So, the Caden update is, taking milk out of my diet has helped some, but not enough, poor thing. I recently learned however that when you take dairy out of your diet for a babies intestinal health you are trying to avoid the milk proteins whey and casein not the milk sugar lactase. My friend Karrie told me that she took everything even cooked with dairy out of her diet and after talking with a couple of people that is what you are supposed to do. So phase two of operation no-dairy has begun and it stinks. Hopefully my baby will benefit, though, I hope.
My dad will probably get after me for posting it on my blog because he really hates excess attention, but I think we could all use the prayers. We recently learned that a bump on my dads adorable bald head is actually cancerous. It is a form of skin cancer, but it is in the early stages. He will have a minor surgery on October 4th to find out if he needs more surgery to remove anything else (or something like that, I really am not sure what I am talking about). Anyway, so our family could use some extra prayers right now.
We celebrated Scott's birthday last weekend. He turned 28 on the 11th of September. My parents watched the boys while we used our season passes to Sea World and went and rode all the coasters. It was a fun couple of hours. There were no lines and we were like little kids rushing from ride to ride and riding them over and over. It was fun. Afterward my parents bought Rudy's and I made Scotty a cake. I had bought three different icing colors, but they didn't put the blue one in the bag. So he got red and green, very christmasy. Oh well, we had a good time.
My dad decided to throw my mom a surprise birthday party for her 50th yesterday and I was in charge of decorating and greeting guests while my bro Jonny and Dad got her out of the house. I had 40 minutes to decorate before my parents got home, and thanks to all the party comers' help it was a huge success.
Scott is doing amazing at his job as always. He is much like my dad in that he likes to hang out in the background, even at work. Turns out he is better known than he thought when at a training meeting people he didn't know pointed him out as the person who became a senior (asst. manager) faster than anyone. He did get 4 promotions in his first 8 months at USAA. He is amazing at what he does. His first manager (who promoted him three of the four times) just became a director, so we are hoping within a year he will be promoted to manager.
Nathan has his first cold in a long time. He is miserable and I am having to relearn how to take care of sickos. Of course he immediately passed his snotty nose to Caden. One nice thing is that my daddy's boy really likes his mama when he is sick so I get extra cuddle time :). Other than that he is growing like a weed and eating us out of house and home. His newest favorite activity is coloring, and man can he color. Every color imaginable is on every page. I will have to scan some in and post them for all to see. He is my little artist!
As for me, I am just trying to catch up on sleep and try to keep up with this fast paced world. I gave up on my last diet because of the no-dairy diet I am doing now (it is very similar to the other diet). I am also doing core secrets, an awesome workout on the exercise ball. I am so sore! I have lost two pounds in the past two weeks so far. Hopefully that will continue and I will be back to my preprego weight in no time (okay so 18 weeks). I am trying to get out to the playgroup my old ward (and favorite, I miss you guys!) hosts every Thursday as well as the scrap night on Wednesday nights. It is so good for me to get out! I am such a socialite.
Anyhow, here are some pics from the past couple weeks.
Nathan is learning to dress himself. Isn't this cute!!!
Why do boys feel the need to show their tongues!
Playing Halo at Scotty's party.
My dad always does the dishes when they come over, isn't he great!
My very homemade cake.
Mmmmm... cake.
Grandma and happy Cade.
I made my mom a premade scrapbook. She just has to add pictures.
So, Nathan had been holding Cade's hand and making him smile but I couldn't get Nathan to stay in the pictures. All of Cade's smiling is aimed at Nathan.
Do you remember fruit stripe gum?
