After the pumpkin patch, we went back home so Dougie could change into shorts and then we went to the Fall Festival in Orange Park. It wasn't as good as last year and we had already eaten lunch so there was really nothing to do but look at the booths with people trying to sell stuff and when you don't have any money it's hard to by stuff. We did get some fresh squeezed lemonade that was awesome and then we walked back home. After the festival we packed Ethan up to spend the night with MIL. He was such a little angel for her, why can't he be like that at home??? Anyways, after we dropped him off we went to this hole in the wall pizza place called Moonriver! It was awesome! Doug and I both had a calzone and it was yummy! After we ate dinner, we went bowling! I sucked it up at bowling but we still had a lot fun! Doug did really good but I hurt my shoulder and my elbow, I'm not sure what has been going on with my elbow but it's been hurting for like a week and sometimes my fingers go numb. I can't afford to go to the doctor until next year so we'll see what happens, it's only 2 months away now. I'm also getting really nervous because Ethan's birthday and Christmas are coming up and I've got to get his invitations out for his bday party and we've got to get on the ball with his Christmas stuff and his birthday presents. I know it won't really be a big deal for him this year but I would still feel bad if we couldn't afford to buy him anything at all. Alright, well I just lost at Monopoly and I'm getting really tired so I'm signing off for now!
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Guess what? I've lost a little more weight!! Starting in April I weighed 155 right now, I weigh 143!! w00t w00t!! If I can get down into the 130s I will truly be happy! It just sucks because when I was in high school, I was barely a size one. I went to prom my sophomore year and my size one dress barely fit, it slid off my shoulders. Where did my size one swimmer's body go?? Oh wait I had a baby, but my baby's now a toddler and I've still got some more weight to lose.
Speaking of that toddler, he is nawts. He started going to a new daycare on Monday and I really think it is wearing him out. He comes home soooo tired every afternoon. He's come home with some cute art projects too...they are little craftsy but still cute! They do a lot of reading at oddly as it may seem, they are doing show and tell in Ethan's class full of 18m-2yo, I don't think they really care what the other ones have but we'll see. I think I will send Ethan with his frog. He loves that silly little Ty frog that I got for him from Claire's LOL. He's starting to get attached to stuffed animals and it's so cute. Right now, he is sleeping with his puppy that his Granny got him. At school he sleeps with his lamb lovie (oops doug says I'm not supposed to call it a lovie cuz that sounds ghey) that his Aunt Kathy made for him right after he was born. It has his full name Ethan Alexander Sallas, his dob November 19, 2006, his birthweight 6lbs and 8oz, and his length 19 and 3/8"...He was a tiny little Booga bit now he weighs 26lbs 6oz and he's a walking, talking toddler. He's growing up so fast, I can't believe he's going to be two in less than 6 months!
Oh well, I think it's time for me to go to bed. I really need some chap stick and a tissue.
**warning whine** MY throat is soooo freaking sore. My nose is clogged up but running (weird a$$ nose). My ears feel like they are clogged as well and my whole head feels like it's going to explode. And I think I might be running a fever :( **whine over**
Whew did I need that LOL N I G H T!
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The Birth of Ethan
I awoke Saturday morning to painful, yet inconsistent contractions. Little did I know what was to come on Saturday night. At 36 weeks pregnant, I was uncomfortable and ready to be un-pregnant. I had been in prodromal labor since I was 31 weeks and it was time to stop taking the medicine to help reduce the contractions and have this baby, I had also been on bed rest for 3-4 weeks and I was bored. I needed to do something to get my mind off of labor and just relax. So when my mom called and asked if Doug and I wanted to go to see a movie, I was dressed and ready to go in less than 30 minutes.
We arrived at the mall around
Once home, my contractions were getting stronger and closer together so we decided to start timing them. Around
On the way to the hospital, I called everyone that wanted to be there with us and told them to get ready because I thought this was it. Almost everyone I called told me to call if they admitted me because this was my fourth trip to the labor and delivery ward. We arrived at the hospital around
Fast forward to
After being taken to the operating room, I don’t remember much of what happened but the rest of the story was filled in by my husband, Doug. They had to repair the damage done by the episiotomy before they could begin the C-section so they stitched me up and then let Doug back into the operating room. Ethan was born at
Once the doctor was finished operating, I was taken into the recovery room. All I remember from being in recovery was telling the nurse how much I wanted to see my mom and her telling me how I could spend all the time I wanted with her after I was taken back to my suite. In recovery, I started to have some massive bleeding and I passed out, a Code Blue was called and a team of doctors and nurses arrived to help revive me. They got me back to what they thought was stable so I was then taken back to one of the post partum suites.
Well, everything was not right, I started bleeding very heavily again, was passing clots the size of grapefruits. Doug had just walked in to see all this and he almost passed out too. The doctors thought that something might have gone wrong when they were closing me back up from the C-section so they rushed me back to the operating room. I was so scared because the only thing I had heard the doctor say was that we might have to take everything out if something has gone this wrong, crushing any dreams I might have of more children.
