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Friday, October 15, 2010

The Grant Update

Hi everybody! Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers- yesterday went well and he's recovered beautifully! He's home from school today but not from pain, from a cough that I don't want him to spread. I think its probably half sick and half from the breathing tube from anesthesia

Here are a few pictures of the champ. The first was him before (but after they gave him the woosie/lala land medicine) a nurse had this stupid pig keychain light that he thought was the coolest thing EVER. Only problem was when he woke up afterwards and she- i.e. the pig- wasn't there, he FLIPPED OUT! screaming bloody murder for about 30 minutes because of the *%^& pig, not because of what had just happened! The favorite quote from "before" was when he said the oxygen/pulse sensor on his toe felt like chocolate milk! Thats when we knew the medicine was kicking in...
The second two are from after in the post-op recovery. After he got over the pig thing he got a popsicle and finally relaxed enough to let me read him some books. (shown is Pout-pout Fish which is a current favorite, highly recommended to any toddler moms out there)

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Prayers for Grant

If you happen to see this post this morning send Grant some good vibes... we're going in for a little medical procedure this morning and he has to be put under (which makes this Momma more than a little nervous). I'm sure he'll do great but more prayers and warm fuzzies never hurt anybody, right?!?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

2 Months!

How fast does one month fly by? Lightning fast...
...and Carter is VERY excited about it! (Mommy, not so much)

Monday, October 11, 2010

Lets Go Jets!


We're all decked out in our Leonhard gear to cheer on Jim and the Jets on Monday Night Football!

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Lock Lesson

boy oh boy do I have a story for you!
in fact, it's so good it'll have to have pictures...
So this morning I went into Carter's room to change him out of his PJs and into a fresh diaper/outfit when Grant came to join us. He closed the door and started playing with Carter's stuffed animals.
I got Carter dressed in his cute firetruck outfit and mentally decided what I was going to pack in Grant's lunch for school - we had to leave in 30 minutes. so, Carter is dressed, I'm set to go pack Grant's lunch and go to leave the room. Door locked. ok, Grant must have just turned the lock right?!? well go back and look at the door picture.... really look at it, I'll wait.... yep, Carter has a fancy push down lever handle not the typical knob like ever other room in the house, which means the lock is on the outside. yep, Grant had turned it before he came in thus locking us INSIDE Carter's room.
Panic sets in; Geoff- already at work, all of Carter's feeding supplies- in the kitchen, phone- on the couch, me strong enough to bust down a door- not so much. Okay don't panic, well atleast not enough to get Grant upset. so the only thing I can think of is if you can't get out the door, go out the window
Get the window open, bust out the screen and climb through holding Carter. Ask Grant to follow, end up somehow pulling him through one handed. so we got out of the window- mind you we are in t-shirts and barefooted- but are still locked out of the house. I looked around and said okay, I'm stuck, this isn't a one woman show and officially have to get some help. Neighbors #1 not home, neither are the people in the next house.

We get to house number three, who I don't know and ring the bell, no answer. Start on to house #4 when a woman answers the door at house 3. I asked to use her phone to call Geoff. She explained that she never answers the door during the day because its always Jehovah's Witnesses but let us in and let me call. so we sat in her living room barefooted, watching Team Umizoomi while Geoff missed training to drive back from base (30minutes) to let us in.
I got myself together, got the window back and closed and decided I needed a break, so I took Grant on to school even though we'd be late.
Forgot to ever pack him a lunch!
Things we are thankful for:
-BOTH kids were with me in the room!
-Carter's room, and all 3 of our rooms are on the first floor!
-Carter had just eaten! he chose this morning to have a feeding and go back to sleep without the screaming fit so he was asleep throughout the whole thing! I can tell you I would have LOST IT if he had been awake and screaming the whole time
-I had clothes on! I can't tell you how many morning feedings are when I'm in between PJs from the night before and being dressed for the day... yea, just think about the whole story if that had been the case!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Melt My Heart


This morning I took Carter to Picture People to play around with getting some military shots similar to the ones we got of Grant prior to the deployment. We just had a photo shoot with Shannon to get family and baby pictures so I didn't get any that weren't with the military props but I just had to share this one with everyone because I turn to a big ole pile of mush just looking at it


and because I would just be mean if I didn't show off our military yumminess...

