Turkey time!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is here...the months are flying by. We are excited for the upcoming holidays with Drake's first Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then first bday! Wow, how time flies when you are having fun! Drake is doing great! He is crawling backwards still but sooo close to full out crawling forward. He still gets around by crawling backwards then pushing him self up into sitting position. He is reaching and wanting to pull up on everything. He is making daddy a nervous wreck! He started talking a lot this past week and officially says 'mama' every since Friday! It is the cutest thing. I don't think he associates it with me yet but it is still cute to hear him say it.

We went to get him a big boy carseat tonight cause he has outgrown his baby carrier carseat.....and on the way home we were in some traffic of course on 820, so I exited off the highway and was trying to get over into the turn lane but of course the other people on service road were not yielding to us coming off of highway so I couldn't get all the way over into the turn lane. Well some cars were going around me to keep going straight on service road and then we heard BAAM! Yep, some idiot sped by and hit my tail light and broke the glass then just cut across other cars to turn right and was gone before we could get the license plate number. Bo thought he got it but the police met us at a nearby gas station and said that the license number Bo told them brought up a van and it wasn't a van, it was a sports car. So that is a bummer that we did not get the rude person. I can't believe some people are so mean to not stop.....so now I have to call insurance figure out how much it is going to cost, etc, etc, just one more thing for me to add to my list, and it is not something I want to be dealing with over my Thanksgiving break!! ugh! It is frustrating.

But luckily Bo said the glass from my tail light should be easier to fix then the actual body part of my car....we shall see I guess. I will let you know the turnout.

We want to wish everyone a great Thanksgiving. We do have a lot to be thankful for with such a wonderful family and friends!

Can't believe it is November

I can't believe it is already November!! I am ready for some fall weather, hopefully this cooler weather is here to stay. We are doing good. Last night was Bo's last football game...they didn't make it to playoffs. Drake and I are happy cause that means more time with daddy!! He will be home on the weekends and after school so that will be nice, it is hard being a somewhat "single mom" during football season. Bo doesn't like it when I say that but I sure felt that way sometimes :).

Drake is still playing with his voice....and really close to crawling. He goes from sitting to tummy and will get on hands and knees but he goes backwards not forwards, then he pushes himself back up into sitting position or he will just roll around. Mrs. Donna (his babysitter) thinks he will be crawling within a week...I will keep you posted. He has his two bottom middle teeth and we think his top teeth might be coming in soon. He is a drool monster!!

So things are pretty much the same around here. I am looking forward to my birthday coming (only because I get to eat at Cheesecake Factory, not cause I will be 27 :( yikes!) and Thanksgiving. Hope everyone is doing well.

We love you all!
~Taylors

Tired after a long morning at the fair

Drake and I went to the fair this morning...(daddy had to work of course) and we had a good time. He loves sitting up in his stroller and just looking around and blabbing. It was very crowded so we didn't stay long, after parking soooooo far and walking around a little bit I was exhausted and he crashed as soon as I laid his him back in his stroller and gave him his paci for our long walk to the car. He slept the whole way home. It was good to get out for a while though and see the family at the stand. I had some yummy nachos and a corn dog oh and cotton candy of course! I plan to go back one more time before it closes, so I will try to get some more pics, I didn't get hardly any today.

We also went to a bday party at a pumpkin patch on Saturday evening and had a great time! It was great weather and we took lots of pics so I will post them on our online album.

Drake is laughing out loud a lot. If we laugh at him he will just start to laugh out loud, and he is making a lot of sounds with his voice. He is definitely more vocal now that he is 7 months. He is still loving sitting up. He doesn't want to roll over and crys if he is on his tummy so I don't think he will be crawling anytime soon. He might just go from sitting to standing to walking...we will see. He has one tooth on the bottom that is still coming up...it has pushed through the gums but has not come all the way up yet. He is a smiley happy baby. We are so blessed to have him. He makes everyday special.

Look at the new pics!

Leaving a comment

If you read this please feel free to leave comments, so I don't feel like I am telling the computer about my life. Someone asked how to do it, well this is how I leave comments on other bloggers:

Click on Comments underneath the blog. It will take you to the page to type a comment. Then click on the circle beside the word Name/URL. All you have to do is enter your name, you don't have to put in an url.

