Halloween pics soon to come
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
cheese, pasta, milk, chocolate......sigh
All of these things are now off limits to me sadly. Little Jack has broken out in a horrible rash and the doctor believes its due to an allergen in my breast milk. So until we find out what it is I cannot consume the probably causes, which means what the crap am I going to eat???? This is only day one and I'm already craving things...it doesn't help that I have a jug of milk, all sorts of chocolate and yogurt about the house. Also this means I can't eat anything containing milk-bread, snack bars, cookies and so much more. I have a whole week until we find out if this is really the cause....until then I'm living on...I don't know yet.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Smile!..no it's not gas..
At least I'm pretty sure it wasn't gas this time, he's smiling and laughing a lot nowadays. You can't see it in this picture but there are bar thingies going over his head that have toys dangling from them and a mirror attached to one directly above him. He will lay on this thing for the longest time just staring up into that mirror talking and laughing at himself. It's so cute!!
He gets his first shots tomorrow! I was just thinking how happy he's been and now he's going to hate us! I'm going to go cry now. Love you all!!
Progress!
Well I think we've decided on a lot to purchase finally. I'm glad that we can now stop driving around Jonesboro becoming more and more discouraged as everything we liked or were even slightly interested in was either sold or way out of our price range. So it's exciting to have made a decision and agree on a lot that we want, however now that realty agent is not answering calls or returning emails. It's like they just don't want to sell anything to us. We may have to get more aggressive with this guy and show up at his office demanding attention. We just don't want to seem needy, you know? Kidding of course, I'm not above that. Anyway, we've also got a basis for our floor plan with a few modifications it's going to be great. So we have loans figured out, we know where we want to build, what we want to build and who we want to build it. Lots of great progress, just one little guy named Gary Black standing in our way. Geez!!
I was very excited when I realized the end of the search for property/ a house was nearing, then I remembered that we will have to spend hours in places like Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. picking out all of the things that will go in it. Oh and new furniture to fill the rooms that we don't currently have, but that can wait. I'm prowling the Internet now for a beautiful bathtub. Have you heard of this new fangled thing called, Bubblemassage bath tubs? It's like a whirlpool, but instead of recirculating your naked bath water and air back into the tub, it just continuously puts warm air into the tub via jets for a wonderful all over massage. Sounds marvelous!
Anyway..isn't my baby so cute?
Thursday, August 28, 2008
This is NOT invisible Kristen..
Who cares about the title anyway, it's the body of the entry that you are interested in after all. Other wise I'm just going to start putting up titles and that is all.
Anywho.. this week has been eventful for us. We've actually been out of the house, to public places every day this week. Amazing!! We have visited several people at work and will continue to find places to go in the afternoon. It seems to work well in our routine to go out in the afternoon. Jack is happy, as long as he has slept the night before, and it's great stimulation for both of us. Monday Jack and I ventured to the grocery store. I was pretty nervous about going there by myself with him b/c I didn't know how to carry him (front pack, car seat???). It turns out that I forgot the front pack and had to opt for putting the carrier seat in the cart. It didn't quite fit right and was too tall for me to see over so I walked next to the cart pushing it. Not the easiest thing in the world. The baby did extremely well, cooed and smiled at my silliness the whole time. In fact, the only time he made a negative sound or face was when some old lady asked how old my daughter was. What the crap?! He was dressed in all blue, no hair bow, boyish blanket and I know that I probably said his name where she could hear it. Crazy lady. It did upset him a little though. Also, check out people are not helpful when you have a baby at Kroger. She was like um, you need to move him out of the cart, while she was ringing up my groceries. Where exactly was I supposed to put him??? We did make it through though and in the future will remember the front pack.
The next day we went to AHEC(the clinic that I was working at) to drop off some diapers that we couldn't use b/c Jack's bum is way too big for newborn junk nowadays. This was fun because I got to visit with all the nurses I used to spend all week with and find out how everyone is doing. A lot has changed there already and seems like it will continue to change rapidly as several people are about to leave or they are pregnant, getting married, etc. Everyone there was quite proud that Sam had finally let us come up, I had received several calls and texts about that and the comment was made more than once that people had just been asking if I was ever going to come back up there. So it was nice to know that I've been missed and still have a little work home there. I hope it stays that way for awhile in case I ever want to go back full time.
Wednesday was pretty fun, we went to visit Papa Jeff at work. Daddy promptly went into show off mode and took his grandson around to EVERY office or cubicle with a big smile on his face. All the ladies, as dad is one of the only two men that work in that building, agreed that Jack is gorgeous and smells good. I'm not understanding the need to sniff babies. It's weird and creepy to put your nose to someone's head, especially if it's someone you just met-baby or not. Everyone does it though. I mean I smell him every now and then, but that's because I want to make sure he doesn't smell like sweat. Which he does, a lot! Such a boy! So that was the afternoon, then since Sam was working that evening we went to his office! Can you believe it? It was fun and all the nurses and staff thought he was the cutest thing-ooed and awwed over him for a long time until Sam came out and asked if they were ever going to put his patient's back in rooms. I thought that Sam was going to throw up a little when Jack spit his pacifier out and it landed on the floor of the nurses station. He immediately yanked it up and considered throwing it away. Opted to wash it off and tell me I couldn't give it back to him until I sterilized it and then promptly dropped it in the floor again. Yeah, I bought new ones today. After that we went to my parents for a little Kat-kat cuddling. Long day! But he did so well, he's such a good baby.
