HUGEST BLOG NEGLECT "EVA"

Life has been so crazy! I am sorry for the HUGE blog neglect. The hugest blog neglect eva (ever).

Where are we? Well let's start with the biggest and go to the smallest.

Terrence is in school and doing very well.  He likes classes and is learning so much, which is helpful to me in my field. He is in the physical therapy assistant program, or will be - that is his major.  I am working to support us while he is in school - so far so good. I really hope to keep this up so he can focus and get his studies done.  I like being married to a college student.  He is so cute in his jeans and polo shirts!

I am not training for a race. OMG, check my pulse. Yes, I am alive - but miserable. Not training makes me cranky. I work a lot, I love my job, hell, I breath my job. I adore it with every fiber of my being, but I need more goals. So I am looking for the "next" big race. It just hasn't hit me. So I continue to run and do Insanity. (Have I mentioned I love SHAUN T? He is my new BFF, sorry Nicole.) Since I work, a lot, I spend the rest of my time with my kids and working out. It leaves very little free time - and seriously without goals, I find myself playing video games, drinking wine, and listlessly staring off into space as I pour another cup of coffee. It isn't good.  Arg. I will get there.

Ava is awesome. She is so beautiful.  Ava and I spend a lot of time together being mother-daugther.  Right now she is watching some Barney while I type.  We are having a ladies night.  She just ate a cupcake (I know --- Being a Bumgarner is judgment free --- so keep it to yourselves) while I drink red wine.  We need help.  Ava is very popular.  Cameron and Cooper are fighting for her hand in marriage, and I told them "Back off boys, she is only 4." Ava has accepted Cooper's declaration of love but is going to Cameron's Pirate Party - good news is, at least for me, is that Cameron likes Cara too.  Bad news, Macie likes Cooper and Macie is Ava's best friend.  Macie is resilient and cute, so I'm not worried.  She'll probably end up with both Cameron and Cooper anyhow.  They start early folks, enroll them in Bestie Bus ASAP.

Well Easton, drumroll please............................. is Easton.  He is talking some. He is jargoning interspersing words here and there! He is doing awesome.  He walks kind of funny and talks weird, which makes me want a PT to look at him again, makes me want to call a neurologist, and makes me want a speech evaluation by a "good" speech pathologist (lol, I am awesome, let's get real) --- but I am deferring things for a bit.  He is hard. I think he has ADHD, which would be awesome, because it seems more manageable to me than the other diagnoses that were possible. Please, don't get me wrong ADHD is not great - I am sorry if any child has it, but we were looking at Autism and Cerebral Palsy, which to me, are harder to digest, manage, and generally deal with.  So that's where we are... Did I ever tell you, his orthotics rock. They do.  And, Easton is back to riding in a jogging stroller, he told Terrence "Go Run Mommy. Coat." So I took him, the photos are hilarious! He asks to go all of the time... he is obsessed. Must be the mud puddles and dogs he attacks. ALSO: Easton likes to hide in the closet and eat dog food, here is a recent Facebook post: "Ava and I just finished a lap around the property, looking for Easton, our little escape artist... but silly us, he was inside the whole time, in a closet, eating dog food. This Mom is so proud of her son's adaptive skills. He can open a door and feed himself- whoo-hoo!"So this is where we are with Easton... plus, I need to follow up with some recommendations.  OT, possible hearing, eye doctor - it has been two years! WHAT?! Okay... lots to do with a little person.

Sweet Elle of the Ball, gosh I love her.  She is doing fantastic.  She is talking like you wouldn't believe. Future SLP. Matter of fact, she may be more eloquent than me with words.  She is absolutely crazy beautiful.  I can't stand it. Her and Ava are like angels really.  Did I mention Easton got a hair cut - a buzz! Back to Elle, she is a party animal. I can't get her to sleep, then when I put her in her crib or in Ava's bed she says things like "Mommy gorgeous, I sleep in Mommy's bed," and I nearly cry.  Opportunist.

We are busy... preschool, working, running, working out, daily tasks, chickens, dogs, school, managing a caseload of 30 some kids (oh that's working), spending time with family, being crazy... sleeping, repeat! We are insane! 

Today:

Up at 6:30 - showered, started coffee, fell asleep on couch for 40 minutes waiting for dog to pee and coffee to brew
7:30 - Kids up and at 'em - drank coffee, straightened hair, got ready for work. 
8:00 - Ate proatmeal (that's hardcore oatmeal) chased the twins
8:20 - Left for work, got gas, drove to McDowell County (Terrence dropped off kids)
9:00  - 1:00 WORK (bouncing kids, running around, playing games, blowing bubbles)
1:20 - PEEBLES SHOPPING!!!
2:00 - 3:15 WORK 
3:30 - 4:00 2 mile run, and change in parking lot - haha - also brief chitchat with runner guy Mark, his wife, and their two Beagles - yes, I speak to their dogs.
4:15-5:45 WORK
6:00 Supper
7:00 Grocery store
7:30 Easton down, Elle down, find Ava something to do
7:45 Panic I didn't work out more, drink wine
8:00 Blog while Ava watches a movie
9:00 Consider posting a blog, but hope people don't think I am a neurotic, work-a-holic, crazy health nut-runner, who drinks too much wine
9:01 Post anyway... 

I hope this made you laugh! Love to all you readers!