the Grandkids

Raven's On The Mend, Thanks To Nussentials

2008-02-26T18:26:00.000-08:00

I have been long absent from blogging here because a lot has been going on personally. I wanted to share a little of that with you.

Perthes Disease snuck up and attacked Raven. Perthes is a degenerative bone disease that attacks the hips. Inadequate blood flow literally "kills" the hip bone. In X-Ray's, her's looked like a whole family of moth's had been eating on the ball part of her hip joints.

She reached the point where she was in terrible pain, unable to walk to the bathroom or up the stairs. Her cry's filled the house. Laughter had disappeared from our house.

Then Nussentials came out with RESTORE! and we started spiking her juice with 1 ounce of RESTORE and one ounce of MULTI. In just a short time, she was laughing and playing again. I made a video to sorta "tell" that story. That's the clip above. (It's only 2 minutes, so take a little time, turn off the radio, stereo and TV and give a listen)

Thanks Nussentials and Phil Mims. You have brought laughter back into my house.

Raven Turns 3 -- Life Will Never Be The Same

2007-10-20T21:15:00.000-07:00

Raven turned three today, after what feels like about 29 months of being two. Strange how time stops/starts/drags/flies depending on what is going on in your life. To Raven, it couldn't come soon enough since 3 is BIG GIRL status. Oh yes, all those little things she would willing accept/expect from the adults in her life are now replaced with the all too familiar "I can do it myself, I am a big girl".

Life will never be the same.

Of course, you can't rush them just because you can do it faster, you have to let them do whatever they want for themselves... it's how they learn. I know this. Arrggh.

For years (almost 3 to be exact), Britene has told Raven she can not drive because she doesn't have a license. Obviously, Raven wanted to remedy this as soon as possible, and was never satisified with Brit's answer about legs needing to be longer, passing a driving test or anything else that prevented her from jumping behind the wheel and heading out. For her third birthday, Britene and Glenn got her a license and a Hummer. Yep, you read that right.

Okay, the license was photo-shopped and the Hummer is 1/4 size, but Raven now has her OWN ride, which she promptly took for a spin with her buddy Damon. 5 minutes later she ran over Damon's 18 month old brother Athen. After being soothed by his Mommy Amantha, he has decided not to press charges, even when she hit him a second time!

Check back in, as soon as I download the pictures and video from my camera, I will post Raven and her new ride.

Wonder How I Get To Work From Home So I Can Stay With My Grandkids?

2007-09-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

I guess I never mentioned it, but I get to stay home with the grandkids every day. Want to know how?

I am an Independent Nussentials Representative. I am always looking to expand my business and have the time to train and mentor a business associate. If you would like to know how to work from home, just drop me an email. Can't find it?

Google me. "Cenay Nailor" - somewhere in that list is a way to contact me. Promise.

Thank God kids are still made of rubber before age 1

2007-06-07T06:26:00.000-07:00

I think it really must be true that kids are made of rubber when they are really young. Tallen took a spill down the stairs last week that would have killed most of the adults I know, including me. As those of you with kids know, it only takes 2 seconds. Britene, Raven and Tallen were all upstairs playing with the door to the stairs closed. Brit's phone rang, she answered. Raven choose that moment to want to go downstairs. Now, she is a big girl, capable of doing things for herself. In fact, she would have it no other way. While she is able to both open and CLOSE the door, being like most 2 year olds focused on what they want, she does only what is necessary to accomplish her goal. She wanted downstairs.

Tallen loves his big sister. He wanted to go with her. I heard Raven come down the stairs (do you know a 2 year old that DOESN'T walk heavy?), then I heard several fast *running* steps down the stairs, then I heard Britene scream and FLY down the stairs.

Britene told me that her heart stopped when she saw Tallen laying at the bottom of our wooden staircase. However, being rubber, and too young to know to *tense up*, he was pissed, but not broken and bloody. He wound up with one bruise on his forehead, the jarring stop at the end of his *flight* down the stairs. No other injury. He cried for a few minutes, sure that Raven had tricked him. Then he cried a little while because Britene was shaking and couldn't stop running her hands over him looking for further injury. Then he stopped because (this is my opinion now, since he doesn't talk) he was worried about his Mommy.

All I can say is I am thankful I only heard it and didn't see it.

More soon.
Cenay'

Added video to the grandkids site... how cool is that?

2007-05-10T13:09:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I came across a webpage that had built in video the other day and something clicked. You have seen these pages, especially if you surf much in the "Make Money Online" genre. Maybe I figured this was high-tech stuff, or cost an arm and a leg. Well, I decided to find out. Guess what? Free. Easy.

