Pumpkin Patch!

We have had a weekend full of fall festivities, and it has been the most fun weekend that I can remember having in a very long time, it was way overdue!!! We made a scarecrow, made caramel and candied apples, found a new church (which is a post in iteslf), decorated the house fall-y, went to the pumpkin patch, and just had an overall perfect weekend!! This is going to be a picture overload, sorry in advance, there are just so many cute ones! Also, If you don't mind, do you think any of these are first bday invitation worthy?? I was hoping so but need some input! Thanks :)

 I love this face :)

 Our scarecrow, yes he has a beer haha!

 Bobbing for apples in kitchen sink- yes we are that lame haha!

 Daddy & his girl

 Mommy & Lexi

 Family <3

 Daddy's girl

 this one might possibly be the one on the invite. yes or no?

 her faces crack me up!

 clapping her hands

 she fell over then just layed there lol

 or this one for the invite??

Well if you made it to the end let me know what you think!! Hope you enjoyed our pics :)

*Misdiagnosis*

Gasp! The ER doctor MISDIAGNOSED my cupcake baby! Excuse my language but I was PISSED! Yesterday we went in to our pediatrician for what I thought was the second round of the flu vaccine and we couldn't even get it! You see, yesterday morning Lexi woke up with no fever (score!!) and feeling almost completely back to normal except at 9ish she developed a rash! Great, I thought. So we see the doctor and he says she had the roseola virus and asked if the ER doctor ran any tests or anything. Nope, negative, nada just told us we wasted his time. Thank God it wasn't anything major or that would be malpractice on his part? But She is doing much better, still has a rash but no fever and back to normal! Very thankful for that. Oh BTW, any fever over 101 isn't teething so if someone tells you this, don't fall for it!
Anyways, Lexi co-sleeping hasn't been working out for us lately and last night was the straw that broke the camels back. Needless to say, neither her nor I slept but maybe 2 hours! So crazy! So I started my research into the No Cry Sleep Solution and ordered the book from Amazon this morning. I think I am going to order Dr. Sears sleep book as well, I agree with alot of his ideas and ways to raise kids! I also discovered while researching that I have a 'high needs' baby. It's nothing I did wrong (which I always blame myself for) it is just her personality! Big relief off my shoulders! Thank you Dr. Sears for clearing that up for me!! So tonight starts our journey in sleep training. I think it is going to be an epic fail but trying to be hopeful! Keep us in your thoughts and wish us luck, we are going to need it!! I am going to be doing a huge pic update coming up very soon. I have just been lazy lately haha!

Teething Sucks...

This has been a long, rough, and exhausting weekend and I am hoping this isn't a look into our upcoming week! thursday night all night Lexi was warm but never had a fever. She woke up Friday morning with the same thing going on and I kept a close eye on her. She was slowly getting warmer but then at 9:30ish she was 101.5!! I called the doctor and he said that was really hot for her age so he wanted us to bring her in and get her checked. We live an hour and a half from our doctor and I talked to him at 10:10 and he wanted us in there fr 11:30!!! We made it 7 mins late! but I have never gotten myself and Lexi ready that fast including packing the diaper bag, I was very proud! haha! So we get there and spend a whole 5 mins there and he checks her out and says she is good its just teething & maybe possibly fighting a cold. He said if she got as high as 102 but was eating, drinking, peeing, & poohing, then to just wait it out and see what happens and if Monday (when we go in for our second flu shot) she still isn't better he will look further. So we hung out with some friends instead of just turning around and driving another hour and a half straight. Well all day Friday she was just calm and relaxed and outta it. She wasn't happy, smiling, spunky, needy normal self. She was just there, I was a nervous wreck all day to say the least, checking her temp like every 5 mins! (must be a nervous new mom thing?) Well we went to bed Friday night about 10pm and from 10pm-12pm she was waking up every 10-12 mins and we were still monitoring her fever very closely because she felt very very hot!! At 1am she was 103.2! I pretty much freaked out and said screw what he said we are going to ER now!! So we took her into the ER and waited forever and when they took her temp it was only 102.3 and she was acting okay. They gave her Motrin while we were waiting to see the doctor (a whole lot of it...) When we finally saw the doctor he was asking all the questions and was like 'okay well why are you here then?' I am thinking in my head, seriously are you asking me why?? He says 'well she doesn't have any symptoms other than a fever so why are you here?' Me trying not to flip out 'because she had a 103.2 fever and that's too high for me to feel comfortable!' He then goes on checking her and pretty much tells us that we shouldn't have taken her in and that its still just teething. He said we need to be staggering Motrin and tylenol, which freaks me out, that is alot of medicine and she is so small for her age! So he sends us on her way and we get home and are getting ready for bed. Lexi was wired from the motrin and was throwing her nunu and every time she would throw it she made this cute little noise, it was hilarious and cute!!!! So we went to sleep and headed out to Gretna fest. Her fever broke yesterday morning at 3am due to the motrin and didn't return til 3pm in the afternoon. Then from then on til this morning around 8 she was just running warm around 99. Well yesterday she was so calm and relaxed and just out of it, again not my child! We figured she was just tired from the teeth and such. Today her fever has been gone all day but she hasn't been drinking very well and slept all day. We go back tomorrow and I am going to insist he figures out what is wrong. I don't think its teething, I mean she is teething but 103.2 is extremely high! Especially for a baby her age!! Hopefully he gives us some answers of some sort tomorrow. I have been a nervous wreck ever since then and will continue to be until I get my happy, spunky, normal baby back! Please keep us in your prayers :)))

10 months already?1?!?!

