Aden's B-Day--post 1

Aden woke up on his second birthday feeling yucky...we decided to go up to Oak Glen to pick apples anyway. We figured that being outside in cooler air would make him feel better. Here he is in his car seat on the way there. Unhappy.

He did have a few moments of excitement when we first made it to the orchard. Apples everywhere!

 

"Daddy I found one!"

This as one of my favorite pictures of the day, Ava and her apple.

Pumpkins (fall is my absolute favorite season)

Carrying my fussy boy back to the car...I am in love with this picture!

 

Misery. He was asleep about two minutes after I took this picture and we were on our way home. We were in Oak Glen for 1 hour and 15 minutes. ugg.

 

I am so sad that Aden is having such a hard day today. He loves apples and loves being outside so this has been such a bummer. We will definatly go up to Oak Glen again this season when he is back to his normal happy self. More posts and picture to come....   :( Poor boy

My Silly Boy

This morning I lovingly stuck my children in front of the TV so that I could take a quick shower. When I was done, I heard Aden fussing so I ran to the living room to see what the problem was. This is what I found...

At least he didn't try and climb in while Ava was in it! He's never done that before-it was so funny-he was really stuck LOL

My Avers

Ava was sick for a week. An entire week of misery. She screamed, she cried, she never slept. She wouldn't eat and wouldn't let me put her down. I haven't shaved my legs in so long. She won't sit in her carseat or her high chair. Just when I think I am going to lose my mind from all of her fit throwing, she gives me this...

...and I am ready to do it all over again :)

Lots of random things to say...

First and foremost...Ava is getting over roseola. She had a very high fever and after a few days it broke, then came the spots! They don't itch or bother her in any way, she just looks like the creature from the black lagoon...here she is eating her first big girl cracker...can you see the tiny red spots?? She is covered in them!

I have new glasses! I used to just need them for reading but now they are for part/full time use. I don't think that I look very good in glasses because I'm so fair so I just picked out some really cute and kinda funky ones! Might as well go all out. They are very "loud" LOL

Aden is talking a lot! Every time Ava cries he says, "what happen?" or "not happy". Other fun things he likes to say are:

my baby

meema (instead of mommy)

isco (san fransisco-his favorite book)

cokie (cookie)

ano (piano)

nessa (that is what he calls the Roomba-I have no clue why!)

Anyway, he is just too cute and wonderful and smart and funny and I could just go on and on alllllll day about his adorableness :)

I had a great photo shoot today with a very handsome and sweet  little boy named Justice. Thanks to Holly for hooking us up! His cute face will be up on my website in the next few days so go check it out!  OK nightynight!

Nap!

My babies and I just woke up from a very long afternoon nap! Aden slept in his crib for 3 hours and Ava and I cuddled up in my bed and slept together for 2 hole hours! I can't even remember the last time I napped like that but it felt soooo good. Both of the babies went to the DR yesterday and they both have sore throats. Ava's temp has gotten up to 103.4! She is trying so hard to be nice but she is just so miserable. Anyway...just thought I'd share the blessed nap news! This was a big accomplishment for me (some of you may or may not know that I have a terrible time napping during the day no matter how exhausted I am LOL)

Saturday

It's 8:45pm and the babies are in bed. I'm waiting for Scott to come home from a volleyball tournament in Hemet so things are pretty quiet right now. This afternoon, Ava started getting really fussy. I picked her up to give her kisses and noticed that she was pretty warm. Her temp was 101.7...she has been teething. I gave her Tylenol and Oragel and she went down for a little nap. I hate teething. It's so unfair for them. She wouldn't eat dinner and wouldn't even suck on the little "mesh feeder" with a piece of nectarine in it. All she wants to do is lay in my arms and nurse. I'm happy to oblige but Aden needs his mommy as well. I guess I really having nothing too interesting to post about...it's just quiet in my house. I find that weird :) I wonder where my book went.....I was reading earlier.....I think...hmmm.

On the gooooooo!

OK. We're toast. She's crawling (sort of). Yay!

She's also teething...notice the tiny teeth marks??

Snack time for the babies...

just a random picture of cute cookies I made haha!

Tagged

I've been tagged! Here are 6 unspectacular  things about myself...

1. I am obsessed with socks. It will be 110 degrees outside and I will come home, wash and lotion my feet, and put on a nice pair of fuzzy socks. To me, socks make a bad day better :) I probably have 30 pairs of socks and an entire drawer designated as the "sock drawer".

