"Road Trip"

Sunday was Matts birthday and ever since we got married, we have always tried to do something special for each other's birthday. This year, Matt wanted to go for a ride on his motorcycle. Friday night we went to the bike shop and bought each other new riding gear for his birthday and valentines day. So, Matt and I and one of his buddies left out on Saturday at 12:00 and decided to just go and ride until we got tired. We got to Huntsville around 8:00 that night and got a room at the Hilton. We got up on Sunday morning and headed home. We stopped by the Game Stop and got Nate a new Playstation game because Granny and Papaw said that he was really good. We got home around 5 o'clock that evening. I think we had 2 little boys that missed us just as much as we missed them. We had a great time and believe it or not, it wasn't really cold at all on the bike. It was nice to get away for a night. We haven't done that in a really long time.

3 Months Old

Nikolas turned 3 months old on Saturday. He is a lot more alert now. He is smiling all the time and laughing out loud. He is sleeping through the night, which is really great. He loves his big brother. They enjoy watching cartoons together.

"World of Wheels"

We had a very busy weekend. On Friday night, we took Nate to the World of Wheels. He saw on TV that Lightning McQueen was going to be there for pictures with the kids and he had to go. We let him plan the night. First we went to a Cycle shop to get Daddy something for his birthday, and Mommy something for Daddys birthday.:) Then, we went to eat, then on to the Civic Center for the World of Wheels. He saw Lightning McQueen, the Heros monster truck and lots of cool bikes like Daddy's. He also raced the remote control cars. It was really hard but he finished 4th. We had a really good time.

Nate and Lighning McQueen

"Another Sick Little Boy"

It seems that someone is always sick around our house these days. Nikolas is finally well and now I guess Nate has a VIRUS. I have been up with him most of the night. He fell asleep fairly early last night, earlier than usual and I didn't think anything about it until he woke up at 10 o'clock with a fever of 102. So I gave him some Tylenol and put him back to bed. And I knew he wasn't feeling well because he didn't give us any trouble about going to bed. I had to get up with Nikolas at 1 for a feeding so I went and checked on Nate again and his fever was back, this time it was 103. So I gave him more Tylenol and stayed in there with him. At 4:30 this morning he woke up screaming with a head-ache and I checked his temperature then and it was back up to 103.7. I gave him more Tylenol and Matt got up to go to a class at 5 o'clock and he checked on him and his temperature was still going higher. Just as Matt was about to leave Nate started vomiting. So he stayed and he cleaned Nate up while I cleaned everything else up. "Thanks Daddy" His fever finally broke about 7 and it is still down and he's feeling much better. We have a doctors appointment this afternoon just to make sure it is a virus.

It kinda worries me about Nate having a headache, because Matt has Migraines. He started having them when he was 5 years old, and Nate is almost 5. I pray that Nate doesn't have to go through what his Daddy did, but the doctor said that its quite possible that one or both of our boys could have inherited it. Matt takes Topomax now for a preventative and it seems to help but when he has one, he takes a Immitrex pill and if that doesn't work he takes an injection. He quit smoking 11 weeks ago, and I think that has helped with the headaches. We are so proud of him.

5 shots!!!

I took Nikolas to see Dr. Dabbs this morning for his 2 month check up. He weighed 13 lbs. and 14 oz. He said that the ear infection was completely gone and his ears looked great. Therefore he could go ahead and get his immunization shots. He also had to have the PKU (newborn screening) repeated, he said that he thought the lab had made some kind of mistake but nothing to be worried about because all of them had to be redone. He said that Nikolas is right on schedule and doing great. He is also trying to cut 2 teeth on bottom. Nate didn't have the 1st tooth until he was about 13 months old. So, whoever said that no 2 are alike was RIGHT .

"Hunting with Daddy"

Last Thursday, Matt decided he would take Nate hunting. But, he told him that he couldn't go unless he could be very still, and quiet. "I can be quiet, because I am going to kill a deer" he said. So then we began to put warm clothes on. It was really cold outside. Nate had so many clothes on that I didn't think Matt had to worry about him moving. Well, they stayed gone for about an hour. Matt said that he wanted to talk the whole time, and had to use the bathroom about a dozen times. And every time he would tell him to be quiet because he thought he heard something, he said that Nate would get louder. Needless to say I think that was Nate's last hunting trip for a while. After all, he's just 4

SNOW!!!!

Its been snowing at my house all day. At first it was sleeting, then sleet and snow, and now its just snow. HUGE snowflakes. Nate was having a fit to go outside and catch it on his tongue. So his Daddy let him go out just for a second. Needless to say, a second wasn't long enough. I wish we could get enough snow for him to play , I can't remember the last time it snowed here.