The weekend

This weekend was a nice weekend. I had to work on Saturday morning, so Clynt and Corbin headed off to the beach to spend a little time with Clynt's dad. After work, I went and I got my nails done. I found a new little place that did a nice job, and they offered mimosas, champagne, wine, soft drinks, or whatever you wanted to drink. I enjoyed myself, but I sure do miss the men in my life when I am not with them! Afterwards I went to Ellies and I found the PERFECT crown for Corbin's party. It is way too cute! I am so excited. About his party, we are still trying to plan it, but things are coming along. My girlfriend, Courtney is trying to come up with a way to do a homeade crown cake. She is very creative and so I am sure she will figure it out. I am starting to think that sandweiches will be the best option for our guests, so I was thinking about getting a crown cookie cutter and making little crowns! Wouldnt that be cute!

Okay, so the rest of the weekend. We ended up having a couple of our friends over for dinner on Saturday and then on Sunday we got up and went to church. Then we went and had a wonderful lunch at my parent's house. It was yummy and Corbin is always the hit of the party! Then we went with our CARE group to do a service project. We went downt ot he Brazoria County Alliance for Children in Angleton and we wrapped birthday presents for the foster kids of Brazoria County. This is a wonderful organization and we were able to learn more about it while we were there. It was very nice and we all had a really good time. Then what would CARE group be without dinner? So we went to Johnny Carino's and enjoyed dinner with many of our best friends! We always have a goodt ime when everyone is around. But this particular time was a little sad, because one of the couples was unable to be with us being she found out that he father has Lymphoma. They were at the hospital with him while they run tests to find out what stage it is at and what the treatment plan is. Please keep their family in your prayers! They are very much needed, but they are all very strong in the faith and know that God is walking with them through every step of the way.

We are headed to Alabama at the end out the week, so we are excited. We will get to see much of Clynt's family that we do not see on a regular basis and are very excited about that. Traveling gives me anxiety though, so please pray for safe travels and happy spirits for us. Corbin is going to be able to meet uncles and aunts that he has not met yet, so we are very pumped about it.

Well I hope everyone's weekend was good. Until later!

Its almost Weekend!

So, I dont know if all of you know what I do for a living, other than being a Christian, a mom and a wife. I am also the Assistant Director for Keep Pearland Beautiful which is a non-profit environmental organization. Clynt has always the more eco-friendly one of us but since getting my job last August, i have become very eco-friendly. All of my friends think I am some what nutty, but I never understand any of the importance of being this way until I began going to seminars and such about shortages and issues that we are facing in the world today. Now I wont get into all of it or anything, but i wanted to share what I do with my life outside of my family. With Corbin, I do everything that I can to be natural, and I also try the same with Clynt. I want for us to grow old and healthy together, and I want for the world to be wonderful for Corbin when he has kids and grand-kids. Pearland does an excellent job with recycling and things are only going to get better in the future and I enjoy the fact that I am part of all of that.

The only downside to this job that I have is that I have to work more than 40 hours occasionally. Like tomorrow! It is Texas Recycles Day and we are celebrating it in Pearland with an event out at the Stella Roberts Recycling Center. So my weekend is already a little full. Then on Sunday, our CARE group is going to go wrap gifts for all the foster children with birthdays in December. This should be nice, and we are all excited to serve. That, after all, is what we are put here to do! Life is good.

Corbin is doing well since his surgery, he is getting better, and the stiches are for the most part gone. He has been a little cranky but not too bad, I jsut think that certain ways he is held bothers him, which is COMPLETELY understandable! He goes back for a check up next week. Last night, i stood Corbin up and he stood there for about a minute and half looking at clynt and I like "what am I supposed to do now", then he TOOK A STEP and lunged at me! LOL! It was too cute. It wont be long and he will be running around like crazy! It seems like yesterday that he was born.. He is getting big so fast!

So it doesnt look like Clynt is going to have to leave any time in the next month or so but he may have to after that. Things are all still in the air to see what they can get done remotely before having to travel. This is okay with me, because at least he will not be gone during the holidays!

