You’ll have to check out our personal blog! :)
http://connectthedotsons.blogspot.com/2012/01/were-having.html
Enjoy!
-erika
You’ll have to check out our personal blog! :)
http://connectthedotsons.blogspot.com/2012/01/were-having.html
Enjoy!
-erika
My little growing family has a personal blog.
I’ve updated it.
The photos aren’t very big.
So I will post them here.
If you want to read the update, go to this blog http://connectthedotsons.blogspot.com/2011/12/15-weeks-baby-dotson-2.html.
If you just want to see the picture, stay here.
Tags: 15 weeks pregnant, baby belly, pregnancy #2, pregnancy countdown, pregnancy documentation, weekly pregnancy photos
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But I just couldn’t post it here, so check out our other blog!!!!
http://connectthedotsons.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
- Erika
We went to Grandma’s house to carve pumpkins last Thursday. It was a good nasty day to do so! 









Only real super heros have capes! 



http://youtu.be/7DPik6PiK-s - with grandma
http://youtu.be/Ba5xuHW_p6M - with mom
What did you do for Halloween?
Enjoy!
-erika
Titan’s First Birthday fell on September 3 as well as the first Razorback game of the season so what else would be appropriate besides a Razorback Football Party? I mean this kid does have a Razorback room too, which apparently I have yet to reveal……. that’s something I’m going to try to get done before October (no promises!).
To read more check out my personal blog.
I’m just going to share the lovely images here! :)
Vendors Used:
Titan’s Smash Cake : Rick’s Bakery
Sweet Treats : Num-Nums
Hog Cups : Riffraff
It might be a surprise to you but I attend my fair share of rodeos…..I have a brother in law that is a bullrider so that should explain it. We went to The Rodeo of the Ozarks and here’s what I saw so I thought I would share on this beautiful 4th of July!


Uncle Andy carrying Titan


Daddy has a split personality as a cowboy….yes hat, shirt, belt, jeans, and boots all included.
Rodeo at a glance…..
Happy 4th of July everyone!
enjoy!
-erika
Ok so he’s not really a year old yet……but he is 8 months old!
Read more on our family blog here…

Enjoy!
-erika
Be sure to give a special shout out to the loved ones in your family! I want to tell my two special boys how much I love them!!!!
And since there should never be a post without a picture……..

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Dotson’s!!!
Enjoy!
-erika
I’m sure if you haven’t run into us just yet you’re wondering how our week went and more importantly what the outcome of visiting Children’s Hospital in Little Rock was, well good thing because I am here to inform you.
First off I want to send my appreciation to EVERYONE that sent us messages of support! I was taken back at how many people had us in their thoughts! Thank you, your support really means a whole lot to our little family!
TW took a half day from work which left me frantically scurrying about the house making sure I had packed everything we needed along with getting our little guy all ready to go. I wanted to make sure I had my list of questions, all the paperwork from previous Dr. visits, the list of medicines he was currently taking, etc. So then on top of all that TW calls me to ask if some random guy can come to our home and retrieve the freezer we had listed on Craigslist……not something I like to do without my husband home with me, let alone the fact that I was supposed to be leaving out the door in 30 minutes, but I said sure why not hoping to use the cash for our gas on the way down there. In my mind I was preparing all the things I would do and say if it were the case that he wanted to come in our home and steal our possessions or perhaps try to murder me, you know all those crazy thoughts that run through your mind because of everything you see on the news. (funny side note: I planned on bartering with him if he wanted to steal my iMac…….”please don’t take my computer…..there’s a diamond necklace and earrings instead, oh and I’ll throw this ring in there too!” (pathetic). Sure enough random guy doesn’t show up until I’m practically out the door, ugh, but after sizing him up he seemed safe. I decided I didn’t have time to wait around for him to load this freezer into his truck, so I locked our door and headed out. I called TW and told him I left random guy at our house and I hoped my computer was still there when we got back. This dumb freezer business was the last of my concerns at this point.
Ok so I head off to get TW from work and we start our trek down to Little Rock, Titan decided to be a bit fussy needing some attention which his daddy gave him in the back seat while I drove. This didn’t lead to the conversation time I expected to enjoy with my husband before we arrived, but eventually Titan would fall asleep and TW crawled into the front seat with me! Yay I was excited, until he reclined his seat and settled in for a nap. All alone driving down the road my mind began to race and rethink all the awful things I had read about this disease my son has. As I arrived in Little Rock and found Children’s Hospital all this time of being alone in my thoughts just poured out. I started crying (I’m not a big crier) but I think I was overcome with stress and emotion of what I imagined would happen here in my head. Maybe this little breakdown was good for me since I became a determined momma as I walked into that Dr’s Office.
We checked in, sat around in the waiting room for a while, then were called back to our room, spoke with a few nurses, took pictures of Titan, and finally were greeted by this amazing Pediatric Dermatologist who walked in, took a peek at him and stated he had Diffuse Cutaneous Mastocytosis. He then asked his nurse to bring me some information and that he would see us in a few months. I sat there thinking there is NO way this man is going to walk in for 5 minutes and send us home….I drove 3 hours one way just to get here!!! So I said “wait a second, I have lots of questions for you”, his response….. “ok let me go visit this other patient and I’ll be right back”. I’m in the service industry and was a little taken back by those words, but I blew it off thinking that a hospital setting was a bit different and you get seen by severity rather than how long you’ve been there.
Once the Dr. came back in we spoke for a long time, leaving me much more pleased with this whole experience (when we got back to the car we had spent a total of 2 hours there). We are very fortunate to have this Derm. He was very laid back about this whole disease thing, in fact he even opted out on calling it a disease and insisted it was a “birthmark” I liked that terminology much better! He basically told us to not put him in a bubble and that we will just have to figure out what his triggers are and avoid them. He said you can still rough house with him, maybe just not as hard. I can’t describe how much comfort I felt having his professional opinion. The Allergist we visited sent me into freak out mode when he mentioned that we may want to consider signing up for air evac!!!!!
So all in all Titan’s future looks like this:
He’ll be on several histamine medicines
He’ll occasionally break out in blisters
We will be making bi monthly trips to Little Rock
I’ll have to be crazy mom and know all the medicines he has to avoid in case we ever need to make a trip to the ER
I’ll have to be crazy mom and tell people that are wearing perfume that they can’t hold him
We get to buy expensive baby wash and detergent! Oh goodie.
He will hopefully outgrow this by 12 years old if not sooner
He may just have to be a swimmer until then?

“Hi from Children’s, I’m doin good! I love my yellow gown!”
If you have any questions please feel free to ask!
Enjoy!
-erika
My husband randomly came up with the idea to go to the horse races for my birthday last Saturday… (by random I mean it was random he wanted to go, following a commercial on TV). Don’t let me fool you, he LOVES horses and everything about being a farmer/cowboy just short of wearing the apparel everywhere (I just can’t have that). I on the other hand…..not so big into the whole thing, but horse races? I think I could do horse races since there are so many demographics there. You get the rich people in the seats up at the top, the homeless people in the smoking section at the far end, and then the folks like us who have never been before and spent the entire time running from looking at the horses to making our $2 bets! Speaking of bets…..this was my 25th birthday…..in order to place a bet you must be 18 or older…..I was carded twice! ugh (I know I know one day I’ll be greatful for that, but that day my friends is not today). We really had a lot of fun. It was a fun experience, but definitely not something I really plan on doing on a regular basis as I’m not a big gambler. In fact it’s less painful to gamble birthday money! :)

Enjoy!
-erika