August Already?

What the heck? It's August already?! Not just August.....but today is the 6th!! WTH?

I don't know about everyone else in blog-land, but summer has FLOWN by! I barely remember anything that happened in June. It was a blur. And July? What happened after the 4th? Good grief.

Maybe I feel like the summer has flown because we are taking a late vacation this year. We aren't going away until the end of August. So maybe I've subconcienously willed the summer to hurry? LOL OK maybe summer has flown because I've been adjusting to live with 3 kids......hmmmm I wonder.

Speaking of the kids, they are all doing well. I haven't killed any of them yet. Although Roman and Kailey have come close. I swear people who say that it is easier having an older child when you have little ones needs to be punched in the throat. I think they fight more than if she was closer to his age. All I hear non-stop is "Mooooooooooooooooom Roman is *fill in the blank*" Usually he is in her room bugging the crap out of her.....aren't little brothers SUPPOSED to annoy the piss out of their older sisters? heh

Mostly I think he just loves her so much he wants her to play with him ALL THE TIME. She doesn't have bad knees so it's easy for her to play horsey with him.......she has a young strong back too LOL.....oh and let's not forget she doesn't share a room with a nursing almost 3 month old who is still waking up in the night, so she is RESTED!

Other than those issues of fighting siblings everyone is doing well.

-Roman is over his double ear infection. He was feeling better the next day, but has happy to take all of his fruit flavored Amoxicillan LOL

- Kailey is a typical teen (even though she is only 12).....on the phone with her friends all the time. She is also doing really well with her braces. I haven't had to stay on her to take care of oral hygene at all since she got them. I'm still wondering if that will wear off LOL We have gotten her school uniform purchased and just need to get her school supplies. Then she will be ready to start the 7th grade (sniff) on September 2nd (school actually starts the 26th, but we will be on vacation that week)

- Rocco is growing like a weed kids......he is probably around 15 pounds already. I just can't believe how big he is getting. He is so alert now more during the day. Smiling and cooing. I'm still waiting on the full on belly laugh......he is dying to do it, but just won't let it out! I just love watching him and smooch on him every chance I get. The thought that he *could* be my last makes me so SO sad. But hey, you never know *wink*

On the house front, the excavator is here as I type framing our driveway for concrete. Not only are we getting a concrete driveway and walk, we are getting STENCILLED concrete. So it's won't be the plain boring gray concrete.....it's going to look like flagstone tile! I'm SO excited about this. Don't worry.....I'll post pictures when it's done :D

This guy is also going to be doing our lawn. He's going to take off a few inches of our yucky topsoil and then sift the ground for glass and rocks, etc. Then he will replace the topsoil with nice fresh stuff and plant our grass! Who knew how excited someone could get over stuff like this?! LOL

We are waiting on the full fledged landscaping (bushes, flowers, retaining walls, etc.) because we need some things done to the brick on the front of our house. Long story short, the mortar was mixed funky and so the front of the house looks "striped". Some of the mortar is darker than other parts.......so the builder is in the process of figuring out what to do to correct it. That could mean they will need to rip all the brick off the front of our house and redo it....ugh....I hope there is a better way, but just in case they do have to do that I don't want them ruining nice bushes and such. So we will wait til Spring next year :D

That's the update on us so far. Sorry for not blogging sooner, but as you can see I've been keeping busy! But I will leave you with the group picture of my kiddos that was taken last week:

Hope everyone is having a great last few weeks of summer & I'll blog again soon!

Double Ear Infection!?!?

Well what I thought was Roman suffering from a case of good old fashioned swimmers ear, turned out to be a double ear infection :( Poor kid.

Yesterday was NOT a fun day in our house. Roman was up and screaming in pain at the ass crack of dawn. I was up in the bed nursing Rocco around 4am when Roman came in crying. I had to send him downstairs to Bob for a dose of Advil. You could have set your watch to when the Advil wore off 6 hours later. Roman was screaming again. I still believed he had swimmers ear, so there I was trying to talk him into letting me put alcohol down his ears to help dry up the water trapped in there.......I feel bad now LOL

Finally around lunch time I couldn't take him screaming in pain so I called the pediatrician. They got us in a couple hours later. My 'little' boy now weighs 43lbs! Oy vey, he's getting big! The nurse was super gentle and nice to him and he was such a good boy. She took his temperature and he had a fever :( 100.9 poor thing........Then the PA took a look at his ears and the diagnosis was in. Double ear infection. WHAT?!?! This is a FIRST for us believe it or not, so I was floored. What are the odds that his ear infection gets bad enough for him to cry about a day after swimming? Little trickster LOL

So we are on good ol antibiotics for 10 days. He is acting much better today and hasn't had a fever or dose of Advil all day.

Later on we are going to the Inclined Plane for some ice cream and a ride. Roman has never been on it! Crazy! But every time we drive past he asks to go. It's a gorgeous day here today, so I think we will make it there. I should get some good pictures while I'm there :D Maybe I'll come back and post some up for you guys!

