Last night I got to go to the midnight showing of Harry Potter 6 with my brother and his wife and my sis in law Amy and her friend. It was a lot of fun. I really really liked the movie. I think its probably my favorite of all the movies which is good because its my favorite (well tied as my favorite) of the books. It was pretty funny too. Rupert Grint (Ron) was awesome in this movie, so funny, great comedic timing on his and pretty much the whole casts part.
Unfortunatly the problem with going to a midnight showing is that it doesn't matter that I was out to a movie till 3:00 a.m. because I still gotta get up and be mommy the next day, lol.
I wish I would have taken a camera though. Some people had some really cool costumes. Although I have to say it was hillarious to people watch. I also found it funny that girls used it as an excuse to wear their sluttiest Harry Potter outfits (ala Lindsay Lohan on SNL).
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Harry Potter
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
pretty nervous
so I'm not a germaphobe, never have been. However to be honest this H1N1 virus does get me nervous seeing as how I'm pregnant. I'm even more nervous for this winter after this baby is born for both him as a newborn and my beautiful 3 year old little girl I have now. I'm already a spazz when it comes to this, so naturally what is the first thing I see on my comcast news today?
WHO says new flu "unstoppable", calls for vaccine
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Saying the new H1N1 virus is "unstoppable", the World Health Organization gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.
Every country will need to vaccinate citizens against the swine flu virus and must choose who else would get priority after nurses, doctors and technicians, said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO director of the Initiative for Vaccine Research.
Several reports showed the new virus attacks people differently than seasonal flu -- affecting younger people, the severely obese and seemingly healthy adults, and causing disease deep in the lungs.
Kieny briefed reporters on the findings of the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, or SAGE. "The committee recognized that the H1N1 pandemic ... is unstoppable and therefore that all countries need access to vaccine," Kieney said.
"The SAGE recognized first that healthcare workers should be immunized in all countries in order to retain a functional health system as the virus evolves," she added.
After that, each country should decide who is next in line, based on the virus's unusual behavior.
Seasonal influenza is deadly enough -- each year it is involved in 250,000 to 500,000 deaths globally. But most are the elderly or those with some kind of chronic disease that makes them more vulnerable to flu, such as asthma.
ELDERLY ADVANTAGE
The elderly seem to have some extra immunity to this new H1N1, which is a mixture of two swine viruses, one of which also contains genetic material from birds and humans. It is a very distant cousin of the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 pandemic that killed 50 million to 100 million people.
A study published in the journal Nature on Monday confirmed that the blood of people born before 1920 carries antibodies to the 1918 strain, suggesting their immune systems remember a childhood infection.
The work by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka also supports other studies that this new H1N1 strain does not stay in the nose and throat, as do most seasonal viruses.
"The H1N1 virus replicates significantly better in the lungs," Kawaoka said. Other studies have also shown it can cause gastrointestinal effects, and that it targets people not usually thought of as being at high risk.
"Obesity has been observed to be one of the risk factors for more severe reaction to H1N1" -- something never before seen, Kieny added. It is not clear if obese people may have undiagnosed health problems that make them susceptible, or if obesity in and of itself is a risk.
On Friday, a team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Michigan reported that nine out of 10 patients treated in an intensive care unit there were obese. They also had unusual symptoms such as blood clots in the lungs and multiple organ failure.
None have recovered and three died.
The CDC estimates at least a million people are infected in the United States alone and clinics everywhere are advised not to test each and every patient, so keeping an accurate count of cases will be impossible. The United States has documented 211 deaths and WHO counted 429 early last week.
Kieny said WHO would also work to get better viruses for companies from which to make vaccines. She said the strains that had been distributed did not grow very well in chicken eggs -- used to make all flu vaccines.
One exception -- AstraZeneca's MedImmune unit makes a live virus vaccine that is squirted up the nose and it is easier to produce, Kieny said.
WHO said countries should continue with their normal vaccination programs against seasonal flu. Kieny said the seasonal H3N2 strain was also very active now in the southern hemisphere's winter.
Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, Baxter, Schering-Plough's Nobilon, GlaxoSmithKline, Solvay, CSL and AstraZeneca's MedImmune are among those working on flu vaccines.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Happy Birthday Baby...oh I mean Big Girl!

