What's going on with my "Little Man"!?

WELL... we've been laying low the last week or so, because we had been exposed to Fifth's Disease at church, and that can slightly increase your chances of miscarriage in the first half of pregnancy. Ironically, this was our second time to be exposed, and until this time, I had never actually heard of a confirmed case! Anyways, today Maclain woke up with a pretty tale tale sign of Fifths... the red rash cheeks!!! SO, we were geared for the worse! He has had a low grade fever for a few days, and didn't sleep well last night, and now has a fever staying around 101, so considering the dr's out tomorrow, the nurse told me to bring him in today! By the time we got there, the rash looked so much better, but before we left it was back and EVERYWHERE on his face!!! They gave him benadryl, said it's viral, but given the "come and go" at the moment they don't think it's Fifths! It'll still be at least a couple of weeks before we'll know for sure if he caught it, but in the meantime, what is going on with my child??? Look at these pictures!! They don't do the rash justice... I was using my little point shoot camera, so the flash washes out the redness! It was quite yucky in person!


Here he is while we're getting ready to go to the dr.

Here is is at the dr.'s office! He's feeling pretty cruddy by this point!

Merry Christmas!!!

I didn't get my Christmas cards out in the mail til Monday, so many of you haven't received them yet!! BUT, I also wanted to send along wishes to all my wonderful clients! May you all have a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Good thing I have a little one on the way!

I had the wonderful privilege of keeping my 8 week old nephew, Liam last night! My family was over for Christmas and I got to keep him behind until this afternoon! He slept great for me, and was SUCH a little angel... especially when I was holding him! :) I miss him terribly already and it's only been a few hours!! Anyway, if I didn't have a little bun in the oven, I would SURE be wanting one now! So much of Liam reminds me of Maclain when he was that little, but you just forget about it! I'm SO looking forward to meeting our little one... even as tired as I feel tonight! :)

Here are two incredibly sweet pictures... one of Liam, and one of Liam and Clain. I just wished I had my good camera on hand to capture them! It was upstairs... I was afraid the moment would pass before I got back down ready to go!

By the way... just in case you're wondering. Maclain was SO incredibly sweet with Liam and simply wanted to hang out right by him. It never bothered him for me to be giving Liam so much attention, but I just tried to incorporate Maclain whenever possible! He sure loves Liam (although he calls him Keller... his best buddy's little baby brother)! :)

Decorating for Christmas!

Here at the Lawson house Maclain's been "decorating for Christmas". He went in mine and Jared's bedroom tonight and started pulling all of the pillows off of the bed. We asked him what he was doing and he said "decorating for Christmas"! He's officially done now so I made sure to document it!!

ALSO... a quick baby update! Saturday I will be TWELVE weeks! A long awaited milestone!! I'm SO thankful and so blessed to have made it this far! God is truly amazing! We went to the doctor this morning for the 12 week check-up and we listened to the baby's heartbeat... which was 170! SO... everyone says "GIRL" now... but Maclain's heart rate was never below 160, so I just don't hold any faith in this old wive's tale!

Updated Session Pics!

Here's a mass post of some sessions over the last month... a crazy busy month! If you don't see your sweet little one it's because you told me your session was for Christmas presents... so I'm trying to keep it a surprise for ya! :)

Christmas Traditions Officially Changed!

This is an official notification that "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" will from this point forward be referred to as "Rudolph the Reindeer Nose", and when his song is sung, you are to only repeat "Rudolph the Reindeer Nose" over and over!

Second notification... "Frosty the Snowman" has officially changed his name to "Johnny the Snowman", and when you sing his song, you are to repeat, over and over, "Johnny the Snowman Nose"!

:) I LOVE this age!!!!!

Tink!

WELL... our little man is in love with Tinkerbell. Not necessarily in the "want to be Tinkerbell" kind of way, but in the "I want to marry her" kind of way! He claims that Tinkerbell is his girlfriend! Considering if Maclain owned a Tinkerbell doll in any form, he would ride her around on his Lightning McQueen car, or hang her from his fishing pole, we aren't too worried... but... there's this ONE little thing! :) When I noticed that Tinkerbell had her very own movie, I thought it would be harmless to buy it for Maclain! Well, Maclain loved it, and watched it several times before moving on to something else, BUT, the Tink movie just HAPPENED to come with a PURPLE TINKERBELL BAG! He found it before I ever even realized why the box was so big!! SO, for several days he had to carry this purple bag around with him EVERYWHERE before it too "got old"! Thankfully... he used the bag to carry around Buzz Lightyear and Woody, but still, Jared's response was "did you HAVE to let him have the purple Tinkerbell bag??" :) It's since become obsolete in Maclain's world, and neither he nor I could tell you where it's at, but I ran across this picture which brought back the lovely memory of those few days! :)

It's Raining, It's pouring...

And Clain's laying beside me snoring... well, asleep at least! :)

I woke up this morning, needing to run about 50 errands in Decatur, but after spending ALL day in Huntsville yesterday running errands in the rain, I just couldn't do it!! When will I get everything done??!! I don't know! But I just couldn't drag me and Clain in and out of the rain today! SO... I've been working on the computer ALL day since about 7:30 this morning, and it has rained ALLLLLL day! Our neighbor's back yard looks like they have a beautiful pond, and the creek that runs behind our houses is the highest I've ever seen it, and is flowing as fast as I've ever seen it! This is the same creek that was practically dry this summer with just a lot of weeds! BUT, today, we have our own Priceville Water Sports teams practicing. Well, at least a man in a canoe and a lady in a kayak! It's crazy! Maclain and I were sitting on the couch, and I saw a BRIGHT yellow object out of the corner of my eye, and low and behold... A man in a canoe trucks right on by!!! I ran as fast as I could to get my point and shoot camera, and tried to take a picture, but it was on video!?! SO... I have this very short, shaky video clip! :)

I know it's been forever since I've posted and updated everyone, I'm just trying to stay afloat here... so the blog is the first to fall behind! After Christmas, things should be back to normal... whatever normal is?!

Sassy to Sweet in 2.0!

This morning around 7:15 Maclain crawled up in the bed with me (I was enjoying sleeping in with the rain outside)! Maclain cuddled up and said "I want to snuggle... you're comfy!" SO, we all know what that means, right?? Skinny people just aren't good snugglers!! Anyway, 2 seconds later he says, I want to snuggle with the baby and proceeded to cuddle up to my belly... which is growing every day now! Sweet, huh?

We're "HOME"!

WELL... we're finally half settled! We still have a long time before we have things decorated and cozy enough to make it feel like "home", but we're getting there!

Tonight is my first night with internet! We still don't have the wireless working but at least I can work again!!! OH... and post! :)

Life is good, but crazy. I feel great, but exhausted! :) Saturday I'll be 10 weeks pregnant, and I can't thank you all enough for the continued prayers you're sending our little one's way!

Here are a few pictures we took the night before we moved. Things still had to be cleaned (hence the dirty floors and mirrors and all the junk in the studio), but things were "done"!