I'm crying.

Look at my cool cowboy socks!

"Don't mind me, I'm just crying my eyes out this morning..." 

(Did you see the tears on his pants in the picture above?)

Nathan:  Really, Momma!  I'm upset and you don't know why?

Momma:  No, Honey.  I don't know why you're upset.

Thursdays are usually the worst day of the week for Little Bit.  Maybe that's why he was upset.  I gave him his paci and that didn't work.  I cuddled him and held him and that didn't work.  He has a sore bottom as a result of the yucky antibiotic, but it didn't seem to bother him when I put cream on it.

Who knows.  I called at 9:45am to see how he was doing and the ladies said that he was playing well and smiling.

Two for Tuesday

Today...

1 year ago

I'm sick...

Poor baby...

We found out yesterday that Nathan has a sinus infection.  He'd had a cold/cough all week, but we didn't really think much of it.  Friday night when I suctioned his nose there was a little blood so I just stopped and left it alone.  Saturday when we got up, he had quite a bit of blood when I was wiping his nose, but it wasn't bright red.  This concerned me a bit so we decided to call the pediatrician's office.  The nurse said that it sounded like a sinus infection so we went in (yes, on a Saturday!).

Who knew that it was so bad?!  Poor thing.  His nose is dripping, but he's still laughing, talking, and smiling.  What a trooper!

Look what I can do!

I can pull up!

Nathan pulled up on the black piece to look out the window.  Of course, it was fairly dark and I'm not sure what he saw at 6:10 in the morning, but he was trying!

Hope you have a great Friday!

New Hat

Little Bit's head is growing (like the rest of him!).  We've gone through 3 hats this winter.  It's crazy!  My dad made this hat for Nathan's birthday and with this cold snap that we've had again, he's worn it the last couple days.

 Headed out the door (with Samson)

A little smile!

He struggles with keeping the hat on his head sometimes because he doesn't like things to be confining, but he does pretty good most of the time.

Loving Samson

Nathan has taken to "loving on" Samson.  He'll pick him out of the other stuffed animals and hold him up to his neck.  He'll chew on his nose, ears, etc. and tote him around.  Thanks, Uncle Tod & Aunt Michelle!

Two for Tuesday

From his Birthday weekend...

Today...

Happy Tuesday!

Cheese!

"Sure, I can take a moment to smile for you, Momma!"

Yesterday, I noticed at least 3 times that Nathan was pulling up on things.  What a praise!  He's starting to see the "need" to get up.  We were a little concerned that since he's so quick scooting on his bottom, that he wouldn't see a need to start standing.  Yeah, Nathan!  (At this point, he'd start clapping :)! )

Sleeping Beauties

I could hardly resist snapping this picture this morning!  For some reason, Little Bit slept late (hurrah!) and I got up and had a shower before coming back to get the boys up.

Love these boys!

I'm scooting...

I caught this one mid-stride!  Little Bit is scooting along every place that he can and pretty quickly.  It's interesting to look at his slippers because they are worn at odd places.  He has the typical big toe mark on the right one, but on the left, the whole outside edge of it is worn from where he drags it on the floor.

Go, Baby, Go!

Playing with Daddy

Out of all the toys he has, Little Bit is constantly drawn to....

 books...

Books...

AND MORE BOOKS!

This last book is Nathan's f-a-v-o-r-i-t-e!!!!  "Three Blind Mice" How could you go wrong?!

First Week Being 1!

 A little fuzzy, but he's in his plaid flannel shirt.

 Monkey boy!

 I'm Uncle Rick!

Wearing overalls (from Nana)

12 Month Stats:

22 pounds (up over 3 pounds)

31 1/2 inches (up 2 1/2 inches)

Two for Tuesday

We had 10 family members who came to celebrate Nathan's birthday!  Here he is with my parents, Nana & Papa!  Too much fun, right?!

Turtle Picture - 12 Months

 Here it is... picture number 12!  The turtle has gotten smaller as the year has passed, don't you think?!

(If we have him stand, maybe you can read the card?!)

 "What are you doing, Momma?"

 Maybe we can have him sit... Nope!  That card is just too enticing!

Oh, I know!  Sit on the frog! :)

Blowing out the candle

Everyone started singing "Happy Birthday" and Nathan just sat there enjoying it all.  When they said, "Happy birthday, dear Nathan..." his face lit up!  It was pretty neat.  

Caleb came over to help blow the candle out.

The look on Nathan's face as he hears everyone cheer is just priceless!

Birthday Party Fun

We decided to have lunch at Chick-fil-A so that the kids could play after lunch.  

Here's Nana with the grandkids (5 of the 7).

 We came home and Nathan opened up the presents.

 On to the cupcakes!

Yummy!

The cupcakes

Since we have done frogs and turtles for Nathan's room, we decided to do a frog theme for his party.  I found directions on how to make frog cupcakes (see here) and we decided to go for it!

First you start off making the cupcakes... We found camouflage wrappers that were mostly green to be the base of the frog.  Then, it was on to making the eyes.  

We got gumdrops that Barry cut in half.  Then I put a white chocolate chip in each end.

 I used black icing to make the eyes.

Add a bit of green frosting on top and assemble with the eyes and draw the nose and mouth with the black icing.

To me, they looked like monsters, but the kids said no, that they looked like frogs!  Yum, yum!

Birthday Gifts

A few gifts:

 A sock monkey from our friends in Arkansas

 My first cell phone!

 A fun popping toy

A shape sorting house

A cupcake?!  He had a little bite as it was getting close to bedtime!

Thankfully, Little Bit took 2 naps at daycare so that he was a little more willing to party hardy!  We had macaroni & cheese for dinner (a favorite) and opened gifts.  He did have a bite of cupcake, but we'll save the big excitement for Saturday when there's more time for the sugar to wear off! :)  He's a big boy!

Happy Birthday, Nathan!

Here's the first of many birthday pictures, I'm sure!

We are so excited to celebrate our little guy's birthday.  Stay tuned to see the festivities!

Two for Tuesday

 Here I am 1 year ago...

Here's Little Bit today!

As Super Bowl Sunday came, I began thinking more about what life was like 1 year ago.  See, that Sunday was the last full day that we had without Nathan.  We went to a Super Bowl party and through it, I had several calls from people wondering if today was going to be the day.  

We went through Monday and didn't think too much about it.  I had a doctor's appointment (I was going weekly) and Barry stayed home with me.  We decided at the last minute not to put the luggage in the car (bad decision) and headed on in to Nashville. At the appointment, my blood pressure was high again so they sent us to the hospital.  We were admitted again (pros, now, since it was the 4th time) and they were so full that we were put in the high risk area.  Only God knew that my high blood pressure was going to be the saving grace for Nathan.  See, while they had me hooked up to the equipment, they began to notice that while my contractions were minimal, pretty frequently his heart rate would drop when I had one.  That was the beginning of a whirlwind!

Lots of emotions as I think back to Nathan's arrival.  Wow!

Super Bowl Fun

Daddy & Nathan had to get in the mood and wear their football jerseys.  (Nathan has his over his jammies!)

Nathan's been doing his finger like a 1 -- practicing for Wednesday of course!  But, it looks like they're saying, "Our team is #1!"

This picture didn't turn out so well, but you can see us with our Super Bowl goodies hanging out and watching the game.

It snowed!

It snowed overnight both Thursday night and Friday night.  Friday it was sunny so those areas that were touched by the sun melted.  The high was only in the 30s so overnight and early Saturday morning, it snowed again.  We were able to let Nathan see the snow and touch it, but he wasn't too excited.

(Don't you like their matching Lions ski caps?!)

One Year Ago & Today

One year ago...

Today...

WOW!  We are getting so close to the birth-day. I can hardly believe it.  What a year it's been!

Little Bit is struggling so much with his teeth.  It's so sad.  I hate to load him up on Tylenol, but there's not much else that I can do for him.

We're excited for the weekend.  How about you?!