March

The main thing that sticks out in my mind in March is that Luke was hospitalized and diagnosed with asthma.  He has had breathing problems since he was very young, but I guess doctors are hesitant to diagnose children when they’re very young.  On the day Luke went to the hospital he had been sick and wheezing, so I had brought his nebulizer to work with me.  My Mom called me up at one point and said Luke sounded really bad.  I went up and he was taking very very shallow wheezy breaths, and was very inactive.  He looked miserable and wasn’t really talking.  I gave him two back to back nebulizer treatments and he really wasn’t getting any better, so I called his doctor’s office and got an appointment right away.  He was breathing much better by the time we got there, but still not great.  They gave him another breathing treatment and when he still sounded bad, they said they wanted him admitted.  We headed over to the hospital and stayed for just about 24 hours, and they officially diagnosed him with asthma. 

I had to cover up his IV with a rubber glove so he could play with play-doh in the hospital play room :) 

Luke now takes a steroid in his nebulizer twice a day.  It seems to help some, but we have still had some incidents since then where he gets sick and wheezy. 

And following in his brother’s footsteps, look who got his first nebulizer treatment in March…

Tommy had asthma as a kid and grew out of it, so I pray that my boys do the same and this isn’t something they’re stuck with forever.  I just hope that it never holds them back from doing anything they want to do. 

Here is Dylan being adorable in March:

and big boy at his 6 month check up… I’ll have to go back and look at his stats.  I don’t know them off the top of my head, but do know that he’s been running in the 10th percentile for height and weight just like his brother.  They’re both little shrimps.

Snuggling with Aunt Brit

taking a bath with AJ, just like me and Amanda did when we were babies :)

And the other thing at the end of March- Luke got a haircut!

I was over keeping up with his long hair.  It grew over his ears so fast, and was just a pain.  I’ve been keeping it a little longer than this lately, and he looks so big!  Let me tell you ladies, even being a hair stylist and being able to cut my own kids hair… it’s still VERY hard and VERY not fun!  I dread it!  Sometimes I am seriously tempted to go somewhere and pay someone to do it so I don’t have to do it myself!

Okay, another month down… maybe as we get closer to the present I’ll be able to remember more details!!

February

Anybody who is my facebook friend, which is probably all of you… if there’s anybody even reading this… sorry, because I’m totally just stealing events off of my facebook page and putting them on my blog. 

Okay, so a Luke moment not to be forgotten.  I thought Luke was in his room taking a nap.  I went in to check on him and he had dumped a full bottle of baby powder all. over. his. room.  It’s so funny looking back on this because I had totally forgotten about him doing that!  It was very unlike him.  He also took off his diaper and peed all over his room.  He peed IN his toybox and all over the carpet.  I was astonished.  I sent him to the living room and told him to sit there while I cleaned up and when I went to check on him this is how I found him.

He was worn out from making all that mess for me!  I couldn’t help but fall more in love with his insanely cute little self in that moment.  Then I went and cleaned up some more pee/powder and maybe some of that bursting love faded again :)  Just kidding!

 

My sweet Valentines.  Luke’s shirt said “the Ladies <3 Me” and Dylan’s said “Ladies Man.” 

Our great friends Jake and Lynsi got married at the end of February in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.  I briefly considered going when the details were first set, but quickly decided it was a ridiculous thought.  Well, about three weeks before the wedding Tommy and I talked about it and I booked it.  Tommy stayed home with the kids (have I mentioned how much I love my husband) and I went to the DR.  I actually traveled completely alone because I was so late to the game I couldn’t get on a flight with anybody else.  I was pretty proud of myself for traveling internationally alone. 

The wedding was beautiful and I had SUCH a great time for the 3ish days I was there.  It was completely relaxing and I was really able to let go of everything going on at home.  Until I got a call at about 4 am on Sunday morning.  It was my sister.  See, right before I left Bonnie told me “I’m terrified that I’m going to go into labor while you’re all in the Dominican Republic.”  I said rather bitchily “You’re NOT going to go into labor while we’re in the DR Bonnieeeeee.”  She wasn’t due until March 7th.  And she had that baby without me!!  I tried to get on a flight home right away but it just wasn’t doable.  I was really upset.  I was supposed to be in the room when she was born.  Instead I was hundreds of miles away. 

My beautiful baby niece Elizabeth Paige Martin was born at 12:27 am 2/27 at 6 lbs 11 oz. 

This Mimi is in heaven!

Luke is so excited!  He says her name kind of like “Yizbis”

My first time meeting her.  A little late, unfortunately.

January

In January we threw a shower for my sister Bon Bon and baby Elizabeth…

kind of hard with the lighting, but this sign says “welcome baby Elizabeth”

candy table

this picture cracks me up.  It sums up our lives as mothers perfectly.  Chaos.

 

quilt I made.  I wanted it to be bright and not babyish, but I don’t really like the way it turned out.

Also in January we left BOTH of the boys overnight together with Becca and Melissa and Tommy and I had a date day/night.  We were soooo lame though.  I just consulted my facebook timeline for a reminder of what we did in January and on our day without kids we had our taxes done and went to the library.  Oh, and now I remember that we got pretty crazy and decided to go out for appetizers and a beer at Applebee’s at about 9 pm, which is unheard of :)  Here is Dylan hanging out with Becca and Melissa.

In January Dylan started sleeping in his carseat.  His reflux was really bad at this point and I thought having him upright would help, and I think he really liked the snuggly feeling of being in the carseat.  I believe he continued to sleep in there until… April?  It was a long time, but it worked.

Snuggled in for the night.

And here is cutie pie Luke playing on his new swingset

Christmas 2011

Well, if I’m gonna catch up, I guess I’d better start where I left off… Christmas.  Ahhh, this is pathetic!

Christmas morning- Coming down the hall to see what Santa brought

Tommy’s family came over for breakfast- a tradition since we had Luke

Decorating a gingerbread house with Krystal

Heading to Mimi’s!

How stinking cute is Luke wearing my Mom’s glasses??

I wish I had more details, but honestly I don’t really remember them all… hence the point of blogging on time!!!