Don't it always seem to go???

I am scheduled to get my hair cut and colored this afternoon and this morning I went into the local coffee shop and the lady working is also our P.A.T. lady and she says to me: "Did you just get your hair cut? It's really really cute!"...DOH! Then I follow up my coffee visit to the doctor's office for my "yearly exam" (fun) and my doctor says the SAME THING!!! Don't it always seem to go that the day you plan to change something b/c you are tired of it, everyone else starts to notice your hair to then make you not want to change that something! LOL! Oh well. Still gonna do it...this will be the first time I have colored my hair in over a year! The last time was when all of us gals went right after Camden was born last year! We should do that again...I have another fun salon full of fun gals!

A fun visit!

My friend Lynn Gonzalez, whom I originally met in San Diego (we worked together at UOP), came to visit me this weekend! Her and her hubby now live in Texas and she was in Tulsa on buisness so she decided to rent a car and drive up to see us! It was so good to see her! I practically LIVED at their home(s) in San Diego when we lived there! We had some good times. We didn't do anything exciting, just hung out at home here mostly. I took her around town, which only took 5 minutes...ha! I cooked a lot and we chatted a TON! It was so fun and I was sad to see her go this morning! She did get to see the awesome Kansas weather in action though. When she arrived on Thursday morning it reached almost 70 degrees and when she left this morning it was snowing...OY! She loved it though, since she has only see it snow maybe one other time in her entire life! LOL! Anyway, that is all that is going on for now.

Camden's eye still looks gross but it is healing just fine. He is walking SOOOO good now too! It won't be long before he will be standing up on his own in the middle of the room without the assistance of a couch or table or chair!

Oh and Wednesday night I tried to slice off part of my thumb with the mandolin slicer...that was painful and altogether awful! It still hurts and looks disgusting but it is healing now too! That's all that's new for now.

Eye Doctor

So Decovin had his first eye doctor visit today. He was a very big boy and did everything the doctor asked and didn't complain at all! It was AWESOME! Totally unexpected. I forgot my camera but took a few with my cell phone...

The doctor said that he is a wee bit farsighted right now but that usually most kids are up until the age of 5 and then it evens out. He also said that if one parent is near sighted (me) then there is a 5 out of 10 chance our kids will be too! Oh well. There could be worse things.

I took another pic of Camden's eye today...day 3 after the incident and it now has that awesome "jaundice" yellow look to it. haha!

Right in the kisser!

Yesterday I went to my in-laws for my sister-in-laws bday dinner my M-I-L was making. Camden decided to trip over his own two feet and smacked RIGHT into their coffee table...his eye turned purple IMMEDIATELY and then it started swelling w/in a minute after that...it was pretty traumatic but he got some tylenol and some ice and he was fine. Left a nice little reminder though! YEEEEEOUCH!

Dentist

Well, Decovin & I went to the dentist this morning...this was supposed to be Decovin's first teeth cleaning but he didn't want to have anything to do with that...so he sat in the chair and let the hygenist look in his mouth and he used the "spit sucker" once (this really freaked him out before I showed him it was ok) and then he was virtually done. The dentist came in and looked in his mouth and said it looked ok and that they will try again in 6 months to do a cleaning. He suggested that anytime we are walking by to bring him into the office and let him cruise around the office so he gets used to the atmosphere...I thought that was nice of them. The dentist was super nice and VERY good with Decovin. He came out and showed him where the coloring book and colors were and put on a video for him, etc...chatted with him...it was real sweet. He was just scared of all the hoses and instruments I think...understandable...he doesn't eve like the vacuum cleaner! LOL! So we will try again in August. But I was able to sneak in a few pics....

Any ideas...

So according to my mother I am apparently not raising my children right because they refuse to eat vegetables. Sorry mom, didn't mean to throw you under the bus but that one cut below the belt a bit...ouch! Still recovering.

Camden will dabble but Decovin refuses. So, besides my current attempts of re-introducing the vegetables in different form, with butter, without butter, with brown sugar, without brown sugar, with salt & pepper, without salt & pepper, sometimes I will mash them up and put them in the foods but if Decovin even so much as sees a green spec of anything he refuses to eat it???? I'll take suggestions, willingly...shoot:

Oh, and my last pediatrician suggested I give them V8 Splash in the meantime...but that has a lot of sugar, etc...so i don't know what to do...

Squeaky clean house is no more...sad.

So the boys were gone with Amanda last weekend and we cleaned our house from top to bottom...it was SQUEAKY clean. They return home and that was done within the first 24 hours! Haha! Oh well, it was nice while it lasted! I think Amanda had fun too, but I think she was also ready for her free time again! LOL! Here are some pics she sent me while she had them in her custody...hehe!

