D day...

so maybe its not " D " day but it is D' day I leave my job.
Its bittersweet really,
and I kind of thought it would be easier than this to go... its not easy at all.
I love so many of the people, and I absolutely adore the kiddos I get to work with day in and day out. But I cannot handle the politics and my boss. In general if they could find away around that ( oh yeah and do with out the cliques of the wanna be whatevers ) it could be a great career home, here with my orginization.
None the less I am done.
I am working late tonight, and the smell of the roses that the nurses from Child and Family bought for me is filling my desk with the sweetest smell of accomplishment.
Im proud of all I have done, and I am so happy to be returning to one of the best jobs ever. Staying home with Madaya.
My mind is filled with alot of questions as to if we truely are on the right track, and if things will be ok, but I know deep down they will be.
Mike seems happy with all of this too... its time.
I cant wait to get my health back on track ( I was doing soooo well before working ) and back to normalcy.

Good by SMH, and Good luck. And thank you for adding this chapter to my life story!

I dont know where time goes... UPDATE

Its time for an update, and I am so sorry its been a few days ... ok 10 to be exact.

Things have been so busy, and there never seems to be enough time in our day.



I have great things to update about however so perhaps youll forgive me?



Several :



1.) Mike did get the job he wanted. It was a hard choice and he had a couple to pick from. He is working for Qaulity foods, a divison of Golden State foods. They offered him a package he couldnt turn down. The pay will be that of what he was making prior to our own business ( approx 50 a year ) and the benefits for him, madaya and myself are amazing. We are very blessed... best of all ....... Not much away from home time at all. If anything 1-2 nights a week MAYBE! so we are super excited.

I am so proud of him and how far hes come. Hes doing wonderful. He starts this job officially 7/30!



2.) Mommy is going to be home with Madaya. After much talk and debate amongst us we agree its best to have me home. I work esentially to pay daycare, and with that and the medical issues in myself and daya lately its just not worth it. We're looking forward to this new chapter and hopefully things will turn for the better even more so. Mommy will be home starting 8/1!!!

3.) We are about to take our first family trip this summer. Outside of camping ( to the lake sometimes on the weekends ) this will be madayas, daddys and mommys first summer trip. We will be going to Anderson Island Washington for my sisters wedding, then to the tacoma zoo, and to see grandpa and lisa pemberton! How fun! We leave 8/1 - come home 8/5! I am hoping to have some pic's to share when we return. Daya will be the flower girl in the wedding - this will make her 2nd wedding!

4.) Daya has been using the potty pretty regularly... were doing great, and on board to have her done by her birthday! WOOOOOO whoooo!!!
Fingers crossed!


Alright I best get done... Ill update soon!

Love April

when all else fails... go to the lake!

And I am not kidding. When all else fails... GO TO THE LAKE! Things have been so nutty this past week. I am so exausted with work. Emotionally I just cant handle anything more, Im a grump to daya and daddy and I just dont like it. Physically I am so sore, achy and just in general having alot of pain that its all I can do to roll over in bed - when I get the chance to rest. I would say the stress is getting to me for sure. So... Saturday Mike, Madaya and I stopped by Dee's house ( she had her house warming party ) and then we all headed out to the lake ( we all as in Mike, Me, Madaya ) Kandis and Ryan met us there too. We had a nice camp spot, and Turtle let us use her tent ( THANKS DANIELLE! ) so we stayed the night, and then got up sunday to play the day away. Sunday afternoon Selina and the kiddos met us out there and we had a blast. Swimming, Splashing and lots of SUN! ENJOY!

Morgans new green friend
Toria and the catch of the day!
Causing trouble!
Daddy and Roo looking at who knows what!






playing in the sand

2 peas in a pod ( or on a floaty )
Momma and Daya soaking up some sun!

Daycare? Oh lordy...

Why do they call it daycare if they dont seem to care?
Ive had bad feelings about putting madaya in daycare since day one, but as you know it had to be done. I cant be home with her and work too. :(

I thought I had found a great place and after only a week of being there Madaya was so happy to go every day. Now, about 2 months into it shes started crying alot when I drop her off and in general just not happy with being left. I dont know why or what was happening, but I think we figured it out this week.

She came home 7/3 with a kid bite on her forehead. They gave me her incident report form and said that it wouldnt happen again, the mark was on her forehead above her left eye and very visable as it had broken the skin.

Upon giving her a bath that night we found another simular looking mark on her left shoulder area, the poor thing had 2 bites in one day! I wasnt happy!

