AHHHH! I AM COMPLETELY BALD....

BUT my boobs are bigger then they have ever been!  I go and get my weekly "fill" each Friday.  It's like going to the spa to me.  Instead of a facial I get a big needle with saline solution to blow up my ta ta's.  I have FINALLY hit puberty.  After 33 years it is about time!  This week instead of filling them 25 cc's like they have done since my surgery, I told them to double it and fill them 50 cc's each time.  My ta ta's are now at 175 cc's a piece so this will add to my weight gain and chest size.  150 cc's to go!  Holy cow is Steve excited...I kind of am too!  I have never had boobs before!

Now on to the hair thing...again!  My hair started falling out more about four days after my first big hair cut.  I would take a shower and get so freaked out to wash my hair because it would just rub off.  YUCK!  On top of that it was making a mess!  I am a clean freak and hair every where was driving me bonkers.  Once again I had it shaved down to a buzz cut.  Steve was so brave to shave it this time.  That lasted a whole 48 hours until I had to use my own razor and spend an hour in the shower shaving the rest of it off.  I am now completely bald!  Don't you dare tell me I look good bald!  My head is in desperate need of a tan to even itself out with my face shade.  I am revealing my beautiful, untanned head, with NO make up on....at the end of this blog.  So make fun of me all you want...but I am pulling the cancer card on you for this one...you will feel guilty afterwards!

After I shaved my head I put on some make up with the Jessica Simpson wig I received from my friend Angie.  I LOVE it only because it is a new look.  I already fooled a long time friend of mine, Mike Holm and his wife Emily.  I was at HyVee on Saturday and they walked right past me and did not recognize me.  I laughed the whole way home.  I can get use to this! =)

My Jessica Simpson Wig with my new hat!
Thanks Angie for the wig, Emily and Nicki for the hat!

Olivia just got home from fishing with her dad!

I go in on Thursday to meet with a neurologist for my right hand.  My index and middle finger have been numb since my surgery in April so we are going to get to the root of the problem.  Please pray it is only a temporary injury and my nerves will come back sooner the later.  I WANT my right hand back!

I also start round 3 of chemo on Thursday.  Hopefully I will only have 13 more rounds to go as I will find out if I have the HER2 receptor which will require more chemotherapy.  Please pray I do NOT have the HER2 receptor.

Thank you to:

Bob and Sue Peterson for the Olive Garden gift card
Heather McQuillan, Heather Terry, Elizabeth Norris and Sara Recker for the Victoria's Secret Gift card
and Pete and Kaye Bataillon for the Papa Murphy's gift card!

Thank you to my cousin Leah, her husband chad, my aunt Linde and uncle Terry for setting up the cleaning crew.  It is so nice to have one more thing off my plate.

Thank you to all our family and friends for your continued support, love and prayers.  You make us stronger everyday.

YIKES!  I need to tan my head!

xoxo

Potty Training Day 1 - Part 2 OLIVIA 4:15 p.m. - 11 p.m.

I stocked up on underwear again so I was ready for round two!

4:15 p.m. I went to check on Olivia for the fourth time and she finally woke up.  I thought she was dry until I looked a little closer and there was pee all over the bed and her shirt.   UGH!

At this point I am wondering why she didn't wake up when she wet the bed.  Did I start potty training to early? http://www.3daypottytraining.com/ says you can start at 22 months and Olivia will be 22 months on Monday.  I think she is ready since she is always telling me when she has a dirty or wet diaper and wants to be changed.  She has shown interest in the potty this whole week while I was training Sully.  At this point and time, I have my doubts.  I am still going to follow this program because I know it is only the first few hours of training and I am hoping she will catch on.

Once I get her up she says she has to poop so I put her on the potty and she sits on it for at least 10 minutes and says she is done.  When I look there is only three drops of pee.  While she was sitting on the potty I washed a load of laundry.  It consisted of Olivia's underwear, shirt, bedding, blanket, my pants (unfortunately running a peeing child to the bathroom puts you in the line of fire!) and  three towels to wipe up the carpet and floors.

I put her in her 9th pair of underwear for the day.

4:40 p.m. I gave her a M&M for peeing in the potty (sort of!) and as she is eating the M&M she starts peeing on the kitchen floor!  YUCK!  I didn't get her to the potty in time. =(

10th pair of new underwear.