When they reopened my incision they found that the C-section was fine but that while they were trying to get Ethan out vaginally his head had torn an artery. So they closed that off and I received 6 blood transfusions before I even left the operating room. After that I was taken to ICU. I still had not gotten to see my baby.
After I came out of all the anesthesia the only thing I could think about was seeing Ethan. He was in the Special Care Nursery because he was still having trouble breathing on his own and he was having a hard time regulating his body temperature. Well, around
Later that night I still had to have 2 more blood transfusions but on Monday evening I was well enough to be moved back to the Maternity ward. Ethan stayed in Special Care until Tuesday and then he was able to go to the regular nursery as well. He got to spend all of Wednesday with us in our room but Thursday his jaundice got really bad so they had him under the Phototherapy lights all Thanksgiving Day. It was a rough holiday for us but at least we were all still together. On Friday his jaundice levels went down enough for us to go home and we were the happiest little family ever to all be leaving together and all still pretty healthy!
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Today was also Ethan's first day at his new daycare! I really love this lady! She is so nice and sweet and her house is an awesome place for kids! www.kingskids.biz is her website if ya wanna check it out! Ethan is going to have to get used to it though because while he was there he only took like a 30 minute nap when he's used to taking a 2 hour nap everyday. One problem I think is because she has the kids that 1 or older sleep on mats on the floor rather than in a pack-n-play or crib like he is used to sleeping in, so he has a lot more freedom to move around and get off it. I'm sure it won't take too long and he'll be used to it though. He loved his lunch, but I think his snack messed him up. He had oranges and raisins and tonight when we got home he puked everything he ate for dinner and all his snack came back up twice...once in his highchair and once alllllll oooooover MAMAMAMAMAMA! Ethan and I had to run to the bathroom and get in the tub. It was sooooo gross and I almost lost it and puked too but I held it in while Doug helped me get everything cleaned up.
Oh and we got our taxes done today...I can't believe the freaking government almost punishes us for being married we got back like almost $1700 more last year before we got married than we did this year since we've been married. It seriously sucks but I guess something is better than nothing and we're getting back like $2400 so it will actually help out a lot!! P.S. 14 month olds do not do good at Jackson Hewitt waiting to get your taxes done. It's just not fun. lol
Welps, I'm tired and ready to go to bed so I can be nice and refreshed for my first day of training! Doug and I will now be carpooling to work so we are going to save moolah on gas!!! YAY for saving money!
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I haven't heard anything about the job yet and I knew Friday was expecting a little too much but I was hopeful. I know I will probably hear sometime next week and that's cool with me but the anticipation is killing me. I really want this job with all my heart and DH and I are both praying that I get it. It would mean so much for us!!! It would mean spending more time with Ethan. It would mean having enough money to pay off our credit cards. It would mean we could start saving for a new house, because as I've said before we are outgrowing ours at a very fast rate and if I want to have a another little one we need a bigger place to live.
So, Ethan has been at MIL's house since yesterday at 9:00am. It was okay yesterday because I was at work til 630pm but when I got off I didn't get to see my Booga and I missed him so much. Dh was out delivering sushi so I was going to be all alone but my mom invited me over for some spaghetti! It was sooo good! I love spaghetti and she makes some really good garlic bread too! Then me and my brother played Beautiful Katamari on the xBox 360 and we had a blast. I wasn't very good at the game but my bro taught me a few tricks while I was over there so I think I will do better when I'm playing by myself again.
Well, I think I have wriiten a lot today and will probably right more later! Oh my Jags are playing tonight so let's all pray that they beat the New England Patriots and crush their hopes of going undefeated lol...I have high hopes for Jaguars but if they have their A game on, I'm sure they can do it!!!!
Goooooo JAGUARS!!!
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WOW! Two posts in one day, do I have a fever...possibly but don't think so. But I just started sneezing I'm up to number three, scratch that 4, I think my record is like 10, oops number 5. Ugh, can I stop sneezing long enough to type, I think not, 6. So it was a really sh!tty day at work, it was slammed packed busy and we were short, 7, three sales people. Lisa ended up staying til like 4pm when she usually leaves around 2, but Christina and I were soo greatful because she stayed long enough for us to eat lunch at 3pm but still we were absolutely starving. Tomorrow we are still going to be short handed but hopefully it will not be as busy since it will be Tuesday and hopefully not every one and their mother will have done something to their Sprint/Nextel phone overnight. Okay, so I think I am finally done sneezing. Now, I want to ask you this, why is Doug letting me keep all of Ethan's outgrown clothes and toys if he doesn't want to have another baby. I asked him this and he just gives me the, "I dunno?!" I think subconsciously(sp?) he does want another one, he was just a lil overwhelmed when Ethan decided to pop into this world. In all reality, so was I but I guess I just looked at it a lil differently. I looked at Ethan as a blessing and at first, by no means now, Doug looked at a baby as a burden, and that it was going to ruin our lives and we were not gonna have enough money and on and on and on. Now that he's here and we've adjusted I think that he knows it was a blessing. I really want another baby but not right now. I want Ethan to be out of diapes and off of formula and all that jazz. I'm thinking when he's like 2.5 to 3 years old we could start trying to have another one and because I must be a fertile Myrtle to have gotten pg on the pill it prolly won't take that long. Welps my ankle is still killing and it's super sore from being on it all day that I think I am gonna go to bed. Maybe I will get back into blogging. I kinda dropped off the map for like a month. Don't wanna jinx myself though. Does anyone even read my blog?!?!?! Dunno, don't care I guess, I need to upload some more pics so I can finish up Ethan's photo album!!!
