Adam's Birthday Surprise

Adam's birthday was this past Tuesday November 17th. Luckily, this was already a scheduled day off for him so I had the day all planned out in advance without his knowing. When he woke up on his birthday, he was surprised to know I had taken the day off and made childcare arrangements (thanks Sara!) to spend a very eventful day together. It started out with an ultrasound to find out the sex of our next baby (did I fail to mention before we are expecting #2!?). Going into it and all along, Adam was confident and determined "it" was a girl. He said he had a "feeling". He really wanted a little girl. I on the other hand, was truly ready and expecting another boy, and very happy with the idea. No matter what we had previously thought, the results were shocking to us both. We're having a GIRL!!!

This little tike is all set to become her "daddy's girl" now since this was such an amazing birthday gift for Adam, followed by lunch at Chipotle and an afternoon movie of course. We saw Pirate Radio, which was the perfect birthday movie for my diehard music fan.

Disney: Ear Infection or Flu Virus?

I am so glad to be done with October! We had terrible luck on our trip to Orlando. The very night before our morning flight, Atticus struck a high fever of 103. The after hours nurse advised us to try to get in to our doctor before our flight to rule out an ear infection even though she was convinced it was a flu virus. We couldn't get in to the doctor the next morning with enough time to catch our flight, so we took our chances and got on the flight with a lot of Tylenol and Motrin. This was the worst flight of my life as Atticus clung to me as pitiful as a sick puppy most of the flight. His fever continued to go up when the medicine wore off. We were helpless to Atticus the first night as he screamed through most of it in some kind of pain. First thing the next day we took him to the Orlando Urgent Care. The doctor examined him and was sure he had an ear infection (which would have been his third). She prescribed amoxicillin (?) and sent us on our way. To make a long story short, the medicine didn't really help him. His fever continued going up and down. We had six full days to spend in Orlando. Of the six we only ended up with two and a half days at the Disney parks. The others were spent at the timeshare and in Urgent Care. It was kind of a bummer. :(

This picture taken on the way home from Orlando said it for all of us!

This one's for Sara taken in Japan at Epcot.

Pooh's corner was our fave.

Atticus LOVED meeting Pooh and says "Pooh" every time he sees this picture.

Me, Adam, Bonnie, and Jeremiah

Fall Madness

The month of October was pure madness! Every weekend it felt like something was planned around Halloween festivities and our one-week Orlando vacation (more to come). Unfortunately, all the hype of Halloween was short-lived when it finally became October 31st. We endured a lot with Atticus in October, so when Halloween finally came our patience was short. We quickly learned that Atticus hates dressing up as we forced his lion costume and make-up on 30 minutes before Trunk or Treat. The next day, we drove an hour to Bremerton to spend Halloween with Great Grandpa & Grandma Hammill. They had a Halloween party at the VFW, which Atticus wouldn't happily keep his costume on during. Then, a chinese food restaurant for dinner which goes down for Atticus's worst behaved at a restaurant. He was overly tired from not having his regular nap that day, so we knew trick or treating with him would be out of the question. Fortunately, we seemed to capture some sweet moments of him over our long weekend...

Happy as a clown with chocolate and his lion costume taken off, but now dressed as a girl with his fitted Old Navy Halloween shirt that I later realized later was meant for a girl (Yes Tiff, I saw Brooklyn wearing hers on your blog! LoL)

Not bad keeping his make-up in tact...

Nice picture with our neighbor and friend Camilla.

It grew on him...

Finished product.

Kids truly are wired to be "helpers".

Just leanin' on my pumpkin

Pumpkin Patch ride.