What a day...

Today was definetly a day. Dealt with lots of parent concerns about the swine flu and on top of that Wyatt having a tough day at school. He was shall I say "grumpy" all day. I'm sure Ms. Jessica and Ms. Alyssa would have some other words to use and probably bringing ear plugs tomorrow. I got called back to the room twice because he was so grumpy and nothing was making him happy. Oh yeah, and he's not napping! I think it's a combination of being incredibly tired, his ears and he's cutting a top tooth. He slept on the way home and then was fine for about 20 minutes and then threw 2 huge fits. But put the boy in the bath and he's a happy camper! Snapped some pictures of him in his cute little robe afterwards. I can only think tomorrow will be a better day!

Poor Baby...

Our poor Wyatt just can't seem to get well. 2 weeks ago we were at the doctor and he had a viral infection and an ear infection. Gave him antibiotics which he finished last Wed. Yesterday on the way to school he threw up 5 times. Not spit up but threw up EVERYWHERE! I've seen a lot of gross things at school but the smell of this just about did me in.... I have a serious issue with the people who make car seats. They obviously DON'T have children. It has taken me 2 days and lots of "googling" to figure out how to get the cloth part of his car seat OFF! Finally, did and it's now drying. Wonder how many days it's gonna take to put the cloth part back on!?! ...Back to Wyatt, he seemed to be fine this morning but got progressively worse as the day went on. Threw absolute screaming fits when we put him in bed so....we of course let him sleep on us. When he woke up at 5 he had a 103.5 fever! Yikes! He's never had one that high. And that was with Motrin that we gave him at 1pm. So we called the doctor and she said.....Sounds like he has another viral infection. SERIOUSLY!!! REALLY!!!! Another one. Oh yeah, and she said he'll probably have diarrhea next. Of course he will... The only thing that's getting me through this is the doctor saying the first 2 years are the worst. And I've heard if they get it over with now their toddler years won't be so bad. Sure hope so.

Nap time with Mommy. I love these moments.

Nap time with Daddy. Who has a look on his face like don't you dare take a picture and wake him up. I couldn't resist. And no he didn't wake up.

Our Spring Cutie Pie!

I just had to post these pictures from Wyatt's spring pictures from school. I was thrilled how they turned out because the last time he took pictures at school he cried the entire time. Not this time...he was hamming it up.These were our favorites...

3 Day Weekend!

Well, our 3 day weekend did not start out the way I thought it would. We were supposed to go to the Dallas Arboretum yesterday morning, but it was way too cold. So we've just been hanging out at the house having fun and getting everything ready for Sunday. David's family is coming over on Sunday for Easter. My sister came home yesterday from Tech and is staying with us for the weekend.

Wyatt finally has his 2 bottom teeth. I think it took an entire week for him to cut them - it was one stressful, drooling, constantly running fever, cranky week! But he sure does look cute! I started playing a game with Wyatt where I race him to get to a ball. He thinks it's the funniest thing ever. We'll try to see if we can get it on video, until then here are some pics...

We're racing to the ball. Sorry for the shadows -David was taking the pictures.

Wyatt was giggling so hard he could hardly crawl!

I have teeth - Yeah!!! I'm ready for steak - or maybe just some diced apples (stuck on my chin).

This picture caught me off guard. He looks like such a big boy.

Cold, Cold, go away...

Was it really just last Saturday that we were at the park having fun and today it is ridiculously freezing cold. We are definitely ready for summertime in the Dedwylder house. Ready for trips to the lake, the zoo, and endless trips to the park. Here are pictures from last weekend.

They grow up so fast!

It seems like in a matter of days Wyatt was holding his bottle, pulling up on everything, getting his first school boo-boo, and saying all kinds of new sounds. I'm afraid the next time I blink he's going to be in Kindergarten! However, he will need some teeth before Kindergarten and he still doesn't have any yet. He still has that precious gummy smile and I love it!!! Hope the teeth take their time and I can hold onto my "baby" that much longer! This song says it all.

I don't know what it is with the socks but this is usually where they end up.

Our precious, precious son! We love you soooo much!

So Maybe I'm not the Country Girl I thought I was.

It was such a beautiful day today and while Wyatt was napping I washed my car and then wanted to plant my hydrangeas (my favorite flower). When I went to pick up the bag of soil (that I just bought yesterday and set on the ground last night) this is what I saw.....Keep in mind David was not home! He was showing a house all the way in Keller.