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Friday, June 26, 2009
Friends of Scentsy
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Not all Twilight fans are complete Spazztards, I promise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGIEhCJrh8

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Monday, June 15, 2009
Terrible Two's? Try Three's!!!
One of Taylar's tantrum's that seem to happen more often than not over the stupidest things. This one was because she couldn't find her Barbie's clothes and refused to got to the store till I found them.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Alohomora!
Also I had to take my diabetes test last monday and it came back negative (yay) but I got a call the next day saying that I'm pretty much anemic (boo) so I have to take iron supplements along with my regular prenatal vitamins, which sort of sucks. Although I'm glad to know that I'm wasn't just thinking I was more tired than I should have been, that there is actually a reason for it. Hopefully the iron supplements will help with my energy level (cause right now its at about -10)
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
crayons and rain
I'm so mad!! Yesterday Joey called me and told me that I had washed a yellow crayon with Taylar's clothes. I am not sure how the crayon got in her laundry basket, but it has ruined her clothes. And It wasn't just a few clothes, her entire wardrobe almost was in this batch because I hadn't done her laundry for a while so I washed almost everything she had. There are yellow spots on EVERYTHING!! Joey tried this concoction he found on the Internet that is supposed to get out crayon so we'll see if it works. But GRRRRR.
And on top of that its our Lagoon day today and its freezing outside and is supposed to have thunderstorms, awesome.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Return of Zack Morris
This cracked me up. I grew up with Saved by the Bell so I thought it was pretty funny. For those that don't know its the anniversary of Saved By the Bell so Jimmy Fallon is trying to get the cast together for a reunion on his show (also disclaimer I don't really watch Jimmy Fallon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImUrVA-N9A
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Chinese Calendar
I thought this was pretty cool. So far everyone I've done has been accurate. Of course I don't know exactly on most people but its not hard to figure out. It was right with my two kids and according to the chart, the baby I miscarried in August would have been a boy too. So if you have kids or even if not do it for someone else and lets see how accurate this thing really is, I've yet to find it be wrong!
http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/pregnancy_information/chinese_calendar.htm
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
My Baby's all grown.
My baby is no longer a baby. Joey and I set up the crib in Taylar's room yesterday because I have no where to store all of our actual baby stuff right now and so I thought I would just store it in the crib, plus I wanted to make sure both beds fit okay and look alright in that room. After he got done setting it up, Taylar walked over and looked inside the crib, she was peering over the top while standing almost flat foot on the floor. It made me all sad and nostaligic thinking of the days when she was just learning to stand up in her crib, etc. We didn't even move her out of it until last August!!! Its amazing how much she's grown up in less than a year. I'm so excited to have her grow and learn, but so sad that my first baby is no longer a baby.
Also I know its way early to be nesting, but everyone who was pregnant at the same time as me (minus the ones actually due in sept with me) have all had their babies. Its making me excited and anxious to welcome this little boy. Oh real quick, if anyone has a baby bath they don't want anymore, let me know I'll take it off your hands.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Super Mom? Not Me.
First off a disclaimer: this is not a pity post. I'm not looking for, oh you are a great mom blah blah blah, not fishing for compliments, lol.
Does anyone else every feel like they are a bad mom? I know that as long as your kids are healthy, happy, and safe that you are doing your job right? Well a lot of the time I don't feel like I am. I swear my kd eats more candy than vegis, has more temper tantrums than smiles, etc. I know that she's only 3 (in a month anyway) and that they whine a lot and think that candy is actually a food group, but I can't help but feel like I'm not doing my job. I often times find myself giving in and giving her chicken nuggets or macaroni and cheese for the 4th day in a row for lunch just so that I can avoid a fight. Add a fruit or vegi with these meals as a side? Forget about it. I feel like television has raised my child lately because I have no energy to do anything. I know she's not getting out and getting as much activity as she should because, well I'm not. I look at all these other mothers around me and am so envious of them. They seem to be have grasped this mothering thing, add their own little spin, and are left with these happy healthy, and safe kids. Right now I feel like the only thing I've got down most of the time is the safe thing. These super moms that I look up to have their kids watch only the educational shows, and a very minimal amount at that, they can actually get their kids to eat healthy snacks and meals. They get out and play with their kids at the park (while I seem to be out of breath just walking up to the swingset). On top of all this, they seem to have energy for their own hobbies, crafts, sewing (another super mom attribute I have no idea how to do, make my daughter some clothes, ya right), reading, etc. On top of everything their houses are always spotless. I know what some of you are thinking, oh but Heather, you're almost 6 months pregnant its normal not to have energy. But to be honest I'm not much better when I'm not pregnant.
This September I will be adding a new addition, baby boy Hooton. I'm even more afraid now than ever. You'd think it would have been easy with just one kid. I've had 3 years to get used to this parenting thing, to become one of these so called Super Mom's, but here it is June, only 3 1/2 more months to go until he's here and I am still trying to figure out how to handle one, let alone two.
Anyway just a little note hoping I'm not the only one that feels this way. I know no one is the perfect mother and even these super mom's don't have it all together as it seems, but they seem to have something I must be lacking.
Oh well, I guess I'm learning and growing along with Taylar. So I will sit back, continue to have my tantrums as I watch Taylar have hers, try and justify why dinosaur chicken nuggets are okay for lunch for the 4th time this week and look at the mess in my front room hoping that the cleaning fairy will soon come....
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Recipes
I'm in desperate need for some new Recipes for my family for dinner. We eat the same things over and over. Anyone tried some new recipes that are kid friendly that they want to share?
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Snip Snip
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Thankful

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