Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
Ashie's Words of the Day
"I boke it" - I broke it
"Nasy"- Nasty..he just screamed this outta nowhere in the truck yesterday
"I got it"
"Monkey"- his curiuos george
"Spngabob"- spongebob
"aaaaahmen"- said randomly throughout dinner
"aple juice"
"makey"- monkey
Aidan and I were reading all of his new books the other night. He looked up at me and said "Mom, this is great". Who is this grown-up talking child?! All of us are sick now...sore throats, coughs, runny noses, etc..fun times. I wanted to start walking again to walk off this 10 pounds I have gained over Christmas lol! But instead I sit around eating and sniffing! Since our nephew Paul has been staying with us, he calls me Aunt Lauren. Well now Aidan calls me Auntie Woren. Its too cute! *UPDATE* aidan screams out right before we take communion "I wanna go up there and get my cracker!!"
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Wonderful Christmas
What a wonderful Christmas we had this year! So many wonderful memories made that I can't describe them all! But here's a recap:
Christmas Part 1: We went to DDoc's (my granddad) in Oxford and had a wonderful time with him and my parents, and sisters! Asher enjoyed climbing up in the window sill with him and saying "git doggie, git!" Aidan enjoyed cuddling with him in the window seat and watching the Elmo Christmas special. My sisters, mom, and dad did a wonderful job spoiling the kids silly with all kinds of love, attention, and TOYS! We packed up all (well mostly) of the old toys and sent them to goodwill. Mama kept the boys one night so Ddoc, Kirsten and I could go out to dinner which was sooooooo nice!
Christmas Part 2: My moms side of the family always does Christmas on Christmas Eve day in Raleigh, so I was excited we got to go to that this year! I've included the picture we all took. The boys were spolied with more attention and toys! But it was sooo good to see everyone again! My cousins had grown up so much!!
Christmas Part 3: Christmas Eve we had returned home about 5:30pm and went to church service at 8:30pm. This was special to Mat's mom because the whole family went. Something she has wanted for a long long time! The boys only lasted half way through the service but considering they had been on the go in strange places for 4 day they did sooooooo well! Aidan and Ash passed out by the time we got to grandmas so i did the milk, cookies, and reindeer food (thanks to Grandma Dori---gotta tell ya later where that came from) with 5 year old cousin Paul-Paul! It was so exciting to see him so excited!! Christmas morning we woke up about 7:30am and started on the presents. Mat had eaten the cookies and left one that was bitten into! It was just cute looking! Aidan was THRILLED with his kitchen and nothing else mattered after that!! Asher (as you can see in the pic) had gotten an extra comfy monkey blanket (he loves curiuos george) and he decided to lay down in the middle of presents and take a rest, so Mat and I finished with the presents. I got a bunch of "chef man" stuff for my kitchen from Melissa (we drew names), Mat got clothes and a leather coat from mom, and we had a picture frame engraved for Melissa and Brandon and melissa was very touched about it!
Christmas Part 4: By now Ashie knows the word presents! Minnie got Aidan some Spongebob coloring stuff and the movie and Ashie got a telephone since the child is OBSESSED with phone. That was the only present that he gasped over! We had a good small celebration with Minnie!!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas!!
Sorry I'm way to tired to blog tonight. But stories and pictures are coming soon! I'm keeping my 5 year old nephew for a week so bear with me in the blog dept! We had such a wonderful Christmas with some wonderful family! Hope yours was just as good! Peace to all!
Lauren, Mathew, Aidan, and Asher
Lauren, Mathew, Aidan, and Asher
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
So much to do so little time!! Me and the kids are leaving for Oxford on Friday until Sunday. Monday Christmas with my mom's family in Raleigh, drive back Monday evening, Christmas with Minnie that night, Christmas Eve service at 8:30pm then spend the night at Grandmas. Then Christmas day at grandmas. So bewteen today and Thursday I have more Christmas shopping, laundry washing (all the "good clothes of course"), packing, wrapping and panicking!
Asher is doing great so far. We went to the ped. yesterday and she says she has seen cases like this but there is no explaination. If it continues to happen we are taking him to a Pediatric Neurologist. But hopefully it won't come to that and he will continue to improve!!! Thanks for all your prayers and concerns!
We were in church Sunday and Asher sang along with the choir. "sing, sing , singsing, sing" he says!! He will be the next American Idol! Aidan is too qucik for me and I can't "slide things by him anymore". For example, his Daddy got a haircut and he came home and then went back out again (the lady at Walgreens overfilled our printer cartridge and he went back to raise hell when it leaked all over our printer). Aidan says "where daddy going? going to get haircut?" instead of explaining the Walgreens trip to him I said yes Aidan. He snaps back "No mommy he already got haircut! Where Daddy going?" Oops!
