November Thus Far...

Nothing too eventful. We have already had snow and lots of it, which is unusual for us, so early in the year as we have been in Boise for the past 4 winters, apparently it gets super bad in Jan-Feb (I know I am Canadian, but I am not cut-out for winters that are harsh with lots of SNOW!)
We were lucky enough to have Tom (our friend from Japan) visit us here in Cleveland. He was here on a business trip, it was so nice to have him over for lunch and take him down to CASE for a tour. Miyuki (his wife) bought Vienna the most adorable, stereotypical Japanese style sweater, I LOVE it!! and it fits her great! Thanks so much!
Last but not least, bathroom reno's, we have had to shower in our escape-pod shower in the basement (for those of you who have seen it, you would appreciate it!) and our out-house toilet bathroom, in the basement as well. it really isn't bad, mostly just funny!

One day of snow, it lingered for almost a week

The Cutest Baby on the Block, in her Thanksgiving Bib from Grandma Davis

Vienna in her fuzzy Japanese sweater
Vienna with Tom

Our bathroom after 1 day...that is where our tub was...once it is all said and done we will have a new tub with tile, a new toilet, fixed wall and floor from water damage! SWEET!

Vienna's First Halloween

these 2 pics are from the week up to Halloween.
Vienna in the pile of leaves from our huge tree.
Daddy and me both wearing matching tuques and shirts, how special are we.

Our Weekend:
For some reason Halloween really crept up on us this year which left Mike and I to choose last minute costumes from what we have in our costume bin that we have slowly accumulated through the previous years, however Vienna's costume was purchased over a month ago at good 'ol Costco and let me say, she was the most adorable Moo cow you ever saw, even cuter than Pack's best show cow ever.
Here's how are Halloween weekend went,(you might want to have a few mins to read the sad tale)... To start, Mike got really sick 2 Thursdays ago and Vienna got congested around the same time (no runny nose just congested) Mike was out for all of last weekend (which is probably why Halloween snuck up on us) and we had to miss the CADA Halloween Carnival, he is still not 100% to this day but much better, Vienna is still congested and on Saturday(2 days ago)her nose started to run (hopefully this means the congestion will be gone soon - cross our fingers!!!) anyway, we had our ward Halloween party on Friday night and our friends adult Halloween party right after that. Friday was super busy but loads of fun! I'm glad we were late to the Fitzner's party because they did something really scary and for anyone who knows me, they know I HATE SCARY stuff! Well Saturday morning Mike decided to go play ball for the first time since his super bad ankle sprain. (see previous post for more details) He was up and out around 6:00am. He woke me up to say goodbye and I said to him "hun, my stomach is upset, I think I might throw up, can you get me my water bottle" well around 30mins later I did just that, while Mike was gone of course. Now I haven't done that since I lived in Japan in 2001 and oh it is awful, all I wanted was my Mom or Dad to come to my rescue. I was all shaky and chilled so I just crawled back to bed with Vienna and we slept for a couple more hours. I had chills and body achyness once I was up and a pounding head so I gave Mike Vienna and I went back to bed until 11:30am. I felt much better once I got up, but not 100%. Anyway, we had been planning to go downtown on the train for over 3 weeks and I felt bad I was ruining the plans. So around 1pm, after no more vomiting, we decided to drive downtown (instead of train) and go to Tower City Center...it gets worse...on our way we pulled in for gas and at that same time our sweet little Vienna vomits everywhere in her car seat. Not spit up, but big person vomit. I clean her up as best I could and we continue on. She sleeps the whole time we are out and wakes up on our way home. She started to get fussy about 15mins before getting home because she was hungry, so I hopped in the back seat to entertain her. Not even 5mins later she starts vomiting again, except this time she had no food in her tummy so it was just mucus and stuff (poor girl) It sounded painful. I was worried and she was choking on her mucus...we pulled over, called our home teacher who is a doctor, he asked us a whole bunch of q's, he suggested we call our pediatricians office, so we did. We were told not to feed her much, no solids, just breastmilk or formula, to make sure she had a wet diaper within 12 hrs or bring her to the hospital etc. etc. I was getting really worried. She ate no problem. It was 4:45pm at this time and we had a little boy coming over to be babysat that night at 5:30pm, so we rushed home, she was fussy and acting starving, so I fed her 2oz. of formula. (if you think about it, she hadn't kept anything in her tummy since the morning) she took it happily. Milo (the baby boy we were watching) arrived at 6pm and at 6:15pm Vienna vomited everywhere!!! All over me, the floor, me, the floor and again everything in her tummy. This was nerve wracking for me, I was so worried about her. During the clean-up Vienna was bawling and Milo was too. It was quite the treat :) I let Vienna's tummy calm a bit, but again she was acting hungry, I gave her some water and let her eat from me again, but just a little even though this made her angry, this was around 7:15pm. I let her go to sleep at 7:30pm and we wanted to keep her close to us in case it happened again so she slept in her swing by us. Milo went to bed, Mike and I watched a movie. Remember that during all of this, I was still feeling yucky and hadn't eaten anything but soup all day because I was worried I would vomit too, so I ate more soup during our movie. Right after the movie, Vienna hadn't thrown-up yet so I decided to go to sleep on the couch by her while Mike studied on the floor by both of us to take care of his girls. I was out until midnight, when I heard Vienna and saw that Mike had made a bed on the floor out of the pillows from our couch right by Vienna. (it was so adorable). I fed her again, but she was still acting hungry (of course) the hard part was, we were worried to give her too much. We tried to rock her to sleep for an hour but she would not forget how hungry she was, she would be calm for a few minutes and then cry again, so we fed her again and took another risk. She kept it down. So finally after being woken up off and on for hours, at 5am we went down to our room and put Vienna in our bed with us and actually got some real sleep for a few hours. She made it all night without throwing up. PHEW!!! To say the least, Vienna and I stayed home from church and recuperated while Mike showed up to do his nursery duties and then came back to take good care of us. We were suppose to go to a family in our wards house for dinner but we were all too tired and still not feeling our best so we had to cancel. All in All it is definitely a Halloween I won't forget and that I wanted Vienna to know about. I have to say, Mike took such great care of us. I couldn't have done it on my own, that's for sure.
We still have some pics from Friday though - thank goodness...

