Light at the end of the tunnel?

After a crappy few days a few things are looking up  (no, sammy is still sick, boo!) but I found my $50 Wegmans gift card that I thought I lost - yay!  And we are about 99% guaranteed to get a new (used) car this weekend - double yay! Its the Buick Enclave - oh I love it!!!!!!!!

Now if I can just get Sam better.....

Got Yogurt?

Sam has been fighting eye crusties for a few days - well that turned into a fever on Friday and that turned into a cough - a nasty one at that!  His appetite is pretty much gone so when he asked for yogurt I happily took him to the store to get some and he happily filled my cart with 800 cartons of it.....good thing you're a cutie pie Sam!

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With the weekend behind me I am looking forward to a better week until.....

I went downstairs to get my freezer pack for the breast milk out of the freezer and realized the door was partially open – I opened the freezer and found all my stash partially thawed – I FREAKED out – I was screaming, crying, cussing – I was beside myself – of course no one would confess to leaving it open – I got Sam to daycare (late) and cried when I told Miss Pam what happened. Then I got to work and cried when my govt customer asked me how my weekend was…. I am just so upset! I have about 100 oz in there and as with Sam my pump supply stinks – I have been pumping on the weekends to compensate but I need that freezer stash for peace of mind when I don’t pump enough. Anyway, I tightly closed the freezer door and will add “My freezer stash” to my daily prayers (God Bless Sam, Hannah…and my freezer stash). I will thaw some out tonight and do a taste test…..

As any mom does in this day and age I consulted Mr Google and felt a huge weight come off my shoulders when I read this: “The researchers took frozen breast milk and thawed it, refroze it, refrigerated it and left it out at room temperature. Essentially, they beat it up. What did they find? Breast milk is fairly robust and does not grow bacteria easily nor lose vitamins A and C or free fatty acids (FFA) to any degree that would harm a full term baby.”

Oh heavens – I really hope this is the case for me – I cannot imagine losing all my milk…….

Thank goodness the weekend is over!!!

Sam has been fighting his crusty eyes for a few days and then Friday around noon Miss Pam called to tell me Sam had a fever – ugh! He seemed happy but I picked him up anyway. He was half asleep on the ride home but once home he fought his nap - he finally slept for an hour and when he woke his fever was up to 102. He was pretty grumpy all day (obviously, he was sick!) and only wanted mommy – Mark was on the 9/11 Memorial Bike Ride and my MIL helped with Hannah. I got Hannah down and then proceeded to try to get Sam to bed.

We interrupt this story for a side story:

I decided to try to get Hannah to nap in Sam’s crib to see how she would do. Well I was checking the monitor and Sam saw it and said “Hey, that’s my crib!” I told him yep! The he burst into tears and told me to get her out cuz she was going to “Poop in his crib” – I told him she would not poop in his crib and besides she has a diaper on. He didn’t care – he wanted her OUT! She happen to be awake anyway so we went upstairs and I got her – when I picked her up Sam shouts “she pooped in my crib!!!” she didn’t…. but he was sure she did…oy! That night when I went to put Sam to bed he said “No, that’s Hannah’s crib – I want to sleep in the big boy bed!” I was like “ok sure”! Yeah that lasted a whole 10 mins – as soon as I left he cried and got out of bed –so back in the crib he went…..

Ok back to the story…. So I get Sam to bed finally only to be woken up a few hours later with him sobbing – I knew he was sick so I got Hannah in her co-sleeper (she was in the bed with me) and brought Sam in my bed – he was very quiet at first THEN he just started crying – ugh – I knew he didn’t feel well but I was like “shhh your gonna wake up Hannah!” Remember Mark isn’t here and Sam only wanted me and I had to have Hannah in there since 1) that is where her bed is and 2) I nurse her – so MIL couldn’t really help. Over the next 10 hours one of them was always awake – except from 1-3am – they both slept, as did I. It was a looonnngggg night!!!!

His fever broke during the night cuz when I checked him he was a mass of wetness – soaked head to toe!

Sunday was fairly ok but his fever returned at bedtime – hopefully it will be gone by tomorrow.

To top it off we had thunderstorms every.single.day – we even had hail – I mean really bad hail – so bad I thought they windows were going to crack – why is this bad? Oh cuz Sam is afraid of thunder. I have tried to tell him that thunder is the angels bowling but he doesn’t care….. we went to pick up mark on Sunday and we were having a huge storm and Sam fell asleep in the car seat with his hands over his ears… poor Sammers!

I have never been so happy for a weekend to be over!!!

Life with a Toddler

When Sam grows up....

At school today Miss Megan asked all the kids what they wanted to be when they grow up.... Sam replied "a Daddy"!  =)

Tiny Hands

I love these tiny chubby hands and will miss them so much when he is grown

Mothers hold their child's hand for a short while.... their hearts forever.