look, mama!

this is how i found my kid today.



he's in that let's explore everything stage right now.
he was quite happy with his newest find.

9 months

We went pumpkin picking!
Levi picked out his pumpkin, he was a trooper, considering it was a bit rainy.

Here he is with his papa...


More pictures to come soon! I need to get them downloaded from the camera.

Oh and today he is 9 months old, how on earth did that happen?
Here he is 9 months ago today..



crazy, huh?

teeth and dragons

the other day i noticed this...



do you know what it is?
let me give you a closer look...



those are bite marks, on our crib.
yup.

bite marks.

i'll give you one guess who did it.
it was this cute little purple flying dragon. (more on this later)



so we trekked to the store and bought this cover.



hopefully that will be the end of teeth marks on the crib.

climb climb up sunshine mountain....

It's hard to believe that he is already big enough for this!



He has only been at this project for a few days, and pretty much has it figured out. He still needs a little help, and help to make sure he doesn't plummet head first down the stairs, (I tell you he is fearless, he'd do it we let him)

He's getting so big!

1 in 4

Did you know that October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month?

I'm guessing you didn't.
Because I didn't know it existed before I lost a baby.

In fact, I may be so bold as to say it gets entirely overlooked due to Breast Cancer Awareness month. Don't get me wrong, that is an equally important issue to be discussed, but I'm just saying, it's overlooked.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how much miscarriage, and any loss really, is overlooked in our society. I think it's for a number of reasons, really. I find that it is uncomfortable for people to talk about, I think women want to forget that it happened to them, and I think, as a general rule, people are uncomfortable talking about death, in any capacity.

Maybe I've been thinking about it because it's awareness month, or maybe it's because recently I sat in Applebees with a friend who said goodbye to her two precious twin boys at 21 weeks in June and we had lunch together on her due date, and I listened to her talk with tears in her eyes about how much she misses them; how much she's changed. Or maybe it's because we went to church on Sunday and our speaker shared with us how she lost a child at 3 months old due to a muscle disorder.

I'm really just processing all of this right now, but I can't help but feel like maybe, just maybe, I'm supposed to do something about it. I don't even know what that is, nor do I have any idea how that would look fleshed out. I'm thinking about it all, trying to figure out where my place is in this, but I can't get the gut feeling out of my mind that maybe there is a place for me here, a way that I can help other women come through this journey and draw closer to Jesus through it all.

I just can't understand how something so common can be so overlooked. 1 in 4 women will experience a miscarriage.

1 in 4.

big brown eyes

i love this face.

 

short and sweet

yup.

 

that pretty much sums it up.

sweet sweet sleep

The kid is not sleeping. AT.ALL.

We are about at our wits end over here. He was doing so well. He would go down and sleep until around 5 or 6. I can handle 5 or 6, no problem. Then, little by little, he kept trying to push the time back. We would occasionally make him cry it out again to get him back closer to 6.

Maybe it's a growth spurt, maybe it's teeth.

but he is NOT sleeping.

Last night he woke up around 12:15, and screamed until 1:30 when we finally gave him and got him. I was starting to wonder if it was his tooth. He is cutting a top tooth right now, so we got up, gave him some tylenol etc, and got him back down. He was up again at 5:30.

The night before he was up around 3:30 screaming. We were strong, we were tough, and then we heard... KKAWHHAAAAMMM! He had been standing in his crib, and fell and smacked his poor little face against the side of the crib. Obviously we had to go in and make sure he wasn't gushing blood and the entire hour we'd laid in bed listening to him scream had been wasted.

*sigh* I don't know what to do. We've tried crying it out, we've trying letting him sleep with us (something I swore we'd NEVER do), we've tried going in soothing him and putting him back down. NOTHING works.

I'm so tired, and really wishing for a full night of sleep.

Maybe when he's 1?

for the love

i'd really like to stop going to the dr.

this morning levi was sprouting a lovely rash.
i called the dr and we went in.
i assumed it was an allergic reaction to his meds.

nope.

roseola.

of course it wasn't free for them to tell me that.

anne of green gables..

5:15 pm... uh, Jen he feels really warm to me.. so says our babysitter.
we take his temp. 99.5, so kind of, but not really. we give him tylenol, take it again a 1\2 hour later. 100.8... try to convince him to eat dinner. not interested whatsoever.
we gave him a lukewarm bath to try to cool him down. took his temp again. 101.6? i don't really remember, i just knew it was getting higher. we continued to take his temp and it continued to move up the scale. at 10:30 it was 102 under his arm. we gave him some more tylenol and we began the vigil of watching him overnight. i really didn't want to take him to the hospital if we didn't have to.

we were right on the cusp, and i was just praying that it would be crystal clear what we should do. we took his temp a 1\2 hour later and it was going down. i set the alarm and got up about an hour and a half later and it was down to 99. praise the Lord!

this morning his temp is down, but still present. we have an appointment at the dr.
my guess? his ear infection is back. i don't think i ever blogged about that, but after we got the second round of antibiotics, we took it 3 days, and then it FROZE in our fridge. we got another RX only for it to happen again. The pharmacy assures me it was our fridge, I assured them it wasn't, because it was the ONLY THING that was frozen. anyway... we called our ped and they said to not worry about giving him the rest of the meds... yeah... so here we are.

this was our first fever escapade, and let me tell you it was scary stuff. i felt like anne, on anne of green gables... you know when diana calls her and says her sister is really sick, and she runs over, and says.. call the doctor, and then adminiters epicac until the dr. arrives? okay, it wasn't that bad, but that's kind of how i felt getting up and checking on him all night long.

birthday fun

here's my birthday present.



it's a ring made of antique silverware.

how cool is that?

we also went to the hillsdale fair for my birthday, which was seriously one of the neatest fairs i've ever been to. more on that later.

for now, i'll revel in my cool vintage ring.

pumpkin love

hooray for pumpkin time!

 

unfortunately levi preferred the straw to the actual pumpkins. :)