AEH is sick and we are staying in today from church. Long story short...I took EMH for his 1 year check up Friday and AEH woke up that morning sick. So she ended up getting checked too. She had fever when we got there and a headache and cold. They did a Flu test and it came back negative but they said it could just be too early to pick it up. Whatever it is... flu or virus, she is sick but getting better. She still had a little fever this morning and a runny nose. She was sad when SLH and EMH left for church without her. We are going have to find something fun for us to do this morning.
EMH would not look at the camera because he was too busy checking out one of his favorite things, WHEELS! EMH's check up went good and he is on target with everything for his age. He got a shot in each arm and one in his leg. He was M-A-D! He doesn't even like to sit on the weighing scale. He and AEH are totally different when it comes to going to the doctor. We know that there will be a lot of screaming with him. He did muster up a "bye- bye" when we were leaving. He was glad to say those words. :)
As a mother this is one thing I don't like to do. Hold my children down while they get shots. I wish someone else could do this so that I don't have to be associated with it. I am not so sure that it comforts them for me to be there anyway. I don't want them to think that I am allowing them to get hurt. :( Just something that has always bothered me. AEH is right there to check it all out. We are staying busy around here. AEH is still enjoying gymnastics but has yet to play a soccer game due to all the rain. They have practiced a couple of times though. Maybe we will get a game in this next week. She is enjoying school and has been getting green hearts regularly. YEAH!!! They are learning letters and numbers. She has been calling out letters on labels and anything else in the house with words on it. SLH was in Paris last week. Yes, that is Paris, France. He was there for a quick trip with work. We all missed him greatly and are soooo glad he's home. I am looking forward to my weekend get away with some of my girl friends in a couple of weeks. We are going on our annual trip to Gulf Shores. This will be our forth year and we always have sooo much FUN! Tennis is back in full swing and I am enjoying that! I started working out a couple of months ago to try to get off about 5-10 pounds. I have been doing step aerobics, body pump and sport zone. I have succeeded and feel much better. Now I just need to maintain and keep it off. You know the age thing is catching up with me. I will be 38 in a couple of weeks and I just can't eat like I use to.
Well, I have a little sick girl here wanting my attention so we are off to find something fun to do!
It has been a busy couple of weeks, filled with birthdays. Between my family and SLH's family, we have 5 in September. We have had in order my dad's, EMH's, Ms. Judy (SLH's mom) and SLH's. My sister in law, "Aunt Suzi's" is next week. Needless to say we have had a lot of delicious "Aunt Gayla" cake. Not to mention that I am trying to do a little dieting. :) With my family we just had a big get together last Saturday night and celebrated all of the birthdays at once. We even did mine since it is in early Oct. We had a great meal. One of my favorite, boiled shrimp. SLH got a digital photo frame and I got money to spend on my girls trip in Oct. We celebrated Ms. Judy's birthday this past Monday at McDonald's. Yes, that is right. She wanted to do it there for the kids. It was fun even at McDonald's and we took our cake and presents in there and just had our own little party. Blowing out the candles. The Birthday girl! We gave her some Volatile sandals. AEH always makes some friends when she goes to McDonald's. Tuesday was SLH's birthday. He turned the big 4-0. Yes, we celebrated his 40th and EMH's 1st. :0) SLH can be is a little sensitive about the whole age thing. I tell him that it will keep him young longer but he doesn't seem to see it that way. :) We went to his parents on Tuesday night and celebrated with more great food and cake. Actually we are still eating cake from this past week. The kids and I gave SLH a couple of shirts and a new book. His parents gave him gift cards to Home Depot and the movie theater. And his standard every year for his birthday, a new LSU shirt.
SLH celebrating with his little princess. His mom said the glasses were flaming and symbolized that he was still "hot". :) I definitely think so! :) EMH hanging out in the swing, taking it all in. Now we have a couple of weeks before more cake for my birthday. :)
Well, our little boy is a year old. What a wonderful year it has been! He is such a blessing from God and we love him so much. He had a great birthday party at our house the night of his birthday. He was the star of the show and he loved all of the attention. We sang the traditional Happy Birthday and then Aunt Kip found a song for us to sing to him. It was one of the highlights of the night. The other highlight was his smash cake. This was the first time he had ever had cake and ice cream. I think it is safe to say that he liked it. We weren’t sure just how much he liked sweets because he didn’t eat the fruit and desert baby food very well. He seemed to like it okay though. It was so much fun watching him and seeing his expressions. He got a lot of great gifts. We mainly asked for some boy toys like trucks, cars. Well he got several of those, along with a glove chair an overnight monogrammed bag,a big farmhouse and some gift cards for some clothes. We got him a little baseball, basketball and football gym. Our friend "Aunt Gayla" (as the kids call her) made the cakes and they were absolutely darling and delicious! Thanks for this gift, "Aunt Gayla". Here is a video of our special song. The quality of the video is not really great. You will hear us trying to come in a couple of times too early (pretty funny, we didn't have time to rehearse it) and yes, we are a CRAZY family! :) Here is what we sang. EMH has hit some milestones these last couple of months: This is kind of long so if you are not a Grandparent then you may want to skip this. I wanted to write it for his baby book.
