Cozy day

The other day it was cold outside and Kobe and I decided to spend the day lounging around in PJ's, Tyrique and Markus were at school so we had the whole house to ourselves to do with as we chose.  We chose to lay in bed half the day watching cartoons and Kobe colored and drew me some of his stick figure guys that I love so much.

I love lazy days spent at home with my favorite people.

Finger lickin good

Kobe had a pacifier until February of this year and then we took it away from him.  It was one of the hardest things I have had to do...he loved his Dudda as he called it.  He was in no way ready to give it up and then his Dad and I separated two months later and we moved to a different country.  Poor baby was asking for his Dudda for a long time and I didn't give in....Lord knows I wanted to go to the store and buy him a Dudda!!!

Well about a month ago he started doing this....

Do you see how much he is into that thumb??

I felt so bad for Kobe that I wanted to let him keep sucking his thumb....he is having a really hard time with the divorce and being without his Daddy.  I refused to let him suck his thumb though....that is harder to take away than the pacifier is.  He no longer sucks his thumb for comfort, he sticks it in his mouth no and again and I immediately tell him to take it out!!!

Do/did your children suck their thumbs or take a pacifier??

On a side note....

Kobe is completely potty trained!!!  I am so excited, he quit using diapers during the day a few months ago and I was really nervous about taking it away from him during the night so I kept putting one on him.  Well the last week he has been completely diaper free and he has only had one accident and that was when his Mamma didn't put him on the potty before going to bed (I fell asleep before he did).

Five Question Friday

So last night my sister and her girlfriends from school were going out for a girls night.  Right before it was time to go I invited myself along :o)  We had a blast!!!  We went to a cute little steak house called The Old Wine House and then we went to the movies after that.  We went to see Due Date and lemme tell you.....that movie was hilarious!!!  We all laughed so hard and there was more than one time that my sister screamed so loud she scared everyone around her!!!  I definitely recommend that movie!

Now on to 5QF.  Mama M is the mastermind behind this blog hop and if you would like to be a part of it too then just click on her button above! 

1. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?

Divorce!!!

Kidney stones!!

Childbirth!!!

2. How much sleep do you get at night?

I need a lot of sleep and I try to get between 6 and 8 hours a night when I am working and then when I am off I usually sleep about 10 hours a night.  

3. How long did you believe in Santa Claus? How did you find out that he does not exist?

Not long enough!  I found out the truth when I was 6 years old but I kept it a secret from my little sister until she was 13 years old :)

4. What was the last movie you saw in a theater?

Due Date and then the time before that I saw Eat, Pray, Love.

5. What do you wear to bed?

Panties!  I am not a big fan of sleeping in clothes, I always get all tangled in the clothes and feel claustrophobic :(

Just Thursday!

I can't believe it is already Thursday!!!  This week is going by so fast!!  This year seems to have gone by way too fast....is it just me or does anyone else feel the same???

Being that it is Thursday it is time for Just Thursday with Abby over at Murdock's Mama.  Click here, here or here to play along LOL.

Outside my window..it's really windy outside today but from inside it looks beautiful!

The time is..11:46 AM

Today I feel..a little bit depressed but I am trying to fight it

I am thinking..there is so much I need to do but I feel like I have no time :o(

At the moment, I am thankful..that I got a new mouse for my computer....I have been without my Mac for almost 2 weeks due to Kobe ruining the mouse and I had to go buy a new one yesterday and it cost me $150.....ouch!!!!

I am going..to be working the whole weekend....again!!!

I am wearing..pajamas..cleaning house doesn't require getting dressed!

I wish..my house would stay clean!!!!

I am reading..blogs!!!

I am working on..getting this house cleaned  up!

I am hoping..I can get the house cleaned up and it stays that way so I don't have to do it again on Monday when I am off!!!

I am hearing..Kobe's cartoons in the background :o)

I bet you didn't know..it's 46 days till Christmas!!!  Only 45 days for me (we celebrate on the 24th).

One of my favorite..and most depressing websites that I go on is facebook....

Weekend Plans..

[Thursday] Clean and get this pile of laundry done.

