much needed update

what a challenge of a month!.. gosh lee! Only a few more days left to survive through.. I am so ready for this month to be over !!
we went from swine flu... to Julian getting his first real BOBO. Yup, 2 staples at age 13 months! After dinner on the 10th, i was on all fours with a hand sweeper cleaning his mess(as i have to do after EVER MEAL) & he was playing with a truck..next thing i knew he was on the floor and blood was just coming out his head.... uuuuuuuuuuuugh. talk about a scare!

sooo a bloody mess and nervous break down later.. he was all fine :) thank god.

exactly 7 days later... we were back at the doctor to get them removed.... Can't you see how good of a sport he is! :)

i tell him to say cheese! & this is what i get! :) mmm' i LOOOOOOOOOOOVE it!

silly willy!

soooO.. we turned Julians bed into a toddler bed. We would have liked to wait until he was closer to 2, but with the move being a month away & his bed down there is a toddler bed.. we thought we would try to do it now & see how it goes.. in hopes of making the transition & move easier for him! && he is doing great. Last night was night 3, & he is doing beyond great!.. The first night he got out his bed twice and came open his door to look at us, but after putting him back in and helping him understand it was 'nitenite' he went right to sleep && we've had no issues since! such a good kid! :)

2 days ago i watched Tabatha's kids for her doctors appointment & they stayed over after to eat dinner & she brought dessert!... Yum.. well this was Julians first time eating a icecream CONE ..he was sooo confused.. lol but was oh so nicely waiting :)

how the heck do i work this mom?

Oh well, this is way funner... let me just smash it into the table! & finger paint with it! YEAHH!


thats bout it...

hes growing up..

His newest favorite is BARNEY! like mommy...he Love loves loves barney! he even ask for it.."baaaneeeee" haha. its the cutest. On this one "imagination island" they sing "if your happy and you know it" and omggg..it is his favorite, he dances & claps his hands...& we've been working with him to stomp his feeet & is starting get the picture! mann its just so cute.

Also, if we count 1, 2,... he usually will say 3! i am soo proud of my little man. :) He is def. growing wayy to fast. Can not wait to see how he does with christmas... wonder if he will tear open his gifts? ahh, we shall seeeeeeeeeeeee!

like a big boy!

hes growing like a weed, i tell ya! Every day he's doing somthing new. a few days ago he started basically climbing on the sofa! i have to help a little but i can tell it wont be long until hes doing it on his own. On this day he sat on the sofa to watch his toons, like such a big boy!

The next day i gave him breakfast on the floor in a bowl. this is the first time i tried this, because typically he would dump the bowl as soon as he put his hands on it! but he didnt, he sat and ate breakfast watching toons and made no mess! i was so proud!

then after nap, is snack time. on this day he didnt want to sit in his chair so i put his snacks on a tray.. well he decided on lay UNDER the chair to watch his toons with the tray in front of him...LMAO he is a mess!

ON thursday, Tabatha, Gabryel and Lauralie came visit for the entire day!

I cant wait to have our next child & see julian as a big brother! He did so great with Lauralie! he showed no signs of jealousy, and was so gentle with her!

At one point Tabatha and I were in the kitchen, and the kids were all in the living room playing, and lauralie was asleep. Well Tabatha went to check to make sure all is was still going well, and she caught Julian laying by lauralie drinking his cup!!!! :) :) ahh! isnt that just the cutest!!!!!

Isn't she just beautiful!? :)

Best days...

I just love days like yesterday! Rainy & cold.. stay in your jammies & play day! :)
Julian loves to play in the kitchen when im in there. He is literally like my shadow!.. he follows me into every room.. to check out what im doing!..haha. As you can see there are three drawers at the end of my cabinets. top small one holds bibs, towels and his placemat for the dinner table. Second, holds pots and pans, third.. well thats JULIANS drawer. Before i made it "julians drawer" it was filled with baking dishes..and.. lets just say.. those baking dishes were never in that drawer! Julian would empty that drawer 100000 times a day, then stand on his tippy toes to reach what ever he can to get out of the second drawers! so .. i decided to give him a pot, a pan, and a spoon..and keep in that bottom drawer JUST for him! :) oh.. & to save me picking up dishes so many times a day! that got old REAL quick!

So the other day was day one getting back to the schedule. Since he was sick, he was taking two naps a day. Which, it worked fine then because he needed the rest to get well!..but it just doesnt work when he isnt sick! His naps are barely one hour long and he would wake up SO cranky! plus i didnt have time to do any house work, or school work in a one hour period!..i liked it better when he had ONE BIG nap a day! so.. thats what we worked on. Needless to say, by the time 5:30 came around.. he was ready for bed!.. so i gave him a bath 25 minutes early, read him his book out of his bible, then gave him his milk cup! He usually sits with josh and i to drink his milk then we put him to bed. well.. this day he got a pillow laid on it with his cup and next time i looked at him he was conked out!!!!!! and it was barely 6:30..HAHAHA!! poor baby!

No doubt, these are the best days of my life! :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!

Today to celebrate Halloween Julian and I went to rent Halloween movies! We got Casper(kids one) and Halloween with Barney!! Later, we ate Hot dogs, Mac & cheese with KitKats!- well he did...mommy didn't! Diets suck durning the holidays! :P

He loves his mommy! :) & mommy loves her lil DINO!

Ah.. i love his one.... he is the cutestt!

Dino Danford & his best good friend Ghost Gabyrel!

Haha he LOVED being out of the house and being able to just walk around!

Before leaving!

His first house! he and gabryel would just stand at the door looking in, waiting for CANDY! lol If they offered them candy..many times they would grab a hand ful..start to walk away..then go back for more..HAHAHA!

^ this lil booger, was digging in his candy.. and actually got ahold to some chocolate!!!! SO MUCH FOR CHECKING YOUR CANDY FIRST JULIAN!!!!!

anyways.. we had a great time! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

UPDATE on SWINE

As most of you know, Julian has had swine for about a week. Today was his follow up appointment, which went great! Doctor checked him out and sent us on our way with no more medicine! hoooRAYY! So glad that he is over this! However, I am still going to be very careful! I Deff do not want that again!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you all for your prayers!!!

before

after

YAY! my HAPPY BABY IS BACKKK!!!!