Kid's Driving Me Crazy: August 2008

Today was Andrew's first day of school. I don't know if he was excited or not, but I do know that he has been bugging me for the last two weeks when school was going to start, and didn't like the answer of "in a few weeks or days". He just didn't want to go to Alexis's daycare at all, he wanted to go to school. BUT I don't think Miss Alexis wanted school to start. This was the scene today when we left the house for the bus stop:
We get to the bus stop, Andrew gets out of the car and so do I, just to make sure there aren't any cars coming, so Andrew can cross the street. Alexis starts crying. After a while, she settles down, because where she sits in my car, she can see the kids standing at the bus stop. So she is now happy to watch Andrew and the other kids wait for the bus, until the bus shows up. She starts crying again, I laugh and take off to drop her off. While at the light leading out of the neighborhood, there is another bus, (it's not Andrew's bus but Alexis doesn't know that). When the light turns green, the bus turns right, I go left, she starts crying again. I laugh again and tell her that everything is all right. I give her a pacifier to calm her. She is okay until we turn on the street to her babysitters. She starts crying again, and doesn't want to get out of the car. When I'm carrying her to the door, she is whimpering and has her face into my shoulder and doesn't want to go to Marixa, but Alexis finally goes to her, and I leave. When I picked her up from daycare, she was little sleepy from her nap, but everything was okay and she was fine at the daycare, didn't even notice that Andrew wasn't there. We get home, and we wait for Andrew's bus to show up. Big mistake on my part, since I forgot that it was the first day of school and buses will ALWAYS be late and will be late for the rest of the week. (WARNING FOR FUTURE PARENTS with kids riding the bus.) We waited out side for thirty minutes (well I did) Alexis was smart enough to go back inside and watch TV. (MAN-Texas weather is hot and it sucks, but hey at least it wasn't RAINING! :) )
Alexis was very happy when Andrew came in the door. They both started watching TV, while I did some chores, and now they are both back to their old self again. Do I hear fighting going on?
Got to go....I won't have any pictures this time, maybe next time.

I know, I know, I've been slacking too. As Roland put it "I've kinda in a funk." I have not been feeling well at all the last couple of weeks. I've been waking up with what it look like was pink eye (yuck!) and my allergies just messing with body. I finally went to the doctor when it looked like the pink eye spread to my other eye. Everyone at work just stayed away from me. (Yes, I went to work.) They doctor took a swab of my eye and give me some medicine. I didn't have pink eye, but the medicine did work (I only had to take the kind that was for five days) but that wore off in the middle of the week and my eyes were starting to get red again. Went to the doctor again. Let's just say when he asked a bunch of questions, I keep telling him "no" on everything, he tells me "stop throwing my theory's out the window". I laugh. He gave me some new medicine and some eye drops (which for some reason I have misplaced on my couch...GREAT! Don't you hate it when the couch eats something and won't give it back, our living room couch likes to eat the remotes), but the other medicine is working really well. I felt a lot better Saturday morning. As for everything else, my work is slow, so slow that I found out this past week that the person that comes in the afternoon, is quiting Aug. 27. Hector, (he comes in the afternoon) told me that his new school schedule just wouldn't let him work in the afternoon and Linda didn't want to work with that new schedule. Linda (the owner's wife) told me that it was because were just slowing down to much. (let's say Linda doesn't tell me anything and if I hear it from someone else in the office, that someone is always WRONG! I just try to keep my head down, do as I'm told and look busy and not to piss off Linda. Yes my work can be stressful, even if there is no work to do.)

Roland - He is still out at USAA and on some weekend's he works a little overtime. This Wednesday he'll take both the kids to his work, since Andrew will be starting school soon.

Andrew - He's ready to go back to school. Actually he gets upset that he's going to Alexis's daycare and not school. I have to keep reminding him that school will start soon.

Alexis - Ever heard the saying "Monkey see, Monkey do"? Well she is in that stage. Here is what she's been doing. Last night we watch Walt Disney's "Tarzan" In the movie the mother gorilla throws her baby up in the air and catches him, the next scene, it the human mother throwing her baby into the air. Well, Miss Alexis see a stuff animal on the back of my couch and wants it. I give it to her, thinking nothing of it. She turns to face the TV and she just throws the stuff animal in the air. It comes flying back to me. I catch it, she doesn't. I almost told her "No, don't throw" but then I start laughing realizing what she did, copying what she saw on TV. She starts getting upset, I think she got upset that she didn't catch the stuff animal. Then the next day, she sees me shaving my legs in the bathroom (dry shaving), well she see a little bristle brush that came with the razor and she grabs it and starts to act like she is shaving her legs. I just thought that was too cute.

Her new words:
Shh! quite. (only does that when Roland or I are laughing to loud.)
Rabble, Rabble, Rabble (She got that from a cartoon)
Wow!

I don't have any new pictures, but here are some old ones: