(Brody - 14 months)
Ok not really, but we thought it was funny with the hair and all...
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Lately
It has been a busy 2 months for us celebrating many birthdays, a couple out of town weddings, and visiting out of town family!
We drove to Florida for Gabe's cousin Beth's destination wedding in late May. It was a long commute, but well worth it! Brody was amazing on the road, there and back! The DVD player was a hit and also a huge saving grace! This was Brody's 2nd time to a beach, but the first time for him to really enjoy it! Here are some pictures of the lovely wedding weekend.
We drove down to the Houston area to see Gabe's grandma (Mam-maw), and were able to stay at his uncle's house and visit with them as well. She had never seen or met Brody so it was wonderful experience. She has a disease that affects her muscles, she is all there but it is extremely difficult for her to do anything that uses any muscles in her body such as speaking and turning her head from side to side. Luckily she is in a wonderful home where they are taking awesome care of her! Brody was a little nervous getting close to her but we were able to snap a few sweet moments. Gabe's cousins are young and loved hanging with B-man. They played dress up (that's what you get with all girl cousins) and drove him around in this cool wheeled contraption!
Then I took a trip up to Nebraska for my cousin's wedding. This was my first time to ever spend one night away from Brody. This. Was. Painful!!!! I knew he was in the great care of his daddy, but I was so sad to leave him. It was a very low key trip and gave me plenty of time to rest and not do a whole lot. But I was glad to get home! Loved seeing my NE family and will get back up there soon!
We drove to Florida for Gabe's cousin Beth's destination wedding in late May. It was a long commute, but well worth it! Brody was amazing on the road, there and back! The DVD player was a hit and also a huge saving grace! This was Brody's 2nd time to a beach, but the first time for him to really enjoy it! Here are some pictures of the lovely wedding weekend.
We drove down to the Houston area to see Gabe's grandma (Mam-maw), and were able to stay at his uncle's house and visit with them as well. She had never seen or met Brody so it was wonderful experience. She has a disease that affects her muscles, she is all there but it is extremely difficult for her to do anything that uses any muscles in her body such as speaking and turning her head from side to side. Luckily she is in a wonderful home where they are taking awesome care of her! Brody was a little nervous getting close to her but we were able to snap a few sweet moments. Gabe's cousins are young and loved hanging with B-man. They played dress up (that's what you get with all girl cousins) and drove him around in this cool wheeled contraption!
Then I took a trip up to Nebraska for my cousin's wedding. This was my first time to ever spend one night away from Brody. This. Was. Painful!!!! I knew he was in the great care of his daddy, but I was so sad to leave him. It was a very low key trip and gave me plenty of time to rest and not do a whole lot. But I was glad to get home! Loved seeing my NE family and will get back up there soon!
Tag, You're It!
Months ago, I was "blog tagged" by my dear friend Kelly, and I am just now getting to it. Whoops :(. With this tag I am supposed to say 7 things about myself. Let's see if you knew these or not?
1. I am terrified of thunderstorms. I get a sick feeling that my home is going to catch fire from the lightening.
2. I do not eat any type of seafood, not even shrimp! It's a head thing...and I am perfectly fine not eating it.
3. For a while I was really enjoying going to the library and checking out books. I started reading when I was pregnant with Brody, and now I am glad to be able to read for free! I am one of those with a library card for my own personal use and I am proud of it! Just wish I had more time to read.
4. I am a reality tv junkie! I love So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol, all of The Real Housewives shows (except Atlanta), Tori and Dean, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, The Hills, The City, Big Brother, The Bachelor(ette), Project Runway, The Amazing Race, and Kendra.
5. I am a coupon clipper! Why not save a little money here and there? Grocery store, restaurants, retail shopping....doesn't matter!
That's all I got 5/7 will have to suffice! Wonder if you learned something about me????
1. I am terrified of thunderstorms. I get a sick feeling that my home is going to catch fire from the lightening.
2. I do not eat any type of seafood, not even shrimp! It's a head thing...and I am perfectly fine not eating it.
3. For a while I was really enjoying going to the library and checking out books. I started reading when I was pregnant with Brody, and now I am glad to be able to read for free! I am one of those with a library card for my own personal use and I am proud of it! Just wish I had more time to read.
