Daniel, Stephen, Sadie and I are making our way to Pearland, TX tomorrow for hang out time with the Barton's. We rarely see them since we are on opposite sides of Houston. Brad will be frying fish and we are bringing dessert. I think I am going to make a new dessert my Mom sent me called "Strawberry Pretzel Dessert."
Stephen had his 3 week check up for his ear infections today. He is FREE and clear of an ear infection. I am so happy. He has not had a runny nose and cough in three weeks. Yay!
I made a mad dash for Babies-R-Us yesterday to exchange all of my bottles. They are allowing you to bring all bottles that are not BPA free and you can get a full exchange of BPA free items. So I ended up getting $96 worth of bottles. I bought the AVENT bottles with the tempo liners. I debated and decided I didn't want to start him on a brand new bottle (BJORN ) and I do not like washing the Dr. Brown bottles. These two brands are the only ones that are BPA free at this Babies-R-US. So I hope this all works. I spent an hour trying to decide what to do. I bought enough tempo liners to last me 3 months so hopefully I have made the right decision.
I am moving Stephen to a new daycare. Daniel and I decided this is a good thing because we will now be able to watch Stephen during the day. The daycare has room cameras and we can use our own personal log in at work to check on him. It is only 4 minutes from my school so it will be impossible for Daniel to take him to daycare. It will be too far out of the way. My sister, Jamie now works only 6 minutes from the daycare opposite of my school so she can take him and pick him up if I am sick. I cannot believe it but he starts daycare in 6 weeks on August 11th. I need to work in my room to do some organization that week. Last year was a disaster since I was out for 10 weeks. I am horrible and never really put my books back in theme order alphabetically. Then I will start back mandatory on that Friday, August 15th. So I figure I can ease him in to this new daycare. I will probably take him for a half day for a few days and then take him up to school with me for a few hours. He has recently started crying when he sees someone he doesn't know. I just hope he doesn't cry since he is now at the "separation anxiety stage." He does great though at the church nursery so hopefully he will jump right in to this new daycare.
Stephen is so fun these days. He is showing his true side lately. He screamed at me yesterday because I wouldn't give him the remote that lights up. I gave him one that doesn't have batteries in it so it's not as much fun. He is eating twice a day still. He really has started liking his food more. Now that we are rid of the double ear infection he seems to really start to eat more.
Daniel and I will be celebrating our 4 year anniversary on July 17th. We decided to drop Stephen off at my parents in Gonzales for the weekend of July 11-13th. We are going to New Braunsfels, TX to float the Comal or Guadalupe River. I love my son but I will enjoy spending the weekend with Daniel. I love floating in those hot inner tubes down the river.
I hope you all have a fun, long July 4th weekend!!
Jul 3, 2008
Jun 23, 2008
10 year High School Reunion
This weekend we had our 10 year class reunion. Out of a class of 155 we had approximatly 50 people come. It was good to see everyone but it wasn't as weird as I THOUGHT it would be. I recognized everyone and didn't know only a few names. Here are some photos of our fun event at the Elks Lodge in Gonzales, Texas.
Jun 15, 2008
Funny 6 months portraits
Happy Father's Day Daniel! We enjoyed our day at church with my family and Daniel's. The dedication went great.
Jamie and I took Stephen in to get his 6 months portraits taken on June 1st. I was amazed that we were in and out in 30 minutes. Here are some of the pictures we did not purchase. There were so many good ones to choose from. Isn't the last picture funny? He was tired of smiling. I don't blame the little guy.
Jun 13, 2008
We have had fun this week
My brother's wife and son moved into a house about 3 streets down. Molly is 19 weeks pregnant and just found out she is having a baby girl. Her due date is November 5th. They are both very excited and so are we. We need a cute little girl in the Lucas family. Their son Chance is a little over 2 right now. Molly and Josh bought a house here because it will be a closer drive for him from The Woodlands to Marshall where he works during the week. Molly has decided to stay at home keep her boy and soon to be baby girl.
Stephen has been under the weather again. He started vomiting last Saturday night. He continued to vomit about 2 more times the next three days. I took him in to his check up for his ears on Tuesday. We found out he still had a double ear infection after 10 days of antibiotics and he had the stomach bug. So he had to get a shot, they changed his formula to Similac Isomil DF and they prescribed an oral medication for him starting Wednesday. Well I FIGURED out after trying to give him the medication on Wed. that he was allergic to it. He couldn't keep anything down almost the whole day. So Wednesday night around 9pm until Thursday at 4pm he was on 100 % pedialyte. The doctor told me no dairy because he kept throwing up. Since he was allergic the medication for his ears (3rd different kind of antibiotic since he was 4 months) we had to go in yesterday and get another shot. The good thing is he only had a right ear infection instead of both. So now we go in on July 3rd for a follow up appointment. Last night around 4pm I gave him a bottle and he kept it down. He was so hungry by then that he sucked that milk right down. He went to bed around 9:30 after his last bottle and slept until 5am. He usually sleeps until 6 or 7am but I guess he was hungry. I fed him and he went back to sleep until 8am this morning. On a happier note he is doing great and has not vomited in 24 hours. He will continue to be on the Isomil formula for another 24 hours just to be on the safe side. By the way the formula only comes in liquid form. He would not TAKE the powder formula that the doctor gave me samples of. It didn't seem to work. It unfortunately only comes in 1 qt. bottles. I am so fortunate that this happened this week instead of last week when I had to finish up my last week of school. It is always a chaotic week.
Last but not least my parents are coming in this weekend because we are having Stephen's baby dedication at church. Thankfully he will be rid of this stuff by Sunday. We are supposed to go to Bay City this weekend Saturday to my cousin's wedding shower. I am not sure if we are going. We might stay in and let Stephen rest from his yucky week.
Stephen has been under the weather again. He started vomiting last Saturday night. He continued to vomit about 2 more times the next three days. I took him in to his check up for his ears on Tuesday. We found out he still had a double ear infection after 10 days of antibiotics and he had the stomach bug. So he had to get a shot, they changed his formula to Similac Isomil DF and they prescribed an oral medication for him starting Wednesday. Well I FIGURED out after trying to give him the medication on Wed. that he was allergic to it. He couldn't keep anything down almost the whole day. So Wednesday night around 9pm until Thursday at 4pm he was on 100 % pedialyte. The doctor told me no dairy because he kept throwing up. Since he was allergic the medication for his ears (3rd different kind of antibiotic since he was 4 months) we had to go in yesterday and get another shot. The good thing is he only had a right ear infection instead of both. So now we go in on July 3rd for a follow up appointment. Last night around 4pm I gave him a bottle and he kept it down. He was so hungry by then that he sucked that milk right down. He went to bed around 9:30 after his last bottle and slept until 5am. He usually sleeps until 6 or 7am but I guess he was hungry. I fed him and he went back to sleep until 8am this morning. On a happier note he is doing great and has not vomited in 24 hours. He will continue to be on the Isomil formula for another 24 hours just to be on the safe side. By the way the formula only comes in liquid form. He would not TAKE the powder formula that the doctor gave me samples of. It didn't seem to work. It unfortunately only comes in 1 qt. bottles. I am so fortunate that this happened this week instead of last week when I had to finish up my last week of school. It is always a chaotic week.
Last but not least my parents are coming in this weekend because we are having Stephen's baby dedication at church. Thankfully he will be rid of this stuff by Sunday. We are supposed to go to Bay City this weekend Saturday to my cousin's wedding shower. I am not sure if we are going. We might stay in and let Stephen rest from his yucky week.
Jun 8, 2008
Jun 6, 2008
6 months
Stephen is six months old. We get a kick out of him these days. He is sitting up, spitting and laughing more and more. He is 90th percentile in height (26 in) and 25th percentile in weight (16.3). At the appointment we found out he had another double ear infection. So we are hoping this is the last round of ear infections but we'll see. He didn't run fever but he did eat less so ended up loosing 4 ounces. Here are a few pictures of him and Payton. He enjoyed slobbering all over Payton's fingers since she offered them. Also, this is the usual spitting that he does from the time he wakes up until he is so tired with his eyes shut in bed. He does not have hair or any teeth yet. The hair is there but it is very thin and barely noticeable.
SCHOOL IS OUT.........
Today was officially my last day of school. I took little guy with me since I didn't have much to do. I finished it all Thursday during the day so I could take him up to show him off. Most of my coworkers haven't met him. We have a list of about 16 signatures that we have to have different people sign off for us. We have to complete everything such as turn in our keys and lock up all technology equipment before we leave. I don't even want to think about when Stephen will start back at daycare in August. Here is a picture of some of the kindergarten teachers in my school. Michelle, Azra and Barbara are not in the picture. We are quite a large school so there are 9 kindergarten teachers. My good friend Krista taught 3rd grade at my school with me for the last two years. She is moving on to be a counselor in another district. I will miss her at school but I knows she will love her new job.
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