day home with mommy.

aj has been a little off lately. last week, she screamed for a few hours one night and we were afraid it was an ear infection. after a trip to the dr, no ear infection, but there was fluid in her ear. we also think she is teething. fast forward to friday and avery’s teachers told me she had been pulling on her ears during the day. on the way home, she started screaming so i immediately called the dr because i didn’t want to be stuck all weekend with a baby in pain and no way to see the dr. he called in a prescription for us just in case. yesterday, she was still acting a bit funny so we started the antibiotics. everything had been fine until this morning. she woke up early and wanted a bottle {345am!}. then when she woke up for the day {6ish!}, she was just fussy and i could tell she didn’t feel great so i decided to stay home with her {and evan of course:)}. after her morning nap, she was in a much better mood and seemed to chipper up so we had a fun day at home!

 

yes, they are little cheeseballs!! love them!!

aggie football game.

the aggie game against osu was set to kick off at 230 so we thought it might be a good game to take evan to {he went to one when he was 4 months old but hasn’t been to one since}. unfortunately this game was sold out and the cheapest tickets we could find online were $120. we thought we were out of luck until a friend called while we were eating dinner friday night and asked if we were still looking for a ticket. some of her family who sit with her weren’t going to use one of their tickets so she wanted to know if we wanted it for $50…ummmm, heck yeah!!! so we dropped avery and the puppies with nanny and vanpa for the day and headed to aggieland with our little aggie!

he was such a trooper! he climbed some of the ramps on the way up to the top of the zone…

the game started during what normally would be his nap time but he was still going strong! i think he was trying to figure out what on earth was going on…

the guy behind us offered to take a picture. this is what we got :)

 

and the aggie band…

the aggies played a great first half! unfortunately, that’s the only half they decided to play. shortly after half time, evan fell asleep and stayed asleep the entire 2nd half and even a few minutes after the game was over!! lucky him :)

after awhile, i took him down to the elevator lobby where it’s air conditioned and in the shade and stayed down there until cc came and took over for the last part of the 4th quarter.

after the game, we headed down to the field to play around. it took e a little while to snap out of his post nap haze but once he did, he had a blast running around on the field!

 

e man did great and seemed to enjoy himself!! so glad that it worked out and evan got to see “aggies pay fooball” :) {even if only for a half!}

chunky babies.

we were bathing the kiddos and thought our little chunky babies were sweet…so we took some pictures :)

9 months.

height: 28 inches
weight: 22.4 lbs

avery is:

• CRAWLING!!! she just started recently and is already picking up speed. her brother is not so much a fan of this new found talent because she can now get to him and his toys much easier! let the fun begin :)
• still wearing a size 3 but i’m debating moving her up.
• mainly wearing 12 or 18 month clothes.
• eating mostly table food. she has had only half a can of baby food in the last week! love it!
• still on the same bottle schedule…one when she wakes up, one around 930ish, one around 130ish, one at 5ish, and one at bedtime. for the most part, she eats between 4 and 6 oz each time.
• napping twice a day when she isn’t completely distracted by what’s going on around her. sometimes it’s only once but she is absolutely exhausted by bedtime.
• making all kinds of noises…mamamama, dadadada, blowing raspberries, clucking her tongue, snorting…
• a performer! she will starting clapping her hands when you say “yay avery”
• still only sporting her two bottom teeth but it’s not slowing her down.
• pulling up on things. her favorite at home right now is pulling up on evan’s train table – yikes! at school, she likes to pull up on the foam play area and try to dive over the top – awesome!
• doing so much better about not throwing a fit when i leave the room. it still happens but not nearly as much!
• keeping everyone at her school entertained. apparently they will come in during meal times to hear avery snort…awesome :)
• such a happy baby! if she fusses, you know something is not quite right {or her mommy has left the room:)}. for the most part, she just smiles and goes with the flow…love her!

we love this little girl so much and can’t wait to watch her personality develop over the next few months!! we think her big brother is pretty awesome too! we are so blessed with our little angels and are so thankful that we get to be their parents!

 

& the outtakes {evan is only in a diaper because we had spaghetti for dinner and it’s just easier for him to eat with no clothes :)}

 

schlitterbahn.

aunt barbie had some free tickets to schlitterbahn so on sunday (despite the rain…yes, the first rain we’ve had in months but whatever!), we headed down to schlitterbahn galveston with aunt barbie and cc! waterparks and cameras don’t mix and when you throw rain in, the camera never left the camera bag. bummer!

the kids had a blast and were pooped by the time we left! evan even asked to ride dragon blaster which is one of the big slides with the family size tubes. he wasn’t so much a fan once he was on it but never cried!

a couple funny stories…

the first isn’t even from that day. i had told brian about the schlitterbahn tickets and said that i thought it would be fun to go. as usual, he just went with it. on friday, we were talking about plans for the weekend and i don’t remember how it came up, but brian said, “because of ____________, i think we should probably go to the schlitterbahn in galveston instead.” what?!?!? apparently, he thought i was planning on packing up our 2 year old and 8 month old and heading out to new braunfels the morning after getting home from an aggie game at midnight…crazy!!! that’s how awesome my hubs is! he must have thought i was nuts and still went along with it :) love that man!

while we were waiting in line for dragon blaster, we were playing around with evan and i asked him where his belly was. he lifted up his rash guard and showed me. then he said, “where’s mommy’s belly?” and proceeded to grab my bikini top and try to show me what was under there. luckily, i grabbed it fairly quickly and was able to avert a little show :) crazy kid!!!

we had such a good time at schlitterbahn galveston and they had so many fun things for little people to do! we will definitely be going back!!

thanks for thinking of us aunt barbie!

nanny plays kickball.

nanny’s hospital company had a kickball tournament this morning between all of the houston area hospitals. the kids and i headed out there while brian played in his soccer game. mum’s hospital ended up winning the championship and mum got on base quite a bit!! evan helped nanny play in the field when he was taking a break from playing on the playground :)

miss avery had such a blast playing with vanpa, she had to take a little nap!

great job katy kickers (& even better job nanny!!!) !

we’re proud of you!!