By Fallon

I called my son’s doctors office to find out about how his iron test came back and they told me it came back normal! Good, he is healthy and I can quit worrying about it. Here are some adorable pictures of my cute little baby. Also, everything went fine with Amanda and she went home on Thursday.

Cute little boy

Standing!

Playing with some of his toys

Look at me!

Brother and Sister

hehe

Such a cutie

His new toy

Standing with new toy

Cutie

Hi daddy

Yum yum

My little boy just turned 9 months on the 19th and he just had his check up today. He weighed in at about 19  pounds 1 ounce, about 28 inches long and his head was 46 inches around. He didn’t get any shots today but he did get a routine screening for iron. It was his first time and what they did was they used this little device to poke his finger and then this other thing to absorb the blood that dotted at his finger tip. He didn’t even cry during this. It was a quick acting test that gave them results in minutes.

So after the nurse was finished with all her routine stuff the doctor came in to start his physical and he said that the test came back borderline and so he had to go to the lab and get blood drawn to see if there actually was an iron issue. The quick thing they do in the doctor’s office isn’t always accurate and so there may be nothing to worry about. I am going to be worrying until I call for his results on Friday though. His doctor said that he does look very healthy and that there is probably nothing to worry about. He didn’t cry when they drew his blood either. If they do find out that he has too little iron then they will just give him some vitamins. I really hope everything is fine. His next check up is at 12 months. I can’t believe he will be 1!

Currently he likes to say things like “baba” and “mama”, he also babbles some other cute things. He can walk around our living room table as long as he holds onto it and he’s very active, loves playing. He is still shy with new people. He eats soft fruits and veggies that we eat and really soft cereal thats soaked in milk. He has his two bottom, front teeth in.

I have known Amanda since before I even started school. Our parents grew up together as well. I remember playing Barbies, Hide ‘N Seek and other fun games when we were kids and now she is going to have her own baby tomorrow. I never imagined her with a baby and it’s kind of weird for me, I am sure it was weird for other people when I started having my kids too. I’m really happy for her but at the same time I am worried too. She was planning on going natural but her doctor told her that she was going to be having a pretty big baby, like around 10 pounds and so now she is having a c-section.

I’m sure everything is going to go fine and she’s going to have a cute little baby to make her happy. Her little boy’s name is going to be Logan Kenneth and I can’t wait to see him! When she found out about her c-section recently, she began asking me lots of questions about how mine went. This is very understandable because that’s exactly how I was, I wanted to know everything about how it was going to be. She is pretty nervous but I’ve assured her that everything should go fine. Congratulations Amanda!

My brother Cory just recently graduated from High School and I am pretty proud of him. I knew that he was going to do it, and he did. This is his first step towards becoming an adult and doing what he wants with his life. The graduation was pretty nice and organized, everyone was able to keep their caps and gowns because they were able to buy them and I thought that was kind of neat. All of the guys wore blue and the girls wore white. Most of our closest relatives went and then we had cake afterward.

He has some goals as to what he wants to do, like college and stuff so that is good. He says that he wants to start this summer and that’s even better, I’m sure he is going to do just fine. I think there are a few different things that he wants to do, that can be tough sometimes.. choosing what you want to do most. I’m sure college is much more fun than just High School though, seems like there is more freedom and variety.

Walking to his seat so the graduation can begin.

Just getting home and showing off his diploma.

Celebrating with cake! Yum.

I knew my daughter would love going on the carousel at the mall nearby so I took her to the mall just for that purpose! She has gone on it before but it had been a while so I wanted to refresh her memory about how fun it is. She had the most happy smile she ever had in her whole life. It’s amazing how easy it is to make kids happy. She went on the carousel twice and then we looked around for a while and took her in the Disney Store. She got a new pair of sunglasses and we got the baby a cute outfit. It was a cute little trip.

Her happy smile.

New Sunglasses.

Laguna Beach is a really beautiful beach to visit, especially if you’ve never been to a real beach before and you happen to be in the Orange County area. We just went there recently and we absolutely loved it! I would definitely love to live near there some day, but in the mean time I plan on making many more visits there this summer. We drove down some residential street on our way back and the houses were jaw dropping beautiful.

