Gosh son, you are growing up before our eyes. I know everyone always said early on, he will be in kindergarten before long. I definitly believe that, you will! Days go by and then months and it all happens so fast. We love you more with each passing day and can't imagine life without you! You have changed so much in the last few months! You no longer seem to be falling down, you are a steady walker and runner for that matter. You can run about 20 feet without problems, amazing to me after all the things we heard on your Birth Day. One thing is for sure, God is in control of your life and he isn't finished with you yet! You started cutting your molars on top and your bottom right tooth (teeth 7,8, &9) all on the same day. It was around the 15th of December and now they are almost cut through completely. Now we have those bottom molars to be looking forward to! You are a major fan of your bop these days and you will go all over the house looking for it when its bedtime. You say Baa, Baa. It is pretty cute! You still love to play in your closet with your little people town, but since Christmas you have a few new favs. You love your guitar, blocks, cars, ride ons. Your favorite thing to do since we rearranged your room and made it a semi big boy room is to sit at your table and read books or play with your laptop. You love to put your phone, keys, and laptop in your backpack (with help of course) and take them for a ride in the cozy coupe and then back to your table. Daddy thinks you are going to work, who knows with you though! Eating has not been one of your favorite pasttimes ever since you started cutting those molars. Some days you eat us out of house and home, others not enough to keep a bird alive. You like spaghetti, sweet potatoes, yogurt cereal, big boy cereal, carrots, bread, and pastas. The one thing you would eat no matter how full or how sick is a cracker and boy do you have that word down. You go to the cabinet often and ask for crack-ker or a cook cook which is a cookie. You love those two things. Your favorite cookie is an oreo (momma's fav too so we haven't bought any in a while). You still love to stay with your Gran, but you still like to be eating when I leave to prevent a melt down. Gran pretty much knows how to keep you happy and she does it all day long, we love her bunches! You love for people to visit, to go visiting, and to go shopping or out to eat. You love to be in your stroller anywhere. You are kind of messy at restaurants because you try to feed Chance and the food gets messy on the floor, we are breaking you of this slowly. Your new fav restaurant is Front Page, you love beans, mac, rolls in your own bowl of course, fries, and a little chicken for your meal. You still absolutely love music and to dance. You love Grandma's ringtone and can really get down to it, but any music will do. You still love your Celine CD that is now downloaded on all iPhones, ha! You like to play along to Head and Shoulders and If your happy and you know it. You love to play with our iPhone, you know how to unlock it, and turn on the iPod, imagine you figuring out how to turn on the music. You love to watch your DVD player in the car, your fav movie is Toy Story. You will watch it over and over. You like the Backyardigans-racing episode and Yo Gabba Gabba or Barney if you are watching tv. You still sleep with us at night and are still sleeping through the night, although I hear that can slow down around this time as you are learning to do more things. Ok so we just let you drink however much milk you want to right now and juice sometimes if it doesn't upset your tummy. You love to drink gaa gaa (gatorade), but we don't do it too much because it upsets your tummy too. You can't do too many acidic drinks, so mainly we stick to milk. You drink alot of it, typically 16-20 oz at least per day. If you get up before 8, you still take 2 naps. After 8, 1 3 hour nap. At night you still rock and drink milk, but you hate brushing your teeth these days. It used to be cool! You still love riding in the car, eating cheerios, and have branched out to fruit loops and apple jacks (momma even tried apple jacks when you did). You are still wearing SMO's until March when we see Dr. Sawyer. You get a new pair Friday of this week. Your feet are doing so much better, although I think there will always be some outward rotation. Church is getting better, we have learned to take lots of snacks. One snack that is not a good idea is a ring pop, it gets us all messy. We take cracker, cereal and marshmallows your three fav snacks. You don't get into trouble until you have been there an hour, its like that is your absolute limit to sit there! You are growing up 25 pounds (with clothes) and 33 inches, WOW I can hardly believe it. You have almost doubled your birth height. You are growing into a handsome little boy, not quite the baby I gave birth to anymore. I must remember not to hold on too tight, you are here for God's purpose, not for me, and I must allow you to fulfill your purpose so that you may return to him some sweet day, what a sweet day that will be for us all!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Sick boy
On Friday the 8th, when I got into bed with you I realized you had a fever. You had about a 102.7, so we slept with one eye open and gave you medicine until we could get to the doctor. On Saturday, we went to the doctor and found out you had hand/foot/mouth disease. You have sores in your mouth and your fever will be between 103 and 104.5. This terrified us, but we kept you dosed with your tylenol and motrin every 3 hours and kept your fever away most of the time. You would still run a higher fever at night though. By Tuesday, your fever had pretty much gone away, but you will probably still have sores for a few more days. You don't like to eat much right now, so maybe you will soon.
Snow Dayz
We had a snow day on the first day back after Christmas. We went out and looked at it and you played for a few min, but it was so cold that we didn't stay out long. I enjoyed having another pj day with you before I had to go back to school.
On Thursday, we had another snow day. We had a little more snow this time, but not much. Neither snow was as much as we saw in Branson on Sunday so they were both disappointing.
