2012 California State Fair!

So, as I stated in my previous blog, daddy had something planned for me on Sunday.  Grandpa picked us up at 10 am and we all headed to the California State Fair!  I love the fair!  I hate how expensive it is.  Grandpa treated us to the fair as a birthday present for us both as daddy's birthday is just a week after mine (so this coming Saturday).  Well, we started off drinking some beer and eating turkey leg and sweet potato fries.  And Wyatt tried a little bit of the turkey leg.  He didn't know what to make of it.  Then we started to just walk around.  We ended up at the birds of paradise area.  Wyatt saw all kinds of birds!  Grandpa was holding him so that Wyatt can see the birds better.  When we saw the peacocks, Wyatt was more intrigued by the waterfall behind the peacocks than the birds themself.  There was a parrot there that was just too cute!  The parrott was dancing and as soon as it saw me trying to take it's picture, it stopped adn posed for the camera.  Grandpa saw it too and him and I were laughing about it!

Then we headed to the Ag section.  Walked around and we saw some saddles and some toy stuffed horses for kids to learn how to saddle a horse and brush them.  So grandpa put Wyatt on a saddle and he was enjoying it!

Wyatt saw all kinds of animals at the fair.  He saw goats, billy goats, horses, chicks, bob cat, roosters, his eyes were everywhere!  He also saw all kinds of bugs too!

We then walked around toy-topia and he saw all kinds of toys.  Mommy and Daddy were showing Wyatt the kinds of toys we played with.  I wanted to get Wyatt all kinds of toys, like Raggedy Andy and a cute pop up toy with a bear instead of a clown.  But those were too expensive.  I'll get him those toys one day.  We got him a little license plate that has his name.  But daddy and mommy did win Wyatt some stuffed animals.  Daddy won him a dragon playing darts by popping balloons.  Mommy won him a big St. Bernard (bigger than Wyatt) by making a basket from the free throw area.  Wyatt had so much fun, he fell asleep in Grandpa's arms and napped for a long while.

Until next year!  And maybe Wyatt would be big enough to ride a kiddy ride.

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

Ok, so I have LOTS to update you all on Wyatt.  But first, Today was an awesome day.  29 years old now and I so don't feel like it at all.  I have never been one to worry about my age.  I have friends around me "freaking out" because the "big three oh" is right around the corner.  I never understood it?  And I may never understand it.  Hmm...  But anyways, Today was the best birthday evar.  We had a bbq at the apartment with our neighbors and some friends.  Greg and I bought majority of the food, meat actually, and our neighbors made the sides to go with the meat.  We had steak, chicken, brats, asperagus with zucchini, homemade mac and cheese, pasta salad and fruit salad.  Everything was delicious.  And we still had a lot of left overs too. 

Other than the company of good friends and neighbors, the best part of the night was getting a birthday card from Wyatt!  My neighbor stole him for a little bit while I took a shower and did one last vacuume run.  That's when she was having fun with him and the birthday card.  I LOVED it!!!!  She was telling me that Wyatt would not let go of that pen.  But then again, Wyatt has been amused with anything and everything he sees.  And he wants to grab everything he sees.

Now on to the more important stuff :-)

Wyatt is doing the inch worm, or breast stroke on the carpet.  So he's not quite crawling yet, but he's moving fast.  We skyped with his Lola the other day and she saw him breast stroke on the carpet as she calls it.  She was so amused by it and was so surprised at how mobile he is now.  Yup, I have to keep a close eye on that kid.  He wants to be everywhere!  Sometime last week, when I was changing Wyatt's diaper, well, I was trying to put his diaper on...  He was trying to roll over to get away from me.  Well, he did succeed, but what's funny is, when he finally rolled over, he quickly got on his hands and knees and started doing teh back and forth motion like he usually does before he moves anywhere, but he was doing it so hard that when he wanted to move forward, he launched himself towards the head of the bed and was laughing the whole entire time, with no diaper on!  Too funny!

And, when we were driving home last Sunday from Great Grandma's place, daddy said "hi wyatt" and Wyatt waved!  YES, my son waved at him!!!!  It was awesome.  At first we thought it was a coincidence, but we tried it again and he waved.  Sow e did it a few more times, and he waved each time.  But of course, everytime we want to show people, he just does not do it...  Also, that night, we had a bbq with the neighbors, Wyatt was eating watermelon all night, with no shirt on because I made that mistake the previous week!  So when it was bed time, I picked him up and he was sticky icky!  But that's not the best part.  I told Wyatt to say bye bye and so he waved.  and when everyone was saying "bye bye Wyatt", it litterally sounded like he said "bye bye"!!!  He hasn't done it again since, but OMG, it was amazing!  But it was also sad at the same time!  Bitter sweet....  Wyatt is growing up!  Ugh, I hate that.  But I wonder what he has in store for us too, I just wish time would move SLOWER.  But only during my Wyatt time!  haha.

Oh and the other thing, I think he said mama too... But dear daddy doesn't want to believe it, even though he has heard Wyatt say it once.... :-P

Fun-filled weekend!

