Rainbow reminder

I have certainly been tested this week.

I was pretty much bitter and pissy and in no mood to suck it up and get over it.  Just one of those weeks where you just want to whine about poor pitiful you. I don't think I'm the only one who has experienced this...I hope.

While in the car yesterday, I looked up to the sky at all the clouds.  I guess just looking for an escape for a while (Jeremy was driving).  I promise you, I saw the coolest most odd thing I believe I've ever seen.  In the clouds, literally a part of the clouds, was a rainbow.  It was not the typical arched rainbow that everyone is used to seeing.  It was straight across and formed with the shape of the clouds.  I wish I could have gotten a picture. 

I took my sunglasses off to make sure I wasn't just seeing things and, although it was less vibrant, it was still there.  I asked Jeremy if he saw it but he said he couldn't.  Maybe it was because he was in the driver's seat and the rainbow was higher up in the sky on my side.  It's the only logical explaination I could give.  I even borrowed his glasses to see if I could still see it.  Sure enough, there it was.  So, maybe I wasn't the only person who saw this.  Maybe others caught a glimpse of it too.  But if not, I KNOW I'm not crazy.  I saw it. 

Needless to say, I stopped my poor pitiful me act. 

Just a bit of random

I have a few random pics I wanted to post. 

Miss Thang in her new sun glasses!

Madelyn and her FAVORITE, Dora!

Little Lady

Do I see pro surfer in our future?! haha

Jeremy's first ponytail! Not bad :)

( I did go behind him and redo it.  I want him to know how

in case something ever happens to me. We can't

have Madelyn looking like a little hoodlum now can we!)

BUGS!!!

  I don't really have a fear of all bugs, I just really don't care for spiders and roaches.  I mean, I do all I possibly can to avoid them at all costs.  The only time I will confront them is when Jeremy is not here to squish their icky guts out with his shoe. Ugh!  Anyway, after this week, I knew I needed to do a special little bug post.

  I was leaving a friend's house Tuesday night along with another friend of mine.  She and I were packing up the car and I was waiting for someone else too pull out of the driveway so that I could help.  I'm standing there, minding my own business, when a freakin roach comes RIGHT at me!  I couldn't go left (car), I couldn't go right (car), the only way to avoid the thing was to go UP! I jumped on top of my friend's cooler.  Yep.  Skirt and all!  I scared the crap out of my friend who then died with laughter when I told her what I screeched and jumped for.  Calling all over dramatic idiots... **Raises Hand**

Now, let me go back in time.

  Let me first say, my child isn't really afraid or bothered by anything.  She can tolerate just about anything except, you guessed it, bugs!  I first noticed this a few months back.  I can't recall the exact details but do remember this being odd because, again, she has no fear.  The point was proven right after her birthday when she was swimming in her pool and screamed bloody murder when she spotted one of those water bugs floating in her water.  Jeremy about flipped!  He had NO IDEA what was wrong with her and I just kinda shrugged it off and giggled. 

Current time.

  Today, takes the cake however.  I had just finished running her bath water and told her she could get in.  I stepped out to grab something in the kitchen and about had a heart attack when I heard her screaming in fear.  Of course, I thought she had turned the hot water on or something, so I RAN.  There she was, standing in our bathroom dripping wet.  She had climbed back out of the tub and was pointing at the wall of the tub.  There it was.  A grand daddy long leg looking thing but smaller  probably more scared of her than she was of him.  She was in hysterics saying "Bug! Bug!  Bug gonna get me!  Get it! Get it momma!"  (Remember how I try to avoid bugs....well ya kinda can't when it involves saving the day in front of your child.)  Ugh! Grab a paper cup, scoop it up, and fold the rim over just hoping that it wouldn't crawl out.  Sadly, I have to admit that I threw the cup into the air tight trash we have instead of opening the door and putting it outside.  Now, I have a trash can I can't even open until Jeremy gets home.  Smart.  When I return to the bathroom, she had already began to put her panties on and was looking at me with eyes of fear.  She said,  "I not get bath.  Bug gonna get me." What do you say to that? So, here I am, sitting next to a still very dirty little girl.  Hopefully this doesn't put some kind of hex on bathtime more than just today...

