update update update....

So a little update on how life is going here with the Honeycutt's. We will start with Jeremy; he is working and sleeping and eating and spending time with us. Not much has changed on that end. Shiana is doing awesome in school still. Excelling in all course, but not a fan of math. Keylan is wild and crazy as ever, lol. He is growing and learning new things everyday and he tries to do as much for himself as possible. My life. I started working as a seamstress about a month ago. I love my job, work 7-3:30 and making pretty decent money. I finally got our essential oils ordered and very excited to get them in and start using them. Hoping that we will have our own place soon so of course like any wife/mom I am planning all parts. From the kids room to laundry room to outside, lol. I have also been thinking and looking for phlebotomy courses to take online. I still would like to have a career in the medical field and sticking people sounds like fun. Haha, it does sound fun, but I would like to help out in this area and a plus is that all the injections that I have given people I have not had one negative comment from anyone, and those were real, actual patients. So hopefully I can figure something out along those lines and make it to my career and make good money with decent hours. 

Plans

Something that I have been a huge advocate for since before Keylan was born is car seat safety. I feel like I have seen just about everything with car seats and have heard all the excuses that I can hear. I am always willing to help a parent, grandparent, friend, or any one that transports children. When Shiana was born I was not educated and I am so thankful and blessed that nothing ever happened to her in the car. I did everything wrong; straps to loose, buckle on her belly, jackets on under straps, and the worst is forward facing her at 8 months old. I found a awesome group of women that I have learned so much from and from there I have researched and learned even more on my own. I can give advice and tell why not to do something from experience, but people always ask "Why should I listen to you? You do not have any credentials to tell me what I am doing is wrong".  So now I want to take my teaching to the next level. I am looking at getting CPST certified. There is a course that is going to be close to me and I am trying to make plans to attend. After finishing the course I will be certified and can then answer "Well I am certified in child passenger safety" and plan to have cards made to give out if they ask for one. If I can have just one infant or child protected that is all that matters to me.

What's to come in 2014

So 2013 is over and on to 2014. This year the kids will be turning, 4, 7 and 14. I will be turning 26 and my loving husband will be the big 3-0. I have decided that I am going to make goals to work on a little everyday, but I do have at least one big thing that I would LOVE to have happen this year. I want us to be able to have a home of our own. We have been trying to work on that but with the holidays and trying to get the paperwork for the Army advantage fund rolling it has been a hassle. But on to our goals for this year:

- Start going to church more regularly, and grow my relationship with God
- Yell less at the kids
- Grow as a wife and a mother, because both my husband and my kids are always changing and so I must grow with them.
- Be more fun and not so serious about everything. My babies are only babies for so long and then I will be uncool.
- I want to start eating healthier
- and work on losing a little weight and being more active.

So these are all very easy and simple, but they will all take "work" to fulfill them throughout the year. 

LIfe

So life has been, I guess to say hectic. I am finally getting more substitute jobs, which is AWESOME because that means more money to catch up and pay bills and also start buying Christmas presents.

We had a parent teacher conference with Shiana's teacher last week and she is doing absolutely awesome in everything. She is way ahead in all subjects in class and doing things that her teacher said she has seen very very few students do at her age level. I am one super happy momma and she is so bright. But she has also been having some "health" issues. She has been complaining about things far away being blurry and having a hard time seeing the board, so we are trying to get her eyes checked. And betting that most likely she will be needing glasses.

She also had a knot on her throat that swelled up last weekend and continued to for a few days. I took her to the ER and they said it was a cyst on her thyroid. She was then referred to an ENT, that appointment was on Friday. We went in, and since I was paying out of pocket we had several things taken care of. First, of course, was her throat. She was diagnosed with a thyroglossal duct cyst (Thyroglossal Duct Cyst). At this moment since we do not have insurance, he said that we are ok. But when it kicks in and it is not swollen and angry he wants and ultrasound to check it all out and then surgery to remove the cyst. Next, was her nose. She has been having frequent nosebleeds so he checked and she has/had a large "juicy" blood vessel on the side that bleeds so he cauterized it and we are hoping that helps. Last he checked her throat and asked if she snored a lot. She does so I said yes and he then told me that her tonsils are enlarged and that also means that her adenoids are enlarged too. He said that he would like to have them taken out, after insurance is in and after the cyst surgery is finished. So we have a busy few months when insurance is back.

