Awesome Dad!

During this past week of finding out we were pregnant, sevre morning sickness has kicked in for me. Rock has even become acustom to momma in the bathroom puking in the morning. His response is usually "its ok pops its fine its fine she's ok."

But during that time I have fallen more in love with my eternal companion. This is of course our first baby since our last so when I was pregnant with Rock I would come home and sometimes just go straight to laying down, now its completely different. I play with Rock, we eat dinner together, even when I feel at my worst when I come home from work I have to be my best.

Beckett though will sometimes let me lay down and take a small nap if I need to. He has been so patient with me, has taken care of Rock and just over all been wonderful.

Throughout my marriage I have realized it takes a hell of a man to be a dad and a husband. I am so grateful he is my husband and that we are expanding our family together. I feel so blessed that we have not had fertility problems, it seems so many do these days.

Beckett is so smart, playful, responsible, and just giving that I am so grateful he is mine.

Yikes!

Last night I was sitting on the couch in my parents house, and my mom was telling my dad about a new kitchen table she was wanting when the "all the kids are gone." I sarcastically responded yeah when is that going to happen and she said February.


FEBRUARY FEBRUARY!!!


What when did this happen, and I don't know who to blame. In a 2 year period, both of my sisters are or have moved to Utah. My brother is going on a mission to Cali (whoop whoop) in December, and another brother who has moved to florida for school.




When I slowly approved their "transfers" to other places, I never realized they were all making a dibolical plan to all leave the land of enchantment. I mean who is going to watch my kid! Who is going to pick me up from work! Who is going to take me to Zumba! They all had been filling different voids in my life. The 5 of us are thick as theives. Where ever we are someone always tells my mom, that they are impressed with how incredibly close we all are. The 5 of us will stand in a circle and tell jokes, quote either movies or nathan from when he was a kid. That has also turned into making fun of mom or dad! I don't want us to move away and lose that closeness. But if it happens hey! This is one thing that cannot be blamed on me. I did not move away. I didn't even leave the street we grew up on! I am not at fault and won't be spanked for it ;)



I guess I should of knew when I got married I would be creating something that would change the course of time but I guess its for the best and hopefully when everyone is in town, we will be naughty, make eachother mad, and cry. And just be us!


Nathan: I love him because he is very predictable. He has become so thoughtful and giving with his old age. If you ask for help, yes is always what he says. He never wanted to play kick ball or baseball outside with us in the triangle but we made him and he always had to play until everyone was done. He has come up with so many memorable quotes, and he regrets every one!

Ben: He would take your food if you were in a famine and he had a feast coming. ;) We always played together. Made up games, even had a rule book so the other couldn't make up rules. I remember playing in the hall way one night with a blue basketball (very bouncy) and ben kicked it to me and I caught it in my legs. no goal! I tried to baby him but he faught me! One Winter I convinced him to shave his head bald. you probably wouldn't believe it considering how long his hair is now.

Sarah: I remember eagerly telling her that she should go on a mission. She loves my son so much even though its a long distance relationship. She is tight with her money. I hope she marries someone who is not haha! As kids we always said she tried to be our mother! She was the worst at sleep talking, it was always funny to try and make conversations with her until she woke up. Then she would yell at you. She loved growing pains and would wake up at 11pm to watch them. Can you believe it 11pm! ;) She always left, left overs around her mouth. Maybe its because she doesn't have lips, and has little teeth! Update! Sarah said she needed more stories. When we were kids our mom made and still does make really hot green chili stew and forced us to eat it. Well we were all at the table not wanting to eat and all of a sudden a spider ends up in sarahs' chili and she doesn't have to eat it. She could sleep anywhere. On family vacations we would all try to take a picture of sarah sleeping in the car. She would always wake up just before you were going to take the picture. However there are many pictures of her sleeping. Classics!







