WooHoo its Friday

Its the weekend and time for hubby to be home so my stress level goes from a 90 to a 50 hehehe...but then again Seamus' birthday is this weekend so stress will probably be higher.

Earlier this week I stumbled upon a blog and they have a Following Friday, I signed up for it and as I was following some of the other blogs I stumbled upon some others. So here is a quick run down of where I've linked up this week :D

Following Friday


Follow Me Friday

Fun Follow Friday


Social Parade-Follow on Fridays

July 14th, 2006

On this day(though it was a Friday), July 14th, 20006, I was 39weeks 2days(or 3) pregnant with Seamus. I had one of my weekly u/s's to watch my fluid levels and his size. I was also miserable, nevermind it was mid July and in the 100's, I was still constantly having nasty headaches and seeing stars all the time. I thought this u/s would be no different then my other weekly ones. When I got back to my room one of my OB's came in(at the time I saw 2 different once cause either could end up delivering(now it's 3)) and said that we were going to have a baby! He told me the u/s showed Seamus as being 8lbs 15oz and that he needed to come out asap, and that because my BP and headaches hadn't gotten better it was best to do an induction(but I wouldn't have been allowed to go past 40 weeks anyway cause of the GD). My OB had one of the secretary's call the hospital hoping to get me in soon. The soonest they had was Monday night, July 17th, so it was set. Weird to believe that just 4 days after this appointment my 'TINY' little 7lb 9oz boy was born!


Appx, 15weeks pregnant, while in the ER in Texas



Around 20weeks



(had others but not sure if we have them here or in Nebraska still. I'll have to look)

EcoMom Review and Giveaway CLOSED

I'm always looking to try new things, especially ones that are more Eco-Friendly or "green". One day I saw a post on my Facebook wall from EcoMom(Eco-friendly Baby Products), and emailed them right away to see if I could do a review for them, I was very excited when they agreed. It only took 2 or 3 days from the first email I sent till I got the products to review, I couldn't believe how fast the shipping was! I opened the box right away(while still in the car at the post office lol!) and was surprised to see what was in there. I got a wide variety of foods from; Plum Organics Tots, Plum Organics Tots Fiddlesticks, Revolution Foods Organic Mashups(4 pack for $4.99!), Revolution Foods Grammy Sammy and Jammy Sammy's.



I was a little leery to try the Plum Organics Tots($20.64 for a 16 pack) with Kieran since she had refused pureed foods. I tried the Plum Strawberry Mish Mash with Kieran the day after I got the box, and to my surprise she loved it, and screamed for more when it was gone. I was so excited that she'd actually eaten it, and I also loved how fresh it smelled unlike other pureed foods. Seamus was the next one I tried it out on, he is a super picky eater, we can usually only get him to eat a handful of things(besides fruit and veggies). Seamus saw the box of Apple Carrot Fiddlesticks and asked to eat one. In less then 5minutes he had it gone and was begging for more! For snack I decided to let them try the Revolution Foods Jammy Sammy Organic Strawberry Jam & Peanut Butter Bars, Kieran devoured it and again wanted more, not surpirsingly Seamus wouldn't try it(my child is weird lol) but hubby sure seemed to like it when he ate Seamus' instead :D. I really love sharing these with my kids, and another awesome thing about Plum and Revolution foods is they have products from High Chair feeding all the way to Lunch Box foods!

I also want to share a special program that EcoMom has called EcoPass. EcoPass sounds like an awesome deal, here is what it includes;

$99 annual membership
15% discount off every order
Free shipping on all orders
Early Opportunity to sample and test New Products

This month(July) there is a special for the EcoPass. The membership is for life instead of annually! How cool is that?!

I loved these products, they smelled fresh and not packaged like other similar products do. My children loved them (as well as hubby and Uncle Scott who decided to eat some too hehe), and I was glad to be feeding them foods that were not junk foods.



Now the best part, I get to offer one of my readers a $20 GC for Plum and/or Revolution foods, and a discount code for everyone!!