I jumped back and freaked out.
Just for the record...I DO NOT DO SNAKES!!!!!! I am insanely afraid of them. I don't care if it's a grass snake or a bad snake. I don't like them. For something to be able to move so fast without legs/feet there is something very wrong with that animal. So I immediately called David who did NOT answer his phone. Then I grabbed my camera and started taking pictures. Not sure why other than blogging about it. So I finally got ahold of David and he said don't touch it and I'll be there in 15 minutes. "Dont't touch it"...Did he know who he was talking to. I didn't take my eyes off that thing. It stayed there for quite awhile and then it started to MOVE!!! And this is where it was moving too...

INSIDE MY HOUSE!!!! WHAT? Someone has got to do something fast. At this point I really started freaking out. After David's very loooonnnngggg investigation of what type of snake it was because he is every bit the country boy he then decided to get "rid" of the snake. (Swipe of the head and a big sigh of relief from me).

Now, I'm sure your laughing by now because in the second picture you really see how small the snake is. I DON'T CARE. I DON'T DO SNAKES!!!!! So....anyone want to buy a house in Mansfield. I think I'm a city girl by nature and a country girl when...well, on occasion.

My day did end on a happy note. We went out to eat with David's parents tonight and it was Wyatt's first time to sit in a highchair in a restaraunt. It happend to be exactly his naptime and I thought we were going to have to leave with a screaming baby. But he did amazing! As we were leaving I left with a feeling of amazement. I was overwhelmed with how my heart swelled with love for my husband and child. Can my life be any greater......Yes, get rid of all the snakes. J/K.

Look out world...here comes Wyatt!

Here's the proof of our crawlin critter :)

8 is sooooo great!

Wyatt turned 8 months old last Wednesday! We've had so much fun watching him grow. Here is why we think 8 is soooo great!:
1) He is officially crawling!!! I thought he was going to army crawl forever, but he finallly figured out how to use those things called knees. Pictures to follow later.
2) He gets sooo excited as soon as he sees his mommy or daddy. He makes jumping motions with his body and starts clapping his hands.
3) He claps at just about everything.
4) He loooovvveeeesss music. I think this boy was born to rock!
5) He loves to go outside. He starts jumping around in my arms as soon as he sees we're headed for the door.
6) He smiles and waves and claps when he's saying "Hi".
7) He gets so excited as soon as we walk in the door at The Sloan School. He usually sleeps on the way to school and doesn't wake up until I unbuckle him. Then 2 seconds later we're walking in the door and he starts jumping in my arms and smiling at everyone. Even parents he's never met before as we're walking down the hall.
8) He now has 2 smiles. A normal smile and a wrinkle nose smile. Pictures to follow.
I'm kind of slacking on pictures but we've been real busy. Wyatt is sick again and he is so miserable. His poor nose looks like Rudolph. The doctor said the first 2 years would be rough and boy was she right. Come on 2!

What we've been up to...

Wyatt loves his Sydney!


Making sure noone else at school touches the piano, but him!



Playing with the blanket Nana B made. He loves it!

How The West Was Won

Here a Puff, There a Puff, Everywhere a Puff Puff

Wyatt is now eating puffs! Thanks to the encouragement from Ms. Jessica and Ms. Alyssa. For some reason I was scared to death to feed Wyatt big boy food. But not anymore! Wyatt loves the puffs. Well, maybe not truly love but he's getting there. He's still working on getting them in his mouth. But once he does, he enjoys them. The part I don't enjoy is finding the puffs on the side of his leg (an hour later) or on the floor after you have stepped on them into a million pieces. Or better yet finding them in his bed. Really? How did they get there? Here are some pics of him with his "Puffs".

I went to Canton and this is all I got...

The title says it all. This was one of my cheapest visits to Canton, but definitely worth it. The weather was beautiful, I had an awesome shopping companion (Thanks Misty), and everything was practically on sale! January is definitely the time to go.

Another tabletop floral arrangement, picture frame, soup and chili mixes, jewelry, 2 pair of shoes for Wyatt and a Johnny Cash Onesie.




I do have a bone to pick with Canton - Where is all the baby BOY stuff?!? It makes me sooooo frustrated to see all the adorable girly girl stuff and your lucky if you see anything for boys. Somebody needs to do something about this. Didn't they get the Memo: Michelle had a boy not a girl!!!

And ooohhhh how I missed that special boy of mine today. I couldn't get home fast enough to see him. When I walked in the boys were playing and this is what I saw. Wyatt was sooo excited to see me. He couldn't stop laughing and smiling. I picked him up and only kissed him a bazillion times!

