Tulsa trip

The weekend after Labor Day we decided to take a short trip to Tulsa. We normally go to the lake every Labor Day and this year we didn't get to, so we decided to drive to Tulsa and see Matt's family. We had a great time! The triplets LOVE Roman!

Me, Roman, Will, Reagan, and Gracie

Gracie loved to play with Roman
The girls watching RomanRoman and Daddy!

Gracie, Reagan, Roman, Matt, and Will

Gracie, Reagan, Roman, Captain, Ashley, and Will

Friday night, we all went to Charlestons, Bill and Pam's favorite Restaurant. The waiters all know Bill and Pam because they eat there about 4-5 times a week! So they kind of treat us like royalty! So fun!

Roman in his big boy high chair!

The family!

Pa and Roman

Saturday morning, Whitney was scheduled to run a 5K, so I decided to meet her and run. I was so proud that I ran the entire thing!! Never done that before! Afterwards, we met up with the whole family for a big breakfast!

Matt's cousin, Erika had her baby last month, Henry James. We got to stop by and see Roman's new buddy!!

Overall, it was a great weekend with the family!!

Boomer Sooners

Last weekend, Matt's parents came in town to see us and to watch Roman so Matt and I could go to the OU game at the new Cowboy's stadium with his cousins. I am so mad that we didn't get any pictures with his parents! Oh well, next time. Matt and I had such a great time with Lee and Chris and it was so much fun to see the new stadium! Too bad it was a horrible game! Lee and I were so hot from walking to the tailgating area that Matt paid someone to give us water cups. I can't remember ever being so hot and sticky! I even managed to find a place to pump during the third quarter. Oh Roman, the things I do for you!

Cousins!

The gang

Lee and Chris and baby #2 on the way!!

Time with the Meema!

My mom came and stayed with us the last week of August. It was so great for Roman to get some one-on-one Meema time. Matt had his fantasy football draft for 4 days so my mom came to hang with me. Why does fantasy football draft need to be four whole days?! Anyways, poor Matt, my mom and I went shopping!! I bought clothes for me, accessories for the house at Z Gallerie, and dining room chairs! Sorry Matt! Ha! We had a great time!

Roman started eating solids that week. It was so fun to see his face when we would introduce a new food.

Before Matt left for his long boys weekend, we had our "training camp 09" at our house. Roman is so close to crawling, but just not quite there!



We got lots of playing time with Meema and Roman. They both had a great time!

We also took Roman grocery shopping in his cute cart cover. (Thanks to cousins Mindy and Jimmy!) Roman absolutely loved sitting up in the grocery cart. He was smiling at everyone. By the time we took pictures, he was exhausted!

Thanks Mom for coming!! We love you!!

A day of working at home...

Yesterday was so crazy that I just feel the need to blog about it. I want to remember what a typical day of working from home is like. My mom is in town all week - thank goodness!! Here's what happened:

6:30 am - I woke up and nursed Roman

7:00 am - Change Roman's WET diaper, take Captain out, pump while eating breakfast and playing with Roman

7:30 am - Go on a walk with my mom, Roman, and Captain

8:00 am - Put Roman down for a nap and turn on computer and start replying to work emails

8:30 am - get on treadmill and run a mile then do crunches and stretch

9:15 am - take a quick shower and throw my wet hair up in a bun. Grab a cup of wonderful coffee

9:25 am - Wake up Roman and nurse him while working on some AutoCAD drawings on the computer

9:55 am - Throw Captain in the back bedroom and give Roman to my mom to play with him

10:00 am - lock myself upstairs while on a conference call so they can not hear the dog or baby. I put it on mute for most of the time. While on mute, I noticed that Roman had spit up on his sheet in his crib, so I proceed to change his sheet and get the laundry together for after the call.

10:30 am - Roman has his 2nd poopy diaper already for the day. After changing him, I try to play with him for a moment

10:45 am - Put Roman down for a nap

11:00 am - warm up a quick bite to eat for lunch and receive a phone call from EDS. "Can you come up here and pick up some plans that I need you to work on?" I respond, of course! Because that's what I have to do. I throw on a pair of jeans and drive to the office with wet hair and no makeup.

12:30 pm - Come home with 3 new projects (one of these includes 13 drawings that I need to create!) PANIC!!

12:35 pm - Try to nurse Roman while I start working on the computer. He won't nurse. Then he has another poopy diaper. My mom changes it while I continue to work. It has blood in it! Then he has another one! I call the doctor and they are on a lunch break until 1:30! Are you kidding me?! I continue to try to nurse while working. My mom takes Roman's temperature - good. So she plays with him while I work.

1:30 pm- Doctor definitely wants to see Roman. We schedule it for 3:40 pm. I continue to work.

2:00 pm - Roman goes down for a short nap while I work

2:45 pm - I wake Roman up and try to nurse him again. He then has another bloody diaper!

3:20 pm - We leave for the doctor. Yes, my hair is still fairly wet and I am in my pj pants.

