Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Finally Fall
Greetings dear blog followers:
I title this blog finally fall because it has been such a blessing to have some cooler weather in the great state of Texas. Mostly, I am loving this weather because of my recent re-entry into the running world; otherwise, I would care less that it's 120 degrees outside. I know this blog really isn't about me per se, but it has felt great to get back into running and burning calories post nursing cheating. Ha! Man those 600 free calories were nice, I am having to work too hard to keep these burning. Its all good though. It takes a team to try to train for a race and work and have a baby. Thankfully, my mother is a good team player and keeps our angel to let me get some running in.
Side note: I am trying to simultaneously upload photos to Facebook to no avail and I feel my bp rising. end of side note.
We officially have a "walking baby" in our household. This week has been a major milestone in the walking. Labor day weekend we got our first few teeny attempts at steps, and it has been non-stop since then. Sometimes I look down and see Connor walking towards me and I am taken aback by how time flies and how big he is getting. Oh and do I have a fun post for you on time to follow. This post could get long so stay with me peeps.
My funny story for this blog includes a story of Connor walking. A week ago today, I was picking up around the house and C was following me everywhere until he got distracted and was playing in his room. I went out of his room to continue my quick clean, and I sat on the couch to fold some clothes. I could hear C crawling on the carpet, so I knew he was coming towards me. In a matter of about 30 seconds I look up toward the hallway and see C walking down the hall holding onto nothing. Startled, I thought to myself, is that MY SON WALKING down the hall toward me? It was a surreal moment in deed. Ever since, he has just been a walking machine, and it is awesome and fun to watch. Guess its' a good thing I am trying to run again so I can keep up with this little man. I am leaving it all up to C to keep mommy's metabolism in high gear. :-)
Now for my post about time. Friday night, i was rocking C after his nighttime bottle, and as I was rocking him I was thinking. Me, holding baby, rocking, and I think... a lot. Well, the thought of time came up in my mind. And as you can tell from my previous posts I often make reference to how fast time is flying by. It is truly mind boggling at this point in my life. So I am rocking and thinking, what would Webster's say about time? Is it anywhere close to the emotion we feel as time passes and we suddenly realize how fast it actually goes by? My next thought about time after thinking about webster's dictionary was how that day at lunch I was heating up my leftover spaghetti and I was watching the seconds countdown on the timer. I thought, well it's nice that it only takes a matter of seconds to reheat food, but what happens to those :30 seconds? I am just standing here watching the time disappear, and it is forever gone. Those little :30 seconds affected me for some reason. Because in the grand scheme, once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. We can hope that our memories will hold strong, but I am scared that they won't. There are so many things about this season of life that I don't want to forget, yet time is going by so fast I don't know how to hold onto so many things. Is this getting too deep? I think it, and I am not sure I want to face the emotion that goes along with that deep thought. Anyways, time is precious and I just want to enjoy every single second that I am on this earth and getting to enjoy this precious gift from God. I am not sure what we did to deserve this little man, but he is the coolest addition to our lives. It doesn't get any better for sure.
(as I told my hubs about this "time" thought process I had while rocking Connor, he looks at me and grins. I said, you know me and my thinking time!" again, he just grins at me)
Haircut! I am questioning myself somewhat as I did not cry when C got his haircut yesterday. it was his first cut, and he looks precious and toddler-esque. I was so proud of him, he sat there and watched Dora on the little t.v, and he let the lady cut his hair without a major breakdown. I am giggling right now because I keep picturing his adorable face as she squirted itty bitty amounts of water to get his hair wet; he would scrunch his shoulders and squint like he was being drenched. The lady that cut his hair was so gentle and sweet to him, and he was so good. I was so excited that his bangs would be out of his face, and I was so happy to see him acting so well behaved that I just didn't cry. I know that I wasn't supposed to cry or feel sad, but I fully realized that he was a big boy and this was a milestone. I just keep looking at his little haircut and it's so cute on him and he looks like it feels better than having his hair tangling his eye lashes. :-)
Pics to follow. I say that often though don't I?..
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Running, walking, reading
I have no idea what my last post says so if I repeat myself, I apologize in advance.
Ten months ago I had this precious little packaged delivered to me, and every single day since then he has brought smiles to my face, fireworks to my heart, and love to my soul. Feeling sappy is pretty normal for me lately seeing as how I just placed an order for First Birthday party invitations. What? Can this be real? Has an ENTIRE YEAR already flown by? Well, almost, close enough for me.
