First Injury

So last week was crazy. Matt left on Sunday for a conference and got back on Wednesday. I work on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, so I was alone. I have to be at work at 7. Myers can't get to school until 7:30, so my sister had to be here every morning at 6:45 to take him to school. Matt got back on Wednesday afternoon, and I left Wednesday night for a conference in Biloxi. Wednesday was Matt's birthday, and we basically saw each other long enough for Gina to treat us to a birthday dinner. Thursday morning while I was at the conference I noticed I had 2 missed calls from Myers' school. I called them back (sick to my stomach) and they said Myers had fallen and busted his lip open. I asked if she thought he needed stitches, and her answer was "maybe". By this point I'm about to throw up and bawl cry. Matt went and got him from school. Poor baby's shirt was covered with blood. All the teachers gave him lots of TLC and decided he didn't need any stitches. Instead he got to go to Burger King and get a crown and a milkshake.

This is a really bad picture, but you can see how swollen it was.

Notice that Matt let him go to Burger King in a size 4 (he wears a 24 month) Cubs t-shirt that Uncle Marcus brought him from Chicago. This would have never happened if I would have been in town!

Haircut

This picture finally made me take the plunge and get Myers his first haircut. When I looked at it, his hair just looked out of control. I really didn't want to get his hair cut. I just kept thinking that he was going to get this horrible "boy cut" and his sweet long soft hair and baby curls would be gone. I've been trimming it for a while now, but I knew it needed a professional.

So we called our friend Kristen to take on the challenge. She did a great job. He didn't want to sit in the chair by himself and he didn't want to wear the smock. She gave him a sucker (sidenote: he's never had a sucker before) and let him sit in Matt's lap. He did great. He ate the sucker and didn't say a word. Matt was covered in sticky blue slobber with hair stuck to it, but the haircut looked so cute!

 Before

During 

After

Where Did September Go?

I told myself I was not going to let a month go by before blogging. We have just been having so much fun lately that I have to designate a time to blog. My aunt has Myers today while I go to the doctor (so I'm drinking my delicious glucose drink as I type this). I told myself I was going to update the blog while I was here alone.  Myers couldn't go to school today because he had his 18 month check-up/shots. He was the sweetest little thing in the doctor's office. He let the nurse weigh him and measure him and let the doctor do the whole check-up with out any problems. The only time he cried was during the 4 shots!! It was the saddest thing!! Of course emotional pregnant mother cried too. He weighe 27 lbs. 8 oz. and was 33 inches long which puts him in the 75th %ile for both.

During the month of September we cut a lot of grass. We went to Memphis for Ainsley and Jason's wedding at the end of August and Myers stayed with the Flanagans while Matt and I went to the wedding. The Flanagans discovered that Myers has a future in landscape. They said he mowed the grass back and forth for 3 hours. When we got home, of course we had to go buy a lawn mower.

I love how he's pulling the lawn mower back like Daddy does.     

We also went to several festivals in September. Myers' favorite part of festivals are the animals and the music. The animal rescue league had some cats and dogs at one festival we went to. He didn't understand that he couldn't put his hands in the cats' cages.

                                                           

October is my favorite month of the year. We've already had a lot of excitement this October!!

The Greatest Show on Earth

Last night the circus came to town, and we enjoyed the complete circus experience.

We got the light!


We got a sno cone and cotton candy!


We saw elephants!

We saw lions!

We wore clown noses!

We said "ROAR" at least 900 times!

We had a great time!

Monkey

Emotional

Disclaimer: I am 22 weeks pregnant, so none of the following information may be used to make fun of me.

With that being said, all of the pregnancy emotions that I haven't had have all hit me this week. First, I got Myers' supply list for his new 1 year old room and on the list was a rain coat and rain boots. I don't know why this upset me so bad. There was something really sad about my baby wearing rain boots. Second, I cannot watch, see pictures of or even hear about someone having a baby. For some reason it just makes me lose it. I guess it's because I know how they feel and I'm about to do it again, and everything is going so fast, and I want to slow this pregnancy down because I know how big my babies will be so soon or maybe it's for no other reason than I'm pregnant. At Myers' "Meet the Teacher Night" I had to do everything I could do not to lose it again. I couldn't ask any questions because I was scared I would choke up. The only thing I wanted to know was if my baby could have a cover for his nap mat. I know he's not special and he doesn't need a cover, but something about a nap mat cover makes me feel like my baby isn't sleeping on the nasty plastic blue and red nap mat. I never found out if he could have one or not. Maybe I can email the teacher.

This is the best picture I could get of Myers on his first day of school.

It's a....

nother BOY!!

We are so excited that Myers is going to get a little brother. To be honest it took me a little while to get over that shock that I will be the only girl in a house full of boys. I was having daymares of me pulling a cooler filled with gatorade through the ballpark sunburned with a hoarse voice from yelling at the day's games. But the reality is that I'm going to absolutely love watching my precious boys play ball (or whatever they want to play).

After much discussion and debating, we have decided that his name will be...

Harris Matthew Ginn

We will call him Harris, and he his scheduled to be here at the end of December or beginning of January.

This is the car of a mom at the daycare who has two boys. Will this eventually be my car?