3 in 1

Sometimes I wonder why it seems that everyone else's kids sleep through the night.  Then I'm reminded that mine used to.  Until he got salmonella.  Oh, and that he's had 3 surgeries in 1 year.  Poor kid.  Seriously. 

We knew he was going to have another one because he had a diverticulum.  I know.  Big word.  But we had it scheduled for Jan 11.  Not going to lie.  I was a little nervouse about it being so close to Levi's arrival, but this dr books up months in advance.  I had told Jenny (yes, we're on a first name basis.  Who wouldn't be after how many times I've talked to her.  Probably should've sent her a Christmas card.) that baby 2 would be arriving the first part of Feb so the earlier the better.  Well, she kept that in mind, and called me last week.  She said she had an earlier opening.  I said we'll take it!  Then she said well, it's tomorrow morning.  We still took it, but I was in tears for the rest of the day.  Thank heavens it was already 3:30! 

Dr G said everything went well, but then said he'd said that 2 times before....  Praying everything did indeed go well.  And we get the catheter out today.  Praise the Lord!  It's been a long 9 days.  And, yes.  Sleep has been REALLY interrupted by all this.  But honestly.  Who wouldn't have nightmares at the age of 1 and a half after 3 surgeries in 1 year!! 

Sleep?

Who needs it, right?  Not quite sure what has happened with my sweet little boy who used to sleep through the night.  Yes, he'd be up at the crack of dawn, but we knew we could put him down, and he'd be down until that crack.  Well, after the salmonella, he has stopped sleeping.  As in, he wakes up and will not go back to sleep.  That is unless we bring him downstairs.  He will go back to sleep on a pallet in our room, but it's KILLING me.  And Ryan.  Last night Ryan went up, and Cole was screaming MOMMY.  At the top of his lungs.  After 30 min, Ryan gave up.  Then I put him down on the pallet.  And he was out.  Just like that.  I did get woken up by him in the middle of the night.  Laughing histerically.  In his sleep.  So, I've come to the conclusion that he's dreaming.  We will also be moving him out of his crib and into a bed.  I'm hoping it'll make it easier.  He just wants to lay down with someone.  We'll see......

18 Months - at the 19 Month Mark

So there's a good reason I missed the 18 month mark: Salmonella.  Couldn't do a well visit when we were there for a sick one.  BUT, we went today, and he only had to get 1 shot!  YEAH!  We counted, and he cried for maybe 3 seconds.  He smiled the whole time at the dr and was the BIGGEST ham. :)  He's really come into his own, and is SO vocal now.  It makes it easier for the most part.  Especially when he's got something in his shoe he wants out, wants food (a particular kind), can tell me if he wants milk vs water, etc....  The hard part is when he says something, you ask him what, and he says the exact same thing again.  And again.  And again louder.  And you have NO IDEA what he's talking about :)  As for "words", he's got well over 30.  Not everyone can understand them, but Ryan and I can.  And for stats:

Weight: 10th % (he'd dropped about 2 lbs bc of the salmonella, so we're on our way back up.)
Height: 25th % (really.  What can you expect bt Ryan and me....)
Head: over 50th %

Photo Session

We had out pictures taken the day before Thanksgiving.  Once again, Aubrey did an AMAZING job!  Check her out if you need any pictures!  http://www.aubreytorreyphotography.com/

Just for Future Reference...

Yesterday marked day 1 of the third trimester!  Holy molly!!  Where has the time gone?!  My dr. appointment went well.  To date I've gained 10 lbs.  My belly is still larger than before, but I feel like maybe it's stopped growing for a little bit?  Or maybe that's just wishful thinking...  I'll go back in 3 weeks, then it will be every 2 weeks! I've got to get busy!  And next time we'll schedule the c-section.  Most likely it'll be Feb. 8.  I really wanted the 6th, but unless there's a medical reason, he's not allowed to schedule before 39 weeks and that would be 2 days before.  So, the 8th it is!

