Dear Santa...

Just a quick update...We hope to have some funny outtakes soon from our Christmas card session we are planning for tomorrow. We spent a week in BR and had a great time. My mom turned 50! We are decorating for Christmas this weekend...oh and we had a great quiet thanksgiving at home this year. Today I spent the whole day shopping while Kenny watched the kids....can you say FUN! :)

Just a few pics.

Our crazy girl insists on eating pizza with gloves on. Keeps her hands clean..and protects them from the hot pizza...so she says.





Can you believe it, I have 2 kids...wow!

this just makes me laugh!

Just a few pics from our week.

Andrew is 1 month old!

Our sweet boy, weighing in at 9 lbs. We just love him so much and can't wait to get to see his personality shine soon. Doesn't he look SO much like his daddy?



FYI: This is an outfit I bought @ Build A Bear back in July...so they would match.

You are sick, Alesha!

"Where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them."

Question: Do both people have to be completely conscience? Why do I ask this?..well

On Thursday night, I started with a fever...followed by one of the longest nights that I can remember. I had the shivers for hours. Friday, same thing...I would feel better when my fever would break (thank you Advil) and then the shivers again. Well Friday night, I was so tired of feeling so horrible. Laying in bed, I nudged Kenny to wake him. I said, "Baby...(he grunts) (my teeth chattering) Can you please pray for me? I feel horrible. He grunts again...pats my head..and I wait...and wait..he never prays for me. I find this so funny seeing that my husband in Seminary no less. Guess you had to be there..but it was pretty funny.

Diagnosis: So what is wrong with me? Well I went to the doctor on Friday...(you know I am sick when I go to the doctor). The awesome dr decided that I had some type of infection. They took a few blood test and one showed that my white blood count was up. He seems to think that I have some sort of UTI even though I am not experiencing any of the symptoms. He prescribed a strong antibiotic that Andrew can't be exposed to soooo, Andrew is strictly on formula for 10 days. I was upset about it at first...but I must say it has been a blessing in disguise. Kenny has been able to help me at night...and during the day for me to nap. I plan to nurse after these 10 days but I am also going to use formula when I need a break. I havent been this sick in a long time. Besides the whole praying thing..Kenny has been awesome with picking up the slack for me.

Chillin': Kenny called one day this week and asked what Andrew was doing...to which I replied, oh Andrew is just chillin' in his swing....Avery said...Oh, is he cold? silly girl

Baptism: This morning at church several children were baptized. Avery was so happy for them. She said, Mom, I want to be in the water too. I told her that we would talk about it after church. So later, Kenny told her that she had to be a Christian first and I asked her if she had any questions....she said yes...how many miles to Disney World?

I hope to get Andrew's (aka Little Kenny) one month pic up soon...but I have to take it first...hey what can I say, I have been sick.

Thanks for checking in!
Alesha

On Motherhood...

So I don't have a picture for this post...but I am afraid it might be a little frightening anyway. I will try to paint the picture with words instead.

If I hear, you sure are lucky you can nurse...again anytime soon...I may throw something. Yes, I am so lucky to feed a newborn 10 times a day at all hours of the night. I am the only one that can get up because I am the only one with the 'equipment'. Lucky, lucky me. And while I am nursing one one side, I am lucky enough to have the other side pouring milk down my shirt. I hate nursing in public so I have about a 2 hour window to get out of the house and return to get anything done.

And when I am having an especially lucky day, Andrew will somehow manage to get his fresh diaper to leak on me. It must be a boy thing but somehow he manages to do this at least 3 times a day.

I am also very lucky to be able to stay home and not work this year. But i have to say that sometimes you feel like you are going a little crazy..when your day is filled with entertaining a four year old. My life is filled with playdoh, noggin, simon says and all the imaginary friends our apt can hold. Today I fell asleep on the couch for 15 whole minutes when I opened my eyes to see Avery right in my face holding a juice box for me to open while trying to feed me her newest ice cream play doh concoction.

Then this evening I tried to go to the bathroom...alone for a few minutes...when Avery decided to grace me with her presence. She felt the need to put on a play by getting in the tub and announcing her newest act from behind the shower curtain...while Andrew cried at the top of his lungs while in his swing. All I wanted was 3 minutes to myself...man am I lucky or what??

So today I feel that I am going a little crazy...wanna come along?

PS As I was reading over this before I published it, Avery looked over at me and said,"Mommy, what friends are we again?...We are Wall-E friends mom... Mom, you look kinda sick looking." So on that note I will officially sign off. :P

Fall is here!

Well lots of pictures to share and things to write about. The tour of the grandparents is officially over. :( We enjoyed all of the help and company. Avery misses all of you guys.

Scientist in the making? From time to time Avery comes up with little experiments she want to perform. This week she tried to make herself float away by holding on to all the balloons she could find. She was a bit sad to see her 'experiment' didnt work.

Jelly Bean Incentives: To help encourage good behavior from Avery, we started a jelly bean jar. When she does something, like picking up toys without being asked, we give her a scoop of jelly beans. When she reaches the line she gets to choose her reward. She has chosen to go the museum and this week to the roller skating rink. Other choices that she can choose from are a date to starbucks with daddy...nails with mommy...and even a trip bowling. This works really well to get her to do what we want. She loves it!


Gaining weight: Andrew went to the dr last week and he gained 7 ounces in 7 days. That is great news. He is a good eater...gets up every 3 hours or so...even at night. :) Can you believe he will be one month old on Wednesday?! He will go back to the dr in another week or so for shots.

Trick or Treat: We had a really great time last night Trick or Treating. Avery was very excited about going door to door for candy. She was very particular with what she chose from everyone's buckets of candy. Red suckers were really high on her list. Andrew did manage to get a pack of skittles from a cute little boy. Avery and Andrew both wore pumpkin costumes. Because we live in an apt, we went to the 'cape cod' neighborhood and it really was something straight out of a hallmark commercial. It really made me want to move there...such a perfect place.

Here are a couple of pics from our trip to a couple pumpkin patches too.