Sunscreen Spray Scare

So last night, I sent Kellen to brush his teeth (he brushes them first, then I brush them) while I was putting some laundry in to wash. In the midst of doing that, I heard a bloodcurdling scream come from the direction of the bathroom - how it didn't wake Tatum in the next room is still a mystery to me. Anyway, I run to the bathroom to discover Kellen holding his eyes and screaming, and see the sunscreen spray laying out. After I ask what's wrong and what happened - yell really, to be heard above his screaming - Kellen tells me that he's sprayed sunscreen in his eyes.

Unfortunately, what I suspected, but OH MY!

I pick him up and carry him to our bathroom, put a towel down on the sink, flip him upside down and hold his head under the faucet in an attempt to rinse his eyes out. As I'm washing his face off, I can feel the sunscreen all over his face. I'm trying to calm him down, but what he's screaming most is that he wants a hug. (Insert breaking heart here...because I CANNOT stop trying to wash his eyes out). I'm talking him through this, "Sweetie, your eyes are burning because of the sunscreen and I have to put the water on your face and in your eyes to get the yucky sunscreen OUT of your eyes. Help Mommy and open your eyes for me under the water so we can get them rinsed out." I finally started making a dam-like contraption with one of my hands so that the water would pool around his eyes and then had him blink (as best he could and would).

After about 5 minutes of this, he begs me to get in the shower. At this point in time, I texted Matt with "Call home asap."

So we strip and hop into the shower...same kind of thing...head under the spray, blink lots and lots. Except that he wasn't really blinking much because the water and his eyes were hurting. Poor baby!

Matt calls a few minutes later, asking what's wrong. I give him the Cliff Note version. So, talking Kellen through it even more, I told him that I was going to open his eyes under the water - did he want me to do both at one time or one at a time? He opted for one at a time...I had him "hug" me with his arms and legs and then used my right hand to open up his left eye - got that under the water, and we did that for a few minutes, but it was getting painfully obvious that Kellen was so very DONE with this whole thing. He just kept begging to go to bed.

Then the door to the shower opened up. Matt had decided that enough was enough and he was so much more needed at home...and had come home from his workshop/class and went into EMT-mode. He took Kellen and had Kellen talk him through what had happened...did an informal eye exam to make sure that Kellen had full use of his vision, including peripheral, talked about whether or not Daddy looked fuzzy, etc. Then he took him into the other bathroom and had Kellen re-enact the spray (pointing down to the ground) so that we could actually see how much sunscreen Kellen had sprayed (not that much).

All told, I had been washing his eyes out for about 20 minutes by the time Matt had gotten home...Kellen told Matt that he only got it into 1 eye, and he told me that he got it into both. By looking at his eyes, I would say that he got some into both eyes - they were both red and bloodshot, but definitely the bulk was in his left eye...which was pretty swollen when we were all through.

Lots of cuddles, hugs, kisses, etc later, he went to bed.

This morning, he runs into my room, excited to tell me that his eye doesn't hurt or burn him. And that he's NOT going to do that again!

The kicker of this whole thing...it's totally OUR FAULT that this happened because the sunscreen was someplace that he was able to get it. Locked cabinets don't work, because he knows how to open them.

*Sigh*

The volcano erupted

So this morning as I was feeding Tatum, I noticed that she was doing her business. I stopped feeding her, sat her up, and started burping her...thinking that I would let her finish, change her diaper, then proceed with her breakfast.

Well, a minute or so passed when I felt something seeping through my jeans onto my leg...let me indicate now that I was already fully dressed for work at this point in time. I looked down, and see a volcano of poop seeping out of her clothes. Yes ladies and gentlemen, her poop was defying gravity -- going up her diaper back, halfway up her back, over the top of her cute little shorts, and then running over the top, and down onto my leg and onto our recliner, looking remarkably similar in consistency and texture to the oatmeal mixture that she has decided she loves and has been eating.

Oh my, oh my. How DOES poop defy gravity?

Weekend madness!!

My goodness!!!!