3:45 pm - Doctor thinks it was just an inner tear in the skin and not to worry. But we did get the go ahead to give Roman solids twice a day now. I am told to re-think his schedule and try for only 5 bottles a day.

4:30 pm - Run to the grocery store to pick up some baby food for Roman. I plan to make it at home in the future, but this will work for now.

5:00 pm - My mom plays with Roman while I continue to work. I finally finish the 13 drawings, but my Internet quits working so I can't send them off. I'll deal with that later! I start cooking dinner

6:00 pm - nurse Roman then my mom feeds him his rice cereal while I cook dinner

6:30 pm - we sit down to a homemade meal of rice, shrimp, scallops, and veggies (it was fabulous!)

7:00 pm - My mom once again plays with Roman while I send off the drawings to EDS. I then get to enjoy Roman and my mom. We just play!

8:00 pm - I give Roman and bath and then we give him a bottle and put him to bed

9:00 pm - My mom is passing out on the couch wondering why she is tired! She goes to bed and I pump again

10:00 pm - I finally can relax and go to bed after getting all of the bottles ready for the next day and taking care of Captain.

Wow, it's non stop! The good news is that Roman is okay!!! Thank goodness my mom is here. Why can't she just move here?!

5 months already!

Roman is turned 5 months old on August 12th!! He is such a easy, happy baby! Here are some new happenings:

Roman weighs about 17 lbs!

Roman is still taking (5) 6 oz bottles or nursing in a 24 hour period and one 8 oz bottle of formula before bed. He eats every 3 hours

He loves his rice cereal now! He literally opens wide when the spoon is near him.

I put him to bed at 8:15-8:30 and now I have to wake him up at 6:30am! All of that hard work of sleep training was so worth it!!

Roman is laughing! His giggle literally melts my heart! I am obsessed with getting him to laugh! It doesn't happen all of the time, we have to work for it by being silly! Captain can make him laugh! Matt and I like to call it a "precious moment".

Roman will now sit up on his own for about 30 seconds. He just gets a little excited with his toys and knocks himself over. I think this will change by the end of the month.

He scoots!! Matt left him on his blanket the other day for 30 seconds and he had scooted 10 ft! The concept of crawling has quite been grasped, but it is coming very soon! Matt likes to call it Franks training camp.

We are officially using the real stroller now! He loves to be able to look out on our morning walks. Thanks mom for the best stroller ever! We use it all of the time!

Roman is literally OBSESSED with the jumparoo! He tries to jump every time you stand him up. It is so entertaining to see him jumping until he is almost out of breath! So cute!!

We are so in love with our little boy. He is doing so good at his little daycare 3 times a week. I think he's already making friends. Just like his daddy. I just can't get enough of him! Times are really good!!

Friday playdate with Chloe!

Last Friday Matt went to hang out with his guy friends, so I went to called my friend Lindsey and we had a last minute play date with the kiddos! We had a great time! Here are some pictures that she took. Thanks Lindsey for having us over!

Roman loved playing with Chloe's jumper!

We tried to get them to pose together!

Roman is grabbing for Chloe!

He fell asleep on my shoulder from all of the playing!

My sweet sleeping boy

Feeding the little guy a bottle

Eating rice cereal in Chloe's highchair. This is his first time to sit in a highchair!

Yummy, I want more!

If you're reading this post...

Then it worked! We decided to finally go private. There are just too many scary things out there and now that we have Roman everything has changed! Lot's of new little things have been going on with us lately...

My company did a lot of lay-off's last month. It was kind of crazy. No, I did not get laid off, but I did get cut back to 4 day work weeks. I'm actually thrilled! It took Matt a while to get used to the idea, but now we're all happy. One more day with my sweet little baby boy and husband! Matt is trying to get every Friday off so we can spend those days together as a family. I work one day at home also, either Tuesday or Wednesday. This schedule is now perfect! I am only at the office 3 days a week. Roman's school has agreed to work with us on only taking him 3 days a week. This helped in the price tremendously. God really does work things out!

I'm in my "working from home" attire!

Last week Matt was off all week. We had a great time as a family! We went on lots of walks and ate really good home cooked food from the pro, Matt!

Roman is obsessed with his new jumparoo bouncer! It is so cute! He literally bounces until he is wheezing! Trust me, we don't leave him in there longer than 5 minutes at a time.

Check out that huge smile!!
Roman is growing so much! He is now almost 16-1/2 lbs! He's actually getting heavy to carry up and down the stairs. I love it. Who needs an arm workout when you have a little Roman?!

Love those chunky legs!
Roman's feeding schedule that we were supposedly going to change didn't work. That kid wants to eat every three hours during the day and that's final. Trust me, he will let you know! The new schedule only lasted 4 miserable days. When his "sleeping through the night" got affected, the schedule went out the door. Now we are all happy and I have to usually wake him in the mornings around 6:15ish so I can get going for the day. I love that he sleeps 10 hours!! This is the best age so far!

That's all for now. I'm so glad that I can now write about our little family and not have to worry about the crazy people out there.