We went to the CARE Christmas party on Sunday night. This is for the kids affected with HIV/AIDS. It was so nice to see the excitement on their faces for all their toys and good food! Makes me think how grateful I am to have such healthy kids and to be able to provide a Christmas for them!!! Everyday Aidan asks Santa for his kitchen and I don't know what I would do if we couldn't afford a Christmas for them!! After that we went to the Christmas Cantata at church. That lasted all of 5 mins before I said ok thats it we are leaving!
Today is haircuts, maybe a cute shirt for Aidan (because we must look perfectly adorable right Rach lol), and shopping for my family! God bless us during this wonderful? time of year! :-)
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Prayers for Ashie
So you will all prob think I'm a neurotic crazy mother. I"M NOT I SWEAR! lol.
OK here goes the story. I swear this past week has been full of downs! Mat got off work at 3pm yesterday and Mom wanted to take Aidan for the night. Great! So we decided to do some Christmas shopping with Ashie. Long story short we shopped and went out to eat from 3-6pm. Ashie was in the stroller or high chair the whole time except for one time at Target when I got him out when we were in line and he toddled around. We arrived home and I took him out of the carseat and put him on the ground to walk to the door of our home. He couldn't walk. I tried holding his hand, thinking his leg was asleep and his leg cont'd to collaspe and not cooperate. OK I was worried but still thinking his leg was asleep from being in the stroller for so long. So Mat and I got inside and rubbed his leg and foot and tired to get him to walk it off. Well minutes flew by and he still couldn't walk. We took him to Minnie's house JUST to make sure we weren't going crazy. She said you need to take that baby to the ER.
So by that point my mind was racing with fear! There was no injury, redness, swollen, pain when you touch it, NOTHING! But Ashie was fine and dandie! He just couldn't walk on his left leg! So to the ER we traveled. Again long story short. They did X-rays (my baby boy was soo brave). Nothing, they showed nothing. The doctor was perplexed. He could obviuosly see the child coudn't walk on his leg but there was no sign of anything! We were told they couldn't send him home not being able to walk and no diagnoses. So they admitted him to New Hanover because Cape Fear didn't have a PED Unit. Again my heart is racing and I feel so sorry for my poor baby who only wanted to go home and sleep in his own bed. Maybe one day I'll tell about the adventures we had in the ER that night!
Well they had no beds avaliable at NH Ped Unit so we had to wait. We arrived at the ER at 6:30pm and FINALLY at 4:30am (with no sleep from Mat and I) we were transported by ambulance to New Hanover. This was a little extreme. Just send us home and we will come back in the AM to get the bone scan! But no it had to be done this way! So we both took our first ambulance ride with Ashie on a stretcher (with a seat belt you would be HORRIFIED at Rachel). We got settled to a room and got 2 hours of shut eye. Longer story short my poor poor poor angel had an IV, bone scan and blood drawn. NOTHING!!! THEY FOUND NOTHING!!!! We were released at 4:30pm today. Part of me is glad they didn't find anything bad but they other part of me is PISSED they can't tell me what is wrong with my poor baby!! It's just lots of watch him. Another part of me is researching immunizations because he just had 3 last week and I know there are some recalled ones out there.
Like I said he is happy and otherwise healthy but he just cannot walk on that leg!! I'm sure it is just nothing but its just so hard to see my baby frustrated and not know how to help him! Just keep him in your prayers!!! :-)
OK here goes the story. I swear this past week has been full of downs! Mat got off work at 3pm yesterday and Mom wanted to take Aidan for the night. Great! So we decided to do some Christmas shopping with Ashie. Long story short we shopped and went out to eat from 3-6pm. Ashie was in the stroller or high chair the whole time except for one time at Target when I got him out when we were in line and he toddled around. We arrived home and I took him out of the carseat and put him on the ground to walk to the door of our home. He couldn't walk. I tried holding his hand, thinking his leg was asleep and his leg cont'd to collaspe and not cooperate. OK I was worried but still thinking his leg was asleep from being in the stroller for so long. So Mat and I got inside and rubbed his leg and foot and tired to get him to walk it off. Well minutes flew by and he still couldn't walk. We took him to Minnie's house JUST to make sure we weren't going crazy. She said you need to take that baby to the ER.
So by that point my mind was racing with fear! There was no injury, redness, swollen, pain when you touch it, NOTHING! But Ashie was fine and dandie! He just couldn't walk on his left leg! So to the ER we traveled. Again long story short. They did X-rays (my baby boy was soo brave). Nothing, they showed nothing. The doctor was perplexed. He could obviuosly see the child coudn't walk on his leg but there was no sign of anything! We were told they couldn't send him home not being able to walk and no diagnoses. So they admitted him to New Hanover because Cape Fear didn't have a PED Unit. Again my heart is racing and I feel so sorry for my poor baby who only wanted to go home and sleep in his own bed. Maybe one day I'll tell about the adventures we had in the ER that night!
