Saturday, June 30, 2007

Big Boy Bath

We have started taking big boy baths in the big bathtub - he seems to really enjoy them, as you can tell from the pictures.

He has obviously just taken a drink of the bathwater, and is questioning his own judgment at this time....

For once in my life, being negative has had a BIG payoff! I was complaining on Friday to a co-worker about how bad this week has been and how I don't know if Austin can take much more of the hotel, and she volunteered her house to us!!!! Turns out she and her husband are going on vacation for a week, have a couple of older pets, and would like someone to "pet-sit" - this could absolutely not come at a better time!! So we move out/in on Monday, which means the daily blogging will come to an end - but we will resume shortly. Turns out the compounding factors of this week - i.e. no more nursing, teething, daddy left, got herpangina, and living in a hotel - were just a little too much for our little man - hoping things get better on Monday!!

Farya is coming for a visit today, so we will post some pics with her tommorow - have a nice Saturday!

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Rain, Rain...Here to Stay

Now, being that I consider myself to be a good West Texas girl, far be it from me to EVER say that we have had enought rain, but...I am not joking when I say it has rained for 3 days straight; everytime you look out the window, all you see is rain or storm clouds on the way to produce more rain. Whew, it has been a little bit much - not too much, but alot. Our day today has been MUCH better, we have gotten back to our normal schedule and should be able to have a good night tonight. Today, we entertained ourselves by getting IN our toy box - the expression on his face should speak volumes to how much better he is feeling.
Tonight, we began the process of saying goodbye to old friends; we went to dinner at Herrera's with Ashley, who recently got married. It was good to see her and AC ate a good dinner of Mexican food - I figure I have to fit in as many trips to Mexican food resturaunts as I can into the next 3 weeks, as GA apparently does not have any good Mexican food to speak of. We came home just in time for it to start raining again and have now set out to do some more vocal cord exercises...
i.e. cry until the neighbors request another room away from the baby. Just as our neighbor did last night at 9:30 pm - how do I know? Because he was not so quiet in gripping to the Manager about having to listen to a crying baby - I wanted to say "Mister, you should try it on the other side of the door..." Oh well, hope tonight is a better evening ;)
On a lighter note, we have officially learned how to give kisses, and by give i mean lean into Mommy while she gives us a kiss. It is pretty darn cute! I keep trying to capture it on film, but no luck yet, maybe tomorrow....

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Herpangina

That's what the Doctor called it. Basically the symptoms are: a sore throat and pain with swallowing; fever for 2 to 3 days; and small ulcers surrounded by a red ring on the roof of the mouth and near the tonsils. Anywho, the best thing for throat relief and his appetite is a milkshake, oh boy let me tell you this kid loves that!! We went and got one from the Whataburger next door to the hotel and had some for snack. Otherwise, he has had very little appetite and manages to only eat a few Cheerios every once in while. But he seems to like the milkshake, so we will just hype the kid up on sugar and hope his fever breaks soon... These pictures are a perfct indication of what we did last night and ALL DAY today!! enjoy

sleeping on Momma

sleeping on the sofa bed

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sick of missing Dada

Apparently Austin is missing his father ssooooo much that it made him sick! The daycare called at 3pm today to say that he had a fever of 103.5 so I went to pick him up - he was bright red in the face as you can kinda tell from this picture. By 6 pm it had dropped to 102.8 which is still pretty high. The pediatrician said if his fever is still this high tomorrow afternoon that we should go in to see her. Just means that Momma gets a day off!!

When we came "home" tonight, we took a bath and ate a little dinner - I thought it would be good to put a little food on his tummy - he thought it would be good to put the food back on his momma's lap - eewww - any who, he fell asleep at about 6:45 pm, so we will probably have a long, long, long night tonight. Hope everyone else is feeling much better than us. You have to admit that a baby sleeping with his derriere in the air is pretty darn cute!

Monday, June 25, 2007

Another Day of Entertainment

Today for our entertainment we kind of got stuck in the bottom of our high chair while playing with our box of "toys" - i.e. Tupperware, baby bottles, and hot mitts and we then explored the underworld of cabinetry; it is amazing how much a baby can contort his own body when he wants to. Hope your day was much more eventful....





Sunday, June 24, 2007

Missing Daddy - Part 1

Today we had to find ways to keep ourselves busy so we...
experimented with sticking socks to the wall

played with toys on our toy box - note that a suitcase is our toybox because we are still living in a hotel

took a nap after lunch

and repeatedly said "dada, dada, dada"

We are glad Eric/Dada made it to Georgia safely at 5:30 am with Madison to keep him company

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Update

Well, it has been a long while since I have posted, but we have had a lot going on that we just could not really talk about. But all is in motion now, so lets see where we are ... Back in February, I got a job in Atlanta, GA for the Fall 2007 with a University which meant we needed to move. So we a) sold our house





b) celebrated Austin's 1st birthday in a hotel



and c) said goodbye to some old friends.


So ... Eric left for Georgia today and Austin & I will head out there sometime next month. Therefore, so that Daddy can keep up with little Austin, I will be posting pictures and comments on a much more routine basis. Stay tuned to see what our little dude is up to - and we will use this in Georgia to keep our family and friends in Texas up to date with our going ons.