Mike has always wanted to be a Roady, or for that matter be in a band, but at least he was one for Halloween and our cute Moo-cow.
Oh so adorable!
The Cowgirl with her Moo-Cow.
Vienna and James
Look at my cow rumpous
The whole family
Our super cute Halloween socks from Bree, what a thoughtful friend. Thanks Bree!!!
i'd have to say that aunty Lanae did a dang good job with my Halloween PJ's, considering I was in Mommy's tummy at the time of purchase. they fit me just right and they were comfy!
I love this picture, this was right before bed at the adult party.

Me and Mommy on our sick day just minutes before I threw up all over this sweater of hers and my Halloween PJ's and the floor and pretty much everywhere!

Windsor and Chicago (10/10/10)

I know, I know, I am way behind (the story of my life)
Vienna and I took our first road trip together. First to Windsor to visit Nan (aka: Great Grandma)followed by taking my Dad (aka: Papa)to Chicago for the Marathon!!! It was quite the journey, but well worth it. Let's just say that 4 women over the age of 80 all staying in 1 home with me and Vienna in the same room as my Nan was, well, for a lack of better words....a nightmare. I managed to stay sane for the 1.5 days by myself until my Dad arrived and luckily we were able to leave that night so I didn't have to be submitted to an institution. I am so glad that Nan was able to see Vienna, that is the reason I went up there.

Dad with his Mom and 2 aunts, Bunny and Hazel and of course Vienna.

Vienna and I with Nan and her 2 sisters, Irene had already gone home.

Vienna and her Great Grandma, they had so much fun together (don't you just love Nan's shirt...she is always so stylin)
Chicago...Chicago was marvelous. Hanging out with my Dad (Papa) was so nice. He is so cute with Vienna, she just loves him. We stayed quite a ways out of Chicago and took the transit system in, which was quite the experience in a city like Chicago. We got hit up lots for money, had a horribly loud drunk lady on the train who needed to Pee and we got hit-up by every homeless person in Chicago (at least it felt that way, I think we had signs on our foreheads that said, "We love the homeless and trust that you are not lying to us.) It was great! Besides those minor details, downtown was gorgeous. We walked A LOT and got to taste an official "Chicago Dog" which has chilis, mustard only, and a few other random things on it not typical to a hot dog. it was really good. Of course we also got to eat authentic "Chicago Deep Dish Pizza" and I loved it.
Chicago is laid out right on the lake so it was neat cause it felt like we were on the ocean, the weather was uncharacteristically warm and I came planned for winter so my Dad bought me flip flops to help me from dying. We had a great time!
Just a bit about the Marathon - this is one of the 5 big ones and my Dad wants to run all of them. He has already done Boston, he has New York next and then the next 2 are in Berlin and London, which might be a bit trickier to get to. Anyway, this marathon qualifies 45,000 runners, which is tons!!! There were over 1.7million spectators. To say the least it was BUSY!!! Vienna was in her Snuggli, right close to me. It was such a neat experience. The neatest part about it is that it was held on 10/10/10, but it was also my Dad's 10th marathon. WAY TO GO PADRE!!! I will start with a halfer first. Thanks for a great time!!!

