found out that the closing date will be october 12! this means we can get started on our NEW HOME in less than two weeks! WOOHOOO!!!!

just a note to myself that late tuesday jeremiah’s top right tooth was even with his gums. today it was swollen and sort of fleshy-looking. the tooth can still be felt throught the gums. so i wonder if it will be below the gums thursday when he gets up? i just hope it stops hurting him. poor sweet baby!!!!! why are teeth so mean??

it was about 7 years ago today that i ‘made my move’ on jerry. we had met briefly, and i was friends with some of his friends. i had decided to make him a birthday tape. back in college i LOVED making tapes for people, with my favorite songs, and a bit of commentary thrown in. i was on the college campus radio station - that kind of thing is fun for me! anyway, i decided to sing happy birthday on the tape too.
didn’t really get much of a chance to talk to the birthday boy at his party, but i watched him all night.
i found out later that he and his friends thought i was a bit insane after listening to my tape. they said i sang happy birthday like marilyn monroe and expected to hear ‘happy birthday, mr president!’ ROFL. i don’t know where they got that, because i don’t think i sounded anything like her…anyway, his friends told him to watch out for me but he was intrigued by me. good thing i didn’t scare him away….but then again, God was in charge and He knew just what jerry needed to be pulled in! MWUAHAHA!
anyways, i want to wish my sweet bear a very happy birthday. he is a wonderful, caring husband and an awesome, attentive father. he is truly amazing. all that he does for us, and sacrifices for us, we are forever grateful. jeremiah and i are so blessed to have him in our lives. to have someone who will work two jobs so that i can stay home with our son is a total blessing. i’m thankful that he gets to spend LOTS of quality time with our son too, with his new hours. even though i miss him at night, i do agree it’s better for him to see boo in the daytime. jeremiah loves his papa to no end!
i ended up getting him the photo shoot from target (with the matching shirts for him and jeremiah), some boxers (with snoopy on them!), and i made a collage that i’m printing to iron onto a shirt. it’s got pics of him and jeremiah on it, and it says ‘Proud Papa’ on it. i hope he likes! i also am making a carrot cake for him - his favorite! this sunday the fam will be celebrating at my mom’s house with his favorite meal - ham and scalloped cheesy potatoes.
happy 32 birthday bear! i love you so much!!
-jenn

dear dada,
i love you so much. you are the best dada i know. you hug me and kiss me and play with me all the time. you get off the computer when i need you and you hold me in the air when i need to be held over your shoulder. i want to be just like you when i am a big guy. i hope i love God like you do. i hope i love my wife like you do. i hope i am tall like you. i hope i am a good worker like you. i hope my son loves me as much as i love you, dada. you are so great and mama and i love you soooooooo much. i hope you have a big great birthday! kissies and huggies dada!!!!
-jeremiah

dear papa,
i really miss you when you work so much. you spend more time with the kid than with me. but i still love you anyway. i wanted to tell you happy birthday. do i get treats on this day? or not? just wondering. i love you! licks and hugs,
-kc

jeremiah is feeling much better. the zithromax did its job! yay and praise the Lord! thanks for all the prayers!

we did the papa and son photos for jerry’s birthday yesterday. i decided on target.
the photos are great and the choices of poses are neat too! unfortunately, the online photos won’t be up for 10-14 days. isn’t that pitiful? why will it take that long?
the shirts i chose for them were from old navy. they are maroon. jeremiah and jerry both wore jeans too. jeremiah looked like a toddler! so big! he was so cute (as usual!) and even though jerry fought the idea of pics with just the two of them, i KNEW he would be happy with seeing the pics after…and i was right. there is one especially perfect photo of the two of them. they both look naturally happy, not fake camera happy.

any of my pals who use word press, could you tell me if i should switch to it? jerry, who made the current blog i use, is very impressed with it. he is working on making his blog script better and came upon the wordpress site. it is similar to what he is making, but he knows it will be a while before it is the way he wants it. so he thinks maybe i should use word press. can you sell me on it? the biggest thing for me that i like is the categories! woohoo to categories! but would i be able to make OLD entries have categories too? sell me sell me on it.

well i need to get off here. i hope to visit people sometime today. don’t know if it will work or not….but a girl can dream.

blessings and hugs!

we’re back and it was his ear. even after two rounds of antibiotics, two different kinds mind you, it’s still not better. so he’s going on zithromax starting now. this is the kind that always helps me, so i hope it helps him too! he is feeling much better after the tylenol they gave him in the prompt care - they gave him a pretty high dose compared to what i give him.
anyway thanks for the prayers!!!!!!! keep praying that he continues to get better.

mr cranky seems to have a valid reason for it. he finally let me take his temp just now, becauase he was sleeping, and it is 102 degrees under the arm. today is his last day of antibiotics for his ear infection. i called the nurse and she said to send him to prompt care at the hospital since they don’t have any openings and they close at 5 (there’s only one dr there and i called at 415). anyway PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM. i just have this feeling he’s going to need tubes. if it makes him better, then i’m fine with that. but i am scared for some reason. my mom is meeting me there, possibly my dad too. jerry is at work so i’ll keep him informed. PLEASE PRAY.

for the three people who read the last post and commented - thanks! you’re awesome!

for all, the test was negative. ETA: i am disappointed about it, but not depressed or anything. we weren’t trying, and i know jeremiah will have siblings.

okay people you are NOT going to believe this one. it even boggles the mind of this mama who did it.
lack of sleep, lack of food, and lack of braincells contribute to this one.

