What can I say...

Well it's been another week since I posted last...what can I say...? I haven't heard anyone complaining about the lack of posts though so maybe it just goes to show that no one is really reading this blog anyway...

I was away in Florida for work though so I guess I could use that as an excuse. Although I did have some free time on the trip and could have blogged...

The trip was AWESOME! I went for an Agile Scrum Alliance Conference and it was seriously a great trip. The conference was really good; I learned a lot of things and met a ton of great people. The hotel I stayed at was super cool! Gaylord Palms Hotel was the name of it and it was HUGE. It had two pools and a spa right in the hotel. I got a massage, read TWO, yes TWO whole books cover-to-cover, went to bed early and slept in late (which means I slept until 7:30). It was so relaxing. I would have loved to have the kids and Brian there with me, but I also really needed the solo time as well.

My little Cody Mouse you are 6 months old now!! I just cannot believe how fast these last 6 months have gone by! And really the last year! I'm a week away from writing Logan's 2 year post...that's right 2 YEARS OLD!! What!? I have a two year old? How is that even possible? Most days I feel like I can barely take care of myself...how can I also be responsible for two other people's lives?

Cody is SOOOOOO close to crawling it's not even funny! Here's a picture of him up on his hands and knees.



He'll get up on all 4s and sort of rock back-n-forth on this hands and knees. He hasn't fully mastered the concept of moving his hands forward though and usually ends up doing a face-plant into the carpet instead of crawling forward, but I don't think it will be long now before he's up and full-on crawling. Although don't get me wrong, he can get around now. You put him down on one side of the room and he'll be on the other side of the room before you know it. Reaching and stretching for toys or blankets. He hasn't gotten any teeth yet, but is still drooling like crazy!! Note the huge drool marks on my shoulders in the picture below.



We also got Grandma Meyer's walker back and he's been scooting around the kitchen in the walker lately...well that is when Logan's not occupying it. I think Logan likes it better now than he did when he was Cody's age. We try not to let him in it cause I just know one day he's going to break it, but the kid is fast and kind of hard to get out once he's in. Having the walker is a great thing though. Cody, like Logan, likes to see what's going on, so it's nice to be able to wheel him into the kitchen when I'm cooking dinner and he can watch Logan playing on the floor or just feel better that he's included in the action.





Logan is going through a few stages/phases right now...
1) He LOVES suckers. (Note he's got one in the picture below). He asks for them as soon as he gets home from daycare, first thing in the morning, before dinner, after dinner...you get the point. The problem is I ran out of them about a week and a half ago...but for some reason Logan just hasn't gotten that into his head yet. He still points at the same brown bowl with the candy in it and goes, "Sucker please Mom" and every time I have to respond, "Honey you eat them all. They're all gone." Now I could probably get more suckers (and I'm sure I will someday), but I can't help but think that would just feed the cycle more.



2) He has learned to say "No"...or really, "Nope" all the time now. It's not so much the fact that he says, 'Nope', but really the WAY he says 'Nope'. He says it in such a high-pitched Angelic voice and shakes his head back-and-forth. It's as if he's saying, "Nope Mom I'm not going to do what you want me to do, but thanks for asking, maybe next time I'll consider it." Little Stinker!

3) He does not want us to leave him at daycare any more. He'll walk into Julie's no problem, but once we're inside he does not want us to leave. Julie said he's fine about 2 min after we leave, but while we're there it's, "Hold Me Mommy. Hold me!" He'll start crying and reaching for us or running after us when we finally decide it's time to go. It breaks my heart every time I have to leave him there, but what other choice do I have? I have to go to work...I would love to just hang out with the boys all day long, but it's just not in the cards for us. I just keep telling myself, "I'm not a bad mother for going to work when my child is screaming and crying for me to hold him...I'm not a bad mother."

Brian recently taught Logan how to shake hands. He just did it spontaneously one morning before he left for work. Logan wouldn't give him a kiss for some reason, so instead Brian goes, "Can I shake your hand instead?" Logan thought it was really cool and will randomly come up to you and want to shake your hand. It's so funny and too cute!



Alright I'll sign off for now. I'm in class and I think the guy next to me is going to clock me for typing super loud...

My Boys

An Animoto Video I put together of the boys...Enjoy.

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Whirlwind

I am literally shocked that a week has gone by already since the last post! Seriously where has the time gone and what have I been doing to fill it so rapidly?

Oh wait...that's right...I have a 2 year old and a 6 month old and they've both and miserable colds for the last few days and Brian was gone at state wrestling for a majority of the weekend. I was very sad though then I went to get ready for work Sunday night and realized I hadn't take a single picture of the boys all weekend long. I usually take at least a couple of them, but I didn't even get out the camera this weekend. You would think I'd try to remedy that fact by taking a ton of them this week...but still haven't take a single picture. Things have been busier than normal the last few days. Work for both Brian and I is crazy busy and as I mentioned earlier the boys have bad colds. Cody especially hasn't really slept for more than 3 hours at a time the last three nights. Most the time he's up every hour or so sometimes even more. Last night he was up 5 times in an hour. Poor little mouse just can't breath. I feel so bad for him, but there's not really much you can do for kids that age with colds. We've been doing the Vicks before bed and the vaporizer in his room at night and sucking his boogers out every chance we get, but it's really just a waiting game. Just need to let it run it's course.

