Vacation....ahhh

We are headed to Florida in the morning!!! I am SO looking forward putting little mans feet in the sand!!!

Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend and I will post about our trip when we get back in about in a week!!!!

You say its my Birthday!

Well, this is a little late coming....but we have just be so busy there are not enough hours in the day....but without further ado....

Baby boys 1st birthday! I had a BLAST planning his party! I love to do this kind of stuff so I had been planning this for months! He loves to play with cars and trucks so we went with a construction theme....you would think it would be easy to find stuff...but not so much so I had to do some digging on some of the stuff and I made some of the other stuff!

I had been watching the weather the week before and had hoped the rain would hold off...but we had showers off and on but that didn't stop us from having a great party! Everyone showed up and he had so much fun playing with all the kids!

Here are pictures of the kids tables, party favors and his present table....

Next up is his cake (my Aunt makes cakes and she made these I almost didn't let anyone eat it because it was so awesome and I loved it!!!), a picture my niece free handed and painted (she is only 12!!!) and some more party decorations (the Happy Birthday sign and the #1 balloon I made)...

Here is Baby Boys version of his birthday....

All these friends and family start coming over and I really am not sure why everyone is here but hey I'm game I'll play with you! Wait someone is breaking out lots of great food and drinks and I am all about food these days.....let's eat!

After we eat mommy puts my in my highchair, which is all wrapped up in some yellow tablecloth, but whatever, and everyone is just looking at me...not sure why...then I see mommy with this humungus cake...is it, could it be for me, she is heading my way...oh I sure hope so, I do love cake!!!

Yes, everyone sings Hap.py Birth.day to me (I love this, I have waited for someone to sing this to me I see them do this in the restaurant to other people all the time and I LOVE it!!!) and I get some cake! This is my favorite part of the day, I could eat cake every day if mommy and daddy would let me...but of course they don't! I was very nice digging into my cake you see because I wanted to make sure I got every little piece into my mouth! I was very laid back and took my time....then mommy took it away way too soon, but then I got to play again so it was all good!

I had alot of presents to open but I really wasn't into all that, I helped with about the first two then I had mommy and daddy open the rest, I just wanted to play! And I was more into playing with the tissue paper, it was lots of fun!!!I think my favorite gift I got was from my grandma-great and it was a wagon and we go for walks all the time and I think I am big stuff in it! I also got a sand/water table, a soccer ball (I am going to play in the fall), books, some little people, and airplane and lots of other cool stuff! I also got lots of clothes which I really needed, I thought I was going to have to go naked soon as I had out grown all my clothes so fast, I really jumped from 9 months to 18 months fast, I really wasn't in those 12 months for very long...like a few days I think!

Any way it was the best and coolest 1st birthday party ever and I was so glad all my family and friends were able to come and celebrate it with me....that is what its really all about!!!

Well....I am tired now...so that's a wrap!

Baby Boy

We have a walker!!!

Baby boy is now 11 months, where does the time go!!! He is doing so much since last month its crazy!! He says several words now mama, mom, dada, more, ball, he will moo for a cow, quack like a duck, he claps, plays patty-cake, if your happy and you know it and so much more! I just can't believe how big this baby boy of ours is getting!! He understands so much more than what he can talk right now it just amazes me what he knows and what he can do at this age!


But the craziest of all is he is walking!!! He is still just a beginner and doesn't do it all the time but he is starting to do it more and more and go further each time! He started taking steps at about 10 1/2 months and now he is getting really brave and just takes off. Sometimes he is really funny and either wants to get to you really fast or get away from you really fast and tries to like run and he doesn't get very far its the funniest thing ever to watch him try to go so fast, his little legs just are ready for what his mind wants him to do!!!


We are having fun planning his birthday and we can't believe that he is going to be a year old in just a month. I still have days that I just can't believe that he is our son and I just can't imagine our lives without him. He brings us so much joy and laughter even when he is pulling picture frames off tables, banging on the glass tables and trying to rip the wires out of the walls (he has a fetish for wires - he loves them and we have everything plugged up that is empty but not much we can do about the lamps on the tables...have to have light in the rooms!!). He has a laugh that is so contagious that he just makes you laugh no matter what he is doing! He is a happy baby and really only cries if he is tired.


