What we've been up to!

It feels so good to be back! But, the break was much needed and appreciated. I didn't realize HOW much time I spend on the internet until it was taken away for 3 weeks. The only thing I got on to do was check my email, I read a couple of blogs of other people here and there, and got on for school work. But my main focus was to take some time off from the facebook/blogging "alternate" world and focus on my actual day to day life.

We have had a busy, exciting, semi-rested, eventful, fruitful month! Thankfully I didn't fast from my camera so I have lots of pictures to prove it. So, here is what we've been up to...

We met Jill for breakfast one morning and ended up staying so late that we went ahead and ate lunch too. Ha! What can I say, she is my bff and we always have lots to talk about. :) However I got no picture of me and Jill but a few of little man before we left.

I had a fabulous girls day with my other bff Krystle. She was sooo sweet and treated me to a massage in Southlake! We enjoyed a yummy lunch at Panera the next day after church and of course, lots of talking occurred.

Tristan and I got lots of one-on-one time together. We enjoyed playing in his room, vegging around the house, running errands, and having lots of "mommy and me time". We tried to keep as warm as we could during the super cold days.

My wonderful Gateway Group met for the first and second time. Oh how I love those ladies so.very.much. They are such blessings to my life! I will have to get a picture of all of us this Wednesday when we meet.

Poppy and Mimi had their nightly "Tristan duty" while I went to work and this is how my mom found Poppy and Tristan in my bed one night. How funny is this??!!

Tristan went on many a playdates. The boy has quite a social life. One of his favorites was to Chuck E Cheese with Emma, Tripp and aunt Jill. I love watching him enjoy his friend's company. It just goes to show that even at a young age we were created for relationship. I pray Tristan builds lasting, fruitful friendships that he can carry with him his whole life.

Jill is such a wonderful friend to me and aunt to Tristan. Last Wednesday she picked Tristan up from school, took him home and her and her husband cooked him dinner, played and let me sleep til 7:30pm that night.  They are so proud of him and always so willing to help.

And yes, I gave my son his pacifier to prevent major meltdown mode when it was time to leave...desperate times call for desperate measures!

Don't they look like 2 little men here chatting away? They are so funny together.

Knocked out from a morning of playing!

We went to church some more, wore hats instead of fixing our (Tristan's) hair (which is getting so long and curly!) and to lunch with aunt Ashley afterwards.
My new favorite picture of my son!!

They newly re-did the children's area near in the nursery and despite the look on T's face, he loved it! :)

Perhaps the BIGGEST news is that we began potty training! Tristan has shown interest for some time now which is kind of uncommon for most boys his age but I am more than okay with it. The very first time he sat on the potty he went and was SO proud of himself, so was I! We cheered, sang, dance...nearly cried. All for pee pee and poo poo, who would've thought?! Ha. I must say he is too precious wearing underwear that aunt Ashley bought for him. We let him pick out the kind he wanted and surprisingly he turned down Mickey AND Thomas for Cars, the movie underwear. He has never seen it before but based on his love for race cars, I guess I wasn't too shocked.


  I asked my mom to bring T a piece of chocolate to reward/re-enforce his good "deeds" and she did. However, she brought him a gourmet chocolate truffle. Seriously??!! ONLY Mimi would do that. I was thinking an M&M or 2. She cracks me up. Nothing but the best for her grandbaby.

 Can you tell by his face above and below that he was proud of himself?!

Tristan definitely has the hang of going potty! On day two he had ZERO accidents and his teachers sent a note home saying that he did great at school going potty! It's so nice to take his diapers off and see that there is nothing in them. I guess I'll give the rest of the ones we have away and start letting him wear pull ups and underwear more. I can't believe it was so easy, I think it's my reward for him not being a good sleeper. :)

I went to the endorcinologist last week for the results of my blood work and found out that I do NOT have hyperthyroidism!! Praise God. My iron levels are slighlty low so I will be on 1 iron supplement a day. However, my Vitamin D levels are in my doctor's exact words "very, VERY low". The normal level is 40 mine is at a 6. She asked me, are you tired ALL the time, feel dizzy and just miserable?! I thought wow...um, not really. Ha! Since I work nights its hard for me to tell if I'm tired due to that or because of other chemical reason but dizzy, yes. I get horrible dizzy spells that nearly take me to the ground. She prescribed me 50,000 IU of vitamin D to take once a week for 3 months, 2 Vitamin D supplements a day and I have to sit in the sun atleast 15 minutes a day. Working the night shift I go home at 7am and the sun is barely rising, I wake up at 5/6pm and it's getting dark. I need sun! Then I will go back for another round of blood work (yippee) to re-test my levels. I say ALL that to say that there is no medical reason why I haven't been gaining weight, so I just have to start eating a whole lot more. I will be consulting a nutrionist for help on eating the right foods and the right amounts of it.

The last thing I've been up to is graduate school. I can't believe I'm actually enrolled and taking classes but I LOVE it already. So different from undergrad. I had class from 5:30 to 10:30pm then went straight to work til 7am last week. Thank goodness my 5:30 class ends on 7:45pm and only meets on Monday and my 8-10:30pm class is only every other Monday! :)

During our break Mimi and Poppy's Christmas present FINALLY came in the mail. Better late than never! Mimi had it framed and up the same day she loved it! I got them an 11 x 14 canvas of a pic of them from Tristan's 2 year photos. :)

Well there ya have it. We have been busy but blessed. I am off to capitalize on Tristan's nap time and do some home/house work. I PROMISE that the next post will be Tristan's room. It is finished, actually it's been finished for about 3 weeks now but I was on my blogging break.

