How Thomas Eats PB&J

First, and this is very important. Thomas will take off the hard outside crust so cut the sandwiches with a cool dinosaur shaped sandwich cutter. This will take off most of the crust. Spead on the peanut butter and the jelly stick them together and serve to Thomas.
Thomas will then peel the two sides away from each other. Taking the peanut butter side he holds it with one or both hands and push the center of the sandwich into his mouth. Sometimes just eating enough to eat off the peanut butter and little bit of jelly stuck to the bread. If he finds a crust piece he will peel it off and leave it on the plate. After eating that half of the sandwich from the center out he will then proceed to the jelly side. Eat it just the same as the peanut butter side. After both sides are thouroughly demolished he has a peanut butter and jelly face, hands, and sometimes shirt. Thomas will then proceed to do my favorite part of eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He will climb down from the table and walk into the kitchen. There he will wait by the sink for me to follow him into the kitchen, wet a rag and wipe down his hands and face. Then off he goes to play!
There you have it! The proper proceedings of eating a PB&J sandwich by Thomas!

Thomas was being crazy! He first piled all his cars under the rocking horse and then sat on it and rocked out. It was funny to watch him. He rocked really hard forward and then back! I couldn't help laughing so I took some pictures. They aren't as good as seeing them in person but they're cute!

Keeping ourselves entertained

It's kinda boring without Aaron around in the evenings but Thomas and I find things to do together. In these pictures Thomas and I are coloring windows for St. Patrick's day. It's Thomas's second time coloring on the windows and he's already got better! However, it is the first time for me using Window Markers. For over a year I've only had Window Crayons then I found the markers and saw they had a wider variety of colors. Where the crayons only had red, yellow, green, blue, and black the markers had all those colors except black but they also had brown, orange, white and grey. This is my first time using them and I decided to mix the use of both to see how they looked together.
I think I've decided that orange is a better skin color than white when it comes to the markers.

I've also discovered Thomas's love for Toy story. He asks me every day if he can watch Toy story. It's pretty funny. I especially love watching his facial reactions to the movie. His favorite parts are usually with the dog in it, although he likes Toy Story 1 and 3 as well.
To answer Andi's question about my guests, no they're not staying with Thomas and I at the moment. Aaron and I discussed it and decided it wouldn't be appropriate for them to be staying with me when Aaron was away. Aaron invited them back when he get's back but I'm not sure that'll happen because Aaron will get back in about a month from when he left and then in April my sister's coming to visit. I don't think we'll have room for a family of three, a family of four and my sister. So, they'll have to stay in the place they're at.
Then there's the GREAT discovery! Aaron did an allergy test to see if we could discover what Thomas is allergic to out here. Funny enough we found out that Aaron is allergic to two common types of grass, corn, and either peanuts or peanut butter. I have to double check with the Dr. on that one. So, ha ha, Aaron's allergies have made life interesting. When he get's back we're gonna slowly eliminate corn products from his diet. Just so you can get an idea of what I'm gonna have to do go to your cupboards and look at the ingredients for the most common foods you eat. Look for anything that says Corn, or Citric Acid, Dextrose, Iodized Salt, Monosodium glutamate, or Dextrin/Matodextrin. Those are the ingredients I'm eliminating first because they are the ones that are the most common cause of the symptoms for those with corn allergies. I even have a list of symptoms that could be contributed to Aaron's corn intake. Funny enough as most of you might know Aaron has had a jumpy leg for a long time. His leg just won't stop moving, well, his corn allergy could be what's causing it. Along with all sorts of breathing problems and sinus problems he's had all through his life. Lol that's only the first step too! After I find out whether he's allergic to just Peanut butter or Peanuts I'm gonna have to try and eliminate those things as well.
Thankfully I haven't noticed any of these allergy symptoms in Thomas. When we found out Thomas was having allergy problems out here we also found out that it was something in the air that was causing it. The Dr. Told us that he could tell it was something he was breathing in by his symptoms. So, I believe Thomas is allergic to grass like his daddy and like my dad.

Well that's all for now!

Gone again

So, Aaron is deployed again to Korea. Sad day. Thomas is just realizing that Daddy's missing and has been grumpy all day.

