Merry (sick) Christmas!

Collin and Chase Christmas morning. Collin's eye's are almost swollen shut because he had only gotten about 3 hours of sleep and was very sick that morning...

Collin and his cousin Aadyn playing

Collin got sick starting Monday night right after we got to Chase's family's house. He didn't sleep well and woke up with a fever. Tuesday morning I found a little red spot on his face and didn't think much of it until a few more appeared on Wednesday. It seems that he had a mild case of the chicken pox. Ran a fever of 101.5-103 all week.

Christmas day was fun- my favorite present was a wrap that is super soft and can zip up to be a snuggie like wrap or can unzip and be used as a blanket. We got lots and lots of fun things for Christmas though. Collin loves his little play dogs- he can't have a real one for several years so we thought something that yapped and walked around would work for now. And we were right. He just holds them tight and thinks its funny when he puts crayons in their mouths and they "bite" them. I would tell you what Chase's favorite present was, but I'm not sure. He got a very nice tie and a Willow Tree figure- Quest. I guess he's favorite present was an ipod Touch that we got him last week.

We got home last night and by the time we got home Chase was feeling pretty sick. Today he's been running a fever of 103.5, and even with Advil it only drops to 102. I finally got both of them to Instacare and found out that Collin has an ear infection and Chase has strep. So I'm "mommy nurse" right now for my two little boys. Mostly its been me trying to entertain Collin and keep him out of our room so Chase can sleep. We've decided that I am being watched over since I have not gotten very sick- a little stuffy all last week and some headaches (mostly from lack of sleep being up every 2 hours for an hour with Collin all week).

Collin started saying a new phrase this week- Oh no! He says it the same way everytime he says it. Its pretty cute.

Colds

Its amazing how tired I get when you put these 3 things together- pregnancy, having a cold, and Collin having a cold.



We've both been sick with a bad cold for almost a full week, and I'm ready for it to be done. Collin has reached the point where he can't sleep because he just coughs and coughs. We finally moved him into our room (bed) so that he won't wake up the rest of the house when he wakes up crying. I guess he's reached that age where I let him lay on the bed and watch Sesame Street when he gets sick cause he doesn't want to do anything else.

Other then that we are off to Snowflake on Monday afternoon to spend Christmas with Chase's family! Hopefully we will be better by then so we don't get anyone else sick...

Awkward

Really Target? Could your ad's be any more awkward this Christmas? This one is just...weird. It doesn't ever get past the awkward stage (and maybe it hits a little too close to home: These gifts are from Santa!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hatJ_2ZuoEE

Santa

We took Collin to see Santa. He didn't cry, but he wasn't too thrilled until he got a candy cane.

Bonding moment

After a long hard day, Collin and I had a bonding moment late this afternoon.

We had some bubble gum and colored. Just the two of us. Hanging out. It was great.

Late blog

So I go through these phases where I think of stuff to blog about, but I decide to wait a few days between blogs, and then I forget what I was going to blog about, so then I don't update my blog.

We stayed here for Thanksgiving this year. In the morning while everything was cooking Chase took Collin outside to jump on the tramp and swing. He loved it :)

Chase made a wonderful lemon meringue pie, and I got to make the rolls this year. They turned out a little dough-ie, but they were good.

Collin turned 18 months yesterday, and on Saturday I took him off his bottle and pacifier except at nap and bedtime. We're aiming for January 1st for him to be off the pacifier completely.

His big thing right now is singing and dancing. He's always loved it, but he is finding favorite songs that he really likes, such as:

Oh how I love my food- Wiggles

Fruit salad- Wiggles

Gilmore Girls theme song

The Hokey Pokey- Backyardigans
ABC's- Me :)

If he is having a hard time (being fussy or crying) I sing ABC and then ask him to sing and he'll just start singing abababab. Its the only way to get him out of the tub.

This is a video of him at 16 months playing the piano and talking.

Old and New

Collin, Me

Any resemblance?

Playing in the snow

Here is a video of Collin playing in the snow:

Ducks

Random picture I took a few weeks ago...

We went to feed the ducks on Sunday last week. Collin is totally in love with any animal, so it is really funny watching him around ducks because he gets SO excited.

We got our first snow yesterday, and then it snowed again today. Not too much either day, but still, its snow. I finished all my Christmas shopping. Its actually really late for me to be done, I am usually finished by August, but I had a hard time coming up with presents this year.

Sorry its not very interesting... this post was mostly for the pictures :)

Cleaning

So Chase and I have talked about wither or not we needed to get a lock for the toilet seat. Not because Collin likes to put toys or paper or anything like that in the toilet. Its because he is obsessed with using the toilet bowl brush and scrubbing the insides of the toilet. Does anyone else find that a little odd??

We're having a...

Boy!! :) We are both very excited. The ultrasound showed him being a little on the chunky side, but the doctor says that may not show up when he is born.

The past has shown that we have a hard time deciding on boy names, but I think we're getting on track with each other with this baby. I guess we'll see what shows up on the birth certificate...

Due March 25th-ish

Guilt

Sad story-



On Monday my mom and I took Collin to the store. Several hours after getting home I realized Collin's teddy was gone. I looked and looked and called the store, but they said that they didn't have a teddy turned in that day so a kid probably took it.



I am really struggling with feels of guilt that I didn't notice leaving his teddy behind. He has become part of the family. Collin has struggled as well. Chase thinks I'm crazy because I'm crying over losing teddy. The main problem is, we can't just go buy another one. The store it came from closed, and I've tried to find it online, but the one that looks like it is out of stock until December.



This may sound totally dumb, but I have felt so sad about it. Collin has not slept well since losing teddy, which made Chase's trip that much harder. I've been up with Collin for at least two hours every night, and have had to rock him to sleep almost every nap and bedtime. I did order some other teddy's that may be able to work, but they won't be here for a few more days.



Moms- if your kid finds a teddy at the store, turn it in. Just cause the kid left it there doesn't mean he didn't love it. He just got distracted.

Halloween

Trick or treating at the mall

Durning the day I spiked his hair so he would look like Frankinstin

Trina's kindergarden class had their school parade in the morning so we dressed up and went. This is Collin and his cousin Aiden.

OK- so I read my friends blogs who have kids Collin's age and they talk about how they're kids didn't even care about the candy, they just thought running around and seeing all the people was really cool. I told Chase Saturday afternoon that was not going to happen to us. And I was right. We decided to go to the mall first, and the second store puts a dum dum in his bag. His favorite candy ever. He keeps asking and asking and stopping and asking for the dum dum. So by the third store he already had candy in his mouth. We went though two suckers before we were done. Then we went around the neighborhood, and when they would let him choose his candy and they had nerds, he would always choose those. It was great.

One thing I've learned is that we will have to have a second stash of candy at home to trade him with since he is allergic to peanuts he can't have hardly anything. Oh well, I guess Chase and I will have to take care of all that candy. :)

Mommy initiation

How many times does your kid have to be sick on you before you are officially "nurse mommy"? Last night Collin laid his head in my lap and got sick. Then every hour until 4 in the morning. Then again at 10:00.

But at 11:00 am he snuggled up with me and we took a long nap on the bed. Then he was happy until this evening.

I've learned over the past week that I am going to have a hard time telling Collin no as he gets older. I think all the stuff we went through when he was a baby made it so that he will always be "my baby". When he wants a puppy, or to sleep in our bed, or a pony, Chase will have to be the one to tell him no.

His two new words are Oscar (the name of the dog we dog-sat for two days) and juice. This morning when he woke up after being sick all night he nicely asked for a "ba ba" or "juice". It was very sweet, so we gave him grape juice, which he then stained the carpet with after he got sick again. Oh well :)

Flies and dogs

On Monday night Collin was following a fly around our front room trying to catch it. I tried to take a video but I didn't have the camara. It was quite funny. Chase and I felt bad so we got him a dog.



Just kidding. Yesterday morning my brother called my mom- they are dog sitting and his whole family got sick so he asked if he could bring it over until tomorrow morning. Its been fun for Collin, and enough for me to know I won't want a dog for a while, if ever.



Here's a video of Collin playing with the dog yesterday morning: