When it rains it pours...

Well this week has been one for the record books. Monday started out just like everyday. Grant woke up, he played on the floor with his toys, took his nap, etc. After his nap, he seemed a little irritable, so I decided to go out to make the time go by quicker. I went to Target and Shoe Carnival and then we came home. We met Geoffery at home and I was starting on dinner. Geoffery was playing with Grant when all the sudden he projectile vomited. Wow! Never seen this before, what could have brought this on? Called the doctor, called everyone I knew and they all said, sometimes that just happens. Okay, got everything under control. Well, 10 minutes later he did it again. Well this is not normal, call the doctor make an appointment. At this point I'm crying and trying not to loose my cool. 10 minutes later, he does it again. This time we hop in the car and drive to the doctor's office. On the way there, Grant does it again. Well I'm freaking out and Geoffery is driving like a manic. So we get pulled over by a cop. Great! Can things go more our way!? So once we explain to the cop what's going on, he lets us go our way (very rudely, but lets us go). We get to the doctors office and he throws up again. Just to let you get a picture of it, my face is BEAT red from crying, Geoffery is in a t-shirt and dress pants and flip-flops, and Grant is in a oneie and pajama pants (and if any of you know me, I don't let my kid go out in a oneie or pajama pants especially covered in throw up). So we get in with the doctor and she wants us to go to the hospital to make sure there isn't obstruction in his intestines and if there is that could mean possible surgery. So pretty much at this point I'm FREAKING out and losing all control and crying at a drop of a hat. He contines to throw up about every 10-15 minutes while we're at the hospital. They make him drink this chalky bottle (and let me tell you that I would drink a sip of any of it) to see if anything is stuck in his intestines and they take X-rays of his stomach. He doesn't like any of it, crying and not wanting to drink the bottle (obviously). I finally get him to drink about 2 Oz's and that is enough for the test. So we're done, now the results. We'll the hospital will not tell us so we have to go back to the pediatrician (and it's about 7:55pm and they close at 8pm). So we run back to the pediatrician's office so we can get the results before they close. Again he continues throwing up every 15 min. We get there and the results came out negative. Relief! But what is wrong with him? The doctor says that the probably has a viral infection and try to keep him hydrated the next couple of days. Great! I can deal with a viral infection, but not surgery.

So the next day he did fine, no throwing up just diarrhea. He wouldn't eat much and wouldn't touch the pedialyte, but we got by. Wednesday rolls around and he is doing great. Sleeping ALL the time, but not eating much. Wednesday night comes and he throws up again. Okay, we know he's sick. It's time for bed, so I lay him down and then we heard him throw up again. We run in to get him and this is BROWN throw up. Okay I'm trying not to loose control again, but I called the pediatrician (their closed) and get the nurse on call. She said that we need to go to the emergency room because someone needs to look at him. So we head over to the emergency room at about 9pm. We get there and he's acting fine and the doctor comes back to say that sometimes he can throw up brown because of the violent vomiting and sometimes break a blood vessel and it's okay. They decided to test his stool and do some blood work to make sure it's a virus and then we also decided to put him on an IV to get him hydrated since he hasn't been eating much and he hadn't had many wet diapers. The doctor didn't think he needed the IV, but decided to be on the safe side. Well when we were putting in the IV (it took 2 nurses, me, and Geoffery) Grant of course was screaming because we were holding him down, Geoffery starts vomiting like crazy. So picture this a baby screaming, nurses trying to the the IV in, me holding Grant, and Geoffery vomiting! I felt like I was on Grey's Anatomy! It was crazy. However, I felt better now knowing that Grant had a virus because now Geoffery's sick. Long story short, the blood work showed that he had a viral infection and that he was dehydrated and did need an IV. Since we were already in the ER, the doctor wrote Geoffery a prescription to help the vomiting and we were on our way home. We picked up the prescription that night at 12:30am (thanks Walgreen's). I put Grant to sleep, Geoffery continued vomiting, and I washed two bottles. Then I decided to lay down and get some rest. I laid down for about 10 minutes, then got up and started vomiting myself until about 4am that morning! Me and Geoffery took turns helping each other. Let me tell you, I have had natural childbirth and for those 4 hours that I was vomiting I have to say I was about in the same amount of uncomfortableness. I wouldn't wish it on my best enemy! So we have continued to be sick (no throwing up), but achy, chills, fever we got it all. But we're starting to feel much better. In the last two days I have drunk about a gallon of Gatorade and a piece of bread, but I do feel better. So that's our week in a nutshell. I hope all of you have had a much better week then we have.

Grant's first haircut

Well today my baby became a boy! We went to Rexburg to get Grant's first haircut! It was getting EXTREMELY long and I kept pushing it off because he is only 7 mths old. Babies aren't supposed to get haircuts, right? Well he needed one because it was getting to the point where I couldn't spike his hair anymore and well that just can't happen. I have to spike his hair! It's too cute! Anyway, I put him in his bumbo chair on the hairdressers chair and he moved around a lot, but he did really well. No crying or fussing. He just looked around a lot wondering what on earth was going on. She used scissors because she was afraid clippers would scare him and they probably would (he won't even let me turn the vacuum on because it scares him so much). The haircut looks wonderful and we can continue using gel everyday! Yeah! Here are some pictures below of the before, during, and after...

Before shot of his hair

What a good boy!