So.........

Matt went on Thursday and picked up our new (not brand new, but new to us) TV...a 55" one...According to Kellen, it's, "A big FAT TV!" It stayed in the back of my van for a few days until he and I were able to get it out and into the house yesterday (ok, mostly him...but I DID help some). TV is now a completely new experience over here!!

We traded in Matt's truck for an '03 Chevy Trailblazer on Saturday, then get back to Conroe to find out that Tatum had finally mastered rolling over from her back to her belly. She hasn't finished cutting the two teeth that she's working on, but I think she's getting pretty close!

Weighed her on Maw Maw and Paw Paw's scales this weekend and she's a whopping 16 pounds. We'll see what her "official" weight is tomorrow morning when I take her in for her 4 month check-up. Wow! She blew past Kellen's growth curve already...I think she's almost gained a full 2 pounds JUST in the month of JUNE!!! Amazing! Someone asked me what she was eating, and when I replied, "Nothing, she's just nursing," asked me what I was eating! LOL - My reply, "Anything I want!"

Kellen's asking for more swim lessons, and for a turtle (he got that from HigglyTown Heroes...but he's not letting it go). Swim lessons we can do...not to sure about the turtle.

16 weeks old...and quite a few accomplishments

Tatum is officially 16 weeks old today (not 4 months - that milestone occurs on July 3rd, but 16 weeks). And to celebrate this momentous occasion, she actually had quite a few accomplishments today....

*We got a jumperoo from a friend and she discovered that she REALLY likes it

*We discovered that she could sit up, assisted by the boppy - and that includes balancing herself when she was almost falling backwards to catch herself and picking herself back up to a sitting position...And that she does it quite well for quite a long period of time...and LOVES it!!!
















*She tried cereal today...just a little, and actually ate some!















It was a REALLY busy day...

I spy, with my eye...

Well, on his way home today, Matt taught Kellen how to play "I spy" and so Kellen taught me while we were driving home from school today. He was just so much fun!

I spy with my eye...
Mommy, is it my turn?...
Mommy, you can't give up...try to guess again...

He was just precious!!

Can she already be cutting a tooth??

So Tatum has been a little fussy at night, like she's hurting...she'll suck on her paci, then her hand (not fingers - her entire hand), just about anything she can get in her mouth...and HARD (nuff said, right?) - but so far I haven't been able to feel any nubs or see anything on her gums. However, today I thought I saw the beginning of a tooth nub on her lower gums...(you know, the white line underneath the gum area..)

Is that possible? I mean, she's a little wiggle-worm, so I can't really be sure (it's not like she's sitting still so that I can peek in her mouth or anything). Kellen didn't get his first tooth until ~ 6 months or so...
I gave her some Tylenol about 20 minutes ago and she's calmed down quite a bit...

*sigh*

I guess I need to add teething tablets to my grocery list?

Cleaning spree

Well, since Matt is at work and Kellen is at MawMaw and PawPaw's (story time is tomorrow), I decided (what a wild hair - LOL) to take a half day off, leave Tatum in the very capable hands of her daycare teachers, and come home to clean my house (something that I don't seem capable of juggling with work, the kids, and Matt's crazy schedule right now, despite my "routines" and best intentions). I'm tired of cleaning up only to have it get all messed up again as soon as someone (ok, so I can leave Tatum out of it...for now) walks through a room! I have spent half of the day cleaning and I'm still not done! *sigh* I have gotten quite a bit accomplished, though...so that's good...

Ahhh! I feel like signing up for clean sweep or something!

I like the quote that I've seen in a few places...I think I want it to be my new motto:

"Cleaning up while you still have children in the home is like shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing!"

That sounds about right, doesn't it?

