The Blaich Christmas Bash!!!!

My step sister-in-law, Jessica....who at times can be mistaken for Martha Stewart - had a christmas party that was super fun. The pictures will not do any justice to the talent this girl posseses. She truly has a touch with a sewing machine and an eye for decorating.
I am sure she is reading this totally rolling her eyes cause she always acts like everthing she does is just not a big deal. She is one of THOSE GIRLS!!! j/k Love Ya Jess!
Although they live just about 10 min away from us....we loaded up the whole gang and spent the night at their house so we could do breakfast all together in the morning. I had to snap a picture of Daniel reading in his bed all tucked in like an old man with Bruno laying next to him while Jessica was over brushing her teeth. I of course was having fun with the camera this late at night. I think it was about 1am - not to mention the captain had set in for the evening. hehe
Ryan and I ended up sleeping in different beds since Logan decided that he was just not happy being in a porta crib and wanted to sleep right next to his mommy.
Daniel and Ryan went and thru the ball around in the morning and Brady of course needed to be outside with his dad and uncle. It was really overcast that morning which set the tone for my energy that day. After we returned home -- I would usually run around like flight of the bumble bee but, I just layed on the couch and caught up on a couple of our shows with my hubby. The kids went down for a great nap and the weekend in my opinion was a success.
Thanks for another great time guys!!!

The Boys!!!!

Brady gets sweeter every day with his little brother. I just know they are going to be best friends. If Logan is sad, Brady will bring him a toy and say shhhh shhhh shhhh. He loves to give his brother hugs and kisses. I was able to capture some cute photos and wanted th share them. I sure feel blessed to have such wonderful boys...this of course uncludes my wonderful husband.

Thanksgiving

Initially we had planned on doing Thanksgiving on a different day with my family to make it easier for all. This way Ryan and I didnt have to run from one house to another....however, things changed a bit and we spent this Thanksgiving with his family. Next year we are going to spend it with my family if we cant change the dates a little bit. We went over to Tina and Clays house and had a great time. They always put a great feast on no matter what the occasion is. It was so much fun to have all the babies there at one time like we have talked about for so long. Logan was the first to be born then James and Jesse to shortly follow. Talk about baby overload. We are incredibly THANKFUL for all the wonderful family we have and love you all so much.

I couldnt help but post a couple pictures of sweet Logan. He is a lot easier to capture on camera than Brady, because he sits still longer than 5 seconds. He has been falling asleep a lot in his jumper and bouncer and he just looks precious!!! I also got a quick clip of him jumping in his jumper. Sometimes I think he is going to jump right out of this thing. The video does no justice to when he is determined to jump high!!!

Love for my friends husband!!!

The knocks at my door just got better and better as the day went on Friday. Lets recap for a moment.......

Knock one - Christine with an Ice Coffee

Knock Two - Carter and Jill with a chocolate shake from Sonic

Then to my surprise knock three had arrived -- Chris ( Kate & Connor's dad ) came over to pick up Connor as usual and there he stood knocking at my door.
I opened the door and the dear, sweet man handed me a BOX OF KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS!!!! He said its not a full box but, I had them left over from work.
Its as if he knew that I needed them. What?? Men are NOT in tuned with anything in life -- whats going on??
Hmmmm.....Would it be inappropriate for me to leap into my friends husbands arms and hug it out?? Probably!!! Not to mention -- he would think I was totally crazy.
I thanked him very much and stayed calm and collective. As soon as I waved goodbye and locked the door -- I slowly walked back into the kitchen where a caged lion who had been starving for days, dived into this helpless box of doughnuts. I popped one of those baby's in the microwave for about 8 seconds, sat down on the bar stool and just shook my head with approval of the day. Everything is going to be ok -- in fact.....now that I have just added 5 more lbs to my buttocks --Friday ended up being a pretty darn good day!!!

What a week!!!

This last week has been challenging. Both of the boys got runny noses last week and it has just progressed into wiping noses every 5 min,lots of cuddling, refilling humidifiers all day long, and Tylenol. Brady has a pretty bad cough and his nose is just a faucet. However, I must say....if you walk up to him with a tissue and tell him to blow -- he rocks at it. Not sure where he learned this, possibly from his mother and Aunt blowing our noses like a flock of geese entering the room.