I can't imagine life without Connor and his personality and the "little person" he is becoming. He takes change with ease (unlike his mommy) and he has something amazing to bring into each day. For example..
*At 8 months, I started to wean my lil one from nursing and by 9.5 months we were completely weaned of our special bond; however, with great ease C took his bottle morning, noon, and night and never fussed or disagreed. He still cuddles close to me and looks into my eyes, and plays with my lips or tries to put his adorably large baby feet into my mouth as he eats.
*More amazement comes from his ability to learn. Yea yea, all babies are like sponges and learn, but this kid, seriously, amazes me how quickly he takes in something I think I am teaching him.
*Put this IN the box, now take it OUT of the box. He can do this after one afternoon lesson and a refresher the next morning. I almost fell over watching him study the box, open the lid, put the item in when I said IN, and then he took out the same. This stuff is cool.
*His smile in return to anything you say or do for him. I would like to think I am raising a happy, healthy, grateful child, and so far I can say this is so. I just hope we can keep it up. I love the little boy C is turning into.
T.V, who needs t.v? I really have no desire to watch television anymore. I have no clue when shows start, end, or who is on them. With working and mommyhood and wifery and trying to fit running schedule in too, I have not time for t.v. and this is ok. It is WAY more fun to chase around a 10 month old through the house making sure he doesn't fall on his head or climb the tree or all that dangerous baby doings.
Walking! Well, we are close. Labor day weekend we got to spend some quality time at home, and C loved having his mom and dad to be his audience 24/7. We have a couch and a chair with an ottoman. I connected the ottoman between the couch and chair giving C a full obstacle course to try to walk around. He can hold on and walk, but the test was "Hey Connor, come get this toy from mommy (just out of reach)". He grins that beautiful grin and giggles and here he comes.....One step...hands to the ground and fallllllll. We did this repeatedly. It is kind of ironic to me how close puppy training and child raising are to each other. Right? I knew you would agree.
Reading! I am sure I used this in my last post, but C is loving his books. Ignoring almost all other toys, he loves his books every day. His quest is to turn the pages methodically, and he is getting really good at this. To adults, these simple tasks seems so simple until you watch your child patiently try to master a challenge, like opening a book on his own and turning the pages.
Sleeping! Oh yea baby, we finally made it to the all night mark. It took 9.5 months to get there, but everyone said it would happen, and it did. Bottle, hugs and rocks, and baby to bed, a few tears, and a few minutes later and we have a 10 hour sleeping baby. Join with me....Hallelujah.
(side note: I knew I would and I said I would..miss those mid morning feedings. Miss them just for the time I had with C, but loving the sleep and the brain functioning that follows).
Thanks for reading...Happy Days to you..
Ten months ago I had this precious little packaged delivered to me, and every single day since then he has brought smiles to my face, fireworks to my heart, and love to my soul. Feeling sappy is pretty normal for me lately seeing as how I just placed an order for First Birthday party invitations. What? Can this be real? Has an ENTIRE YEAR already flown by? Well, almost, close enough for me.
I can't imagine life without Connor and his personality and the "little person" he is becoming. He takes change with ease (unlike his mommy) and he has something amazing to bring into each day. For example..
*At 8 months, I started to wean my lil one from nursing and by 9.5 months we were completely weaned of our special bond; however, with great ease C took his bottle morning, noon, and night and never fussed or disagreed. He still cuddles close to me and looks into my eyes, and plays with my lips or tries to put his adorably large baby feet into my mouth as he eats.
*More amazement comes from his ability to learn. Yea yea, all babies are like sponges and learn, but this kid, seriously, amazes me how quickly he takes in something I think I am teaching him.
*Put this IN the box, now take it OUT of the box. He can do this after one afternoon lesson and a refresher the next morning. I almost fell over watching him study the box, open the lid, put the item in when I said IN, and then he took out the same. This stuff is cool.
*His smile in return to anything you say or do for him. I would like to think I am raising a happy, healthy, grateful child, and so far I can say this is so. I just hope we can keep it up. I love the little boy C is turning into.
T.V, who needs t.v? I really have no desire to watch television anymore. I have no clue when shows start, end, or who is on them. With working and mommyhood and wifery and trying to fit running schedule in too, I have not time for t.v. and this is ok. It is WAY more fun to chase around a 10 month old through the house making sure he doesn't fall on his head or climb the tree or all that dangerous baby doings.
