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!

Entering into WAHMhood

WHAM-Work At Home Mom. That's right. I'm going to be a WHAM! A couple months ago I started making templates out of my pages for other people and finally worked up the nerve to apply to a store online that sells digital scrapbooking supplies and I was accepted! I'm so excited about it! My store should be going up soon. I've been working really hard the last couple days to get stuff ready to go into it. It's been a pain really.

On another note, Jamesen is doing push ups. About a month earlier than Marcus did too. Booo!

We're sitting!!

For the most part. He's still a bit shaky and topples when he gets excited but look how well he's doing! Sitting Vid He's following right along with what Marcus was doing. Making me said since that might make him our last baby. We'll see though. I'm going to try and enjoy every second I can since he'll probably be our last. I don't want to look back and wish I had spent more time in the now and not dwelling in the past.