The waves weren’t very huge when we went but the water still looked really nice. It is so clean there. My daughter and I didn’t go very far in, but we did get our legs wet, at first she was sort of scared of the water and just wanted to run from it when the waves would come crashing in, but she enjoyed it. Most of all she loved playing in the sand building castles and just digging, her daddy even joined in and it was so cute. Our little boy was very content as well so he must have loved it too. He liked watching them play in the sand and just looking out at the beach.

It is so peaceful and nice at the beach that I would lose track of the time and then when it was time to go I didn’t even want to leave. We had a nice lunch there that I packed for us, sandwiches and snacks. Something to remember for the next trip is that 5 minutes in the sun at the beach is a lot and the umbrella doesn’t protect from everything, definitely wear more sunblock next time! I have plenty so that shouldn’t be a problem.  Gosh that day was awesome.

About two weeks ago we purchased a Cockatiel bird from a nearby pet store. Although pet store’s aren’t normally the best choice for a pet, due to the fact of animal farms and that they may not be used to human hands from sitting there so long.. I still believe that this little bird deserves a nice home. He’s settled in pretty good, loves eating and isn’t “too” friendly yet, but I can still hold him, he just pecks a bit and then gets over it.

I want to handle him more and more until he feels really comfortable. He lets me pet the back of his head and is already copying some short tunes that I whistle to him. My uncle had one that whistled the Andy Griffith theme song and it was pretty neat. I want to try and advance my bird to something like that as well. He isn’t hard to take care of at all and my daughter loves him! I’m still not too sure of a name yet but when I ask my daughter what his name should be, she says “birdy” haha I don’t know, I’m just going to think about it a little more.

The people in the pet store said that he is under a year.. that’s good, some Cockatiels can live up to 20 something years! Mine will probably end up living longer though.. my animals always live long. One of my cats is a little over 15!!!

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Although this type of fan may be more typical for small or large business rather than a home, it really caught my attention because summer is coming up soon and it has already begun to get hot here! I am sure there may be someone who would love this in their home if they didn’t happen to have central air conditioning. But anyways, there were some days about a week ago where it reached the 100’s! It sounds like it is going to be one hot summer and it really would be awful to be a customer walking around in a stuffy, hot environment.

When I’m a comfortable customer, I’m a happy customer! So check out their website and decide if this may be an investment you would like to make!

During the beginning of last week it was in the 100’s and so obviously it was very hot. Then when Wednesday rolled in it was cold, windy, raining and hailing! Our electricity got knocked out around 4 pm because one of the transformers got struck by lightning and so we didn’t have electricity until the next morning. It was unbelievable, you don’t realize how important electricity is until you don’t have it.

In addition to that we also didn’t have hot water that morning because for some reason there was a leak, but that wasn’t too bad, I barely noticed because it was fixed rather quickly.

On a more lighter note my little boy started to get a tooth in on the bottom about a week ago and now both bottom ones are actually popping in. My daughter started getting hers in around 6 months but that’s okay. He’s developing so quickly he just doesn’t have time for teeth haha There is no doubt in my mind that he is going to be walking before age 1. He will probably start around 10 months. He’s an expert at grabbing onto things and pulling up. He’s an expert climber (hence the gate at the bottom of my stairs), been an expert crawler forever and just has an adorable little personality. He is also getting more and more interested in the food we eat. He loves all of the veggies, fruits and cereals that I give him but he is still using his bottle. Although im introducing him to water in a sippy cup.

He plays little games with us and especially his sister, he loves peek-a-boo, being cuddled, being chased and chewing on stuff!

My daughter is a really quick learner and has many surprises in store everyday! Pretty soon she’ll be teaching me things hehe But anyways, she pretty much knows the whole alphabet now. She doesn’t know the order yet but when I point to a letter she can tell me exactly what it is. There are only about a maximum of 5 that she isn’t really sure about. She also confuses M with W sometimes.

Her daddy got her this little learning computer that tells you to find the different letters on the keyboard and then to click them. It’s funny to hear her playing with that thing and then hearing “excellent, P is for piano.” She does really well on that thing and it also teaches numbers and a lot of other things that you usually learn later in kindergarten.