Anyway I just wanted to post something quick so you knew I was still alive and kickin'. I'll try to do a better job of updating this and also try to complain less...

I'm so excited it's nice this week! It's just what the doctor ordered for my cabin fever!

Pneumonia or RSV?

We took Cody in to Urgent Care last Saturday due to his really bad cough. He wasn't coughing frequently, but when he did cough it sounded like he had smoked three packs a day for 64 years. So we figured we better get him looked at.

The doctor listened to his chest for quite a long time and when he finally took the stethoscope out of his ears he pronounced that he believed Cody had a little pneumonia in his lower left lobe. He then continued to examine Cody; checking his eyes and ears and throat. He also said that it looked like Cody was just starting to get an ear infection as well. So he said we could do a chest x-ray to either confirm or deny the pneumonia, but that he would prescribe antibiotics for the ear infection anyways and that's what they would also give him for the pneumonia so we could do the x-ray if I wanted, but it would change the treatment much. So we just went with the Amoxicillin for 10 days and hoped that he would start sounding better soon. Both the doctor and the pharmacist said the antibiotics should kick in very quickly.

Well after three days he still had the horrible cough, and basically nothing had changed. Looking back I'm not sure he really had pneumonia; he could have had RSV and the doctor just thought it was pneumonia (which based on my research is a common misdiagnosis.) Also ear infections are a common symptom of RSV as well. I'm glad to be able to write that he's doing much better now and seems back to normal. He's so great, cause even when he had the horrible cough he was still the smiling little mouse we know and love. He was still eating and drinking great and playing like normal. He wasn't sleeping super great, but who knows if that was due to being sick or just a little phase.

As for Logan he's doing great. He had a mild cold the last couple of weeks, but is feeling great now. He's definitely heading into the terrible twos at full throttle. He knows how to push the limits just far enough without crossing the line. We'll tell him not to kick his brother and what does he do? He slowly extends his food just far enough so that it lightly touches Cody's head. Now is that really kicking Cody? Do I continue to tell him not to kick his brother when he's not really "kicking" him? He does things like that all the time; continuously pushing the limits. I can't imagine where he gets it from...Brian! Here's a prime example! As I was writing this post, Brian called from Madison (State Wrestling), so I put my computer down and answered the phone. Logan was playing with his train while I was talking to Brian (Brian could even hear him going, "Chooo Chooo"). When I hung up the phone with Brian I look up and there's Logan...he had pulled 12 keys off my work laptop! AAAARRRR I was able to fix all but 1 of them (the down arrow key), but seriously?!?!? The kid has to get into everything and the first thing he usually wants to do with a new toy or really anything is figure out how to take it apart. You seriously can not take your eyes off that kid for more than 30 seconds. If you do he's probably already distroyed something.

Here's a few pictures and a video of Logan. Could he be the next Brett Favre?



Action Shot! Look at that form!




Another picture of Logan with something on his head...SHOCKER! :-)


The other day Logan wanted to lay next to Cody so he set this up all by himself...well ok Mom helped him lay Cody on the pillow, but he put the blankets down and the pillows and pointed to where he wanted Cody. Such a good big brother!


Some pictures of Cody. Here he's playing with his favorite blue rattle. He loves to suck on it and shake it around.










And finally a picture of Cody sitting up all by himself. About a min or so is the most he'll be able to sit right now; then he usually reaches for a toy or something and topples over...or...


His brother comes by and knocks him over. I just love his picture cause Cody's face says it all. "Oh crap...down I go...thanks Brother!"

Falling Behind

Yup I'm falling behind in blog posting land...things at work have intensified and there's no lack of things to do at home. I promise to get a blog post out tomorrow (even if I have to do it during my class... :-) ).

Congrats All Around

Friday night was a combo party. My brother Mitchell's Welcome Home party, my brother Steven's Graduation Party and Jamie's Graduation Party. It was a ton of fun. Great Job Mom and Dad!!

Here's some pics and videos:

Cody really thinks Logan is THE funniest (most funny)? person in the whole world! Listen/See for yourself.


It's a brother and sister kind of thing!


Grandma and the Mouse


Logan and Mom bustin' a move before the party started.



Cheese!


Great Grandpa and Grandma


Mouse and Crystal


Dance Dance


Even Grandma Johnson 'twist and shouted'


I love to watch Mitchell dance...he's so funny...


Sisters


Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots




This weekend both the boys had (and still do) had really bad colds. Logan was running a bit of a fever on Saturday afternoon as well. He just wasn't himself. He was kind of sad and just laid around most of the night. I know when I don't feel good the only thing I want to do is lay around with a bucket on my head and watch tv...and it must be the same for Logan cause that's what he did...


Sunday though he was feeling much better. Auntie Carey and Uncle Bob came over with the twins and brought Logan his Christmas present. (Because the Vikings were doing so well it was on back order for weeks...amazingly as soon as they lost the helmet was available...go figure right?). He LOVES this helmet. It took him a while to warm up to it before he'd actually put it on his head, but once he did he didn't want to take it off. He wore it all day. Thanks Bob and Carey!


Grandma Meyer got Cody this bib for Valentine's Day.

"Aaahh Mom? Are you trying to do what you did to Logan and make me look like a girl? I'm not ok with that!" :-)

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Babe! I love you!