Elise "isms"

Elise was talking about getting a new bed. She wanted one with a canopy and I told her that they were to expensive. She paused and then told me we could just get some pretty stuff and some wood and just "needle" it up there. haha

Ally: "Why do they call them fireworks?" Elise: Because they are fire and they work!!

"Hey Mom we talked about that today!" What was that Elise?? "Cinco Tay Mio"

Look at my hermit crabs. You see those long things? That is their "Hannah Montana's"(referring to the antennas) haha "Those things (aliens) on Sponge Bob had Hannah Montana's too!!"

"Last night I cried so tough I couldn't stop"

"Mom, when we drive this close to the water, it scares me the heck out of!!" while driving past Covenant Lakeside on the way to the Dr. haha

A Boy and His Bike!!

This is a little "bike" that we purchased for Ally when she was almost a year old. It has been handed down (and well used) to Elise and now to Chris! He loves to walk behind it and ride on it. He starts at one end of the room and pushes it as far as it will go. When he gets to the end, he walks around to the other end of the bike and pushes accross the room in the other direction! He is so funny to watch!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY BABY CHRIS!!!!

Yesterday was Chris's First Birthday! I can't believe it! I don't know where the last year has gone! It makes me kinda sad that my baby boy is growing up so fast! We had a family birthday BBQ at the house to celebrate. My dad's (aka Papa) birthday was yesterday as well! When they gave me a choice of dates to induce Chris last year, I immediately chose the 7th because I knew there would be no greater honor to my dad than to share his birthday with his grandson! We had chips, potato salad, olive dip (a family favorite) and Dana cooked hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill. We had my mom, dad, Dana's mom and dad, Dana's brother and his 3 kids, and a good friend of Dana's named Sean and his wife Jody over to help us celebrate. Chris got lots of cool toys and some new clothes and shoes. Of course we had birthday cake and ice cream. Chris had a white "poke-a-dot" birthday cake with sprinkles and my dad had a chocolate cake with white icing and M&M's on top. I made Chris a chocolate cupcake so that he had his very own cake to dig into! He ate about 3/4 of it before he decided he was done. He wasn't sure about the icing. He made a funny face but ate it anyway! haha
Chris now has 10 teeth. He just cut his 2 top molars. He is pulling up and furniture walking and can walk with a walking toy but he can't stand up or walk yet without assistance. However, I know this milestone is just around the corner for us! Batten down the hatches!!! Chris really hasn't said his first official word yet. He can make the sound of a few words. Every now and then he will wave and say "I-I" for Bye Bye and 'O-O" for Oh Oh. He still says MAMAMAMA and DADADADA but no official Mama or Dada yet! My mom swears she has heard him say hello and his teacher at school swears she heard him say "cracker" but so far I haven't heard them yet. I know that pretty soon he will be a chatter box and we will wonder if he has a mute button! haha LOL

Tag I'm It...

Here's how it works:
1. Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on the computer.
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 people to do the same
5. No cheating. (cropping, editing, etc.)


This was taken at the retirement party that the hospital gave my Mom on her last day of work. She retired in May of 2007 after 25 years of service in Labor and Delivery,Postpartum, various doctor offices, and the Child Care Center. We were on the top floor in their conference room. The view down below and the food was really good. LOL Ally and Elise had the best time! The Child Care Center brought some of the school-aged kiddos over to the party and Ally had a great time sitting and talking with the big kids! haha I got to see some old friends that I worked with in the past. I worked at the Child Care Center as well for a little over 3 years. Ok now I tag Mandi, Lauren, Jana, and Lindsey. Have a great weekend!!

