*sigh*

Marcus is giving up his naps and it's depressing me. He's not quite at the point where he can go a whole day without napping even though he thinks he can, so he gets super cranky and irritable and cries at you looking at him wrong by the end of the day. It's really quite tiring. It's ok for now since Sabe is home, but come January when Sabe picks up a new cycle, I won't be too happy with that.

He's being really trying lately because of it. As I've stated before, when he doesn't sleep, he doesn't sleep. So this whole not napping thing is taking a toll on his overnight sleeping making him irritable to begin with. Dealing with a cranky toddler who keeps waking up the baby and making him tired and irritable isn't a fun situation. I have to keep reminding myself that yes, Marcus is extremely irritating right now and I wish this stage would hurry and he'd grow up faster so I can move past this, but once he DOES grow up I'm going to look back and wish he hadn't grown so fast. Instead of looking at the irritating things Marcus does, I've been trying to look at the cute things he's doing at this age and cherishing it. It's been making my patience level higher and it drains less now.

Though, my house is trashed. I've seriously gotten to the point where I think to myself "Sit and relax or... spend the next half hour to an hour cleaning up all of his toys only to have him trash it in MAX ten minutes when he wakes up. ... Sit and relax it is!"

I started a new photography blog if you guys wanna follow my journey to professional photographer on there. It's http://adriennelabarephotography.blogspot.com/

Follow up on the spider bite and such

We switched pedis. First off, Jamesen has a bump on his head where his soft spot is and when I took him in for his 4 month they didn't look in his ears, check and make sure he followed stuff with his eyes or even touch his head. And then the dr in the ER being a complete idiot... Yeah we switched.

My neighbor suggested Dr. Saifullah so off we went to him. The biggest thing that impressed me with Dr. S. is that he was so patient with Marcus who was climbing ALL over him. He didn't act like he was in a hurry to rush me out of there and get to the next kid and he listened to me. Reminded me of Marcus' pedi back in Utah.

The spider bite is looking good. The redness and swelling has gone down considerably so we're good on that aspect. The main reason for the visit was the bump on Jamesen's head. THANK GOODNESS it wasn't what I thought it was. I thought his soft spot was closing early and he was going to need surgery. Dr. S. said his soft spot looks just fine. It's on the small side, but plenty of kids have soft spots that size and it perfectly normal.

He did make a "WTHeck?" face when he saw the bump on Jamesen's head though. He's referring us to a neurologist to make sure nothings wrong. He says it's a vein running over top of it and doesn't think we should worry but wants to make sure since it's raised and "in a weird spot".

A funny though, 3 months ago at Marcus' 2 year appointment he weight 26 lbs. He now weighs almost 28. A month ago at Jamsen's 4 month appointment he weighed just over 16 lbs. Today he was close to 18 and a half lbs! Marcus was 18 lbs when he was like 10 months! It's crazy how kids can be so different even when they come from the same family!

I HATE spiders!!

So we got up this morning and Sabe asks me if I had seen the thing on Marcus' thumb. I had no idea what he was talking about so he brought Marcus over to me and there's a bite on his thumb. It looks exactly like how my bite started out. We took him to the hospital to get some antibiotics in hopes that they'll help even though they didn't help me. We had our visiting teachers come and give him a blessing too. It seriously makes me sick thinking about him going through what I went through. I'm praying my heart out that his gets better without any incident.

The Dr. that saw him at the hospital was a real piece of work. This is how the conversation went:

"I got a bite a month ago and the scab only just fell off yesterday so when we saw this on his thumb we really didn't want to take any chances and wait to come in. It looks just like my bite did at the beginning."

"Are you sure it was a bite?"

"Yeah it was a bite with a staff infection on top of it. They thought it was just the staff but then when it started to heal it did what spiders bite do when they heal."

"Have you seen any spiders?"

"Yeah we've had one brown recluse and a bunch of other large spiders."

"But nobody else has been bitten right?"

"Ummm... other than me?"

"Well it's probably just a staff infection. It's VERY rare, like on in a million, that you have to come back and have a surgeon cut it open."

"Well that's what they had to do to me!"

"Are you sure yours was a spider bite?"

I wanted to bang my head against the wall. I knew they wouldn't do anything but give us antibiotics but I'll do anything to keep Marcus from having to go through what I did! If you're the praying type please pray for him!

Family Pictures

Do you know how frustrating it is to take family pics with a tripod? You're very limited with how you pose and then you have to hope that everyone is not only looking, but looking nicely when the camera flashes. Luckily, Marcus thought the flashing red light was funny and there was long enough time in between flashes for Marcus to clap and say, "Yayyyyyy!!!" Well, you can see in these consecutive pics:






All the good ones have someone cut off! SO so so frustrating! So I spent the next hour and a half fixing the last one. I pieced a couple of the other pics together to kind of shift it over to the right a bit.

Hmmm

Does anyone still read my blog? I never get comments and it makes me feel like i'm talking to myself.

Lots of stuff going on with the littlest man in the house!

pushups

Finding tootsies

eating solids for the first time!!

Look at him staring at the spoon! lol

Marcus would put the spoon right by Jamie's mouth and right when he'd go to eat, Marcus would yank it away. This is mid yank.

He SO loved it tho!

And this is Marcus' first time feeding himself icecream. He actually didn't make that big of a mess. He didn't want to waste any of it!

They almost look pro!

I offered to do a photoshoot for my friend Amanda. She's pregnant with a little boy. She told me the name they picked so I went out and bought some stuff [like blue ribbon, some blocks to paint the letters of his name on, etc] and it got me pumped to do photography again. So I called Connie to see if she would bring her girls over and she obliged.

Before they came over I tried to get some pics of the boys. Jamesen is sitting so well! I was able to get quite a few pics in between catching him.



Marcus was fighting me. This is one of two I got by himself.

And some together. Marcus really didn't want to have Jamesen touching him.


Then Connie came over. Her girls are so beautiful!


I'm looking at these and they almost look like pro pics. The lighting is a bit off in a few I didn't show and a couple other things but I'm getting close! I hope to make enough sales in templates that I can get some more photography equipment and maybe start charging for this too!