Memorial Day and 8 Months!

Well our long weekend is over and it's back to reality! Brode sure does love his Johnny Jump Up as you can see. He is getting much better at it instead of just eating it!

Friday I had an exam then spent the day getting some things done before playing with Brode. That afternoon we all hung out outside and planted flowers and played in the nice weather before I had to work. Friday night and Saturday morning I worked, then got some more stuff done! While brode napped I got my car cleaned out, and boy did it need it! I can't stand when it is all messy.

Sunday morning we got all packed up and headed to my grandparents cottage in Waupaca for Memorial Day! We sure had a full car with Brode and all of his things and Libby and all of her things, and all of ours on top of that! Gramps had to take Brodes toys in a separate car. You would have never known we only went for 1 night. Sunday we hung out on the dock and enjoyed the sunshine while the boys fixed the dock. It was nice to sit around, and it was perfect weather to do it. Monday wasn't as nice but we could still go outside for a walk and sit in the patio. Brode and Libby got tons of fresh air and still haven't caught up on their sleep!

May 26th means Brode is 8 months old today! I don't even know where 7 went! Each month as he learns more he gets so much more fun and giggles even more. It is even better now that is he is feeling better and back to his old self! He is still doing breathing treatments, but doesn't mind them very much as you can see below.

Everyone have a good rest of the week!

Weeks Later!

May 8th! I don't even remember back that far a lot has happened since then!

First my parents went on vacation to Tennessee and the Carolinas. Brode, Libby, and I were all alone for the week! Libby gets very jealous and missed her family so she was being difficult running away and stealing clothes! Brode still had pneumonia so getting him up and ready for day care on time and giving him medicine and getting enough sleep was a large challenge but we made it through! I had finals the day after they got back and I have to say they all went pretty well! It was nice to be done, but I am also taking a 3 week interim to get a general ed course over with! I need an A so that I can make the Dean's List so hopefully my exam today got me off to a good start! I'm pretty confident.

Finale and Mother's Day was also in that long time span. Saturday night (may 9th) I went to Finale and got up on stage for the alumni song, Celebrate, but I couldn't remember the words! It was still fun though and the show was great! Brode stayed at Grandma Beth's that night so I got to sleep in on Mothers Day! Brode has made me fingerpaints at grandma beth's and at day care so I got those on Sunday. We went to the cottage for the afternoon with my mom's family since my parents were still gone and celebrated Mother's Day.

The weekend after THAT (wow this is a long time) my cousin Tom got married. I read in the wedding so we had a full weekend of rehearsal and dinner, the wedding, the reception, and gift opening afterwards. Brode got to stay with daddy that whole weekend and hang out with him. Everything went pretty well!

This week seemed a lot longer with my 3 hour interim class every day! It is a long time to sit and learn about geography! Tiff came here from Manitowoc on Wednesday to hang out with Brode and I, and then Kelsey stopped by to see the little guy as well! We started talking about planning some things for the summer so hopefully we can get people together to go to all the fun summer places like six flags and noah's ark!

This weekend is already memorial day weekend! I have to work tonight and tomorrow morning, then we're going to head up to the cottage on Sunday morning! This will be Brode's first overnight trip up there! Hopefully the weather will be nice and we can sit outside!

Gramps started giving Brode popsicles and he sure loved them! Brode has been doing well! He is back to his giggly happy self! We are still doing breathing treatments after the pneumonia to help treat the asthma that seems to be causing it. Brode has also started jabbering more so grandpa, daddy, and I are all working on getting him to say our names first! He has become very animated and yells very loudly. Brode has also started to sleep on his side and stomach so when he rolls over he gets his legs through the bars and gets stuck so he can't roll over. He gets quite startled at 4 in the morning when he is stuck so he wakes up crying but goes right back to bed when I roll him over!

Everyone have a great memorial day weekend and I'll try to update and put pictures up more often!

Here is a video from a while ago of Brode eating, he sure chomps with those teeth!

This is a little video from this morning of Brode chatting and playing. He seems to be getting so big! I'll have to remember to film them the other way because you can't rotate them like pictures!

A Couple Weeks!

Wow, I didnt even realize I haven't updated in a couple weeks! I always get reminded by the girls and other friends so that they can see what is going on with Brode. Unfortunetaly I do not have any pictures to put up today.

Things have been pretty crazy. My parents are on vacation in Tennessee and the Carolinas so it is Brode, Libby, and I all week by ourselves. Luckily they didn't leave until later in the week because Brode once again got kicked out of day care on Monday. He had a pretty rough night that night so we made a trip to the doctor's office on Tuesday to find out that he has pneumonia again! He is on antibiotics, steroids, and a nebulizer. The days have been getting a little better. He stayed with my mom a couple mornings and Matt's mom another morning while I went to school. Day care went well yesterday, but the nights are long. He wakes up coughing and cant get back to sleep so he starts crying making it worse. Hopefully these medicines get rid of this soon otherwise we'll have to go back in and look for something else or a different way to get rid of it!

This weekend should be busy too. Saturday I have to work, then Vintage and Act II Finale is that night so I'm going to go with some alumni and get up on stage to do our song (and hopefully remember the words)! Brode should get some good time with daddy that day. Sunday is Mother's Day so we're going up to Grandpa and Grandma's cottage on the chain with the rest of the family! It'll be a nice relaxing and fun weekend before finals week!

Have a good weekend!