Stomach Bug

We have been VERY lucky so far with Cal not getting the stomach bug. It's been going around so we knew is was just a matter of time.... Eddie went out of town yesterday so Cal, Hank and I were holding down the fort here. 

My mom had a gingerbread house making party last night and I didn't want to get a sitter while I was there, so I took Cal and put him down in her crib and then woke him up and brought him home to go back to sleep.  He is reallllly good about this and always goes right back down. 

When I carried him downstairs at my parents' house last night, my dad kissed his head and said he felt a little warm to him.  I thought it was just from where his face had been jammed into the bumper of my mom's crib!  We got home and he went straight down without even a fuss.

At 2:45 this morning, he cried out, but he does that often...sometimes he has a bad dream or he can't find his paci, etc... but this time, it was a real pathetic kind of cry.  It kept going, so at 3, I went in to his room to help him find the paci.  I never turned on a light, just reached my hand into the crib and felt around.  And I felt some wetness.  Cal had thrown up in his crib and was COVERED head to toe in it! I pulled him out of the crib and changed his jammies and used a wipe to wipe down the rest of him-- big mistake.  The smell was unbearable! 

I brought him in bed with me and he snuggled on my chest and was so sweet and cozy and then looked up and me and puked all over my shirt.  I sat up even more to figure out what to do when he puked all over my bed.  I had a burp cloth nearby in case this happened, and he hit that, but it went all over the bed too.  The problem is, babies don't know where to puke, they just know they are going to!  His natural instinct is to come to me when he's hurt or not feeling well, so I got the brunt of most of the puke!

Then the challenge was to hold a crying, puking baby while changing the crib sheet.  Crib sheets are a pain to change without someone in your arms...add the puking, crying baby and you have yourself a problem!  I got that changed and then put him down to rest for a few minutes and he slept for about 20 minutes and woke himself up puking again....it was awful!  Poor thing!  This time merited a bath.

We came downstairs after the bath and he grabbed a sippy cup of water, dehydrated I am sure, and chugged it.  He threw the cup down after and came running over to me....and puked.  On me.  Again.  Poor poor little guy! 

He was exhausted at 8 and ready for a nap, so I put on the freshly washed crib sheet and he went down great.  He slept for about an hour and I could hear him whimpering upstairs.  When I got about 10 stairs from the top, I could smell the worst smell EVER.  I will spare you the details, but let's just say it was now coming out BOTH ends, and this was just as liquid.... time for another bath!!!

After this bath, he did seem to be feeling a tad better...

As of 1:45, he has not thrown up since this morning around 7:45....fingers crossed that the worst of it is over!  My mom is coming over in about an hour with some goodies for us: lunch for me! and some spray disinfectant to get my house germ free.  The LAST thing we need is for us to be sick before we head out to California! 

And OF COURSE, this happens the day AFTER our visit to the doctor!  Not that I would want to take him there today sick, but it would be nice to know what on earth to do to help the kid!  Someone on facebook mentioned the BRAT diet: bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast.  We've done the banana and the toast.  We will see how he is when he wakes up from his nap!!!

Hope you all are feeling well!!!  I am off to wash my hands....again!

Tomorrow

We have a showing tomorrow...! This is the first one in a while, and I am VERY excited that we have someone coming (everyone says that lookers this time of year are serious), but you would not believe the state of my house right now.  It looks like a tornado came through and hit every room twice. 

Instead of cleaning my house top to bottom (like I soooo should), I have been playing with the little guy, and doing this instead....

I can't help it.  I tried to start cleaning while he was still up and he thought it was SO fun to take out everything I was putting away.  He was taking his toys and throwing them at Hank.  I have *stuff* in every room on the floor. 

Cal just went over to my nativity scene (a wedding gift), and shook the table back and forth as hard as he could and one of my wise men fell and broke.  I was so sad, but it was my own fault.  He knew right away that he shouldn't have touched it and walked to the stairs saying "night night".  He was ready to put himself to bed! HA!


Off to clean clean clean (which Eddie thinks is a waste of time to do today since the showing isn't until 2:30 tomorrow-- he thinks that gives Cal a LOT of time to wreck havoc between now and then.....).

Playing catch up

So much has been going on and I have been so bad about updating the blog, so I am trying to catch up today while the weather is nasty :)

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks.  We are certainly enjoying Cal this time of year!!!

Before the Love Feast at our church (loving on the cracker)

Momma caught him sneaking an ornament off the tree

Dinner with Santa at the Country Club

 some of the kids in our group

 BIG BOY!