They made Heart shaped cookies:

Decovin is all about cookies!!They went to the mall to play:
Apparently these kids wanted to play with Camden:
Breakfast of champions:

Huh?:

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For Valentine's Day, Bob came home from work at 7:30am (cuz he was on night shift) and brought me these with a funny card. I had hid a card in his lunch box the night before...;-)

So other than that, not much has been shakin'! Love reading all your new updates! Keep 'em coming!

Camden Walked!!

My Kid-Free Weekend

So Amanda, my cousin, took our boys for us for a long weekend. We had our nieces bday party on Saturday (Bob's sisters little girl) and then after that we drove the boys up to her place and dropped them off. I won't pick them up until Tuesday!!! WHOA!!!

So far, we have gone to dinner, seen a movie, went geo-caching (http://www.geocaching.com/), out to lunch, out to dinner, rented movies, & it's only been a day and a half!!! WOW! Tomorrow we tackle house cleaning. *sigh*

It has been weird being in that "get up and go" attitude again but very invigorating. But secretly I miss my boys already! I want to snuggle and get kisses again. Weird! What is wrong with me?! haha!

Well, off to bed. I am pretty tired. Love reading all the updates! Thanks for keeping us posted!

Happy Birthday Camden!

Yesterday was Camden's 1st birthday! I can't believe I have a one year old and a 3 year old. Where did the time go. I feel like I JUST had him last week. Happy Bday big boy!

Check Up!

So I took both boys in today for their well-baby check up. Decovin is right at 50th percentile for his height (37 inches) and just under the 50th percentile for his weight (30.2 lbs.). :-) Everything was squeaky clean and the doctor did some estimator that they can do at age three to predict how tall they will be as adults...apparently Decovin is destined to be just under 5'10"...we'll see about that! ha!

Camden was 24.6lbs putting him in the 75th percentile (but right on track b/c they said at age one they should be 3 times the size from when they were born...he was 8lbs...so there you go)...and he was in the 90th percentile on height at 31 and 3/4 inches long! His head was 19 inches around also.

The doc checked his ears and his left one is still "plugged up" from all his ear infections he had over the past couple of months and so he did an "ear test" to see if he would turn to a sound and he didn't...soooooo...when he goes back in for his 15 month check up in April, he will look at it again and if it is still bad he will have to have tubes put in. Sigh...I hope not, but we will see. Poor baby. I wonder if this is why he hasn't really spoken any words yet other than mamamamamamamama???? Hmmmmm

And at this age he likes to have their blood drawn to check for anemia and lead levels...so we had to go to the lab and get baby C's blood taken. He didn't cry at first...the lady stuck him and then had to fish for his vein (he got his momma's veins...poor guy) and it wasn't until about 30 seconds of fishing that he finally got mad. They finally found it right at the last second and then it was over. No big deal.

So other than that...they are healthy little boys. Yay!

Steppin' up

I forgot to mention that on the day of the boys' bday bash (01/24/09) Camden took his first solo steps (2 steps)!! The best part was he did his first steps in a very similar fashion as Decovin...chasing after Katrina! :-) Thanks cousin Katrina for inspiring my boys to walk! Love you little girl!

Happy Birthday Boys!

Well the party was a success and including us, there were 36 people there! It was way fun and I think everyone got fed til they were full! Thanks for those of you who were able to make the trek...we really appreciated it!

Camden digging into his cake...he was much more aggressive than Decovin was with his first cake! It was super cute!

Yummy!!!
Decovin with his cake, he LOVED people singing to him! LOL!
Eating his beloved icing!

Happy Birthday Decovin!

My baby boy, who is not such a baby anymore is 3 today! I can't believe it! Where did the time go?!

The "before" and "after" pictures...

For those of you who said "You didn't have 60 pounds to lose!!!" Here you go...this was back in April...

This was the day I found out I made my goal weight!!

New Do

Eh

Well, not much new to report. I have spent most of the new year wiping the boys' noses and listening to them get a lovely cough! Oh the joy's of the winter season germs! :-)

Other than that, we are back in a routine again and it seems to finally be settling in again and everything is rolling along.

Decovin had his last official meeting with the Parent's As Teacher's lady. They can only participate up to the age of 3! Sad isn't it?! She will still be coming once a month until Camden turns 3 so she said she would still bring D some toys to play with but she would be only focusing on Camden from now on. He's growing up so fast!

Yet, he isn't. We tried potty training really hard for about 2-3 months with no success what-so-ever! So, we are back in diapers until he decides to show us interest in using the toilet on his own. Two steps forward, five steps back. Potty training sucks! LOL!

Camden has been officially off of jar baby food for over a month now it seems and completely transferred to sippy cups. We gave all our bottles to my cousin Karen who is expecting in June...this is her first and she has NOTHING. :-) So I was happy to help fill her house with stuff we no longer need!! A LOT OF STUFF! That felt good to purge!

I think we will work on getting rid of the binky next. We waited until Decovin was almost two but I think we will try to ween Camden sooner. He usually doesn't NEED it most of the time anyway...we'll see. I'll keep you posted.