New Year's in Branson
On 12/30, your Daddy decided he wanted to head to Branson for New Year's. I don't do things on the spur of the moment very well and getting out of my pj's didn't sound that great, but we decided to tag along anyway! We did a time share meeting while we were there so Granny tagged along and kept you while we did that and they put us up in a super nice condo, you loved having all that room to play and explore. We shopped at the landing on New Year's Day and at the outlet malls on the 2nd, but we didn't go to any shows because we were afraid you wouldn't like it. You got lots of clothes for summer and next fall! We had an absolute blast and may have to do it again next year! We drove home in 4 inches of snow and had to go through Conway which took us about 5-6 hours.
Lazy Week 12/27-12/31
We went to church on Sunday and then spent the rest of this time being lazy. We literally did nothing but play with new toys and stay in our pj's for a few days, one of the perks of momma being a teacher!
Day after Christmas
We headed out fairly early for some after Christmas sales on Saturday. We used our gift cards and bought some wrapping stuff for next year. We ate at Ruby Tuesday's with Aunt Elaine and Grandma and did lots of shopping. After we got back, we went to Newport to see what all they had. All the toys we bought were on half price sale, I think we need to have Christmas around the 27th next year, lol. We did buy you a Little People nativity to put up until next year half price, as if you need more toys now, ha.
Christmas Day @ home
We started a new tradition last year, and it has worked wonderfully. We decided we would have Christmas dinner at our house and everyone that wanted to come was welcome. This year we ended up having Grandma, Grandpa, Travis, Granny Nancy, Gran, Me, Dustin, and Zeke. Granny Fannie and Gene didn't want to come because the water was up and there was so much flooding and Papaw and Meme always head down to see Mamaw! We missed the family that couldn't make it, but luckily we get to see them all at other Christmases too!
Christmas night we headed over to Perry and Terry's for my Granny's family christmas. We ate and then played dirty santa and watched the kids open presents. We had a great time visiting and the boys played pool!
Christmas Morning
Christmas morning this year was an absolute blast. Zeke loved opening presents and went through them rather quickly. We got lots of video, but we didn't take many pics because we were all having so much fun! He loved all his presents and got a tv from Santa to watch his shows on. He loves being able to play in his room while listening to his favorite show and sometimes he even stops long enough to watch it!
Christmas Eve at Home
Christmas Eve with Granny
Friday, January 8, 2010
Christmas 5~Grandma and Grandpa's
Christmas 4~with the Mosses
Christmas 3~With Rick, Granny, Gramps and the gang
Christmas 2~Church Breakfast and play
Christmas 1~Dad and Cyn's
Our first Christmas this year was at Dad and Cyn's. We ate lots of good food and enjoyed watching the kids open their presents and visiting with each other. It was a lot of fun! Once again, I left the camera at home!
12/13-12/18
The last week before Christmas break brought lots of work but lots of joy. I had to help get ready for the Christmas food and gift give away. It was an amazing experience that was an eye opener for me. To realize the situations that people are in and why they are there and to see the look on their face when they realize they will be able to give their kids a Christmas dinner and gifts under the tree is nothing short of AMAZING. It really made me realize that my family is extremely blessed! I missed my boy alot this week, but it was sooo worth it in the end. On Friday night, I came home and snuggled him up, what a week!!!
Lawson Family Christmas and Swifton Parade
Sick Baby.........12/9-12/11
On Wednesday night 12/9, Zeke began to have fever around 5 and the first time we checked it, it was 102.7. We were terrified because he had never had a fever before, nothing over 99.5 anyways. We have been so lucky with that! All night we alternated tylenol and advil every 3 hours and then on Thursday morning we headed to sick call. We didn't get to see Dr. Hornbeck :( but his ears and throat were clear :) so we left and thought everything was great. He told us to only give advil but a larger dose, so we skipped the tylenol dose at 9 and his fever spiked at 103.9. I frantically called the doctor's office back and they put me off for an hour and a half "waiting to hear from the dr" so I called back and they let me talk to the nurse finally. She said if it got to 105.5 to bring him to the ER, I was shocked it was ok until it reached 105.5. I don't think I will ever be able to wait until it is that high, we just live to far from a hospital for that! When we got home, he slept alot until his fever was gone and luckily Ms. Betty told me to stay home and baby him cause she had a sub for me! By Friday 12/11 he was feeling much better, thank goodness.
Shopping 12/8/09
On Tuesday, Zeke and I took off for a shopping trip with Rachel and Abbi. We ate at Dixie and spent a few hours at Walmart. It was a great success shopping for the Christmas Angels. We had a lot of fun too! Forgot my camera again, getting good at that..........
Cutting Edge Open House 12/5/09
On Saturday, we went to the open house at the Cutting Edge and then headed to Newport to see Granny Fannie. We went to eat Mexican and then headed to feed the ducks, can you believe I forgot my camera for such an event??? Zeke loved feeding the ducks and playing at the park! He loved playing the most! He is such a runner these days! That evening we headed out to Dad and Cyn's for a little visit and then came home. It was a busy Saturday that called for a lazy Sunday............So on Sunday, we went to church and then stayed home the rest of the afternoon to be lazy! We did take some time to snap some pics of the girls with Zeke for a Christmas present for the parents. We got some decent pics, maybe as they get older we can try for all looking and all smiling :)