Levi's definitely getting bigger.  He's starting to hurt me when he decides he's totally relocating.  I'm still kind of in shock, I think, that we'll have 2.  2 under the age of 2 for that matter!  I know God has blessed us, though.  We thought for sure we'd have to go through all the fertility stuff again.  God is full of surprises!!

Salmonella = Virus from hell

It only took a week to figure out, but the virus is really salmonella.  Scary.  NO IDEA where he got it or what it's from.  No one else got it.  He can't eat eggs.  Gets hives it they touch him.  He never had hives, so I'm going to rule out that somehow I gave it to him from my eggs I make in the mornings.  We haven't had chicken because it just seems chickeny to me.  Seriously.  No.  Idea.  And I think that's the frustrating part!  But, the good news is that he's on antibiotics, and they are working wonders!  He's back to himself for the most part.  We're still dealing with diahrea, but no fever and he's back to playing!  Now, though, he's STARVING from not eating for a week.  He's woken up the past 2 mornings early and wanted to eat.  And I mean EARLY.  3:30 and 4.  And he really is hungry.  So, now it's back to working on sleeping...

From over the weekend after one of his sink baths :)

Virus From Hell

Literally.  It's been HORRIBLE!  Cole's been sick before, but nothing like this!  I set up all day last Monday for the YL banquet, then went to the banquet that night.  I wanted to drop when we finally got home at 9:30.  I was in the shower when Cole woke up screaming.  Ryan went up and was rocking him, then I took over.  The minute Ryan walked out of the room, Cole threw up all over me. Then I felt his head, and he was on fire.  I stuck him in the bath so we could both get cleaned up.  We went to the dr the next day, for her to say it was probably a virus.  Well, whatever virus it was/is is from the devil.  He had fever all the way up to 103 that lasted until Friday night.  It finally broke Sat, but then he had it again after his nap on Sunday.  Also had a HUGE scare when there was blood in his diaper.  I literally freaked out.  The dr said that it wasn't totally uncommon to see that with a virus, but that it could also be bacterial.  So, I'm still waiting on a call back from her to see what the lab had to say.  He's been fever free since yesterday afternoon, so we'll see when he wakes up from his nap today....

I also had a stye ALL week.  Ryan came home from work last Tues and after he asked how Cole was, looked at me and said, "Holy crap.  What happened to your eye?".  Not cool.  It's finally gone.

So, I've literally been up to my elbows in poop and didn't leave the house until Sat morning when I got to go to HEB by myself.  Funny how I usually cringe at the grocery. 

So.  We wait and see if it's over.  And pray for hard poop!!

Oh My Goodness!!

Where has the time gone!??  Levi will be here before you know it, and we haven't done anything!  I'm almost 26 weeks pregnant!  At this point, my belly is MUCH larger than with Cole, but I've gained less weight: 9-10 lbs vs 12 with Cole.  How the heck can your belly be SO big and not have gained more weight?!

On another note, we took a vacation to CO.  We drove so we could stop at Inn of the Mountain Gods for Ryan to play golf with his dad, and so we could see his Aunt in Los Alamos.  Wish we would have gotten to spend more time with Cheri and her family!  We had a blast in CO, though!  Cole got to see his first snow and go sledding.  I even got to sled!  The only thing Cole didn't like was the big jackets.  We ended up just layering him up, because whenever he had a ski coat on, he'd forget that he could bend and would literally just face plant.

He also turned 18 months old!  How is this possible?!  He's starting talking alot more, although we're the only ones that can understand him most of the time.  It is nice that he can sometimes tell us what it is he wants.  But then sometimes he gets so frustrated because we cannot understand what it is he's trying to tell us! 

