The many faces of Campbell

Campbell is a funny little fella.  Matt and I have been talking about the difference between Trigger and Campbell.  Trigger is bubbly. Campbell is serious.  Trigger is easily amused (and laughs at almost anything).  Campbell acts like you are stupid for singing silly songs or making noises to get him to smile or laugh.  Don’t get me wrong.  He laughs and smiles but it’s just not as easy as it is with Trigger.  Campbell is full of expressive faces though.  Here are a few!And when we don’t get attention or get our way…

Poor Campbell…he’s so abused.  haha…that’s HILARIOUS…he’s so SPOILED!

Our walmart trip

first let me start out by saying that I survived!  I shouldve posted this right after I got home because it was a tad like giving birth in that as time goes on, you convince yourself that IT REALLY WASN”T THAT BAD, RIGHT?!?!  How do we fool ourselves like that?  I  guess it’s a good thing we can lie to ourselves because I’m pretty sure I would have NEVER had Campbell!  :)

Let me just give you the run down of the day (yesterday).

Campbell didn’t get up as early as he usually does.  So this threw our whole schedule off…NOT the way I needed to start my day!  Anyway, he didn’t go down for a nap until 9:30 and slept until 11:30.  When he got up, I had to feed him (of course) and then by the time I got everyone loaded up, it was 12:15.  I am not sure how this happens but it takes me FOREVER to get both boys in the car and start backing down the driveway!  I KNEW this was a horrible idea.  I mean who takes their kids to walmart right before an afternoon nap….apparently people like me!  We got there and I told Trigger what his bribery prize would be:  a cookie.  He was all pumped about getting a cookie and was sooo ready to be a good little boy.  I got the grocery cover on the cart and both boys in the buggy.  We headed inside.  First, We headed over to the pharmacy side of the store.  Well, heavens to betsy….why does walmart hate me.  They so proudly display those stupid motorized cars/gators up in the air so that ALL little boys can drool.  However, my little boy did not drool.  He started crying and saying “mama, I wanna ride it”.  To which I responded, “maybe you should ask Santa for one”.  WHY DID I SAY THAT?!?!  Stupid, stupid me.  He has harrassed me since that moment about when Santa was “bringin my car from walmark”.  In fact, he couldn’t go to sleep for his nap today because he wanted to know if santa was at “walmark” getting his car.  Well, after that little diversion in Walmart, we moved on to the grocery side.  At this point, I gave Trigger my iphone and told him to watch the pirate show…gotta LOVE modern technology!!!!!!  That entertained him for a little bit.  While Trigger was good and quiet, Campbell started crying and wanting me to pick  him up.  I could NOT do such a thing because the buggy was already getting heavy and hard to push withOUT a baby on my hip.  Trigger quickly gave me my phone back and proceeded to go through everything in the buggy.  Then, Campbell kept turning around and trying to dig his fingers in the meat (YUCK).  I kept turning him back around, and he kept screaming!  When we reached the frozen section, I made a choice, a POOR choice (seems like I’m making many of those lately…it’s like my brain is a little fuzzy or something)…I took Trigger out of the buggy because he kept kicking all of my groceries AND there really wasn’t any room left!!!  We had a talk about how he had to stay close because someone could take him from me…because he is a rather cute little boy :)….and he promised me that he would stay close and keep his hands on the buggy/me.  Of course he felt like he needed to push the buggy everywhere.  In the middle of the produce, while I was putting my bananas in a bag, it happened.  Trigger looked at me, looked off, looked at me, and ran.  At the same time, he was turning around smiling at me as if he were just daring me to come get him.  Well, I DID go get him.  I yanked him up and dragged him back to the buggy where I had left my baby (it seriously wasn’t that far but still)….I bent down to talk to trigger and trigger HIT ME!  well, there you go, he LOST HIS bribery treat right THEN and THERE!!!  So he holds onto the buggy while we make our way to the fruit.  I’m trying to pick out some kiwi because Trigger LOVES kiwi.  He is standing by the buggy and I see him doing it but cant stop him fast enough…PICKED UP AN APPLE and took a huge bite out of it.  He tried to put it back but I did grab it before he did.  AND, we did purchase the apple!  I got the rest of my things and we went to the checkout counter.  Thankfully, there are not many crazy people at walmart at noon PLUS (and this is very interesting to me) there are more checkers during the weekday (during the day..when most people are working) than there are on Saturday and SUNDAY (when everyone in Ruston is there).  We walked right up and I started  unloading.. the whole time I was a wreck trying to unload buggy,  keep an eye on Trigger, AND keep a hand on Campbell so he didn’t catapult himself out of the buggy.  I finally made Trigger sit on the ground beside me…WHAT?!?!  Yes, MY DID!  (sorry, I’m talking like Trigger)  I know that is utterly disgusting but I figured that he’d already had his hands all over that nasty buggy AND taken a bite out of a nasty apple that tons a people had touched sooooo it probably wouldn’t hurt his bottom to touch walmart’s floor.  actually, when I put it that way, I think the floor was better than the hands on buggy and the germs on apple.  AND, I’ll deal with the sickness later as long as I have peace of mind that he’s not running off or kidnapped!  So, as soon as the buggy was cleared out, I put Trigger back in the buggy and let him stand.  I was determined that he would fit in the buggy with all the bags so that I didn’t have to worry about him in the parking lot.  I pay…while I am paying I realize that I do NOT have my license or my debit card in my wallet…it was in my back pocket of my jeans for the day before.  SERIOUSLY!!! thankfully, I did have my credit card so I used that but I was praying that she didn’t ask for my license and she didn’t.  We get out to the car and the last straw was when Trigger picked up my bag of tomatoes and threw them out of the buggy.  I put them in the car, drove home, put them in their beds, and then unloaded everything from the car.  I was completely and utterly exhausted!