You know we all have those moments when we come to realization that we are now adults and our parents are not invincible!!. I mean really adults, not like being 18 or 21 but real life adults like our parents are! I have a plastic tote full of blankets that were mine when I was a baby. One of the blankets in there has patches of material and a backing that almost feels like foam. It was not my favorite blanket because the foam backing always felt kinda funny to me. My mom later explained that when I was a baby there was no such thing as fleece. This foam like material was the closest thing there was to the warm snugly fleece of today. I always knew that this was a blanket that my mom had made for me with her own 2 hands so I kept it even though it was not one of my favorites. There is a tag on the end that says made with love for our baby. That is what has always made this particular blanket special to me. Well I needed this plastic tote that the blankets were packed in for something, so I started pulling out the blankets and the foam on this blanket started crumbling off. As many many of you know foam will deteriorate after time into a weird powder like substance. Well after 30 years the foam had had it! I took the blanket to my mom and asked if she could put a new backing on it. I told her to please save the tag and sew it back onto the blanket. Well a week later I have the blanket back with a new yellow cotton backing. And yes the tag is still there!
When my mom brought the blanket to me she explained that the pieces of material she used to make the patches were from her old maternity clothes that she had while she was pregnant with me. There are also some patches that were from a gown that she had made for me. It took me few minutes of looking at it and it hit me like a freight train that I have now worn the maternity clothes just like my mom did. I am in the place that she was after she had made the blanket! I am done with my maternity clothes just like she was and it is my turn to be the mommy just like she is! WOW! So now I am on a mission to make a blanket with some of my maternity clothes and baby clothes just like she made for me! With my mom's 70th birthday just around the corner I have realized that she is not going to be here forever. She always tells me not to be sad when she is gone because that is just the way life goes. Now it's my turn to be the Mommy and eventually the Grandma and Great Grandma that she is! I only hope I can be 1/2 of the person she is and has been! Thanks Mommy for giving me the courage to be the woman I struggle to be everyday! I Love You!!

Goodbye 2008

Where in the world has this year gone! I mean seriously it feels like it flew by sooo incredibly fast! It has been a big year with lots of joy, hugs, and laughter! I enjoy everyday to the fullest (or at least I try my hardest to) and I thank God for each day and all of the blessings they bring!! I thought I would wrap up the end of the year and catch everyone up on our little family! Chris is now pulling up to standing while holding on to an object. He just started doing this within the last 2 weeks. He had mastered the pulling up to his knees about 2 weeks prior. One day I walked into his room and WOW he was on those little feet just smiling at me! He has 8 teeth, 4 on the bottom and 4 on top. He is a great sleeper. All I have to do is put him in his bed with his blanket and paci and her usually goes to sleep without much fuss. With the exception of a snooze in his rocker from time to time, he really like sleeping in his own bed! (what a change from the girls!!)


Allyson is loving school and turning into such a grown up little lady! She is in an advanced reading group and can read just about any word out there now! VERY SCARY!! She had been having lots of luck not getting strep throat this school year until November. She came down with it a week and a half before Thanksgiving! It looks like those tonsils are coming out more sooner than later, possibly Spring Break or Summer of 2009! Allyson is a great artist and loves to draw these immaculate pictures that tells stories about how she is feeling and events that are happening in her life. She is such a sweet and loving little girl and I am so lucky to have her in my life!! She has lots of friends at school that she tells me about. About half of them are boys! She always talks about this boy named Christopher who is in another 1st grade class. UHH OHH It begins!! Daddy better get the baseball bat! haha She has now lost 6 teeth and the 2 next to her front teeth are really loose. The next pic I post they will be gone!
Elise is still my sweet little spit fire! She is full of bounding energy and can argue any subject with any person until she gets her way! We say she is going to be a great lawyer or politician one of these days!! haha She has been very lucky and has not be sick much at all this year! She has had colds, runny noses, and coughs but noting much else! Some how she has dodged the dreaded strep throat that Ally can't seem to get rid of!! She is my picky eater and eats like a bird! Some days she eats really well but most days she only snacks. Elise loves to climb and jump off of things which gives her mama grey hairs!! She can't wait until she starts Kindergarten and knows that she is every bit as big as Ally! She gives Ally such a hard time! She is the typical little sister that just bugs and torments any time she can! At the end of the day she stills loves to climb into my lap so that I can rock her and sing 'Hush Little Baby" to her until she falls asleep! It's moments like these that you will never forget!!
Elise loves to paint with water colors and has started to draw potato people. You know the little potatoes with stick arms and legs and 2 tiny dots for eyes and a half smile. She can also write an H, an E, and an A. She is sooo proud of herself!!

