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No water in the Sunshine Market!

June 3, 2011

The last few days have been absolutely crazy! I’ll sum them up quickly with a few highlights! For 5 days my air conditioner was working about half way keeping the apt about 82 degrees at any given time. Then a water main valve broke in my neighborhood leaving us with no water for 2 days, and then when it was turned back on all the calcium build up clogged the water lines causing another day with no water. Every now and again they would turn on the water on so I’d quickly fill the tub so I could use this water to wash kid’s hands and fill the potty with water for flushing. We ate takeout food and or sandwiches for lunches and had dry less messy foods like dried fruit and animal crackers for snacks Somehow we made it and all is back to normal!

I love listening to the children play from another room. When no adults are around they just seem to let their imaginations flow freely! So as I was cooking breakfast this morning I hear Bug from the other room saying “Daddy sit down in your car seat!” Followed by some banging on the shelf with some toy. This gets louder and louder till she finally giggles and says “Good job daddy for listening to me. Now we can go Bye-bye!” I then hear something roll across the shelf and into something but I’m not sure what. By this time my curiosity has got the better of me and I’m down the hall to see what she is doing. I arrive to find that the car was the basket from Sunshine market, and the daddy and Bug in their car seats that were the square frames that can be fit in the cart or in the roof or under the cart. The market was the pet store and there were some busy farm pets for them to look at. Every time I turn around these little people have ideas I never even thought could be done with these toys!

As many of you know my white blood count has been about double what it should be for about 5 months. Yesterday I went to the hematologist. We had a good discussion and he has some ideas. I had about 30 CC’s of blood drawn. It left me a bit woosy, but I was able to go home finish my day with my little one clean up eat dinner and go to bed. I took Baby K who is 9 months old. I absolutely love the Ergo! I was able to keep her happy on my back the whole time. I was a bit of a bad caregiver and I forgot toys. Yes the Discovery Toy consultant forgot Toys. Luckily my friend had 2 links with her and 2 little links and Baby K’s binky along with the smiles from all the nurses and she was a complete champ!

Nap time usually lasts around 2 hours, but today they have been asleep for almost three hours. I’m guessing this will be coming to an end shortly, so off to make snack play games and do some toddler dancing to Finger plays and Fun that is currently in the summer sale!

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.”
-Author Unknown

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Hello world, My first blogging attempt

May 30, 2011

Hello friends and Discovery Toy fans:

Several people have asked “Do you blog?” Up until now the answer was “no,” but because enough people have asked and encouraged I’ve decided to give it a try. Some days I’ll share product reviews, some days just the adventures of my crazy life with 4 babies, and medical challenges, but with my love for writing and my adventures with children I hope my blog is an interesting place to keep friends informed of my happenings and adventures.

Yesterday started the three week count down to my move to MI. I’ve hit the excited but scared piece of the big move as it is becoming to be known as. When people ask of “Why so Quick?” and “What will you be doing?” I excitedly share, but the conversation always turns to you’ll be missed and then the emotions switch to am I doing the right thing? I know I am, because I don’t think that everything wouldn’t be falling together so beautifully if it wasn’t the right change for where I am in my life. So I’ll answer some of these questions.

I’m currently running a 4 child daycare from my home and tutoring children on the weekends from a very small 2 bedroom apt. I have no room to expand, but the interest from others to expand. I need a second helper and more children, but here I just don’t have the space for more kids or another adult. A friend has offered me her entire basement to transform into my business. I’m not a fan of the Texas heat and allergies, and these things are much less in MI. In my new space that is 4 times the size of what I have now I’ll have room to expand ages and services. I have a helper already to start once I get settled and reopen.

The plan is to arrive in Mi sometime around the 21^st.for the first few months I’ll be helping her family with the transition of a new infant being born bringing the families children to 4 little blessings. As mommy and baby adjust to life after birth, and my daycare is put back together in a new location I’ll begin interviewing families and plan to reopen on September first 2011.

I’m hoping with a second pair of hands and a larger space that I can increase the amount of children I can care for and serve in my tutoring aspect of my business. I’ll use the 2 months of adjustment to notify people in the local small town about Discovery Toys and have my first parties.

For the next few weeks I’ll be wrapping things up here in Texas. The last few weeks with my babies have begun to be bitter sweet, but fun as I watch their new developments. Today baby A asked for Hello hello as soon as he was placed in the play area by his mother. He was asking for his favorite music from the Finger Plays and Fun CD us here almost every day upon his arrival. He has been requesting music in many other ways like banging the cabinet the CD player is in, shaking the egg shakers and more nonverbal methods of communication methods. Today he hummed the tune doing his best to ask so I consider this step 1 to using language to gets his needs and desires met. It is milestones like these that really fuel my love for teaching of all ages.

Well my 1 little guy for the day is sleeping so I should get things done. I look forward to the future of this blog as a way to help others, but also to record my life and discoveries. If there is one thing I’ve learned from every mentor it is to “Write it Down” They always ask “Did you write it down? Unfortunately most of the time the answer was “no” Now I’ll be able to say yes and share the link to the blog.

Hope all of you have a wonderful last day of the three day weekend!