Vienna and I on our way to see Papa finish his marathon

Papa and Vienna on the train on the way home from the big run! You did great ol' man!

The park where the run started and finished the day before the big event. This is Buckingham Fountain, it was huge and really ornate. Downtown Chicago is Gotham City in the Batman movies, can't you see it???



This was a billboard at the Marathon Expo, which is great advertising because living on the Great Lakes means there is something called "Lake Effect Snow" I have yet to experience it but I will let you know what it is like this winter.

This giant Lego Lion was out on the street in downtown Chicago, it was super cool!

To top it all off I came home to a very SPECIAL SURPRISE, Mike had cleaned, organized and painted the basement, which was a huge project I have been dreading. You are the BESTEST EVER BABE!!!

Vienna Sitting Up!My Montage 10/2/10 at OneTrueMedia.com

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Our Little Lady is 6mons Old!!!

16 lbs, 25.5 inches long and stinkin adorable...that's me...Vienna Elise Davis.
I have a headful of soft, pretty dark peach fuzz, but according to everyone else I still look like a q-ball. (who cares about them anyway) I have beautiful Blue eyes, that get lighter by the month. My tear ducts are still blocked so my eyes always look teary, but I get alot of sympathy that way (who knows, maybe I do it on purpose, hehehe.) I have the cutest little toosh, with dimples, I am getting taller and thinner but I still have my little leg chunkys, I have a skinny little neck and well...Mommy and Daddy say I am the CUTEST LITTLE MISSY EVER!!!
I really like grabbing things, like Mommy and daddys hair and face. I love being tossed around, I really like playing in my exer-saucer and I'm getting so much better at eating my rice cereal and other foods. I am not an expert at sitting up, but I can hold my own, however i am the world's fastest roller overer, to the left side only (you betta believe it). I am very good at following things with my eyes and I love playing with all sorts of toys. I also have a fetish with water bottles (who knows???)

Basically this is me in a nutshell, see below for proof! and watch my video too!

We couldn't have had a more Eventful Weekend

It was something we have been talking about with our friends for around 1 month now...DATE NIGHT'S. It began with a dinner out,including Vienna, at what I had heard was a yummy place to eat...Mr. Hero. It has Romanburgers??? Have no idea what that is? Neither did we, but my co-worker had one for lunch and was ranting about it. Well, the particular location closest to our house was, for a lack of better words...EXTREMELY GHETTO! No pics sorry. It appeared as though a few tables had been stolen from there sitting area. So for those of you dying to know what a Romanburger is, well it is like a sub, but with patties, pastrami and much greasier and warmed. It's hard to desribe, but lets just say, we've tried it and probably won't go back. Afterward we headed to the couples house that will be child swapping with for date nights once a month to drop off our little lady.
Then Mike and I were off to downtown Cleveland to enjoy something called, Ingenuity Fest 2010. (An artsy fartsy festival with street performers, innovative ideas, various art and display tables) It was being held at a monumental bridge that divides the East and West sides of the City, and this takes place under the bridge where at one point it was used, but is now blocked off) Anyway, Mike's phone is our saving grace for everything, most importantly it is our GPS and the battery was very low. We had a great night (see pics and enjoyed our time just the 2 of us). On our way home, we tried to use his phone to do one quick search, but the battery was too low to do anything, so...well you guessed it we got HORRIBLY LOST. With one-ways and freeways we found ourselves heading quite out of the way to get our little girl, so we took an exit hoping to eventually find a street that we recognized. I will keep it short, but we ended up in yet another EXTREMELY GHETTO area. After 20mins of hoping to find our way out of the mess, but instead getting deeper and deeper into places that were scarier and scarier, we got the idea to call the Fitzners (our babysitters) and they rescued us. When we got home we looked up the area in and it was the top 21st neighborhoods in the USA!!! DO YOU HEAR THIS...THE USA!!!!!!! That is why we both were terrified to stop and ask for help and any red light we came to made me so nervous. Don't get me wrong but Cleveland is great as long as you stay in the right neighborhoods. We made it alive, Thankfully (and I am not being sarcastic).