Discount: Receive 15% off your first order using the code SBBL351 expires August 2010

Giveaway
Mandatory entry, to be done before any other entries:
Tell me what you do to be more green/eco friendly, and what you would get from the Plum/Revolution line if you won.
(both in one comment also be sure to leave an email address so I can contact the winner, in the joebob at gmail dot com format so bots don't pick it up)


Extra Entries:
(Post a new comment for each entry to count)
-Become a fan on EcoMom's facebook, and let them know I sent you, then post here in the comments
-Join EcoMom's newsletter
-Follow me on Twitter @SliverStorm
-Follow @EcoMomCEO on Twitter

-Tweet anything with @SliverStorm AND @EcoMomCEO or you can use this(can be done twice a day, please post link to tweet);
"Enter to win $20 of Plum and Revolution Foods from @EcoMomCEO and @SliverStorm http://tinyurl.com/ssEcoMom"

-Follow my Facebook
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-Blog about this Review and Giveaway
-Tell me how you found this blog


This will end on Monday July 26th July 30th at 11:59pm PST. And the close of this I will use Random.org to draw the winner and post on the blog. The winner has 48hrs to respond to my email before a new one will be drawn. Open to US and Canadian's.


**Disclosure**
I was sent this product review, I did not receive any other compensation. The review is my own and my honest opinion of the product.

The EYE Patch

Seamus now has a Pirate Eye! He wears an eye patch over his right eye for 4hours a day, and we were told to do it the same time every day, I choose 12-4 so that way Kieran is asleep for most of that. He's done pretty well the 2 time's he's had it on(just started Saturday, and Monday he took a nap a long one surprisingly). I'm going to make a blog post with each of his patches in a week, but here is a look at 2 of them so far :)

Day 1


Day 2

Behind a little

Its been so busy lately trying to figure out when and how to do all these appointments that I've been behind on my blog. I have 2 reviews and giveaways to post, one from EcoMom and the other is a book. EcoMom should be up this weekend since the hubby has 4 days off and I'm halfway done reading the book. I also was supposed to make a tutu for my friends nieces birthday and only got the cutting done, I feel like such a bad friend but I can't work on it when the kids are up or all heck breaks loose. Then today I got my very first order on my Etsy shop!! I need to get to JoAnn's to get the tulle to make it for her but I'm very excited to do it, and now need to find time for it, hehehe.

We have a pretty busy schedule now though.
Monday 10am is speech, not sure yet how long, guessing an hour
Tuesday Seamus has PSR (unsure on official days yet though)
Wed. Kieran's Early Headstart
Thursday 10am is speech, 5pm is Seamus' counselors
Friday - Sunday Free days!! (for now, PSR is supposed to be twice a week)

New Layout soon

I'm trying to figure out how to customize my blogger layout, and hopefully include a picture of the kids. I wanted it scrappy but I'm not sure if I can since I do reviews and giveaways occasionally(thinking that makes my blog profitable?), so I'm trying to free hand one. Hopefully after I make the header and adding it will be easy and keeping my drop down bar will be easy lol...so keep an eye out for an updated bloggy

Busy week ahead

First off great news. I had posted a couple week ago about Seamus eye specialist appointment not being till the end of August, but then they were able to move it to July 14th and "Squeeze" us in, then last Monday I got a call from his normal eye doctor saying that the day has changed again. On Monday I got a call from his eye doc saying that another patient had gone to the eye specialist that Seamus was going to go to and they were not happy with this specialist after all, so they did some research and found a different pediatric eye specialist(PES). The new PES we will be going to, dh has even herd about, even before I did, a lady at work told him about this PES and how she loves her. The PES we will be going to now is part of Sacred Heart Medical Center, and that right there made me feel better, them being part of a top rated hospital. The best news about going to a different PES, they could get us in sooner without having to "squeeze" us in. Seamus' new appointment is Friday July 2nd!! We have to be there by 9:45 so that means we are going to have to be up at around 7am, and have Kieran to my mom's house by 8:30am then stop to grab some breakfast and head out of town. It takes about 30-40 minutes to get to Sacred Heart from here and that all depends on traffic. I'm excited they were able to get it moved closer and glad that we are going with a 'better' PES.

On Friday I got a voice-mail(I never answer phone numbers I don't know, but I had completely missed this call lol) saying to call back asap, that the speech therapist had an opening and a couple of people up next to get in and it would be who ever called her back first getting the slot. I ended up seeing the missed call about 30 minutes after she called so I was worried someone else had filled the spot. Luckily no one else had called back. We've been waiting for speech for Seamus since the end of January, thats how long the waiting list is, and finally after almost 7months we are in and I'm so happy. We go this afternoon, his appt is at 2pm and we have to be there at 1:45, the stinky thing is that hubby works till 2:30 so he wont be going and I'll be juggling both kids on my own(and its a feet to go anywhere with Seamus especially alone with both of them). I'm not sure what we will be doing today but I'm glad to finally be going.

All this is on top of our 2 normal weekly things, Kieran's Early Headstart home visit, usually on Wednesdays but this will will be tomorrow, and Seamus' counselors on Thursday.