The Exorcism of Connor Johnson

Last night was a night like any other at our house.  It was almost Connor's bedtime and he was munching on a new snack we'd discovered he REALLY loves...Animal Crackers!  My husband came in the room and as he reminded him it was bedtime, he took the gnawed remnant out of Connor's clenched hand.  Then it happened!  Connor's little body grew rigid and began to shake or vibrate might be a more accurate description.  His head began to spin atop his shoulders and an ear-splitting scream erupted from his lips.  Confused by this behavior we observed our little angel...now a little demon as he appeared to almost be taken over by some outside force.  Hysterically, he wailed and shook.  "Give it back!"  I rashly ordered Harry.  He gave the tiny fragment back to our son and suddenly silence swept through the room.  The lights stopped flickering, the furniture fell to the floor it once hovered above, and Connor stood there happily savoring every last microscopic crumb of his beloved Animal Cracker.  "What just happened?"  Harry asked, stunned.  "I have NO idea..."  I replied. The next day we were even more frightened to discover that our child is not possessed, but in fact, preparing for his Terrible Two's.  Can these be exercised?!!!  God help us!

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Hallelujah!

I could be jumping the gun here, but last night my child went to bed at 8:00 and did not wake up--not even one time--until 6:30.  If you knew my son, you would realize this is an *actual* miracle.  This kid has not slept through an entire night ever in his 17 month long life.  Now, when I say he has never slept through the night, I mean waking up multiple times...*every* night without exception.  Hence, the reason his Mummy and DaDa have been a little more than walking zombies for the past year.  We also FINALLY sucked it up and stopped giving him bottles during the night.  We thought this would be a disaster for many nights to come, but surprisingly there have been only a couple crying-it-out sessions and up until last night he would wake often (as usual), but go back to sleep on his own...eventually.  Another reason this is so strange is because he isn't feeling well, coughing and sniffling.  The Husband said it might've been due to the medicine.  I wish it was that easy!  The medicine has never knocked him out in the past nor being sick.  Nope, this is just a boneifide miracle. 

A Lovely Morning in the Emergency Room

I am so frustrated with the doctors and nurses in the "Shall Remain Nameless" ER.  Connor spent the last two nights with--what I thought--was a terrible wheezing.  I read all this stuff on the internet that made it sound as if he had the Croup.  I know there isn't much that can be done for Croup, but everything I read and his pediatrician all have said if he starts wheezing to go to the ER.  Wheezing means pneumonia, right?  So we go and they all act as if we shouldn't have brought him in.  "Is he eating?" They ask. "No..." I say.  "Well it's kind of hard to eat when you're all stuffed up."  Yes, and it's also hard to eat when you are coughing so violently that you nearly puke every 10 minutes.  But they decided that was all imaginary.  I feel bad because I don't want to fill an ER bed needlessly plus who wants to sit with a 1 year old in an ER for 3 hours?!!!  So these doctors need to stop telling us to bring him in or the ER people need to get on the same page as the pediatricians.  It almost felt like we were being punished for bringing him in, but we thought that's what we were supposed to do.  And I am SO tired of people calling a Croup cough a seal bark.  What the heck???  I thought I knew what a seal sounded like, but apparently not.

My Connor

This is one of my favorite pages.  It's so difficult to find all the little bits, or so I thought and then I realized you can use just about anything to embellish a scrapbook page.  Although, it helps if your bits are flat.

Beauty In Bangs

I wish I could take a better picture.  The colors are a lot darker than they appear and it is hard to see the detail.  Grrr!

Love These Two!

Lovely morning at the Little Children's Park in Ocean Springs, MS.  Feeling festive in our orange.  I cannot wait til Fall is in full swing!