Happy Anniversary Steven & Megan!

Hard to believe its been one year already!!! Hope its been wonderful and you have many many to come! (now where is me a neice or nephew?- JUST KIDDING!)

There are no words....

Mommy's Little Rock Star

One of the things Aaron and I got Matthew for his birthday was this little guitar, it plays more current songs, like Allstar by Smashmouth, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Love Shack, and a couple others that I don't remember right now. No words, just music of course- but he loves it. He's even started making up his own songs- his current hit? "I want you" Lyrics as follows: "I want you mommy, I want you daddy, I want you sissy, I want you gammy, I want you george, I want you connor, I want you gace, I want you jojo, I want you nana, I want you pawpaw, I want you teve, I want you gamma, I want you, I want you, I want yooooouuuuu"

I only hear it about 20 times a day lol

Happy 2nd Birthday Matthew!!!

Hard to believe 2 years ago today I was laying in a hospital room waiting for the "real" labor to begin. It was about this time that things got moving. I was nervous because I had never been through an induction before, but we made it didn't we little guy?
Happy Birthday Lil Man- Mommy loves you!

Happy Birthday......

Caroline! Hope its a great one! Miss you and love you girlie!

Ten Days of Matthew- Day 10

His spunk. I don't know what it is about our boys, but they both have had rough things happen to them. Is it a boy thing? I have no clue. But he comes through it like a trooper, nothing keeps him down for long.

Ten Days of Matthew-Day 9

He loves people- we'll be driving down the road and he's in the backseat waving at people in other cars. 'Hi!" It cracks me up, but you know what? It puts a smile on the faces of the people who notice him.

Ten Days of Matthew- Day 8

I love that he gives people nick names. Its one of his newest things, he just randomly picks a name and thats what a person is called. We've had "Nani" and "Ana", and "Nina" and "LeeLee"
Which are NO where near these people's actual names- well except for LeeLee.

Ten Days of Matthew- Day 7

His laugh. Have you ever heard this boy really truly laugh? You can't help but laugh along with him. Its infectious!

Party Pics Slideshow

GONE....OK?

Matthew has something new. It started when I let him have the rest of my drink one day. The other kids swarmed around him asking for a drink, and even though there was some left, he hugged it to his body looked at them and said "dink GONE.....Ok?" then proceeded to polish it off. I think its his way of saying 'this is mine, you aren't getting it, now back off!'
We let him open his gifts at Connor's party since Aaron's parents aren't going to be able to come up two weeks in a row. When he opened the movie from us, he got excited, then noticed all the other kids getting excited. He gripped that movie, and in no uncertain terms "Wadee GONE...Ok?"

Have you ever seen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHQ5ZQY98X0

This episode of Friends? Where Chandler can't smile?

Maybe we should have named Matthew, Chandler. This seems to be almost all I get these days, unless he's unaware I'm taking his picture.

Party On....

More of Connor's birthday party highlight pics soon to come. It was a blast, we all had a ton of fun. We missed all our old friends though. First birthday party away from home felt odd.

Ten Days of Matthew- Day 6

Well he loves to eat. And I love that about him. I never have to worry about him turning up his nose at dinner. Or worry that he's not getting enough nutrition. He'll eat anything and everything!

Ten days of Matthew- Day 5

That voice. Oh that voice. He learns a new word every day and his little voice is absolutely precious. I love listening to him talk.

My Poor Sadie

My poor Sadie has been so ill. It started Tuesday after lunch she got a splitting headache and asked to go lay in our bed. So I sent her in there, because its the coolest, darkest room in the house. A little while later I checked on her and she was asleep. She slept all afternoon, and most of the night. She woke up around 1:30am and I could tell she was running a fever so I dosed her with meds and moved her to the couch. After Aaron left for work Wednesday morning she came in crying saying she was dizzy, she could hardly walk, so instead of sending her back to bed I let her lay in bed with me, where she just cried, because even laying down she was dizzy. Her fever at that point was a little over 103. She never moved from my bed on Wednesday. She continued to complain of her head, and neck hurting. Around lunch time her fever spiked to over 105 and I called the doctor. Explained what was going on and they recommend I take her to the ER. So Aaron headed home, I started gathering things up to take her. We got to Children's hospital in Dallas around 2, and were checked in quickly. Her fever had lowered back down to the 103 range after I medicated her at home. They did a rapid strep and rapid flu tests, both of which came back negative. The doctor explained that they have been seeing a lot of false negatives on the rapid flu tests this year. Told me to treat her symptoms and sent us home. By the time we made it home (which included dealing with rush hour traffic on 35 by downtown- I'm a true city girl now- didn't bother me in the least) Her fever had spiked back up to 105.7. It has continued like that the past couple of days. She woke up feeling ok yesterday, but by afternoon was back down again, with the high fever and pain, adding in chills to round out my suspicion that it really is the flu. Again, she woke up today feeling better, but as I type this, the fever is back, and she is laying in my bed asleep. She is so ill, and it pains me to se her so. Its frustrating to watch her suffer, and not be able to really do anything for it. She has taken to sleeping on the couch since her and Grace share a bed, and we're trying to contain this as much as possible.

So if you think of it, say a prayer for our Doodle-Bug.

Connor's Birthday Card

I appologize if this are out of order, but I promised to post pics of the card I made Connor yesterday. :)

Ten Days of Matthew- Day 4

His humor. I know I mentioned this with Connor too- but Matthew has the silliest sense of humor. Even at this young age, he gets so silly and starts to laugh uncontrollably at himself.

Ten Days of Matthew- Day 3

Those eyes. He has his daddy's eyes- which I love so much. When I look at him I see Aaron, which is never a bad thing. :)

Happy 7th Birthday Connor!!

Hard to believe that 7 years ago you were just a teeny 8lb baby boy. I love you so much, and hope you have a great 7th year!