Update on Austin's RSV...

I took Austin to the doctor on Wednesday to do a re-check of RSV and his ears. Also last week he never did get his 4 month checkup because he was so sick, so we were hoping that he would get them at this visit. He did not have a temperature and his oxygen levels were at 97, which is good. His breathing is great and the wheezing has stopped. We don't have to do the breathing treatments anymore, only as needed. He still has an ear infection, so we got a new antibiotic for that, which he will be on for 10 days. The shots had to be put on hold this week too because of the ear infection. We will go back in 2 weeks and hopefully he will be able to get his shots then. When Austin was first diagnosed with RSV I was concerned about Savannah, but the nurse said that if she did get it, it would only be a cold. Savannah started coughing a few days ago, so hopefully it wont be anything serious. We will see.

A few random things that have been going 0n:

I participated in my first consignment sale. I believe it was a success. I sold 28 things out of 55! I am thinking that Austin might be our last, so I thought that we shouldn't keep all of our baby stuff and we have a lot! I did not even get to go through all the totes before the deadline of entering the items in. I did, however, hold off on selling the bassinet. For some reason, I am not ready to part with that yet :) You never know I guess. ;) I have also been able to find a lot of great deals on the kids clothes. I found a lot for Austin, but for Savannah not so much. I am very picky and didn't see so much for her.

Aunt Casey (Corey's sister) brought over a pink Jeep Barbie power wheels the other day. We have been wanting to get Savannah one, but they are so darn expensive! We never could find a good used one. Thanks Aunt Casey! Savannah loves it. The night she got it she was a bit leery because it was dark outside, but the next day Corey took her out and loved it! She got her baby doll, Emma, in it too. Now she asks to go outside and ride it all the time. :)

Recently, I have been really into finding blogs on how to save more money and I have found a great one: savingyourcents.blogspot.com. She is local, so the stores and sales she talks about are the ones that I can find easily. I have been obsessed with looking at these type blogs and learning how to save money. With this economy and me not working because I am in school, we HAVE to be more frugal. I am also going to attempt (yes, I said attempt) to have a plantar garden. I believe in our neighborhood, because of convinces, we cant have a garden, so I am going to make a little one in a plantar. I talked to my granddad and he says I could do tomatoes and bell peppers easily. Which is good, because these things are pretty expensive in the grocery stores. I am excited. I have to wait until the last frost which should be about April 15, then I will get started. I will let you know how it goes :)

Austin is 4 months old!

Austin turned 4 months old 2-14-09 (Valentines Day). The day started out not so good. This past week he has been sick with a runny nose and a bad cough. Friday night he coughed so hard that he threw up. When we were cleaning him up we noticed that his breathing was really bad. It was like when he was born and his lung collapsed. I took him to the doctor first thing Saturday morning and they ran some tests on him and poor baby has RSV! Its a respiratory infectetion. Its highly contagious, so our original plans of watching our neighbors son, Jackson, were not going to happen. He is almost 2 and we were going to watch him so his mommy and daddy could go eat a yummy dinner. Anyways, Austin has a ear infection also, so he is on antibiotics and a breathing treatment. The doctor (who I loved) said that we could treat Austin at home because he is getting good oxygen levels. What a relief! We have to go back on Monday. Austin is doing his breathing treatments pretty well and is doing great. He is acting really good for being so sick. The breathing treatment makes him really hyper. So it was fun putting him on the floor and just letting him play. He started rolling over! We got is weight checked at the doctors and Austin is 18 lbs. He is my big boy.

Right after he rolled over.

My dad came over for Valentine's Day dinner. I made homemade shrimp alfredo. I even went out and caught my own shrimp (just kidding). Thanks grandmom for the recipe! It was a great evening to a hectic day. Dinner was yummy and we all just relaxed.


