Less than 2 days!

We leave for Cancun in less than 2 days! We will be headed to the airport Saturday morning at 9am. The flight leaves at 11:50am and landing in Cancun at 2:52...only a 2 hour flight though due to cancun being in Central time zone.

OMG I cannot WAIT!

Sunday 3/1/09 we were hit with quite the accumulation of snow in Delaware...Josh loved every second of it. I had to battle many temper tantrums when taking him back in...Ahhh the terrible two's gotta HATE them!

On Sunday Josh went to his friend Ethan's Bday party in potomac Maryland! He had a BLAST!

OK time for me to dream that the work day is over.

What a year!

OK so I am a very bad Blogger!

Josh is such a big boy now. As of the end of December Josh weighs in at 21lbs! He is such a timy little guy!

We leave for Cancun in 29 Days! I cannot wait! All inclusive here I come!

Josh's 2nd bday is coming up. He had surgery on his ears last August...tubes. Since then he has not been the sick little man he was before.

Josh loves to play with his kitchen!

Mommy and josh love to hug!

Josh loves CARS...loves it. His bedroom is themed in Disney's CARS! Aunt Livy even gave him a Pee-woh (pillow in babay talk) for Christmas and it has a CARS pillowcase

Speaking of Christmas here is Josh's santa pics this year.

He has also started pointed to EVERYTHING and saying "What's That/This?"

He even helped when Joe and Kassie came over to "Decorate" my mom's yard for christmas. Here he is with Charlie (Joe and Kassie's Dog)

Josh did not want to share with mommy on Christmas day (in this pic he is actually saying "NO, Stay away" LOL!

And our little Yo-Boy!

Joey is doing great and so am I. My SIL gave birth to our only Nephew on 9/15/08 his name is Mark Matthew. he is definately giving her a run for her money.

OK time for me to get back to work. Deadlines Deadlines Deadlines!

Well Hello again!

OK so I thought I better get this thing running again.

The Gindhart's have been some busy busy busy people over the last few months. Thanksgiving was FUN (Josh started crawling). Our trip to Alabama was GREAT. Christmas was a hoot (a furniture surfer he became). In Februaury Josh started taking steps here and there then went on strike and then March 15, 2008 happened. We were over my parent's house decorating for Josh's birthday party and turned around and he took 4-5 steps towards Joey from the water cooler. OMG Exciting!

So on March 16, 2008 Josh turned 1. My little 17lbs man is growing up so fast! Still a peanut but good things come in small packages. His party was so much fun there were 30+ people in my parent's house. May parents surprised us the Thrusady night before his bday by flying my Nanny, My aunt (Janice) and one of my cousins (Malaine) up from Alabama. It was so wonderful! OK so I forgot something. 2 hours before the party started Josh decided he would just walk his tiny butt accross the room and has been walking around ever since.

Delaware has been having some wacky weather with the rest of the east coast and only recently have we been able to go for walks again. Josh loves to go for rides (while we walk) in his Pooh ride on...the a parent handle is awesome!

Josh's 1 year pics were done in the end of Feb. I will leave you all with a few of them and a few others.

Dr appointment for his 12 month check up is Friday 3/28...will let you know how much he has grown since his last Dr visit in Feb when he was 17lbs (with clothes on).

Going for a walk with Mommy and daddy while I have fun in my Pooh Ride On

But I don't wanna stop and go inside!

SICK Sick sick

That is Josh. Saturday we noticed Josh had a bit of a stuffy nose. Well the stuffy nose continued but Tuesday night we noticed the discharge had color and he had a cough that was bad and a 100.7 fever. He wakes up 4:30am Wednesday morning and is not a happy camper. Has a fever of 101. So Obviosly he needs to go to the Dr today and I need to miss work...BUT...there is a HUGE electronic distribution I am supposed to do today via email to the Department and Division and I am the only person who can do it due to the documents being password protected. So I go into work 7:15am (when they open the doors) I put Josh in his stroller and take him into my office and shut the door (my boss knew I was doing this). I finished what I needed to do and by 8:50am we were out the door. The Dr office opens at 9am so since I have to go passed the office on my way home instead of calling I just stopped in to see if they have an opening (better than going all the way home calling in and then going back out again. Luckily they had an appointment and was happy I just walked in after they heard Josh cough. Well Little Bubbas has Croup! UGH! So he gave us an Rx for steroids. Also they weighed him while we were there and he weighs 14lbs 9oz. I thought this was a weight loss but come to find out the nurse transposed some numbers (honest mistake) and he weighed 14lbs 1oz last week and not 15lbs 1oz. The dr also said not to worry about the color discharge until it has bee 5-7 days (on day 3)...OK! Now this was on Halloween. Josh was so miserable to we just stayed home and passed out candy!

