Look Ma, I'm famous!

Mama is an avid reader of many mommy blogs--blogs written by her friends, blogs for cloth diapering, blogs for being earth-friendly, blogs for mommy-managing, blogs for couponing, and more. Mama recently submitted a post for one of her favorite cloth diapering blogs, The Cloth Diaper Whisperer discussing how we started to cloth diaper around here and they posted it! Click here to read the post. Now if she can only win some diapers...

In other exciting news, Daddy won his first federal criminal trial! We are very proud of him, now being 2/2 and not even practicing for a year. We all knew that Daddy has some talent and above all, he loves to practice the law.

Yesterday was World Hemophilia Day. We have made it pretty far without any big episodes...until today. Elias bumped his top lip and cut the frenulum (the little skin tag between the top two teeth.) And it bled and bled. So we introduced Amicar--an oral medication that helps with minor mouth and nose bleeds (no infusions yet!) It did the trick for now. We find out tomorrow if Elias will be needing ear tubes when he gets his port placed. If no tubes, then we are set to get the port and start profy in 2 weeks. If tubes, then it will get pushed back a week or two. Mama and Daddy are actually a little excited and relieved for profy since their little monkey has taken to headbutting the walls and putting everything (furniture) in his mouth. The other day, Mama got a concerned look from the cashier at the store as to why Elias has so many dark bruises all over his body ad head. She had to take the time to educate her on his condition. Oh Elias!

Turning a leaf, watching blossoms fall....

Spring has fully sprung here in Indy. The trees are dripping with blossoms and the weather is a wonderful 80 degrees. We have sprung from the barrel to enjoy her graces....

Springtime also brings on some spring cleaning. Sadly, Mama and Daddy's all-time favorite cars went on to Volvo heaven.

Family fun on a nice spring afternoon...

We headed up to Wabash this weekend to visit Grammy, Gramps, and Elias' "great" aunts. Grammy even let Elias play with Gramp's prized tractors!

Great Aunt P let us play with her new iPad. This baby LOVED the bigger version of Mama and Daddy's iPhone. (Daddy loved the new Apple gadget as well!)

The best by far was when Gramps let Elias play with his cane. Check out Baby Moses!

 All this excitement makes for a very tired boy(s).

In other news, in addition to being weeks away from walking, Elias is now talking. First word from last week was, "Cat!" He also says "Mama" and "Dad." But his favorite is "Cat," since that is his play friend in the house. They even shared cat food together when Mama was off in the other room for a matter a seconds. Oh dear....

The Road Ends Here

..as well as our little fairy-tale, history-making weekend. The Butler Bulldogs put up a good fight, right down to the end. But if there were 2 more seconds on the clock and the shot from half-court actually didn't bounce out of the basket, maybe we would have gotten the trophy. But in reality, our Dawgs were the real hometown heroes and winners if the 2010 National Championship. They demonstrated poise, determination, and are examples of true student athletes. Hats off to this team to getting this game back to the basics! We are proud.

Easter Weekend

So much excitement here in Indianapolis this weekend! We were visited by Oma and Mama and Daddy's alma mater has made it to the Final Four! Daddy, Elias and Oma went to Lucas Oil Stadium (home of our Indianapolis Colts) to watch Butler practice...

Mama and Daddy were able to go to the semi-final game and watch their school beat Michigan State for a seat in the Championship Game.

On Easter Sunday, we got dressed and headed to Church, Butler's campus (in the spirit of the weekend), the White River Canal Walk for a little Final Four action, and later to Fogo de Chao for Daddy's birthday dinner.

 

Green = Go! and Red = I'm stuffed!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Here's to our Dawgs!

History cannot deny!

We'll sing the Butler war song,

We'll give a fighting cry;

We'll fight the Butler battle--

Bulldogs ever do or die.

And in the glow of the victory firelight,

Hist'ry cannot deny

To add a page or two

For Butler's fighting crew

Beneath the Hoosier sky.

B-U!

 

We are jumping for joy around here as Mama and Daddy's alma mater has bought them a trip to the NCAA Basketball Tournament's Final Four! Much celebrating will occur in their home town and Mama and Daddy will join the action and excitement. Here's to our Dawgs for a run to the 2010 national championship. If the Colts can't pull it off, maybe the Bulldogs will.

Movin' On Up!

Elias has become quite mobile these days! He has mastered quadruped (on all fours) crawling and is quite fast at it!

He also enjoys a stroll holding hands through the common hallways of the schoolhouse. Bravery has inspired him to "let go" and try to walk/run unassisted. Elias also discovered how to climb up stairs!

All this mobility granted Elias an "upgrade" of his sleeping quarters (although he still spends 1/2 the night in Mama and daddy's bed.) His parents were quite fearful of the discovery of climbing and ending up on the floor with some sort of bleed. So they got him a bed that lowers all the way to the ground.

In other news, we are quite pleased what has been going down in Washington. Finally families with hemophilia will not be plagued with not being covered due to preexisting conditions or meeting their cap before high school (the cost of factor is just not coming down!) We are breathing a little easier these days with port placement and the start of prophylaxis treatment on the near horizon. Thank you Barrack #1 for the start of a little healthcare reform!