tid bits

Sorry for the lack of picture posts....apparently my new computer does not have the capability (the hole) needed to insert my camera card directly in to the unit. So as of right now, I have no way to get my pictures on to my new computer. But don't fear, Mike is going to buy me an adapter and I will be good to go. I have plenty of pictures from Christmas!

We went to a buffet for dinner tonight, where Jacob saw Santa. We see this man out and about every year at this time, along with his wife, who pretty much resembles Mrs. Claus (minus the white hair). I don't know if he grows out his beard and wears only red this time of year, but I don't remember seeing him any other time of the year, and darnit he looks exactly like Santa! He always plays the part and talks to Jacob. Jacob always asks me where his hat and boots are!

Jake is still getting over his yucky cough and I am slowly getting it. As long as I don't get the fever with it I will be good to go.

Tomorrow Mike plans on starting his 'honey do' list around the house, little things that need to e fixed or touched up. Then we are heading back in to town to visit with Emma and family once more before they fly back to Seattle.

I hope to have pictures up soon!

Holiday rush!

Whew, I cannot believe Christmas is over, and the New year is just around the corner!

Jacob (unfortunately) caught another bug and started running fever late Tuesday night. Nothing extreme, but enough to wonder what he was coming down with right before Christmas. He ended up running low grade fever for a few days and has a nasty cough, but was good to go today. I am just glad we avoided another trip to the doctor, more antibiotics, or even worse, a shot!!!

We have been going nonstop since Wednesday. Our favorite little niece came in from Seattle with her mommy and daddy (Mikes' sister and bro-in-law) early in the AM. We ,however, did not see them until Thursday. We spent most of Wednesday cleaning the house, running to Walmart, going to church and attending parties=)
Jacob and I had made a gingerbread train early in the day and put it out for Santas' reindeer. (He wanted to sample the gingerbread and candy, but the kit was one I found deep in the depths of the pantry, from last year. It was pretty well past it's expiration date, but served it's purpose nicely). We (of course) baked cookies for Santa and a cake for baby Jesus as well.

On Christmas morning, Mike was way too excited and could not stand it, so we went to wake Jacob up at 6:45 in the am to see what Santa had left.

Jacob was quite excited about his new car and wanted to ride it right away! We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and then started tearing open the other presents! Jacob willingly opened his other gifts and patiently watched us open ours. Santa was very generous and left mommy a nice new laptop! Daddy got a new watch. You gotta love St. Nick.

Jacob got a big kick out of seeing that Santa ate all of his cookies, and left just one with a bite taken out of it! He asked if he could have the rest of Santas' cookie. Of course I let him, it was Christmas for petes sake!

We then jumped in the car and hopped from house to house, town to town visiting family and friends. We finally got to see Ms Emma and her parents, whom we have not seen since March.

On Friday night we left Jacob with the neighbors kids and their wonderful sitter to go out to dinner and a movie. It was very nice (but very odd) to go out for a nice evening without children!

Today we headed back in to town to spend more time with cousin Emma and her family. Jacob and Emma get along so well. Jacob stayed the night with Emma and their Grancie. Mike and I are back home, exhausted. Grancie is bringing Jake home tomorrow.

I will post some pictures from the week tomorrow. I hope everyone had as awesome a Christmas as we did.

Christmas Eve eve

2 nights to go....did I mention that I LOVE Christmas. I am a total kid at heart this time of the year! Christmas Eve is my favorite!

Tomorrow we plan on baking a birthday cake for baby Jesus, making our first ever gingerbread house (from a kit, of course), and baking cookies for Santa. We are also going to church tomorrow night, and stopping by a friends' place for a Christmas Eve party. Then off to bed for Jake, and off to the garage for daddy! Jacobs' little car should not take too long for Mike to assemble, the box says 15 minutes....

Our party on Saturday night went well. Not as big of a turn out as previous years, but still a blast. I included a few pictures from the night, I did not take very many, apparently!






On Sunday, we all slept in and when Jacob and I woke, he requested to paint the bird house we bought months ago.


The rest of the day was spent completing some Christmas shopping while avoiding the mall completely!

