The Ziaja family is SICK!

Oh dear the whole family but me is SICK! Although I didn't get off the hook as I had the stomach flu on Saturday. Luckily Jason was home to watch the boys as I was useless and stayed in bed most of the day Saturday because I was up half the night sick.

Corbin started getting a fever/cough on Saturday so he stayed home with Daddy Monday and Tuesday. He also got to go to my mom's and Jason's mom's house part of those days too! :) So he stayed home until today and I got a call while my kids were at recess saying Corbin had a fever. (He didn't have one all day yesterday.) I had to split my class and leave. I immeditly made an appointment at our pediatricians office. Corbin and I went together and left Grayson at school so I could then come back and work in my classroom to get things ready for my class tomorrow since I wouldnt' be there. Corbin checked out fine at the doctor, just a virus. We bought a nebulizer even though he wasn't weezy, because the past two winters hes gotten weezy breathing and so we have it for backup.

So Corbin and I go back to my classroom and it took me twice as long to get things done because he DID NOT nap but like 5 minutes on the way to the doctors and so he basically didn't nap all day. So he was being obnoxious. Jason calls and says he is sick and feels nauseous and that he is home. Then like an hour later I get a call to pick up Grayson because he has a fever! :( Oh man when I picked him up I felt so bad I wanted to cry! He was crying hysterically in his crib!

We had all been off though because Sunday night I could NOT sleep all night! I was up every 30 minutes. Then Corbin woke up and slept in our bed so Jason told me to go to Corbin's bed because I was tired and upset. Then at 3 Grayson woke up and was WIDE awake for an hour! I tried nursing him, which isn't really working because he basically weaned himself a while ago. (He is now drinking formula from a straw cup at school! :) Weird night in the Ziaja household! I figured that I slept too long on Saturday and was off schedule! No idea still why Grayson was up!

I hated seeing Grayson so upset today not my spunky, sweet adorable baby! He has been talking much lately! He can say 'car' and 'dog' very clearly! He is being a stinker at school and isn't really eating food at all. We just started bringing him meals lately. I don't know what I was thinking and kept just bringing baby food until his teacher was like you used to bring food for Corbin! Whoops! I am still trying to figure this school year out and having two kids I guess! ( bad excuse since G-man is almost 1!)

I just want our family to get well!

"Baby Daphne" is here!

Isn't Daphne cute!? We can't wait to meet her! :) We love her already!

Jason's sister Jessica, had her baby, Daphne yesterday! She was born at 1:40pm and was 7 lbs 2 oz and was 18.5 inches long. The boys have another girl cousin!

I was amazed when Jason texted me at work that Jessica had Daphne so quickly! She was induced Monday because it was previously thought a few weeks ago that Daphne was going to be huge, and her femur measurements were measuring two weeks ahead. Daphne was supposed to be due November 3 and she was just a normal size newborn. The ultrasounds towards the end aren't terribly accurate anyways. Jessica was already dilating. Wendy, mom in law told us that since Jessica is in medical school woman tend to go into labor earlier because they are on their feet 16+ hours a day sometimes.

We love her already Jessica and Ryan! :) We will be up to San Antonio as soon as our family is well!

some success

The past two mornings Corbin has wanted to wear underwear. He sat on the potty Sunday morning and went peepee! We gave him one of the reserved monster trucks we have for him because we wanted him to know what a big deal it was. He has it engrained in his head that if he goes pee pee he usually gets a sucker and if he poops he gets a monster truck. He has a place on his little potty training toilet where you can put toilet paper so he was asking for "Paper napkins" to put in there! He went to Jason's closet and got our toilet paper and put a roll on his little potty seat. He stayed dry for three hours but then refused to sit on the toilet so diapers went back on. Oh well we will keep trying to potty train him at least he initiated going!

Grayson is really trying to talk and walk right now! :) When he drops his sippy cup he say "uh oh!" Its so cute!!! When I ask him "Where is Corbin?" He will look in Corbin's direction, wherever he is. When I ask "Where is Dog?" He looks at Kylie! He does the same for Jason and I too! Its super cute! He is really trying to walk he will literally grab anythign, like this morning it was my cheek, and try to cruise from one thing to the next. He is barely holding on when holding onto my hand or finger. When trying to have Grayson walk between Jason and I, he's not that confident yet. He has to grab for our hand or knee or something.

