A few days off

Well, I'm on day six of my eight days off and so far, it's been great. I've got the laundry pretty much caught up, the living room has been staying clean (when Noah's not around), and Dustin and I have been able to spend some time toghether. Today we planned on going bowling in Tyler, but when we got there, they were closed because they were redoing the floors or something. So, we decided to go eat at Applebee's. After that, we called Jville bowling alley and they don't open till 5pm, but tonight is league night, so that wasn't going to work out. I thought we would go to this exotic fish place on the Loop and to my surprise, it was closed too. What the heck? we finally get to go out, and everything is closed!! How crazy is that? So, needless to say, we just came back home. I need to go swimming and work on tanning my pale chub, but I would rather sleep than swim...isn't that sad? What's even sadder is that I actually miss work because I've been off so long. I really like it up there on night shift. Everyone is nice and willing to help me when I get into a jam (like with orders that I've never put into the system before). I think I'm going to stay here for a long time. After my six months is up, I plan on trying to take a class or two at a time since I can get it re-embursed up there. I'm wanting to get at least my bachleors degree in Nursing, but we'll see. Dustin even wants to try to get on up there at the hospital too, but we've got to find him something that will work with mine and the kids schedule. That's going to be fun trying to coordinate all that if we do get him on up there.

The kids went to the doctor yesterday. Noah had his 18mth checkup and Olivia had her 4mth checkup. Noah weighs 24 lbs and Olivia weighs 14 lbs. It was nice to get to go to the doctor and be there for my babies when they got thier shots. Both babies got shots, but Olivia had one in each rump. They both got five stars from the doctor and we took them to daycare after thier visit. After we picked them up, poor Livi was running a fever, so I gave her tylenol and put her to bed because she was very grumpy. Noah never ran fever after any of his shots, so I wasn't expecting that. But when she woke up this morning, she was fine. I couldn't help but check on her through the night to make sure she was ok.

Olivia's new feather bow. She looks like a showgirl.