Walking! Well, we are close. Labor day weekend we got to spend some quality time at home, and C loved having his mom and dad to be his audience 24/7. We have a couch and a chair with an ottoman. I connected the ottoman between the couch and chair giving C a full obstacle course to try to walk around. He can hold on and walk, but the test was "Hey Connor, come get this toy from mommy (just out of reach)". He grins that beautiful grin and giggles and here he comes.....One step...hands to the ground and fallllllll. We did this repeatedly. It is kind of ironic to me how close puppy training and child raising are to each other. Right? I knew you would agree.
Reading! I am sure I used this in my last post, but C is loving his books. Ignoring almost all other toys, he loves his books every day. His quest is to turn the pages methodically, and he is getting really good at this. To adults, these simple tasks seems so simple until you watch your child patiently try to master a challenge, like opening a book on his own and turning the pages.
Sleeping! Oh yea baby, we finally made it to the all night mark. It took 9.5 months to get there, but everyone said it would happen, and it did. Bottle, hugs and rocks, and baby to bed, a few tears, and a few minutes later and we have a 10 hour sleeping baby. Join with me....Hallelujah.
(side note: I knew I would and I said I would..miss those mid morning feedings. Miss them just for the time I had with C, but loving the sleep and the brain functioning that follows).
Thanks for reading...Happy Days to you..
Monday, August 23, 2010
Buh-Buy
We have our first word spoken with understanding of its usage!
Connor said Bye-Bye aka Buh-Bye. Disney channel has these monkey puppets that sing a bye-bye song when Mickey goes off for the morning and it goes something like this:
"OO-OO, OO-OO, AH-AH-BYE BYE
OO-OO, AH-AH, BYE BYE."
Sunday morning, the song came on and I started singing with Connor and he says "buh-bye" right on cue! HUH?! The kid knows where to use the word?..awesomeness.
The remainder of the day, I cued him to see if it was a fluke, and he said it again.
So fun, just glad his first word wasn't "NO." ha
Connor said Bye-Bye aka Buh-Bye. Disney channel has these monkey puppets that sing a bye-bye song when Mickey goes off for the morning and it goes something like this:
"OO-OO, OO-OO, AH-AH-BYE BYE
OO-OO, AH-AH, BYE BYE."
Sunday morning, the song came on and I started singing with Connor and he says "buh-bye" right on cue! HUH?! The kid knows where to use the word?..awesomeness.
The remainder of the day, I cued him to see if it was a fluke, and he said it again.
So fun, just glad his first word wasn't "NO." ha
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Pics!!
Little Gym fun, July 2010
Big smiles waiting for Elmo at Sea World, Aug 2010
The boys hanging with Elmo!
I see SHAMU!!
First hand clapping at Sea World, Aug 2010
Mama and Baby
Precious precious face
Jackson3 with Bert and Ernie
Loving his breakfast with Elmo
Big smiles waiting for Elmo at Sea World, Aug 2010
The boys hanging with Elmo!
I see SHAMU!!
First hand clapping at Sea World, Aug 2010
Mama and Baby
Precious precious face
Jackson3 with Bert and Ernie
Loving his breakfast with Elmo
Baby Babbles continued
My post yesterday was incomplete and I was bothered by the fact, so I return today with more thoughts.
As the title states "Baby Babbles", I come to share my wee-one's baby babbles at 9.5 months.
-When Connor gives slobbery yummy baby kisses we call it "love love". After hearing this all of his life, he can now make the sound "love love" (in baby talk of course it sounds like Luh,luh). So cute!
-Several times you can hear him trying to say I love you which sounds something like u uv ooo. We confirm what he is saying and repeat it 20 times to try to get him to say it over and over. We aren't excited or anything.
-He has been heard saying HI a couple of times now. Plain as day, he hears the phone ring and says HI. Is this coincidence or is my child a genius? I choose the latter..
-Reading books. C loves to read books, and will sit in the floor with is books for long stretches of time just flipping the pages, chewing the edges, and "reading" the book. A small voice can be heard as he creates his little story. Precious. His favorite books are at his nanny's house of course and include: I'm a little teapot (which has a spin wheel on the side to make the picture turn on the page, and he figured the wheel out this week).His next favorite is the "5 little monkeys" book.