Ugh! Ick!

My date....with Rob

Oh my gosh! Have I ever told you about my love for Matchbox 20?  I don't think so.  I do! I have loved them since, I don't know.... ninth grade or something. I remember riding around in my Mustang (when I was old enough to drive) with the top down, jamming out to Matchbox 20 like no one was watching (or like everyone was watching--who knows)!  

I was deeply saddened when Rob Thomas broke off on his own, even though they said it wasn't the end of Matchbox 20.  How would I ever go on in life?  haha.  Well, I LOVE Rob Thomas! I have come to learn that, although it's still not the same, Rob Thomas's voice is what MAKES the music.  His songs make me happy :) For that short minute and some odd seconds, I am in "my" place!  All my stress melts away and I chill.

You're wondering where I'm going with this right?  Well..... I got to see him Saturday night!!!! For a couple of hours, it was just me and Rob.  Not really, it was pretty much a family affair but that's okay too.  Universal has their summer concert series and usually has some good names.  We also saw Dierks Bently earlier this year.  We have passes to Universal, so that means free concert night for me! 

So, although we didn't get there until a little after he'd already started (which means no front row), I got to see Rob Thomas perform!  And might I say, it was pure BLISS!  He is just as good in person as he is on the radio :)  We even got a little closer to him toward the end.  Oh, and the best part!  He definately threw in some Matchbox 20 songs especially for me!  ( No, not really  just for me but, hey, a girl can dream can't she!) It was a great night!

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to dress up for Rob.  We were at the water park all day.

My favorite FIVE year old nephew!

<3 <3 <3

Rob :)

Yep! I got CLOSE!

Facing the Giants

Have any of you seen this movie?  It's WONDERFUL! 

Redbox is my friend.  I've visited it alot lately.  SO....movies have become slim.  This weekend, we were left with just a few choices and this movie made it when Jeremy saw football.  In all honesty, most football movies are good because they not only deal with football (the guys love) but with overcoming some obstacle/ typical happy endings (the girls love).  I was definately expecting the usual and got it plus some!

Here's a fair warning:  The quality of the film isn't so great and the actor's Georgia accents are TERRIBLE.  It's kinda like Fireproof.  It's a great movie with a wonderful message, but you have to get past the initial shock of a poorly produced movie. 

Seriously though, definately rent it if you're in the mood to get motivated within your life.  It's happy, it's sad, it's absolutely inspirational! 

Cuteness right out of the baby's mouth

I just LOVE some of the things Madelyn says and how she perceives the world around her.  She's always melting my heart or cracking me up. For example, everytime she sees a baby she stops what she is doing and says "Momma look!  aweeee."  She makes sure she over exagerates the look and the awe.  It is adorable and makes the people with the baby smile everytime.  Lately she's been super adorable and I thought I'd share a few of them.  Here goes:

* She knows that when we visit her Grammie and Papaw that means we are going to Mississippi.  The last visit, we went up to their camp which is on a ski lake and spent the weekend on the boat.  She now associates boats with seeing her grandparents.  So this is what she said. "Momma, I wanna go to Sippie Sippie ride Papaw's boat."

* So these next two are from yesterday while we were at Animal Kingdom.  When we first got there, we made sure to eat lunch.  I passed some grapes to Asher and said "Here you go doodle butt."  She then took the half eaten grape she was knawing on and when to hand it to him and said "Here you go big butt!" hahaha I died :)

* Again, yesterday.  We were on a safari ride looking at all the wild animals.  The driver pointed out some rhinos and one happened to be laying down on his side.  She says, "Momma! Awe! Him fell..."

* You all know I've been running.  Well, Madelyn goes with me and is very involved with my routine.  While we were in line to see the Little Mermaid, I looked down at Madelyn.  She was bent over touching her toes.  Can you believe that baby said she was marching (stretching) ?! Definately a proud moment of mine!  I'm so glad she is immitating something that is a very postive thing for her :)

* Lastly, still running related.  Madelyn knows which shoes are my running shoes and really likes to walk around in them.  She outgrew her tennis shoes this winter and the only other tennis shoe type shoes are keds and twinkle toes.  Neither are very good for her to run in while I walk to cool down (she's tripped and skinned her knees as a result).  I told her we needed to get her some new running shoes.  So, my mom actually bought her a pair of Nikes while we were there this weekend.  While we were waiting to be seated at dinner, Madelyn took off running around the front part of Outback.  I asked her to stop and come back and she replied to me with this: "Momma, I runnin'!  I got my runnin' shoes on!" 

