Slacker! :)

Yes I know I have been slacking on this. As usual, life gets busy and the blog goes by the wayside. But at least I am still updating! :) So little man is a regular walker now....as long as Mommy or Daddy are not in the room. ??? I don't get it but oh well...if he only wants to walk with other people around and not us then that is fine with me.

We went to North Carolina at the beginning of August for a week. We went to go see my Nana and Pop Pop and my sister Patricia. Everyone was just tickled by Alan and how much he had grown! Alan was 3 months the last time Patricia saw him and 6 months the last time Nana and Pop Pop saw him. He wasn't so mobile then! But we had a great time up there. Alan got to go swimming in the pool a few times and he also went to the beach twice! He didn't like the sand at first but once he got used to it's "shifty-ness" he was much better. He loved the water too!
Rocks and sand and shells were also his favorite thing at the beach......to eat. Yes my son thinks that sand is a delicious and nutritious part of a balanced diet. Who would have thought that beach sand was yummy?
We also got confirmation, while in NC, that our son HATES, and I mean HATES grass. He wants nothing to do with the stuff and will cry until you get him off of it. He even went to the point of sitting on the grass with his hands and feet up in the air so he didn't have to touch it with his bare skin. Crazy kiddo. But he likes sand....what a weirdo.
Alan also got a pretty nice "boo-boo" while we were up there too. But he recovered quickly. He had a chicken fight with the marble coffee table and lost. :( Busted lip, bruised tongue and cut gums later, he is still smiling! Got to love it. My little dare-devil boy just can't seem to let me rest for even a second. But boys will be boys right?
So "exciting" stuff going on with us now... Matt just took his 100% exam last week and he thinks that he did pretty well. Test results should be out sometime this week. But that was the last "BIG" written exam he has to take until he leaves this command. We are all very excited that he is done with that test! I have my last post-op eye surgery appointment on Thursday. Hopefully we get a "thumbs up"! They have finally figured out what is going on with my crazy body and have started me on medication to fix it and I go to see a nutritionist next week to tackle the unexplained weight loss issue. I find it slightly humorous that I had been "threatened" with a visit to the nutritionist during my pregnancy and before then and now someone is following through. Go figure. :) But hopefully this will get my back on the right track and get some healthy high calorie diet ideas that won't make Matt put on the same amount of weight as I am. That is going to be the tricky part...making 3 different meals at dinner time. UGH. That is all I have to say on that one! :) But other than that life is pretty calm. We should be getting orders here in the next month or so and Matt graduates the beginning of October! We are hoping for Washington state but where ever the Lord sends us is fine. Well that is about it for now. Hope that everyone else is doing well!

Walking what?

Alan decided on Sunday that he wanted to finally walk. All by himself with a toy in his hand, he took 4 steps and it hasn't stopped since! We are just so proud of him!

How many did you say???

4!! 4 I tell you! My son now has 4 teeth! Took him forever to get those last 2 in, but now he has 2 on top and 2 on the bottom!! The top 2 just cut through today!! :) I am so excited about his new teeth!!!! Once they come in a little more and I can get a picture of them I will post it up here but until then YAY!!!!! :) That's all for now. Just wanted to let everyone know my son now has more teeth! :)

Bread.

That is all I have to say. My son LOVES bread! You can toast it or not and he doesn't care. Just give him some good old 100% whole wheat bread and he is the happiest boy on the face of the earth. Who knew?!?!?!!? And you don't even have to break it up for him...actually he prefers that you keep it as a whole slice and he will tear the pieces off himself. I do have to thank the Lord that Alan doesn't have a wheat allergy or a gluten allergy!! It is bad enough with lactose intolerance and I think my son might just freak out if he couldn't eat his bread.

Granted in the picture he has toast, eggs and watermelon. The only thing that he finished was the toast. :)

Happy Birthday Little Man!

Today is Alan's 1st birthday! I can't believe how big he has gotten over the past year. This time last year was a massive onslaught of emotions. We were frustrated that there wasn't more done to help him keep baking, elated that he was born, devastated that he wasn't healthy and above all, mentally and physically exhausted. But the Lord was with us each step of the way, whether is was a step forward or backwards He was still with us. Now we have a beautiful...well Hansome....young man that never ceases to amaze us each and every day! Here are some pictures from his birthday and a few videos!



