I called to ask what happend and of course they give me the darn run around....

Come friday Morning she had full blown pink eye in the left eye and was miserable, lets ad this to being 4th of July and we pretty much figured the poor girl wasnt having a good day.



Im so mad at daycare right now I could spit.

As if I wasnt missing being home with her enough we have to go through this....



God please let there be a way for one of us to be home with our baby!

Madaya's gone fishin!

Today we took Madaya out to williams lake for the day where we played, fished, swam and had a BBQ. We took madaya fishing for the first time, and she loved it. She was really interested in the worms in the container though ( See photos ) and she adored riding in the boat.

We didnt catch anything, but we did get to show her what a fish looks like...

and of course funny story here :

Mike has tought madaya that fishes are sushi.... She loves the word sushi ( i tought her that ) but he tought her what sushi is so now she always calls fish sushi. So we seen the fish in the lake and all she says is " hi sushi " shes so silly!

so after a fun day of play we stuffed our selves with hot dogs and the side dishes and then went night fishing and headed home.

We are planning on doing this again, only staying the night hopefully as it would make it easier to settle roo in.

Enjoy these pics!

4th of July

Today was a cool day! some pretty neat things happened :

- Today marked 1 year since madaya sat up on her own ( she did it at riverfront park while waiting to see fireworks last year )

- Madaya turned 21 months old! She now weighs 20lbs and is 31"!!! Shes wearing 6/9 month shirts, and some 12 month pants. Size 2-3 diapers and she can say about 30 words. Shes bigger every day

- Independance Day

Ok so maybe its not all that special to some but to us its oh so neat!

Our baby is growing!

We had a blast today. Madaya wasnt feeling well most of the day so we stayed home, but then in the evening we went down to riverfront park to watch the fireworks. We played around, rode a few rides, and then found our space on the grass where we waited for the " show " to start... wasnt much of a show and we were pretty dissapointed but it was fun none the less.
Madaya as usual fell asleep 1/2 way through it so she missed the finale and most of the sights...

it was a truely wonderful day!

Happy 4th of July! Happy Independance Day America!

Daddys behind the lense

Daddy loves to play with the camera too and its so nice having 2 sets of eyes try to catch all the antics daya does. Theres no way I could do it all my own.

One day we were playing in the master bedroom and daddy was able to snap these.

Madaya loves to climb in the DOG KENNEL with kaydough or kia whoever is in there... she thinks its so funny to make the dog move to the back while she plays with the door. I personally think they are in cahoots and use this time to plan their attacks against mom and dad.

Here are the photos daddy snapped :

Pig-lets for our roo!

Yeah I am sooooo excited to finally share some news like this.

Our lil roo now has piglets.. I call them piglets cause in no way are they pig tails yet. I love how they look like lil sprouts or antenea's out of her head. She loves having her hair done, and mommy loves to do it.

Enjoy these pics of lil pigleted roo!

A good solution to a not so good problem

Many of you know I have been struggling with the thought of getting rid of ( god I hate that term ) our dogs.

We can only have 2 in our apartment and since mike has kia, we at first were looking for a home for her. You can only imagine how hard this was on him, I and madaya as they are our children too beit they have fur - they are truely our fur babies.

About 2 weeks into our search to no avail - and hiding kia along with kaydough and kaydee in the apartment we got the best solution we could have asked for...



Kaydee has gone to live with Grammy. I am saddened to loose her from my home, but truely she is and has been grammys dog. She adores her. I think this will be helpful to us all and mom seems super happy to have her fur baby too.



Kaydough and Kia are living with us, and suprizingly doing very well together. Its been a rough adjustment but in time it will get smoother!

Cat tales...

.... and alot of cat TAILS

Today Mike and I took Madaya to see " Cat Tales" its a zoo training park here in spokane, that rescues and homes abandonded big cats and bears. We seen lions, tigers, panthers, cheateas and brown bears.
We even got to see the baby tigers be bottle fed. It was alot of fun. You cant get close to them of course, so the pics we got were through the fencing about 10' away from us, but still kinda cool.
Madaya just kept saying Kitty Kitty - shes right - they are cats. The weather was sooo nice, a nice breezy 70 and sunny perfect zoo day!

Heres some from today :

This is Zeus... ( our favorite )

A self breezy shot...

Daddy was watching us through the lens...

smile for the camera?!...

He pretends to not notice...

Peek a boo...

feeding time...

Yeah she knows....