These are a few of my favorite things...

So, the other day I got to go out for a little "me" time. I tried to invite a few people but it simply didn't work out. Nick had spent the morning golfing so I decided to treat myself also. After all, you can only sit around the house ordering baby clothes from EBay for so long until you just go stir crazy. I started out my time with LaMadeline. I ordered one of my pregnancy favorites, a grilled chicken ceasar salad with tomato basil soup... mmmm. Then I went to Starbucks. I bought a few books for Granty poo. He loves them by the way. I bought the Click Clack Moo board book and a pop up touch and feel alphabet book. Then I went to see horrible bosses (by myself). I felt like I was living in St. Aug all over again going to the movies and Barnes and Nobles all by myself. The movie was hilarious. To top off an already great night I decided to give myself a nice dose of insulin and indulge in a chai chiller from CC's. My favorite... WITH whipped cream. Oh, the simple pleasures in life! And on the way home I had my music up as loud as I wanted with all the windows down. Something I do not do with the baby in the car. It is nice every-now-and-then to have some time for just myself and my thoughts.

Last night Jordin volunteered to babysit which was so sweet. Nick and I got to go out to dinner and gelatos(which also reminded me of St. Aug). I had some boring sugar free coffee but I did taste Nick's gelato. It was sooo good. We had a good time. Today I have been cleaning my but off. We have more dust and spider webs in this house than I can handle. It's gross! The house is spotless and not I am waiting for Grant to wake up to go to Baton Rouge before the traffic. :/ Redecorating the dining room thanks to Maddie.

Boys wear blue people!

So, the past couple of weeks have been pretty busy. Last week I went up to Hayley and Thomas' house to bring them their baby gift that had been sitting in my living room for a month. I just knew that by the time I finally got it there she would already have one. And I was right. :( It was fun getting to catch up with her though. That's the nice thing about good friends. It seems like you can always pick up where you left off.

Nick, Grant, and I also got to go to Portofino island with his brothers and their families. I can't say that it was the most relaxing vacation but it was fun nonetheless. By the time we packed up all of the baby stuff and carted it down to the beach and got him set up it was time to go back to the room because he was hot. We had little patot set up though. I blew up his floaty, put a towel over it, and had a misty fan on him. He was living the life. Maybe next year he will enjoy it a little more and we will bring a babysitter. Lesson learned!

Another cool thing that happened... to me it was cool... we ordered a brand new washer and dryer. After much confusion and two deliveries we are very happy with it. I had to get a little loud with the people at Best Buy but they did their best to fix their mistake. :/ For some reason the clothes are SO much softer and they smell sooo good. For any of you in the market, we got the LG front loader 9 cycle and they are awesome!!!

Last weekend Jenn and Michael were in with Eli for July 4th. It was nice that they were here for a long weekend. Jennifer brought her embroidery machine for me to play on and she played with my new camera lens. She was a bit underwhelmed with it but I love it anyway. And I didn't get to play on her machine nearly as much as I wanted to. Too bad. I guess I will when I go up there in a few weeks for the consignment sale... I cant wait! Speaking of clothing. I am now addicted to EBay!!!! Who ever knew it was so amazing? And why didn't they tell me how great it is??? I have already purchased about 10 smocked Jon Jons for my little baby. I have saved so much money and been so happy with everything so far. The other day I had THREE outfits come in at one time. It was then when I admitted my problem and I have been trying to stay away. But who can resist that beautiful smocking? :( AND over the past two days Grant has been called a girl three times!!! twice today and once yesterday. He was wearing all blue... bubbles. I love bubbles and I don't care if they are a bit girly. Look at the colors people! And I love how people play it off. They usually say "well he is jusyt too pretty to be a boy". I am fine with it though. And I don't care what anyone says (Jennifer) I will dress him in these little outfits until he is potty trained! lol

Last night we had the first baby-free night in a while. Mom came over and watched Grant while Nick and I met my friend Trisha and her fiance out for dinner. We were there about three and a half hours. Once again, I love it when you can pick up where you left off. Trisha and i were best friends in high school who lost touch when we graduated and went to college. Still probably one of my biggest regrets. When I got married I was lucky enough to have her come on my bachelorette trip and we have talked on and off ever since. Recently we have become closer again. She asked me to be in her wedding. I am so honored and so excited to share in this time with her. I really hope we become super close like we used to be. True friends are hard to come by and she is one of them. I can't wait to help her celebrate.