ER Trip...and not for the kids

Matt was being a sweetie today. I didn't end up rolling out of bed until ~ 10:30 or so...he just brought Tatum in to me when she got hungry and then would take her when she was through. I CANNOT remember the last time I slept in that late. We're keeping the laundry going and are both in cleaning-spree mode (which works out really well, actually) and he was working on laundry and asked me not to put anything else in the washing machine because he knew what he wanted to wash next. I'm still not sure exactly how he managed to do it, but, he managed to cut his head on the metal thing holding up the shelf above the washing machine as he was loading or changing clothes over from the washing machine to the dryer. He ended up with a pretty good little cut there on his head. Using the mirrors, we positioned it so that he could try and see how bad it was, and we ended up deciding that he should go ahead and go into the ER to have them take a look and either steri-strip it or suture it up. I'm just glad it didn't knock him out and that we aren't dealing with a concussion, too. On the first trip to the ER, they decided to steri-strip it to see if that would be ok. They wanted him to come back in an hour or so for them to check on it to see if it needed stitches. So on the 2nd trip, (The benefits of working at the ER, right? *grin*) they decided that the steri-strip would be fine. The dr said that based on where it is, the stiches might actually make the scarring worse. And, he doesn't need antibiotics, he's just supposed to try and keep it dry. Another plus...his tetanus shot is up-to-date, so he doesn't have to worry about getting another one of those, either.

*sigh* and *whew*

What a day!

What a weekend!

Wow! Matt remarked to me on the way home this afternoon that it felt like we had been gone for 5 days. I have to agree.

We left on Friday to go to his high school reunion. And Friday afternoon was pretty crazy! I took the afternoon off so that he and I could go and find something for me to wear to the reunion...we managed to find something for both Friday night and a semi-formal dress for Saturday night in a relatively painless manner, which was great as far as I was concerned. I also managed to get my hair cut, he picked up both of the kids, then we took Kellen to swim lessons after eating dinner at the mall, and when he was finished with swim lessons, we headed out of town by 8 PM. *whew* I think I was tired by the time we left, actually.

Anyway, we went to the social and hung out there until late (at least in my book) - we left around midnight or a little after. Luckily, Maw Maw and Paw Paw were on kid duty, so we were really able to have a good time this weekend. Unfortunately, Tatum started running a fever on Saturday...not too high - 101.5 was the highest it got, and she did respond to Tylenol, so we continued with our plan to go to the formal portion of the reunion on Saturday night. She was a little fussy when the tylenol wore off, but once it was in her system again, she was acting almost like normal, just sleeping a little more than usual.

We got all ready to go, and made it to The Woodlands around 7:45 or so...then Maw Maw called and told me that Tatum's fever had broken and had really come down (so much so, it turns out, that they didn't even have to give her any more medicine before she went to bed - yay!). So, we're all dressed up - Matt in his suit and me in a new red dress and into the reunion we go. We ended up having a really good time, for a really long time. The reunion was supposed to last until midnight, but shortly before then, they announced that they had the room for another hour. So we stayed around until 1 AM, then decided to continue to hang out with some of Matt's friends even after that. At 3 AM, I think Matt finally decided it would be easier to leave while I was still somewhat awake then to have to carry me out, so we ended up leaving.

Today Tatums fever hasn't been that bad...it's been elevated, but just low-grade, not too bad. Kellen, on the other hand, apparently had a really bad night last night and is seeming to get progressively worse. He was awake off and on all night long, and was complaining of his head hurting him...not sure what that's about. Today he started running a fever..and it's now progressed to 102.9 - WITH Tylenol in his system for an hour. Hmm...we'll be alternating tylenol and ibuprofen, I believe, to get this under control tonight. He isn't acting like he feels bad, but he is complaining that his head hurts some. Not much else other than that.

So I guess we'll see how tomorrow goes with both of them. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

It's been a while...

Quick update...

Kellen still loves HIS Tatum...

Tatum is smiling, laughing, rolling over (lots) from tummy to back and almost making it from back to front, and it batting at and grabbing objects now.

Kellen started his swimming lessons on Tuesday, and is doing great so far...he didn't want to go under the water on the first day, but did it right off the bat yesterday (yay!) - he's so excited about these lessons!

