Spring Fever

What a weekend. Steven and I had anxiously been awaiting Saturday night. Date night! Babysitter lined up, tickets for Glass Menagerie in Newton at the new OPOP, and two adults craving some adult attention. Saturday morning I leave the house at 7:30AM to head to work for a meeting, and as I bend down to say good-bye to my sleeping hubby he grumbles. . ."I don't feel well". "What?! What do you mean you don't feel well"? So he calls to tell me during the meeting (5 times. . .you have to love how helpless men can be when their temperatures spike at 98.5. . .) to tell me he is sick. He has canceled with the babysitter. He's not going to be able to make it. "Ummmmm, can I still go"? Of course, I am sure Steven wanted me by his side and we did need to spend some time together. But, well. . .I really wanted to see the play, and I needed to have adult time that I enjoyed. . .not including work. So I called Sherry. Thank goodness she was able to go last minute (she has five kiddos, mind you). I ended up having a fabulous time, and the poor hubby was better by the next day. Thank goodness. Don't worry I told him to wash his hands every time he touched Grayson. I didn't want a pukey baby.
Sunday thank goodness was still a beautiful day outside and Steven felt good, so we decided to go walking at one of the Hickory parks. We enjoyed 60 degree weather this weekend! Holy cow! Gray and I were so glad to be outside. He gets it honestly. We both have had enough of this miserable cold weather. Plus, I desperately needed to log some miles. I am falling very short of my 500 mile challenge. I was planning 10 miles a week, which means right now I should be at 40 miles. Ha! I am just now hitting 13 miles! I better step it up. I have committed myself to a half-marathon in September. I know, still far away. . .but I am still nursing this ligament injury.
Gray rambled on and on during our little hike. He is getting pretty good at Da-Da. Of course, he is just rambling, but that doesn't mean that Dad doesn't love it.

Enjoying the sunshine

So happy to be outside

Worn out and trying to get some shut eye. Sometimes you just have to shut the world out.

Sittin' handsome

Grayson has reached another milestone. Little man is sitting all by himself. He is so excited about his new view of the world. He's able to sit everywhere now- grocery carts, highchairs, and even just hanging around the house with mom and dad.




We also put his highchair on the dining room table this weekend, so we could all eat together. Grayson was so thrilled to be watching the both of us at the same time. We also handed him his first sippy cup (which is way to big for him just yet). He still has a ways to go on figuring that out. Maybe handles will be easier.

Snow Day(s)!

I think the last measurement I heard was about 4in. and it's still snowing! Since we missed the snow at Christmas time this is our first big snow of the season. I went ahead and stayed home from work. . .we can't afford for me to wreck another vehicle while the one is still in the shop! Plus, they still haven't come down our street to clear it at 2PM. They are calling for freezing rain over night, so I figure the three of us will be homebound again tomorrow. No complaints from this Momma!

When stuck inside, what better time than to dress up as a dinosaur?

Big boy eats

For the past month Grayson has really been showing some interest in what we are eating. Okay, interest is putting it lightly. The boy stares at your spoon/fork/hand and watches intently from plate to mouth and back again. Then he takes a few swipes at those yummy looking morsels, wondering how he can re-route them to his toothless little mouth.
So we talked to the pediatrician at his 4 month check up and he said it would be fine to start introducing some foods, starting with cereal. Would probably even help some of the reflux (kids are a world of wetness). So I decided that I would wait until we were in Florida, so that my mom could 'enjoy' this first. Well, first off bad idea to delay food delivery in anyway when your son is on steroid medications and fussy from being sick. Secondly, bad idea to start the introduction when he was already crying that he was hungry. This is where he takes after me. When we are hungry, we are hungry. The longer we go without the crankier we get.
We were unable to get the rice cereal to him quick enough. It was a little messy, but considering everything, Grayson did pretty good.
Mommy learned (as I always do with him), and decided a different approach. We continued giving Gray cereal, but in his morning bottles only, a little more each day. The other night I decided I would make it a little thicker and give him some cereal via that weird spoon contraption he is not used to, in addition to his regular nursing. Timing this time was much better. Gray had dozed off from our trip back from the gym, so he was quiet, and still waking up. This time we did much better at getting the spoon in the mouth, and Gray was outstanding. He tried to suck the cereal off the spoon a few times, but overall, he did good at opening and taking the cereal off the spoon. He got fussy if I took to long doing the airplane to get him to open up, and he was funny smacking his lips, trying to figure out the new thicker consistency.


After a week of rice cereal, I decided I would try another stage one food, so we tried some carrots. He loved them and ate them like a champ! He had orange-stained cheeks. . .and the occasional carrot smell the rest of the day.


Thanks Aunt Nita for the family shot! Sorry I didn't fix the settings on the camera.

Our Gray is back!

So poor Grayson has been fighting a nasty cold that eventually turned into bronchitis for weeks now. (Thanks daycare). The week we were in Florida was particularly tough. Grayson was prescribed albuterol treatments. Which let me tell you, I'd rather give pills to one of the cats than to give him these treatments. He never ran a fever thank goodness, but he was unable to sleep because of coughing and just not feeling well, and was fussy because of it. All three of us became worn out folks real quick! Once we got back from Florida, we hoped that Gray would get the sleep he needed to recoup. On Saturday he finally slept. In fact he slept pretty much the whole day. We stayed home on the rainy, gloomy day, perfect for sleeping, and Gray got his beauty rest. On Saturday night he was back to normal. We were so glad to have our happy boy back!