They Grow Up So Fast......

Roman's first sleepover, part duex:

OK......so in my previous post I told you about Roman not wanting to sleepover. That was Saturday night. Well......we went over to my brother-in-law's on Tuesday to swim. They have 3 kids too.....ages 10, 13 & 16. Roman and their son Alex, who is 10, get along SO well. Mostly because Alex is at that age where he is a bit grown up, but still likes to play with little boy things. Like trains and guns and cars.....same stuff Roman is in to LOL

So we spent the day there and Alex asked if Roman and Kailey could sleep over. Sure! I don't mind......but I told Alex that I didn't think Roman would stay due to his actions on Saturday LOL
Alex asked Roman and sold him on the idea with promises of staying up late to play Thomas and video games.

We all came to the house here so they could get bags packed. Then I took them all to eat at McDonald's before dropping them off at my brother-in-law's.

I quickly escaped from the house......it was a bit after 9:00pm.

8:00am - the phone rings

My sister-in-law: "Kelly......Roman is up and he is asking to come home."

So Bob gets dressed and heads over to get a VERY sleepy and VERY cranky Roman LOL
Turns out he was up until midnight and then got up a little before 8:00am. Once he came in he then complained that his ear hurt :( I think he might be getting swimmer's ear since he was in the pool so much yesterday. Poor kid!

But he did it! He actually slept over somewhere other than home WITHOUT mommy & daddy!
I guess he is a big boy now LOL

"I want to sleep at home!"

Well.....so much for getting a night with out 2 of our 3 kiddos :\

Last night my sweet husband took me out to dinner for our 4th Anniversary. We went to Pittsburgh and ate at a steakhouse called Ruth Chris. It was a great evening out without the kiddos for us.

The plan was........we dropped off all 3 kiddos at Bob's mother's house. Kailey & Roman were to sleep over and they would meet up with us this afternoon at a family cookout around noon. They both packed their over night bags and Roman was SO excited about the new Thomas rolling backpack bag I had gotten him. He said, and I quote "This is SO cool Mom! I never seen anything like this in my WHOLE life!" LMAO.......he was thrilled. So Bob and I thought with this excitement he was sure to sleep over at Nunny's house, no problem. Well I should tell you that he has NEVER slept anywhere without us or not in his bed. We have left before for an overnight or like when we had Rocco.....but my MIL always came and stayed here at the house. Roman has always been a weirdo about sleeping in *his* own bed. Even when he was a baby he wouldn't nap anywhere but home. This was wonderful when we were home, I could just lay him in his bed and he'd crash. But when we were anywhere else, it made for a miserable time once he got tired. We would have to stick it out & I'd hold him the entire time he slept, or we'd have to leave so he could nap in his bed LOL

So we take all the kids to my MIL's house and Roman seems excited at the prospect of sleeping at Nunny's house. We leave and all is well.

On the way home, I call my MIL to let her know we are about 20 minutes away. Kailey answers the phone and tells me Roman is asking for me and says he wants to go home. Next thing I know Roman has grabbed the phone and tells me, "Mom I want you & I want to go home." I try to talk him into wanting to stay there, but he continues his argument. I tell him I'll see him in a few minutes and then hang up. I tell Bob and we decided that maybe once we go there and reassure him, give him night time hugs and kisses and all that jazz that he will be cool.

Nope. We get there. Bob changes him into his PJ's. Roman packs up his bag and says, "OK lets go home." LMAO We stay there for another 20 minutes trying to talk him into staying. No go. He puts his Crocs on and is ready to hit the road, Thomas bag in tow. *snort*

So we came home with our boys. This morning Roman asked us where Kailey was. We said she stayed the night with Nunny because she is a big girl. His reply?

"Well I'm just not a big boy yet."

Wow...2 months without a blog?!

Yeah so I have to admit I have been a bad blogger yet AGAIN! Well life with 3 kids, one of which is a newborn can kind of do that to a blogger LOL


We have had a whirlwind of a summer thus far, and NO we haven't even taken a vacation yet! June was filled with soccer for Kailey. She played in all day tournaments on Saturdays in June and 2 in July. They weren't too bad, and I took Rocco with me. Roman stayed home and hung out with Dad. No way I could have had Rocco and chased Roman around a soccer field. Roman had a blast on his days with Dad though!


