Playing potato head

I think we have enough body parts....


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Guess what I'm eating....

Yea!



Here's what it looks like now--after Jared has been taking up my slack all week.



Also, we had a wonderful dinner last night at sugar rush for their first "After Dark" event. It was awesome! It is out favorite place for lunch, and now it's gonna be our favorite place for dinner too!!

Porter gave me a cheese opportunity this afternoon.



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The elusive birthday cake

I thought I had found the solution to all my nausea issues....  Zofran.  Everybody has been asking why I haven't tried it already.  Short answer--I don't know?  But I finally scored some the other day, and was pleasantly surprised how well it worked last night.  I went from not even wanting to think about eating, or much less cooking, to being able to eat my first meal of the day.  I was pretty comfortable until it wore off  hours later,  But by that time I was headed for bed.  Today was an ok enough that I didn't take one until later in the afternoon at about the time I usually start feeling really bad.  (And it just goes downhill all evening.)  I felt better, and was able to eat a little bit for supper, but I was really hoping to eat a light supper, and have a large serving of my birthday cake.  I have now waited the entire 4 hours of efficacy and still can't do the cake.  I am so disappointed.  :(
On one hand, I am really tired of feeling this way, but on the other hand, I feel lucky that it's not any worse than it is.  As bad as I feel, I haven't actually haven't "produced" anything.  I keep thinking that any day now it will go away, as I will be 14 weeks on Sunday, but then the more I talk to people, the more I hear that so-and-so was sick the entire pregnancy.  That's not what the sick pregnant person wants to hear....
Anyway, I'm gonna be really upset if I watch this cake ruin, or watch somebody else eat it (probably Jared--he had a piece for breakfast).  I think if I don't get as much as I feel I am entitled to, I will get me another one when I finally feel better.  Even if it is sometime in December!!!  We'll just celebrate my half-birthday, and new baby's 0 birthday.  It's MY birthday cake--dang it!!!

Birthday cake

Jared got me an 8th sin cake from sugar rush. He gave it to me Monday since he was supposed to work Tuesday and wouldn't be able to get a cake on my actual birthday. I LOVE cake. All kinds. And the 8th sin cake from sugar rush is no ordinary cake. However, it sat in the refrigerator uncut until tonight. I was hoping that by now I would be past all the nausea, but unfortunately it has kept me from being able to eat a piece of birthday cake. That is truly a serious thing for me. I felt good enough to have a piece tonight, and man was it good. Jared has been so sweet to not eat any since I didn't want any. (I'll pretend he's been sweet about it--I'm not completely convinced that he just didn't want any. I know I wouldn't have any problem diving right in if it were the other way around.)
I really really wish I could get past all the nausea. 13 weeks + 4 days....






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Guitar concert--original lyrics

It's a medley of sorts.

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Montgomery afternoon

It was time for my car to be serviced, so this time we planned an afternoon at the Montgomery Zoo. I brought my good camera but somehow managed to forget the memory card. It was so hot we didn't stop much for pictures, so we were about halfway through the zoo when I realized it. Here are the two pictures we took with my phone.






My favorite part was feeding the giraffes. Porter was a little scared to do it. Porter's favorite part was the train. He went nuts when we went through the tunnels and asked to ride it again the rest of the afternoon. We had to time our exit for when the train was gone.
After the zoo we went by toys r us to kill a little time until the car was ready. Porter is pretty obsessed with bands, music, and guitars, so he got his own little guitar. He has put on several concerts with it.






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Happy father's day

We had a somewhat abbreviated father's day because porter and Jared didn't get home until 4:00 Sunday afternoon. Porter helped Jared open a new shirt that we got him, but his real gift won't be here for another week or so. It is awesome, but I was a little to late on the idea to make it in time.
I am so proud to have such a good daddy for our little family. Jared has made some true changes in his life for our family and I am excited for what God has in store for us. It takes a real man and father to admit he has room to grow and actually commit to pursuing those qualities.
Here are a few fun pictures of Jared and porter.



























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My boys are home!!!

Here is a video of our crazy dog. He won't get in water up past his dog ankles, but he will bob for pears...

Now we are headed to the Mexican restaurant to "eat chips and sausage."
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My not so strange weekend