He fell asleep hiking :)

Double D

That would be diaper rash and diahrea.  We're going on day 4.5 of the diaper rash and day 3 of diahrea.  I know.  It's nothing anyone wants to hear/read about, but that's what our days have been consumed with this week.  Literally.  Poor little guy.  And the dr. said there's nothing to be done.  Just lots of liquids and added in a probiotic (dairy free of course) to his "milk".  Of course NO ONE has the probiotic - today's to-do this afternoon is to hit the other Walgreen's in the area after yesterday's trips to Target, Walgreen's, HEB and CVS.  REALLY?!  How can everyone have that spot empty on their shelf!?

Oh, and today I thought the smell of poop was just stuck in my head.  Oh, wait.  Nope.  That would be poop on my shirt.  Yup.  Fantastic.  This can end anytime now!!

Poor kid.  We've gone to hosing down in the sink to minimize wiping the hiny.  At least he likes the sink!

Clarity and 20 weeks

We had our 20 week ultrasound this past week.  It always blows me away to see that a real little person can grow inside another person!  God is CRAZY!  How the heck did he figure all that out?! 

We also finally had our appointment with the allergy specialist downtown at TX Children's.  We were there for 3.5 hours, but we finally have clarity on the dairy issue.  Kind of anyway.  After them saying the fact that the tests were negative and we still have the hive issue if he even touches dairy, they wanted to do their own tests.  Fine with me!!  It was such a better experience at TCH!  They brought toys in for him to play with while we sat there with the milk on his back, and even brought a fan to put on his back for if it itched.  Which it did.  Poor little guy.  The milk hive was about the size of a silver dollar when the nurse came in to check on him.  She said she didn't even have to get the dr to tell us that he was for sure allergic.  She came back a minute or so later with cortisone to put on his back to help ease the itch.  We're now the owners of 3 sets of twin epi-pen packs.  Now I have to get the rest of the family to watch how to administer them in the event he eats dairy!  The good news is that 90% of the time, kids will outgrow the allergy.  Hoping he doesn't fall into that 10% range....  We're also going back in Nov. for a food challenge with egg.  I'll take a scrambled egg and they'll feed it to him to see if he's outgrown that allergy!!

Seriously. It blows me away!

 He got so cold playing in the water his lips were blue!

Gotta love TX.  He was so hot he wanted to play in MawMaw and PawPaw's sprinkler

One of THOSE days

You know.  The kind that starts at 4:15am when you're woken up out of a dead sleep by a blood curting, teething induced scream.  You go to eat your breakfast and remember you ate your last muffin yesterday morning.  So you make more, only to have to share your muffin with not only your kid, but also your dog.  Or fight him off the whole time.  Then you go on walk, only to stop every block or so because your dog is walking you.  And that's NOT allowed.  You get back and let your kid play in the sprinklers, I mean mud.  You finally say it's enough and take his diaper off only to discover that at some point while playing in the mud, he pooped.  And you're outside.  With no wipes.  You take him in, stick him in the sink and get the sprayer out after his hiny.  Then have to bleach the sink.  You go to get dresses and have to repeatedly say, stop climbing on him; be nice; don't lick Cole; Cole, be nice; don't touch his weener; stop poking his weener!!  And then it's nap time.  And you reamp for the afternoon......

16 Months and 17 weeks

Cole turned 16 months last week.  I cannot believe it!!  He's so sweet.  Most of the time.  We took advantage of the few days of cool weather and spent alot of time outside.  We also got a puppy.  Well, he's not little, but he's still 10 months old.  Cole LOVES Gage.  Most of the time.  He HATES it when Gage licks his face.  Screams bloody murder.  But Gage has been great with him.  Cole will go up and literally lay on top of him.  He thinks it's hillarious when Gage runs around like an idiot.  We're still working on leash training, but he's getting better.

Cole's been a little grumpy the past few days, but he's getting 3 teeth at once.  We'll be so glad when they come in!  We started a mom mentoring/Bible study thing today.  Cole did well.  Crashed on the way home.  A much improvement from yesterday at church.