Merry Christmas to All

Well here it is, only 2 days away from Christmas. Where has this year gone?? It seems like it was yesterday that I was wishing Chris would hurry up and get here so I wouldn't have to be fat and miserable anymore and now is is almost 10 months old! He has reached SOOOO many milestones since the last time I have blogged! He just started doing EVERYTHING all at one time!! To begin with he is sprouting teeth left and right...LITERALLY! He just cut his 2 front upper teeth about 3 weeks ago and he cut his 3rd bottom tooth on the left side about 2 weeks ago. You can also tell that the gums are really swollen on his 3rd and 4th upper front teeth and on his lower 4th on the right side! I know these 3 will appear in the next few weeks! With these new teeth he is eating more and more solids. He is now eating Cheerios, cheese toast, cheese slices, Gerber puffs, and Cheetos Puffs. He got his first ear infection last Friday the 12th. It made him really sick! He was lethargic, not eating, and sleeping most of the day. I took him in and sure enough his right ear was really full of fluid and infected. He got his first round of Amoxocillin which seemed to knock it out! The last few days he has been battling the tummy bug. He has had diarrhea and threw up last night. He hasn't been eating much at all. Today I changed him at 7:45 am and then again at 6:00pm and he was barely wet! He has drank about 14 ounces today of Soy formula. I decided to try it to see if he would drink more of it. He seems to really like the soy?? YUCK IT STINKS!! But hey whatever gets him to drink! I am going to go get him some Pedialite if he doesn't have a significant wet diaper in the next hour or so.
Chris has also started pulling himself up onto his knees while holding onto an object. He started this about 2 weeks ago. This week he has also started to pull himself to STANDING in his bed! I had to lower the mattress in his crib today to avoid any head first fall outs! haha LOL I am so not ready for this walking business! HA He is also learning cause and effect. He will softly bump his head on the wall and then look at me for a response. When I say "OUCH" he will smile and do it again. He also does this in the bathtub by bumping his head on the silver drain facing and by kicking the wall to make it thump really loud! It makes me laugh!!
For Christmas he is getting a new big boy car seat, a shopping cart cover, a walking toy, and other misc. little toys! HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Told Ya I Was Behind~

Here are some pics of Halloween. It was kind of a bust this year! It was the first Halloween in awhile that I didn't have to work late and I was so excited. Elise was Dorothy The Dinosaur at school and Chris was a Bumble Bee. As you can see, Elise decided that for the evening fun she wanted to be The Little Mermaid (left over from Ally last year) and Allyson was a Princess Kitten! (also left over from 2 years ag0) haha LOL As for Chris the Bumble Bee costume was big and hot and quite frankly he didn't care to much for it. We decided he was cute enough to go as himself! haha

We started out by trick or treating around our block kinda early. There was only one house that looked like it was "available" to T or T at. Then we all loaded up and headed to the civic center for "Trunk or Treat" that was hosted by a baptist church in town. THAT WAS A JOKE!! There were SO MANY PEOPLE packed into that place that you could barely get in the exhibit hall where all of the festivities were. After being there for about 5 minutes and Dana getting cursed out by some guy because he accidentally hit his foot with our big ole stroller, we got out of there AS FAST AS WE COULD!! We loaded up and drove by another church that was having a carnival. There were lots of cars in the parking lot and it only had about 30 minutes until it closed. We decided it would be tooo much for just 30 min. We headed for my mom's neighborhood where we actually know more people that in out own neighborhood. There were only about 4 houses with lights on and doors open to T or T at. We hit those houses and called it a night! We were all tired and my stomach felt really yucky!! We were kinda let down but then decided it was fun just getting to be with each other and having fun with each other!!

