The past month

Hi Family and friends,

This is late. Really late. I am so sorry about that, we have had a ton of things both good and bad happen during this past month.  I am going to catch everyone up on all of it.  This may be long, but I will try not to have it reach novel proportions. 

Noah's first official outing was to a vineyard, cause you know, we keep it classy here in Texas. The vineyard is owned by old family friends of Scott's and is called Eden Hill Winery, it's located in Celina which is about 20 minutes North-West of us.  This place is beautiful! It was so much fun! I am not a wine person at all and I was fascinated by everything I had learned during our visit.  I now have an appreciation for wine and the care that goes into making it.  They have an orange flavored wine that is made from grapes that taste like oranges and it was so so SO good! The name of the wine is Orange Muscat.  Buy some. Buy some for your friends. Buy some for me! I promise it really is THAT good! 

One Wednesday evening with the kids we tried to make homemade pizzas.  Including the dough.  It was a total miss.  The dough tasted really doughy, and not in a good way, disgustingly so.  We all ended up eating the toppings off our pizzas and throwing the dough part away.  Oh well.  If you happen to have a really yummy pizza dough recipe please send it my way!  I am sure the kids will appreciate it! Ha! 

The kids are all officially on summer vacation, living it up a little.  They are all doing great and have been great older siblings to little Noah.  


As you all know Scott had his gallbladder removed two days before Noah was born.  Gallbladder removal is a difficult adjustment for anyone to have to deal with.  You have to completely adjust your diet and things you once loved to eat you may not get to eat again depending on how well your body adjusts after the surgery.  Scott is dealing with some complications right now because of the surgery.  He has been in the hospital for about a week.  He had an infection (now he is prone to them) and his pancreas was inflamed (common after gallbladder removal and from what I read online a recurring event for many.)  He was in a lot of pain and just super sick.  I am happy to say that he is doing really well and hoping to go home tomorrow.  He is going to have to take it super slow with eating and introducing foods back into his diet.  The thing I find the most strange about his diet now is that foods that are considered good and what are usually encouraged to be eaten, he can not have.  No high fiber, no whole wheat pastas or breads.  He gets to eat the bad stuff. Lucky him. 


I am doing okay, I am staying with my parents this week and stayed with them last week because I was driving Scott crazy.  I was driving myself crazy too.  I am a little OCD.  I am not ashamed or embarrassed or try to hide it.  My OCD ways have had to be put on the back-burner because I have been taking care of Noah and I don't have the time to sweep and vacuum everyday.  This bothers me.  Bothers me to the point that it was making me bitter.  I would see something on the ground and want to cry.  I am lucky to have a husband who helps out and wants to help out, but after he would clean something, I would just see what he missed or did wrong and not appreciate it at all, in fact I would flat out tell him he did a bad job.  I know. It was pretty terrible.  During my parents' visit Scott suggested I go down to Harker Heights with them to relax and not have to worry about anything but Noah and myself.  I thought it was a great idea.  I came back down this week because he is in the hospital and he didn't want me to be alone.  Avery and the family cat came too! Being with my parents gave me the opportunity to surprise my grandmother at work with Noah so she could meet him!  Noah behaved so well meeting her and visiting with the lovely ladies at the family business!  He even peeked up at his GG! It was so CUTE!

While visiting my parents I had the opportunity to spend time with Audrey and Hope, they are my family by God's grace - not blood related but family in every way else.  When I worked at Sam Goody I met a guy name Nick that became like a brother to Nell and I.  The three of us did everything together.  Audrey married Nick and I got another sister and a niece and now a nephew Blake.  I love the fact that Nick's son and mine get to grow up knowing one another, just like we did!  Anyway, my mom can sew and she helped teach Hope how to use her sewing machine.  

Noah has learned that car seat equals sleep.  It is so funny to watch him look around and figure out he is in it and then pass out.  He did so well on our trips back and forth to Mckinney, a 3 hour drive.

Noah is also a great sleeper!  He wakes up only one or two times a night!  Mostly just once, but every now and then he will wake up twice.  I am super thankful he is a good sleeper!  I am hoping he follows in Avery's footsteps and sleeps through the night at two months too.  He is also becoming more and more alert.  I am having to entertain him during the day.  I take him outside and show him toys and ring bells for him so that he can turn toward the sound.  I play classical and jazz music for him in the mornings.  He is really strong too.  He wiggles around on the bed and has rolled himself over from back to belly a few times.  Each time he has he looks up like "what was that?!"  Its adorable!

Now that Noah is on a "schedule" and I use that term lightly, I think I will have time to update like I originally planned.  Wish me luck!  LOL