He's getting so big!

Pics from Today

Now, normally we wear cloths around the house, but we are trying to potty train. If you are shy when it comes to little tushies turn away.

Tragedies and Triumphs

Here's my week in snippets...we'll start with the good stuff.

We've got the boys sleeping in the same room, and the best part is we are putting them both in bed awake and they are falling asleep together!!!!!!!!

Gentry started signing "more" today. The funny thing is it wasn't for more food, but because he wanted the necklace I took away from him back...

Micah research project got approved by Martek, this is big because he'll be able to use work hours to do school work, and he won't have to drive to Lex. to work on it. Ya!!!!!

bad stuff

sister filed for divorce, husband checked out of rehab.

aunts live in boyfriend got hit by drive by, paralyzed from waste down

Micah's aunts house is covered in floodwater, lost just about everything

I finally conceded to putting Grey in school under the compromise of a Montessori school...never mind it's $3000 for 9mo. of 3hr a day schooling...back to homeschooling I guess.

Playgroup at the park

Well, the turnout wasn't huge but we had a great morning at the park.

Lydia


Kristi & Connner


Keaton and Grey


Keaton & Clay


Grey-monkey


Caged Animal


Jaba the hut, in a swing

Gentry is 9mo. today

Went to the doctors today for Gentry's 9mo checkup. He's doing great (for a horse), he's 23lbs. and 28in. I don't' remember how big his head was, but I do know that it was in the 95%! So he's on par for the family...big! Poor thing, he's going to have to go on daily allergy medicine, he just has horrible eczema and he's always fussy. We spent two hours outside yesterday and he's covered head to toe in a rash because of it. I don't know how I feel about him taking medicine everyday, but I think I took benadryl 300/365 days a year growing up, so he'll survive.

Gentry's worst day ever (and mine)

Starting yesterday morning he rolled off the changing table (I was standing in front of him but he went around me). I caught him before he hit the floor but he did bang the table a bit.

Then he was playing in an empty kitchen cabinet and he fell out face first onto the the tile floor. He has a bruise on the tip of his nose now.

Last night while we ate dinner, he was playing with some pots and pans. One of them crashed to the floor and scared him, he jumped and slammed into the door. He has a scratch on the bridge of his nose.

The the big one...playing in the bath, he used the side of the tub to stand up. He started to tip out so I nudged his shoulders back in, his feet slipped, his chin clocked the side of the tub, and his two bottom teeth busted through his top gum. His mouth was full of blood, it was bad.

And to top it all off his eczema is horrible from being outside so much this weekend. His skin looks like leather.

So needless to say he was dosed with orajel, tylenol, and benadryl before bed. I guess you could say that I was not a great mom yesterday...I kinda sucked.

Mother's Day Weekend

This weekend was all around great. We went to Laura's graduation party Saturday afternoon and had some great BBQ. Grey had a blast outside assaulting some 5 yr old neighborhood kid. I also made a cake for Laura as a gift and I fretted over it all week so finally finishing it was a relief. It turned out great considering it was my first attempt at fondant and sugar paste. The best part was it turned out just like the sketch I drew up earlier in the week...I love when things go just as planned, I know, I'm a bit Martha that way.



Then Saturday night we went out for sushi with some friends we used to go to church with. It was the first time we have had sushi and surprise surprise we loved it. We totally gorged ourselves, the waitress brought Micah and my food and put it in the middle of the table because she thought it was for all four of us. Little did she know that we have the appetite of a very large mid-western trucker.

Sunday morning was crunch time. We were running around like chickens with our heads cut off. Micah had to be at church early to watch the junk yard kids (only nobody called to tell us that there were none this week), and it was Gentry's baby dedication, and we had to pack up some cake and other stuff to go to Louisville for the day. And since I'm horrible under pressure and I had nothing to wear, I was very unpleasant.



The baby dedication went great, our church really does a great job with that. It was very precious and meaningful for us. After church I wanted to get a group picture of my church mom friends and lets just say that chaos ensued. 8 kids under 4 tying to play, and four moms trying to smile...It took Brett and Fred making some sort of kissy/zerburt noises, Greg directing traffic, and Micah wielding the camera to get one picture, but it was worth it.

Then we headed off to New Albany, IN to see Micah's paternal grandparents. It's like going back to the '50s when your on " We sit on the screened in porch, have a vodka tonic, and listen to the silence. I just feel like we have so much to learn from them, they've been married for over 50 years, Janis has Parkinson's, Dick's cancer just came back, but they are still holding on to one another.




So all in all it was a great weekend full of family and friends. And to top it all off I got a new copper bottom skillet and Micah is building me new pantry shelves...very cool.

Shenanigans!

Yesterday had some pretty big blunders. Grey got mad at me for taking away his Lightening McQueen so he went into his closet and got the hydrocortizone cream and wiped it all over himself. After a good smacking and a shower I let him run around naked. He went pee in the potty so he got his new spiderman action figure that came with bubble bath. While I was feeding Gentry he decided to go get his bubble bath and dump it all over his bedroom floor. So another spanking and shower and then to bed early. Does anyone know how to get bubble bath out of carpet because it's not coming out. And this morning I found Gentry trying to eat it, it does smell like tutti fruitti, can't blame him.

House of Pain

The insanity in my house was a little more than normal last night. It started off with me laying in the floor playing with the boys. First Grey stepped on my breast and when I yelled he jumped and kneed me in the chin.

Gentry was playing in the floor and Grey shoved a baby spoon down his throat and gagged him, he later threw up a little blood.

Grey slipped getting out of the tub and busted his eye open. It scared the crap out of me.

Now, do you understand why I need a girl. I need to have a frilly little girl who wants to play with my hair and have tea parties. Instead during the day I am head butted, shoved, hit with bats, bitten, body slammed, etc. and that's all before the kids wake up :-) Jusk kidding honey!

Anniversary weekend

Well we had a wonderful time this weekend. It was a bit of a clusterf**k, but still great. Both kids slept on the way to Louisville so they were ready and rarin' to go. Gentry was in a good mood until we needed to get dressed and then he promptly had a meltdown, so we dosed him with teething tablets, tylenol, benadryl, oragel and the like. I know it sounds a bit much but the kid has exzema, a rash, an ingrown toenail, and is teething, on top of all that we were in a new place. So we left the house to the screaming of our child, knowing how bad it was going to suck for Micah's aunt and uncle. We took out our anger on one another, almost turned the car around and called it quits and then decided to just not speak to each other until we got to the resturant. This may sound bad, but it really wasn't.



We got to the resturant, Micah got his first look at my dress ;-), we had a celebratory toast and about fifteen text messages, and one phone call later, we were feeling a little better about Gentry and the evening ahead.

We had a wonderful meal: Cheese board, lamb pops, ahi tuna, duck breast, raspberry chocolate cake for dessert, and lots of wine! It was better than I remember and just a perfect. We left by 7:15 to get to the Palace on time, we forgot how beautiful it was in there.



The show was so wonderful, the women had an ethereal quality to there voices, at times you felt you were in the middle of a Lord of the Rings elfish dream, until the drums started going and then it felt a little like a Braveheart battle scene.



So all in all it was a great weekend, and our best anniversary yet! 4 down 46 to go.