Bump Momma!

Earlier this week I took Max to get his pictures taken at Foto Fly in Draper (loved them by the way).  We went to a 10:30am appointment. I made sure that Max slept in so that he would be well rested for his pictures. 

Well, I guess he was too well rested that he was out of control! Neither myself nor the young man taking Max's pictures get him to pose, sit, stand, or look at the camera. I was truly sweating after the 30 minute session from chasing him around the studio and trying to get him to not interrupt the other sessions. 

The photographer tried bribing him with fruit snacks, toys, making loud funny noises.. but still just was not cooperating.  I was trying to stay patient but decided that having an 18 month old's pictures taken professionally, probably just isn't the best thing. 

Immediately after the appointment, I called my Mom to tell her how embarrassed I was and how I just wasted money getting the pictures taken. 

The following day after getting off of work, I went to view the pictures and pick up the disk.  I was so surprised!  The pictures turned out so well! I honestly could not believe it!  I was so happy with what a great job they did! 

This one below makes me laugh because he was saying "Bump Momma" and jumping all around. The pictures really do a great job showing his personality.  Yes, I think we have already entered the terrible twos.

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Pre-haircut

Just cracks me up that Max's hair is curly.

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Bath time

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The things you say or sign....continued.

Momma
Daddy
Bye-Bye
Doggy
Cat
Horse
Fish
Bird
Cook-cook (cookie)
Cracker
Bath
Night-Night
Car
Grandma
Grandpa (Papa)
Water
Banana
Book
Hot
Milk
Baby
Up
Shoes
Hat

Fork in the road.

This is what I feel like my life has been: School or Family?

I feel like I need to make some decisions in my life and I know that nothing needs to be done right now, but I feel stuck and somewhat lost.  School is kicking my butt - the classes aren't hard, but trying to balance that with my life is too much. As I was driving home from class Saturday evening, I decided that this is not what I want to do. I love learning and think that education is VERY important, but I don't want my MBA right now. I want to be me. What is me? A wife, a mother, someone that is crafty, and someone who isn't stressed all the time with trying to get everything done. I want to eventually have another child and can't stop thinking about when can I with school? I shouldn't plan my life around school.

As soon as I decided to stop going to school (for now, maybe forever) I felt a huge relief taken off of me. Until I remembered that I have a huge assignment due in 2 weeks. I am hoping that I can drop my other class that I am registered for next block so that I get to "me" earlier. 

I have already started looking at some "fun" classes that I would love to take. Photography, zumba, cooking, & maybe even a doula class. 

I hope that I don't regret my decision, so far I am just looking forward to spending more time with the family and less worrying about homework and class. 

Sick of being sick...

This last week has been troublesome. I was out of town on Tuesday for work and came home Wednesday to a baby that was starting to get sick. Wednesday night Max's fever started at about 101 degrees and spiked up to nearly 105 degrees even AFTER giving him medicine and would not break! We called the on-call pediatrician and they recommended that because his fever wouldn't come down and he was weezing to take him to Primary Children's Hospital. 

They took him in, gave him some more medicine and also tested him for RSV (a respiratory infection) which came back positive. So we took him home and were ready battle through it... or so we thought! 
Thursday was ok. 

Friday was ok. Until Friday night. His coughing got so bad he started to throw up pretty bad. And these days his fever was still always above 101 degrees and sometimes as high at 104 degrees.  We decided to take him in on Saturday to his doctor to see what was going on. His RSV has now caused an ear infection so he would need antibiotics -- this explained why the fever wouldn't drop. And because his cough was so bad, he was having problems breathing. They gave us a steroid inhaler for us to use over the next week or so. 

All of this has been really tough and tiresome for us all. Max has been quite the trooper through all of this. He is finally starting to feel better today, but is still being needy. We are hoping that he starts feeling better so we can get back to normal life. Or I suppose that this is normal life with kids. 

A little embarassed.

After I posted Max's dancing video he was a little embarrassed when the camera came around.