Gavyn / Disney

I just wanted to make a little post about the new Disney movie coming out this year and an update on my little sickie - in between my Facebook farming. It's their first 2D movie since Home on the Range, which came out in 2004 and it is the 49th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. It's directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who also directed a few of my favorites like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules.

"The film, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, will be an American fairy tale, Broadway-style musical set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A prince named Naveen from the land of Maldonia^[5] is transformed into a frog by the evil scheming voodoo magician Dr. Facilier. The frog prince mistakens a girl named Tiana for a princess and has her kiss him to break the spell. However, the kiss doesn't break the spell, but instead turns Tiana into a frog as well. Together, the two of them must reach the good voodoo priestess of the Bayou, Mama Odie, while befriending a trumpet-playing alligator and a hopelessly romantic firefly along the way. The film will open in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009 before expanding into wide release on December 11, 2009." (Thanks, Wikipedia).

I'm just happy to see that they're finally making an African American Disney Princess. In Aladdin, they are Arabian, and that's about as close to diversity as Disney was going to get until now. The movie looks really cute and I'm excited to see it. I like that it's a little twist from the normal Princess and the Frog story, where the girl actually turns into a frog. I think little girls everywhere are going to want the Princess and the Frog Barbie :P.

While I admit that I love the classic Disney movies, I think Disney has definitely been coming out with some winners lately with their recent takeover of Pixar. Cars, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles, Wall-E... Gavyn loves them all, and I love that I can use that as an excuse to watch them repeatedly ;).

Speaking of Gavyn, the doctors said that he has a double ear infection and pink eye. I have no idea how he got pink eye, because no one that we know has it. I think the ear infection was caused by James using Q-tips on Gavyn. Apparently that can cause ear wax to go down into the ear rather than getting it out, so it's bad to use it for kids, even though we use the "baby-safe" ones. So we bought one of those little bulbs that the doctors use to suck everything out when you first have your baby, and we're going to try to use that on his ears once the infection goes away. I feel so bad for the poor baby. His lungs and throat are completely clear, so the ear infection was causing both the fever and the cough. Now he's on an antibiotic and we have to give him three eye drops in each eye three times a day. Let me tell you that he's NOT happy about that. I almost started crying because I felt so bad when James had to hold his eye open for me to put the drops in, but I know that we have to do it :(. Luckily, he's now feeling a LOT better and acting normal, he's just not eating as much as he normally does and sleeping pretty heavily.

I'm at work now, after work we're picking Gavyn up from Tammy's and heading to St. Pete for Gavyn's Power Wheels Mustang. We have to drive Mike's Explorer with the trailer on the back of it so that we can bring the car back with us. I'm going to have to keep Gavyn in the car while James loads it in, and then cover it up in the garage so Gavyn doesn't see it ahead of time. He is going to LOVE it. When we were at Target the other day looking for some Christmas presents, he sat in the middle of the aisle with a little steering wheel pretending he was driving for about ten minutes. Just wait until he can actually drive in his sweet little ride that goes up to 5 mph (woo, watch out) and has a built-in "radio." I originally wanted to get him the Disney Cars car, but James has been wanting to get him a Mustang since he was born. James will probably want to get him a Mustang for his first car, too. I can't break his heart even though I secretly know that Gavyn would like the Cars car better. It does say/sing quotes from the movie. James argued that it's not a real radio and that it only goes up to 2.5 mph. I said that 5 mph seems a little risky and dangerous, lol. The Mustang we were originally going to get him is the red one, which would match James' car, but this one is blue (Gavyn's favorite color) and has racing stripes... So the choice was clear.

Sickie McGee.

Well, my Mom is on her way to bring Gavyn to the doctor as we speak. I wanted to stay home with him today but one of the front desk girls is already on vacation so we're short as it is, and James just called out last week. I feel so bad when he's sick and I can't stay home with him. It's the worst part of being a working Mom. He has a fever of over 101 and has a really bad, congested cough. My little brother, Tyler, just came down with bronchitis last week, so I'm assuming that's what Gavyn has, or at least some type of bacterial infection which is going to require an antibiotic. Poor baby.