On another good note. My girlfriend that made Corbin's b-day invitations now has photoshop! She totally deserved this and I am pumped and thinking of things that she can make me! Everytime I see a really cool picture or anything, I think to myself, I bet Amanda can make that!! LOL! I am pumped for her though, seriously!

Well that is enough for now. I hope everyone has had a great week!

This Week

Man, I am bad. I only have this for a week and I already slack off! Much has happened since I last spoke with yall! To start Corbin didnt take Sunday night very well. We had to take the bandaging off of his little thing, and it was very painful for him. Pam was staying the night that night, and it took her talking to Corbin, me holding his arms and legs, and Clynt tryting to take the casing off in order to actually get it off. And it was stuck a little so Clynt had to pulled one some of it and corbin was SCREAMING! If you know Corbin at all, he is not one to cry much, but ever since we took it off, he has been a little cranky. He has cried more in the last couple of days than he had in his whole life. It is really sad and it breaks my heart! :( Poor little guy! But he is doing well other than that. He is starting to talk a little more, but only when people arent listening. If it is just us in the room, he will mimic me and talk to me and it is way too cute, but if other people are around he gets shy. He is such a cutie!!

Clynt has helped to design some sort of software at work and was told Monday that they need him to go to the UK to help train their contractors on the software. I really dont want him to leave but I know it is good for him and his career. However, it now looks like the trip will be postponed a while and it may entail more than just one stop, it may entail going to other users of the programs for support of the program. So now we are just holding our breath! It should all turn out fine though... Everything is all in God's timing and in his Will!

Last night, I had a Scentsy Candles, and Premier Jewelry party at my house. Some of my friends and family came and bought some beautiful stuff. It turned out nice, however, it was crazy at my house. There were 6 kids running around and it was a mess and I dont do well with Chaios so I was starting to sweat, and worry about everything. But in the end it was nice, and it was helping a couple of my good friends out! That was what it was all about.

I am still planning Corbin's party. The invitations are done, and that is still about it. I really need to order the other stuff tonight! Someone remind me please! I have Corbin's class tonight from 6:00-6:45 and then I will go home and do that. I am just too busy lately. I cant wait to leave next Friday to go on vacation for a little while. It will be nice to get away. I am going to try to be good about doing this more often... I just get caught up in life.

Until tomorrow (hopefully!)

The day after

Corbin is doing great! He is such a trooper, and I am definately blessed. I left his pants off of him last night, thinking that he would be getting up often and it would be easier to just change the diaper with out having to remove a onsie of pants. However, I was wrong. He did not get up in the middle of the, but he did manage to get the diaper off and so we had pee and poop all over his bed this morning! His sheets are nice a clean now and he is napping in his crib, but he was pretty smelly this morning. He has been so happy and good all day long! I love it! He still has bandaging around it and we are having to keep the top of it covered in neosporin, but all is well. YAY!

Our niece, Sydney, had he 8th birthday party today at the skating rink, so we took a trip over there for the day. She had a good party, and we had a good time too. I have decided that instead of gift bags, I am going to give reuseable shopping bags, and the moms seem to love it! And I like being green too! Speaking of birthday parties, I have to get on the ball for Corbin's. I dont like last minute stuff but Iit seems like that is where Im going to be. Since we are doing the prince thing, I need to find a cake or something in the shape of a crown. Im sure it will be easy enough, I just need to spend the time to look. I also need to order the darn moon walk. Oh well...

I need to get to purchasing the birthday stuff, so I will be on later to blog a little more! Much love!