 Doesn't really like Santa

 ...at all

 This picture was a challenge and a half to capture!  Cal with his 2 cousins!

All ready for Christmas!

Naughty or Nice?

Here is our Christmas card this year:

Merry Christmas to you all!

Cal and Santa

Last year, Cal met Santa and did great with him. This year, not so much...

(more pictures to follow...but they all look about like the one above...)

Bucket o' fun!

Cal climbed into his toy bucket this morning.  The picture isn't very good, but he sure is funny :)

Pictures from October

Back on October 31st, Cal, Eddie and I went to a park in Raleigh for a photoshoot with a studio that was offering a "mini-session."  I posted a link with our pictures from the session a while back, and we just received the ones we picked in the mail, so I wanted to share with you!  The studio is Evolve Studio and I think she did a great job capturing my wild child!

IT'S A.....

IT'S A BOY!!!

(love this one-- saying a prayer that his big brother takes care of him!)

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!

we had to rearrange our appointment with prenatal peek (Eddie HAD to play golf....hehe, I am NOT complaining!), so we are finding out today at noon!!! Check back around 1:00 and I am sure I will have something up :)

A Snowy Little Day

This past weekend, North Carolina had its first snowfall! This is early for us down here, and I must say-- it was beautiful!  It was a wet snow so I didn't take Cal out to play it in (plus it was SO cold out!) but I did get a picture of the house in the snow...

 Look closely at the doorway...see anyone?

How about now??

SAY CHEESE (part two)

A few months back, I wrote a post about Cal's cheesy smile, well, he's back at it again.  He stopped doing this for a while, but now every time the camera comes out, he smiles like this:

Some smile are cute and somewhat normal, but others are just hilarious to me-- what a ham!

In case you are bored...

Here is a link to a video from yesterday.  CRACKS me up-- Cal is playing, cheering, making farting noises with his mouth (remind me later that I found this funny) dancing, and riding his pony/Hank.  The video is about 7 minutes long....so you have to be pretty bored to watch that one....

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And here is a link to the photo shoot that we did in late October with Evolve Studio.  I really like the way some of them came out!  This link will only be active for another week, so if you want to see it, don't wait too long :)
Go to www.evolvestudiophoto.com/ and click on "proofing" and enter my email address: carriewilliamson2@gmail.com.  Let me know what you think!

HoHoHo!!!

Someone is getting excited for Santa to come!

Prenatal Peek

All I want for Christmas is.....to know what this baby is!!! Eddie's mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I thought a session to prenatal peek would be so fun. I just want to know the gender of this little one before Christmas (really for no reason at all, I am just curious!)....oh, and I want to hit up some after Christmas sales for some cute holiday outfits for the little one for next year!

So, we booked an appointment for the 9th of December.  I added a poll to the upper right hand corner of the blog.  What do you think?  Will Cal be getting a little brother?  Or a little sister? 

(and on a side note...I am already 15 weeks pregnant....isn't that hard to believe???  With my first pregnancy, I was blogging about everything pregnancy related and reading every book out there.  I have yet to pick up a book this time around.  Isn't that horrible???  Oh well....I guess everything is still "fresh" in my mind...or at least I am telling myself that!)

Gobble Gobble!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! My parents bid on a rental house in the mountains of Virginia for the long weekend (Tuesday-Saturday!) and it was the perfect spot for all of us.  My brother, his wife, and their two kids came up, and so did Eddie's sister, Carrie.  There was plenty of space for everyone and everything.  This house was ah-mazing!

My mom went into mega planning mode ahead of time and each night had a theme to it and she gave the kids a different gift each night.  My brother and his family will be in Savannah for Christmas this year, so I know she was trying to make it extra special for everyone.

The first night the theme was "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go."

Here is Cal's toy:

 And here is Jackson opening his:

The second night we were there, the theme was 'The Kids Were Nestled All Snug In Their Beds" and each kid got a sleeping bag with their name on it.  Cal LOVED his!  He immediately sat on it and was kissing it non-stop!

Friday night was puzzle night, but I didn't have my camera out for that one :(

We spent a TON of time out on the huge back deck, despite the freezing temps.  The sunsets were amazing each day!

And then, just some fun pictures from the trip

 Playing outside

 Hi Mom!

 Happy Boy!

 With Aunt CB!

 Just making a phone call!

 Sunset with Daddy

 Picking up rocks

 Hats are needed when it's cold out!

 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope you each ate way too much, watched some excellent college football, slept a lot, and took some time to reflect upon all of the things for which you are grateful.  I feel so blessed and beyond thankful.