No one said this had to be a daily thing right??

Good- because there is no way I could keep up on this!! It's been a week or so since my 1st entry and life just keeps me on my toes. When I picked up the kids on Friday after work Kylie wouldn’t let me put her down for more than 20 min. and during those 20 min. she wouldn’t let me out of her sight. This continued all through the weekend, each day was progressively worse. As incontinent as that was I was glowing inside....my little girl sure missed me!!! Yay for me!!! I am doing something right!!! Come Monday morning after no sleep it occurred to me she didn't care who I was...she was miserable and wanted someone to comfort her....what a burst to my bubble!! I have had a few of those in my 25 yrs so I pulled out my big girl panties and quit feeling sorry for myself and took her to the Doc...it was more than I suspected....she had an ear infection that was just starting to rupture. the pressure had caused a small hole to burst open in her ear drum, and her cough had turned into pneumonia. This is the 2nd time I have missed an ear infection with her and the second time I find out her cough isn’t just a cough...Let me re-phrase that...the 2nd time in about a month!!! I am a terrible mom I just cant seem to figure her out. I expect her to act like Karter did when he was a baby (I knew in an instant when he had an ear infection because he wouldn’t drink a single oz of a bottle because the sucking hurt his ear) and I have to remember they are different and they wont act in the same way. This brings me to my next update---I expected Kylie to act like Karter if she has an ear infection...she doesn’t. The reason she doesn’t is because SHE LOVES FOOD. Pain or no Pain....she will eat!!! While dealing with her infection (unfortunately that small hole did not relieve all the pressure) I decided to introduce squash...since she has done so well with cereal and it was a hit! Currently wondering if I will come across a food she doesn’t enjoy! Over the weekend I purchased a pre-school activity book that karter and I work on every night before bed. We learn one letter and one number and do one activity page with shapes or colors. He knows how to say his alphabet and count but he's learning to write each of them...he loves it! We also started reading a story of his choice with Kylie before the lights go out. I kick myself for not doing that on a daily basis before now but we both look forward to it and I think Kylie does too....she gets pretty jabbery and does allot of talking while I read!! I also need to mention that we got together with Sean and Stephanie and Kevin and Justin and Sum and all the kids (except Sean and Leah's little boy Jace...he stayed home with mom because he was sick) at Grandpa and Grandma Dance's on Saturday for a pot luck dinner Sean and Justin organized....it was allot of fun to see those guys! We haven’t seen near enough of them considering how close we all live now. I hope we do that allot more often, I know I sure enjoyed it and I know it was really nice for grandpa and Grandma also! Well...karter is notifying me that I am taking too long and it's time for our story so I better run!! Goodnight!