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Good to hear your little girl is growing and developing at a fast pace! It's funny how some of them advance in this or that quicker than other's but are not as advanced as others in other things. They just pick and choose I guess. I am getting halfway through schooling right now, it's so great to see others interested in the health field! Rootin' for you. My girl got teeth early and is talking up a storm, she was just far behind in motor skills, so she developed in other things, and I think she just c___pped because this awful smell just started wafting through the room so I gotta split, but wish you well!

Really? What job are you heading for? I'm working on my RN right now. I think maybe I want to be a midwife or something along those lines, but I'll think of that in the future since it takes a lot of schooling. I start cla__ses on Feb 9th, I'm already worried. The career counsellor made it seem like it was next to impossible to pa__s!

Aww isnt it sad how fast our babies grow up? Rylie didnt really crawl until 8 months or so either. All my friends babies started at like 6 months. She was also quite the talker though. She had 8 teeth at 8 months i think. Dont rush the teeth, then they bite lol. We're supposed to be leaving for Florida right now but we got 10 inches of snow and ice yesterday and last night. The semi is at the farm down a half mile long gravel driveway so they have the plow the entire thing with the skid loader. So who knows what time we'll leave. I just know i am not looking forward to the 14 hour drive. I have this HUGE fear of going into labor away from home. I would be devastated. I wish we hadnt screwed up the timing so bad. Im so stressed and nervous about it im even imagining labor symptoms. I hope you get the job! Thats something id really like to do if i could have my own career. But i sacraficed all that for Ryan. I cant believe in a few weeks baby #2 will be here!

Hey, just doing a medical transcription course right now. I want to do an RN course someday too, but I need to make sure my kiddies are in school or at least at an age where I feel okay about putting them in daycare. I am a clingy momma. That career counselor sounds like the prophet of doom. You'll do just fine!

Just remember that wonderful quote, nothing worth doing will ever come easy, or something along those lines.

Ohh like raisin' babies! Okay now I'm just clogging your post.

hey amanda!! great to hear from you!.Te babies are doing great! Dante turns 4 in march and i can hardly believe it! He acts like he is a little teenager. If he does somthing wrong and you disapline him for it, he says "UGH! Im out of here mommy/daddy!! Im going to my room!!" It makes it so hard for us not to laugh.....Zaiden is almost 17months now!! I feel like I just had him!!! he is all over the place and does just about all the same things his big brother teaches him (haha thats not always a good thing) he is talking more and more everyday, and becomming more and more like his brother everyday>.it is scary! I am good. I am back to work for the first time since october and my surgery. This depo lupron shot is killing me! Right now it has me so emotional and hormonal it is ridiculas. Las night i got so angry in cla__s i beat the c___p out of my welding booth and busted my knuckles. they are all swollen...guess that happens when you beat on steel with your fist. I feel really stupid about it now, but when i was doing it i was just so angry over nothing, and felt it was a good way to release my anger. I am hoping all this is only because this is where my period should be or somthing. i also have a really bad kidney infection so that has been adding to my frustrations.. Other then that, dh and i are starting the talk about having another baby, eventhough we have several more months til we can even try. It is nice to know him and i are both on the same page. We both want another but planned on being out of school before we did. so now we are stuck woth the decision of "do it while we still can" or "risk it and wait til we are out of school where chances are high i will be infertile"..we will see! we are thinking about it slowly....Another baby means a bigger house and vehical as well. Went to court yesterday for full custody of my brother. all went well except i have to find my stupid a__s father before it is official...So i got a 60day guardianship, and in that time i have to find my father and serve him with another court date....fun stuff! : )

