Jamie's bump

We had the ultrasound for Jamie's bump today. He was really squirmy since he hates things touching his head, but he did ok for the most part. It's an artery that's swollen. The part that's swollen will most likely need to be removed. The radiologist that I talked to didn't want to say too much since he's not Jamie's dr, so I'll know more when the lady gets back to me. I'll of course update everyone when I know more.

The Big 03

It's boggling my mind how close Marcus is getting to 3. Jamesen getting close to one isn't as bad as Marcus getting close to 3. I've done a first birthday before and he's been around less so, yes it boggles my mind that he's on the other side of 6 months now but not like the fact that Marcus has one month to go before he's halfway to three. I swear that I just had him. that we were JUST celebrating his first birthday. That only yesterday was his second birthday.

I changed all his clothes to 3T yesterday and it just really hit me how big he's getting. He seemed like so much more of a baby when he couldn't talk. Now all the sudden he's talking all the time, growing out clothes he's been in for about a year, able to get himself dressed, put on his shoes [he actually gets them on the right feet every time too], sleep through the night, is able to put himself to sleep at night, and can tell me if he wants or doesn't want what I'm giving him.

It's funny though, both boy's birthdays this year are right around family weddings. Carl's getting married a few days after Jamesen's first birthday and Nano's getting married the day after Marcus'. I can't wait to do Jamesen's first birthday. I hope it's better than Marcus where only 2 people came [Lynne and Miki]. I'm going to do an icecream theme for it. I've found some really cute stuff online that I'm going to use for it. I'm really excited! Marcus' party will be down in Vegas and will be a Thomas theme since he's so obsessed. We'll probably have a pinata! He's old enough for a pinata at 3 right??

Ok well Marcus is wanting outside and keeps saying, "Abbeye!" so we're going to go see his girlfriend :)

Dude...

Marcus is OBSESSED with trains. All we watch all day long is our two Thomas DVD's. I bought 3 more so we had more of a variety because I'm getting sick of them. All I hear all day long is, "Choo Choo!!" while he grabs my hand to take me upstairs and play with his train table. All I have to say is choo choo and he stops his temper tantrum or smiles and looks at the camera. He's cute. It's a good thing I don't mind trains. I think I know what his next birthday's theme is going to be though. Mom since we'll be celebrating it down there, can you see if they have a Thomas cake pan? :)

I stand all amazed

Marcus' speech having a breakthrough has really helped in the whole listening department [well most of the time]. While he was a beast when he was hungry and tired, after he was napped and fed he was pleasant. When I told him to get off the coffee table, he did, almost right away. That NEVER happens. I always have to yell at the top of my lungs to get him to do something. It was so refreshing.

Of course, bribery always works too. He's becoming obsessed with "choo choo" 's. He only wants to watch train DVD's [I ordered a few more Thomas DVD's because we're both getting sick of the ones we've got being watched over and over. He was freaking out in Target today and all I had to say was "Choo choo!" and he stopped his tantrum and starting singing the theme song from Choo Choo Soul.

Jamesen's really amazing me too. It's funny, people will see him climbing, walking, pulling to a stand and standing without holding onto anything and say, "WOW he's so tiny! Was he early?" And I tell them no he was right on his due date and that he's actually really tall for his age. They'll then ask how old he is and it's funny to watch jaws drop when I say 6 months. He's so speedy, so amazing to me.

I found myself complaining to a random stranger [who did the jaw drop thing. She had an 8 month old who wasn't doing anything that J does] about how hard it is to have 2 busy bodies and how jealous I was that her first son didn't start crawling until almost a year old and walking at 18 months and how she didn't expect her little girl to start crawling anytime soon. To be honest, I sort of feel like I got the raw end of the deal. Neither of my kids sleep well at night. Marcus only sleeps through the night half the time and lately he's been waking up multiple times a night. It's hard to deal with two busy bodies on now sleep.

I need to remember how amazing my children are. To think of Marcus having the best balance of any two year old I know as something amazing, not something that's a pain in my backside. The fact that Marcus can climb stairs perfectly at 6 months is amazing, not something designed specifically to irritate me. My children are amazing and I need to remember that. On days like today when Marcus is really testing my patience, I need to remember his sweet smile and how it totally melts my heart. When Jamesen is crying and needy, I need to remember that he won't be this little much longer. Soon he won't want me to kiss him and hold him and love him. He'll be grown up and embarrassed of me.

I looked at my ticker today and realized that Marcus is one month away from being 2 and a half years old. He's halfway to 3. Already. Boggles my mind!

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!