Week 8 - 2/16 - 2/22/09

Catching up on my 365 posts... Week 8 - 2/16/09 - 2/22/09

Monday, February 16 I had today off for President's Day. We had the boys pictures taken at Kiddie Kandids and then had lunch at Cheesecake Factory. No cheesecake though, Nicholas was getting rambunctious at the end of the meal because it was past his naptime.

Tuesday, February 17 So Mike walked away for a minute and came back to Jackson like this. He had scooted himself on his bottom off of his play mat.

Wednesday, February 18 Today Nicholas had Occupational Therapy. Tracy had him play in the sink with the rubber fish. He looks like such a big boy to me standing up at the sink.

Thursday, February 19 Jackson sits with us at the dinner table most nights. It is the only way we can eat at least half the meal in peace. I think he likes to be in the mix.

Friday, February 20 Marti is always trying to get some of Nicholas's snack, and he usually gives her some. I guess it is the least he can do for all the chasing around after her that he does. The boys went to the park today for Nicholas to play with his friend Connor.

Saturday, February 21 After spending the afternoon working on packing kits, we met some friends at the park so Nicholas could play with his friend Connor again. For 2 year olds they play well together. Gotta love this smile on Jackson.

Sunday, February 22 Another playdate in the morning at the park with Connor and his family. Nicholas was all over the place. He loves to swing now. We spent about 3 hours at the park. Then I finished up the day by packing kits.

2 Year & 3 Month Pictures

We took the boys to Kiddie Kandids today to get 2 year pictures done for Nicholas and 3 month pictures for Jackson. Nicholas wasn't cooperating so we didn't get any of the two boys together. Maybe next time. Nicholas is pretty playful for his pictures usually and today was no exception.

Jackson was so serious. It was hard to get him to crack a smile.

We did coax a few out of him though.

I love this look he gets on his face right before he is going to break out into a smile.

365 2009 - Week 7

Monday, February 9Jackson doesn't want to sleep through the night anymore. He woke up twice each of the past two nights. Not fun when I have to get up at 5 a.m. for work. After we put him to bed tonight I made several Valentine's cards while Mike played on the computer.

Tuesday, February 10 Jackson woke up 3 times last night. I am exhausted. Hopefully sleeping through the night will come soon. Mike had to feed Jackson about once every 1 to 1-1/2 hours today. He spent lots of time in that chair.

Wednesday, February 11 Maybe Jackson has been going through a growth spurt. He is eating often, but only woke up once last night. Work has been busy for me.

Thursday, February 12 Tonight was not fun. Jackson was having tummy troubles and screamed from about 6:00 to 9:30 tonight. He could not be made happy for too long, until the tummy troubles passed. Life with a baby!

Friday, February 13 Mike had to get out of the house today. It was his first venture out alone with the two boys. They did great for him. They went to Sam's Club, the LSS, the grocery store and the mall. Mike and Nicholas ate lunch at Rubio's. Nicholas ate a whole kid's meal (little piggy).

Saturday, February 14 We went took Nicholas and Jackson to a birthday party for my friend's two little girls. He had a blast. We shopped at Costco and after naptime opened Valentine's presents. Nicholas now has the concept of opening presents. It was cute watching him go through his bags.

Sunday, February 15 We had a nice day at home. The boys both took good naps, so Mike and I had a lot of free time in the afternoon. After the boys woke up we all played until dinner time.

Jackson is 3 Month's Old

I can't believe 3 month's has gone by so fast. I am back at work now and Jackson is home with Mike and Nicholas during the day. Jackson is so fun now. Smiling and cooing a lot. He can be quite talkative at times. He still is a bit fussy in the evenings but we hope that will not last much longer. Here is our big boy at 3 month's old:

365 2009 - Week 6

Monday, February 2After 12 short weeks home with all the boys I had to go back to work today. After looking in on Nicholas still sleeping as I left, I cried. I walked into a fire drill at work, no easing back into it. Mike sent pictures of the boys to me to cheer me up.

Tuesday, February 3 The boys are all sick and I am starting to feel bad. It is so sad for Jackson especially. He is still too little to be sick. Watched American Idol tonight. Start of Hollywood Week.

Wednesday, February 4 I am sick now too. Nicholas's therapy has been cancelled the past two days because the boys are all sick. Work is crazy for my first week back. Have to finish the March kit orders and I just wanted to go to bed early.

Thursday, February 5 Nicholas is starting to feel better. He played all day, toys everywhere, everything upturned.

Friday, February 6 Today is my worst day and I had to work late. Jackson has slept through the night for over a week and decided tonight was the night to revert back to waking up in the middle of the night.

Saturday, February 7 Nicholas colored while we planned meals and the grocery list. Mike and Nicholas went grocery shopping while I spent a good chunk of the day finalizing March kits. Jackson won't go to sleep tonight and Nicholas woke up and we had to sit with him to for a while before he would go back to bed. So much for a hobby night for us.

Sunday, February 8 Nicholas won't take a nap and Jackson won't take a bottle. So much for quiet time today. It's cold and rainy out. The dog's are snuggled under a blanket snoozing until Nicholas disrupts them.

