The Sun is Shining!

What a hot day!! I have been trying to work out and eat better the last few days after i realized i gained 7 lbs only the last few weeks! my new obsession is chocolate delight cereal by special k! i eat it at night instead of dessert which i feel like has been a major part of my down fall! so my exercise for today was a walk and trip to the park with my great friends Katie and Rebecca and Orlando's best friends Jax and Addy! We stopped and got starbucks on the way, which tasted A.M.A.ZING!

Orlando was the most active he has ever been at the park! we went to a knew one the didn't have swings so he couldn't do his favorite park activity. because of the no swings and his latest "trick" of pulling himself up onto everything! and crawling around the equipment.

We had a really good time but once we were in our car and on the way home i had this feeling like i wasnt hanging out with my "bestest friends, that i do everything with and always hang out with" i guess i just felt a distance and a lot more catching up than i would have wanted with my best girl friends. i havent decided if its the season we are in right now or if not going to the same church is going to affect our my friendships more than i anticipated... lame..

i am so excited about summer with my growing baby boy and discovering swimming and walking and im sure lots of sunscreen and park visits!! we already have another one scheduled tomorrow with Grandma, Papa Kevin, Jennilee and my nephews!

xoxo

Our First Trip to the ER....

So we had a very eventful day yesterday... my even keeled, great tempered baby boy was so grumpy! the first half of the day was normal and then i went to lay him down for his second nap and he was screaming! it was a different kind of scream and i am put off guard because it is so unusual for him. i try to let him work it out on his own but when his screams began escalating i went in a got him. then the crazy started! he still was screaming while i was holding him. not only was he screaming hard but he was laying his head down on my shoulder, if he is normally throwing a fit he would be pushing off of me and turning his head all over the place. so i knew he was tired but couldn't figure out what the screaming was about. and for those of you who have kids you understand how broken my heart is at this point.

after an inspection from me, gabriel, and his auntie Jennilee, none of us could come to a conclusion. and im holding him and patting his back to try and sooth him he lets out a a good burp and im thinking yes! ok he has gas its hurting him and thats why he is screaming and wont sleep! he begins settling down and falls asleep on gabriel's chest. we figure we are free and clear until about 20 minutes later he wakes up screaming again. we decide to go to bible study in the city and the car ride will help him sleep, which it did. he slept all the way there. when i pulled him out of the car he just collapsed his head on my shoulder again and pretty much stayed right there until the end of study. he is such an active baby i was really concerned about how tired and unactive he was. then the kicker he is sleeping on my shoulder and then wakes up looks at me, makes a funny face, then i had my first experience of bring thrown up on. it was so gross and at the same time i felt so bad for him and felt a tiny bit embarrassed and disruptive. (which i know is silly but hey im human!)

so on our way home i called the advice nurse to see what i should do and she was concerned about him bring so unresponsive and told us to go to the ER. of course as soon as we get there he is holding his head up and looking around again. the Dr said he doesnt have any signs of dehydration and to just keep an eye on his fluids! good news! so at the end of the day we got some very expensive peace of mind! and i am so thankful! when we got home he nursed which is great because he had refused to twice. he is almost normal today and so far have had a great morning! thank you to all of you who sent your prayers! the first picture is of my poor baby at the hospital and the last two are his improvement today!

btw not sure if you can tell but he pulled himself to standing on the coffee table all by himself!

Rainy days and growing babes!

so for the first time in months Orlando would not take his second nap! i was babysitting jax and i think that he knew he was here and would NOT sleep! it was so weird for me because he is such a good napper i felt lost with what to do! i tried for a while to let him put himself back to sleep and after a while i caved... i brought him out to play with jax and he was in such a good mood! so strange that he skipped his nap and was being an angel! he totally just wanted to play with his friend.

they played so cute together too! they haven't just played together in probably over a month because of flu season. katie was sick, then jax was sick, then i was sick! and now at 7 and 8 1/2 months the sit up on their own and actually are interacting with each other and their toys! so cute! they are both such good babies!

orlando has practically perfected his crawling. it has been exactly one week since his first few moves forward and im so impressed with how quick he picked it up! he was like that with rolling over too! i think he is one of those babies that waits to do something until he is confident he knows exactly what to do! he is growing so big and his face is looking so grown up lately! he is looking just like his daddy! so handsome!

i am so ready for spring and sunshine! not a huge fan of the heat but i was taking orlando to the park for several days in a row last week and could only go on thursday this week because of so much rain! its really nice for o and i to get out and get some air and exercise together! so please rain rain go away! :D

xoxo

Hope, Love, and happiness!

