Happy Halloween!

From 11-12 months

And his scary face.

From 11-12 months

Formula for a great weekend

Presents presented for 4 year anniversary +
1 night at homestead resort +
dinner for two at snake creek grill +
legend of sleepy hallow wagon ride +
Dairy Keen shakes +
uninterrupted sleep +
King size bed +
Fresh fudge +
Beautiful fall weather -
sick baby +
Grandma babysitting for 24 hours +
4 hour nap of dad, mom and baby together in bed =
A well rested husband and wife, and a happy baby.

Thank you Bryan, for a fantastic weekend and a wonderful gift.

Now it's back to life, reality and home. I almost want to cry.

sick baby

This is just especially sad to me because Kiernan has never been really sick before. Today I woke up and got Kiernan up, he had a fever of 104.4, so I took his pajamas off, and waited ten minutes to see if it was because of the pajamas, cause I felt a little warm myself. it went down to 102, we waited longer, and it was still up, and his rash was getting worse, and spreading, and the bumps were getting bigger. He also didn't sleep well at all last night, woke up about every hour, poor thing. he had a stuffy nose throughout the night, but that's gone now. He's also had some pretty bad bowel movements the past few days. So we figured it was definitely time to take him in.

Turns out, no infections, or anything. looks like a viral thing that is manifesting itself as fevers and rashes. We're to keep an eye on him, if his fever spikes back up really high again, or if he starts getting sinus issues, then we're to take him right back in to get some flu thing to help prevent it, as those things probably mean he's getting the flu.

I just feel bad cause some of his rash bumps have ever blistered :( I thought it could be chicken pox at first, but it doesn't look like it so far because 1 - he's not itching anything, 2 - nothing has scabbed over at all (he's had a minor rash the past couple of days).


This happy little dude...

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From 10-11 months

is a pitiful sick little dude.

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From 10-11 months

Drinking some pedialyte to restore some fluids in him.

From 10-11 months

Happy Anniversary

Today makes 4 years since Bryan and I got married. So much has happened since then that I cannot even imagine what my life was like before marrying Bryan anymore. It sure wasn't as good as it is now!

We'll get to actually celebrate our anniversary this year, but it'll have to wait until the weekend of the 17th and 18th since we are just *THAT* busy. I'm excited though, I have no idea what we're doing :) I don't even know what Bryan got me yet!

He, however, got his present early. He got a new ipod nano last week, and is loving it :)

Here's to eternity!

I can almost breathe

Well...life sure has been moving fast for me this semester. I just don't feel like I've had any time to do anything...really. I definitely have seen a decrease of time in seeing Kiernan and Bryan. I always feel like I'm going in and out of the door. I come home from something, 10 minutes later I'm out the door. Basically, my schedule for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday looks like this:

Work 8 AM-10:30AM, come home, feed Kiernan, get things for school together, eat lunch, go out the door for field experience at 11:30, stay there until 3:15, come home, feed Kiernan or pump, leave at 4:00 to go to class, get home at 7:30, feed Kiernan or pump, do homework for the rest of the night, go to bed around 10 or 11.

Wednesday, I have no class at night, so I work instead.

Friday I have no class or field experience, so I take the chance to work from 8-5.

Quite frankly, I'm doggone tired. Especially after last week and this week. Homework has just been piling on, and it's been insane. I had 15 readings to do this week, and that many reading responses. I also had a language assessment/summary report due, a cognitive assessment summary due, and I was going to have my research paper due on Thursday, but my teacher heard I was out of town this past weekend and said I can turn it in a week late with no penalty. That took a HUGE load off my shoulders. I've also had two observations done so far in my field experience, and have one more on Thursday.

I went to my orientation for my Helen Keller Fellowship over the weekend in Biloxi, Mississippi. It was incredibly fun, and a major information overload. It was well worth it though. I met some wonderful ladies there, and enjoyed being able to talk with people in my profession who understood the different things that need to happen in the special education field. The hotel was awesome, literally right across the street from the beach, and the water was the perfect temp to go walking in. the best part of it all, I had my own room and got to sleep THROUGH THE NIGHT. I obviously missed Bryan and Kiernan, but man, that sleep was just wonderful. I'm excited to pursue this opportunity and continue to work these wonderful ladies.

My field experience has been incredibly fun. I definitely miss being in the classroom and/or working directly with kids. An opportunity has come up to do that as a job while in school, but I'll wait on details for that to see if it actually pans out.

Kiernan is now just over ten months old. He's so much fun! He's got eight teeth now, loves to dance (he dances to basically any music most of the time), getting braver with standing up for long periods of time now, laughs a
lot, sleeps a lot less, eats a lot more solids, smiles a lot, and is getting more curious everyday. :) He's really a great kid. I'll end this with a picture of him doing something I wish he would do more often :)

From 10-11 months