Hospital

So, we are home from the hospital. I am exhausted, but oh so very happy that everything went good. So our day has gone like this: We got up at about 5:30 and got ready and packed for the day, because we didnt know what to expect as far as long he would be there and what he would eat after the procedure. We wake Corbin up at 6:30 and give him some pedialite, because past midnight he couldnt have any food and past 7:00am he couldnt have any clear liquids either, so I was trying to fill him up with liquids right before the deadline. He didnt want much though, but anything was better than nothing. We get to Texas Children's at about 7:15. They check him in and then we get registered and everything. Then at about 8:45 we go to the holding room and sit there until 9:45 for the doctor and anesteshiaologist to come and tell us what was going to happen. They tell us that they will start with a gas and then insert an IV and then they were going to do a block, similar to an epidural, and that they surgery should last about an hour. Then they took him away and they was SOOO sad! I was in tears at that point. Clynt's mom, dad, and step-mom were all there. My parents we both in meetings and came as soon as they could. We got called back right at about an hour and were SO excited to see him! He was being given a bottle of pedialite when we got in but he had still not yet opened his eyes. It took a little while, and a couple of bottle later, then he opened his eyes. He fussed a little while and then he went back to sleep. Then the doctor finally came by and said the surgery went well but that there were a LOT of adhesions and it would take 2-3 months for the swelling to go down. Then they gave us the details on keeping it safe and they let us go. We slept a lot for a while and now is a wild child! Way more than he was even yesterday. Generally we have a very calm child, but this afternoon he is ALL over. He is happy as can be! What a blessing that is. I thought the next couple of days would be miserable but if all continues the same, it was well. Thank you to everyone who kept him in your prayers and thank you to the wonderful Texas Children's Hospital and also thank you to Doctor Milewitz for fixing our son's junk. Here is a picture of him playing in the waiting room in his very cute scrubs!!


Well, now, I will make this statement out loud, "If Clynt thinks something is wrong on Corbin, I will listen to him to begin with", if I had done this originally, we may not have been in this situation! But I didnt know.. :( Oh yea, Corbin was standing all by himself today at the hospital, he was having so much fun playing with all the new toys and he didnt know what he was doing while he was holding a big puzzle piece. It was so cute when he noticed and he sat right down! LOL!

Thank you Lord for everything you have blessed me and my family with! Today went smoother than I could have ever imagine and I know that was all in your will!

Well, like I said, my little man is wild right now, so I need to tend to him. Clynt has run to take all of our recycling to the recycle center, so we are on our own! WooHoo! JK!

Much Love!

Mommy and Me

Last night, Corbin and I (and Clynt) started going to a class for babies! Jeff and Lindsey and Joshua also joined. It was interesting. At first, I thought, oh my, but then it really turned out neat. I think Corbin was definately stimulated and the important part was that he was around other children similar in age. Clynt doesnt want to ever return but Jeff has to go because Lindsey and pregnant, so I think Clynt is now going to be suckered in to going all the time! It is only once a week so it is no big deal. He can live!

Corbin's surgery is tomorrow. It is going to be at 9:30am and he can not eat ANYTHING past midnight tonight! That is goin to be fun. I am sure that he will be starving come 8 or 9 in the morning. Oh well. I am very emotional about the whole thing, so I cannot wait for this to be over! :(

I dont really have much time to blog this morning, so I just want to say to remember to thank the Lord everyday for all the things that you have! Everything is a BLESSING!

Life

It seems like I have been going to the doctor a lot lately, which is not very fun, but I need to feel better. They have found several things that are just deficient in my body, so I need to be on supplements. She asked me yesterday when I went in for results, "Haven't you been extremely tired lately?", to which I replied, "I am simply a lazy person!", she laughed and when on to give me more prescriptions and vitamins to help. So I am hoping that in the next few days, I am a bit more perky!. I think Clynt is hoping the same! I do a good job at coming home and cooking every night, although Clynt is jealous because this all started again since Corbin is needing more table food! But, I am back in the kitchen full stream, and it makes me feel good about myself. Both my husband and Corbin LOVE my cooking and it makes me happy to be able to do something for them that they are unable to do on their own. This is good!