Yesterday I worked, and today we got to see baby Addie ( for Jacobs' sake, I sure hope it's a girl like he insists that it is!). The office has a TV conveniently placed for your families viewing pleasure, so Jacob and Mike watched baby jump around in Mommy's belly. Jacob exclaimed "she looks like a bean!" She sure does, and active one! We also got to hear the heartbeat for the first time today!

I may not post again until Friday or so, as we have a busy next few days.

Merry Christmas to all!

Wait, am I supposed to be sick?

I think that is what Jacob thinks, actually that's what we are all thinking! You see, despite being diagnosed with the horrific chicken pox disease, Jacob shows NO signs of the illness. Minus a pock mark here and there, which actually look like skeeta bites, he is his typical healthy 3 year old self. Chicken pox rocks!

Jake had his Christmas party at school today and came home with a crapload of stuff! I usually make it to all of his school parties, but I had to work today and missed this one=(

Tomorrow is our annual family and friend Christmas party, and we will have lots of pictures from that! I have been running around like a mad woman trying to get this house together, plus getting all of the presents wrapped. Holy crap I never realised how many presents there were to be wrapped. Towards the end, as my back ached and my legs throbbed with stiffness, I actually handed the roll of tape to Jacob and let him tape up the gifts! So if you get a gift from us that looks like a 3 year old did it, well, he did. Just feel extra special!

Pocks it is

The verdict is in, Jake has the chicken pocks (or pox, however you want to spell it). Though it is an extremely mild case! He might have a total of 10 pock marks on his entire body! No fever, no snot nosed whiny boy, nothing! I never thought I would have been so happy about vaccinating my child. Dr. F says because he had his vaccination, the disease is in a much milder form than if he had not had it. Yay vaccines=)

I was even able to drop little man off at daycare so I could get some much needed cleaning done around the house for the big party this weekend.

Cleaning, that's what I was doing.......

sick as dogs

Well, as you might recall, Jacob had strep throat about three weeks ago. Since then, all health has gone downhill in our family! Mike has been having hives on and off since then, and I just broke out in a set of my own this past weekend. Mine are resolving pretty nicely, but it sure was difficult on Saturday to throw beads from the Mardi Gras float with fingers as fat as sausages.

Our neighbors invited us to be in the Christmas Parade this past weekend and we had a blast. Jacob insisted on throwing one peppermint at a time, and wanted each one to be picked up by someone!





My fingers are back to normal today, but my legs still are itchy and bumpy from all of the hives.

We noticed last night Jacob was starting to have a small rash himself on his belly. By this afternoon though, it had progressed to more of a whole stomach/back rash with larger bite like marks on his arms and legs. My first thought - the dreaded chicken pox! I called his school to see if their had been any recent breakouts, and to my dismay, there had. So, my conclusion is that we are now dealing with chicken pox. Oh, and to answer your question, yes he has had the vaccine. It does not prevent the disease, it just lessens the severity of it. Humph.

So I put in a precautionary call to my OB today and the nurse who called me back said everything was fine as long as I had had the chicken pox before. I have, as a child. Now, Jacob gets to hang out with me at home tomorrow while I disinfect for our party this weekend. Oh, and don't worry, he is no longer contagious (if chicken pox is in fact what he has).

Say a little prayer for our families health....we don't want to be sick for Christmas!

Snow Day!

What! SNOW in Louisiana.....unheard of! We might get some sort of snow/sleet every 5 - 7 years, maybe...



This morning while I was leaving the house (at 5am) for work I noticed the snow, but it was so wet that it was not sticking to the ground. As I pushed on, I soon realized I was fighting a damn blizzard. Snow was swirling and slamming in to the car, roads and bridges were icing over, and everyone around me went in to freak out mode. You see, here in La, we don't know what to do with the white stuff you other people call snow. To ask us to drive in it...blasphemy! I arrived at work safely, some 2 1/2 hours later. I called Mike when I got there and he informs me that Jacobs' day care was closed for a snow day, as well as all of the schools in the area! So daddy and Jake stayed home for a snow day, and when I got home we all headed out to build us a Frosty. We didn't have a carrot or coal, or a hat or scarf, so we made us a southern snowman.....complete with a leaf nose and mulch eyes=)









Jacob was so excited, we had to force him to come inside once the sun set. I hope the snow sticks around for a little while, I know he would love to see it in the morning when he wakes, and since he won't remember this snow day, we took lots of pictures. See you again Mr. Jack Frost, in another 5 years or so!