Taking a break from blogging

As hard as it will be for me to resist posting precious pics of my little hunk on here for the next few weeks, I know a break from blogging and facebook is a must. I don't know about y'all but sometimes I feel like I am so busy posting about life that I forget to live it.

I am about to enter into my first semester of graduate school. I am still nursing a sick boy back to health. I start leading my Gateway Group on Wednesday morning. The list goes on and on but the point is that I am committed to a lot of things so in the hour or two each evening I am not doing those things or at work, I want to be spending time with Tristan or with the Lord.

The beginning of every year our church does a church wide fast. Most people do a certain food, a particular meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and use the time they would be eating to spend time with God. Of course not everyone can do food because of health reason or they feel called to give up something else that consumes them more. I do not think my endocrinologist would be happy at all if I told her I was not going to eat one of the three meals each day. Ha! She is busy as it is getting me to gain weight so I figured I would take a different approach to the fast and give up two things that take up way more of my time than eating does.

I pray that during this time away I can regain focus in some areas of life. That I can use my time more wisely, live a little less vicariously through others :) and enjoy being in the moment. I'll have to do a "what we've been up to" post when I return because I am sure I will have plenty to update on!

Be back soon,

Catching up!

Phew! This past week has been a bit of a blur. Tristan was diagnosed with pneumonia, I registered for my first semester of graduate school, one of my childhood friends got married last night, and I had to be at church at 9am this morning for a leadership class because my Bible study group of amazing women starts this Wednesday!

Tristan didn't go to school one day this week so that made sleeping during the day nearly impossible. Even though my mom was here with him, he knew I was in my room. Thankfully my boss gave me Thurs and Fri night off so I could give my little man some TLC and my poor mom a break from "sick baby duty". He is doing SO much better and I am thankful for that. On one of the days that it was nice outside she took him out to her garden to plant flowers, in his pjs...such a Mimi thing to do! :) He loved it and told me all about it.

Since poor Tristan had been locked up all week long in the house I took him out to DBU with me on Friday to register for classes. It was so surreal to be back on campus registering for graduate class but got me very excited for this next chapter in life.

We cannot be on Dallas Baptist University campus and not see aunt Ashley, she would be very upset. I asked her to lunch and assumed she knew my shadow aka Tristan Kye would be with me. Ha! But she thought I left him at home since he had been sick so she was thrilled to see her boy!

My son insisted on turning his hat sideways...even after I pleaded, seriously, for him not to. He had such a fun time exploring the library and visiting friends of mine.

I mentioned that the meds T is currently taking for his lungs make him crazy hyper. I was SO thankful to the Lord above that my child fell asleep right before my advising session!

"Mr. Cool" sound asleep! :)

I decided to take Tristan to the wedding last night and he did fabulous! Several sweet moms came up to me and told me how shocked they were that he did so good during the ceremony. He sat on my lap and held his little truck the whole time. I was smart and gave him his medicine early that morning so it was nice and worn off by nightfall. Ha!

Tristan had a blast and was so comfortable with everyone. If you know T you know he is normally shy and rarely leaves my side out in public. I was so proud that he socialized and let loose. Every time I looked up he was with someone else (most of the time an adoring woman) playing, dancing, eating or chatting it up!

Allie and Tristan had the best time play "peek a boo", sharing food and she even took him out on the dance floor. He loves his "Alwie"!

Morgan and Tristan gettin' down on the dance floor!

I should probably go tackle the mounds of laundry staring me in the face, clean up Tristan's room which I PROMISE to post pics of this week and get our lives back in order after a hectic/out of the ordinary week, even though this weather makes me want to throw on a pair of sweats and cuddle up by the fire... I can dream, right?!

Happy snow Sunday!

The calm before the storm...

Sunday we went to church and Tristan was so happy to go to his class! We had lunch with my grandparents then Tristan took a four hour nap...suspicious. He woke up with a 102 fever, poor guy was not feeling good. You would never know by the pictures below!

T man insisted on holding our hands and smiling the cheesiest of smiles. :)

This is Tristan's new smile. He closes his eyes, and says "sheeese"! It cracks us up, he is such a mess.

My poor little guy ended up being very sick the next day so I took him into his pediatrician who immediately gave him an emergency breathing treatment. He listened to his lungs after and diagnosed him with pneumonia. Tristan usually only has to have breathing treatments if he is having a particularly rough day which is every few weeks, but right now he has to have 3 to 4 a day. If you know anything about albuterol, the medicine he is taking you know it makes kids BOUNCE off the walls. Tristan is usually SO calm, close to perfect...oh boy, he is every where. It is hilarious and scary all at the same time. He literally ran laps in our living room last night, hopped in place for about 30 minutes and made my sister play "Ring around the Rosie" for about an hour. Ha! As soon as I got off work this morning I picked him up and he threw up, everywhere. Ugh! Needless to say he has been in pjs all day long and is taking it easy. Depending on how he does through the night we may be going back up to Cooks. Never a dull moment, I'm just glad it's happening now and not the week of Christmas.

I am off to tend to my sweet little boy! But first is a picture that we took Sunday, Tristan's face is priceless. He is looking so mature in certain shots. I just want my baby to start feeling better. Is it Spring yet?! This cold air is not good for his lungs.