I'm 17 weeks (almost 18) with #2.  I can't believe I'm almost half way there!  Especially since he'll be here the week of Feb 6th for sure.  I guess that's one good thing about a c-section.  You can plan it.  As I write that, I cringe.  Anytime we've EVER tried to plan anything that remotely relates to kids/having kids/births has NOT turned out.  I guess I'll just leave the birth up to God.....  Still not alot of movement being felt.  Every once in a while.  I do have more energy.  The best part has been borrowing a heart beat monitor and listening to the little guy!

 17.5 weeks

 Ryan put this on his head and he kept it on forever!

Playing at La Centera after dinner :)

Grrr.....

Things have been super hectic.  My grandmother went into the hospital last week and spent several days in ICU.  She's now in a managed care unit, where she'll finished out a round of antibiotics and recover from a heart attack. 

I passed out (well, caught myself before I did) while getting my hair done.  Went to make sure everything was still ok with baby, and it was but they took blood.  And, today the nurse called and told me my glucose levels were high and I'd have to take the 1hr glucose test at my next appointment!!!  GRRR!!!!  I'm seriously one of the healthiest people I know!!  I eat well for the most part.  Excercise EVERY day.  Cannot tell you the last time I had fast food.  SO FRUSTRATED!!  I'll only be 19 weeks at my next appointment, so I'll have well over half of this pregnancy left. 

Bittersweet

Today is a bittersweet day.  A wonderful lady and mother of a 2011 Taylor grad passed away and is being laid to rest today.  The strength of this young man as he burries his mother is incredible.  I can only hope that if I am ever faced with what he has been faced with for the last 7 years as she battled cancer, that I will be as strong as he is and turn to God. 

And, as I type, my good friend is having a baby!!  Baby Blake will be here today, and I am totally pumped!  I made cupcaked yesterday, and am going to attempt to ice them cutely (is that a word?) today. 

In other news, Cole got his 15 month shots last week.  They made him sick.  It was rough.  Now he has drainage that makes him cough.  Therefore, our nights have been short.  READY for him to feel better!!

 He fell asleep mid dinner and didn't wake up till the next morning.  Stupid shots!

We're dog sitting my parent's dog, and he's been wearing her leash around his neck while he "works"

God's funny

Not like, haha, but like huh.  I'm going to lunch today with 2 former co-workers, and of course they wanted to meet when it was Cole's nap time.  I've been a little worried about how he would do, and what our afternoon would be like sans nap.  Well, God took it out of my hands, and he's napping early!  When he woke up this morning at 5:40, I thought, great.  But, it was God taking care of him (and me).  Because he woke up early, he went down for a nap at 8:30.  It's the little things that we think God doesn't care about, and in reality, He does care.  About every aspect of our lives.  We just have to let him take over.

One more week...

And I'm done with my first trimester!!  YEAH!!  I'm finally getting energy back, but still have headaches and feel nausious every once in a while - like today.  But at least I'm actually blogging and not napping!! 

We've been busy trying to stay inside! NEVER thought I'd say this, but I CANNOT WAIT FOR WINTER!!  This heat is insane!  And it makes Cole grumpy. 

Cole will be 15 months Friday.  That I cannot believe either.  He's such a sweet little boy!  We're really working on saying words.  He's a typical little boy in that he'd much rather be going and doing than trying to actually say what it is he wants.  He's getting better though.  We're still fighting the dairy allergy, and will get his pedi to sign a paper for us to get into a dr at TX Children's that specializes in food allergies.  His seems to be getting worse and not better, and isn't just a tummy ache, but hives, throwing up, scratching his throat, mouth and tongue.  Scary.  Thank heavens he's actually only eaten something with milk in it once.  All the other hives have just been if he touches dairy.

And some pics:)

 Check out that knot on his head. :)  Close encounter with the wood floor.

Almost 11 weeks.  Almost 2 weeks ago now....