Ultra Ultrasound!

So I finally got an ultrasound with a better ultrasound and it's been confirmed that I'm having a boy.

Doctor's visit

So, I went to the Doctors yesterday for a regular OB check up and they checked me in like normal, then the nurse got the device to check the baby's heartbeat.
After searching for a good 5 minutes he still couldn't find it. He left me in the room saying that they might have to use an ultrasound.
At this point I wasn't too worried I resoned that the baby couldn't have gone anywhere after all there was only one way for the baby to come out.
The Doctor came in and picking up the same device proceeded to look for the baby's heartbeat. After a while of searching frustrating thoughts with the possibility that the baby died kept beating at the side of my mind. I kept pushing them away.
The doctor then left and returned with the Ultrasound machine. We would just have to find the baby that way and look at his/her heart. As soon as the machine turned on up popped the picture of the baby moving crazily about. I think he/she was celebrating having successfully avoided the heart detector. But he/she couldn't hide from the ultrasound. The doctor saw the baby's heart beating perfectly fine and took a picture for me. I then asked if he could determine the gender yet. He checked and said it definatly looks like a girl. But, after switching the camera said, "But that could be a penus right there."
I sighed, a little frustrated, but he explained to me that the ultrasound at the clinic isn't top of the line. But the one at the hospital is and they will be able to tell me the gender. Apparently I needed to make an apointment with them so they can measure all sorts of things on the baby anyway. So, as soon as I can I'll let you know the gender. I would post the ultrasound picture but the printer isn't working with the computer right now so I'll post it later! But as a side note. It looks like where Thomas has a rounded face this baby's face is more angular like his/her dad.

A lot of changes

So I had a terrible 3 and a half weeks. For 2 1/2 of them I had a headache every day. I went to see the doctor and she gave me a headache chart then that very same day my headaches decided to stop and a nasty cold began. I got a sore throat that burned everytime I swallowed and had tons of drainage that was sometimes so thick it made me gag, accompanied by a cough. Then because I had drainage I developed a ear ache so bad I wanted to stab a cue tip down my ear canal and dig out the pain. Course being the intelligent being I am I knew that would only make things worse. To top it all I felt like I had drunk an entire bottle of niquel. (I don't think that's spelled right).
Then Thomas too decided to get sick. He would break out in hives, had a cough, and gunk in his eyes. The Doctors decided that it was allergies and put him on Zertec. Soon after taking this Thomas's hives disapeared. However the gunk and cough stayed. He also was tugging at his ear a lot. so after visiting the doctor again they found out he had an ear infection and I was given permission to give him a higher dose of Zertec. And given advice on how to treat his eyes and cough. Which was saline spray and a humidifier. Unfortunatly Aaron's coughing gets worse with the humidifier so we can't use it when he's there. But boy did it get easier for Thomas and I to breathe when Aaron left for work and turned on the humidifier.
The doctor told me that if Thomas keeps getting ear infections we'll have to think about putting a tube in his ear. I want to avoid that as much as possible. Thomas would have to have it in his ear until he is four years old and he wouldn't be able to go swimming during that time. I just can't imagine Thomas having to be banned from his water. He loves water.
Well the same week I started this nasty cold Aaron's co-worker Monty and his family moved in. They're staying in Thomas's bedroom until they can get a house of their own. So, I've been busy trying to reorganize my house to accomidate our guests. Monty is a marine and his wife, Satomi is japanese. She has a little boy named Reyoku, I think. And they have a newborn baby girl, Alice. It's a tight squeeze for us all, but it helps that we get along great with each other.
Totally on a different note. Thomas is just so smart. Aaron was thouroughly impressed last night when Thomas put together the wooden train track by himself.
Also Aaron wanted Thomas potty trained so we got him a minature potty. At first he didn't want to sit on it at all but as time went by he would walk in while his daddy or mommy were sitting on the toilet and go sit on his own toilet. I thought this deserved some sort of praise or prize. So since he loved playing in the water whenever Aaron or I wash our hands, or what not, we decided to let him wash his hands and play in the water for a bit every time he sat on the toilet.
So, it's been a long month. Sorry I haven't written in a while but there's your update!