I am hosting a Mary Kay party!!!!

Hey everyone! I am hosting a Mary Kay party on March 12 at the Wingate in Columbus. I tried to email everyone or text those who I don't have emails for. It starts at 6 and I hope you will be able to make it!!! Bring anyone you want or just yourself! It should be lots of fun!

6 month check up

Colin had his 6 month check up last Wed. He is doing good and growing way too fast. I know I say that every time I blog. It is so true, he is doing things this week that he wasn't doing last week. He seems to do something new everyday! He was 17 lb 9 oz. 27 3/4 in long. He eats 5 oz and a jar of baby food 4 x a day. He sits up, rolls everywhere and has started the army crawl! His reflux continue to be very bad. We started him on a new medicine yesterday to help with the spitting up. He still has an ear infection which we are treating with a different antibiotic since the last antibiotic did not clear it up. He smiles at everyone and goes to anyone. He LOVES Chip our dog. If he is upset in any way all we have to do is bring chip around and he will be happy! He smiles and laughs at him everyday. He loves to hug us and smile and laugh. How grateful we are for a healthy baby that God so graciously gave us to have and raise. here are a few of the latest pictures I have taken! Hope you enjoy!

Colin had fallen asleep on the couch!(it was really cute in person)!
Colin is very into his bottle

Colin in his jumperoo....

Daddy and Colin (they look alike here to me)

He was almost wore out here, but he sure was having a ball!

hello to all!!! Quick update.....We are doing pretty good around here. Matt has been working a lot and so have I. I still love my job very much and enjoy being around all my little ladies and few men. They def make my day with crazy stories and hearing the same story everyday!!! I love all the girls I work with they are so much fun and brighten my day! Colin has two teeth now!! They are so cute!!! I tickles me when he smiles real big you can see them! He has been a little more grumpy than usual but everyone keeps telling me it is probably him teething. His appetite has been down a little and he just gets a little more fussy when it is time for sleep or eat. Otherwise he is still very happy! He will be going to get his 6 month shots on Wed so I will have to post then for an update on his stats! He is sitting up pretty good. He still falls over if he reaches for something or just looses his balance! He started on level 2 foods! (lots more variety)! He goes to sleep on his own now. When he starts getting sleepy we just go lay him down in his bed and off to sleep he goes! He is on a really good schedule! He has been on it for a while, so it is just what he expects. He eats at 8 am, 12 pm, 4pm, and 8pm gets his bath and off to sleepy world at 9 pm! He usually wakes anywhere between 6:30 and 7:30 in the morning and very happy when he wakes up!!! Please keep Matt and I in your prayers tomorrow as we travel to Memphis for my yearly check up for my hip. Pray for our travel and for everything to continue to look very good!!! I hope everyone has a great week and I will post soon when we get Colin's stats on Wed!

quick update!

Hello to all! We are doing pretty good around here. We took Colin to the Dr. today. he wasn't acting himself. He is getting 2 teeth in right now and I couldn't decide if that is what it was or not. His reflux has been extremely bad too as well as a persistent cough so I decided to go ahead and take him. Turns out he has a bad ear infection in one ear and the other is infected but not as bad. He was bouncing off the walls, literally, when the dr was in the room so she got to see lots of spit up!!! She said we have got to get this under control!!! So she switched his formula once again. His wheezing(sp) is still bad so she also put him back on breathing treatments. So this was actually a very good Dr's appt hopefully it will all help. I will keep you updated to how he is doing. He has continued to be very happy through all of his sickness I just pray he gets to feeling better. He is so much fun and I love him more and more everyday. I can't wait to see what his teeth are going to look like. He should have these two come in hopefully in another week. The white is showing through right now and they are very jagged(sp)!!! Can't wait to see what the future holds with our little man. Thank God for all of our blessings!!! Have a great rest of the week. P.S. We are selling our house so if anyone knows someone who is looking give them my number guys!!! Thanks!

Pictures!!!

We are all healthy and doing good! Colin is growing way to fast!!! He is reaching for us, sitting up a little bit! enjoying all foods. Carrots make him have bad dreams, we think....no more carrots! He sure does brighten our days so much. I can't not imagine life without him. What a miracle and blessing he is. If I seem not to get enough sleep it doesn't matter, b/c when I go to wake Colin up for the day and he looks up and smiles at me it makes my day that much better. I have learned to not worry or get upset about the small things in life. If I do that, then that would be wasting precious time I could be having/enjoying with my little one! anyway I hope everyone has a great week! Love to you all! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

I love this picture of Colin! I loved it so much I (accidentally) put it on here twice!

This was taken this past Sunday after Church!
Same picture sorry guys!

Our little man loves his bath. Matt puts him on his stomach and he loves to look at himself in the mirror!

He turned to look at me!!! (Colin is saying please put the camera up mommy I am nakey)

Laughing at himself!

Colin

Colin laying on DaDa

Me and the big C

Me and my brother on his Birthday!

My dad and Colin

My mom and Colin

Keith with Colin on his Birthday

Me and Keith making funny faces!!!

Birthday Boy!

Colin helping his DaDa play games

Daddy and Colin

Me and Colin looking in the mirror(his favorite thing in the world)

Just Colin!

Me and Alisha at her home in Brandon. She has the most beautiful home!!!

Our family!

my best friend Alisha and Colin (Colin's first trip to Jackson!)

Alisha and Colin! Alisha is expecting in April!Can't wait for Kruise and Colin to meet.

Just look at my Chunky boy!!! I love it!

