If I had 4 arms I would pick up Your Mom!
4
Aug 2009
This is the conversation I heard in the backseat of my car on the way to the pool today:
Daycare Boy- “That would be so Awesome if I had 4 arms!”
Other Kids- “Yeah!”
Daycare Boy- “If I had 4 arms I could pick up a car!”
Other Kids- “Yeah!”
Daycare Boy- “If I had 4 arms I could pick up all you guys!”
Other Kids- “Yeah!
Daycare Boy- “If I had 4 arms I even MIGHT be able to pick up Heather!”
Other Kids- “Yeah maybe you could!”
WTH?! Maybe? No one says anything when he mentions PICKING UP A CAR, but mention picking up me and the kids are like, whoa calm down, let’s not get crazy…
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Skin and Bones
4
Aug 2009
So, Zane started camp this week! It starts at 8, so every morning I get up, make him breakfast, pack him a delicious & nutritious lunch and snacks, get his gym bag together, get him his clothes, shoes and socks, makes sure he brushes his teeth and his crazy hair and drive him over to the gym. I am considering this practice for when school starts next week!
Yesterday he did not eat very much of his lunch. He ate some goldfish and animal crackers, and drank his juice but that was it. We had a talk about needing to eat so he would have energy, since basically he is working out for 6 hours a day. Now, this may seem like a lot but we do not complain, just like those 10 year old Chinese gymnasts did not complain at the Olympics. Since we are pretty sure we are going to have to move there in the next couple years so Zane can compete in the 2012 Olympics, we figure we should start getting prepared now.
Today when I picked up Zane, I looked in his lunch box. Not only had NOTHING been touched, except his Capri-Sun, but there was now a new bag of chips in the lunch box that I did not put there. Zane told me someone asked if anyone wanted them so he took them, but then he didn’t even eat them! What the Heck?! The kid is so skinny as it is, if he is getting this much exercise and not eating he is going to simply disappear. This time we had a BIGGER talk about needing to eat, and then I threw in the fact that it really hurts my feelings that I work so hard to make him a lunch and he doesn’t even eat it. Zane really hates to make anyone feel bad, so telling him that he hurt your feelings is like the worst punishment ever. Then I made him eat his whole lunch, because thats the kind of big, bad Mommy I am.
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To The Person…
3
Aug 2009
who sent me the Free Condom Sample in the mail:
Thank you, but I think it may be a little too late.
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26 Weeks Down!
3
Aug 2009
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that I look tan in this picture.
Tags: pregnancy, rocky
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Zane Lennon Graham
1
Aug 2009
Zane was born exactly 4 days after our 1 year anniversary. For those of you keeping track, that is TWELVE months, so no, I was not pregnant when we got married. I made sure to wear a skin tight wedding dress just to prove that point. When you get married at 19 you have to put up with a certain amount of gossip, and getting pregnant so quickly does not help your case. Ian and I were SO not ready to be parents. Getting married so young is already a gigantic tornado of change, throwing a baby in there turns it into a freaking tsunami! I was absolutely terrified of raising a baby, I had not even been around that many babies growing up. So, I did what I still do in any situation that scares me, I researched the heck out of it! I read DOZENS of pregnancy books. I learned about birth plans and episiotomies, breast feeding, jaundice, any information that could possibly be related to pregnancy and newborns I devoured.
I had a pretty easy pregnancy with Zane. I did end up on bed rest for a couple months after falling down the stairs at work (thank you workmans comp!) but otherwise, it was uneventful. Even my labor was pretty simple. Zane was 6 days late, and at my regular weekly check-up my Midwife told me I was already dilated 4 centimeters. She said if my water did not break by 4 that afternoon to come into the hospital and they would break it manually to get my labor started! I imagined some kind of water balloon/tack situation. At 4 pm on the dot, Ian and I checked into the Birthing Center and waited patiently while they hooked me up to some machines to track my contractions (which I was not feeling at all). As I was sitting there waiting for the nurse to come back in, I felt this explosion in my belly, followed by immediate gushing of fluid. Horrified, I told Ian and my Mom that something was definitely wrong! Turns out, my water had finally broke, and at the perfect time. Zane always has been very considerate!