Rosey: Sneaky, playful, pushed the bountries. Our parents were always very good at being 10-15 minutes lenant on curfew, rosey pushed that, and pulled weeds outside to get out of her punishment. She has always needed someone to take care of her, whether it was Sarah or me. She is loving, and I realize how tiny her fingers are very time I hold them. She never takes herself too seriously and always laughs in the face of danger. One time on our 3 wheeler she was going too crazy and either I or Sarah fell off and she ran us over on accident. It may have happend to both. At 17 she got put on the blacklist for our grandparents car insurance. She can't be idle for long she must always being doing something, with someone. She is hiliarious and will act a fool to make everyone laugh.
update: of course rosey didn't like her photo so I choose a new one and it made me think of another memory. When we were kids she had almost 100 animals just on her bed, and she would sleep on a tiny sleever of her mattress and the animals would take up the rest.



This picture is difinately over used, but it is by favorite picture of us! It was such an awesome day! One people dream of having with there siblings and this kind of day is every day to us! I love each one of them for making me who I am today.

Birthday, Blowout, and Boots!

Well a whole lot has happened since I last typed a blog out, and whenever that happens I sometimes feel to overwhelmed to get back on task and write a blog but here I go!

Let me tell you what an awesome husband I have.

First off on days he is at school from 930 to 630 when he has a break between classes rock and I meet him and we all have lunch together. It is one of those times when I know I will look back when we are so busy with our kids and work schedules that we will look back and treasure these times. Anyway....Well we had which witch, that we ended up having to give our first born for, but we walked back to the car and were about to pull out on central when this guy waved us down and said you have a flat. When we looked it was a crazy flat that beck had to end up changing before class. In record time he had rock and I back on the road. All it took was putting the spare on and beck telling some guy off! What can I say he's amazing!

Secondly, I just turned 23 and often feel that now that I have accomplished everything I can in y life I am only getting older and "have nothing left to live for" dramatic I know. If we weren't so poor I would stay at this stage of our life forever! I love it. back on track. Anyway I came home from work thursday evening and was looking through papers that were on the tv tray and saw a sushi paper and thought I had ruined my surprise of where beck was taking me. Little did I know he had planned a surprise party at sushi king of our friends and family. It was definately special and something I did have to look forward to was that it was rocks first over night at damnma's and papa's. He loved it and did not want to come home. Rocky and Beck picked me out some beautiful flowers.

Lastly some off the subject funny things. Rocky took his 2year old pictures at Kim Jew this past week and my mom bought him some cowboy boots. Which he loves. He actually puts them on himself so we often find him in them. He also force me to take of the shirt he had on and put this one on. It seems it is only a little while longer and he will be picking out his own clothes.

Also, a reason why I am awesome is that at work one Saturday a snake was in someones patio and I caught it and put it in a box until animal control came and took it away.

Where have you been all my life

It seems that one week with out blogging very easily rolls into 2 weeks to 3weeks and you fall off the wagon, and soon you really don't have to blog at all because there is just to much to talk about. I don't even know where I left off last but I will just start with what I can remember and then go from there.

Rock and I went up for a few days for Grany Rose's 104th birthday party. We laughed We Cried, and some of us pee'd our pants, but I will not name names. My grandma Cleta did a great job. We had hot dogs and hamburgers and lots of cupcakes. It sprinkled that day so it was nice and cool outside. While my grandma worked her butt off while the party was going on we working working as well. Pictured below. I will claim that I was watching rock while he played. ;)

I titled this picture the table gang. We always hover around the table instead of mingle.

Beckett is also starting school on monday. He told me last night that this summer was turning into the best summer ever and then it ended. I have an idea of what he ment by that but I not entirely sure. I passed my first college course ever with a B. With all that I am taking on I am happy with that. I have started 2 classes this semester so I am slowly climbing the credit latter.

I miss Benny boy terribly. Last night rocky was pointing to nathans boots that look like the boots ben wore all the time, and put them on and was saying Ben's boots ben's boots. He's such a cutie. He was definately putting a show on for everyone.

Thats all I have for now.

