Fun Weekend!!

We had the best weekend! Friday night we didn't do a whole lot, I cleaned the house and got things ready for our friends' arrival the next day. Bob watched the boys and that was about the extent...

Saturday we finished up the last minutes before our friends arrived at 4...we chatted, I cooked, we ate, we drank some wine/beer, we chatted some more, the girls helped me make dessert, we drank some more then we ate some more and chatted and played a friendly girls vs. guys game of Trivial Pursuit 90's edition, in which the boys proceeded in kicking our @$$! LOL! Oh well, it was still fun! They ended up leaving around 11:30 and I went straight to bed! I was exhausted.

Today I got up to a dirty kitchen which I proceeded to clean over a 2 hour period and when Bob woke up we toodled around and I went and rented some DVD's and we watched one and then decided it was too nice to stay inside ALL day so we went up to a nearby park and walked one of the trails...it was really cool! I will definitely be going back there in the future! The boys enjoyed it also, well, Camden actually fell asleep so he enjoyed it for a different reason I suppose! Then we drove to LeRoy to go eat at the Pizza Parlor where the boys' bday party will be and had pizza and breadsticks! Decovin ate REALLY well and then we headed home where we started to watch another DVD but had to pause it for bathtime. Daddy's turn so I am down here blogging! :-)

So all-in-all it was a FUN weekend! How about you?!

Do I smell Turkey?

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and my days are not slowing down for NOTHING! I am busy, busy, busy! Well, I feel as though I am busy, busy, busy...maybe I am just making it up?!

This Saturday my best girlfriends, Kim & Crystal, and their significant others will be joining us for dinner here at the Plummer homestead. I have planned a fabulous meal (which Ruthie helped me out with! Thanks Ruthie!!). I am making Chicken in Scallion sauce with brown rice, Scored Potatoes (this was from Ruthie, it is baking potatoes cut in half then each half is scored and basted with some butter and herbs and baked for 50 minutes then more butter basted when it comes out!!), and corn. And for dessert...Caramel Apple Tartlets! YUM! I'm so excited! Should be fun too. They haven't met Camden yet and they have been chomping at the bit to get their hands on him, so this should be a fun night! Yay!

Next week I have Bunco on Wednesday then I am going to go to a photography class with my mom & sister on Thursday...then on Saturday is Burlington's BIG craft fair at the high school...apparently over 150 booths...the HS is only 2 1/2 blocks from my house so I will be walking to avoid having to park!! Yay! I love craft fairs...I'm such a nerd! haha!

Update on the boys: Camden is on day 6 of his antibiotics and doing fine. He sounds and looks a LOT better. Decovin is completely fine also. Potty Training is like going up steps two at a time and then falling down 10 at a time!! We have been stuck at the bottom step for the past day and a half with him pretty much REFUSING to go potty...hmmm...this is going to be harder than I thought...OY!

Still Sick but having fun!

Well Stacy nailed it on the head! Camden has duel ear infections and is now on antibiotics and something else to help break up his congestion, etc. He seems to be doing ok...like I said, acting pretty normal other than random one night of inconsolableness and runny nose/coughing...so who would have thought...thanks Stace!

I don't know if Decovin has it or not, it was too late to get an appointment for him on Friday after I found out C had an infection in both ears...so if he is still snotty on Monday I will call and get an appointment for him at that time. Otherwise he is acting normal (aside from snotty nose, no coughing at this time).

We are also progressing on potty training...well, we are trying anyway. We started 3 days ago and he has his moments where he will go pee no questions asked and then there are times when he fights it tooth and nail! We are taking it slow and have moved him into pull-ups strictly. Cross your fingers for us that he will be fully trained by next August!! Oy!

On a fun note, Christy came up for the weekend and we decided it would be fun for Decovin to bake cookies with us...so I got it all set up and he helped me like a big boy! He followed instructions really well and only spilled a little flour! He was AWESOME! And he was so excited to participate!

Here he is getting ready to mix everything up!

Here we are with our finished product!

Colds suck!

It is inevitable that when my children are around other children, even if those other children are not sick, they will pick up some virus and bring it home with them. Ugh. After our family reunion on the 1st, Decovin started in with a runny nose the next day which then led to a congested cough which then led to Camden's nose running which then led to an even worse congested cough than his brothers...OY!

