That my playset...

We hear these words often now...ever since daddy built Cole a swingset. Not from scratch, he ordered it and then put it together himself. Cole and I helped some. But the majority was done by daddy. What an awesome poppa, huh?

That's been the big project around here for that last week. Will worked on it quite extensively on Sunday of last week and did just a little here and there throughout the week. But yesterday he put on the finishing touches. It looks great and it's so nice for Cole to have something to do outside. Not so good for me as I am an indoor computer kinda person.

Good news is that Cole was at Mimi's most of the day Sunday that I was able to work on a little project for Kooshie Tooshies, who will be launching their business here soon. I'll keep you updated... As I mentioned previously, Cole hasn't been into the whole napping thing if I don't nap with him. He didn't nap at all at Mimi's and last night he fell asleep at 8:30! Praise the Lord. Guess what I did? That's right, on the computer working. I freakin' love it! This my dear friends, is my playset.

Some pictures finally!!

Protect Yourself!!!

I hate posting without pictures. It's just sooo boring! Since my computer crash I have been lazy about downloading them all the time. I am just scared of another crash and haven't taken the time to download Carbonite. Now, if you're wondering what Carbonite is, it is my saving grace. I have over 120 G of precious valuable stuff on my computer. Cole's pictures, videos, client work, important documents, blah, blah, blah, you get the idea. Well, the moment a file is changed, added, deleted, created, Carbonite will go in and automatically backup those changes. I have it set to do it anytime I am online, which is always but you can set it to do it at whatever times you'd like. Anyway, when my computer crashed, I had no warning and I was worried that a virus had eaten up all of my precious memories. But no matter because Carbonite saved it all. There is no limit to the amount of information! All of this for only $55 a year. I have heard so many stories of people losing work or photos, to theft or crashes and if you have Carbonite, this will never be an issue. What are you waiting for people? Go and get you some protection!

I haven't reinstalled Carbonite on my system and therein lies the problem of not having the photos on my computer. Luckily, I was able to have it all loaded onto my laptop but I need to do some reconfiguring of the desktop,....seriously, I'm making excuses. I have to get my bootie in gear and save those memories onto Carbonite! After all, my camera can get stolen too....shoot, I hope I didn't just jinx myself! Urgh, can I take it back?

Now, if you are interested, let me know and I can forward you a link because I get 3 months free with your subscription and you would get 1 month free. I know, I know, it works out better for me. Sorry! That's the promotion.

Seperation Anxiety

Ever since Yaya left, Cole has been spending a lot of time with mommy. I reveled in it at first, we took naps together, we went shopping together, we watched tv together. It was fun,...until he started demanding mommy "take a nap", or "sit down here".

As it has been, Cole had not napped the whole week because I woudn't nap with him. I know what you're thinking, crazy to deny a nap to oneself. But when one has lots of work to do, there is no other option.

So yesterday Will and I had an evening planned with all the moms and pops in Mops. I needed Cole to take a nap so he wouldn't be cranky in the nursery. So I closed all the curtains, put on his favorite movie (Cars), and turned off all the lights. Then I even offered him up his blankie to watch tv with. It worked like a charm. My little guy fell aslpeep on the floor.

So we take off to Mops and he wails and grabs on for dear life when we leave him in the nursery. We let him cry and off we go with the adults. I go back and check on him and he's still kinda crying but not so much. They tell me to go, he's ok. I leave and after a few minutes I go back to check on him and he's wailing. We get him and date night is officially over. We left.

I don't know what it is. This is the face I get when I leave:Wouldn't it kill you too?

Lollybot

Isn't there just something about the versions of words that littles come up with? I live for this stuff. Diaper changes are now quite a poof. Cole now insists on having powder put on. It was ok at first but then he started insisting that he do it himself. Fine,... whatever! Well, you can imagine the mess a 2 year old can make trying to put powder on his bootom while lying down. Actually, it would be worse if he were standing up, huh? Anyway,....he puts powder on and then he checks to see if he got any on his "lollybot" (translation: bellybutton) because apparently powder belongs on lollybots. Hello mother!

Telephone Conversations with Cole

Last week was the first time Cole had an actual conversation with anyone on the phone. Luckily, it was with me and dad had made the call from HEB because Cole wanted to talk to Mommy.

Cole: "Hi Mommy!"

Me: "Hi Baby, what are you doing?"

Cole: "Go bye-bye."

Me: "Where are you going?"

Cole: "See Mommy. I love you Mommy."

Easter 2009

We had a wonderful Easter. Cole had his first Easter egg hunt ever at Mimi's and he had a blast! Below is a slideshow of our day. It's long but you can also view the photos by clicking on View All by the slideshow.

Shaddow and Me

Have you seen Marley and Me? We just watched it about a week ago and we cried. Well, I did, I can't remember if Will did...

It's not very often that I mention Shaddow or Bailey, our chihuahuas. As I said before, Bailey is a bully to Cole and Shaddow runs away at the thought of him. That's because Cole is a bully to Shaddow. It was quite a few weeks back that we had noticed Shaddow was coughing. She's 12 and we dismissed it as a "doggy cold". Finally, we decided to take her to the vet on Wednesday because her condition seemed to take a turn for the worse. She was having a very hard time getting a breath. I am such an airhead because even then I thought that I might be overreacting. Shaddow and Bailey have always made these snorting sounds when they drink water or eat too fast. So the thought occurred that that may be what it was. What finally tipped me off was that when I opened the laundry door to go into the garage for something, Shaddow walked ahead of me and kinda looked back at me. It was strange because she has never wanted to go into the garage. Immediately, I thought that she had gone in there to look for a place to die. That's when I scooped her little 4 pound self up and we rushed out with her to the vet.

When we arrived at Nolana Animal Hospital in McAllen, Dr. Brown, looked very alarmed. I am a worrier but about stupid things, like did I offend her, did I sound stupid, what will they think of us, will they call the animal cops on us... But when it comes to sickness and accidents, my system shuts down I think because my reaction times get very slow. Really it feels like the world stops turning and I follow that pace. Will is wonderful in emergency situations because he can think clearly and take charge. I stutter. Because even though I had taken her in immediately, I thought she had a lot of time on this earth with us. I pushed aside my gut instinct.

Dr. Brown was kinda abrasive with us. I immediately didn't like him. Neither did Will. He said she had a bad heart and that her lungs were filled with fluid. He would keep her overnight and see what he could do for her. He said that luckily he was the overnight Dr. so he would personally monitor her. 'Great', I thought. As we were walking out, he said that he would call us tonight just to let us know if the Lasix had helped drain some of the fliud in her lungs and then again in the morning. As he said it he walked us out and he put his hand on my shoulder. That was all he said but that little touch assured me. I swear there was remorse in that touch. I got in my car and I kinda liked him.

Will still didn't but I knew that he was just concerned when he saw Shaddow and I figured he had just reacted in alarm.

The next morning I spoke with Dr. Brown again and he apologized for being so brusk. He said that when he walked in to the examining room, he saw me holding a dog that was dying in my arms and all he could think of was that he needed to get her help so she could breathe. So of course, now I think very highly of him.

He kept her overnight again and Saddow is back home with us. She made it but her days are probably counted. She has a bad heart, we need to constanlty be giving her Lasix pills, and she is on a special prescription diet. She can only have Hill's Precription Diet food (because it's low in sodium) but it has to be HD (for the heart).

Bailey is 13 and unfortunately dogs don't live forever. They are up there in doggy years but it seems my little guys are fighters. They're still here and we are thankful for that.