4. I am a reality tv junkie! I love So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol, all of The Real Housewives shows (except Atlanta), Tori and Dean, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, The Hills, The City, Big Brother, The Bachelor(ette), Project Runway, The Amazing Race, and Kendra.
5. I am a coupon clipper! Why not save a little money here and there? Grocery store, restaurants, retail shopping....doesn't matter!
That's all I got 5/7 will have to suffice! Wonder if you learned something about me????
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Brody's Scary Sickness
Gabe has not been traveling much for work lately, just a few times a year. Well one of those few times, we had a challenging yet sort of scary couple days with Brody. He developed an extremely high fever that didn't really seem to break with Tylenol and/or Motrin. Once the fever reached 103-104, wasn't eating (which is not normal Brody behavior ecen when sick), he had thrown up, and all he wanted to do was be held (which again is not normal Brody behavior even while sick), I called the nurses line at our doctors office and they told us to go ahead and come on in. Before we got there, his fever had reached 105. While there he threw up again...this time all over me! Yuck! But it didn't bother me at the time, all I wanted was to make my baby feel better. The doctor drew blood, conducted strep and flu tests and gave him an antibiotic shot (for an ear infection). Our doctor said he illness was not related to the ear infection. All of the tests came back clear so the diagnosis was a virus, but he wanted us to go get a chest x-Ray first thing the next morning to rule out pneumonia.
The next day, I took Brody to his appointment for the x-Ray. Being pregnant, I couldn't be in the room while they took the x-rays. I had to stand outside and listen to my sweet baby cry due to the loudness of the x-Ray machine. Heartbreaking!! I stayed home from work that day since Gabe was out of town. Luckily my mom was available to help me out. Not sure I would have survived without her help. It is exhausting taking care of a baby that is sick, but it was taken up a few notches with how sick he really was. Fever still 103-105 all day that day and we ended up putting him in a lukewarm bath to try and break that fever!
Gabe came home the following day when Brody's fever was finally manageable. Late that evening we started to notice some redness on his face. The next day it had spread to his whole body. So we called the doctor again. While waiting for their phone call back, Gabe had talked to someone at work who had experienced the same type of thing with his daughter. He "diagnosed" Brody with roseola. We googled it and seemed to be accurate symptoms. Once the nurse returned our call
after speaking to our doctor, he was officially diagnosed with roseola.
Main Symptoms of roseola:
High fever for 2-3 days
Once fever breaks, the child breaks out in a rash that can last for a few days
There is nothing you can do for this virus, it has to run it's course. Roseola cannot be diagnosed until the rash appears. It is highly contagious while the child has fever. And it is found mostly in children 2 and under.
The next day, I took Brody to his appointment for the x-Ray. Being pregnant, I couldn't be in the room while they took the x-rays. I had to stand outside and listen to my sweet baby cry due to the loudness of the x-Ray machine. Heartbreaking!! I stayed home from work that day since Gabe was out of town. Luckily my mom was available to help me out. Not sure I would have survived without her help. It is exhausting taking care of a baby that is sick, but it was taken up a few notches with how sick he really was. Fever still 103-105 all day that day and we ended up putting him in a lukewarm bath to try and break that fever!
Gabe came home the following day when Brody's fever was finally manageable. Late that evening we started to notice some redness on his face. The next day it had spread to his whole body. So we called the doctor again. While waiting for their phone call back, Gabe had talked to someone at work who had experienced the same type of thing with his daughter. He "diagnosed" Brody with roseola. We googled it and seemed to be accurate symptoms. Once the nurse returned our call
after speaking to our doctor, he was officially diagnosed with roseola.
Main Symptoms of roseola:
High fever for 2-3 days
Once fever breaks, the child breaks out in a rash that can last for a few days
There is nothing you can do for this virus, it has to run it's course. Roseola cannot be diagnosed until the rash appears. It is highly contagious while the child has fever. And it is found mostly in children 2 and under.
Monday, May 31, 2010
An Official Statement
As most of you know through hear-say or Facebook, we are pregnant again with Lewis Baby #2!
