Intervention Time!

This morning an intervention was held for Bright with some of his closest friends invited. Bright has a bad habit of refusing to wear socks and a hat when going outside to check the mail with Mommy. His friends stopped by- all wearing their hats and socks just to show him how it should be done and that all the cool kids are doing it..... Stay at home has too much time on her hands??

Ear Infection

This is Bright- feeling sick with an ear infection- first one ever- but looking cool in his dinosaur jammies!

Bright and momma hanging out. He looks less than thrilled to be held down for this picture.

So Bright has an ear infection and is on antibiotics. I am a little hesitant to give them to him after all you hear about whether or not they really help ear infections, etc. All I know is last night he finally slept for 6 hours straight again after way too many nights of not....

Still Sick

Bright still has a cold. We all do. Mine are always worse than Andy's, and Bright seems to be in good spirits in spite of the continuous stream of goo that he has running down his nose. Poor guy! We are still looking at interesting ideas for houses. Yurts, shipping container conversion... who knows!

Still Cold and now with a Cold

It is still cold as all get out here- the boys decided it was cold enough to zip back on their faux fur collars for a little added protection from the biting winds. Bright now has a full-fledged cold- possibly the first ever. He has had a sniffle or two in the past that lasted only a day- this is a full on cold. Two nights ago he would only sleep laying on my chest with me sitting upright- all night- because he was so congested. Last night he was just all out fussy all night long. His nose is running constantly and he has a cough. Now, if only I could teach him to blow his nose, or let me wipe it without a battle! Upside to things? He napped for three and a half hours yesterday and was in a great mood until nighttime. Down side? Probably will have to cancel playdate today with cousin Madelyn. Rats!

New skills? sneaking in between furniture and getting stuck, sticking head in between slats on the back of dining chairs and getting stuck, somewhat like the kid that gets his head caught in the staircase, chasing the cat while saying "tat, tat, tat", and as per usual, not sleeping well.

Holy Cold!!

Today is Sunday and it is freezing outside- literally. It is 7 degrees and with the wind chill factor is is -25. Holy cow. I am hoping for a snow day tomorrow- for Andy.

First Words

Over the past few days we have been hearing more and more words coming from Bright. He now says Bye, Hi, Cat, Dada. He has been taking great pleasure at waving to people- all people, even those on tv. He has a delayed wave though, so many times the people that he is waving to have long been out of sight by the time he starts waving. Tonight he is having a tough time getting settled down for the night. Grammy and Grampy came to watch him for bit tonight and I think he got overexcited. I put him down at 8 and he has woken up twice in the last hour and a half... I am going to bed now, this might be a rough one. Again.

Ash Wednesday

Last week Bright's godfather, Brian, came for a visit. He brought his light saber and Bright fell in love!

Bright seemed so grown-up in this vest. Have to love those thrift store finds.


Bright and his proud Papa. Bright has been so chatty lately since Andy has gone back to work. As soon as he opens the door after work, Bright can't stop saying Dadadadada.

We tried to take Bright to Ash Wednesday mass. We lasted until just after the ashes were given out. He wasn't misbehaving- just jabbering the whole time and wanting to walk/crawl up the aisle. We left after I got my ashes. Good thing too since there was freezing rain outside. Almost got excited about the possibility of a Snow Day, then remembered that every day is a snow day for those of us that are stay at homes!!

Bright is walking about 70% of the time now. He is pretty steady most of the time. He can toddle around, scoop up toys and keep on going. Pretty impressive. He is working on his first year molars now. we figure he'll be eating steak and corn on the cob for his birthday. Last night was not such great sleeping, but he did have eight and half hours straight the night before that. Who knows what keeps him up at times and why he sleeps better on other nights.