So on the 22nd I was able to go with to Calleigh's Physical Therapy ( PT) appointment. I wanted to see what all they do and how they help Calleigh get to where she is now. So Kim graciously let me join in. I used her phone to take some photos of what I saw at this therapy session. The strap around her waist ( shown in below photo) helps to keep her legs from going out to the side which helps her to stay up on her knees better. In this photo they are using her juice to get her to crawl to.
Her therapy sessions last an hour. And in the hour the therapist does different things, to help Calleigh with muscle tone stability. And even to hold herself in moving objects. I did not get a photo of that but it was neat. To me looked like fun. but Calleigh wasn't so sure.
Below you can see the strap I was talking about better from the front. Here Miss Kate ( her therapist) and Kim ( her mother) are trying to get her to stand up. Well as you can see on her face she is not happy about that.
As you can see they finally got Calleigh to stand. It took some time but with a little coaxing from mom with a sippy filled with juice, she finally did it.
Calleigh is just about 3 1/2 months younger then Logan. Making her just over 14 months to his almost 18 month. Because of what is called Prader-Willi- syndrome, she has poor muscle tone and has worked hard and on special formula to get to the weight that she is now. Her therapy sessions help to get her using these muscles and to get her up to where she needs to be age wise for her physically. In the whole time I have known Calleigh she has been a surprising little girl. And Wows me every time I get to see her.
This is my Niece Calleigh and she has Prader willi Syndrome.
Maybe sometime soon I'll get to go for another Therapy session. Its really neat how they work with her and some of the other things ( not pictured) are used for things that we take for granite with our bodies. That this little one works hard to accomplish. I love you My little princess niece Keep up the awesome work.
Love your Aunt Stephanie
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The 22nd of June Calleigh PT
Thursday, July 1, 2010
So today's 24 week photo shoot went much better. Thank you Kimberly for doing another set. I wore all black and it helped alot. we didnt get any newer belly shots but Im sure more will be to come. I have set myself up as a guinne pig sorta speak for My sister in law to practice her maternity shoots on. Since she is just starting out and getting her portfolio started.
Today we were supposed to go and get the supplies for that so that I could get started on it. I have a time limit for the 15th to get it done. I am excited to do it for her though. It will be fun. I actually wasn't expecting her to even ask me for that. I have actually been excited at times that I think im being a pest. But hey when you have a time limit you need supplies ASAP.
Well here is a sneak peak at what we got today for our photo shoot with Kimberly. More are to come the end of the month that will have daddy and brother involved and daddy son pics. Cant wait for those.
Our Portfolio hunting trip was postponed till tomorrow cause we had a late start today and so it was one or the other. I really wanted a re-shoot for my 24 week shots cause of how washed out I was looking. I also figured that this would give Kim that little extra to choose from for her Portraits to print for her portfolio. So tomorrow morning ( now this morning) we will drop off the photos to be printed in a package then go hunting for supplies. Then on the way home we can pick them up. Then I will start on it tomorrow night.
I guess I am excited to do this cause with me being family and her using her time for the photo shoots and editing. I am able to thank her by doing a good job on a portfolio that will help her gain Paying clientele. I also offer her my hairstyling services at no cost for same reasons she does her photography for me. Family ties.
Well I really have to go I have laundry to get done dishes to do and a table to clear off for my project that is to start tomorrow after work.
So today ( yesterday morning) I had my 24 wk photo shoot with my photographer/ sister-in- law Kim. We have some good pictures although I don't care for how my shirt made me look washed out.
this does not have anything to do with her photography just my lack of thinking lol. Well here is a sneak peak. A newer hopefully better shoot to come tomorrow.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Logan's First time with Water-wings
At first he was fine putting them on, then he realized what was happening so I then ended up having to have Amber help me get them on him. I had to have her hold his arms out like a t shape so that I could blow them up. I did the back side she did the front.
Once they were on it was just getting him into and used to the water. And he was not having that at all, there for a while.
Chris, my soon to be brother in law, took him for a few so that I could get used to the water. At first Logan was uneasy about me letting go of him. Then he saw and wanted to get to the wall and was fine. The best part was when a set of cute 2year old twins came to the pool, Logan totally didnt even realize no one was holding him and was set on them and getting to Mommy.
Below is what should be a movie, first time I've uploaded to blogspot from Picasa 3 so not sure if it will come out as a video or not but i hope so. If not its still a great pic of him by himself
Monday, June 28, 2010
The Home-front
Things on the home-front have been smooth sailing for a couple weeks. Its been such a nice break from all the DRAMA that was headed our way constantly. I don't feel so tired like I was when we had all the DRAMA. Most likely cause drama causes stress and stress causes sleepless nights and just plain makes ya tired even with sleep.
Logan is back to his own room and after a couple nights of little hassle he now know it as his play area and his safe haven for rest. He even stays quiet sometimes just so we let him be in there after his naps. He lets us know when he is ready for us to get him.
Him back in his own room only means one thing. Were back in our own room too. And have been sleeping like babies since we got it back. Which is probably another good reason why I'm not as exhausted even if only going on a few hours of sleep.
Back to Logan. We now have all 4 of his K-9 teeth in view. So the worst of the teething seems to be done for now. Now we just wait for them to finish coming down / up. After that we should be done teething for a few months to a year unless he gets his 2 year molars early.
As for our apartment, things are going better. Laundry is much easier to keep up on and get put away. Cause I don't have to worry about getting it all put away while Logan is awake. I can get it done and folded and depending on if he is asleep or not depends on if his clothes are put away first or last. If he is asleep I can get the majority of the laundry folded and put away then all I have to worry about is Logan's which isn't very much and doesn't take that long.
With the good changes in when chores are done I have more time to spend with my family. Cause I can get chores done while Logan is asleep and have the time that he is awake to play and spend time with him and Jeremy. Which always makes for a happier Mommy/Wifey
Gabriel and I have our Dr appt. on Tuesday morning at 10 am. I can never wait to hear his heart beat. Its soo exciting every time I hear it. I get my monthly weigh in and every thing is checked out. I cannot remember when it is that I start going bi weekly to the appts but with less then 4 months left I know its going to be soon. Luckily I have a day off that I always have off so that I dont have to guess as to when I can get in for my appts.
In 4 weeks I go in for my Rhogam shot. For those that dont know what that is... I have what is called -RH blood factor and It basically makes it where my body will attack the baby. This is were the Rhogam shot comes in. It basically tells my body that its OK not to be alarmed. I get this shot 2x once at 28 weeks then again after the baby's birth.
For a better explanation go to this site It will tell you what you would like to know,
http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,4429,00.html
Well as for now I am off its late and my boys will have me up early LUKILY tomorrow is MY FRIDAY!!!!
Monday, June 21, 2010
sometimes goodbye is a second chance
What I feel about not necessarily my parents like it says in the song and not even about certain in-laws. This is geared towards all the DRAMA that shouldn't have even been started. f
My eyes are open wide
And by the way, I made it
Through the day
I watched the world outside
By the way, I'm leaving out Today
I just saw Hayley's comet,
shoo-ting
Said ,"Why you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
Somewhere in the stratosphere"
[Chorus]
Tell my mother,
Tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying...
Sometimes goodbye
Is a second chance
Please don't cry
One tear for me
I'm not afraid of
What I have to say
This is my one and
Only voice
So listen close, it's
Only for today
I just saw Hayley's comet, shoo-ting
Said ,"Why you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
Somewhere in the stratosphere"
[Chorus]
Tell my mother,
Tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying...
Sometimes goodbye
Is a second chance
Heres my chance
This is my chance
Tell my mother,
Tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying...
Sometimes goodbye
Is a second chance
Sometimes goodbye
Is a second chance [x2]
Second Chance by shinedown
Sunday, June 20, 2010
A Very Happy Fathers Day.
Today was a great day for me. I was able to request today off to spend with my Wonderful husband and my son, on father's day.
We started out by going to the park before it got hot went from about 7-8 am. It was such a beautiful morning I didn't want to leave. We played on the slide and the little bouncy toys and walked around in the grass. Then the sprinklers came on. Yep! You guessed it! Dad showed them to Logan. Yep! You guessed it right again. Logan tromped his way through the sand to get to them. He was hesitant and wouldn't let them get him at first. Then a little bit later Logan was walking away from them and well, the back of him got totally soaked. At first he cried. Then he gave one of them really cute little shiver shake and started laughing. We then sat under the gazebo. Talking and enjoying the nice breeze that came through.
Dad started getting a little tired and wanted to go home. Logan decided then, that he wasn't done playing. So since Dad was the one that wanted to leave. Dad got to get him and bring him to the car. I was waiting in the car already getting it cooled down. You could tell he did not want to leave. He was fighting the over daddy shoulder method. It was funny to watch cause Jeremy was kinda laughing at Logan's behavior. But I can't blame the kid for not wanting to leave the park since we live in an apartment that lacks a-lot of room for him to really run.
On our way home we could tell Logan was tired and I definatly was after only getting 3 1/2 hours sleep. Seeings how Logan and Dad was up at 5:30, so that's when they got me up. So the next thing on our list was to go home and have our naps. Before that we had to go to the market for some bell peppers for the Daddy dinner we were making for Jeremy and His Brother Andrew.
