FINALLY! COOL AIR!

We have been suffering all weekend long with this unbearable heat! CJ has really been having a hard time with being so hot. We have been trying to keep a fan going in our bedroom and then leaving the baby in just his diaper most of the time, but he still would move around the way you see people doing when it is just too hot and he cried a lot.
Today was really bad because we went to my mom's this morning in a car without A/C (Marcio took my car to get it registered, and his A/C is there, but it is really slow to kick in). Well, it wasn't a problem on the way there because it was still the cool of the morning, but this afternoon as we went to play group and everything it became really bad and he was all sweaty. So I thought, Well, maybe the house will be a little better. And the house was a little better, but that was it. Caio did okay for a minute, but then he was still a little grumpy.
Then, my landlord came over around 6 PM to hook up the swamp cooler. He told us that it is the nicest, newest cooling unit out of all of the apartments he manages (his grandma and mother actually own these places). Well.... HALLELUIAH!!!! This unit works fast! and is so quiet!
It is GREAT!!!! (can you tell that I am in love?) Well, CJ is in love too.
He has been so happy and playful ever since. I changed his diaper in the room with the cool air and he started kicking his legs and giggling and smiling and he has been almost hyper ever since.
We put him in his saucer and he has been playing and laughing, jumping and spinning ever since we put him in there. He is like a brand new baby boy. He is definitely feeling the difference! I love that kid!
I am so glad for our whole family that this is finally taken care of. In fact... I can't even remember the other things I have been meaning to put on here because of how happy/excited/woo-hoo! I am about finally being comfotable again in my own home!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day went really great. Marcio took me for a crab dinner (yum!) Friday night and yesterday I woke up with some flowers and a card on my table. It was great. I have really been loving crab the last 3 months or so. Every once in a while my taste buds seem to kind of change a little. I used to love shrimp and now it is one of the most detestable tastes in the world to me. I also used to not enjoy crab, although I could handle a little of it when pressed, but now I could do one of those dinners a week :-).
Anyway. Marcio is going to take his mom out for dinner tonight (one on one) to celebrate how wonderful she is and I am going to go and clean some things for my mom tomorrow morning (although this is a surprise that she doesn't know about) to let her know that I love her and care about what matters to her. Her health is bad and she can't do as much for herself as she used to be able to so I want to step in and do some stuff. I just thought that this year the presents that I want to give I can't find at WalMart anymore.
Oh, yesterday we also got some pictures scanned and stuff.
I wanted to share. I am trying to get a slideshow done as well and hopefully I can share a whole bunch of pics with that on here soon.
This was taken when my baby was 2 months old.
These have been taken within the last week or two (he is now 5 months old).
Isn't he CUTE!!!

Splish Splash

I forgot to write that while we were at the hotel CJ discovered splashing. It was so funny! I never got to take any pictures, but he was going strong and then when we took him out he kept staring at the water and kicking his legs SO hard.
Yesterday was pretty good too. He is doing better and better at sitting through church all the time. I am also meeting more and more people at church which is making me feel a lot better about the move and everything. I just want to get to the point that I feel like I have a spot to belong again.
Today CJ nursed a lot. I don't know what that means. I thought he just got through with a growth spurt, so I'm not expecting another one for a while. He didn't let me put him down very often or for very wrong. Am I doing something wrong? I also realized that he is practically 5 months old and he doesn't really role over very much. He doesn't like to be on the floor for any extended amount of time. He just doesn't seem to know how to play and relax while he is there. I just don't know if that is normal or if I am too quick to jump in and pick him up. I just don't like to hear my baby cry and stuff.

T-Jedi

The conference this weekend was SO GREAT! I really learned a lot and (for those of you who know about the method of homeschooling that I am looking at) I decided that I want to begin my 5 pillars training. My husband asked me what I thought the bennefit of that would be and when I got through telling him, he said that he liked that idea so much that he is going to begin the 5 pillars training with me. I thought that was so cool.
While we were there, durring a Q&A period there was a dad that got up and said that if they changed the name to Thomas Jefferson Education Institute he thought that more dads would be interested in learning about it because instead of calling it T.J. Ed. for short you could call it T-Jedi. Everyone laughed and later Dr. Demille (spelling?) referred to it as that too.
I was so inspired. I decided that I have to work on sollidifying some of my core before my baby is old enough to be negatively influenced by it (i.e. better work ethic and no grumbling and stuff like that). I also am going to work on my 5 pillar education (as I said before). We are also going to throw ourselves into getting out of deabt ASAP! I want to actively search out my callings in life and begin working on those things. Also, I met some people who live really close by and one of them has a baby my baby's age and her husband served in Brazil on his mission and he is from Mexico. I don't know, for me this is really great so that I can begin making contacts close to home.
I know that I still haven't put pictures up, but I will put all of them up at once one of these days. We took more pictures on our trip this weekend. Mostly we forgot to until we were in the hotel or the car, so most of the pictures have a similar theme :-) but they are still very cute and stuff.
We also stopped by Bryce Canyon National Park on the way home and got some really great pictures there too. I will put those up as well.
My baby did so well on the trip, but I still feel like I am recovering. For one thing he didnt let me sleep very much (but that wasn't completely his fault, so I am not counting it as such). Everything was so great. I really am afraid that I am going to start getting really preachy about this whole thing because it is just that good.

