into the program.. "if he is not delayed, then are we wasting our time". I mean, this is state funded.. and do we really want to be those people who can do it on their own and take advantage of state funded programs?
Then I talked to Nana and she said something "With as competitive as the world is, why are you going to take an opportunity away from him?"

Thoughts?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KA-KA and updates

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KA-KAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
We love you.


My uncle is finally home from the hospital and doing good. Thank you all for your well wishes.

Here is a pic of the flowers.. the purple lilies had already bloomed and was in their dying state..

I ended up having to put them outside once the white ones bloomed. :( One sniff of the living room and my head clogged up immediately. They were gorgeous though.

G's early intervention evaluation.. well, I should get the actual results today, but she said that they were using the Battelle Developmental Inventory. She said that out of 5 areas, he needs at least 40% delay in one area or 25% delay in 2 areas to be able to receive their services. She said she does not see this at all. She told me that 'language' wise, 2 year olds are considered 'within the range' if they have at least 10 words. That is it. She said "considering he was passing various 3 year old tests, I doubt he will get our treatment."
I don't understand how being able to put circle pieces in circle holes, and lacing up a a shoe has anything to do with him TALKING and needing help with TALKING... but it is a government funded program, so they gotta put the standards there for a reason. hrmf!

So, G took today to sit and chill for a bit...

Boat Chunk

What a weekend guys... and girls.

My granny moved into her new house Saturday morning, I had a baby shower to go to Saturday morning and went straight from the shower to Granny's... spent all afternooon over there until about dinner time (us,that is 5), so when I got home, we played out in the pool.

Little did I know daddy and the boys have invented a new pool game... lets just call it boat chunk.

Step 1: find a float with handles


Step 2: count 1, 2, 3


Step 3: Chunk across the pool


These 3 boys (yes, J was included in that) are going to give me a early death.. or keep me young.. something.

Hope you all have a great day... like Nemo would say, "Just keep swimmin'"