Grandma and Grandpa Gerren came in for the day this past weekend for an early birthday celebration for Grandma Gerren...Kellen just LOVED helping to plan for her birthday party...he really got into it. We went and watched Shrek the Third (again...we saw it opening weekend, too) and Kellen had just as much fun the 2nd time around...Only this time he was cracking up the theatre with his comments.

We also got to visit with Jen & James Westling this weekend while they were visiting from New York...and it really seemed like Kellen and James remembered each other. We determined that GattiTown is just TOO much for the kiddos...so McDonald's playground was the alternative playdate area.

This upcoming weekend is a big one for us...Matt's 20 year high school reunion...(ok, pick yourselves off the ground now and stop laughing). There are activities Friday night, Saturday during the day, and then a semi-formal event Saturday night...MawMaw and Paw Paw get to watch the kids while we go to the various activities, so it should be a lot of fun. Matt's really excited about it.

That's all for now!

Bumbo seat

Ok, so apparently there is this *relatively* new thing called a bumbo seat for kiddos...I got one for Tatum today and she just LOVES it...and so do I! It's WONDERFUL! I can actually have her sitting up next to us...and don't have to worry about her rubbing a bald spot on her head (which I am trying so terribly hard to avoid)...

She had a good time in this seat this evening...She talked to us, smiled, and even squealed! It was her loudest non-crying sound yet (other than her loud burbs...but I won't count those)...And she officially found her hand today. Wow!!

Monday:

Kellen had a playdate with his friend Jake, who is 3 days older than him. They are two of a kind! If you didn't know better, you would think they were related...they have the same coloring, hair color, complexion, etc..and both LOVE the same things...Cars, Buzz Lightyear...you know, the normal stuff. This is both good and bad...as you can well imagine. During this playdate, we had several "issues" about sharing, but all-in-all, they had a great time. We stayed for dinner and he actually ate his dinner for a popcicle treat, which I knew that he would end up not wanting, but that's ok because it got him to eat his dinner. It ended up being a really late night. We got over to their house at a little before 3:15 and left shortly before 9...yes, 9 PM. He was exhausted! I actually had to go into his room the next morning and wake him up to get him ready for school. But he just had so much fun!

And today Julie came to visit Tatum and I...It was SO good to catch up with her! I feel like I haven't talked with her in ages...We'll have to schedule some trips to visit her this summer when Joshua makes his appearance...

He wanted to share

Kellen went to a birthday party yesterday with a Curious George theme. In the party favor bag was, among other things, a small, stuffed-animal monkey. For obvious reasons, Kellen named him George, and has been trying to take his shirt of him ever since - unsuccessfully, I might add. Anyway, he did already have a monkey that he called George, but it was a bright pink monkey with velcro hands...so he decided that he wanted to be a really good big brother and share his toy with his little sister.

This is the sight that I see when I walk into the living room to check on Tatum. Mind you...I didn't tell him to do this nor did I know that he actually had done this until afterwards.

When I asked him if he had done this, his reply to me was, "I wanted to share my monkey with Tatum, Mommy."

Now how can you argue with that?

Oh and by the way...the swing was actually moving when he managed to do this...

Well, I didn't get everything on my to-do list done, but then again, there was entirely too many things on that list...I did; however, take both of the kids with me grocery shopping...then back out to get the correct size of aluminum pans for freezing, then cooked a double back of a penne casserole; a double batch of a pizza pasta casserole; a double bactch (and then some) of lasagna; and a double batch (which actually makes at least 5 dinners with leftovers) of cheesy chicken spaghetti. I have completely rearranged my freezer, and officially have no room left for anything of any size...expressed milk I can still manage to fit in there, but not much else (and I've somehow got to find space for that extra pot roast...hmmm). I emptied the dishwasher, and have re-loaded it...will run it right before I go to bed. Both kids have been fed, put to bed, and are asleep...and I've even managed to keep some laundry going during the day. Now..if only I can get it folded and put away... Maybe I'll get the rest of the to-do list done after lunch tomorrow...