Sissy's

I have posted on almost everyone mom, dad, beck, rock but not my true friends. My sisters they are the absolute favorite...(I wish I could type that word the way rock says it but sadly I cannot.) My most favorite thing is all the stuff we have done and experiences together. I love it when something at work or at home happens and it reminds me of something from our childhood. It usually ends with Rosey and I laughing at Sarah but over the almost 23 years together she has gotten some pretty tough skin. For example:

High School - We use to park over by walgreens because we didn't have a parking pass and the girls had drivers licenses so my mom stopped taking us to school. Rosey had eaten an old or unthawed eggo that morning for breakfast and had made her sick so we were of course in our ROTC uni's and she got out of Sarah's car and puked and at the same time got a blood nose (no surprise) but Sarah didn't know it was a bloody nose she thought rosey had puked blood so then she tried to get rosey back in the car to go home because she "puked blood." ...needless to say rosey still went to school because she was not going to wear her uniform by herself the next day.

Sleepy Time - When we were kids we had the 3 little bears bed all in a row. Rosey had a canopy so it didn't have a foot board and I remember she would run in the room and just bounce in her bed to go to bed, which is shared with a bagillion stuffed animals.

Or Rosey and I would be up watching tv and Sarah could see it from her bed so she wouldn't need to get out. Then our mom or usually dad would get us in trouble and sarah would be fake asleep.....dad never believe she was awake when we would be yelling "sarah was watching too"...I guess we weren't exactly loyal.

Or when we would be talking to each other and our mom would yell "NOT ANOTHER WORD" that was our uncles favorite.

My favorite is when one of the girls would sleep talk and you would try to carry a conversation with them until they woke up because there mind could answer your questions... definitely hilarious all of a sudden the sleeper would say "leave me alone, I'm not asleep"

*sarah told me about when we would play where is your head game. where one sister would leave, one sister would lay on the bed and the 3rd sister would cover you up with blankets and pillows and the sister that left would have to try and find where your head was... super fun!!

Bathroom Trouble - Once Sarah was in the shower and Ben heard this huge noise and so ben rose and I were at the bathroom door and we were like are you ok, and she said "ya i fell down" bahaha who falls :)

Voting - We would vote on who would have to do something. Often it was Sarah or I who were on the outs, and sometimes it was suicidal ;)

TV - There was always a rule in our house and at grandmas who ever was in the room first got to chose what was on tv, the rule was never broken. Rosey and I would race to grandmas's (where our mom was probably working) to get to the living room so we could watch step by step and california dreams and all of those shows because if sarah beat us it was dr quinn....

Or sarah would stay up late and tape growing pains. at the time I thought we were up super late but now I realize it was 11pm. Just the other day Uncle Jimmy said the only show he could get on his tv in the truck was playing growing pains and he wanted to call Sarah and ask her how she could watch that because he wanted to stab himself in the eye! bahaha (again) it was the 90's thats what was cool.

*Thrifty! - when we really had to clean our room and get rid of things we no longer wanted we would put it all on our bed and try to "sell" them. Usually it was to ben and nathan because they thought out stuff was awesome. but our mom would usually yell at us and say you can't sell anything you have to give it away. What can I say...we all want to make money ;)

What I love about them the most is that I can text them and tell them anything. That we have our inner circle. I love you too...Even if you two don't know my name.

School/Tooth Ache

Fair warning look away there will be no pictures of rock in this post. I do apologize but I will say I will try to make this a humorous dialogue between us. Not promising but I will try.

Today I started online school at Colorado Technical University, or CTU. GOOOOOOO COUGARS! Ooops that BYU. So far so good I know I just aced my first assignment ;). It was an introduction of me what I'm nervous about and excited about. Who knows me better then me right. I could write an introduction about you or even a intro about....Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett. (her bio a must read.) The classes are 5.5 weeks long so I think I will do ok. Beckett is super smart so I know he can help me if I need it.

