Psychos

Geeze... blog psychos... thanks for being such loyal readers, but man... Sorry for not posting when I said I would. I was home w/ a very sick, cranky baby all weekend while Jake was at drill. We're all running on EMPTY which is why I didn't post any pics.

I'll post tonight, for fear that if I don't, someone will burn our house down.

Six Months ago... yesterday.

Six months ago, yesterday, our worlds were turned upside down and inside out... Little Layla Jennifer was brought into this crazy place we call life and we haven't looked back since. It's hard to imagine how our lives were before she was here. What on earth did we do with our time? When we said we were "busy" then, what were we really talking about? These days, thinking of getting some "down time" to relax sounds wonderful, but if it means that we have to try to do that without our little Layla, we'd prefer to continue with our crazy busy lives as new parents ... thinking of life without her seems unreal.

Everyone told us how much our lives would change, how different things would be, how we'd love our new baby more than we've ever loved, or ever thought it was possible to love, anything in our entire lives. I remember thinking, "Yeah, I know. Sure, sure. Let me figure it out." But I wondered what everyone could possibly mean? How was it possible to love something more than we've ever loved anything else in life? Now I know.

Little Bean Pie... in the sky... we love you more everyday!!

Instead of posting how big our little one is as a six month old, I thought I'd refresh your (and our) memories with some pics of Layla when she was just minutes, days and about one week old. She doesn't even look like these pictures anymore!!!

Six month old pictures to come this weekend! :)

It could always be worse, right? RIGHT? RIGHT?

Well, last night was a fun one. Layla kept waking herself up due to her cough, and I finally had to pull her out of her crib at 3:00 a.m. and sit with her on the couch for two hours patting her back to get all the "ickys" worked out. Both her and I were in and out of sleep mode during that time, but I couldn't lay down because I had to keep her upright to prevent more coughing. Both of us finally fell asleep around 5:00 (the time I'm supposed to be getting up) and woke up at 6:30 only to realize I had overslept, and so had Jake. So, we all got ready in a daze this morning as Hudson walked as slow as molasses in front of each step we took, trying his hardest to keep us home.

Poor Hudson. He's injured bad (is that even a sentence?). Torn muscle in his leg according to the vet and is on the "injured reserve" list for an undetermined amount of time, but, for at least two weeks. He really doesn't seem to be getting any better either. He is so sad and bored and just doesn't understand why we won't let him play or play with him. He can't go to daycare, can't play with his best friend Rocky, and can't chase balls. He probably wants to off himself right about now. Oh, and did I mention the vet bill on Saturday was $220?

One more thing to vent and then I'm slapping myself upside the head and making a giant push to turn this day around... as if dropping $220 on a vet bill wasn't bad enough, yesterday we had the pleasure of forking over another $425 for Jake's truck. Wheel baring (sp?) this time. Apparently, the wheel was ready to fall off. Six words: NEVER BUYING A GMC TRUCK AGAIN. Damn American made cars. Sorry to all you devout "American made" backers, but that's how I feel. Knock on wood, the Envoy has been good to us, but I promise you, I won't be buying anything but a Honda or Toyota after the Envoy's retired - which won't be for a very long time, so I'm not holding my breath. I know I won't be able to talk Jake into anything foreign, but at least he's agreed that GMC are Gay Man's Chevy's.

Okay. That's it. I'm done. Now it's time to turn things up a notch, and catch up from a day out of the office. I'm going to pound a bottle of water, pound a cup of coffee, and get down to it. Maybe I'll crank out a few power squats just to get the day started... you never know.

Ear Infection #3

ugghhh... seriously?? 3 ear infections since 1/18. Daycare sucks.

Our dr is sending us to an EN&T specialist to talk about getting tubes if she gets another one over the next 1-2 months.

Bean's sick

At home today w/ Bean. NASTY cough... possibly an ear infection. Waiting for the dr's office to call to let us know when she can see us. Oh, and she puked on me this a.m. before it was even light out. Pretty much all snot. Yumm.

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Okay, and I'm gonna say it before anyone else does... yeah, I see it. She's smiling from ear to ear in all of these EXCEPT the one w/me!!! I must smell bad or something. ;)

She SMILES!!!!

This weekend we went to Auntie Megan's house for a belated bday celebration... Jake's 31st bday and Jeremy's 26th. Megan hosted and we all had a great time. You can see by all of Layla bean's pictures that she had the time of her life, and decided that day to make a liar out of me. I'm constantly saying how she doesn't smile for the camera. What does she do as soon as Megan whips her camera out?? Yep. You got it. Smiles from ear to ear and never stops. She LOOOVVES Megan. She had a blast with Grandpa and Grandma too (I'll post more pics tomorrow but for now have to let it be because I just had a fight with our computer and box.net. And, Jake's ready to kill me because I've been demanding that he show me how to upload pictures from that site as fast as possible and refused to let him show me himself. Hehehe. Oh, and cuz I'm still sweating from spin class and all I want to do is go upstairs and change).

Thanks to Megan & Jeremy for hosting a great bday party, and to Ice and Heavy D for making the trip and spending time w/all of us. It was great seeing you all and I'm glad we got to share Layla on one of her good days (well, okay, most of them are good days... she only gets super crabby every once in a great while now... knock on wood)!

More pics from the weekend to come!! :)