I am about 17 weeks along and due November 5th. This has been another easy breezy pregnancy. I am so blessed in that department. I sometimes still have to remind myself of it. At this point, I am just now starting to get a preggo belly, not the "I look bloated" stage. Although I can still wear the majority of regular clothes without feeling uncomfortable, which I am sure won't be for long. Everyone tells me you start to show earlier with the 2nd pregnancy, and I am believing it. I think I started this phase around 19 weeks with Brody.
We just went to the doctor for our 3rd visit and so far I have gained one pound without being sick at all. I am sure I have gained more than that since we just drove to Florida and ate out junk food everyday. As a birthday present from my doctor we had a brief sonogram. We were actually able find out what we are having and some know, but I will wait for 2 weeks until our official sonogram to announce it here.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
A Year in Pictures
Brody's birthday! Monday, March 16, 2009 at 11:09 am. This was one of the greatest days of my life thus far.
Month one
Month two
Month three
Month four
Month five
Month six
Month seven
Month eight
Month nine
Month ten
Month eleven
Month twelve
***BONUS***
Month thirteen - with his friends Teagan and Gavin
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Brody is 1! 1.5 Months Later
I am going to try and help Lindsay get caught up... you would not believe how busy she is!
Brody's birthday party was great! Nana made his cake, which could not have turned out any better.
The house was packed with family and friends, and we even had some folks in from Albuquerque. It was great to have everyone there to enjoy the special day with us. Brody was very thankful for all the gifts he received. Especially the cardboard boxes!
After opening all the presents that we could keep his attention for, we moved on to cake. Believe when I tell you, HE CAN EAT MORE CAKE THAN ME, he can eat more cake than I can eat steak in one sitting. It is amazing! He probably would have eaten the entire double decker smash cake if we had let him. This should give you an idea.
He went on to have a little bit of a sugar rush which consisted of playing with his new toys and boxes he had accumulated, but surprisingly there wasn't a big crash that we were anticipating. All in all, it was a great success and we are so proud of our little 1 year old (13.5 month old) and so thankful for all of our friends and family that made it special!
Brody's birthday party was great! Nana made his cake, which could not have turned out any better.
The house was packed with family and friends, and we even had some folks in from Albuquerque. It was great to have everyone there to enjoy the special day with us. Brody was very thankful for all the gifts he received. Especially the cardboard boxes!
After opening all the presents that we could keep his attention for, we moved on to cake. Believe when I tell you, HE CAN EAT MORE CAKE THAN ME, he can eat more cake than I can eat steak in one sitting. It is amazing! He probably would have eaten the entire double decker smash cake if we had let him. This should give you an idea.
He went on to have a little bit of a sugar rush which consisted of playing with his new toys and boxes he had accumulated, but surprisingly there wasn't a big crash that we were anticipating. All in all, it was a great success and we are so proud of our little 1 year old (13.5 month old) and so thankful for all of our friends and family that made it special!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Back to Blogging?
The answer to the question is YES! We hopefully and kind of, I'll explain...
Haven't had many opportunities to blog lately for a few reasons.
1) Brody doesn't take afternoon naps during the week any more. He naps for 2 to 2 1/2 hours at school during the middle of the day. We are so glad he is able to take such great naps at school. But this leaves me no time to go to the computer tucked away in one of our extra bedrooms to type and blog.
2) I am so tired!! I have to wake up so early and I am now working more full time, than part time (which is what I signed up for). I am happy to be helping the preschool in the way that I am, but at the same time it has been contributing to zapping my energy. My days are so full now, after I cook dinner and we clean up it's about time for me to start my bed time routine.
3) Any spare time or energy I can muster up, it is spent updating resumes, applications, and letters since I have made the decision to go back to teaching in the school system. I have missed it more that I ever imagined I would and I am starting to get anxious about going back (in a good way). I have been reflecting on last year and thinking of new ways to do things in my "perfect" classroom I have dreamt up in my mind. So if you know anyone, or of any openings in Collin County, please please please let me know!!!!
Now I have a good reason to blog again, and should make this process easier, thanks to my darling husband. The "kind of" part is a little tricky. We are figuring out how to use my new toy with blogger.com. We just may have to take it in and talk to one of the experts. As an early mother's day and birthday present Gabe bought me a iPad. It is very cool, like a huge iPhone!! We are just trying to figure out blogger on here. It's not as easy as you think. It was really hard for us to get the opportunity to type and we are not sure on how to upload photos on here. Anyone have one and know how to work it? We may just make an appointment at our local apple store to see if they can guide us.
