Phoenix Zoo

I took the boys to the zoo today with some of my friends and their kids. I'm sure you're expecting to write how we had such a great time and how Christopher saw a ton of animals (...) Well, the least I can say is that the trip didn't quite go as planned. Here's how our day went (in chronological order):

1. Get to Rachael's house 30 minutes late (well, I'm usually late, so that's no biggy).

2. Drive to the zoo.

3. Get flashed by a dumb speeding camera on the way (and I couldn't even hope it was the person in front of me that got flashed because I was following my good friend Dana).

4. Pull over into a restaurant area because Christopher puked all over himself.

5. Clean the HUGE STINKY mess with no more than 10 baby wipes.

6. Get to the zoo and buy Christopher a t-shirt, since the kid is roaming around in just diapers.

7. Enjoy a total of 3 animals at the zoo because it's too hot to go any further. (We are approaching the end of September and still dealing with weather over 100 degrees in Phoenix. Does it ever cool down here?)

8. Walk to my car, load up the kids, put away stroller and bag, turn on the car. Oh no, my car won't turn on!!! Can it seriously get any worse?!

9. Have my friend help jump-start my car (thank goodness it was the battery or I would have laid in the parking lot crying at this point).

10. Finally, arrive home safely (to find 5 cop cars in front of my neighbor's house. Man if they were in front of my house I'm not quite sure what I would have done).

I think I'll stay home for the rest of the day and wait for my "little" dark cloud to pass over. I need to go grocery shopping, but I'm pretty sure that can wait until tomorrow!!

Hope your day is going a little better.

This one is for you Cory!!

My dear husband has had to put up with so much in these last few months, and I just need to let him know how much he's loved and appreciated!!

This week I was having a rough day with the baby and Cory called to check on me. As I went off on how the child won't sleep, I can't get anything done, I'm tired (...) he just paciently listened and then we hung up. That evening when he got home he had this beautifull bouquet with red and white roses to cheer me up! I was shocked and absolutely loved them!!!! If you know Cory, you know he doesn't usually give me flowers, which makes this so much more special and totally worth blogging about.

Thanks hun! I loved the flowers and I love you!!!

What's for dinner?

I added a new section to the right side of my blog. I saw this at a friend's blog and thought it was a good idea. I'll try to post our dinner menu for the next two weeks (that's why the different colors). Anyway, if you start one it will definitely help me too. Hope you enjoy!!
Oh and if you want a recipe, leave me a message and I'll email it to you.

Can I have some privacy?

Yesterday while I was feeding/burping the baby, Christopher decided he needed some quiet, private place to do his reading. This is what he came up with.I was quite entertained just watching him dump all his books out from this little book stand, get himself in there (I have no clue how he manage to fit in it), and then close the door. He did it all on his own! I was excited I was able to find the camera fast enough before he decided to leave.

Oh, and while I'm at it, here are some more pictures of Drew.

Quick Updates

This will be a really quick post, since life with 2 kids isn't as easy as I was hoping. How do you moms out there manage to blog weekly when you have more than 1 kid to tend too?

My friend Rachael came over last week and took a ton of pictures of Andrew. They turned out really cute, but since it takes forever to upload images to the blog, you only get to see a few.

This is what TV does to a toddler (and this is how we were able to take pictures of the baby)

On another quick note. We BOUGHT A HOUSE!! Actually we are already moved in, reason why I haven't blogged lately. We closed on our house 2 weeks after Drew was born and moved in the following week. To make things even a little more stressful we blessed Drew the day after we moved and had friends and family over to the house to celebrate his blessing. CRAZY!! I don't know how I was able to find church clothes for everyone and the baby's blessing outfit, but somehow I did. My mom and mother-in-law were my life savers. My parents packed up the apartment and set up the whole downstairs pretty much on their own. My mother-in-law watched Christopher, did all my laundry, and made all the beds. What did I do? Took care of the baby and felt extremely overwhelmed. Thankfully that nightmare of house hunting, moving, and having a baby is all over!!! I'll post pictures of the house soon (well, first have to take them, so it might not be so soon).

Surprise

Andrew Cory Camargo Garrett born July 19, 2009 weighing 7lbs 3oz and 19.5in. He came 4 weeks early and caught us all by surprise. We have now doubled our family in just 13 small months.I woke up Sunday morning with contractions coming every 2-3 minutes, but since I was induced with Christopher and didn't know what it was like to go into labor alone I thought they were Braxton Hicks. Cory wanted me to call the doctor right away, but I'm a little more stuborned and refused to think that the baby would come earlier. In my mind for sure those were false labor pains and would go away on their own.

3 hours later I still had contractions but they were now every 10 minutes, and a little more intense. Cory paged the doctor himself because I just refused to be another women to go to the hospital early and be sent back home. I told him to get dressed for church because I wasn't going to the hospital. The doctor called us back and told me to just go to the hospital to get checked out. So we went to the hospital wearing our church clothes and I was convinced I would be leaving in 30 minutes proving to my husband that he was wrong.

Making a long story short, we got there and I was dilated to a 5 and was told I was having the baby today. That's when all the tears came in and reality started to hit. We went to the hospital with no bags packed, no camera and 2 dying phones. We managed to snag a few phone pictures of the birth in the OR before our phones died.

Life has been a little hectic around here lately but we are all doing well. The c-section has turned out to be a lot better than what I expected and I'm recovering well. Because Drew was premature he had a little problem with being Jaundice and had to go back to the hospital for another 2 days of intense light treatment. This is a picture of Drew during the light treatment at the hospital. He had to wear little shades to keep his eyes safe while under the lights. He is doing well now and we are all back home!!

This is my mom and Drew the day we left the hospital the second time.