Back to School, College that is!

Well, I decided it was time to go back to school and try to better myself as a person. My dream has always been to work in the hospital as either a doctor or a nurse. I started KSU in January and began with History class. NOW, I am a math/science person so History is very hard for me. I did pretty good on my first quiz and then the next 2 test weren't too bad either. I just took my final on Wed. and I am SO excited to be done with HISTORY!! Yeah! My next step is to take COMM during Maymester. After that I will be transferring to Ga Highlands and continuing my nursing education. I have 3 BIOL classes to take before I can be accepted into the nursing program, so that will take me at least until this next spring to finish all 3 of them, they are sequence classes therefore I can't take them all in one semester. It sucks but I will survive. I am very excited that I only have about 2 years left till I will have my RN and I can start a new phase of my life with a new career.

My kids are doing great and growing soo fast. Here are a few things about them from Jan-May 2010:

Tahlayne-
She is my little princess
She is talking in sentences now (i wanna eat eat, i want down)
She loves to go out on the porch and play
She will try and get herself dressed
Loves to play with baby Suzanne and poke her in the eye! LOL!
Thinks she is just one of the boys
Wants to follow them everywhere
Had to get her first shots because of the Hep B in the house
Does not like me holding Suzanne and gets jealous
Knows she is the little princess and makes sure we know it too =0)
Still wants to take a bottle at nap time and bedtime, she takes Suzanne's if we are not watching her
Knows how to move the gate that blocks the stairs
Climbs up and down the stairs all day, following her brothers
Will leave out the front door if it is not shut and locked
Knows how to open and shut her bedroom door
Eats with a fork and spoon
Cries when I do her hair but wants to do mine
Still hasn't had her hair cut.
Is going for a cutest baby photo shoot tom. morning. =0) 5/1/10

Rock man
Loves to give his little sister spankings, he is in charge =0)
Is a true fighter at heart
Loves to play BOXING, I think he would be great at this
Turned 3 years old and had his birthday party at ChuckEcheese
LOVES skateboards and riding his trike and bike around the cul-da-sac
Is completely potty trained and will wipe his own butt all by himself
He really is growing up and is such a big boy now.
He looks just like his daddy and is tall and thin
He still has blondish/light brown hair and fair skin.
He likes to cry and act like he is hurt when he isn't and knows how to whine me to death.

Nana MAN
My sweet oods wooda man
I love this little man
He looks like his momma and acts like me too
He has the middle child/older child syndrome
He still wants me to help him in the bathroom
He wants me to help him bathe
He doesn't want to be a big boy sometimes but wants to do the big boy stuff
He thinks Te' is cool and wants to go with him everywhere
He did great in soccer this last season and his team got 1st place
He started Pre-K in august and is doing great!
He knows all of his colors and numbers
He can write his first name from memory and can recognize his last name and write it off the card.
He loves to do art projects
He is my little cuddle buddy and loves to be next to me
He will come up to me and pull my shirt above my tummy and just lay his head onto my stomach and be content.
He taught himself how to ride a 2 wheeler
He will be starting his first real tackle football team this summer-

Kavonte'
He is my big man on campus
He is in 2nd grade now
His reading and english are improving every week
I have had several issues with him and his behavior at school but overall he is a great kid
He rides his bike to his friends house alone and loves to play basketball and football
He played in his first real tackle football team this past fall. He was a def. tackle and offensive guard. He played most of the time on both def and offense.
I was the team mom and LOVED doing it.
He tried track and realized it wasn't something he liked
He has started to buy books and read them at night
What a big strong boy he has turned into
He loves his little brother and sister and tries to keep nana from beatin up on Rocky
Lala will hug on him and little and then smack him, big bro little sister love! =0)