This may not be much to some of you...but I just feel like I've really gotten some things done today!

Such a big girl!

Well...she is certainly thriving!...


Tatum had her 2 month well check-up today and she's weighing in at 11 lbs 13 oz (75%). She's already 22 3/4 inches long (75%) and had a 39 cm head circumference (50%). I actually thought that she would hit the 12 lb mark on this one, so I wasn't off by much! No wonder my back is bothering me when I lug her around for too long!



Just look at all of those rolls!!!

Sleeping through the night

Ok..

*Sunday night she slept from ~ 9:45 until 2:30, then went back to sleep and I had to wake her up to eat

*Monday night she slept from ~ 9:45 until 4:20, then went back to sleep and I had to wake her up to eat

*Last night she slept from ~ 9:45 until ~ 5:30...which, in my book, and for all intents and purposes, is ALL NIGHT LONG!

Whoo hoo!

Now, the real question is will she keep this up? Kellen was doing this at her age...so I'm hopeful...

And here she is...2 months old..

Frogs, frogs and more frogs

Although I had such great intentions of doing all these fun things during my maternity leave, many of them never materialized...So...MawMaw and I decided to take the kids to the Frog Exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science this afternoon. As in we decided when I was pulling into daycare at lunch to pick up Tatum for the day to take her home to feed her *grin* So instead of getting just her, I grabbed 'em both (luckily, Kellen hadn't fallen asleep yet), made it to the house, grabbed a quick sandwich, fed Tatum, changed clothes ('cause I did actually work today - another half day, which feels really odd by the way) and headed out to Conroe to pick up MawMaw. Got her and off we went. I made a deal with Kellen for him to nap on the way to Conroe, and he did (amazing how deals and seeing cool stuff works as incentives).

It wasn't quite as interesting to him as I thought it would be.....(Note: for those of you who don't know, frogs and the color green are just about Kellen's favorite things in the whole wide world...and have been since FOREVER). However, these frogs were in habitats as natural as possible, and some of them were quite small, so he got somewhat frustrated trying to actually see some of them. Overall, he did have a great time though!

Here is us entering the exhibit
Frogs...
More frogs...
Monkeying around with MawMawOutside the museum
AND...to top it all off...we ended up leaving the musuem about 5 minutes after 5. We were really concerned about the 5 o'clock traffic, and did hit a little bit on 59; however...we ended up making it back to Conroe and were sitting in the restaurant ordering our drinks shortly after 6. Yes, ladies and gentlemen...we made it from downtown Houston to Conroe at 5 PM in just under an hour...and I wasn't speeding, either!


So today was my 2nd day back to work and Tatum's 1st day at daycare. I guess she did ok...with me deciding to take them to the museum I just rushed in to get the kids in such a hurry that I really didn't have time to talk with her teachers about her day! Kellen did thoroughly enjoy helping me drop her off at school this morning, though...He felt like such a big boy walking into the baby room with me to drop her off! He was so excited, especially when he realized that when he's playing outside he can look into her classroom door!

The ground was closer than we thought

Ok...I bought my Grand Am in 2000 (it's a 1997)...and I just love that car! It truly has been a great car for me, and I had been determined to drive it until it could be driven no longer...just drive it on into the ground. I just thought that the ground was further away than what it actually was.

Let me explain...Last week, I got in the car to take Kellen to school and the wheel groaned at me...I called Matt, who was on his way back from work, who told me just to go home and that he would check on it when he got there. When he did, it looked like it was low on power steering fluid, so he put some in it - we thought that there might be a leak, but he continued to check that fluid level and it didn't go back down, so we thought that we were in the clear. A few hours later, I went to get into my car to run some errands only to see a river of unidentified fluids flowing out from underneath my car down my driveway. *sigh* After we made the decision that I shouldn't drive the vehicle anywhere (duh), we flip-flopped between taking it to someone here in town or back to Conroe to have Matt's mechanic look at it. We opted for the latter, thinking that it might be a repeat of a problem that we had fixed in January, which could mean that it was still covered.

