Wheel, coupons, randoms

Hi friends! So I’m happy to report that Noah’s spots cleared up in time to go to church on Father’s Day! Yay! Unfortunately, he also spread his hand-foot-mouth at daycare. :( But we’re all better now!

Things have been super busy at work. They have been busy since the tornado. Hopefully things will start to slow down within the next month.

Noah has always loved Wheel of Fortune, but now he screams out at the tv when it’s on…like he’s solving the puzzle, in baby jabber. Cutest thing EVER!

 

Also, we store a lot of Noah’s playroom toys in old laundry baskets or old diaper boxes. Noah’s new favorite thing to do is dump out alllllll of the little toys inside and play with the box/basket. This makes for a fun time for his OCD Mommy that likes everything to be in it’s place. :)

And in Daddy news, for Father’s Day Noah gave Brad a coupon binder. Brad’s obsessed with coupons these days. In fact, he has decided that he’s going grocery shopping once a week now…just to get a better deal. More power to him, I’m all about saving money, I’m just too lazy to learn how to coupon! He’s probably going to divorce me for putting this picture on the blog…

Everyone in the bloggy world seems to be posting a day-in-the-life series. I’m thinking about trying to do it too! I like reading about how other moms spend their day. Hopefully, I’ll have time to actually write down what I’m doing throughout the day!

Sick, yet again

I really think Noah has been sick more in the last two months than he has his entire little life!! Hence my pathetic blogging!

So Monday I took Noah to school (Praise the LORD summer school started). I noticed a few bumps on his legs, but as always assumed it was eczema. We went to an outside birthday party Saturday so it didn’t seem out of the ordinary for him to be broken out. His school called me that afternoon to tell me that it looked like the bumps were spreading into more of a rash. I went and picked him up and decided to call the doctor to see if they wanted to see him. THEN I remembered that I gave Noah some Pediasure on Sunday morning and he broke out the last time I gave him Pediasure (but we thought that was from his penicillin allergy). I mentioned that I thought Noah was having an allergic reaction to the Pediasure and they assured me that as long as he wasn’t having breathing problems, that I could give him Benadryl and he should be fine.

So Tuesday I took Noah to school. At 9am his school called and said the rash seemed to be spreading again. I picked him up and decided to just take him to the doctor so that they could lay eyes on him and we could get a better diagnosis.

We didn’t get to see Noah’s regular doctor, so we saw another doctor in the practice (that I’m not all that fond of). First, he told us that it looked like Noah had been bitten by fleas. Seriously?!? I had to hold myself back from slapping the man. Noah had some spots in his mouth, too. I guess all of our fleas just crawled into Noah’s mouth and bit his tongue, too. Idiot.

We left the doctor’s office still thinking he was allergic to Pediasure. I decided that since the spots look a little funky, I would take off work Wednesday and stay home with Noah. Then I noticed a blister-looking spot on one of Noah’s fingers. Then I started worrying about hand-foot-mouth disease. I religiously started checking his feet to make sure he didn’t have any blisters. I checked at 4:00pm…nothing. I checked again at 4:45pm…THREE blisters on the bottom of one foot!! FREAKIN HAND FOOT MOUTH!!!!!! I did a little facebook research and realized that a little boy in Noah’s church nursery class had it too. Bingo.

SOOOOOOOO that’s been our week. Luckily my FABULOUS friend has been watching Noah for me so I can actually get a little bit of work done. He is slowly starting to look better, thank the Lord.

(That picture was really from last Sunday, but he just looked so cute!) I reallllllllllllly hope his spots are all gone by Sunday so that we can all go to church together for Father’s Day!

A random picture post

It’s about time for my once-a-week blog post! I’m getting so bad with blogging! Do you ever just go through those periods where you are just living life and not doing anything particularly interesting? I make a daily effort to read other people’s blogs but I just feel like my life isn’t interesting enough to blog about every day! Nor do I have the time to blog every day! But I do want to be able to look back in a few years and see what we were doing, so I’ll just keep trucking along!

Noah’s preschool is out for three weeks this summer (boo!!) so he is staying with my friend, Robin, until school resumes. Thank the LORD for her! I don’t know what I would do without her!

Do you recognize that man? Brad and I were watching The Golden Girls (my favorite show EVER) and he pointed out to me that that man is Paul Young from Desperate Housewives!!! He’s like 16 years younger, but it’s him! I would have never recognized him had Brad not pointed it out.