365 2009 - Week 5

Monday, January 26I had my hair cut and colored today, it hadn't been done since a month before Jackson was born. I also got to do a little scrap supply shopping with my store credit. I bought some supplies to get my overdue Thank You cards done. The boys hung out at home. After the boys were put to bed I made cards and Mike played his train game.

Tuesday, January 27 Jackson is taking to the pacifier a little better, it helps him think he doesn't have to eat constantly. He likes to lay on the Boppy now and watch Baby TV with his brother. After the boys went to bed I worked some more on my cards and Mike played his train game.

Wednesday, January 28 Nicholas loves puzzles and has been sitting at his new table a lot to work on them. He is good at puzzles. Mike started physical therapy. I went clothes shopping to find some clothes that fit for going back to work next week. Nana watched the boys while we were gone. No hobby night tonight, Jackson wasn't having it.

Thursday, January 29 I updated the store for February kits. In the afternoon Nana C. watched the boys while Mike had PT and I went to Costco. Nicholas has another cold, where do these things come from? I spent the evening after the kids went to bed organizing, editing and uploading photos to Costco to print.

Friday, January 30 Didn't do a whole lot today, just chores and some business details. Nicholas's cold is bad and he is miserable. Mike and I stayed up late, me working on digital 2009 calendars and him playing with his train game.

Saturday, January 31 Spent some time looking at new products for kits. I went to have a pedicure, when I got home I started dinner and sliced my thumb open while cutting a bell pepper. It bled for a few hours and I hoped I didn't need stitches. No scrapping tonight, my thumb was on fire. We caught up on American Idol.

Sunday, February 1 Spent a lazy day at home for Superbowl Sunday. Watched and rooted for our Arizona Cardinals, but sadly they lost to the Steelers. It was a good game and we can be proud of our home team for giving it their all.

365 2009 - Week 4

Monday, January 19Every night while we are eating dinner, this is what errupts at some point. Jackson must be able to smell the food.

Tuesday, January 20 A typical day after a nap, Nicholas gets his cookies, water and Baby First TV to chill out to while he gets the cobwebs out. Then it's back to playing.

Wednesday, January 21 Often when I am feeding Jackson, Nicholas crawls up in the chair with us to snuggle and watch TV.

Thursday, January 22 Nicholas helped Daddy sort the never ending laundry.

Friday, January 23 Went to IKEA in the morning to get a small table and chairs for Nicholas. Then we headed to the Santan Mall to have lunch at Kona Grill, sushi, MMMM! Then we walked around a bit before heading home. We brought out the old high chair for Jackson, he loved being part of the group at dinner. Nicholas was making goofy faces as soon as I brought out the camera. Mike and I got some hobby time in the evening. I was able to make a layout from the Color Me Daisy February kit. I need to clean my scrap room.

Saturday, January 24 I spent some time looking at the Design Team applications for CMD. We walked to the park for a community party celebrating the park opening. Nicholas had lots of fun playing on the slide and swinging. He used to be afraid of the swing, but he loves it now. Another hobby night for Mike and me after the boys go to bed.

Sunday, January 25 Just a day to hang out at home. I took Nicholas outside to play in the backyard, while Mike ran out to Costco. Jackson snoozed in the Baby Bjorn so I could chase Nicholas all over. Opening and closing the screen drawer was completely fascinating for Nicholas today. Nana (R.) came over in the afternoon to see the boys. Jackson slept most of the time, so Nicholas got lots of attention.

365 2009 - Week 3

Monday, January 12Had a pediatrician appointment for Nicholas and Jackson today. Our doctor wants us to get an evaluation for autism for Nicholas. There were some red flags in a screening they did, but I know in my heart he is not autistic. Starting to work on the accounting for the business. Our TV shows started back up this week. So lot's of TV time for two nights of 24 and two nights of American Idol at 2 hours a night. I love our shows, but don't like how much time they take up.

Tuesday, January 13 It's a two therapy day for Nicholas, speech in the morning and then physical back to back. The therapists were proud of Nicholas's accomplishments this past week. I re-joined Weight Watchers in the morning. I still have 14 of the 42 pounds of baby weight to lose, plus some more. I did a little grocery shopping in the afternoon, just picking up a few things to get us through the week. Scott, Lori and the girls are visiting this weekend so I'll do a bigger trip before they come.

Wednesday, January 14 More working on the business books. Jackson and I were hanging out in the office and I put him in the Bumbo seat. He sat up pretty good for a 9 week old.

Thursday, January 15 We were lucky and got into Phoenix Children's Hospital to see Dr. Ellis, a developmental pediatrician for Nicholas's autism evaluation. She does not think he has autism, just that he is still behind developmentally from the prematurity. He is about where an 18-month old would be. It was good to have the appointment, to put our minds at ease. Although I was certain there was nothing wrong. We do have to go back in 6 months for a follow up. Dr. Ellis did want us to stop spoon feeding Nicholas, so for lunch that day we gave him a spoon and some fruit and he started using it right away. Just over the weekend he didn't want anything to do with it. Funny how that works.

Friday, January 16 A long push today to get the books done for the business. Almost done at the end of the day. Just a few more hours.