My 2 cousins and their dad are in the US from Italy until sometime in August.  So the family drove/flew up from So Cal to San Francisco.  His Lola and lolo, Tito Rene, Mama Bing, Lola Marelou, Lola Ruby, Tita Nicolai, Lolo Sandro, Tita Shanna, Tita Franchie And Tita Chiara.  They arrived sometime Thursday evening in San Fran. and stayed the night there and walked around.  I met with them in Vallejo with Wyatt on Friday evening.  We had dinner at Max's restaurant next to Seafood City.  Wyatt also met his Tita Irene and his Tito Caloy that night.  They had so much fun with him.  And Wyatt loved being around Tito Caloy.  I shared some white rice with wyatt.  His Tita Irene heated up a plain baked potato and mashed it for him.  He loved that a lot too! 

He was up late because we were out late.  Once we arrived to the hotel, he was up until 1 or 2am because some of family (mostly wyatt's tita's and tito rene) were in the room playing with Wyatt since he wanted to be up and play with them too.

The next day, his Lola knocked on the door at 7:30am.  I was still pretty tired, but somehow Wyatt was wide eyed and bushy tailed.  He was ready to play!!!!  Lola was having so much fun with him, of course!  We all went downstairs for breakfast.  Everyone was laughing at the fact that Wyatt wants his own food.  He was trying to grab mommy's food as he's sitting on my lap.  So his  Lola Ruby took him so that I can eat my breakfast.  He did have a little bit of white bread.  And boy, did he love it!

After breakfast, the whole family got ready to go sailing!  Tita Irene's friend owns a yacht in Vallejo.  So we drove out there, got ready and we sailed around Marin (I think).  It was Wyatt's first boat ride.  He had so much fun he fell asleep in his Lola Ruby's arms!  So mommy decided to sneak some time without Wyatt and sat in the front of the boat with Wyatt's Titas and Tito Rene.  It was a beautiful day to go sailing!  We all had so much fun!

After sailing, Wyatt, Tita Shanna, Tita Franchie, Tita Chiara, Tito Rene and Mommy drove out to San Francisco.  Wyatt hung out with mommy and tito Rene while the rest went to SF MOMA.  He took a little cat nap in the middle of it all.  After the rest returned from SF MOMA, we ate dinner and then drove around San Fran.  It was pretty cold that night!  We didn't really do much else.  So we drove back to Vallejo and picked up his Lolo Sandro to pick up some dinner.  Wyatt was up late again, until 1 am and woke up at 7:30am.  He was so cranky Sunday during breakfast.  But we all knew it was because he was so tired.  As soon as mommy got on the freeway, Wyatt was passed out all the way home.  When we got home, he was so excited to see daddy and his brother bubbas!  Shortly after, mommy had to go take a nap.

Wyatt had so much fun over the weekend that he fell asleep at 6:30pm and didn't wake up until 5am.  And he even went back to sleep and didn't wake up until 9am with daddy!  Plus!  He took a 3 hour nap.  but he did go to sleep at 8:30pm.  I thought he would be asleep later than that!

But this mom is ready for bed!  with lack of sleep over the weekend and going back to work...  It's time for some good nights rest!

Sunday night

Monday Morning

Better feeling

He is feeling a lot better today, as you can tell.  His fever is down, so he is back to his normal temp this morning.  He woke up screaming this morning though.  Probably because he's teething.  But around noon, I noticed that he started getting a rash on his tummy and to his back.  None on his legs or arms, a little bit on his face.  So I called the advice nurse to find out what the rash was since Wyatt's doctor visit, she did say that sometimes a fever will start and a few days later symptoms will appear.  I explained to the advice nurse what has been going on since Saturday and that he developed a rash just on his torso and back.  So she told me that it's roseola.  Starts off with a high fever and once they're better and in normal temp range, then they develop a rash.  So she told me to just keep an eye on him.  He's doing just fine.  He's a little fussy, but that's because he's teething.  But he is still laughing, eating, pooping, peeing, etc just like any other day.  So the advice nurse took down my name and number so that I can get a doc note because she said that I may have to stay home the next 2 days.

So shortly after, Wyatt's primary doctor called.  First off, I LOVE his doctor!!!  Anyway, I spoke with him and he said that we don't need to bring Wyatt in because what I described to the advice nurse, definitely sounds like Roseola.  Then I asked him about daycare and he said that Wyatt is good to go back to daycare tomorrow and that it's not contagious now.  He was explaining to me as well that Roseola is common in infants and toddlers and not adults.

Overall, Wyatt is doing GREAT today :-) so glad to have my lil guy better.

I'll be going back to work tomorrow and Wyatt is good to go to daycare as well.

First high fever :-(

Saturday morning, I noticed that Wyatt's head was really warm.  Actually, it felt extremely hot.  I didn't really think much about it because he was acting like his normal self.  Just a little bit fussy.  So I checked his temperature anyways.  The temp read 102.7*.  I was in shock!  I've never seen his temp be that high.  The highest he has ever had was 100.4*.  So I called Kaiser and they asked questions to diagnose Wyatt and why he has a high fever.  He didn't have any other symptoms except being a little fussy than normal.  So Kaiser advice nurse told me to just give him tylenol and keep an eye on him.

