Late October

So, it's been quite a while since I posted here. An update on Joe. His diagnosis is 'junctional tachycardia', which is an irregular heartbeat (arrythmia) that's up to 180 bpm. He had a EPS (study to check it out) and they did catheter ablation (but didn't 'ablate' or freeze any tissues). The reason they didn't freeze any tissues to 'correct' the heartbeat seemed to be because it would cause risk of putting a pacemaker in. This 'junctional tachycardia' is basically sending out crazy electrical signals in Joe's body. I know he is going to try to quit smoking and maybe decrease his caffeine and stress. This will help not to 'aggravate' the situation, but was not the cause of it (he was born with this). He goes back to work Friday (Halloween) and is going to follow-up with his doctor in a few weeks to talk about medication.

My virtual child

So, for my class I am getting everyone to create a 'virtual child'. My virtual child's name is Michael. There are enough Michael Angileris out there, but I like the name anyway. I tried to get a girl, but figures, couldn't even get a 'cyber' girl. The first part asks personality questions, then you choose your child's features and 'voila!' you have a baby (if only it was that easy). Then you have to choose different decisions (ex. will you breast feed or formula feed, will you choose home day care or child care, will you play more or sing more to your child). I tried to choose what I already have with my own, but (like reality) I was making 'virtual' parenting choices when I was overly tired. At my 'virtual'l 9 month baby check my baby was getting intestinal problems and was a little behind in gross/fine motor skills! Wait! Did did I choose singing over active play with my baby....is it because I was supplementing with formula?? ....take it back!! Here I am getting defensive and wanting to start over with my 'virtual' child.

Back to reality....tomorrow I think I will take the kids to Curran's apple orchard. I have 4 tomorrow.

Coming soon: Pictures of Joey's first day of school

I can't believe how many wires I have around this house! I am looking for the wire that hooks up the digital camera to the laptop to upload some pictures, but of course I can only find about 4 cell phone adapters and about that many yellow and white adapters. Instead of going mad with distraction I will just sit and type a bit.

Tonight was Dom and Joey's open house. We went to Dom's hip hop class first (he is really picking it up!). Then to the last half of the open house (which we went to class, art, music, gym, library got stamps on card and then ice cream). It was very busy! The line stretched about 50 for ice cream.

So, when I find the right wires I will put up a couple picks of Joey's first day. He likes that preschool has trains and fun toys and is working on the times that aren't 'playtime'. On Friday, his teacher told me that circle time is challenging because he has trouble keeping his hands to himself and now he has his own taped off rectangle to keep in. We are also keeping dibs on his auditory processing (following directions, listening and understanding). I think he gets it from me. The last couple days better, he sings the songs from school, has made a friend name 'Caden', and we are going to a field trip next week (Dennis Center-science room).

Dom is doing well, his teacher said "He is doing awesome...but he has his moments, mostly laughing at friends" (he gets that from Joe).

Tony is pulling himself up on everything. Today when visiting with a friend, he crawled over to the TV wires, held on and looked at me to see if I 'reacted'.. already! I have a mountain of toys and he goes for the speakers. Good thing he's so cute!

Wondering if I'll be motivated to go to that baby group I saw tomorrow a.m., we'll see.

I'm waiting to get an email through this website. So cool, you raise a 'cyber' child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of your parenting decision. It's called my virtual child.com.

That's enough for now.

Summer of 2008

We had a fun summer. Here are some pictures of Dom and Joey. Dom played baseball, Joey had tennis and swimming lessons. The rainbow picture I took outside our front yard. The last couple pictures are of Joey and my mom in Lodi's Crystal Lake.

Baby Tony movie

This is just a little movie that is a quick recap of little Baby Tony's life.

He is 9 months old now, crawling (working on looking up to see where he's going). He is my biggest baby, loves to eat (makes sound effects). Enjoys watching the kids and just now getting to the stage where he'd rather crawl over to the TV speakers than play with mountain of toys.

Sunday evening

Well, I can tell I'm new to this, because I just deleted the message I just typed. So what did I say? O.K. Sunday night 9:25 pm. Kids are asleep and I should be doing school work, but kind of have the philosophy that Sunday shouldn't be for work, oh wait...that's biblical. Anyway, went to birthday party for my niece (5 yrs) at Carlson Ice Arena. Did not think it was ice skating part, so was ill-prepared (kids wearing shorts and tees). Good thing I didn't take the bag of clothes in my trunk to Goodwill yet, that came in handy. Dom did pretty good, Joey hung his skates up after 1 minute and quickly went to Playworld with Tony. Wondering if I will have time for blogging? Will add random pictures now.