We have lift off...

Well since the last time i have posted Marlee has started to say a few things like eat, moma and yaddy. still screeching though.....
Devin is in Ballet, Tap and Jazz and she loves it and I love it for her. I hope that our contract will be extended long enough that she will perform in the year end recital. I really hope so, i think that is one of the many joys of being a parent, to see your kid perform.
Jeremy may be extending his contract or signing on. I hope he signs on, with about as much as he is making now. MS is still out there though.......
I am having a hard time with many things right now and i want to run away on vaca for a few days
hmmmmm, maybe i should see when ktb is going to vegas and meet up there.....now there is a goal for the weekend. i really need this!
life is good and cold and snow is everywhere! I love it here and I dont want to leave....although i dont really mesh with the people though. uggggggggggggggh. oh well i think i am a good recluse. I am reading more and learning more. I love the library and I wish my girls did too. Devin is learning but Marlee just sees a ton of books waiting to be pulled off the shelf, oh and did i mention the screeching? yes the screeching! so my library visits have been cut out. but we are working on it. I am wanting to go today since i just got a whole new list of books to search for. we shall see....depends on the snow!
Skype is the coolest thing. my kids are growing up in the jetsons era. they are having conversations with video, no more boring phone calls. now we can get rid of the landline...
i guess that is all.
miss the beach, love the snow!
One Love

Press 1 for English

Marlee is 18 mths now and still not talking....
I am not sure which way I lean on this....on one hand i hate the shrieking that she does to communicate, we cant go anywhere, it is so embarrassing!
But on the other hand I do oh so love her babbling. When she is riding in the back of the truck and she is just blabbering away it is the sweetest thing you hear. She is like that on the phone too. I just love it and will miss it! I am really starting to miss having a baby, i never thought i would say that but i do. Devin is so big now, i swear i stop and look at her everyday and am amazed at what she has become. When Jeremy and I first met she was this fat sweet little girl that listened. Now she is this tall skinny girl that rolls her eyes when answering you. I dont want Marlee there ever, I want to keep her young and (dare i say?)managable. I just cant believe how big they are getting!
Time really does fly when you are having fun!

keeping up with other SAHMs

i started the couch to 5k rnning program today and i thought that i was dying....maybe i should have a full checkup before continuing, just to make sure i should be throwing myself into it. but seriously i thought that i was going to die! i also quit smoking today and we will see how that goes....i am just ready for a change. i just dont want to be that old saggy lady. we went to a waterpark last week and there were older women everywhere in bathing suits and i could not help but staring and hoping that one day i will not look like that. I am going to start exercising to make sure that i dont. i really need a stopwatch for my workouts and am unsre on where to find one, except maybe a sporting goods store like dicks bt it is so far away......too bad. on another note there is free exercise videos on comcast on demand....cool shit and i will be doing those on the days that i am not rnning. check em out.



onnnn a COMPLETELY different note. i wanted to pt this somewhere indefinately for that good laugh.....
when we came back from our month long holiday to fl we got back to boston and had to take a train to the house. well as soon as we stepped off the train it started raining and we realized that we were at the wrong stop. so we tried to huddle up to get out of the rain and 35 mph winds until stretch could come and get us. well he shows up 5 mins later and we make a mad rush to get us and everything in the truck and home as quickly as possible so that our suitcases would not be soaked. So we get home and we are franticly taking things inside and i realized after we have everything in the house that we left tiger at the trainstation on the platform! jeremy rushed to get to him since he was in his bag with no tags on and if he would have gotten out we would never had seen him again. But Jeremy got there right as his snout was sticking out.....

