Boys will be Boys

We had our first "incident" at day care. Resulted in a nice little "shinner" on Thomas' forehead, as well as his friend Michael's head. I guess they were playing outside on the wee, (for all of you who don't know Thomas lingo that is a slide), and Thomas was at the bottom of the wee looking up and Michael was at the top of the wee going down head first and they decided to play bumper heads. So they both ended up with a nasty nasty bump. So when I picked up Thomas last night he has a little golf ball protruding out of his forehead with a nice purple color to it. This pic is from Daddy's phone so it's not quite clear, I'll post more pics later. But despite his little noggin being bruised he sure is a happy little boy, not to mention a ham for pics. This morning he has a nice little bruise but the swelling definitely went down! I guess this is what I get for having boys huh?

Updates and just some fun pics

Well Mommy is now back at work and the week is flying by. Thomas still doesn't like that Mommy leaves him in the morning but he is getting better. Christopher did pout yesterday when we got there and seemed a little bummed that mommy is leaving him too but he does better than Thomas. Christopher does still have an ear infection that just doesn't seem to want to go away so we are on another dose of antibiotics for him, let's hope it does the trick! But all in all he is a happy, smiley boy!

After day care, waiting for dinner, and everyone wants to sit on Mommy's lap. So Thomas sat on my lap and was holding his brother. I think they will be the best of friends!! Now one of these days we'll get them to both not only look at the camera at the same time but also to SMILE! Now look at my sweet boys!! I miss not spending the days with them!

Now that is the perfect smile, and Christopher is looking at the camera so to smile together will be ideal!! Thomas is such a ham! Tracy, the woman at his daycare says he is just the sweetest little boy. He hugs her and waves to her and is silly with her. So I hope he will adjust well to going there!

Christopher showing mommy how he can smile too!

Now this is the best attempt of Thomas to Smile and it came out so silly! But he was loving laying with his brother!

We found this pic on the camera....this was the day he came home from the hospital....you can't see it here but he had the worst chapped cheeks.....poor little guy...but look at those blue eyes!! Just like Daddy!!

Doctor's updates

We went back to the doc on Friday. Thomas is great, still a little fluid in his ear but nothing he is worried about. He also ran some sort of test on Thomas' ears and said they are great. I was beginning to wonder because when I say "Thomas don't touch" he doesn't seem to hear me! :)

Christopher's lungs are clear, it's all upper respiratory now. Due to his laryngomalacia we will need to keep an eye on him whenever he gets sick or we will end up with the same problems. He will eventually outgrow this, but the doc said at least for the 1st year of his life he needs to be watched closely! He is still congested and the doc said it's all due to the laryngomalacia and it still sounds like a croup cough. He did gain all his weight back....it feels like more but he's back at 16lbs 6oz! He is happy and smiling and that is all that matters to me! He has more Doc appointments tomorrow but I am anticipating good news from those as well.

And now for the ugly news....Mommy has to go back to work tomorrow, we were hoping that I wouldn't have to but for now, I do. But they will be going to a great new place called Daydreamers....and they will be together and Thomas still gets to learn and do crafts and all that good stuff he likes to do. And Christopher will be learning and growing as well. So since I can't be with them, I know they will be in good hands!

Playing Catch Up

Now that Christopher is home from the hospital he is doing better and better every day! He still has an awful cough, and he still wheezes a little bit but his eyes are bright and he is happy! And I am pretty sure he gained back that pound he lost while in the hospital. We go back to the doctor on Friday for his first follow-up. Thomas is also 100% better. He sure was miserable last week, and here I thought it was because he missed his little brother!

Thomas went to his last day of school today, he and Christopher will both start a new place on Monday, since unfortunately, Mom has to go back to work! It's going to be hard to leave them to go back to work, but hopefully all will work out! I did get to clean out Thomas' "file" from school and it is so much fun to see all the crafts that they get to do, I hope he gets to make things and do crafts at his new place.

I am thinking it will be any day now that Christopher will pop out a tooth! He has been teething the last few days, chewing on his hands and his diaper cloths and mom's finger....well pretty much anything you put in his mouth. Let's hope the teething goes easy for him, we didn't seem to have too many problems with Thomas until his 1st year molars came in. Let's hope Christopher follows suit!

All in all everything is getting back to normal and Mommy is so happy to see Christopher smiling again, and his eyes nice and bright!

