sweet mali-boo

...i also got a few of my precious little niecey. she is a ham for the camera.

i can see clearly now, the eczema's gone...

well, not totally. but the dryness is gone! and the Lord has been answering our prayers this week with grayson. his little face has looked so good since this last weekend. i'm not convinced it will last, i don't really want to get my hopes up! anyway, i shot a few of him today and wanted to share!

its official, he's a boy.

i think i've learned this week that grayson is 100% BOY. its so funny how different he is than sweet little girls. not that he's not sweet, but he's EVERYWHERE. jumping out of my arms, banging anything he can get his hands on against anything else he can get his hands on. and bathtime? i end up SOAKED. and he thinks its hilarious. its just so bizarre how not gentle he is! case in point, this afternoon i was taking advantage of the overcast sky lighting and taking pics of grayson and his 6 month old cousin mali. mistake. as soon as we put them next to each other, grayson was trying to eat her. here are just a couple shots from our experience. sweet crazy boy. have you ever even seen an ear stretch that far? poor little mali.

de-staple-ization

so, our wonderful friends, the browns came over to take aislyn's staples out, and dr. steffen was AMAZING! i think it was his dr. purse. aislyn had no idea what was going on and just enjoyed holding his sharp scissors. (thanks steffen, ha). anyways, wanted to post that fabulous experience. thanks steffen and rachael!

er visit part two- daddy's diaper turban

our first visit to the ER

and mommy's first breakdown. ok, not FIRST breakdown. but first ER breakdown. so, last night sucked. thank goodness kenny was back from his trip. i was always worried about having a boy because i remember the number of stitches my brother had, and the random ways he hurt himself on a regular basis. i never dreamed that at two, my daughter would have already had her first ER trip because of our negligence actually. ironically enough she was pummeled by a plaque that says "sugar and spice, and everything nice, thats what little girls are made of". oh, and alot of BLOOD. it wasn't nailed to the wall above her door, and thats worked well for a year and a half. but she hasn't been in door slamming mode until recently. anyway, i wanted to post a couple pics from our mishap. some are from a camera phone, so they won't look that great. they're actually all disturbing, beware. thanks for your prayers last night. the nurse was very nice. he gave aislyn a bunny which she fittingly named "rabbit". she did SO so good getting cleaned (well, what they call clean) and getting her staples. yes, staples in my daugher's head. seriously? you can do that? she has to keep them in for 7 days. it pays to have a good friend a few houses away who is a doctor. he's going to remove them for us and check for infection. and we have a paramedic fire fighter next door. so i think we're covered. anyways, that's all for today. enjoy the pictures. or don't. oh and the chocolate one, i had to bribe her with chocolate for her to let daddy put the turban on this morning, which cleverly enough, he used a diaper and it worked SO much better than the hospital one! i have a couple more to post in the next one...

i know i know...

its bad. i know. i haven't posted many pics of my beautiful boy because i keep thinking "maybe tomorrow his eczema will be better, and i'll do a photo shoot of him then". and i say that every day. the bottom line is, i don't know when it will clear up. but he's beautiful. so, don't look at this post and think "poor boy, look how bad that must hurt". just look beyond the pain (ha) and look at how precious he is! i just love the kid. OH! and LOOK! he got his first tooth on christmas day. and his second the next day! aren't they too cute! and OUCH by the way. i think i'm ready to wean. ha.