Sorry For The Gory Post, But This Is Life

Tonight was one of those nights that I was left wondering how in the world single mothers make it. My hat is off to them!

On a routine basis, Wayne does bath time duty. :) I'm so thankful for this little bit of a break every day. He is such a good Daddy, and Jacob loves him so much! Plus, Jacob's favorite time of the day is bath time! The kid absolutely loves water!

Well, recently, Wayne has been working 12-16 hour days on Tuesdays-Thursdays, so I thought I would try to start having everything done by the time he gets home just so we could all relax for a little bit together before hitting the sack.So, tonight after dinner I start the bath routine. (This is where it starts to get....nasty, for lack of a better word.) I have the bath water ran, and I place lil man in the tub. He is splishing and splashing like every night, and he lets a little "air" out. As always, he starts laughing (boys start thinking body movements are funny at a very young age). You can only imagine what happens next. Yep. Poop in the tub. (For the record, I think it's pretty good that this only has happened once in 14 months. And yes, I am blogging about poop!) So, I immediately get him out and start draining the....umm...water. AS SOON AS HIS FEET HIT THE FLOOR, he pees everywhere!!! I'm scrounging to find a towel. As soon as I start cleaning up the pee, he PUKES all over my lap! So, here I go cleaning up poop, pee and puke! As soon as I start on the puke, he decides to poop on the rug!!!! I'm not kidding. So, tub still draining, I'm cleaning up the poop on the rug. Keep in mind, I have a weak stomach. It hasn't bothered me much since Jacob was born, but tonight was the exception. I start to clean the tub, and I got sick. I mean real sick. Like when I was prego sick. My poor 1 year old was patting my back. It was pitiful. All of this happened in about 30 seconds. I then Lysol AND Clorox the tub and we continue on with the bath routine of the night.

Now, who says being a stay at home mom isn't work??? But I will also be the first to say, it's the best job I've ever had!

I might have just lost a few readers! :P

These Days

It seems like I rarely ever get to update this blog anymore! Well, not as much as I use to. :) We just get busier and busier. I still wonder how we are going to handle another child one day (through God's grace, I know!), because as always, the one we have keeps us hopping!! :) I wouldn't have it any other way.

Let's go back to last Friday. I FINALLY got to go back to my scrapbooking group. I have missed it so much! My last time going was at Easter. Here are a couple of pics from my favorite layout of the night. You can tell, I am a little behind. It brings back lots of memories looking at these 6 week old pics!

Then, on Saturday, I was busy in Opelika with a little of this....

and a little of that.....

Have I mentioned lately that I absolutely LOVE what I do? I originally took the classes to be able to take pics of our children, and God has blessed me tremendously with a business that just keeps growing! I have a few more shoots coming up, so be sure to check out my photog blog . Hopefully sometime in the next couple of weeks I can get some more of our lil man! I have some really cute ideas to play with!

Speaking of the little guy....he tried his very first corn on the cob. Sort of. He had no clue as to what to do with it, and he fought us like crazy when we tried to show him. Needless to say, he was not interested!

The same night, Wayne was going through a junk drawer in our kitchen (that obviously has a lot of junk in it). He walked out of the room for about 1.4 (seriously, 1.4) seconds, and came back to this.

Then, see the flashlight in his hand??? He banged the door frame with it! It might not look too bad in the pic, but it definitely needs some touch up paint! I have a feeling by the time he is 5, our entire house will need touch up paint!!!

Now, we are just nursing our little man back to health! He has bronchiolits caused by RSV! The doctors keep telling me that he will be sick until he gets the tubes in December, but they also say (in the same breath) that they can't do the surgery unless he is well. !!!!!!!!! How am I suppose to get him well if they can't? Ultimately, I'm ready for him to be a happy, healthy little boy again! Please pray for him with us! He has been congested more in the last 6 months than he has been clear!

Wayne and I are hopefully (as long as Jacob is well) heading to Gatlinburg next Sunday! It will be our first trip just the two of us since Jacob was born! And boy are we ready! I'm so excited to be able to spend some one on one time with my incredible husband for three entire days. Then we are heading to my parents' house when we get back. So, needless to say, this might be my last post for a while. Hope you all have a wonderul Thanksgiving!

Play, Play, Play...And A Little More Play!

I missed this little guy so much!!!! My parents kept him for two nights (!), and I was dying to get him back. I had already decided that no matter how I felt, I was going to play with him all day today! And play we did! (Thankfully I was feeling much better!!)

