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Around 7 AM this morning I woke up to the sound of about 3 Firetrucks and police cars. What a lovely way to wake up. I went to look out the window, because they sounded close……well they were right across the street. One of the apartments had caught on fire. Lovely. I hate apartments. That makes like 2 or 3 this year, and they were right in my area. I snapped this picture at the end of all of it, I could not find the camera in time to get pictures of the black smoke escaping through the windows and roof top. There were massive amounts of smoke coming the building when I first looked out the window this morning, it was really frightening. Hopefully everyone is fine. We will never be notified any thing about what happened, it would be bad publicity for the apartments….they will try to keep it from getting on the news. I want a house.

So today was long, and for the most part fun. Gavin was *SO WILD* today that I made a deal with him. I told him that if he took a nap that when he woke we would put up the Christmas tree (YES, I know it is a bit early….who cares) Laura has been running a fever and has felt pretty bad, so she laid on the couch while we put the tree together, as we listened to Christmas music, which Gavin loved. It is not the best looking tree in the world, but we like it.

Starting Monday, October 13th, I will start parent classes at Vanderbilt. I believe I will be in a class with other parents with children that are between 15 - 25 months old that are at high risk for Autism. As of right now I believe there are going to be around 8 other sets of mothers or fathers that will be in the class as well. The teacher of the class came out to the house Friday and took some video of Laura’s every day activities, such as snack time and play time. She also brought my “text book”, which is HUGE. This book weighs a ton. It almost overwhelms me a bit. The crazy thing about this whole deal is that Laura seems to be getting better with her eye contact and she is trying to talk now, saying only a few words. I almost feel like Gavin is getting worse. I am so thankful that we decided to not get Laura’s MMR vaccine, as I seriously feel that she would be worse off had we done it. Gavin has gone back to having to have this tiny ball of fuzz to roll between his fingers and stim off of all of the time. BUT..it keeps him calm, and helps him get to sleep better, so in no way are we going to take it away from him. I have actually found myself running to the clothes dryer and getting some lint to roll into a small ball for him when he looses his fuzz ball. He once was ripping one of my quilts to get the cotton out of it to roll into a small ball. It drove me crazy! We are currently having a hard time getting him to eat when it comes time for dinner. We usually would sit around and pretty much tell him he could not get up until he ate it all, which would end in a crying fit, so we have decided to not force him to eat. It is better on everyone. It is so fustrating to get upset with him, when we can explain to him why we are, because he doesn’t understand, and he can’t explain to us why he doesn’t want to eat whatever it is in front of him. Sometimes we just feel LOST. I am just so THANKFUL that we found them both a new doctor. He is wonderful. Laura is getting a ton of early intervention, which is a blessing. I just wish at this point there were more options to help us with Gavin. He has prescribed medicine for ADHD, but I can’t bring myself to go get it filled and actually give it to him. Part of me would feel like I am “druging” him, and that is the last thing I want. He is having more crying fits, and seems to be stuck in his speech. Hopefully we can get him into some speech therapy, which he really needs.

So I went ahead and drove 30 min away and purchased this for Gavin for an early birthday present. Of course his sister likes it more than he does.

Eric and I have decided that time-out would be the best discipline for Gavin. We are looking for a “time-out chair” to purchase. I need a seriously heavy child’s chair, so heavy that Gavin cannot pick it up himself, or he will turn it around and watch television! I wish it would be easy to find one that we want, too bad I cannot just pick up a furniture catalog and find one in it!

I am totally excited, but also worried as well. What if we move and it ends up like where we are. Well, you know, I don’t think anything could be worse than cigarette smoke coming up through the dryer vent, making your 11 month olds clothes smelling like an astray. And hopefully that can’t happen twice. If it did I would think it was a curse. And I am sure that moving to a bottom floor unit will make a huge difference on our electric bill, along with making some energy efficient changes. I plan to replace all the bulbs with energy efficient ones, and adding thermal curtains, and hopefully getting around to weather sealing the doors and windows.

I am excited to get some well deserved time off with my husband. We never see each other really. We don’t have a day off together, and I hate it. We will probably end up so stressed that we end up fighting, but heck, at least it will be time together! LOL!

On another note, we read a few days ago that Gatorade is good to have around in case you get a headache. Have you ever heard of that? You just drink 2 glasses at the on set of a headache, and it is known to stop it instantly. I have not tried this yet, but I get enough headaches to see if it works! I wonder what grape seed extract can do?

