The big day

Today was Dawn's due date. Today is the day that they should have happily been holding their healthy baby. Instead it has been almost 8 weeks since Shana died. The death of a newborn is different. People don't want to say anything to Tim and Dawn about Shana dying but obviously a baby was born. A baby was held. A baby was loved. A baby was lost. If Shana had been a week old or a month old you wouldn't hesitate to say I'm sorry for your loss. But since she never came home it is almost as if people don't want to acknowledge that loss. My advice to you if you find yourself in the unfortunate position of knowing someone that lost a baby at birth. Acknowledge that they were born. Tell the parents you are sorry for their loss. Acknowledge that a baby was born because her life is meaningful.

Spring Break

Last week was our spring break and it was awesome! The weather was perfect every single day. The kids and I had so much fun and were really busy all week. Monday Madison had gymnastics and we went out to lunch and then spent the afternoon playing outside. Tuesday we went to Jump Club and the kids had so much fun! It is smaller than Bounce it out but in a way there is more to do at Jump Club. At bounce it out there are about 12 bounce houses total. At Jump Club there are only 4 bounce houses but there is also a climbing/sliding apparatus and a toddler play area. The kids played for almost 2 hours at Jump Club whereas at Bounce it out I'm ready to go after about 45 minutes. JC was better suited for Cooper as well. Then we spent the rest of the day at a park near out house with my friend Renae and her daughter. Wednesday I asked Madison if she wanted to go to the museum. She wanted to go to the mall instead. She is so my daughter!! We ended up at Build a Bear and Madison made a cute pink monkey and Cooper picked out a panda. The rest of the day was spent outside. Thursday was going to be our quiet day. Cooper had a little music class but we also ended up at the bank and Home Depot for shelves for the garage. I'm tired of all the bubbles and buckets and stuff all over the garage so now everything is nice and organized! And of course the rest of the day was spent outside! And Friday we went to the zoo. This was Cooper's first time going to the zoo (not really he went last summer but he was too little). He loved it! He walked the entire zoo and kept saying more animals more animals!

Spring break was so nice and relaxing! I can't wait for summer! Last summer Cooper was so little and crawling and Madison would want to go to the park. I avoided the parks because he was crawling and eating grass and dirt and whatever else he could find! But now he is climbing the slides and playing right beside Madison and I just can't wait for a nice unscheduled relaxing summer. I bought us season passes for the water park near our house, we will also hang out at the beach and all the parks! Is it summer yet!?!

The only one

I have been avoiding writing this post because I am MAD! So so MAD! Last weekend Madison had a birthday party to go to. A few weeks before the party I called my friend and left a message saying that Ryan was not going to be home the day of the party and I was going to bring Cooper and to let me know if that was a problem. She called back and left me a message saying that she wasn't sure what she was going to do with her other child (why wouldn't she be at the party??!! It's at their house!) but if I HAD to bring Cooper than that would be ok. She would rather that I brought Cooper than have Madison not be able to come to the party.

After the kids played for a while it was craft time. These foam crowns where you put the sticker decorations on. All the kids sat at the table and Cooper wanted to do it too since Madison was. I waited till everyone sat down to make sure that there was enough. There were two extra spots. So I let Cooper sit down. Halfway through the craft she says to me "oh, I didn't expect Cooper to do one. I might have to take that away from him, is that ok?". Huh? Did you seriously just say that to me? Would it be ok to take something like that away from your almost 2 year old?! So whatever, I just let it go.

At the end of the party the kids headed for outside to do a pinata. She brings out the goodie bags. Which happen to be full size buckets and shovels. Pink for the girls and blue for the boys. Madison goes up to get a bucket for her and Cooper. She gets the pink one handed to her. And she continues standing there waiting for one for Cooper until there are NO buckets left. Madison comes back over and says to me "Why doesn't Cooper get one?" As my poor little Cooper stands there and says "bucket, bucket, me bucket, me bucket" and looks at me with those big round eyes. He keeps asking about a bucket as he is the ONLY one standing there without one. My heart broke as I told him we would go to Target and get him his own bucket.

It isn't like it was a surprise that I showed up at the party with him. I called two weeks ahead of time. This is the same person that is chronically late. Also, when we had Madison's party I told her she was welcome to bring her younger child and to just let me know if she was so that I had enough food and stuff. She called to say she was bringing both kids with her. So I paid an extra $14 for her second child to come (which was perfectly fine) and I went out and bought more goodie bag stuff for her so she wasn't left out. Wouldn't you know she showed up at the party with only the one child. And I even sent home the goodie bag for the other one.

I think that this is the last straw......

Scrapbook Pages

Over the weekend I went scrapbooking and completed 55 pages!! I mentioned before that I use an awesome system from Creative Memories. It is called the power layout and I LOVE it! Here are some pages I got done over the weekend. Lisha this is just for you! Now you better return the favor and share some of your pages! I always need ideas =)

Randomness

I have been so busy that I have not had time to blog. So this post is devoted to all the random stuff that has been going on!

A wii for mii!! A few weeks ago we were at my Mother in laws to celebrate some birthdays. She had gotten a wii for her birthday so we spent the night playing it and it was so much fun! My birthday present was supposed to be my cricut but we decided that we needed a wii also. Ryan picked up the wii for us, wii fit and guitar hero. We look like total morons rocking out on the guitars but it is so much fun!! And the wii fit is nice as well but it is apparently broken. It tells me that I am overweight. So it is broken. Right? Right?!? Stupid thing =)

Typically on a school day Madison tells me that she does not want to go to school that day. Well Tuesday she told me that she couldn't wait to go to school that day! I was excited because that NEVER happens. I mean once she is there she really enjoys herself but before we leave she usually says that she is too tired. And then when I do drop her off at school she stands at the window and we wave and blow kisses. She stands at the window and waves until we are out of the parking lot. On Tuesday we waved to Madison and blew our kisses and I buckled Cooper into his car seat. I turned around to wave some more and she was gone!!! My baby wasn't standing there wanting to wave to me. She is growing up!!

I went scrapbooking this weekend. It was sooo relaxing. I got 55 pages done!! This is the second time I have gone to this crop and the girls are really nice and it is just really nice hanging out and working on our albums and it was only $5 for the whole weekend! Jen had this great book for ideas for titles that if you are a scrapbooker you must get. It is called Ultimate guide to the perfect word. It is awesome! I was also talking to Michele and we were talking about spring cleaning and she recommended a website Flylady and it breaks your house down into zones to get a great spring cleaning!