i feel like a dork. i seem to have lost my DL so now i have to go at lunch today and try to get a new one. i need a new one anyway cuz it still showed my address from the apartment and my picture was me with longer hair (about 12" longer) so it needs to be done, but having to go because i lost it sucks.

okay, this week at work it is employee appreciation week and we have been playing games all week to earn "points" to get a prize at the end of the week. well, one of the "lovely" ladies up here is going to royally piss me off. she has had nothing positive to say about ANYTHING having to do with this whole experience. she has to question everything and then when it is explained, she has a derrogatory comment about what has been explained. or the rules of the game were not explained well enough for her pea-brain to understand and she's upset that her lack of understanding has cost her "points"



oh, and have i mentioned that she has the hearing of a bat!?!?!?! you can be across the room talking to someone and she will pipe into your conversation and you're just sitting there going..."huh, what? what are you talking about?"

it's not fun having to take care of sick babies. especially when they can't tell you what's wrong. mikhai was sick all weekend and none of the medicines that we were giving him were making any difference. well, the tylenol would bring his fever down for a few hours, but that's about it. the coughing and congestion were still causing him problems. when monday morning at 1:00 am he woke up and still had a fever i decided that he needed to go see the doctor and get some stronger drugs. the doctor gave him zythromax and as soon as that stuff hit his system, mikhai was a much happier camper. he hadn't eaten or drank anything all weekend really, but monday night he actually ate dinner and went through two cups of pedialyte during the night. yesterday i called ms. tee to see how he had acted at her house and she said that he was a drinking fool. every time that she turned around he was at the fridge wanting more to drink. last night he went through one cup of straight pedialyte and two cups of half pedialyte and half milk. that's fine and dandy except that i have to get up in the middle of the night and get the darn thing for him! lol.

OH! language! i believe that my son said DAMN the other day. i was talking to my mom at lunch and said it and i believe that my son repeated me. so, aunt jojo, aunt dawn and anyone else who reads this and has contact with my son....please start watching your language cuz the little monster is smart enough to remember and repeat later.

i don't know if i have mentioned yet that i started back at LSP last month. this past weekend was the Breeder's Cup and we had to be at the park at 9:30 am and i think i clocked out at 10:30 pm. that was 13 hours straight being on my feet and running back and forth between tables constantly. you know, there are nights that i have a few minutes free time and i have compared the duties of a waiter/waitress to those of a walk-about (that's what i do). i think we do a hell of a lot more work for our money than they do!!!!! but that's just my opinion. lol.

Halloween with Mikhai this year was a blast!! He got so excited to be able to run down the street with all the other kids and go up to the houses. and let me tell you, that boy did not want any help from me what-so-ever! every time i tried to grap his arms and steer him in the right direction, he would tug his arm away and basically tell me he could do it himself. For such a little guy, he made quite a haul on the candy.

yeah, and i had to go through it this morning and make sure everything was safe. the ones that i didn't think were safe i brought to work and had to eat myself, that way if anything was wrong with the candy it wouldn't be my baby that was hurt.

his new words from this weekend are "please" and "duck".

i have been trying to get him to say please if he wants something and he has been stubborn the last couple weeks and wouldn't do it, but this weekend he said please many times when he was asking for something. "please juice" yay Mikhai!!!

as for "duck"...we were reading his peek-a-boo book and at one page when i open it, he hollers "bubbles!" cuz the little baby in the picture is taking a bubble bath. well, on the page before the peek-a-boo part there are a bunch of rubber duckies and frogs and mikhai pointed at them so i said "duck" a couple of times. well, mikhai was into it and kept repeating what i said and pointing at the pictures! i had to take him to grama to show her and at first, he wouldn't say the word, but when i said it he would point at the ducks so he knows what we were talking about.

OH, OH, OH!!!!!! mikhai tried to dress himself on saturday. it took him a while but he got his shirt on with arms in the sleeves and everything! (grama and i kinda helped cuz we got impatient...lol.) he got mad that we put his pants on for him and he tried to get his socks on by himself. he's not quite coordinated enough, but he has the concept down.