Also this week I have gotten a toothache. An old filling has started hurting. Which has then lead me to examine my teeth at any moment where there is a mirror and good lighting. And what I have found is what I thought was good dental hygiene is not. Good thing I found that out so on Friday when the dentist stabs that hook instrument into every single tooth I will know that for 24/7 the last week I have erased what damaged I have done the last 22 years, I hope. Every time I stare at that tooth I think it looks worse and worse. But I don't know if its one of those things where you think your pregnant so then every feeling good/bad you have must be a sign your pregnant. example: oh my gosh my head hurts so bad I have such a bad headache I must be pregnant, (you knowing that its probably a caffeine headache you haven't had a coke all day.) You'll know what I am getting too. I have tried to get beckett to examine it but he's no good help. Alright enough about me on to Rocky.

Rocky is doing great! We went to the Dr this week, he did not want to get undressed so that nurses and dr could see his yo gabba gabba undies but he did for the sake of "pounds." Translation: so he could step on the scale and see how much he weighed. If you asked him he weighed 5 but for us that converts to around 31.0 pounds. I don't know the exchange rate ;). All checked out. He is in the 90th percentile in height and head size and 75th in weight. He is very large for his age but not in a bad way. He does struggle with constipation which the dr said give him extra fiber everyday so we are on day 4 and no real progress but its not as bad as it once was. You may be eating so I won't give you the gross details.
He also went to the cardiologist as a follow up for his Kawasaki's disease and that also went well. We will go back in a year and then every 2-3 years after and when he starts playing sports for a heart stress test. Now that he is healthy the dr's let you know how dangerous this could have been. Alot of the follow up is for data because it was just found out and treated in the 80's so they don't have solid data on how it can come back or if it comes back in teens, adults, and oldies.


Beck has been singing him I'm a child of god and Spirit of god at night while putting him to sleep and one night rock started sing to himself. It was goooooood GOD! GOD!! So cute til he realized we were listening. I am proud to say that he is so close to completely singing the ABC's. He starts off strong and then around HIJ-NOP he struggles and then back to being strong Q-Z.

Makes this big momma proud!

He watched cars for the first time last night. We rented it from Hastings and he carried it around all by himself when I would ask to do you want me to hold it he said no. Even when he struggled. I think he worried that it would not make it to the check out if he gave it to me or pops. (he's been bamboozled a few times that way.) He sat and watched for a good hour and then got up and got his little mater truck out of the toy box. Then would get up every 20 minutes after that. He's 2 I think he did really good sitting through it. A little long but we may need to purchase this movie.

"love is never having to say your sorry"

-big momma

DADDY'S DAY!

Since I was born I have always been a daddy's girl. My dad still tells me that he would tell my mom on his way to bed wheres my baby and bottle and off we would go to bed. Even in the distance of his job dare I say career he has always been a phone call away. The "voice" of reason.

When our dog died I cried and cried and I called my dad. He's always on the other end he rarely does not answer the phone.

When I didn't make varsity soccer. I called daddy

When I miscarried he was there to cry with me.

When I would have a soccer game mom and I would get in the car and on the ride home I would call dad and tell him how many goals I had scored.

Some may wonder how you deal with your dad home for a few days gone for another week. Simple. LOVE! I don't think any of us would say that we ever doubted that our dad loved us. When we were really little we would be on the phone and he'd say "wanna know a secret" at first the answer was "yes" later it was "i know that secret" and daddy would say "i love you"

He has taught us based off of his experiences. Some bad, some good, all vauable.

Now that he is papa, batta, or grandpa he is the worlds best grandpa. Rocky is always wanting to call him and my dad talks to him even when all rock has to say is truck and tractor. haha He is awesome and I know that rock loves hanging out in papa room with him. Pretend to take his pills, drink all his drink. throw all the bears and bulls everywhere. you know what all grandpas and grandsons do.

I love you Daddy!

Broken Phone = No Post

Dang it. this computer at work messes up and i loose everything i had typed. urggg!

