It's November already!

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I can hardly believe it's November already! Joe had a great Halloween and looked so adorable as Thomas the tank engine!

Joe had the best time and I'm really glad. Now we have Thanksgiving to look forward to and it should be fun I hope.

Daddy comes home today!!!

We've missed him so much and now he'll be home again in about 7 hours (give or take) !! We're so happy!!! I can hardly wait till we're all home together again!

Welcome home Daddy!

Missing Daddy

Well, we're a couple of days into Daddy's trip to S.C. and we miss him a lot! Thankfully, Grandma and Grandpa have been coming over to help us not be so lonely. And at least I have a little piece of him here in the form of our son. *sigh* Oh well... only 10 days left.

We miss you Daddy!

We had lots of fun today. We went out to a place called C.C's Pizza in Des Moines and Joe seemed to really like it. Got him nice and worn out too. ;-) The manager guy there seemed to like Joe a lot too, so I think we might have to go back. I really liked how friendly and personable the manager was and how much he loved playing with Joe. It was definitely a fun little outing.

July 30, 2008

Hard to believe that summer is almost over. One more day and it's August. I just wish it wasn't so darn hot. I can't take Joe out too often in heat like this, but at least he gets out a little bit in the morning to wave bye-bye to Daddy and maybe in the evening to wave to both of us as we head to the gym. I'm just glad that Grandma and Grandpa live close.

Just playing!

Joe absolutely loves having time to play with Grandma and Grandpa. I'm just glad that they live right here in the same town and can come over so often. Comes in handy.. especially when Mommy is desperate for a shower and Baby doesn't seem like he's ever going to take a nap. ;-)

~*~ Happy 4th of July! ~*~

We didn't go out to any fireworks displays as they were all scheduled too late for Joe, but we did go out to a church picnic. He had a pretty good time and got pretty nice and worn out. He did meet some new people and played a bunch though. All in all, I'd say it was a good time.

Well, not much to post. Joe will be 14 months old on Saturday.

It feels weird to think of myself as the mother to a toddler. He's crawling all over the place and gets into everything it seems like. Needless to say that unless I'm having a monster toothache like I have been lately or something like that, I sleep like a baby at night. ;-)

Pool Party!

Joe loves pool parties!

We went over for Joe's second pool party at his friend's house (who just happens to live in the next building over from us in our condominium development) on the 25th and he had a lot more fun this time. He had fun the last time too (back on the 14th I think), but this time it was added cool because he'd done it already I think. It was a lot of fun for Joe and Mommy too! I think everyone had a good time and we're really going to be sad when school starts again and his friend's mom has to go back to work (she teaches Jr. high school level science in Des Moines).

Joe's having a really good day so far (as you can tell by the picture). Hard to believe that he will be 13 months old on this coming Thursday and officially be considered a toddler (at least according to the state of Iowa). It's just amazing how fast the last year has gone and everyone keeps commenting to us about how fast and how much he's grown.

Well, Joe's now 12 months and almost 2 weeks old. He got a new cousin (well, I think it's more like 2nd cousin once removed maybe). My husband's cousin gave birth to a 7 lb, 11 oz (I think), 21 inch baby boy on May 15, 2008. She named him Sawyer James. An interesting name combination, I might have reversed the names, but hey, it still works. We went to the combined baby shower for that cousin and another one who is due next month. It was pretty fun I suppose. Then we went to another cousin's graduation party. We didn't know a soul... well aside from that cousin and his parents. Joe did pretty good and since the party was in the old Freight House (a Chariton, Iowa landmark), Joe was having a good time.
Joe has also really been enjoying the opportunity to spend time with his Uncle Josh (mommy's younger brother), who flew out from Salt Lake City, Utah to see him and visit with the family here in Iowa. I am really enjoying it too and will definately miss him when he goes back home. Too bad we can't convince him to move back, but I guess I can't be selfish.

One Year Old!

Well, Joe is now one year and one week old. Hard to believe. We had his birthday party this past Saturday and while there really wasn't much of a turn out to that party, he had his friend William show up and his cousins, Ellie and Abbie came too and I think he really enjoyed himself. Then we went down to my sister-in-law's house for a combined party with our oldest nice who is turning 7 on Thursday. It was nice to see all of the extended family. Joe wasn't quite sure what to make of all the people, but since he does come from a huge family on his Daddy's side of the family, so he'll get used to it eventually. :-)

April 29, 2008

Well, another day down. I still can hardly believe that Joe will be turning one in less than a week. Then we have my brother comming for a visit on the 16th and I'm already excited about that. Out of all of my siblings, my brother Josh and I were always the ones who never really seemed to fit in with the others. That kind of makes you close. That's also why it kind of stinks that he's living clear in Salt Lake City instead of out here in Iowa. I kind of miss having him close, but at least I have Mom and Dad. I don't know what I'm going to do when they pass though. Yes, I'll still have Chris and the family that we've made together, but sometimes you just need your original family too.

Well, so far so good today. We had a fun little field trip to the store with Grandma and grandpa and Joe's having fun playing with Grandpa but he might have to go take a nap here in a bit. We'll see how that goes. ;-) At least it's supposed to be in the 70's here by Wednesday so maybe we'll go for a walk then.

Whew! All better now! I'm just so glad that my little boy is back to his old self again. For some reason, everything you know seems to fly right out the window when it's your child that's sick. I just felt so helpless and there is no worse feeling in the world.

Well, I think Joe is doing better. He's eaten some baby food and his temp has gone back down. I'm just hoping that it stays there. The doctor said that it's probably some kind of viral thing that's maybe going around. I think we'll be ok though. She said just to watch him and make sure that he drinks plenty of fluids. So we got him some pedialyte and some baby ibuprofen to help in case the temp goes back up. Here's hoping it doesn't. ;-)

Sick Baby. :-(

It's been a LONG 24 hours or so. Yesterday afternoon, Joe came down with a high fever and it came and went. Last night it spiked and stayed high for most of the night. High temp was somewhere between 101.7 and 104. We called the clinic's on-call doctor and he said that we should just do our best to keep him cool and see how he was in the morning. Well, that seemed to work as he looked and acted a lot better this morning. His temp went down to 96.3 and he seemed to actually eat something instead of just drinking all the water in his sippy cup. Well, that didn't last for more than an hour. At about 8:15, he threw all of it back up and it looked like the baby formula version of poltergeist in our living room. Formula everywhere, on him, me, the boppy pillow and couch, and all over his little face. Poor kid. He's acting ok now, but I'm still worried about him. Tired and worried... nice combo huh?

Not much going on today. Took the cat in for his "lion cut" and rabies shot, so he'll be pretty mad at mama for a few days and will probably spenad a lot of his time hiding and glaring at me. *LOL* Poor kitty. :-) Joe is having a good say, he even got taken out to breakfast by Grandpa and Grandma so he's pretty tired now, but I think he's having a good day anyway. :-)

April 17, 2008

Not much to report yet today. I have to type really slow and with one hand because Joe hears the keys and, being the son of an IT man, he loves computers and always wants to pound on the keyboard. He only likes the keyboards that are actually connected though.. not the one we gave him to play with. Go figure! :-)

Here we go!

Well, here goes my first attempt at blogging! Not much going on right now to report, but we are at 21 days and counting till we celebrate our son's first birthday. Yikes! ;-) Still kind of getting used to being parents sometimes and here, he's already turning one!