A few weeks ago, I celebrated my 27 birthday! I had a huge test on my birthday so, it wasn't excatly how I pictured my day, but it was still a good day. I studied all day long. I took a break for lunch and we all went to Longhornes. We used a gift card we got for Christmas. I love restaurant gift cards! Corey and Savannah made a quick dinner for me and got me a cake. Then I was off to school. I love my family so much! I hope everyone had a great Valentines day.

What a week...

Corey had his procedure on Tuesday and everything has gone well. He had been resting and trying to get better all week. Meanwhile, I have been taking care of the home front. Kay was able to come and stay with us Monday and Tuesday night, so that made it a little easier, especially since I have to go to school Tuesday and Thursday nights. My mom also came over Tuesday night. Corey's dad was able to come over Thursday night, so I could go to school. Savannah and Austin have been great this week.

Savannah informed me that she wanted to move. I asked here where and she told me in our neighborhood. I told her that we already live here and she said, "no, I want to live next to Jackson". Jackson is our back neighbor. She told me she wants a bigger house and next time she wants her room pink, our room purple, and Austin's room gray. What a stinker! :) It was a pretty cute conversation.

Playstation 3 a blessing in disguise?

I have to tell you about Corey's new toy. Its a Playstation 3. Corey saved his Christmas money and went out and got it and Rockband. I was not thrilled at all about it. In fact, I gave him BIG grief about it. If he was going to use his Christmas money on something like that I would have preferred the Wii. I just figured that the Wii was more family friendly, but I knew Corey had been talking about a Playstation 3 forever, so getting the Wii was pretty much out of the question. So, we got home from Walmart and he started setting it up, meanwhile, I was huffing and puffing and giving him a hard time. After Savannah went to bed we talked about it and I realized that he works very hard for our family and if a Playstation 3 is what the man wants then a Playstation 3 will be fine with me.

How its a blessing:

1. It made me realize how much Corey does for our family. He is a great dad and a great husband. Pretty much everything he does is for us. (Well, I already knew this, it just reminded me again :) )

2. Rockband is fun! Savannah is having a blast with it. She loves to play the drums. I sing and Corey does the guitar. We have been having great family time with it believe it or not.

3. I realized I can really be a baby about things.

Don't get me wrong probably the only thing I will play on it is Rockband, but we are having a blast doing it. Maybe when the kiddies get bigger we will get a Wii :)

On a side note, Austin is sleeping through the night...yeah!!! He has been doing it for about 2 weeks now. We usually lay him down after his last bottle anywhere from 7-10 pm and he wont wake up until around 7-8 am. We are all grateful of that! He has also started laughing at 2.5 months. Only Corey has been able to get a good giggle out of him, but it is so sweet. I am always asking Corey to make him laugh. We love listening to it, its like music to hear our children laugh.

Celebrating Christmas and a happy baby

I really have been slacking on my blogging, but better late than never :) We had a wonderful holiday. Savannah was so into Christmas this year. She was understanding that the holiday was about Jesus and one of the perks was having a visit from Santa. My mom, brother, and my sister's family came over Christmas Eve and we had a wonderful dinner together. Corey's mom had told us about "Hi NORAD". You literally call this number and speak to one of Santa's dispatchers and the person tells you where Santa is at that moment and when he will be at your house. We called that number all day long Christmas Eve until the very last minute of Savannah going to bed. Paulina and Savannah made cookies for Santa and when it was time we put milk, cookies, and an orange for the reindeers. It was so much fun! When I was telling Savannah goodnight she asked me, "when does the sun come out?" I said, "about 5 or so." She said, "oh, okay that is what time I will be get up." I was like okay. Of course she didnt get up ast 5. It was about 8:30 and Corey and I woke her up. We were excited. :) After opening presents we made a gourmet breakfast. Challah french toast and ham. It was yummy. For lunch we went over to Corey's dads house and then for dinner we went to Casey's house. It was a great day, but one day I would love to just stay at home all day.