Saturday, January 17 Running around to Costco, Sam's and Fry's to get the grocery's done and get ready for Scott, Lori and the girls coming tonight.

Sunday, January 18 We all went to Mike's mom & dad's to visit in the early part of the day. We came back and hung out in the basement watching the Cardinal's win their final playoff game to go to the Superbowl! Who would of thought?

365 2009 - Week 2

I got a couple of weeks behind, so I am going to do a couple of catch up posts this weekend. Monday, January 5 We spent some time today preparing shipments for the January kits. We are going to have a busy week. Mike's brother Jon and his family are coming this weekend and we have a lot to prepare for that and Nicholas's birthday party. I did the grocery shopping and some errands for the party while Mike did some cleaning.

Tuesday, January 6 We took advantage of not a lot of new TV shows to watch and Jackson going to sleep at a good time to have a hobby night. Mike played his train game and I did some scrapbooking.

Wednesday, January 7 Mike was cleaning the kitchen and had put the dog's bed in their toy basket. He came around the corner and found Marti had crawled in the basket to lay on her bed. She likes to snuggle into her bed or under blankets. This is so typical of her. Such a sweetie!

Thursday, January 8 We went to my office to show off Jackson in the morning. It was nice to see everyone and hard to believe that I have to go back to work in 3 1/2 weeks. We went to Babies R Us and Michaels and then had lunch at Garduno's. Nicholas loves to eat lunch out with us and sit by his Daddy. We also went to Target to get Nicholas's presents for his birthday. This will probably be the last time we can shop for his presents while he is with us. It was a big day, Nicholas added three new words to his vocabulary "purple", "puppy" and "bear".

Friday, January 9 Our big boy is 2 years old today. It is hard to believe that it was 2 years ago today that we experienced the scariest day of our lives when our baby boy was born 11 weeks before his due date. That day was also one of the happiest in our lives because Nicholas was brought into our lives. He is the sweetest little boy, and so good natured. We are very lucky to have him in our lives. Today Mike's brother, Jon and his family came to visit. Nicholas loved playing with his cousins, especially Rhianna and Isabella. It is fun to watch him play with kids his age. He even learned how to ride on his fire truck and rode it around the kitchen all night.

Saturday, January 10 Today was Nicholas's birthday party. I made him a Winnie the Pooh themed cake and cupcakes. During the day, everyone went to the park. Nicholas slid down the slide by himself and loved the swing. He had fun playing with his new toys that Isabella helped him open. He stayed up really late playing with his cousins. Mommy is really proud of her big boy, he was so easy going and happy today.

Sunday, January 11 Jon & Krista stayed until the evening. So Nicholas had a lot of time to play with his cousin's today. While everyone else was napping or doing other things, Nicholas crawled up in the chair with his new book. While we were looking at the book I pointed out a picture of a little boy kissing a little girl and said "kiss" to Nicholas, and he blew a kiss. All these new things this week!

365 2009 - Week 1

So I am taking the plunge and documenting our daily life in 2009. A picture a day, every day of what our life is like and what we are doing in 2009. I ordered the Becky Higgins 365 Kit to document this (however the ordering on their site was a fiasco on New Years Day. I have six different confirmations for the one kit I was trying to order, and no charges on my credit card, so we will see if it actually shows up). I am planning to do at least a weekly post of our happenings. Maybe this will make me a better blogger! LOL!

Day 1 for us started on Monday 12/29. We started taking down the Christmas decorations.

Day 2 - 12/30 - Nicholas had physical therapy. He loves his therapist Lindsay. We continued taking down decorations and finished up for the most part, just needed to finish getting the house back to normal. Jackson of course picked today to eat frequently so it slowed us down some.

Day 3 - 12/31/ - New Years Eve - Mike finished up the house and it is back to normal now. Nicholas and I did the grocery shopping. Mike and I watched Hancock that night. We celebrated the New Year watching Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark while Mike gave Jackson a bottle.

Day 4 - 1/1/09 New Years Day. After a frustrating morning trying to order the 365 kit, we ate our traditional New Years Day breakfast made this year by Mike. We had to eat it with my holding Jackson in the Baby Bjorn, because he wasn't having being in his swing or play yard. Mike and Jackson watched football while Nicholas napped. I got a little scrapping done - the first 2 layouts in over 2 months! We took Nicholas for a ride in his new wagon and then he played on his swing and slide in the backyard until dark.

Day 5 - 1/2/09 - I photographed the January Color Me Daisy kits and then Mike and I spent the day uploading the new kit info to the website. Of course this has to be a day we have website issues and it takes all day.

Day 6 - 1/3/09 - We spent some time packing January kits. We got some time in the evening for a hobby night. Mike played his train game while Jackson snoozed with him in the Baby Bjorn. I was able to get a little scrapping time in.

Day 7 - 1/4/09 - I was taking some pictures of Nicholas playing and he ran up to me to look at the camera. He wanted to push the buttons so we turned the camera and he got this shot of the puppies. Not too bad for his first picture taken. LOL!

So there is our first week recap. Just a slice of life. Should be a fun project to do this year.