Wamma

WHAT A WEEK!!! It started first thing Sunday morning with Miss Katurah in urgent care. She had a cough that I swear was going to break a rib and she was just miserable. They put her on a low dose of antibiotic twice a day. Let me tell you a little something about my kids and medicine...THEY HATE IT!!! I have to hold her down and force it into her mouth, meanwhile she is gagging and spits much of it my face. When I finally get enough in her she sits and dry heaves for about 10 minutes afterwards, twice a day, good times. The next day we had Zeke's well child appointment. Amari stayed home with her "Wamma" AKA Grandma and I took the other two. It took over 2 hours.

The next day Zeke started school. Wednesday Zeke came home from school early because he didn't want to be there. Then we took Katurah back to the doctor because she wasn't getting better. Another two hours later we have a new antibiotic and Zeke starting to fever. Luckily after Katurah's first dose of this she started feeling better. So we kept Zeke home Thursday and Amari started "Not feeling so better" as she likes to say. But we had to get Zeke's blood drawn down at the hospital for his upcoming surgery. If you are keeping track that is 4 doctors visits in 5 days...YUCK! Thank goodness I was able to just call into get medicine for the other 2 kiddos, I think 5 trips would have sent me over the edge. Especially considering...

 

...we still had Pantera's birthday party to throw on Friday! We did a Halloween themed party for her little friends, they all wore there costumes and played games such as "Daytime-Nighttime" instead of Redlight-Greenlight, musical coffins instead of musical chairs, and gargoyle tag instead of freeze tag. It was very fun until someone pulled the fire alarm and we couldn't figure out how to turn it off. The perfect end to a crazy week. At least my cake looked good ;) Pantera loves Monster High and she was Frankie Stein for Halloween, so I made her a Monster High cake for her party.

Here is Pantera before school on Thursday, they had a big Halloween parade. I revamped a dress from Salvation Army for her sweet costume.

 Zekie boy looking good on his first day of school...

Zeke showing off most of his Cars collection. He is so funny, he will ask me to "Make a collection" or put all of his cars back in there spots for him so he can pretend to show them off to a fake YouTube audience..."Here we have Spin-out Lightning McQueen, 1:55 scale, diecast, he has a custom paint and no stickers. He does not have a metallic finish."

As I mentioned earlier, Amari got to spend some time with her "Wamma."   My mom uses a cane because she just had her hip replaced, Amari uses a cane because she thinks her Wamma is awesome. She really looks like she knows how to use it.  

Preschool!

We did our traditional pumpkin carving for FHE on Monday night. One pumpkin for each kiddo, Katurah's is top left, Zeke's is top right (he's amazing huh?!? Lol), Pantera's is bottom left, and Amari's bottom right. They had a blast getting out the guts and were all so darn proud when we put the candles inside of them.

 Zeke has some big news...HE GOT INTO A PRESCHOOL!!! I got a random text on Friday from a friend who has older kids asking if Zeke would be interested in preschool at our local highschool. I figured they wouldn't accept him seeing as every preschool requires them to be potty trained and as I have previously documented, he is not even close. Maybe it's because we live so close and I promised to be there the minute he had an accident, maybe it was me pulling the Autism card, but they said we could give it a try. I am so excited for him.  He will miss a couple of weeks in November, he has to get his tonsils out on the 8th :( 

He had an ice cream cone before I took his picture, he looks like an angel with a dirty face.

He is obsessed with his alphabet right now, but has to be running around the room when he tells us his letter sounds. I built him some shelves in his room to display his cars and his life has been so complete. He asks me to "make a collection" with him AKA help him put all of his cars on the shelf so he can take each one down and describe it in detail. It's interaction.

 Pantera is just at that awesomely goofy stage of life. She comes home with these "hilarious" things that she and her friends come up with, I don't get it half of the time. I have to brag a little about her. When I went to the open house for her school, the faces of each parent and/or teacher just lit up everytime I would introduce myself as her mother. I really have never seen a kid who has such an affect on everyone she meets. Her art teacher was particularly hilarious as he was very monotone with the other parents then quite animated when he heard she was mine "I LOVE THAT GIRL!"  Pantera, you have a gift, please always use it wisely, you are going to do something BIG!!!

                                                   

Amari is way into Barbie's these days. I loved them growing up so I don't mind playing with her one bit. She has one that sings when you push her hand or as Amari like to call it "Her memote." This is all I have heard all day long for the past 3 days, she sings along with it and only gets part of the last word in each sentence right...ADORABLE!!! Although I had to ban the doll from her bed, because she kept Amari up from her nap. Look at her crazy tough face...

 Speaking of crazy tough, this little girl loves to brawl! She has started tackling her siblings and when they were all in bed last night (notice I said in bed, not asleep, asleep doesn't actually happen these days), she was tackling a pile of pillows and having a blast.

 She likes to pretend to talk on the phone. If you have a phone and are near her she will throw a fit until you give it to her. She is WALKING everywhere now. Considering how big she is I am surprised she started so early, she is my second earliest walker at 10 1/2 months. Lucky for me she packed on a little extra chubb so it might take a while to lose those cheeks, thanks Katurah!

Gorilla Snot

There are times when I just love having a camera handy...

 I was taking pictures of Amari on the front porch and Katurah was not happy about it! She throws the best fits ever. She is still working on her walking and taking steps like crazy. She has started talking or babbling a ton. I love her little voice and all the happy inflections in it. This morning we were laying in bed and she took her pacifier out and shoved it into my mouth, so sweet to share with me.

 Pantera is "part girly girl and part Tom-Boy" on this day she got a pretty new dress so she picked to be a girly girl. Anytime she wants to dress up a little bit I am on board, so she got her hair done "like prom" and felt extra gorgeous for school that day. It's a good thing because then she got her big wrist injury and life just hasn't been the same since...wink, wink. She fell and hurt it last Saturday, then at school she fell again. By the time she got home from school it was a little swollen so we had to wrap it with an ace bandage. Pantera is just a bit of a drama queen and that is all she talked about all night. You could tell she was really excited to go to school with the bandage on for attention. When she got home that day her ace bandage was full of signatures of her classmates....yes, she had kids in her class sign her fake cast. The only bad thing is now she is old enough to know when I am laughing at her.

 Speaking of laughter...

This little girl is so darn funny! I don't know how so much personality is packed into one tiny body. She is a major copycat and loves to do whatever Pantera is doing. She loves to talk about choices and whether or not they will make you happy, then she excitedly tells you "That's Holy Ghost!" She was going to be Lightning McQueen for Halloween (Now she's going as Rainbow Dash) and she told me "My caw-toon have lenticular eyes, please!" Sometimes cars have moving or lenticular eyes and that's what she wanted...I'm just not that good.  

 The other morning I did her hair then she spent several minutes fussing with this little polar bear's hair. She happily brought him to me and held him up next to her and said "LOOK WINS!" (Look twins!). Amari don't ever change.

 Zeke can now tell you each letter in the alphabet and their sounds. He picks up on things crazy fast when he is interested in them. I hope he takes and interest in potty training one of these days...just a thought Zekie, no pressure. We broke down and bought another bunk bed, Zeke is officially in his own room and has had no issue with that. We hung up several Cars posters and he is so proud to show them off.

 I bought Gorilla Snot at Wal-Mart to try on Zeke's hair...IT...IS...AWESOME!!! It held his hair in place OVERNIGHT! Then you can reactivate it with a little bit of water. And the best part was it cost a whopping $2.98 and will last FOREVER. I might by a couple more for a lifetime supply.

 Jsut for fun...

He's begging you to call the ASPCA. He was cold.