Today was the Stallings' Annual Fishing Derby!! For some reason Sam always gets volunteered to grill for this event so we were kind of obligated to go and if we didn't take Jack with us I am pretty sure that we would have been tortured in some way. It ended up being fun though, got to see a lot of doctors and staff that weren't at AHEC on Tuesday. We were there for a couple of hours and outside most of the time-which was humid and ucky but Jack was so content and just watched everything that was going on. He is so alert for his age I think. Watching all the other kiddos fish got us all excited about taking Jack out there when he gets bigger.
Also today Jack and I went to Home Depot. It would have been fine had we gotten prompt service at the paint dept. instead of having to wait for 30 minutes and having someone paged 4 times! During that wait some guy was stocking aisles and had one of the forklift dealies backing it up and it seemed like he would follow us to every aisle we went to. That loud, shrill beeping was so insanely annoying. Jack at one point looked up at me (from the front pack that I remembered, see I learn) and made a sound like "owoo" which I took from the look on his face meant, " shut that guy up mom, he's driving me crazy! why did you bring me here? gosh!" other than that it went pretty well.
Tomorrow Sam has the afternoon off, so hopefully we will have some fun family adventure. Anyway-jack is calling to me.
Anywho.. this week has been eventful for us. We've actually been out of the house, to public places every day this week. Amazing!! We have visited several people at work and will continue to find places to go in the afternoon. It seems to work well in our routine to go out in the afternoon. Jack is happy, as long as he has slept the night before, and it's great stimulation for both of us. Monday Jack and I ventured to the grocery store. I was pretty nervous about going there by myself with him b/c I didn't know how to carry him (front pack, car seat???). It turns out that I forgot the front pack and had to opt for putting the carrier seat in the cart. It didn't quite fit right and was too tall for me to see over so I walked next to the cart pushing it. Not the easiest thing in the world. The baby did extremely well, cooed and smiled at my silliness the whole time. In fact, the only time he made a negative sound or face was when some old lady asked how old my daughter was. What the crap?! He was dressed in all blue, no hair bow, boyish blanket and I know that I probably said his name where she could hear it. Crazy lady. It did upset him a little though. Also, check out people are not helpful when you have a baby at Kroger. She was like um, you need to move him out of the cart, while she was ringing up my groceries. Where exactly was I supposed to put him??? We did make it through though and in the future will remember the front pack.
The next day we went to AHEC(the clinic that I was working at) to drop off some diapers that we couldn't use b/c Jack's bum is way too big for newborn junk nowadays. This was fun because I got to visit with all the nurses I used to spend all week with and find out how everyone is doing. A lot has changed there already and seems like it will continue to change rapidly as several people are about to leave or they are pregnant, getting married, etc. Everyone there was quite proud that Sam had finally let us come up, I had received several calls and texts about that and the comment was made more than once that people had just been asking if I was ever going to come back up there. So it was nice to know that I've been missed and still have a little work home there. I hope it stays that way for awhile in case I ever want to go back full time.
Wednesday was pretty fun, we went to visit Papa Jeff at work. Daddy promptly went into show off mode and took his grandson around to EVERY office or cubicle with a big smile on his face. All the ladies, as dad is one of the only two men that work in that building, agreed that Jack is gorgeous and smells good. I'm not understanding the need to sniff babies. It's weird and creepy to put your nose to someone's head, especially if it's someone you just met-baby or not. Everyone does it though. I mean I smell him every now and then, but that's because I want to make sure he doesn't smell like sweat. Which he does, a lot! Such a boy! So that was the afternoon, then since Sam was working that evening we went to his office! Can you believe it? It was fun and all the nurses and staff thought he was the cutest thing-ooed and awwed over him for a long time until Sam came out and asked if they were ever going to put his patient's back in rooms. I thought that Sam was going to throw up a little when Jack spit his pacifier out and it landed on the floor of the nurses station. He immediately yanked it up and considered throwing it away. Opted to wash it off and tell me I couldn't give it back to him until I sterilized it and then promptly dropped it in the floor again. Yeah, I bought new ones today. After that we went to my parents for a little Kat-kat cuddling. Long day! But he did so well, he's such a good baby.
Today was the Stallings' Annual Fishing Derby!! For some reason Sam always gets volunteered to grill for this event so we were kind of obligated to go and if we didn't take Jack with us I am pretty sure that we would have been tortured in some way. It ended up being fun though, got to see a lot of doctors and staff that weren't at AHEC on Tuesday. We were there for a couple of hours and outside most of the time-which was humid and ucky but Jack was so content and just watched everything that was going on. He is so alert for his age I think. Watching all the other kiddos fish got us all excited about taking Jack out there when he gets bigger.
Also today Jack and I went to Home Depot. It would have been fine had we gotten prompt service at the paint dept. instead of having to wait for 30 minutes and having someone paged 4 times! During that wait some guy was stocking aisles and had one of the forklift dealies backing it up and it seemed like he would follow us to every aisle we went to. That loud, shrill beeping was so insanely annoying. Jack at one point looked up at me (from the front pack that I remembered, see I learn) and made a sound like "owoo" which I took from the look on his face meant, " shut that guy up mom, he's driving me crazy! why did you bring me here? gosh!" other than that it went pretty well.
Tomorrow Sam has the afternoon off, so hopefully we will have some fun family adventure. Anyway-jack is calling to me.
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