Blah!

I cannot believe I am actually finding time to sit and blog....

Things are still totally crazy (in a good way) around here!

Looking back to last Thursday night, Jacob and some of the nieghbors kids were in a Christmas program with their school (daycare). I purchased a handsome little 3 piece suit for Jake and put on his best church shoes. Then we bundled him up and headed to his daycare for the pah-tay. Gigi was in town and she came along. The kids were adorable, as displayed in this short film captured on the camera (incase you can't tell, Jacob is in the suit, standing next to the blonde boy in the front row....second from the end on the right):(Will post video tomorrow)
It was packed in the church and pretty hard to get decent pictures. I am so glad I nabbed some before heading out that night.

Afterwards we all headed to Baskin Robbins for a chilly treat. Jacob ate all of his ice cream and some of mine. Turned out to not be such a great idea, because he ended up throwing up once during the night and twice the next morning! We are awesome parents...letting our child gorge himself on ice cream at 8pm at night=)

The following day (Friday morning), mom and I went shopping with a possibly sick Jacob (we waited until he stopped throwing up....). Friday night the neighbors and I took the kids to see Playhouse Disney live on stage. They LOVED it! We were a little late arriving though since we decided to partake in some TJ Ribs before hand and lost track of time! After the show, right outside the River Center, the city was having it's annual festival of lights. Including real snow for the kids to play in, ice skating (or so we thought), little crafts for the kiddies and live music.

We decided to check out the 'ice skating' first....what a joke! They had actually painted some plywood white and created a makeshift 'rink' for the kids. It was hilarious. No ice involved! Soooo....we skipped that little endeavor and headed out to the snow. Yes, the snow was real, and boy was Jacob excited about it. That is, until he stepped foot in it and fell down. He didn't like it much after that, but he completely lost all sanity when we took him out. We managed to sidetrack him with some of the crafts and then headed home.

Saturday morning we went a birthday party at a jump zone type place. Jacob had fun, but threw the BIGGEST most obnoxious tantrum when we told him to sit down during the unwrapping of the presents. Mike had to remove him from the situation for over 15 minutes before he finally calmed down. He missed the whole present segment of the party! The rest of the day Saturday was spent shopping and running a few errands. We stood in line for 45 minutes to see Santa, and I managed to capture some pictures on my camera, therefore enabling us to sneak out without having to pay the $15+ they were asking for your childs picture with Santa. Late Saturday night we got a phone call that Mikes' grandfather had been admitted to the ER for a heart attack, and was stable.

On Sunday we all ventured to the after hours clinic in search or a relief for Mikes' back pain. He had been having some trouble with his back, but it got unbearable on Sunday. 3 short hours and one shot in the butt later, Mike was good to go. We then decided to go ahead and head in to town to check on Grandpa. He was in CCU, so Jacob was not allowed in.

We spent the beginning of the week in town with family and Grandpa came home yesterday! He was SO glad to be back in his own house!

We got back to our home late last night (Tuesday) and had our first docotr exam and sonogram today! Baby looks great, heart beat is strong, and mama is having some wicked nausea! It is supposed to snow tonight (what?!?!?), we'll see about that!

Sorry it took so long to update!!!

Aaaackkkk!

We are out of town right now on another spur of the moment side trip/family emergency....I promise as soon as I return home and finally get some free time to sit at my own computer I will update, pictures and all!

Thanks for hanging in=)

small little tidbit

Just a little post to let you know we have had one helluva crazy week / weekend and I have tons of pictures to post. Check back tomorrow!!

graveyard shift...

Tonight is my first night back at doing the night shift thing....not so much looking forward to it! I worked night shift for 6 years, and never gave it a second thought. But now that I have been working normal people hours for almost 4 months I am regretting going back to nights!!!

It will only be one night every week or two, but still....what was I thinking???

Jacob has been good, coming out of his shell more at school. His big debut (Christmas pageant) is tomorrow night and we cannot wait. I hope to post a video of it by Friday! Gigi is coming up to enjoy his singing with us.

Baby bug 2 is kicking in the nausea right now so I must grab a bite to eat! Wish me luck tonight....mainly that I can stay awake all night!