First family photo

Savannah and Pete at my grandmothers waiting to open there presents

Christmas morning


Our wonderful breakfast

The next week was New Years and we didn't do anything. The night before New Years Eve we were in the ER from 9:40 pm to 8 am. I had been experiencing some pain in my stomach. It felt like I had food poising, but it wasnt it was just a bacterial infection in my stomach. GROSS. So by the time midnight came Corey and I were in bed and shortley after the clock turned 12 we were asleep.

Austin is doing great. He has been sleeping through the night. Yeah! He has been a happy baby boy. I love listening to way Savannah talks to him. Her eyes get wide and her voice gets really hight pitch and she says "hey big boy, are you awake?", she says it over and over again. It is so funny!
We love our baby boy!

Christmas Musical, Night of Lights, and Candy Making

This past week and half has been crazy around here. Last Tuesday was Savannah's Christmas musical and it was so cute. Savannah did great and loved being on stage. She loves to entertain. Afterwords there was a little Christmas party in her classroom and I got to see all the great crafts she has been making and then Ms. Sue (her teacher) handed me a homemade Christmas card from Savannah with a key chain with her picture in it. It is so sweet! I love it so much.

Mrs. Sue

Mrs. Michelle

I love this picture of Savannah.

Savannah and her best friends in school, Payton and Reagan.

Since Corey and I are both out of school this month we have been taking full advantage of every minute we can. We had a lot of fun making candy together. Corey loves peanut butter balls, so I found a recipe. It was very hard to make. We knew it should not have been so hard, so after talking with Corey's aunt Kim we figured out that the recipe I found was not the best one to use. The balls still turned out yummy though. A friend of mine, Paige, came over the other day and we made some more candy and brownies. She came up with chocolate covered graham crackers with Andes chocolate on top and they are so delicious! We had a great time and Savannah helped every step of the way.

A really fun thing that we did was go to Lake Lanier's Night of Lights. We new we wanted to go because Savannah has been "owing and awing" over all the neighborhood lights, so we knew she would enjoy the Night of Lights and Corey and I did too! There was a live Nativity scene with hot chocolate. Savannah loved it. Later on we roasted marshmallows over a open fire. It was so much fun.

Christmas is this week and we are so excited. We celebrated Christmas with my grandmother this past Sunday and it was fun getting together with everyone. We always have so much fun together. We will be celebrating with our other family on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Its a busy week.

Happy Holidays!

Gingerbread House

Every since I was a little girl the one thing that I always wanted to do but never did was to build a gingerbread house. For some reason that is such a holiday thing to do in my mind. The other day Corey and I were out and Corey decided to get one. I was so excited. I couldn't wait until Savannah saw it. We picked her up from school and I opened my mouth about it. It was the first thing that we did when we got home that day. This little kit was amazing! It provided everything you needed and then some. We had enough candy to munch on while building the house and enough icing to squirt on Savannah's fingers every now and again and enough to squirt in her mouth ;) Hey its the holidays. he he.

Before we got started.

Notice Savannah's hand. Her whole hand was in her mouth :)

The icing on her face is from the icing fight we got into.

We have so much going on in the month of December. We have something planned every weekend and almost everyday of the week. I was looking at my calendar and couldn't believe how busy we are! I am really excited about next Tuesday. Its Savannah's Christmas Musical and she has been practicing for weeks. The songs are so cute that they are singing:

Twinkle, Twinkle, Special Star,
Guiding Wise Men from afar,
Up above the world so bright
Shining on that special night.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Special Star,
Guiding Wise Men from afar.

The children will also be doing a duet with the Chipmunks, singing Deck the Halls and a lot more cute little verses. Savannah is understanding that Christmas is about the birth of Christ and it so sweet to listen to hear tell me about it. An awesome thing about the month of December is Corey and I are both out of school! I am so excited that Corey's off days will feel like real family time (when he is not doing side jobs).

We had pictures taken of the kids yesterday and it was an experience! I think Austin might of been a little too young. Oh well, we will try again. We managed to get a couple good poses. I will try and post them on her if I can.