Monday, September 27, 2010

Tassel Hassel

Do y'all remember my adventures in tasseling from last year? well....they're baaaack!

Every other year St Jude's (Geoff's Mom's school) has a Holiday Bazaar where people sell their craftings and such for the holidays, 2 years ago I had a lot of plates and platters but seeing as I still haven't found a kiln in Fayetteville- or time to paint for that matter- this year I knew I had to do something that I could whip out at home... so tassels and hairbows it is!

I tell you what, getting to make these 2 by themselves were a struggle. Got Grant in his bed to nap, got Carter fed and content, got out all of teh supplies and played around to see what I wanted to do, got the glue gun heated up, all just in time for grant to decide he didn't want to nap and come out of his room. Then its trying to get them cranked out without Grant getting too curious about the hot glue gum or the scissors or the rolls and rolls of ribbon.... sigh....

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Brotherly Love

Be still my heart. Here is a precious moment that they shared yesterday...

...Grant showing Carter the tricks of the trade...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

one word: COLIC

I'm going to stop starting every entry with an excuse or apology for not blogging in forever, I know you all know how long its been, and I hope you all know why it has been so long, I'm going to start letting it go and not make myself feel guilty for it starting........ now!


so our life for the past 2 weeks has been filled with one word: colic!
I know it technically just means a gassy baby but in real life it means a baby who is not quiet and peaceful unless you are holding/rocking/snuggling with him and even then its not always a sure thing. In real life it means sleeping in a recliner with him on your chest. In real life it means that you often have occurrences when 2 people in your house are crying at the same time when 2 people are about to lose it (the combinations of that one changes).

Geoff had all of last week off in between rocking his Army French test (one of the highest 2 scores) and the start of PsyOp training this week so we took the leave and enjoyed ourselves. We headed to Atlanta for 2 days to have a little "us" time, Grandma and Grandad babysat while we snuck away for a movie in the afternoon and a Melting Pot dinner at night! Then over the weekend we headed to Durham, had family pictures taken by Shannon, Geoff went to the UNC vs. GT game and then we headed out to dinner with 2 Army friends while mom babysat! we are so thankful for people who love us and our kids enough to give us some time without them! :o)

here are some happy sleeping baby shots because they seem extra precious now-a-days and lets be honest, nobody wants to see screaming babies

Sunday, September 12, 2010

One Month!


We can hardly believe it's been one month since Carter joined our family!

We're Here, We're Here


so everyone warned me but now I guess I know its true, two kids is a lot more to handle than just one and I'm sorry that the blog has taken a back seat~ we've been busy (but happy) over the past couple weeks and heres a snapshot of whats been going on
-MiMi (my mom's mom) came for a quick visit and to help with taking both kids to the doctors
-we scored big on cheap Elon vs Duke football tickets and had a huge group of family and friends go (too bad Elon didn't score quite so big)
-Grant renewed his love for fireworks
-Grant started preschool in Fayetteville!
-DAGNY (future daughter-in-law) TURNED ONE
-we visited Fayettevilles Greek festival and Grant got really into the dancing and clapping
-Carter grew out of newborn diapers and is now size 1
-Grant got a big boy haircut (hint to parents, holding the iPhone for kids to play on is a great way of having them sit still)
-we walked in a 9/11 rememberance walk sponsored by Operation Homefront
-we've daydreamed about next week! Geoff finally gets to take his paternity leave and gets the whole week off! YAY! we're planning a wonderfully glorious nothing=planned staycation (minus a wonderfully glorious kinda-planned day trip to the beach)

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

One Month Ago


Thanks to Grant and the iPhone, I have a great time capsule memory of what life was like a month ago today! Stocking up on toiletries for the hospital bag at Target...
and as I write this post, this is the face thats starring up at me! AMAZING!