The Jones Girls

On Monday I took the girls to the Brea mall to have some Spring portraits done, meet the Easter Bunny and get a portrait with him, and to go to Godiva chocolate and cash in my 2 coupons and give the girls a yummy chocolate treat.

The girls didn’t do so good taking the pictures at JCPenney Portait Studio.  Miranda was really uncooperative and said, “Mommy, I need to go potty!”.  I told her “Honey, it’s ok to pee pee in your diaper”.  Miranda bellowed, “No Mommy I no pee in my diaper, I pee pee on the potty!”   She stood her ground and I had to follow through with the potty training gig.  I told the photographer I had to take Miranda to the bathroom.  Turns out the bathroom is one floor down – meaning packing up all of the girls and taking the elevator downstairs and waking across the department store to the bathroom. 

So, I did just that!!    Miranda was so scared to see the huge, big potty.   This was her very first time going into a public bathroom and sitting on a big toilet.  Why do they have that HUGE, open split in the front of the toilet seat?   It must look like a huge abyss to a little toddler!!

Miranda screamed and cried.  She was petrified.  I talked her through it.  She peed in the toilet and very quickly got off the toilet.   I am happy to announce her diaper was dry!!  She got to wash her hands in the sink and that was a huge thing for her too, a first time to do that too!!

We then proceeded to visit the Easter Bunny and got pictures with him.  Then we celebrated at Godiva chocolate and the girls had a great time.

So this was a huge milestone for Miranda.  My baby girl pee pee’d in a public toilet for the frist time today!!  Way to go Miranda!!!

By the way, we re-took the girls Spring – Easter – Savannah’s 5th birthday pictures yesterday, Tuesday, at Whitwood Mall JCPenney’s Portrait Studio.   This time the girls were really cooperative.   I made sure to tell Miranda to get all of her pee pee out before we left for the photographer.   With a little help (or should I say bribe!) from some bunny-shaped marshmellows, the girls took some awesome pictures!!! 

We took the girls to the La Habra Heights Eggstravaganza this morning at 10am.   They had a blast riding on the pony rides, marveled at the animals in the petting zoo, snuggled and petted the sweet little fluffy bunnies and met the Easter Bunny and got pictures with him.   We had do much fun,  We ran into lots of our friends.  We brought our dog Teddy with us and he had a lot of fun too!!

At 12pm we went to Carbon Canyon Park where we had a nice picnic lunch and fed ducks at the lake.  Then we had a fun Easter Egg hunt.  Teddie came with us enjoyed himself at the park.

The weather today was gorgeous, about 75 degrees and sunny skies.   A truly wonderful day for all of us!!

Yesterday morning at 8:30am I was getting clothes out of the triplet’s closet.  The closet has doors that slide.  Once in a while I might have to pull the door a little hard  to get it to slide.  I did this and then the door slide over very fast and I couldn’t get my hand out quick enough and,,,,WHAM!!   The finger go slammed in the door,.

Can I just say #@!&*(  OUCH!!!   The pain was so ridiculously bad that I cried big crocodile tears,  I put ice on it immediately and elevated my arm.  Throughout the day it turned purple and got really swollen.  It looked like a giant purple tootsie pop on my finger!!

I went to Urgent Care last night and the dr. ordered X-Rays.  Sure enough, I broke the bone in the tip of my middle finger.  I got a finger brace and a prescription for Ibuprofen.    It will take 6 weeks for the bone to mend and 3 weeks for the blood to absorb and the purple and blue marks to go away.  Nice…..

It is so hard to change diapers and clothes on the girls.   Ugh!!!

She lived in the next town over, Whittier, and then got this house in my neighborhood. I pass her house all of the time during my walks, running errands, etc. Helicopters have flown over our homes when the babies come home from the hospital and there is lots of media coverage and loads of curious people wandering about.   Not fun for any of us…

Guess what happened to me today at the bank? I had a really bad experience with a man at the bank.  I took all 4 girls with me to the bank on the way to run our errands (I don’t have a babysitter or nanny). You can imagine the sight waiting in line with all 4 girls. I accidentally bumped my purse very lightly into the man in front of me and he yelled at me telling me that he is very fragile and can fall over very easily. I excused myself and apologized for bumping into him. Then he started making these nasty OCTOMOM remarks to me, saying I had too many kids and that I was irresponsible just like her. I was insulted and retorted back that he didn’t know me and that I was a responsible and loving mother and wife.   He started arguing with me. It turned into a yelling match in line. Apparently this man gives all of the bank tellers a really bad time and no one likes to wait on him. He is was a real jerk to me and then when he got to the teller he was a jerk to the teller, the poor girl. Everyone in line was just watching in horror as this man and made himself look ridiculous. The bank teller that helped me told me she couldn’t stand him and that she was glad that I stuck up for myself and she wished she could tell him to be more polite to all of the tellers at the bank.