Im sorry to say that I did NOT take any pictures of our lovely trip…im pretty sure you can guess why!

I have a few NOTES:

1. Matt read my last post and said, “hello…you didn’t give me credit….I used to go to the store all the time for you”.  He is correct.  He used to go to walmart for me.  There is the credit.  However, I must say that he didn’t have a 9 month old and a 2.5 year old in the buggy with him.  :)

2. Matt just looked over and said, “what are you doing?”  I responded “Im writing a blog post about our walmart trip”  Matt: “seriously…that looks like an encyclopedia entry for the civil war”  I just have to say that I felt like I had been through a war after being in walmart with my two offspring.  haha…okay…not really but it sounded funny!

Now, I’m gonna actually work on a post with pictures and try to forget that that crazy trip ever happened….the sad part is that I will forget and probably attempt again next week….or maybe the next! 

Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Im gonna attempt to make a big grocery store run with both boys! I take them all the time with me but not for a full blown grocery shopping experience. Since Campbells joined our family, I try to go on Mdo days (so I just have Campbell) or I go back at night after both boys are in bed! BUT, matt is working at night so I can't go then and both boys have been sick so no Mdo (and definitely no walmart)!
We Need the essentials. We need food for me to cook or food so I don't have to cook...either way, I've got to do it but I'm Sooooo not looking forward to it!
Again, I'm far behind on blogging but who cares, right?!? I'll get to it eventually! Yesterday, mrs Arva came to clean the house (at 800) AND triggers OT came for therapy (at 745) so we had to be up and moving and ready for chaos! After therapy was over, the boys and I headed to Lizs and we up and decided to take the boys to Monroe to go to target (been needing to go for weeks) and Liz needed to pick up some mounted ducks for the camp. Random combination, isn't it?! Anyway, the boys were exhausted when we got back bc it was 230 and both usually nap around 1. I put them both down at Lizs so they could get to sleep quickly...hahaha! I made the mistake of putting t down in just his shirt and pullup. It was a little warm and he had on jeans so I thought WHY NOT...well, that didn't end so well. I heard him in there talking and playing. I went in to threaten and he had his pullup off and had teetee all over the bed. GREAT...he knows better than this...he completely did it on purpose! That child!!!! At the same time, my oh so sweet (but very manipulative) baby was screaming his head off in Lizs crib. Soooo. What did i do? I packed the crew up and took us home...they BOTH fell sound asleep in the car! Of course I had to document since I think it's the first time it's happened!






