Day 72

Monday, November 21, 2010

Ohhh, I am not feeling so good today!  Not at all!  Jack, however, was SOOOOO happy to be home and he played all day long!  Knowing that Thursday was Thanksgiving, I decided to go ahead and go to the grocery store and Jack was really, really sweet for me!  I think he was just happy to be out of the car, lol.  He watched lots of cartoons and ended up passing out, naked, on the sofa.  I let him sleep a little while and he woke up after an hour and went to sleep.  He has decided that he is "Max" and I am "Ruby" and there are times that he won't answer to anything but "Max" and he won't call me anything but "Ruby" and he makes me act out certain episodes, lol.  It is funny to watch him play pretend.

He messed with Junebug too, lol.  I love the look on her face.  You can tell she wants to just bite his head off.

Day 71

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Today was the wedding day and I woke up feeling like death.  But the show must go on!  It was a lovely wedding and the families of the bride and the groom are wonderful folks, so I actually had a great time!  I was ready to be getting home though.  Keirstien kept Jack at the hotel and she said that, at one point, he wrapped his leg around hers and said, "I'm keeping you".  LOL!  He is so funny!  On the way home, he slept for about 25 minutes but then woke up ANGRY.  I ended up having to get off of the interstate to get him a Happy Meal at a McDonalds in a little hick town.  There were a bunch of folks in the parking lot with their big trucks and Jack was impressed with the "monster trucks".  We finally got going again and he wolfed down his whole Happy Meal and we ended up getting home around 9:45, which wasn't bad at all.  I let him watch some tv and play for a while and he passed out and slept really really good!

Day 70

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Today, I packed really quickly and ran to pick up Keirstien and Ainsley and we took off for Fayetteville.  As soon as I got on my way, my car charged pooped out, so I had to run to AT&T and get a new one.  It is really nice and charges quickly, which is wonderful!  Then, I picked up some Chikfila from the new place on McCain and we headed off to Fayetteville.  About the time we got to Conway, Jack spilled tea all over himself and freaked out.  I had to get off of the interstate and go take his clothes off.  He rode in his pull-ups the rest of the way, lol.  After that, he and Ainsley did really well and we got to Fayetteville in about 3 hours or so.  It is really pretty up there and we let Jack play on the University of Arkansas campus after we checked into the hotel (which was SUPER nice).    Jack enjoyed riding the Razorback statue and playing in the leaves and he loved being in the hotel!  That night, we watched Shrek on the tv and played CARS and he went to sleep pretty quickly.  I, on the other hand, was up until after 1:00am because I felt so awful.  Oh but one cool thing was that I saw an Eagle sitting in a tree on the side of the road!  So cool!

Day 69

Friday, November 19, 2010

Jack scared the crap out of me in the night when he woke up SCREAMING that his eye hurt!  I thought he had gouged it out in his sleep!  He scared me so badly, I ended up having to get up for a little while and take some TUMS and I realized that I didn't feel too well.  Apparently, I will be going to Fayetteville with a massive cold.  UGH!!!!  I tried to play with him outside as much as possible and we ended up running around on errands all day long and cleaning.  By the time we got ready for bed, I was exhausted!

Day 68

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Today was a deep-cleaning day, unfortunately.  I had A TON to do and Jack kept pretty well-occupied in his room for a while.  After I finished the bulk of the work, I took him outside to play, even though I was catching his cold and felt AWFUL.  He went "looking for treasure" in the garage earlier and I found a bunch of his toys, including his soccer ball and his Elefun game, so we took the soccer ball outside to play.  That child could be REALLY good!  I showed him some basic moves and he was soon dribbling that ball all over the backyard, kicking it and even doing some little cross-steps!  I was really impressed with him! 

Afterward, we came in the house and I brought out the Elefun game.  I couldn't find a net for him to catch the "butterflies", so I just gave him a bowl and that worked great, lol.  He had a blast!

Funnily enough, another toy he picked out was a mirror from his tummy time mat from when he was a tiny baby.  The mirror makes cute animal noises and sings songs and he HATED it when he was a baby!!!  He would HOWL and pucker up and get his feelings SO hurt every time he even saw that mirror, much less heard it go off.  It lived under our bathroom vanity for the longest time and we finally had to find the off switch because the cats would get under there and set it off and he would hear it from 2 rooms away and start wailing.  The sounds made him laugh tonight, so I guess it only took 3 1/2 years for him to be okay with it, lol.

Day 67

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Jack went with me on a photo shoot to Burns Park today and was pretty good, so I took him to Chilis, or "The Peppa" for some food.  He LOVED it because we haven't eaten out at a sit-down place since Garry left.  He thought it was pretty cool.

