Hope Still Flies

I'm in denial.

No matter how long some days have been, this past year has flown by even faster than the ones before it. Can't life take it easy for one minute? Can't it see I'm trying to hold onto these moments?

But here we are. My baby's one.

It's been a good month. Everyone's stayed fairly healthy. Little coughs and sniffles. Atti's second tooth just popped through this week! That plus his next mental leap means sleep has been absolutely horrendous the past few days, but before that he was doing great. I have to remember that even on these terrible nights he usually does one 4-6 hour stretch, and he never used to do that. Slowly but surely.

He's officially a walker now. Not long after his 11 month birthday he was pretty much done with crawling. He walks all the time now, likes to do laps around the house. He's doing well in his new room at daycare. Even when he's super clingy.

I know a lot happened the past month, but I'm not having a lot of luck remembering. New York was amaaaazing. Friends, food, Waitress. I could talk about Waitress and Sara Bareilles for daaaays. I wouldn't even know where to start. And Kait, Olivia, and Jenny managed to not lose me. Loved it. Love them. And Mike and the boys survived at home without me (like I had any doubts). We also found out yesterday where Michael matched for his internship starting in August, and we don't have to move. Hooray! He's excited, he ended up exactly where he wanted to. I'm excited I get to put off the anxiety of moving and switching the boys schools for another year.

(Because Fall 2019 Thad will be starting KINDERGARTEN. YOU GUYS.)

Anywho. I took everyone out one of the 60 degree days a couple weeks ago and snapped some pictures. Atti lost his shoes at home before we left and we didn't notice so he went barefoot. Then I didn't tie his balloon tight enough so we lost that. It was a good time. Shows how much I have my shit together on a daily basis (aka not at all). They'll all be on FB, but here's my favorite, probably.

Not doing much for Atti's birthday today. Grocery shopping, birthday presents, and getting him some Orange Leaf. For Thad's birthday next Saturday we'll be making our first trip to Science City, and we're all pretty excited about that.

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Here we are! T-minus one month til the big first birthday. No idea how we got here so fast.

The past month hasn't had as much excitement, mostly. He FINALLY popped his first tooth through on Christmas, but with no teeth behind it. He's got a cute one-toothed grin though. We were healthy for... a few weeks. Then Atti and Thad both came down with RSV - obviously worse for Atti. We ended up in the ER one night because he had a fever that wouldn't come down and trouble breathing. All the tests later, basically told he was positive for RSV, and to keep doing breathing treatments. In addition we were already treating for an ear infection.

We went back for a follow-up at his doctor and his ears still look a little red, and she said his chest still sounded very tight so we're going back next week. Poor dude. And his ear infection definitely led to him not walking as much (balance issues) or talking/yelling as much. The past few days he's definitely been doing more of both of those. 

He's done pretty well transitioning to the 1s room at school. The usual, "whoa now these kids are big and walking" fears, he's been pretty attached to his teachers. But it seems like this past week he's been walking around and playing a bit more. Probably up to walking 20 or 30% of the time, but when he's got places to be, crawling is his mode of transportation. He does like standing as often as possible though.

Next month will involve me taking a wonderful weekend trip to NYC (solo!) to visit some awesome friends, birthday pictures, and match day for Michael. By my next update we'll know whether or not we have to move next year for his last year of school. No birthday parties, I don't think. Both boys birthdays are on Saturdays, so we'll probably do something for each of them on their days.

And I'm just over 2 months away from being able to drive again. So close.

 

 

 

 

 

In under a little closer to the wire tonight...

Here we are - the countdown to 1 year old! Less than two months to go. I'll have to start thinking about the one year stuff - pictures (inside or outside), cake smash (was really good about not giving Thad a lot of sugar prior to 1 year... Atti had like 3 cookies over the past five days), party (dual with Thad? None at all?) And I can't believe we're already just about 60 days away. Less than the length of my maternity leave. 

Okay, okay, I'm done. It's been a busy month. Me pretending I wasn't spending too much money Christmas shopping (I was). Poor Thad caught strain A of influenza about 2 weeks after his strain B... and then I caught that, and then got pneumonia from that. Short stint of antibiotics and a steroid inhaler later I was mostly good. But then the day we left for our Christmas celebration at my parent's, I started getting worse again. By yesterday I figured I might as well run to urgent care so I didn't end up at the ER on Christmas. Sinus infection, bronchitis, some stupid virus that made my voice go away, etc etc. So more antibiotics, steroids... tough winter here sickness wise. The current hope is that Michael stays healthy before his trip for all his internship interviews. Good vibes and prayers for him January 4th-12th basically, I think we'd both appreciate it. He'll be doing a lot of driving and interviewing. My sisters are coming to my rescue to help me drive the boys around while Michael is gone (thank you, sisters!) and hopefully keep the boys alive.

3 months left of no driving!! No more seizures. 

Big news! Sounds like Atti will be moving up to the 1s room at daycare in the next few weeks. Cue my "WHAT" tears. I can't believe we're already there. BUT since he's taking steps, they can classify him as walking and they think he'll do great in the 1s room. I'm worried about the one nap thing but... we'll see how it goes.

Which, he's "walking"! He's such a speed crawler he still does that, but he's getting better at taking 5-10 steps. So it begins.

 Just got home today from our Wichita Christmases. Blessed beyond measure, as usual. The boys were spoiled. Lots of love and cuddles (and cold) and I don't know what I did to deserve any of it. But forever thankful.

And here we are. 9 months  with Atticus. It's early, my brain's not fully functioning (I generally run at about 75% capacity 90% of the time now...) but let's see.

Obviously the biggest thing Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!! We've been fortunate enough to spend it here in Wichita at my parent's house with my family, which means both boys are being spoiled and loved on and Atti's separation anxiety isn't super bad like Thad's was this age so he love playing with other people and even let Madi and Megan put him to sleep a couple times yesterday. Yay, break! And then Garrett and Thad played outside for most of the day. He was in Heaven. Thank goodness for great weather these few days.

Halloween was... well, really cold. The boys looked adorable, but you couldn't even tell Thad was dressed up because he had to be decked out in his coat, hat, and gloves. And Atti stayed with Marcy and Ryan while we ran to a few houses. But hey. They were cute. Though it seems my pictures aren't on my computer. Oops.

Other than that it's been a fairly uneventful month. Michael finished up his internship applications (waiting to hear from those), and last week we had approximately 4 sicknesses making their way through the household. That was slightly terrible. Atti had bronchitis and an ear infection, Thad had the flu, Michael and I had colds, and then some sort of random stomach bug. But we do all seem to be on the mend now, thankfully.

And almost two months down of my no driving. I've only driven Michael to insanity a few times about it.