WELL it is Friday. Day 5 and the congestion is worse and the discharge is now GREEN! So I call the Dr office and they tell me that the Dr will call in Zithromax for Josh and we do not need to come in due to he already saw Josh and knew this may happen...that saved me $15.

So now here is hoping for a pretty good weekend!

Many many Milestones

So we have had many many many milestones lately. Josh has cut a tooth, going from laying down to the sit up position on his own, took steps while holding onto my hands, SCREAMS DA-DA. He has just become so alive it seems.

This morning I went in his room to wake him up to get ready to leave for Daycare and he was sitting up in his crib! My eyes were so wide!

Had a small scare yesterday thought Josh had the Chicken Pox...Jaime I need your phone #! Anyway I was picking Josh up early from Daycare to take him to the pedi to get the 2nd flu shot well when I picked him up the Daycare person informed me that 20 minutes ago these red dots appeared. I swear they looked like chicken pox. Well I called the pedi and asked them to switch the appointment from a nurse appointment to a Dr appointment. Told them why and they did so. The Dr looked at him and at a glance he thought it was chicken pox too but after examining he noticed it was a rash/hives seems josh has something viral and his reaction to the virus ended up with a rash. no fever. no irratablility...Josh did go from 13lbs 13oz on 9/21 to 15lbs and 1oz yesterday 10/24. YEAH for weight gain (I think 1lbs 4oz). So we were advised to get some benedryl and give 1/2 tsp to him every 4 hours till the rash goes away. and tylenol if needed.

So that is my scare.

Then I came home to find my beautiful new Carseat (Evenflo Tribute) was on my door step. I got this baby brand new on ebay for $43.45 with shipping included in the price! Josh LOVES IT!

Well off to tackle traffic!

WOW!

OK so it has been forever since I have posted. Things have been hectic. Then in the end I get a very bad Stomach Flu!

Everyone is doing well. Plan to go next weekend to Frightland where during the day they do hayrides and family fun stuff it is at night when it is SCARY! Our friend Rob and his family will be joining us.

Kaley(my sis) came home for a few days this week for her fall break. She really has been busting her butt this semester I think.

My SIL has informed us that she and BIL will be undergoing Fertility treatments...Will see how that goes.

Joey has been working his butt off with later hours S-W when he gets home it is pitch black out there, but it pays the bills.

Update on Josh's Growth:
On 9/21 Josh had his 6 month appointment and weighed in at a whopping 13lbs. 13oz (not charting) is 25 1/2 inches long and is just growing growing growing. He HATED the shots...never heard him cry so HARD! That weekend Josh started sitting up on his own...YEAH!

He has really discovered Rex (our pug) and loves to watch and laugh at him. Sometimes I am in the kitchen and I hear Josh just cracking up I go in the room and see Josh looking at the dog laughing at him while he is playing with his doggie toys.

Sometime last week Josh started getting up on his hands and knees and scooting sometimes he goes from hands and knees to hands and feet.

We bought one of Josh's Christmas presents last night the Amazing Animals Sing & Go Choo Choo. Joey's Dad is getting his the Little Super-Star Sing-Along Stage and I want to get him the Fisher Price Stride-to-Ride Lion. There are other things too but those are the biggies.

Our trip is coming up soon. Josh and I are going with my parents to Alabama too see my family down there...Joey has to work! Looking forward to the trip. We are flying.

We got Josh his Tigger costume for Haloween...Too cute

Josh had his 1st trip to the park and had fun in the baby swing.

That is a whirlwind update for everyone. Hopefully I will have some good weeks coming up and can keep up on the blog better.

What a weekend!

Well the weekend started a day early for me. On Thursday my boss and I decided I needed a day off to relax. SO I take Friday off. My car was in the shop and I was going to carpool to work with my dad. Joey had Josh the whole day due to he was going to go to Philly to see his sister. I was so happy to get a day alone! I told Joey I was taking off Friday and he FLIPPED OUT ON ME! He said why are you taking off on a day that I was going to take Josh to Philly to see my sister and I wanted to do it alone. How is it going to look after I told her you were working that we all show up at her house. What do you not trust me? He made me feel like I was the size of a pea the way he yelled at me. I retaliated saying I and taking a day off bvecause I NEED IT! I told him had no intentions fo going to his sisters because even if I wanted to I couldn't go. The only vehicle we have is his truck and it only seats 2! After I said that too him he just said "Oh". I continued saying I will stay home and get some work done around the house and relax. Joey didn't like that he said well how is it going to look if I go up there without you and they find out you are home and then they think you are avoiding them. I then told Joey I have no choice to not go...there is NO ROOM! I told him he does not need to tell his family I am home just pretend I am at work. I mean DAMN all I wanted was a day off and away from the office stress. Joey appoligized to me (I don't know if he actually MEANT it but he said it).

