OK, so I'm trying to do better. It hasn't been nearly as long since my last posting, but once again, things have been kind of crazy around our house lately. First, we went to middle TN this past weekend to visit with PaPa Murf and MaMa Hope. As always, we had a good visit. I took a ton (and I do mean a TON) of photos this trip, but of course I can't post them all so I tried to pick some of the best. This first one here is just Isaac playing with some blocks and as you can tell by his expression, he's having a pretty good time!!



He also discovered the new coffee table at their house and loved how he could crawl under and fit just perfectly. I know you can't see it, but the top is a football and it's a really cool table. Should have taken a photo, but I didn't. Oh well, maybe next time....

This is one of Isaac's favorite things to do. Anytime we're at home and he hears Darren's tractor running outside, he runs to the door saying "DaDa" because he wants to go out and ride. PaPa Murf's tractor was no different. He absolutely loves being on it and of course he cried when it was time to get off...

On Saturday afternoon, our nephew Jakob had his 3rd birthday party. It was pretty chilly outside, but we had a good time. Jakob decided to take Isaac for a ride on his little John Deer and he had a ball. They just kept going around and around the house and was just the cutest thing!!

Here's where the fun starts. On Sunday, I decided to try and have Isaac's pictures made at Portrait Innovations in M'boro while we were in town. We got ready and went and had to wait awhile. All this time, Isaac was happy and playing around with no problems. Then as soon as it was our turn and we got back there, he started crying up a storm. I tried and tried to calm him down because I really wanted to do these pictures. The more I tried to calm him, the more he cried. Finally, I just gave up. I apologized to the folks there and said maybe we'll have better luck next time we're in town. Meanwhile, I started noticing these red bumps on Isaac's legs and wondered what it could be, but it didn't look too bad so I didn't think much about it. Well, as the day went on, the spots got bigger and redder. In this picture, it had just started so it didn't look too bad just yet......

Well, as the day went on, the spots just got worse and worse. It looked like he was having an allergic reaction, but we had no idea why. So, we decided to stop and get him some Benadryl on our way back to Savannah. He was asleep by this point, but I was able to get a dose in him and he slept most of the way home. Darren and I both watched him like a hawk the whole way back just to make sure he was breathing. By the time we got to Savannah, he looked even worse and you couldn't tell the Benadryl had done a thing for him. As you can tell below, he was feeling pretty good so we didn't worry too much, gave him another dose of Benadryl, and put him to bed. .....

He woke up in the night and it was time for another dose, then he just went right back to sleep. When he got up that morning, he looked awful. He was swollen all over and covered in splotches. His face was swollen, his hands and feet were swollen. He didn't even look like the same child!!! I , of course, panicked and Darren and his mom hit the road to Jackson to his doctor. She checked him out from head to toe and said everything was ok, he was just having a reaction to something. Finding out what that something was, would be like finding a needle in a haystack. She said just continue with Benadryl and she increased his dose to 1 teaspoon (we were giving him 1/4 teaspoon). This seemed to work the first day, but when it came time that the medicine started wearing off, the splotches would come back, as you can see below.....

So, we have just continued the Benadryl and yesterday was much better. He was a little splotchy yesterday morning, but much better by the afternoon. Last night, the splotches were gone, but I gave him Benadryl before bed just in case and decided to see what he looked like today. Well........Isaac slept all night long and there were no splotches this morning. Yay!!!! Hopefully, my baby is finally well and will stay that way for a little while......

Hello all! I truly haven't forgotten about this thing, but it has been kind of wild in our world. All 3 of us have had this sinus/head cold mess for at least a week now and it's about to get the best of us. Isaac had been sleeping so good until all this hit. Then, he would sleep til around 2:00 or 2:30 in the a.m. and I just didn't have the heart to make him cry it out when he was coughing and didn't feel good.......SO ( go ahead, just call me SUCKER!!) I would end up putting him in the bed with us which let him sleep better, but not Darren or me. Now that he's finally getting over most of this, he's doing much better at night. He's been waking up around midnight or so, but I can get him back to sleep without picking up AND without any tears (yes, i'm pretty proud of myself) and he'll sleep until around 7:00. I'm still pretty stuffy myself and Darren is still coughing, but all in all, we're much better than we were.
As for updates, Isaac is just changing so much and it seems he learns something new every day. He's picking up a lot more words and it still just a little ham, as you can tell by the photos below. This weekend, we are heading to Readyville (just outside the Boro) to spend the weekend with Papa Murf and MaMa Hope. We also have our nephew Jakob's birthday party to go to on Saturday afternoon so Isaac should have a big time with that! We hope to take lots of photos and will be sure to share them when we get back home.


Isaac is getting at a stage now where he really doesn't like to be fed anymore, he thinks he can do it all himself and he actually does pretty good sometimes. He usually just eats whatever we happen to be eating for dinner, but I still have several jars of baby food that I'm trying to use. I hate to just throw them out! As you can though, he got a little carried away though one night with some bananas and just had the best time playing around with his food. I wish I'd had the video camera though because as he was playing, he was singing too. It was just too cute!!

These were just some cute ones I took while we were at MiMi and PawPaw's house one afternoon. He absolutely LOVES to be outside so he always has a blast. As you can tell from the 2nd photo, he's quite the little climber and his new fascination is light switches so that's what he was doing on the chair.

These last 2 are some of my very favorites. My Dad does a tv show about high school football on Thursday nights at 8:00 on News channel 50+. We were watching it last week and Isaac was just waving at his PaPa Murf and couldn't understand why he wasn't waving back so Darren called in on the show and was able to talk to him on the air and he made sure to wave and say hi to Isaac!! Also, for some reason, Isaac has taken a sudden interest in hats and wants to wear one all the time. That same night after I put his pj's on, he found this fleece hat and just had to wear it. I thought it was just the cutest thing!! He sometimes won't look at me when I'm trying to take his picture so I had to trick him and was able to get these shots. I just love how big his eyes look and of course, you know I think he's just the cutest little fella!! Hope you all enjoy and look forward to posting more pics after the weekend.....