i was planning to go to a garage sale where they were giving out stuff for FREE. i was extremely excited about it, as they were to have baby items. well, at 12:30 i started the van, to cool down before baby boo and i were to get in. did a quick nurse-attempt, which was denied because boo wasn’t hungry. (in case you’re wondering, jerry calls jeremiah boo now and it has stuck with me more than usual today for some reason.) well, when i was done trying to nurse and was all snapped up and back in the living room, boo in arms, ready to leave, at 12:37, my friend amanda called to tell me that the garage sale was a bust. there was nothing of interest to her, but if i wanted to make the trek out there to see for myself to go ahead. well, if there weren’t baby clothes that she wanted, i’m sure there wouldn’t have been any that i’d want. so i didn’t go. went about my day, playing with boo, looking at jerry’s new logo, fiddling around with things on here while jerry took a shower, nursed boo to sleep, trimmed his toe and fingernails, put him in his crib, started in on the nice butternut squash (not beechnut squash, as i called it for some unknown reason) to make into baby food, put chicken on the grill for lunch, worked more on the squash (it’s a big sucker!) and then heard jeremiah wake up. by now it’s 2:30. the time jerry leaves for work. i’m in jeremiah’s room with him, we tell papa bye-bye, papa lets us each nibble on his apple, and off jerry goes. but then jerry comes back in. and as soon as he did, it hit me. he didn’t even say a word. “OH NO!” i said.

THE VAN WAS STILL RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :no::sad::eek::no::sad::eek::no::sad::eek::no::sad::eek::no::sad::eek::no::sad::eek:

yes folks, for about 2 hours my poor van was running, with the air conditioner on. i can’t believe it myself. i am in shock that my brain backfired this much.

i still sit here, ten minutes later, mystified that it happened. sure, i put the lettuce in the freezer when i was pregnant with boo, but this is different.

which brings me to another thing.

i hadn’t wanted to mention this, because i don’t want to look dumb, but i’m getting a pregnancy test taken. i have been sick to my stomach, peeing like mad, and not sleeping well because of comfortability issues, ones i haven’t had since i’ve given birth. this and the lack of braincells makes me wonder….

wouldn’t that be a hoot? nearly 3 years of trying for boo, and not really trying at all for baby2? it would be a miracle, i say. we plan to officially start ttc in december, but anytime we conceive we’ll be thrilled. well jerry will be thrilled once he gets up off the floor. the poor man IS already working two jobs.

which brings me to another thing. anyone who has any home business ideas for me to try, let me know. i am very capable at website stuff, and would love to do that. make graphics for people, design websites, anything like that. i want to be able to contribute financially somehow. whether i am pregnant now or not.

jeremiah has been standing alone for longer and longer increments, still only seconds at a time, but still! i am very impressed by him! he is very proud of himself too. he looks at us like, wow, i’m doing this??

my chicken is done so i’m going to eat.
God bless!!!

i need to get some sort of separation for these different categories. that last post was just dorky. LOL just a quiz and that’s it. there’s not really anything much going on. i’m missing jerry working these long hours. but he has been home during the day, which jeremiah LOVES. i didn’t get to spend a lot of time with him tho.

he is working on our church’s website, which he created. NO he did not spell indi wrong, my pastor did that. :rolleyes: but anyway, we found out that a family attended church this sunday because of the website! we are so excited about that. our church is very small and hasn’t grown in quite a while, so someone finding it is very exciting to us all!

jeremiah is mostly feeling better. his separation anxiety is still going strong tho! yesterday he weighed in at 20lbs 11oz and was 28.5″. the lady was like, “we have some one year olds who aren’t even 20lbs - he’s a big boy!” i said, “yeah, he’s gonna be big like his papa!” when i got home i told jerry how much he weighed and jerry said “20lbs? that’s it?” LOL. he seems bigger than that to us i guess.
did i mention his other bottom tooth has popped up? so cute. and i promise the two top ones will be out really soon. they are RIGHT there under the skin.
ok moving on LOL don’t you hate it when someone rambles like this?

we are trying to get jeremiah to call kc doggie or something to that effect. so far he doesn’t call him anything. his words are ‘dada’ ‘mama’ ‘boo/boom’ ‘ba/baba’ ‘mimi’ and he’s said ‘no’ a lot too. everything he says is adorable.

how do you get a baby to stop turning the tv off and on?? he loves standing in front of the tv just pushing the button on and off. we tell him no and he laughs. we sit him on his bottom and tell him no and he laughs. we smack his hand and he frowns then laughs. he’s not getting it folks. i guess we’ll just continue to redirect him with other more fun things for now. it’s even more annoying when the tv is OFF and he turns it on then off then on then off….all i want is peace and quiet lol. i guess we’re paying for it since we thought it was cute in the beginning.

i tried the sweet onion chicken teriaki sub from subway the other day. it was YUMMY. this is exciting to me because now i get to eat there. i never liked anything from there before! :yummy:

i’m thinking of surprising jerry with a new shirt and a matching shirt for jeremiah, and booking a photo shoot at jc penny’s or sears for his birthday. just for the two of them. what do you think? is that something that only a mama would like, or will a soft-hearted papa enjoy that too?

speaking of pictures, the picture people have a new free coupon! click here!

i found a new site that’s just for at home mamas (for Christians, but i don’t know if everyone there is Christian??). yahoo! womenathome.us.

drew won big brother. oh well. kim and chip won the amazing race. i didn’t like how they lied and the way they played in the end, but i guess i’m happy for them. i liked brandon and nicole but they got on my nerves sometimes. as if the Lord was on only their side to win a GAME. i don’t know…just a personal thing i guess. i was so proud of karen to make it to the top of the cliff! even tho they didn’t make it, i’m so glad she stuck with it to the end. that showed true character! go karen!

ok i’m just trying to find things to babble about now! (hey, this site isn’t called gigowski gibberish for nothing!) LOL! hugs and blessings all!!

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