It's All Downhill From Here

I have noticed lately that I log onto blogger a couple of times a week and I'm always disappointed when no one has updated. Sadly enough it's only been in the last week that I've realized how long it's been since I updated myself! I can't realistically expect all you ladies to update if I haven't even updated my own blog in over a month!!

Since my last update David has finished all of his interviews (about 20 total), I finished my Fall classes AND my incomplete which gave me a 4.0 for my Summer and Fall semesters. SCORE! Also I'm sorry you cannot read this, but I still have to share since my grades have been on my mind 24/7 for the last year.

As for Davie, he has thoroughly enjoyed his friends and teachers at daycare, so much so that he has quite literally broken down when I came to pick him up (where's the love kid?).

This is from October, his teachers send us pictures occasionally, they learned all about leaves. The cute little asian boy on the far left is named Henry and he is only day younger than Davie. Davie calls him Henny, and gets really excited when he sees him. One of the little girls in his class is named Sloane and Davie calls her Sloan-y, Davie really likes to say people's names. It has been fun to see him with others his age and he both enjoys and thrives in the company of others. Our house is truly a disappointment now that he knows other children exist haha. 

David and I got to enjoy a completely Davie-free evening (our first since our birthdays) last weekend at fancy restaurant in Toledo to celebrate the end of all things this semester. Thanks to the lovely Mike and Lauren Warden for watching him, you two have been such a blessing this year! The food was AMAZING and short of lobster I insisted that we both chose something off the menu that we would not ever normally get, this was a multi-purpose celebration so this dinner also encompassed our joint Christmas present to each other. I enjoyed the best fillet mignon I've ever had and David had an excellent New York strip steak. The celebration was extra fun because I made David ask the waitress to bring me my Coke in a wine glass. It's funny because as soon as you are pregnant people assume that's the only reason you are not drinking.

It was a little early since my grades had not posted, I hadn't finished my incomplete and David still had interviews the following week. David mentioned that while we were eating, but I insisted that we relax and enjoy our evening. Thankfully even though it was premature our celebration was validated later the next week when my grades posted, my teacher considered my work for my class complete and David successfully finished the last of his interviews. Technically David has one more interview for here in Toledo and a couple of others, but he only plans to attend the one in Toledo. My next semester is a measly 7 credits, which consists of my thesis and a adobe photoshop class (my first and only "just for fun" class). 

I would have to say our phrase to sum up this year TRULY is 

"We laughed, we cried, but we survived".

 I am very much looking forward to a NEW year, with LOTS of changes 2013 was not my most favorite year as of late.

Expect the Unexpected

By Wednesday morning Davie and I were already saddle up with David's parents to go to Salt Lake and pick Daddy up from his flight.

 A little outside of Pocatello Davie threw up... twice. In fact Davie probably threw up about 2 minutes after I took this picture. Pit stop at Pocatello's Wal*Mart. Davie's grandma graciously volunteered to essentially wash my poor little guy in the bathroom sink while I grabbed him some new clothes. That's right I didn't bring an extra pair of clothes. While I hurriedly searched for clothes that fit Grandpa Warden was holding Davie when Davie got sick AGAIN... ALL OVER grandpa. Miraculously Grandpa had an extra shirt so at least he was able to change. The carseat Davie was in was so soiled we ended up just getting a second one for the remainder of the trip. By the time we got to Kaysville my tummy hurt too and it continued to all night. I think we all felt a little tired after that.

New clothes, new seat, new blanky, time for some rest. Poor little guy. 

 David flew in almost two hours later than expected so we stayed at his grandma's house for the night. Thank goodness for family because it was raining and freezing on the road that night and we would have slid right off the road if we had tried to drive back.

 That was the night my cold/ cough congestion started :( I keep saying now is a better time than any time during the semester I just finished, but I can't say I'm happy to be sick over Christmas break. The next evening David got a taste of the tummy woes for himself then his Dad then David's cousin. Thankfully all the Davids have been 100% since and so was David's cousin. I unfortunately have sounded like a frog and struggled to breath ever since Thursday.

Getting all super soapy washed up when we finally got home.
So that's the best update I have for now. I'm really going to try to update some pregnancy stuff on here since I've had a couple of people ask recently, but no promises. I've lived in survival mode since day one of this semester and now I'm actually sitting in a chair relaxing in Idaho Falls. Which just goes to show, Christmas miracles really do happen.

A Final Free Ride

Monday December 16th Davie and I flew out to Idaho Falls by ourselves (meaning I flew with him on my lap). I've flown solo with him before but most of the times he was still nursing or he had his binky or I wasn't 30 weeks pregnant. Really the pregnant part was the part that made me the most nervous.

First flight nap, that was lightly drug induced. I was too afraid of what would happen otherwise. He slept for over half of the flight and was very quiet and easy going for the second half.

 So sweet

 BIG creepy jerk that sat next to us. The second he saw us sitting next to the window and went to sit down he rolled his eyes and acted all annoyed. RUDE! At first I was making extra sure to keep away from him when it dawned on me that I could NOT reward his RUDE attitude. After that I no longer tried to lean away I just sat resituated when needed as well as talking and attending to Davie. He did SO good on this flight.

Such a sweet boy.

 Then we landed.

 We tried to let him run a little and we tried the baby leash and this is what I got.

 He seriously screamed so much, my eye was twitching.
Aside from the rather painful one and a half hour in the Denver terminal the flights all went smoothly and in my mind that's what counts. If he had to break down somewhere I figure in the open terminal was a million times better than an enclosed airplane. We arrived in Idaho Falls a little after 1pm mountain time and after being awake since 3:30 am Eastern time I was thoroughly exhausted.