Jude's new playpen...

is wonderful and large enough for all of his toys and has even enough room for mommy to get in and play with him. I love the fact that I can walk him in and out of it through one of the two doors it has. The first time I put him in it he didn't throw the usual fuss because it didn't look anything like his little playpen and it wasn't as confining. Give it two or three more times and I'm sure he will catch on and dislike this playpen just as much as his other one. :)

Here are a few pictures of his new play area.

Update on the H1N1 shot...

Well... yesterday morning I decided to call the doctors office to make sure that they had Jude's H1N1 shot still and luckily I did before waking him up at eight thirty to get him there by nine. They still did not have the shot available for him. I would have got all the way down there and would have been turned away. I figure it can wait until we go to get his second regular flu shot in three weeks. Hopefully they will have it by then.

H1N1

I know its probably a bunch of hoopla and what not... but Jude is still getting his H1N1 vaccine just in case. I always watch The Dr.s on T.V. and they actually said around seventy eight kids have died from the H1N1 virus in October alone. I haven't checked to see if these statistics are correct... but it did make me a little nervous. Everyone is California is going crazy with this news. We have had two vaccine clinics in the past two weeks that have had two thousand people or more waiting for these shots and sprays.

Needless to say. At Jude's pediatricians appointment on Friday they said they did not have the vaccine and I would have to continue calling on Mondays to see if they had gotten it in that day. So I called today and they said they had the vaccine available and would get me in tomorrow at nine. I just wish there was a clinic or place I could go to get the vaccine too. I guess the regular flu shot will have to do for myself. Lets just say I'm not looking forward to tomorrow though. Jude does well with getting the shot... but horrible with the after pain from the injection.

A LONG week with the cold. :(

I have had the worst cold this last week. We went down to Bakersfield last Friday for Kris and Dave's Baby shower... which was fantastic. But on the way home I could just feel myself falling into a sickness. Sure enough by the time we pulled into the driveway my throat was killing me, nose was running, and my head felt like it was about to explode. Needless to say I wasn't feeling good at all.

Monday was even worse. I still had to run a few errands in the morning and took Jude with me. When we got home I was exhausted. Jude thankfully took a nap and I was just about to slip back into my pj's when my friend Bri came over to give me some soup and tea. What a sweetheart. She even offered to stay a few hours to watch Jude once he woke so I could sleep a little longer. I was so thankful.

After THREE HOURS I woke up and found Bri putting the stroller away with Jude no where to be found. She had taken him for a walk and called my mom to see if she could bring Jude over to their house for the afternoon. She had dropped him off and was heading out. So I decided to have the soup she had brought and take lay down again. I couldn't believe how horrible I felt. I didn't even wake up until midnight and completely freaked out! I didn't know WHERE Jude was and whether or not Benny had picked him up at my mom and dads, if they still had him over there, what was going on. Thankfully Benny had went and got him at eight, fed him, and had him in bed.

I slept from 1p.m. to 5p.m.--- 5:30p.m. to 12:00a.m.---- 12:30a.m. to 8:00a.m. and still felt horrible on Tuesday. Another piece of my self destruction was the fact that I didn't really breastfeed Jude at all Monday evening and Tuesday morning he was fussing while being fed. I could tell something was wrong. By Wednesday morning I had a LARGE lump in my breast accompanied by a rather large red discoloration on my breast as well. I had given myself Mastitis again. Great. So then I felt the FLU like symptoms of body aches and chills. It took all of Wednesday and Thursday... complete with breast pumping and trying to get Jude to eat until it finally passed.

Today was rather good. I am still not healthy by far. Very tired and congested with a horrible head ache. Anyhow. Dave is over and so is Benny's dad and little sister Tonya. Hopefully when I wake up tomorrow I will feel 100%. Tomorrow Tonya has a Cheer leading competition at the Sacramento Convention Center at one and I would really like to go see. But if I still feel fatigued I think I will stay home with Jude and try to rest up.