Updates!

It's been SO long since I have blogged. I can't say that I haven't had time to do it. I have simply enjoyed my break from school and just spent time with Destin and Al (before he had to go back to work) and I really didn't even turn the computer on except to confirm my classes for school. School started back today for me, so I will be on the computer more so will probably blog more. There is so much that I could catch everyone up on!
Destin is getting so big and mature! At his 15 month check up he was in the 95th percentile for his height and 33rd percentile for his weight. He is still so tall and skinny! He has such a personality it is crazy! He did not like the doctors office at all. He knew where he was as soon as we got there and cried the whole time and clung to me like a little monkey. I literally had to pry him off of me when they had to weigh him and check him out and everything. He ended up having an ear infection... I had noticed that he was digging in his ears a lot. He has always pulled at his ears when he is tired, and I have always been worried that he had an ear infection, but the doctors always said his ears looked fine when I asked them about them. This time, he was literally digging in them for about five minutes straight each time. I told the doctor before she even looked that I was worried about them especially since he has gotten extremely adventurous in the bath tub where he lays in the water and acts like a little fish. I was so paranoid that he was getting water in his ears! I am probably more paranoid since I have always had such horrible ear problems. Anyways, the doctor said that his ear infection was from fluids that was probably from drainage and just caused him to have an uncomfortable feeling or muffled sound and that the bath water normally doesn't cause any ear infections. That was a sigh of relief. They put him on an antibiotic that caused him to be a devil child for ten days! We seriously wanted to rip our hair out he was so awful. It was like immediately when he got off of the medicine he was so much better! He still has an attitude problem at times. He has a mind of his own and if it is not his way, he is going to pull a fit. Don't worry.... we don't let him get away with this. lol. Spanking him usually doesn't phase him. He is a tough little booger. We have discovered that spanking him and making him sit in time out is the best punishment for him and actually works. Oh how he HATES sitting still in time out! He sits there and cries the whole time saying, "Mama, mama, mama!" There have been a couple of times that he has made me laugh during time out (I couldn't help it, he is just so funny) so he laughed and I just had to let him up. I have learned that I have to put him in time out and walk away so he can't try to be funny and make me laugh. I cannot stress to anyone that doesn't know him how much personality he has. He is SO SO SO funny! Any time he hears music, he is dancing and bobbing his head. He will even get on the ground and dance... it actually looks like he is break dancing. Yesterday, I heard him in his crib babbling after taking a three hour nap, so when I go in there to get him he stands up and immediately starts doing the chop and war chant. Poor kid will be so brain washed to love FSU! We will give him a bouncy ball in the bath tub and he will throw it against the tub so it can bounce back to him and he just laughs and laughs! This morning, he was sitting in his high chair eating breakfast, and he raised up a bit and was eating his food without his hands like a little bird pecking food off of the ground and he would raise up and just laugh! I laughed so hard, and Al said, "Well that's great. Now he is going to be trying to eat like that all the time." lol That's probably true! Oh well, that little personality of his just makes my day!
Al's wrestling season is over now. The middle school season anyways. Now, he will start doing lessons and working with any of the high school or middle school guys that want extra training. The good thing about it is he gets home earlier now! That's very exciting!
School for me today went pretty smoothly. This semester is going to be so much better than last semester! Oh my goodness, last semester was horrible! I was there on Monday's until 9 at night and Wednesday's until 5:35 and Friday's until 1:35 but I have to be at work at 3. This semester I'm done by 3:45 on Monday's and Wednesdays and at 11:15 on Fridays! I'm very excited to get to leave school and be able to pick Destin up from Summer's and spend the evening as a family! I'm hoping for a great, easy semester! Only one more after this one before I student teach!