Happy Birthday Uncle Monkey!

Just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAYto Coley's UNCLE MONKEY! We miss you dearly and can't wait to see you again!

Mother's Day Weekend

I have to say that I had the best Mother's Day ever! I realize that this was my first one, but i'm not too sure that it can be topped!

So, a couple weeks ago, Krissi (Dave's sister) asked if she could take Cole to Salem with her to visit their other sister, Kassie and Cole's Cousin Trevor (8 weeks older than Cole). We didn't have anything going on so I asked if I could go.....not knowing that she would be working on her Mother's Day gift to me! She called Dave and told him her idea, and to make something up so I wouldn't want to go (she didn't want to be rude and just say 'No, you can't come')! lol. So they went up and I said i'd go next time.
So Friday after work she picked me up from work (we carpool together) and grabbed a pink package from the backseat. I opened the gift to find two GORGEOUS framed pictures! One of Cole and Trevor matching.....



The second was this great NAKED picture! I can't wait to show everyone when he graduates high school!!!!!



Dave decided for Mother's Day he'd call my friend Jen, a photography student, to take some family photos on Saturday. I had tons of fun. I can't wait to see how they turned out. I should have them by the end of the week! I'm stoked! He also went to Thing's Remembered (a personalization store) and bought a BEAUTIFUL 8x10 Silver photo album. I'm going to take it in and get it engraved this weekend. =)

Dave didn't end up having to go to Idaho this week. His boss said he's going to try real hard to make it so he wouldn't have to go at all. Keep your fingers crossed.

Other than that, nothing too exciting.

Bye for now,
Brie

Spring Time

Welcome back to blog world??? Whenever I'm out and about doing errands or even at work I think, "Oh, I should blog tonight"....then by the time I get home, I'm exhausted after playing with Cole, making dinner, putting him to bed, etc. How the heck am I going to get better at this? Any thoughts??? Maybe I just need to set aside a certain day/time of the week and just DO IT?! I don't know, I need to do something. Then again, I could just be wasting my time? I doubt anyone, other than me, reads this anyway. Oh well. We'll see. Anyway.....onto the updates.... COLE: Cole just had his 9 month check up. His doctor said he's "absolutely perfect". What mother doesn't love hearing that? =) He's standing 30 inches tall (94%)! and just shy of 23 pounds(85%)! That's right, we feed out kids Miracle Grow out here in the boonies. He's crawling around FAST. Pulling himself up on everything. He can even walk himself back and forth along the couch while holding on. I'm positive he'll be walking before too long. On Sundays, Dave and I take Cole out to breakfast at the local Dairy Queen (yes, in the country the Dairy Queen's serve breakfast, and I'm not talking Egg McMuffin, I'm talking eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, omlets etc). Cole gets his very own 'bear' pancake. This past weekend we took Cole to the park. His favorite part....the swing! Earlier this evening my niece, Malena, had a musical production at her school. Cole and I went and had a blast. Cole was so great the whole time! There was a part during the show where the kids were banging on drums (kind of like 'Stomp'), OH MY GOSH, this was Cole's FAVORITE part. I had to quite taking pictures just to video tape him dancing, laughing and clapping! My mom, who was holding him, and I were laughing so hard we had tears running down our faces. Not to mention all the people sitting around us started watching him too! Too cute. Here's a video, sorry its sideways....

Dave: Dave has been working in Hood River for the past few weeks. Sunday, they're planning on shipping him to Idaho! =( Did I mention that was Mother's Day?? Either way...I'm not too happy about him being gone. At first, the plan was for him to leave on Sunday and come back the following Monday.....well, now the plan is to leave this Sunday and work 180 straight hours, then come home. So basically work 2 straight weeks then finally come home! ugh, I would have complained about 1 week, but would have gotten over it, but 2 weeks? What am I going to do?!?!?! I know for at least one day I'll take Cole down to play with Logan (little friend of Cole's, he's 5 month older than Cole).

Me: Post op has gone well so far. I do have one internal stitch that has shown up below the surface and was SUPER annoying because it was REALLY rensitive to anything that touched it, even clothing. You can still feel it under the skin, but its not as sensitive anymore. The doctor said it was disovable, so it should go away eventually.
We all recently went on a trip to Pendleton to visit a friend. It was lots of fun seeing him again, definatly worth the long drive. Can't wait to see him again.
Other than that, I can't think of a whole lot going on.

Bye for now =)

Surgery

I my gall bladder taken out yesterday. Feeling pretty good, alot better than I thought I would by this point.
I think the worse part of it all was getting the IV. They never seemed to bother me before, but the nurse missed the first time, then her second try she thought she got it but it ended up blowing out. The area got super swollen and hard so she took it out and got the anesthesiologist to put it in......and he missed the first one too! dang. FINALLY the fourth one worked. When he did it, he decided to switch arms. He had to cut off my ID bands. I kept seeing the nurse walking around with a cool looking lime green bracelet (they were the pediatric ID bands), so I figured since they had to cut my old plain white one that I asked them for a green one! Made the whole IV thing better! =) I was the only adult getting surgery that day.



Back to relaxing =)

Firsts

Last week Cole started clapping. He thinks its the greatest thing on earth. =) For the past month he's been doing this weird crawling thing, except it's not your conventional hands and knees crawling, he was getting his belly in there somehow so it looked like "the worm". Today he started 'REAL' crawling! too cute! I can't believe how fast babies are! He's been holding himself up really well, and even taking steps when you hold his hands.

I tried loading the video on here, but its taking too long? You can see it on my facebook.

New Food

Cole tried "3rd foods" on Sunday. He HATED it! He gagged the whole time. He can eat foods that we give him like pancakes and eggs. But he doesn't understand that you have to chew the stuff that comes out of a jar. So, we'll see how it goes.




Again, if anyone has any suggestions on topics for the blog....let me know....

Bad Blogger

Alright, I keep saying I'll get better and better about this.....I've really dropped the ball haven't I? ***SIGH*** I'm sorry. So as for an update....

Cole: Moving forward! yay! It's about time. I guess you could call it crawling, but it looks more like he doing "the worm". Pretty cute actually. Getting more teeth, this time the top ones. Believe it or not, he's STILL his happy lil self despite waking up at 3am to play with Mommy. :) Started sticking his tounge out a little bit, SUPER cute! Still saying "Mamamamama" and "Dadadadada", and now theirs "nananananana" which my guess is he's saying "no". Had his 2nd haircut about a week ago! Looks adorable as always!

David: Doing well. Still working out of town during the week. Getting ready to take an herbacide test for work. Hopefully when he gets certified that means a raise? We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Me: Started exercising yesterday. Well see how long it lasts, hopefully this is something I can stick to. Other than that, I'm not too sure that anything else has been going on. (maybe this is why I should blog more often).