"pancakes please"

Warren LOVES him some pancakes. He asks for them almost every morning. And every evening :) I've been lacking in the "picture taking of our daily lives area" so I whipped out the camera a few mornings ago while he downed em complete with bed head.

I usually make homemade ones, because the recipe is sooo yummy but this particular morning I was tired like no other and he was persistent in wanting them NOW. So I just did the "just add water" ones. Well, I added too much water and was out of the mix so it made it harder for Warren to pick them up with his fork, so he used his hands :)

  
With a side of apple juice

This is his, "are you serious momma, you want me to smile? just get me down please" look

warrens ER visit

I finally downloaded all the pics from my phone and can now catch up on posts that I've been needing to do!

Dec. 1st, Warren had his first ER trip. I'm pretty sure it was more of a traumatic experience for me than it was for him. That day I was shooting a wedding and my mom was in town and she was helping out with Warren. In between my break from shooting the wedding and reception, I was home and making dinner and hurrying around to get things together so that I could make it to the reception early. I was cooking dinner upstairs so Warren was up there with me and my mom. I ran downstairs to get some spices I needed and called for Seth to go upstairs and help my mom with Warren because he was starting to get a little crazy. Right as I said that, we heard a big crash and Warren screaming instantly. I was pretty sure he had fallen off one of the dining room chairs, I sent Seth running up there. I then followed shortly and all I saw when I walked into the kitchen was blood drips EVERYWHERE and when I looked at Warren all I saw was blood on his forehead. I thought he had cut his head open. I think I went into shock, I didn't know what to do, so I did what moms do best, I cried. haha. Seth was suprisingly calm and he's the one that gets queezy with blood. He took care of Warren and bandaged it up while I stood there running around with my head cut off and crying.

What had really happened was Warren fell backwards on the dining room chair, but he was standing up facing backwards with his fingers over the top of the chair and when he tipped, the chair smashed the top of his finger so hard that it pretty much squeezed it open and chopped off the top fat. 

I was freaking out. He needed to be taken to the ER and I needed to leave right at that moment to the reception. I was a little hysterical I think. Warren's a little mommas boy and I felt horrible leaving him when I think he might have needed me the most. My mom told me she would go with Seth to go to the ER. So they left and I left. I cried the whole way to the reception. Luckily I was shooting the wedding for one of my besties little sisters and I knew their family well. I called to say I would be a few minutes late. BUT lucky me, I ran out of gas on the way there, I wasn't even paying attention. I ended up making it there and all went well. Seth said things went okay with Warren except for the fact that he was screaming when they had to tie him down and numb his finger. They stitched the top of his finger back together and then bandaged it up. He was on some pretty good painkiller and Seth said he just fell asleep in his arms that night. It hurt my heart so bad to see him in so much pain. I think I felt pain for him for the next three days. I hate to see him hurt.

The top finger picture is 2 days after it happened. The bottom finger picture is 2 weeks after it happened and when he got his stitches out. The other two are pictures the morning after it happened with his huge bandage they put on. Poor little guy. I hope things like this don't happen that often in this little guys life!

The doggie they gave him at the hospital and then sitting on the culprit chair with my mom.

birth story

She's here! 2 1/2 weeks early. I'll take that every pregnancy:) I sure wasn't ready though for it on Christmas Day. I've got lots more posts that are needing to be published BUT my hubs finished writing Lydia's birth story and I couldn't wait to share it! It's a lot more fun to read that anything I would ever write :)

Lydia's Birth Story

i love surprises

I meant to post this a while ago, but one day randomly my mom walked down the stairs and says "You have a surprise..." I turn around to see her holding these flowers. I was seriously so confused as to who they were from.

They were from my dadddy :) Now this was a HUGE surprise. Of course I know my Dad loves me and he tells me he does, but for him to do something like this was monumental :) It was the most touching thing to me and I needed it that day. I love you dad!

the big 2!!

I'm so behind on blogging, but that's alright.
Our little monkey is now 2 YEARS OLD! It's so crazy. Every day he seems to get bigger, smarter, faster, and naughtier. Ok, oK, He's actually a pretty good little boy, but he has his days, oh he has his days... :) His birthday was November 23rd. Thanksgiving night we were planning on having a huge celebration for all the birthdays in my Wood family that were that week, so we did all his cake and presents then. I let him open one present that morning and that night I picked up a doughnut so he could blow out candles on his real birthday.

We started out the day by wanting to go to this bounce house especially for kids called Monkey something and come to find out it was out of business :( I was so excited for Warren to play there, so it was sad finding that out. We opted for McDonald's play place. Definitely not the next best thing but the next closest thing. We were on a time crunch for getting home for naps and didn't have time to drive else where. I hadn't been there in who knows how long and it will probably be who knows how long before going back, but I do love me some McFlurry;)  The kids (Warren and Shanae's oldest two) had fun, and Warren got to experience his first happy meal. He was pretty happy about it and never smiled for the camera because his mouth was always full :) 

 

It was so fun watching him blow out the candles, he loved it and was so pleased with himself as you can tell in the last pic :)

  
And this year he got the memo that you're supposed to go face first in your birthday cake and dig in! 

Happy 2 years my little man! You never cease to amaze me!

blogger trouble

anyone else not able to ever go to anyone's blogspot? I can get on for about 5 minutes then it doesn't let me look at anything blogspot related. so it may be a while that i even try to blog. (nothing new though, right? :) )

picnic at the lake

A few months ago we went up to Tibble Fork to have a little FHE picnic. It didn't last long, Warren just wanted to jump in the water and it wasn't that warm out, so he started having a little break down and we went home soon after :) It was a fun little night out with our little family, though.

 

His eyes are half closed in the shot with seth, hence the funny look.