Keylan....what can I say about my crazy little boy? lol. He is 3 and a half years old now, fully potty trained which is awesome! He still is not so crazy about meat, loves him some fruits though. He has also started sleeping through the night now, which also is nice. With all the weather change though his asthma has been acting up so he has been coughing a lot.

Daisy Scouts Ideas

I have already been looking at ideas for this year:

Badges:
I would love to be able to get the badge book and pick a few "big" ones out to do this year and be able to talk to my Asst. Leader about what she thinks. And of course I want all the girls, or at least the ones that will bridge to Brownies, to complete their daisy patches. The daisy patches will most likely take all year, but I have a lot of good ideas that we can use to get them. 

Meetings:
I am going to get a tri-fold poster board and put our Kaper chart in the middle, thinking flower pots with flowers. On the left side I am going to put the Girl Scout Pledge. And on the right the Girl Scout Law. Each law will be the color of its petal and then below it I am going to put a space where as we complete each we will complete it on there too.

I also have some crafts planned for each holiday. Then at the end of the year I will plan a bridging ceremony, but definitely not going to stress about for a while. I have found some awesome sources and blogs that I will reference when I write about my ideas from them. But right now I am in the pre-planning and waiting for books and to get started, but I at least know that I have an AL that is excited about this year as I am.

Daisy Scouts

So some changes will be coming soon!! Shiana has been interested in becoming a Girl Scout so I started to try and get her into it. This past week there was an informational meeting about it and found out that it is really hard to find groups to take girls in, she is a Daisy scout. So it basically came down to waiting till groups would take girls or to have someone to volunteer as troop leader and form a new group for the new girls.....

I was that mom. I volunteered to be troop leader. So I am will be a Daisy Scout Troop Leader as soon as my training is finished, which should not take long. 

I am very nervous about how all of this will play out, especially since it is a new group and my first time doing it. But everyone has "guinea pigs" to test things and learn from. I am just telling myself that as long as the girls have fun and get what they need to and I communicate with the parents then all will be fine and then I will have the summer to make changes and plan ahead.

So now my blog will, hopefully be filled with exciting new things that my scout troop will be doing and how we will be helping out community. 

Keylan's Birth

So I made another post for Keylan's pregnancy because he was my "high maintenance" baby. But this I will start the morning I headed to the hospital. I was scheduled to have a repeat c-section at 8:00 the morning of April 16, 2010. I got to the hospital at about 5:30 to prep and monitor him. My mom dropped Shiana off at daycare and then came up to the hospital to be with us. At 8 A.M. I walked down to the OR and got my spinal block, of course I felt like I was being smothered with the O2 mask on and strapped down. I don't remember a lot, no pulling or tugging like there was with Shiana, but he was cutting away a lot of scar tissue. He ended up having to cut on a different part of my uterus then intended, and it ended up being where my placenta was at. I lost a lot of blood and then it took a minute to get Keylan out. 

He was born at 8:36 A.M. I heard a little cry, saw him for 2 seconds and then he was gone. I can not say what happened once he left because mom and Jeremy were with him while my tubes were tied and I was closed up. I went to recovery and finally got to see him again for another 2 seconds an hour later. He was hooked up to monitors and IVs and tubes in his mouth and a nasal cannula, not how you picture seeing your supposed full term newborn. He had acidosis, from what they told us later that night, really bad. We finally got to hold our newborn after midnight. I got him to latch because I was determined to breastfeed, then they pushed formula on him. He was fed every 3 hours and once they started pushing formula on him he started to spit up really bad and he never gained weight. We had to fight to have him discharged at 6 days old, they wanted him to gain at least a quarter of a pound. Had we not fought he would had been in there for 3 weeks. We took him home, he was partially breastfed and bottle fed and because of weight and spit up he eventually ended up on just the bottle. He was eating 1-2 ounces every 1-2 hours because of spit up. 

At 2 months old, he had gained 1 pound. He ended up back in the hospital for failure to thrive. They tested for everything and finally figured he had a fast metabolism. Started him on Neosure, a high calorie formula, and zantac for acid reflux. He was still fed 1-2 oz every 1-2 hours but from there his reflux was controlled and he started gaining weight.