I Adore Jett's Daddy!

It is heartbreaking to see your baby sick.
There are no words to express how much I love being Jett's mama.  It's funny how one second he can be puking all over me and the next second nuzzling my neck and showering me kisses.
I love the fact that when he is not feeling good- I am who he wants. I am the one who gets covered in puke but also the one who gets to hold and comfort his feverish little body.  Don't get me wrong, Clayton is right there with us. Earlier in the night Clayton chose to stay home from his basketball league in order to help with Jett.
He is oncall this week for his job and had not gotten much sleep the previous nights but he was still up at 2:45am cleaning puke off me and the furniture and then helping make Jett comfortable.
We have been married 8 years now and our love for each other has grown so much more now that we have Jett. Times like last night help remind me yet again of how wonderful Clayton is and what a good Daddy he is.

Post Vacation Update

We had a wonderful time in Florida with Clayton's parents. Jett was instantly in love with Grandma! They were good buddies the whole week. Clayton and I were able to have several nights without Jett thanks to Grandma and Grandpa. While we were there Clayton and a few of his classmates were able to hook up for a 10 year high school reunion. We all went out for dinner one night and the next night we got together to play games and just chat. Its insane that it has been 10 years since high school.


Baby Jett has been changing so much lately. It's so fun watching him try new things and make new discoveries every day.  Here are some of the things he is doing so far at 5 months:
Blowing spit bubbles- especially when he is eating!
He is a little wild man while jumping in his jumper!
He has been saying "dadadadadada" and then will sing a very loud falsetto!
His head has finally exploded with super duper blonde hair! He is no longer bald!!
He despises Gerber's- Turkey & Turkey Gravy.
He can sit up on his own for quite awhile and then he will eventually topple over.


Tucker wanted me to mention that he has been miserable with hives. We think he has had an allergic reaction to his food and was covered in hives which are extremely itchy.  We have changed his food and gave him a bath in some special medicated shampoo and it has helped quite a bit but he still has a few hives left. Were hoping they will go away soon!

Thats all for now.....

Florida Here We Come....

It used to be that when we went on vacation I always dreaded going back home and getting back to work. Now, I don't dread the end of our vacations. It is so much fun thinking about all the fun times ahead with Jett. He is going to love floating around the pool with us this summer and eating popsicles in lawn chairs...
We head to Sebring FL tomorrow to visit Clayton's parents and grandparents for a week. Hopefully the weather will be nice so we can hit the beach one day, maybe Sea World and just hang out around the house playing games with the family. I love visiting Clayton's family- they are so low-key and love to play games!
I wish Tucker could join us but he is going to stay home with Cory and Meg. They agreed to babysit him while they are house-sitting for us! Tucker would love the beach. He would go nuts playing in the water and then rolling in the sand.
Our flight leaves at 6:35am tomorrow. Not especially looking forward to getting up at 3:15am in order to get everything/everyone loaded in the car for the airport. I hope and pray that Jett does as good as he did the last time we flew. Thankfully Clayton will be with us this time!
I'm so anxious to step off the plane in Tampa to see palm trees and the water!! I love Florida and cant wait until we get there!!

A few gross moments as a mom...

The last 4 months have been the happiest, fastest and grossest months of my life. 

When Jett was about 3 or 4 weeks old I finally had my first "Mom" moment. We were having lifegroup at our house and half way through the group I had to use the bathroom. As I was leaving the bathroom I caught a quick glance of myself in the mirror and stopped dead in my tracks. I was horrified! When I got up closer to the mirror I noticed that my blue shirt was coated in dried spit-up and I also had remnants of a blow-out from MUCH earlier in the day on me!! Not to mention my hair was all crazy in a ponytail. I had been so focused on getting the house clean while keeping Jett fed and clean that I had completely forgotten to look at myself. I've never been the type of girl who puts that much thought into my hair or make-up when I go out in public but my appearance that night was absolutely ridiculous.  It was at that moment looking in the mirror with Jetts puke and poop on me that I realized, "I'm a Mom."   

I do have to say that Clayton got it pretty darn bad when Jett was 5 weeks old.  We were headed home from Iowa and were stopped in Kansas at a Starbucks.  Clayton was feeding Jett inside Starbucks while I used the bathroom. When I came out of the bathroom I could see Clayton from across the room and he had this weird look on his face. When I get up close to him he whispers, "Jett just pooped all over me." At first I thought, it cant be that bad but oh my goodness, it was running down Clayton's shirt onto his shorts. We very carefully took Jett into the womens bathroom and while I cleaned Jett up, Clayton was scrubbing poop off his clothes. That was a mess.

Last night as I was getting ready for lifegroup I picked Jett up out of his highchair to get him dressed only to have him puke in my hair and all down my back. I cleaned it up best I could but when Clayton got home from work, he bent down to give me a hug only to pull back- he had put his hand in the wet spot on my back.  

This morning as I was feeding Jett his cereal, I scratched my neck and ended up peeling off a dried booger that Jett  somehow deposited on me when I got him out of his crib.

I was not prepared for all the grossness Moms have to deal with! 

I wouldn't trade Baby Jett for anything- grossness and all!!