The adventures of tader baby: I must be crazy!

I have decided to go ahead and try to advance a step up the salary scale at work before our new negotiated contract goes into effect June 30th. This means I plan to take 15 semester hours of Master's level classes in the next 7 weeks. I hope I haven't bit off more than I can chew, but it might mean I am slightly MIA for a while. We'll see...

I'm posting the pic of the first time Summy pulled up a week ago. He did it quite a bit Thursday and Friday and a few times here and there this weekend. It's definite progress!

Two moments of hilarity from this weekend:

Sumner ambushed Bode, our giant, fluffy cat and jumped on top of him, grabbing fistfuls of fur. He rubbed his face all over him and made his "happy" sound. Bode stayed right there and was so patient! It was hilarious!

Jack learned on Saturday how to get up onto the couch, and so he really was trying to climb into our chair and a half. It involved him screaming and clawing, standing on his tiptoes trying to get up. He is a character!

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. It's only something like 23 more days of school for me, but who is counting?

The story of how the tader tots came to be

When I started this blog, I originally thought it was going to be a taderbaby...we chose the nickname after the delicious spuds served at Young's Jersey Dairy...but quickly found out it was tader tots! At 28 weeks gestation my placenta started abrupting and I was briefly hospitalized, then put on strict bedrest. At 31w 4d I was let up for an hour a day. At 32w on the dot, I was re-admitted for bleeding and began a four day fight to stop labor which I lost on 2.15.07 when Jack's placenta abrupted fully. If I hadn't been at the hospital, we wouldn't have made it. Upon birth, Jack's apgar was 3. The boys spent 4 weeks in NICU and this is their story, and mine.

7 comments:

$Rachael Schirano \\ Rachael Schirano Photography$ Rachael Schirano \\ Rachael Schirano Photography said...: oh wow, good for you! best of luck for a successful 15 hours in 7 weeks, i know you can do it!

love the picture of summy, way to go!!!; May 4, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Elyse said...: You go girl! You can so do 15 hours in 7 weeks! I know you can! Remember the little engine that could. "I think I can, I think I can." Best of luck. By the way, the new look to the blog is amazing.
~Elyse~; May 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Harris Boys said...: I agree...you go girl!!!! Love the new header...I was going to say you need a layout that is wider, but you have that. did you pick the option to have it shrink to size? try either taking that out or adding it and see what happens with the header...if not, try a new layout till you find one that works.

btw: way to go summy!!!; May 4, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Becky @ Our Sweet Peas said...: Yay Summy! Your layout looks great and I realized that on the multiples page I responded to your layout question within one of my posts instead of paging you. Wow, sorry I must have been tired. I just played with different layouts like others suggested. Oh and as far as counting down to the end of the year I put it on our chalkboard at home from dh 4 more wks for him (he teaches social studies). Good luck with those extra credits.; May 4, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Anonymous said...: YAY Summy! Way to go Jack! You are superwoman. 'nuff said.

HUGS; May 6, 2008 at 7:42 PM
BuckeyeBundle said...: WOW! That sounds like a lot, but I'm sure you'll do GREAT! I love the new look to the blog! So awesome!
and...Way to go Summy!; May 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Elyse said...: Have a GREAT Mother's Day!!!
~Elyse~; May 10, 2008 at 11:36 PM