Lucky

As parents, Greg and I have been sooo lucky in many aspects! In Kelsey's two and half years of life, she has only suffered from the minor seasonal colds. That all changed Friday night!

She is rather weird from time to time and finds it funny to stick her finger down her throat. I heard her over the monitor coughing. I went to check on her and she was giggling and wanted me to look at her pillow...where I found a "lovely" little barf biscuit! She told me she stuck her finger down her throat....oh joy! She then proceeded to throw up several times over the next hour or so. She handled this quite well and was rather brave.

In true Kelsey fashion, after each "contribution" to the bucket she would look up at me and say, "I'm all done...can I have a snack now?" She is like a bottomless pit! Her eating habits are what got her into this little vomit fest! Greg and I chalked this up to the fact that she ate FIFTEEN medium-sized shrimp, about 2 cups of boiled red potatoes, AND green beans. She followed this up with ice cream. Obviously the food had no where to go but up and out after a couple of hours of sitting in her belly!

Since we are still fairly new parents (read: paranoid), Mommy was elected to sleep on the couch with Kelsey for the night. This was no walk in the park...the girl likes her space when she sleeps! I kept getting crowded out and would go lay at the other end, only to wake up suddenly with a little girl in my face, "Mommy, where you go? Are you awake? I need you!" Finally Daddy gave her a magic paci that wouldn't make her spit up and she passed out in her own bed. What would we do without Daddies?

Oh Joy!

I am not very thrilled about turning 30 today...

Is It Winter Yet?

In Kelsey's closet, towards the back, I hang up the clothing that we get as gifts that are too big or not appropriate for the current season. She has all these clothes from Aunt Wendy and Grandma Pattison that she's been ITCHING to wear...specifically the dress below. I usually tell her, "we can't wear those clothes until it is winter, when we have snow on the ground." I finally gave in since it has been a bit chilly here in the mornings and I'm tired of her asking "is it winter time yet?". We still need to get some tights and shoes to go with the dress, but she loves it! She already loaded up the purse with her "personal belongings" and told me she was ready to go.

Right after we took this picture, she pulled her cell phone out of her purse and told me she had to call Grandpa Pattison and tell him thank you for the boo-ti-full dress!

In other news, we took Colin to the doctor yesterday for his two month check-up and he is doing great! He is 24" long...our little string bean...and weighs 12.2 lbs. He is very strong for his age and showed off for Dr. Macedo (Dr. Mosquito as Kelsey calls him) by holding his head up while on his tummy and looking around.

Another Happy Day!

A day late, a dollar short...Happy Two Months (yesterday) to Colin! He was really turning on the charm for Daddy tonight while he had the camera out. He is all smiles these days and a little ray of sunshine. He is quite the mover too! Greg just commented tonight that Colin should be rolling over any day now.

As for Kelsey, we are deep in the trenches of potty training. Holy smokes is training a two and half year old to use the potty HARD! It seems like every five minutes we are saying, "Kelsey, do you have to pee? Poop? Don't get pee on your pretty dress!" No accidents today though. And I think the dum dum lollipops we have been using as a reward have lost their appeal. Any suggestions in this area of our parenting adventure would be gladly welcomed!

Wear It With Pride!

Despite a poor start to the season, the Pattison's are still supporting the good ole Maize and Blue!

Upon lots of "encouragement" from Aunt Barbara...we now have a family blog! I have actually been thinking quite a bit lately about starting this sort of thing. Perhaps it will force me to take the camera out more often to take pictures of everyone, as well as keeping track of what our busy family is up to!

Now that Greg's weekend in Vegas is behind us, we are very excited to start planning our trip to visit family at Christmas time! At least I won't get left behind this time!