Baptism...finally!

On November 30, Harrison Henry Grubbs was baptized! I know you have been waiting a while for these pictures, so here they are. Beth Idol, the wife of Jason's dear friend Kenny (and we are friends with her too!), presented Harrison to the congregation as we all sang, "An infant we present to thee, as thy redeemed property..." It makes me cry just thinking of it! Then, Jason held little Harrison as Pastor Don baptized him. He did let out a little squeek when the water was first placed on his head. Then, Pastor Don took Harrison and showed him off to the congregation as the children sang, "Little brother welcome" (Little brother, welcome. We the church of Jesus, we will help your growing. Little brother welcome!) In case you can't tell, I'm a sucker for baptisms. I love them. The Moravian church has a beautiful baptismal service, and I ALWAYS cry at them. :) Afterwards, we enjoyed a luncheon with our family and a few other special folks. The menu consisted of chicken pie that Gwyn and I made while I was 7 months pregnant, green beans and salad. Then, we had the tasty cake from Costco. YUM!!! It was a lot of fun and a very special day.

We're rollin'

Tonight, we were at Jason's grandmother's house doing our usual Christmas Eve get together. We put Harrison down on the floor on a blanket for some tummy time and guess what! HE ROLLED OVER! Jason and I both looked at each other, and asked each other if the other saw the same thing. We did! Aunt Ava, Mamaw, Papaw, Jason and myself were the lucky ones to witness this first. How exciting...but that means little Harrison is now mobile, so watch out world!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

After watching what I say while we were in school, I am happy to now say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! This is a funny song from Brad Paisley and a bunch of other old school country singers. You MUST listen. It's a stitch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBH2IlWcmM

So we didn't plan on that one...

When you have a baby, you certainly can not plan exactly what will happen next. Last night was no exception! I was sitting here at this desk, checking my email and holding little Harrison. I had my arm around his waist, and he was leaning against my chest. Then, all of a sudden, WHAM! He did one of his herky-jerky movements and slammed his head against the edge of the desk. Boy, the screaming that came after that! Jason was in the garage, and heard him and came running inside. Long story short, we called the pediatrician and they recommended we go to the ER. Our first and hopefully LAST trip! He was looked over pretty throughly by two doctors (one of whom was my RA at Wake, Kevin Taylor-small world!). THey both said he would be fine, and Dr. Walker didn't think he needed to see him for a follow-up today. I think Harrison thought it was just a fun trip in the middle of the night where lots of new people got to play with him. Me, on the other hand, just recently stopped the water works. Poor ole' Mom was (and still is) DEFINITELY more torn up over it than the patient!!!

Just a little busy

Well, it only took SIX days for us to get the tree decorated, and we just finished! YEAH! So, to say the least, I haven't had time to update you on what has been going on. Not too much, which is good...just getting into the bottle-washing and other baby-related routines that we have every night now that I am back at work. I think we have averaged eating dinner at 8pm, a habit we MUST break since I am usually so hungry that I can't talk while I eat (not good). But Harrison is happy, teething (I know, can you believe it??), and just plain cute!!

Merry Happy

Merry Christmas! I know I owe you guys pictures of his baptism, but I just had to post these really quickly because they were so cute! This is Harrison on his way to see Jason at the Rotary Club Pancake Supper tonight.

First week back

Well, I made it back to work this week! I know I worked the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, but I hardly count that since it was only one day. We seem to have a good routine going. Harrison is usually not up when I leave, which is good. On Friday, he did wake up while Jason was at the gym. He has been feeling crummy and not acting entirely like himself, and his hands were ice cold, so I took his temperature, and it was 96.4. Below 97 is not good, so I made my first call to the on-call nurse for the pediatrician. He talked me through a bunch of stuff and gave me several things to do to try to help, and it worked! Yeah on-call nurse! But then, it was SO hard to leave him to go to work. In my mind, Harrison has cognizant thoughts like, "Where is my Mommy when I need her?". I am starting to get through my head that Jason and our WONDERFUL sitter Carissa are MORE than capable of taking care of Harrison...I guess it is just a Mommy thing. Everyone says it doesn't get easier to leave your little one to go to work, you just get used to it. I do have to say that being a teacher makes it easier...I can leave work earlier (I've been working 7-3:40 this week) and I have long breaks at Christmas, etc. All I can say is, YEAH-IT'S THE WEEKEND!!!!