Selph Household Happenings

*Today is my wonderful husband's birthday! He's officially in his thirties now... 31! Even though his birthday is on a Monday this year, we're still trying to make it a special day. This morning I made cinnamon rolls (from the can of course), something we only have occasionally on weekends, and we all sang happy birthday to him before we ate. Plus, Garrison played his little Mickey Mouse doll that sings happy birthday for daddy. Later today we'll give him his presents and tonight we have a date! Terrell's mom is coming to keep the boys so we can go out to eat. What a treat! Unfortunately we'll have to stay pretty close by because my babies are sick.... ugh.

*Austin started with something Friday and was congested and coughing and just not feeling good all weekend long. And it's only the 2nd week of school!! Soooo frustrating. Yesterday I mentioned to Terrell that since it was only the 2nd week of school it might be best for him to stay home with Austin and then if he needed to he could go into work once Garrison and I got home from school. It was the perfect plan and worked for everybody... except Terrell. He had to go into work today, at least for the morning, and had no way out of it. Boo. So the new plan would be for Austin to spend an hour or two at work with Terrell until he'd be able to get away and take Austin home until we got home from school. It wasn't our first choice, but it would have to work. Except Austin woke up sounding terrible and Garrison woke up coughing. We decided at the last minute for me to stay home with both of them.

*One of my worst fears about going back to work was what I'd do when one of my babies got sick. I've never had to be away from them when they're sick, which I'm so grateful for, but that little fact made this morning heart breaking. I felt terrible about having to miss work the second week of school but even more terrible about forcing Austin to sit at the bank with Terrell and Garrison to spend the whole day at school. Finally Terrell made the decision for me. Now we have 2 days to get over these colds or whatever they are and hopefully I won't have to miss another day of work for a while!


*Austin is officially walking!! He stills crawls a lot, but walks about 5 steps at a time all over the place. He's still unsteady and loses his balance pretty easily, but he takes those 5 steps at a time about 25 times a day. =) Nothing much has changed though. He was already into everything and already getting wherever he wanted to go so other than watching those cute and chubby little legs and feet takes steps, things around here are pretty much the same. We've yet to capture any pictures of him so we need to get on that soon. He is the cutest thing ever toddling around!

*Wednesday morning before work I got a call from my Nanny saying that my cousin Elom had been in an accident and broken his back and that we needed to pray for him. He had feeling in his arms and legs but was in a lot of pain and they still didn't know how serious it was. Two hospitals, one 6 hour back surgery, and several days of pain later, he is recovering and actually walking around. Praise God from Whom all blessing flow! Wednesday morning through Friday night when the surgery was finally over were a very anxious and stressful few days. We had plans of going to visit him on Saturday but he had a really tough day that first day after surgery and was in so much pain he just wasn't up for visitors. He has a long recovery ahead of him, about 4 months to be exact, but we are beyond grateful that this recovery is possible. Please pray for him as he endures a lot of hard work, therapy, and pain towards making a miraculous full recovery.

Happy Birthday again to my best friend and wonderful husband! I love you and am so thankful to share another birthday with you!!