Busy, Busy, Busy

The last couple weeks have been crazy.

Between two families in the same town the holidays are always full.

This Christmas was so much fun. Carter LOVED to open all the presents he could get his hands on,

it didn't even matter what was inside he just loved to open everything.

He was so cute on Christmas saying "wow" and "ooohhh" to everything he got.

I loved having our little family together and watching Carter open all of his presents from Santa and get so excited over them. 

Carter also loved Christmas lights this year. Everywhere we went he would say "pretty pretty" and 

"Oh wow"

Still not the biggest fan of Santa this year but a lot better than last year. He really wasn't sure why in the world we wanted him to go sit on his lap.

Carter getting to really play in the snow.

We also has the Mitton Christmas Nativity and Carter got to play a wise man. He was the cutest wise man I had every seen. To make it even better he thought that laying down by baby Jesus (Emi) would be a good idea. so he got a big laugh from everybody about that. 

Lastly, nap time came up with another new challenge. The other day I laid him down and had all the lights off, all the sudden I saw Carter's light turning on and off, so I went in there to pull his crib away from the wall and when I went in I found this:

and yes that is pee on his sheets. I could not stop laughing. When I laid him down he had on two socks, pants, and a diaper. I can honestly say it had never crossed my mind before to make sure that my child would not take off his pants, diaper, and one sock when I laid him down for a nap. 

I guess when kids you have to think of everything right?

Croup

Croup-

Is down right terrible. 

Poor Carter has a pretty nasty case of this going on. 

This little boy is just miserable and sounds like a barking seal.

I hate the feeling of seeing him struggle and I just can't do much of anything to help.

Lots and lots of movies and powerade. 

Last night is when it got really bad. Carter woke up about an hour after he went to bed just gasping for air.

The sight of him struggling so bad scared me to death. I know croup is a really common

thing and that now as long as it is watched and taken care of really isn't 

that big of a deal. but it just about sent me over the edge to watch. I thought that someone needed to do something to help him and nobody seemed all that worried. I have honestly never had to watch Carter go through that much pain and struggle before.

I thought about all the different people that have the trial of having a sick child that has

much more intense struggles and my heart breaks for them. I think that it is safe

to say that watching your child go through something when you can't do anything for them,

is just about the worst feeling in the world.

Even something so small and treatable as croup I almost lost it. Tanner and I spent our 4th anniversary on Carters floor, cleaning up throw up, and waking up about every two hours. 

This morning he seems to be doing a little bit better, luckily today was Tanner's day off so I'm sure it will be a family nap time kind of day. 

 

So forget my last blog about me not minding sick days. 

I officially take it back.

 

 

 

Sick, Four, and More

Sick little boys are one of the hardest things to handle. This little boy just does not have a clue what he wants. Nothing seems to be what he wants or needs today. Although sometimes I honestly don't mind sick days. Although they are hard and frustrating I love the extra snuggles, jammies in the afternoon, and movies with my baby boy. I have been on a large struggle lately to get rid of the "ba ba" and Carter has been fighting it but we were doing good until today. I feel to bad to not let him snuggle up for a nap in his jammies with his blankies and ba ba. So finally its nap time. Really nap time means I should be finishing up my cleaning that I have been trying to do all day, but instead I am blogging. Really it has been a long time that i have posted so that's a good excuse right?

 Coming up this Wednesday is Tanner and I's fourth anniversary. Four years sounds like a long time to me right now, I can't believe it has been that long. Than again it is really such a short time compared to how long we get to be together. I thought because of our anniversary coming up I would tell our story really quick.

In August 08 I went bowling with a big group of friends, after awhile I noticed Tanner come in, I knew him from high school. I went and sat down and tried to turn on my charm. I pulled out all my best flirting hoping he would ask me out or at least get my number, well he didn't, so at the end of the night we parted ways and I didn't think much of it. A couple weeks later it was fair time, I was working in the Coke trailer selling wristbands just like every year before. through the gate I noticed Tanner and yelled at him and we talked for a few minutes, he was always working at the fair doing sound. He told me that he would come find me the next day and we could walk around. We spent the next few days at the fair together, after that we spent a very short time dating, a WHOLE three weeks. Looking back now I honestly think it sounds insane we got engaged that fast but I guess we both just knew. Even though most people thought we were crazy, and as crazy as it sounds now, things worked out pretty good for us. Four years, one child, and to many memories to count later, were doing pretty good.

Our very first picture together