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.