Well they had no beds avaliable at NH Ped Unit so we had to wait. We arrived at the ER at 6:30pm and FINALLY at 4:30am (with no sleep from Mat and I) we were transported by ambulance to New Hanover. This was a little extreme. Just send us home and we will come back in the AM to get the bone scan! But no it had to be done this way! So we both took our first ambulance ride with Ashie on a stretcher (with a seat belt you would be HORRIFIED at Rachel). We got settled to a room and got 2 hours of shut eye. Longer story short my poor poor poor angel had an IV, bone scan and blood drawn. NOTHING!!! THEY FOUND NOTHING!!!! We were released at 4:30pm today. Part of me is glad they didn't find anything bad but they other part of me is PISSED they can't tell me what is wrong with my poor baby!! It's just lots of watch him. Another part of me is researching immunizations because he just had 3 last week and I know there are some recalled ones out there.
Like I said he is happy and otherwise healthy but he just cannot walk on that leg!! I'm sure it is just nothing but its just so hard to see my baby frustrated and not know how to help him! Just keep him in your prayers!!! :-)
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Open mouth.....
We were at the mall today and a lady on a scooter was trying to get by us in JCP. Aidan went up to her and laid his hand on her hand (again he doesn't understand stranger danger) and said "You driving your motorcycle?". She dies out laughing as well as I!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Recount of the days events
Seeing a light at the end of the tunnel! I got alot of Christmas shopping done today! We picked a name of a little boy infected with HIV/AIDS to buy Christmas for. I think I was as excited to buy for him as I was my own children! I am almost done, thank goodness! Now to more dreaded wrapping....
Today was a very productive day! I got laundry done, both cars vaccumed out and shopping done! This was done on very little sleep! I was up until 1:30am wired for some reason. Then at 4:30am I heard, "down down, mama, down down". Ashie was up and wanted out of his crib! Today we made our daily trip to Walmart and since Mat was with us I let Ashie walk from the car to the entrance. He was such a big boy!! We had to park at the very end of Wal-mart and he held my hand and walked with such a big boy stride the whole way! At one point my hand slipped out of his and he stopped in his tracks and held up his cute little hand for me to take again!
Aidan had a little smart mouth today. I told him I left his cup in the car and he said "No Mom it's in Daddy's TRUCK!" (we drove the truck today). He called me out on every bad word (which included stupid, idiot, ok and ass- Wilmington traffic is the worst and we DEF have the worst drivers EVER and I tend to lose control -opps!). So he says "oooh mommy you NO say bad word! you bad boy!" so of course Ashie had to join in the bad boy (aidan doesnt understand the sexes yet). I'm sure this is not yet the worst that he will teach his "baby broder" (as aidan calls ashie).
Well let me go turn off my AC. Yes it's December and I have to turn off the AC for the night. Craziness and it will be like this all week! Oh well at least we can play outside (and get all that advent calendar-chocolate-induced-energy out!).
PS:Description of the picture: Aidan had fallen asleep on the floor (aka Daddy was watching the kids while mommy did laundry) and this is what Asher did when he woke up to find Aidan asleep on the floor!
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Updates
Oh so much to say! We've been quite busy lately and it's not going to get any easier from here!
Aidan is my big helper! He was helping me unload the dishwasher tonight. He was telling me where to put each cup and plate and he got it all right! We went to a family dollar yesterday in Wilmington that we had never been before. His La-La is the manager of the one in Burgaw and during Halloween she scared him in her store with a scary mask. Well when I pull up to the Wilmington store he says "Mommy, I'm scared." I said why Aidan? He points to the store and says "The Halloween monster is in there". Now how the hell did he know we were at a Family Dollar? Kids amaze me!
Asher woke up one morning and has not stopped talking since. When he sees a Santa he says "ho ho!" with his little lips curled up! He grabs a toy or a can of food and says "Open dis". But EVERYTHING is "What's dis?" or "What's dat?" EVERYTHING Aidan says Ashie repeats it in one way or another. This also goes for whatever Aidan does! We were in the car today and Aidan was pulling up his pant leg saying "see this (scratch) mommy?", I look over at Ashie and he is also pulling up his pant leg saying "see dis?" and pointing to his leg! I just LOVE this age!! He will go crawl up on the couch and cuddle with a pillow. When we were at Grandma's Aidan was sleeping in the playpen and I put Ashie in there to wake him up and Ashie says "wake cup wake cup" and went and snuggled next to him and Aidan put his arm around Ashie. Of course I didn't have a camera!
We went to the Christmas Parade tonight and I just LOVED watching their faces! I wish I could post videos on here because their expressions were priceless! Not a whine or a cry during the whole thing! Asher waved to everyone and danced and sang to the music. Aidan waved at the all people dressed up as characters and also loved dancing to the music! And I thought he might havea panic attack when Santa rode by! He jumped up and "hey Santa, hey there Santa" in the most deep grownup voice I have ever heard!
