Pitching a Fit

Who knows what went wrong - we could have said no to climbing on something, taken away a sippy cup or told him to leave Sandy alone.  Whatever it was, it sent him into a full-fledged, two-room fit.  So what does a good mom do?  Follow him with a camera, of course! It's rough being an 18-month old.

O-H!

 

If you aren't an Ohio State fan, you might not get this.  One person say O-H, the other says I-O.  Marc is one proud Buckeye when Charlie does the cheer.

24 Weeks

I am 24 weeks pregnant today. And this week I have been taken down by a head cold/allergies/miserableness.  The medicine I can take hasn't done a thing, so I've been reduced to a sniffling, eye watering, coughing, sore-throated miserable mess. And I haven't been sleeping well with the stuffy nose because if I lay on my left side my back hurts, but I can breathe and if I lay on my right side, my back is better but I can't breathe.  I was out half the day on Wednesday and all day on Thursday, because it's better to be miserable in pjs on the couch than at my desk.

Snuggle

During our weekend of the stomach bug,all Charlie wanted to do is lay on someone.  The vomit had stopped, but he still felt so puny that a good cuddle helped.

 

Once it hit Marc, he couldn't get off the couch.  He felt so bad, he didn't argue when Lullabelle got up with him.  While Marc was miserable, we had the happiest dog on the block!

So Smart!

Lemon Cake Disaster

I had a craving - I had to have lemon cake, and the kind I usually like at Wal.Mart had a funny aftertaste to it.  So I decided to make my own, using this recipe.  Followed the directions to a T.  This is what I got. And unfortunately, it tasted worse than it looked.

23 Weeks

I am 23 weeks pregnant today.  And I must have the second trimester energy surge, because I had an incredibly busy week, Charlie has decided 4:30 or 5:30am is a good time to wake up and am not about to drop.  I had two days where I could feel some growing and stretching in the belly and I have my full appetite. Although I do favor ice cream!

Charlie got his first 4 teeth when he was 6-7 months old, and then nothing for almost 9 months.  But in the past month, he has gotten 5 more, including 3 molars.  And this has made for a fussy, fussy little man.

Yesterday, Charlie went to his first Parent and Me class at a local gymnastics studio and he seemed to really like it.  There were two other kids in his class who also happen to be two little boys from his school class.  Charlie took to Coach Dave immediately, picked up pretty well on the activities and had fun jumping, running, tumbling, rolling and walking on a balance beam.

Ball Pit!

More Valentine's Pictures

Taken by one of the wonderful ladies that work at Little Prodigies

Valentine's Day

Yesterday, Charlie had a special day at Little Prodigies.  They invited parents to join the class for a special snack time. He also had a special bag to collect Valentines from his classmates and we had a little bouquet of flowers for each of his teachers.  In trying to remember all of that (and some milk) in the morning I forgot my camera.  So all these are taken on my blackberry.  Sorry for the blurry-ness.

Charlie was more concerned that I was strapping him in his chair and then leaving him.

Sugar cookies that we can decorate with icing and sprinkles?  Bring. It. On.

Getting help from Daddy

YUM!  He ate two, and then was on a sugar high for a couple of hours. Hope your day was just as fun!

 

I haven't mentioned that Sunday, Marc caught the bug that Charlie had and there were two miserable men in the house.  Turns out that  almost every one of Charlie's 16 classmates also got the bug, and a couple parents, too.  On Friday, only 10 of the 17 made it in, and by the end of the day there were only three kiddies left.