Weekly Pics: Week 16 & 17

Week 16: August 19th

Look at that smile!

Week 17: August 26th

Audition by Barbara Walters

I've spent the last six weeks reading Audition. It's Barbara Walter's biography. It was amazing. She has led such a fascinating life. It's even a little juicy. I highly recommend it. It's one of the best books I've read all year.

I'm now reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I've gotta see if the hype is true.

Sick Baby

I have a sick baby!

It all started yesterday afternoon. I came home and noticed that Goob was kind of sniffly. Then by the evening his nose started running a lot and he had a little cough.

But this morning he seemed a little better. He was his happy giggley usual self. So I dropped him off at daycare and went to work. After work when I got back to daycare, I immediately run into the director who had a phone in her hand. She told me she was calling me. My boy had a 99.9 fever and had started to get really fussy.

I called our ped and they told us to come in. We waited and waited and waited to see the doc. When we finally got seen, the doc immediately saw that he had an ear infection.

So now we're home and we've started 10 days of antibiotics and some Tylenol to get rid of the fever. The little guy can't go to daycare tomorrow so I'm taking the day off.

J is blaming the little kids who touched Goob at Wal-Mart a few days ago. I'm blaming starting daycare on Monday.

Short update

I started back to work last week. And today was Goob's first day at day care. So sad. He was only there from 1 to 4 and he was fine when I got to pick him up. Tomorrow will be his first full day at the day care from 7 to 4. Hopefully, he'll only have 2 or 3 long days a week. One of the other days will be a short day (1-4) and the other 3 will be spent with mom or dad.

He's going to be 4 months on Friday. Where has the time gone???? He has his 4 month appt next Monday for a well baby visit and more shots. Boo hoo. This time though Daddy will be coming along.

Goob got a visit from his grandparents last week. And he had his first visit to the beach. I'll post the pictures soon. Plus the weekly pics from the past couple weeks.

Blast from the Past

A year ago today I got the best news of my life.

Weekly Pics: Week 15

Week 15: August 12th

How to make your husband mad...

Stop him from watching his favorite show and relaxing on his day off and make him put together a high chair.




But look how cute this little guy is! It makes it worth it. Right, J?

Weekly Pictures: Week 14

Week 14: August 5th


I love this last picture. He's looking at me like "Mom, not another picture!"

1 year ago

According to my doctor, Goob was conceived a year ago today.

I cannot believe how fast time has gone by.

2 weeks left

I have two weeks left of my summer. I start back at work on Aug 18th. This is so hard for me. I didn't imagine that it would be this difficult to leave my baby. He's starting daycare on Aug 25. (J's taking a week of vacation when I start back at work so Goob doesn't have to start at daycare yet.)

I cry everytime I think of someone else holding him, feeding him, changing him, seeing his smiles and just being with him.

(I want to stay home so bad but right now it's just not financially possible. J and I've done some major talking and we've worked out that I'll be able to be a SAHM in 2 years if we stick to our budget.)


Any advice for me?

A survey cause I'm bored

I stole this from Laura's blog. And I'm doing it for the same reason she did. Goob's asleep for a long nap. And I've learned not to wake a sleeping baby.

YOU CAN ONLY TYPE ONE WORD! Not as easy as you might think. Now copy or forward, change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to only use one word answers.


1. Where is your cell phone? here

2. Your significant other? working

3. Your hair? falling

4. Your mother? amazing

5. Your father? strong

6. Your favorite thing? nachos

7. Your dream last night? none

8. Your favorite drink? soda

9. Your dream/goal? sahm

10. The room you’re in? living

11. Your hobby? reading

12. Your fear? daycare

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? sahm

14. Where were you last night? date

15. What you’re not? confident

16. Muffins? blueberry

17. One of your wish list items? purse

18. Where you grew up? richmond

19. The last thing you did? laundry

20. What are you wearing? sweats

21. Your TV? muted

22. Your pets? sleeping

23. Your computer? desk

24. Your life? beautiful

25. Your mood? calm

26. Missing someone? sure

27. Your car? big

28. Something you’re not wearing? rings

29. Favorite store? target

30. Your summer? short!!!!

31. Like someone? mens

32. Your favorite color? pink

33. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday

34. Last time you cried? dunno

The Wrath of Hurricane Dolly

A recap:

Hurricane Dolly hit us Wednesday morning. Early that morning, J was called into work to help prepare. I decided to tough it out and stay at the house to weather the storm. Well that lasted until around 9 am when our power went out and I heard the wind crack one of my neighbor's trees. Within 10 minutes, Goob and I were packed up and on the way to my aunt's home. I figured that we'd be there for a few hours and then come home. (Ha!)

