My First Official Mother's Day

It still seems a little surreal that I am not a mom.
I officially celebrated my first Mother's Day this weekend.
It started out with an overnight trip to Santa Cruz, and a day at Great America for Spring Celebration, the day long music festival, and walking around the park with some dear friends of ours and their kids. The trip to Santa Cruz was Tyler's first trip to the coast house. It was quite an adventure to pack for us and him. Eventhouh it was only an overnight trip, we had SO much stuff... his portable crib, stroller, our suitcases, blankets, a change of clothes for when it gets cold at the park, a blanket and toys for Tyler to play with on the long 2 1/2 hour drive there and back. My son is such a good baby - he slept most of the way there and home.
We had to come home Saturday night due to Troy needing to be at church Sunday for our special Mother's Day service. So the boys slept, while I drove.
Sunday was a long, tiring day. Since Troy leaves early for church on Sunday's, he put a little Mother's Day card from Tyler in his carseat so when I went to put him in it, I found the card. Then after church, we went to my sister's house for a BBQ with my family. Troy's mom, step-dad and sister also came out. We all had a lot of fun, and of course, Tyler was the main center of attraction.
He's coming up on his 7 month birthday. He's doing well with eating his cereal and veggies. He has two teeth coming in and he's ALMOST to the point where he can sit by himself without falling over. He still needs a little help but can mostly sit on his own.
I can't believe how quick he's growing. I finally downloaded all the pictures I had on my camera and I'll get some pictures posted soon, including some from this weekend.
I hope all my special mom friends had a wonderfully blessed Mother's Day!

VT Memorial Garden photos

In Honor of All Hokies!

Today is the anniversary of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech University. Eventhough I am in California I was deeply effected as I have a few friends that are alumni of VT.
Also, since I work on a college campus, we were very effected as a university community. We developed a memorial garden in honor of those Hokies that lost their lives on that dreadful day.
Today on campus, there is a special ceremony to commemorate the 1st anniversary, which I plan on taking part in to honor those lost and all my Hokie friends!

May their memory live on in our hearts and minds!

See what Virginia Tech is doing today.

Croup is a scary thing

What in the world is croup? For new parents, it is a scary thing! Especially at 2 am in the morning.

According to webMd, Croup is a common respiratory problem in young children that has a harsh, "barking" cough. Croup causes swelling and narrowing in the voice box, windpipe, and breathing tubes that lead to the lungs.

I never heard of such a thing until it happened to us. Tyler got croup and we had to rush him to emergency on Friday morning. They did some breathing treatments on him and decided to transfer him to Valley Childrens Hospital (Children's Hospital of Central California). We are lucky to have one of the top children's hospitals so close by. We stayed overnight at the hospital and they treated us so well! After a few steroid treatments (that relaxes the muscles in the air passage and helps him breath better), they released us on Saturday mid morning. The doctor said that the coughing would persist for a few days but would decrease as time went on.

It was hard to see our happy baby boy so miserable and not feeling well. He still has a slight cough that lingers on and is fianlly getting his appetite back. We had many people praying for him and his recovery. God answered our prayers!

He's starting to show signs of his normal, happy self again so he's on the way to recovery.

Happy Easter

Have a wonderfully blessed Easter!!

From the Root Family

This year is an especially blessed Easter. I precious baby boy gets to have his first Easter, and eventhough he's too young to know what its all about yet, we will soon be able to share the incredible story of God's love with him and begin directing his spiritual path.

This year also begins the ongoing picture taking at each holiday. We had these pictures taken at a local studio (yes, that is a real lamb!!) and he was just a good baby, and he smiled and laughed so easily. We are blessed to have such a happy baby!

I found it very inspiring and divine that his first professional picture was for Easter and featured a lamb. It made be reflect on what Jesus did for us, as the 'Lamb' of God, and the "lamb led to the slaughter" to cleanse all of us unworthy humans of our sins.

This Easter will be a blessed time of remembrance, thankfulness and praise!

Happy Easter!!

May God reign blessings upon all of you!

I'm Officially DONE...

With school!!!! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!!!
I am finally done with my online schooling for my Bachelors.
Although actual graduation doesn't happen until the end of the month, I have not finished posting my last assignment and await my final grades.
If all goes well, I will finish with an A in this class, and finish my schooling with a 3.87 GPA, graduating Magna Cum Laude.
I will officially have my BFA (Bachelors of Fine Arts) in Graphic Design and will now challenge myself with getting a job in my new field.
Please check out my new website Sheryl Root Designs, and let me know what you think.
Also, if you have an type of design project you need help with, please feel free to let me know.

Blessings to you all!!

a new stage - rice cereal

now that my baby boy is 4 months old, we got the ok from our doctor to start tyler on rice cereal with his formula twice a day. after starting off VERY messy, we finally got the right consistency with the formula and tyler is getting used to the different texture.
for awhile, we were using a specialized bottle that we put the cereal in that was suppose to help with the transition. it ended up being very messy and not really worth the headache... although it did help tyler get used to eating and swallowing. we used a combo of the new bottle with cereal, spoon-feeding, and the regular bottle with the formula.
he's getting the hang of it now and its so cute to watch him eat.
i have pictures in my camera that i will post soon.