4:45 p.m. Olivia has a late snack.  Cheese crackers with juice and switches to milk.

I received advice from a highschool friend Traci who wrote on my facebook page:

"I bought small, inexpensive toys and put them in a "Potty Prize" basket. Have her sit down ever 20-30 minutes. The more times she 'accidentally' goes in the potty at first, the more she'll get it."

I did buy her little gifts but I can't give them to her because she has to go potty on the potty chair.
According to the 3 day potty training you are not suppose to put the child on the potty every 20-30 minutes.  The method is teaching your child to learn their own body signs. So for now I will not put her on the potty every 20-30 minutes.  If three day potty training doesn't work I might try it. =)

5:45 p.m. Olivia said she had to go poop.  She sat down on the potty and..you guessed it...NOTHING! 

I had her sit on the potty for a long time because Olivia said she had to go poop and she didn't want to get off.

At 6:25 she finally got of the potty and we ate dinner.

6:30 p.m. DINNER TIME! 

6:50 p.m. I put her back on the potty because she said she had to go poop.

7:10 p.m. I took her off the potty.

7:15 p.m. She peed herself...UGH!  Now she wants new underwear on because I am assuming she wants to pee or poop in them..just a little trend I am starting to notice. 

#3 NEW UNDERWEAR

7:45 p.m. I put her on the potty because it looked like she was doing a pee pee dance and again...nothing.
(My guess is she will sit for a while get up and pee or poop herself)

8:15 I tried to get her to go potty but she didn't go.

I decided to keep her up later then her normal bed time because she still hasn't pooped.  So I put a towel on the couch so she could hang out with daddy!

Reading with daddy!

Modeling

Strike a pose!  Olivia loves taking pictures!  She asked me to take this shot. =)

9:00 p.m. she had a little damp spot on her underwear so I put her on the potty....of course nothing.

#4 New Underwear

9:15 p.m. Bed time

9:25 p.m. Olivia came running out and said she went potty.  I rushed her to the toilet and NOTHING! I went back to check her bed and get this.....it was completely dry...maybe.... THERE IS HOPE!  She caught herself before she went in the bed.  YEAH!

 New Underwear #5 (not pictured)

10:25 p.m. Olivia came running out of her room and said she had to go potty. 

10:41 p.m. Olivia came running out of her room again and her underwear was damp - I went to check the bed and it was completely dry. I think she is catching on...now I have to figure out how to get her to pee in the potty and not in her underwear.

New Underwear #6 (not pictured)

If anyone knows how to get a child to pee or poop in a potty I am all ears.  I might take Elizabeth's advice tomorrow or the next day if this training doesn't work.

"I sent Pat to the Bahamas and let her run around naked for the weekend. She only peed on the floor twice and we had it down."
" o.k. I didn't send him to the Bahamas. Basketball did. It was just easier to do when he was gone."

Thanks for the encouragement Marcy!

"Loved that blog post! So cute!! We are still perfecting it at our house, but she will get it soon!! Hang in there!!"

On to day 2!

Charles Haynie Norris

Congratulations to Pat, Elizabeth and Parker who welcomed Charles today at 3:57 p.m..
Charles weighed 7 lbs 10 oz. It looks like he will fit right in! =) Love this picture!

Already flipping off the camera!

Olivia's First Tailgate!

This morning I woke up early to give myself a pedicure, finish up on this blog and made Chili for the first football game of the season.  While I was making the chili and an appetizer, Olivia and Steve went to run errands.  I think Olivia loves her wind pants and fall gear she kept checking herself out in the mirror.

Steve, Olivia and I headed down to Lincoln for Olivia's first tailgate and enjoyed the day with friends and family.

The Huskers beat Western Kentucky 49-10 - GO BIG RED!

Chris and Heather's Shower

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Chris & Heather's shower....we gathered with the Lincoln crew at our house.  Everyone ate, drank and had a fabulous time.  Stacy & Michelle cooked delicious food including Stacy's orea balls....mmm....and I made my famous martini's.  The next morning when I looked out in the back yard there was an extra surprise...lots of beer cans!  Can't wait for the wedding....Chris and Heather you make a stunning couple.