We bought Noah a sprinkley-catepillar thing that squirts out water since his new favorite thing to do is go ‘outside outside outside’. He was terrified of it. But he does like to play with it when it’s not hooked up to the hose!

Brad and I went to a wedding in Birmingham this past weekend. Noah stayed with my sister so we could have a date night! I love getting all dressed up with my hubs and having a fancy date! It was a lot of fun!

Noah likes to read the church bulletin every Sunday so he can stay in the loop. He’s so awesome he can even read it upside down! I love that baby!

So that’s about as random as I can get! But that’s our lives right about now!

Busy Busy Busy

Thank yall so much for the concern for Noah! Thankfully, two days later he looked 95% better!

I’m SO glad! We have been pretty busy the last few days. Last weekend, my little brother graduated high school.

I can’t believe he’s that old! Graduation ceremonies have changed SO much since I graduated. People were screaming for every name that was called so it was hard to hear the next person’s name. People were releasing balloons when their loved one received their diploma, people were walking around the whole time, etc. Back in the day, you were immediately escorted out if you caused ANY sort of commotion. I wish they would have enforced that rule!

But I digress…. :)

We also recently dog-sat for our best friends. Isn’t he precious??

And we’ve spent some time at my parent’s house.

Yesterday was mine and Brad’s three year anniversary!

We went out to dinner at 7:30pm (way late for us) while my bestie watched Noah. I had NO idea that so many people ate out that late at night! I’m such a grandma. We had fun getting to go out all by ourselves! I LOVE that man!

Today is Noah’s last day of preschool for this school year (until the summer program starts). I’m so sad! He is getting so big. Here is a picture of him the day he started school back in August…

He had just learned to sit up by himself for a few seconds! I was so proud of him!! Now he’s running around and being a busy-body.

Sunriiiiiiise, sunset, sunriiiiiise, sunset…. ha!

Ok, I think that about catches me up!

What the WHAT!

Poor Noah just can’t seem to catch a break. Yesterday morning, Noah woke up with what looked like a mosquito bite on his cheek. I didn’t think much of it because (a) he could have scratched himself during the night or (b) it could have been his eczema acting up. I fed him breakfast and gave him his last dose of amoxicillin (to clear up his ear infections). Then I took him to school. After lunch, Noah’s teacher let me know that he had a funny looking rash. Without seeing it, I assumed it was an eczema break-out and that they must have played outside or he had gotten too hot. A few minutes later, the preschool director called me (never a good sign!) and said that she was a little worried about the rash and thought I should come take a look.

Once I got there and saw Noah, I could tell it wasn’t eczema related. He looked like he had been bitten by 1000 mosquitos! He was covered in little swollen whelps. I immediately called the pediatrician’s office and they said that as long as he was breathing ok and acting alright, that I should give him benadryl and he should be fine. If he wasn’t any better by the next day, I should bring him in.

So this morning we wake him up and it’s ten times worse.

I put that picture on Facebook this morning to try and get some opinions before heading to the doctor. Everyone started freaking their freak so I took it down! Anywho, we went to the doctor and they immediately put us in a room (also not a good sign!). His pediatrician walked in the door, stood there about 15 seconds and then said “Wow. That’s impressive!” (REALLY not a good sign!)

I was freaking my freak some too, don’t worry. And the diagnosis?

He’s allergic to penicillin! He just finished a 10 day dose of amoxicillin and it just now decided to bother him! It’s so strange!

But the good news is that he is NOT contagious and he acts perfectly fine. It doesn’t seem to bother him at all!

The bad news is that it’s going to get worse looking before it gets better. The spots will flatten out and spread and eventually turn blue (yikes!) before fading away. That’s some scary stuff!

His doctor gave him the go-ahead to return to school today but stupid me FORGOT that he ran a fever last night of 100.1 so I made a fool of myself and called the preschool director to make sure it was ok with her that he return with the rash and she so very politely reminded me that he had a fever the night before (from Facebook, she doesn’t live with me or anything :) ). DUH!! I’m so stupid sometimes.

This was taken a few hours ago…

It’s already spreading. The doctor said she has seen allergic reactions like this last for three weeks. THREE WEEKS!!! Lord, I hope not! I feel so sorry for him. While we were waiting in line at the doctor’s office, a little girl behind us said, “Mommy, that little baby has dots allllllll over it’s face!” :(

Please continue to pray for Noah!

15 month check up

Friday, we took Noah to the doctor for his 15 month check up.

It was SO HOT in the doctor’s office (because it was in the 90s that day) that Noah decided to break out in a huge eczema rash just in time for his pediatrician to see. Fabulous! And his appointment was scheduled smack dab in the middle of his afternoon nap, so we had LOADS of fun.