I tell you, I think the media has twisted this whole thing and has made a miraculous and beautiful thing of having multiples or even just having babies or children in general look shameful and disgusting. It is really a shame….

A couple of weeks ago Miranda was running in the house.  She tripped on her own feet and landed on her face.  Her 2 top teeth bit very deep down into her lower lip.  She was screaming and it was a scary scene.   It took 40 minutes to get the bleeding to stop.  I put a cold compress on it and she sucked on an ice cube.  I took her to the dr. and they tried to put stitches in her lip.   They tried putting a needle in her lip where the deep cut was.  It was a horrific scene and unbearable to watch her endure.  

So I took her to ER and we spent about 5 hours there.  They gave her a shot to sedate her before putting stitches in her lip.   They also set her up with an IV as protocol.   She never really got sedated, just sort of loopy.   She was awake and screaming when the doctor put the stitch in her lip.  The doctor said I might want to leave the room.  It was excruciating for me to watch so I left the room on his advise.   I think the ER was just as traumatic as taking her to the doctor’s office.  We got home at about 10pm that night.

The next morning she managed to pull the stitch out.  It is healing very well and hopefully she won’t have much of a scar.   It is a physical reminder for her and all of the girls not to run in the house.

In early February a sweet doggie came into our lives.   Cliff was down in San Diego at a Customer.   The owner, Barbara, mentioned she had a been boarding a rescue dog for a few weeks and was looking for a home for the dog.  She brought the dog to her office every day and he behaved perfectly.  She had posted Lost Dog posters all over town as well as contacted The Dog Shelter and she was not able to locate the dog’s owner.  She asked Cliff if he would like the dog.  Cliff told Barbara to call me, that I was involved in fostering rescued Bichons.  Barbara thought that this dog might be a Bichon.

Barbara called me and said this dog was really sweet and had a wonderful disposition and was POTTY TRAINED.  She e-mailed me pictures of the dog.  He definitely didn’t look like a Bichon.    I told her I was concerned how he would be with our kids and we both agreed that if we took the dog but he didn’t work out in our family that she would take the dog back and find him another home.

So Cliff told me he was bringing the dog to us from San Diego which is a 2-1/2 hour drive.  I had no doggie stuff except for a couple of cans of dog food left over from a dog I had fostered a few months ago.  Cliff and I decided this would be a surprise for the girls.  Savannah had been asking for another dog and so Cliff and I told her that she may get a dog for her birthday.  C The day this dog came home was exactly 4 years ago that we brought Savannah’s dog, Scottie home.  Scottie now lives with a family friend, Barbara, up in Ventura.  

When Cliff arrived home with the dog the girls just squealed with delight.  This dog was so cute!!  He had white long fur and looked like a mix of Shitzu and Maltese.    They were so surprised, especially Savannah.  The dog immediately bonded with the girls.   Savannah named him “Tangles” because his fur was a little tangled. 

After a couple of days of having him, we decided to call him Teddy Roosevelt.  If you put glasses on him, he looks just like Presdient Teddy Roosevelt!!  We call him Teddy for short.  I took him to the vet the very next morning and he got his shots.  They checked for a Micro Chip on him to identify him but he didn’t have one.  I thought he was 8 years old based on a little gray at the edge of his ears.  The Vet said he is a baby, only 2 years old!!   He is not fixed either.  He doesn’t mark territory, doesn’t pee in the house, and he has a very calm and relaxed demeanor.  So I am not worried about fixing him right away.  If he were a girl I would do it right away 🙂

Now we have a doggie bed for him and he is a part of our family.   We love him so much!!

I surprised them and took them to Disneyland.  I just love our Disneyland passes!!   We spent the day at California Adventure.  We saw the production, Aladdin, the production, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, an outdoor production of all of the Disneyland Characters and we had meet and greets with Mickey Mouse and Cinderella.

Then I took them to see a really fun interactive show for the production “It’s a Bug’s Life”.   Then we ventured into “It’s a Bugs Life” play zone and went on a couple of fun rides.    It was a beautiful, sunny day and the girls had a blast.  We got home at about 7:30pm.