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!!

Fall is approaching!

I have been very excited about the weather getting cooler...however, I was not up for a week of no sun!! But alas, the sun has returned, for at least today, and the weather outside is not frightful! It is fantastic!

Last Saturday I took the boys to the Olathe Old Settlers Parade and Decovin had a BLAST! He LOVED LOVED LOVED the bands and gets really excited when he talks about them...he loves the drums and trumpets! Kept going on and on about them for a couple of days afterwards! He might be in the rhythm section in band one of these days! ha! Camden slept through most of it...lazy bones...hehe!

Today I took Decovin in to get his hair cut, he always sits like such a good boy while they buzz away. I like how this guy cut his hair this time (he was quite the perfectionist at wanting it to blend just so) but he charged $8! For a kid!! Guess if you like the result you just suck it up and deal right?! Wish I could cut their hair but I am not good at clippers at all!! Aunt Judy...want to teach me some tricks?! Maybe I could save some money for their college! LOL!

At any rate, he looks good! And just in time, we are getting a Plummer Family photo at the very beginning of October so it will have grown out just enough for the picture! :) And when I say family I don't mean just the 4 of us...this will include Bob's parents and siblings and all the grandkids and significant others, etc. So it will include Decovin, Camden & Abby...we haven't had a family portrait done since like 2001!! Crazy! Definitely time for an update!

In baby news, Camden is so close to crawling it isn't even funny! He gets up on his knees and rocks back and forth and he acts like he wants to move forward SOOO bad...it is actually quite humorous to watch. He is doing so well, he is much bigger than Decovin, I feel, and he is a solid chunk of baby! :-) He is so cute and snuggly (much more than D ever was/is!) and he is quite possibly going to have wavy/curly hair! YAY! One of them got their daddy's locks!

In other news, Bob and I are having a garage sale on the 27th of this month to get rid of some infant things and other items we no longer need/want/use...whatever money we make will go towards our 10 year anniversary trip next year! That's right...Bob and I will have been married for 10 years next December! Since we never got a honeymoon, we are going to try to do it up right for our 10 year! :-) We would like to go to Hawaii, but we are just going to see how much money we can save up over the next year and go from there. I'm excited no matter where we end up going.

Weight loss...it is going great and I am less than a pound away from losing 50 pounds! I just couldn't be more thrilled and darn it, I'm proud of myself. I have been working really hard since March to shed the pounds and I feel great! I am in a size I haven't been in since college!! I have some confidence back and love dressing up now. Bob is always saying to me: "Why are you so dressed up to go to the library/store/etc?" And I tell him...b/c I feel great about the way I look right now and plus I don't often get to go places, even if it is to just the store, it is getting out of the house! Staying at home all day with the boys I tend to wear t-shirts and sweatpants, etc...so whenever I can put on my jeans and a nice top...I GO FOR IT!! I say, why not?

That is it for this week...until the next time...

Yeah...this is bad...

So, as usual, Camden went down for his first nap of the day around 9:15 and I put a show on for Decovin to watch while I went upstairs to take a quick shower (and I don't mess around, I'm in and out in like 5 minutes!)...I always check on him immediately after I get out of the shower and I hop out into the hallway and holler for D...I don't hear him or see him so I go down the stairs only to find the front door open and no Decovin!! I run back upstairs to grab a robe b/c I am NAKED and I dash out side and start screaming his name and I am thinking the worst and I run to the back yard to see if he fell in our little kiddie pool...he's not there...I yell some more and nothing...I am at a loss and I can't see very well b/c my glasses are upstairs on the toilet where I left them! Finally I hear him and he is across the street in the neighbor's yard...apparently he wanted to go see their puppies that are caged up...well I grab him and then the tears start coming from me like I was niagra falls...then Decovin thinks I am mad at him and he starts crying...after I get him calmed down...I find a corner where he can't pay attention to me and I just sob and sob thinking of what could have happened to him! I mean he crossed the street for the love! I stressed to him that he must NEVER go outside without mommy or daddy but I don't think I can reason with a VERY curious 2 year old...so I scrounge the house and found two more of those door knob covers and quickly secure us inside! I immediately texted Bob and told him that we need two dead bolts like yesterday! I am still in shock that it even happened and I don't think I could produce another tear naturally right now!! I'm scared to go to the bathroom without hauling him in there with me! Oy!

