Halloween Part One

So I don't know if y'all know this but trick or treating happens here on the 30th...it's called Begger's Night so that's what we did tonight!! Just a quick little trip with Adalie and I around a little neighborhood close by. Daddy stayed home with Cason who has his turn with a runny nose around here.

I don't think however trick or treating is a big deal around here like I am used to it being other places. Out of the 50-ish condos here where we live, maybe 12 had their porch lights on to pass out some candy. And I expected hundreds of kids on the sidewalks where we were walking all dressed up in costume, but that was a no go too. Just a few patches of kids here and there. Adalie had lots of fun though and still racked in some nice goodies.

We also had a branch trunk or treat party last night and got some good stuff there.

PLUS the 150 candy bag we bought didn't get much damage so we still have that hanging around. All in all, lots of candy to chow down on through the next week. Who am I kidding??? Tomorrow....

Ugh

I had to change my e mail address because someone got into mine and started sending out adds and other things through my name. So if by chance you get something from liddybug4u@hotmail.com , it's not me anymore. This will decease concerns of any offers or porn I might send you. Haha Happened to you yet?? ? Ya, it's annoying to say the least. Although funny....blogger still makes me use my hotmail account to sign in. Anyone know how long that will last or how I change my log in name to my g mail account name now?? Or can I even do that?? I am very Blogger-illiterate still.

Tuesday's Dr Apt

Yesterday I had the biopsy done for the cyst on my neck. My visiting teacher was able to watch the kids so that Brett could come with me, which was wonderful. I was a nervous wreck all day and my hart felt like it was going to beat right out of my chest. I know, I am such a baby. But 2 things were really freaking me out....1. The unknown of exactly what was going to happen. 2. At some point, a freaking needle was going to go into my neck.

When we got there and in, the Dr was very nice. She explained what it was that was on my neck. She said hundreds of people have growths there and don't even know about it. It becomes a problem if it continues to grow or if in fact the biopsy comes back "abnormal" aka cancerous. She looked at it with the ultrasound machine again and while she was explaining the procedure, the lights kept flickering and went out. As if I wasn't scared enough you can imagine how this helped the situation. Well, she got a needle ready with some anesthetic to help numb the area before she started the biopsy. Holy Ouch. The medicine she gave me would take about ten to fifteen minutes to work so the nurse got the room and tools ready for the procedure. One needle. Two needles. Three needles. Gunna pass out. Have to lay down. Four needles....right next to my head. Nurse "Are you okay honey?" Brett "She doesn't really like needles" Nurse "Here let me cover them up, will that help?" A little, but I still knew what was under there.

The Dr came back in ready for business and got the ultrasound machine ready again so she could see where to stick the needle. The fire alarm was going off the whole time too because the lights had gone out and no one new how to turn it off. Not really helping. I looked at Brett and asked if I was supposed to be numb because I wasn't. She stuck the first needle in and it huuuuurrrrrttttt. Have you ever tried not to swallow?? I was concentrating so hard on not swallowing thinking that if I did the tip of that needle would break off and get stuck in my throat and then they would have to rush me into the ER downstairs to remove it. Anywho, making this really long story short, she stuck me 4 more times after that, scraping the cyst in my neck and removing some of the fluid she found in the cyst. All in all, very uncomfortable and painful. Now I am going to have a bruise in the middle of my neck and I don't look forward to explaining that to people. I will probably just blame it on the kiddos and their rough housing.

I will know the results Friday or Monday. There is a 4 in 100 chance that it might be cancerous and I will have to have it removed. Obviously I want to be one of those 96. Or, if it keeps growing I will have to have it removed. Playing the waiting game is killing me slowly enough. Kind of a scary thought about having something in my body betray me like that, but Brett and I are pretty confident everything is ok, so no worries for now. Just trying not to think about it so much every second.

WalMart Adventures

Today while shopping at our local wallyworld, we told Adalie she could pick out a treat. We told her this at the exact time we were walking down the alcoholic beverage isle towards the bottled water. Daddy said "You can pick out anything you want....but not down this isle (in reference to her picking out alcohol)" She started freaking out because she wanted something on THAT isle and it wasn't fair that she couldn't have anything there. I said, "This is for big people and it is bad for little girls and boys" I said that because there was a man beside me picking out a 12 pack and I didn't want to offend him by saying, "We don't drink that because it is bad" and I could only imagine what she might have said to him about what he was getting....She comes back with, sobbing "But I AM a big girl!!" With the gentleman gone with the alcohol, daddy steps in to say, "Adalie, Heavenly Father doesn't want us to drink that kind of stuff because it is bad for our bodies. I am not saying you can't have a treat, we will go find the treat isle so you can pick something out." Adalie "Oh, ok." Hopefuly she will always pick a cupcake over alcohol.

Also, did I ever tell you about her eating a coffee bean while at Wal Mart? You know how they have those self grinding, pick out your own blend stuff down the bread isle? Well, someone had spilled some on one of the shelves that was in Adalie's reach. I didn't see it happen, but She puts one in her mouth thinking it was chocolate, next think I know she is spitting up on the floor and her breath is horrid. "What did you put in your mouth?!?!" "Some chocolate" "Show me where you got it" She calmly walks over to the coffee beans "That! I think it is old chocolate because it taste really bad. Why would someone want to give that to kids??"

Halloween preview

We had a fun little Halloween get together with our Branch members and some of our neighbors today. Fun food and fun atmosphere! There were so many kids!! Adalie was super excited to have the chance to put on her Cat costume on. Next week we have a boo coo of activities planned and she will pretty much be in it all week!!

Here is our little Cat and Mouse!

Whats Happenin??

Well, it looks like Brett pulled off an A in his first two classes here at DMU. Woo Hoo! Good going honey. So far, medical school has treated us well and I really can't complain to much. It isn't as bad as I thought so far (keeping my fingers crossed) I usually get Brett home at 5 and free (for the most part) all night. Sometimes, I even get to have him home at 3 which is a real treat!! It has been really nice to just focus on school for once and no work. Kind of a different change of pace that is very welcomed.

I have been struck with a cold. I hope it is just a cold. If it is the flu, I am never getting a flu vaccine again. I seem to get it every year even though I get vaccinated for it. Bummer. Worse thing I hate about it besides not being able to breath out of my nose? By about 2 in the afternoon I am done, but I have to convince myself to keep going and pretend like I care about things like dinner or laundry....which I didn't at all today. We ate take out and wore dirty clothes.

Cason is a biter. He bites everything and everyone...I have the marks on my stomach and shoulder to prove it. How do you teach an 8 mth old biting is bad?? I have resulted to flicking him on the chin...is that bad??? Hopefully he learns soon. I don't want to be the mom in nursery that everyone hates because their kid goes around leaving bite marks.

Adalie is getting way excited for Halloween. Des Moines really knows how to do Halloween. There is some kind of party going on just about every night. They don't do trick or treating on the 31st around here though. They have beggars night on the 30 where the kids go out trick or treating. the 31st seems to be the "adult" day where everyone gets drunk. Another weird thing, kids supposedly have to tell a joke or do a trick in order to get their candy. Adalie is good at telling knock knock jokes....but they never get past the who's there part of it? She totally misses the punch line every time. Adalie's knock knock joke goes something like this:

A: Knock Knock
Me: Who's there?
A: Banana Pants Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

She never gives me time to say Banana pants who...I have tried to explain to her how a knock knock joke goes about a million times but she still doesn't get it. It is quite frustrating.