On the way home, I went to get my oil changed because I have been putting it off for a long time and that is BAD!  Gwatney Chevrolet has an absolutely humongous inflatible Santa in front and Jack was completely fascinated with it, so I took him over to look at it while they had the car.  We got about 15 feet away when he JUMPED up in my arms and said, "OH no, Mommy!  I do not want to go any closer!"  Teasingly, I asked him "But don't you want to touch Santa's leg?" and he just freaked out, haha.  He put his head on my shoulder and refused to look at Santa, so I took him back inside to wait.  He made me read a silly motorcycle magazine to him and he was bouncing on the chair beside me and accidentally fell off and scraped his head and bumped it pretty good.  It was so sad!  :(

Day 66

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ooooohhhhhhhhhh today was CRAZY!!!  Jack slept not-at-all last night and  I had some crazy dreams because I was up and down all night.  He keeps coughing in his sleep until he chokes, so I have to get some water for him and turn on the humidifier.  If I turn it on too soon, it gets too hot in the room and he coughs anyway. 

Well, after the no sleep thing, Jack woke up and decided to brush his teeth with peanut butter.  The jar was on the counter from the night before and he sneaked it away when I was answering messages and he scooped peanut butter out, using his toothbrush and proceeded to brush his teeth with the peanut butter.  I wasn't sure it that sounded yummy or gross. 

Later, I tried to feed the child EVERYTHING in the house and he decided on some Yakisoba noodles that have been in the cabinet for months.  Weird child!  I made them for him and he immediately sneezed noodles into my hair and then choked on another bite. After he yakked the noodles out, he puked them up and tried to re-eat them.  Then, when I was cleaning that up, he grabbed another bite and REALLY puked on the carpet.  ARG!!!!!

He has started recently pitching a fit whenever I get on the phone and try to talk to anyone because it interrupts his shows.  Little devil.  Today, he popped me on the mouth and said, "I said hush your mouth right now!"  He almost got his little booty spanked for that one!

Day 15

Monday, November 15, 2010

My pookie bear was feeling just a little bit better today, so I ran down to Michaels to get him a "project" to do indoors.  We ended up buying wooden ornaments for him to paint and he did a darn good job!!  He had a great time too.  He was still feeling a little bit puny, so I babied him a lot and kept the Motrin going and he was okay.  We got our first bit of rain in a long time tonight and it was nice laying in bed, watching the lightning with him.  He said "Ka-chow" every time it lit up, lol.

Day 64

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Ohhhh, my baby didn't feel good today.  He started running a 101.5 fever around 1:30am and his nose is so runny and he is sneezing and coughing a lot too.  Just a nasty cold made worse by this crazy weather.  We really stuck around the house all day today and took care of him.  Again, the only thing the child would eat was Popeyes.  I guess I have to get him what he wants because I wasted at least $6.00 fixing other stuff for him that he refused to eat!  I guess you have to baby sick kiddos anyway.  :)

Day 63

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Today, Jack definately wasn't feeling well at all and I am pretty sure he is coming down with something.  I took him with me to do photos for my friend, Stacey and her family and he was HORRENDOUS!  I couldn't figure out what was wrong with him until I realized he was getting sick again.  Pewp.

I asked him what he wanted to eat and he said, "Mashapotatoes with no graby", so I made Jack some mashed potatoes that we had at home because I am TRYING to not spend money on fast food.
Jack: 'Mom, these taste like bugs and dirty dirt and germs. These are NOT potatoes!'

Off to Popeyes we go for REAL mashapotatoes with no graby.  He completely demolished two orders of potatoes, three chicken strips and a biscuit and was pretty upset that there was no more food.  :)

Day 62

Friday, November 12, 2010

Today was a Christmas shopping bonanza! I got almost all of Jack's Christmas shopping in one day!  We got him some great stuff.  Can't wait for Christmas!

My iPhone pooped out today too.  Boo.  I had to transfer my SIM card to Garry's phone and re-add all of MY apps, so that I can keep up with my gossip, lol!

No pics.  Sorry!

Day 61

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Today, I had a session first thing in the morning at the Old State House.  Another bridal.  I did some test shots of Jack out there first and the shoot was going okay but ran over by AN HOUR.  They just wouldn't let me get the heck out of there and I was getting pretty pissed.  I finally just called it off because Jack was super upset and crying, so I took him to Toys R Us and bought him some CARS, including the Santa Car!   How cool is that?  As soon as we got to TRU, he was as happy as could be, so I was glad about that.  It was really nice to just stay home with my little guy for the rest of the day.  He is such a sweetheart.  When I put him to bed, he said, "Mommy, you are my baby and I wuv you SOOO much."  There just isn't anything better than that.  :)