Don't judge me. Trigger still has his paci. But these ear infections and illnesses that both have had since October are getting to me and the LAST thing I need right now is to take a paci away too...eventually, we will. I'm sure that's why he fell asleep bc he never is allowed to have a paci out of his bed!
So the boys both slept for awhile...I did not sleep...I'm not sure what's gotten into me but I'm like a go go go little bunny (I did NOT refer to myself as the energizer bunny bc I do NOT have energy. Just an overwhelming need to get something, anything done at this house!). Matt got home, supper was ready so he went to wake up trigger...something had been off with him all day! Matt brought him into the kitchen and I felt of him and he was burning up. Checked his temp. 102.6. Great! Just finished an antibiotic on Sunday and Monday night we have fever...I just do NOT understand what I'm doing wrong. We rarely leave our house bc of these illnesses. We did ALL go to church on Sunday for the first time in FOREVER!!! I dosed trigger with some Motrin so he could sleep. He woke up this morning with NO fever and did not have any at all today...who knows! He's complained a few times of his stomach hurting but you really can't believe what he complains about bc it's usually not that accurate! ;)
My fingers are crossed that it was some weird bug and it's gone or maybe it was a fluke in our thermometer. Who knows.
All I know is I've got to get in bed, make my walmart list, and rest up for my big trip to walmart with BOTH boys....both boys!!! if I say it over and over, maybe I'll be prepared! Let me just say this in my defense for those of you rolling your eyes like it's no big deal to take both...trigger sits in the big part bc he would never be seen again if he were allowed to walk beside me...he's not ready for that type of freedom just yet! And, he acts like he's never eaten a single morsel of food while we are in there and insists upon opening ever single package that I put into the buggy! And when told "no", meltdown, screaming fit. Like our last trip when i told him that he couldnt play with paintbrushes and stain and he started screaming (and wailing) "i want my daddy...i want my daddy". Fun times! Meanwhile, Campbell cries for me to hold him OR cranes around so he can see trigger and try to grab his hair OR grab the packages/boxes that his big brother is tearing into! I'm telling you...I'm gonna need a sedative! Oh and don't think I won't have that wooden spoon in my purse. It will be there...peeping out of the middle zipper...just in case it is needed! Bless their hearts...I think I need a sedative...did I say that already?
Night night!


Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

My cheap pick-me-up

Those of you that know me well, know that i LOVE all things old and charming. I love old furniture and I am not really not a fan of new furniture. Don't get me wrong...we have a lot of new furniture and very few old pieces. You see, my husband does not share my love for old stuff....in fact it creeps him out! We have my armoire that i got when i was in elementary...he does not like it...we have my grandparents end table in our living room that is about to fall apart and he says it can't be fixed bc he doesn't like it....well. It's staying!! Oh and need i remind everyone of my great 35 dollar dresser that i refinished RED that Matt does NOT like. Well, this week i went by callie's corner and found several treasures! First, i found this chair....



it's a shade of grey right now...im gonna paint it black and recover the cousin of course....and guess what i paid? FIVE dollars!!!!!! Matt actually said this purchase was ok. Then, I bought an old window to do something with...havent decided yet. My first thought was that i would hang it above our couch and hang picture frames by ribbon in each pane. Then i started thinking grander thoughts....like wouldn't it be cool to make an end table and have the window as a top...I've seen this done and it looks great....but is that the most practical with children....but it would replace my grndparents table that Matt doesn't like. I also found an old door that i bought. It was already painted and looked very, very old. I LOVED it and was going to sand it and paint it for ts headboard....I was going to pick it up today,...but as i laid in bed, i realized that that beautiful chipped, antique paint on the door was probably LEAD paint! Sooooo i backed oout and will wait on a panel door that is not painted! I just cant risk the chance of lead paint and im not going thru the process of getting rid of it!
Ok....so what this post is all about....THIS beauty.


I was just about to leave yesterday when i saw it out of the corner of my eye. I have been wanting a solid wood/antiqueish desk for our bedroom. Matt works so much and tries to stay home some nights and work from here. Sooooo. We have a plastic table set up with a desk top computer with TWO monitors...beyond me of why you would ever need two...and he has THREE at work! Anyway, I fell in love!!!! Should i even bother to tell you matts feelings on it...hates it...he just keeps saying, "if your happy, then I'm happy." blah blah blah....i don't even get a " wow...you went out of your way with BOTH boys to go find us a good bargain". Oh well....I love it..callie told me that this is a desk/table from a greenhouse....how cool! And check out the top...LOVE it....it's so warped and screwed up and i absolutely adore it!



Well. I picked it up at noon today...then headed straight to walmart. That was a disaster...both boys were tired. I had to carry campbell because i forgot his cover and i pushed triggerin the buggy. Trigger had his first public meltdown bc i had been telling him to stop screaming...he was just doing it to be difficult. I got in his face and told him he better not yell again or he was going to be in trouble...i dont think he let me finish before he was screaming....soooo like a good mother, i grabbed his cheeks and squeezed them and told him no....he screamed and cried and melted down and was yelling, "I want my daddy" over and over....it was quite embarrassing. Luckily, I was in the paint section and there were hardly any people around. Bc of the embarrassment, i forgot my black paint for my beautiful chair. :(
Anyway, after the boys went down tonight, i hightailed it to the shop. I sanded, sanded, and sanded some more....and then i stained the desk. Tis is after my first coat.



And here is the top.


