Baby K: Enough!!!

So can we go back to 2008? So far 2009 has been a real bummeroo. Poor little Ais has really had it tough these last few weeks. Last week I tried to give her a hair cut, I know I know, what was I thinking. I had cut her bangs many times and they were fine, but apparently the rest of the hair is a whole other skill set. So her hair went from bad to worse and we ended up with an emergency trip to Fantastic Sams, which she did great with, but her hair is so much shorter. It is still adorable, but I do feel bad and miss her pretty long hair. Ah well, I guess it grows back. I will never do that again!!! On the same afternoon of the hair disaster, I accidentally poked her in the eye with my thumb and scratched the corner of her eye, so after a frantic call to Brian when her eye started bleeding, we took her to the ER and everything was fine.

Fast forward to Valentine's day... My Mom was out to babysit so Brian and I could go out and little Xander gets the runs and then 5 minutes before we leave he throws up his entire bottle all over the place. So Valentine's day was a bust... Xander seemed fine the rest of the night and so in the morning we headed to the OC for Baby Shawn's baptism. Everything was going well until towards the end when I gave Xander a bottle. About two seconds after he had finished I felt his stomach gurgling and he started to spit up. Luckily I was able to get up and run out of the church, or at least into the entryway before Xander projectiled the whole bottle again. Thank goodness I got up and ran out or everyone in the pew before us would have experienced there own baptism of sorts. So it seems he either had the flu or didn't like my milk anymore, since both times he chucked it was on my milk, geez everyone is a critic. So no more Mommy milk, apparently little Xander prefers formula. But anyway, back to our saga ... we head home, and what do you know the same night Aisling and I get the stomach flu followed by Brian the following day. Ais is still pretty sick, but Brian and I recovered pretty quickly, although it was a horrible flu, knocked us flat out. At least Brian and I didn't get it at exactly the same time, so there was always one grown up on guard.

Of course, it hasn't been 100 percent awful I guess. We did get to go to Disneyland a couple of times. Once with Arianwen and her folks and last week with Becca, Matthew and my Mom. Xander has 3 more teeth peeking out, which makes a grand total of 6. He has four on top and 2 on the bottom. He is starting to cruise and likes to let go and stand up for a second or two. He is talking all the time and making some pretty silly faces, like scrunching up his face and closing his eyes. He learned his first sign, light and is really into lights now. He is into everything and loves opening and closing doors. So I guess things could be worse.... I just really want us all to be healthy for more than a few days. Let's hope we have hit our quota for this cold season.

Anyway, here are some pics from the last few weeks....