Two nights ago was undoubtedly the WORST night for sleep ever in the Plummer household!! The boys both had their nose drops administered and were put to bed at normal time (8:30ish) and fell asleep fine, per usual. But at 11pm (right after Bob and I put our heads to rest) Decovin woke up crying...this is really odd for him especially...so Bob gets up to see what is wrong and through the crying we could not figure out what he wanted and nor could we calm him down. So Bob tells him to lay back down and try to go to sleep...so ten minutes pass and with Decovin still crying he goes back in and asks if he wants to lay in mommy & daddy's bed...yes, ok, he comes in (still crying mind you) and lays there for about 5 minutes and cries the whole time...ok buddy, what do you want? Bob tried taking him downstairs to sleep in the chair with him...that lasted 5 minutes also and then back upstairs to his bedroom and we asked if he wanted the light on...yes, ok...meanwhile the crying continues...so then we decide maybe the bedroom light is TOO much and try the closet light instead...(still crying...has only stopped for a brief 5 minute interval at most)...then he mentions that his mouth hurts...maybe he has a sore throat...we administer tylenol...so after 2 hours and 15 minutes of straight crying (1:15am) I decide to go in and read him a few stories and try to calm him down myself. This FINALLY works and he falls asleep...phew, now we can go to bed it is 1:30am now. At approximately 2am Camden wakes up crying and coughing and crying and snotting and crying and coughing...great...tylenol was administered along with some more nose drops and after an hour and a half of solid crying he finally crashes as well. So at 3:30am Bob and I finally got to go to sleep. Oh and Decovin still woke up at 7am! AWESOME!
Yeah, colds suck!

Happy Halloween...a day late!

Well, we had a fun and very full day on Halloween. We started out early to hit some great grandparents and grandparents...around 3pm to be exact. Went to Gardner to Bob's Grandma Lawson's house, then to Bob's other grandparents in DeSoto...then to his parents house then to my aunt Norma's, Aunt Linda's, Aunt Janette's & finally my sister's house where my mom & grandma were! It was crazy and the boys did AWESOME considering all the travel time and in and out of the car and the adding and removing of costume parts.

We got Decovin to put his eye patch on and hat and he would carry his sword and then he would say: "ARRRRRR MATEY! TRICK OR TREAT!" It was real cute. Anyway, here are some pics of the cutie patooties:

I made my goal!!

I made my goal weight today! I did it! I am in shock I think. I have never set such a goal and achieved it! It took me almost 8 months to do it and I am proud of my accomplishments!

I also want to thank all those who have encouraged and supported me through this journey! All of the "good job" or "lookin' good" comments are what kept me going! Thanks again!

Love you all!

Update

Camden now has 6 teeth...3 on top and 3 on bottom that have shown up. He is also starting to pull up on things and crawling more and more on his knees but still prefers the commando crawl to get somewhere fast. Before we know it he will be walking! YIKES!

New development: Decovin now requests Camden's presence in his room to play. It is really cute and they get along swimmingly...fun times...I just know they will be best buds!

Pumpkin Patch

I took the boys to a pumpkin patch on Sunday and met up with Amanda and Melodie and the boys. It was fun and I think Decovin really enjoyed himself...he especially enjoyed the bouncy houses! I think he could have stayed in there for hours if I would have let him! It is a bummer that their bdays are in January, we will never get to rent one for them...:-( Maybe we'll have a "1/2 Birthday" bash for them one of these years! Ha!

Anyway...nothing else too exciting happening. Going to DeSoto for the weekend to go to one of Bob's cousin's football game on friday and then to a weiner roast/hayride get together at his aunt and uncle's house on saturday. Bob won't be joining us as he works this weekend. I am looking forward to his 6 days off next week!

We are planning on dressing the boys up as a Pirate for Decovin and Superman for Camden for Halloween this year. Tried to do the recycling of costumes for Camden and dress him up as a bee but we tried to put it on him and it was WAAAAAYto small! Crazy how they were only born 2 weeks apart in birthday and they are so much different in size! LOL! He is our big boy or as we like to call him: "Pork Chop"...just ask Decovin, he will tell perfect strangers that Camden's name is Pork Chop! haha! We are awesome parents...lol!

That's about all that has been going on as of late.

Check it out!

I am going to place an order with this company: http://www.CurrySimple.com

Everyone who knows me, knows how much I enjoy a good curry dish and you can now make it at home easily and with what appears to be VERY LITTLE to do! We all love a quick cooked meal...especially those of us with kiddos at home! Enjoy!

Oh and...