I dont think that I have really talked about Corbin too much in my last blogs which is weird because that is why I started the blog, to fill everyone in on his life. Well, Corbin is 10 months old now and is still a pretty small guy. His weight is in the 10-15% which is low, but hey Clynt is a small guy so I didnt expect much more. Plus Corbin was exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of his life and didnt have ANY solids (not even cereal) until that point. So it took him a while to catch on to the food thing, so we are hoping that he will gain a little more weight now that he is eating well. He is crawling like a mad man now, and he says "mama", "dada", "baba", and many other things and he is mimicing some, he amazingly enough has said, "pupu" (purple), and "kitty" when we have repeated it many times to him. He is a pretty smart little kiddo. However the child has no desire to walk, I dont think. He will walk behind a push toy and then he will realize that he is much faster to get down and crawl where he wants to go. He is cruising around the tables and stuff but it is the same thing, he will see something on the other side that he wants NOW and it is much faster for him to get down adn crawl. He will walk in his own time but, he is definately Clynt's son. He thinks about EVERYTHING before he does it! It is way too cute! He is a very happy and docile child. He rarely will cry about anything, unless he is hungry! Some friends of ours (Robin and Ben) have a little boy only a week older than Corbin. He is much larger than Corbin and he is much mroe active! He is a cutie too! But he will come and knock on Corbin's head with a toy (just to play) and Corbin will just look at him and never make a peep. It is so funny to watch how all kids are so different! They are too cute!

Now a little on Clynt. Clynt is doing very well! He LOVES having a little boy. No one thought that we would have a boy (especially on our first shot) because Clynt has many syblings and lots of neices! He has one brother with 4 girls, 1 that has 3 girls and the youngest a boy, and then he has a sister with 2 girls. So it did not run in the family to have boys, but Clynt is SOOO happy that it turned out that way. We went and voted last night and he HAD to hold Corbin in the voting booth because that was his boy and he needed to vote with him! I wouldnt be suprised if Corbin was the one to actually pick which propositions he was vote for and against! But Clynt's job didnt look very secure for a while, which had us both a little worried, but now he is doing some project management work just so that he has work to do. For those of you who dont know, clynt is by profession an engineer. He is really enjoying PM but it is much different than what he is used to and he isnt dealing with numbers all the time. Clynt loves numbers! He is glad to be getting a wide range of experience though and he has a stable job right now. The project is a huge one so he will likely be on it for a while.

Yesterday, my sister was not talking to me, and I thought that she was mad at me about something, but it turns out that she has been working around the clock because she is super busy at school (teaching). They are sending her to special ed training this week, and I hope that she really likes it. So please put her in your prayers because she is having to handle a lot lately, with her move back to Houston and all.

Anyhow, everyone is doing good.. so I guess that is all for now! Until tomorrow!

Halloween

So, as I was reading my new blog to Clynt last night, he wanted to know why I did not talk about our past weekend. So, here we go. This past weekend was Corbin's 1st ever Halloween! He was a monster. Too CUTE! He was a very cute monster as you can tell from the picture that is posted somewhere in the blog! Im still new at the whole thing!

Anyways, so on Friday night, we went with a couple of our good friends, Jeff and Lindsey and also Joshua, to Casa Ole to eat dinner and then to the Fall Festival at the YMCA. It was lots of fun, although Corbin was OUT in a matter of, ummm... 5 minutes!. He was still a very cute sleeping monster! Although, not very scary. We had Michael with us though, so it made the Festival a little more kiddsie for us. Then we all went home. The next day we took Michael and Corbin with us to the Bayou City Famer's Market Festival. Rachel also joined us and we got veggies, bread, and coffee. It was a nice little trip. We all enjouyed ourselves.

Now, a pause in our weekend to tell you about the Waddell family a little bit. Clynt's mom has a passion for horses and the country. She and her husband, Steve, have lived very close to us in Pearland and have also had property a couple of hours a way, where they have kept their horses. Well they have recently sold their house near us to permanently stay up in the country. It is good for them, but it is also mixed emotions for us because now we do not get to see them very much at all. About the same time of them selling their house in Pearland, Clynt's dad and his wife, Charlye, bought a beach house in Galveston. Not too far away but enough to where it takes a day out of our already crammed weekend to go see them. So needless to say, we are spending much our week trying to plan time to be able to spend with Clynt's family. They are all great people and they really deserve the time alone that they are now able to get with their spouses and we are thrilled for their ability to do so, however, it just makes it hard to be able to see as much of the family as we would like to.

