Why Boys Need Mom's

I happened upon this article thing on some website and I had tears I was laughing so hard. I thought you might enjoy it too... along with the picture that came with it, which I think made me laugh the hardest... hehehe :)

Why Boys Need Mom's

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not st rong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words 'uh oh', it's already too late.

8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36- year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.

10.) Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.

11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12.) Super glue is forever.

13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15.) VCR's do not eject 'PB & J' sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20.) The fire department in Austin , TX has a 5-minute response time.

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24.) 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids.

25.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

The ABCs of Me!

A- Attached or single:
Attached to my wonderful husband, Aaron :)

B- Best friend:
My sisters, my mom, and my husband

C- Cake or pie:
Homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I had it for my birthday cake this year! :)

D- Day of choice:
Sunday. I get to go to church and then have dinner with all my family

E- Essential item:
My camera... I NEVER go anywhere without it

F- Favorite color:
purple

G- Gummi bears or worms:
sour worms... so yummy!

H- Hometown:
Glendora, CA

I- Indulgence(s):
Chocolate Lava Cake... enough said!

J- January or July:
January of course... we get to celebrate all our birthdays in January... the 5th, 22nd & 31st :)

K- Kids:
My wonderful and beautiful 14 month old, Connor James

L- Life is incomplete without:
family

M- Marriage date:
May 3, 2008

N- Number of siblings:
BJ, Katie, Bethany (actually brother and sisters) & then Kimmy, Nathan, Paul, Kris, Kelly & Dylan (in-laws)

(in order... Kris, Dylan, Paul, Aaron, Me, Bethany, Katie, Nathan, Kimmy, BJ... Kelly's the only one missing)

O- Oranges or apples:
Arnott Oranges :)

P- Phobias or fears:
hmmm... I guess just a plain fear that something might happen to Connor

Q- Quote(s):

R- Reasons to smile:
This face... how could you not smile!?!?!

S- Season:
winter... I LOVE the snow, and I really wish it would snow more where I live

T- Tag three:
1. Lauren - http://laurenandmatthew.blogspot.com/
2. Katie - http://ellerarnott.blogspot.com/
3. Cara - http://thehipwellfamily.blogspot.com/

U- Unknown fact about me:
I'm pretty much an open book... if you wanna know something about me, just ask. But I guess I'd just have to say that a lot of people don't know that I play the piano. I guess it's because I don't share that information often ;-)

V- Vegetarian or oppressor of animals:
Chicken and Steak are my best friends :) :) :)

W- Worst habit:
Letting the house get messy because Connor's faster at making a mess than I am at cleaning it. He unfolds as I fold, he throws as I pick up... it' never ending. But I do LOVE a clean house. It makes me SOOO happy. But sometimes, it's just not worth the stress. And here is an example of my little mischievous one.... and the mess all around him (don't worry... it doesn't always look like this) :)

X- X-rays or ultrasounds:
I loved watching the 3d/4d ultrasound of my beautiful boy inside me. It made the pregnancy bearable for 30 minutes

Y- Your favorite food:
Chinese food! I could eat it for breakfast, lunch & dinner.

Z- Zodiac:
Aquarius

SO, now I'm curious to see who actually takes the time to read it all! :) And even if you weren't tagged, please feel free to fill it out also :)

Urent Care... now Emergency Room

Two trips with the doctors this week. We started off Monday with a trip to urgent care with Connor's allergic reaction to peanuts, and end the week with tonight's rush to the ER. Connor has been feeling perfectly fine all day... his normal happy self. He went to bed tonight without a problem. But at 11pm he woke up crying a little. Usually I just let him cry it out for a moment and he goes back to sleep. But before long, he started crying a little more, and then making a funny coughing noise. Then the cries turned into screams. So of course I go into his room, and he's sitting up in bed, gasping for air, in between cries and coughing, and hysteria. So of course I call my Mom (because she knows all!) and she told me to take him to the ER.

So... the whole drive there (about a 5-7 min. drive) he's crying and coughing and wheezing, etc. But as we get to the ER, he calms down a bit, and they listen to his breathing, and he's all of a sudden not wheezing, and nothing seems wrong with him. But they put us into a room anyway, and give him a steroid, and he's all smiles and talking to the nurses and happy as can be. No one hears much of anything coming from him. So they leave the room again, and he starts whining a little. So with all the medical people outside the room, I knew someone has to be listening. And then Connor wants my phone, which I usually would just let him play with... but I thought "when he cries, he starts coughing.... I'll just let him cry." So I don't let him play with my phone... he starts crying... he starts coughing and having trouble breathing. RIGHT away I hear "oh wow, he sounds bad in there... sounds like he has croup." So someone comes in a few minutes later and said "I heard him coughing out there. We're going to do a breathing treatment right away."