Jeff & Marianne are going to have another baby!! And baby makes 3! Yay! I love being an aunt! :-)

Fun Weekend

Went to LaCygne Friday morning and dropped the boys off at my parents house. Hung out for a few hours before I headed up to Lawrence for my friend Kim's 30th birthday party. She had it at a cute little bar called "The Yacht Club" and we had a great time! Really good hummus and pitas! ;-)

I made it back to my parent's house a little before midnight and crashed for a few short hours before I got up to get ready for the Mound City Craft Fair!! We had a great time and I found some Christmas gifts for the boys and for my nieces (both sides)...:-) Bonus!!

We came home and got ready for a gathering of family and friends at the house for a cookout! Hot dogs, brats and sides! It was fun and the food was delicious! :-) Decovin had a BLAST playing with his cousins and Camden had his first taste of hot dog...he ate a half of one!! I was shocked! haha!

The night ended and I was EXHAUSTED, and it seems that your kids pick up on this and choose these nights not to sleep well. Poor Camden is teething so much that he has a constant runny nose lately and it causes him to have issues breathing while sucking on his pacifier...so, I had to get up with him a few times in the night...ugh! Then Decovin woke up at 6:45 and in doing so woke up Camden also...yippee! I love being up before the sun...NOT! lol!

Went to lunch today with the family in Louisburg at the chinese restaurant, which is now under new management...It was AWESOME! Probably one of the best curry chicken dishes I have had in a really really really long time! SOOOOO GOOD! It was the highlight of the day...that and the lemon we gave Camden to try....hehehehe!!

I drove home this evening and am winding down for the evening...hope you all had a good weekend too!

Plummer Family Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/MattandKali

Click on "Wagoner Family Proofs"...the lady that took the pics is friends with my sister-in-law whose last name is Wagoner...I guess she thought it was that side of the family...

Me 55 pounds lighter.

This is also the outfit I am going to wear for the Plummer Family Pics on Saturday...I was trying it on to see if I liked it...I think it is good. :-)

Fit Happens!!

So I decided to join a walking group in town called "Fit Happens!!" They meet once a week through November 25th. Fee was $10 and you get a talking podometer and log chart and you are requested to walk at least 60,000 steps per week. At then end we get a sweatshirt for completing the program! (Probably a bit cheesy but it is getting me moving!).

So far today I have already stepped 1018 times! And it is only 9 am!! To get 60,000 for a week I need to average about 8500 steps a day! Anyway...I'm excited about it and looking forward to the challenge!

I am also walking this saturday in a 3 mile walk for Alzeihmer's!! I'm really excited about it and looking forward to the weather being AWESOME! :-) If you forgot to donate there is still time *wink*! Just visit http://kansascitymw.kintera.org/faf/donorreg/donorpledge.asp?ievent=270300&supId=212708773 and follow the que's! Thanks again to all those who have donated! Love ya all!

Need for a documentation!

Yesterday, the 29th of September Camden sat up on his own from his stomach to a sitting position. It was kind of funny b/c Decovin was playing on the floor with him and they were both laying on their stomachs and Camden just sat up and Decovin looked back at Bob and I and gasped and said: "Camden just sit up!" He was just as impressed with his brother as we were! It was really cute! So today he acts like he has been doing it for months...does it like a pro! HAHA! I have a video attached of him sitting up below.

And today I noticed that he has a new tooth (tooth #3) coming in right next to his two bottom teeth on the right (if you are facing him). He is just getting all kinds of grown up! Awww!

Misc. Cell Phone videos...They are all less than 20 seconds long!

Decovin showing us his muscles:

Decovin finally can climb all on his own:

Camden giggles:

Jump, Sing, & get wiggly:

Camden Rocks & Rolls!

Camden giggle some more:

Decovin does his "Ellen" moves on Camden:

Success!!

So our garage sale was a huge success...two days prior to the actual sale a couple stopped by and asked if we would sell our weight lifting set early (we advertised in the paper) and we said HECK YEAH! Then a day before the garage sale a different couple stopped by and asked if we would be willing to sell some of our baby stuff a day early...SURE!!! And then yet another couple stopped by and asked if we would be willing to sell our elyptical machine early...No problem!! SWEET! So before we even opened on our sale day we already had $121 in sales!! YES!

