'Cause nothing says "festive" like glittery Christmas tree glasses! :0)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Merry Christmas!
Wow...I can't believe Christmas is over all ready! Actually, we still have our big Christmas with my side of the family on New Year's Eve, so it isn't quite over for us. It always amazes me how all of the preparations take so long and then the day flies by. Anyway, we have had a great Christmas this year. Joel is at a fun age and was lots of fun to shop for this year. He doesn't quite understand about unwrapping the gifts, but he likes the toys once they are out of the paper! We went to Christmas Eve at my Grandma's house and then spent Christmas Day in Wauseon. Joel got a play tent, an Elmo umbrella, some MatchBox cars, a book, and some tub toys at our house. Of course, the biggest hit so far is the motorized tractor from PawPaw and Grandma! Joel LOVES it! He isn't sure yet about using the gas pedal to make it move, but he climbs on it all day. He is so funny when he comes out of the bedroom and sees it sitting there! :0) He runs toward it and says "Oooooohhhh....". Today we couldn't seem to walk past it without having to sit on it and turn the wheel. Daddy can't wait to get it outside and see what it can do! We are thankful every single moment for Joel and our family. Parenthood is exhausting, but I wouldn't trade it for anything! Good night. More later...
Monday, December 20, 2010
I love this picture! We took Joel to Children's Wonderland in Sylvania on Sunday evening, and this was the Santa he saw there. My camera batteries died, so this is the only picture we got. Santa is holding Cheerios in his hand, which is the ONLY reason why Joel is sitting on his lap! I just think their expressions are funny! Ho!Ho!Ho!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Frustration....
Okay, I intended to post a couple of pictures tonight, but for some reason I can't get it to work. Maybe tomorrow? Anyway, we had planned to get Joel's first haircut this weekend but he was still not acting right on Saturday and slept most of the afternoon. He hasn't exploded any diapers since Friday night, so hopefully he is on the mend. Now I'm not sure about cutting his hair.......hhhmmmmm. Also, we got the BEST Christmas card on Saturday.....Joel's birth certificate came with OUR names on it! I had to read it over and over again. I think it was a gift from God to remind me about what is important and to CHILL OUT about everything else. Joel seemed to be acting more like himself today. The poor baby hasn't eaten anything but bananas, applesauce, toast, and Pedialyte since Thursday! One cute thing...it was our week to work the nursery at church. Usually there aren't any other kids in there, except occasionally a baby. Anyway, Joel was playing by himself with the toys and about 15 minutes before church ended a man brought down two little boys, aged 2 and 3. When they game in, Rob said, "Hey Joel, look. Here are some new guys for you to play with." Joel looked up at them and said, "Guys?". He said it about 10 more times while he followed them around the room.(Okay, that story seemed cuter in person!) He was pretty good with sharing the toys, and he even gave the 2 year-old one of his goldfish crackers! He is making more and more sounds that sound like words. Now he says "Zoe" (Elmo's sidekick), "Bay" for Bailey, and "Wow" every time you plug in the Christmas tree. He is also a master mimic and is very entertaining to see what he will try and imitate you doing! Also, now every time the phone rings he says, "Oh, Issee." (Issee--EE-see--is what he calls Aunt Lisa.) He's so much fun. Today he drug our little dirt devil spot cleaner all over. He LOVES that thing! He was opening and closing one of our end table drawers today and I said, "Are you about done with that, sir?". He looked straight and me and said, "Um...nope." and laughed himself silly. He is so smart...maybe too smart for his own good? :0) Good night....more later....
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Catching Up...
Well, Joel turned 21 months old on the 4th! It doesn't seem possible. It has been rough around here since Thanksgiving. Rob started feeling poorly almost immediately after all of our company left. He spent four days with a HORRIBLE case of the flu. He even missed two days of work, which is unheard of! Joel had had a cold for a little while, and we thought he escaped the yuck. I have got a terrible cold...complete with coughing, runny nose, and general unpleasantness. I got prescription cough syrup and thought we were good....until yesterday when Joel started projectile vomiting. Mercifully, he was only sick the one day and seems to be feeling much, much better. The poor little guy! Unfortunately when he was throwing up it scared him and he ran away...spreading vomit all over our living room. :0( He also threw up on Mommy, which I could have done without! We are thankful that he is feeling better and continues to be such a wonderful little guy. Mommy gets frustrated when he pulls the ornaments off his tree, but I try to remember that someday I will miss that! He is so funny with the step-on light cord....he sits in the corner by his tree and turns it off and on and off and on....He smiles so big that it is hard to make him stop! :0) I continue to be amazed at how much we love him and how much joy he brings to our lives, even when he is being ornery! More later...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
On the Mend......
