Stratton is 16 months and we are busy, busy!

So no pictures tonight. I have been working on christmas invitations and I thought I would sit down and update the blog real quick! I only have one new one and it's not that great. . .I am getting to be a bad mom! I used to take several a week and now I'm lucky to get one good one every couple of weeks. He is never still. Not even for a second! I am amazed at how much he is learning! He can tell you "no, no" when he doesn't want something, and likes to voice his opinion now that he has one! He also knows all kinds of commands like "arms up, arms down, wave, clap". He knows where his nose, eyes, ears and mouth are, he can say more word than I have room to type! He is on an animal kick right now. His favorite book is a farm animals book with pages full of pictures of different farm animals. He can tell you what just about every animal "says", and it's so fun to hear him make a pig sound! He grunts just like a pig! I am just shocked on a daily basis from something he says or does or recognizes!

The past couple of weeks since Halloween have been super busy! I got sick right after Halloween. Sinus infection and bronchitis and maybe a touch of pneumonia! Whew! After a couple of days in bed on meds, I was much better! We hosted a couples shower for our friends Dustin and Amy who are expecting their first baby any day now last Saturday! It was so much fun! We gave them gag gifts so it was really interesting and some of the things they got were down right hilarious! Definitely more people need to have these kind of showers to get the men involved. Except there was no game playing. . .well the only game being played was the Razorback game on our tv! Then the following Sunday we had a bday party for my papa in Hickory Ridge. And of course Jarrod and I both have been super busy at work. He is still working a lot of overtime, hopefully it will let up soon! Stratton has been sick again too, also we just finished up the last dose of antibiotics tonight! I blame the weather! It's been so crazy!

Stratton was 16 months on Friday. We celebrated by taking him to get his 2nd round of the flu vaccine. Yay! Haha. Would you believe he didn't even whimper!? Nope, I was prepared for the worst since I took him by myself, but he was great. In fact before we left the nurses, secretaries and even a pharm rep were all oohhing and ahhing over what a well dressed, well mannered little boy he was, and the fact that he let just about anyone hold him. . . as long as he had that sucker they gave him in his mouth he was more than happy to be the cutest kid ever. I took off work on Friday. I have some vacation days left so Stratton and I spent the day together and he was perfect all day. After we left the Dr office we went to Cracker Barrel and had lunch, where he put on a show for all the people sitting around us. . .he was waving and telling everyone "Hi!", that's my little socialite these days! After we ate we went to the mall and did some walking around. He was so good! We got home around 1:30 and he went right to his room and took a nap! Did I mention what a good boy he is? Friday night I went with Amy to get a mani & pedi. Probably her last time for awhile, she is 38 weeks this week! Then we went to get a bite at Lazzari's. It was fun to get to spend some time with a girlfriend. I haven't had much time to myself lately! And as you might expect all we talked about was baby stuff!!

Saturday we had to be in Memphis by 3pm to get our "Holiday" pictures made with Daisha. Dad go finished cutting beans on Thursday so we asked them to come along and we would take daddy out to eat for his birthday, which is tomorrow. So even though it was a icky rainy day, I think she got some good pictures and my mom and dad even got to jump in some. We did a little shopping, too. I went to Charming Charlie's for the first time- I could seriously spend days in there. It was amazing! All the jewelry, handbags and accessories in any color you could ever want! And no trip to Memphis would be complete without a trip to Gigi's cupcakes!! We got home a little after 9pm and Mom and Dad took Stratton home with them for the rest of the weekend. So we had a really nice laid back Sunday! Sunday night we had our "friends forever" group meeting at our friend's John and Holly's house, which was a lot of fun.

This week shouldn't be as busy. All we have this upcoming weekend is my dad's bday lunch on Sunday. And maybe, just maybe Jarrod won't have to work this weekend!

I will try to make myself be better about taking pictures! I know that's all you people come to see on my blog anyway! Lol!