Cute Outfits, Teething and Halloween

Sorry I haven't blogged in awhile. It's been a rough couple of weeks. First, Tristan is teething and BAD. At first we just tried using a wet cloth with ice in it for him to chew on but then that wasn't enough. At night he started not sleeping the beautiful 9 hours a night he was sleeping. So we moved to medicine. During the day our babysitter gives him children's Tylenol and dissolvable teething tablets. But, at night, I do the unthinkable. Well, the unthinkable to some people but I don't care. I need my sleep. I rub children's Benadryl on Tristan's gums. Yep. Judge me. It soothes his gums and helps him sleep. Two birds- 1 stone. Hopefully soon he'll cut a tooth or two and then this will stop for awhile. Poor little guy is in so much pain :(

Second, last week, I got attacked by Strep Throat. And I say attacked because I didn't see it coming and when it hit, it hit BAD. My throat hurt Wednesday so I decided to take a nap to see if it might make me feel better. When I woke up, it hurt about 100 times worse. Then I laid down for bed, well, not for long, because after a little while I got up to throw up and literally stayed in the bathroom dry heaving for about 4 hours straight. And the worst part is that I was SOOOO thirsty. I tried drinking water and that didn't stay down for long. Then, I thought I would be tricky and suck on an ice cube. Nope, my stomach figured it out and immediately let me know. Then I tried Gatorade because I was really worried that I might have to go to the hospital at about 5 am (you'll think anything if you're dry heaving for that long). Oh and did I mention that Tristan was on and off screaming because of his teething and so Vincent had to get up and take care of him each time? Yeah, it was a miserable night. When my doctor's office opened in the morning I let them know what was going on and they gave me a prescription for anti-nausea medicine. I hurried to the store, dry heaving the whole way there. When I could finally keep water down, it took everything in me to not down as much water as possible. I took NyQuil and I was out for the rest of the day. I woke up late at night, threw up, took my medicine, waited, took NyQuil again and passed out. Repeated this again in the morning and finally woke up in the afternoon, feeling better but extremely weak. It was terrible. I haven't been that sick in a long, long time. I don't know why it hit so bad but I will be taking more vitamins from now on to prevent this in the future.

Tristan has adorable wintery outfits in the size he's wearing now that he hasn't got to wear until this last week because of the cool weather. One in particular is my absolute favorite. I had to take a million pictures because he just looked so stinkin' cute. Oh and just recently he can fit into his Winnie-The-Pooh bathrobe that he got. Plus it has little slipper/socks that go with it. O.M.G. Seriously, I don't know if the picture does it justice but it makes you cry it's so cute.
Oh and it’s IMPOSSIBLE to make Tristan smile for the camera. I don’t know how he’s so smart but when he sees the camera, he stops smiling/laughing. Which sucks because he does both of those a lot and I can’t catch it on film. But I did get a couple of pictures in his outfits where I got his smile totally by accident. I wasn’t even looking through the peep hole of the camera, I just snapped the button once I saw him smile. I tried.

And on a random subject........I LOVE Halloween. There are several reasons that I love the Halloween season. One, it means cool weather is coming. Two, I have a TON of Halloween decorations and it puts me in a great mood to come home to a decorated house. Three, I love dressing up me, my dogs, and now poor Tristan up in costumes and showing them off. Four, candy. Enough said. And, five, it means Christmas is coming and I love Christmas too.
So this weekend, I decided to decorate the inside of my house with the Halloween decorations. I have outside decorations but Vincent is making me wait till "it's at least October" before I put them up :)

Post Bath Time
(had to add a diaper cause pictures were taking too long)

He looks like he could be a boxer.....a Winne-the-Pooh themed boxer :)

Almost smile.......


Sliding, slowly, down the couch

Bottom of the robe (if you can't see)

Footsies!!

Close up of my boxer

One Stinkin' Cute Outfit

YAY! Smile!

Footsies!!

Smile!!

Smiling through teething position

The teething position Tristan has constantly been in the last 2 weeks

YaY fOr HaLlOwEeN!!!

Happy Anniversary!

Last week Vincent and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. It was a Tuesday night so we just went out to eat at Outback....yummy! But to celebrate we decided to go to San Antonio this last weekend. Our plan is next year to go somewhere super special so we wanted to keep this year laid back. And since neither Vincent nor I had been to Sea World, we decided to do that.

Sea World was sooooo much fun. Even though there are a lot of kids there, it is definitely fun for both kids and adults. And it was a great day to go to Sea World because it was cloudy all day instead of hot and sunny. We went to 2 shows- Believe (Shamu) and Viva (beluga whales and dolphins). Then we went on the rollar coasters and they were actually pretty awesome! After that we went to look at the penguins (why are they so cute??), then we went to feed the dolphins. That was amazing. I got a video of me feeding a dolphin- definitely a neat experience. Last, we went to the water park. The rides in the water park were actually pretty good. We definitely had a great time at Sea World.

After Sea World we went back to the hotel, showered and changed and went out on the Riverwalk for dinner. While walking around, it started pouring. Not drizzling, pouring. So my hair got all frizzy and my clothes were soaked- so much for the shower. We decided to go eat and then go in to find the restaurant had the AC on full blast and it was freezing. After being at the bar and having a few drinks, we finally dried off. The food was great and we had a great time.

I took a lot of pictures but I am forbidden from bringing my beloved D80 anywhere. So instead, I had to bring the crappy camera and therefore, I have crappy pictures :)

Waiting for the Viva show to start......

These pictures came from a waterproof disposable camera......not too bad

Riding a ride between shows....

I took me out of this picture because I looked terrible but I wanted to post this picture because of Vincent.......it's 11AM and yes, that's a Budweiser in Vincent's hand

Goofing off and taking pics before the Shamu show.......

Shamu Show........

Penguins.......

Dolphins.......

Video of me feeding the dolphins. It was super scary to touch them because they're kinda greedy when it comes to food so I didn't know if they were going to bite me or not......





Water park..........

On the Riverwalk.....pre-storm

Vincent took this picture of me like 15 times because we couldn't get it to not be blurry.....I'm posting it anyway

The 15th picture I took of Vincent......he was ready to go :)


Yeah, it's blurry

At the restaurant (post-storm).......

If you haven't already.....

You should check out this show on Bravo called Flipping Out. At first I thought the main character, Jeff Lewis, was a jerk but now I LOVE him. He has a VERY dry sense of humor but once you understand it, you can't get enough. He actually reminds me of Vincent because that is exactly how Vincent can be, especially when he's at work. Anyway, we have recorded a bunch of old ones and are watching it from the beginning since it just starting airing Season 3 a couple of weeks ago and they're still playing the old episodes. So this weekend (and pretty much anytime I have spare time) I will be watching old episodes. I can't wait.