We've gotten the majority of his Christmas and birthday shopping done, minus a few things that we'll pick up here and there that we see and he'd like and plus the Power Wheels Mustang we're picking up tomorrow. Christmas is still a few months away and his birthday isn't until mid-January, but I love getting it out of the way and avoiding the Christmas-shopping traffic. Over the next couple of months we just have to buy eachothers' gifts and our immediate families'. I'm so glad we're almost done with this! Although James knows he's getting an iPhone for Christmas, and quite possibly a lawn mower - which is more for me than it is for him, even though he'll be using it ;P... I want to think of a few things to surprise him that he'll REALLY like. Our parents/brothers/sisters are always easy. They typically want the same thing every year. I can't wait to start decorating for the holidays. This is my FAVORITE time of year (fall/winter). I need to order Gavyn's costume soon.

I've received the rest of my pell grant in the form of a PHCC One card. I can withdraw a max of $500 a day from the ATM. The cash that spits out is immediately being inserted back in and then put directly onto our credit cards. BUT this is the only time I plan (*keyword: plan) to do this. I'd like to start putting any extra money from my financial aid into a savings account which is not linked to our checking (so that I'm not tempted to touch it) and put it away. I don't touch Gavyn's, and since it's linked it's easy to transfer money in there, but that's different. That's his money. I'd be tempted with this. But I'd like to put it away because during my last year of school as a teacher, I'll have to do three internships. Level one is interning 2 days a week at the school. This lasts an entire semester (15 weeks) and is unpaid. In fact, I actually have to pay for the internship hours, as if it's school (which will hopefully qualify me for financial aid during that time!). The second level is interning 3 days a week, which lasts another semester. The final internship lasts another whole semester and is full-time, so five days a week. At that point you're basically teaching the class with a real teacher watching over you. I'd probably be able to work part-time for the first two internships, but the last one would be impossible. So I'll have to rely on a) financial aid money that I put away or b) student loans. I want to do everything in my power to STAY AWAY from student loans. I want noooo part of that unless I absolutely have to.

I can't wait for our vacation, less than two weeks away! Gavyn's first time flying, we're all going to go on the boat with my Dad, the weather is beautiful right now, shopping, family get-togethers, Six Flags, spending time together, sears tower, the city, Chicago hot dogs, pizza puffs!, Lauren meeting Gavyn for the FIRST time, seeing everyone, NO work... I'm so excited. James and I remind eachother every day how many days are left until vacation. Ugh. Excited. Much needed.

While on the subject of vacation, it's going to be a tough squeeze after Christmas and everything, but I reaaally still want to go to Disney. Gavyn is going to absolutely LOVE it this year, and I want it to be a part of his birthday gift. So I've decided that I need to get the credit cards paid down ASAP so that we can still afford to bring him for his birthday. HAVE TO.

Bored of this now.

Swyn Floo.

To say that I simply HATE BEING SICK would be an understatement. I don't think I could ever instill how much I absolutely hate it into your brain. I ended up calling out of work yesterday, and felt similar this morning but decided to go in anyway. After all, I'm pretty sure I'm only allotted 3 sick days per year. Melissa (from work) offered to work for me tomorrow and I'd work her Monday, but if I could do it today, I can do it tomorrow. And I enjoy my Mondays and Wednesdays off. So here I am, at my desk in the back office munching on caramel rice cakes and waiting for my little electronic clock in the lower righthand corner of my computer to read 4:00 PM. Only 13 minutes to go. The picture to the right was one of the Google Image results for Swine Flu. I do not have any idea how it, in any way, depicts Swine Flu, but I deemed it essential for this post. I am so ready to go home and pass out for a few hours, but NOT ready to study for my Elementary Algebra retake on my CPT. I never was very fond of Algebra. Maybe I'll reschedule it for a time when I can concentrate more and pity myself less.

Sicko de Mayo.

The title on this post basically described how our Cinco de Mayo went. We woke up in the morning to Gavyn having a high fever and vomit on his floor. Since we both had to work, we brought him to Tammy's (as usual) and told her that if he gets worse, she should bring him to the doctor. I called the doctor anyway to schedule a sick appointment for when we got off of work. The latest they could see us was 4:15 pm, when James got off at 4:00 pm, so we ended up having to leave work early. Turned out it was just a mild cold with a tummy ache. His fever went away later that day and his tummy was still hurting yesterday, but he's doing well. That night, we had Russyl, Jen and Jacob over. I drank several Coronas and ate even more limes. I then passed out when James and Jen went to get McDonalds for us, and apparently wanted no part in waking up for the McChickens I had previously begged for. Yesterday we just relaxed, ate some sweedish meatballs over egg noodles, and watched our shows. All of our favorite shows seem to come on on Wednesdays, but LOST and Lie to Me's season finales are next week. Not happy. Also not happy about the fact that I now have a sore throat, as well. Anyway, I'm done rambling.