Here is Chris and his teacher at school.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! As usual I am way behind on my blog. The days are so filled with work, the kids, girl scouts, work, PTA, oh and did I mention work? haha Anyway I feel like I don't have enough time in the day! But I am very thankful for all of it! There is not one thing I would change. I am so thankful for my babies, my family, my job, etc.. I always remember this whenever the days are long and stressful, but this time of year I make it top priority to stop and remember all of my blessings! I think I will start this update with Ally. She is about to be 7 years old on Dec. 10th! She is growing up soo fast. My BABY is going to be 7! Where did the time go? She is doing really good in school. She is like a sponge! All she has to do is hear something once and she has it memorized forever! She is in an accelerated reading group at school because she is reading so well! Her teacher says she has an amazing vocabulary and is reading really well! She is also doing really well with math although she still writes some of her letters and numbers backwards. The teacher says this is perfectly normal and that she is doing better and better with this each day.
Ally is also a daisy Girls Scout.

She is in a troop with about 15 other girls. At first she had a really hard time because she is as shy as her mama. Some of the girls started in the troop in the middle of last school year and were already friends. She was one of the newcomers. I understand where she is coming from because even the group of parents there has been hard for me to "fit" in to! She has now made lots of friends and has been in the Harvest Festival Parade, sold nuts, and has volunteered at the food bank as part of her community service actions.

She seems like she is having lots of fun and she is very proud of being a "Daisy."
Ally is an amazing artist. She loves to draw and is very good at it! She loves to draw herself as a princess and her favorite little boy named Matthew as the prince. She also likes to draw flowers and nature. One thing I notice about her drawings is that they always have smiles on them! She is my happy, lovable, always aiming to please sweet baby girl. Last but not least, we had to go back to the Dr. on Monday because Ally asked me what would happen if her tonsils got so big that they grew out of her mouth. I knew then and there her throat hurt. When I asked her she said no but then finally admitted that they did. Well 36 hours, one throw up, and a fever later she was diagnosed with Strep for the 6th time since last Dec. Here we come Ear, Nose, and Throat Dr. Hopefully the amoxocillin will clear it all up!

Rub-A-Dub-Dub, There Is A Boy In My Tub!!

The other day while I was giving Chris a bath in his blue "baby bath tub" he rolled over in it and sat straight up. To make a long story short this particular bath was rather difficult what with all of the rolling around! So for his last bath, I decided to let him have free roam of the big bath tub! HE LOVED IT! I had to get some video footage of it because I laughed so hard at how much fun he had. It is moments like these that you will never forget! He reminded me of a little frog swimming around in the water! haha So much for the baby tub...I think it is now history!! What do you think? Do we have the next olympic swimmer in the making??

Chris Roy Run Down

Just wanted to give an update on baby Chris. Man, he has started doing so much in the last 3 weeks! Oh, and let me tell ya this kid can eat! He has a 6 oz bottle around 7:30am, cereal and fruit about 9:00, another 6 oz bottle about 10:30, 1 jar of vegetables at lunch, another 6 oz bottle about 2:30, 1/2 a jar of veggies and cereal at dinner along with a 6 oz bottle, and for a night cap he has yet another 6 oz bottle about 8:00pm. No wonder his car seat carrier is getting so darn heavy!! He is officially enrolled in the Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) program. The Occupational Therapist said that we wasn't far behind but she would like to see him use his muscles a little bit more. She is going to start seeing him every other week starting today. Of course Chris is now standing on his legs (rather well in fact) as well as trying to sit up on his own. I'm afraid I am wasting ECI's time?? We had his 7 mo. pics done on Thursday and the photographer asked if her could sit up for a few shots. I told her no that he could only sit if I help him. Well he made me the biggest liar out of me!! We got him on the floor and after finding his center of balance, that crazy kid sat ALONE for a good 2 minutes!! He is rolling all over the house and even pushing himself up on his arms and getting his knees under him like he is about to take off crawling! I have to really watch out because if something is hanging down off of the coffee table or end table like keys or a table cloth, he can reach up and grab it! He is getting into Ally's crayons as we speak... Get ready... the fun (and baby proofing) is about to begin!!