The rest of my day has gone a wee bit better...got an appointment set up with a chiropractor here in town as I have been having more and more back pain than I care to deal with...so we will see if he can fix me! Then I called the church next door to us that offers preschool for 3-4 year olds and signed D up for next fall! He has to be potty trained by then...so I have a year to get him there! Oh boy! I am excited for him to go though...I just know he will thrive and LOVE getting to play with other kids his age! They offer the school on Tuesday's and Thursday's for one hour each of those days...and you can pick morning or afternoon...I picked morning b/c D is so much friendlier in the morning and then I don't have alter his nap time, etc. So he will go from 9-10 and I just have to walk him across the street...of course I will make sure it is WITH me as opposed to without me...ha! Oh and the best part?! It is only $45 a month! YIPPEE! Phew!

That's all I got for now...

Fun, yet busy weekend!

So Friday night Bob took me out to dinner at a restaraunt in KC, MO called KC Sushi...it was sushi-rific! Mmmmm...how I love sushi! Then we went to a friends house that lives nearby there for her b-day party. We stayed for a couple of hours and visited and then headed back to Bob's parents house. We stayed there for the weekend.

We got up at 6:45am Saturday morning with a LOUD THUNDEROUS BOOM!!! It set off Dad P's car alarm and we were all up! LOL! We got ready and took the boys up to Bob's grandparents house for a visit. Then off to his other grandma's house for some more visiting and lunch out. Then we went back to home base and were there for maybe an hour and then it was off to Belton, MO for a mini car show. Bob's dad took his old car (couldn't tell you make, model or year) and we all followed in separate cars...Camden managed to sleep most of the day on Bob's back in the pack...and Decovin rode around in a stroller. He was fine with that for most of the day until towards the end when he was getting restless...then it was time to go! :-) It was really fun and we had a great time.

Then Sunday Bob and his dad went to a National Fiddlin' Contest or something like that in Lawrence for the afternoon. He said it was pretty boring as the contestants were not that great to begin with. I guess last year they attended a bluegrass festival which was apparently much more enjoyable...so anyway...when he got home we packed it up and headed back to Burlington with one more pit stop in Ottawa to visit my grandparents for a bit. We got home around 9:30 and I went to bed almost 20 minutes later! haha! I was pooped!

Today, our real estate agent's husband came by to pick up the washer and dryer that came with this house...they bought them for a cool $150! LOL! But when Bob un-hooked the hot water hose, the water kept gushing out even after he turned the nozzle off so we had water all over the floor down here and he had to go turn off the hot water all together! Ugh! So that was a fun mess to get cleaned up. He hooked up our washer and dryer and now I need to clean them before I can use them...lots of dust and dirt everywhere from being stored for so long!

Oh and on top of that Decovin decided to push Camden over from a sitting position in what I am hoping he was considering "play" (but I was in the kitchen trying to make breakfast so I didn't get to see the action take place)...but in doing so he fell over onto his face and bit his little lip with his only 2 teeth and his little lip bled for about 5 minutes...had to get ice and tylenol! LOL! It was a crazy crazy morning! Anyway, I am hoping this afternoon is calm and relaxed...but I'm not holding my breath! ha!

Hope you all have had a great weekend and I hope you have even a better week! Love ya!

Here is a video of Camden eating peaches...HYSTERICAL!

Not much new...

Life is same ol' same ol'...
Camden is getting bigger and bigger everyday and he has WAY more personality now...which is nice b/c for awhile I thought he was just going to be a cryer...all day...cry...cry...cry...but he is now giggling and smiling and jabbering and drueling and drueling and drueling...ha! He still only has two teeth but I think one should be popping in anytime now seeing as how grumpy he has been lately + the drueling factor...he sits up really well now and is learning how to "fall" gracefully...doesn't always happen but I would say 9 out of 10 times there is no harm no foul. He LOVES LOVES LOVES his brother...if Decovin is in the room, you better believe that Camden has his eyes beamed in on him, studying his EVERY move...he just smiles and laughs at Decovin any chance he can get. It is quite amusing really.

