And Baby Makes 3

I know Syrie is into her 10th month of babyhood already, but I figure a lot of these pictures haven't even been seen by most of you, so I wanted to share some of my most favorites from her photo session with Stricker Photography in June. She can be such a ham sometimes. Enjoy!

No, we're not expecting! Are you nuts?!  I'm talking about Hermes, our cat.  He has been on my mind a lot  recently and after my last post I thought what better way to get my thoughts out, then to post on my blog.  After keeping him locked up, 24 hours a day for around 5 or 6 days David and I went into his dungeon one night to grab the vaccuum after a swarm of moths invaded our house, and after petting Hermes' head I noticed big bumps all over the place. Once we got some light on the subject and pulled his hair back we saw he had been scratching himself or his head on something so hard that it bled and then scabbed over.  I decided that night I would call the next morning and see about getting him into the vet just to make sure it wasn't anything else.  Saturday morning we went to see Dr. Schaul and he concluded it wasn't anything serious, but he opted to give him a shot of antibiotics just in case, showed me how to shove these little white pills...

Everytime I log onto my blogger account, what's the first thing I see? My baby Syrie's smiling face in the picture I have posted at the top of my blog. This was taken the day I saw her dance to music for the first time. The day she got to enjoy sun and a parade. She can be the happiest baby at times, and then she can be the crabbiest, too, which in turn, makes both her mom and dad crabby, as well. Today I'm fighting off the urge to just collapse on my desk. It was another early morning with Syrie's first wake up beginning at 4 a.m.  After fighting with her for 15 minutes she laid back down in her crib and slept until 5:30 a.m.   This still wasn't good enough for David and I, so I let her cry it out in her crib. She was in and out of sleep until I finally got her out of bed at around 7 a.m.  I am anxious to get her to the doctor tomorrow for her 9 month shots because I'm about 90% sure she's got another ear infection. After my last blog post in early June, ...

What a night!...what a week!!  I have had quite the week of sleepless nights.  This past week Syrie has decided she's ready to wake for the day at 4 a.m.  I have tried everything. I know most of you may be reading this thinking, "Well, have you tried this...?" YUP, I have:)  She goes to bed wonderfully at night, same time as always, so you could say she's still on a schedule, but my thing is, how do you make a baby go back to sleep when they've clearly decided they're ready to be up for the day or should I say, Syrie is ready to be up for a couple hours until of course I need to get up for work, then she's ready to lay back down. The poor thing has been suffering with some allergies along with cutting four top teeth this last week, and so with all of that comes runny/stuffy nose and watery, itchy eyes, oh and just plain crabby.  I've been noticing her having a hard time breathing at night with the paci (pacifier) in her mouth and a nose full of snot...

I took this idea from a blog I read because I thought it was neat.  Sorry if it's a little too personal for you (you don't have to read this), but I'm giving you a look into my purse. The one sacred thing many women would be caught yelling, "What are you doing?! Get out of there!" if someone came to close or heaven forbid, was already in, but not today.  Today I'm going to let you into my bag:) Pictured above is my precious Coach purse that I so graciously received from my husband on Valentine's Day this year.  While there are many other name brands that have even higher priced purses than this, it should still be considered a crime to spend so much on a bag. My god!  I get sick sometimes thinking about how many diapers and formula this purse could have bought us!  Quickly after that I remember that every girl deserves a nice gift once in a while;)  If you look closely, you can see the clear clip that's attached to the left strap...

Wedding season has officially arrived. I haven't even had time to think about the planning of my own reception because there has already been so much going on with friends and their big day.  Two weekends ago we threw a bachelorette party for our friend Val who is getting married in June.  The following weekend Syrie, my mom and I traveled to Des Moines for Val's dress fitting and this coming weekend I am co-hosting a bridal shower and then attending a baby shower for another best friend the following day. PHEW! It's been a busy month already and as The Carpenters would say, We've only just begun. Between the two of us, David and I are in five weddings this year, six if you count our own:)  Okay, so I am really only in one and he takes the cake on the other four, but who's counting?  While it's always enjoyable attending parties and weddings, I have to admit sometimes it's a lot easier when you're just a guest.  I'm learning how stressful planning ...

Okay, so I know I said in the beginning that this blog would be about my family, but this is one topic that's been on my mind lately and what better way to get it out then to blog. I'm still learning, so be easy on me as some of my facts may not be exact, but let me give you a little history lesson as I understand it to be.... At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, shortly after my first birthday, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ( Pripyat, Ukraine)  operators committed a fatal series of errors in the control room of Reactor #4, triggering a meltdown and an explosion that resulted in the world's largest nuclear accident to date.  This tragedy, unlike the more recent Fukushima accident was caused by human error.  To be more definite, it was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated by inadequately trained personnel.  This accident caused the largest, uncontrolled radioactive release into the environment ever recorded and was the cause of 30 opera...