whew it's been a while

Welcome back :) ohhh that's kind of to me, and you...welcome here!
So the last month has absolutely flown by! I'm going to do the most obvious thing here and blame it on the baby, because it's all his fault really.  Gabe has been a handful, mostly good and any bad wasn't up to him. I'm going to do some bullets because it would take me too long to write it all down in my usual Kendall style.

• We celebrated Gabriel's 1st Birthday at a local pizza place. Family and friends came from as far away as Pennsylvania and Florida to see how much he was growing up. Gabe had an awesome time!!! He got loads of presents and money for his college fund.
• The night of the party Gabe got a fever :( we thought maybe too many breadsticks and to many people passing him around just didn't set well with him, we were wrong, bringing me to bullet #3.
• The fever didn't want to go down, even with Tylenol, Gabe started coughing, wheezing and not acting like himself. We took him to the doctor to find out he has pneumonia, possibly caused by RSV (but we'll never know for sure), he also has bronchilitis and a double ear infection.  No wonder he was crabby!!!
• The doctor gave him a breathing machine to keep at home along with 4 prescriptions to get him better. It's been over a week now and I'm happy to report he's feeling like a new man, I mean boy.
• In the week it took to get him nursed back my dad had to have surgery to clear a blocked artery, I got tonsillitis, then got the flu, then Jeff got the flu, then I got a cold, it seemed never ending! 
• Thank God my Mom was still up in Michigan when all this happened or we might not have made it. She came over with Clorox and disinfected the sick house, took care of Gabe, took care of my Dad....really could not have done it with out her! Thanks Mommy Salami!  :)
• I'm taking a writing class online which has proved to be more challenging that I thought, but it's fun and I hope I can learn something out of it.

Other than that, Gabe had his one year well baby visit, the doc says he's in the 20th percentile for weight and 80th for height. We're guessing he took Jeffs tallness and my used to be skinnyness to get that combo. He is walking all the time now and only drinking one bottle of formula a day. As soon as this can is gone though, he's going to be done all together.

I'm pretty sleepy but will post some pictures soon. Not of the flu stuff just the party :)

my kid will never act like that

Gabriel is a very mellow kid. I know he's my first so I don't have a constant comparison, but I know, he's mellow. I can usually take him to a restaurant, shopping, to work and out to see friends with out incident. Today was another story.
Since his birthday is less than a week away I thought it was time to get him some new clothes. We went out like usual to the outlet mall. I wasn't allowed to finish my phone conversation with my Grandma because Gabe no longer wanted to be in his car seat, he voiced this to both her and I. Then his little legs stiffened up making it impossible to get him in his stroller. Three minutes fighting in the snow, I was sweating, Gabe was laughing and we were off. I barely made it in Osh Kosh B'Gosh and Gabe has houdinied his was out and was standing up backwards smiling, a terrible mischievous smile at me. I tried to sit him down but he winged out, cry, cry, cry, bang bang, bang on the stroller :( I grabbed the first pair of overalls I saw checked out and left. I still didn't have what I wanted but was too embarrassed to go back there so we tried Carters. Different store, same scenario. This time I tried to strap him in with the buckles and he did one quick dirty look at me then a quick loud "SCREEEAAAM". I don't like being the center of attention, especially bad attention, so we had to leave there also.
We got home and I realized, I spent 1 1/2 hours in the car and less than 5 minutes shopping. Maybe tomorrow Jeff can have baby duty and I'll try again. Maybe Gabe will wear an outfit he usually wears, I'll let you know next week.

itsnicetohavemyspacebarback

Gabe has a fascination with my computer. I tend to think it's because he sees Jeff and I on it a lot. So occasionally Gabe is allowed to use the computer, but only to look at it when his Grandparents are on Skype. He was given strict orders not to touch or drool on it....he disobeyed.
For 2 months I went without a "F10" key, no big deal as I don't even know what it's for. Then I was missing the "A" key, this was a problem. The BIGGEST problem of all was when he reached up to touch his Grandmas face but missed and stuck his puny fingers under the space key, rip, gone. I had it working for a minute or so after, but then it punked out for good. I didn't want to look at my ghetto keyboard any longer and was forced to buy a new one. You know that saying "you never miss it until it's gone"? ...yea now I have a new respect for my space key :)