2. I can't go to church unless mine and the kid's outfits are picked out and ready to wear (washed, ironed if needed) the night before. AND if poor Scott comes out and even remotely matches me, he must turn around and pick something else out. Sometimes he has to try a few times before it's right, and sometime I just have to go into his closet and pick something out for him....come to think of it, this might explain why we are rarely at church these days...hmm.

3. I've had a gym membership for 4 months and I have only went twice. I think that the kid's room is waaaaaay too dirty and I didn't like the girls that helped out in there. I am very particular about who watches my precious babies (I don't get out much, I guess) and these people just don't cut it. SOOOO, I waste $50 a month for mine and Scott's gym memberships, all the while holding on to the hope that someday, someday, someday, I will get to go to yoga again!

4.  (stealing this one from Holly) I love to read. Right now I'm reading "Anticancer: A New Way Of Life" by David Servan-Schreiber MD PhD.  You can find it at Costco right now for only $14.99 and it is just AMAZING! It will change the way you think about everything you do-I promise.

5. I have no time to call people back. If you call me and want to chat please don't take offense if I rush you off of the phone, swear I will call you in 10 minutes and then you don't hear from me for a week. It's not that you aren't important, or that I have forgotten about you, it's just that I still don't get any sleep and at the end of the day when the babies are finally asleep, I am to tired to talk.

6. If someone puts dirty dishes on the "clean dishes" side of my sink, I freak out. The left side is for clean dishes to sit and dry once they've been washed and the right side is for dirty dishes. I really don't like it when the left side of the sink gets germs in it and then I have to clean it out for the next set of clean dishes to go in. Yes, I do have a dishwasher but somethings are just too big or not dishwasher safe so they go in the CLEAN side of the sink. haha. DO NOT come to my house and do dishes for me-you will just give me anxiety :)

OK WELL...now I have to tag 6 people...but everyone I know has already been tagged :( I guess I need to make more blogger friends!

I Know They Knows He's Gone

Yesterday I took Scott to the airport. He is on his way to Milwaukee for the US Mid-Amateur Championship. He will be gone at least until Monday. This morning, Aden decided to wake up at 4:30am. These things never happen when Scott is home. Why, you ask?? I have no idea. He never went back to sleep (sigh). Oh well-maybe we can all nap together this afternoon.

I have been hearing the nicest things about my website-YAY! Thanks to everyone who wrote and called to talk to me about it :) OHHHH and especially thanks to my GRANDMA KATY who pointed out a few spelling errors that hopefully no one else noticed! I guess when I was working on this thing late at night my brain went to sleep.

Little Miss AVA is sitting up now and she rarely tips over. She has 7 teeth now (I might have said that in a previous post) and she says "Mama" all of the time. She is sooooo very close to crawling. She sort of does "the worm" like Aden did, where she lunges forward onto her chest to get around. Aden is having lots of fun trying to say big words like "telescope" and "spaghetti" (TRYING haha)     OH YA A few days ago I was cooking and my cupboard broke and sent all of my plates flying in my face. They shattered all over the kitchen in a million pieces. Luckily no one was hurt and I put the kids straight in their carseats and drove to my parent's house. Scott came home and found a disaster all over the place and no family in sight so he was pretty scared when we finally talked-poor guy. He cleaned and cleaned so that the kids would be safe and not step on any glass. OK This has been a long one! Here a few cute pictures from the past few weeks.

Oh Ya I forgot...

last night Ava slept from 10:15pm-4:10am!! I love this kid :)

TODAY IS THE DAY!

It's official-my website is up! Please go look at it and let me know what you think. I feel a little nervous today-like I'm waiting to see if I got an "A" on my test of something LOL AHHHHH

www.KatieMcGihonPhotography.com

24-48 hours of waiting....

I DID IT! I published my website before midnight on September 1st. However, it will take 24-48 hours to actually show up on the web. I didn't know that would happen...oh well! I'll let everyone know when it is viewable :)

5 and a half hours

My precious baby angel girly slept from 9:15pm-2:45am!!!!!!!!! I can't even tell you how proud I am to say that. I slept for 5 and a half hours straight! I woke up feeling like a new woman today LOL

OK well I have lots to do because today is the unofficial launch of my website :) It WILL be put up today...it just might be closer to midnight haha. I'll let everyone know when it's published.