Lolo (my youngest) makes me laugh every day. Tuesday night I had a friend over - who is more like family. She has two young kids who have grown up with my kids. At one point in the evening Lolo came over to me and my friend, and asked "Mom, when is Klara going to take her monsters home?" I just laughed. What can you say?
Lolo likes to call herself Lola Angel Martinez Martinez Trongo. Lola came from Lolo which came from Lauren. Lauren could not say "Lauren" when she was learning to talk, so she said "Lolo". It stuck. We all call her Lolo. Just before she started kindergarten this year, she decided she would be Lola. She also changed her middle name (according to her) from Elysse to Angel. She then decided Martinez is such a pretty name compared to Trongo so she is Lola Angel Martinez Martinez (it's so pretty, we use it twice) Trongo. She is her own little person. We go with it because it can't hurt, right?
Alaina is my oldest, who is 10. She is in 5th grade and is wise and beautiful and moody. She will be having surgery on her tear duct in a couple of weeks, and the nerves finally hit her last night. She's starting to freak out. Which is not something I can help her with since I'm freaked out.
The story it this: Sometimes when a baby is born, they have a blocked tear duct, so the doctors can go right in and "poke" it to clear it up. Alaina wasn't so lucky. Her tear duct became infected two summers ago, and started to tear on it's own from time to time. Just one big tear drop would fall from her eye at random. We took her to the doctor, who prescribed antibiotic steroid drops. They cleared up the problem, we thought. Almost exaclty one year later, it all started again. This time, when we took her to the doctor, he said that scar tissue has formed from the infection, and has blocked the duct to the point that it's not viable any more.
She has to have surgery..... They do an incision in the inner corner of the nose/eye area. They will have to shave away a bit of bone, remove the scar tissue and non-working tear duct and place a sack or artificial duct with small tubes coming out of the upper and lower holes that our tears come out of. This will stay in place for 6 months. She cannot rub her eye or blow her nose for 6 months as it could dislodge the new duct. After 6 months, they should be able to remove the artificial duct and a new, natural duct will (hopefully) remain in it's place. She will have a scar, obviously, although the doctor says it will lie in a natural crease and you won't really see it after a while. Poor Alaina. If there was ever a time I wish I could just take care of something for her, it's now.
Julianna is another story. She's all heart and emotion. She's seven and my "middle child". She uses that phrase all the time - I could kill my mother for even telling her there was such a thing...... She's either loving, laughing or screaming a tantrum. There aren't really any in- betweens. She's definitely an empath. She knows what everyone is feeling, and is very sensitive to it. She can't just BE - she literally does not know what to do when things are boring, (or normal). We're working on this. She is probably the one who would take care of anyone or anything if she were asked. She has been like a mother to her baby sister (Lolo Lola Lauren...) since the day she laid eyes on her. She calls her baby, takes care of her, reads to her and lets her sleep with her in her bed, although Lolo has her own room. She is constantly finding something wrong in her life, and even gets upset when she can't find something wrong. Altough, you won't find a more grateful kid when things go right. She will thank you to the point that you think you need to do more nice things for her so she won't be so surprised by nice things.... She's very bright and by far the best student so far (in our family). She loves homework and is upset when she doesn't have any. (yet one more thing to be upset about) She's almost one full grade ahead of herself in school, yet who would want to be bumped up a grade?
Garrett is our oldest. I call him mine, altough he's not. He's my husband's son. He is almost 16 years old and an incredible kid. He started living with us 50% of the time as soon as we got married. He was only four years old at the time, and we shared custody with his mom for about 11 years or so. Unfortunately, in the summer of 2007, we had a family argument, and Garrett chose to live with his mom full time from then on. We miss him because he's not with us every other week now, but we get to see him and talk to him (and text him!) as much as possible.
At his age, I think it would be incredibly hard for anyone to have to change houses every other week, and I always knew the arrangement wouldn't last forever. I am thankful for the years he was with us, and I am thankful that he and his sisters were able to get so close by spending time together for all those years. I think we will all benefit from our situation, regardless of how hard it may be from time to time.
