Tomorrow is going to be busy.... Michael goes to school for his testing for 6.5 hours (poor guy I REAAAALLY hope that WHOLE time isn't testing), Dillon has to go to the plasma center 20 minutes after I drop off Mikes and Sean goes to his preschool testing 40 minutes after that XP

We all have weird initials... BMA, WDF, MTM, SMM, & EERM

MJE, SAW, SAW, MSW, ATW

It wasn't until after I'd filled out the birth certificates that I realized I should have given Melody the middle name Jane, Joyce or Jean so she could have my initials...ya know, if I ever bother changing my last name. xD

That and you could have called her MJ? I've always liked the Mary Jane abbreviation they use in Spiderman "MJ"

I broke the cycle with Ellie cause someone pointed out that all of my kids have two "M" names and they started calling the boys the "M&M's" I don't particularly like this girl so it was mildly annoying... It wasn't really something we thought about (her initials) until we had decided for the most part on names!

TNK, CKK, and now that I'm married? KKK. :gonk: Sigh... I hate using my middle name now. I used to be KKB!

6 1/2 hours of testing for a 7 year old? Even if they give breaks that's pretty extreme to me :gonk:

I think we got the middle name down, but looking at the list for first names I think over half are from video games :o

I don't know if that is what they did all day Michael didn't say anything about it really he just said it was a lot of reading and saying the letters and sounding out words... :/

Chi it isn't like you chose your names though!

lol, poor Chi!

Jaz- I have MJ initials, but I was never called MJ. Half the time I think my parents forgot they gave me a middle name! lol. I'm not particularly fond of it though, so it's okay. My grandmother was Mary Jane, and called MJ, and now my cousin is also a Mary Jane and called MJ. So it would have been too many MJ's at a party if I had it and my daughter did as well.

Panda- I named my first daughter Sakura, after Cardcaptor Sakura. And Melody was not only a derivative of my name, but Ariels daughter in the Little Mermaid 2...along with the obvious musical reference to relate it to my husband. xD Video game names are a-okay in my book!

Well, we all survived birthday week. :) She's a spoiled little hellion, and not by us! Heheh.

Awwww a new picture <3 she's so cute :)

Most little ones are spoiled pretty well by others at least in my opinion!

Thank you. >3< She's blossomed this week, doing all sorts of new stuff. Her jabbering has turned into a lot of syllables at once. Still refuses to walk though. I've caught her taking three or four steps here and there, but she'd rather crawl. Probably because it's faster.

And yep, you're right. They do seem to be spoiled most by others! She got five or six outfits from my mom, and a bunch of stuff from my dad and step mom. Combining that with what she got from her paternal grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins... yikes.

I will take a picture of the living room the next time I think of it. It looks like a toy factory threw up all over.

Melody- Awesome Cardcaptors! I loved that show! I have to go find the series somewhere so I can finish it.


Chi: That sounds like my living room! My daughter and the dogs are all in on it, As soon as the toys get picked up and put in their toy boxes all three of them start pulling them out again.


In other news, we now have a first name picked out! But now we have to change the middle name again because it no longer sounds right:rofl:

@ Panda:: OH! What name? :)

Yay for a first name Panda! It's a good start! haha.

Kura was very spoiled up until she turned 2 and we moved away...the twins were never actually spoiled. At least not by other people. They tend to forget that the twins exist, or that shipping is possible. Yesterday Vicky had mentioned that Aaron liked these little foam building blocks a lot so she would get him some for Christmas...I told her his birthday was in 11 days and she looked at me like I was kidding. :/
Have I ever mentioned the obvious difference in attention that the kids get? Kura is still the obvious favorite (as I type this she's in bed with Grandma while the twins are lying next to me on futon mattresses placed on the floor) It really irks me.

WTF? What's not to love about all three kids?? That makes me so sad...

That must be so heart breaking for you, Melody. :(

You've mentioned it Mellie just maybe not here.... I think it was mentioned in your quest :/

I have the same thing in our family though I was really surprised the other day, my sister took the boys to the state fair and Mikes was kept longer then Sean which makes enough since Sean is still too little for most of the rides Mikes wants to go on. When they got back though my mom laid in bed with Sean for a little while and kissed and hugged him :) normally Michael is the main one to get her attention. And Ellie is my mom's first granddaughter so she is already getting special treatment. But Sean always seems to be forgotten by my mom.... While Ellie and Mikes seem to be ignored by my MIL :/

@ Jaz:: Oh dear... middle child syndrome. :(

Not really..... He's been the youngest in my family for longer then he's been the middle child. :/ This isn't a new development and my MIL only pays attention to Sean not to the others really at all...