Oh Lexi Lynn how I can barely believe that you are 10 whole months old today! This month you have been up to so much and been so busy! I am interested to see what this next month brings, however if you decide to slow down time I am completely alright with that! You are our world and even though this month you have been much fussier than normal you mean so much to us and our worlds would be upside down without you!! You are the greatest thing that has happened to us and we are so blessed and thankful to be your parents! We love you so much baby girl and fall more and more in love with you everyday!! Here is what you have been up to!!

Eating:

You are now on half milk, half formula but are about to make the switch completely to milk!

You eat a whole lot of food in a day and are great at feeding yourself!! 

You are loving big girl food!

You learned how to drink outta a straw 10-1-2011 and now have your first straw sippy cup!

You drink about 4oz juice/4oz water a day and love it! 

You are still a puff monster haha!

We are in the process of cutting the bottle out completely, you don't really mind much except at night

Movements:

You are still a crawler, you seem to be very very content doing that.

You have started crawling with your feet instead of knees, which is hysterical every.single.time!!

You pull up on everything taller than you!

You have taken baby steps a couple times but fall over!

You stand on your own all the time!! & clap your hands while doing it!

You push your walker around like it is nobody's business! 

You are soo very close to walking i can taste it, this saddens me!

Yesterday you took your first solo step to your daddy! Go Lexi!!
you have climbed the stairs on the slide many times, you succeeded your first try, not sure how though!!

Sleeping:
You are still co-sleeping & we are going to break you prob around a year! It works for us.
You go to sleep anywhere between 7 and 9 and have been sleeping thru the night til 7amish.
You still take usually 2 good 1 1/2 hour naps sometimes with a 3rd 30 min one!

Randoms:
You are wearing 3-6 month & 6 month onesies & 6 months clothes. You are a tiny peanut!
I am about to switch you to 6-9 month onesies bc of your cloth diaper butt!
You are quite the little babbler, mom, dada, and baba are your main words!
You have said ew, nana, go and hi. I can't remember the others!
You are a very big cuddle bug and a major mommy's girl!
Blonde hair and gorgeous blue eyes still!
You wore your first pigtails this month & they were so precious!!
You love to play peek-a-boo by yourself, you even laugh when you are hiding from us. it melts my heart! it is so adorable!!

Another month has flown by and you still haven't ceased to amaze us! We are now a month closer to your first birthday, which is bittersweet! We love you more than we can ever express! We look forward to watching you grow and learn some more in the next month!! Love you cupcake baby <3

We have a courageous climber!

My child is quite adventurous, I am not sure where she gets it from because I am a scaredy cat, but she seriously freaks me out sometimes!! Today we had a playdate and the girl climbed up the stairs on the slide multiple times, this isn't the first time either! Where she learned to climb stairs is beyond me, we don't have stairs so I guess she just tried and succeeded maybe? I was too busy protecting her to tape it haha but believe me, it happened! She has been spending lots of time with Mali and Mali is a year and 2ish months and Lexi is more courageous than her, which is kinda funny! The girls get along so well it is hilarious! Yesterday they were both trying to get into the kid lock ahaha!
So today at the play area I was bout to knock a kid out  freak out! There was this little girl who was at least 5 if not older and she was HITTING, KICKING, YELLING, etc at my  10 month old. She would block the tunnel Lexi was trying to climb through, steal the toys she was playing with, just all kinds of stuff! She was such a bully!  Her mother wasn't watching her and didn't seem to care. I seriously considered punching the kid in her face, I wouldn't have done it but still. How would you react to this situation? It was seriously ridiculous and I was completely stunned!
On another note Lexi has taken a liking to older children. She won't play with her younger friends anymore, only the older ones! It is so funny! And she is so very close to walking!

What we have been up to!

We have been pretty busy since we moved to our new little place! We packed up one house, loaded it into a U-haul, unloaded and unpacked all in 5 exhausting days! Well the loading and unloading was just one day but you know what I mean haha! Lexi is  very very close to walking. She stands on her own all the time now and has been taking baby steps here and there but chickening out! I am not ready for her to walk at all!! She is on half milk and half formula (our decision, it is what we think is best!) and eating table foods and feeding herself! She just amazes me how big she is now! It seems like just yesterday she was born! She is babbling like crazy saying words here and there but then not repeating them! But she is adorable, we love her!! No more teeth, but we are dealing with the molars coming in and that has not been fun at all! She will be 10 months is 2 days! We have been hanging out with our new friends Aimy and Mali alot- at least 2 times a week! It has been so fun and such a blast! We are finishing up our bucket list today and then we will start checking things off together! It has been turning into fall kinda! Very excited about that bc the girl has some a-dor-able fall outfits and I can't wait for her to wear them! Love them! I have been working on my business alot lately and learning my sewing machine and embroidery machine! I will be opening an etsy shop soon and also will be doing my first craft show in November! Very nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time! Praying I do well! The hubs job has been great and he loves it! We are loving our new little country town, its so homey and nice!! Hope everyone else is doing great!!!

We are back!!!

We are back! We have been away for what seems like forever but our internet got put in the new house today and we are so excited!! Very much to catch up on, but just wanted to update we are still kicking!!! Hope everyone is doing great!