On Our Way

We have everything all packed up and ready to go for the most part. Tomorrow at this time we will be learning all about educating our kids and stuff. I am SO excited! We are leaving for the hotel tonight and we are hoping that everything will be okay for the trip down there and back. I am afraid that CJ will have a difficult time on the long drive (somewhere between 6-8 hours non-stop... i can't remember).
Our hotel is supposed to have internet connectivity and we are taking our laptop as well, so I am hoping that I will be able to keep up on all of my internet activities from there.
I think this will be a good diversion from our daily routine. Yeah!!!

The Sweetest Things

CJ woke up from his nap today and when I came in to get him he was so excited that he rolled over and grinned. I cheered and put him back on his tummy and he rolled over again and grinned.
Just now I was holding him on my lap while reading and he turned and looked up at me and put his hand on my cheek/chin. He then proceded to pull my face down and began licking my other cheek.
I know that he probably didn't see it as a kiss, but more as exploring his environment, but my heart was all a flutter all the same. :-D

I think he loves me!!

My baby has started reaching for me. It looks so cute. He will hold his arms up high and out toward me and whine (which is usually just really cute and not annoying at all). And if I walk into a room and someone else has him he will just stare at me as I walk around the room and if I look at him (I don't even have to be fully awake or in a good mood) he will start grinning and giggling and doing that cute shoulder shrug thing that kids do when they are being so cute and cuddly.
Yesterday I was nursing him and he latched off, so I looked down at him and he was just staring at me and grinning all big. He then waved his arm around and started giggling like he couldn't help it. I thought maybe he was done, but then he suddenly dived at me and started eating again. I started laughing so hard and he looked up at me and made these happy noises while he continued to eat. Last night he nursed to sleep and was still latched on (he does that a lot) and then he started to smile really big over and over again. I realized that his eyelids were moving so I think he was dreaming. Then he started to giggle. I wondered if he was dreaming of me.
When he wakes up in the morning he looks for me and if he sees me he smiles and is really happy. When we nap I put him in Marcio's side of my bed and when he wakes up he always scoots and rolls until he is pushing up against my body and then he really starts to smile and grin and giggle.
I really love this kid so much and... well... I think he loves me too. :-D

So Tired...

Sunday night I got through writing my blog and went into the bedroom to go to sleep. The house was so hot and muggy, so I opened some windows on the way, but when I got into bed I felt my husband. He was burning up!!! He rolled a little so I figured he was awake and asked, "Honey, are you okay?" "Yeah," he said, "It is just so cold in this house." Then I told him that the house was really warm but he was really hot. I then got the thermometer and took his temperature. It was 101 degrees. I just about freaked out! He said he didn't know it was that bad, but that he felt sick to his stomach and went into the bathroom. The noises that ensued told me everything and I decided that he was not going to work in the morning, no mater what!!!
He went from the bathroom to the couch and I got a wash cloth and sponge bathed him and stayed up with him for a while. When he said he was feeling better I took his temperature again and it was now up to 102. He said he was going to sleep though, and asked me to sleep to so that I let him rest through the night. I told him I would on the condition that he let me call him in sick in the morning. He agreed.
Yesterday morning he was down to 101 again and we started the whole thing over, but now CJ was awake and demanding attention too. I worked with it though and took care of my baby, who didn't want to be put down very often or for very long, and my husband, who was too sick to do anything for himself by this point. I finally got Caio down for a nap and my mother-in-law came over so that I could go to the store and get stuff for Marcio (crackers, 7-up, Tylenol, etc). When I got home I took over everything again. Even with all of this his temperature was up to 103 by noon and I was going crazy trying to keep it down and take care of my baby, who was awake again, at the same time. About this time my mother-in-law came by again and asked if it would help if she took the baby. I told her it really would. I devoted most of the rest of the day to taking care of my husband.
At one point (around 5 or 5:30) his temperature got up to 103.9 and I thought, that is it, if it gets any worse I need to get him to a hospital and he even started talking about where the closest emergency rooms are if I needed one and where our insurance works. Suddenly a thought came into my head and I said that I was going to give him a bath (which he didn't particularly want--only rich people have bath tubs in Brazil and he can count on one hand the times he has had one in his life since he has been in America). I got him in and he was too drained to even do much, so I just kept using a wash cloth to move the water everywhere. He was so sick and out of it at first, but the longer he was in there he started seeming more awake and even a little more energetic. I took his temperature again and it was back down to 101. I was so happy. My mom-in-law also came by with CJ for another feeding. Marcio layed on the couch. He fell asleep and I took care of Caio in the other room. Between 9 and 10 I decided to check on Marcio again. His temperature was down to 98 degrees and he felt cool. I was so happy and relieved. He said he felt better but still a little queezy.
Caio went to sleep closer to midnight and the house was finally quiet and worry free. I think I stayed up reading some email and some of my favorite blogs. I also got a very little excersize in. I finally went to bed between 1 and 2 this morning.
Needless to say, this morning I am exhausted. CJ is much happier and better behaved though, so that is a plus.
I really do love my little family so much!