We came home and laid Logan down. Then we had ourselves a nap. we all had a good 3 hour nap. Unusual for Jeremy, man it was nice to nap with my honey cuddling with me.
After our nap we got started on making the marinade for our chicken, Pineapple chicken! We made it with 1 whole pineapple minus the center that Logan so happily chomped on till he decided he was done. It also had Soy sauce and Brown sugar, We added our own touch by adding honey to it as well.
1 whole pineapple... juiced
1/2 c. Brown sugar ...packed
1/3 cup soy sauce
Honey... to liking.
Mix with wisk till fully blended. Pour over chicken and let marinade till ready to cook. Ours was done on low in a wok with a lid on it.
I think that the same recipe would work well for a gravy.
We had dinner at my brother and sister in law Andrew and Kim's. Kim made a Butterfinger cheesecake. Though the flavor was Scrumptious, the texture ended up more like a mix between a custard and cheesecake.
The night was good. The boys got to spend well needed brother time. And also got some issues talked out from previous drama that has recently occurred. And us Girls talked played with the kids and got some photos finished edited so that I could get my mothers day disk. I also got some time in with my Nieces that I'm supposedly not supposed to see. (Mother in law doesn't want me to cause she cant see Logan) But as Kim and I see it they are KIM's kids and if she wants someone to be able to see them that is her right no one elses. ( Except Andrew)
I am so Happy that there wasn't any Drama to Ruin Fathers day for the two guys. I'm sure Kim would agree that It is a relief to go a day without drama spoiling it.
Well thats all on this subject.
P.S. I know you'll read this, Happy Fathers Day Daddy and Dennis I love you both equally as MY DADS. The luckiest girls get more then one Man that wants them to be their Dad and I'm one of them.
Friday, June 18, 2010
More sister in Law Drama 6-17
And Im sorry that you think me wanting drama to stay out of my page is such a horrible reason for blocking people from my page and makes me "childish and immature". I have flat out written that on my myspace blog and it states it on my facebook wall. I told you the reason why you were blocked and when you had been blocked so for you to assume that you were blocked from my children was wrong thinking on your part. And it wasnt two days ago from the 31st you wrote me on the 28th about it and I unblocked you the same day you asked me about it so that you could see the pictures.
I never had a problem with you as a person. I just wished you had a little more common curtesy to help more around the house especially before you were pregnant. I understand that you have not had the best luck for your pregnancy so far and did not take that against you in the least, but paul could have helped out more esp when you started not to feel good. And the fact that he was not working.
Another thing that irritated me was your lack of communication with rent. You always waited till last minute to tell us have paul tell us or I didnt hear anything at all and just waited till jeremy handed it to me and told me it was from you for rent. That made it difficult to budget what we had to spend for house hold items and when fs was lowered made it hard to budget money for groceries.
I really hope that things do look up for you so that you can enjoy the rest of your pregnancy. I hope that Trystan is doing well.
I just hope we can work through the issues and at least be able to talk when in the same room even if you never consider me to be a friend. That is fine. But if we can at least be respectful of each other and how each other feels that would be nice. You guys are more then welcome to come over to visit anytime as long as there is some notice in case we have plans. I never intended to make you mad at me for anything or to piss you off. And about the wedge in the family. Until recently I always encouraged jeremy to go visit you guyses mom when he was feuding with her. And you can ask jeremy that yourself and he will tell you. He made the choice to keep logan from your mom because of being tired of the drama that she creates not me. You were not here when he made that phone call to her.
But that is all I have to say. If anything offends you then im sorry but that is how I feel and how I felt at the time that certain situations was going on. Take it as you please. And jeremy is always more then welcome to know anything that I say to any one. If he asks me about it I tell him the truth even if I have to read him what i write word for word. I hide nothing from him.
Yes, i agree i could have helped more, but after i helped you clean the entire house and jeremy just sat there i was annoyed. then when you cleaned it again you once again allowed him to just sit on his computer but you complained about me not helping. before we moved in you constantly complained about jeremy and then after you complained about us. we did pick up the living room and bathroom. i did a few times when i first moved in but i stopped because you guys would let logan trash it and not pick it up. paulie did the same thing with the bathroom. he cleaned it and you guys, the very next day, had your dirty clothes all over the bathroom. and im sorry but there were many times when you were unemployed that you didnt clean up. i was there. jeremy and you fought about it cause he didnt understand why you didnt pick up. but paulie, on the other hand, did pick up after us. he isnt your guys maid though and you shouldnt expect him to pick up after everyone. and we didnt get mad when you asked us to pick up, it was HOW you asked. you werent "blunt" you were rude.
