i thought i’d updated here but i see i haven’t. *blush*

jeremiah does have an ear infection and is continuing to take the same drops that were called in for us over the weekend (the office just has to make sure they get our money). his ear has FINALLY stopped draining! woohoo!! he seems to be feeling much better, though the ear is causing him some discomfort still. no more vomiting and he’s back to eating mostly normal again.

josiah is almost all better as well. he’s sleeping most of the night again. hooray!

i have been working on digital scrap layouts a lot when i’m on lately. i am challenged by the challenges at one of the scrap sites! the challenges make it fun to do layouts again! here are where i’m putting all my layouts now, first and foremost: http://www.gottapixel.net/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/3868 - i am still using the other places, just not as often updated as here.

well talk to you all later. it’s hard to believe it’s going to be april soon. it doesn’t feel like it around here!

i’m babbling cuz i’m tired. night!

errrr something like that.

jeremiah’s left ear has been draining yellow. there is a slow trickle constantly coming from his ear. it’s like a runny nose…only it’s a runny ear.

i called the dr on call today and she called in ear drops for him (which, by the way, was 25 dollars - i will pay you back mom, i just remembered i didn’t! - WITH the insurance, and the pharmacist said insurance paid 90 bucks of it! wow!!) and wants to see him tomorrow to look at his ear. i’m pretty sure it’s an infection. if it is, it is the first ear infection since he got tubes at 10 months. pretty good, don’t you think? i know his tubes are due to come out at any time. i just hope he doesn’t need more. he’s older now and last time the surgery scared him of doctors for months - it’s just this past month or two that he’s not screamed hysterically at the dr’s office! i can’t imagine how he’d be if he had tubes again…

well please continue to pray. he’s feeling more himself, but still not 100%. thankfully josiah is almost himself. the two of them are just so cute i don’t know what to do with all the cuteness.

love to all, and to all a good night.

double ugh!!!

jeremiah is not feeling well. please pray. dr doesn’t know what it is and said to wait it out.

josiah still has a stuffy nose and cough and won’t sleep for long.

i am very tired but won’t take a nap because when i take a nap everyone wakes me up then i’m more tired than i was to begin with.

we got a call from gap credit card today. they had our old address so our bill had been run up. 115 bucks for a 15 dollar purchase. they waived all but 60. so i had to spend 60 dollars on 15 dollars worth of stuff. yep, nice.

congratulations to jen on the birth of baby girl jaylen!!!

thanks Lord for sending me two card orders in two weeks!

sorry i’m so scarce everyone, i promise i still love you all.

i am feeling so sick! not sure if it’s because of this water challenge - i’m shooting for 100 or more oz a day. today i have about 140 down. UGH! i feel like vomiting, passing out…sigh.

sorry i haven’t posted in a while. i’ve been dealing with other things. this won’t be a good post either. but at least i can show you some new scrap layouts!

http://www.gottapixel.net/gallery/showgallery.php/ppuser/3868/cat/500

God bless and hopefully i’ll get something posted this week.

my JUST TURNED (on sunday) 7 month old started furniture cruising today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eeek!!!!! we thought jeremiah was advanced walking by 10 months - this is insane! this boy wants to do EVERYTHING early. he came 12 days early so he thinks he can do everything early! crawling, sitting up, pulling to stand, and now cruising! sigh. i know he wants to big like his brother, so this probably means he’s competetive, right? :/
just had to share. i am really proud of him and he’s SO CUTE doing it. but i just want him to slow down, kwim??

(note, this was a post i added late. it happened march 15.)

dear josiah,

my precious little bean, i cannot believe time has flown by again. how is it that you are more than halfway to your first birthday?

with all the sad posts lately i hold you tighter and closer than ever before. i love you SO MUCH sweet boy. i honestly don’t know what i would do if anything happened to you or your brother.

you are such an amazing little person! you have SUCH a strong personality. you let your will be known all the time. i can see battles in the future, but for now, it’s very cute to watch you. you usually get your way.

i can’t believe that you pull yourself to stand all the time. you won’t stop! you pull to sit too and forget how to get back down. then you get all upset and cry in frustration. you are so pitiful!! tonight i got a picture of you when you got stuck standing in your crib. you were sooo upset!! poor baby.

you jibber jabber all the time now. lots and lots of words. just have to decipher them. and your little squealish scream is so cute! it’s when you’re mad or excited and it’s beyond cute!

you won’t stay still for diaper changes. you try to roll over as soon as you are on your back. you get SO MAD when we try to pin you down to change your diaper and resnap your clothes. papa gets annoyed with your stubborness sometimes.

you are teething again so you keep holding your mouth in a funny way. it’s adorable! you are grumpy because your gums hurt though. poor baby.

josiah i love you more than words can say. you are amazing and precious. i don’t know what i did to deserve you, but i’m so thankful that you are mine.

i love you!!!!

love, mama

oh my dear friends my heart is breaking.

i received the following in the mail today.

