Sick Boy!

So Lawson started running a fever on Thursday of last week. I called the doctor and they said it was probably because he was cutting his teeth so if he wasn't better by the next day to come in. When I got him up the next morning his fever had broken and he seemed to be acting fine. We just kept giving him tylenol and motrin because he still ran a low grade fever....again we contributed that to teething.

Sunday night he started coughing really bad. As Monday progressed his nose became a faucet and the cough got worse. He also was acting really whiney and not even holding him was enough to get him to stop crying. All this is TOTALLY out of character for him. So again, I call the doctor and get an appointment for the next morning.

I took him to the doctor and turns out the poor baby has an ear infection in each ear :(. The cough and runny nose can be somewhat contributed to the infection but he said it was probably viral and to give him some children's mucinex. So we got an antibiotic, ear drops and some new cream for his face where he has eczema. The cream we were first prescibed was $250 after insurance! The new bottle $4. Much better!

So after a full day on the antibiotics he acts a little bit better. So hopefully he will be better by this weekend because we are going up to Decatur to see Mitch's family.

I have to say that I do feel very fortunate that he is 8 months old and this is the first illness we have had. So I can not complain too much.

Happy 8 Months to my sweet Lawson!!

Lawson is 8 months old today! He eats 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and still takes 4 bottles a day! He luckily is still taking 2 naps and boy when you miss one of those naps it is no fun for ANYONE!! He is sleeping 11 1/2-12 hours a night and I love it when he wakes up in the morning because he is so happy to see you and gives me a big hug!!

He has gotten his first tooth (still trying to get that pic) and is doing a lot of babbling. He is rolling everywhere. He has not quite figured out the crawling thing (which I am not rushing). His Nonna and Granddeddy got him a walker and he loves it...but can only go backwards and gets really mad when he runs into something and can not go further. He loves to give me kisses...he grabs my face and pulls me right to him and slobbers all over me...and I LOVE it!!

He just experienced his first time in the pool and we are looking forward to taking him to the beach (if the oil is not there) at the end of this month!

Happy 8 months to my big boy!!

Mother's Day Weekend

On Saturday, we went to my mom's house to take Lawson swimming for the first time (pics to come later)! He did so good! He just chilled out in his floaty and splashed in the water with daddy! Then on Sunday, we went to church and then went back over to my mom's house to celebrate Mother's Day with my family and Mitch's family! It was such a nice day! We grilled hamburgers and lounged by the pool!

I got a gift card to go shopping for our cruise in June, Mitch and Lawson got me a new bedspread and my mom got me the cookbooks I had been wanting to make Lawson's food and some storage containers. All in all, it was a GREAT weekend!!

God has blessed me in so many ways! I have a wonderful family, the most wonderful husband in the world and a healthy and beautiful boy who is the center of our world! I am so fortunate to be able to stay at home with him and watch him grow everyday!

I have a frame in his bathroom that some dear friends of mine got me when I had Lawson. It says "We loved you before we knew you-even when it was just the hope of you-we loved you." We tried for 3 years to have this little boy and I have to say looking back on it....it was worth the wait! How lucky I am to be Lawson's mommy! He has brought more joy to my life than I could have ever imagined!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day!!

minutes after he was born!

Our first Mother's Day!!

A Tooth and a Word!

So Lawson has FINALLY gotten his first tooth! I swear he has been teething for the past 3 months! Everyday as the drool would drip down his face I would look in his mouth (which he didn't like) and no tooth! On Saturday, Mitch was feeding him and said " I think the spoon just hit something that was not his gum." So I went over to him and opened his mouth...and there it was beneath the gum...a tooth! So this morning we looked again and it is almost through the skin..and now we have the one next to it coming in!!!! I should have know it was coming because his dirty diapers have been EXTREMELY DIRTY!!

He also said his first word, "da-da", for the first time! He says the "mmm" sound all the time and I have been really practicing with him on saying "ma-ma" so of course his first word would be "da-da". I heard it first and then Mitch heard! He said he is really not going to count it until he looks at him and says it! I count it so it is going in the baby book!!

Everyday he amazes me with all the new things he can do!

Picky Eater???

So recently I have decided to start making Lawson's baby food. I have heard that is much cheaper and of course healthier for them! So my mom gave me an early mother's day present which was the cookbooks I had wanted and some baby food storage containers to put it in.

So on Wednesday, Lawson and I headed to the new Publix they just opened and I had a list of fruits and veggies I was going to make. I bought broccoli, zucchini and apples. I thought I would start off small.

So I put the little guy down for his nap and went to cooking. I felt like Julia Child in there. I was steaming, pureeing, boiling and peeling! I was so proud with what I had accomplished! For $2.50 worth of broccoli I was able to make 24 oz of food, for $2.00 I was able to make 16 oz of zucchini and I broke even on the apples! The true test was going to come when I fed it to Lawson!

Now he is not a picky eater by any means but the performance this kid broke into when I fed him broccoli was worthy of an Oscar! He didn't like the applesauce either! He gagged, spit it out, threw it up...the whole works! What I can figure out is it is the textures. I didn't puree it down to water so it was a bit thicker. He was like that at first with peas because they are a little on the thicker side. So I am going to keep it in the freezer and hopefully when he gets some teeth, the textures will not bother him as much!

I am not giving up though! Next time I will just make sure the food is like water! Compared to the baby food that I have bought it defintely is a little bit thicker! Oh well!! I told Mitch that is probably the first of many times he will tell me he did not like what I cooked!!

Steamed zucchini


Pureed zucchini

Finished product

Georgia on my mind....

So this past weekend, my cousin Kylie was getting married in Colbert (outside of Athens) Georgia. We had planned on leaving Saturday to drive over and stay the night, but when my dad's trip to Germany was cancelled due to the volcano we decided to go over Friday night to his house and split the the trip up! He lives outside of Atlanta so it worked out great for us. We got over there Friday afternoon around 430p and hung out with family! It was a nice and relaxing night!

The next morning we got up and traveled the rest of the way to Athens for the wedding! I went and enjoyed an afternoon pampering myself with a much needed pedicure with my sister and then rushed back to get dressed for the wedding.

It was a great wedding! The bride was beautiful, reception was fun and it was so great to show off my little guy (who was a hit) to all my family!! My mom took Lawson back to the hotel with her so Mitch and I could enjoy some adult time with my cousins!

On Sunday morning we got up and enjoyed breakfast with my family before we all went our separate ways!

Lawson was awesome on the trip! He slept like a champ in his pack and play and was such a trooper! He laughed and carried on the entire time and only got cranky when he was tired!

All in all it was a great weekend!!

Blast from the Past

So today Mitch had the first ever alumni game for Chelsea High School. It has been so long since the last time we were at the high school and Mitch finally got to play on the field that he raised money to build back in high school! The alumni played the high school team and WON 4-3!!!! The boys still got it!

It was a blast from the past in more than one ways for us. We saw old friends from high school, their families and we also saw some old friends from college. The head baseball coach is a friend of Mitch's who he played baseball with at UAB and his wife and I went every where together back in college. We were all in each other's wedding! So it was a great day for catching up and getting to see how everyone is changed!

Unfortunately they are not all as young as they thought they are, because Mitch is already saying he feels really old!

It was a gorgeous day to be at the ball field! But like an idiot I did not put on sunblock and am a little toasty! Oh well...I needed some color anyway!

The new and the old!

The old!

me and Kristen (friend from college and CHS coach's wife)

Mitch and Michael (friend from college and CHS coach)

me and my boys!!