dont even mention me yelling about the food. you are the last one to talk stephanie. ive personally heard you yell about your food being gone; cereal, graham crackers, granola bars, etc. i mean you went as far as to not buy foods like cake or whaever because you didnt get enough of them. and about the wic stuff. wow. to quote you "i could be a real bitch and not let anyone eat this stuff because technically its all supposed to be for me." you guys never even bothered to ask me about the wic stuff, you went to paulie and said it should be for everyone and i didnt say anything about it. i figured it would be for everyone.
you didnt even tell jeremy what you were saying to his family. he had no idea that aunt missy was even mad. im sorry i thought he deserved to know why everyone didnt want him around. maybe i didnt tell him the whole thing, i just told him what the person was mad about. but no matter how much i was annoyed or irritated with you, i never went and blocked you. you know, if you didnt say things like you do there would be no need to hide your page from people. and its not wrong thinking for me to assume you would block me from the baby's pictures seeing as how that was the only album blocked. i could see all the pictures but those of him. so if you blocked me so long ago why would those be included?
as far as talking to you about rent, i talked to jeremy. why would i talk to you? you were bitchy and rude because you didnt want us there. and everyone knew it. we knew it by the way you talked to us and the looks you gave. and i know youre going to try and say you didnt but you did. and it doesnt matter who talks to you about it as long as someone does, whether i talk to jeremy or paulie talks to you. and im sorry but you guys lectured me on buying a five dollar pizza when we were complaining about money but you guys started complaining and then i dont know how many times i saw fast food wrappers and bags and all the makeup and just crap you would buy from work. i know you get a discount but still, if youre really hurting you wouldnt be doing that. it was really hard when there was no food in the house and you guys would go get fast food instead of going to the store, leaving us nothing to eat.
like im to the point now where i dont want to be around jeremy. i cant talk to him without getting some rude offensive message from you? oh and i heard what you told kim about us. how we left you a huge mess and you didnt know how we could live in there. THERE WERE ROACHES ALL OVER THE APT. IVE SEEN YOU SLEEPING ON THE COUCH AND HAVE ROACHES CRAWL ACROSS YOU! YOUR OWN MOM DOESNT LIKE YOU COMING OVER CAUSE YOU LEAVE A MESS.
i love logan and jeremy and i will love my nephew as well but i cant take the way you talk to me or my family. you say everyone needs to respect your opinion, well be respectful when you speak and they just might. and i also heard about the "joke" you made about andrew's middle name. thats not funny. its not something you joke about. george loves andrew and gave him that name. you should have asked andrew or talked to him about it before deciding on giving him that name anyway. im sure andrew would have been excited. its these hurtful comments that you make that i cant stand. there are things you say and dont say, and things you joke about and dont. yes, this message sounds bitchy. but i just dont know how else to say this because yours was so rude and im just beyond frustrated.
im not going to delete you from my page cause i still would like to see pictures of logan and gabriel. however, i dont appreciate you acting like nothing happened and like you dont talk behind my back. what you said to kim was it for me. we left and you kept talking. im done now. i dont want a long message back, i dont even want a reply. i hope everything goes well for gabriel, im glad to hear it wasnt a major cleft issue.
And Really. I didn't reply to this message cause its useless but yet. I seem to still be doing something to make her mad. Hence this status that she put up and a mouthy comment from her mother.
Brittany Bureau just stop.
June 18 at 9:04 pm
Angel Smith Like she will do that after all none of this is her fault remember
June 18 at 9:15 pm
Then Saturday June 18th
Brittany Bureau You know, people are always gonna talk. All you can do is smile and enjoy life with good friends and family :]
June 19 at 4:54 pm
It's funny how she post's these cause if I were to say the same exact things as her. I would then be ridiculed for it. Wow! Oh well
She can keep her double standards to herself. Cause I feel that if I have something to say I have just as much right to say it as she does. GOOD BYE DRAMA QUEEN
June 18 at 9:04 pm
Why Why Why
Why does one situation with one family member end up starting something completely different not even having to do with me other then im the wife of who made the decision?
I hate how I'm always the blame for ALL of their family problems. I believe that if it was someone else married to the man that I am married to. Similar situations would still come up. I think this cause My brother in law's wife is going through DRAMA just as I am. And somehow It seems to be the ones that are Married into the fam that gets the BRUNT of everything, and that everyone else is just the oh so sweet, perfect, do no wrong people. But when you sit there and talk about problems that aren't yours and it starts drama then I'm sorry your not so perfect, sweet, and are doing wrong. This was all restarted back up by a status comment stating, word for word
The Other Person you know for months I defended you and was so close to getting things worked out then in 1 sec you opened your mouth to Andrew and blew it all. Sorry honey until you grow up and put your husband and kids first I can't help. :(
Which then in turn started a Email conversation with this person. This is what was said by that person and Myself:
