Labor Day and more updates!

Labor Day weekend gave us lots to talk about!! First of all, Chris and I were crazy enough to go to Atlanta for the Bama game. If you know me well, you know I am just like any guy when it comes to football and even being 36 weeks pregnant didn't hold me back! Chris' mom kept Wells so we could go and my sweet parents gave us the lower seats so I wouldn't have to climb all the steps at the dome. We were on row 15!!! We did take a picture of us with Wells in his cute alabama outfit sat. morning and a family shot, but I need to get those from Chris' mom. In the meantime, check out all that we got to see from our awesome seats! I am like a kid in a candy store now that football season is here and I get to wake up on saturdays to Game Day on Espn. Love it!!
Now onto the bad news of the weekend. Chris and I both got the throw up virus!! Chris got it Sunday morning so our sweet friends Hayley and Mark let us follow them as we pulled over on the interstate several times for Chris. Mark, being the gentleman he is, had me ride with Hayley while he drove Chris so that a pregnant girl didn't have to pull over in atlanta on the interstate! I have never seen Chris so sick and weak. We had to go to the ER when we got home for him to get fluids, etc. I wore a mask b/c swine flu was everywhere in that waiting room!!! Five hours later we were home and trying to go to sleep. I never slept because I got the virus about 10 that night. We both had it until yesterday morning!!!
Now onto the sad news...
Because we were both sick, Chris' parents kept Wells one more night and my parents kept him the next two nights. We missed him so badly. And wouldn't you know, he started WALKING at my mom's house!!!!!!!!!! I mean, I am with this child daily and he decided to walk at my mom's while we were sick!!! Not only this, but he started his first day of Mother's Day Out at Briarwood on Wednesday and my mom had to take him. I at least got to pick him up and see him for the first time in four days. We have had a blast watching him since he's been home though and we are playing like crazy!!!
One more bit of news...
I went to my 36 week appt. today and Claire has moved down one station (forget what that means). She is so high up that the doc. couldn't even tell if I was dialated. So I'm thinking that's good news. She did say I was very dehydrated from the virus and that I really needed to tank up on water for the last four weeks b/c it's dangerous to go into labor b/c of dehydration. so our prayer is a healthy little Claire that will come in October and no sooner!! Of course, God's timing is best whenever that may be!! :) I told you this was a wild weekend/week!! More pics to come of Wells!

Happy 13 Months Wells!

Well, I cannot believe August has already flown past and we are now in September! And I really can't believe Wells is 13 months tomorrow, except for the fact that he is getting more daring and wild as the days go by! I mean, we love him absolutely to death and laugh our heads off, but he is crazy!! We prayed for him to have a fun personality and to be full of life and boy did we get it!! I'll let all the pictures show you what I do on a daily basis (and don't forget I'm due a month from yesterday). Needless to say, he wears me out! His new tricks this month are trying to eat with a fork, trying to repeat lots of things that we say, unrolling the toilet paper any chance he can sneak in the bathroom (and he is fast!), taking everything out of the cabinets that we cannot put the locks on, moving the safety gate on our steps, and crawling up the steps at the speed of light and then sliding down on his stomach like he is on a slip and slide! It is wild!! Just watch and see! These videos don't even do justice b/c he stopped to look at my mom and I when we laughed so hard. Usually he goes down the entire set of stairs, but I can't seem to catch it on video fast enough. So here are two videos showing both. Just look at his precious, yet mischievous face!!! Gotta love him!! Just pray he doesn't hurt himself b/c I can't get to him fast enough and the gates obviously don't work!!! (the video on the bottom is the first half and the one on the top is the second half).

Fun Savings Post!

Okay, no picture, but more fun ways to save! I'll give you two websites that are great if you have kids and one that is great for anyone!!!

1) Diapers.com- I know i have given this before, but I just discovered a new way to save with it. First of all, their diapers are the best prices you'll find b/c they don't charge tax or shipping(shipping is free if you spend over 49, which is easy with diapers). And they just added ecoupons on there that you can use! Best of all, it ships within two days and is on your doorstep. I've started getting so many other things from this website. They now offer TONS of baby items that babies r us has and they will take manufactor's coupons, etc. Here is what I just learned: they will MATCH any website's prices! So if any website is having a sale and diapers.com has that item, color, etc. they will match that price!! So just know that I saved $114 dollars today by ordering new things for claire and calling to tell them the price match websites. yep! awesome!! If you go to diapers.com to register, use my referral code of DANA8344 and you will get 10 dollars off your first order. LOVE this website and only get diapers here.

2) Swagbucks.com- this is the website for everybody and I've talked about this one before as well. It is just a search engine that you sign up to use. I downloaded the toolbar to keep at the top of my computer, so i just use it instead of google (it really uses google anyways). And every few times you will get "swagbucks" that will add up and in time you can get things at the swagstore. It is awesome!! We have been using it for about 6 or 7 months and I've racked up 1400 swagbucks. I just cashed them in for 130 dollars worth of mastercard giftcards that I'm using for christmas gifts (yes, i'm almost done christmas shopping b/c i know i won't be able to do anything in a month!) So if you want to sign up, go to my link somewhere on this blog for swagbucks and you can sign up there.

3) Upromise- this is a program you have probably heard of, but if not, you need to join it! It is free (of course) and you get the card from publix. just ask at the checkout counter. It's a program that gives a percentage of certain sales to a college account for your kids. I joined it after i got the card at publix, went online, etc. But a friend emailed me and told me about how much you can do with this thing. it's awesome! you can add your cvs card, winn dixie card, etc. to the account once you register it online. Also, if you download the turbosaver (it adds a toolbar at the top of your computer) it will let you know anytime you go to a website if you can get savings into your account. for example, you get 8% from your purchase from shutterfly into your upromise account just for clicking on a button that says "get your upromise savings when you buy here". So simple. we have about 20 dollars for wells so far. I have an email they sent to me about getting your friends to sign up and they'll get $2 into their account if they do it by august 31st. so if you want to join upromise, get a card from publix, etc. email me at danacsheheane@gmail.com and i'll forward you the link.

I'll give you more as people tell me or as I find deals. I'm ALL about them!!! Love, Dana

Water Boys!

This past Saturday Wells had his first trip to the lake (thank you Blairs!). He had such a blast!! I've never seen a lakehouse so well-prepared for babies. It was not only gorgeous, but so accomodating for little ones and so relaxing for the big ones!! We got to celebrate Adam's birthday with the Blairs and Matteos, and also watch 3 little boys in action. These are two of our best couple friends from church (we are so lucky b/c we have such amazing friends from church!!) and it's awesome because our little boys are 15 months, and 12 months old so they are right there together! We pray these little boys will grow up to be buddies and be Christian examples to other boys! Ashley took these precious photos. Wells' favorite part was the boat. I mean, he was waving his hands in the air and dancing as the boat was flying around trying to throw one of the guys off of a tube. I, being 33 weeks preggo, was the one afraid Claire was going to be born on Smith Lake that day, while Wells had the time of his life!!! And he didn't even mind the life jacket! He is going to take after both Chris and me with being adventurous and loving the water! Yeah Wells!!! What an awesome day at the Lake. Oh yeah, and the weather was perfect. I didn't even sweat!

Oh, and any of you wondering about the milk saga...it's still not solved. He hates it. Plain and simple, he hates it and gags until he makes himself throw up. lovely. And thank you to all the advice I received and trust me, I tried it all. But we are just going with enfagrow (the next step up in enfamil) and we're sticking to two bottles a day. At least he'll drink juice and water out of the sippy cup, right?! My stress is gone for now, but I haven't given up hope. I'll try again with the milk one day, but not anytime soon. All is happy around our house again and with another one coming in 6 weeks or less, why give up bottles now!

HELP!!!

Okay, I need major help. Wells won't drink ANY milk. We've tried to make the transition from bottle to sippy cup and from formula to milk. We have been doing this for two weeks now. He wouldn't take formula from the sippy cup, but drinks water, juice,etc. great out of it. Well, then we began mixing his formula with the milk and he began to gag (i mean big time). So we were only putting once ounce of milk to 5 ounces of formula and we thought "there is no way he'll know there is milk in it." Well, wrongo. He knew immediately and pursed his lips together and turned his head...and yes, gagged. I have continued different types of milk (whole, organic, 2%, store brand, etc.) and I've tried tons of methods. This child is stubborn. Well, so a good friend told me to just give it up for a week and try again next week. So at that I felt relief and just decided today to go back to straight formula and not worry for a week. Well, the child won't drink the formula anymore b/c he thinks milk is mixed in there!!!!!!!! He is only drinking water and juice and not much of it. It's worrying me to death and I wish it wasn't. I have been told to try a little bit of chocolate syrup and see if that works. So i'm going to try that tomorrow I guess. He is also not sleeping at night anymore b/c he is not full (b/c of the lack of liquids). So he is stubborn and I"m worried...not a good combo. Please help!! Any advice is greatly appreciated!!! By the way, he also gags until he throws up with yogurt. Cheese is the only dairy he likes. So please send advice my way!!!! I am making Wells, Chris and myself crazy!!!! :)

1st Birthday Party!!!

We celebrated Wells' birthday on Saturday. Oh, did we have fun or what??!!! I am serious when I say that his party was more fun than any party I ever had. It's amazing how your heart just goes out to your little one and you want everything to be perfect for their big day! It was worth all the cleaning, decorating, etc. and I really had fun! Wells had more fun than anyone though! It was hilarious!!! We didn't know how he would react with the craziness of ALL of his favorite people in one place! We did just the family this year and boy did he love being the center of attention. He danced for everyone, let anyone and everyone hold him, and he even opened some presents! His favorite part though was the cake!!! Our little one can EAT! He seriously ate the ENTIRE smash cake, which was an oversized cupcake. He crammed it in so fast that I thought he was going to be sick! We laughed so hard. The pictures of that above are in order, so watch how the cake disappeared and how his cheeks got bigger!! Chris and I had the time of our lives watching Wells LOVE his party. He definitely takes after his mama and loves people! I hope you enjoy all the pictures!

Happy Birthday Month to Wells!!

This blog design is now devoted to Wells' birthday month!! Chris always makes fun of me because I LOVE birthdays and make a really big deal of them. He told me that I like to have a birthday month, so I've honored wells with dedicating this month's blog design to him!! I can't wait until his family birthday party on Saturday. What fun!! Trust me, I'll take lots of pics. Until then, here are some photos we had made at Portrait Innovations for his first birthday. I highly recommend them. They are so GREAT with kids and cheap! Of course I'll want really fun, nice photographer photos at some point, but these are a great way to get good pics to give out to the family! by the way, how hilarious is the second picture! It looks like my dad or chris' grandad so we thought it was too hilarious not to buy!! the first picture is the real one we used of course!