The Latest

The last couple of months have been INSANE! We lived with my parents for 2 weeks, put Rocky down, "moved" into our house, had the floors redone, moved (kind of) more for real, sealed the floors, then moved for real.  There are still boxes and furniture everywhere.  We're still going to redo the kitchen cabinets, and still have to put in the transition strips and "quarter" round down on the floor.  AND, in the mean time, 3 days before we put Rocky down, after I'd been moving the garage by myself and with my FIL, we found out I'm pregnant. 

Who the heck would've thought!?  After 1 failed IUI, and LOTS of prayers for the second, we were blessed with Cole.  We NEVER thought that we'd get pregnant so fast!  And that's why things are still in boxes.  I feel like this pregnancy has been completely different.  I've spotted off and on for 9 weeks, but everything has been fine.  I guess the good thing about that is that I've gotten to have an ultrasound EVERY week.  I've been SUPER tired, and haven't been allowed to excersize or lift anything other than Cole. 

In some ways, I feel like the last 10 weeks have drug on forever, and in others I can't believe I'm already 10 weeks.  First trimester is almost done!  Not gonna lie.  I cannot wait to have my energy back!  And to not feel like I'm going to hurl!!

And some pics since there haven't been any...

 Cheese!!

 Cole LOVES cleaning.  And yes.  That's what our house looked like.  For a LONG time.  We've finally gotten rid of the card table and have ours back!

Playing in the neighbors sprinkler :)



Success!!

Well, we hope so anyway.  Cole had his surgery to repair the fistula yesterday, and we found out he actually had 2.  But they sewed both up.  You would have never thought he had surgery either!  When we got home I was hoping he'd just snuggle and sleep all day.  NOPE!  He wanted to play.  All.  Day.  Long.  Maybe it was the anesthesia.  He's already napping today :)

Done! Well, Almost....

The floors are done enough that we can move all our stuff in this weekend!!  YEAH!!  We still have to put in the transition strips and the quarter round, but that can be done around furniture.  I'll be SO glad to have a house again!  Cole and I've been leaving every day because they've either been working on the floor, or it's been too dusty to stay.  And last night Ryan and our good friend Mark moved the frig back inside!!  It was almost 3 weeks of walking to the garage EVERY time I needed something from the refrigerator.  Do you know how many times a kid needs milk in one day!?  ALOT!!

That all being said, we're still far from being completely finished.  We are going to redo the cabinets, and I think we've decided to do them ourselves because we're doing a glaze.  And Ryan's a perfectionist.  The other day he told me he wished I could've painted everything so that I would've gone around with my paintbrush to touch everything up.  And by paintbrush I mean the kind you use in art class - that can make a line the thickness of a pen.  Yup.  That much of a perfectionist.

I think I'm going to need a vacation when this is all said and done.  And Cole has surgery again next Monday.  At least we'll have a couch to lay on when we come home!!

In Limbo

So we are at an "in between" time in our lives.  We've moved out of our house, in with my parents, put all our stuff in storage somewhere (it'll be amazing if we find it all.  Seriously.) and we close on both our old house and our new house tomorrow.  Hopefully.  Our old house for sure.  The new house just depends on the timing of the old house seeing as we're doing it in the afternoon because the people buying our house had to work half a day.  And of course all the money has to be sent to our bank before we can close and before the bank closes. 

All that being said, our life seems to be at a stand still.  I'm ready for the new chapter to begin.  I don't like this limbo time.  Rocky is also VERY sick.  We found out he has cancer all over his little body.  He's gone down hill fast.  Yesterday he stopped eating.  My heart breaks for him.  He wants to play and be with us SO bad, but just doesn't have the energy.  We will miss him SO much.

This little guy makes me smile SO much!

Seriously.  Where. Does. The. Time. Go.  We had Cole's party, which he slept through the first 30 min of. :)  I'd say he liked his cake, but he wasn't that into it.  He kinda squished it between his fingers, but wasn't crazy about it.  He did have fun playing with his friends that came and opening presents. 