Good Morning Birthday Boy!! He was extra happy this morning when I came in to get him...but his diaper was really gross so I think that is why he was happy ;)

Eating his birthday muffin....9am is a little too early to do cake so we did muffins instead!


Here we are singing Happy Birthday to him along with Matt's explanation as to why we are doing it so early. :)

Checking out his new toy from Mommy and Daddy! It is a little push/ride car. So far he really likes it! I just hope this helps his balance and walking skills! :)

And here is his trying to get around on it. At least he has figured out how to get off of it without falling!!! :) Always a good thing!

Just for entertainment purposes.

So I decided to just post pictures. No updates or anything, just pictures. So I hope you all enjoy!

What a week.

What a doozy of a week this has been already. The week started out on the rough side on Sunday. We didn't end up going to Sunday night service because Alan was having a VERY rough day. He was up at 8am and only slept for a whopping hour and a half until he went to bed for the night around 6pm. Needless to say he was crying, fussing and didn't want to eat or drink anything. It is never a good sign when this is how your week starts.
Monday was pretty calm though. Alan and I just relaxed for the day and he was a much happier baby. Everyone's schedule was back to normal and life was good......until Tuesday came around. I had a doctors appointment on Tuesday to find out how to get my body back on track so we can start trying for baby number 2. No we are not actively trying right now, but we would like to have another one on the way around Christmas time. Well the doctor said the 1) I need to stop nursing Alan very soon. 2) I need to put some weight on because I am unhealthy thin 3) I probably have PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and 4) If I am not pregnant in 3 months or my body hasn't figured itself out in 3 months, we are starting fertility treatments. So needless to say, that is A LOT of information to get thrown at you all at once. And honestly some of that is really scary for me. I know that the next 3 months are probably going to be one huge roller coaster of an emotional ride. Fertility treatments was something that they had discussed when we were trying for Alan and it wasn't a settling thought for Matt or myself. We had seen what his sister and brother-in-law went through and we were not sure if we were willing to go down that road. Now the same split in the road is before us again. We are just going to have to start diligently praying for the Lord's guidance and for His hand of healing to fix whatever is wrong. After all of that Alan and I went home and had a lazy afternoon. Matt wasn't sure when he was going to get home so I just got Alan ready for bed around 4:30 so he could eat and then go to sleep for a bit before Matt got home. My son had other plans. While I was trying to get his clothes on, he touched the light bulb on his lamp next to his changing table. He cried and I looked at his finger and it didn't look bad at all. Just a little red so I put some ice on it to make it feel better and then put him in his highchair to eat dinner. I took Tater outside really quick to go potty and when I came back in I checked Alan's finger again. This time it was blistered really badly. So off to urgent care we went. Turns out he had a second degree burn on his left index finger and would have to be seen at the burn unit at the hospital in the morning. :( So we went to the burn unit at the hospital at 8am on Wednesday. They scraped the blister off and then put a bandage/dry dressing on it. All was finished and we were getting ready to head out the door when I felt horrible and blacked out. Luckly I was sitting in a chair when it happened but it was scary none the less. The rest of Wednesday was spent resting. Not very exciting at all. Our pastor's wife came over and stayed with Alan and I for the afternoon to make sure that we were all ok since I was still a little shaky.
Thursday was a little better. I felt better and Alan and I went to the doctor to see if everything was ok with me. They did a CBC panel, a complete thyroid panel and a full metabolic panel to see what my body was doing. We should get some results back soon. Hopefully this will answer a few questions for us.
Friday was calm until Matt called on his way home from work to tell me that he would have to go into work at 0730 on Sunday for training. There had been several incidents with sailors and because of that there was manditory training. :( No fun at all. So our weekend got cut short and I had to try to get everything ready for church on my own on Sunday. We successfully made it to church on time but not without our standard bumps and bruises. :) I hope that next week is better. I will put some pictures up of Alan here shortly but just don't have the energy to do so right now. Hope everyone else is having a good week!