Logan on the other hand has been real congested but, has still been his happy, fabulous self -- UNTIL....yesterday! I picked him up out of his crib from his morning nap and he was burning up. I took his temperature in his armpit and YUP...he is at a 101.6. This is a low grade fever for a little guy but, still gave him some Tylenol. Our happy baby turned into a lethargic, sad, needing to be held every min boy. I would sit down on the coach and he just layed on my chest not wanting to pick his head up at all and would fall right back asleep.

After his second nap I picked him back up and he felt every hotter than the first time. OK....Time for a rectal temp....sorry bud! Yup....getting worse! He was now at 102.4. I thought I might need to take him in but, as all mothers know -- they are going to say YUP....he has a virus -- keep lots of liquids in him and monitor him. Called the doctors office and the nurse said as long as he is making wet diapers and eating -- he is probably just fighting this nasty virus.

Of course...as a mother your heart just aches for your children when they are sick. They cant tell you where it hurts or what they need. You have to go off of your instincts and do what you feel is best. ALSO as a mother...your eyes, body, head all ache from lack of sleep. Hmmmm 12am to about 6am this morning I was up with my little baby. Stuffed him like a tick with food since that was the only thing that seemed to make him feel better. Of course...he is fast asleep in my bed since 6am this morning. Isn't it funny how they finally get past all the pain and suffering right when you get out of bed.

Christine dropped her kids off as usual around 6:45 and the wonderful girl is knocking at my door with a iced coffee from McDonald's!!! AAAAAhhhhhhhh.....she has saved the day. Its amazing how a large iced coffee can change your whole day. She always seems to bring them on the right days. Thanks Christine!
Of course Ryan and Jillian know very well that I have a problem with these darn iced coffees. Liquid cocaine maybe -- lets just say...I get a lot done after I slurp one of these babies down.

I promised myself that I would sit on the coach and do NOTHING today except play, nurture and love all the kids. I am not sure its possible for me to sit down more than 5 min at a time but, I am going to give it a good effort. I need to stay off my feet because something is VERY WRONG with them right now. Hurts to even walk. Jill says Welcome to tile thru-out your house. My mom made me throw my ol faithful flip flops away in her garbage the other night.

Lets have a moment of silence for them please!!!!

Thank You!

I seriously do not know what to do about my feet. I have been icing the tops of them where they are just throbbing but, doesn't seem to help. I have been wearing my tennis shoes all around the house and out doors BUT...doesn't seem to help. I am sure it has something to do with me never sitting down during the day but, lots of people run around like myself. If they dont get better, I am going to pull out the ol wheel chair in the garage and wheel around town -- they hurt THAT BAD!
Any thought on how to cure the pain on the tops of feet??? Im listening!

Just to add onto the week of chaos.....My milk might be drying up. If you are a mother and have or do nurse your child -- you know that this is very devastating. Not to mention very expensive if we have to buy formula on a regular basis. I just dont understand. I havent done anything different. I pumped and got 2oz. WHAT?!?

Ok....I am sure that some people dont want to hear about my milk production and thats totally cool but, this is something that is stressing me out and making me emotional right now so, I am going to blog about it too!
I have never been a walking milk truck and thats ok. I nursed Brady for only 3 months and it was awful. Logan is 6 1/2 months old and I feel like I have won a gold medal already with keeping up with nursing him. Not sure why all of the sudden it would stop or slow down to such a screeching hault. This means at 5:30 or 6:30 when Logan usually wakes up -- I am going to have to make him a bottle instead of just lay down back in bed and let him nurse. I called Ryan yesterday in search for some compassion about possibly having to stop nurse and this is how the conversation went.

Me: My milk might be drying up because I pumped and didnt get anything. I just dont understand whats going on. I am totally bummed out about this. I will be sad if I cant nurse Logan anymore.

Ryan: Yaaa...Sorry babe. How is Bradys cough?

Me: Sigh...Its just about the same. But he seems to be ok with it.

Ryan: Thats good!