On other news, our house is DISASTOROUS!  Really.  The boxes and bags and newspaper and things missing off the walls and shelves is driving me nuts!  I will be SO glad when we get moved!  Even though it is bitter sweet.  I never thought I'd be the type that got sentimental about a place, but so much has happened while we've lived here!  I'm going to miss it.  And I guess the house showing was good for me.  Now I cannot wait to have a spotless house again!  I'd say clean, but it is clean.  You cannot have a crawler/toddler and not have a clean house.  The amount of vacuuming and mopping that goes on to keep them healthy is INSANE!  But if you really think about it, it's pretty discusting that they crawl around on their hands and knees then use those same hands to put things in there mouths.  That just touched the floor that you just walked on after you came out of that public restroom.  GROSS!

ONE!!

REALLY?!  I cannot believe that it was a year ago that I was in labor as I type!  What a crazy day that was!  From the very start of finding out that my water wasn't clear, but that there was mconium in it, we should have known that it was going to be one crazy day.  And so the story goes....

They started pitosin at 5:30am, and my dr. broke my water at about 6am.  He wasn't concerned about they miconium, but said we'd probably have to put more fluid in if he wasn't born quickly.  I remember thinking that the contractions hurt, but they weren't that bad.  Then at about 8am, they started coming back to back.  Literally.  What the heck happened to my down time?!  I was supposed to be able to breath between contractions!  Ryan was a GREAT coach, though.  Only he'd watch the monitor and say ok, you're coming down now.  Then literally in the next breath, ok, here comes another one.  Literally.  Horrible.  At about 12:35, the nurse came in to put more fluid in.  At this point, I was FINALLY at a 7.  They'd brought in the warmer and all the delivery stuff.  I had to lay on my back for the fluid injection.  Then I remember telling her that I couldn't breath and her asking me what I meant.  I repeated myself that I couldn't breath.  She was very short and said to get back on all fours, as this was how I had been before the injection.  I looked over at the monitor and saw that Cole's heart had dropped to 50 bpm where it had been up around 150 bpm.  Then everything went at warp speed.  She started calling people, and the room was literally filled with at least 10 people, including the NICU dr. who we'd actually met on our hospital visit.  People were rushing around, unhooking my IV and saying to prep for a c-section.  I remember them yelling to get the person who was in the OR out and fast.  And I remember them running me into the walls as they literally ran down the hall.  Ryan was still in our room, standing in the corner.  Thinking we were both going to die.  He'd texted our parents that things weren't going well, and my mom had been eating lunch and just had a bad feeling.  She left her lunch on the table and rushed to the hospital and got to the 3rd floor as she received Ryan's text.  I briefly saw her as I was being run down the hall.  I don't remember everything because it all happened so fast.  I do remember praying outloud to please be with Cole and let him be ok.  And then I remember being in the OR, being stripped and scrubbed down, and the dr on call saying I'm cutting.  NOT something you want to hear.  I had to have a general because I hadn't had an epidural and the anesthesialogist had not given me that yet.  He yelled, "Christ no!  I don't have her out yet!"  And that's the last thing I remember.  Next thing I knew I was waking up and they were telling me that Cole was fine.  Ryan actually got to hold him right away even though it was a c-section because it was an emergency.  Usu ally they don't let parents hold them until after they take them to the nursery .  I remember how tiny he was and that he had SO much hair!  And he wanted to nurse.  Immediatly.  He had a knot on the top of his head from sitting for so long at 4cm. 

Today our little monkey is just has head strong as he was a year ago, when he decided he was READY to be out of there!  He knows what he wants and isn't afraid to let you know.  I foresee some serious discipline in our future :).  Happy birthday to the most precious gift from God!!

 Seeing Daddy for first time

 First family pic

 SO tiny!

 He LOVED this thing.  Notice Rocky's unsure-ness.  And my cankles.  Thank you petocin for making me think my feet were going to fall off!

Easter - Only Slightly Late....