Good to hear from all of you!! Newbaby- Ellie finally crawled for the first time a few hours ago! I flipped out and called everyone that was present in the house into her room to watch her. I thought she'd be one of those kids who learns to crawl after they learn to walk, like my nephew. Good luck on your trip, I hope it's not too horrible. Just hold her in there....haha. Heaven- Ah I wish I could wait until Ellie is in school. But, it's time for me to gain my independence. I certainly have strong will, but that stupid counsellor. She said that over 50% of the people taking the cla__ses for the program fail, and those who pa__s get put on a waiting list, that turns into a lottery... So out of those 700 people that pa__s, only 90 random people actually get into the program itself. I really don't know why they make it so difficult. There's a shortage of nurses and with all the people who want to be one, but can't, it's not a mystery why! I also transfered too late into registration, so I'm getting the c___ppy cla__ses no one wants to take haha. I have to take 3 biology cla__ses to get into the program... I looked at 5 different schools and couldn't find ONE open cla__s. I'm just taking English and speech. DB- 4?!?! Jeeze! He practically IS a teenager haha. Good luck with your guys' decision... I hope you have another baby but hey that's just me :) I've got baby fever so I'm probably irrational when it comes to that :P Also good luck with your brother. I think you'll get custody hands down. If they've already given you the 60 day thing, they must be in your favor.

Amanda, The judge we had yesterday was super nice. i hope we have him next time! He did his job that is for sure. He reviewed the case before we even entered the court and as soon as we walked in, there were two other quick cases before us, but I leaned over to my husband and said "he keeps stareing at us, he already has his decision in our favor, and now he is weirded out by how young we look...Please act like a adult!!!" lol i was so afraid the judge would ask what we do on our free time and dh would start talking about all the video games he plays or somthing...lol, but yea i felt comfortable as soon as i walked in the courtroom....He basically said what i told my mother when i served her with the papers...He is 16 years old, when i was his age i was out on my own and didnt want ANYONE to have custody of me...I am just glad my LB isnt trying to do the same. If he didnt want to live with us he would run. If he wanted to be on his own he would run....and besides he turns 17 in may so in a year and a half he will be an adult, so its not like he is 6 years old and i am trying to do this....The judge thanked us for being so young having 2 kids of our own and being willing to take on a teenager...I joked that we only do it for the live in babysitter....then lied and said actually we have a babysitter so we never need him.lmfao. As for another baby...man i am so spur of the momment on that that if it was up to me i would probably have 10 by now lol...I am kinda glad in a weird way that i dont have a option on how many more i can have, just because the feeling of "oh hes getting so big i miss when he was so tiny....lets have another" i dont think will ever stop with me, and even dh...but i still hate the fact that my uterus is like a ticking time bomb that i have no control over. I cant wait til we have another, but seeing as how most likely it will be our last, and am ashamed to admit that i am terrified it will be another boy...I know once he would be in my arms i wont care and i really wouldnt care if it was a boy if i kew i would be having more, but i will always have the baby blues (or should i say baby pinks) until i get that girl i think.

ever notice i write really long post? lol i did and it annoys me no matter how short i try to keep it< i always end up submitting a novel....ugh i better stop before i do it twice in a row> i think i am boreing myself with my long a__s post.

newbaby....aww I just read your post! I really hope you dont go into labor either....since you have some time before you leave< maybe you should go to the hospital and act like you think you are in labor, just to get checked out...The only reason I am saying that is because you are imagining labor symptoms....I think that is what i would do...you know one last check before you hit the road. I will be thinking of you and hopefully your wont be away from home for too long! gl and have a great trip!!

Wow, what a pooter. you just do whatever you have to do. I believe gaining as much experience and knowledge in these things as we can is important to. :)

Aww what a big girl, how cute! Addy is a bugger, LOVES her sister. I can't find her shot records though s I have to start her all over poor girl. Victoria on her 1 month appointment is 10 lbs 4 oz. She LOVES the b___b and as me and Jeff say, it's her 24 hour b___by buffet. She is getting much bigger and SMILED for the first time the other day! It was BEAUTIFUL! And today I almost got her to laugh. Jeff is in school again, which we miss him. We're throwing him a surprise birthday this saturday, which I am looking forward to! So yay!