More on the fam later......
Lolo likes to call herself Lola Angel Martinez Martinez Trongo. Lola came from Lolo which came from Lauren. Lauren could not say "Lauren" when she was learning to talk, so she said "Lolo". It stuck. We all call her Lolo. Just before she started kindergarten this year, she decided she would be Lola. She also changed her middle name (according to her) from Elysse to Angel. She then decided Martinez is such a pretty name compared to Trongo so she is Lola Angel Martinez Martinez (it's so pretty, we use it twice) Trongo. She is her own little person. We go with it because it can't hurt, right?
Alaina is my oldest, who is 10. She is in 5th grade and is wise and beautiful and moody. She will be having surgery on her tear duct in a couple of weeks, and the nerves finally hit her last night. She's starting to freak out. Which is not something I can help her with since I'm freaked out.
The story it this: Sometimes when a baby is born, they have a blocked tear duct, so the doctors can go right in and "poke" it to clear it up. Alaina wasn't so lucky. Her tear duct became infected two summers ago, and started to tear on it's own from time to time. Just one big tear drop would fall from her eye at random. We took her to the doctor, who prescribed antibiotic steroid drops. They cleared up the problem, we thought. Almost exaclty one year later, it all started again. This time, when we took her to the doctor, he said that scar tissue has formed from the infection, and has blocked the duct to the point that it's not viable any more.
She has to have surgery..... They do an incision in the inner corner of the nose/eye area. They will have to shave away a bit of bone, remove the scar tissue and non-working tear duct and place a sack or artificial duct with small tubes coming out of the upper and lower holes that our tears come out of. This will stay in place for 6 months. She cannot rub her eye or blow her nose for 6 months as it could dislodge the new duct. After 6 months, they should be able to remove the artificial duct and a new, natural duct will (hopefully) remain in it's place. She will have a scar, obviously, although the doctor says it will lie in a natural crease and you won't really see it after a while. Poor Alaina. If there was ever a time I wish I could just take care of something for her, it's now.
Julianna is another story. She's all heart and emotion. She's seven and my "middle child". She uses that phrase all the time - I could kill my mother for even telling her there was such a thing...... She's either loving, laughing or screaming a tantrum. There aren't really any in- betweens. She's definitely an empath. She knows what everyone is feeling, and is very sensitive to it. She can't just BE - she literally does not know what to do when things are boring, (or normal). We're working on this. She is probably the one who would take care of anyone or anything if she were asked. She has been like a mother to her baby sister (Lolo Lola Lauren...) since the day she laid eyes on her. She calls her baby, takes care of her, reads to her and lets her sleep with her in her bed, although Lolo has her own room. She is constantly finding something wrong in her life, and even gets upset when she can't find something wrong. Altough, you won't find a more grateful kid when things go right. She will thank you to the point that you think you need to do more nice things for her so she won't be so surprised by nice things.... She's very bright and by far the best student so far (in our family). She loves homework and is upset when she doesn't have any. (yet one more thing to be upset about) She's almost one full grade ahead of herself in school, yet who would want to be bumped up a grade?
Garrett is our oldest. I call him mine, altough he's not. He's my husband's son. He is almost 16 years old and an incredible kid. He started living with us 50% of the time as soon as we got married. He was only four years old at the time, and we shared custody with his mom for about 11 years or so. Unfortunately, in the summer of 2007, we had a family argument, and Garrett chose to live with his mom full time from then on. We miss him because he's not with us every other week now, but we get to see him and talk to him (and text him!) as much as possible.
At his age, I think it would be incredibly hard for anyone to have to change houses every other week, and I always knew the arrangement wouldn't last forever. I am thankful for the years he was with us, and I am thankful that he and his sisters were able to get so close by spending time together for all those years. I think we will all benefit from our situation, regardless of how hard it may be from time to time.
More on the fam later......
Hi Ang, I am so excited that you are blogging! I am looking forward to keeping up with you and the family. Kelly
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