Getting ready

Yep, we decorated.  Yes, Tate loves taking the ornaments off the tree.  Fun times.

14 months

Tate is 14 months old today and getting crazier by the minute! He is constantly on the go, wants nothing to do with his toys; his mission:  pull everything out of all cupboards and drawers.  Mission accomplished.

Lover of stuffed bears, dogs, books, cars, electronics, brushing his teeth, dancing, veggies (as long as he feeds himself), his blankie, and thankfully taking his naps!

He is almost walking as you can see below in the video:

Wrong Mouse

 This little devil tried to help us kill the mouse...

but it was the wrong one.

Eyes

When I was younger I used to imagine my future children looking just like me (see picture above)...white hair and blue eyes.  I'm not sure why I always thought I would have blue-eyed children...I guess just because I have blue eyes??

Anyway, now I have Tate who has the biggest, beautiful brown eyes ever.  Better than I could've ever imagined!

He's got the fever...

Weekly timeline:

Last Wednesday:  Tate's 1 yr old appt - "he's perfectly healthy" the doctor said.  Received his vaccines.

Thursday:  Low grade fever, my thought, "it's just from the vaccines, he'll be fine."

Friday: Higher fever but still playing and doing fine....probably just a cold.

Friday night: Up at 3am..temp 102+...booo!

Saturday morning: Back to the Dr.'s ...bilateral ear infection... luckily my amazing cousin watched him while we went to the Ute game.  Started on antibiotics.

Saturday night: Up at 2am with temp of 103.

Sunday: Still feverish but seems a little better.

Sunday night: up again with temp > 103.

Monday morning: Back to the Dr.'s..."I'm not sure what is going on" she says. Gave him a giant shot of antibiotics.  Hopefully this will be the end of the story.

Poor little guy is miserable. I decided to give up with my own medical knowledge...I'm not rational when it comes to my own child.  It is very different being on this side of the fence. 

The Celebration

Get ready for picture overload!! 

We had Tate's birthday party last Friday which turned out great. I decided I do not like entertaining all that much, I get too stressed and its a lot of work!  Thank goodness for family to help me out!

Here's his invitation:

                          

The decorations. That stupid banner took forever to make!! It turned out cute though.

Tate was a little upset throughout the party because all he really wanted to do was play with the rocks.

My mom insisted we have a 3 tier cake for him.

I was surprised that he didn't enjoy the cake more. He didn't like all the frosting stuck to his hands.

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Brett and I wanted to do something fun for him on his birthday so we took him to the zoo (his 1st time).

Overall the weekend was great.  Brett was quite busy on saturday working on our new patio....more on that later!