DB, does your husband have any sisters? There are ways to conceive that increase your chances for having a girl that you might wanna google. Harold is thinking the same thing but opposite. He says "I'm not stopping until I get a boy!!" Haha. I'm happy either way. I love having a girl, and I think having a boy would be fun too. I would really love to have twins someday but it's not going to happen haha. I saw these little onesies that said "Thing one" and "Thing two" that I thought would be sooooo cute to have for twins. Oh well. I can dream haha. A&VM- aww I remember Ellie's first smile! That little toothless grin she has keeps me going. I'll be totally exhausted ready to pa__s out, then she'll look up at me and smile... I get this energy boost! I just wanna hug her and squeeze her ^_^ Funny thing though, someone asked me about how my pregnancy went... And I really could not remember haha. I was like uuummm I remember using my belly like a food tray but that's about it haha. I actually looked back several post pages and read some of the things I complained about when I was pregnant. I was like "I don't even recall feeling that..."

Amanda-I'm glad you thought to start an update thread, I've been wondering about everyone. On the subject of nursing, don't be discouraged. First of all, you are in a very overpopulated state and if you really get desperate and the schools won't let you into the program, you could always transfer to a smaller area. I know that would include moving, but hey it would only be long enough for you to get your degree. Also, I think that nursing is one of those things that a lot of people resort to, who don't really want to try. Now no one take offense, but nursing and cosmotology school seems to be that kind of "easy road" a lot of people take, thinking it's an easy degree and a way to make money for life without trying. That's why you notice a lot of jokes about nursing and cosmotology drop-outs. Those same people go in and see that it's really hard work, and they can't cut it. They went in thinking it was a little work and they'd still get to party, run around, etc etc. So that's why those statistics are so hard. But for someone like you, who plans to put in hard work, and this isn't a cop out for you then you will be fine. Just keep that in mind. DB-LOL! I'm the same way about the long posts! I try so hard to keep it short, but I'm sooo long winded. I'm like that in real life too. My dad always says, "okay, explain this to me in one or two sentences." I about break out a sweat and beg for a compromise-a paragraph??? LOL! I feel so sorry for you girls having to sort through my ramblings. As for me, I'm soooo sick of school and can't make up my mind about where to apply to transfer next year. It seems like last week I was finally narrowing it down but then my dad got his biopsy results back on his prostate, and they found cancer. So that kind of through a wrench in my plans, because I want to go down to Louisiana and be near him. Problem is that I would never want to spend too long down there or go to school down there. It is a very backwards and discouraging place for black people. I'm sorry but I was born in Cali and raised mostly out here in Kansas, and things are a little more open-minded and blacks haven't given in to a self-deprecating way of life. On another note, I met a pretty nice guy recently and went out on a date last weekend-I've never really been on a real date. It was sooo weird, but fun, and it was nice to get out. B is good. He's become such a sweetheart though. Last night he banged me in my nose with his head. He saw he had hurt me and started bawling his eyes out while trying to give me kisses and hugs and make ME feel better. The terrible twos have come into the picture a little bit. Not as much as any other child I've seen, just a difference for how easy-going and non-whiney he's always been. He still won't talk much. He knows how to talk some but he really has an att_tude about it. The more you want him to, the more he WON'T do it. But some mornings I wake up and he's sitting up just gibberjabbering! LOL! I understand about half of it.

Wow V your post sent me on an emotional roller coaster! First of all I am SO sorry about your dad. Do you know if it can be cured? I have a friend who recently recovered from stage 3 b___st cancer. I guess they go in stages and I think stage 4 means there's nothing they can do. She was late in stage 3 so when the doctors were starting to give up, she recovered. OMG YOU MET SOMEONE?!?! That's FANTASTIC! I'm so glad!! Dating will be really good for you I think. And your little man too. Aww B is so cute. I was looking at pictures of him on your myspace. He looks just like you! And I used to do that no talking thing when I was little too. I kept at it until I was like 9 haha. I hated talking when I was expected to. I'd just grunt, point at something, and get frustrated if they didn't know what I was grunting about. I'd throw a big fit and drive my mom crazy. She'd be like "JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT!!!" "UUUGGRRRHHHTTTHHHHHYYYY!!!!!!!!!"