I swear before that moment... they thought I was making it all up!!! Well, giving a breathing treatment to a 14 month old isn't the easiest of things, but he was pretty good, and was even holding it up to himself.

Finally the wheezing and breathing calmed down, and he was just having a blast playing on the bed...

Then the doctor came in, and said that it sounds like he's got asthma and croup. But she wasn't going to say "asthma" and classify him as asthmatic this young. (Not sure why... if he's got it, he's got it). She asked if either of us had it and I said yes, that I do, and she said "ok, well then yeah, he probably does. But I'm not writing it in his record. We don't like to classify that until they're at least 5. But he does have croup." Poor baby. She said that it's not contagious though, so that's good. I read online that there are 2 types of croup.... was caused by a viral infection, and the other by allergies. The viral one is contagious, the allergy one isn't. So, like I've thought/known since Connor was a month or two old, is that he has HORRIBLE allergies. Yet no doctor would admit it or do anything about it when he was under one. But now that he's 14 months, I'm going to set up an appointment with his doctor to get a referral to an allergist, to see if there's anything I can do to prevent this from happening again.

P.S. That was the shortest trip to the ER I've ever had.... we were only in there 2 hours :)

My faithful subject...

In anticipation for my new camera lense that should be arriving Monday, I am continuing my practice with manual settings. My wonderful and beautiful baby boy is such a trooper with helping me on that :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I've been testing out my manual settings on my camera lately. I've been way too chicken up until now to do anything other than automatic. But I realize that the pictures are 100% better when you know how to do your own settings. So that's what I've been working on. Of course Connor is ALWAYS my main subject. I LOVE this picture, because it's VERY VERY rare that he looks directly into the camera, and I actually caught it this time! We were taking pictures out in the backyard because the grass is REALLY long, and I thought it would be a good setting. He HATES the grass though, so he was refusing to smile. And then the sun started going down, and it got too late to do any more pictures.. but at least I got one! I wanted a couple of him standing in the grass, but hopefully we'll catch those ones some time this week, before Aaron mows the lawn :)

P.S. I LOVE his eyes... you can see the beautiful night sky in them :)

No More Peanut's for Connor!!!

So who knew that something so small would create something so big???

Aaron had some Whoppers (like the picture below) and I decided to give Connor one. The doctor's said to wait until he was one to introduce nuts, so I thought I was okay (he's almost 14 months old now). I had even given him some almond butter last month, and he hadn't had a problem. So I figured peanut butter would be fine too. I was wrong...

This was the outcome...

(sorry for the horrible pictures, I only had my camera phone with me)

Within 30-45 seconds from eating the candy, his eyes started getting red. Then his mouth, cheeks, neck, etc. started getting red and puffy. And then he started getting blistery hives all over his face and neck. So of course Aaron and I rush him to Urgent Care and he's seen right away (sorry to all those who were ahead of me... but this was an emergency)... then it started getting worse and his eyes got all swollen, and hives started spreading to where his hair is. My poor little baby... and he was so good. He just sat there taking it all in, not even crying. All he kept doing was trying to rub/scratch at his eyes. Luckily after the meds, it started going down. After waiting about an hour to make sure he was still ok, we were sent home with strict rules...

NO PEANUTS!

Officially Walking!!!

Connor has been "walking" for about a month and a half now. He started a few days before his first birthday. BUT... it was always only a step or two, and not that often. He wouldn't do it on his own... he'd only SOMETIMES do it when I bribed him, lol. But about a week ago, he just decided to take off and start walking, and now he won't stop. I was trying to get pictures of him walking, but he'd only walk away from me, so there you have it :-)

And here are two cute pictures of him... just because! :-)

Connor's First Haircut

I've been wanting to get Connor's hair cut for a while now, but everyone kept telling me to wait and not to cut it. Everyone always said how cute it was, because he has this little curl. But that curl is ONLY present like 1 day out of the week. All the other time it's a rat's nest and it was getting so long I thought he looked like a girl, lol. So finally I just decided to cut it.

I was a little worried about him staying still though, because he's NEVER still. But he did really really good. I sat him in the sink of our bathroom. I turned the water on, so he could play in it. And I gave him a sucker, lol. He was in heaven!

Fruit Photo Session

My brother-in-law, Nathan, asked me to photograph their family farm and their products to put pictures onto their company/farm website. I'd never photographed fruit, but I figured I'd give it a try. I actually had lots of fun doing it! (and learned lots about Navel oranges from Nate) They said that if product sales pick up, they might add other fruit to the site that they grow, so I might get hired back to take more pictures :-)