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I'm beat. All I want to do is sleep. I could sleep for a week. I swear. 

Caleb - he had to have a blood transfusion last night to regulate his blood pressure. Honestly, I don't think the doctors quite know anything, so of course, we know nothing. His swelling is still where it was at yesterday. I know they were looking forward to it going down a little bit. Kelly finally did get to see him. That is a plus. He is going to have to have another transfusion tonight. His hemoglobin is pretty low. They are going to do a CT tomorrow morning. We just have to keep praying. Praying for a speedy recovery and praying for my sister. I couldn't even imagine not being able to hold your child immediately and just the bonding process. I know it's starting to hit her. It's just a tough situation all the way around. I, and I know everyone else, just want to know what's going on. Power of prayer is what is getting everyone through. It has been a tough week for everyone. My mom had something funky going on with her voice today, so she couldn't go to the hospital. My dad stopped by after work. Michael is going to come down with me tomorrow evening. I hope my mom feels better ASAP. I know it's killing her not being able to be there. 

Nothing else is really going on. Besides it's raining again. I like in Forks. Except there are no hot Vampire/Werewolves running around. That is the whole point of loving Forks. 

New nephew!!

After a long, exhausting day for all parties involved, Caleb made his debut. He is currently in the NICU but is doing well. I swear we still don't know all that is going on, but we've just been praying for a speedy recovery for him and my sister! We are very blessed to have another baby to spoil with love!

Caleb Carter Robbins

May 11, 2010

7lbs

19 inches long

Good day when...

1) You can spend $57 at Target over lunch on unnessesary things.
2) Have Derrick yell "COP" in the backseat as I floor Ruby. He saved me from a ticket.
3) Having a one on one about chickens, no joke
4) Having Josie "get down" in Ruby
5) When Derrick hits the high note on "Somebody to Love" by GLEE, I pull out bubbles and blow a few in the car.

The week went by extremely fast. Still no babies. On either side. Keeping my fingers crossed that at least Baby Girl Olsen makes her appearance this weekend.

Cinco de Mikey

2 batches of my brownies are in the oven. To Josie's liking, they are de-squizzled. So that means she has to eat some! One pan still might be used as a leverage to get Katie back. We will have to see how nice I feel in the morning!

Happy Early Birthday Mikey!

Also forgot!

I was just rudely, yes, I will say rudely reminded that I didn't write about my wonderful start to my day today. Last night I could fall asleep, so around 10:30, I decided to paint my nails. I woke up at 2:30 with my left hand attached to my face. I fell asleep before my nails could dry and my four fingers were stuck to my cheek. A couple cotton swabs of finger nail polish remover later, it was off. It was still a first for me. Something I never want to repeat.

Alone....sort of

Michael has a class Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. It goes from 5pm-9pm. This means a couple of things.

1) I have to entertain my 2 year old while trying to get caught up on house chores that have been slacking due to us never being home! Especially since Marilyn is coming over tomorrow night. Eshk! My plan is to take him outside for about an hour, wear him out, feed him dinner and then let him wind down to a half hour showing of Cailou.

2) Dogs. Hawkeye has been going through this stage. It's not a good stage. Basically the Lab howls the second he realizes Michael is gone. Does he stop? No. If you put him in his kennel he barks and then howls. It never ends. I don't know what the deal is with that dog and Michael. So odd. Plus "the rat" as we call her, gets into everything. That or she is beating up the cat somewhere. I live in a zoo.

3) The Cat. I have never met a cat that will willingly knock over whatever he wants to, no matter the size. He has the strength of a panther. He knocked over the banana holder with 7 bananas on it last night. On Saturday, he knocked over Michael's tool belt because he jumped into it. He wanted to bat at the screws. Not to mention last week when he took Michael's iPod and ran off with it. This is a cat people! Again, I live in a zoo.

4) Lack of motivation. What is that word? I have none of it. At work today, I kept thinking maybe, just maybe, it would surface. Ummm, no. It's been MIA for about 2 weeks and it needs to return. So I am hoping the motivation picks up so I can get some stuff done at home. Work, eh, we don't need to work hard! LoL! I can work at a snails pace and still key enough in a day. I hope at least. Ugh, motivation needs to return. Plus I feel like we are teaching them a little lesson. We aren't machines! Sometimes I feel like they expect so much out of us. Maybe it's just me!

5) Distractions. Numbers 1-4 are enough of a distraction but I have more. For instance, House is new. It's probably 1 out of the 3 shows I can keep up with now a days. The rest are going to be either listened to online or just watched when the season come out to buy. Also having The Office on from 5:30-7 is no help whatsoever. I will just have to let it be on and keep on working.

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UPDATE:

I started writing this when I got home. I would like to report the following:

1) Jake is being extremely good and I completely wore him down outside! 

2) Hawkeye is just laying around instead of howling! I can take that!

3) Zoey ran around outside the whole time with Jake, so she is done in for the evening! Thank goodness!

4) Somehow I gained motivation and cleaned up the whole main floor. Yikes. I even did it in 30 minutes. Crazy what happens when you put your mind to it!

5) I will be able to watch House because I am done with everything I wanted to do and then some! I feel like a kid who gets a reward for doing chores.

Over and out.

Another weekend gone by....

I am exhausted. I think I could have slept all day. I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and it still was not enough. 

Friday evening we spent with our favorite people! Well, minus one extremely tall bald man. I found others to fill in the gap. We went to the Iowa Cubs game. It was a gorgeous night at the ball park. The storms finally cleared up and the sun was shinning bright. Although the announcer to the game said: "It's a beautiful evening for some baseball. Mostly cloudy with little sunshine". There was all but 2 clouds in the sky and the sun was beaming down. I don't get it. Oh well. The boys were having a great time! They got dip-n-dots, peanuts and some baseball bats! We didn't win the game. We did have a fantastic time. The fireworks display was awesome and just spending time with those 3 makes anything worth it!

Saturday, I don't know where the day went. Before we knew it we were getting ready to head to Alicia and Brian's wedding! It was amazing. She looked absolutely stunning! She always does. She had that bridal glow. You could just tell how happy she was. They are an amazing couple and I am so happy for them. It is always a joy to participate in watching two become one. I cry every time. It's horrible. Also hearing Jen's speech made me cry. They have been besties forever and you can't put a price on that! It was great seeing friends we can't see that often and it was a great night!

Today, well, we have been bums. We skipped church (sorry) because we were so tired from this weekend. Michael is still really sore from his accident this week. Plus I think he re-activated it pulling out his dance moves last night. If you don't know about his accident, this week he was working at a job site and the drywall guys moved some stairs. Michael didn't know the stairs had been moved and he fell out the front door. Landed on his side and has pretty much been in pain all week! This morning he could barely move. The only thing we did today was go grocery shopping. I think I did a few loads of laundry and loaded this dishwasher. We are just pooped. I can't believe tomorrow is Monday. I need another day off!

Things to look forward to this week:

1) Laurel is due Wednesday!! Hopefully Baby Girl will come before Mother's Day!

2) Mother's Day!!!! We have been waiting for this day for weeks. I can't wait for it to be here! The whole weekend in general.

3) Pictures. We have to print off some photos major this week. We are sending family and friends we don't get to see much updated photos. I am a little excited about that.

4) Bible Study! About time we can finally go!

5) Just getting to spend another week with my boys!

Photos from Friday:

Tickets were printed on resume paper!!

Eating Dip-n-Dots

Jeff wants to be the Tequito!

Chef!

Sweet Caroline...bum bum bum

Don't eat me!

Frankenball Man

Vampires love Baseball!

Getting ready for fireworks!

Fireworks!!