Time sure does fly that’s for sure.  Two months has flown by so quickly it’s hard to believe.  What’s weird is when I look at her, I still see that infant I had.  It’s like aside from gaining weight, she hasn’t really changed much.  For the most part, Caitlyn is an easy going baby – thank god.  She eats, sleeps, plays, eats, sleeps and plays all day long.  Very little cranky activity happens, except when she’s hungry or she’s got a dirty diaper.  That is really where she differs from the boys.  The boys could have cared less if their diapers were dirty and could have sat in them for hours had I not checked.  She fusses over a wet diaper so I’m constantly changing her.  We have her on a strict schedule, that she pretty much made for herself, we just enforce it.  She eats every 4 hours regardless… so we do 12a.m., 4a.m., 8a.m., 12p.m., 4p.m., 8p.m., etc.   It’s the most convenient for all of us, this way, we only get up once per night with her.  We go to bed at 12:30a.m. and Matt does the 4a.m. feeding.  I don’t get up until 7:30a.m. when Chris goes to school, so it works out good!   She is a way better baby than Andrew was… I always say, she isn’t as good as Chris, but way better than Andrew.  No formula or feeding issues so to speak of or anything.   I was getting frustrated for a while at finding the right bottle because it seemed that either we were choking the formula down her, or it was taking over an hour to feed her.  The neighbor lady across the street was gracious enough to give me her Dr. Brown’s bottles because she’s breastfeeding (had her baby two weeks before me), and they have worked out the best.  Not so much because they reduce the bubbles, but because the flow seems to be perfect.  I haven’t had a chance to thank her yet, but when I see her I will for sure.  It has made life a little easier.

My mom’s birthday was March 26th, so I decided I would buy her a laptop.  Her first ever computer.  The shenanigans with Dell began 3 weeks prior to that!  I ordered her a “netbook” because that is exactly what she needs, nothing too complicated, and not too much power for someone who won’t use it for more than browsing the net.  So it took over 3 weeks from the point at which I ordered it for it to arrive, on April 2nd.  I got it via FedEx sometime that afternoon, and I immediately opened it.  I powered it on, and there was a big purple line going down the side of the screen.  I was freaking pissed beyond belief then, because it took 3 weeks for it to get to me, was late and I didn’t get it for my mom’s birthday, and all that.  Now I had to send it back.  Knowing Dell’s deceptive practices, rather than “exchange” it like you can at a store, they “repair” it or replace it with a refurbished model, which I think is a crock of shit.  I wanted to exchange it for a new one because most likely this had been damaged during shipment, and who knows what else could go wrong with it.  So after hours on the phone with them, we sent it back, hoping to get a new one in it’s place.  Here comes today, April 9th, I get the same laptop back, with a tag that says they repaired the screen.  Great… oh well, not much I can do now.  I get it all set up, and I start installing programs for my mother, and the damn thing just stops working completely… like the CPU died.  We hooked it to a monitor just to confirm it wasn’t the screen acting up, it was the whole damn thing that was gone.  At that point in time I just about lost it. It’s not like a desktop computer, or even a regular laptop, you just can’t “fix” it or replace parts.  Matt got on the phone with Dell and demanded a return.  I was like F***it, I’m going to Best Buy.  Sure enough, I get to Best Buy and I bought a brand new Toshiba Satellite laptop, a real full-size laptop, just like mine for cheaper than I bought the Dell Mini for.  It was faster, had a better processor, and a bigger hard drive.  Plus, if something goes wrong, I can just return it, or we can fix the damn thing ourselves for the most part (depending on the problem of course!).  Grrr… Dell sucks and their quality has steadily gone downhill since they have started to outsource.  So, off goes the Netbook back to Dell, and that’s the last time i’m dealing with them for laptops anyway.  Hmm… I wonder if I can get my mom to do a MySpace profile… is it cool for your mother to be on MySpace?

