Monday, February 14, 2011

This Weekend...

 ...last year, I let Molly & Maggie outside at my parents house. She went running through the snow, tearing her ACL, & shredding her meniscus.
...last year I celebrated with my baby with friends and family.

...last year I prepared for my baby's arrival.
...last year I had no idea what the year held.
...this year, Molly's leg has been reparied.
...this year, Molly isn't allowed to play in the snow with Maggie. She isn't allowed to play in the snow at all.
...this year, I am crafting for the day we celebrate my baby's 1st year with us.
  ...this year, I marvel at the little boy who has brought so much joy to our family.
...this year, I am cherishing every moment with my not quite 1 year old.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Mommy's Little Helper...

Last week, during the blizzard, I realized my little pantry desperately needed cleaning and reorganizing.
Except I had no motivation to do it.
None, what so ever.
{insert Karson here...]
phone picture...sorry...
All I had to do was take off the rubber band that held the doors shut.
Munchkin was in the room in a flash.
Pulling out everything he could, as fast as he could.
It didn't take long, and my kitchen was covered in food.
 And what is better than being allowed to empty the pantry.....
Being allowed to play with all the food, once you pulled it all out. 
[of course]
Molly sat at watched.
With worried eyes, and worried ears.
She was sure Karson was doing something he wasn't supposed to.
 Now if only that guilt would keep her from her new found hobby.
Counter surfing.
Ugg!
 My kitchen was covered in random food.
 Some got thrown out.
oops...expired...
Some got put in a bag, for the church food drive.
Some got put back in, very neatly.
 If you ever need motivation to clean out your pantry, let us know.
Karson would love to empty it for you.

As you can see, the pantry is secured to the wall.  As is the majority of the furniture in our house.  It is super easy, and much safer!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sick, Dumptrucks, and Molly...

Karson has had another rough week.
He started with a fever on Saturday and was acting totally normal.
You would have never known he was sick. 
Sick baby who wouldn't drink or eat anything...a Popsicle does the trick!

Then Sunday evening his fever spiked.
Tylenol wouldn't bring it down.
Mommy got worried.
Karson's attitude changed almost instantly.
He went from acting totally normal, to laying limp in my lap.
We ended up at the ER, right before Super Bowl started.
 We watched Cars.
Took turns snuggling.
Tried everything we could to get Munchkin to drink something.
He even got his first taste of an orange slushie.
Two sips, and he was done.
The doctors watched his fever for a while.
Upped his tylenol dose, and sent us home

Tuesday he broke out with a rash.
Everywhere.
Yesterday, he took 4 naps.
He rarely even takes 2 anymore.
These pictures are deceiving.
He really only let me put him down for about 2 minutes all day.
 
I am pretty sure he is running to me, because I had his blanket.
And apparently his paci too.
See his bumps on his forehead?  The ones that are not supposed to itch, but obviously bother him....

Even though he wasn't feeling well, his dump truck was just too interesting to pass up.
He has become quite inquisitive.



 He loves to try and figure out how things work.
He looked and looked at his dump truck.
Trying to figure out why the teeth kept disappearing and reappearing.
He moved onto inspecting Noah for a few seconds.
 And went right back to investigating that dump truck.
Opening and closing the bucket, trying to figure it all out.
 And Molly always finds a way to crack me up.
Why does it crack me up that she is laying on the floor?
Because she insists she must always lay in front of the heat vent.
Always. She just discovered it. And she loves it. Cracks me up.
Last night we couldn't find her.  She was laying by the heat vent in the bedroom.

We are hoping for a less eventful week next week...

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Quick Post

My brain needs to shut off so I can get to sleep. 
Too much to think about.
And I am exhausted.
Yet, I can't sleep.

Karson Update
Went back to the pediatrician today because he was covered with a rash.  He was also up all night crying.  Still has a low grade fever.  No ear infections, no strep.  They think he has the Roseola Virus.  The nurse asked me when the last time was he was healthy.  Um...that would have been almost 2 weeks ago.  Ready to have my happy Karson back!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Again...

Karson is sick.
Again.
He has had a high fever since yesterday morning.
We brought him in tonight, because his fever was just too high.
And tylenol wouldn't bring it down.
Snuggling with Mommy, watching Cars at the ER.
No diagnosis.
No new meds.
We just wait it out....again.
Pray he feels better!
Snuggling with Daddy.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

JarJar

Need I say more?

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Blizzard of 2011

We were told it was going to be the blizzard of all blizzards.
When we went to bed, it was blowing, but not snowing.
We were up at 11 with Karson, and still no blizzard.
Again at 1 am, DJ looked outside and still no blizzard.
munchkin, you really need to let mommy & daddy sleep a little more.
I woke up at 3 am this morning, when my husband had to tell me his his evening class was canceled.
And while it is fabulous news, it was 3 am, and I didn't care.
Apparently, the blizzard had come after all.
And 2 minutes later Karson woke up...
DJ tried going to work, but couldn't get down out street.
I am pretty sure we were the only people up at 4am watching the news, excited about all this snow!
We all ended up sleeping until after 9, and woke up to this:
 Lots and Lots of snow!!
The perfect way to start off a snow day?
 Blueberry pancakes!
 Karson loved them!
And what does any responsible, snow loving Mama do after a blizzard?
 Bundle up the baby, and stick him in a snow bank!
 He thought he was cool stuff!!!
 Ignore the fact that his gloves are on the wrong hands.
It takes forever to get him to hold still long enough to put them on.
It just wasn't worth starting over once I realized what I did.
 We broke the rules and let Molly out to play in the snow.
Because of her leg, she isn't supposed to run in it.
Especially if it is taller than her...
She literally had to 'swim' through it.
 He is standing in a snow drift....it is almost as tall as he is!
We spent the majority of the morning outside.
Our neighbors came over with their kids.
The plow guy plowed out our dive way.
We opened up the back of the envoy for Molly...
We spent the afternoon playing with Karson, and cleaning the house.
After dinner, we headed right back out into the snow with our neighbors!
It was the perfect snow day!!
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