Kendrick's very long eye appt.....

     Well, K had his first eye appointment today and he did great...Well he is only two months old and slept most of the time, but I still give him kuddos!!!  When they said it would take 2-3 hours, umm yea, they weren't joking!!

     Well we checked in and sat down, the waiting area was HUGE...As I sat down I noticed a foul smell coming from the children's play area and realized the source was coming from a beautiful little girl.  WHOA! So I steered in the opposite direction but the smell continued to follow us.  After about 15 minutes and the entire waiting room now stinks, then mom finally decided to change her... Well thanks to the CRAZY wind in El Paso today and the office being extremely busy, the doors opening and closing seemed to air the place out quickly!  This made us all happy..

    Then a miracle happened-I was playing on my phone, go figure.  Let me remind you again the doctors waiting room are was HUGE.  I noticed a little girl and her mother sat right next to me.  Well I didn't pay any attention to her until I realized I forgot my ID up at the counter.  So I picked up the baby and went to track down my ID and then it happened, this little girl threw up on the floor, right where my foot was.  Well I am sure it was some sort of divine intervention.  I must have done something nice that day, held the door open for someone or maybe being courteous and letting traffic go...But I had only been up for 5 seconds...

     Anyway, it doesn't really matter at this point why I was so lucky to avoid "what could have been an entire waiting room puke fest"  cause she would have hacked on me!  So I walk back over and knew that no way in heck was I gonna go sit back by this little girl... She was OBVIOUSLY very ill...She was grabbing her stomach and just looked sick.  Wearing bracelets that could only really be from a hospital and thinking, we are at the eye doctor... Anyway, so I have truly been blessed.  But out of all of this, I sat next to a nice man and his 3 year old son who had DS and had a pleasant conversation. 

     Well since Cameron is almost 8, it's been that many years since I have had a baby...I was never a huge fan of carrying a diaper bag.  Well I was definitely unprepared today.  After finding a closet area to feed the baby, cause I refused to be put next to the little puking girl in the back waiting room area, Kendrick dirtied his diaper.  So I take him to the bathroom, where there was a line.  And the poopy little girls sister was in front of me to use the bathroom...Well because of the line the mother tried putting her in the boys bathroom.  Which I would have done same thing, well this adorable little girl starts crying loudly saying "I don't like boys, I don't like boys"  I was laughing, the mother was laughing and the girl was crying.  The mother repeatedly saying " honey, I don't like boys either"  I was thinking, I know right... Well except for K, I still like him.  The entire time they were in the bathroom she was crying and saying "I don't like boys, I don't like boys" well this was pretty funny at this point, cause this girl was obviously traumatized by boys...She must have brothers...

     Well the line was too long and whoever was in the bathroom was taking for ever.. Probably the puking girl... So I decided to go and change K in the room we were waiting in.   Now, this is why I wasn't prepared... I had no baby wipes and an old disposable diaper that was torn.  I use cloth diapers now and left the house without thinking of packing those much needed Items... I did on the other hand, grab extra blankets and coats... Well, it was 75 today and I don't have air in my van, so these items were pointless to me.  But did find a way to use his fleece jacket as a diaper if it ended up that way... Anyway, I ventured out to the waiting area and politely asked mothers if they had wipes, the entire time this all went on the little girl is still crying and saying "I don't like boys, I don't like boys" yes, we get it she doesn't like boys...But she was adorable and it was really so cute that you couldn't help but laugh...

    Well eventually we do see the doctor after almost 3 hours after an initial exam and K's eyes being dilated, then we are done.  He mumbled some stuff in "eye language" to the tech and not sure what he was saying, he then looked at me and said things look okay and come back in 3 months and he has a clogged tear duct and massage it 5 times a day... That was it... about 3 minutes later and we were on our way. 

      Tonight, I am definitely drinking wine!   For sure this time....

Just about me!

Well I am 36 now, oooh that burns just saying it!  I am the mama of 4 kiddos...Carter is 11, Kendal is 9, Cameron is 7 and Kendrick is 2 months... And that's it!!!!  Regardless of what John says, if we were guaranteed a girl, we will NOT be having a 5th child...

My dream job would be able to work with FEMA, Red Cross and work in Emergency Management.  I have moved to an area where this will never happen...Happy for the folks of El Paso, but crap doesn't happen here..The crap that does happen-I don't want to be part of...(Juarez) I don't want any part of that terrorist/drug cartel situation.  Emergency Management (FEMA) falls under the Revision of the Homeland Security Act and when you go to school for EM, you also learn the truth and nightmares about drugs/terrorism... Learning these facts just causes me to drink more!  I would love to teach school age children preparedness when it came to hurricane/tornado safety...or someday travel to areas that have been devastated by these disaster and offer assistance.

My hobbies are vague! Since I really have nothing I really want to do, except drink wine.  That's my big goal, I know I am a loser hugh!!!!  yea, I don't care...I miss my friends, the military life can really suck.  We do not live close to family.  This brings me back to the drinking... I would love to run a lot, I can vision myself doing this in my head all the time but I haven't been lately..Granted I just had a child, the will just isn't there yet... My actual hobby if money and time allowed, I would just travel around the United States and enter races such as the "tough mudder" well you get the hint, I have made this known about me...

My personal goal is to just raise my kids to be productive members of society and hopefully give back.  To be as compassionate as they can be...Let me tell you, this ain't going to be easy because of who I live with.  Especially since he is sitting behind me yelling profanity to a ridiculous video games...This again brings me back to the drinking...

I really don't drink a lot, actually not enough for the life I lead.....None really in almost a year..

