The Captain Lives!

Enough Said!

Well - Kirk is now sporting a lovely new eye patch - Walgreen's: $6, if you want to also go for this season's pirate look. His eye isn't exactly getting any better and I guess we're gonna have to make a Dr.'s appointment for next week. Hopefully it improves over the weekend. Or at least before he goes to CA.

Oh, did I mention that he is going to California next weekend (well, for 4 days)? He's going with his Aikido class. I guess you call them a class.... the guys he trains with. His Dojo, Three Rivers Aikido, is affiliated with Steven Segal... yep Steven, too old to be in action movies, Segal. I hope I don't get in trouble for saying that.... Anyway - they are going to CA to train with Segal. I know he will have fun, I just hope his eye injury doesn't get in the way..... He will take pictures while he's there. Maybe he'll get a picture of himself and Segal in an eye patch! That would be cool!

1st Lookie-Loos

So it was 8:40 pm last night and my doorbell rang. I was home alone because Kirk works mostly nights... and it was after 7:30 (which is the cutoff time for prospective home buyers to look at the house) so I thought I was safe. I was wearing lovely gray maternity, Capri, workout type pants that have a big red and white stripe down the side (yeah - they're hot!). And a grey T-shirt (different grey than the pants of course) from Old Navy, circa 1998. The one with the old blue truck on it for those of you who know your vintage Old Navy. OH! and no bra, no shoes. I was wearing my glasses and my ponytail was a mess.... Hey, I thought I was safe for the night.

So I had the option of opening the door or letting whoever it was ring the bell again and take the chance of waking up the baby.... So I chose to see who it was. I opened the peep hole and it was a man about 35. His minivan was on the street and there was a someone in it. I quickly thought, "Oh, it's a minivan, he's a married, dad-type guy, no harm." Didn't think until later that almost all kidnappers, rapists and murders probably own and drive a van for it's convenient criminal aspects.... oops, silly me. I opened the door, trying to cross my arms over my chest.

"Hey - we were driving by and noticed your house was for sale... I was wondering if we could look in your backyard?"

"Ummm... (pause, I was weighing the options here)... yeah, if you just want to look out back... you can go around the driveway....."

"Yeah - I mean, I don't want to come in or anything!" Like I was accusing him of something obscene.

"OK - well, have a look. The back yard is really great." and I'm closing the door as he's waving who I assume is his wife out of the van. She looks a little embarrassed. I waved to her as she shrugged her shoulders.

Then the man turns around and says, "One of the only things you like about the place, huh?" he said accusingly, referring to the backyard....

"What? No, we like the whole house...." Whatever. I just closed the door. And then locked the door. And then hurried to the back of the house to lock the backdoor as well.... They were gone within 5 min.

I hope this isn't the beginning of what's to come with house lookers.

Pirates and Diapers

Well - Kirk now has a giant eye! And he's off to buy an eye patch. Ahoy There! I will ABSOLUTELY include a picture of that if he lets me take one! Here's what his eye looked like this morning:

But I think he's forgiven Cutie Pants.... How could you resist that face?

Here she is giving her best performance of "Sorry Papa!" I'm not sure he's awake yet...

In other news, it may be time to potty train... as if I need something else to put on my plate! BUT - you gotta do what you gotta do. Might as well strike while the irons hot. She's been telling me that she needs new diapers when they get full. And she will sit on her potty seat (all clothes and diapers on) and say pee pees, and make a pisssss sound.

This morning she told me, "New diaper, Mama." I didn't think it was much of an emergency, I told her we would change her diaper in 5 min. and went into the kitchen to get something to drink. When I came back into the living room she was standing there with no diaper on, first time she's ever taken it off herself, and pointed to it on the floor. "Gucky, Mama.... new diaper?"

So I guess we need to step up our game and start something more than pretend pottying....

Hospital Day for Mama Nae & Papa K

Well - it seems we will both be spending time in a hospital today.

I went this morning for my regular bi-weekly maternity check-up. Everything is A-OK with me and baby Logan. My OB said he is measuring perfectly, right on track... I asked if she was sure he wasn't already a toddler... she said no. I also asked if I would have to have an IV in while in labor (which I do NOT want so I can have more freedom and mobility, not to mention not so quick decisions made for me on the spur of the moment). At first she said yes because I had Group B Strep with Nola (which requires 2 IV doses of antibiotics during labor to ensure the health of the baby) and with subsequent children they treat you for this whether you have it or not... in other words, I won't even be tested for it this time, just treated. But then I told her I didn't want to have to carry the IV pole thing around with me and couldn't they give it to me in another form? (Which I have seen done on TV, Thank you very much Discovery Health Channel.) She said no... hummmm... is she lying?
But she did say that I can get whats called a Hep Lock (sp?). Which is basically an IV starter... It's in my vein but not connected to anything until they need it. That way I can get hooked up for the antibiotics, and then I'm also ready to take whatever else I may need if the case arises. I'm cool with that. So all in all, a good visit to the hospital for me.

So.... while I was gone my wonderfully behaved daughter stuck her finger directly into Kirk's eye. Nola the Destroyer strikes again! I called on my way home and he sounded like he was in tears... I found out later it was just because of the continuous watering of his eye that his nose was running as well. He was in serious pain. On the phone I laughed it off and told him he really needed to learn how to defend himself against toddlers... come on now, he's a grown ass man! But when I got home and saw his eye I realized she must have really gotten him good.
He was so cranky and mad and hostile the rest of the day... like I did it or something. I kept Nola away from him as much as I could... she wasn't his favorite person either. I asked him if he was going to call a doctor.... NO! I have to go to work! And then it dawned on me why he was so mad... NOT because he was hurt or in pain or at either of us... but because he might miss a brief moment of work. I have NEVER met someone in my whole life who dedicates himself to his job the way my husband does. I think he really thinks that it would burn to the ground if he called in. He feels like he has no option - he's scheduled to go in - he MUST BE THERE! OR ELSE!

Well - I told him he needed to call or go see a DR. He wouldn't listen. So I looked it up on WebMD and it said in almost every eye case that you should seek medical attention immediately... so then he listened and asked me to call his Dr. and an Opthamologist. They both said to go to the ER.... So he is there now... waiting, missing work - hee hee hee..... I know it's killing him and for some reason that makes me giggle! I just feel he needs to learn a lesson that life is NOT work and work is NOT your life. He called and is in a much better mood.

This is what I said to him right before we got off the phone, which he agreed with and made him laugh, "I would rather you miss an entire day of work, or even loose your job all together, than loose your eyesight. You can ALWAYS get another job, you can't get another eyeball.... And you have such pertty eyes!"


Update: he has a scratched cornea! Pretty dramatic for a kid's finger in your eye!

No More Picture of the Moment

Sorry Folks - but no one seems to care anyway... I will leave the winner of this week's poll (which was actually just chosen by me anyway) up for a little while and then - AWAY WITH YOU!
For those of you who care about my photography, or photography in general, you will be pleased to know that I started another blog with daily photos. The link is along the side and the blog is titled, "A Cup of Black & White" This is motivating me to get out my camera every day and take a picture of something! And hopefully it will improve my skills since I went through all the trouble of getting a fancy schmancy camera!
I will still include pictures with my posts here when they are needed, and probably when they aren't... but no more voting and waiting and whatnot....
Ok - that's all for this announcement.

Here's a picture as a consolation to the doing away with the voting. (for those of you who like to vote on things, I will try to think of something to put a poll up about soon)

Cutest F-ing face EVER!