Momma's Boy

My little man is 10 months old...crazy!!! He is growing up fast. Here are some pics of the handsome little devil and his goofy sister too. These two love eachother...I took these pics right after they both woke up from nap time, so pardon the messy dos. He is seriously a happy little guy...when mommy is around. He has become pretty clingy lately...i think its because i am now working and doing young women's stuff so I am leaving a lot more. It is so flattering to have someone want to be near you so badly...but it can also be quite annoying when you are trying to get things done. I love this boy to death...he makes my heart smile.

Sorry about the booger shot...gross

Sad face....awww don't cry buddy

Good Health

Wow, you just never know how AWESOME it feels to be healthy until you go through what we just did. The last 2 weeks we were hit with a super bad cold/flu thing. It all started with Jon and I. Tuesday at work I was so cold that I drove home without any air conditioning (it was 111* that day) I got home, changed into my sweats and got into bed. I have never had the body aches so bad in my life, every bone and joint in my body hurt. Then we woke up to horrible sore throats. Those lasted for about 3 days and then the sinus pressure and cough came. We are still working through the coughing but the "attacks" are fewer and farther between now. The worst part was when Saturday came along and our usually go go go girl was all out of gas. We knew it had hit her. She layed on the couch all day and that night spiked a 104* temp but was freezing the whole time. Four days later, my little man would cry every time I put him down or every time I tried to feed him. Knowing what they were going through was so hard. I have to say the kids handled it a lot better than I did...they sure are tough. So we are back amongst the living and so HAPPY about it. Here's to HEALTH...now lets go wash our hands!!!

September

What?! September is nearly half-way over!! I feel like I haven't blogged in a while and Lilly is sleeping in this morning so I have a quick minute.

Lilly: She is loving school. She always says "miss erin nice" or "miss erin funny" and they are loving her little personality at school as well. Both her teachers have told me that she is coming out of her shell and really being a fun little thing.I feel like I am an expert potty trainer, although I don't know how much of it was anything I did. She has not had one accident. She gets annoyed when we ask her if she needs to go potty, so I have stopped..I trust that if she needs to go she will. She still wears a pullup at night but with time I think she will grow out of that. It is so funny to see her cute little bum in undies...we call her miss slim hips now.

Barrett: Is growing up way too fast. He loves to play with his sister. He walks around holding onto walls, furniture and has made his own "walkers" out of our chairs and will push them all over the place. He loves to play chef at our little pretend kitchen and bang pots and pans, open and close the oven. We moved our playhouse inside for the end of summer and he will go and just play forever...he loves it and so does Lilly...so glad santa brought that last year. Barrett can also stand unassisted for about 5 seconds so walking should be coming within the next month or so. He is way more fascinated with the bathroom than Lilly ever was but I think that is because of all the time we spent in there with potty training. He loves unrolling toilet paper and trying to reach up and flush the toilet. He is a smart little man and already tries to use things for their intended purpose...for example, he will try and brush his hair or mommy's hair, he will hold any phone up to his neck/ear. His favorite toys are cars and balls. He can already throw really well, which his daddy is just loving. He will sit down and play "catch" with you for a long time. He loves to dance to anything...even his sister's lovely singing that we hear all the time around here. His dancing is a little suggestive in that its just a lot of pelvic action if you know what i mean, its hilarious! He is making all sorts of sounds these days, not sure if any of them are real words but hopefully that will come easier for him than it did for sister. He loves to wrestle with mom or dad or anything stuffed. He is just a fun kid and I can't believe how big he is getting. Sorry for the wordy post, but I felt like it had been a while since I updated about all the fun things b-man is doing.

Me: Well, life just couldn't get more busy for me right now. I am back to work every Tues. and Thursday, so no more running my errands on those days without the kids, bummer. I also got called at church to be the Young Womens 2nd Counselor and that has made every Sunday and Wednesday super busy too. I sure hope I can make it work and still be the mom and wife that my family is used to.

Jon: He has just been awesome supporting me with all of my stuff going on. He has really stepped up to the plate and taken on the Mr. Mom role really well. Taking the kids on errands to costco, feeding kids dinner before I get home from work and putting both kids to bed when I have mutual. What a man!


So that's what has been keeping us busy, not to mention we have all had the worst cold/flu for the last couple of weeks.