Monday, September 22, 2008

Tis the season for.....colds!


Here is Kevin looking, oh, so sexy, preparing the meat to put on the smoker for Glenn and Donna's anniversary party! :) He told me this picture would come back to haunt him...and it did!
Yep. We all have colds, except for Reagan. Mason got it first and then decided to be nice enough to share it with Mom and Dad. Bless his little heart! I am not feeling too bad, just really tired. It makes chasing after a toddler and taking care of a newborn, very challenging!
Kevin is busy this week pounding the pavement and burning up the road starting his new sales season! He will be busy now until December. This weekend he is having a booth at the Festival of the Leaves in Boonville. He will be smoking pulled pork and selling sandwiches, chips, and soda!




Happy 40th Annivesary Glenn and Donna!




This weekend was Glenn and Donna's 40th wedding anniversary. We (Kevin, me, Derek and April) gave them a party at their house. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed over 100 guests!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

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September Activities

This month has been full of activity. More than usual for us! We are normally very dull and boring people, but this month we have been busy! We have been busy preparing for Glenn and Donna's wedding anniversary party, along with Derek and April. In addition to that, Kevin has decided to enter the Festival of the Leaves with his smoker and providing food. He is going to be serving pulled pork sandwiches, chips, dill pickles, soda, and bottled water. He is already doing all the meat for Glenn and Donna's party, the meat for the Festival, the meat for a friend's wedding, and as soon as there is a break in the rain today, he is going to be smoking meat. We have our neighbors now bringing down meat for Kevin to do. Kevin is really getting into the "catering" and having fun with it all!

As far as me, I have been busy being Mom and wife. My cousin, Jeff, is getting married on September 27, which is also my cousin Kim's birthday. This is the day Kevin will be at the Festival of the Leaves, so that leaves me taking the kids to the wedding with me. However, my parents will also be there to help me, so that is nice. I am also in the mist of looking at a possible part time job opportunity. The hours couldn't be better and would still allow me more than enough time to be home with the kids, so that is exciting to think about. However, I am extremely anxious/nervous about thinking about being away from the kids since I have been home with them ever since they have been born.

Mason is still fighting his cold and is getting a little bit better. He has been having a lot of problems going to sleep at night in his own bed. Something is scaring him, like nightmares, because he is afraid to go to sleep and will hold on to me or Kevin for dear life. Once he gets to sleep, he will sleep for 3-4 hours and then he wakes up crying and will come get in bed with us; and he will fight us when we try putting him back in his own bed. This has gone on for almost two weeks now. We wish he would talk and tell us what the matter is so we could help him. However, since he can't tell us quite yet, we are doing the best we can to help him out. He is now telling us "up" when he wants to be picked up and he will tell us "kack kack" for what a duck says. It is pretty cute! Speech therapy is really helping him out. He has so much fun playing with the letters of the alphabet and singing songs. He loves it when we sing "The Wheels on the Bus" to him.

Reagan continues to be her loveable and smiley self. She always has a smile first thing in the morning when I pick her up. She loves to be held and is awfully spoiled already! I love holding her and cuddling her, just like I did with Mason. I try not to take it for granted since I know she is going to be our last baby. I don't want her to grow up too fast, but it seems to be going too fast anyway!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Reagan - 2 months old



Our little princess is 2 months old! At her well baby visit she weighed 10 lbs 4 oz and was 22.5 inches long. To compare her with Mason, he was 11 lbs 2 oz, and 23.75 inches long at his two month visit. Reagan had her first round of shots and was pretty cranky yesterday and sore, but today she is back to her smiling self!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Things are going very well here in the Frieling household!

Reagan is growing by leaps and bounds. She is smiling and cooing at me now, and it is the most precious thing to see! I love this age. Our little piggy eats so much now, between 4-6 oz a feeding. A feeding is usually every 2-3 hours! She is a good sleeper and wakes about once a night. Last night she slept from about 10:00 to 5:30 this morning and ate a bottle and went back to sleep until 8:45 a.m!

Mason continues to be the doting big brother and will kiss her ALL THE TIME! He is still working hard on his speech and gets frusterated so easily. He is over his virus from last week. It lasted about 4 days. He couldn't seem to get enough sleep and was so tired all the time, even if he slept 12 hours a night and had naps during the day. He is back to himself now and is constantly on the go!

Kevin is done with settlements for NC+ and is looking forward to getting to work on his trailer to make it into his office! I can't wait for him to do that so that I can decorate Reagan's room (which is now his office).

Christy is on vacation next week, so we are taking Reagan with us to the Lake to go outlet mall shopping! YAY!! I love the outlet mall! I hope to find Mason some clothes for this fall and next summer! I am all over the Children's Place Outlet and Gymboree, Carters, and Osh Kosh! If anyone has anything they want while we are down there, let me know!

Kevin, me, Derek and April are busy planning Glenn and Donna's 40th wedding anniversary party. We are having it September 20 at their shop! We are keeping it casual. Kevin is fixing all the meat! (I am looking forward to that!)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Reagan's First Trip






We took Reagan with us to Omaha, NE last week to Kevin's NC+ meetings. She did so wonderful! She even went on her first boat ride. We took a dinner cruise along the Missouri River on one of the riverboats. Reagan even had her first shopping excursion. She went to the mall with me and two friends. We were there for over four hours and she didn't complain once! I even had the chance to make her a Build-A-Bear just like I did for Mason!

Mason is sick with a virus. He has a high temperature that keeps coming and going since yesterday morning. The fever has been back three times now and goes away when he takes Motrin. Poor baby. He was so hot yesterday after his nap, I gave him Motrin and put him in a cool bath. He didn't even want to sit down in the water, he just shook. He woke up early this morning with another fever, but after the Motrin, he seems to be fine. I have a call in to his pediatrician just in case I should bring him in.