Monday, April 30, 2007

The long nap and flashing Momma

Gregory and I took a four hour nap today. I felt guilty after I woke up. I couldn’t believe I slept for four hours and that Gregory slept for four hours. I guess we both needed the sleep. I took Gregory to the playground after the nap. Then we came home and watched TV. Then Cullen called and told me that he had to be at work till 11pm, which is no fun. Gregory and I had to eat dinner all alone. When I take Gregory to the playground I give him a bath to get all the pollen off. It is so cute lately after I get Gregory out of the bath I put his towel on him, it is one of the hooded towels, and he flashes me. He will hold his towel around him then all of the sudden open it up. I will cover my eyes and pretend I am surprised. He will do it a couple of times then want the towel off. So now you know my child is a flasher. These cute moments I don’t ever want to forget.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

My Sunday

Today we went over to my dads and grilled some food, yum. It was a nice visit. We ate, talked, and played, well Gregory played. Cullen had to go to work then my dad drove me home. I wanted to get Gregory to bed at a reasonable hour. He is still feeling a little sick. He has been wining lately. I am sure I will get sick of it but for now the wining is sweet. Gregory also fell asleep on me today. That hasn’t happened in such a long time. I tried to put him in his pack-in-play for a nap and all he wanted to do was cry so I held him and he fell asleep. It sure brought back some sweet memories. I am also glad Gregory got to know his Great Grandparents so well, because my Grandpa is moving out next weekend, my grandma already left. He will be living with one of my uncles. I am glad I got to see him before he left. I doubt I will make it over next week and I am sure it will be crazy so it probably is better to stay home. Well that was my Sunday.

Friday, April 27, 2007

The Next Wedding


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Shawn, Cullen’s brother, will be getting married in June. The lovely lady is Sarah. Shawn and Sarah met in Florida where most of Cullen’s family lives. The amazing part of this story is that both Shawn and Sara lived in Virginia shortly before they met. So they could have met in Virginia, but didn’t meet till they moved to Florida. The nice part is that we get to see Shawn and Sarah when they come up to visit Sarah’s family. Isn’t it funny how things work out?

Uncle Shawn soon to be Aunt Sarah and Gregory


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Aunt Carol Uncle Mike and Gregory


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Aunt Carol and Gregory


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Gabe feeding Meghan


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Meghan and Gabe's wedding pictures

I haven’t posted all the pictures Cullen wants me to post yet. Cullen picked out all the pictures and told me what they are of so if the picture does not match the description let me know so I can get my husband tested for blindness, just kidding. These pictures were taken on Meghan’s wedding day. I will finish posting the last few pictures shortly. The wedding was very nice and everyone enjoyed themselves very much. Pictures are just a little bit hard for me to post. Well, I know family will enjoy seeing the pictures. Cheese!

Meghan feeding Gabe


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Cutting the cake


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What to do at a wedding - EAT


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Gabe and his brother


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Gregory and Pop


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My husbands Family


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Meghan Gregory and Me


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the cake


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Cake anyone


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Meghan and Gabe


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Meghan and Gabe


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Meghan and Gabe


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Meghan and Gabe


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The Wedding

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Ouch

Yesterday as I was hurrying out of Gregory’s room I ran into the edge of Gregory’s door. Today I have a bump on my forehead and my nose is sore. Cullen told me I look like a unicorn. All I sarcastically said was “thanks honey”.
Well as my head is in pain at least the medicine is working for Gregory. He slept through the night last night.
Gregory had an ouch moment too. He pulled a tin full of Daddy’s video game stuff down on him today and it skinned his chest. It looked bad, but no blood.
I need to start fixing meals and serve them all at once. Lately when it is only Gregory and I we have dinner but in courses. I get vegetables and we eat them. Then I know we are still hungry so I get something else and we eat that. Then I find something else and we eat that. Dinner turns into one long snack. It is usually a healthy snack though. So that is good.
Now I will have some tea and watch TV. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could eat some vea? Then I would be drinking tea and eating vea while watching TV. There is no such thing as vea so I can’t eat it. If this confused you just ignore it.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The sweetest moment

Well I mentioned that Gregory has a sinus infection and has been feeling bad. Well I have also been tired and because of that I was lying on the couch two days ago and resting. Well while I was resting Gregory got my bag of cookies and carried them over to me. He got up on the couch next to me and said “more”. He did not have a cookie yet but more meant he wanted one. I said “no cookies Gregory” because he had only eaten animal crackers and nothing else. I wanted him to eat something healthier. Well right after I said “no cookies Gregory” he leaned over and gave me a sweet kiss on my lips. Now who could say no to that? I gave him half a cookie. It was just so sweet. Daddy saw the whole thing.