Update

Wyatt stayed home from school again today. He still had a little bit of diarrhea and we thought his ears were bothering him AGAIN! So he stayed home with David. David just got back last night from a 4 day hunt so he got some great Father-Son time in today. We took Wyatt to the doctor this afternoon and he does NOT have another ear infection. This would have been his 4th ear infection in 4 months, so we are soooo relieved. The doctor thought it was a miracle. She even let us look inside his ears to see what a normal ear looks like. Which is good because I bought the cheap ear nose and throat kit from Walgreens. So next time we think he has an ear infection we can look ourselves and maybe save a $30 copay and a trip to an office full of germs!!! Even though he doesn't have an ear infection he's still pretty cranky but she said his tummy is probably still hurting him. Hopefully that goes away soon!
One of Wyatt's favorite things to do at the doctors office is play with the paper on the bed. I grabbed the camera and snagged a few pics. Sooo cute!

Looong Weekend

Well, our long weekend started on Thursday morning when Wyatt started throwing up after his first bottle. I stayed home with him because David was leaving for a 4 day hunt. I thought it must be a 24 hour bug I'll be back at work tomorrow. WRONG!!! He woke up Friday morning with major diarrhea and a fever. Poor Baby. Its Saturday now and he is fever free but still has the diarrhea. He probably still has it because he refuses and I mean refuses to drink anything but his bottle with formula. I've tried every trick. It's actually been pretty comical to try and trick him. I put a bottle on the floor next to him with flat sprite in it. He got real excited and got the bottle, put it in his mouth, took a couple swallows and practically threw the bottle across the room (Well just maybe next to him but there was true force behind the throw). Then he proceeded to scream in baby language "Get me my real bottle!" So now he's drinking watered down bottles and hopefully today will be the last day with diarrhea. Yesterday afternoon he took a 3 hour nap! Yes 3 hours - I almost didn't know what to do with myself. I took the opportunity to start the 2nd book in the twilight series. Anyway, after the nap he seemed to be feeling pretty good (for a little while anyway) and had quite the "nap hair-do" going on so I seized the opportunity to take some pictures. And that's when all his true colors started showing. See below...

Love the hair. This was after a 3 hour nap!


Yeah, I'm starting to feel better bring on the sweet potatoes!




Oh wait, I think I need a diaper change.


Ok, I'm getting a little frustrated. Notice the gummy cry. Absolutely no teeth even trying to show.



I couldn't resist this picture. Isn't he pitiful.

Sunday Stroll

Bundled up for a Sunday stroll in his new stroller.

The Bumper is Back...it only took 5 minutes.

Update: Wyatt is now on his 3rd ear infection. According to the doctor odds are pretty good he will be getting tubes in the next couple of months. Oh boy. Good news is despite his ear infection he is still in good spirits!

Wyatt's bumper on his bed has been driving me crazy lately. They tell you "Oh no, you should never put a bumper in a baby's bed." But if I didn't I would have 30 pacifiers under his bed because instead of trying to find it in the middle of the night I just get a new one. A child with bruises on his body because he keeps bumping his head and getting his arms and legs stuck thru the railings. However, I also have a gigantic fear of the bumper being in the bed. I have many sleepless nights where I look over at the monitor and his face is right up against the bumper and I have to go move him. So...today I thought I would try without the bumper because I really want my precious, wonderful, amazing sleep back! Well....it lasted 5 minutes. As soon as I put Wyatt down for his nap it got really quiet real fast. I thought there's no way he went to sleep that fast. Oh, we weren't asleep we were gnawing on the bed! I couldn't resist taking pictures. Then, I moved him back to the center of his bed and 1 minute later he was screaming because he had rolled over and hit his head. Ok, that's it. Bye-Bye Sleep, hello bumper. Oh, well. If it wasn't the bumper waking me up in the middle of the night I'm sure it would be something else.

Wyatt decided to help me put the bumper on but....

got distracted by the tag.

That Little Boy of Mine

That Little Boy of Mine

Two eyes that shine so bright,

Two lips that kiss goodnite,

Two arms that hold me tight,

That little boy of mine.

No one could ever know how much your coming has meant.

To me you're everything.

You're something heaven sent.

You're all the world to me.

You climb upon my knee.

To me you'll always be

That little boy of mine.

This poem is from the book The Wonderful World of Boys by Dr. James Dobson. Thanks for the book Kim. I am so happy to be a boy mom!