We went to the Bounce house & Yogurt mountain. We went shopping and stayed up to late…. We had so much fun together ..:)

Our resident writing spider.  Maybe it just wanted to read we do keep our books in there.

So I am sure you are happy to see me blog about something other then juicing.  Well here is my exciting tale of our spider.

My mom does story time every week for all the grand kids and for the last couple of weeks she has been doing it at my house.  This is a good excuse for me to actually clean my house.  So I was going around vacuuming we have seven fire places in our house six of them are coal fireplaces.  Dust usually collects around these and I will vacuum them up. Well in the den I was fixing to vacuum in the fireplace and I saw a huge spider sitting in the middle of the fireplace. Needless to say I screamed!  But then I looked to see what kind of spider it was and saw that it was a writing spider, or they are called garden spiders or corn spider.

I was nervous to show the Chickens at first because I thought for sure they would run away screaming because just an ant can make Chicken scream like a girl.  But they looked at it and were quite interested.  I told Mason it was a Writing Spider like Charlotte’s Web technically Charlotte was a barn spider but it made him less afraid.  I called my dad to come get him because I did not want to kill him but I sure wasn’t going to move him.  My dad asked my ten year old nephew Harrison if he would move it and he said yes.

So when all the kids came over for story time. I gave Harrison a pitcher and he scooped that spider right up and dumped him outside.  I took a video of it you will have to excuse the screaming we were all a little nervous. =-)

I know we sound like girls screaming. =-)

So that was our excitement for the day. I wondered how he got inside and then I looked up our chimney it’s been stuffed with old newspaper I mean OLD newspaper but there are two large gaps on the side. So he just moved right in. I will have to get Ben to close that up. I just wonder how long he had been there?

The first things I juiced

I am sure ya’ll have all heard of the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  A friend of mine on Face Book posted that she had watched it and it really made in impression on her.  So I watched it on Netflix and it really made an impression on me.   I have the tendency to jump into things head first.  I immediately wanted to get a juicer thankfully my mom had one I could borrow. I started juicing the next day.  I made a run to my local Farmer’s Market.  And I started juicing that afternoon.

On the documentary Joe the guy who went on a 60 day juice was very over weight 300 plus pounds and was on prednisone for a disease he had. He basically would get these aweful rashes all over his body.   I have asthma and have to take Advair daily. This has a steroid in it and I know this is not good for my liver. I also have exzema on my hands they will crack an bleed sometimes.  This can be extremely painful.  So I thought well if a juice fast helped Joe why could it not help me?

I decided to start out with a 10 day juice fast.  On the documentary one women tried a 10 day fast she suffered from extreme migraines and the fast made her migraines go away.

So all this to say I am on day 5 of my juice fast.  Day one was really half a day but it was fairly easy.  Day 2 I decided to quit coffee cold turkey this was not a wise decision. I did not suffer much from hunger pains but the headache was aweful.  Day 3 I was also not hungry when I woke up but the headache was so much worse.  I talked to my sister that day and she said that I should wean myself off the caffiene slowly.  So I made half the amount of coffee that I normally drink and my headache went away instantly.  The nights of Day 3 I was hungrier then I had been the night of Day 2.

Several things I have read online said that Day 4 and Day 5 were hard b/c you feel extremely tired and weak.  Day 4 I did not feel very weak but at the end of the day I was EXTREMELY tired.  On Day 5 today  so far I am not hungry I drank my breakfast which was strawberries and pumpkin squash.  But I am extremely tired today.   I can tell my patience will be short today because I don’t really feel good.  Everyone says on day 6 and day 7 you really start to feel better.  So I am looking forward to that.

Pumpkin squash

I will keep ya’ll up to date on how this is going.  If you get a chance check out the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  It’s well worth it to watch.

My breakfast pumpkin squash and strawberries

Ah she looks so innocent right? Or rather she looks like she knows what she is doing right? Well I have probably bitten off more then I can chew. I am trying to potty train Kyboo it seemed like a good idea. We are moving in about three weeks and where we are moving to the wooden floors have just been refinished and I did not relish the thought of potty training Boo on those pretty wooden floors. I let em run around naked when they potty train so accidents do happen.

Where we currently live we have all concrete floors which makes clean up really easy.  But the real kicker is Kyboo is only 21 months old.  So she could be to young.  I know other toddlers have been potty trained this young and girls are “supposed” to be easier to potty train. I just don’t know how it will go with Boo we are only on day two.  She has not done to bad so far. The first day she peed in the potty once and tried to poop once and only had three accidents.  But she has not started  to really to run to the potty by herself and pee. I plan on holing up in the house for four or five days and see what progress she makes.  If she is not getting it we can always go back to diapers but I hope we don’t have too.

.. here in an old mill on the third floor, but because the ceilings are 16 feet it’s more like we live on the sixth floor.  We don’t have a freight elevator anymore the morons that own this place boarded it up when they built phase two.  When we moved in you just scheduled a time to be at the dock  backed up your moving truck  and used the freight elevator. We got all our furniture in two trips when we moved in. Now when you move in or out you have to use the normal elevator that everyone else uses.. So you are trying to cram a sofa in the elevator and it barely fits and people are glaring at because you are holding up the elevator. They act nice about it but you know they are inwardly cursing you. I know this because I have done my fair share of glaring… So needless to say the whole moving out process from this place is gonna be hell.

