SCHOOL!!!

How can it be time!!! Back in December of 2006 I couldn't have even dreamed what August of 2012 would look like....WOW....yep it's true...time flies...

We went to the mall tonight to pick up Carrsons first ever pair of "school shoes". He tried on 2 pair and chose these all by himself. I can't believe in 10 days my very first baby starts school!

CAMPING!

I hope we dont regret this! We have decided to go camping! on the beach! in a tent! yes....camping on the beach in a tent....in July. Crazy? Maybe. Regardless we will have some of the best memories I'm sure! Carrson has been asking to sleep in a tent for a while now and we've never been. Its typically too hot to camp in Texas unless you go in the Spring or in the Fall when the weather is more mild. But if we actually have a good time this weekend we are going to invest in a tent of our very own! Our super sweet friends are letting us borrow theirs for the weekend! (THANK YOU!) have you ever tried to pack for camping? like real camping...roughing it? Its a lot of work! I have a 4 page organized list broken down in to the different sections for the different types of items we will need just crazy. we will have no electricity or running water for 2 1/2 days...so when you think of it like that maybe that will help you imagine everything we will need. Maybe I'm just that in the dark about camping and yall already knew all of that. Needless to say its taken several lists and lots of organizing to get us ready but we are almost there! I'm getting excited! The best part is it will cost us a tank of gas there, $12 beach parking permit, and a tank of gas home...thats it! beach vacation on the cheap!

Long Time No See!!!

Its been such a long time since I've written anything here...I'd like to get back in to blogging but I'm not going to promise anything yet. Carrson starts school in 5 weeks! Just 5 more weeks will he get to be carefree and not have to worry about homework. He will be in school through college (I hope!) and then working after that so really until retirement! Yikes! He is really excited and because his birthday is in December he already knows sooo much. He can count to 100, reads and sounds out words, can spell and write his name and many other words, can do basic addition and subtraction, and now we are working on counting money. All of this he has shown interest in and so we just teach as he shows interest. Paisley just turned 3 years old at the end of May and wow...I feel like I was just on here writing her birth story! She has grown so fast and is just a gorgeous beautiful little girl...but don't tell her that! She loves to hang with bubba and is obsessed with "being a boy" she doesn't want to wear skirts or dresses because she doesn't want anyone to tell her she looks pretty. She wants people to tell her she is handsome like bubba ;) She is our shy girl and wont even make eye contact with people she doesn't know or doesn't see often. Which also means she will not go to her class at sunday school haha! but thats ok because she is so quiet she just sits in the big church with us when we go and just writes or whatever she feels like doing quietly at the time. Violet will turn 1 on 8.31.12, what a whirlwind of a year that was..transitioning to having 3 kids was no joke! I feel like it definitely took a little bit to feel like I wasnt drowning in laundry and chaos! not to mention I dealt with Postpartum Depression this time around and finally I feel like thats all under control! (thats a whole other post, lol) She started walking at 9 months old....she has been the earliest walker of the 3. She is definitely the one who has just flown through the milestones the fastest, just blows my mind! The only thing she wasnt in a hurry to do was get here...she was born at 42 weeks and that was my longest pregnancy of the 3...guess she is all about trumping all the records as far as the kids go...longest pregnancy, heaviest birth weight, quickest with all the milestones...ok, ok Violet we get it..YOU win! As for me I'm studying to become a Natural Childbirth Educator through a program and series of classes called Birth Boot Camp www.birthbootcamp.com Its all about educating moms about natural childbirth and breastfeeding. Its something I've become so passionate about in the last 5 1/2 years and I'm excited to share it with the rest of the world! Literally anyone who will listen! When my kids are all in school I'd like to pursue Midwifery School and become a midwife...thats really my life long passion, as far back as I can remember I've always wanted to help mothers deliver babies...and thats transformed from wanting to be an OB/Gyn to wanting to be a midwife...much more my cup of tea. hopefully I can get back to blogging regularly! Megan

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milestones galore!

I dont even know where to start...Paisley can do just about anything she wants now its nuts! the short list is:
crawling
pulling up to stand
wave bye bye
wave hi
say dada, bubba, rara (not sure what the heck rara is but its the first the she babbled constantly)
she can vocalize when she wants something, she kind of grunts at it to hint to us to start figuring it out haha
and she can do back bends....well while having a mini meltdown that is ;)
she is getting really big really fast and just developmentally she is amazing me each day, i always text rusty while he is at work saying, she is doing this, or she is doing that and its just awesome to see her grow and change each day. loosing my job was one of the hardest things for me because i've always been a very busy person going and going and never stopping to smell the roses but this past 13 months has forced me to do so and its been the most rewarding 13 months of my life, it wont last forever but i can't even express to you how amazing its been being with my children at home. Its hard being a working mom, and its hard being a stay at home mom and i've officially done both. all i can say is its going to be really hard having to go back to work, unless i sell everything in my house to stay at home first so i dont have to go back and i can keep enjoying my kids and watch them grow and learn. who knows maybe i'll be blessed to get a job that keeps me at home with them so I dont have to miss out :).

sickness update!

well everyone is better around here thank goodness, they just have the lingering after effects of their colds, little runny noses but both are great now! the colds usually last about 10 days and there is really nothing you can give to them i usually just dish out the vicks baby rub and the vaporizer and all the nursing for paisley and loves and cuddles for carrson that they can stand and then one day they are just better. :) christmas is coming fast! wow!! and carrson is now 3 yikes! too fast just too fast!

Sick kiddos... :(

Well after 6 months and 4 days Paisley is officially SICK :( she has a runny nose, and cough and watery eyes. The cough and runny nose I can handle, I know things need to run their course and there isnt much you can do to interfere. But today when her normal cough turned in to a barking cough, thats when I start to interfere. So instead of calling her Ped where all they are going to say is come in and then there we are just exposed to all kinds of germs right now while all kinds of kids are sick with much worse, I call my trusty midwife Kelly. So now both the kids are on Elderberry and Robitussin DM as needed. Carrson is getting better, his cold seems to be on its way out, he only coughs occasionally mainly at night or when he has been playing too hard. But Paisley is right smack in the middle of hers, right at the point where it gets worse before it gets better, so stuffy (sucking out her nose like crazy)and congested to where her little nose just leeks. Her little cough is so sad but for being sick she at least seems in good spirits most of the time besides needing to eat every 2 hours and taking some really long naps lately but hopefully our house if clear of the yuck very soon!