Sweet Sunday

Well today is our last day with our kids for the next 5 days. I've had a very emotional and stressful week so this trip comes at a very great time!!! I am so ready to go, but also so sad to leave the kids. I know once we are there and start having fun I won't even remember that I have kids, but until then....I've been emotional.

Today Jayce, and Ryleigh were playing with Daddy on the couch before nap time. They were having such a great time, I wanted to take a quick picture.


Then it was time for naps. Jayce asked me to take his picture since the camera was out and I'm so glad I did. This is before his nap:
Then during his nap, he must have gotten into it because this is what he looked like after:

OH that boy cracks me up. I am sure going to miss his fun personality this week.

YUCK, YUCK, YUCK!

These past two weeks have been yucky for us!! First Jayce had a runny nose and must have passed it onto me. I went to the doctor Tuesday morning feeling like total yucky!! I had a double ear infection and just the normal congestion and coughing. Then on Wednesday, Jayce was running a fever so I took him to the doctor. Ear infection also. Great......so we were on meds and trying to get better. The weekend comes around and on Sunday I woke up with massive pressure in one of my ears. Well that's weird because I've been on meds for 7 days already. Monday wake up again, with it hurting even worse! So I call up the doctor and schedule an appt for that afternoon. In the meantime, that morning I had to take Jayce to his 2 year WELL check up. HAHA. At least he was pretty much well. Still coughing and some runny nose, but no fever! The doctor said that his ears looked good. That afternoon we went to my doctor appointment I really wasn't too shocked when he told me that I had a massive ear infection in one of my ears and still one in the other ear. SERIOUSLY?!! I was a little freaking out because in just one week we were leaving for our cruise!! Oh my gosh! So he drugged me up....one pack of steroids, a new antibiotic for my ears, a nasal spray and told me to ask for MucinexD from the pharmacy. Good grief! So finally I was thinking that everyone was going to be okay. By the way....every time we went to the doctor with Jayce, I had the doctor look at Ryleigh's ears too since we were there. Every time they were just fine---or so I thought. Monday night....the night after TWO doctor appointments....Ryleigh wakes up with a fever. GREAT!!! What are we going to do. I am trying to think positive and hoping that it was just a fluke. So I get up with her that night about 8 times....and end up sleeping on the couch with her. Then on Tuesday Ryleigh ran a fever off and on. That night same thing....woke up a bunch and ended up sleeping on the couch. So on Wednesday I called the doctor's office and talked to the nurse. She said to give it one more day. SO that night I rubbed Vicks on her, ran the humidifier and she still was running a fever, but she slept soooo much better! I was so thankful. That brings us to this morning....Thursday. Ryleigh woke up with a 100.2 fever, so I get out my phone and make an appointment for the doctor. Sure enough, she has an ear infection also.

I just can't believe all this. I think that we've spent about $250 in copays and antibiotics. This seriously never happens to us, BUT right before Layne and I are about to leave it seems like everything falls apart! So here we are. Everyone is still trying to get better.

On a good note, at Jayce's 2 year check up here are his stats.
*weight: 27lbs, 2oz
*height: 35 inches
*head: 15 1/2 inches
He's still on his own growth curve, which is good. We've got us a skinny boy. Since we had to take Ryleigh in we now know that she is currently at 8 months 19lbs, 5oz. She's a growing girl!

Cruisin Time!!!!

One week from Monday, Layne and I will be leaving on this ship! The Carnival Ecstasy. We are going to be gone for 5 days withOUT the kids. This is going to be our first trip (long trip) without our babies. I am excited, but also nervous. I know that I will miss my babies soooooo much! But luckily they will be in good hands with Nana, Pop, Grammie and Pawpaw. They will be splitting the week and hanging out with each set of grandparents.

Our first stop will be in Progresso, Mexico. We are going to enjoy doing some site-seeing and shopping as well as hanging out on the beach. We decided to opt out on doing an excursion there, due to all the reviews.

Our second stop will be Cozumel, Mexico. We are going to again enjoy the beach and also go on a snorkeling excursion.

Oh I can't wait till next Monday!!! I've never been anywhere and so this is going to be a big first!! First time on a cruise and first time out of the country! Layne and I are going to have a blast! One week kid free.
Great food!
Beautiful beaches!
Beautiful water!
Oh what a great week ahead!

I can CLAP!!

On Wednesday while everyone was sick, Ryleigh taught herself how to clap! I'm sure the many times that Jayce has shown her has helped :) But now she can do it herself!! She does not need the help of her big brother! She is loving clapping and she knows she's doing something pretty cool.

Here's a video of her cool new dance moves. I think this is what started her trying to clap. Because after she was dancing, the next thing I knew she was clapping. I was so impressed!



And here she is doing her big debut. She's clapping away!

