Sick & Tired

Gavin & Daddy in their Superman shirts a few days before the "sickness" hit our home.

That is how my whole house has felt for almost a week. Gavin came down with a cold/fever last Thursday and has progressively gotten worse. Our whole weekend was spent in the house trying to placate him, make him comfortable, wipe his nose, listen to him cry and hold him. Greg and I both felt like we got nothing done this weekend, and we didn't! We had all these plans to work on the nursery, do flowers outside, see family, etc. Everything was put on the back burner and I did get out of the house for a few hours on Saturday to get my hair done. That is it. I am officially going a little crazy. We did get out yesterday to the doctor where we were told not only does he have a cold, but double ear infections. Lovely. Did I mention that he has been getting up about 4 am now? Well I should say his sleeping has gotten better. The first few nights he was up every couple hours crying and coughing his poor little heart out. The past few nights he has been back in his bed and this morning did not come down until 4:45am. So every day it is getting better! Yea. Just what a 7 month prego woman wants, to get about 6 hours of sleep a night- on a good night! I have been super fun lately, let me tell you! Greg is living off of coffee, energy drinks and soda, while I have my one soda a day. I actually told Gavin about 6:30 this morning we were going to Starbucks and getting a Chai Tea and a muffin and then realized my car is torn apart from him power barfing in the back seat yesterday. I really don't like driving the truck, so I ended up with my soda this morning and making muffins. Motherhood. Gavin's appetite has gone down considerably, it is a good day if I can get him to eat anything. This picture was from Friday night, his Popsicle dinner. He ate about a 1/3 of it. Oh well.

On another note, I am trying to branch out on my cooking a little more, especially with it being summer, Greg loves to grill. I wanted to try out a recipe from my Cooking Light magazine and finally got an hour on Sunday to whip it up, and try it out. Greg and I actually got about 30 minutes to eat it before we had to be on snot duty. It was great, a Peach and Red Pepper salsa over Halibut. It was really good, but a little too spicy. It asked for one habanero pepper and I put in two, oh well. We both really liked it though. I think tomorrow night we are going to try out General Tao's Chicken from one of his Gluten Free cookbooks (if I can get out of the house and get to the grocery store). I will let you know how it goes, I am not a huge fan of chicken, so Greg will be helping out a lot on this one!

The root of all EVIL is....

....Doughnuts. Oh yea, I said it. Doughnuts are the bane of my existence. If you don't believe me, well, they landed me in the ER on Saturday. Yep, they are getting the blame. Let me back track a bit......

Every time we go to the grocery store, we HAVE TO go through the bakery and pass by all those delectable looking doughnuts, muffins, scones, etc. to get to the free cookies for Gavin. I always tell Greg, "they look SO STINKING GOOD", but I never break down and get any. I know that after I eat one I will feel like crap. My Mom calls them "gut bombs" for a reason! So I always just walk on by.

My son. My cute little monkey is in his new bed now. He just doesn't know that when it is still dark out he has to stay in bed. So Friday morning, he came bouncing into our room at 4:50 am, ready to rock and roll. When Greg left for work at 5:30 - I told him, I deserve a doughnut for being up so early. So off we went (a few hours later), to Krispy Kreme to get a couple of doughnuts. Gavin has never had one (that I know of) so he was very excited. We each ate one on the drive home (hello, we had been up for 2 1/2 hours by then)! Gavin devoured his and so did I. But once we got home, I started feeling ill. I broke down and tried to eat some lunch hours later and that didn't help. Greg and I went out for dinner that night and things just got worse. We watched a movie once we were home and I couldn't get comfy, honestly I was pretty whiny. I finally told Greg, "I wish I would just throw up, I know I would feel better." If only I had known then! About 1 am I woke up, and got violently ill. It was not pretty. But I did feel better!

I never did sleep well that night, so I tried to nap about 9. I laid down and it felt like I was wearing a corset 10 times too small. My ribs were aching, it then moved into my chest and back. I couldn't breathe and was freaking out and crying like a baby (thank goodness Gavin wasn't there, I try to be strong when he is around :) ). After a quick call to the doctor- they sent me to the ER, making sure I did not have a blood clot. After an EKG, blood work, a lot of sitting around and a cat scan (why is it that the iodine they pump into you makes you feel like your tongue is too big for your mouth and that you need to tinkle?) I was sent home. They think I either bruised a rib or pulled a muscle in my quest to purge the doughnut. Well they really didn't say it was the doughnuts fault, I didn't really tell them the whole story. But yes, I blame it on the doughnut!