I was checking on his temperature almost every diaper change since his head was still feeling warm all day.  At one point it did go down to 101* but before bed time, his fever went back up to 102.3*.  So I called the Advice Nurse again (first time mom, so I am of course overly concerned).  Told the advice nurse that Wyatt's fever went down a little, but came back up again.  So the advice nurse scheduled an appointment for Wyatt first thing Sunday morning.

Saturday evening, daddy was holding Wyatt while I was preparing dinner.  Daddy was telling me Wyatt was tearing up with the lip curl.  So poor Wyatt was crying without actually crying.  He was in pain from his fever.  Daddy wanted to cry for him.

I checked his temperature the morning of and his temperature was 101.9*.  After I fed Wyatt, Daddy and I got ready to take him to the Drs.  Wyatt was still asleep while we were getting ready.  I didn't want to change him out of his PJs because he was still sleeping, so we went to the drs in his PJs.  Other than his high temp, he was feeling just fine.  Playing and laughing.  He was enjoying seeing the Dr too.  I was sitting him up in the bed and he kept smacking the paper, crinkling it to make noises.  And he himself were making noises and smiling.

On the way home from the drs office,  Wyatt was not his normal self.  He was a little warm.  He just looked "blah".  During car rides, Wyatt is usually looking everywhere, especially out the window.  But he was looking down and away from the window.  The look that he gave us made me want to cry for him and try to take his sickness away.  My poor baby :-(  I just rubbed his head and his arms and legs and told him mommy will make him feel better.  I wish I was the one sick and not my lil guy.

He is feeling better today.  His fever FINALLY is below 100.4*.  But his stools are mucusy.  The doc did say that sometimes kids will develop a fever first and then symptoms start appearing a few days later.  So I'll be calling the Advice nurse about the mucusy stools.  

Wyatt's first Fourth of July

We celebrated Wyatt's first fourth of July.  We had a little bbq with our neighbors that night and it was a lot of fun!  Wyatt didn't even go to bed until 10pm.  It was a wonderful day that day.  Perfect weather with awesom people!  After marinating the meat for us and our neighbors, we started barbequing.  We had baked beans, steak, chicken, chicken wings, corn on the cob, salad and potato salad.  It was delicious!!  The guys were having fun throwing their eaten corn on the cob from far away into the trash bin.  Wyatt was having fun being held by our neighbor and on-site property manager.  As the sun went down, wyatt was getting sleepy.  By 8:30pm, he was getting cranky, so I took him in, fed him and put him to bed.  Shortly after, the neighbor's son started lighting up some fireworks.  He lit a picalo peets and it woke Wyatt up since I left the bedroom window cracked open so I can hear him if he does wake up.  So I brought him outside and the son had a couple different kinds of fireworks, so he lit ones that had different colors and Wyatt loved it!  He fell asleep in our neighbors arms while I made some homemade cookies.  So glad he had a lot of fun.

PS: sorry for it being a little incoherent.  I'm a little tired and I'm going to bed now.  Goodnight world :-)

Yay! Gun Show!!!

Wyatt at his first gun show (Roadrunner gun show)

So grandpa treated us out to the Cal Expo Roadrunner Gun Show on Sunday,  July 1st.  It was Wyatt's first visit.  As you can tell, he was ready to go with his "Future Grunt" camo shirt.  We had fun at the show.  We didn't get Wyatt anything, I wanted to so bad since it was his first show.  I know, he's not going to remember it at all, but I wanted to get him something as a memorabilia.  But that's OK.  I hope we can make it to the Reno gun show in August.  That would be A LOT of fun!  Plus we could go to Cabela's too!  I LOVE that place.  Anyway, the gun show wasn't all that great.  2 buildings filled with vendors.  But that was it.  Just 2 buildings.  Daddy told me that it used to be way bigger.  He also said that he remembers his visit when he was a kid, his dad (Wyatt's Grandpa) bought him an M16 toy that had a detached magazine.  It was a small toy that got him started on loving the M16.  So I was looking VERY close to each and every booth for that same toy.  But unfortunately, the only M16 I found was a pen.  As cool as it was, I really didn't want to give that to Wyatt.  We were only there for 2 hours.  But still, it was worth it.  And guess what???  Guess what the theme was...  ARs.  Yup... those babies are popular.  They are leggos for adults.  Or what I like best, "Barbie for men."

Anyway, after the gun show, we went to Outback for lunch.  Gave some wheat breat to Wyatt, he loved it!  And he is really ready to eat solids solids.  He gets fussy if he doesn't get to eat too.  I put together some formula (I have formula with me just in case I don't have a chance to breastfeed him), but that wasn't enough for him.  Haha!  So today, I had some sweet potato fries and gave small pieces to Wyatt.  He loved chewing on them.  I love my little man, but he is getting big way too fast.