Decovin loves Camden too, I think he is finally realizing that he isn't just a blob anymore and he can "play" with him. Although play is limited to Decovin handing him a toy or showing him how a toy works, I think he enjoys it just the same. He also has a hard time figuring out how to play gently with the baby...I'm sure in his little head he is thinking: "Well, daddy rough houses with me, why can't I rough house with Camden?!" We are working on it...can't leave them alone together though...came upstairs from getting a load of laundry out of the dryer to find Decovin sitting on Camden...watching TV...apparently Camden didn't mind TOO much b/c he didn't make a noise and just smiled at D...oy! Boys! ha!

Bob is liking his job and is working really hard. I don't think he is extremely fond of shift work but he is getting used to it...as are we. ;) Tonight he is taking me out on a date! I have goosebumps...I have already strategically picked out an outfit and plan to have my hair done just so! :-) I'm such a dork but we don't get to go out alone, just the two of us, very often...so I'm totally excited!

We will spend the rest of the weekend at his folks house as Bob is going to a Banjo thingy with his dad on Sunday in Lawrence. They went last year and now I think they are trying to make it a tradition??? Whatever...they have fun, that's all that matters! :-)

Ok, that is all that I have for now...ta ta!

I wish I could get motivated...

To clean my stinkin' house!! I could be doing it right now, right this very second, but instead I choose to cruise the internet while my boys take their naps! Why can't I just be advantageous enough to do it!?! Ugh...Oh well...

Oh and RUTHIE!! OH RUTHIE!!! Where did you go?! What's new with you?!

Ewwww!

So I was reading the paper when I came across and article about a local family (with 2 little kids) who lost EVERYTHING in a house fire and they did not have insurance...they gave a couple of people's numbers to call if you had things to donate...well the woman is a size 12 and needed clothes, obviously...and I thought "hey!, I was going to just try and get rid of my size 12 clothes at our garage sale, why don't I donate them to her instead!!"

So I call the lady and she says she is in town and can drive by to pick them up right now! So I quickly go downstairs to rummage through our garage sale pile of things to find all the clothes I had packed up...When I look over and see THE LARGEST SPIDER I have EVER seen in my house EVER!!!! I screamed initially b/c I leaned into the web then I saw him on the ground...then I used the closest thing to me to kill the SOB! Closest thing was a set of car ramps in our garage sale pile...those things are NOT light and not easy to maneuver...so I gouged our wall (which we eventually plan on tearing out anyway) in the process and took like 10 stabs to kill this sucker! FINALLY I got him good and alas, he is no more...I hope I NEVER find another one that size EVER AGAIN!!! I still have the heebie jeebies!!

Have a clue? "Mrs. Plummer, in the basement, with the car ramps:"

HOLY COW, I'VE DONE IT!!

I have officially made it into my skinny jeans!! You know, the ones you keep in the bottom/back part of your drawer, hoping one day you will fit into them again...well, I DID IT! They fit perfect! Not too tight, not too big...PERFECT! I was SHOCKED when I tried them on...I almost cried! I have been working so hard to lose the baby weight and I am now back into my old wardrobe again...it is so exciting...thrilling, I can't even begin to express the feeling that I have! Butterflies in my stomach almost!! Ok, I am done rambling...I was just so excited, I wanted to shout it from the roof tops! WHOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Things that make you go awwwww....

Decovin looking like a big boy with his hat and back pack! It was really super cute! Camden wearing his Red Sox gear looking all cute!!
Bob & I all geared up and ready to go to the game! It was so fun!
Bob with the boys in the pool at Jim & Mendy's in Arkansas:
The four of us getting ready to take a tour of the War Eagle Cavern in Rogers, AR. It was ok, but not as stroller accessible as they led on to believe!! Oh well, we made it!!