Thats all the TLC I got about the nursing. Ok...I will call Jillian! Geeezz
I know men dont understand. Either does anyone who doesnt nurse their kids and thats ok. Its just one of those things! I should have known not to go to a man for a womens topic.

I pumped last night after it had been 5 hours and got NOTHING -- ok its over Lindsey....let it go! This morning around 7:30a.m. I pumped 4 oz. Hmmmmm not making sense to me. Is this because of stress??? Either way -- I am sad about being a drying up cow with gimpy feet.

There is a knock at the door....Oh boy : - 0 Its Carter! Jillian has come over and brought a yummy chocolate shake from Sonic. Thank You, Thank You, Jill! I brought Brady out to the car with me to say Hi to Jill and he leaped in Carters seat like a Gazelle and waved bye to me. He just loves going over to his Aunts house and loves his Carter soooo much. Brady got right up in Carter's face and started speaking sharply to him....we all know Brady's language. He truly felt like he was telling him something very important. Possibly....telling him he wanted to come over and play today and to please let him come. He was very determined that he was going home with them, so his wonderful Aunt drove away with Brady to let him come over and play.

Looks like we might just make it thru this Friday after all.

Its 9:30 and Logan is just waking up!!! Glad he got to sleep in and get some good rest!!!

I took my little Logan's picture when he wouldn't pick his head up off of my chest. Sorry you are so sick buddy! Mommy sure loves to to pieces. Hopefully the boys will get some relief soon. If it means we are going to be up for the next 3 days all night long that's ok. Just want my boys to feel better.

Rock Band!

We went over to Jillian and Doug's house the other night for dinner and game night. Dave and Brianna came over also and brought there fun Rock Band thingamajigger. Logan has decided he is going to be a drummer some day just like his late Great Uncle Chuck. I was soooooo proud of my Brady who ended up reading books with Matthew and then just laying down next to him in his bed to fall asleep. He is getting to be such a big boy and I couldnt believe that he would just lay next to Matt to go to bed. I would go into the bedroom to check on him and he would still be awake and I would say... -- Just checking on you buddy -- sleep good I love you and he would wave to me and say bye -- while blowing kisses. Makes my heart melt. Are we ready for a big boy bed at 20 months old??? Naaaaa

First attempt!!!

My first digital scrapbooking page. I hope I will get better with time and experience. Never done this before but, looks like a lot of fun.

Big Buzzin Bee & Frog

I am not a huge fan of Halloween but, I have to say this year was so much fun. We didnt run out and spend money on a costume for the boys because we knew Jill would have something that would "work" and didnt want to waste money anyways. The boys are at such a young age still that they dont really care about it either way.

We went over to Jillians house the previous day to see what costume might fit Brady...I wish we would video taped his reaction to having the costumes put on him -- it was the funniest thing. He totally threw a fit and put a huge lip out till we took it off. We thought we were going to have the same battle the next night when we went to go out to a couple houses but, we were happily mistaken. Brady did soooo good. I think it was because their cousin came over earlier and was in his costume along with Logan and we took photos of them. Then Megan (my sister in law) said that she got James a pumpkin. I realized that I didnt have anything for Brady to carry around except a plastic bag from Wal-Mart. Megan, so kindly let us have James's pumpkin to take around the neighborhood with us. You would have thought that she gave Brady a hidden treasure. He LOVED carrying this pumpkin around and went up to each house, got one candy and waived bye to each person. He is still carrying the pumpkin all around the house with him....putting things in it and taking them back out -- again and again. It was soooo much fun for me to see my little man having so much fun and getting to experience Halloween. Its hard to explain my feelings but, it was a night to remember and I am sure proud of my little man. He even kept his costume on -- even being that it was a little snugg around the edges!!!

Spagetti-O's

Ryan was in the garage, on the Eliptical while I got Brady dinner and prepared myself to go running. I slipped away for a quick moment to chat with Ryan and came back to Brady who was eating Spagetti-Os and Corn.....Hmmmm -- looks like he decided to wear them instead. Brady is a very clean eater so this was something new to him. I couldnt get upset cause I couldnt stop smiling.