A Mother's love!

I wish I had something new to write about b/c I know you are getting so tired of hearing that our family is sick but I simply don't. I'm going to tell it how it is! Our family (minus Blake) has been on a roller coaster with sickness this week and I'm honestly sooo ready for it to be over with. Caroline started us off a week ago today with a double ear infection and was put on an antibiotic that gave her a horrible upset tummy. On Monday, I came home from work feeling like I had been hit by a truck and felt awlful. I stayed home Tuesday and Wednesday and pretty much slept the entire time hoping to get rid of the viral infection I had. On Thursday, Blake called me saying that Caroline had thrown up all day and wasn't herself so we took her back to the dr only to find out that she now has the stomach virus. She is sooo pitiful too. It just breaks my heart. I'm still not feeling well at all but have to be a work because we are having our Holiday party tomorrow night and I am helping with organizing most of it. I'm just praying that God will lift all of the sickness from Caroline and I and that we will start to feel better soon. It's the hardest thing to see your child sick and knowing that you can't do much to help her. It's hard to understand unless you are a parent how much you can love someone and how they steal your heart away when they look at you and you know they feel awlful. I just hate that there isn't much I can do for her and I hate even worse that I couldn't stay home with her. I'm just praying that she starts feeling better today and that my little girl will be back to her normal self!

It's my turn!

I haven't been feeling great for a couple of days and last night I can home from work, put Caroline to bed and went to bed myself at 8:20pm. I didn't sleep well all night and when I got up I had a fever and felt like I had been hit by a truck. Needless to say, I didn't make it to work. I ended up going to the dr to make sure I didn't have the flu (that's the LAST thing Caroline needs at this point!). The dr said I have a viral infection...not suprised b/c Caroline had it 2 weeks ago. So, I've been home all day sleeping it off. I'm really ready for our entire family to be well...for at least just one week! I hated having to ask off from work b/c I've had to ask off so much for Caroline recently but there was no way I could have gone in today. I do have to say that Blake has been a WONDERFUL hubby with me being sick. He got Caroline dressed, fed and off to school this morning and has offered to pick her up from daycare so that I don't have to leave the house...and even has offered to cook dinner!(I may have to take him up on that!)

In closing,here's a funny picture of Caroline that Blake took last week when he was home with her. Our poor little girl did not feel good and was worn out!

Tough Day!

Caroline had a rough day yesterday. About 10:00am, I got a call from the daycare and they said that she had a boo boo. Of course, as a mom I freak out! They go on to tell me that she was climbing the rocking chair and slipped and fell and hit her eye on the bottom part of the chair. They iced it and doctored it right away. It didn't look as bad as I had thought but it still breaks your heart for your child to get hurt and you not be there to comfort her.


I left work around 3:00 to go and get her to take her to the dr because I had a feeling that she might have another ear infection (she's been tugging at her ears and she started running a fever that morning). And much to my gut instinct she had a double ear infection. Since this is her 5th ear infection, they referred me to an ENT specialist for tubes. I've got to call them on Monday and schedule an appointment. In the meantime, Caroline is on a new antibiotic to get rid of the infection.

To end our day, my in-laws came over to watch Caroline for us while Blake and I went to the movies. It was the first time we have gone to the movies since we got married. We went to see Blind Side and it was Awesome! The best part of this is I had 2 free tickets so we didn't have to spend a dime!

Another year older...and wiser!

So today I am 27 years old. I keep teasing Blake b/c this is how old he was when we got married! I honestly don't feel older but I've officially crossed over into my late twenties! I'm slowly approaching the 30's...yikes!

I had a great birthday!! I woke up to a sweet card that Caroline made me along with some presents from her and daddy! All the girls at work were sweet today and gave me goodies. Then when I got home, my wonderful parents were here waiting to take me to my favorite restaurant...Normans Landing! We had a yummy dinner:) Then we came back to our house and had an awesome cake that my mom bought me. It had cream cheese icing...my favorite! We let Caroline eat some of it and she LOVED it. She cried when I stopped giving it to her. She's got her mama's sweet tooth!
Here's a few photos of us at dinner!

Sorry mom and dad that I took a picture of you while you had food in your mouth!


My yummy cake!


Caroline is helping mommy blow the candles out...she thought she could use the practice since her birthday is next month!

Thank you Blake, Caroline, mom, dad, and friends for making this birthday a great one!

New Shoes!

Paci time!

Caroline LOVES her paci's. We have been trying to only let her use them during nap and bedtime but she manages to somehow find a way to have them at other times. Recently she found out where Blake and I keep her paci's and she went to the basket this morning and pulled them all out. She would not let go of them! It was too cute not to take a picture.

Here's a couple of her crawling around playing...notice she has yet to let go of her back up paci's!!!


And here's a cute picture we took of her on Sunday while riding in the car!

We hope everyone is having a great week so far!

Santa Clause is coming to town!

Waiting patiently in line to see Santa!..

Me and my Grandma!

She wasn't sure about him at first...

But she quickly warmed up to him...

And even told him that she wanted pacis, toys, formula, and diapers for Christmas! He said he would see what his elf's could do!