1st Birthday!!

We woke up on 5/27 (his actual birthday) and let him open some prizes.





Then we went to the zoo






Saturday Was the Actual party









All in all? Good weekend. Fun times, Good party, Got to catch up with old, missed friends! (Yay Zip!!)

Happy 11 months Baby Boy!

Can it really be a year ago that I was nearing the end of my bedrest journey and not even knowing it? I still had a baby inside me who got the hiccups everyday, and only liked to move when I was sleeping, A baby that would kick his daddy in the back when we would cuddle at night, but would hardly kick for him when he put his hand on my belly. A baby that I didn't know the sex of, already had a lot of pictures of (I had sonograms every two weeks from 19 weeks to 29 weeks plus a couple after that for my AFI's) and already loved uncontrollably. I cant believe that my little 6lb 12oz'er is now over 25 lbs, and is oh so big. I can't believe that he crawls, walks along the furniture, babbles up a storm, eats like a champ, and just smiles all the time. He is such a happy baby. I am so happy that he is in my life, and that I am his mom.

This picture was taken at 27 5/7 weeks on April 3rd 2009. It does not seem like this picture was taken over a year ago (Please excuse the bed head and the slightly showing belly)


A year ago today I was 31 1/7 weeks pregnant. today I have an 11 month old. I love my life.

Almost Summer!!

School is less than a month away from being over.I am so excited for this fact! I love having the few summer months to unwind and take a little break from the hectic schedule that is working and school. The best part about this summer break? I have my little boy to spend it with!! Oh how I can't wait! His birthday is May 27th and I take my last final May 18th, so I am trying to get his birthday and the day after off so that I can start our vacation with lots of mommy-baby time. I am doing his birthday on the 29th so I'll have that to get ready for too. I already have some stuff bought for his party and I found some cute cake decorations online that I want to order and then see if I can have Fry's make the cake. This is the cake I want to have made:
I like it much better than any of the cakes the stores have, because everything is Elmo. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Elmo, but Sesame Street is more than just Elmo.
Another thing I am looking forward to is being able to really clean my house. Ive been keeping it decent, what with having to clean up after a baby and sometimes the boys, but I am looking forward to really cleaning it up. I love a clean house. It makes me feel so organized.
Thing number 3 I am looking forward to? Reading a book for myself!!! I bought a new Mary Higgins Clark book I would like to read. I love MHC. Good thriller/ murder mysteries. I would also like to re-read Drowning Ruth. Good novel. Also a couple of Danielle Steel books I would like to re-read. If I can squeeze it in a Anna Maxted too. So many books, so little time. There are lots of good books on my bookshelf, I think I'll need to make a separate post about books in the future. I just want to fit as many as I can in before having to be consumed by school books again.
Swimming would be the last thing off the top of my head that I am looking forward to. I love to swim. I love the water in general. Sitting in a warm bath, a jacuzzi, a pool the lake the ocean you name it. Last summer I took Cain swimming in the middle of July, and that Is when he first smiled at me. I cant wait to take him again.

So, its time to go to work. Leaving with pics.

Happy Birthday Grandma Sam

You would have been 73 years old today. 73 is so young. There are so many people that are older than that and are still going strong. I wish you were one of those people. It makes me so mad and sad. If they had just found that first stroke, if they had just listened to Aunt Lezlie when she told them that that is what she thought had happened to you. After taking a first aid class and hearing all the signs of someone having a stroke, you were definitely projecting. Why couldnt they have caught it damn it!

I wish that I had spent more time with you. Sure I was in the hospital with you a lot at the end, but I mean before. I wish that I could have done more things with you as I got older. I wish that you were still here. And I wish that you could have met Cain. You would love him grandma, he is the cutest little thing. But I think you know him already dont you. You know that I not one that is religious. But after months of trying I just happen to become pregnant the month after you leave us? I dont think that was a coincidence. Then when all the IC stuff happened, they just happened to catch it in time, I just happened to carry him to term? I dont think that that was a coincidence either. One of the last things you said to me in one of the last lucid conversations we had you told me not to wait to have a family. you helped me have that family didnt you grandma? thank you. I love you so much.

I am still in school grandma. I am having a hard time right at the momnent, with both my math class and considering changing majors, but I am doing it. I promised you remember? you told me to stick with it. I am doing this for you grandma, and Cain.

We miss you soooo much grandma. Its hard to believe that you have been gone for a year and a half. I wish that you were still here. We had some good times. I love you. Happy birthday!!

Happy Ten Month Baby Boy!!

March 27th 2010.
My baby boy is 10 months, 19 hours and 10 minutes old!!!! (born at 2:48am, Just being silly)
He will be O-N-E in 2 short months!! Where did my 6 lb 12 oz bundle of cuddles go?!? I now have a 10 month old, teething (his third tooth is starting to cut), into everything, pulling up and walking around stuff, cute, fun sweet big baby. I love him SOOOO MUCH!!

So we couldn't let him have his ten month without doing anything fun! So we went to the zoo. This was Cain's first time to the zoo. HE LOVED IT. It was so cute to see him get excited over the different animals. He got to feed the giraffe. (okay, I fed the giraffe, but I did put it in his hand to have him try to give it to the giraffe. I had to take it away cause he wanted to eat it, and I didnt want a giraffe tounging my son)he liked the duckis in the Koi pond. He was laughing and talking it was so cute. He also liked the jaguar. It was pacing in a spot where he could easily see it and he was just talking away to the jag. it was so fun.

Afterwards we went to Mcdonalds. I bought him a plain hamburger and we tried the meat with him today. He liked it! Its soo neat to see him start to eat the same food as us. Soon we are not going to need baby food and I am going to have a ton of it I am not going to know what to do with.

We are doing Easter tomorrow. My Niece and Nephew are moving to Texas with there mother, so my mom wanted to do easter with them before they go. She also has to work on Easter. So Cain and I are going to get up early and go spen time at Gramma Laurie's.

Here are zoo pics!!


Cain and Mommy with the elephants


Cain "Feeding" the Giraffes


Cain, The Giraffe and I


Cain watching the duckies


still watching duckies

Checking out the Jaguar