New little princess to love

The weekend of Feb 13th there was a huge severe ice storm in Ga. Annie was pregnant with Suzanne and was overdue. So Annie and I went to the mall and walked on Friday. Then that Friday night there was a snowstorm and at 4:50 am I heard a scream. I thought it was Tahlayne and I was going to wait and see if she was going to go back to sleep. BUT when I heard the scream again I realized it was Annie. I jumped out of bed and ran to her room. She was laying/ sitting on the bed and her water had broke. I told her I had to get her to the hospital and ran to get dressed. I sent Dante' to help her get to the car. He came back and said Annie couldn't move and was in too much pain, he couldn't get her to the car. So at 5:05 am I called 911 and asked them to send an ambulance to our house cause my sister in law was in labor. while on the phone I told Annie that I needed to check her to see how far along she was. I looked and the head was already crowning when she would have a contraction, I told the 911 lady that the ambulance wouldn't get her in time and she was already crowning and that we would be delivering a baby. The 911 operator sounded a little nervous and said OK! I got towels from Dante and tried to elevate Annie which when doing this she screamed out in pain. I tried to hold her legs and help her breath and push while she was having contractions. She started to tear and I informed the 911 operator. She told me to try and push on the area that was tearing but that was not working. I had to get Annie to hold her own legs and try and push while I stretched her out the best I could. The ambulance was still on Barrett pkwy stuck due to the ice and frozen roads. I would ask the operator questions and she was reading from a script cause she would ask me to hold on and then try and give me an answer. She really didn't know much more than me! LOL!! =0) When the babies head came out it was bright blue, my heart sank and I didn't feel a pulse in the head. I was afraid she was not breathing! I told the 911 operator that I wasn't sure if she was alive or not. BUT that I needed to get her out right away! I poked the babies face with my finger and she squinted her face and her eye up, yeah she WAS alive and I told the operator that she was alive and would be fine! I tried to get Annie to push during contractions but Annie said she didn't feel any contractions now that the babies head was out!! So I asked the operator if she should push anyways or wait till she felt a contraction the operator pretty much said she didn't know! So, I decided that she should keep pushing. I had to hold her legs up and push on her stomach and try to get the babies shoulders out. Once one shoulder was out the rest of her body followed. I held myself together pretty much till right at that point! I was soo relieved that she was alive and out and ok that I burst into tears. I was crying, Annie was crying and sweet baby Suzanne was crying!! That was one of the best moments of my life right there! =0) I sent Dante' to get shoelaces and a new towel. I tied off the cord in 2 places and held baby Suzanne and kissed her sweet little face. Annie was still in alot of pain due to the delivery and NO drugs!
Finally the ambulance showed up and came in. They cut the cord and delivered the placenta. I got to spend a few minutes with Suzanne and Dante' got to hold her too. Then Annie got to hold her for the first time. I had tried to get Annie to hold her before the ambulance came, but she was in shock and in way too much pain. We went to the hospital on very frozen and slippery black ice!! The dr. told me I did a great job and I was very proud of Annie for her courageous delivery!

Baby Suzanne Rufaro Ruredzo was delivered at 836 sunset crt, acworth, ga. 30102 at 5:30 am on Feb 13th, 2010 by Cassie Cottrell Ruredzo. She weighed 6lbs 7 oz and was 18 inches long.

Our house was listed as the place of birth and I was listed as the person who delivered her on her birth certificate! Isn't that soo cool! =0)

Life as an SEBD parapro

I started this job on Jan 5th of 2010. WOW! The last time I was here was in 2005 and I was way prego with my second child. I was in the classroom then as a para pro and it was my first time ever working with SEBD kids. I went on maternity leave and never looked back.

This year I saw an opening at Hawthorne and decided it was time for me to start contributing financially toward my household and so I applied for an II (intensive interventionist) position. I was hired on Jan 5th and began my unique experience into the world of social emotional behavior disorder kids. YES mam!! Anywhere from Aspergers to Bi-polar. We have kids that have been in and out of mental hospitals to kids that are soo aggressive they have beat up police officers and teachers and are on probation for it.

I actually love my job, don't get me wrong it is hard and at sometimes very emotional, but all in all it is where I truly believe I should be right now. I have a heart for these kids and I enjoy talking with them and getting into their world for a short period of time! This is not where I will be forever as allotments are going down this next year and I am not being offered my job back for the next school year but for now I am here for about 3 more weeks.

The kids that are having issues in class during the day are given referrals and they are sent to one of the 3 Interventionists. Which I am one of. We try and talk them through their issues and get them to apologize to the person that wrote them up and get them back to class to get back on task in a timely manner. This does not always work but for the most part these kids have issues and they just don't know how to affective deal with then in a healthy way.

A lot of these kids have issues at home as well, anywhere from bring homeless some days to being in foster or adopted situations, drugs, sex and more. It is a sad situation and it does affect me emotionally sometimes

One experience that I dealt with a few weeks ago was a child that went out of area, which means he left his classroom, he was walking up and down the hallways and screaming and cursing and tearing things off the hallway walls. The cops were called and he was handcuffed on the floor and was crying and screaming and it just broke my heart. NOW, this kid has serious aggression problems but he is still in 6th grade and it hurt me to see him on the floor crying in hand cuffs.

It's a tough job, but I'm a tough girl and I love what I do! =0)