Blake Andrue Gregory 4 months old

Photo's from Paw Paw and TT's Farm

We spent the day Sunday at Paw Paw and TT's house playing on the farm! We had so much fun playing with the cousin's and all the animals!

More Photo 's from the Farm

Farming

A day on Paw Paw and TT's farm! We had so much fun!

My First NBC13 Blog Entry!

This was my First Post on the NBC 13 Website!

May 27, 2008

Losing Weight and Feelin Great!

Beth Gregory

This is my first Blog entry as we had some technical difficulties, I wanted to start by saying how inspiring everyone’s Blog entries have been. I look over them daily and I gain a great deal of strength from the other contestants as I see they know exactly what I am experiencing.
My journey to this point has been long! I have had the best trainers at the Patton Creek location. Tray, Camille, Donnie, they have kept me motivated, entertained and accountable! I have those days I dread going into the gym knowing it is going to be a hard work out , but I leave feeling like I could conquer the world! I am a wife and mom of three kids one of which is only 4 months old. My days are spent cooking, running errands and driving carpool. In the old days, I would leave to run some errands and always felt I needed to grab a quick bite to eat a little snack, little did I know each and every time I ran through for Blizzards, chicken nuggets, M&Ms, Large Sweet Tea that I was consuming thousands of calories, mostly because I was bored or trying to kill some time before our next scheduled event. Now with Healthy Connections I am learning what a snack really is! Have you ever tried a graham cracker with cream cheese and jelly how about my favorite Pita and hummus! Sometimes its even a Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich, on whole grain bread of course! This is changing the way I think about food! Stay motivated fellow contestants! I know Summertime calls for chips and dip but Be strong! We can do it!!!!!

Posted by Beth Gregory on 05/27 at 01:22 PM

Blake

We had a very exhausting Friday night with Blake let me just say LOTS of throwing up and stomach ache.... We were worried about him but most of the weekend just ended in the same old diarrhea.. Thank goodness Today was his GI appointment. This doctor was wonderful and is suppose to be the BEST in B'ham! He examined Blake and read over all his past records, they are baffled that in the hospital Blake did have WBCs in his stool which did mean he had some type of infection more than likely the C-diff. Now that he is still having issues after completing antibiotics to kill the C-diff they are thinking he has a motility issue. Food is hitting his gut and being pushed right back out sometimes causing him not to absorb the food. They were able to obtain a stool sample from him and will run some test on it to be sure what is going on. Friday I will talk with the Dr. and all the lab work should be back. At that point he said we would know more of what we were dealing with. Hopefully his gut is just trying to repair itself and we can add some fiber to his diet to help it bulk the food while it is being digested? We'll keep you updated.

I am now LIVE on NBC 13 Loser website

check out my entry on the Biggest Loser site! Go to blog entries and see my post!! Yeah!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE LEIGH!

Alexis's Last Day of School

Alexis's class held awards day today and Alexis recieved lots of awards! We are so proud of her!
Here is a list of her awards!

1. A Honor Roll
2. over 100 AR points
3. Highest Reading Average
4. Presidential Award- only 4 kids recieved this award for high SAT scores along with GPA, she got a letter from the president!
5. Young Author's Award- she wrote a book
6. Completion of the 5th grade award
What a wonderful 5th grade year with Mrs. Gay! Off to the Middle School , 6th Grade here she comes!

Anyone need a Nurse?

What do we do on a Boring afternoon? Play nurse of course!

RUN if you see these faces at your next doctor appointment! Poor Blake was the first victim!

Dr. Gregory

Play Ball!

After Lauren's dance rectial we went to watch the rest of Alexis 's softball team play. They did great! 2and place in the tournament!Blake loved this swing, he swung for over a hour and half.

Cowboy!

My Paw Paw!

TT and Blake

Lauren's First Dance Recital

May 17, 2008

Lauren's First Dance Recital
She did so Great! Don't worry about her being shy she came out ready to dance. Alexis was playing in a softball tournament during the rectial so she had to miss it.
Click on the megaphone at the bottom left to hear the music!

4 month Check Up!

Our little Blake is growing so fast. This was his scheduled 4 month check up.

WHO IS THAT THAT WEIGHS 18 lbs and 11 ozs?

IT'S ME!!!!!

I can't believe how similar Blake and Lauren have been at every check up! They are exactly the same with the exception of at 4 months Lauren was 19 lbs 11 ozs and Blake is 18 lbs 11 oz!

This was a very peaceful ride home from the doctor!

Thanks to everyone for checking on little Blake. He is starting to have his bad diaherria agian so we have scheduled him with a Pediatric GI doctor on Tues. I will keep you updated!

Don't tell a Lie!

I was getting Lauren ready for bed, fluffing her sheets when I noticed a hole in her new top sheet? The more I looked at it the more I decided it had to of been cut with scissors. I told Lauren to come in there and tell me what happened . She kept saying Well... I might of...., So I told her to go in the bathroom to get her story straight then come to the den and tell me exactly what happened. She went into the bathroom where Alexis happened to be putting on her PJs and I heard her ask Alexis "Do you know who could have cut my new sheets? Do you know why it happened?" After a few minutes Lauren came into the den and said okay I am ready to tell you what happened. "I was cutting some school work and well.... mabe a hole in the paper made the scissors slip and I saw I had cut my sheets?" I said What? Lauren states "Okay I cut my sheets"

The funniest thing was while she was telling Drue and I she was doing the hand motions of the scissors and her discovery of the cut sheets.

Later that night we had her tell us one more time what Happened just so I could document the stories of a 4 yr old.

KFC Baby!

The family had KFC for dinner tonight. Blake kept watching them eat and we felt he was begging for a little Mashed Potatoes and Gravy. Just look at that face......

Now that's a satisfied Boy! 1st bite of real food! He loved it!

Drue decided to push the envelope and give him a bite of popsicle as well. Don't tell Dr. Lytle....

Hey Guys I Have Feet!

As you can see, today Blake found his feet. He has played and talked to them all day. Well in this picture he has also found another fun part :-)

End of the year Party

This was Lauren's end of the year K3 class party. Everyone went to Municipal Park for Pizza, sand and playgrounds!Lauren's boyfriend Cody!

Sand girl
Lauren came to me after playing in the sand a while and said "My pants are full of sand" I pulled them back to see and a pile of sand dumped out of her underwear? How did it get there?

Lauren and Ella Caroline!

Sleep Over?

Alexis was getting ready for bed , put on her PJ's and was reading her book . We had put Lauren in the shower and told her to put on her PJ's, well she kept coming into the den asking us for her Alabaster t-shirt, We could not figure out why she wanted it so bad. Next thing we know she pops out from the stairs wearing exactly what Alexis has on. It was so Cute! She wanted to have a sleep over with Alexis! They giggled all night! Gotta love those Big Sis's!