We just got back from Tennessee and our trip was great. He did really good on the drive there but on the way back about the last 2 hours he was done and cried alot. He was so ready to be out of the car. We put Cars on for awhile but I had to drive and then reach back and hold his hand because he really wanted me to hold him and I couldn't, he was just so tired but wouldn't go to sleep. But he was so good on the trip. He had a great time playing with his 3 cousins, he really loves them alot and they are so good with him!! The trip was nice and relaxing and I loved being able to spend the time with my family with nothing else to worry about. Can't wait until we go to Florida next month!!


I finally got all the metal brackets out of my mouth from it being wired shut about 2 weeks ago. I will say it has not been easy. I have to work at stretching my mouth which is really painful and the left side (where my incision is and where all my TMJ pain was) is still swollen and numb. I have no idea when the swelling will go away but I have a hard time chewing on that side because the food gets stuck because of the swelling...as for the numbess well that could be permanent or it could last for several months I won't know for probably 4 -6 months if its going to go away or not...its pretty annoying right now hopefully its something I will get used to. I think right now its still all new and still pretty sore which is to be expected, I think I just need to be more patient. The good thing is I can eat whatever I want I just have to take it slow.


Well this past month home with little man has been so much fun and I am so glad I have been home to see everything new he is learning and its fun teaching him new things. I am still looking for a job but so far haven't gotten any calls....so for now I will enjoy my time with my little growing baby boy!!

Better!!

Thanks so much for all the prayers for baby boy! He went to the doctor yesterday for a check up and he is doing better! Still on breathing treatments every 4 hrs through today and then every 6 hrs through the weekend and then we will see how he is doing on Monday. If he is feeling and sounding good we can stop the treatments and just do them on an as needed basis! Yeah!!! Today he seems really good and has not coughed a whole lot, which really makes us happy!!!

We are glad he is feeling better just in time to leave for our trip to Tennessee on Sunday. We are going for Spring break with my mom, grandma, brother, his wife and my 3 nieces. We are going to Pigeon Forge, staying in a cabin and everyone is really excited! This will be some much needed rest and just some time to relax and have fun with family! We will update with baby boy's 11 month news and our trip when we get back next week.

Hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!! So glad we have had some warm weather, just hope it comes back to stay for good soon!!! Loving this sunshine!!!

Sick and Exhausted!

Well baby boy is really sick this time. What started off as an ear infection quickly turned into something very serious. He had some wheezing and coughing that really didn't set right with me when we went to the doctor on Friday, now to refresh this was not his peditrician he saw because she doesn't work on Fridays and that office didn't have anything available and wanted me to take him to immediate care to people I didn't even know!

So we started an antibotic on Friday because he had an ear infection well I knew something just really wasn't right with his breathing so I watched him all weekend and called his pediatrician first thing Monday morning and got him in. Well my little man has bronchiolotis (caused from RSV) and is now on neb treatments every 4 hrs for 72 hours and then every 6 hrs for about 10 - 12 days. This was after an extensive exam at the doctor, a neb treatment that he screamed through and a chest x-ray that was horrific to see because they put the little ones in some contraption to keep them still!! We were exhausted by the time we got home!

He has been a champ since coming home and doing his breathing treatments. We put on Cars and just turn it up really loud over the machine and he really only starts getting fussy towards the end! We go back Thursday for a check up. I thought he sounded a little better this morning, but then tonight I thought he sounded really bad again so I am not sure.....

I do know we are all exhausted and really need some good rest! I really hope he kicks this soon and starts feeling better - I hate seeing my baby so sick!!!

The joy of eating!!