My phone broken over a week ago so I sold it on ebay 110.00 bucks thank you! So beckett and I have been sharing a nokia prepaid phone I bought at walmart for 10.00 bucks. so its just the basics. text and voice not even a camera. so it has lead me to neglect my poor blog. Here is what has happened at the nodal residences.

Rocky is looking a lot better as my mom would say he is gaining all of his .5lbs he lost back. ;) and has had his energy back for a while. Beckett said that he through such a tantrum yesterday that he bit his lip and made it bleed, almost threw up 3 times, and pee'd and pooped in his underwear. all because he was tying to make him lay down. I'd like to say that bedtime tantrums are rare but unfortunately not. Our neighbor must think the exorcist is going on over here.

Rock has also really been into this show called dinosaur train. by far the most awful cartoon i'd ever have to watch. its on pbs so I get on pbskids.com hook it up to the tv and he watches 1 full episode and then all the little clips. its torture. and then when its not on he's consistently asking dinosaur train and say dinosaur trrrain like the beginning theme song.

Also while we are on the subject of favorites he has been singing his favorite song which is your fired by jimmy fallon. through out the day if you listen carefully you can hear him say. fired fired fired. its cute. (grandma heres a clip of the actual song ;)

If the stars align I may be going to school this coming semester we will see if that is something that happens.

Also now that we have fast Internet at home we have been skyping sarah (rock and I) with on occasional appearance by beck haha. rock has enjoyed that. he has also asked multiple times a day to call grandpa. who is "trucking" its hilarious because he waits for him to answer. and all he says truck and then tractor and after about a minute he's done. he sure does love papa.

well thats it folks!

-dinosaur train expert

Kawaskai Ninja

Really who knew a little over two years ago I would be giving birth to a modern day ninja! And let me tell you the intiation is enough to kill you. Well as most of my 5 followers know last monday Rocky was admitted to UNMH for what is called kawasaki's disease. I was freaked out when Dr. Gallegos told me that I'm like disease! everyone in a 500 mile radius then googled it we probably raised its google factor up 100%. So before I get a head of myself I will start from the beginning.

This is rocky when we first entered the hospital looking back I had no idea he looked this sick.

This was after he was examined and we were awaiting the treaded IV it took 5 times. My big boy did so good though.

Continuation from the hive story. So rocky broke out in bad hives but through change of meds and lots of showers I had felt that he was getting better. He originally had bloodshot eyes and that seemed to go down to a pink color and his chapped lips beck and I felt were getting better with constant supervision. Well monday came and I was trying to decided if I felt it was right to have rocky go back to the doctor so I decided to call of course I left a message antispating that I would be here from a nurse and then Dr. Gallegos called personally we discussed this weekends events and he decided to have me come in and kinda said that he thought it was kawasaki's. I called beckett and he was working in the library on campus and had no signal so I was getting CRAZY! so I called his boss and then started to cry on the phone and then 1 minute later beck was on the phone and headed our way.
When we got there we were seen right away and Dr. Gallegos examined rocky and showed us some pictures of other kids in a medical journal that had kawasaki's and we all decided that was what he had. He called UNMH to get us a bed so we did have to wait in ER for all night and by the end of monday We were in the hospital for a 4 day 3 night stay.

In short Kawasaki's is a disease that only effects kids under 5 and is not contagous or heritary and they don't exactly know how you get it. one dr said they think its like a viral infection. It's where your anitbodies start attacking everything. We are treated with IVIG (cousin to a blood transfusion) that takes 8-12 hours to take through an IV. Antibiotics and High Doses of asprin. It takes 6-7weeks for them to truly be cured. only 2% of childs with the disease are effected by it again and it can cause some heart problems so we will be make in july for a cardiograph to see if there was any.


just after the IV watching some tv and loving melmo

It was really hard to go through not being able to console your child. me holding his arms and head beckett his feet and proceeding to give him his meds or the IV. Him just sitting in his bed for a good 20 hours out of the day because he was so sick. I am grateful for Rocky he is so good. As you all know he has been potty training since the week before his birthday May one. And while we were there in the middle of the night he would say momma poo poo pee pee and then go to the bathroom. What an awesome little boy I made.