He started bright and early this morning wanting my cell phone. And for today, he got it! He's gotten to where he doesn't chew on it, so I don't mind him playing with it as much!

And of course, he couldn't wait to get on his horsey! He absolutely loves this thing!

And one thing is for sure. Little boys LOVE little toys! It seems the smaller things are, the more he likes them! One thing that has amazed me is that he loves balls and cars. Not that that's unusual, but nobody has taught him that. He learned to love them all on his own. I'm so glad we had a boy first. Wayne would not be able to deal with our little boy playing with little girl toys!

Where did it go?????

Oh well. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

He loves his big cars too!

And this....this rattle came off of a bear that Grandmollie gave us in the hospital. It has always been one of his favorites!

"Beep. Beep. Beep. Coming through."

"Make way for Captain Destructo!"

"Look what I can do MaMa!"

"I can get on most of the furniture now!"

I even let the little booger play (for about 3 seconds) in his food!

After a nap and a trip to Target, we spent the rest of the afternoon outside! I loved being able to have an entire day just for him!

Have you played lately??? :)

Publicly Halloween

Well, for those of you who haven't noticed, we're back public. For some reason, LOTS of people were having a hard time with us being private. It never would let them see it. So, I played with many ideas. First, I started going through and taking our names out of every post. Then, I decided it would be pointless because our name is in our URL. I played with the idea of changing that too, but haven't made up my mind yet. I discussed it with the hubs, and his main concern was that there was a pic of our house on here. Well, now there is not. Pretty much we're back to where we use to be (for now) minus the pic of the outside of our house. If I end up changing the URL and taking our names out of everything....I'll be sure to let you know. The more and more I think about it, the sillier it sounds. If someone really wanted some info on us, I'm sure they could hack into our account whether it was private or not. Plus, we're on facebook....and I know that it would take someone with very little computer knowledge to hack facebook. So, there you have it. If you have anything on the computer at all, I seriously doubt it is private!

Well, enough of that! As most of you know, it has been a horrible month of health for this family! We've delt with an ear infection, double ear infection, croup, swine flu, stomach bug x 3, swine flu, and scheduling for Jacob's tubes. (I'm sure there is more, but you get the picture!) But, that didn't slow us down, too bad, for Halloween! Although, we didn't make it to the pumpkin patch this year! We tried THREE times, and all three times we faced rain or sickness or both! I guess there is always next year!

Our first Halloween celebration was at PDO. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of work! I got to trade in my 4 year old class....

....with some fun with this guy! (I love the smile one his face in this picture! I'm still amazed at how absolutely PRECIOUS this kid is!)

And let me tell you, the entire group of four year olds don't hold a candle to this guy. I was absolutely worn out between having too much fun, and pitching too many fits!

Here he is with his teacher, Mrs. Becky, on the right. She takes such great care of my buddy when we're there on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The lady on the left is Mrs. Janice. She will be our teacher next year. :)

Then, on Friday night, we headed to Tannehill. We started a tradition last year to go and check out all the campers' decorations. It's insane the amount of time and money these people put into Halloween decorations! Tannehill now has Bob Sykes BBQ, and we decided to eat there before we took our stroll (plus it gave the rain some time to calm down).

They were so busy, there wasn't a highchair in sight. Oh well, we made do. And little man wasn't upset one bit. He just enjoyed the TV right above our head!

Then, the rain calmed (or so it seamed), and we headed out! Jacob was so amazed at all the decorations!

And for a kid that LOVES water any way he can get it....he wasn't impressed when the rain came back down!

So, we headed back to the car so we could drive the rest of the way through!

Then, in the middle of the night Friday, I started feeling horrible! With Wayne having just gotten over the swine flu, I knew what it was. I was at the doc in the box as soon as they opened! And sure enough, my Halloween plans were ruined! Wayne was a trooper though. We all rode to the church (I stayed in the car, but I couldn't completely miss it!), and Wayne let Jacob have some fun at the Trunk or Treat. I'm so thankful to have a husband that cares so much (and one that is mighty good lookin' if I do say so myself!)!

I asked him to take lots of pics! Here's a couple that he came back to the car with...

Then, we ended our fun with going to see Gran and Papa. They always seem to have a little something for Jacob, not matter what the occassion!

Now, my baby has been away from me for TWO nights! We're doing everything we can to keep him from getting sick, but I sure am ready to meet Nana and Pappy to get him back tonight! Hope everyone had a blast this Halloween!