So, on Tuesday, we fill up all of the fluids and drive both vehicles to Conroe. Matt's driving the Grand Am (just in case) and I have the kids in the truck. We make it to the shop about 10 minutes after they close - stinker - but Matt had already called them and left instructions about what was going wrong. We expected to hear something on Wednesday, but no. Thursday morning the shop calls asking what they're supposed to do with the car...communication break-down obviously. So, we explain the situation and they say they'll look at it...Well - they didn't get a chance to look at it until late on Thursday, and when they called it wasn't good news.

They had found two things wrong with it...1) the intact manifold and 2) the heater coil. Ok, #1 = ~ $500 and #2 = ~$400, so we have a couple of options. We can fork over the money and fix it, or fix the intact manifold and bypass the heater coil (like you really need a heater in Texas in the summer anyway, right) for the tune of the cost of the intact manifold + ~ $5.00. Or, another option is that we could just "patch it" and look for another vehicle and trade it in. So we're really thinking about the options here, and decide to patch it to give us some more time to think about what we want to do. We had already been contemplating getting me another vehicle, and these circumstances just moved up the time table for those discussions. Anyway, we called them on Friday morning and let them know to patch it, and they tell us that they don't think they can get to it until Monday. However, they called late on Friday afternoon and did have it ready. Much to my chagrin, when I went to pick it up, I was told that...

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they found something else wrong while they were patching...the power steering pump (if I remember correctly) had gone out and that would cost between $400 - 600 to fix. With this additional information, we're really leaning toward selling it and getting another vehicle. I point-blank asked the mechanic his opinion on this. His response, "Get rid of that car as quickly as possible."

Well I guess that settles that. Commence with vehicle searching.

We had already decided that we would be looking for a minivan...a used minivan, so I spent the next few days doing searches online. I finally found what I thought was "the car" at CarMax in Houston. It was a 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan and met all of our criteria...less than 30K miles, captain's seats in the middle row, third row of seating, etc. In fact, I had made a list of my "must haves" and my "would likes" - this one met ALL of the must have's and several of the would likes. Matt really wanted a vehicle with the stow-n-go - well, I did too, but it wasn't a deal-breaker for me, but I couldn't tell from the online listing if this one had it or not. We made an appointment for Tuesday afternoon to go and look at it. Come to find out, it did have the stow-n-go system, and he and I both really liked it. We had driven down there over the weekend, but didn't see it on the lot. We found out that it was a recent addition to the lot, it had been delivered after we had visited, and had only been on the lot for a few days. Lucky us! Well, it of course wasn't luck...God was really looking out for us on this one. Everything fell into place for us buying this minivan...it worked out beautifully and was a total God-thing.

So, this whole ordeal took place while we were in Conroe for what we thought would be a quick visit to MawMaw and PawPaw's house. Bless their hearts...Anyway, all of this to say that we are now the proud owners of this lovely 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan. It's hard to believe that I'm officially a minivan mom.

However, while we were there, we did take Kellen and Tatum to a kids fest thing on Saturday...and once we got Kellen started on the games and activities, he had a BLAST! They had water activities (which I didn't know about, so we ended up just letting him get into those with his shorts on....), art activities, a kiddo train ride, etc. It was so much fun! Unfortunately for me, I didn't think to put any sunscreen on, and am reaping the effects of the very nasty sunburn that ensued because of it...my shoulders and neck are now peeling, and I'm not sure if my arms will peel or not. We thought to put sunscreen on Kellen, and I even made Matt put some on his freshly shaven head, but none on me...What was I thinking?

Bath Time
I'm trying to figure out the best way to bathe two kiddos - effectiveness, effiiency, fun. I've tried to bathe them separately, which of course works, but Wednesday while giving Kellen a bath I decided to put a very fussy Tatum in the tub with him. The result: Tatum calmed down, enjoyed her bath, and Kellen LOVED having her in the bath with him! Other result: this method is VERY HARD on my back, because of course I have to hold her the entire time (the infant tub is quite a bit too large to fit in the tub with Kellen in there - it doesn't even fit on top of the tub securely). I can't wait for a certain bath item that was recently ordered online to come in...I certainly hope that it helps!