I asked our nurse if he could be off the IV for like 10 minutes so he could walk around on day 2

The nurse thought he was hilarious because just at the sight of them he would start growling at them or he would say NO HI when they came in. But over all I think they all thought he was super cute. Child life is a place where the hospitals kids can play with toys and go outside so on our last day rock and I spent alot of time there.

Day 4 this is at petes playground at the childs life at UNM we spent lots of time there.

He is not 100% yet but I would say he probably 89% and increasing everyday. It was rough and hard at times but now I have a true ninja! hiya! Enjoy the montage...

In the end I'm super thankful for all the hospital staff that treated rock and that he turned out healthly and they knew how to treat him. But I am super duper thankful for or ped's dr Dr. Gallegos he knew what it was right away and took care of us and even called me the day after he were admitted to see how Rockwell was doing. Post in the future will be of a hilarious health happy Rocky!

P.S. on day three he went a little insane and I had a mental breakdown I had not left the hospital til he left and we were both stressed so when my mom came to help I told her he had jungle fever. What can I say I was going insane.

Always.

Lami

Small things that make all the difference

I love being rocks mother, it is very exciting and I get back more love then I put out. Unfortunately I must say that turns out to be a double edge sword...how you ask.

This past few days have been rough last march rock got a small ear infection and was treated with antibiotics no biggy, went back to normal rock terrorizing anything and all and then wanting to mamy some where along the way. However two/three days ago him and I were running errands and he would say "hold this" and stop me in my tracks and I would say "hold me?" And he would respond "hold me" which at the time I thought nothing I works hold him and walk to our designation.

However, shortly after that day he started to have a fever over night it spiked to 103 I thought another ear infection but didn't want it to be true. So we waited a day and tried to being his fever down with children's Walmart brand tylenol. And then the worse thing happened he was getting a rash we first thought maybe it was a heat rash but then over time you could see they were hives. My baby boy was covered in hives the worse part was probably under his neck. Ouch! So then we realized he needed to be seen by our wonderful awesome Dr gallegos! What was the verdict double ear infection and he was probably allergic to the dye in the tylenol. Weird!?! My kind loving husband took him to the doctor and has been nursing him back to health since. I sometimes think man it would be so hard to do this alone. I am so thankful to have beck with me for eternity even if sometimes we want to run away. Sometimes he does but just to the bedroom.

The hardest part for me with rock being sick is I do sometimes cry because he is so sick and he is so hot with his fever and all of that, and then I struggle because from the moment I return from work or when he wakes up at night he just wants to be held by "momma" and then we continue in his favorite conversation that goes something like this:

"Hi Momma".... "Hi Rock"
a few seconds go by.
"Hi Momma"... "Hi Rock"

and we do this for what seems like eternity. and we have this conversations multiple times a day. its one of our favorite subjects. He is a genius ;). I love that he wants me to cuddle and hold but its rough. He won't even let beck hold him. Double edge sword!

{ also just as a side bar another one of my favorite intellectual conversations we have goes like this.

"rock do you want some milk"
"no milk"
"ok"
"NO milk"
"got it"
"NO MILK MOMMA"
"I'M NOT GETTING ANY MILK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRINK MILK"

I'm telling you genius (both of us) but I'm back to the original subject. }

I'm blessed that we have such an amazing family support system to help us when in need. We often think about moving away when beck is done with school but its nerve racking knowing we will go somewhere we won't have that support of immediate family.

WARNING THE NEXT PHOTO IS GRAPHIC IT IS OF ROCKS RASH.....also it's come to my attention that his pose is a little provocative I'm sorry...laugh out loud

this was the early stages of the rash it got 100x worse!

Mothers Day

Somethings I remember from my childhood with my mom.

