Monday, March 23, 2009

I love it!

more laughing :)
I have yet to figure out how to work with picasa/blogspot/my laptop, or else the video would be embedded here .


KIERNAN LAUGHING

Saturday, March 14, 2009

We're off, SPRING BREAK!!!!

I cannot even begin to say how crazy busy this week has been, and how glad I am it's over! Spring break starts officially for us as soon as Bryan is done writing his two page paper (which will probably be around 10 or 11 this morning :) ). We leave to go to the airport at noon, so he HAS to finish it before then, and give himself some time to at least do a rushed pack (I've packed what I could for the two of us, and everything for Kiernan). It will be interesting to see how Kiernan reacts to the flying, luckily it's just to California, so it won't be for too long.

We're going to the bay area to stay with bryan's parents. They haven't met Kiernan yet! So I'm really excited for them to meet him. :) We'll be staying there until Friday, the 20th. So that will give us time to do some fun things while we're there, but we'll see if we actually go out :)

See you when we get back!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

update with pictures!

From Drop Box


I love seeing Kiernan like this. He likes to be bare sometimes, especially with his legs. Sometimes we'll just unsnap the bottom part of his pajamas and let his legs be bare. It's so cute.

From Drop Box


I love seeing these two nap together. Unfortunately Kiernan woke up just as I snapped this picture. Oh well.

From Drop Box



This is seriously typical Kiernan. All smiles and looking so cute!


From Drop Box


He's been loving the exersaucer that we've borrowed from my brother and his family. 


From Drop Box


He's also been sleeping a lot lately because of his cold.  He's getting better though, and truly is a good baby when he's sick. I shouldn't have complained before about it. 

He's also picked up laughing, and it's just so darn cute. This video isn't the best at showing his laughs because he was so distracted by the camera. The night before this video, I had him laughing on and on and on for like 5 or 6 minutes straight. It was hilarious!

From Lots of Kiernan


We love him so much!

This is a test

 


Testing something out with picasa....let's see if it works :)
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Goodness Gracious

People in heaven have a great sense of humor.

As mentioned in my previous post, our car is working....but is...well...humble :) The car alarm fiasco has continued. But this one is brief and worth reading I believe .

the next day, after the store parking lot and finally getting home, we went out to get some lunch while running some errands. The we was originally supposed to be Kiernan and me, but we literally ran into Bryan as we were walking out the building door, so he joined us. Boy am I glad he did.

We get in the car, the alarm goes off. We both sigh, and get it taken care of, and drive away. We pull out of the parking lot, onto sunnyside. We turn right onto Foothill. We pass that light that marks 2100 east. Right after that....the alarm goes off....WHILE WE ARE DRIVING! yes, as we drive along, HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK and flashers going off. Imagine our surprise. I was glad Bryan was there, because if it were just me, rest assured I'd just be running around like a chicken with its head cut off. We pull over, get it taken care of, and it goes off every time we turn the car off. fun :) bryan was able to make it, later that day, not go off anymore by taking something off of a cord. Now the alarm doesn't go off at all. So nice.


Kiernan is no longer fussy. But I swear our neighbors have heard him scream bloody murder. This is due to the evil saline spray and nose aspirator. yup, he's got a cold. last week was small fevers, fussiness and coughing. This week is snot, throwing up mucus, small fevers, tons of sneezing, sleeping tons, and total happiness. I think it's just a cold, but I'm taking him in tomorrow to the doctor just to make sure it's not RSV. I know Bryan rolls his eyes at this, but hey, better safe than sorry. And there's no copay for Kiernan, so it really won't hurt.

Unfortunately, since he's really stuffed up he is wheezing at night (or when we haven't sucked snot out of him for a long period of time) so I don't sleep well as I get overly anxious about it. He slept alot today, so that means he isn't in bed yet :) and it's now 1:30 AM. oh well, at least he did sleep, and is happy :) I prefer that and not getting much sleep than him being grumpy.

I need to upload pictures. When I get my lazy bum onto Bryan's computer, I'll do that. :)

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Oy....

Time flies. I hate it.

School: School is great. Things are going well. I just need to get myself motivated to video tape myself for 4 sessions of 10 minutes of consultations (practice ones). I have to have it done by next week Thursday no matter what. my goal was last week Thursday, but that didn't happen obviously :) I was supposed to go...basically shadow...an itinterant tomorrow, but the car is not allowing that to happen (see below under life).

