end of the month.

this has been a LONG week. a good week...yes. a hard week...yes. a tiring week...yes. last wednesday we started noticing lane just wasn't being himself. at all. all he would do was sit on our laps. cry every minute, not exaggerating. not sleep, not at night, not during the day. cough day and night. have a fever off and on. it has caused for a long week. after a weekend of all the above, we decided to take lane to the doctor. the dr. attributed it all to teething. yes, teething. i broke down, tears everywhere(can we say hormonal? sleep deprived?). the dr. said to just try to keep him comfortable. do you not think i've been trying? there just wasn't anything i could do for him and i wanted to fix "it" so badly. he has A LOT of teeth left to come in, i pray it isn't this way EVERY time! i missed this smile...

saturday: lane wasnt happy at home so we decided lets just GET OUT of the house and get some fresh air. we had never been to boulder so we packed a picnic, loaded the car, and headed out. we stopped in downtown boulder to look around. he refused to walk on his own so vance and i took turns holding our 25lb heavy weight. lane and i shared a smoothie. (thank you anna for the bday gift:) we then headed for a drive in the mountains hoping lane would take a nap...ha, we were wrong! it was GORGEOUS! we may miss the flat lands of the midwest but when you see such amazing sights you can't help but think its pretty awesome to live so close. we made some random stops to get out and walk around. at first lane wasn't so sure of the cold water and then he would have jumped in it if we would have let him. we were just happy to get some smiles!













walking around, i noticed my shadow has changed!

"hmmm, no cars"

"ooo, hey car, look at my belly button!"

diaper changes outside are the best. fresh air!

relaxed.

sunday: once again, we had to get lanester out of the house in an attempt to make him happy. walking along a trail near our house...


i'm constantly amazed that you walk just on ROCK. you don't find that very often in nebraska.

monday: the other day after our dreaded monthly trip to wal-mart, i was feeling icky. needed food fast. so i did the healthiest thing possible and drove through wendys to get a hamburger. i sat in the back with lane to give him a few bites. instead he ate 99% of my food. all of a sudden between bites he started to close his eyes. i guess he ate himself tired:)

tuesday: we've been working on using utensils by yourself. he thinks he's big stuff.




wednesday: a year ago today i found the little man had played himself to sleep. oh how i miss those baby days! (and yes, spit up is right next to him. totally lane.)

today i peeked in on him napping and just as a year ago my heart melted. he loves his blankie! i don't want to forget these days, even if they are hard. (and yes, that is a spatula in bed with him.)

...we're praying for a "better" lane the rest of the week. today he's been more himself. a sign of good to come...yes!

my two loves.

it's been a hard weekend with our little guy but when i look at this picture, all his crying seems to melt away and...

i can't help hoping that he'll grow up to be just like his father.

gone again.

last week, lane and i headed to nebraska. it was one busy busy week!
-finally got to the dentist. after i had lane i had EIGHT cavaties, yes eight! i had some work done but still have more to do over thanksgiving. they were afraid to do to much while i'm pregnant so we'll just do a little at a time. ready.to.be.done!
-went shopping. lane HATES shopping so we tag teamed him/it. he still outran us at american eagle. he was crazy:)
-lane had his first act of stealing. somehow a single kids nike shox tennis shoe ended up in the diaper bag. i figured lane was a little young to be taught a true lesson on stealing so i just went back to the store and apologized. if i was smart, i would have had him go "steal" the other one...just kidding!
-went out to eat with friends.
-played board games till the wee hours of the morning with renee. guess who and sweet valley high. for snacks, she had string cheese and i had a root beer float. total opposites.
-lane impressed grandpa and grandma with his "talking" skills. ALWAYS babbling! he started saying "bam-pa" when he saw grandpa or was looking for him.
-renee and i got ALL of our continuing education hours!
-missed vance!!!
-flew by myself with lane for the 20th(?) time and decided it will be the last time while pregnant. then i was quickly reminded that if i do that then i'll have TWO kids so i guess i'll be flying with just him again. OR family can come here! (hint, hint!)

good times at grandpa and grandma's!

this picture would be adorable if his eyes were open but i LOVE this picture because it shows off his long lashes. melts my heart!

wagon rides.


he wanted it to be sammie's turn.


we somehow pulled grandpa away from the second half of the nebraska game and headed to the pumpkin patch. it was a beautiful day and we didn't have to fight any crowds since the game was still going on. we all had a good time! lane's grown a lot since last year.


after we had him stand against the cut out to see how tall he was this year, any cut out he saw after that he ran and stood right against it:)

american boy.

if grandma is near, she is ALL he wants.

lane's most favorite part of the pumpkin patch...pony rides!

lane kept up with all of us, handfuls of kettle corn. yum yum yum!

apple sling shot


too bad nebraska lost:(

these pictures make me so happy...he discovered the piano and LOVED it!



lane entertained us with wearing this one evening, making "roaring" sounds. there is never a dull moment with this guy.


we were so excited to get back to see vance but we unaware of what we were getting ourselves into. cold. snow. brr. we landed, opened up the suitcases, and pulled out some of the winter clothes we picked up in omaha. i've been dreading winter for a long time, everyday lane spends a good 2 hours outside playing, what are we going to do in the cold weather? we've been getting a taste of it the last few days and we're anxiously awaiting some warmer days again! i guess we'll just bundle up, head outside, and girn and bear it:)