Life has been crazy crazy latly! i have been aprehensive about posting about finding a new church... But we have been on the hunt for 3 1/2 months and are finily settling into something new! it is in SF and we are more than thrilled! we are diving into groups tomorrow and excited about meeting new people and reaching a whole new city! we visited for the first time two weeks ago. the chruch is new,

its frist service was the first sunday of feb. The worship was great, i felt comfortable, they were talented, and they sang some of my favorite songs, which really helped make it feel like home! i think what really got us was how welcoming everyone was! from getting off the elevator to walking down the hall and around the corner to the kids room i think about 10 people greeted us! we already felt like we knew people! and the kicker was the usher sat us in the second row behind the pastor!!! That was our "seats" at tg! we felt so comfortable and welcomed! and then the pastor began his message.... and it couldnt have been more pertinent to our live and our talk on the drive that very moring to chruch! the message was on leadership and contrasting positional leadership to servant leadership! something that has been on gabriel and my hearts and minds for the past few months. God is so faithful and amazing about getting his message to his people in and understandable and applicable way. our lives have flipped upside down in the past few weeks we have a prospect of gabriel going to school and me going back to work! so friends please be praying for continued direction in our lives! God has been so good to us!
favorite quote of the week:
"God doesnt call the the equipped, God equips the called"

on a seperat, lighter note, Gabriel complains that i never write about him in my blog! We are growing and developing our communication all the time! i feel like the "blending" and "becoming one" is like... real... HAHA! i feel silly i dont know how to describe it but i guess bottom line i am sooo happy and "holy" married... (a pun from one of gabriels fav pastors ed young and his series called holy married, highly recommend btw) gabriel is such an amazing dad and makes o laugh like ive never seen!! they are totally buddies! (he even changed a poopy diaper this morning!!;P )

i guess for me my life has been filled with so much joy and fufillment because i have really been honoring god in the good and the bad! it makes such a difference on the bad days and makes the good days that much greater! YEY!!

well my darling hubby just got home from work with taco bell!! yes its late and im eating great! first time ive have it since january.... i hope i dont make this a habit!...

gnight! xoxo

sleep or lack there of it?

one of the biggest questions i got as a new parent was "are you getting enough sleep?" in the early weeks the answer was "yes he did really good last night" or "no...". Now i have had the pleasure of having a very good sleeper on my hands. i can count the nights with two hands, and maybe a few toes, when gabriel and i sat there starring at one another wondering what the heck is our son screaming about and what do we do now...

Now that he is bigger and set in his schedual he sleeps very predictably at night. we eat dinner and play, bath on most nights (dont get me started on how messy of an eater he is that is a whole nother post) we snuggle, nurse and off to bed he goes. right to sleep not a peep until morning. so here i am its around 9:30 or so and have nothing but time on my side. its way to late to clean or do anything that "needs" to be done so i get of fb then one thing leads to another and i am up watching american idol until 2 am. so in resolution to my "enough sleep" question i guess the real question is do you have to option to get enough sleep? and if you do will you take advantage of it?

on a not so "ahh-ha" moment. Orlando turned 8m old yesterday! i cant believe how big his is!! weighed him today and he is 21.8 lbs! wow! really big for an 8m old! the last few days i have been going through orlandos birth video footage and composited a movie of all the clips. so after watching the videos of him bearly opening his eyes and being so sleep and snuggly and fast forwarding to watching my son scoot around the floor learning to high five and giggling with his mommy and daddy it is amazing hoe much he has grown and changed over the last 8m. i have loved every stage and new development and while i miss him being so small watching him learn new things and develop different emotions is so rewarding! i am so busy and wil try to post more stuff! sometimes i feel like nobody wants to read my "ramblings" about motherhood and my son.. lol but thats all that seems to be on my blog.. so there we have it! gnight!
kalli