I must Apologize

so i must apologize for getting everyone sick. i thought aj was getting over his cold until the night in the ER (it totally came on within a hour). sadly i had taken him to chruch the sunday before and had people over sunday night and monday morning. so, so sorry if i got you sick. but our cold went away pretty quick so hopefully if i got you sick you wont be sick for long.

Emergency Room!

so aj and i have been sick on and off for the last week and a half. he got this really bad cold then gave it to me. he was starting to get better and i was pretty much over it too. then monday night he got a 100 fever in like and hour and started to weeze. so now i was worried that his cold had turned into Pnemonia. we debated taking him to the emergency room or just wait till the morning. luckily, thanks to the Navy, we were covered for the emergency room and decided we should just go so that i wasn't up all night worried about him. they did a chest x-ray and this terrible swab-thing in his nose but they said he just had a really bad cold. boy did i feel dumb. the dr was all "don't worry, there is a really bad cold going around and we have had lots of kids in here." i just thought thats what he tells all the overactive moms who bring their kids in with a little fever. but we did see a couple of more kids come in that night and that made me feel better. aj was better by the next afternoon and just like clockwork the following night i got a fever. i am usually able to function when i'm sick but fevers just totally knock me out. so it was not a fun night. the kid is still feelin pretty crappy. so of course he wan'ts to be held non stop its soo much fun over here

Aj can sing! well sort of...

this was his valentines day outfit. i dont know if it was too girly with all the hearts and stuff but i liked it!

Isn't he the cutest little howler you've ever seen!

Aj walking

Aj's Eight Month B-day

So today is and exciting day! Aj is Eight months old today! i just cant believe how big he is getting. i was talking to aaron last night about how fast he has grown already! it kinda makes me so sad cuz i want him to be my little baby forever (i even made him promise when he was like a month old). I cant believe in four months he is going to be one...it just makes me want to cry.

aaron on the other had is way excited about it. he cant wait for the walking and talking toddler years. he is so excited to take him fishing and hiking and camping and all other boyish stuff.

I also got a first glimpse of what i have to look forward to when raising a boy. Today while i was changing aj's diaper and clothes he decided to try the baby powder. i was getting an outfit out of the closet. usually i leave the babypowder out of reach but i had just used it to change him and in a split second he rolled over grabbed it and rolled onto his back with the open end facing him. it was a new bottle so it poured out very fast. his whole face and mouth were completely covered. in the shock of things he breathed in (which is like breathing in powder sugar in your mouth and up your nose at the same time) so of course i went into crazy panic mode. i picked him up and flipped him over in and instant and started giving him the Heimlich and trying to sweep stuff out of his mouth with my finger. (i figured chocking-thats what you do) but its powder you cant just sweep it out. so i ran him over to the sink to wash his mouth out. I'm pretty sure at this point he was fine (other than a ghost white face) but i was still in panic mode! so now he's crying cuz i'm trying to wash his mouth out while i am trying to sooth him with the not so soothing "ITS OK, DONT CRY, DONT SWALLOW,  JUST BREATH!"  and im sure all he is thinking is "why did Heavenly Father stick me with the Crazy mommy?" Well i called the dr who had me call poison control who told me he would be fine since powder is really just cornstarch. but of course they had to get all my information 'just in case i called back with more questions' which really means 'just in case i'm a crazy who makes their kid sick for attention'. which i'm not if your wondering. oh my gosh and what kills me: after all this the first thing aj's does as im talking to the poison control lady, reading all the ingredients, he reaches out and tries to get the powder again! you think he would learn.

I'm just kinda bummed cuz i was hoping to get to at least a year before he started his mischievous ways. I know aaron was a little hellion so i know i have so many more broken bones and fractured whatnots to look forward to. in fact the whole time i was thinking "if i had a little girl she would have never done this! oh im so glad i'm stuck with the harpel curse!" 

More Pictures

Some Pictures of Aj

so our fun month in Maui is over...it was so great to spend the time with my parents, brother, and Aunt cynthia. i was really bummed to leave...but i was excited to see aaron again (he only stayed for the first week). the trip home with just me and aj was just about the worst ever and i dont think ill do that again. my first flight was delayed two hours, then i had to get my two 5o lb bags, a baby, a car seat, and a 30 lb diperbag to the sea/tac garage to get a ride to a hotel for and over night lay over. i was told we could catch and earily flight home so i got me and aj and all of our stuff to the airport 9 hours before our acctual flight. but of couse the eariler flight was cancled becasue of weather. so we hung at the airport all day. we finally got home at like 11 at night. never again NEVER AGAIN!
since we got back life has gotten back to same old same old. aj has been practicing feeding himself and as actually gotten really good a picking stuff up with his pointer and thumb. he has also started to say mama mostly when he is crying which just pulls at the heart strings. he is pretty much a spoiled little prince. Aaron has just been working away and i have been working hard to get our house all back in order. i feel like i have so much extra time now that aj can roll and army crawl around i can get stuff done now while he entertaines himself. well thats our life so far!