Tags: birthday, childbirth, zane
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Zane’s 6 Year Old Birthday Interview!
31
Jul 2009
Tags: birthday, interview, video, zane
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Zane’s Last 5 Year Old Picture!
30
Jul 2009
I just hugged the 5 year old Zane goodnight for the last time! Tomorrow I will be hugging a 6 year old!!!! I cannot even think about it right now. Prepare for tears and a sappy, nostalgic post tomorrow. My baby is so big. In case you are wondering, he is doing a peace sign AND a thumbs up at the same time.
One with Dad.
And with Mom.
I am already getting choked up just looking at these…
Tags: birthday, zane
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I fell off (on?) the Wagon.
30
Jul 2009
Spaghettios are the reason I survived my first year of college. I lived in a dorm room with three other ladies, and I had one bowl and one spoon to my name. I ate Spaghettios for breakfast, lunch, dinner and an occasional snack. I am going to blame it on the fact that my mother hardly ever bought them for me as a child, plus they are cheap and oh so good. It would not be so bad if I had stopped eating them after I moved out of the dorm, but no I continued to eat them just about every day or the next 5 years. One day I left my bowl (don’t worry, I had saved up and bought a new bowl by then) in some water in the sink. When I returned home our entire sink was dyed orange. I then realized that is what the inside of my stomach looks like! I immediately swore off Spaghettios cold turkey, and I am not going to lie, it was been hard. When I see them in the grocery store my mouth starts to water. Ian has had to talk me out of the canned food aisle countless times.
Just a couple months ago I thought it would be harmless to have some Raviolis. I mean, they are not Spaghettios, right? Completely different! I was totally fine! Then a couple weeks ago my sister got a can of Spaghettios in the mail. She brought it over to me (because she is an enabler) because she knew I liked them. I texted Ian and told him, and I guess he was feeling a little bad for his pregnant wife because he told me I might as well eat them. I am not proud of what happens next. Lets just say my stomach is not in fine shape and there is a mysterious orange ring in my kitchen sink. Now, I do not have many vices. I am not a party-er, I do not drink or smoke and have never taken any illicit drugs. (Don’t I sound fun to hang out with?) But I am addicted to Spaghettios. I wake up in the morning counting the hours until it is late enough to be considered lunch time. When I run out of cans, I crave more. Is there a 12 step program for this? Should I call Cambell’s? I keep telling myself that I can quit when I want to, I did it once and I can do it again.
I just don’t want to yet.
Tags: college, ian, rachel, spaghettios
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Hilarious.
30
Jul 2009
I found this link and simply had to share:
Enjoy!
Tags: emailsfromcrazypeople
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Thank You.
29
Jul 2009
This blog is a great outlet for me. It allows me to write things out, get things off my chest, to let things go and allow myself to feel better. It also allows me to share a piece of my life and my story with others. I absolutely love sharing stories with people. I love hearing that something I wrote made someone laugh, or to hear that someone shared a similar experience. I just feel like life is such a journey, and we are all in this together, so we might as well share our stories and try to help each other out.
That is where the Thank You comes in. I was feeling a little bit sad today and chose to blog about it. Mostly, just so I could let it go. I am one of those dorky people that would write letters to people but then burn the letters so the people never actually read them, but I still felt better. I don’t like to hold things in. I believe in accepting things, then letting them go and moving on. After I wrote that blog, I immediately began to feel better. Well, this evening I received a phone call from someone who shall remain nameless (not everyone wants their name on the internet, although I am not sure why not, the internet is such a warm and fuzzy place…) that had read my blog and insisted on paying to send Zane to camp. I am absolutely floored by this incredible act of kindness. In no way was my previous blog intended to make anyone else feel bad. It was simply me venting about the guilt we sometimes can feel as parents. To this person that made this incredible offer, Thank You So Much. You will be getting some very cute pictures of a very happy little gymnast in your mailbox!