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And I so have not posted to this blog in awhile. I'm so mad right now and mostly at myself. We went out with Doug's friend's Wayne and Jeremy on Jeremy's parents boat and went tubing. It was a lot of fun and it was so funny watching Wayne and Doug battle tube. I decided to tube myself and I was having a really great time but on the second time I went I got thrown off and I guess my right ankle hit my left ankle and now my left one is killing me. It's all swollen and red and bruised. I don't think it's broken or anything but it's still painful. I really need to take something for it and I have some Tylenol so I'll probably take some once I get something to eat. Oh and I guess my poor hubby was suffering from motion sickness from the boat because he got in the water to go tubing and he ended up puking his guts out. It was kind of gross, Wayne and I couldn't watch but we could hear it and it almost made me puke too. My lil Booga tried something new this weekend! His Sue-sue gave him some graham crackers and he absolutely loved em. He made a royal mess but it was cute and he enjoyed it. He so needed a bath afterwards though. I need to go and get him some to keep at our house, esp if it'll keep him occupied while we eat dinner or something. I'm so tired of waiting til 8 or 9pm to eat because we're waiting for Ethan to go to bed. Welps, I'm at work now so I guess I have to get off the comp and do some work. It just sucks because my work requires me to be on the floor all day long and hardly any sitting down, esp because we are short 3 sales people, two are on vaca and one left us as of Friday.
~later dayz
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I am super excited because I just got a brand new 2007 Nissan Altima and it is the coolest thing I think I've ever driven!!! It's my first brand new car that I've ever had and it's loaded with all the trimmings cept for leather but that gets too hot anyway here in Sunny FL. Ethan likes it too, both times he's ridden in it he's fallen asleep so it must be a smooth ride! The only part I don't like about the new car and Ethan is that my rear view mirror for him so that I can see him wouldn't fit on the back of his seat now. It's not so bad though because in about 4 months (I can't believe it's only 4 months away) he will be 1 year old and he can be switched to forward facing. I'm hoping to get the Britax carseat by the time he is that old though so that he will be an even more safe Booga. Oh well we are going to eat dinner at Tijuan Flats so I may blog more laters!
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Hmmm what to say about today....Today was interesting and full of fun. It started out this morning at 6am when Ethan decided to wake up and play, mind you Doug and I didn't go to bed until about 11pm after I got home from the dogtrack where I lost like $30 ugh, that's a whole other story that I don't wanna go into. So after Ethan got up I brought him in bed with us and he slept in until 830am which isn't that late but it was better than 6am. After we were up and Ethan was fed we watched a really stupid movie called Norbit and everybody I talked to said it's so hilarious but I just thought it was dumb. Around 11am we got up off our duffs and took showers and got dressed and waited for Uncle Wayne to come over. We were going to St. Augustine but then it got really dark outside and started to rain so that was out. So we decided to go to Dave and Busters, which was super fun and I won two jackpots, one of em was for 100 tickets which wasn't that big of a deal and then one for 1000 tickets which was awesome. I won Ethan a teddy bear and then just got some candy for Wayne and Doug. After D&B we were going to look for like a Mom and Pop ice cream parlor but we drove all around Jacksonville and couldn't find one so we headed back to Orange Park. I don't know how we did it, but we ended up at the Nissan dealership and test drove an Altima and it was cool but I wanted to check out a few more cars before we settled on one so we then went to the Toyota dealership and test drove a Camry. We really liked the Camry and the Altima so we sat down with Toyota and talked numbers but we couldn't decide so Doug's going to go to the Nissan dealership tomorrow and see if we can get a better deal. Either way I don't care which one and it really wouldn't be that big of a deal if I just kept my xB but I do like both of those cars. Well, Ethan I think is teething and nothing I seem to give him is working. I am even using a cool teething lotion that my friend/coworker Lisa brought me from a pharmacy that she used to go to in GA. I am worn out from car shopping with a baby so I think I am going to go ahead and call it a night, gotta get up early in the morning to make it to work by 9am. K Bye!
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