[Friday] Work

[Saturday] Work

[Sunday] Work


My weekends have looked like that the last 5 weeks!!!  I am so over working on the weekends!!!  Next weekend I am off :o)

Amma

This here is my Amma (Grandmother).  I am named after her and our birthdays are 3 days apart :o)

I am also her favorite grandchild (I may be making this up......but I like the way it sounds).

Today Kobe and I spent the whole day with my Amma shopping in Reykjavik.  We had a good time looking at Christmas stuff in all the stores....Kobe mostly liked to ask for stuff in the stores LOL.

I am so lucky to have this wonderful woman in my life, there are so many people who do not grow up with their grandmother around or who are just not close to their grandmothers.  I am close to mine and love her to pieces.  I just wish I could have had my grandfather around longer...they were great together and I would have loved for my sons to have gotten to know him and see what a beautiful relationship my grandparents had.

Losing it with Jillian Michaels

I am going to write another post about TV shows in less than a week....sad but I just watched something that has inspired me.  I watched a few episodes of Losing it with Jillian Michaels and I am impressed!!!!   Watching The Biggest Loser over the years I have always wanted to be on the show, I have talked about it on this blog but of course I have never been on the show and probably will never be on the show.  I was always in awe over the fact that the contestants lost so much weight in such a short amount of time and it always seemed unreal to me and undoable (is that a word).  I always thought that the contestants were losing the weight because Jillian and Bob were there to kick their butts into gear but then I watched the show Losing it with J.M. and I see that these people are losing crazy amounts of weight and there is no one there to kick their butt every day!!!  These people are doing it themselves after being taught how to exercise properly and how to eat properly!!!  If they can do it then why can't I???  I really need to get my butt in gear!  I wanted to do the 30 by 30 but life keeps getting in my way and I never get anything accomplished :o(

I started the C25K (couch to 5k) a few weeks back with my sister and a few friends.  We did great for a few weeks and then we started cancelling on each other and I had to skip it this day because I had to take Ty to light therapy and then I had to skip it that day because I had to take Kobe to my Mom's or blah blah blah excuse after stupid excuse and I am back to square one!!!  

I am tired of being overweight and I want to get my act together and get back to the way I used to be.  Not skinny but not fat....just right!!!

I am going to start eating right.....working out is not enough and eating right with no working out is not enough either!!!  I have to do it right and eat right and work out!!!!

Is anyone out there interested in doing some sort of weight loss/living right support system blog hop (if that wan't written wrong in so many ways then I don't know what is lol)????  Let me know what you think and let's get the ball rolling!!  Let's support each other and get healthy!!!

Kobe's injury

Last night Kobe was jumping on the couch having a great ol' time, I was sitting on one end of the couch and he was jumping to me and kissing me and laughing and giggling.  It was right before bed and we were finishing up a Dora episode and then we were heading to bed.  Well my clumsy baby fell off the couch and hit his head on a flower pot....it isn't just any flower pot, it is a gigantic flower pot!!!  I grabbed him and turned him to me and that is when I saw the blood!  Oh goodness there was a ton of blood coming from right under his eyebrow.  

I scooped up Kobe and threw a coat on him and headed to my sisters so we could go to the hospital.

We had to wait for a little bit before we were seen and my poor little munchkin was not a happy camper.

Finally we were seen by the preschooler that was pretending to be a doctor that day and he said that Kobe did not need stitches because he could just glue it shut.

Here is what his owie looked like after it was glued shut (the purple stuff is glue).  I must admit that I don't think it looks very shut but the preschooler told me that due to the swelling it looks worse, he said that he should get a scar that is just one little tiny line on his eyebrow.  I sure hope that is the case and not some huge thick scar on his poor face.  I have a scar on my arm that is really wide and it is from a doctor that did not sew my arm correctly and I was worried that would be the case for Kobe.  The doctor promised that would not be the case so let's hope he is right.

Here is my little man after we got home last night with his swollen cheek (he hurt his cheek in the fall too) and his boo boo :o(   I gave him some children's Motrin and then we went to bed.