So, we officially have 60 days until we vacate this apartment. Although I am full of excitement, I also feel a little bit of stress. I need to start early, painting and cleaning and packing. I am so excited though that we are moving into such a better apartment, and that we will be purchasing new furniture, we can purchase a house in a couple of years, there is no rush. Although I cannot give any details on our legal battle that has been going on for years, I can say that I am so pleased with how well our lawyer is kicking butt! Yes, I am so proud of our lawyer, he is the best. We are just going to wait until all of that is over to buy a house.  I am going to go buy some paint this week and go ahead and paint Gavin’s room back to white, I painted it blue back when we moved in. I am trying to sell his entertainment center, but haven’t had much luck yet, even though I am only asking 50 bucks for it! Oh, well. We are planning on selling our “bedroom suite” as well, and our television.We are planning to purchase a LCD when we move, to save on room. Plus we have a fireplace that it would look nice above!

On another note, our car arrived yesterday from Florida! There are a few different, minor, things that need to be fixed before we sign the papers to make it legal. Lol. It is such a cute *little* car. It will be completely strange going from a huge minivan, to a small compact car. The cost of gas is just getting out of hand, and we need a car that will make our money stretch! I think we will enjoy for years and years. If we run into any money we plan to get another one, so we can have matching cars. We are total dorks, but we like it that way.

Well……..my house is currently a mess. For some reason my brain keeps thinking it is Sunday, I think I am just overly excited to see Desperate Housewives. I need to clean, and then get a game plan together on what I can pack away now.

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Maybe for Christmas I will get my own computer. I always hate taking up “computer time” when I am home. I feel like I am keeping Eric from doing something he needs to do on the computer. I need a laptop, so I can sit on the couch while Eric is on the desktop. I can email him from the couch! How funny would that be? I don’t pay any games or anything like that so I wouldn’t need a super expensive one. Just one that I can blog on, and of course search Ebay!

So our new “across the hall neighbor” moved in late last night. I have already heard his dog barking this morning. It sounds like a bigger breed, but I have yet to see this dog. I can tell you right now that if this dog is larger than allowed in this community I will turn his butt in so fast. I cannot stand a barking dog. I have a feeling that this new neighbor of ours is going to make us angry! I can already feel it!

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Our apartment has really ugly cabinets, in my opinion. I think adding some nice cabinet hardware might help them look a bit better. Our apartment is due to be remodeled, but if we wanted to move into one that has already been remodeled our rent would jump by one hundred dollars, which to me is not worth it at all! Just another reason I look forward to getting a house in March!

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Well, it is a known fact that Gavin loves Spiderman. After looking around in the kids bedding section the other day I decided that he needs some new Spiderman decor for his room. He has mostly decor from the movie “Cars”. Almost everything we bought him for Christmas last year had Lighting McQueen on it somewhere. He is due to start school within the next week, so we might go this week and let him pick out a few new things for his room.

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Well, I am sure that everyone knows by now that we hate the apartments that we live in. The apartments themselves are okay, with a better maintenance team and better management this place would be an okay choice. It seems as if everything around here is just falling apart. Most of the stuff that is falling apart is just outdated and needs to be upgraded. It seems as if every time I go to get our mail I have to fight with the mailbox to get it open. I wish the management would look into getting new mailboxes or even check out cbu mailboxes. Something needs to be done about the mailboxes, but I am sure nothing will be done.

Well last night around 10 pm or so my friend Sarah called to ask if I wanted to come visit for a little while. She has purchased a new home that I have yet to see. I was going into the kitchen to get my purse when I see a bunch of tiny white flying bugs. At that time I could see about 10 of them flying around the kitchen light. I yelled for Eric and by the time he had made it into the kitchen there were more! They were everywhere. They had an almost translucent look, and unless they were flying around you could not see them. Eric threw on some shoes and headed out to get some bug spray while I pulled out the vacuum and started sucking those little suckers up. We had tried to use an old school fly swatter on them with no luck. The vacuum was actually doing a good job. By the time Eric got back though, they were EVERYWHERE. Hundreds of them. When he would spray it would aggravate them even more and they just started going crazy. More and more came out of the light fixture. How did this happen? Then I remembered that the maintenance team brought new air filters the other day, so I went and looked and there were tons covering the air filter. I took it outside and we continued to spray and vacuum. We even called the emergency maintenance line, as this WAS an emergency, lol. Well, an hour passed and we had the situation under control. By the time we went to bed last night we could only find 2 more. As of this morning they are all dead. I just want to know what they were and where they came from. They almost looked like mosquitoes, but they were translucent. I am telling you right now, if they are mosquitoes we are moving out! OUT OUT OUT! I have saved a few because the maintenance guy was going to come get some to take to the exterminator to find out what they are and to also find out how to get rid of them and or prevent them. Needless to say, but it is already past noon and he has not come, as he probably won’t.

I have included a picture. It is slightly blurry, it was so hard to get a good up-close picture, as they are really tiny bugs. Two landed on Laura’s diaper, that was in her diaper bag (that is how bad they were), they died there. These are the “samples” for the maintenance guy. NASTY. NASTY. I am so grossed out. It is not even funny!