Remember that i don't want it looking perfect...i want it worn! And the great part about this desk is that it has a little ledge on the side (where I'm sure pots for planting where stored) that will hold our tower perfectly. I am beyond excited!!!!!
Matt is speechless....and i don't think in a good way. Haha...I'm just kidding...he sticking to the "if you are happy with, im happy with it" yuck...just go ahead and say you hate it!! I love him and all his quirkiness...he is daily reminding more and more of my dad!
I've been a busy girl today and I'm tired and already sore...sad, i know! Im off to bed!!!

Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Feeling blah

Let me start this post by saying that i know how ridiculous every tiny bit of this is going to sound but I'm venting...trying to not bottle all of this up. Plus, I think it's funny to go back later in life to laugh at what i thought was such a big deal at the time. This will be a bullet post and will be quite random. Sorry about that but thats pretty much how my brain works....just a bunch of random thoughts running rampant in my tiny brain!

-- I'm listening to Travis cottrell. I absolutely LOVE, LOVE his music. I had the pleasure of going to see Beth Moore before we had children. We had just had a miscarriage in december and found out we were pregnant again in march...a few days after taking the test, i went to see Beth Moore in Shreveport. I miscarried for the second time about a week later. Not sure why i just told that but I really just remembered being in the centurytel center and needed to go to the bathroom a lot. Anyway, I was on such an emotional roller coaster those few years of trying to get pregnant, miscarrying twice, lots of fertility procedures/tests/drugs, and two very long pregnancies. It was such an awesome experience to hear beth Moore during that time in my life. Travis cottrell was the worship leader. At the time i had never really heard of him. He was AWESOME! I listen to him all the time but for some reason his worship music is particularly my fav during times of blah.
-- 75% of the time i think i want another baby. The 25% of the time that i don't would be this week when i have both boys sick. This is pretty open of me but those of you that know me, know that i will pretty much tell you anything you ask....I'm not really a secretive person and i certainly want to always be open, honest, and real to my friends. Because of my blood clotting issues, i am unable to take birth control. I have been told by my drs that i need to take monthly pregnancy tests so that IF i were to get pregnant, we could start me on my blood thinners immediately so we wouldnt miscarry. Each and EVERY month I am disappointed when it says "not pregnant". Isn't that ridiculous? Am i going to feel this way always. I love our family of four. We have been told that we can't get pregnant on our own....but I KNOW that's not true. Our God is bigger than that! What in the world would i do with three children? I can't even control the ones i have right now. Laugh....but I'm not joking!
--trigger is so out of control lately. I dont know if it his ears or the fact that he's two or if there is truly something medically wrong with him but he is about to Do ME IN!! Seriously, the yelling and screaming and rage is too much! I'm really feeling like somewhat of a failure of a parent lately!
-- sickness....I'm so tired of it...trigger is on ear infection #7 since the end of October. Campbell is on #3 since December. T is headed to dr Neal. Our ped doesnt feel like c needs to go yet.
-- I'm 99.9% ready for spring. I'm loving this weather....but I'm Not convinced that it's here to stay.
-- Im so worried about my husband. Seriously doubt he's reading this because he doesn't have the time so i can say what i want. He works too much. He has the BEST work ethic that i have ever seen. Seriously, he does. He told me way before we got married that I should always give 110% in everything i do. I told him that was stupid (obviously i don't have agreat work ethic) bc you just cant possibly give 110% in everything. Well, he tries and its going to kill him! He's had drs tell him to slow down and stop working so much but he doesn't. People think that cpas work during "busy season" and then they have a free ride the rest of the year. Not the case! He works a lot of hours all year. In fact, in 2010, he had worked what most full-time employees work in a whole year, by beginning of september. The only down time he really gets is November. He has been working all day, coming home for supper and to put kids down and then goes back to work....works until 2 or 3 (345 last night) in the morning. He's beyond exhausted....and he still has two months until he's met this deadline. I just dont think he gets it...and don't think he will until he's had a heart attack or something worse. I seriously sit up thinking about his health and what we would do without him. I even said to Liz the other day, "I'm such a hard sleeper....what if something happens to him during the night while driving (bc hes so tired im scared hes gonna fall asleep while driving)...our doorbell is not hooked up (bc of boys sleeping) and what if the police knock and i dont hear them." liz's response was "honey, we will get to you!" I know I'm ridiculous but I worry.,,,I know i shouldn't and i know its not good for my bp....and i know, know, know that i need to trust God. I am trying
...and i truly do know that He will take care of me know matter what my future holds. But, im scared! I had a parent die...I dont want my children to EVER experience something like that!
-- please pray for my husband!
-- I know this is stupid but easter is AFTER tax season this year....that rarely happens...not that Matt will have any energy but I'm glad he'll be able to fully participate in all activities!
-- we think often about adopting a child in the future. Makes me sad to think of all the Babies without a home...I know how adoption can change lives and id love to be that for a child. We shall see....
-- I haven't been to church in so long...my children have literally been sick back to back since October except for about three weeks when they were well
-- trigger has not been going to sleep good. He has always been an awesome sleeper but in the last week, it takes him an hour or so to go to sleep
Okay...think that's all my ramblings for tonight. Im sorry to just thrown my heart out onto our blog....but congrats if you made it this far reading without falling asleep. I'm off to fold a mountain of socks...yuck!!!!!




