We Love You, Uncle Tory!

A Day with the Gandy Girls

Saturday night, cousins Jalyn and Rylie came over and spent the night. Chase had a blast playing with them all afternoon. Unfortunately, all 3 kiddos woke up at 5:45 this morning!!!! But that did give us the opportunity to spend a lot of time together before my sister came and picked them up at 11:00. This morning we took a wagon ride to go feed the crazy ducks and then came back and played in the sprinkler and baby pool!

Ouch!

Well I guess this is just another incident relating to the terrible twos...

This morning Chase was playing in Playland (the nursery at our gym) while I was working out. He loves it there and has made tons of friends. When I went to pick him up after my workout, they said that Chase and his friend Cooper had an incident. Cooper bit Chase on the face. They said he just latched on and Miss Lauren had to pull him off.

Chase responded by yelling "Cooooo-Per" and then cried for a few mintues. They said he took it like a man :-)

Poor Chase, he has tiny teeth marks on his face. He sure has been through a lot these past few days, but I assume there are many more to come...

The $500 Lima Bean!

Well, Chase found another way to scare me. Tonight we took a trip to the ER.

Earlier this evening Chase was eating his dinner. He was eating chicken pasta and lima beans. While I was cleaning the kitchen I heard him say (very proudly), "Look Mamma". He had shoved a lima bean up his nose!

No, I am not making this up...this really did happen.

After several failed attempts of trying to dislodge the bean myself (tweezers, suction bulb, trying to het him to blow), I finally decided it was time to take Chase to the ER. He kept sticking his finger up his nose (shoving the bean even higher) crying "My nose, my nose". At this point the bean was so high up, I couldn't even see it anymore.

The doctor first had me hold close his open nostril and blow in Chase's mouth to mimic CPR in hopes that the lima bean would shoot out. A couple of tries of this process not working and Chase is beyond kicking and screaming at this point. It took me, the doctor and 2 nurses to hold him down.

The doctor then decided to put Chase in the pappoose (sp?)...the thing that looks like a child's straight jacket. Chase totally freaked out, but luckily the doctor got the bean out in about 10 seconds. With a few quick moves (and the right instruments) the doctor pulled out the bean and placed it on the table.

As I held Chase trying to calm him down, I stared down at that rather large lima bean thinking to myself that it could be the most expensive lima bean in the world. That thing gave me a heart attack, caused Chase a lot of pain and costs us a $500 ER visit.

And that's the story of the $500 lima bean!

Mother's Day Weekend

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and moms-to-be! We had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend (I got to pick all the family activities for the weekend).

Saturday we took Chase to the pool. Well the little stinker did not step one foot anywhere near the pool. He was terrified! You can see in the pictures that he stayed his distance. The second I tried holding him and stepping into the pool, he started screaming and scratching my neck. The lifeguard was cracking up...I was not so happy. Chase starts swim lessons next month, so hopefully the swim teacher has a few tricks up her sleeve!

Today we went to a yummy crawfish boil at my parents' house. We had such a lovely day. We tried once again to get Chase in the water thinking that he might do better seeing his cousins playing in the hot tub. Well he got a lot closer and even put his feet and hands in the water, but still would not get in. Oh well, I guess we're going to keep on trying.

Although Chase was not crazy about the water, he absolutely LOVED playing with the crawfish. PawPaw snapped the claws off of one and Chase thought it was his pet. He just kept running around with it showing everyone and kissing the crawfish. It was so funny!

I hope you all enjoyed your day, especially our Mammy and MawMaw. Sorry we weren't able to spend the day with you MawMaw...we love you very much!

On a side note, Chase was playing in his play room tonight and I asked him to come to his room so I could change his diaper. He came running to me saying, "Mamma, Mamma...look!" He held out his hand and was holdig a wasp that was still alive! I don't know how he caught it and did not get stung, but by some miracle he was not hurt. I freaked out a bit and swatted it out of his hand and killed it. Oh my gosh! Between this and the crawfish, I don't know how this girly girl is going to raise a little boy :-)

Official Terrible Twos

Shane's 31st Cinco de Mayo!

Today is Shane's 31st birthday. We celebrated this past weekend by getting a hotel room downtown and making a weekend out of it. We watched the Derby at Harrahs, had dinner at La Boca's and then headed to the Hornets first Round 2 Playoff game (what Shane was most excited about). The game was absolutely insane!

Sunday morning we had a nice brunch, walked around the Riverfront and visited the Aquarium. We had such a nice weekend.

Tonight we will celebrate with a special dinner for Shane.

Happy Birthday, Shane! Chase and I love you so much!

Poor Baby!

On Sunday, Shane and I took Chase to the Urgent Care. He had a red throat, an ear infection and pink eye. My poor baby!

Today I took him to see his pediatrician because he seemed to be getting worse...and I was right. His ear infection is worse and he now also has a respiratory infection causing him to cough & sneeze constantly. Poor Chase is just miserable and I feel so helpless.

Here are some pics of him this morning while I was giving him a breathing treatment. He fell asleep in my computer chair, which is totally out of character for the Chase Man.

Hopefully the rocephin shot he got today will speed up the healing process!

Counting Chase

Many of you know that Chase is not known for his patience (I don't know where he gets that from)! :-) Well the other day when he started to throw a fit because I couldn't make his juice fast enough, I asked him to calm down and to count to ten with me. I was amazed when I heard him actually doing it. I didn't even know that Chase could count! He gets a little stuck at five, six and seven (he thinks they're all six) but he knows the rest. What a smarty! Here's a short video of him counting in the tub tonight:

Visit with the Straughans

Mammy and I took Chase on his very first plane ride to spend a long weekend with my sister, Jamie, and her family. We had soooo much fun! Chase absolutely loved playing with his cousins, hanging out with his Pan Pan and yelling at his Nanny. My sister ("Nanny") has a tendancy to aggravate young children and Chase immediately started yelling back, "Stop it, Nanny". Now that's all he says. He didn't even know the word "Stop" before this weekend.

Chase had a blast wrestling his two older cousins. I think he forgot the fact that he is only 1 1/2 years old and they are 10 because Chase kept pulling both of them off the couch, onto the floor and terrorizing them. It was so funny!

The weekend was so wonderful, I just wish the plane ride would have been the same. I really thought Chase was going to be fine on the plane. I packed lots of snacks, a portable DVD player with cartoons, toy cars and books to entertain him for the 1 hour flight. Well to make a VERY long story short, Chase completely freaked out, went into terror mode screaming at the top of his lungs, trying to jump out of my arms into the ailse and off the plane. He threw up twice all over himself, me and the plane. The flight attendant came out with bio hazard bags, poured the powder solution all over his vomit and had to change out our seat. The man sitting in our row moved to another seat on the plane. Chase thew himself on the floor of the plane (all the while still screaming at the top of his lungs for the entire plane to listen), rolled around in his "powerdered" vomit and finally passed out. IT WAS HORRIBLE and needless to say, he won't be on a plane again for many years to come.

But the rest of the visit was better. Chase was on good behavior all weekend long.

Thank you so much Straughan Family for having us over and to Mammy for helping me on the plane ride with Chase :-)

Chase helping Mama unpack:

Playing in a couple of the many beautiful parks in The Woodlands: