Rambling & TS Awareness!

Ahh... bedtime... My personal favorite part of the last couple of days.  It seems like the kids are secretly hatching plans every night before they fall asleep as to what they can do to torture me the next day.  Kids 1 Mommy 0.  Today it was the loveliness of James dumping out a newly opened bag of potato chips on to the freshly vacuumed floor at the same time Lily was having the MELTDOWN of the century.  Cute guys, real cute.  I guess I learned that James is now big enough to grab stuff down from the counter, either that or his trusty sidekick "Sissy" got them for him.  Lily's meltdown started when I told her and her friend Olivia (play date today!) to clean up her room before Olivia's mom came to get her.  Lily told me it was "WAYYYYY too hard" and "I refuse to do it Mama."  Seems like I am raising a rebel already.  She did it, crying the entire time, and then her friend's mom came which took the meltdown to an entirely new level.  NAP TIME quickly followed for her.  The kid is 4 and I can honestly count on 1 hand the amount of times she has napped since the age of 6 mos. so it was truly amazing to watch her sleeping when the sun was still up.  No complaints here.  I will take a daily meltdown if it means an hour and a half of nap time follows.  Mom's of little napping babies, cherish every second of nap time; you will miss it the most when it's gone. 


The weekend was pretty uneventful.  Saturday morning was Lily's dance class.  It is like a top secret CIA meeting in that room.  No moms/dads allowed in or even to peek.  The secrecy makes the recital so much more fun, but in the meantime I am dying to see my little ballerina tapping away. (I know, ballerinas do ballet and not tap but I can't think of the name of little tap dancers right now... I'm tired.)  Saturday night, Grammie stole the kids for the night and Jimmy and I were able to do dinner and a movie which is always super refreshing because nights out are few and far between.  Sunday was a lazy day here.  Like I said, completely uneventful, but sometimes those weekends are the best ones.


Ahhh that is all for now.  Nothing too new going on.  The snow all around is starting to make me stir crazy.  It was fun at first, but now I want winter to have a Xanax and chill out!   


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PS.


February is....

TURNER'S SYNDROME AWARENESS MONTH!

Here are 7 facts of TS that were emailed to me from TSSUS.. Become aware!

1. TS affects only females.

2. One in 2000 female births is affected by Turner syndrome

3.      The average height of a women with TS without Growth promoting therapies  4’8”

4.      Half the girls with TS are not diagnosed until they are teens or preteens.

5.      Individuals with TS have an increased risk of non-verbal learning disorder.  In school and work, these impairments can cause problems in math, visual-spatial skills, and executive function skills. 

6.      Early diagnosis and treatment with estrogen from the teen years into adulthood is essential prevent crippling osteoporosis in the adult woman.

7.      Ask TSSUS to send a “Short Happens!” button to your doctors to help crush ignorance of TS!