it's the little things...

I have realized that it is the little things in life that make it great. I realize that my family and friends are what make life worth living and I am so blessed to have them around me.
Things that I love that make my life better:

• Sitting around with Jeremy making fun of the cheesy grade B horror movies on SciFi.
• Cuddling with Wyatt right after he has gotten up from a nap and still has sleepy eyes.
• Spending a couple of hours after everyone has gone to sleep reading until I pass out.
• Taking a day with my boys and just enjoying the little things that bring a smile to their faces.
• Just taking a moment to enjoy the little things....
  

Baby #2 Update

So this past thursday marked the 3rd appointment for baby number two along with being Wyatt's 11 month birthday. Everything looked great so far. I have been feeling great which is a good thing since I still have Wyatt to look after as well. The baby's heart rate was 144. I am still thinking boy! Though with all the testosterone in the house, I kinda hope it isa girl! LOL... They made my appointment for the "Big" ultrasound to find out what this one is. It is March 10th at 3:00 pm. It seems so far away but I have a feeling the time is going to fly since it is so close to Wyatt's first birthday. We have a lot to do to prepare for that as well as school and things so it will come much sooner that expected (hopefully!).

My baby is 11 months old...

Our little boy is turned 11 months old this past Thursday! I can’t believe it. I can’t believe there are only a few weeks before the day he turns a year old. It is just insane that time passes so quickly and I am so glad that I have been able to mainly stay home with him this entire time, besides school, because it just has gone so fast.

He is changing so quickly and I see a little person with his own personality and way of expressing feelings. I keep thinking about how incredible the advances that these tiny human beings make during their first year. Just mere months ago this little guy was dependent upon me for everything he needed and now he is becoming such an independent little fart, but it brightens my day to see him discover the new things he can do and to watch his little face light up with his accomplishments.

Now, moving on, I am unsure exactly what his size is as he has not been measured lately but I would say that he is around 26 pounds or a little over, and around 31 inches. He is still in size 4 diapers and is mainly in 18 month clothing. He still takes around 3 naps a day; 2-2 hour and 1-1 hour and sleeps from around 7:30 to 8:00pm to 7:30 to 8:00am.

Milestones for month 10:
He is walking much better and is loving his little white leather walking shoes

He understands many words and learned many more this month including “Jace,” (our lab), “book,” “truck,” “Nana,” “Thank you aka dee doo,” and “dog”

He tries to mimic everything we say in his own way

He will clap his hands when we say “yay” or start the song “If you’re happy and you know it…”

Learned to drink from a straw

He can stand up from the floor

I am sure that I am forgetting some things!!

There are so many things that I love about this stage including his independence, the showing of his personality, and that he loves books! He will bring be books probably 5 or 6 times a day for me to read to him and if I am doing something else he will sit down and flip through the pages himself and sometimes will mumble like he is reading as he does it.

Happy 32nd Jeremy!!

Today is my amazing husband's 32nd birthday! He is my best friend in the entire world and I don't know what I would do without him. He is an absolutely amazing husband as well as a wonderful father. I am always in awe at how he is at Wyatt and how Wyatt's little face lights up when he comes home from work. I am so blessed to have him in my life and that I was lucky enough to become his wife. He works incredibly hard to make sure we have everything that we need. Now having my own son, I hope with all my heart that he grows up to be just like his Daddy!

I HATE winter!!!!

I am incredibly anxious for Jeremy and I to move our family someplace warm! This winter weather is really getting to me and this past week was incredibly crazy for us.

It all started at around 2 am this morning when Jeremy woke me up and told me that I had to look outside. I knew that we had some bad weather coming and figured that there was an outrageous amount of snow outside. We had already been hit pretty hard by about 4" of snow and we had some rain falling that was instantly turning to ice when I had went to bed around 12:30. I crawled across the bed to look outside and the entire sky was lit up bright orange and blue so I knew their had to be a fire somewhere. We started trying to look around and finally through some trees saw a fire near the 2 lane highway that is relatively close to our house. About this time we decided it had to be a power line down because of all the ice or a transformer that had blown. At that exact moment the electric went out!

Now, if it were just Jeremy and I it wouldn't have been such an issue. We would have made a bed in front of the fireplace and had take out for a day or two. But it isn't just us anymore. We have baby Wyatt and we were worried about him getting cold. I called my aunt and talked to her to make sure that the electric was still on in town and then began gathering everything we needed in order to last a day or two away from home. Into my grandma's we trekked at 4am and finally got down to sleep only to be awoken by wyatt wanting his breakfast at 7:30. Food does not wait for power outages!

We were doing pretty well at Grandma's until around 10 am when the electric there went off. Luckily it is within city limits so they had it back on within around a half hour. Power has been down all over the county as well as the surrounding counties. Also, when Jeremy went to check on the house Wednesday there were multiple trees down around our property as well!

Thursday proved to be just as trying since the electric decided to tease us by going on and off several times. That night, Grandma's house began to get awfully crowded so around 10pm we packed up and went home since we had heard the electric was back. It was on all night until about 9am on Friday morning. Since my car was parked half way up the drive due to ice, I didn't want to walk down with Wyatt so I lit a fire in the fireplace and kept us in that living room as much as possible. Jeremy was able to get a generator and we decided to go to a friends house to combine that with their generator so that we would have a house with full electric and heat. In the middle of packing up, our electric came back on and luckily has stayed that way.

This all still sums up to the fact that I am READY TO MOVE!!

Last one today! New look!

I decided that I am in this blogging thing for the long haul so I finally changed the look of my page from the prefabricated looks. I thought this one was SO cute! The pictures on the top are some of my favorites.

1) The picture to the right of Jeremy and I in our Halloween duds is a special one. This was basically our first date. I say basically because we had known each other for over a year and a half at that point but never caught each other at the right time to date. I happened to have rode my horse to his house shortly before he had this party and he mentioned he was having it. Later, he and I were on the phone and I asked him if it was ok if my roommate and I came down after we had been at the block party in Athens. He agreed and so there we were! Thanks, Meghan, for taking this picture!

2) The picture of the family to the left was taken at the beginning of November. Wyatt is around 7.5 months old. Little did we know, but baby #2 is also in this picture as well!

3) Wyatt and Elmo was taken around a week before Christmas when we discovered he loved Elmo. Nana and Pappy Gladman bought him this Tickle me Elmo and it made him an incredibly happy little baby!

4) The picture in the middle of Jeremy and I was taken just a few nights ago. The reason it made the cut was because it is the most recent picture of the two of us. I took it while we were getting ready for date night!

5) And finally, my little rotten baby while he was getting into stuff he wasn't supposed to be at GG's house. This picture will probably be replaced soon with a picture (ultrasound) of baby #2.

Wyatt, my little class clown!

This past friday I was not feeling well so I was laying on the couch a lot and if I wasn't on the couch I was laying on the floor letting Wyatt crawl all over me. Well, at one point while he was off playing by himself and I kept hearing him say "Ma...Ma...Ma...Ma..." over and over. I knew he wasn't talking about/to me because when he does that he says "mom mom mom mom mom" so I snuck over closer so I could see what he was doing. I couldn't believe what I saw! Each time he said "Ma" he would get a huge spit bubble that came up between his lips. So he kept doing it. If for some reason one didn't form he would get mad a grunt around then start all over to make them again! It was hilarious! I kick myself now for not getting the camera or video cameral out but since he has learned this new trick we have been seeing it pretty often, so hopefully I can get it on film soon!!!