Great excitement!

We have had a pretty good past 2 weeks. Nothing really exciting happened last week but we all had some time to just rest and relax. Matt is finally on reduced hours and flex hours at work so he was able to come home early every day last week which was VERY nice! He is currently almost 10% ahead of the curve at work. The curve changes daily but it is the "you should be here" marker for his work. Right now he is #2 in his class for his boat. I hope the keeps up the good work and stays far ahead of the curve! :)
My doctors appointment went great! The surgery on my eye was successful! :) I will have to deal with my eye "wandering" still but not to the extent that it was before. I am able to control it much easier and it only moves when I am REALLY tired or trying to look at something by turning my eyes and not my head. *note to self...please turn your head when you are trying to focus on something. Thank you* I have some eye exercises to do every day now. They are called "toothbrush push ups." Actually all I have to do is focus on the end of my toothbrush and move it closer to my eyes until my eyes are good and crossed and then hold it for a minute. I have had to do these since I was little so I know how to do them...the other one though is REALLY hard. I have to make 3 cats show up on the paper and one has to have whiskers, ears and a tail. I have only accomplished that one once and it was for about 2 seconds. :) Guess I have to keep working on it. But the doctor told me that it was hard for people without lazy eyes do to it which means it is REALLY hard for those of us with a lazy eye to get it to work. She did say just to keep at it and if I can't get it at first that is fine. I will get it to work eventually.
Other excitement for this week. Alan went to see the doctor yesterday for his reflux medicine. He got weighed and measured and our little boy is getting big! He weighs 18lbs 10oz and that puts him in the 16th percentile for weight. He is 29.75 inches long and is in the 86th percentile for height. Yes he is tall and super skinny. Alan is almost half my size. I am 66 inches so not much longer and he will be catching up to me. YIKES! :) The doctor decided to change the times that he receives his medicines to see if that will help some. So today was the first day and so far so good. :) We also found two little white things in his mouth yesterday. Alan now has two little teeth on the bottom! The two middle ones showed up yesterday at the doctors and we all thought that he would get his left incisor first! Funny how that works. But we are soo excited that he finally has some teeth. Hopefully the rest of them come in quickly so we can be done with the teething for a bit. I am really over that drooling thing now. :) So that is all that has been going on for us lately. I hope everything is going well for everyone else! Have a great day!

I need to get better at this!

I know it is almost a month after I updated last. But life has a tendency to get in the way, if you know what I mean. :) So I had my eye surgery on April 13th and everything, as of right now, looks good! I go back to see the doctor on May 12th and we will know for sure how well it worked. I am hoping that the surgery fixed everything but I have a sinking feeling that it didn't. My right eye still wonders off from time to time. I am hoping that it will just get better as my muscles get stronger. Just have to keep praying that it will get fixed.
Our little man is growing so quickly! He is 18lbs 2oz right now and about 28.5in. He is a crawling and almost walking crazy man! I can't keep him still for 2 seconds and he "talks" all the time!! Alan can say mama, dada, ru-ru (for Tater since Tater says ruff ruff), baba and some other random sounds. I can't believe that in a few months he is going to be a (gasp) walker!!! And in a month, my little boy will be one!!! :( I am very sad about that. I don't know where the past year has gone. I still remember, like it was yesterday, when he was born and going to the hospital every day to see him. Can you believe that almost a year ago my little boy looked like this??? Now he is a big boy that is VERY independent! He doesn't like Mommy helping him get his toys out. He wants to be able to feed himself, although I won't let him do that yet. What happened to my little preemie sized baby boy? I know that in a few years I will be saying the same thing again. It truly is amazing how quickly time flies and it makes me cherish each and every moment more. On that note, Matt started back to work a week ago. Adjusting to the 12+ hour work day has been a little trying for Alan and me. Alan wakes up at 5:00am so he can see Matt before he goes to work. I personally don't enjoy having to get up that early but I know that Matt and Alan enjoy having a little time to spend together.
Alan will go back to sleep after he gets some food and he sleeps until 9:30 -10:00am. Then we do lunch and back down for a nap until 2:00pm. Then up for dinner/snack and back down again for another nap until about 7:00pm. Yes I know my kid spends most of his day sleeping now but it is what he has to do to be able to stay up until Matt gets home. Alan has his real dinner around 7:00-7:30pm and then has play time with Matt until he gets tired which is usually around 9:00pm. I hate that he goes to bed so late because then I am up until all hours of the night finishing up things for the next day. But with Matt coming home after 7:30pm it is kind of hard to get Alan to go to bed for the night at an earlier time. We are hoping in a few weeks, that Matt can get on reduced hours so he can come home a little earlier. That would make my life soooo much easier! :) Alan really does love his Daddy so much! That might be the reason that he said Dada first. I know that Dada is easier to say than Mama but I still think he just likes his Daddy more. ;)
We also just bought a new vehicle. :) We had come to the realization a little bit ago that Matt would not be able to ride his motorcycle in the snow in Groton, CT. That just doesn't work too well. So we were looking into getting a used Honda Civic like the one we had before. We really loved the new body style and we really enjoyed the Civic a lot! But while we were looking, we noticed that the USED Civics cost almost as much as a brand NEW Insight. The Insight gets better gas mileage and we can put Tater in the "trunk." The Insight is a hatchback so Tater can roam around back there and we don't have to worry about him getting all worried....or having Tater fur all over the place!! So we bought an Insight on Saturday! It will be ready for us today to pick up. It is the same color as our Accord too. :) We have his and hers vehicles now! Matt doesn't care too much about that but I really like the color of the cars. The only other one I would have gotten is the pretty burgundy Insight...but it was an LX and we wanted an EX and the only EX was the Polished Metal Metallic that we have on both cars. Once we get it home, I will try to take some pictures of it and post them. I am so excited about it and you can't beat 50+MPG! So that is the excitement of this past month. Oh and I am seriously thinking about making our blog private. I have it set up so I can see who comes to view the blog and there have been some people reading from places I know I don't know anyone from. I am going to do some research on how it works for those of you without a Gmail/Google account and I will get back to you.