Losing my mind and other assorted stories...

This morning started out horribly. I got myself and Colin to his doctor's appointment bright and early at a few minutes before 8:00am. After I had been sitting there for around 10 minutes waiting, I get called up front. Apparently, today is not April 16th after all. That's right, folks...I thought today was April 16th and went to our appointment on the WRONG DAY. Lovely. I mean, I knew I was tired, but I did not know I had lost sanity completely. I have been a day off for some time. I planned my trip home from yesterday so that I could attend the appointment on the wrong day. I felt like such an idiot and the 18 year old at the front desk was not helping matters at all. She looked at me like I had two heads. I would now like to point out how very annoying it was that it took them 10 minutes to realize that I was there on the wrong day...but I digress. Later on today, I got the usual phone call reminding me to be there tomorrow. I laughed at the girl calling and told her that, yes...I was aware. ;-)

This brings me to another problem with the pediatrician. (Don't forget the last appointment when they almost kicked me out of the building for being on time instead of early!) When the girl called to remind me of the appointment, she asked me to arrive at 7:45 in the morning. That would be 30 minutes prior to Colin's appointment. Now, it has bothered me for awhile that every time we schedule, we are told to be there 15 minutes early. They say it over and over again and they remind you when they call. "Colin's appointment is at 2:30, but you must arrive at 2:15." That kind of thing. I have never heard this before, but figured oh well...I have never had a baby before either. It must have something to do with the pedi's office. Well, cut to today. Why on earth should I now be there 30 minutes early?!? The twit that called me said something about extra paperwork with Colin's updated insurance. She can't take care of that when I arrive at 8:00?? What on earth!? I also have a new insurance card and when I went to my doctor last week (arriving at the actual appointment time! oh my!) it took them 30 seconds to make a copy. My child's clinic is making me feel like I am in elementary school! I am thinking seriously about changing practices, but it is so hard to start over!! Colin has been seen by them since the day he was born and it seems like a nightmare to move practices, but this just may be the last straw. I am going to say something tomorrow and see what happens. It just should not be this hard to go see the doctor! UGH!

The day did perk up, however. I met my mothers group for lunch and then we all played with the babies under some shade trees in a nearby park. It was so nice!! The weather was great and all the moms were so sweet. Colin seems to really like interacting with the other kiddos. It was so nice to be out in the sun and hanging out with other moms. It feels good to vent to people who really know exactly what you are going through at this exact moment! I am really happy that things are turning out good with that!!

Happy Monday!

Colin and I are back home tonight...we spent a quick couple of days at my parents house over the weekend. One of my oldest and dearest friends, Stephanie, had been begging to meet Mr. Colin and I was dying to see her myself, so we headed east for a short visit. It was great to see her and Colin had a great time showing her his dimples! It was a rather uneventful couple of days...it was great to see my family as always. I am worn out and heading to bed now, but I did want to check in and post a couple of cute shots. These pictures are Colin sitting on the bed in my childhood room. I was hanging up some clothes and when I looked back at Colin sitting on my bed, it hit me how strange it was to be looking at my little boy sitting in the room that I grew up in. So, of course, I had to get a picture. They did not turn out good at all...the lighting was horrible and they all turned out blurry. But you get the idea. :-)

Tomorrow is Colin's 9 Month well baby appointment! We will have to stay tuned to the latest stats on my big boy! :-)

The Non-Blondes

After my post below...I figured a picture of the actual Non-Blondes was in order. Here we are at Melissa's bachelorette party. Yes, those are penis earrings. I am pretty sure she still wears them. ;-) From left to right, Melanie, Melissa and yours truly.

Colin and Hunter do lunch

I had the pleasure of having lunch today with one of my oldest and best friends, Melanie, and her baby girl Hunter. Hunter is 2 months older than Colin and I know they are going to be getting into a LOT of trouble one day if they are anything like their mothers. :-) Melanie is a member of the "3 Non-Blondes". We actually began as "The 4 Non-Blondes" when we were in high school. It was a play on the band that was big at the time (yes, I have just aged myself) and we became known for that because we were basically the only girls on our dance team without masses of blonde hair. Not to mention we were best friends. We lost a member somewhere along the way (read: she somehow did not keep in touch after we all left for college) but the three of us are still very close. Melanie and I were preggers together last year and now we are having lunch with our kiddos. I swear it was yesterday that we were eating chips in the stands during football games and I was getting demerits for it. (You will notice that I said that I was getting demerits for it. Melanie and Melissa always managed to stay out of trouble and I always got caught. Are you reading this, girls?!?! :-) Anyway, lunch today was great. Colin and Hunter were both very good, which is awesome considering that Colin occasionally decides that he would rather be anywhere else other than a high chair. But today was fantastic and the weather was AMAZING! Bright, sunny and 70. I love this time of year in Texas. Summer is brutal, so I have to soak this up while I can!