Okay, so back to our weekend. We decided to take the trip to Clynt's Mom's place on Saturday afternoon. Steve is working out of town and so Pam is often times alone on that big Ranch. So, we took Corbin and headed for the country. I, who has not ridden a horse in a very long time, decided that it was time to get back into it. I had a wonderful time, however I am very sore now. Corbin also loved the animals out there and would wave at them every time they walked by. (Corbin is a HUGE waver now, and it is SOOOO CUTE). Clynt decided to get on a very stubborn horse that is not riden ever. The horse did great for a little while and he finally got very frustred with Clynt making him mind and so he started bucking. Clynt also has a passion for animals and he is not at all scared of them, so he kept pushing the horse. BJ (the horse) simply stoped moving, so that was the end of his ride for the day. After lunch, Clynt, I, and Corbin packed up our stuff and headed out so that we could get home in time for CARE group.

On to Corbin... Some of you may not know that corbin's circumcision was done incorrectly the first time around, so now he must undergo surgery to get it repaired. He will be under 3 types of anesteshia so that he will wake up faster, but I am still scared to death. I am sooo sad that he has to go through this at only 10 months old. But, the surgery is Friday so I will keep you all posted!

His birthday party is going to be on Dec. 5th. Yes I know his actual birthday is on the 29th, however I just dont want to get into the rush of the holidays. And, for those of you who dont know, Corbin was born on Clynt's and I's first anniversary, so while Corbin's is young enough to not know the difference, I would like to actually have an anniversary! Last year was not so romantic! LOL! A friend of mine created this AMAZING invitation for Corbin's party:
I hope you can see the picture of it. I dont believe how creative some people can be. Amanda, you are wonderful!!! Corbin is going to be a prince for his birthday, crown and all (well it is a plush crown, but a crown, the same!). It shall be wonderful!

I guess that is enough for now. I hope you all are enjoying. And I just have to say, as someone who as only ever read blogs, I would never click on the follow section, because I didnt want for anyone to think that I was stalking them! Sounds crazy, I know, but if you are reading this (MOM!) and feel that way, please dont! I want to see the followers so that I know this is worth my time!

Until tomorrow!

My first blog

Well, I have a friend, whom I have known forever, which I keep up with from her blog. She is an amazing writer so I am sure that I will not do as good of a job as her, but hey, I will try. This is the first time that I have ever done any sort of journaling in many many years so please bear with me.

I guess that I can start with the basics. You probably know that I am married to a wonderful man named Clynt Waddell, and I have a wonderful 10 month old son named Corbin. They are both the loves of my life. We all go to New Hope Church and have a wonderful group of friends there. Many of which are in a CARE group with us. Our CARE group is full of jokes and fun, and or course worship and faith! We are so blessed to have all of them in our lifes.

So life these days, I am having a hard time keeping up with people. We have been going and going and with me working full time, it makes it really hard to keep up with many of the people that I oh so much care about. If you are one of those people, please forgive me. Corbin takes a lot of attention, and I am trying so hard to do everything right in his life. I find myself spending more than necessary amounts of time to cook special food for him, trying to make sure that he is in every possible socializing thing that he can be in, and just never leaving his side. I have a hard time bc I work and I dont want to leave Corbin the rest of the time that I am not working.

Clynt was spending many many hours studying for his EIT/FE exam recently and actually took the test last weekend. I am SOOO glad it is over, but it takes 12 weeks to get the results. How rediculous is that?!? Man! So we are patiently waiting the answer. Clynt is also wanting to do everything perfect in his life and is now wanting to attempt Rice U's MBA program. I am praying about this because my personally feeling is that I do not want him away from the family that much, but I know that he only wants to do it to better the lifes of Corbin and I. I dont know what I think yet.

Anyways, I dont know if this is a good blog or not, but I will try to keep up with this thing as much as I can around everything else that I have going on in the crazy "Life as a Waddell".