1. on our way to church she use to pull out her little make up bottle that was in the cd holder in the front of our car (that was also used as a cup holder) and put it on while drying down the road.

2. you could scare her with this fake little lizard that was always in the dirt outside? why i'm not sure.

3. she would always sneak off some where with out telling you. (later you'd find out she went grocery shopping or when went out to eat)

4. she never answered the house phone, you always had to call grandmas house number to get a hold of her. (we were trying to get to go home from school "sick.") she would always suggest you try to push through it.

5. that she really had no idea what the 5 of us did in the background. (playing on the stacks of cement, the rebar, in the boat, playing with firer? you name it no clue.)

6. we would jump out of the car and look for change so "we" could have a drink from sonic..etc

7. dancing around the living room singing at the top of our lungs while "cleaning" before dad got home.

8. her yard is her 6th child

9. that mom always got what she wanted from dad...ALWAYS!

10. Lastly... that her and dad took us on the most awesome family vacations even though we vaguely remember some of the less exciting ones and that it cost them 100,000.00 that they are still paying for ... jk not really that much ;)

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As kids the only thing that I can remember really celebrating was birthdays and Christmas so mothers days doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me, not even now that I am a mother I would say mostly because I know next month is fathers day and ill have to return the gesture which will be exhausting. (that I know I get that from my mom.)
But...I digress looking back at the two years I've been granted with being a mom I can not be more blessed even though it is exhausting, stressful, and hard. I don't know if I've become a better person or even if I could be mother of the year. But when my child runs to the door when I return from work and wants to immediately play with me a show me all his toys I know I must be doing something right. I love beck for always helping me through out it all and for rock for giving me something to laugh at.

Get ready for a montage!

Rocky Playing with his "birthday truck" this was moments before be peed by the trash can...(unplanned)

Rocky kissing his reflection on the stove...remind you of anyone?

Rocky playing in his uncle bens boots!

Rocky Playing with dave outside. I use playing loosely

Rocky posing taking this picture himself. emo anyone?

I should of never introduced him to this cart. He eagle eyes it at smiths in the parking lot, or we run to where they keep the carts when we walk into the store.

Partying partying Yeah!

Well I officially have a toddler, and what a wonderful birthday it was. Despite the fact that I worked on his birthday (Sunday) and it took beck and I about 4 hours to get him to sleep WE (AS IN AMERICA F-YEAH) killed osama! I was filled with so much pride and excitement I could not believe that something that was so impersonal and how big our nation is can fill so intimate and gratifying. It's probably what the British felt during the royal wedding except ours is better because it involves us being bad a's and killing someone.

Well anyway.....today was rocks birthday and we had it at the ledbetters which was so nice of them abstract we had such a great time. They got rock and awesome push car and colene made rock an awesome home made cake. It was perfect and I made my signature pasta salad. It was a hit!!

Here are some pictures. I post from my phone so I'm sorry the pictures aren't enter laced in the blog but hey there are pictures! Oh Yeah and rock has been singing happy birthday to himself all night. It's not tut exact words but I think its better :)

Easter is a day for our egg hunt!

The hardest part about being a working mom is working saturday. Thankfully my sister gave me these little momentos to get me through this working day. Rocky is always so excited to play with other kids.
Some of the pictures are a little blurry bit you can see nothing but pure excitement on his face.

Rocky Road

Rock is getting to be so big and wanting to do his own thing. To get him to eat I set up a table for him on the floor rather then him getting in the high chair. Although he just bit into each piece of hot dog and then put it down. Haha!! ;)

Get Back On the Horse

So, this is my first blog in a very long time. I will get better soon with a new job that gives me the opportunity to be a better blog. I'm sure Sarah will be happier that more pictures will be posted soon. In today news Rocky is sick again for teh 2nd time it seems this month this time he has no fever just very cranky and is not wanting to eat anything...again!! dang it. I'm hoping with a dose of love from daddy at home and some simpsons he will get back into fighting shape in no time. I promise I will post pictures soon!!