Saturday started out straight forward with Mike going to play b-ball early in the am, when he arrived home he had some BAD news for us, he sprained his ankle super bad. Take a look...



We had lots planned for the day, so this was a big bummer, but Mike was a trooper and we were still able to do some great things. Thank goodness the Pearson's had some random crutches in their attack.
Working on the basement, as we are still trying to get it fully in order and unpacked, has been on the TO-DO LIST for over 2 months now. All was going well until we found a mouse that got stuck to a sticky trap that was still alive, so Mike had to take it outside and do away with it, which was not an event I wanted to deal with. Luckily in the afternoon we got to enjoy the fresh fall air at the Squire Valleyvue Farms that CASE owns. They were having a Fall Harvest Festival which was free for Mike and Vienna and only $3 for me. There was food, cookie decorating, tall grass maze, herb identifying contests, performers, bonfire with smores, planting herbs and veggies, hay rides, bee keeping instructions and lots of other activities. It was wonderful, I am so surprised more people didn't take advantage of it. Vienna loves being outside so it couldn't have been any better (except Mike was hobbling around on crutches). We watched BSU play Oregon State in the evening, which is always nice and Mike was thrilled to have his foot up and icing. Poor guy :(


In the Bridge

Sitting on a chair made from Cardboard rolls - it was all about being green and recycling.

This is the bridge we were in - my camera is cheap, but it is super cool and the red stuff you see is water, they turned a section of the bridge into a waterfall just for this event.

This was the white room where EVERYTHING could be drawn on. there were chairs, tv's, toys, couches. It was so cool to see all the creativity and a great way to reuse old items.

Mike and I left our Mark by drawing teeth and writing...Go Masticate! (look it up, its not naughty)


At Valleyvue Farm



My cookie that I decorated, oh yeah!

Vienna and I on the Hayride, Look at that face.

The hayride took us to a place called the Manor House. It is quite gorgeous, a huge home built in 1929 owned by a rich Cleveland Lawyer who lived here during the summer and payed people to work on the farm, he donated it to CASE, the school President's lived there and now it has been turned into an event center. I loved it and I think it would be the best Bed and Breakfast EVER!!! It was so picturesk!


Mike with his crutch, how cute!

To say the least, we were pooped from all those events, Mike's ankle was even more swollen and tight when we woke up and my throat was sore so we stayed home today to rejuvinate and relax.
Heres to a less eventful week!

My Montage 9/23/10 at OneTrueMedia.com

Vienna is such a happy little girl!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

My Surprise

Here's a lead-up in to my surprise...
So our kitchen is quite big, but the use of space is awful with very little cupboard space. We have been looking, and looking and looking for something long and skinny that would fit beside our dishwasher for some extra cupboard space. The space is just under a foot, which has made it impossible to find anything.
Well on Monday, I get home from work and hurry to start dinner so when Mike gets home with Vienna we can eat and spend a wee bit of time together before bed. Around 6pm I get a call from Mike saying his car won't start and he is stranded. He was going to find someone to boost his car. Well after 20mins I never heard back i called him to see if he needed to be rescued. He said he was ok but that Vienna needed a rescue. To make a long story short, I came to get her at the Home Depot Parking lot, which is not where I leave her for the day, I took her home and 2hrs later Mike gets home after waiting with his wonderful classmate Jeff for the tow truck. It was quite an annoying, stressful night.
The next day Mike was excited to come home and work on his project that he had picked supplies up for at Home Depot, which I now knew about given the circumstances, however...I was still very surprised.

Vienna is modeling (like Vana White) the new shelves Mike made for me.

I was so impressed and had no idea Mike had these kind of skills up his sleeve. It has wheels and a handle on it. It is completely flush with the counter and well...IT RoCKs!!!! I absolutely love it babe. You are the best hubby!
ps... here are some cute pics of Vienna

She still isn't a big fan of her Jolly Jumper, but its coming...I Hope!


She absolutely loves her exersaucer!

She fell asleep in this swing outside, while Mike was talking to his folks on Skype, it was so cute!





This was just today, the first time she has picked up a toy for each hand :)