Today was Alissa's birthday. The kids had so much fun. Jamie rented a water slide and the cake was delicious!!! Sadly I did have a piece. And I paid for it later. I have had a stomach ache for several hours now. I got to hand out with Tabatha a lot. She is the type of person who you could just talk to for hours. Good people!

Tonight I was doing a lot of research on the American Diabetes Association website. I have been to lots of doctor appts and met with the nurse lately and I am having a much harder time lately controlling my sugar. My honeymoon period ( a period usually after you are first diagnosed where your pancreas produces SOME insulin) is pretty much over. It seems like I can;t sneak anything now without my sugar going through the roof. My doctor told me that I am a good candidate for the insulin pump. Basically its a little catheter I put in my stomach that is connected to a tube that is connected to a pump. I will wear it 24 hours a day only taking it off to shower. The benefits are that I will only take one shot every three days while still checking my sugar as opposed to 4-5 shots a day. Also, she said that they see better control and less insulin wasted while on the pump. The downside is that they are extremely expensive and I would need to be connected to it all the time. I was really sad over the thought of never being able to wear a dress again. Maybe I could cut holes in them or invent some type of holster like for guns on my leg. hmmm... we shall see. :) I still have a lot of homework to do and maybe one day it will happen. I started on a trial saline pump and it didn't work. The catheter basically hooked in my skin instead of going straight in. I am going back Monday to get it put in again. I think I flinched while putting it in because I was scared of the size of the needle. I have become quite a wimp using my little short needles. :)

Well, both of my guys are sleeping so I guess I should be too. Goodnight all.

Summer days driftin' away

So, I have been trying to do as many free activities as possible. Because if I am not entertained, I am spending money at the mall. This is a picture of me, Kali, Sara, and Jordin at a little play that the girls were in written by Mrs. Nancy. They did a great job.
This is a picture from the night we met parain out to eat pizza. It was Grant's first time ever sitting in a big boy high chair. :*)
This is Grant in his big boy outfit. I thought he looked so grown up in this. He's gonna be such a heartbreaker.
I found a ton of activities that the library puts on around town for free. This was one of them. We got to make puppets. The kids had fun and grant laughs and laughs at them!
Here is naked boy after I fed him the other night. He is eating so many veggies and loves them all!


This week has been crazy busy. Wednesday I went to a place called Little Gym with a friend for a little baby class. Grant had so much fun. I learned how to do some little flips with him and we sang and just had a good time. I can't wait until he is a little older to take him more often. I ordered my new camera lens... which I am super pumped about. It should be in soooon! Can't wait to take pictures of my patot! Yesterday mom and I had date night after I spent the entire day washing clothes at her house. We went for manis, pedis, and Joe's Crab shack. YUM! Then the dryer went out. Nick fixed it. A few days later, the washer broke! What are the odds? Then today we woke up to go buy new washer/dryers and the air wasn't working. Luckily, we have a seperate AC unit in the garages. Thank God for that. We ordered our new front loading washer.dryer that I am sooo excited about and the repairman fixed the AC in about 30 minutes. Good day.Tomorrow is Father's Day. I hope Nick has a good one. I baked a Watergate cake (pistachio). I can't wait to have a tiny piece. I hope he likes his gifts too. Speaking of which... I need to wrap before he gets home. Until next time......

Summmmmer

Warning: this is going to be a boring post. I don't really do much of anything besides take care of Grant and play on the computer most of every day. You would think I would blog more but I suck. I haven't blogged in about a month. I am so bad at keeping up. If only I were as addicted to blogging as I am facebook. :) So a few weeks ago we had Grant's little baptism. It was at the same church Nick and I got married in. Father Greg did an amazing job as usual! Grant didn't cry at all! After we all had a little get-together at our house. Everything was so pretty and the weather was perfect. I am so thankful for our family and friends who were able to make it. It was great!