My Sick Son

Gregory has a sinus infection. It has been no fun for all three of us. Gregory has not been sleeping and so Momma has not been sleeping which has caused Daddy to get less sleep too. Gregory has had diarrhea, a really runny nose, and horse coughs. He just sounds so pitiful. Well I just thought I would tell everyone. Now I will take a very short nap considering Gregory will wake up any second now. I have a headache.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Canceled

I had four Mary Kay skin care classes scheduled for this week and three of them canceled. Oh well! I am not worried. I have really enjoyed what I have done so far. It is nice. I am sure I will have more. See that is me thinking positively. Tonight I am positive, my glass is half full, and the weather was beautiful!
MY GOODNESS someone just lit fireworks or I think it was fireworks. I am not going outside to find out.
Gregory is growing into quite a big boy. Most of his meals he eats at the table. He is becoming very independent but at the same time needing his momma. He would not go to bed at his usual time. He just wanted to cry so I spent more time with him then tried to put him to bed again. He finally went. So now I will go get in a bath and then drink some water while snacking on something and study for my certification test. I will study, I promise to.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Holding hands to pray

I still need to post wedding pictures. I will do that soon. I just wanted to post a Gregory moment and Mary Kay stuff. I have been slack on the baby book and things like that so this blog is somewhat a baby book for me.

Well, Gregory now prays with us. At a meal we all hold hands and pray. Before I had to hold on to his head or arm to include him, but now all we have to do is put out our hand and he will stick one hand in my hand and one hand in his daddy’s hand. He will leave his hands in our hands as long as we are praying. That is just something that I thought was special.

Now, about my Mary Kay business. I have been working and I made money yesterday. Yea! I had a skin care class. Three people came. It was fun. I have another class on Saturday. Oh and one of the women who was there brought her two children, one had just turned two and the other child was 10 months old. Gregory had company. Well I am very excited still. Smiles

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Our trip to Charlottesville


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We went to Charlottesville and saw Cullen’s best friend Shane and his parents. Shane’s dad, Billy had a stroke and is recovering from it. Gregory and Billy seemed to like each other. We all had a good visit.

We drove around a lot


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beep beep

Family in town


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I have not posted in a while because I have been very busy. My husband’s family came to town. His parents stayed with us. They had to sleep in the living room on the futon because we have no extra beds or rooms. I set up the pack-in-play so they could put all their stuff in it. That way I did not have to worry about Gregory getting in to everything. The visit was nice. Cullen and I had a chance to go to Kings Dominion. It was a lot of fun and we got to visit some friends in Charlottesville. Everyday went so fast. Yes and the main reason for the visit was Cullen’s younger sister’s wedding. Meghan and Gabe got married on Saturday the 14th of April. Meghan and her new husband Gabe have mental retardation so they will be living with Meghan’s parents. This ceremony gave Meghan and Gabe a chance to do what many people who are in love want to do. I will post many pictures of the wedding because I promised to.

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Happy Easter


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Grandpa, Nana, and Gregory


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Aunt Kristen and Gregory


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Look at Gregory's face

Great Grandpa and Gregory


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Look


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The Hunt


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Fun


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Eggs


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Gregory was so excited today about his balloon, basket, and the eggs. I did not even have to show him what to do. It was like he knew that he should put the eggs in the basket. Smarty

Saturday, April 07, 2007

I got a new camera!


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Yea!!! More pictures! I can take new pictures. I have a new camera. I just had to use it and why use it if I can’t let the world see. So here I am going picture crazy over my little boy. The camera is quite nice. I don’t remember the name of the camera and can’t read the name because I can’t see the box or the camera very well. It is fun. I just wish I could see better. Oh well it is fun anyway. Although it is also a little hard because Gregory won’t hold still. I will have more pictures of Gregory with Easter eggs tomorrow.

I love that smile


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Brush those teeth


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suck, suck, chomp, chomp
This is how a one and a half year old brushes their teeth

Friday, April 06, 2007

E.R. Visit

In my 25 years I have never had nose bleeds until a few days ago. My nose bled five times in two days. Then I got a migraine and threw-up. Cullen decided to take me to the emergency room. My friend Jenn came over to watch Gregory. When we got there I found out I was not dieing. A capillary in my nose burst. The doctor said those bleed a lot. He put a gel type substance in my nose to burn the spot and stop the bleeding. My nose is fine now. Then they took me and hooked me up to an I.V. and gave me fluids and medicine for my migraine and nausea. They checked my head and all is fine in there. Well, except for a few strange thoughts. While I was in the emergency room I was lying on a stretcher and I covered my head up with a blanket so most of the light would be blocked out. While doing this I started thinking maybe someone would think I am dead and take me to the morgue. You know in movies they cover the person’s head up when they die. I was also thinking it is probably pretty cold in there so that would be bad, because I was already cold and needed another blanket, which the lovely nurse brought me. The blankets they gave me were warmed. They felt as if they just came out of the dryer. I love warm blankets. The medicine they gave me took care of my pain and so today I feel great. Now isn’t that a lovely ending to this story.