Daddy's Home!!!

Yeah, Daddy's back home! We are all excited for that. By the way, do you notice any things in this above picture? You might need to click on it and look closely to see them... Yup, it'd be 2 teeth that Tegan cut this week and 2 more ready to break through the gums any day now. Yes, your math is right, that makes 4 teeth arriving all but simultaneously. You could say we've had some long nights...

More, you say? You want more??? Well, here's Tegan teaching Daddy the sign for "more" :)
As most of you know, Brendan was in Singapore for nearly 3 weeks on a business trip. Let's just say single moms deserve a heck of a lot more credit than they get... and I only had 1 kid to take care of. I suppose having our house on the market and having to keep it in showing condition didn't help things, either. Regardless of all that, Brendan did finally get home last Wednesday... just as I was in the midst of battling some of the worst migraines I've ever had. You'd think that not seeing my honey for 19 days would make me want to spend every minute with him as soon as he got home. However, I was so exhausted from Tegan being up crying for several hours a night for the last few nights B was gone and from my previous migraine filled night that I took a 2 hour nap soon after arriving home from the airport.

Ok, enough woe-is-me talk for now... here are a few fun shots I got of my 2 love doves after school the other day. Aren't they sweet??? Awwww... And can you tell who dressed Tegan that day based on this next picture? Bike jersey and camouflage cargo pants... HA!

Do you notice anything missing in this picture??? Ok, I'll give you a better view... now do you notice what's missing?Did you get it right? Yes, it was T's other shoe. Rarely do we actually have both on... especially when we're outside. I guess a guy's gotta have dirty socks... even if he's only 13 months old.

These last few are just a few dedications to Grandma Moore as Tegan is wearing his new [faux] crocs. They just strike me as pictures you could have taken of Brendan 28 years ago. :)

Well, only one more "announcement" though it's not the most exciting milestone that we reached today... well really last night. Tegan has now officially vomited. :( Sure, he's spit-up before but we had real, honest to goodness puke this morning and last night. I consider myself one of the worst mothers right now as I woke up to hearing Tegan coughing last night but rolled over and thought nothing of it as he didn't cry much. When I went in to get him out of bed this morning he stunk like vomit and when I looked a little more closely there it was... in the crib, on his blankets, and (Sarah, skip this next like) even in his hair. I felt HORRIBLE despite Tegan's beautiful smile and typical friendly morning chatter. Well, after getting Brendan up to help bathe Tegan while I stripped his bed and washed the sheets and such we got T all dressed and brought him down for breakfast thinking that he must have just coughed so hard that it gagged him. Well, we think it was more than that, because about 10-15 minutes after a FULL breakfast of yogurt, egg omelet, mandarin oranges and milk the poor guy started coughing again and it ALL came up, all over him, some toys and the family room carpet. I would lie if I said that I wasn't completely and totally grossed out but, like true parents, we took what we were dealt and between Brendan and I we got it all cleaned up. Thank you Laurie for letting us borrow your Little Green Clean Machine!

To leave you all on a good note, Tegan fared well for the rest of the day and seems to be on the mend. Since T puked I had to take tomorrow off, but hopefully after a good night's sleep he'll be back to being my little rock star (see below)! :)

Love to all!

~j