I survived another year of teaching!! I must say this year was so much better than last year. I hope I have another good group of kids next year. I will say that I am going to miss this class so much. Maybe they took it easy on me since they knew I was pregnant. :) I am always nervous about the next year. They have laid off a bunch of people, moved some around and I never know which grade I will end up in. I am sooo hoping that it will be second. I am very comfortable where I am, I love my co-workers, and I love teaching second graders. We will see though, I guess only time will tell.

So far, I have seriously loooved being home with little man. I am enjoying summer more than I enjoyed being home when he was a newborn. He has such a little personality now! He smiles and laughs at me. I even love the little grunt noises he makes when he poops. It's hilarious! Of course I understand that I may be the only person who thinks this is hilarious but, anyway! Every time I speak he looks around the room for me. I can just tell he loves me as much as I love him and I am so thankful for him. He was made for me! :)

I am not good at time lines, and I don't feel like pulling out his baby book. But, here is a list of the things that he is now doing:
1. sitting all by himself.
2. grabbing toys
3. putting everything in his mouth and sucking on everything
4. eating rice, tried oatmeal (baaad experience), and tried sweet potatoes today. He didn't care for them but we will try again tomorrow.
5. He went swimming a few times now and seemed to like it.
6. I SWEAR it sounds like he says "mama" sometimes but usually when he is mad! :)

I can't believe he is getting so big. :( I guess all babies eventually grow in to men, but I just don't want him to grow sooo fast.

That's pretty much my life... Grant, Nick, Grant, Diabetes, Grant, etc... lol
My diabetes as been wreaking havoc on my stomach for the past week. It's pretty terrible but I am making it. I am still not totally comfortable with my carb counting. I have a long way to go but I am trying... most of the time. Except today I had a piece of chocolate cake and then had to take a lot of insulin after. oops. But everyday I think it gets easier. I knew it would but I guess it is like everything in life.... it takes time to adjust. I am currently looking at other doctors. I love the Baton Rouge Clinic but I am not loving my doctor. And if I need to see them as much as I do, I want to LOVE him/her. So I think I figured out who I will be switching to and I hope I like him.

Also, our dryer broke today. I would like to take this time out to brag on my husband. Although it is NOT fixed yet, making only one phone call to my wonderful father, he is well on his way to fixing it! He took it apart and knows whats wrong. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. I started a list of everything that needs fixin' around here:
1. dryer
2. light in the garage needs to be changed
3. stained concrete floors need to be re-sealed
4. flag on the mailbox broke off
5. exterminator needs to come
6. Grant's fan broke
7. we want to put in a new shower


Quite the honey-do list! lol I am sure that as the summer progresses I will be adding to the list.

LIFE LATELY

Grant has been growing by leaps and bounds! Yesterday he began rolling over and last Sunday we started feeding him rice cereal with a spoon!!! WOW. I fall more in love with my sweet boy every day. He gets baptized this weekend and I can't wait.

Last weekend was my first Mother's Day. It was also Kali, ASara, Kamryn and Elise's dance recital. Mother's Day has never meant more to me. Nick brought me breakfast in bed and a card with flowers. He got me a bracelt, new coffee mug, stationary, and bath stuff. All very thoughtful. The best part was getting to spend time with my family. After the recital we went out to lunch and for dinner mom and dad treated us to prime rib and Alaskan king crabs. THEN ALL THE GUYS CLEANED THE KITCHEN! ;) It was awesome!

Also, Jordin graduates COLLEGE this weekend and Jenn will be graduating from Nurse Practitioner school next weekend. I am so proud of my sisters!

Counting blessings

Great weekend! Friday Nick was off for Good Friday. His parents called and asked us if we wanted to go out for lunch with them. We said ok. They wanted lobster and wanted to go to Ruth Chris. I was in jean shorts with no makeup and we had the baby with us. I was looking pretty rough but his parents really wanted to go there. It was my first time there and it was good! Then Nick and I went shopping. We got him a new outfit and I found a dress. I then went to about twenty different shoe stores looking for shoes to match. I finally found some that killed my feet the second I put them on but I bought them anyway. It ended up looking cute and after I broke them in it wasn't too bad.