See?

And we got two shots. :( But the doctor said that we are almost finished with our baby shots! Yippee! AND he has graduated from the rectal thermometer to the ear thermometer. I’m not going to lie, I was a little sad about that!

Noah weighed 24 lb 10 oz. He hasn’t gained much weight since his last well-baby appointment but he is still above average with his weight plus he’s been sick so we aren’t worried about it. He was 30 3/4 inches long with a head circumference of 19 1/4 inches. He is perfectly on track with everything except pointing to body parts. Parent fail.

We manic-ly started working on body parts this past weekend, but now every time we ask Noah where his nose is, he pats his mouth and says Wa Wa Wa like an Indian! I think he could do it if he wanted to, he just doesn’t care right now! That’s ok, we will get it!

In other Noah news, he is a baby of numerous words! He talks non-stop these days. He says bakkel (waffle), Daddy or Dada, Mommy or Mama, Beh (Bella), ball, cup, done, gone, outside (he says it three times in a whisper…so cute!!), no-no (everyone at school calls him No-No), car (when he sees keys), Pop, PawPaw, MiMi, Tay-Tay, cacka (cracker), pish (fish)….that’s all that I can think of right off. He will repeat almost anything!

We are still in size 3 diapers and wearing size 18 month clothing. He is the world’s pickiest eater. I’m totally getting payback because I was the same way. He will eat just about any fruit but that’s about as healthy as he gets. He LOVES crackers and waffles and he will usually eat at the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I send with him to school. But no veggies for him! I constantly struggle with getting him to eat healthy foods! He drinks mostly juice and some 2% milk (because of his stomach/constipation issues).

He has 12 teeth! Four on top, four on bottom and four molars!

He loves taking a bath (or baffie as we call it) and brushing his teeth. He also likes to play independently in his play room for short periods of time.

Noah is such a clown and the little social butterfly. I swear he knows more people at church than I do. He loves to show out in front of people by dancing or just being silly! I love that about him!

He is also 100% momma’s baby! And that is 100% ok with Mommy! :) We will play in the floor and then he will just walk right up to me and give me a huge slobbery kiss! I LOVE it!

I can’t believe how fast he is growing up. He is almost finished with his first year of preschool! I wish I could keep him little forever!

Noah, Mommy and Daddy love you SO MUCH! You keep us on our toes and give the sweetest sugar! I want to keep you small, but I love watching you grow and learn!

Mother’s Day

This Mother’s Day was a lot different than I expected. Noah woke up with a high fever so I stayed home with him while Daddy went to church. But before he left, Noah gave me my Mother’s Day present!

A one hour facial and one hour massage! I’m so excited! I’ve never had either one done. It’s on my 101 list! Score!

And my sweet husband got me a new charm for my Pandora bracelet.

A flower that won’t die-according to my husband! :)

So I doctored on Noah for most of the day, giving him Tylenol and Motrin to control his fever.

That night, his fever rose to 103.9! I started freaking my freak. We stripped him down, got him in a cool bath and gave him some medicine. Luckily his fever came down after a late night episode of Little Bill (his favorite!).

Monday morning, I headed straight to the doctor’s office with Noah.

He loves pushing the little chairs around in the waiting room. I cringe thinking of all the germs floating around in the ‘sick room’!

He weighed 24 lbs 5 oz and had a fever of 101.7 at the doctor’s office.

And the verdict….his original ear infection from last weekend never cleared up. It got much worse and spread to the other ear. DOUBLE ear infections, a viral infection AND I discovered he’s cutting all four molars! No wonder he feels like crap!! He was prescribed a very strong antibiotic and a medicine to help his tummy because one side effect of the antibiotic is tummy trouble, plus we are to continue the Tylenol/Motrin dance.

The rest of the day, he played in a diaper box. :)

Last night, he woke up with a fever of 104.6!!!!!! FREAK my FREAK!!!!!!!! The doctor warned me that his fever would probably spike again so I wasn’t freaking out too bad. We gave him another cool bath, gave him a popsicle, Tylenol/Motrin and watched an episode of Little Bill (that always makes him feel better :)). This morning he woke up cool as a cucumber.

HOPEFULLY, we are done with the fevers for a while! I hate seeing him so sick. He and Daddy have been hanging out at home today and I am hoping that Noah can return to school tomorrow-as long as his fever doesn’t come back.

Please pray for my sweet baby boy!