Peek-a-boo!

Where is Corbin?


The other day Corbin was hiding under the couch and coming out saying "boo!" Grayson loved it!

"I adore my big brother!"

A day out with Thomas...

Excited to go see Thomas!

Walking with Poppa and Aunt Tori! CUTE picture! :)


Silly Uncle Justin and Aunt Tori!
Stamping up a storm! He loved all the train stamps!


Thats our Grayson, very much the relaxed observer! ;)



Getting a Thomas Tattoo!


Corbin picked out James the train for Grayson...quite appropriate because thats Grayson's middle name! I love how he is still sucking his thumb and like "Ok whatever you want to put on me is fine by me guys!"
Tada! All done!


About to board Thomas the train!

We bought the boys matchinig Thomas shirts and they LOVE to wear them!
Hanging out with Mommy! Haha Corbin has my pasty white skin! Oh dear! Thomas went backwards a lot of the way. Corbin loved going backwards like "Backwards Bob" the monster truck!

Loving the train ride with Daddy!

Thomas was really fun! It was a great memory to share with the boys! Thanks Jim and Kathy for taking us! We didn't really get any pictures of Thomas the train because it was too crowded. I think Corbin would have had more fun if he had felt better.

He ended up getting a fever and was home a few days. He spent the day at my moms house yesterday (we kept him home from school yesterday and today) and he left "backwards bob" at my moms and he keeps asking for it! Oh dear!

sigh of releif

Well we finally got our first offer on our house, the week we take it off the market, but sadly things fell through.

It was an incredibly weird situation. We had a three hour open house and were gone at Jason's sister Jessica's baby shower for our niece, Daphne, who will be here in early November. We had gotten a call that morning with a realtor who wanted to show the house that afternoon and we told her that we already had an open house and to bring her client then.

So we get a call from our Realtor and she says that there had only been those people and someone else who had come to look at the house without a realtor. Well our realtor said the lady who had come with her realtor had breezed in and out of the house for 10 minutes with her son. We thought "ok well she doesn't like the house whatever." Well on Monday I check my email at work and our realtor had said we had an offer on our house and that it was a cash offer because the lady had a trust fund and we would have to lease the house from her until March because she already had a lease until then. Well Jason and I didn't really want to lease the house until then and move out. But we didn't really let them know that because this was just a verbal offer anyways. So our realtor tell us the ladys realtor will contact us to come look at the house again.

We NEVER hear anything about coming to look at it! We knew it! So yesterday we get an email and it says the lady cannot come up with the funds blah, blah blah.


The house goes off the market as of tomorrow. Jason and I are actually relieved it didn't go through. I was starting to have moments of panic just thinking about packing up our house, working, and being able to spend any time with my family. I have been majorly stressed at work I have a student who has required me to do room clears almost daily, although its getting better and they have started to adjust slowly and I have had specialist come to help me, but my body couldn't handle all this stress and reacted in an unkind way!.
I mean you know girls it sucks just once a month but come on twice!! NOT FAIR!

Our poor dog and breathe a sigh of relief too. For a few days last week I noticed her scratching A TON. Then Sunday I noticed her nose had a sore on it and was bleeding. I thought oh dear maybe she has fleas. Jason and I took her to the vet on Sunday evening and turns out she had allergies and red bumps from being outside. She also has an ear infection. She got a steriod shot and some pills to take to help with the itching and some ear clearer to help with the ear infection. Our Realtor had told us to keep her outside because she barks constantly when people are coming to look at the house. Well we aren't doing that again. Poor Kylie !I think she is starting to feel better! Finally!

Jason and I decided when we do put the house on the market its going to be in the spring and it it doesn't sell by August it goes off the market during the school year. Typically fall is a slow time anyways.

Frightfully cute!

I tried to get a picture of both of the boys together but as you can see Grayson wasn't happy! :) He just wanted to be with his Momma! He was tired!

My mom got the boys matching skeleton pjs when my parents took Corbin on their date!. Corbin LOVES to match Grayson in these pjs. He walks around saying "Mommy, I match Grayson!" He is so proud to match his little brother! :)