Now I get home from work after I pick Josh up from my mom's (she watched him the afternoon).

I get into the door and noticed Josh had more diahrea...this was his 5th diaper of the day at this point. then another 30 minutes later another and it kept going like this ALL NIGHT! Joey noticed while I was in the shower that Josh's soft spot was sinking in. OK Call into the pediatrician. While waiting for the call back I started pedialyte. The pediatrician said I was doing everything right and added a few other things to do with food. In a few hours his head was normal again (soft spot). Everything was such a mess! I looked at Joey and said I think you should reconsider your trip tomorrow if this continues...he agreed. Josh was just as happy as can be just couldn't keep a diaper on him for longer than 30 minutes it seemed. Good thing I already had the day off.

So now it is Friday morning and Joey plans to leave around 11:00am and by then we were already on diaper # 4 for the day. Joey called his sister and cancelled but rescheduled for Thursday of this week. Funny thing was she was going to cancel on him anyway.

Friday we also found out that at 3am Joey's dad had a deadly shooting on his street and now we are hoping his dad will reconsider his living on that street. He lives in a BAD neighborhood in Philly.

So we all spent the day as a family and just enjoy each other. Went for a walk in-between diapers. Found some homes in my development that Joey's dad might consider. All in all we had a good day together. PLUS we got to pick up my van and the cost of repairs was nothing like we thought it would have been.

I was bummed I didn't get my day alone BUT I DID get some alone time that day.

Saturday we get a phone call from Joey's mom. Joey was outside getting a ding out of my van so we let it go to voicemail. I check it for him (at his request) and it is Joey's mom she is frantic. Seems Joey's sister told her that Josh was extremely ill...no he wasn't...he just had diahrea! So Joey had to hurry and call his mom back to calm her down and fix what his sister did by exagerating. I SWEAR! Then later we do some work around the house and head over to my parents house for some Low Country Boil (boil together Crab legs, Shrimp, pototoes, Corn on the cob minis, and sausage with old bay seasoning bags) SO GOOD! Then we get home around 8pm and go to bed later.

Sunday was a good day. Joey went to work. Josh and I got up and went to church with my parents. Then we came back to thier house Josh ate and then my mom, Josh and I went shopping. First to Target. I got a shower gift for a friend and a 1st birthday gift for a little girl. Also got some snacks and necessities and food for the house. Mom got some diapers for her house Josh some clothes and other things for their house. Off to Caters we go. They are having a 50-70% off baby clothes there so my mom stocks up on long sleeves...forgot to mention it is chilly here now and we need the long sleeves. Josh does not have many due to we were not sure what size he would be in by the time that weather starts...well it started. So my mom bought the whole store it seems. I kept half the clothes he can wear now and all the others will be his christmas presents. Off to the grocery store I go where I buy a crap load of groceries for under $70...coupon QUEEN)

Monday morning. Josh is CRANKY! It is COLD! so we wear some of our new clothes wear our Robeez shoes and even have to wear a jacket! After dropping Josh off at Daycare. I call Joey and we talk about his family a little. Joey is hurt on the lack of involvement of some of his family members with Josh. They seem to expect us to do all the traveling...which is going to STOP. Joey said after he sees his sister on Thursday that is it (besides holidays) His family is going to have to take an initiative to see us and not have us do all the work to keep them involved in Josh's life. Joey's dad visits about every 2 weeks which is GREAT! But since Josh has been born Joey's sister has seen him a total of 5 times and the same goes for his mom too. They make no effort to come see us they want us to come to them because of the distance...do you think we like the distance especially if we are the ones traveling with an infant! So Joey and I decided that besides Christmas and Thanksgiving we are not going up to see them anymore. I told Joey don't expect much response. He agreed but said if they want to be a prt of Josh's life they are going to have to do something about it because we are tired of making them be a part of his life.

I am so proud of Joey that takes a lot to do what he is doing. After I hung up with him my mom calls in. Seems my grandfather (my dad's dad) is not doing well and they would like to plan a trip to AL for 11/30-12/3 for me, Josh, my dad, and my mom to fly down there. My grandparents (my dad's parents) have never seen Josh except in pictures. My mom's mom saw Josh from 2 weeks to 4 weeks old. Plus I will get to see my cousin's babies that were born 2-3 weeks after Josh. I have 3 cousins that went on our NC trip this summer and they got to see Josh other than that Josh has 2 families he has never seen. If my grandfather has to have surgery or if anything were to go wrong then at least he got to see Josh.

OK let's end this on a happy note...I tis going to be a good day at work the boss' are out of the office!