May Overview

May was a busy month for us. We started by picking up Aggie from training and doing his "continuing education" classes on weekends. I had finals which ended the spring semester for me in college. Chantz got accepted to the Police Academy:) Our little pumpking turned 2!!! We got ready for Aggie's first birthday on June 6th and a whole lot more.....

I have more pictures to upload for May I just haven't found the cord still. These are the ones my sil took at his birthday party which was at Northshore Park this year. It was SO hot but SO much fun. This year was so exciting because he was actually able to pick out his theme all on his own and seeing his excitement when the party goods were coming in was just "a kodak moment". He picked Yo gabba gabba which by now in July has gotten on my last nerve haha because it's all he wants to watch. I was so thrilled when I found a special 2nd birthday theme with Gabba on it since he was turning 2!!! We got him a banner that is still in his playroom right now that has all of the gabba characters with his picture on it telling him happy birthday. He refuses to take it down and he STILL gets excited when he walks in there and says Gabba and Dalton and cracks up laughing. Speaking of his laughing the way he really laughs is so funny. When he thinks something is just outrageously funny he will throw his head back and put his hand to cover his mouth and laugh. When he laughs with his head like this it almost sounds like he's snorting so it's really funny. Back to his birthday party he had a great time. He had so much fun playing with his friends and feeding the ducks with them. This was the first year that we had a pinata at his party and at first he was shy and scared of it but as soon as he saw his cousin Kade hit it he wanted the bat and went running up there to whack the heck out of it. We had a two tiered red and yellow cake this year with some matching red cake balls and let me tell you the kids LOVED the cake balls. They couldn't get enough of them. You can see in some of the pictures he got the gabba shirt that matched his party theme and everytime I do the laundry if he sees it in the basket he'll say mommy put gabba shirt on and he'll start taking his shirt off. He is just too much now:):) He got a ton of clothes and toys for his birthday but the one thing he would not take off the entire day was his helmet that goes with his new motorcycle that Gigi and Paul got him. Despite the heat, we had a great time and Dalton was so pooped he crashed as soon as we put him in the car to go home.

This next picture is in preparation for Aggie's first birthday!!! This is a picture of him when we first picked him up. He was only 7 weeks and it's so crazy to me how fast he has grown over this first year. He is HUGE and isn't even fully grown yet. I think at his first year he weighed right around 80 pounds which means he still has 30 to go. He has brought so many funny and loving memories to our family. When you see the movie Marley and Me that really is how our life with him is. He is just like another baby all over again:):)
Right after Dalton's birthday party we took his two year photos. I was so pleased with how they came out this year:):) Looking back at his first year pictures to this year I just want to cry at how quickly it feels like the time has gone by:(

I ended the semester right after Dalton's birthday party which was wonderful. Right before finals we went through a pretty rough time because Dalton came down with pneumonia:( I basically blew through all of my sick time at work because I was out with him for almost two weeks. It was one of the scariest things I've ever been through in my life. When I first took him to the doctor I had to go alone because Chantz couldn't get off work and she told me it sounded like either something was stuck in his wind pipe and they would have to go surgically in and get it or that he is just really inflammed. I immediatly broke out in tears and felt like I was going to throw up. I wanted so bad for it to be me instead of him. Then we were told that we had to go get xrays to see what was actually in there and when we went to the xray room the lady pulled this clear tube standing upright with this wooden circle around it over to us. She told me I needed to strip him down to a diaper and we were going to put him inside this tube and hold his arms up over his head. As soon as she put him in there he started screaming and asking me mommy help mommy get me out and she told me I needed to stop comforting him and let him cry because it would make it easier for his lungs to show what was going on with them. Talk about the worst mother moment in history. My child was stuck in this tube that all I could see was his cheeks smooshed in the plastic and his little nose was sticking out of this hole so he could breathe and I had to hold his arms up in the air and not even comfort him when he was looking to me for help and comfort. I was SO upset. When we left I went and took him home and waited by my phone for the phone call. I felt like the minutes were hours until we got the results. Finally they told us he had pneumonia and they put him on two medicines for it. It was exhausting those next days trying to keep a two year old from running and getting overly excited. Plus on top of this I was trying to play catch up from being away from school on our cruise and get ready for finals. Five days after he first got sick was mothers day. At this point I had been around him for that long that I myself started to feel bad and so Chantz went and picked us up food at the restaurant we were going to go eat at for mothers day and we ate at home instead and spent the day resting and coloring together. It was a pretty neat mothers day because since we were sick we basically couldn't go out and focus on other things like we usually do instead we spent quality time together at home which was really awesome. Dalton ended up healing just in time to have a week of rest before his party which was nice because he was 100% by that time then. I hope I never have to go through something like that again it was the worst feeling in the world being a mom and not being able to do anything to help your child when they're asking you to.

One of the last things that happened in May was Chantz's new truck. I just knew that since I got a new car in January that the "I need a new truck" was coming. Well one day I get a phone call at work saying "the exact truck that I want is here and it's the only one that is made like this and someone is looking to buy it right now so I need to know right this second if I can have it or not otherwise they may buy it and then I'll have passed up on this great truck". Well what do you know that night Chantz came home with this "awesome amazing one of a kind truck":):) It's so funny because he always gets on me for "overexaggerating" when I say can I please have this I really need this it's the last one in this color or my size or whatever but then when I saw the truck I mean don't get me wrong it's beautiful but I'm pretty sure it's not the only one made in the world hahaha. So here it is his new truck (the only one in the world but they actually had a picture online of it hahaha)He is too much too:):)

It came with cloth but they threw in leather for him as part of the deal. Well he brings home all of these swatches of leather and him and I spent a whole night debating what we each thought would look good. The reason I have this picture is because I wanted it a different way but this is actually how he got it with the two toned the dark grey on the outside with light grey on the insides (I thought it would look better all light grey). I have to admit when he brought it home with the leather done it was gorgeous so he was right and he just ate it up when I said the words "wow you were right" hahaha.