Here are a few things to look forward to:
A Year in Pictures (Brody)
Brody's 1st Birthday Party
An Official Statement
Brody's Scary Sickness
I Have Been Tagged
Red Light Cameras
I am glad to be up and semi-running again. Hope you are too!
Haven't had many opportunities to blog lately for a few reasons.
1) Brody doesn't take afternoon naps during the week any more. He naps for 2 to 2 1/2 hours at school during the middle of the day. We are so glad he is able to take such great naps at school. But this leaves me no time to go to the computer tucked away in one of our extra bedrooms to type and blog.
2) I am so tired!! I have to wake up so early and I am now working more full time, than part time (which is what I signed up for). I am happy to be helping the preschool in the way that I am, but at the same time it has been contributing to zapping my energy. My days are so full now, after I cook dinner and we clean up it's about time for me to start my bed time routine.
3) Any spare time or energy I can muster up, it is spent updating resumes, applications, and letters since I have made the decision to go back to teaching in the school system. I have missed it more that I ever imagined I would and I am starting to get anxious about going back (in a good way). I have been reflecting on last year and thinking of new ways to do things in my "perfect" classroom I have dreamt up in my mind. So if you know anyone, or of any openings in Collin County, please please please let me know!!!!
Now I have a good reason to blog again, and should make this process easier, thanks to my darling husband. The "kind of" part is a little tricky. We are figuring out how to use my new toy with blogger.com. We just may have to take it in and talk to one of the experts. As an early mother's day and birthday present Gabe bought me a iPad. It is very cool, like a huge iPhone!! We are just trying to figure out blogger on here. It's not as easy as you think. It was really hard for us to get the opportunity to type and we are not sure on how to upload photos on here. Anyone have one and know how to work it? We may just make an appointment at our local apple store to see if they can guide us.
Here are a few things to look forward to:
A Year in Pictures (Brody)
Brody's 1st Birthday Party
An Official Statement
Brody's Scary Sickness
I Have Been Tagged
Red Light Cameras
I am glad to be up and semi-running again. Hope you are too!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Brody's 1st BirthDAY
The day of Brody's birthday we started like every normal day. Get up, get dressed
(but in our Birthday Boy shirt compliments of LeAnna), and off to "school" we go. His morning was just his regular routine. But when we (Brody and I) got home, Daddy was already home and waiting to spend the afternoon with us! What a nice surprise for the birthday boy! A few weeks before Brody's birthday I was trying to decide on something special we could do for him on this special day. I was thinking along the lines of Chuck E Cheese, but thought he would be a little to little to enjoy it. A friend at work had told me about a place in Frisco that is fairly similar to Chuck E Cheese but has a better section for kids his age. It is called Wiggly Play Center which is based off of the show The Wiggles. I was really looking forward to this for Brody. I knew he was going to have fun and especially playing in the ball pit I knew they were going to have! Well, we were not impressed! There were kids EVERYWHERE! Yes, I know that is to be expected especially since Brody's birthday falls during Spring Break. But where were the parents??? There were 6 - 8 year olds in the infant room. Maybe they need some extra staff to help regulate if the parents aren't. There was a group of about 4 "big" kids who were trampling over Brody and another little boy trying to go down the only slide they could go down. At one point the other mom got on to those kids to watch out for the smaller boys. Maybe I am being a little over protective and I know when I was a youngster I am sure I did the same thing. Being on this side of it really opened my eyes to always keep a watchful eye. I do think Brody had fun, he just still might have been a little to little for the Wiggly Play Center too. Maybe next year! Oh yeah, and no ball pit either!
Mommy helping me go down the slide, while Daddy is at the bottom to catch me!
Riding a mechanical horse. This was pretty fun! You can't tell by his face, but he did like this!
Enjoying my first Jamba Juice on the way home! He LOVED it and knew exactly how to use the straw!
We were thankful to be able to spend the afternoon with our birthday boy, even if it didn't go quite as I had it planned in my imagination. It was good to spend a beautiful afternoon together as a family.
12 Month Stats:
Weight: 21 lbs. 1 oz (23 %tile)
Height: 28 3/4 inches (18 %tile)
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