I am not really into fashion or hair or make-up... I feel my daughter has been wronged by me and my choices to avoid these girlie things. ... I really just like my own thing!  All my fashion/music/make-up advice was from Nichole, which brings me back to sometimes the Army can suck and also why I drink!  But it's our chosen lifestyle and has been good to us...The Army, not the drinking...The drinking, I just got more kids....

I don't really like to shop...I know right, I am so boring... Well I do, but this is all wrapped up with what I said in the paragraph above and been there done that...Time to move on!  Except, I will continue to talk about the drinking...

I live in El Paso.  I like it here... But no scenery at all!  Except Juarez and that takes me back to paragraph 2...I can just look out our window and I have seen all that there is.... You have to be open minded to live here, I think I am very open minded. 

Gosh, am I that boring?  No I am definitely adventurous...But my lazy family can suck sometimes... If I could just drag them to do fun things with duct tape on their mouths and not have CPS called on me, I might...Oh and I am including John also!  He might need a little more tape though ;-)   

Well that is all for now!  My neck is killing me and I can guarantee when I stand up, my body will be in the shape of me still sitting down...

First Physical Therapy Appointment

Kendrick had his first "official" physical therapy appointment.  Of course it was limited, he is barely two months old..But he did fantastic.  Our therapist, Patty, showed us different exercise to initiate rolling over using a pillow, an exercise ball and a laundry basket!  He rolled over twice last week and I do believe that was an accident but I am okay with that I know he did it!!!  He is a strong little boy.  He has smiled a lot yesterday and today and he talks to us more and more.  Oh I am going to miss him as he grows older.  I will miss all the firsts he is doing.  Once they are gone, they are gone:(

Carter has informed me that he hasn't had lunch detention the past two days.  He failed to inform me that he has had lunch detention the past few weeks.  He says it's fun.  Oh well, I can only do so much. 

Kendal has been studying and taking mock exams for the STAR testing, aka-TAKS testing, which I loathe.  I wish her luck!

Cameron has been learning about Costa Rica in super school.  He made a beautiful flower that represents the country and loved learning about the poisonous dart frogs...

I made a post earlier on FB and I wanted to share my final thought as this is a source of controversy.  My comment is in regards to the early DS testing being made available to women free of charge. Basically to eliminate DS from the US eventually...I find it sad.

"It comes down to this- My son could be a part of the last of the DS generation. All I want is for him to have friends who understand. Maybe a girl that he could fall in love with one day. Is that too much to ask? What if you knew your child could never have that special someone because the govt doesn't consider you worthy enough to be loved and find love? Regardless their will be many women who were like me and wouldn't have Chosen abortion. Many of the women who found out after birth didn't know. But what if they could have? I haven't met one woman who regretted their child finding out after birth their child had down syndrome. This test will take the surprise out it it. Less and less people with DS will be born. I am not here to judge, I look at my guy and he is PERFECT, but DS- I believe is the #1 "so called birth defect." I call it an alternative lifestyle. God wanted these people here for a reason. A reason I am already finding out. I don't necessarily believe its some fluke chromosomal abnormality. Because it happens all the time. That isn't coincidence that is life."

 

This is my last post on this topic. 

 

 

My Story

Reasons why I am blogging again is because Amber told me to and since she came up with Kendrick's name, I figure I should do what she says!  :)  Anyway, many of my postings are going to be about our new life with Kendrick.  I am not trying to take away attention from my other 3 but I do a great job of including them on Facebook as I will here. 

I am going to post on topics that could be a cause of controversy.  My life has changed dramatically these past two months, since my child was born with Down Syndrome.  Before that, I thought Down Syndrome was something that could never happen to us.  But it did!  I didn't know much about it but I do now.  I have a new perspective on life and I owe that to my awesome new man in my life!  I couldn't have done this without you. 

I am going to talk about how the abortion rate for Down Syndrome is around 90%.  I am going to talk about how sad that makes me and how if I can deter one person from terminating a child with special needs-I will feel that I have made a difference in someones life.

I am not going to preach that I am against abortion.  I figure it's a personal choice.  I just want children like mine to have a chance and want to be that voice.  I will talk about how angry I feel that the government wants to offer a pre-natal Down Syndrome test to all pregnant mothers.  Why?  Not to help us cope during our pregnancy, but to eradicate Down Syndrome as many other countries are.  They insist children with Down Syndrome cost to much money in health care costs.  But we continue to breed murders, child predators, drug traffickers, etc., the list goes on. While these "criminals" are continuously costing the tax-payers hundred of millions of dollars every year.  But they want us to "kill our babies" because they cost to much.  Are we going to euthanize every person who becomes ill because of cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's disease? No we are not. 

I am going to talk about Carter, Kendal and Cameron.  I will talk about how they drive me insane but love them to the moon and back.  I will talk about things that are probably inappropriate to some and I will again explain, I am open with my children and I pray this will not backfire on me.  Do I let them watch inappropriate shows and movies according to ones standards, or let them listen to questionable music? Probably!  But I do use caution, my children aren't watching anything that I feel is too inappropriate.   I will talk about how I am also a little more protective than some parents.  Do my kids hate that?  Very much so and I know they get very angry for my choices and someday they will realize I have made these choices in their best interest.

I will also talk about John. John. John. John.  Oh boy, married 13 years to someone the COMPLETE opposite and we have managed to make it this far.  He may not seem the type, but he would do anything for me and the kids.  A quality not every man has. Now, favor, no telling John what I say, it's our secret. 

Last but not least, if you have a problem with any of these, please unsubscribe.  I can be very controversial and if you would like to leave a comment in disagreement, please do it tastefully as I will respect your opinions....

Thank You all for taking the time to read this. 

Karin

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