Kailey is enjoying her summer. We got a letter from the school and she has been chosen to take Pre-Algebra next year in the 7th grade......wow....7th grade.....I am a mother of a 7th grader!! Yikes! Oh and she got braces on the 11th of July. She's getting so big :( She should only have to wear the braces for 12-18 months.....that's not too bad :) Bob is seriously going to have to carry a big stick around once this girl stops dressing like a tomboy. What can I say, she is just like her mother :D


Roman is Roman.......a sassy, smart, energetic 3 year old. Testing his limits on a daily.....wait, hourly......no.....every minute of every day LOL We had our first "major" injury a couple weeks ago. Don't ask me how or on what, but he fell in the office/playroom and came out with blood dripping down his forehead. He fell on something and poked a hole in the middle of his forehead. I cleaned it up and it was too small for stitches, so I just made him sit with me til the bleeding stopped. No biggie! He is a crazy little man who loves to jump around and play outside. I just can't believe how big he is now......it's crazy! And the things that come out of his mouth......some days I think I have two tweens living here :\


And my sweet baby boy Rocco. Ahhhh he's just so precious. Loves his mommy and is grinning at anyone who cares to come talk to him. He's getting so big too! We went to his 2 month check up on Tuesday and he is up to 13lbs 7oz and is 23.2" long. My chunky monkey! He is doing great! He still gets me up a few times at night, but that's ok because he will sleep late with me too LOL


Bob & I will celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary on Monday. WOW! Talk about time flying! I think we are just going to go to dinner tomorrow night. Bob's mom is going to watch the kiddos. Roman and Kailey will spend the night and we will pick up Rocco when we get home. This will be the first time leaving Rocco with someone other than Dad....eeeek! AND this will be the first time Roman will sleep over at Nunny's house :D A day full of firsts! LOL


I think that about catches you up on us. I PROMISE to do better blogging. Things are calming down a bit around here. I guess you could say we are falling into more of a routine. I say that and then school starting is around the corner.....oy vey.....no rest for the weary!




Sorry I've been away for so long, but I will make up for it with these ADORABLE pictures :D
Have a great weekend everyone!!

Introducing....

Rocco James Fetzko
9lbs 4ozs & 20.5 inches
May 14th 2008
1:21am

Well I DID IT!! I delivered a 9+lb baby! Whooohoooo no c-section for me :D

Labor progressed really well after I got my epidural around 3:00pm Tuesday (the 13th). I was chugging along and watched the Pens hockey game.....started to notice that my epi was "pooling" to my left side because that was the side I was leaning/laying on (ahem to watch TV lmao). So after the game the nurse came in and I told her I had more feeling in my right than my left. She then helped me to adjust to laying on the right. Well....Mr. Rocco DID NOT care for that! His heart rate had been flying around 160-170 and then dipped to just under 100. So I had to flip back to the left and UP went his heart rate right back to "normal". So I was stuck, laying there as my epi gradually wore off on the right. Thank goodness it was towards the end. I really started to get uncomfy AKA miserable around midnight.


The nurse came in and I was finally able to start trying to push him down.....yes he was STILL floating up there :I pushed about a half hour and then the heart rate dips started again. Everyone in the room was glued to the monitor watching to see if his rate would come back up after my pushing. At one point my doc looked worried, left the room and then came back without saying a word. I just KNEW he was thinking c-section if things didn't hurry. And I also KNEW that since my epi was funky they would have put me under. That was the motivation I needed to push like I never had before! I finally got him down far enough and we dropped the bed to get him out! Another 1/2 hour or so of pushing, with my sweet Bob pushing my one leg back to my ears LMAO, and we saw his head! Then the rest of him came and he is just BEAUTIFUL!! I am STILL in shock that I had a baby this big LOL


We came home Friday the 16th around lunch time and it's been a blur to say the least......Rocco is jaundice like his big brother was, so we are on a bili-blanket round the clock and I've had to be vigilant on the breast feeding. He'd sleep almost all day if I was to let him. So I have to wake him up, not piss him off too bad, get him to latch blah blah. Feedings freaking take almost an hour.


He has a few hours left to be on this wretched blanket. Then home health will be here in the morning to take a blood sample. We are PRAYING his numbers are down! Having to work around a bili blanket attached to a newborn is for the birds!! I'm SO ready to have my baby 'unattached' LOL


Here are a few pictures of the new bundle :D I think he is the cutest thing, but of course I am biased!

Such A BAD Blogger I Am!

OK, so needless to say it's been awhile since I blogged LOL

I have to say I've been pretty busy getting ready for this baby boy to come. For those that don't know, we are scheduled to be induced on Tuesday, May 13th!!
I had an ultrasound on Tuesday this week and he is just getting too big. The tech estimated him to be around 9lbs at this point. I'm hoping and praying she is off a few POUNDS LOL
So due to my past history of difficult births, we need to try to get him out to avoid an emergency c-section. There is a real concern that he could get stuck because of the way my pelvis is......I know alot of women who have had 9-10lb babies no problem, but it's not a possibility for me. Thank you genetics :\ LOL

My mom flew in yesterday and so I feel much better knowing she is here and not going to miss anything. I was a little freaked out Tuesday that she wasn't here and my doctor started talking about inducing me that night! Luckily, we did an amnio and saw that the baby's lungs aren't *quite* ready yet.....so that bought me another week!

So I guess my next blog post will be announcing the newest member of the family! I'm taking the next few days to get ready and also we are celebrating Roman's 3rd birthday Sunday :D

Have a great weekend everyone and wish me luck on Tuesday!!