Ahh...the joying of finally getting to really eat something good! I went today to the oral surgeon for another check up and got really good news. I can eat whatever I want and I get to get these brackets off!!! WOOHOOO!! Everything is looking good so far, I went from 7 mm's opening to 16 mm's opening, which he said is good. Still really sore, I just have to keep working on stretching and getting my opening wider, our goal is 30 mm. I still have some numbness in my cheek which he said there is a nerve there close to where the incision was so it could be permanent or I could have it up to six months or longer, I am going to hope it goes away, but if that is all the damage I come away with considering there were numerous risks I will take it, its only on the inside of my cheek, not really a big deal and not my whole cheek.

The bad news is they can't schedule to remove my brackets until April 13th, that is his first opening. He is on vacation all next week, I am gone on vacation 3 days after he gets back and then he doesn't have anything until then. They were going to have him look at his schedule and see if he can't fit me in before then and call me back - there is NO way I can wait another month before getting these things off, they are so irritating right now and I think one tooth might have a cavity or my gums are just really irritated from the brackets because its SO sensitive right now!

Baby boy is sick right now. It started coming on last Sunday, we thought he might be teething. I had called the peditrician earlier in the week because he had a low grade fever, nothing over a 100, he never really runs a fever, we have been up every night for at least 2 hours at a time and nothing sooths him except a bottle and he hasn't has bottle in the night since about 4/5 months) a slight rash on his upper chest and lower chin (but he has been drooling like CRAZY, I mean buckets at a time lately) and they said that he was probably teething (you know this poor little guys doesn't have any teeth yet, the are all going to come at once - Lord help us all when they do!!!) and just to keep giving him Tylenol. Well poor little man woke up this morning with a horrible chest cough and snot just pooring down his face.

I called peditrican to get him in today. Now his pediatrician isn't in on Fridays and I know this, but I told them he needs to be seen I am sure he has an ear infection. Well they have nothing and tell me I will have to take him to immediate care...now mind you we have $0 co-pay at the doctors office and to go to immediate care we will have to pay between $50- $70 - I just got laid off and had a $30,000 surgery so no I am not doing this so I call my doctor...they tell me they are full too. So I am furious by this point.. my little man is 10 months old and just because he isn't running a fever they don't see is as immediate to see him....we once I got nasty with her she somehow found 3 different times he could come this afternoon...hmmm imagine that!!!

So sure enough first look into his left ear and its extremely red - ear infection! No fever either! I knew he had one, this little guy just doesn't scream at night for no reason! Always trust your mommy instinct!! He is now on an antibotic so hopefully he starts feeling better soon and him and I can both get some sleep!!!

I can eat...well sort of!

My trip to the oral surgeon Tuesday was some much needed relief...in some ways!!! They took the bands off and I am now able to open...but I can only open up to 7 mm...hey you have to start somewhere right!!! But boy you want to talk about stiff, sore and painful...whew! Its is just like having a cast taken off and it hurts like heck to move but we are making some progress and the best part is I get to EAT!!! I can only have soft foods but I am in heaven right now because I was so hungry!! I can pretty much eat whatever I can that I don't have to chew, I still have to rest until Tuesday of next week then I have to aggressively start my physical therapy to start getting my mouth to open up again. If I don't do a good enough job then they will have to really send me to a physical therapist and I don't think I want that because they will be really aggressive and it will really hurt so I have to do my best to get this baby to open up.

Now the nasty part of all this is when my mouth was wired shut I have all this black stuff from all the metal brackets all over my teeth and now I can't get it to come off. Part of its because I still can't get to the inside to brush really good and just can only use the prescription mouth wash but its really gross and I just want it all off!!! I go back next Friday and I am really hoping we can schedule to get these brackets out of my mouth. They have to put me to sleep to do that, no pain for me, I hate people messing with my teeth!!!

So we are on the road to recovery now comes the big question of did this work or not. I am really scared because I do have some pain in that area and I don't know if I am supposed to or not. I don't know if its just sore because of everything thats been done to it and it still just needs time to heal or if its pain still from the TMJ....guess I will find out more next Friday...keep your fingers crossed its not the TMJ!!!