House setback

Hopefully this isn’t the start of a bad trend. After hours of work perfecting our house plans and finalizing everything, we found out yesterday that there is an easement going through our lot so our house can only be 55 feet wide. Our original plan was 65 feet wide. Cue my puppy dog eyes…..

When I first heard the news, I literally wanted to throw up. Brad and I were so excited about the plans that we already had and now all that work and dreaming were for nothing.

So now we are back at square one. And probably set back a few weeks as far as the move-in date goes.

We started looking at plans again last night and we think we found the one! It will need a few tweaks, but overall we aren’t as bummed about the setback as we were at first. The new plan is actually bigger and is very similar to the original plan.

Happy weekend everyone!

I’m no chef

Remember the Protein Brownies recipe I posted? I made them a few nights ago.

My supplies:

Mix dry ingredients:

Then add wet ingredients:

Make into patties and add coconut:

Eat or freeze for later!

Now for my issue. After calculating from the Nutrition Facts of my ingredients, my brownies came out to 199 calories each. NOT GOOD! I need to majorly tweak my ingredients for lower calorie options! Hopefully they will come out closer to 50 calories each on my next try! :)

Our weekend

Friday, Noah came to work with me for a few minutes until his Gammy could come pick him up. He loves coming to my office and playing with my grown-up things!

We were up bright and early on Saturday to get our back-to-school haircut! Noah loves ‘helping’ me put on my makeup in the mornings (although it makes his Daddy cringe!).

Saturday afternoon, we went to a friend’s birthday party.

A bouncey house+cake=Noah’s love language.

Here is the birthday boy and his super cute cake! (Did I mention that my child stuck his fork in to the side of the cake before they cut it? Yes. I was MORTIFIED.)

And I also spent some time snuggling this little guy at the party.

Sunday morning, we headed to church. It was Promotion Sunday so Noah got to move up to the 2 year old room. He was excited about the new toys and new scenery! After lunch and nap, we headed to his preschool’s open house. He was not thrilled about cutting his nap short, so afterwards we made a stop at Dairy Queen for some ice cream. (No picture, bad Mommy). Then we went out for a little caching!

And Daddy gave Noah some driving lessons…

:)

Then we came home and worked on cleaning out/sorting through our closet to get ready for the move in a few months! We did our yearly purging of our clothes to donate to the Honduras missing trip.

It was a busy weekend at our house!

We’re moving!

We finally picked out a lot and we are 99% finished tweaking our house plan. EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I don’t know who is more excited about our new house, me or Brad.

I’ve heard that if you can build a house together, your marriage will survive anything. We haven’t really argued about anything yet, just a small disagreement on the paint color for the kitchen. :)

We close on our lot tomorrow and then the real fun begins!

In addition to molars…

So Monday, I noticed an eczema-looking splotch on Noah’s thigh. This didn’t surprise me because just about everything makes his skin break out. I put some medicine on it at bedtime and didn’t think anything else about it.

Tuesday morning, we started noticing a few red dots on his face. I again assumed that his eczema was breaking out because he had been crying so much from his molars coming in and the lack of sleep the night before.

Tuesday evening when I got home from work, I checked on his thigh and this is what it looked like…

The red dots immediately concerned me. I sent this picture to my sister and she said it looked like hand, foot, mouth disease. That’s when I started investing his extremities.

Excuse the cookie remnants on his fingers! :)

He had a few spots on his feet and a HUGE ulcer on the tip of his tongue. It’s bigger than any I’ve ever gotten in my life!

I called the doctor this morning and they confirmed what I already knew. He has HFM. There is nothing you can do for it, you just have to let it runs it’s course. The nurse told me that they are contagious until 24-48 hours after they have the fever spike (Sunday) or if the blisters pop open. So he’s not contagious anymore, but it could take the dots 7-10 days to disappear. :(

We don’t know of anyone at church or at school that has HFM so I have no idea where he got it from. I just hope he didn’t pass it around in the church nursery on Sunday!

I could tell he felt a lot better this morning and the blisters seemed to already be fading. Hopefully he will get better soon (and out of our bed…). I hate seeing him so miserable.

Cutting molars

Sunday morning, the church nursery paged us because Noah had a fever. He had been acting fine all morning so I was really surprised. We took him home and gave him some medicine and let him sleep it off. When he woke up, he started acting like his (almost) normal self.

Yesterday afternoon when we got home from work, I noticed that Noah was really irritable and whiny. Then all of a sudden, he just burst into tears and said his mouth was hurting. I peeked in and saw that his back molars were half way cut through his little gums! It’s been so long since he cut any teeth that I felt like I didn’t know what to do at first! :)

We gave him some more medicine before bed last night, but he still woke up around 9pm crying about his mouth. So Brad and I made the decision to let him sleep in our bed last night (for the very first time EVER) because he would only stop crying if I was cuddling him. Well now I know why we’ve never let him sleep with us before. We all slept terribly. Noah and I both like to move around in our sleep and we kept waking each other up all.night.long. AND at 5:15am this morning, I open my eyes to see Noah’s little face 2 inches from my face saying, “Mommy, where’s the remote? I wanna watch cartoons!”

Look at those little red bags under his eyes! Hopefully we will all get some decent sleep tonight and those molars will pop through soon!

I’m getting a new niece!

My step-sister had a gender reveal party this past weekend. Everyone was asked to wear pink or blue to guess the baby’s gender. Reece and I chose team PINK!

Katie (my sister) and her husband opened up a big box of balloons to announce the gender.

GIRL! Paisley Katherine will be making her arrival in January and we are SO excited to get another little girl in the family!

That one has me wrapped around her finger so I can only imagine how bad another girl will be! :) But seriously though, is she not the cutest?!?

Katie will be a great mommy, and I can’t wait to meet Paisley!