Quote:

I come to you with a heavy heart to tell you that Jackson has gone home to the Lord.  He will be buried on his 2 year birthday this Thursday.  Please keep the family uplifted. The mom is expecting to give birth to Jackson’s sibling in 2 weeks, so please pray for her to have strength to care for her new baby while grieving the loss of Jackson. ÂÂ

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Thank you for all your prayers. We know that God has His reasons for taking Jackson to be with Him, even if we don’t understand His reasons.  I can’t stop hugging my children and thanking God for giving me the gift of time. ÂÂ

just got this on an email group i’m in:

josiah’s ear infections are better. there’s a little fluid behind his right ear that she said to make sure we keep an eye on (if he starts to act fussy about it, like pulling on it, call). please pray for josiah. he finally got his 6 month vaccs today and he’s been out of sorts all night. very grumpy and sensitive to everything. pray that he is safe and ok.

jeremiah didn’t get any vaccs today, but i took BOTH BOYS to the dr BY MYSELF. i don’t know if i’ve done this without losing my mind. i decided to take the double stroller in. it worked fabulously. jeremiah was SO GOOD! he usually cries and just hates the nurses and drs. but today he was a perfect angel. a total gentleman. he did everything he was asked, and when he was told ‘good job’ on something, he said ‘thank you’. LOL!

when we were waiting for the nurse and dr, he played with the toys that were in there. there were five letters and five dinosaurs. he loves letters and he loves dinosaurs. he asked me, ‘what yedder dis?’ and i’d tell him. he’d repeat it, then go to the next one. when five were done, he’d say, ‘where more yedders?’ and i’d tell him there weren’t any more in that room. he’d go around the room, calling, ‘yedders, yedders, whayre ahhhh youuuuu yedders?’ it was adorable!!!!!!!!!!! oh and there was a lone number - the number three. i couldn’t for the life of me get him to say number three though - he kept saying ‘yedder fwee’. LOL! as for the dinosaurs, he played with them for a while too. he had fun just PLAYING. he is such a little boy! he just played on his own, having his dinosaurs talk to each other! i told him today he needs to start naming things. he always calls animals by their names. so he was holding one in each hand, ‘hi dysore, i dysore!’ just like he says, ‘hi, i me, mi-mi!’ we are trying to get him to say ‘hi, my name is jeremiah’ or at the very least, ‘hi, my name is mi-mi’. but so far it’s not working.

another quickie about josiah - he is still trying to pull himself up bigtime. but now once he’s on his knees, he forgets how to get back down! he thinks he’s trapped and he cries. of course, it COULD be that his legs hurt. it’s gotten much worse today since his shots. so i’m not counting that possibility out!

as for ME - i have lost 7.5 lbs in my biggest loser competition. my pants are feeling loose. people are noticing that i’m losing weight. i am feeling better. my goal is still a long way away, but i’m making it! slow and steady wins the race, right?!?!?!

each friday we have a challenge. it usually involves exercise. today it is trunk crunchers. they are HARD, but i’m enjoying them so much that i am going to add them to my daily routine. the other ones i’ve kept doing are the arm circles. i do at least 100 in the shower every morning.

i am loosely following weight watchers. some days i do better than others. but obviously something is working because i’ve lost at least half a pound every week. (note, this is on MY SCALE amanda, not yours LOL.)

one more thing before i get back to my crunches - jerry is going to open his own blog! he’s looking into the name right now, but i’m excited for him. oh, and he has been working on http://www.lifeisprecious.org. let us know what you think.

josiah pulled himself up to stand today. i surprised him and he fell over. but he still keeps trying to do it again. he is SO STRONG and SO DETERMINED! i am not ready for this!!! he is crawling EVERYWHERE and is TOO BIG!!!! where is my baby???