Beesan  thanks for well wishes and the ear infection remedy. Its wonderful that you have experience with younger siblings. It will help you in the future if you decide to have kids. I have never been around or took care of little ones until I had my own.  I have friends who babysat there little siblings and are experienced in taking care of there own kids. They say that has helped them alot.

AngelSpun thanks for your encouragement and good tips. You are wise!  I always enjoy what you have to write and your input on things. The sticker thing has been going well and hopefully will keep up with it.

Anais thank God you got your gift. I hope you like them. Im just glad that you got them soon enough! Husband sent it out to UPS both times. Even after i told him to send it to US Postal the 2nd time.  

LJ Welcome to my journal!   How many kids do you have and what are there ages? Do you have any tips for picky eaters? The sticker thing has been wonderful. I gave Jimmy my 3.5year old his toy today because the sticker page was filled up. It has helped soooooooo much in good behavior and cleaning up his room/toys. Jimmy is also my picky eater. Hes very skinny and not interested in eating, only playing with blocks or cars or coloring. If anyone has some tips i would appreciate them.

  Back to doing my flylady again. It keeps me in track or organizing things. I subscribed to her emails and daily reminders for detailed cleaning lists. I made a nice lunch today and white rice, chicken and a can of grean peas. I made it for the kids.  I told Jimmy if he eats all his breakfast meals etc. I will take him to Chuckee Cheese every Saturday. He ate his scrambled eggs hassle free for breakfast.  If he doesnt eat he has no energy, says hes always tired. Lunch was kinda a struggle.  Unfortunately it feeling like a daily feeding Jimmy battle. It makes me exhausted trying to get this kid to eat. Ryan is a better eater thankgod! Now he doesnt even care if we go to Chuckee Cheese  or not. I need to try a different method. Suggestions please.......

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I have a 2.5 yo boy and a 4.5 yo girl. She has always been a great eater--used to eat thai food ground up in a manual baby food grinder when she was a year old. She will try anything. My son eats only ketchup. Actually he'll eat a few things but only if dipped in ketchup. Well, he'll eat cereal, too, and apples. My approach with him has been sort of hands-off. I give him a plate with a balanced diet on it, with pasta or chicken and a veggie, and maybe a slice of ww bread & butter as a treat. I make him eat one bite of his vegetable, or a bit more if I know he likes it but is just being fussy, and when I say "make him eat" I mean he doesn't get to get up and play/have bread and butter/read a story until he does as I say. But I do not force him to finish everything on his plate, because I personally believe that he needs to learn what it feels like to be full and how to decide for himself when to stop eating (after he eats his bite of veggie). I also am very realistic about my expectations of him. I know not to give him the pasta w/cherry tomatoes and balsamic reduction that we are eating, instead I keep aside some of the plain pasta and put Prego on it and cheese and call it macaroni (teehee). Both kids get a multi-vitamin each day. Dr. Brazelton's advice (see this page: http://www.health.state.ok.us/program/mchecd/picky.html) is that as long as they get some milk, some juice, some protein and a multi-vitamin they'll be OK until they get older and start eating like humans again. I guess my main bit of advice is, don't let what Jimmy does or does not eat dictate your stress level at meal times. I have been there, frustrated and upset at every mealtime, and I finally said, ENOUGH. I know my Noah will survive with what he is eating, and he sees everyone else eating a balanced diet, so I don't worry about it anymore. I can't, because it will turn me into a wreck at every meal if I let it. *getting off of soap box now*

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I *heart* flylady!

Have you heard of the product "Airborne"?  It is something you take at the first hint of a cold and it helps you fight it better.  It was initially developed by a school teacher who was tired of getting sick with every bug the kids brought to school.  I myself have used it only once when I felt a sore throat coming on and I didn't get any sicker.  I have friends that swear by it.

Hope you are feeling better soon!

Thanks BB.  I hope we both feel better! 

Beesan, I didnt read the article on JM yet about picky eating. Your brothers sound like wonderful eaters! Hopefully my little ones will be too!

Hair- put euro oil treatment on today after my shower with a dab of baby shampoo.

Cleaning- Did some cleaning my bedroom today. Under the bed.   

Now going to drink my Green tea.

Thanks Beesan!

  I feel absolutely exhausted. I dont know what to do. Feeling tired when you have 5 trillion things to do is no fun.

Dear Journal,

It might be a girl. I feel like im going to have  a girl. I have been eating a ton of sweets. This pregnancy is totally different than the others. I feel absolutely exhausted most of the time . A little princess, a lifelong friend, someone to cook with, dress up with, my husbands dream: a little baby princess. Hopefully healthy.  Only God knows what it is. I hope everything will be ok. im starting to worry already about labor and pains. Thankgod i will know how to care for her hair. hopefully it will be pretty and tangle free. We are not finding out, but motherly instincts maybe? Also DH says i have been very emotional this pregnancy so thats why it also might be a girl. I feel the same an emotional wreck like usual.

Yesterday i had a bad hair day.  After shower i kept it down curly. then it became a frizzy mop.   Sometimes i feel like if i cant do my own hair well how will i do the kiddies. ???

BB thanks for the encouragement!  I am very excited! Ohhh little baby pinkness! Perhaps, we can grow our hair together! Today i put my hair in a loose curly bun. Mom says hair looks knotty. "Did you comb it?" says mom. If i comb my hair out when its dry it will become a frizzy birds nest. I comb it when its wet. Argggggggggggggggg.  I will never be perfect and thats reality. Sometimes i just tell her. Ma, sorry i cant be perfect. Then i put my hair down and mixed aloe gel with water and put it on my hair. My 3 year old says "Mommy i like your hair". Awwwwwwwww. those words make everything better. what a blessing. Thankgod.

AngelSpun , out of the mouth of babes!!! they are little angels.  Im excited for the new baby. Hopefully healthy. ??? If its a girl Julia and if its a boy we are picking Randy as a name.  Hopefully all goes well. Im still nervous about labor!!!!

Inlaws probs- Mother in law complaining that my kids dont know her. Thats not even true. Jimmy knows her well and loves her very much. Ryan really is a late talker so he is having a hard time saying Grandma. That doesnt mean he doesnt know her.   I cant make everyone happy.Why dont they eat anything and they are way to skinny. MIL declares to my hubby.  She also wants us to name it Felicia if its a girl after her. Yowzers. Thankgod my father in law is nice.

Hair was in a loose curly bun today. Yesterday night i went to a bridal shower and they had the most gorgeous longlockers ever!!!!! Hair can make or break you. One looked like Miss America with her long highlighted blond/brownish  tailbone hair. I long for that day to come. Then i got invited to a grad party for March 25. May things go well.

A good stress reliever i read in the newspaper today was to accept the things you cant change. That really relieved me today.