Sweet! So, now the Grandkid's site will host one new video each month (more once I see the impact on my bandwidth) so all the friends and family across the US can see little Raven and Tallen in *action*. I choose to host the video's myself, rather than upload them to YouTUBE so that I could retain any *rights* to them. I don't want some techno-geek downloading it, and morffing my granddaughter into something else. I am funny that way. So, below is a sample (hopefully) of the video I shot on my camera. Lighting stinks, I was behind her most of the time and it's overall quality is poor. Call it a proof of concept. Now I can share the action with my Mom in Texas. Priceless.

New Baby Pictures!

2007-05-03T19:40:00.000-07:00

Yep, I know. It's been a solid two months since I last updated the Grandkids Photo Journal site and I am catching a lot of flak from family members all across the US who wait each week for a new photo of their great-grandbaby, great-niece, great-nephew, great-cousin or whatever... all I can say is... sorry. It's not like I meant to keep you waiting. I am not sure where the time goes. Well, yes I am. It goes to finding a new house, calling utility companies, arranging baby-sitting (not yet), trying to work and watch the kids from 6am to 3pm. A few days of that, and I don't know my name, much less where I am on the site progress. So, if you are one of the one's waiting patiently for the next installment of pictures, check it out. But don't expect anything new for the next 30 days or so while me move and get settled again.

Dang, I hate moving.

One last thing, before I go... one of my favorite pictures taken this month...

Is this cute enough for you?

2007-05-03T13:39:00.000-07:00

Okay, I couldn't resist. The little darling has been taking modeling tips from her Daddy... now how cute is this??

Is it just me, or could she be the next Gerber Baby? Okay, I guess at 2 she is a little old to apply, but I always thought she would make a good Gerber kid...

Where are the plain baby clothes??

2007-05-03T13:07:00.000-07:00

Okay, just a quick question to the Universe in general, where are all the comfortable, solid color, plain baby clothes? You know the one's I mean, solid T's and one color sweat pants that you can mix and match. These baby clothes that are all so cute you want to scream require coordinating the laundry. Otherwise you wind up the cute alligator shirt clean, but the matching color coordinated pants are still sitting in the hamper, effectively taking BOTH out of the running. Baby's R Us and the other Baby Boutiques just don't seem to get it. Where are the clothes for those of us that are laundry challenged?

Even Wal-Mart doesn't carry just a bunch of single color shirts and pants. Not even for "boys"! I can see the argument for the girl clothes, but boys??

If you know where I can find single color Baby Clothes, I wish you would drop me a line.

More Soon,
Grandma Nay

I am so behind on new pictures!

2007-05-03T12:59:00.000-07:00

For those of you following the grandkids website, please forgive me! I have very far behind on getting new baby pictures up for all the family members... I guess I have been a little sidetracked with all the new web work I have been doing. Please look for new pictures and the blow by blow commentary from me by the end of this week.

One note though, the April pictures are all up and each site (Raven and Tallen) has an entire page of photo's for that month. I guess I am not as far behind as I thought!

More soon
Grandma Nay

My beautiful grandkids!

2007-04-29T23:50:00.000-07:00

Yep. I know what you are thinking. Oh God, not another site devoted to some poor demented woman's snotty-nosed grandkids. Well guess what? You are absolutely, 100% without a doubt, correct. What can I say?

And, since this is MY blog, and you are under zero obligation to stay and read their witty comments, scary musings and other profound observations, I don't have any sympathy for you. If you do stay, I think you will agree with me, they are probably the cutest kids on the web. I might be biased though.

Now, was I wrong? This is little Raven. She is two years old but tells people she is three. That will change in time. She will be "working it" the other direction.

Very bright is our young Raven. She immediately saw the inequity of Mommy having a pair of sunglasses, and Daddy having a pair, even Grandma Nay having a pair. Poor Raven DIDN'T have a pair. Her solution? An all out campaign lobbying who ever would listen about how SHE needed a pair and post-haste. My daughter Britene took our fair-maiden off to yonder store to remedy the injustice. They are very pretty sunglasses sweetie. Good job on picking them to match most of your clothes.

And this strapping young man is Tallen, Raven's baby brother. Tallen is 9 months old and happy to be a part of this family. He loves and adores Raven and is fairly sure she can do no wrong. (Raven doesn't share this enlightened view as she feels that Tallen is often wrong, but that is a another story). Both Raven and Tallen can do no wrong in my book. At least when anyone is looking. Privately, they have both had their "bratty" moments and tried my patience. However, I have discovered the TRUE meaning of the phrase "Grandkids are your reward for not killing your own kids". They are an eternal source of joy in my life.

Stay tuned to hear about the "Hip-hop jamming good time" they had dancing in the living room on hardwood floors. You wouldn't think someone that weighed only 25 pounds could make so much noise! Whew!