…And I know every parent probably feels this way. But I so won the kid lottery. Tonight has just been one of those nights when I look at my family and think, I am so lucky. I am so blessed. We are healthy (other than whatever plague has run away with my voice today). We are happy. We have everything we need. I have the most sweet, adorable, loving little boy in the world. I don’t ever want to forget these days. I figure I’ll probably need to hold on to them for dear life during the teenage days anyway. He gets up, leaves what he is doing just to run down the hall, wrap his little arms around my legs and say “I wuv you mom.” While we were watching Cars tonight, every few minutes, he’d kiss my cheek or turn my face toward him and say “I wuv you.”

And I can even say all this despite being woken up at 4:30 this morning to a soaking wet kid in a wet bed! He went right back to sleep in our bed, but I was up til 6 pacing around, fusing with cough drops and blowing my nose. I finally fell back asleep for an hour before getting up at 7:00 (hey that’s an hour early for me!) to get ready for an early orthodontist appointment. I discovered what I had already sensed, although not confirmed by talking to myself at 5am, I had no voice. Caleb got fussy at first “but I don’t want to whisper!” I explained again that I couldn’t talk any louder, I lost my voice (perhaps it is God’s way of telling me not to talk on the phone so much!). Caleb said “Oh. Well you have to find it then!”

By the time he and I arrived at my appointment, he asked if the dentist was going to “put my voice back in?” Sadly, no. It was a quiet day. I didn’t realize it until we got back there, but they were updating my records today, xrays and whatnot. I’m happy to say Caleb was very good. They take mugshots pictures of you in front of a DMV backdrop blue screen. For the first one she asked me not to smile. I heard a little voice bellowing out from the chair “Say cheese Mommy! Say cheese!” I could not keep a straight face. The dental assistant was laughing. I was laughing. We got through that and Caleb sat on the “slide” part of the chair (the leg/foot rest) as the dentist checked my teeth real quick and then we were good to go. Caleb got a sticker and introduced Charley to everyone, being sure to tell them that he was going to be bat for Halloween.

When we got home I found a hoarse version of my voice for a few minutes so I called my mom. After talking to her about ten minutes, her saying “What?” every other sentence, she says “Are you sick?” Nope. But here’s this sign you can wear.

I spent the majority of Caleb’s nap trying to find a white 3t hooded sweatshirt and pants. Turns out that is much harder than one might think. And really, why would solid white clothes for little boys exist? I agree it doesn’t make much sense. But seeing as how a dalmatian is white with black spots, there’s not much getting around it. But why make a costume when I could just buy one? See here’s the thing. Since I am so picky, I can’t find a Dalmatian costume that I think is cute. I know it is ridiculous. And just a memo to the ebay community, Dalmatian is spelled DalmatiAn, not dalmatiOn. More search results come up when you spell it wrong. I have looked at every single 3t and 4t dog costume that exists I think. I found one that I liked, but I missed the auction and can’t find another anywhere. I’ve searched eBay, yahoo, google, and amazon high and low for costumes. I’ve even tried to talk the kid into something different but he’s not even budging. Not even on the dog breed.

It has been a long week and a longer month. I really do want to thank each and every one of you for your support. It means so much to me. I am way behind on my blog reading. I’ve found the RSS reader to be both a blessing and a curse in that respect. We’ve been trying to keep the TV off a lot more too, so I feel like I read something real quick, then run off to go find a lost tire or help build train tracks and don’t come back to comment. I have lots of catching up to do! Our job situation, this week has teetered back to okay. Last month, thing took a stressful turn, but picked back up. Last week, business just completely died and Scott got an unplanned (unpaid) week’s vacation. Which made things very scary very fast.  Things feel unstable but okay for the moment.

Comments

2 Responses to “I know I’ve said this before”

    Andrea
    October 17th, 2008 7:55 pm

    Here you go…they have them on Amazon

    hooded sweatshirt

    sweatpants

    I just bought really cheap garanimals ones at Walmart for my son’s skunk costume I’m making, but I needed black, I don’t remember if they had white, unlikely.

    Dianna
    October 18th, 2008 2:25 am

    Glad things are a little better. I completely understand about the feeder thing. I usually don’t read over the weekend then on Mondays there are 40 posts…crazy, Anyways, good luck with the costume search!

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