Adverse Reaction...

SOOOOO, those of you who know me, know me well enough that you know how I feel about immunizations. I am a firm believer in doing them 1 at a time and at the VERY most, 2 at a time because of less chances of adverse reactions happening. SO, I have put off the MMR for both boys and Wesley finally had his first one about 10 days ago. (because of kindergarten) Anyhow, things seemed to move along fine for the past week until Friday night. He started complaining that he was VERY cold. I thought he was just trying to get out of eating his dinner again. So we took a warm bath and he turned in early. Saturday he woke up and wasn't hungry ALL day and was tired and looked just "out of it." He fell asleep on the couch at 7:00 and within 20 minutes he had severe red cheeks and about 40 bumps on his cheeks. His temp was 102. I called the doctor. Guess what folks? The MMR shot doesn't show side effects for 1-2 weeks. By 9pm his entire body (literally from head to toe) was covered in these massive red patches and itchy bumps. He was hysterical because he couldn't stop itching... He finally got to bed at 12am. His fever has continued all day and symptoms could last for a week. Sorry folks but at this point, I'm putting my foot down on the "round 2" of this vaccine. I can't see the logic in the torture for the poor guy...and I can definitely say that I made the right choice in waiting until he was 5. I can't imagine putting a 1 1/2 year old through this let alone a 5 year old...
And, for those of you who don't know me that well, now you know why I feel so strongly against immunizations.

Your healthy pregnancy

Wesley's work from when he just turned four printed. It's a book for doctors offices. They faded their pic on the brochure so it's a little hard to see them.

Soda Springs

Yesterday we took the boys up to Donner Pass to go to the Soda Springs snow park. Wesley's 5th birthday was Saturday so we thought it would be a good idea to "celebrate" in a fun way. The park was really cool for the kids because they had a whole "kiddy area" where they could try out a bunch of different snow activities. They went tubing down a half pipe and they went on a inflatable "snow merry go-round" (which Bryan refused to get off of and stayed on for about 15 sessions - I'm not kidding) Wesley, being a bit older was able to try out skiing, snowboarding and even got to drive a snow mobile. They had a blast and it was nice and warm up there yesterday!

One more pic

So, this pic the photographer shot of Wesley at his shoot last month. It's most likely not something he can use for commercial photography but it turned out to be more like what he called his "art." The photographer is going to use it in his portfolio. I really like the lighting and the photo...it's pretty cool in my book!

The Photo Session

Pictures from the boys' photo session
2 weeks ago...

Photographer: "Look At MEEE Bryan!"

Bryan decided he needed a nap in the middle of his shoot.

New Year's Eve

I want to wish everyone a wonderful New Year. I don't know who actually reads this blog cause we never get any comments in our comment section but if there's ANYONE out there (crickets chirping in the background) have a great new year. The end of our 2008 has been absolutely wonderful in every way and I hope our good fortunes will carry on to 2009!

This will be Jimmie and I at midnight, no make that 10:30pm. LOL!

**Macy's**

We love Macy's! The boys did a shoot for them about a month ago now. Bryan's will run in the President's Day Sale ad and Wesley's will be in the February 1 Day Sale. They both went last week for another audition and there were a TON of babies there. (there are not many retailers left hiring for child models right now) Bryan looked so cute in the outfit but was in a pretty ugly mood really didn't want to smile. I got one little smirk out of him. Wesley fitted 6 different outfits. Their agent called yesterday and they both booked their jobs! These will be for the Macy's Children's Easter Catalog and maybe part of the April 1 day Sale. I will find out more on the ad placement on their shoot date, next Tuesday the 30th. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Bryan will cooperate. He's been VERY camera shy the past month and it seems to be getting worse! Hopefully he will show them his stuff!