Vacation.... and now sick

Today is the first day of my two week vacation!!! Yay!!!

But do you know what happened here at the very beginning of my glorious vacation? Sickness. Handsome started with a runny nose on Thursday. Then by Friday all three of us were sick. I am apparently the biggest wuss because all I want to do is sleep. Today DH let me sleep until 11am and probably would have let me sleep all day, but I woke up nauseous from hunger, so I got up. And now? Now I'm sneezing blood. Disgusting, right?

Our flight is on Tuesday. If I am congested while on a flight, I inevitably get an ear infection or two. Please, Lord, let us all be healthy by Tuesday. I don't know if I can handle a whiney, sick child on an airplane when I'm whiney and sick myself.

I hate colds.

Veggies

I made vegetable soup tonight. And Handsome ate an entire bowl plus more! Apparently if I want him to eat his veggies I should just make soup.

And another new word

Co = cold.

For those who pray, please pray for DH. He has two finals tomorrow and I'm nervous about both. He says he isn't, but I am.

And then I have a TON of work to get done before the end of the week. This is going to be a hard week. Last week sucked and this week doesn't look like it's going to be much better.

Lord, please give me the strength to make it through this week.

My couch steals

It steals pens, highlighters, phones, and remotes.

Annoying couch.

My beautiful eyes

So DH, Handsome, and I went to do some last minute Christmas shopping - which I find myself doing frequently against my better judgement. When we were checking out DH was holding Handsome behind me and I was paying and talking to the guy checking us out. After the normal "It's cold outside tonight" conversation, he pauses and just looks at me. Weird right? And then he says, "You have the most beautiful green eyes." So I said thank you, left as fast as I could, and then started laughing as soon as we got to the parking lot. DH was standing right behind me with Handsome and this guy was flirting with me!! I couldn't believe it! DH even asked me when we got outside if that was really what the guy had said. Now granted, people don't normally think DH and I are together, but usually when Handsome is there, they get the hint. Some guys just don't get the hint.

The carseat milestone

Yesterday we turned Handsome's car seat around so that he is finally facing forward. Yes, my baby is growing up. I kept him facing backwards as long as I could. His legs were finally too long to keep him facing backwards, so I had to turn him around.

He seems to like it, but I never saw his face when he was backwards, so he could have been smiling the whole way when facing backwards. It will be nice though not to have Handsome playing with random people in other cars where I can't see.

It's weird for me to be able to just look in the rear view mirror and see his face. It's nice to know when he's asleep and when he's not.

Hiding Christmas Presents

I need to get better at the whole keeping Christmas presents a secret. Right now I suck at it. First of all we went Christmas shopping WITH Handsome. Whatever kinda caught his eye is what we got. We even let him play with the toys until we got out of the store because it made him happy and honestly, it was pretty funny. He was playing with the little play cellphone and was so enthralled with it he didn't even notice all the people walking around him laughing at his playing.

And where did I hide the presents? In my closet, on the floor. I put them on DH's side. And so far DH has left the closet doors open twice and Handsome has wondered inside and grabbed a present that I have had to take away from him and close the door again. Oops.

Next year I'll be better.

Stacking

One of Handsome's favorite things to do is take the cans out of the pantry. This weekend he started stacking them. He put the biggest can on the bottom, the middle sized one above that, and the small tomato paste can on the top. He was very proud of himself. He started a couple other stacks next to that one. They were all going well until he decided to put more cans on the stack of three. All but the bottom two fell. I was bummed because I couldn't get a picture on time, but Handsome thought it was hilarious.

I'm still happy that he finally understands, "Put those back, Handsome."