The many faces of Ryleigh

Oh my little Ryleigh girl is soooooo cute and funny. She has so many faces and it's been pretty hard to capture them on camera. As soon as I get the camera out, she goes "stone faced" and won't do anything she was doing. But the other day she was just in a performing mood and she was giving me some great faces!! That same day was Jayce's birthday and while we were at ITZ she was giving us some priceless faces! She's just so cute and I really think that when she smiles she really smiles with her eyes. It just melts my heart! Like I've said before, she really has me wrapped around her finger. She also has her Daddy, brother, PawPaw and Pop also wrapped around her finger. All she has to do is look at them with those beautiful eyes and long eye lashes and they just melt! This week she also turned 8 months old! I just can't believe how time has just flown by. She's just growing up so quickly. Yet she still has no desire to crawl or do anything else. She just loves to sit and play on the floor. She knows that everyone will bring things to her and when she fusses she knows that she will get picked up. She's pretty spoiled rotten.

What the heck is above my head? A fan?

Oh to have those long beautiful eye lashes!!

What Mom? Are you talking to me?

Ryleigh turns her head to the side as if it's going to make her look cuter! Which of course it does. I think she really already knows how to work it.

She's looking at her momma in this picture above. She's in love with me :)

This is my most favorite picture ever!!!!!! She is so stinkin hilarious!!!!! I think this is what she thought of her brother getting to celebrate his birthday.

Ya, what's up!?

Sweet!!! I get to get on the bouncy also!!
She totally loved riding on the bear. It went back and forth and she enjoyed it. She liked standing on it even more.


Huge smile! Thanks brother for having a birthday and letting me join in on the fun!





I just can't believe how big she looks in this picture!!!! She's just growing up so quickly before my very eyes!!

Birthday Party

Jayce had a ball themed birthday party. He is so in love with sports balls, I thought it would be perfect. He doesn't like anything else as much as he likes sports. He's all boy!!! So we did football, soccer ball, basketball, and baseball theme. He absolutely loved it!! He also liked that he got to keep the table decor to play with! This poor boy is only friends with girls. So he had four GIRLS at his party. I seriously need to make friends with people that have boys. He wants to play with boys so bad, but he just gets the girls. He of course loves them, but sometimes he gets too rough. Here are some pics from his wonderful birthday party filled with love, friends, family and of course FUN!

Nana made Jayce's cake. He even got his own personal cake....once again this boy is weird! He didn't even touch his cake. He turned his nose up to it! Strange I know!!

Here he is with his "girl" friends.

Poor Josh sitting all by himself. He was the only one to dress up in "ball" attire.

Playing with some of his new toys. He got THREE train sets, so some of those are going to have to go back. We don't have room for three.

Birthday Boy

Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 my sweet baby boy turned TWO! I can't believe that two whole years have gone by this quick. He has changed so much in just two years. He's the sweetest, cutest boy I know. He's a super chatter box!! He can say so many things. I am just amazed every day with what words come out of his mouth and how he's putting more and more words together. Sentences are starting to form. Soon he will never shut up. YIKES!

His Friday birthday consist of going to his music class, where everyone sang Happy Birthday to him. Then we went to Nana and Pop's house to make his birthday cake. Finally that night we went to ITZ. This place that is similar to Incredible Pizza. It has games, rides and cool things for kids. But the coolest is that it has stuff for little kids (like 2 year olds) to do. Jayce loved jumping in the bounce houses. He is still obsessed with jumping. He also LOVED throwing the basketball in the hoop along with throwing the football into the whole. He couldn't actually reach the hoop or the hole, but he didn't care. He thought he was super big and doing an awesome job. Which he was. He also got to bowl and ride a train. The train wasn't like a normal train, it was like a rollercoaster train. It went FAST! So needless to say Friday Night was an awesome night for him. He did NOT want to go home, but it was WAY past his bedtime! I love that boy and love that he had a great time! Here are some pics from that night.

Dinner time! Mac N Cheese and Hotdogs...what else could a kid want?!

Dessert--"I want this one!" Jello...he had a choice of jello, chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding, and chocolate cake. By the way....this kid hates chocolate! I know he's NUTS!

Jumping in the bounce house things. He loves to jump!

Shooting hoops with Daddy. Loving throwing that basketball!Now onto the football. He saw this game from FAR away and said "FOOTBALL!!!!!" So we took him to play that too.

Bowling was probably the most fun to watch as a parent. Jayce didn't know the goal of the game. We tried to tell him that he was supposed to knock down the pins. But he thought the goal of the game was to throw as many balls down the lane as possible. It was sooo funny to watch!

Here he is trying to just throw them down the lane, forget rolling them!

I don't know if you can see his scores or not, but all he got were F's for faults. He would get a fault every time he threw a ball before the green light went on to tell him that he could go. Well since he was just worried about throwing as many balls down the lane as possible, he got faults pretty much every time.

This picture sums up the entire night. He had so much fun!!!! I love that we made his night special! Thanks Grammie, Pawpaw, Nana, Pop and Mamaw for coming with us and making this night a night to remember!!