Anyway here is where we are moving to…..

A big old house.  I have this phobia about big old houses. I LOVE them I really do and I love the idea of them.. the tall ceilings the wooden floors the big spaces, but they creep me out too.   Yeah the big spaces the creaking floors totally freaks me out. And that is exactly what we are moving into a big old house… built in 1928…    yeah no really I am excited…..

This is Kyboo eating supper last night she was being really quite and I went to check on her she was painting her arm with the sourcream!

Home sweet home for us in two months. We are so excited!!!

After the movie we went to get some McDonald’s which I blame on one of my Twitter friends because he mentioned McD’s. The Chickens ate with gusto and played on the playground. It’s really neat to see Chicken and Kyboo  play together so well.

After we gorged ourselves on yummy McD’s an American tradition we went home to vedge for a while.  Watched some tv and the Chickens ate more healthy food..

donuts!  This is Kyboo hamming it up.  So after hanging out at home for a while we decided to brave downtown. There were so many people there we had to park  way out but we found free parking which is hard to find when they are having events downtown.  We ditched the stroller I put Kyboo in my sling Ben had Chicken and we headed out.  We ended up having a lot of fun Kyboo was not quite sure what to think of all the people I think it’s the first time she has been in such a crowded area.

We got to see Mac Arnold perform  I loved his music.

Then we saw some awesome fireworks downtown near the Reedy River. Chicken really liked them Kyboo was not scared but she was more interested in watching the other people’s reaction then watching the fireworks.

Then we finished the night at Sonic a regular hangout for the Moffets. Kyboo had just heard a firework go off and was a little dazed in this picture. All in all it was a great day!

For the longest time I told Ben that I only wanted one child…especially right after having one… I was not sure that I could take double the crying and diaper changing and getting up in the  middle of the night.  Then as Mason got older I was like ok when he is 4 then maybe we will try and have another one.  But when he was 14 months old I got this wild hair and informed my honey that I thought we should have another one now. He did not agree, he pointed out that Mason was just now walking and starting to talk and sleeping through the night why would we want to mess up this good thing we had going?

I tried to point out the up side they would be close together they could play… He pointed out the lack of sleep having two in diapers not to mention the added  daycare expense.  I was working at the time and the cost of two in daycare can be quite staggering.  So I said alright lets take a week and think about it.

When the week was out hubby and I compared notes.  And we had not come to the same conclusion.. He completely surprised me by saying  he thought we should go for it.  My reaction was crap..  I had started to think about the ramifications of a second Chicken.. I remembered what it was like to be pregnant, the morning sickness the getting big. And this time it would be different I could not just come home from work plop my feet on the sofa and watch tv.  I would have a toddler to take care of  so I had come to the conclusion that any sane person would that we should wait. But the fact that Ben had completely done an about face really got me to thinking… so I was like ok .. and a month later I was pregnant with Chicken number Two.

And it was the best decision we have ever made.  We all adore her and she is spoiled rotten. Mason loves her so much if he has a toy and she wants it 9 times out of 10 he will give it to her. He calls her his baby and gets excited every morning when we get her out of the crib…  And she as you can see from the picture above she adores her big brother.. She tries to do every thing he does.  And I am so glad that Mason has a sibling…..

So Kyboo got her ears pierced today… I know that a lot of people do not agree on getting babies or toddlers ears pierced.  I am not trying to debate that fact on this post. I am just sharing  our experience every family has to decide what is right for their little ones.  I for one was tired of people asking if Kyra was a boy.. I was just asked last month on our vacation to Atlanta. She was dressed from head to toe in purple (for Maddie) and we still got “oh he is so cute”.  Ahhh.  Another reason I decided to do it was because she was so young and I was hoping she would not mess with them. I got mine pierced  when I was 8 and I kept touching them and they became all red and were very sore.  So I asked my husband if I could get it done and he finally said “ok, but I can’t be there”.  He can’t stand to hear his little girl cry.

So we decided today would be a good day to do it.  Mason and Ben were going to a baseball game at the Greenville Drive.  We dropped our boys off and headed to the mall. We decided to go to the Piercing Pagoda the two girls at the counter were very nice and very informative and I felt comfortable having them do it.  They made over Kyboo saying what pretty eyes she had.   I decided on small gold studs for Boo and white gold studs for me since I was planning to get my ears pierced too.  I was not going to put Kyboo through the pain alone.  I had to go for a third hole because I already have a second one.

So when it was our turn to sit in the chair I sat Kyboo in my lap.  I got mine pierced first, and I have to say it hurt a lot less then any other piercing I have had after it was not even sore. Then it was Kyboo’s turn and yes she cried it was really hard for me when she did. But they gave her a lollipop and this is her happily crunching away a few minutes later.

She was such a trooper and did not even cry when I cleaned them before she went to bed, and she has not messed with them at all. When we picked our boys up Mason kept telling her that he liked her “new earrings”.  And her Daddy thought she was awefully pretty! Now when I dress her from head to toe in purple people should say, ” What a cute little girl.” =-)