A Busy Week so far

Well we have had quite the week so far. It started out at about 11:15pm Monday night. Steven was in sleeping, I went in to go to bed and thought Christopher sounded awfully congested and I couldn't really get to sleep until about 1am....he woke up at about 1:20am and was having the hardest time breathing.....I handed him to Steven and put my clothes on and said I'm taking him to ER. So I left with Christopher to go to the ER. I called mom to come stay with Thomas so that Steven could come after me. Got to ER and they assessed him, said he has RSV! Okay so we took him back and they gave him two breathing treatments, and when the on call Doc told us we could admit him or we could go home, I asked her what she thought was best and she said well if they admit him they are just going to monitor him. So we opted to take him home, at 6:30am. My regular pediatrician called at 9am, asked how he was doing and I said well he's still struggling to breathe. So he said bring him down ASAP. So I didn't even have time to shower or anything, back in the car seat and away we go. Get to the docs office, and he assesses him and he said Nope....you go straight from here to the hospital, go to admitting and then up to Pediatrics. Okay! So off to the hospital. And he was admitted and given oxygen and monitored. Good thing parents get to stay there with their babies! Not that it mattered much I didn't get any sleep! So he was on oxygen for the first day, and he was just really uncomfortable! The monitored his breathing, he was really struggling to breathe, and he had this awful barky raspy cough. It was horrible! My heart ached for him and so did anyone who called me and heard him over the phone. We had such a rough night the first night and the doc decided to keep him another night! So he spent 2 nights in the hospital and one night in the ER! Then we were discharged and had to go see an ENT doctor to see about his little flap thingie....which I finally got the name of! It's called Laryngomalacia. So no time to go home from the hospital, we left there and went directly to see the ENT, which he proceeded to put this little scope down his nose and into his throat. That poor little boy. And let me tell you despite him being week, having a lack of sleep and being sick...he's STRONG! It took all I had to hold his legs and arms down and my mom to hold his head against me so they could scope him. Well on top of the RSV he has Croup, and an ear infection. And he has Laryngomalacia, which is what made all this much more difficult for him! Needless to say he is home now, and he is improving! You can still see his sternum suck in to his backbone when you lay him flat and he breathes, but he is improving! He's on some medication for the croupy cough as well as some antibiotics for the ear infection, so hopefully he will be feeling a whole lot better by the end of the weekend. The pics are a little fuzzy because they came off my cell phone. And while I was in the hospital with Christopher, Dad was home with Thomas, who was also a sick little boy too! So I felt horrible I couldn't be with both my sick ones at the same time, but he did okay with Dad!!!

A Wonderful Life Remembered

Well I was hoping I wouldn't have to put up this post, but it's been 2 1/2 months since Tigger went MIA. He's been missing for 3 weeks once before but never this long. I don't know what happened to him, I just know that he isn't home! I let him out the evening of November 5th and I haven't seen him since. I was holding out hope for at Christmas Miracle, but that didn't happen, and now I guess I should just accept the fact that he is gone. If someone happens to have him, I hope that he is loved and happy. If something did happen to him, I hope he went peacefully! He was my first baby. My 1st pet on my own, he slept next to me almost every day for his whole life he was born in January of 1993 and he would have been 16 this month! He traveled across country with me....on more than one occasion. I saved him from a coyote attack back in 2006, he was roughed up but he survived!! He lost his little buddy Porky, January 1, 2007. They were both great friends and wonderful companions, and I will miss them both.

TIGGER

January 1993 - MIA 2008

Another Christmas?

Well sort of....we got our box from Michigan!!! So Thomas had more presents to open and Christopher got one from his Godmother....Thanks Kim!!!!

I tried to take a pic of what Kim sent to her Godson....it is just special....a coin of a sort....made of one troy ounce of silver, and it says Baby's First Christmas! I can't wait to have his initials engraved on the back!!

I wish I would have thought of that last year for my Godson! So here is the best pic I got of that!

And here is one of Thomas' gifts....a hat with his name on it! Tell me he doesn't just look adorable with it on!! It's still a little big on him, but he'll grow into it! Thanks to Kim and Jim and Cody and Nikki!

Tiny Bubbles

This was another one of Thomas' Christmas presents....it was finally nice enough to take it outside and put it to good use. And it sure did wear him out, he ran around and around after those bubbles! I think he was surprised to see just how many bubbles that little bubble machine puts out! We'll put that to good use this summer I'm sure!

4 Month Doc Update

Christopher had to go in for his 4 month check up and more shots! He was NOT happy about that, but he took it like a champ! And even though Thomas was visibly upset about Christopher crying in the doctor's office, pointing and whining as if to say "what are they doing to my baby brother?" I know deep down inside he was glad it wasn't him, and he did get Baby Brother's lollipop for him, and proceeded to eat it! He said he didn't want it to go to waste!

Well he was a little over 25inches long and 16lbs 7 oz! The doc said he's a big boy....just like his brother! He said he wants to wait another month or so to see if that valve has closed off in his lungs...one of these days I'll have him actually write down the name of the thing so I can look it up myself. But he said it's not going to concern himself with it until next month. He wants him to start eating cereal and then some oatmeal and then some pears! Now he's really going to shoot up in weight! But let's hope he gets on the move right around 6 months and then he can work off some of his excess weight!

Rose Parade

Since we didn't get to see the Rose Parade 1st hand, we decided to take the boys down to see the floats! WOW! That was really neat....the flowers were amazing, they smelled so good. And to see how large they are and to see how everything on those floats is all natural material. The show you see on TV definitely does NOT do them justice!

Thomas had a great time, he got to see Big Bird, and of course his favorite, ELMO!!!! And he got to try cotton candy and kettle corn for the first time. And he loved them both! He wasn't sure about the cotton candy at first...but when he watched mommy try it, he figured it would be okay! Talk about a sugar high! But there was a lot of walking if he wanted to walk it all off, and he did!! We had such a great time. I think we'll go see the Rose Parade next year too!

See some of our favorite ROSE PARADE FLOATS

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year! We went to a "New York New Years" party....which was great, we got to celebrate the new year with the boys and all just right after their bed time! It was a whole lot of fun, a ton of food and once again Thomas was the life of the party! But when you are that cute...how could you not be?

Happy New Year!

YAY!!! This is so much fun!!!!

And these blow thingies are the best!

WHOO HOO it's the new year....I can't wait to see what comes next!

Me and my boys, life is good!!!