9 week old pictures

Carver got to hang out in his sling with daddy. The sling is a little big for me but it fits Chris. :)

Homemade Remedies

I found this at Hillbilly House Wife and thought I'd share.

Frugal Homemade Remedies

Got the sniffles or your head is hurting? No need to head to one of the mega drug stores and pay a fortune in over-the-counter medications. Many of the ailments that plague us and our kids on a regular basis can be treated with some frugal homemade remedies.

Disclaimer - I am not a health care professional, just a regular person sharing some old-fashioned tips. Use at your own risk. When in doubt, please see your doctor or other health care professional with any questions or concerns.

Headache

As soon as you start to feel a headache coming on, drink a big glass of cool water. Headaches are often a sign of dehydration in which case the liquid will help better than an aspirin.

If you don’t catch it in time, or the water didn’t help, try wetting a cloth and adding a few drops of mint oil to it. Lay the cool, wet cloth over your forehead, close your eyes and relax for a few minutes.

Cough

Heat some milk and stir a spoon full of honey in it and sip slowly. Right before bed, when coughing usually gets worse, you may want to take a spoon full of honey. It will coat the throat and stop the cough - Don’t give raw honey to children under the age of 2 though.

Get some Vicks (generic works fine) Rub, rub it on the bottom of your feet and put on a pair of socks. Then hop in the bed. The coughing should stop within about 15 minutes.

Get a cold, wet washcloth and put it on over your throat, then cover it with a dry towel.

Cold

Good old fashioned chicken soup is always my first choice. Be sure to breath in the steam from the hot soup… it’ll help open up your sinuses.

Another excellent remedy is to take the juice of a lemon and mix it with a cup of hot water and honey to taste. The honey will sooth a sore throat, the steam coming out of the cup will make your sinuses feel better and the vitamin C in the lemon helps your immune system.

Other than that plenty of fluids and rest should get you better in no time.

Sore Throat

Gargle with either garlic tea (press up to 6 cloves of garlic into some very warm water), or sage tea (steep sage leaves in boiling water for a few minutes… take the sage out and allow the tea to cool a bit.

Keep your throat covered with a cloth or scarf.

Drink some hot milk with honey to sooth the throat.

Ear Ache

Chop up a piece of onion, wrap it in some cheese cloth or a thin kitchen towel and place it on the ear. This works best if you’re laying on your side with the hurt ear up and then lay the onion on it.

Insect Bite

Get a solid deodorant stick and rub it on the insect bite.

Chew some parsley and put it on the bite. Takes the sting out within a few seconds.

Poison Ivy / Oak Rash

Take the rind of a watermelon and rub it on the rash.

Nausea

Drink some warm peppermint tea, eat some licorice or eat some ginger. Gingersnaps and candied ginger work well.

Fever

Get in a slightly cool bath. The cool water will help get your body temperature down. Alternatively you can make cool towel compresses. Dip a hand towel in cool water, wring it out and wrap it around your calves. Cover it with a larger dry towel. Repeat for the other leg. Rewet the towels with cool water as needed.

Make some linden flower tea and sip about 4 cups a day to get your fever down.

Fair and Rodeo!!!

This weekend is the annual fair and rodeo in Ellensburg... as well as Chris's birthday. We always spend the weekend in Ellensburg and this year is no different.

Carver's growing so much. He's smiling and cooing more and more. Its a kick just watching him talk to you. :) I got some pretty cute pictures of him talking and I'll try to get them up here this weekend. I'll most likely have some fun ones from this weekend too. I really wanted to find some cowboy clothes for Carver to wear to the fair but the smallest I could find was 6mo. :( I found some really cute Wrangler diaper covers for next year though.

I'll let you know how the weekend goes. :)

9wk old doctor appointment

Carver had his 2 month appt last friday (the 21st). He weighs 9lb 3oz - which is about how big Jake was when be was born! The doctor said that he's really healthy and strong. Carver got his first round of vaccines. He did really good and only cried a little! We go back in a month to check his weight. Until then, he'll keep eating, pooping, and growing.

In other news... Carver is responding more to people and showing off his adorable smile. I still have yet to capture it on camera. He coos every once in a while and it's mostly for me. By the time I call Chris over, Carver's stopped talking. :(

I'm in the process of putting the necklaces and bracelets that I've made onto a website (etsy.com) that is like Ebay but they aren't auctions and everything on the site must be handmade. The address for my shop is: christana08.etsy.com Check it out and let me know what you think. You can add comments at the end of all of my posts on here.

Well I better go. Carver's talking to me. :) Have a great day!

7 week old pictures

Here's some pictures from week 7. He's definitely starting to react to people around him and smile more.



Chris lays him in our bed every night while we get ready for bed and he just patiently lays there waiting for us to come read to him.



our little elf haha

Announcements

I'm learning that the post office put their cancellation stamp over the return address label of all of the birth announcements. I'm assuming that this is because the envelopes are brown. This has caused people to call us/my mom for our address so I'd thought I'd post it here for everyone.

Our email address is: chris.tana08@hotmail.com

And our mailing address is: PO Box 524, Burley, WA 98322

Hope this clears some confusions. Hope everyone liked the announcements. :)

our weekend in Ellensburg

**I want to state that in the haste to get there, we forgot our camera. So the few pictures we got are from Jake's camera. Thanks brother!

So after the eventful time it took to actually get to mom's house, we didn't do much of anything once we were there. On friday, we had lunch at my grandma's house. My dad and Cody also came. This was the first time my dad had seen Carver so it was really nice to get together.

Oh, side note. We had to stop at the store on the way to lunch because we ran out of wipes with the blow out the day before. And as luck would have it, they only had travel packs of wipes that had Disney princesses!

After we left my grandma's, Chris dropped me off at mom's work so that her and I could go shopping for things to put in goodie bags for all the kids leaving that night for Malibu. (Cody was heading back up with them which was the reason for us being there.) Once we got home we put the bags together and hung out until everyone had to be at the bus. Mom was doing ll the paperwork so she had to be there early... like 10:15pm. The bus was scheduled to leave at 11pm so we said goodbye to Cody. He won't be home until Sept 20th. It was so cool to watch him with Carver. When Cody left he said something that meant a lot to me. He said, "You're a good mom." That's probably the highest compliment that anyone could give me and it meant a lot. Thanks Cody! I love you!

Saturday, Jena and Moktar came for the day. Jena's mom and Alea were in Yakima for an antique show so they came up too. It was so cute to watch Alea and Carver together. Alea has gotten so big! The last time we saw them was Alea's 2nd birthday party in November. She's gotten so tall! They stuck around most of the day, then they needed to head home since they had to work the next day.

Sunday, mom and Jake were planning on going to Wildhorse for family day to see Sarah and Tanner. So we stayed home from church to spend more time with Nana before we all had to leave. The drive home was uneventful (thank you!) except that we were both pretty tired.

I don't think our weekend could have been anymore busy. haha Here's a couple pictures of Alea and Carver.


Lori, Alea, Carver & Jena

Kisses for baby Carver