Well, Sean is her grandchild by blood... So, as sad as it is... it's like the reason why Mellie's MIL gives more attention Kura- Kura looks like Scott. :(

Favoritism amongst grandchildren is pretty heartbreaking. Every time we spend the night over here Kura is with Grandma and the twins are with me. I just...I don't know what to do about it. Do I bring it up to them and have them get annoyed at me? (Do I make Scott bring it up since they're his family and he gets annoyed at their obvious favoritism as well?) Part of me thinks it has to do with Kura being older and easier to understand. At least at first. The twins came when Kura was talking, walking, dancing etc so there was a lot of bonding time with her while I juggled two babies. Why did no one take a baby? I have no idea. But...I do believe that it is part of the reason the twins are so attached to me. They didn't bond with anyone but me and Scott as babies. Well I guess they bonded some with my mom but they didn't have nearly as much time with her as Kura did. I guess that's kinda the same as with Jazzy's mom.

I think next weekend all the kiddos will want to be sleeping with me though....Scottie will be here. And since they haven't seen him in 9 weeks and I haven't seen him in 12 (when he arrives anyway right now it's only be 11 and 1 day) So I'm pretty sure they will want nothing to do with Grandparents and only to do with Dad.

Man I miss that man. He's so...awesome, and sweet and MINE.

Sometimes, people really suck. :gonk: Poor kids...

You know thinking on it that might be it kinda with Mikes and my mom at least... I lived with my mom his first two years of life he had more time to bond with my mom and I then he did his biological father. While Sean has been more distant in that since... I moved out a year before I conceived Sean so nearly two years before she met him... I think the only reason she's gained an attachment to Ellie is because she is the only girl... Where as my MIL has my niece as her first girl grandbaby... She favors her over both the boys and Ellie it seems and part of me wonders if that is because she is also born from her favorite child (at least in my eyes that is what I see....)

Mellie.... I am so glad he is going to be coming home for a while and then you will be going home with him <3 <3 <3

It may also be because Ellie isn't here yet. It's hard to "spoil" a baby that you can't hold and cuddle. Sakura was completely ignored by Vicky until she was born. Then Vicky threw her a huge baby shower when she was about a month old and became grandmotherly towards her. It was a drastic change. I think after a while she realized that Scott and I were serious about this and not going to change our minds about 1- being together and 2- having and taking care of our baby. And now she obviously favors Kura.

Though, I am noticing favoritism towards Tims girlfriends son as well. Not nearly as much as Kura, but he seems preferred to the twins. And he's not even partially related to them. (Tim isn't the childs father) But there are more pictures of him up in the house than there are of the twins. I counted. :P But for a loooong time there were no pictures of me at all. Which hurt a lot...when there were pictures of Tims girlfriends up. When Scott and I were dating it was okay, but after we were married it was like I still didn't exist!

Tims the favorite child though...I really can't expect them to not play favorites with grandchildren when favorites are played with Children. I mean look at this. She still makes his car payment half the time because he can't (or won't) he can't afford to do that, but he can afford to go out to dinner 3 times a week and fast food most days for lunch etc. He could also afford to go out and buy a puppy,but he expects his mom to pay for puppy shots, neutering and training. :/

It isn't so much spoil she doesn't even seem to acknowledge her existence I guess.... Even my SIL who I've seen a WHOLE 2 times this pregnancy has been more.... Aware? of her being there....

So today just sucks....
I just cried most of the morning about clothing... WTF is wrong with me....??? I cried because the bras that fit me comfortably were all dirty despite me doing laundry EVERYDAY... And I cried that I couldn't wear the shirt I wanted to because the bra that doesn't show under it is dirty.... Then I cried again because the jeans I thought fit ok DON'T and I REFUSE to wear yoga pants to take my kids to school... Don't ask why... It's rather hard to explain if you don't live here... Maybe I'm just Vein or something...

So I tried to put on a sun dress, and I realized that the dress that use to go to my knees now goes to my upper thighs and HIGHER in the back because my butt is like a dinner table now.....so I squeezed my big ol butt into the too small pair of maternity jeans, and threw on a shirt I wore 3 times last week. I feel so ugly today I can't even stand myself.... And uncomfortable to boot :'(

Then to make things worse I left 10 minutes before Sean was suppose to get off to his first day of preschool thinking that is MORE then enough time to get there apparently my clocks at home are off or something cause I got there 10 minutes late... Then again it could be that I had to park a block away from the school to get a parking space and walk the the far end of the school only to find the doors locked and have to walk all the way back.... :( so Sean was late for his FIRST day of school... Makes me feel like mother of the freaking year... So now I am not sure what to do for pick up because I have to get him at LEAST 10 minutes before he actually gets out so I can get to picking up Michael on time.... And when I called the district about it.... They treated me like crap. Told me it will be at LEAST 3 weeks before they even LOOK at transferring the preschoolers and even then there is no guarantees.... We are going to DROWN in the price of gas to drive all over town for this, by the time they even bother looking at the transfer requests....

So I've been crying for like 30 minutes straight now... And my day has barely just begun....

Jaz:
So, I had a panic attack for a second there... I read your facebook post, but after first I thought it read "So, Sean Passed Away" and I was like "WHAT!? D: OH MY GOD!". :sweat: Wow... that was scary. >.>