Work: Work is the same old same old, nothing is hardly ever new in this area.

my life: I suck. You would think I had things in order but I don't. I kind of overscheduled myself in several areas, and I'm now a complete slacker in some eyes I'm sure. Awhile ago I was supposed to go to an enrichment meeting. Now mind you, these girls probably think I'm non-existent, hate them or think I'm a flake. I had warned the bishopric when they called me on this that I wouldn't be making it to many meetings or activities. I have night classes. Every single semester I've had a Thursday night class (including this semester), which is when the meetings were typically held and when the activities generally are. The bishopric said that was fine, and I could still help out. Yeah, fliers :) I'm glad to help, really, I just feel like a dummy saying "hey, I can't come to meetings, but I can pass out some papers once a month..." Earlier this month, err last month, there was a meeting I could go to, so I said I would be there. I completely forgot about it, mostly cause I got sick. Then they had another this past Sunday, I made it! I signed up to do some things, including fliers for this week! So I think to myself all day after the meeting "fliers, fliers, fliers" I get home, do some homework (I'm behind...imagine that). And get super excited about making homemade lasagna, where I'm even making homemade sauce. So I start making it so Bryan doesn't have to prep everything the next day. Oh wait...what happened to fliers? Yeah...I just remembered. I'm a loser. I've got to look like a flake to everybody now.

As for the car. That was lovely. our car....is old :) It's a very humble car. 97, black, VW jetta. The only car we have, and she (yes she, her name is midnight...Bryan's thing not mine), has served us well. Awhile ago, the car stopped unlocking so the only way to get in was to climb through the window or go through the driver's door. This was before we got married, it got fixed, but it required Bry's dad to take off the inside of the door...it never got put back on for a variety of reasons. BUT all the doors open :) This is definitely a necessity now that we have a child with a ginormous carseat to fit into the car. Well, the passenger side is the one that has the gutted out door, the front passenger side. so some cords stick out and such, no big deal. You have to open it a certain way, no big deal. Today, we went on campus. Bryan had a class, I had a meeting and lugged Kiernan along (yes, lugged, the dude's getting heavy). the car alarm goes off....huh. It shouldn't have...considering we have to manually unlock and lock the car. We turn it off (we have to turn it off by unlocking the trunk since the internal locking system is no longer automatic). And go on our way to do the things we need to do. We come back, my door is slightly ajar...hmph, weird. We get in, leave, and go to the store. Get in the parking lot, Bryan gets out, shuts the door. The alarm goes off. Bryan turns it off, and waits for me to get out. I get out, the alarm goes off. Hmm...oh wait...car won't start. Bryan fiddles, the alarm goes on and off several times. then I hear "hey, why are the windows down?" what? Somehow, through this whole process, the car rolled down all the windows (which we avoid sinc ethe back two windows have fallen before!). Bryan sends me into the store with Kiernan to get the one item we needed, trash bags. I come out, he's still working on it. Then I see him fiddle with something inside the car. Turns out...some cord that is related to the alarm got shut in the door, which was why my door wasn't all the way shut all the way back at the campus parking lot. during all this, I decided to move my shadowing to next week just in case we couldn't get the car working by tomorrow. Throughout all this, I made Bryan really stressed out by reminding him we needed a babysitter for the shadowing thing, and he had forgotten or just somehow didn't hear me. So yeah, find a baby sitter for tomorrow morning at 7:45 AM? not happening, so that confirmed that I needed to reschedule. So I did, and luckily the girl was able to do it (many thanks to her).

In short, I'm a flake :)

Kiernan: he's doing great...most of the time. either he's teething, or he's had a bad stomach ache, or has got some nasty growing pains going on. He's been so fussy all day. Normally he takes several hour long naps throughout the day. Not today, he took two, and that's it. So he's tired...very tired. But something's bugging him. He's had fevers up and down ever since last night, but not high enough to take him to the doctor. He's also drooling as if old faithful is just spouting out of his mouth. Seriously, nothing is dry around him...nothing. So if you see me walking around with wet spots all over, it's his drool. I promise! He keeps sucking on things like no other, hates being put down at the moment, and just whines and whines and whines. this is very unusual for him. He's usually extremely happy all day, easy to distract, and takes many naps, especially in the mornings. Hopefully this thing will resolve itself soon so he can be happy again. :)

Otherwise, he's healthy. He's growing like no other though. I told Bryan today that I seriously think he grew a bunch overnight. He looks so much bigger today. This is part of why I think it might be growth spurt pains. But he also likes to have his gums rubbed, so it could be teething, but he also likes it when I do bicycle kicks with his legs, and that could be a tummy ache. He loves sucking, but won't take the binky right now. I know he's not constipated cause...yeah...we've got plenty of poopy diapers. Oh wait...I thought I moved on about complaining about this...

He's doing well :) he's healthy. We love him, he makes me smile, even when he's crying. he's just adorable. we love him.

There...that should be long enough for now :)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Traveling

So the three of us (hubby, son and me) are going to CA to visit my in-laws as they have not seen Kiernan (KB) yet. We bought 2 plane tickets, and will be holding KB. we need to bring the car seat though. how does that work? how do i make it be luggage? and any suggestions for traveling? it's only an hour and 45 minutes of flying.