-Clapping. While we were at Sea World, C clapped his hands together with noise for the first time. I have been watching and waiting for this moment since he has been keeping his hands closed to clap. And we got to see it, together, on vacation. Now, he claps all the time when you say clap-clap. And he grins of course!
Girls Girls Girls!! Our son is quite the ladies man. Any venue we attend, C will spot a pretty girl/lady and give her goo-goo eyes, toothy grins, and his full attention. Case in point, we went to the Rangers game on mom's birthday, and behind us sat this couple with a lady about my age (don't even go there! lol), and he spotted her and continued to flirt the entire game. She couldn't get enough of his cuteness because the whole game she kept talking to him and I could over hear her talking about how cute he was. Well of course he is cute! :-)
Connor's second big flirting adventure was on my birthday. We met my friend V and her hub Mario at Olive Garden. A couple our age was sat at the booth behind our table, and C spotted this lil blonde girl wearing her stylish sun type hat, and it was all over. I told the guy that he now had competition. The girl giggled the whole time because C wouldn't take his eyes off her. He would grin at her and make babbles. It made for a fun evening.
Speaking of my birthday, I had a great day even though I had a one year anniversary of my 30th bday. GAG! Anyways, since we had just taken vacation the week before I returned to work on a Monday which was my birthday, another GAG. Trying to play catch up, sad that I was at work on my bday, and missing my boys, I look up from my desk about 1:00 to see 2 handsome guys walk in the front door of the office. My boys came to take me to lunch. I seriously couldn't stop grinning for an hour, I felt special. It turned into a great day, and I could get used to seeing those 2 in the middle of the day, everyday.
Maybe my next post will be all pictures so you don't have to read my boring prose...
Much love~~
As the title states "Baby Babbles", I come to share my wee-one's baby babbles at 9.5 months.
-When Connor gives slobbery yummy baby kisses we call it "love love". After hearing this all of his life, he can now make the sound "love love" (in baby talk of course it sounds like Luh,luh). So cute!
-Several times you can hear him trying to say I love you which sounds something like u uv ooo. We confirm what he is saying and repeat it 20 times to try to get him to say it over and over. We aren't excited or anything.
-He has been heard saying HI a couple of times now. Plain as day, he hears the phone ring and says HI. Is this coincidence or is my child a genius? I choose the latter..
-Reading books. C loves to read books, and will sit in the floor with is books for long stretches of time just flipping the pages, chewing the edges, and "reading" the book. A small voice can be heard as he creates his little story. Precious. His favorite books are at his nanny's house of course and include: I'm a little teapot (which has a spin wheel on the side to make the picture turn on the page, and he figured the wheel out this week).His next favorite is the "5 little monkeys" book.
-Clapping. While we were at Sea World, C clapped his hands together with noise for the first time. I have been watching and waiting for this moment since he has been keeping his hands closed to clap. And we got to see it, together, on vacation. Now, he claps all the time when you say clap-clap. And he grins of course!
Girls Girls Girls!! Our son is quite the ladies man. Any venue we attend, C will spot a pretty girl/lady and give her goo-goo eyes, toothy grins, and his full attention. Case in point, we went to the Rangers game on mom's birthday, and behind us sat this couple with a lady about my age (don't even go there! lol), and he spotted her and continued to flirt the entire game. She couldn't get enough of his cuteness because the whole game she kept talking to him and I could over hear her talking about how cute he was. Well of course he is cute! :-)
Connor's second big flirting adventure was on my birthday. We met my friend V and her hub Mario at Olive Garden. A couple our age was sat at the booth behind our table, and C spotted this lil blonde girl wearing her stylish sun type hat, and it was all over. I told the guy that he now had competition. The girl giggled the whole time because C wouldn't take his eyes off her. He would grin at her and make babbles. It made for a fun evening.
Speaking of my birthday, I had a great day even though I had a one year anniversary of my 30th bday. GAG! Anyways, since we had just taken vacation the week before I returned to work on a Monday which was my birthday, another GAG. Trying to play catch up, sad that I was at work on my bday, and missing my boys, I look up from my desk about 1:00 to see 2 handsome guys walk in the front door of the office. My boys came to take me to lunch. I seriously couldn't stop grinning for an hour, I felt special. It turned into a great day, and I could get used to seeing those 2 in the middle of the day, everyday.
Maybe my next post will be all pictures so you don't have to read my boring prose...
Much love~~
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