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

our great love

Did you think this was a post about Valentines?  You are WRONG!  This post is about our love of pacis!  Well…it’s really on Trigger’s love.  BUT, since it helps him to sleep and make my life easier, it’s sort of my love too! :)  Lately, when Campbell and I go to get Trigger up from his nap, I will put Campbell on the bed and he makes a beeline to Trigger’s mouth.  THEN, Campbell is DETERMINED to get Trigger’s paci.  The funny thing is that Campbell doesn’t even like pacis. 

Check out that bedhead…that’s also before he had his AWFUL haircut but that’s another story.I had gone and gotten some of Campbell’s old pacis for him to chew on and Trigger had to steal some of those…I guess brothers share everything!These were all taken a few weeks ago when Trigger and Campbell were sick…during one of Trigger’s ear infections and Campbell’s croup which is why in most of these pictures that I have been posting lately, we are NOT dressed and USUALLY in pjs! Btw, we are going to Dr. Neal next Tuesday about Trigger’s ears (Left ear).  After 6 ear infections since october, I think it’s time to do something!I don’t think I have mentioned this but Trigger knows how to get in Campbell’s bed.  This picture below:  I had JUST put Campbell down for a nap.  He was SOUND ASLEEP.  I walked to our room and came back to find Trigger…found him in bed with Campbell.  He had gone in Campbell’s room and climbed in bed with him.  AND, of course, woke him up!!!  I couldve harmed that little boy! :)I think I have mentioned that Tuesday/Thursday (MDO) days are NOT my favorite….and that is strange because I know most momma’s love their days that they get a break.  Those days just mess up Campbell’s schedule and he is cranky all day because both of his naps are messed up because of drop off and pick up times.  Then, I usually pick up mr. cranky (trigger) because he doesn’t get his 2-2.5 hour nap.  So, they both whine and cry all evening! YAY!  Anyway, this picture below is what I see every time I open the door when we get home from dropping off Trigger.  SOUND ASLEEP.  The problem is that I can NOT transfer this child.  I could usually transfer Trigger but NOT Campbell.Here are a few pictures of my two sick boys…sorry if their snotty noses bothers  you.  I wanted to remember what we have dealt with pretty much this whole winter!

well…that’s all I know tonight.

Oh wait…do you skype.  I don’t…until recently…and the ONLY time I do is at night.  Matt has been working at night so we skype while he works.  it has made such a difference for me.  Matthew is already sooo exhausted.  It worries me that he works so much.  I know this lack of sleep is not good for his body!!! 

Our T-Man

Let me just say that I LOVE THIS LITTLE BOY…but he is testing my patience lately! ;)  The yelling and screaming and “no, Ma-MA” is getting a little old… but I still love him no matter what.

Let me just document a few things real quick (probably a few things that I shouldn’t put up for public viewing/reading but I really want to remember these things):

• Today, I (actually Matt has too) have cleaned up tons of spit-up (from Campbell), poop off fingers for the second day in a row (if you are going to poop in your diaper, why would you find it necessary to stick your finger in it and come to show me), and tee-tee off our column….Trigger actually tee-teed on our column tonight.  SERIOUSLY!?!  what is wrong with him???? 
• Trigger calls my boobs “boots”.  The other day I told him that he would have to wait because I need to feed Campbell and he started shaking his head saying “no, no, no, I don’t wann see boots”.  Ha…poor thing is warped!
• Trigger is so rough…he gets in trouble all the time for hurting Campbell..so much so that he usually starts apologizing as soon as Campbell starts crying.  LIKE tonight when he slammed Campbells forehead onto the ground with his hands! ;(  He IS ALL BOY!!!!!

I’m sure there are a million other things but I’m ready to go to bed.  Campbell’s fifth tooth (and his 6th will be coming through in a week or so…it’s close too) is soooo about to come through and he has been so fussy!  I’m sure he will be up ANY minute!