just want to share...

thought id post a couple of pics of my twists that will soon be locks. yay... im excited for my journey!

damn you shingles!!!

i dont know if i mentioned in my earlier posts that i had shingles in my neck. shingles are the adult version of chicken pox that is localized to one side and are a of your body, you only get it if youve had chicken pox before. well my main concern was my baby and him getting chicken pox at such a young age. my dr said that he should be ok because he still has my antibodies in his system and he shouldnt get them..yeah well what he also forgot to mention was that it takes 10-21 days to manifest itself after touching the effected area. Soo needless to say saturday i noticed a little red pock mark on jr back.. two days later they were everywhere. smh my poor baby. the dr office was just so shocked that there was an actual case of chicken pox. "no body really gets chicken pox anymore, hes a special little boy." he tells me. (rolling my eyes) and on top of him having the chicken pox he has a small cold. more of a runny nose and a cough. my poor babies nose is running so bad he wakes up with his eyelashes matted together with boogies and his nose completely blocked off. but since its been a few days hes starting to clear up. hopefully hes back to 100% before i head back to work. my poor baby. so yeah, i gave my baby the chicken pox. :(

in other news, i two strand twisted my hair to start my locks!! so for now theyre just two strand twists, itll proly take about a year to fully lock up. but this is the beginning of my lock journey..

A change is coming

I've recently decided after alot of going back and forth, to lock up my hair aka dread locks. Only my locks won't be dreadful, no matter what state they are in. I was thinking of cutting my hair to the same length Halle berry has, but I feel like short hair like that requires more up keep than longer hair. And with my hair being more than half way to my butt, I just don't have the time, effort or energy to continue to flatiron and style and all that. So I've decided that I'm cutting my hair to my shouders and starting the process of locking my hair. I am too excited!! Just thought I'd share. :)

Lets play catch up shall we?

Man so much has gone on since ive been on here last, hence the reason why i havent been writing. Plus these 10 hr shifts are kicking my ass. Well lets see where do i start? My car is still in the shop.. apparently my rear end was completly gone and everything back there had to be replaced. what everything back there is, i have no idea. all i know is this man has had my car for almost a month...im ready to get my car back!!

somehow over the past two weeks, ive developed shingles. And even though its a 2nd round of chicken pox in adults that is only in one spot on you body, this shit hurt worse than anything i could think of. Hell id rather have a baby again than have shingles. that junk felt like a million needles poking you, or like prickly heat. all i can say is that im glad this episode is almost over. i was concerned because i know that both chicken pox and shingles are contagious and i didnt want the baby to get them this soon. the dr said that he still has my chicken pox antibodies in his system that i shouldnt worry about it. and praise God he hasnt had any show up, so im greatful for that.

We took jr to the dr friday and he is now 24 lbs,  29 1/2 inches long, and has a 18 1/2 inch head, and he is in the 75% range of kids his age. the dr was suprised at how solid he is. what an i say this kid has been moving around in his walker since he was 4 months, of course hes gonna be solid. hell his thighs alone have more definition than mine. lol we built a fort a couple of sundays ago for us to hang out and watch movies in. everyone got in on the fun. but someone couldnt hang. lol droolin all on my pillow.

big boy food now...

i know that when this little boy gets older i am going to have to have 3 jobs just to feed him and buy shoes. lol he really hasnt been eating the gerber jar foods too much here when hes home with me.  Hmm lets see last week he was eating some great northern beans, he ate those for a few days just like we did. (gotta get him used to those leftovers) earlier this weekend he was tearing up some curry chicken..well not the chicken so much but the curry sauce and the rice. And tonight he killed some spaghetti and garlic  bread. well i think he licked more of the garlic off of the bread than he did eat it but hes getting the idea of how to do this eating big boy foods. he makes me so proud. thats my baby!!!

Its a photoshoot!

 Hanging out with mom sometimes produces a photoshoot. Good thing hes always ready...

 and smiling...

 But the photoshoot can wear a brotha out quickly.. lol

Ammoxicillin = No bueno

So Sr took Jr to the dr because he was running some serious fevers, and when I say serious I mean like 104.3. Which Tylenol was bringing down but it wasn't bringing it down low enough, so we took him to the dr. They determined thar he is both teething and has a sinus infection. So they gave him some ammoxicillin to help clear that up. Even though he only got it for maybe a day every 12 hours he broke out in a red rash all over hid body. :( and even though it wasn't effecting him he still broke out. So when I finally called the dr, they told me to not give anymore doses and see if it clears up.. It never did, so thy told me to give him some benedryll. With giving him benedryll I've learned that even a 1/2tsp makes him sleepy and extremely cranky. :-/ thank god it's only taken two days to clear up this rash and now I shouldn't have to give him much more benedryll. I'm just praying that once I stop the benedryll that he will continue to sleep thru the night. keeping my fingers crossed.
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