Pumpkin Patch

Chris' Embarrassing Moment at Work

I have to blog about this. It is just too funny.

Today at work Chris received an e-mail about his new softball season. It told when the first game was, cost...things like that. It was to the whole team. At the end of the e-mail was a note for Chris that said "Can you forward me Amanda's email? (She is a girl from church who plays on his work team) Chris doesn't have her e-mail so he wrote an e-mail to me asking for it. He also wrote this in the e-mail...

"I love you! I had a great time this weekend celebrating our 5 year anniversary! Can't wait to see you tonight. Tonight is a really good episode of The Hills, can't wait!"

A few minutes later he received an e-mail from one of the guys on his softball team that said this...

"This is meant for your wife isn’t it?"

Instead of clicking the forward button before typing that e-mail to me he clicked REPLY ALL and sent it to the whole softball team.

Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee!

He had a hard rest of the day at work!

Special Day

We had so much fun on our anniversary! Chris did a very good job! Flowers arrived for me around lunchtime and they were beautiful! I LOVE getting flowers! If we had done nothing else the rest of the evening I would have been happy.

Then we went to dinner at El Rancho Grande. We have only been there a few times, but it is a special place for us. Yes, Mckenzee was with us, but it was great! We were glad she came. She was very good. The rest of the date was a surprise for me.

Chris took us to Travis Avenue Baptist Church where we got married. We went inside and walked around in the sanctuary and took pictures. It was fun to remember our wedding day there. It is such a pretty church.

Then he took us to the Botanic Gardens. We enjoyed walking the trails and taking pictures. It wasn't too hot outside and the flowers were pretty. We met a friendly squirrel.

Finally, we went to Blockbuster, where I chose the movie, and then to Sonic and home. I loved our date! It was perfect.

Happy Anniversary! 5 years!

Pretty Morning

This is an actual picture of sky seen in my backyard this morning. Kenzee and I have started spending some time outside in the mornings. We take a blanket out in the yard and she won't get off of it because she doesn't like for her feet to touch the grass. She is so calm outside. Today was so pretty and we had so much fun. I picked a flower (weed) for her and she held on to it for so long and didn't squish it.

My Little Dreamer

I wish it would feel like Fall. I get unhappy with Texas every year around this time. My favorite season is Winter (which never comes) and Fall is a close second. I like to wear long sleeved t-shirts and my worn out polo boots that I've had for like 8 years. I like it when it is chilly and you get to snuggle up on the couch in a blanket and build a fire in the fireplace.

Baby Fat Don't Go Away

Mckenzee 3 months

Mckenzee is starting to thin out some. I am not ready for that. I like her little chubby self and if she is thinning out then she is growing up and I just don't want her to. Of course I want her to experience all kinds of things like playing babies and making friends, helping me bake things and going to preschool, but not for a LONG LONG time. I want her to stay my little baby longer. It just goes so fast and it makes me sad. When the rolls behind her knees are gone I think I will cry. I'm crying already writing this.

I am thankful for every minute because I know there are Mommy's out there that are missing their babies. And Mommy's with very sick babies. I really need to get over it because I have a healthy, growing baby, but I think I will be sad just a little longer, until she wakes up from her nap.

Pertussis

This is my little platform right now. I like to have a topic to get fired up about and I have been doing some research on this subject. Chris and I plan to have more children and so that is why this is of interest to me. For those of you that live in the area you may have noticed billboards that say Protect Your Family Against Pertussis. I am going to tell you a little more about it. The following is mostly copy and pasted so I am going to site these two websites http://www.drgreene.org/ and http://www.immunizationinfo.org/.

From personal experience-Dr. Greene
I stood outside the closed door of the hospital room where an adorable 6 week old baby lay all alone in her crib. As I scrubbed my hands in the sink outside the isolation room, an electronic monitor allowed me to hear her breathing peacefully.
Suddenly the quiet was shattered by a fit of coughing. And she couldn't stop. The coughs came so closely together that she couldn't catch her breath. I grabbed a mask from above the sink and, pressing it over my face, entered her room. The coughing continued. The pulsox monitor at her bedside complained insistently that her blood-oxygen levels were dropping too. The EKG monitor sounded an alarm that her heart rate was dropping. And she continued to cough. Even before I reached her bedside I could see that her face was turning blue. She began to vomit.
Moments later the peace had returned. Her various monitors beeped tranquilly; the coughing spasm was over. This little girl with pertussis survived, but she had many more weeks of coughing spasms before she could return home to her parents.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, which once ravaged children around the world, is again on the rise.

Pertussis is highly contagious
You or your child have been exposed if you spend a total of 5 hours in the same room with someone with the disease, or if you sit next to someone with pertussis for any length of time, or if you have any contact at all with infected mucus or saliva. Between 70 and 100 percent of susceptible people will catch pertussis if they are exposed.

Pertussis is one of the most contagious human diseases, so it is a great risk to those who are unvaccinated. Pertussis will develop in 90% of unvaccinated children living with someone with pertussis, and in 50% to 80% of unvaccinated children who attend school or daycare with someone with pertussis. Approximately 50 out of every 10,000 people who develop pertussis die from the disease.

Who should receive the vaccine
Adults 19-64 years of age should receive a single dose of Tdap (ADACEL®) to replace a single dose of Td for booster immunization if their most recent tetanus toxoid-containing vaccine was 10 or more years earlier. Tdap may be given at an interval shorter than 10 years since the last tetanus toxoid-containing vaccine in order to protect against pertussis, especially for:

Women less than 65 years of age who are planning to become pregnant.

Adults less than 65 years of age who have or anticipate having close contact with an infant aged less than 12 months should receive a single dose of Tdap and trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine. Ideally the vaccines should be given at least 2 weeks before contact.

Health-care personnel who have direct patient contact should receive a single dose of Tdap.