July....hmmmmm

should i give up on this.....i think that i already have. then i go and read what all was written and realize that i need to keep up with it. there is so much that i will not remember if it is not written and logged somewhere.
so here goes....
it is november and cold
devin started a new school that she likes alot.
i start school next month.
marlee is still not talking.
i got a new phone today.
it is cold, where is the snow.
it is really crazy that we left boston to go to fl on holiday for 1 month and when we come back everything is deifferent. the leaves are all gone and the ones that are hanging on arent that pretty to look at, although some on the ground are phenomenal. i hate that we missed the fall here but or holiday was well worth it.
i am really sweating the going back to school thing and i am extremely anxious to start so i will know what i have gotten myself into. I really need to do this though!
Thinking about signing Devin up for some after-school activities but they all fall on class day for me. We will see how long this works out.
Disney was AWESOME!
Dont know that we will go again though. too much money for what we did.....
marlee enjoyed meeting the characters but dev was bored cuz the rides were not good enough(my little thrill seeker)
okay this is all for now. marlee is up from her nap.
Sarah Bagglio i miss you and hope that one day you will calll me again so that we can keep in touch. I <3 you!

chapter 1 the beginning

ok so i guess i need to put this out there..... so the story starts with marlee walking....we noticed that marlee had a pimp walk and we just assumed that she was already that cool. it bothered me though and we kinda chalked it up to bulky cloth diapers. well after watching her try to run and always stumbling around the place we decided that we should check her legs. mind you this has been over a coupla months. we check her leg and notice that one is shorter than the other and that is why she was struggling. well i took her to the dr for her bum and asked the dr "off the record" what he thought about her legs. he measured and appreciated what we saw. i wanted him to tell me that i was crazy and that is just the way she is. well not the case he said we need to go see a pediatric orthopedic surgeon ASAP. well we took the weekend to do some research and called all around about our insurance to make sure that we can be covered here before we went on the record with this. found out that with our insurance we are able to see any dr that we want as long as they accept BCBS. YAYYYYYYYY! what a relief. we thought we were going to have to fly back to FL and get a referral. ok during all this jeremy contacted a orthopedic surgeon that he used to work for and feels like he is the master of his trade. so the ortho said that she prolly has congenital hip dislocation/dypalysia and we need to see a dr asap. so we researched and talked to everyone we know to find a good dr here in boston. found out that childrens hospital in boston is the #1 hospital in the country for pediatric orthopedics! lucky us we are in a medical mecca here and should be able to get very good treatment. we have an appt on july 21 with a surgeon named samantha spencer at childrens and we will know more from there. as of right now we are trying to get xrays done sometime soon so that we will have all of our stuff together when we see the surgeon. that way we can get the help we need that day instead of waiting on tests. ok so more on hip dislocation.... the thing is the hip does not provide a big enough socket for the femur to fit in so it slides out of place or just stays out of place. IF this is the case then we will have to have surgery to correct the problem and she will be in casts for a min of 4-6 months to help her leg stay where they put it. this should have been caught at her 6 week check and every check up subsequent to date but it wasnt and we are extremely pissed and after we get our foot in the door at childrens we will be finding a new pedi. (i always had a feeling about him but didnt want to screw with our FL insurance by switching) now i know that i can................. we also researched the CHD and found out that marlee has 8 out of 10 of the symtoms, the other two can only be found with radiographic images. we are hoping that this is just a case of a shorter leg but we are treating it as CHD until we know for sure what is going on in her lower extremities. we have lots of things to worry about before the definate diagnosis(whatever is may be) comes in three weeks. i will try to keep you all posted as to what is happening with all of this. so stay tuned for the next chapter. *look ahead....Chapter 2: the x-rays* also let me know if anyone has any questions and feel free to pass this along to family and friends that would like to know what is up with the case Love and miss you allSamantha and Co.

tomorrow, tomorrow

where are you tomorrow, you're only a day away! YAY, picture day is tomorrow! That is all for now since i cant think of anything else.

i hate phones

I am officially without one so now i have to answer the house phone...

Well that leads me to today, I get a "important phone call" One of those recordings that say this is an important phone call please stay on the line for our next agent" Well I do, since these bill collectors have been calling for a Juan Valdez and since this is no longer his number I wanted them to know that so they would stop calling. So I wait, and the recording comes back on and says "sorry we have no available agents. we will call you back." What is that? You waste my time and then tell me you will call me again? People need to pay their bills so that this job of collecting is obsolete.