Thoughts and Prayers

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Dorothy Chapman. She lost her battle with cancer early Monday morning. She had ovarian cancer. She was also a very strong woman. To give you a glimpse of that, she attended my mothers visitation and funeral all the while knowing what she was facing. I feel for her children and significant other. I cannot express to you how sorry I am for your loss. Just know that I am here if you need ANYTHING!

Fun With Aunt Judy

Nick had the pleasure of visiting with Aunt Judy twice in a week last week. She watched Nick one day for us when Linda had a Doctors appointment and Ryan and I were at work and school. Nick just adores Aunt Judy. Last night when I asked him who he thought was coming to our house (Grandma and Papa) he got really excited and said "Aunt Judy"? It was really cute. Well Aunt Judy emailed me some pictures of their time together so I wanted to make sure to post a few. By the way...He loves his boogie board!

Two Year Check Up

Although it has been almost three weeks ago, Nick had his two year check up. It is so hard to believe that this little man is two already. Time really does fly by. I absolutely love our pediatrician Dr. Young. Not only is she very professional, but she has children of her own. this make me feel much more comfortable when she can tell me things that are up with my child. Nick loves her. She gives him a new book every time we see her. Nick had lost a little weight since the last visit, so Dr. Young suggested spicing up his potatoes with a little sour cream and butter as well as a few other tips. She also said it is time to switch toothpastes and start introducing Flinstone vitamins. I am very excited about that. I was a little sad to learn that we will not see Dr. Young until Nick is three years old, unless of course Nick is sick. This really saddens me to think my little boy is that old already. Thanks Dr. Young for the great pointers along the way!

Crazy Train

All I can say is that life has been crazy. We are still living in a hotel waiting for our house to be finished. They FINALLY started construction two days ago. The bill came in from the restoration crew and they charged us $10,000 dollars. Yes $10,000 dollars. They are CRAZY if they think they deserve that much money to rip out wet flooring and carpet while they destroyed our cabinets and other belongings.....


I am completely tired of hotel living. The vacation was fun for a while, but to be honest I am ready to be back to reality. September 3 was the 1 month anniversary of my mama's death. I was really hoping things would be somewhat back to normal by then...boy was I wrong. School is very trying. I absolutely love it, but it takes so much of my time i feel like I am neglecting my husband and child. I was warned in the beginning it would be like this, but for some reason I really did not want to believe them.


I really miss posting on my blog on a regular basis, but once we are back in the house I think it will become routine again. I miss you all and look forward to catching you up on our CRAZY life!

Randomness

What a week it has been. To be quite honest it has been hard. I think that the numbness I felt of my mothers death has really started to wear off and the reality has started to kick in. I feel extremely guilty that I have not gotten all thank you cards sent out yet, but rest assure I am working on them.

I started the fall semester of nursing classes and fully realize how much of a challenge they will be. In the first week I have 13 chapters and 5 study guides to complete. I finally started back to work. To be honest I am thankful for the normalcy and routine I am presented with.

I have started to learn "skills" in one of my classes and thoroughly enjoy it. It is nice to get away from strictly book work and move on to a more hands on type of learning.

Time seems to be going so fast and I feel the pain of not being able to keep my mom updated on my process. I miss her more than words could ever say, but know she is here with me through this journey.

Till next time!

Angel....When he is sleeping!

Bedtime has been quite the dilemma since living in a hotel. With only one room it is really hard to make things easy and comfortable enough for Nick to fall asleep on his own. We brought the pack n play, but he has become smart enough to finally crawl out of that. To be quit honest I am surprised that did not happen months ago. Needless to say although bedtime used to be around 8:30 it is now whenever the heck he feels like falling asleep. We put him in bed and he wonders back out to the living room saying " I sawy mommy and daddy". We can't help but laugh. Well last night around 11:00 pm we had finally had enough. We put him in the pack n play, turned of the tv and and closed the door. He cried for maybe two minutes. We could not believe he fell asleep so quickly...FINALLY! Well about thirty minutes later when we decided to go to be, this is what we found.

The little stink just can't stay out of our bed. We have never let him sleep with us. We just did not want to get in that habit. Now I feel sorry for him. Even if we put him in his little bed, we wake up the next morning with feet in our face or ribs. It is so hard to say no or be angry at a face like this!

The Next Michael Phelps?

The upside of living in a hotel seems to be the fact that we are able to go to the pool when ever we want. Nick is not afraid of the water what so ever. As you can see I am afraid for him. We bundle him up in all his swimming gear and let him go. He does NOT like for us to help him or be very near him in the water. I think I am going to try to get him into some swimming lessons this winter at the Y. He is a little fish. I am glad he is not afraid of the water, but wonder what it will be like next year if we don't keep him in touch with water throughout the winter.

gearing up
making his way down the ladder

Gotta love the goggles! He put them on himself.