First Day Of First Grade

Well my baby has officially started the 1st Grade. She started on August 25th and she absolutely LOVES it! She was so excited to get up that morning. I walked in the room and she jumped up ready to go! Of course now that it is Oct. 2nd and she has almost 6 weeks under her belt, it is getting harder and harder for all of us to get up every morning. haha Ally has a great teacher who is wonderful with the kiddos. On the first day she was much more confident and not as shy as the first day of Kindergarten. She has 3 kiddos from her Kindergarten class in her 1st grade class this year and one of them is a little girl who she is pretty good friends with. That helped a lot. Her 2 "best" friends are in a different class together. She wasn't really happy about that but has decided that it is OK because she is going to invite them to her birthday party. She was very proud to show off Chris to all of her new friends. I did really well until I saw on the board that she gets to make a lunch choice this year and then the tears hit when I realized that this is now "real" school. She is officially a big girl! It seems like just yesterday that I was in 1st grade! So yes, mommy cried!! She is reading really well and has started doing spelling tests. She has made a 105 on the 2 tests she has already had. She has a homework folder that has homework that she has to do every night and a parent has to sign it ever night. Wednesday is really hard to get homework done because we have church all day long! By the time I get home we have 15 or so minutes and then we have to get back to the church. We usually have to play catch up on Thursday. She also has a Monday folder that the school sends home with her discipline grade for the week, memos, and requests for money (HAHA) in it. It also has to be signed and returned on Tuesday. So far this has been a great school year. I just pray it keeps going as well as it has been! There is this one little girl that gives her a hard time. We have talked about it and I told her that she just acts that way to get attention. Ally said 'Oh that's kinda sad." Here comes the tough lessons in life I'm afraid!!

Summer Comes To An End!

Well I can think of a few more things that happened this summer that I want to blog about. I found a few more pics that reminded me of them so here is the run down...

1. I had a garage sale the first part of August. The sale was a dud because of the fact that we live in a very low traffic area in our neighborhood. Ally decided that she wanted to have a lemonade and hot dog stand that day. We agreed that 1/2 of what she earned would go to the Ronald McDonald house. She earned $14.00 that day! (She made almost more than I did!!) Her and her sister had a GREAT time selling these yummy goodies! We even ate a hot dog or 2! LOL Gee gee and Papa of course had to stop by to purchase some lunch! Later that week we went to Target so that both of the girls could pick out a toy. They both bought a My Little Pony play set!! Our church is going on a field trip to the Ronald McDonald House on Oct. 1 and Ally is going to give her $7.00 to them at this time. She is very proud of herself!!

2. Finally after MONTHS of trying, Ally can blow a bubble with bubble gum. She mastered it! Now anytime she can get her hands on some gum she blows and pops bubbles non stop! Let me tell ya she can make some of the loudest pops with that gum! She has actually startled me while I was driving because she popped it so loud! She is so funny, she thinks that the more gum you chew the bigger bubble you can blow. We went to a birthday party last weekend and she got several pieces of bubble gum. When I looked over at her she looked like a chipmunk! She said she had 6 pieces of gum in her mouth! LOL It didn't take her long to get tired of chewing and to spit it in the trash!! She makes me laugh so hard!

Ouch...Again!