It really hasn't been too bad.  It really seems more like just a continuation of my normal week, when Jared would be working and Porter at school.  The evenings have been busy enough that I haven't sat in my dark house all alone, which was oddly enough one of the things that I would look forward to--just having some quiet, alone time.  Friday night I was operating until about 7:30, and just ran by the japanese, aka "no-fire" place on the way home.  Saturday I did my rounds, did a gallbaldder, and went to Nannie's to sew for a little while.  I had a case late in the afternoon, and got done just in time to whip up a couple of summer dishes for a dinner party I was attending.  The only kink--I got a call about an appendix in the ER, literally as I was gathering all my stuff to walk out the door.  No biggy, I scheduled it for 7:30pm (it was 6:00), ran by Patty's to drop of the food and snack a little, and then went back to Patty's.  Fun time meeting the new orthopod's wife, and getting to know some of the other physicians' wives better.  I stayed up til almost midnight and wasn't dying!!  How odd.  I left Patty's around 10:45, and had a late night texting marathon with the only other person I knew would be up--Brooke Ward Williams.  Hahaha!!! (Callee Jo--GO TO SLEEP!!!)
So now I am done with my rounds and waiting on lunch at Nannie's.  Everyone should be very jealous.  Jared and Porter should be home early this afternoon so we can celebrate Father's Day!!  In the meantime, I'm gonna take advantage of my last few hours of quiet and do some much needed studying for boards.
So I think this post turned into just one of those facebook posts where people write, "went to the grocery story, and then cleaned the house and now cooking supper," except a lot longer.

Strange weekend ahead

My parents, my sister, and Catherine and Caroline left for disneyworld last night, and Jared and porter left for mobile/the beach this morning. I am literally all alone this weekend. And I'm on call. Hmmm.... The problem with planning all kinds of fun stuff for me is the being on call part. I could be bored out of my mind, or work myself to death. I don't have a clue which one it will be. I have cautiously made a few plans, but the majority of the weekend is left open. I know that I will definitely not be cooking (not that I have cooked more than 2 meals in the last 6 weeks anyway). I'm ok with being bored, and I'm ok with working, so either way I don't think I'll be disappointed with how it turns out. I just want everyone to make it back home safely. And say a prayer for Jared's parents. They are in for a wild weekend.
Here is a picture of the p-pot right before they left.



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New sewing stuff!!

Here is what we have done over the last couple of days.












Hmmm.... This one is upside down. Don't know how to flip it.


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Swimming lessons

Today was Porter's first day of swimming lessons. As always, we didn't know how it would go. He LOVED it, and a couple of times, he loved it a little too much. He played himself right off the steps and had to be rescued, since he is too short to touch the bottom in the shallow end. Here are the pics, and a short video.

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When I get bigger

We recently got a new little critter book called "when I get bigger." Porter has really taken to this idea and I think he actually gets the concept. Now he is always asking if he can do certain things when he gets bigger....
"Mama, I can pway baseball when I get bigger."
"I can drink coffee, when I get bigger?"
It's kinda handy at times too. I can tell him he can't do something until he gets bigger, and that seems to satisfy him.

Next topic: the box turtle.
This morning jared found a box turtle in our driveway. He brought it inside to show porter, and I'm glad his stay at our house was short, because he was well on his was to being worried to death. Porter talked to him, and the "come on wittle fewwa" was heard several times. He wanted to hold/touch him, and carry him around the house. I had to keep the turtle next to me the whole time I was getting ready for church for the turtle's safety. Jared and porter took him back across the street to his family before we left for church.



New topic #3: months of the year. This afternoon after a routine trip to the potty, porter breaks out singing the months of the year while we were getting his underwear and shorts back on. He made it all the way to September before getting confused with all those at the end that end with -ber. They were a little out of order. I don't know exactly where he learned them from. We have watched a little YouTube video occasionally that is a months of the year song, but not any time recently. Maybe at school? I don't think they are really doing much school stuff in the summer though. Either way, I was surprised how well he knew them. I'm so impressed with how much he learns from school--from the school stuff to the social things. He is already learning what sounds letter make, to recognize written numbers and letters, and the concept of having a certain number of things. He has learned lots of songs, not the least being the blessing song that they sing at lunch. He has learned how to be a good friend by sharing and understands how to share and what it means to take a turn at something. That doesn't mean he doesn't do it without whining some, but even adults whine a lot. ;)
The good things that he has learned from being in daycare/school far outweighs the negatives, which are just the bad things/habits he picks up from other kids. They are pretty minor and easy to fix at home. The positive on that is he will be learning how to make good decisions when faced with the choice of doing something else. I would rather him be aware of how the real world can be and be able to make the good choice than not equipped with the skills to do so.
Ok, so this post has ended at a totally different place than where
It started....
I'll end with some pictures from this past week of porter playing with his cousins.






Hilarious. Sitting in a doll salon chair letting Catherine give him a haircut.





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Jared killed the rhinoceros

Porter called this float the rhinoceros when he found it this morning. It was laid to rest shortly after this picture was taken.



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Bedtime corndog

Porter is going to turn into a corndog. What was for breakfast this morning? A waffle and a corndog. And what do we have to fix every night before bed? A corndog. We even got the breakfast pancake and sausage on a stick. Now we have real breakfast corndogs that we call sausage corndogs. The first morning I offered them he ate two of them.
I had to sneak these pictures tonight. He does not want his picture taken anymore.












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"calm down, callee Jo!!"

CJ has been trying to talk and just can't seem to get it out. It causes her to shake, make funny faces, and her face turns red. It is a little hard to see in this video, but it has been requested.

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