It's a snow day

It's been a day or two since we went out and has been a few weeks since we've seen snow so when we got dumped on over night, Marcus made sure to let me know he was very interested in going out and playing in it. I don't know what it is about snow that makes kids go crazy but as you can see in the above pics, even Jamesen was excited about it. We got about a foot.

Marcus was SO happy to be out in it.

Those smiles right there are the reason I took the kids out despite well below freezing temps with ice wind. How can you not love that face to pieces? And a couple other pics I thought were cute.


They were NOT happy to come in! Though Jamesen's fussiness was because he was tired, but fussiness is fussiness, whatever the reason. Marcus keeps going to the door and sticking his face on it and then trying to bring me his snow pants. I wish Sabe were home to go sledding with us. Marcus has never been and this snow is perfect!

p.s. it's really hard to take pics while holding a baby! :)

Marcus update

He's doing so much better today. He woke up happy instead of crying, took his meds without much fuss, was excited about breakfast and ate it all and then chugged a sippy! His tongue is a lot less white and he's talking a lot again. I think it hurt his tongue to talk so he wasn't saying anything at all. He's been all smiles this morning and is going through his abc's over and over again. It use to bug me the 100th time through but I've missed it the last few days and am happy it's back!

Marcus update

So Marcus' sickness was NOT what I thought it was. A few weeks back I noticed a white patch on his tongue. It didn't seem to bother him and looked like the aftermath of a bad tongue biting so I didn't think anything of it. Then the fevers started and I assumed it was just the same thing Jamie had had only days earlier. Then I got a look at his tongue when he was screaming as I was forcing Ibuprofen on him. The patch was about 3 times the size. Then I started realizing that it wasn't that Marcus just wasn't eating, he would take a bite and then start crying and refuse more. He would ask for a drink, take one sip and then cry and push it away. Obviously his mouth was hurting him. At first I thought maybe it was just his throat that was hurting him but when he even refused a popsicle I got worried.

I took a pic of his tongue and posted it on Facebook to ask my friends and most of them thought it was thrush which sounded right to me. I called Sabe who pulled some strings and he came to get us. We then spent the next two and a half hours in the ER at Ireland Army Community Hospital where both boys were crying because they were bored, tired, one was getting poked and prodded and the other was feeding off him. It was a nightmare really. And Ireland misdiagnosed Marcus. They told me that the fevers and the tongue were unrelated, that they were both viruses and even though I told them multiple times that Marcus hadn't eaten anything in 2 days nor had he drank anything that day, they told me I would have to wait it out. It actually went something like this:

"It's viral [blahblahblah]"
"So that means I'm gonna just have to wait it out?"
" Oh you're one of those people that want a quick fix, huh"
"As a mother yes. My child hasn't eaten anything in two days and keeps refusing drinks and you're telling me I have to wait it out for an untold amount of time?"

The dr's at Ireland are a piece of work I tell you. I've not seen the same one twice and every time I go in, someone says something idiotic to me. Anyways, so I called Dr. S. in the morning and got an appointment. He looked into his mouth and immediately said "That's not thrush!" and then after about 30 more seconds of looking, told me that it was an infection. He also told me that the ER dr's at Ireland are idiots :). He said that when I thought he had bitten his tongue I was probably right and then it got infected instead of getting better.

So I got sent home with a script for some antibiotics and Miracle Mouthwash. It's a numbing mouthwash thing that I have to rub on the infected spot to help get him to eat and drink. He didn't eat, but he drank after it so that's good!

We had Jamesen's 6 month well check at the same time. It was funny because one of the nurses saw him standing up and she was like "Wow he's so tiny! How old is he?" and I when I told her he was 6 months she kind blinked at me and was like "Wow I though he was closer to 10 months the way he's standing there like that!" Made me laugh. Specially since he's big for his age. He's in the 90th for height! 28.5 inches and 18 lbs 14 oz. Which is a two inch gain in two months [WOW!] and almost 3 lbs! He's such a chunker. I can't remember what his head circumference is, but it was off the charts, lol! Marcus at 6 months was 15 lbs 15 oz and 27 inches. He wasn't 19 lbs until a year old! Jamesen is going to take him in height and weight some day I just know it.

He's also going to give me gray hairs before I hit 25

Climbing Vid

Anyways, that's it for now. I'll keep you updated on Marcus. Prayers that he gets better fast and starts eating again would be appreciated. He can't afford to lose any more weight than he already has!

Sickies and Thieves

I thought Marcus was in the clear for getting this sickness that passed between Sabe, Jamie and I. Apparently not. He woke up this morning positively burning up and shaking really bad. When he gets fevers he literally shakes. Kinda like he's shivering but not shivering. Jamesen doesn't do that and neither do I so I don't know if that's a common thing, but it's always been that way. Poor thing though, he's not been eating much at all. He's been drinking fine though, so that's good.

