numbers

Last night, I realized that Hunter, my 4 year old, can write his numbers and add numbers! I knew he was smart but I didn't realize how much he knows. He has been doing alot of kids online learning games and his explorer has a game where he can write letters and numbers but I didn't realize he could do it on his own! He isn't perfect at it but he sure does pretty good for trying! I took a picture with my cell phone so I will try to download the picture so you can see his numbers her wrote. And he can add! He can add in his head and tell you and he can add by counting 2 sets of dots or figure it out in his head. I know he isn't perfect with this either but he did 8 +3 and wrote out 11 without me even telling him! I just enrolled him in preschool for fall and I think he is going to be pretty smart by the time he gets there and he can even write his name! My big boy is growing to fast pretty soon he will be in highschool!

HT's 4 year stat's

Hunter had his 4 year well child check today and it is so different when your kids start talking to the doctor and they answer the doctors questions! DeOna was so cool with him and Hunter knew he was going to the doctor that mama worked for to have a check up cause he was 4. He was pretty excited about it. Grace came with us cause she puked in the car on the way to my mom's today the second time in 2 weeks but I am pretty sure it is her gag reflux so no more milk in the car! I was going to see if DeOna would look in her ears but forgot and thought if her ears hurt she would tell us. So Grace and I hung out with Hunter at his check up and he was such a little man! I let him do all the talking and prompted him a little but it was all him. I just couldn't believe that I was the quiet one while he was doing all the talking. It is an amazing transition let me tell you! He was more then happy to tell her whatever she asked of him. He was such a good boy but he didn't want her to shine the light in his eyes that was the downfall and he told me at the beginning he didn't want it done but we talked about it and he still wasn't a big fan of that part. DeOna says he will be tall and thin by they way his stat's are looking. She said the same about Grace at her 2 year check. He was awesome with his shots and I love that 4 of the shots are combined to 2 shots instead makes it easier for kids and mom's. He was a trooper and one of the best ever and I give shots everyday to kiddos! One of his arms is sore today/tonight and it is the one that bleed the most so I am just watching how he does. He didn't even want me to kiss it to make it better. He is getting so grown up :( So here is is stat's :)

Weight...40 lbs (81%)
Height...42.8 in (93%)

Both kids were awesome at the doctor's office and I was so proud of them the listened and obeyed and deserved their suckers that they had to earn! It is so weird and cool to give my kids suckers, stickers, and bandaids when I am the one that decides which ones to order for the kids that come in the clinic. Pretty cool, let me tell you! But I am very glad that I am not the one giving my kids their immunizations I will give any child one but mine.

Hunter turns 4!

Happy birthday buddy! I can't believe my boy is 4 time flew so fast and now he is 4 almost 5. He says he can't wait to be 5. Great. I didn't take any pictures at his party but hope to have some up soon! He had a Diego Birthday Party with family and it was a good time he was super excited to have family time today and have a party. He told me this morning when I woke him up to take him to Nana's that he was so excited he was 4 today and he had no more sleeps cause he was 4. I love my buddy so much :)

another debt paid!

I can't believe I did it! I paid off my Discover credit card! This was I believe my first credit card ever I had it before I met Larry and I spent alot of it on our wedding too. I finally paid off my part of our wedding and only 8.5 years later! That is pretty sad. So this is how I did it. I paid off my car last year and I started another loan at Onpoint and transferred my Discover card to Onpoint since my finance charge was 25%, with Discover card yep it was I don't even remember when it got that bad but it was. When I transferred it to Onpoint it was 7.9%! Major difference! I wrote in my debt notebook how much I would pay off each month and the only month I wasn't able to was Christmas cause I bought some presents. But the rest of the months I was able to keep my goal because I didn't buy my kids very many toys and I had friends handing me down clothes for the kids which helped a ton and I had friends hand me down clothes and shoes and family was helping with buying toys and clothes for the kids that I needed instead of me. I didn't buy much for me and I slowly budgeted for things around the house to make it look better and only bought coffee once during the week and sometimes on the weekend and made sure I always had my set amount of money left over at the end of the month to make a payment towards my credit card and it worked! I also carried cash. I never carried cash in the past but I would take out $50 every two weeks and use it on coffee, lunches, or things I wanted to buy. But it also helped big time that Larry worked in Canada throughout this time I am not going to lie. And that was my only saving grace for getting through the last year of having him leave each time knowing that him working the hours and being away I was working on our debt and the debt I had because he was gone. So there you have it how I did it. Hard work, budgeting, coupons, sacrificing not getting what I wanted and using my resources around me to help cloth me and my kids can really help out alot. And to except help and show people that you are seriously trying to make a difference in spending money because in the end there is a goal....paying off a debt that should have been paid off along time ago. So as of today... I have paid off over $15,000 of debt since 12/09! And I have less than that to go on my last debt. I am on the home stretch and it feels really, really good!

change

CHANGE...I stole this word from another person's blog. I don't even know the person so I hope they do not mind. It is pretty much a word that defies the last year of my life. It also helps me with the new year of my life. Alot has changed for me and for my family and alot of change is to come I have a feeling. So I am going to take this word and run with it. Change is good, change is needed, change hurts, and change strengthens. My kids are growing and they are changing and getting older and testing me. My marriage is growing and is changing and is testing me. My growth as a person is changing, I am getting older and alot of things are testing me. So I am ready for this year of change. I might love it, I might not like it but I think that I have to come to terms with how the change happens with me and all that is around me. I am happy with the word change and that is my challenge this year to take things that change around me and work through it and take every change as a grain of salt and not a boulder. So I challenge you who read my blog to use the word change and make it a positive in your life as I am going to try to in mine. :)

my fav's

I am bored so I wanted to just blog. So here are a few of my favorite things...

**hugging and kissing my kids and hearing them laugh
**my kids eyelashes they are so long
**decorating
**Rachael Ray dishes/pots
**couponing
**photography
**my animals, especially Misha she is my protector
**music
**reading novels
**reading Pioneer Woman's blog
**daffodils
**going on dates and eating big people food
**manicures
**a clean house
**drinking wine
**whoppers
**sleeping in (never happens but I love it)
**my girlfriends
**family

So there you go just a few things. I also can't believe my buddy will be 4 in 7 more sleeps. He is getting so big.