Rebel

Joey met a new buddy - Rebel. its the neighborhood sweetheart puppy. She is 1/2 great dane, 1/2 lab and is only 8 months old. She's SO pretty, sporting a deep gray colored coat with white "boots." I have a better photo of her but I just haven't loaded it yet. I will post it soon.

Anyway, he LOVES his new friend. I haven't seen him go this crazy over a puppy in a long time! He asks about her all day, calling her "Reb" or "Rebels." When I told him we were going out for a walk today to find Reb, he ran straight for the door.

Almost better

So the Rhino that visited a few weeks ago turned out to be the flu for Joey. I had the flu shot so I avoided the worst of it - but I caught the cold-turned-into-nasty-sinus-infection that I haven't been able to shake since. I woke up on Friday feeling like someone smacked the right side of my face with a baseball bat. Suddenly Tylenol and Afrin weren't doing the trick anymore. I had to get down and dirty with some antibiotics. It has yet to clear me completely, but you would not believe how much crap comes out of a sinus cavity at the rate of 50 times a day (or more). Puffs is making a fortune off of me.

My friend Anne turned me on to the Netipot to perform some serious sinus irrigation. Saturday, I looked like this.... (looks a little crude.....)


Since one side was completely blocked, I was in desperate need for a inflatable floating device - or so I thought - when it felt like I dove into the deep end of the pool. It did work for a little while, once that side cleared up, and I tried it again. I'll give it another whirl tonight.

Annie weathered our snot storm (it wasn't just me, but Joe was stuffy too) and came to see us. She's AMAZING. We hit the basketball game on Wednesday night. She wore her happy pants, but it didn't help her boys play ball. She assumed at first that it was her pants that brought them bad luck, but then decided it was all the smack she was talking before the game. ha! I hope it was just a case of bad luck and that they do better soon!



See.... happy pants! Looking good, Bo Nannie! Thanks for an INCREDIBLE WEEKEND! We miss you so much already and want you to come back soon for big ass steaks! :)

My Little Girl

Last Thursday, we were blessed to have a 3D/4D scan of our little girl. She's right on schedule, healthy and wonderful. A pre-introduction for all of us..... Meet Delaney.


I think she looks a lot like Joey..... Once again, a difficult call on who she favors - hubby or me. I guess we'll just have to see!

How I Broke The News

Dad has known about #2 who is well on her way for quite some time, but I stumbled on the "card" I made and emailed to him to break the news.....

Good times had by all. :)

The Rhino strikes again....

I have to wake up the little man in a moment and take him to the DOCTOR.

Once again, we are facing some virus-of-the-moment that has entered our humble home. Over a week ago, I had the nasty stomach virus that almost had me involuntarily delivering a baby on the bathroom floor, and now this week, the little guy has caught the upper-respiratory-nasty- cold/fever .... and now my throat is that to the equivalent of hamburger meat, well on its way to duplicate the rhino virus my son has. Considering that BOTH TIMES sickness has entered this home, it was a result of a grocery store outing to the local Kroger (we really haven't been many other places to catch something), I would love to stay clear of that wretched place anyway. Not only do we catch viruses, but my tomatoes don't stay fresh for more than one day, among other foods that we are spending top dollar for, but don't stay fresh for more than a day or two.

Pray that we don't pick up the stomach virus again in the waiting room of the doctor's office in a little while. When I called today to make the appointment, the voice mail said "we are experiencing heavy office volume these last few days...." That makes sense.

On the other hand, I'm 80% finished painting Joey's room. It looks fantastic. Its a bit darker than we anticipated, but I actually really like it. The darkness of the walls (its a deep aloe green) make the ceilings look even taller, contrary to popular believe that dark colors make a room look smaller. I ran out of paint on my second coat. I have about a wall and half left to paint, which I will do once I get over the cold that's about to hit me sideways. We had colds (joey and I) back in December. He tripped it in 2 days - this time its taking him so much longer... I had it for a full week, but I couldn't take anything to ease the pain. Tylenol and Afrin are my friends, although they don't show me much love. I'll take what I can get.

All in a Row

Joey has this personality quirk where he "lines" things up - trains, cars, ducks, books, cheerios... you name it, and he lines them up in perfect formation. We caught this picture of him around Christmas where he had gathered his 3 Lightning McQueen cars and lined them up on the floor. They aren't aligned hood-to-hood, but if you notice they are perfectly staggered. I wonder where he gets this quirk......

Whats even funnier - last week when mom was here, we were practicing some potty training with Joey, and we gave him some books to read and ducks to play with. Next thing we knew, he was sitting on his potty, lining up his ducks. "Well," we thought, "at least he has his ducks in a row!"

The fam

You don't know how hard it was to get this shot.
Anyway, here's the latest. :)
Wish you could see my belly. Then you'd see "everybody."

Growing in Leaps

The little sucker tried to jump out of his crib last night. He came pretty close. I've been putting a regular sized pillow in his bed along with his "pillow" blanket (a down filled snuggly blanket of which he so affectionately refers to as his "pillow"... he LOVES soft things). Anyway he was standing on the REAL pillow after we were punishing him by putting him in timeout in his bed for kicking Rudy, and he decided to use it as a stepping stone - the meaning goes two ways. First, his step up to leap over the edge (of which hubby caught him), and second, confirming my suspicions that "its time" to graduate him to a big boy bed. Believe it or not, I bought him new bedding yesterday for that day when this would happen - and I didn't think it would be the same day.

We didn't move him out of his crib last night though. The bed he's moving into next is upstairs and I didn't have the strength to help move it down. Plus I needed to wash the bedding first before he could use it. So instead, I removed the pillow from his bed, and put three couch cushions at the foot of the crib in the case that he decided to pile up a few stuffed animals as step stools to catapult his little body over the rail. Thankfully, he was tired when he finally went down that he didn't attempt such circus acrobatics. But I'm sure the day will come soon....

For goodness sake, he JUST turned 2. He needs to relax a little. Baby Girl won't be here until April, and I was hoping that we could do the bed graduation ceremony around then. Good thing I bought bed rails yesterday too because I don't think he'll wait that long. I'm not ready to fight the "GET YOUR LITTLE BUTT BACK IN BED" battle that is inevitably right around the corner.

Art

My Aunt Barbara took this incredible picture of Joey a few months ago.
She says its too blurry... I think its art.

My Sidekick

He's the BEST side kick a girl could ever ask for!