Snuggles, Snuggles and More Snuggles

Day 3 of the fever is now winding down.

Yes, it's been 3 days of doing nothing but sitting on the couch watching TV's and movies. Good thing we have a DVR or else I'd be going insane. Also, too bad I watched Pride and Prejudice last week or else that would been a fabulous option. I'm feeling a little bit of cabin fever, but hanging in there. I was so relieved when Kyle came home last night to relieve me because I was feeling overwhelmed by the mess in my house.

I'm not sure what's up with our little hero, but he just has a fever and is extremely laid back. He played for a little while last night and we thought he was on the up and up, but today hasn't been any better than yesterday. But, it's okay, we're hanging in there. I'm bummed, though, because I probably shouldn't take him to church tomorrow and my dear husband is preaching :-( I thought about maybe sneaking into the cry room and just sitting in there with Maddox (nobody uses it because it's not sound proof) while he preached, but we'll have to see how he's doing then.

Fevers and Snuggles, Oh My!

Today, my little adorable Monkey woke up with a fever. Really the first one that he's had of any sort of significance in his entire life, you know, all 385 or so days. He's felt warm on some days, but never this hot. I took his temp with our ear thermometer that I hate, it never seems to give an accurate temp, but it's also never said any of our temperatures has been over 98 and today it read at 100, which probably means he was more around 101 or 102.

I digress.

Maddox is not a normally snuggly guy. He's much too busy for that. He'd rather be off playing with all of his toys, of course with Mommy a safe distance away, 5 feet at the very most, his choice not mine, I assure you.

Today, all Maddox wanted to do was snuggle, he would put his head on my shoulder when I was carrying him around. We went to the church and helped Daddy put together some things and afterwards we sat together on the couch, with his sweet little head resting on my chest, and watched an episode of Gilmore Girls. About 30 minutes later, he was sound asleep. I ever so gently moved him to his bed so he would sleep well. Such a sweet moment for me because he never has the patience to sit on the couch with me, unless there is food to be had, that is.

Needless to say, I think it's great that in not-so-great times of sickness, and when feeling run down the most (from carrying 21 pounds of child around all day), God gives me little precious moments of pure joy that just make it all seem much better.

Here's too a good night sleep, even though I'm not counting on it!

Oh, and on a totally funny note, it was quite humorous watching Maddox try to walk today. He's already not very good at it and add a fever to that and you've got yourself one drunk sailor for a little walker!

Walking

Not me, I've been walking for years, over 24 years, to be exact.

But, it's a new thing for Maddox, he just started taking steps on his own last week and is doing very well at it. He's definitely cautious and timid, but he's doing great. His favorite is to walk back and forth between Mommy and Daddy. He's even getting the hang of turning around on his feet. So cute.

Since the broken nose incident we haven't been encouraging too much walking because we wanted to make sure it healed up real well. So, he's pretty much there, now and at times unstoppable.

100th Post

Yes, today is that day. I've officially written 100 posts. Woohoo! The bummer thing is that I don't have anything too terribly important to say!

Maddox is healing up amazingly fast. The bridge of his nose is pretty blue, but he doesn't have any black eyes or anything. The swelling is minimal and from what my eyes can see his nose still looks straight. All very good things. We have an appt. on Friday and his Dr. will take a look and give us her opinion.

Pictures of the Broken Nose

Maddox is recovering well from his mishap. The swelling has gone down considerably and is just looking pretty bruised at this point. He's been a trooper and has hardly been acting like he's in pain at all. I was able to move up his 1 year appt. 1 week (huge answer to prayer because our Dr. is VERY hard to get into) so he can be examined on Friday by his PCP to make sure that it's not crooked. It's looking pretty straight at this point, so I don't think that they'll need to straighten it, but I'm no Dr. and really can't say.

Here are a few pictures of yesterday, about 1 1/2 hours after it happened. The blood on his eye brow is just some blood from his nose, it's not a cut.

Broken Nose

The weekend went great and I wish I could say that there were not injuries. But, that would be a lie. As we were heading down stairs to load up the vehicle, Maddox fell and broke his nose :-( It broke my heart to see him in so much pain. Poor guy has screamed like he's never screamed before. The terrible part is, is that it was my fault and that makes the pain even worse. He wanted to play with the handle on an ice chest, so I set him down on it. I had my hand behind him (that's usually the direction he falls), and instead he fell forward straight onto his little nose, on tile. A friend drove us to the hospital while Kyle worked on arrangements to get our kids back home. He met us at the hospital and Bonnie ran the kids back home for us. Maddox is now resting soundly. We have some pictures of the big swollen nose, but I'm too tired to upload them right now. They basically can't do anything for his nose other than just let it heal on it's own. They don't think it's crooked, but we won't be able to tell that until the swelling goes down, then at that point they might need to set it properly. We're praying that that's not the case. There is also a possibility that the cartilage is just bruised as well (what we're really hoping for). I'm off to nap while Maddox does since I'm exhausted.

I'm Out-ey!

For a couple of days I won't post. I'll be back Monday. Have a fabulous long weekend, for those of you special enough to get President's Day off!

And, We're Off...

Again!

Tomorrow, we head to a youth conference with 15 students high school students. It's put on by our denomination (The Christian and Missionary Alliance) and they do a fantastic job. There will be over 700 students there this year from the Northwest.

It's getting more difficult to go on these types of things with Maddox, but since we don't have family in town, we just don't have any other options. I suppose my next option would be to just not go, but Kyle likes having my support at things like this, and I really like helping him out. So, we'll just make do and do the best that we can. We missed last year's conference because Maddox was born 4 days before it started, so one of our leaders stepped in and took the kids.

Unfortunately, I just realized that we forgot to find a place for our dog! And, she can't stay locked up in her crate for 3 days! I guess I have a project.

Happy 1st Birthday!!!!!

Finally, it's here, the day that I waited 9 whole months for...last year. Maddox turns 1 today! Not officially until 8:54pm, but really, who's counting. After 36 hours of labor, he finally decided to enter the world.

I truly can't believe it's already been a year, it just blows my mind. The first few months seemed to drag, but I'm sure that is because of lack of sleep, the last part of the year just flew and here we are one whole year later.

For those of you who don't know my little monkey, he has the best temperament, and always has. He seriously hardly ever cries. When he was first born we were shocked, he only cried when it came time to change his diaper, he really didn't like that. My mom says I only get one good one, so here's to you, Maddox! I couldn't ask for a better baby, I love you SO much and I adore being your Mommy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

One Year Ago Today...

I woke up at 6:00am feeling labor pains 3 min. apart. They continued all day long...

Kyle and I drove to the hospital at 8pm to see what was going on. I was 1 cm dilated and still feeling labor pains 3 minutes apart.

They sent me home with sleeping pills...I didn't sleep.

That was my day.