Christy came down for the event to help me out...mostly to keep me company out there and we opened the doors at 6:30am (listed in paper at 7am) but the first customer didn't show up until close to 8am!! I was worried I sold all I was going to sell in the days prior to the actual sale. But it picked up and we ended up selling over $320 worth of stuff! YES! So it was a good day! Oh and I met some neighbors! Even better! Super nice people here I tell ya!

So we closed up shop after no one came for over an hour!! Last sale was our jogger stroller at like noon...and then nothing...we had a couple people stop by WAY later and ask if we sold our stroller...too late! So we have our basement back (no more boxes full of garage sale fodder!) YIPPEE!! I'm so excited!

Ok, off to chat with my sis again!

So Camden is now our little commando crawler! He doesn't use his entire hands and arms yet...just digs those forearms in and scoots along...super super cute! And he is FAST!! Decovin is already not liking his ever moving brother...because now his toys are NOT SAFE! haha! We are still working on sharing...oy! But never-the-less...I would constitute this as crawling. He started doing this the day after we came back from the lake...so sometime on the 21st of September. Insane how this is already happening! He still only has two teeth but the way he has been acting I wouldn't be surprised if another one pops in soon! Hope you enjoy my little video!

Oh boy!

Last Tuesday Bob and the kids and I headed to the Lake of the Ozarks for a small vacation of sorts. Bob's grandparents own a cabin down there and we try to go at least twice in the summer...so we were pretty excited about going!

We leave at o'dark hundred on Tuesday morning and arrive by noon to the cabin. We were greeted by Bob's grandparents who were already down there. We have a great afternoon and the boys seem to be having fun too!

We did a couple of boat rides during the week and it was wonderful...during the week and in late September there is hardly ANYONE down there so the water was like glass, so smooth and the breeze was even better! I actually had to wear a jacket for part of the ride!

Well then on Friday morning Decovin woke up and was acting normal and around 11am he starts whining and grabbing his lower rib cage area and saying to me: "Ouch, ouch, it hurts, it hurts"...and his stomach was rock hard...so I tell Bob and we decide to take him to the closest town with a clinic, Versailles, and get him looked at. We pull into the clinic (which is about 30 minutes away) and we get settled in and Decovin seems to be acting fine again and we ask him if he is feeling ok and he says: "I'm ok" and starts running around the seating area. Great! We have gone for nothing, but we figure we should get him looked at anyway...so they have a nurse look him over and check his temperature and ask if we can come back in about an hour and a half to see the doctor. Fine...there is a walmart and McDonald's we can kill our time in...when we get to walmart d starts acting like he is in pain again...we are now thinking...he has bad gas pains...he hadn't pooped yet that day so maybe??

We go back to the doctor and they do a chest x-ray to make sure he doesn't have pneumonia and tell us that they don't have the capabilities to check his blood or stomach and reccommend that we go to the ER in Jefferson City...an additional 40 minutes away...ok.

So we drive to the hospital and when we take him in there he starts screaming and crying and he just looks awful...they take his temperature and he was 99.7 which had gone up from the clinic where it was 98.9...but techincally still not considered a fever so they make us wait before taking us back to the ER rooms.

Finally he was called back after passing out in my arms of exhaustion and they put in an IV to get blood just in case he was admitted this way they didn't have to poke him twice. This is what he looked like after they were all done getting the blood and wrapped it up so he wouldn't play with it and accidentally pull it out...look at his little rosy cheeks...he did not feel well at all.

Then they took more x-rays only to discover that he has a lot of gas in his intestines and some poop too...so he is constipated and needs to fart really bad apparently??? So by the time the doctor gets in to see him (about 2 hours later) he was acting all happy and fine again and saying he was hungry. So the doc says that since he was presenting normal at this time he would just reccomend a glycerine suppositorie and watch for fever and vomitting. (oh and they ruled out appendicitis)...

So we head to Colton's Steak House to go eat and the minute we walk in the door he starts complaining of his stomach hurting again. Great...so we get seated and our drink orders have been taken and then he got this look on his face and hollered at Bob (who was sitting with him on that side of the booth) and say, "He's gonna throw up!"...so Bob catches it in his hand (what we won't do as parents eh?!) and gets him and Decovin cleaned up and then D passes out on the booth while we eat our dinner. We get done with dinner and then go to Walgreen's to get the meds and we gave him the suppositorie and he never produced a poop for us until the following morning around 9:30-10ish!! He pooped 4 times that day!