He is eating a lot of table food now and he really likes it. We probably won’t buy any more baby food because he will not eat it now after having our food. We can’t blame him. He has four teeth now and can pretty much eat anything we eat if it is small enough. We go to the doctor for his yearly check up next week.
He is babbling a lot and he has said his first word, “bye-bye”. It is so cute and he has such a sweet little voice. Not sure if we can classify this as a word but he is also saying “uh, oh”. We think it is great and of course, he’s the smartest little one year old boy in the world.
He is pointing to things and babbling about them. His favorite things are lights and fans. When he goes into a room, that is the first thing he looks for. His Granddaddy put him a fan up in his room. It is so cute. It has sports balls on it.
He is walking behind his walker now and can stand alone for a few seconds. He can walk very slowly when we hold his hand. It probably won’t be long before he is walking.
He can put his play phone next to his ear and pretend to be on the phone. It is so cute because the phone is usually upside down and turned around.
He no longer is taking a pacifier. He wasn’t completely attached to it so we decided to do without it for a week and see how he did. We could see that he was probably about to start getting more attached to it and thought it would be better now than when he was 2. We found that he missed it mostly when going to sleep. We rocked him more often for about a couple of weeks and he has been passy free for 4 weeks now. We like rocking him anyway. There is just nothing like that sweet little head being on your shoulder sleeping.
He has started sleeping with a stuffed animal. It’s a pig. :) With the passy being gone we thought he might like to have something to hold. When we ask him were his pig is he starts looking for it. We may have to come up with a better name other that just “pig”.
He has switched from a bottle to a sippy cup. He didn’t like it at first but just like everything with him he doesn’t put up much a fuss for long and is very easy going. He is doing good with it now.
He is starting to climb on things. He has climbed on some steps that are by our bed and on AEH's piano stool. AEH never was a climber and stayed in her crib a long time. This will be different for us.
He loves to try and get in all of the cabinets and drawers. He is not so much interested in what is in them as he is in just wanting to open and close them. We have child proofed all that are hazardous or that we don’t want him in.
As you can see EMH is changing and doing new things every day. This is such a fun age and he is such a fun little boy. We look forward to a lot more birthdays and fun times with our "little man"!
Here is a slide show of some pictures from his Birthday.
Granna and Granddaddy who live in Tennessee came to visit us this weekend. We all had so much fun spending the weekend together. AEH was so excited and asked several times Friday "are they here?". EMH warmed up to them very quickly and loved all the attention. We went to Cock Of The Walk Friday night. They love to eat there when they come and it is one of our favorites as well. Saturday we went and bought EMH a fan for his room and Granddaddy hung it for us. He is so good at doing this kind of stuff. He hung AEH's in her room a few years ago. EMH loves his new fan and he points to it and watches it while he is on the changing table. Fans and light switches are two of his favorite things. We cooked out Saturday night and just had fun visiting and playing with the kids.
See what he is pointing too. "Granddaddy I'm not interested in that toy...I like those lights." We went to Toy R Us Saturday for SLH and I to get him a birthday present for next week. They brought EMH a train for his birthday present and he LOVES it! This is a bean bag toss toy that he got.
He also got a cute bear that sings Happy Birthday.
Grandaddy even got the pleasure of feeding EMH. They were so impressed how well he eats.
They brought AEH a giant coloring book with paint, colors and her favorite thing "scissors". Blowing bubbles Playing tennis.
We love you Granna and Granddaddy. Can't wait to see you again soon!
Welcome to our life. I am a wife to a wonderful man that I have been married to for 14 years and a mother to two precious children that God gave us through domestic adoption. This blog is used as a way to journal and share with family and friends what's going on in our life. I use lots of pictures,they just tell the stories the best! WARNING!! I'm very blessed! :)