My aunt lost power around 2 pm and that's when things got really interesting. The wind was horrible! It was bending her trees so much that they practically touched the ground. Their fence (which has steel beams going 3 feet underground) toppled. Their neighbors trampoline ended up on top of the neighbors roof. Since we had no power, we all just sat and looked out the windows. The rain was continuous for 8 hours. That was the absolute worst part. When it rains here, it floods! My aunt had no flooding because her house sits high. But my truck was parked in the street and the water was about 1/2 up my tired.

Around 8pm Wednesday night, I needed to go home. I needed diapers and formula for Goob. Plus, J was on his way home. Just as I was leaving, J called to warn me about flooded streets. I thought he was exagerating, but nope. I tried to get home but as soon as I got to the main road, I had to turn around. I probably could have made it in my truck but I was too scared. J thankfully made it home.

Goob and I headed back to my aunt's house for the night. My cousin just had a baby on Tuesday night and they were sent home on Wednesday afternoon (in the middle of the hurricane! but that's another story!) so my cousin has some formula samples and extra diapers. THANK GOODNESS!!! At my aunt's house we still had no power so Goob and I had a rough night. He was so hot he couldn't sleep. Plus it didn't help that my cousin's newborn baby was in the next room. (Can you imagine spending your first night at home with a new baby in a hurricane!?)

As soon as the sun came out Thursday morning, Goob and I headed home. The water had gone down enough that I was able to make it home okay. And there was debris everywhere!!

We were extremely lucky that our house made it through without any significant damage. We lost a few roof shingles and most of our backyard fence. But everything else was okay. We had no flooding. Our next door neighbors actually lost half of their roof!

Thursday afternoon we received word that power would not be restored for approximately 72 hours!!!!! So J and I packed up and headed to the ILs who live a few hours away. As we were leaving town, we could see how extensive the damage was. North of us in some of the more rural areas, it looked like lakes! The flooding was horrible. Cars were halfway underwater. We could see fire fighters on boats going from house to house. We spent the whole ride saying how lucky we were. It was also pretty cool to see how many disaster relief trucks we saw going down to help out.

Our power came back over the weekend so we came home Sunday morning. Everything was fine here at first. I was SOOO glad to be home.

Weekly Pic: Week 12 & 13

Week 13: July 29 (Goob's 3 month birthday)


Week 12: July 22

Hurricanes suck

Never thought Hurricane Dolly would affect us as bad as it did....

We just got power back at home. There has been no electricity since Wednesday morning.

Thankfully my inlaws only live a few hours away so we drove up Thursday afternoon. There is no way we would have survived with no AC and a 3 month old..

We are heading back home tomorrow morning.

There is not too much damage to our neighborhood. We lost most of our fence but we had no flooding or roof issues. (Our neighbors lost about half of their roof.)

the worst part of all of hurricane dolly is that I lost my whole supply of breast milk. There is just no way it could survive in a deep freezer with no power for 3 days. I had at least 1000 ounces there. So sad.

What is going on in the crib during nap time?

So I usually put Goob down for nap time like this:



Today after naptime, when he started to whine, I found this in the crib. What happened?

This is his sleep positioner and blanket. His head was up there when I put him in the crib.

I can't find the other sock.

The culprit.

Uh oh...

This is not good. We live a few miles north of Brownsville. It's scheduled to hit on Wednesday night. And guess what? J's working overnight on Wednesday. Not good.

Sweetheart Siggy

I love it! Thanks Julia!!

Weaning from the pump! Woo hoo!

I absolutely hate this machine. It's awful. And I'm so thankful to say that I'm weaning myself from it. I go back to work in about a month. DH and I agreed when we first realized that I'd have to be an exclusive pumper that I'd stop pumping at Aug 1. (I've been pumping for 2.5 months)

After much research about the weaning, I've decided to start increasing the time between my pumping sessions. I started about 2 weeks ago. At that point I was pumping every 3 hours at getting about 40 ounces, so I started pumping every 4 hours for a week and was getting 36 ounces. Now I'm pumping every 5 hours and am now getting 32 ounces and decreasing. Next Sunday I'll go up to 6 hours between sessions. and I'll keep increasing until I totally stop on August 3. The pump will go to the very back of the closet. Woo hoo!! I can hardly wait to not have to stop what I'm doing every few hours and attach myself to a pump.

This is my freezer supply. I have saved about 1000 ounces of breastmilk. That should last us an addiional 3 weeks after I finish pumping. So Goob will have been exclusively breast feed for 4 months. I'm happy with that. It's better than nothing!

Weekly Pic: Week 11

July 15th:


Plus a bonus pic!

Now and Then:

I wanted to do a quick now and then picture.

Then: He was a few days old.


Now: This were taken yesterday. He was two months, two weeks, and a day.