The Post of Many Titles

Pretty much this is an update on the week. I've thought about posting each one as they happened but just couldn't get it together for whatever reason to do it. So here they are together, in one post, for your reading pleasure:)

Quinnisms:
These are just funny ways she says certain things:
When she wants me to turn my head and look at something she says, "fix your head this way"
Instead of saying next to me/you/Daddy, etc., she says ".....benext to me/you/Daddy, etc."
While in the car running errands on Friday:
Quinn: "Mommy, I'm getting sore. My bottom hurts"
Me: "I'm sorry baby. Is it because you haven't had a bath in a couple of days?"
Quinn: "No. It's because you're driving too fast silly. Drive slowly Mommy!"
And K.C. called this one into me at work today. After having lunch he gave the girls each one of those bite-sized 3 musketeer bars for dessert. This is what Quinn had to say about it after eating it: "MMMMMMMM. Chocolate covered chocolate! My FAVorite!"(she IS my daughter!)

Sydney Started It!
We're all sick. Except K.C. He somehow managed to avoid this round. Sydney started coughing and it sounded bad. I started sneezing and getting a sore throat. Quinn started losing her voice. THAT was tragic for her! The girls have chest colds and I have the whole head/chest combo cold. I can't remember the last time I slept through the night. Which makes my combo cold even more miserable. Usually both girls are up at least one point during the night - and it's usually different times. UGH! Needless to say, this is the reason I haven't posted anything in awhile. We skipped Stroller Strides Wednesday and Friday. I called in sick to work on Wednesday for the first time. We managed to get out for our monthly MOMs club meeting and to do some grocery shopping. Oh, and a hair appointment, but that's a different post. That's about all we did. I tried to sleep/rest in the afternoons while Sydney was napping. Quinn wouldn't hear of it. I don't know where she gets her energy. Why can't THAT be contagious?! I guess it could be worse. There was a little girl with her daddy at work yesterday (she was maybe 4 or 5). She had the horrible sounding cough that my girls have. All of a sudden - bbbaaarrrfffff. She threw up! I was just happy that I was on a register so couldn't leave to clean it up! They gave that fun job to a gal that just started working there that day. Welcome to Costco!

I Took It All Off!
My hair that is! Charissa gave me a fabulous new cut. It's so easy too. My hair always does so much better the shorter it is. I just get lazy and don't go in for cuts so it grows out and then begins this whole cycle of battling with it. I'm finally getting wiser and made my next appointment before I left from this appointment. I never had this problem in CO but it's just humid enough here that certain parts of it just flip up and it doesn't matter what I put in it, on it or around it. It still does that but I think it works with this new cut - or at least if I tuck it behind my ears you don't see the flip. Anyway, I'm vowing to keep up with it so that I don't have any more thoughts of shaving my head out of frustration!






Okay, so this picture isn't the best I've ever taken. I feel like crap here. My nose is all red from blowing it - always attractive! To top off the whole cold thing, I've got some weird thing going on with my eyes. I think it's an allergic reaction to some makeup or something but they are both red, swollen and gross! And you can't really see my hair here so don't know why I'm even posting it! Maybe just so you can see how pathetic I really am right now:) Does my nose look big to you? Does it always and I'm just now noticing? Or is it the whole coloring/lighting issue I've got going on? Great, yet another thing to obsess over.


Sign Of The Times
We are learning sign language! At Sydney's Little Gym class we learned a couple of signs (just the first couple of weeks - don't know if they keep forgetting or what but they haven't taught us any new ones recently). I was very impressed with both girls at how well they remembered the signs and how well they could do the signs. So, I thought what a great way to be able to communicate with them when we can't hear each other (should come in handy later in life probably - school functions etc.). I remember my sisters and I learning how to sign the alphabet from the back of a book or flyer out of a movie case or something. Looking back, I'm impressed we did that! Then we would try to 'talk' to each other at dinner and thought it was so funny that our parents didn't know what we were saying. Of course, spelling out each word took forever for us to do and forever for the other person to understand so we didn't do much talking. But it was fun! Later in life, my friend Kristie and I took some sign language classes in CO and had fun with it. That's a whole other story in itself for another day. I remember a few things from it so showed those signs to the girls. Anyway, I looked up some signs on ASL Browser and try to use them as often as possible. I always show the girls the new sign and 'quiz' them on the signs we've already learned. I am so impressed with their learning skills! They ARE little sponges! So these are the signs that they know so far:

play, eat, more, sorry, mother, father, sister, sweet, dreams, hungry, sleep and, of course, I love you. Not too bad for just a little over a week's worth of work!

Last Day on the Front End
Today was my last day working the front end. I'm off to the service deli tomorrow night. I got my hat & my shoe covers and have pulled my long underwear out of hiding so I'm all set to go. I have to get my food handlers card though and then do an in-house food handling deal. I sure hope it's all as good as I think it's going to be. I'm giving up 1-1/2 hours of time-and-a-half pay on Sundays - good for lowering my hours but bad for the loss of pay.

Well, I guess you're all caught up on our lives now:) I'm off to make and eat a Caesar salad and watch The Amazing Race and Desperate Housewives on dvr! Do I know how to have fun at 10:00 p.m. on a Sunday night or what?!