Oh, the memories!!

Last night I made the ill fated decision to pull out our old photo cd's to find something I was looking for. Boy, I found a lot more than that! I uncovered a million pictures of my formerly skinny self. I really do understand that I am heavy right now for a very good reason and that I will get back to my former self when I have some time to devote to that goal, but it sure does seem daunting when looking at these pictures. I have decided to look at the bright side...these can act as motivation! The other problem is that I am at the ripe old age of 26 in these photos...these were taken when Jer and I got engaged in the spring of 2003. Yep, these pics are exactly 5 years old. I am pretty sure that turning 31 and having a baby both limit the prospects of finding those abs again, but I digress! :-)

The other thing that these pictures remind me of? The amazing memories that I have with Jeremy. These pictures were taken during our big engagement party weekend in Ft. Lauderdale in April of 2003. We were there with a huge group of our friends staying in the condo that our company owned. This is when Jeremy was one of my pilots and we enjoyed the perks of taking one of the company jets to Ft. Lauderdale or Atlantic City for the weekend. We were a big group of kids in our twenties with access to great things and time on our hands! What good times we had!!!! I was skinny during this time because I had plenty of time to go the gym (trust me, abs don't come naturally to me!). Jer and I had the best time together! I love that we have that history to look back on and it means so much to me!! I kept having to stop writing this post to take care of Colin today and I just sat back down after giving him a bottle and putting him down for his nap. As I was sitting in the glider with his sweet chubby self collapsed in my arms sound asleep, I thought to myself that this is what it is all about. Jer and I have memories of each other as crazy, silly, rock star kids and now we will have memories of each other as crazy, silly parents to a rock star little man! What a wonderful life I am leading...fat or not!! :-)

Mundane Tuesday

We have entered into another quiet week with little fanfare. Colin's teeth are quite a nightmare for the little guy and we are both dealing with a hefty lack of sleep. Other than that, he is happy and doing well. I am trying so hard to get off my butt and go for jogs/walks with Colin, but when you are running on zero sleep, it is really hard to put on your running shoes. My recent weight gain has me a bit down, but what can you do? I know that I will get the weight off eventually and right now I have to focus on getting rest when I can. One thing that is progressing very well? My biceps!! You should see these guns! ;-) Colin is getting so big and he loves to play "bounce" now. This involves tossing him into the air over and over again while he bounces away. Needless to say, my arms are getting pretty dang strong! At least that is something!

There is not much else to report on the home front at the moment. I am having "Asian/Thai" week and working on some of our favorite dishes for dinner. I have never tried making curry before and it is going pretty well! I made a curried coconut chicken for dinner tonight that actually came out really good. I was shocked! Colin went to bed early because his nap schedule was a little off. He woke up at 4:45 this morning screaming and could not be consoled for awhile. Therefore the start to our day was off from the beginning and so were his naps. He took a really long nap in the middle of the day and then went down for the night at 7:30. That is early, so hopefully the night goes okay. Here is hoping!

I am sorry this is the most boring post of all time, but I am pretty uninteresting at the moment. :-)

Bluebonnet Photo Shoot!

Well, we made it through our very first photo shoot in the Texas Bluebonnets. We had a great time! As you recall from what I wrote yesterday, Jer thought it was so funny that I wanted to get pics of Colin in the bluebonnets. Well, sure enough, as we rolled up to the field with the flowers, there were no less that 25 other people all there taking pictures! It was so funny...cars were lined all up and down the access road. Jer was shaking his head and laughing the whole time. What can I say? We Texans appreciate a field of our state flower!! :-)

It should also be noted that Colin and Jer are officially in cahoots with each other. I bought Colin the sweetest little blue and white jumper to have these pictures taken in. It is very classic baby boy, with blue and white checks and a white peter pan collar. Very very sweet! Jer was laughing at it because it was "not manly at all". I tried to explain that Colin will only be a little baby for so long! The outfit was precious!! Jer was rolling his eyes as I was putting it on Colin. As soon as I got the outfit on and sat Colin up, he threw up all over the whole thing. I am not even kidding. He then looked right at his dad as if to say, "That was for you!". I thought Jer was going to fall out of his chair laughing. So there went my adorable outfit. I am totally outnumbered. :-)