In other news... The other day Sabe asked me if I had the credit card. I said no. So then the next few days I've been searching the house for my debit card and the credit card since both were missing. Well yesterday I went onto Wellsfargo to check on something and happened to see that the credit card balance was $600ish more than it should have been. Someone got a hold of our card! You know you're in Kentucky when someone steals your card and makes purchases for things between $50 and $150 at Walmart 5 times. Apparently they tried to buy stuff online but wellsfargo stopped them. And of course, obviously wellsfargo thought that those purchases were fraudulent but didn't contact me AT ALL or stop the card at all. 5 purchases from Walmart. My card isn't signed. You're supposed to ask for my ID! I wrote them a nasty email and if Wellsfargo doesn't reverse the charges I'm going to throw a hissy fit since they were stopping charges but didn't contact me to find out what was going on.

Oh and I still can't get a hold of the lady that I need to to set up the ultrasound for the bump on Jamie's head. I don't know what's going on over there but she's never there when I call. I keep asking, "Well when should she be there?" and they give me a day and a time and she's never there at that time. It's becoming ridiculous. I've got an appointment for him on Tuesday with his regular pedi so I'm gonna talk to him again and see what he thinks since the lady he sent me to seems like she doesn't know what she's doing anyways. UGH!

On a good note though, Marcus is slowly starting to string two words together. He said jet plane and all aboard yesterday. Oh and he finally said his girlfriends name! We were over there a few days ago and I was calling Abby and he said "Abb-eye!" Today he looked at me and said ear while grabbing his ears. So cute! I just love his little voice!

:)

The little things

It was super rainy yesterday. Shauna asked me if I would take a pic for her so she could draw it. I'm not sure what exactly she was looking for [she said clouds] and I thought for sure it'd be forever before I saw anything worth taking a pic of. Then I looked outside just to check and saw this:



Marcus' scrapbook is getting a bit tight, so I bought him another one so I have it when I need it. I just grabbed this one because it was cute. Then I pulled it out and Marcus got all excited and we both realized that this scrapbook has all his favorite animals on it [giraffe, bear, elephant, camel, alligator, lion, monkey and ostrich. Seriously so random that it had al of them on there!] It was so perfect to have all his favorite animals to say the name and make the sound of. Stupid blogger turned the pic.


We got a time out chair the other day as well. Marcus likes it but has since been held into it for time out and doesn't sit in it and play anymore, lol. He knows it's for when he's in trouble now. You can see a pic of him in it here.

Marcusisms

Here are a few of Marcus' pronunciations

alligator= ah-dih-day-do [said fast]
bear= booowwww
camel=dah-duh
dolphin= doh-puhhhh
elephant=eh-dew-bah
flamingo=neee-nohh
giraffe=dew-ahhhh
jaguar=jah-juh
monkey=eh-teee
ostrich=eh-tuh
zebra=deee-buhhh


and here's a vid so you can hear them too.

Oh and just so I remember when he's older, I guess being in Kentucky is rubbing off on him because he says "M" with a southern accent. "Ay-ehmmmm". Hilarious!

Oh what a week!

It has been some week! Sabe started a cycle so we were adjusting to life without him after a week and a half of him on leave. Not fun for any of us! Then we all got sick because when you group a whole bunch of people together they spread germs and the Drills get it and bring it home to their families. It's called the funk! It's a chest cold type thing. It hangs around with the Drills because they're running on such low sleep that their bodies don't have time to fight it. So even though Sabe got it before us, the kids and I have had it and it's gone and his is only just now starting to clear up.

I think Jamesen might be getting teeth. He wakes up frequently in the middle of the night crying. It's really not been fun. When he had the funk he kept waking up with a very persistent fever. I don't know how high it was because I didn't find my thermometer until after his fever stopped coming back [go figure] but he was very warm and restless and very unhappy. The fevers been gone for about 2 or 3 days [my days run together.. I honestly can't tell you how long it's been] and he's still waking up multiple times a night [and I mean like 15+] crying and it takes awhile to get him to be still.

And you know what? He's been six months old for about a week and a half and I keep forgetting to make his 6 month appointment. Sabe has CQ on the 25 so I'm supposed to make his appointment for the 26 since I'll have the car but I keep forgetting and now I'm not gonna get the appointment for that day. And the lady was supposed to call me back about the appointment for his bump and she didn't do that either. GRRR! How annoying! Maybe by writing it down I'll remember. Or I'll read it tomorrow. I often read my blogs the next day because I write late at night and miss spelling errors and things so I go back in the morning and fix them. I'll remember to call and hopefully get one of the appointments for the 26. What a pain!

Marcus is talking so much. He's starting to sing too. He sings along with Choo Choo Soul and the opening songs to his favorite shows. He's copying a lot of stuff. Just today [oh it had me busting up. Just ask Britt], I was sitting there watching TV with him and he found the remote without me noticing and turned it off. I said "Hey!!" and he repeated it. The way he said it was so funny to me. I'm so not used to him talking since he's only just in the last like month started talking so it was really funny hearing him say it so perfectly. "Hey." He's really got the sweetest little voice.

I got a video of him singing numbers along with Choo Choo Soul. Singing Vid. He's saying "4, 5" along with the song.

Here's a video of Jamesen's new way of getting around. Crawling Vid He started crawling like this a few days after he learned how to pull himself to a stand. It's like he really wants to walk but can't quite do it yet.