Bob is back on his shift work and I am just trying to get my house clean. I feel like there is no good time to do such chores...b/c when they kids are sleeping, that is when I just want to RELAX seeing as how there is no other moment in my day to do so...so I am at a cross-roads with my priorities I think...hmmmm...

On another note, I have a hair appointment on Friday and I am trying to decide what I want to do...any suggestions? I am ready for a change. So far, I have come up with this...Obviously I don't LOOK like Victoria Beckham, I'm not dillusional...but I like this haircut...opinions???

Happy New Year!

Can you believe this is the only picture we took of all 4 of us during the holidays?!?! Crazy busy holiday for us! As you might have noticed from all the pictures sent out between my sister, my mother and myself! Sorry about that...but I guess you can always delete the email if you don't want to look at them! :-)

I hope everyone had a safe holiday and a fabulous New Year. Bob had to work through the night on New Year's and again tonight...so I didn't get my midnight kiss, but that's ok. Christy was here and we had a good time. It was laid back and relaxed. I decided to let D stay up as long as he could if he wanted and he made it all the way til 11:02pm! He made it EST to the New Year! He looked up at as at 11:01 and says: "I'm ready for a nap"...haha! So I guess I got a New Year's kiss from him. That was sweet.

Christy and I decided to watch Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve's New Year per usual but this time at like 20 seconds before the ball drop my local channel pops in with "BREAKING NEWS" (Christy and I both were like: "WHAT?!?!")....Yeah, the breaking news...the ball is about to drop at Times Square...we get to watch the local channel's feed of the ball dropping in NY...horrible angle and they were terribly far away! It was pathetic and not to mention SUPER ANNOYING...then to only find out that that local channel couldn't come to an agreement with DISH network and so ABC is no longer available on our listing...that's right...as of today I will not get to watch Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, or anything on ABC!!!! Can I just TELL YOU how annoyed I am?! Grrrrrrr!!!!

Oh well, hopefully something is agreed upon soon before the premiere's start showing again!

Oh and we did have a wonderful Christmas in case you were wondering. The boys were SPOILED rotten again and they had a good time as well. We had a lovely time gathering with all the family and friends and we are also very glad to be home again! ha! There truly is no place like home!

Happy New Year everybody!

Holiday Cheer!

So last night was our local Parents As Teachers holiday festivities. We are a small numbered group, but it was fun! Our PAT lady had several different stations for the kids to do different crafts.

Decovin decorated a cupcake to look like a reindeer and then gave me the "deer in the headlights look!":

He decorated a sugar cookie with lots of sprinkles, he made a wreath (with my help, little more complicated than a 2 year old can manage), he made a santa hat:

and a picture frame and oh yeah...they got to SEE SANTA!!!

And when Santa asked Decovin, "What do you want for Christmas this year?" He responded cooly with "presents"...haha!

Happy Holidays!

Season’s Greetings from The Plummer’s
2008
Wow, where did the year go?! It has been a very crazy and busy year for us! January started out with our oldest turning 2 on January 16th quickly followed by the birth of our latest addition. Camden David Plummer arrived January 31 at 9:51pm weighing in at exactly 8 pounds and 20 inches long! It is weird to talk about him as an infant because next month he will be turning 1!! See!! Where did the year go?!

We sold our house in Warrensburg, MO back in May and moved to Burlington, KS. Bob got out of the NAVY and was hired on at Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant in the Operations Department. He will be in training for the next 5 to 7 yrs to become a fully qualified nuclear operator. Sound like a long time? Well, wouldn’t you want someone who is running a nuclear power plant REALLY trained so they don’t blow up the world?

We bought a house in town in late June and have pretty much settled in. We have already re-roofed our house and plan to re-roof the detached garage in the spring. Also, in the spring, we plan to paint the house a lighter color and put up a fence.

Other than that, we are trying to stay warm in this bitter cold weather we are currently enduring. Next month will be a busy one with the boys turning 3 and 1! They are growing up so fast. Decovin is talking in full sentences and Camden is getting so close to walking! He is cruising on furniture and has recently started to let go and balance without holding onto anything! We plan on enrolling Decovin in preschool in August…this is only if we can get him potty trained in time. This is proving to be much more difficult than we ever anticipated! Wish us luck!

As for me, I am still staying at home with the kiddos and I feel like there is never a dull moment! After Camden was born I was asked to be in a wedding over the summer and had to lose the baby weight in order to fit into the dress. So I joined Weight Watchers and have lost just over 60 pounds over the course of eight months. I feel great and am so glad I did it! I’m the smallest I have been since high school! I’ve been maintaining since Halloween and do not plan to go back where I came from!

With that I will wrap things up and wish you all a wonderful holiday season!

Sincerely, The Plummer’s

(If you wish to see the pictures I originally posted with this letter and did not receive my email with them, let me know and I will send them your way...be sure to leave an email address!!)