OUCH! Well Chris had his 6 month check up and Elise had her 3 year old check up. Everything was great with Chris. He got all of his shots (including a flu shot) except one that they were out of. We have have to go back next month for this vaccine and another flu shot. He weighed 17 pounds 4 ounces and was 27 inches long. When I went to show the Dr. about the concerns we had about him not bearing weight on his legs, that little stinker stood semi-upright on his little legs and just smiled at all of us! The doctor laughed and said well look at that, I don't see any concerns! See I told ya lazy babe!! E.C.I. still came out anyway to do the intake interview with us. Get this, she told me that Chris was in the 90th percentile for his height and only the 30th for his weight. She said he could stand to gain a few pounds. WHAT?? Have they picked this child up?? He is solid!! I know it is just because they don't understand that babies in this family just grow long and thin! The Dr. wasn't worried about his growth at all. He said he is growing at a steady pace SO I'm not concerned, I just thought it was kinda funny! LOL Poor Elise didn't want to go for her check up. I reassured her that the Dr. was just going to look at her. I told her no shots today. GUESS WHAT?? Yep she got a flu shot and a Hep. A shot. She may never trust my word again! She was a trooper and only cried a little. Of course after the appt. we went to play at the indoor play place at Mcdonalds and she had to tell everyone about her battle wounds! She weighed 35 pounds and was 39.5 inches tall. She is my average sized child, 50th percentile for both height and weight. I am so thankful and blessed. I thank God everyday for my healthy babies!! Thank you God!!

Time, Nothing But Time...

WOW, I am so behind on my blog! The days are filled with things to blog about but since I have been basically doing 4 jobs in one at work, I haven't had much time to keep up!! Let's see where do I start...Chris is now 6 months old! CRAZY...Where does the time go?? He can roll over from front to back and back to front, in fact he rolls all over the place! He starts at one end of the living room and can eventually roll to the other side of the room! It only took him a few days to master this move! He started rolling over a week or so after he turned 5 months old! He is still eating 24-30 oz of formula. He has now had a variety of baby food to try. He really likes sweet potatoes, peas, applesauce, squash, carrots, prunes, Oh wait... he likes anything that will go in his mouth! ha ha The only food we have had trouble with is green beans. He will eat them with a weird look on his face but then he spits up several times after he eats them. I've decided to hold off on the green avengers for right now! He doesn't spit up any of the other food?? Just the green beans?? Chis actually likes to drink water! I gave him a little in a sippy cup and he actually held the cup on his own and drank the water! Neither one of the girls would drink water no matter how hard you tried! He will drink 2 or 3 ounces of water out of his bottle! I keep a water bottle around so that he can have sips here and there throughout the day! We might even have a water drinker in the family! This would be a new thing! ha ha We go to the doctor today for our 6 month shots and check up! YUCK!! We are also going to have the Dr. check out his little legs. Chris is still having a hard time putting weight on his legs. When you try to get him to stand on them he just folds them up like little frog legs. My mom has been kind of concerned about this for a few months. We will see what the Dr. says today. I also have Early Childhood Intervention (E.C.I) coming out to evaluate him on Tuesday at Noon. I really don't think anything is wrong. I just think he is a lazy babe but I would rather be safe than sorry!! He loves his Jump-A-Roo! Chis can get that thing hopping! He jumps and laughs endlessly when I put him in it! Just called the Dr. and his appt. is at 9:30 so I better get off and get the kiddos ready to go! I will update on Ally and Elise later today! Crazy girls!! Wish us luck!!

All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth!

This summer Ally has lost 4 teeth. She lost her two top teeth which is in this blog a few posts back. She also lost 2 more on the bottom. This makes a grand total of 6 baby teeth that are now M.I.A. It is so cute, when she smiles she has no teeth in the front! She loves to get a straw, put it in the empty spaces and show off how she can drink with her teeth, She also finds it amusing to get a drink of water and "spit" the water through the gaps into the sink! haha She is such a crazy sweet girl! She makes me belly laugh on a daily basis! Ally scored big from the tooth fairy! A buck a tooth! I remember only getting a quarter for mine! CAN YOU SAY INFLATION!! She has been saving her money and proudly displays it to anyone who will look at it! haha She was saving for a new Nintendo DS game. Those suckers cost a lot of money!!

You Spin Me Right Round Baby...

Dana and I took the girls to a local amusement park on August 1st. The church that I work at hosted VBS on Aug 2nd at the church from 9:00am until 4:00 pm. The trip to the park was the kick off party that took place the night before. All of the church was invited to go at a discounted rate. The kids got in free and Dana and I had to pay $24.00 for both of us to get in and ride the rides with the girls (mom babysat Chris). Elise was the little dare devil! She liked the tilt a whirl and the kid sized roller coaster the best. Ally is a little like her momma. She likes the slower rides that go in at least a semi straight line. I'm the one who got so nauseated after the second ride on the "tilt a hurl" and a final ride on the scrambler, had to go home and take a phenagran that I had left over from being pregnant!! We had a great time! We rode lots of rides, had nachos, and lots of laughs!! The girls had a great time!!

Hold my bottle baby!!

Chris is finally starting to hold his own bottle. He started this within the past 2 weeks. He just turned 5 months old on Aug. 8th. The bottles are still a little heavy for him because they are the 9 oz bottles so I still have to put a blanket under the bottle to help support it. I still like to hold and snuggle with him while I feed him whenever possible. He is so snugly and sweet. He still tries to hold the bottle a little bit while he is in your arms but not as much as when he is alone in his rocking seat. I guess he figures he will take advantage of the extra arms when he can! haha

Oatmeal, Barley, Bananas, and Prunes! Yummy

As of today Chris is now eating Oatmeal with Bananas, Barley, and Rice cereal. He really likes all of the cereals but seems to like the Oats and Barley best. When it was time to try Oatmeal I had a box of Gerber Oatmeal with Banana Flakes mixed in with it. Elise still likes to eat baby Oatmeal from time to time so it was a fairly new box. I decided instead of buying a new one I would just let Chris eat that. He loved it and had no problems with the hidden monkey food! haha Now that we have Chris on 100% formula he is having a little bit of constipation problems. Everyone told me to put a little corn syrup in his bottle but I figured prunes would be better for him. I bought 4 little jars of prunes and Chris has decided that they aren't to bad. Not only is it a yummy treat it also fixes the ummmm... poop troubles as well! haha I tried to not give the prunes to him for a couple of days to see if they were really working or if it was just a matter of timing but sure enough he started to get constipated again. Good thing he likes the prunes!! LOL He eats 2 Tbs.cereal and or 1/3 jar prunes once or twice a day and drinks 24-30 oz of formula a day.

Cry Baby Cry!!

Poor Chris had to get his 4 month shots on July 21st. Since we had Chris on a weekend, we were not able to get the birth certificate signed until the next week. This meant having to load everyone up and go back up to the hospital to sign a piece of paper. Well with all of the commotion of a new baby, work, and me being sick from my not yet discovered Staph infection, we didn't get back to the hospital to sign the paperwork for a few weeks after Chris's birth. This put us behind on getting his Social Security card. It took them forever to get it to us!! Well long story shot, Dana's insurance denied us coverage on Chris because we did not submit the request within 30 days of his birth. So as of now we have no insurance on Chris until open enrollment which is September. For the first round of shots I took Chris to his Pediatrician because I was worried about him getting the Staph infection from me. Well $150.00 dollars later we had shots and a clean bill of health. This time around I didn't have this kind of money so I took him to the children's clinic at Covenant. It was on a walk in basis and I was able to get all of his 4 month shots for $5.00. Poor baby just cried for a few seconds and then flashed that angelic smile he always has. He did fine for the first 24 hours but then ran a fever of 102.0 for about 14 hours. Boo! Nothing a little Tylenol and rest couldn't handle. We didn't have a well check so we didn't get a height or weight but I think he weighs about 15 pounds now! My big boy!!