Ah...but wait, it's not over. So he acts tired but better the next day and then that night we were planning on getting him to bed ON TIME but Bob's cousin and his family showed up around 8:25pm with their 3 kiddos and Decovin is now wired and wants to play...so we don't fight it and let him run around...well he didn't get to bed until 10:30 that night and then woke up at 7:30 the next morning...I feed him cereal and he eats only a few bites and then wants to get down to play. Ok, fine. Then later on after lunch (which he didn't eat either) the family goes on a boat ride and we put D down for a nap...he sleeps for 3 hours and wakes up BURNING up with a temp of 103.4!! So we drug him up with some tylenol and he is really lathargic and acting whiny and clingy so I tell Bob, let's just pack it up and go home so we can A) be near a hospital and B) he can be in his own bed and be in more familiar surroundings...

So we pack it up and get out the door about one hour later and we made it about 20 minutes out when Decovin throws up in the car...we think this could have been due to the curvy roads plus him not feeling well already...then we stop in Warrensburg to eat b/c he is saying he is hungry again and he barely nibbles on his taco and then we decide to leave in a hurry b/c he is looking green again. We get on the road and no sooner than we get down the road Camden starts screaming...OOPS! We forgot to feed the poor boy at the restaraunt b/c we were so distracted with Decovin...so Bob makes up the bottle and starts feeding him from the front seat when he looks over at Decovin and notices something on his face...we turn the light on and lo and behold homefry has picked his nose so hard that he made it bleed! (This has happened before)...so I have to pull over and clean him all up and then we FINALLY made it home around 10:30pm and I have never been happier to be home!

The next day he seemed back to his old self...he ate a TON all day yesterday and today he is still seeming ok. He had a wee bit of a temperature today but for the most part he has been good. So we shall see...lovely stomach virus I am assuming! And he hasn't had trouble with the pooping since we got home in case you were wondering!! OY! LOL!

Doctors...sigh...

So today I jam packed my day with doctor visits b/c Bob had the day off to watch the boys. So this morning I started out visiting the dermatologist for my ever peeling skin on my fingers and toes...he said it was a form of excema (which is really hard to get rid of...yippee!) and prescribed a cream called Urea (anyone else reminded of urine when this is said?!) Anyway, it is supposed to help sluff off the dead skin and the best part is I don't have to wear stupid gloves all day and night! I just have to apply it after everytime I get my hands wet, etc...check, I'm down to get rid of this! I will have a follow up appointment with him in 6 weeks. Ok...

So from there I meet up with Bob and the boys at the library for story hour...it is technically for ages 3 and up but the lady said it is fine as long as there is an adult present with them...so we go...yeah, he is DEFINITELY not ready for story hour. OY! He spent most of the time with daddy outside crying b/c he wasn't listening or behaving...so we will try again in a few months...maybe by then he will be more interested in following along with what other kids are doing...or not...he is such a boy!

Then it was off to my second appointment of the day at the regular doctors office for a check on my back. I have had chronic pain in my back for years but since I have had Camden it has gotten progressively worse...so I went to the chiropractor last week and he said that I have one leg longer than the other and that it was causing my hips to be not level and therefore making my back hurt, etc...blah blah blah...he gave me an insert to wear and then cracked my bones and I was off...so my mother told me I ought to get a second opinion so I figured it couldn't hurt...yada yada...

Well, this doctor said that the only true way to know what is really going on back there is to have an MRI. He poked on me a bit and had me bend over, bend backward (which hurt), bend from side to side, then had me lay down and lift each of my legs...it hurt when I lifted my right leg...so he thinks I might have a bulging disc...YES! So I got me an MRI scheduled for the 23rd of this month and we will see what it reveals. Oh and I really like this doctor...very personable, young, and didn't herd me out of there! Love that! So he told me to take Ibuprofin for one week three times a day to get the inflammation down (which means I will be constipated for a month! haha!) and see how that helps. He also gave me some drugs for my allergies...yay!

Oh and he told me that I should wait to go back to the chiropractor until after the MRI to see what it reveals and that going to the chiropractor is fine as needed but when you start going on a regular basis then he sees a problem there...so I called and cancelled my appointment that I had set up for this afternoon.

The only thing that was a downer for me at the second doctor was that he was running like an hour behind!!! I was there from about 10:30 until well after noon!! It was an exhausting morning...and now it is raining...AGAIN! Boo!

Ok, that is all for now...oh and FYI I have officially lost 51.4 pounds...I had weigh-in this morning! YEE HAW!!