Anyways, that's news on us. Yes Lynne, we're alive and well :)

One of the two...

Either Jamesen needs to hurry and start walking [haha, that made me laugh out loud to myself.. hurry and start... like he's past one and not walking yet... haha] or I need a second car. Marcus has cabin fever and he's got it BAD.

He's being horrible. Seriously HORRIBLE and mean all day long. I know it sounds bad but seriously he does everything he knows he's not supposed to do, pushes Jamesen over, throws toys at us and beats on Gary [among other things]. But I can't take him out in 20 something degree weather to blow off the extra energy.

I'm going to rant and rave if I don't keep this short and sweet so I'll get to the point.

Either Jamesen needs to start walking so that he can play more with Marcus and they can entertain each other, or I need to get a second vehicle because cooping crazy Marcus up in a house all day every day is not a good thing! And I can't walk 4 miles to the nearest indoor play place.

Life is not fun at the moment.

Oh and speaking of Jamesen, today at bath time he was standing next to the side and let go... and stood there... for like 3 seconds but he stood there!

Imagination

Marcus found his imagination a few months ago and it's been so fun watching it grow. He'll run his cars along any flat surface while making car sounds, stick stuffed animals in Jamesen's swing and lock them in and give them a kiss. Yesterday was really cute. He was lining his blocks up and then he'd stack them one by one and "play" it.

Wind instrument

Guitar

Drums

He was beating on the top of the yellow block but I missed it. He would make an instrument, play it and then go sit it in a corner so they were all together. It was so cute!

Having both an infant and a toddler makes me really appreciate how far Marcus has come from where Jamesen is now.

Happy Half Birthday!

Little Jamie man is 6 months! I don't really feel like writing a huge thing, so for those of you who aren't on facebook, here's the album of pics i took today.

Oh Jamesen

I keep forgetting to post Jamesen's developmental stuff on here. I post vids on my photobucket but I forget that not everyone goes over there constantly like my mom does *cough*lynne*cough* :)

Jamesen is learning quickly. He's about 2 months ahead of Marcus with the physical stuff which is scary seeing as how Marcus was pretty early with all of it.

Here's the last month and a half or so in videos: video one, video 2, video 3, video 4


I'm amazed and yet terrified by this child. I seriously thought that since Marcus was such a busy body, that Jamesen would be lazy. Obviously I was VERY wrong. Never in a million years did I think that Jamesen would be doing things faster than Marcus did. He's right on cue with the two months ahead schedule too.

Marcus' vocabulary has exploded recently too. He's copying a lot of words now. One of his new favorites is baby. He'll look at Jamie and then look at me and say "Baby?" and when I repeat him he'll kiss him. If I don't repeat him he'll keep saying "Baby?" louder and more forcfully. It's so cute! He also likes to say "oval" and the ABC's, though he skips "S" every time. He loves to go through the ABC Zoo Game. Watch it and you'll understand. He goes "A! Ah-dih-day-do! Ahmp, ahmp ahmp! B! Beaw, bwoooouuuuwwwww!" through the entire alphabet. I know nobody but me and Sabe know what the heck he's saying, lol. Guarantee it sounds like jumble to any random person. It's cute though. I need to get a vid of it but he stops every time I try. I'll keep trying though, and keep you posted.

Until then, you can watch THIS video where he talks a bit. I'm trying [unsuccessfully] to get him to say "baby".

There and Back Again

We're home! The drive back wasn't nearly as seamless as the drive there. The drive there was... man I can't even tell you. The boys were perfect except for the last 15 minutes where they were a bit fussy. We were driving through rain and flooding though so maybe it was God's way of keeping Sabe focused on the road properly?

The way back was sunny and the roads were good but MAN were the kids fussy! Jamesen fell asleep really quickly after starting out but was only asleep for like an hour when he woke up upset. Marcus was SO DONE with his carseat really fast as well. Right when we were about to stop, Jamesen fell asleep again so we stopped to get gas and Marcus an icecream cone to try and persuade him to stay quiet. While filling the car Jamesen woke up since the car wasn't in motion but we just got Marcus the cone anyways which lasted only about 5 minutes before he started smearing it all over his harness and refused to touch it after I cleaned him up.... with Jamesen crying the entire time.

I was switching between them trying to keep them quiet while we tried to hurry and make it to a McDonalds so we could let Marcus loose for an hour. We found two and neither had a play place. LAME! So we stopped at a Subway and let the kids out and they were both very angry to get back into their carseats. We were only like 45 minutes away from home by then though and wouldn't you know it, they both passed out.

I'm glad to be home! That wasn't the worst drive I've ever done [the one to Vegas in February when Marcus was 5 months was BY FAR the worst drive I've EVER done] but it was still pretty bad. specially after them being so awesome on the drive there.

We had a blast though and when Marcus realized we were home he started crying and we couldn't get him to stop. I'm pretty sure it was because he didn't want to leave Kahlan and Dorothy!

Speaking of Dorothy... She was laughing at me while I was there, telling me that soon she would need a separate folder of bookmarks for all my many blogs. Well, I've made yet another one. Adi's 365 Blog . Feel free to follow my journey!