Anyway, Tatum just loves being in the water! As soon as her feet and legs touch the water, her face lights up and she starts smiling. I think I may have a water baby on my hands here!

Are you kidding me?

So, my car was leaking some sort of fluid yesterday, so we decided to take it in today...I get home from taking Kellen to school this morning, then am about to go run just a few errands before Matt and I go to drop the car off, and I come outside to a river of undetermined fluid running from my car. *Sigh*

This weekend was fun...we went to the Maroon and White game, and had so much fun!! BUT...we had to bundle up BIG TIME...It was so cold...And I'm not talking chilly shorts and short-sleeve weather...I'm talking layers with sweatshirts and blankets to cover up over weather. In April? Well, I guess in Texas you never know, right?

Kellen and Matt sure had fun playing on the field afterwards...


And Miss Tatum was very well behaved (of course, she has her days and nights mixed up...so she slept the entire time!)

Well, we'll see what's wrong with me car and hopefully it will be something simple (read: inexpensive)...I'll keep you all posted!

Relief possibly on its way

Well, as some of you may know...I have frequent migraines and was on a prevention medication prior to getting pregnant. When we were planning to TTC, I had to come off of that medication before doing so. Luckily, my body went into a self-preservation mode during pregnancy and I only had 3-4 migraines during that time, but now my body is revolting and trying to make up for lost time . For the past 2-3 weeks, I've been having to take acute medication ~ 5 days a week for my headaches *arg*. So, I finally called the dr about making an appointment to discuss getting back on the medication, but he doesn't have any openings this week or next . I left my info with the receptionist and the nurse just called me back...expained what was going on to her and she's going to talk with the dr about just calling in a prescription for me for a low dose of the meds to see 1) how the low dose impacts my milk supply and 2) whether I can deal with a low dose and if it helps with the frequency of my headaches. I'm SO hoping that the dr will just call in the meds so that I can get started on them!

Oh my...how time flies!

Ok...so it's been a little while since I've posted...and here are the quick updates...

Tatum was born on Saturday, March 3rd at 9:02 AM weighing in at 6 pounds 8.8 ounces and was 19 inches long. My ultrasound that week showed low levels of amniotic fluid, so the dr made the call at my appointment that Friday that we were havin' a baby...

It's been a little over a month now, and Kellen is loving life as a big brother. However, he's acting out a little bit at school, which I understand...that's completely normal. Arg. He LOVES his little sister...and still calls her HIS Tatum.

It's been a whirlwind month...and here's one of my favorite pictures of Tatum, compliments of her Uncle Michael...

Hmm...that's all for now...I hear someone that needs her mommy...

Goodness gracious

Where have I been? It's been ages since I've posted...so here are some quick updates

*have 5 weeks and 1 day *officially* left until Tatum is due to make her arrival
*we begin fetal activity monitoring tomorrow (once weekly ultrasounds and twice weekly nonstress test) - Why, you may ask? Just to double check that she doesn't have either of the cord issues that Kellen had (wrapped around neck AND the knot in the cord)
*I'm way behind on getting stuff done around the house, but oh well...
*Matt should be setting up the crib, changing table, etc. this week
*I'm still searching for the *perfect* coming home from the hospital outfit for Tatum - but so far, no luck yet
*Kellen is still SUPER excited about his little sister - he talks about how he'll teach her this or that, how he'll help mommy and daddy take care of her, and how he'll even share his toys with her...the big ones, because he doesn't want her to put the small ones in her mouth and swallow them...(Isn't that just adorable!)

You may remember me posting information about Matt's friend Tom and his battle with cancer. Well, his fight is now over. We attended his funeral a few weeks ago. I'm glad that he's not suffering anymore, but just cannot begin to imagine how hard things are and will be for his wife and daughter. Please keep them in your prayers...