Family Picture

Tonight Josh, Coen, and I went to Proex to have our family picture and Coen's 1 year portrait taken. It was a disaster. Well not a horrible horrible disaster but still not very good. Coen refused to smile. She tried everything, elmo, a ball, blocks, tools, a frog that croaked, peekaboo, sneezing, tickling, growling, etc. Still no smile. She was very insistent on the smile. I wish I would have just asked her to take a few pictures with him just looking forward, that probably would have been better then the half smiling goofy looking anywhere but the camera faces that we ended up with. And Proex is pretty expensive to just have so so pictures. Josh and I have definitely taken better pictures of Coen ourselves. We probably would have done his one year portrait ourselves too, but we wanted a family picture and that's really hard to do.

There is definitely some talk of us investing in some backgrounds and maybe some better light sources so we can attempt to do some pictures on our own. I love taking pictures, especially of people, and really especially of my own kid.

I get to pick up our pictures on Sunday. Despite the sitting not going fabulously we ended up with a couple of cute pictures which led to a lot of money spent on prints. So there will be some wallets for anyone who wants one and some 5x7s for the godparents and grandparents.

So sad

Well spring break is over and I'm back at school. I started off my Monday morning with one of the hardest restorative composites I've ever had to do. But the dentist I was working with said I did a great job, so that made me feel pretty good.

This morning Josh Coen and I received some devasting news. Karla's husband was accepted to a PhD program in North Carolina and is on the waiting list at the UofM so more than likely Karla will not be our nanny next year. You could tell she was so sad too. I guess there is still a chance he could end up here, but I think he has to let North Carolina know soon. So we'll keep our fingers crossed in hopes that it will all work out. I just don't know how we'll be able to find someone as amazing as Karla, she is the reason why its ok for me to be at school all day long. I know Coen is being cared for by someone who loves him as much as we do.

What a sad day.

First Steps

So every day we try to make Coen stand on his own, but stubborn as he is he just sits down. Well yesterday with no prodding from Josh or me he let go of the TV and took a couple of unassisted steps towards us! It was great. And now today he is standing on his own, not for very long but his balance has improved soo much, and he is taking even more balance steps. (Yesterday there was a lot of leaning his body forward and basically falling into us- cute but not very productive)

I was hoping he would be walking by his birthday so that he was good by the time we went to Florida, but had pretty much given up on the idea since he wasn't showing any progress or desire to make progress. But now my hope is back. Two months until Florida so hopefully he'll make some great progress.

Sometimes I just don't understand

So Sunday I started feeling sick. Really bad sore throat kind of achy. Monday I had a fever, sore throat and extra achy. Emily called said she had strep throat, since I spent Saturday night with her I assumed i also had strep. I decided I should go to the Dr. and get a culture and Coen probably should too since I kiss him, share my ice cream with him, we drink from the same glass etc. Both of our rapid tests were negative. Tuesday night I had a missed phone call from the Dr. office about Coen. So this morning I called back, he's positive for strep. He has shown no symptoms yet I have shown all symptoms and still negative. They refuse to put me on antibiotics and I can't really blame them because of all of the ab resistant strands of bacteria out there but I am still sick, my throat hurts so much, and I work in a health care setting and am potentially passing out strep to all of my classmates and patients.

So tomorrow morning I am going in for another throat culture, gag me again- I know I have strep throat.