We FINALLY took the damn Christmas pictures at Olan Mills on Saturday. Our appt was at 10:45am and we didn't get done until 12:40pm. No one said "Oh we are running behind so and so mintues go walk your restless kids around the mall", it was just "we will get to you asap". At 12:41 I was ready and willing to give these kids to anyone who would take them (just kidding). But it was crazy and it was over and I get them back Dec 18th so Christmas cards are coming everyone!
Well the mail key has been lost for 7 days now so I must go through the piles and piles of mail that has backed up. It was in the stroller the whole time. The whole time I turned the house upside down and found a lot of missing items along the way. So I must go dive in some bills. Good night and God Bless!
Aidan is my big helper! He was helping me unload the dishwasher tonight. He was telling me where to put each cup and plate and he got it all right! We went to a family dollar yesterday in Wilmington that we had never been before. His La-La is the manager of the one in Burgaw and during Halloween she scared him in her store with a scary mask. Well when I pull up to the Wilmington store he says "Mommy, I'm scared." I said why Aidan? He points to the store and says "The Halloween monster is in there". Now how the hell did he know we were at a Family Dollar? Kids amaze me!
Asher woke up one morning and has not stopped talking since. When he sees a Santa he says "ho ho!" with his little lips curled up! He grabs a toy or a can of food and says "Open dis". But EVERYTHING is "What's dis?" or "What's dat?" EVERYTHING Aidan says Ashie repeats it in one way or another. This also goes for whatever Aidan does! We were in the car today and Aidan was pulling up his pant leg saying "see this (scratch) mommy?", I look over at Ashie and he is also pulling up his pant leg saying "see dis?" and pointing to his leg! I just LOVE this age!! He will go crawl up on the couch and cuddle with a pillow. When we were at Grandma's Aidan was sleeping in the playpen and I put Ashie in there to wake him up and Ashie says "wake cup wake cup" and went and snuggled next to him and Aidan put his arm around Ashie. Of course I didn't have a camera!
We went to the Christmas Parade tonight and I just LOVED watching their faces! I wish I could post videos on here because their expressions were priceless! Not a whine or a cry during the whole thing! Asher waved to everyone and danced and sang to the music. Aidan waved at the all people dressed up as characters and also loved dancing to the music! And I thought he might havea panic attack when Santa rode by! He jumped up and "hey Santa, hey there Santa" in the most deep grownup voice I have ever heard!
We FINALLY took the damn Christmas pictures at Olan Mills on Saturday. Our appt was at 10:45am and we didn't get done until 12:40pm. No one said "Oh we are running behind so and so mintues go walk your restless kids around the mall", it was just "we will get to you asap". At 12:41 I was ready and willing to give these kids to anyone who would take them (just kidding). But it was crazy and it was over and I get them back Dec 18th so Christmas cards are coming everyone!
Well the mail key has been lost for 7 days now so I must go through the piles and piles of mail that has backed up. It was in the stroller the whole time. The whole time I turned the house upside down and found a lot of missing items along the way. So I must go dive in some bills. Good night and God Bless!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Firsts
YAYAYAAY! Tonight I laid Asher in his crib and said "I love you baby" and he replied "Uv wah". AKA Love you!!! I was thrilled and I got him to say it again just to make sure that is what I heard!!! I'm so proud of him! He has started to say "ho, ho,ho" when he sees a Santa. He is just growing up so fast! I hate it :-(. Minnie calls him the little midgit. She says thats no baby thats a midgit lol. We love Minnie!
Aidan is doing so well with his shapes. I made a little matching game with shapes for him today and he got them all correct! He is so eager to learn! And update on the potty training...he is good to go now! He wears undies (I say panties but get yelled at if anyone else hears me lol) all day and a diaper at night. I tried the undies at night but that didn't work. He has also started this getting up after I put him to bed, with all kinds of excuses!
Well I wrapped some presents tonight which was depressing because it showed me how much shopping I need to do! AHHH! Oh well I'll prob be at Walmart on Christmas Eve! lol I'm watching Waitress now...it's cute..goodnight!
Aidan is doing so well with his shapes. I made a little matching game with shapes for him today and he got them all correct! He is so eager to learn! And update on the potty training...he is good to go now! He wears undies (I say panties but get yelled at if anyone else hears me lol) all day and a diaper at night. I tried the undies at night but that didn't work. He has also started this getting up after I put him to bed, with all kinds of excuses!
Well I wrapped some presents tonight which was depressing because it showed me how much shopping I need to do! AHHH! Oh well I'll prob be at Walmart on Christmas Eve! lol I'm watching Waitress now...it's cute..goodnight!
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