We had a great Easter. Would've been better had I not gotten dehydrated and spent the afternoon sleeping, but none-the-less, Cole's first Easter was fun. Everyone came over to our house after church for lunch and egg hunting.

Love his belly and smile

 Too cool :)

WE ARE MOBILE!!

It's official - Cole is mobile.  And let me tell you.  It is MUCH harder to get things done now.  Vaccuuming yesterday was quite a chore.  I had to keep moving the cord so that it was in front of me and not behind me because he'd crawl after it, and of course want to put it in his mouth.  But, he made it all the way from our room, through the living room, into the study, then into the kitchen.  ALL ON HIS OWN!!  So proud!

Wrote this almost 2 weeks ago.....

Overnight!

Well, we celebrated my nephew's 10th b-day.  I CANNOT believe he is 10!!  I know before I know it, it will be Cole.  Holy crap!

Ryan and I also had our first night away.  Cole stayed with my parents, and I'm pretty sure they all faired better than we did.  We went to Galveston for a work retreat for Ryan.  First, we hadn't been to Galveston in YEARS.  It's really not that bad.  Yes.  The water is brown, but it's still the beach.  Mind you, if the water was clear, I'm pretty sure you couldn't get me away from there!  Anyway, everything was going well (including pumping) until our air conditioning went out in the middle of the night.  Then I woke up and started thinking about Cole and hoping he wasn't screaming his little head off.  Then the air sounded like a jet plane landing in the room, so I turned it off.  It was like when your smoke alarm is beaping at you so you take out the battery and it STILL beaps at you.  The stupid thing STILL sounded like a jet engine even once I turned it off.  BUT, Cole did great, and Mawmaw and Pawpaw weren't even too tired the next day.  He did wake up, but would have gone right back to sleep had their dog not come in.  Then he apparently just wanted to play or be held. :)

On the allergy front, it seems to be getting worse not better.  Our good friends Aubrey and Avery came over last week to play while I was vaccuming for a house showing.  Well, Avery had had yogurt before she came over.  You couldn't see it on her anywhere.  Like, there was nothing on her face, hands, etc...  Rocky was licking her, then running and licking Cole.  Aubrey started freaking out because Cole started getting hives all over his mouth where Rocky had been licking him.  They went away, but she went home and scrubbed her whole house before we went over the next day.  Not cool.  So, if anyone has any advice on what to do about that, I'm open!!  I'm SUPER worried about someone feeding him something that has dairy in it.  You would not believe what all it's in!!  And he hasn't ingested anything dairy for several months now.  It's just TOUCHED him and he's gotten hives!!

Eating these maple puffs.  I could seriously eat the WHOLE container!

Cousins!

First pizza - cheeseless.  Poor guy.

First pancake.  Home-made, dairy free.

SO MUCH!

Things around here change at warp speed.  Cole does something new every day it seems.  He's STILL not crawling.  Pretty sure he's going to skip that step.  Hopefully with #2 we'll have more carpet in our house - it seems like that has really been a key factor to the not crawling.  Just cannot get traction on wood and tile. 

He can say "uh-oh", "dada", "ball" and sometimes "mama".  Of course they're not real clear, but he makes the same sound each time you tell him to say those words.  Naps are getting MUCH better.  He doesn't alway get 2 in, but he gets at least one that's somewhere around 2 hours.  He's also not quite so grumpy at night, even if he only gets one nap.  He's reached the delirious happy stage. :)  Night time is still hit or miss.  It seems like every time we get into a routine of sleeping at night, he gets another ear infection...  Not cool.

We are STILL trying to sell our house.  Pretty sure God's trying to teach me patience as well as how to keep a clean house - it really can be done.  All.  The.  Time.  It just takes ALOT more effort.  But it is nice to not have to spend hours cleaning when it needs to be cleaned.  We are really just looking forward to moving, though!

 At the rodeo

Little Gym on Friday night with Daddy