After getting his 4 month shots!

If you look closely you can see his band aid. It didn't stop him much!

update.....

OK so it has been a long week we will say. First of all last Friday Matt, me and Colin went to Jackson and stayed with my very best friend, Alisha for the night. We had a ball just catching up on everything... I will post pictures later of that trip! next we came home Sat morning. Matt and I went hunting Sat afternoon I blasted a doe!!!! Yay for me! Matt had to drag the deer quite a ways and I felt pretty bad about that. any who....all was good Colin did great on his first out of town trip! Sat night around midnight Colin starts making this loud noise like he could not get his breath.....(also those who have babies know how much worse it sounds over the monitor) So Matt and I rush into his room I pick him up first and start hitting him on his back so he can cough up whatever is bothering him. He was still making strange noises so Matt got him and started also hitting him on the back....finally he got ok only then he was scared half to death....I don't know from us hitting him or him not being able to catch his breath!!! Needless to say we first check his temp... nothing, low matter of fact. Then Matt says I am going to wal mart to get a humidifier (sp?) so he can breathe. I said ok I will keep him in here(our room) with me for now. Which those of you who also know Matt and I never keep Colin in our room neither of us sleep well like that. So while Matt is gone, I decide to check Colin's temp again it was rising.... 99.5 I know that is not a lot but for my little man it is. He usually keeps about 97degree so I am getting worried. Matt gets back home I get Colin back to sleep and an hour later the same thing happens again so I pick him up quickly trying to help him....this happened every hour after that. Needless to say Matt nor myself got much sleep that night and we were going to take the little man to north MS medical clinic on Sunday afternoon to make sure we could wait to go see his pediatrician on Monday and didn't need to go to the ER. Well we got there to sign him in and they said oh Blair how old is he....I say 41/2 months. We don't take them younger than 6 months....I lost it. So I call his Dr's office talk with a nurse who ask lots of questions and ultimately said put him in a steamy room if he gets worse take him to the ER. So Matt put him in a steamy room and he of course got worse. I called Dr. Turner to just see what he thought if we could wait or if I needed to go then. So he listened to him and could here him trying to get his breath over the phone and suggested we should go on to the ER. So we go....they do lots of test and x-rays to find out he had the croup... follow up on wed with his Dr. So we give him steroids, and breathing tx's until we see the Dr. We see Dr. Buckle for the first time and we really liked him by the way. He told us that it was not croup (anymore) that it had moved down to his bronchioles (sp)? It was not in his lungs though. He gave us some cough medicine to give him to help him not cough so bad. He is doing better but still has a mean sounding cough. He was unable to go to Daycare all week so we will just say he has been spoiled staying home for the week. He will return tomorrow which should be very interesting for his teachers!!! His teachers are so wonderful and we are very thankful and blessed to have such wonderful ladies to keep our little man!!! anyway so it was a very crazy week to say the least!!! I hope this week will be better!! I hope everyone else is staying healthy this time of year! Hope to post pictures soon!!! Have a blessed week! Oh I will say Colin is changing so much everyday. He is rolling over lots now. Will sit up for just a few seconds before falling, holding everything in his hands....and taking everything to his mouth!!! He is a mess and we love him more and more everyday! Thank you Lord for blessing me with the most wonderful husband and most precious child......

Christmas and stuff.....

Hello to all! I hope everyone had a very blessed Christmas! I know we are so blessed to have Colin here with us this year. He did very well with everyone holding/passing him around. He went to see Santa and he did good, he really liked his fur coat!! He kept touching it!! our Christmas card is below along with lots of pictures! Colin is doing great he is growing way too fast. (I know I say that with every blog but it is so true) He can now hold his bottle as of today!!! He had been trying but hadn't yet been able to until today. He is holding his toys and chewing on everything! He loves the baby Guinness DVDs!!! he laughs at them and always smiles really big!!! I had to take him to the Dr. for what I thought was a cold but Dr. Ski said it was acid reflux. I was thinking no way, I was totally against him in the beginning. I did what the Dr. ordered decreasing food amount to 1/2 of what he is used to adding cereal to every bottle giving Zantac 2 x a day and what do you know snotty nose gone, spit up gone!!! I felt like a bad mother. I had no idea that he even had acid reflux. but he is better now and that is all that matters!!! anyway that is what is going on in our world. Matt and I are doing well. My last day at Baptist was today. It was very sad to leave, but I know it will be for the best. I start at the nursing home next week. Matt has been working a lot, but we aren't complaining we are just thankful we both have jobs right now with the economy the way it is!!! Hope everyone has a great new year and be safe!!!

Colin with Santa
Colin watching his DVD

Christmas Card

Matt, Colin and the deer Matt killed

I laid Colin down to play and I look up and he has his head turned watching TV

Aunt Verna Kay and Colin

Mary Clare, Landon and Colin (Colin's cousins)

Gang gang, nana and Colin not a very good pic but that is all I have. Oh I do look rather prego in this pic but I assure you I am not!

Forgot to turn the pic sorry! Our family!

My side of the family

Matt and I Christmas day

Matt's dads side of the family

Matt's g'parents and great grands!!!

My mom (miji) and Colin

Matt and Colin! Colin wrapped in a bow!

My family again!!!

This is what Colin did while we opened presents!!!

Glenda must have been telling Colin something funny!

This is what I call Colin's "matt face!!!"

not a great picture of me and Colin is looking I am sure at his daddy!

Daddy and Colin! Don't they look alike???

The big C

Our family!!!