This past weekend wasn't spent just in the ER, Sunday was Mother's Day! I had the best one yet. I was awoken by my monkey coming into the bedroom saying, "Good morning Mama, Happy Mother's Day." It was too cute. We then headed to Flatirons to have Brunch with the Kunz's. After that, we went to a park in Boulder for a picnic with my Mom, Marv, sis and her family. The kids had fun playing and the adults soaked up the sun. I was a ding dong and didn't put sunscreen on certain areas of my body. So I have some funky burns on my chest, arms and legs. Where I actually put sunscreen is nice and brown. Oh well. The rest of the day was spent vegging out at home with the boys, Greg grilled and we spent some more time outside. It was perfect. A great way to end a somewhat less than ideal weekend. I of course forgot the camera yesterday- so no pics!

My Thursday

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

This is pictures from our day yesterday....... I began taking pictures at 8:15 am. Please note the 2 family members that are still sleeping. Lazy bones.

I love my monkeys hair in the above photos, he looks so much like me! And yes, he is eating Chocolate Cheerios. He gets them once a week...lucky boy!

I then attempted to get him to sleep in his new bed for a nap- it didn't work out so well. He looks very comfy, but completely thought it was fun time. Oh well, he can share a crib with his baby sister when she gets here.

POOP

This is the culprit

How is that for a headliner? My son just went poop in the potty for the first time. I can't believe I am that mother, you know the one that tells every little thing her brilliant child does. Well I think the only reason I am informing everyone of this, is because the toilet is now clogged. Daddy will be coming home to a nice surprise.......Welcome home from Vegas Daddy, now please unclog the toilet!

Not much to say

Well, actually I do have a lot to say, but not in the mood to do a long blog. Yes, I am in that type of mood. It is raining again, with a little spurt of snow for awhile, and I am going a little stir crazy. My son seems to be doing fine, it is just me. It is noon and I have cleaned the whole kitchen, 2 bathrooms, swiffered the whole house, dusted, watered the plants, made soup, and threw in a couple loads of laundry.

Greg is leaving for Vegas in the morning, so I guess I want a clean house for myself this weekend. Did I mention that I just ate part of a Snickers Blizzard for lunch? About my 3rd or 4th bite I realized it wasn't Heath and was very disappointed (my husband ordered the Snickers). That is pretty much it for today. Oh yea, one more b!tch from me, because of our weather this past month, my 5 lovely Lilac bushes did not bloom. I am supper annoyed with that- they are the one and only thing I wanted in our yard when we landscaped and this is the 2nd year in a row they have not bloomed. Phooey. Ok, I am done.

Spring has Sprung!

Spring is officially here, with of course us waking up to a few inches of snow from a spring storm yesterday. It was melted before the day was over! That is why I love Colorado.

We had a wonderful Easter, Greg and I hosted for the first time ever. It was a wonderful time and we had a special treat for the kids, besides the Easter bunny hiding tons of eggs outside! We had some good friends come with their train for the kids. It was pretty much the hit of the whole day and of course the neighbors kids loved it also. Kids came running out to get a ride on it. Greg and I both agreed that it was by far our favorite Easter ever! Gavin still talks about Pat and his train. Here are some pictures of our whole day. Gavin absolutely loved hunting for eggs (I can't believe I am going to admit this, but I am typing this in between hiding eggs for Gavin in the house, he can't get enough of it)! He especially loved the candy loaded in them!

Finding his football egg, I think he is already eating a Jelly Bean at 7 in the morning!

His loot, he was upset there wasn't more eggs to find, I had to remind him the Easter Bunny hid about 60 outside!

Finding his Easter Basket in the bathtub with new PJs and shoes!

The kids making a break for it out of the house- the hunt began!

Gavin finding a few in the tree!

Frankie, Jack and Pyper's loot, they all did great!

The Infamous Train!

I love the fact the kids always rode in the back! The train got quite a workout that day, by the end kids were waiting in line to get a ride. We even had one couple drive by and stop and ask if their little boy- another Gavin, could go for a ride.

Gavin driving the train, he absolutely loved it!

A huge thank you to Pat and Nita for bringing the train, the kids still rave about it.

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

What is up with the WEATHER?

This is what we had last week.....8 or so inches in a few hours. Granted we loved it, now everything is coming in such a lovely green! But really, here was part of our week- last week....

Gavin was even dressed appropriately with all of Daddy's snow stuff on.....And now, today we are going to be up to 78! What snow? All of that snow is melted and we have done nothing but play outside lately. Which is great, we have had a little guest the past few days, our neighbor Blake. He is Gavin's official driver, they cruise around between our houses and then of course stop and get under the truck and "fix things" with their tools. It is very cute.

Of course Gavin and Greg had to take a ride in this fun thing. Gavin loved it! I think Greg loved it a little too much.......... We have officially enrolled Gavin in Preschool beginning July 1st. We, ok me, are really looking forward to this! We would like it to start a little earlier, but he has to be 2 1/2 and potty trained. They are letting him in a month early as it is, so he can be somewhat acclimated to it before the baby comes. Greg and I were very impressed with the school and can't wait for him to start. My little boy is growing up! Yikes!