Things are looking up here at our house. Joel has had a bad cold for three days and he is starting to respond to his medication, which cuts back on the number of times a day I have to listen to him scream when I wipe his runny nose! That is a GOOD thing! We have been nebulizing him at night before bed and that seems to help him sleep. He has been sleeping through the night for the last several nights again, so Mommy and Daddy are happy about that. He also looks like he feels better. This afternoon I put up the Christmas tree in his room. The tree has been there for a couple of days but I put the lights and ornaments on. He was so funny when I plugged in the lights to see if they worked! He stopped dead in his tracks with his mouth open and said "Wow!". From that moment on he was VERY interested in what Mommy was doing! Unfortunately he was taking the ornaments off as fast as I was putting them on, so we didn't make much progress. When Daddy got home he gave Joel a bath and I hurried up and got the tree done. Joel absolutely LOVES it! He just stands and stares at it in amazement. I'm sure he will drive me nuts trying to take all the ornaments off (he has one Elmo ornament in particular that he yanks off at every opportunity!) but I'm just happy that he likes it. Right now he is in there sleeping peacefully with the tree as his nightlight. I found a quote in a magazine the other day that fits perfectly, "I love to watch him as he sleeps. His angelic face rejuvenates my soul for when he will awaken.~Katrina Plum." Good night....more later....
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thanksgiving Holiday....
I can't believe Thanksgiving is over! We had Rob's family (all 15 of them!) here for a few days. Joel loved all the attention and was a very busy little guy the whole time. The day after Thanksgiving, Joel was in the Parade of Lights in Archbold for Grandma's Red Cross float. It was really cold and he was more than a little cranky, but he did seem to enjoy riding in the parade initially. Today we watched the OSU/Michigan game for a while (see below) and Joel's nap schedule was completely messed up. It will take a few days I think to get him back on track, but he mostly did fine with all the confusion. He's such a sweetheart! Now we are looking forward to Christmas....Ho!Ho!Ho! :0)
Joel, Mommy and Aunt Lisa on the Red Cross float for the Archbold Parade of Lights. Grandma made Joel a really cute elf costume, but since it was FREEZING cold you couldn't see much of it! Joel rode the float for a while, but ended up in the truck with PawPaw and Uncle Jason towards the end. Aunt Susan, Sarah, Leigh Anne, and Katie came to see the parade and have pizza afterwards. What a way to ring in the holidays!
One of my "artsy" ideas....I saw a picture similar to this in a magazine and I wanted to duplicate it with Joel. He was not exactly cooperative, but thanks to my niece Leigh Anne we did get a few cute shots. These two are my favorites! Shortly after these were taken, Joel started gnawing on a glittery blue ornament and had blue glitter everywhere!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Joel was so excited when I put up the tree! I put up this one for Foster Thanksgiving/Christmas and it was sitting in the living room before we moved it to the three-seasons room. Joel came out of his room, stopped in his tracks, and said "Wow!" with a great big grin on his face! He is so amazing and precious to us...it is fun to see things through his eyes. We have a picture similar to this from last year. We will put a small tree in his room again with his ornaments on it. He should love it! :0)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Time Flies...
I can't believe that it is less than two weeks until Thanksgiving already! We are busy getting ready to host the Foster side of the family. Rob always says we need people to visit more often so we are forced to clean our house! Unfortunately, I think he might be right on that one! :0) We have been busy with Joel these last several days and have been enjoying the really warm November temperatures. Joel LOVES to be outside, so he has been especially happy! The winter could be a problem... Today Mom and I took Joel to Bass Pro Shop in Perrysburg to see Santa. They have a great Santa, they take a picture for free, and you can take your own picture for free, too. Joel was not too fond of Santa, but I did manage to get two pictures in addition to the one they took, which was actually cute, too. After that we wandered around and Joel got to see all the animals and the giant aquarium. He was jabbering constantly! I think he is getting closer to talking. He says something that sounds just like "What's that?" ("Whazat?") and something else that sounds like "Got it!" when he picks up something. He's growing up too fast for me! Well, it is WAY past my bedtime, so I'm signing off.....More later....
Monday, November 1, 2010
Busy Social Calendar.....
Joel was a popular guy this past weekend! :0) Thursday night was Defiance trick-or-treat, Friday was the bonfire in the woods in Wauseon, and Saturday was trick-or-treat in Wauseon! Joel loved being in the woods for the bonfire. He was on the move constantly, checking out the Gator and the 4-wheelers and wandering around in the leaves. He really likes to be outside. He was so busy getting Gator rides from PawPaw and Aunt Lisa that he didn't have time to eat or sit around the bonfire! He would have ridden all night if we had let him. He was sooooo sleepy on the way home and slept hard all night. On Saturday afternoon, I took him to Wauseon to show Great-Grandma his costume and to sit on Jason's parents' porch to pass out Halloween candy. I have never seen that many kids in my life! Joel sat with Uncle Jason on the porch and watched all the people come and go for almost an hour. Once he started to get fidgety, Grandma and I took him back to her house to play with PawPaw and order pizza. PawPaw and Grandma had a John Deere tractor/wagon set for him. He loves it! He likes to hit the button and make noise. He also likes dumping things out of the trailer...but HE'S the only one allowed to do that! He gets really mad if you dump anything without him! Sunday morning he slept until 10:30! We barely had time to get him ready for church. He stayed in the nursery during the service and played with a little girl named Victoria. We got good reports that he did not hit or push her and that they played together well even though she is a couple years older than he is. She also kept trying to feed him his bottle, which he tolerated pretty well. He's a keeper!
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