Then click on publish comment. You might have to enter some silly code.....what is the point of this??

Yucky Pink Eye

I swear it just seems to be one thing after another. Last night my eye started to feel very irritated and I kept thinking something was in it, well after lots of rubbing and some gunk coming out I realized something was wrong. I decided to go up to CareNow since they were open till 10pm to see what it was.Yeah he took one look and said pink eye. It is so gross! My eye is nasty and itches but I can't touch it, and it is swollen so I look weird with my eye halfway open. Doc said not to go to work today since it is contagious, and gave me some antibiotic eye drops. They don't seem to help too much yet. I am hoping that it will look better tomorrow as I return to work. So wash wash wash your hands...that is song I have been singing all day as my hands are dry because of all the soap.

Little mister Drake is the one that gave it to me. His right eye was goopy on Monday but I thought it was just allergies or something. Well then on Tuesday his other eye was goopy so the babysitter was like well maybe tomorrow he will be fine. His eyes were goopy this morning when he woke up but they don't look irritated and swollen like mine so that is good. But I talked to his doctor and he went ahead and gave me some prescription eye drops as well for him. So that was a fun chore to do today....try and hold a 7 month old baby boy still to put 2 or 3 drops in both eyes!!! He actually did okay....I was afraid he would be so mad at me and just continue to cry, but after I finished he was fine.

So we are sickies over here. It has been a somewhat nice relaxing day at home on a Wednesday.... just wish I didn't look like an alien with one big eye! Once the puffiness goes away it shouldn't look so bad. I have tried tea bags, ice....I think tonight I will try cucumber on eye before I go to bed. Who knows. I will let you know how it turns out. Plus I am battling with getting that crud that I get every year after starting working. The past week my throat has been sore in the mornings, and I do have some drainage throughout the day but I am trying to beat it by taking zrytec and vitamin c pills everyday. I just wish I could wear a mask at work. My teacher friend at work replys to work as the "germ bowl". It is funny but so true! I try to spray lysol and have students wipe desks often to help minimize the spread but I guess sometimes it is just inevitable. I will keep you updated on how us sickies are over here. Bo is doing well. He has a sore throat but he usually never gets sick so that is good. Keep us in your thoughts!

Monday Monday

Well another Monday to start the week. Mondays are always hard for me. I love being with Drake all day Saturday and Sunday! By the time I pick him up after school we drive 45 minutes home it is 5:00 and we play, eat, fuss, bathe, bottle and bed by 8:00. So our evenings together fly by. We have switched babysitters. Our next door neighbor was watching him but she has a little boy a week younger than Drake and said it was just to hard since they were both needy and wanting her attention AND she has a 5 year old that just started kindergarten so she was having to take both boys to drop her off and pick her up from school. Anyways after I very stressful week last week of trying to find childcare for my baby boy an answered prayer came on Wednesday evening. One of my friends at work Ellen (she teaches first grade with me) called and said her sister lives 5 minutes away from school and is home all day by herself and would love to watch a baby. So after talking with her it was set and she started watching him last Thursday!! He is going to be spoiled. She just holds him and plays with him all day. She comes out to the car in the mornings to help me get him, she is just so sweet! She does have a 4 year old that she takes to PreK in the morning and she goes to pick him up after I pick up Drake, so it is just her and Drake all day. I am just so happy to have found someone that I know and trust since I trust Ellen and have taught with her for the past two years!

I of course am loving that my baby gets some one on one attention. He is doing great with her. Today is a big day for him because he got his first tooth! It just pierced through his gum today and you can see it and feel it---beware of fingers in the mouth--yikes! He was fussy tonight so I guess it is hurting some...poor little guy. I read that it is very painful, so we put on some orajel and gave him some tylenol to help him sleep. I know I know you mommies out there are saying this is just the beginning! :) But we are excited for his one tooth that finally pushed through!

Other than that things are going well. My class is doing good. I have a good group of first graders! Bo's team is not doing so well...haven't won a game yet. Drake and I have gone to all the games except for one to support daddy win or lose, and Bo says it is the best to see him after the game....it makes everything better just to see him.....even though at this point it is 10:30 and Drake can barely keep his eyes open. :) He is a trooper thats for sure.

Okay well I have blabbed enough for tonight. I need to get to bed. I will post some new pics soon!

First OU Game!