Tags: gymnastics, thank you, writing, zane
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The Guilt
29
Jul 2009
As a parent, how do you get over the guilt? Especially the guilt of not being able to give your kids something that they really want. I am struggling with that today. Zane is on the gymnastics team, and next week they are having a week long camp. Most kids on his team are going, and it is an extra $160 on top of what we pay a month already. I have worked really really hard to keep gymnastics in our budget this Summer while I have been out so many kids. We simply cannot afford this extra money right now. Now, I have to tell Zane and I seriously feel as if I am going to cry. He wants to go so bad. He already told us that we don’t have to buy him any birthday presents, all he wants is to go to camp. Well, camp is a lot more than we would spend on his birthday presents this year! I know it wont always be like this, hopefully I will find more kids soon and things wont be so tight. But for now I am feeling really bad. I know not going to camp is not going to be the end of the world, but it is something important in his 6 year old life that I cannot give him and that makes me feel lousy.
Tags: gymnastics, parenting, zane
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A Moment To Brag
28
Jul 2009
Today I took Zane to the store to get some new shoes. His were seriously falling apart and getting so tight that every time he had to put them on there would be a lot of grunting and rolling around on the floor in frustration. Usually he wears these slip-on Vans that cost way too much money but are ridiculously cute so I buy them anyways. Well, times are tough right now so I bought Zane some much much cheaper shoes at a different store that I am really happy with. The only problem is these shoes have laces. Zane has never had laces before, only slip-ons. In the car he asked me how to tie them and I told him I would teach him later today when we got home. A couple hours after we were home and settled, he brought the shoes to me and again asked me to teach him to tie them. I told him all about making the knot, then a bunny ear, going around, through the loop and pulling them tight. He said okay. Then he started practicing. He asked me to clarify the loop a couple times, and the size of the bunny ear, but other than that he just kept trying. I had already moved on to another task, but a couple minutes later I noticed him walking around with tied shoes. The kid already figured it out! I was so surprised I made him untie them and show me that he could do it, as if they had magically tied themselves the first time. Sometime he just amazes me. He learns things so fast and easily. Anything we teach him he immediately commits to memory and it is learned.
Here he is all proud of himself!
Tags: zane
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To The Person Who Stole Ian’s Bike
28
Jul 2009
You are a big fat meanie head. Why on earth would you steal a bike with a flat tire? I hope you didn’t realize it had a flat tire and you rode it home and fell off and skinned your knee. Then I hope you went home with your knee bleeding and realized you had no band-aids, although, knowing you, you probably just STOLE SOME!
That is all.
PS-Why did you not steal my bike? It was right there, and mine even has streamers and a cool basket. Not going to lie, I am slightly offended….
Tags: ian
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Heather and Ian sitting in a tree…
27
Jul 2009
I have been married 7 years today!
Every year on our Anniversary I always think about our 1st anniversary and what a crazy time that was! On our first anniversary I was actually 2 days past my due date with Zane, so it wasn’t really that romantic of a day! I was huge and miserable and just wanted to have a baby already! Ian and I tried to make the best of it by going out to dinner, but while we were gone Ian’s siblings called the house and told My Mom (who was staying with us anxiously awaiting Zane’s arrival) to have him call them immediately. My Mom got kind of worried so she called us at the restaurant and told us that Ian’s family needed him to call home, and it sounded like it was an emergency. Of course, Ian and I were worried so we hurried and left the restaurant before we were even done eating and rushed home to call them. It turns out they had been taking bets on when they thought the baby was going to be born and just wanted to tell us what everyones guess was. At that point any sliver of romance was gone from the evening and I am pretty sure I went to bed. Needless to say, it could of been better.
Tags: anniversary, ian, love
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Sick or Just Pregnant?
24
Jul 2009
I am not feeling so hot today.
My stomach feels like it is ssttrreeettccchhiinnnggg, which is not a very comfortable feeling. It hurts bad enough to make me feel nauseous. This is what I get for gaining 4 pounds total my first almost 6 months of pregnancy. My body is finally trying to catch up. My whole body feels like it is moving in slow motion. I think I need a really long nap today, which I will not get since I have kids here all day. I am not sure if I am coming down with something, or if I am just pregnant. My bet is on just pregnant.
Tags: pregnancy, rocky
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