Halloween

I have to admit it....we played hooky on Halloween. I stayed home from work and I kept Buggy home all day! It was great! I got home super late on Sunday night from a business trip, so we all slept in and then spent the day playing around the house! We finally dressed Buggy up, took some pictures and then he had enough Halloween fun so we got into our PJ's, watched a little of the Chiefs game and headed to bed early! Uneventful, but I LOVE every minute I get to spend at home with my boys!



Our little puppy!



Nunny stopped by for a picture before she headed to work!



Two peas in a pod! Uncle Ky came over for some dinner and a few snuggles!



What a day!!! Ended up in my Halloween Jammies!!

Just Do It Already.....

So I have come to the conclusion that I will most likely never be a regular blogger and every time I see that cute commercial where the Dad emails the newborn daughter so that she can read them later I feel the sharp pang of Mommy Guilt that Michael won't have an internet record of his childhood....seriously, since when is a scrapbook not enough????? I think where I get stuck is finding something profound to say, I mean, he is a 6 month old, it is not like we are curing cancer at our house!!! I mentioned this the other day when I was at lunch with a co-worker who blogs all the time and she encouraged me to try keep it simple. So I am going to TRY to take a couple minutes and just post pictures or whatever high jinks our little family has been up to. ANYTHING to avoid that nasty Mommy Guilt!!! Here we go!!!



Back in September we took Michael to his first Bearcat Tailgate! We had a blast hanging out with our friends and Michael did fantastic! I am thankful all the time that Michael is such an easy going baby, it makes it so much easier to go places and hang out with our "non-kid having" friends!



Our little Buggy LOVES to be outside. He gets that from his Daddy! So this swing has been a lot of fun. He giggles so hard when you swing him high....he is all boy!!!!!




One of the many traditions from my family that I plan on continuing is the 6 month cupcake party! On all of our 6 months Birthdays my Mom got cupcakes and we got our first taste of icing! Buggy was no expection and we all enjoyed the treat as well. Note to self: white icing is MUCH easier to clean up, his lips and fingers were all blue from the icing and we had to scrub to get it all off!!!

Well that is all for now....maybe later I will back track and upload a few more pics from his "early" days!!!! This was easier than I thought :)

Sometimes I Even Surprise Myself....

So from the moment I found out that I was going to be a mom I wondered what that would actually be like. Everyone I have met seems to have a different way of explaining it, but it all boils down to the most amazing thing ever. I'll be honest, I was skeptical. I have been around kids for as long as I can remember, long before I became a teacher I was running a pretty swift hustle in the babysitting market of Johnson County. I have always loved kids, I just was not sure that I wanted any living at my house or calling me mommy. I mean let's be honest, kids are needy and selfish. They ask about a million questions, they don't listen well, when there is more more than one they will inevitably get into a fight about something crazy. They require A LOT of maintenance and I'm no financial wizard, but I'm pretty sure they are high risk, low return investment financially speaking...(for the cost of diapers alone, I could have a vacation to somewhere pretty sweet) So, as someone who is aware of all this, I was pretty sure that this whole having kids thing was going to be pretty tough but everyone kept saying, "it is so different when it is your baby" to I which I would respond in my head, "Yeah, yeah, yeah" But now that Michael is almost 7 months old, I am finding that it is so different. I've never loved anything more in my life. I don't think I could ever list out the million reasons why I love being Michael's mom but here are a few!

* I love that the first thing Michael does in the morning is lay in his crib and "talk". It is like he is psyching himself up to greet the day, while also giving me a 10-15 minute warning prior to wanting to be tended to....I love laying there listening to his sweet little voice!!!

* I love how happy he is all the time. Brent and I often feel like we hit the baby lottery. From Day 1, Michael has been easy to please, as long as he is dry, full and feeling attended to, he never really cries. I ask myself no less than 20 times a day just how we got so lucky!

* I love his smile and laugh. There is no sound in the world that compares to baby laughs! I have found that it is impossible to be in a bad mood whenever I see that million dollar grin and hear that sweet little giggle!

* I love that being a Mom has made me a better person. I am more patient, less selfish, more understanding and less judgemental.

* I love that I worry less about what I don't have and spend more time just being thankful for what I do. If the only thing I ever had was a healthy and happy family I would have everything I ever needed!

* I love rocking him to sleep. Getting to cuddle him and sing him to sleep is the hands down BEST way to end a busy day.

* I love watching him learn something new. My favorite part of teaching is what we call the "light bulb moment." Being witness to the instant where a student understands a concept and is able to put it in practice gives me a lot of joy. But oh my goodness, watching your own little person put all the pieces together is nothing short of amazing!!!!

Mostly, I just love all of it. Love that our house looks like a baby store exploded in it, love that I never sleep soundly because I am always worried that he is not breathing, love that when I walk into a room Michael reaches for me with a huge grin on his face, love that I have such an amazing husband to share it all with. While I have no doubts that there are days in the not too distant future where my patience will run thin and some of those not so cute childhood behaviors will start pop up, I hope that I always think back to these days where my heart was just so full of love!But just in case, I will offer this disclaimer to any future parents: Maybe what people really mean when they say "it is different when its your baby" is that "my baby will always be my baby and all the annoying things that my baby does are just fine with me..." Here's hoping!

The worst blogger on the block....

I cannot tell you how many times during the months while I was pregnant that I thought, "tonight, when I get home I am going to sit down and write something on that blog...." Well, every time I would get home I would find myself too sleepy to care about a blog and before I knew it, we were heading to the hospital to have the baby and my opportunity to blog about being pregnant was over. So here are the highlights:
**The worst part of being preggo for me was the heartburn. (I know, I'm so lucky!)

**I had no morning sickness at all, not once.

**The day that I finally noticed my ankles swelling I cried in the bathroom for 15 minutes. Lucky for me this did not happen till month 7!!

**The most eventful part of my pregnancy was at the end when my blood pressure elevated slightly and I got put on a modified work schedule....8 months preggo and I get to sleep in till 11:00 a.m. every day, yes please!

**I was convinced for a short period of time that the baby might be a hermaphrodite and would be born with pearl teeth. Insanity, I know. To make matters worse, I would email or text Brent no less than 3 times a day regarding said concerns until we went for the sonogram where we could have found out if we were having a boy or girl. When the day finally came, the technician asked me if we wanted to know the sex and I told her all I wanted was confirmation that the baby was not in fact a hermaphrodite, she looked at me crazy, told me no one had ever asked her that before and assured me that the baby was not a hermaphrodite. Brent just shook his head.

All in all, I had the most uneventful pregnancy of all time, (which I am thankful for every day). Honestly, I don't really know what I would have written about, so I feel like I saved myself a lot of time by being a blogging slacker. I am going to try and be a better blogger though, if nothing else, maybe it will force to me to spend a little time reflecting on all the amazing blessings I have...including my beautiful little boy!!!