Midwifery Picnic!

Yesterday was the midwifery picnic and I was able to to find out when I'll be starting with Kate.  September 28!!  I'm so excited.  Connie gave me some good information on what I should get for my apprenticeship.

I took the kids to the zoo on Friday.  Dylan did so good!  It was like I had another little boy who looked like Dylan, but didn't act like my Dylan! LOL  He held someone's or onto the stroller the entire time and didn't throw one tamtrum or fit!  We're only to try to go back this week.

Yesterday was a big day for Riley

Tuesday, bright and early while I was checking facebook, my girl friend Carrie asked me if Riley was doing anything Wednesday morning.  She needed a baby to talk about the safety of babywearing on the Fox 2 Morning show.  So yesterday morning Riley and I got up early and was heading to Southfield, we had to be at the studio at 8:30am.  I didn't get on the road until 8:00am.  At 8:15am I was almost to 9 Mile, our exit, and I was thinking to myself that I thought for sure we were going to be late.  But every light on Telegraph was green for me and I was making awesome time!  Then I heard Riley throw up!  Oh man, I called Carrie to see if there was a Target or anything by the studio and there wasn't.  So we played it by ear and hoped for the bed.  Luckily the car seat chest trap caught most of it and just the back of his pants were wet.  Riley also wasn't loving on Carrie like he normally does, so I had to wear him on camera instead of her.  So here's the clip!

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/mornings/how-to-properly-wear-your-baby-20110825-mr

10 Years

10 years ago on August 18th 2001 Jesse and I got married.  So we celebrated by going camping without the kids at River View Campground in Sterling.  We canoed down the Rifle River and had a blast!  I even tipped the canoe. LOL  We got home yesterday and really wish we could have stayed longer.

It's official!

I have drop in childcare!!  We met with Kasie and her fiance tonight and she's perfect and lives just outside our sub!  Now to get Dylan's stuff all squared away!

Oh how I hate days like today.

Jesse went to Indianapolis last night.  I couldn't sleep, so I only got a couple hours.  Before I went to bed, I cleaned the living room and vaccumed and had my homework in a pile.  Well, this morning, after begging them to leave me alone for a little bit to sleep, I woke up with a box of cereal all over the living room and laundry room.  My homework was all over the floor.  The neighbor is coming over today to look at our electrical situation to try to fix it.  So I was cleaning so we don't look like complete slobs.  I'm so ready for school to start and dreading next summer.

Kailey's 2011 Dance Pictures

Midwifery School

So after much thought and feedback I decided not to enroll in AAMI, it's expensive and I didn't think it was a good choice for me.  But today I enrolled in Midwife To Be which I believe will be a good way to light the fire under my ass to do book work and study.  It very reasonable, only 25.00 per unit and only 30 units and you pay as you go.  I'm pretty excited.

Ashlyn update:

Both ears are infected and pink eye in her right eye.  On a good note, this is our first case of pink eye!  With 5 kids, that's a miracle!  I suspect it won't be the last case, either.

Ashlyn

She has an ear infection and pink eye.  She'll be heading to urgent care when Jesse gets home.  Yay more medical bills...

Oh I haven't blogged about my ablation I had.  On the 21st I had a D&C with the Novasure ablation.  My periods were getting insanely heavy and lasting 10 days.  So far so good, healing is going well and hoping for extremely light periods now.

The pieces are coming together!

I found drop in childcare for Riley.  She is a SAHM and has 2 children, one of which may be in Dylan's class once he's potty trained.  She's okay that's it unpredictable, since she's home anyway.  She lives over by Jen and we'll meet her tomorrow.  I may have a problem when it comes to childcare through Dylan's school though.  They have to be potty trained unless it's stated in the IEP - I REALLY hope it was since that was one of our largest concerns.

On Tuesday Jesse and I met with Kate and went over what's expected and what I'll be doing.  I'll be starting just after Dylan starts school.  Prenatals are on Wednesday's and then the on-call life.  I need to talk to Courtenay about having an on-call schedule, so we can alternate time off.  I am so excited, nervous, scared, and WOW, it's really happening!

Today I signed up for Neonatal Resuscitation with Karen Strange in February just up the road from Aunt Barb and Uncle Harvey!  I'm also looking for a CPR class that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Dylan's preschool registration was this morning.  Talk about confusion since we don't qualify for the PEP program and since they never sent my IEP paperwork to me, no one really knew why Dylan should be.  It was mentioned WPSEE since he's not potty trained, then "there's this new program" or PEP.  I have no frickin' idea, and of course the people who did the IEP weren't there today.  Oy, what a pain.

Meeting with Kate tomorrow!

Tomorrow Jesse and I meet with Kate tomorrow about my apprenticeship.  I almost have childcare all lined up.  I'm very excited and ready to start working for her.