Grant was not impressed with Ruth Chris. lol

Saturday Nick and I dropped the baby off in Torbert and headed to a wedding in Natchez. We were barely out of his parents driveway when I was telling him to slow down. We had all day to get there. No sooner then I said that I heard cop sirens. I was pissed. It was definitly an "i told you so" moment. men and their lead feet!

We ended up making it to Natchez and went to the wedding at a plantation. It was so pretty and very elegant. I cheated and ate a piece of wedding cake which was delicious!!! We all ended up going out to a casino that night because there was nothing better to do in that town. Nick and I are not big fans of casinos so we were just sitting around waiting on everyon to decide on the next place to go. One of the bridesmaids from the wedding suggested that we go nd get a players card. If you are new to the casino they will give you money to play with for free. It costs one dollar to activate the card. We put our cards in and it wouldnt work. We sat and sat and Nick was ready to leave/ I went and asked what the problem was and they said the system was backed up and we would need to wait 15 minutes. So I made nick wait. Finally it works. Nick hits his little btton about four times and ding ding ding ding ding ding......... all of the little old ladies gather around. I jumped up and down like a fool. I just kept saying "I can't believe this!" He won $965 off of $1. Talk about the best dollar we ever spent! lol We gave a hundred to the couple who got married and decided to cash out and be done. It definitly made the trip so exciting.
I thought this sign was funny!

Needless to say, Nick paid for his ticket and the rest of the trip with his winnings.

Sunday we went to pick up potato baby. I was sad that we missed his first Easter morning. I staged a fake Easter morning later on that evening
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This week we have been off of school. I took the kids to the zoo and it was quite an adventure. Today I went to a dietitian and nurse educator. I felt like it was pretty productive. I learned some carb counting techniques and they talked to me about possibly getting an insulin pump one day down the line. It is nice to know that theyre may be some options for me. I fee lucky to ave such great nurses to work with. The dietitian told me that it's ok to be mad. And as fortunate as I know I am, I am still mad. I am trying to get through these feelings of anger. I also got a letter from a lady in my sister's prayer group who has had type 1 diabetes sinc the age of 7. It was one of the kindest things ever. This complete stranger sent me the sweetest words of advice. She said that this disease is not for the weak-minded, I must control it or it will control me. I know I can do it.

Tonight Jordin, Luke, Nick, mom, dad, Grant, and I went to the chimes. It was so fun to just hang out. It was my first attempt at carb counting and I think I did good! Once we wre home I was feeding the baby hen my mom called. I could tell in her voice that something was wrong. She said it was Jordin, she was in a wreck and her car was totaled. I practically threw the baby at Nick and rushed to the accident. She is fine. She hurt her wrist and her car is completely ruined but she was so lucky. There was a metal took box in her windshield on the drivers side and a brick on the passengers side. If it would have gone through the window God knows what would have happened. On the way home tonight we were talking about religion and some pretty deep things. This really made me stop and think that she probably had an angel with her tonight. I am so thankful that she and the other driver are ok. My heart felt like it stopped beating when I thought something horrible had happened. Moral of the story... don;t forget to spread the love, every day. Kiss your babies and tell the ones you love that you love them because the future is not promised to us. I love you, Jo!

Lastly, this is a little video from the other day when I had the kids over. I laugh every time I watch it. We had been at the zoo all day and everyone was tired.
At the zoo chillin!

Every day is a winding road

Today was the funeral. It was beautiful. The eulogy was very touching and made me feel like she was smiling down upon us all. The scripture readings were perfect, it was like they were written with her in mind. Her beautiful family was so strong and I admire their closeness. I will always smile when I think of her. I am so glad to have known her.

On a lighter note... Kali had her first softball game tonight. Got a hit every time she went up!Go girl! I am so proud of her!!