Since I got home from the hospital from having Caitlyn… there has been something wrong with me ever since.  It sucks major rear end.  Starting with the c-section and my passing out incidient… I came home, got severly anemic had to go back to the hospital.  Follow that two weeks later and I get infected with strep throat from the kids (which came from school).  Immediately following the strep infection, I end up with a bladder infection and kidney infection caused by the strep bacteria.  I am now recovering from that VERY slowly.  It just seems like the energy has been stripped from me completely.  I went back to the hospital the other day and they put me on a bag of Levoquin (antibiotic), and pumped me full of fluids and stuff.  They sent me home with a script for it too.  Thank god I had insurance, that antibiotic would have cost $200 without it… for 10 pills.  What a rip!  So, with the help of NOS energy drink and the 5 hour energy shot, I have been someone able to function.  I feel my energy level creeping back up slowly each day.  This sucks… I would just love to feel normal for once.  It’s like, I was completely miserable during the entire pregnancy, and I end it hoping that I will go back to normal, and it hasn’t happened yet.  I feel it coming though

It’s hard to believe this school year is almost already up and he’s going into the 1st grade finally.  He’s really excited to be turning 7 this year.  Probably because we are going to Florida shortly thereafter with his grandparents too.  We just had Chris parent-teacher conferences. He has remarkable differences from this time last year, it’s amazing.  He’s now starting to read, which is a requirement to enter the 1st grade.  He couldn’t do that last year, so I’m glad we held him back.  He didn’t even know his entire alphabet (to read and write) this time last year.  He can almost count to 100 now too. He’s become very sociable with his friends too.  He knows everyone in his class, is friends with everybody, including all the neighborhood kids.  I’m sick of the little kid down the street though.  His name is John and he is bossy and pushy with Chris and Andrew.  He tries to tell them what to do but if I’m around I lay the smackdown on him.  He keep breaking their stupid guns and it makes Chris cry.  I keep telling Chris to stop taking his guns out but he don’t listen.  Today one of his friends broke his expensive solid-wood pirate-like gun we got at Disney World a couple years ago.  I was like, don’t worry about it Chris, we’re going back near your birthday, we’ll get another one… thankfully.

I am honestly not looking forward to summer for some reason.  I don’t even look forward to when they are off school for an entire week at a time like they are this week coming up.  The two boys fight and argue all the time.  I just want a peaceful easter break.  Plus, now that they have become friends with everyone in the neighborhood, they like to play out front.  I am still not comfortable with that in today’s society.  Plus, the neighborhood kids don’t have the rules we have.  Chris and Andrew are not allowed to cross the road, but the other kids are.  It’s dangerous and cars fly down our street.  The stupid kid down the street rides out in front of cars and has almost been hit a couple times.  The little boy across the street doesn’t pay attention at all when he crosses.  He has been told by his mother to pay attention but for whatever reason he doesn’t.  I’m so afraid that Chris and Andr
ew will randomly cross the street following him when he’s not paying attention.  Chris is pretty good about looking both ways, but not Andrew.  I’m just not looking forward to dealing with this all day everyday.

I braved the skies and went flying with Matt and the kids the other day.  It wasn’t half bad, but I’m still scared to death.  I hate take-offs and landings in little planes and it was really bumpy.  We flew the coastline all the way down to Toledo and back and near Toledo it was pretty bumpy.  I kept saying to myself, “Just don’t touch the controls or the steering wheel”.  It’s like the only thing to grab onto aside from Matt so I had to refrain!! Pictures are located in my albums of course.

We’re going to Disney World in June.  Matt’s parents are flying down there and once again we are going to meet up with them there.  I guess Michigan is too boring, but hey, we all know that.  They came in 2005 when Andrew was 4 months old and we pretty much did all there is to do in Michigan.  They’ll meet Caitlyn, and she’ll be 4 months old.   If it’s anything like when they were here with Andrew, they’ll hold her a few times and that’s all.  To my knowledge they haven’t even asked for a picture of her yet.  I’m not sure if they look at her album, but i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.  I can’t wait to go to Florida though.  Someday I will move there, it’s just a matter of when.  I figure this time we’ll go to Disney since we missed it the last time because it was too hot.  We might hit up Sea World again, but again, it depends on how hot and miserable it is.  We will definitely go to the beach though.  We like to go to the beach on Merritt Island, which shares the same beach as NASA and Kennedy Space Center, so you can see the launch pads from the beach.  They get some pretty good surf there too.  Chris and Andrew want boogie boards this time so i’ll have to get a couple of those.