Isn't he a cutie!

He looks like a little man in this picture!

After! What a good job!

Halloween costumes...

I need every ones help because I cannot make up my mind! I am trying to decide what Halloween costume I should buy for Grant, and Geoffery just says "I don't care which one you pick." Men, they never have an opinion when you want them to and then when you don't want them to have an opinion they open their mouth! Anyway, please let me know which ones you guys like best so that I can make up my mind and order these before their sold out. Thanks guys! (even if you don't have a blogger account, you can still leave a comment) Scarecrow for $24
Horse for $24
Lion for $46
Dog for $46

Sun Valley Trip

This weekend Geoffery's company held a Sales Convention in Sun Valley. For the guys that qualified to go on the trip, their wives were invited to come and enjoy the free hotel room, free dinners, ice show, pedicures, and relax. Well that sounded great, in theory. However I don't think relaxing, fancy dinners, and shopping downtown with a baby go together. So we decided to make a difficult decision and leave little Grant with the grandparents for two nights. It was really hard, but I knew he would be miserable up there and no one else were taking their kids. He did awesome while we were gone. Sleep through the night, didn't cry or whine, and ate rice cereal for the grandparents like a champ. So all was well.

We also had a really good time as well. The room was really nice and so were the dinners. We were able to go to this ice show that cost $89.00 a ticket (something we wouldn't have done on our own dime)! The ice show had people who had performed at the Olympics and it was really entertaining. I also went shopping with some of the wives downtown. And don't worry because I didn't buy a darn thing. I found a pair of pajama's that I really liked for um.. let's see $325!!! Oh and a serving platter for only $2,000! Oh that's only penny change really! For those of you who don't know Demi Moore lives there and it is built purely for the millionaires of the world. So I told Geoffery we can't go back until we make our first million. We should be back sometime next year if that's the case:) Yeah right!

Well here are some pics of our trip. I went golfing with Geoffery (I didn't play, just drove the golf cart around). Hope you enjoy.

Our summer home!

The ice show- sorry they won't stop so I could take a pic!

Okay, I can't resist to put a pic of Grant. This is him and his friend, Zaylie, at the zoo.

Labor Day Weekend...

We went to the Idaho State Fair this weekend with the Zellers clan, Geoffery's family. We had a LOT of fun. We went to the horse races where we got to see the Indian races. In the Indian races they ride bareback and they go around the track on one horse then they jump off that horse while it's still running and jump on another horse and go around the track again and there are like 6 or so racing. It's pretty cool. We also got some really good food while we were there. Geoffery got this king size chicken leg that looked disgusting and I got this huge scone with honey butter- YUM! It was HOT but Grant did awesome and was a really good sport. He even took some naps while we were there which is BIG for him. I took some pictures so I thought I would share them with you guys. Hope you enjoy!

Geoffery, me, and Grant and the cute horses

Greg, Carolyn, and Crystal

Geoffery and Grant with twin hats at the fair

Grant hanging out in his car seat! He was a GOOD boy!
Me and Grant

Totally Obsessed...

I have found (let me rephrase, my sister found from her friend Jessica) a new blog that I'm totally obsessed with called design mom. It is amazing. It's like Martha Stewart, potterybarn, and baby center all rolled into one. If you haven't already discovered it you will have to take a look here. She puts tips, findings, and products that she has found that have to deal with kids, decorating, and life. There are also links on her page to other amazing blogs and other amazing websites. You could spend literally hours just looking at hers and others alike (and I have!). One thing I like is that you can email her questions about whatever and she will answer them on her blog. She posts everyday so there is always something new to look at. Let me know what you guys think.

Hope everyone is doing well!

What a week...

Well this week has been interesting for us. Last week I got the pleasure of catching a cold! I was sick in bed luckily on Saturday so that Geoffery could watch Grant! I felt better after that, but still am dealing with a terrible headache, stuffy nose, and sore throat. Geoffery than caught the same cold on Tuesday. We've both been knocked up on dayquil and NyQuil to get us through the day and night. If that wasn't bad enough, Geoffery kept complaining about his teeth hurting him. I thought maybe he had sinus pressure which means he had a sinus infection or he was just being a "baby" (you know how men are when their sick:). But he decided instead that he needed to see a dentist, which I thought was crazy. However, he went to the dentist and the dentist said that he needed a root canal right away and did it that very day because Geoffery was in so much pain. The dentist said the tooth was almost dead! And by the way, we don't have any dental insurance so this is going to cost us a pretty penny! What a way to spend money, but I guess that's why you have emergency funds! This is also Geoffery's second root canal, so I think it will be a good investment for us to get dental insurance after this experience. The dentist also suggested that he needed to fill a couple of cavities and take his wisdom teeth out! Fun for us$$$ On a better note, Grant NEVER got sick which in my mind is a miracle! It would be just terrible to be sick, have your husband sick, and your baby! So I'm counting my blessings.

Also last week Geoffery's friend Bryan came to visit us all the way from Indiana. They went to Yellowstone and went fishing and I think they had a lot of fun. He took some pictures while he was out here so I thought I would put them below. Hope you guys enjoy!

The whole fam and Bryan
Some fun pics of Grant
Gummy smiles are the best!
Geoffery fishing (check out this pose!) Geoffery, Will, and Bryan (Check out Geoffery's socks! Hot!)