Hope you enjoyed her funny little comments!  I know they give me a little giggle or a fuzzy little feeling inside :)

Asher's cake

Asher's birthday is next week but we are celebrating this weekend at Disney!  I showed him a bunch of pics of cakes and he chose this one. 

So, I spent the morning in the kitchen making it as perfect as I possibly could with his two favorite colors red and blue.  Not perfect, but certainly not bad right??

Overprotective Mommy Moment

Madelyn woke up yesterday morning with like a thousand little red bumps all over her arms, legs, feet, and a few on her face.  Okay, not really a thousand, but enough for me to worry.  I typically don't worry about rashes but she also typically doesn't get them either.  So I racked my brain for what in the world could have caused these bumps on her and what I have to put on them.  My thoughts were:  Madelyn hadn't gotten attacked by mosquitos since last week (in which case she didn't even have any bumps), she did have a different smoothie than she's used to and in that is raspberries which I don't think she's had (but Jeremy swears she's had them in a yogurt before), she didn't go outside at all the day before,  and  HOLY CRAP!!!! Chicken Pox.

I called my mom to get some advice.  She is a nurse and well, let's face it, most mommies call their mommies when something is wrong with their babies.  It's been a while since she's worked with general patients so she looked some stuff up for me.  Here's the overview.  If it is chicken pox, she would have gotten them two days  ago.  It would take a week for her to not be contageous (not cool), BUT she should also have a low fever.  She told me to go ahead and call the doc.

Called Jeremy.  Told him everything.  He said to go ahead and call the doc.  (He knows me and knows that if I'm truly worried about Madelyn, then it must be severe enough to worry.) 

I called the doc and talked to a nurse. I explained that she has a rash that popped up literally overnight and that it wasn't on her torso and I just needed to know if she was having a reaction or if it were something more serious.  Of course, she had me come in.  Here we go.....me with no makeup, dirty hair, hairy legs and Madelyn with stickers all over her and a nice array of red bumps to accessorize her outfit. 

All I could think about on the way there was that my poor nephew was doomed to have Chicken Pox too since he was with Madelyn for two days straight, and oh my gosh!  My friends are going to KILL me for exposing their children to this junk and oh no.... you've got to be kidding!  This is totally going to mess up our vacation to Disney this weekend!  No way!  If it's chicken pox, Madelyn won't be able to go anywhere, and poor Asher will probably catch it, which will ruin his birthday weekend, and we'll be the cause of a cancelled trip :(    Great.

We entered through the back door at the doctor's office, like lepars, and followed the nurse to the nearest room.  Waited.  Waited.  WAITED. 

Doc came in and took a look.  Did his assessment and came up with his diagnosis.  Wanna know what it was?  You'll get a real kick out of this.  Apparently, while Madelyn was sleeping, a mosquito was trapped in her room and went to town on her.  ALL those bumps were the product of a freakin mosquito.  He explained to he how he came about this conclusion and I was relieved but concerned at the same time.  What the crap do I do now?  Spray her with bug spray every night before she goes to bed? 

Left the doc and called everyone to tell them the news.  I still worried about what others would think when they saw a child with all these bumps all over her.I should have taken a pic of her when the were at the worst to show you guys.  I mean, if I saw a child that looked like that, I'd automatically wonder if it were chicken pox and why the heck this parent has their child in public. 

Anyway, then it hit me.  hahahahahah I REALLY just took my child to the doctor for mosquito bites!  Oh Lord.  I bet he thought I was nuts!  Seriously though, I mean, I would have thought for her to have THAT MANY bites, she would have had to walk into a  swarm of bugs. Oh well. Let's just stash this away for when she's a teenager and needs yet another reason to think I'm totally uncool.