Happy Valentine's Day!

Today was our very first Valentine's Day with Colin, and it was a wonderful day! We woke up this morning and exchanged cards...I had gotten one for Jeremy and one for Daddy from Colin. Jer had gotten one for me and one for Colin from him! It was the sweetest thing ever!! Colin and I made our scheduled trip to Target and Kohl's (they had a good sale and I was able to stock up on a few more 12 month sized clothes. Colin is almost out of his 9 month stuff!). Then I managed to make sesame pork roast with homeade mashed potatoes for dinner. For dessert I made Jer a special treat from his hometown of Bethlehem, PA...Moravian Sugar Cake! This was the first time I can remember making my own dough from scratch (it had to rise for 2 hours and everything!). Luckily it turned out exactly how he remembered! YEA!

For dinner, my man had prunes because he has been a little stopped up lately...and he decided to wear most of them on his face. ;-) Have you ever seen a more adorable Valentine?!

Boring Day!

There is not too much to report...today was pretty boring. Tomorrow, Colin and I are making a trip to Target to get a blow-up rubber duckie bathtub for him. We have a friend who used one with her son at this age and he loved it. Right now, I get in the bathtub with Colin for baths in the big tub. He has been way too big for the infant bath for a long time now, so I just get in with him. He can sit on his own now, but he is still too wobbly for me to sit outside the tub while he is in. The duckie bath will hopefully help when Jeremy is not around...when I am in the tub with Colin, Jer takes him from me so that I don't risk dropping the slippery little guy while we are both wet trying to get out. Colin is big enough now that I don't feel comfortable doing that when Jer is not around to help. I would never forgive myself if I slipped!!! So hopefully the duck bath will help! For 10 bucks, it is worth a try! ;-)

Also on the agenda...purchase workout dvd's to use while Colin is napping. I am quickly realizing that there is not a chance in hell that I am going to get any real quality cardio while taking care of Colin, so I need to do something to supplement. We can't afford a piece of equipment, nor do we have room for it, so dvd's it is.

Happy Birthday, Mama!

It will quickly become evident to readers that February is the month o' birthdays in my family. Next in the line up is my wonderful and amazing mother. Today is her big day and because I love her, I will not share her age! ;-) Anyway, I truly do not know what I would do without my mom. She is the best mother that anyone could ever ask for...and now that I am a mom, I see with clearer eyes just how wonderful she is. She has taken care of us through every single hardship that we have ever been through and she has never waivered. Even when we don't deserve her help, she gives it willingly. I have absolutely no doubt that regardless of what I could ever need, my mom would provide it. Even now. I have lots of close friends who have parents that basically cut the ties when their kids turned 18, or even graduated from college. Not my mom....she constantly drops everything she is doing to come to our aid whenever we need her. This simply cannot be overstated as she has a very taxing job that drains her, yet she always is there for us. Every holiday is the best one ever, thanks to her. Everything that she cooks is the best thing I have ever tasted. Every time I am sick or sad, she makes it better. I don't know how else to praise my mother other than to say that I know that there is absolutely no way that I can be as good to Colin as she is to us, but I am going to try as hard as I can. I have a lot to live up to!

Happy Birthday to the very best Mama in the entire world!!!!!!!!!!!

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The news today is not great...my sister Alieson broke her foot in two places. She spent 24 hours in the emergency room to find out that she needs surgery on Friday to put her foot back together again. We had to drive to get her at the hospital this evening and just walked in the door. Colin was two hours past his bedtime and as you can imagine, the little guy was upset! I finally got him to pass out and he should sleep rather soundly now! Let's hope, anyway! :-)

Please send prayers and positive thoughts to my sister!! She needs it!!

The Stockyards!

We took Colin to The Stockyards for the first time this weekend! The weather was fantastic, so we headed down to have burgers and walk around. We timed it just right to see the cattle hearded through the streets and I held Colin up so that he could see everything. I think he had a really good time!

Other than that, our weekend was pretty uneventful. As usual, I am completely sleep deprived, but Colin is doing great. His new thing is to wake up every couple of hours screaming. I run in, whisper to him and give him his pacifier, and he goes back to sleep. He only eats once a night now, and that feeding is getting later and later. That part is really great news. I can only hope that he will stop the other night waking or limit it at some point. Every now and then he has a couple of stellar nights (as I posted about earlier in the week), but then something happens and it changes. I am just going with the flow at this point. We shall see. This week is going to be crazy busy, so I hope those good nights come again soon! :)

Happy Birthday Alieson and Meredith!

Today is a big day in history, good people! Today is my sisters birthday! They are 27 years old today, which means I am about to turn 31, which I don't want to talk about. ANYWAY...today marks the day that I got my very own set of identical twin baby sisters. I was just about 4 years old and as excited as I could be. In honor of this day, I will tell a great story about the three of us.

I was probably 10 years old and the girls were about 6. We used to fight like cats and dogs back then...I mean knock down drag out fights. They frequently used their wonder twin powers to beat the hell out of me and get me in trouble. :-) We also used to have the best time together making up the silliest games in the whole world. Those were before days of computers and video games and all the crap kids have today. We had to come up with our own games and my sisters and I were champions at this. So, on this day, we were playing "hall ball". This game consisted of closing all the doors into the one long hallway in our house so that it was a closed off space. Then we turned all the lights out, making it pitch dark, and threw a ball. In the dark, the three of us would run blindly around trying to be the first to find the ball in complete darkness. As you can imagine, there were frequent accidents and several near misses on broken bones while throwing ourselves around a blacked out hallway fighting over a tennis ball. (I AM ROLLING WITH LAUGHTER THINKING ABOUT THIS!) During this game, we somehow got into a huge fight over who actually found the ball first. I don't remember logistics, but I remember that it got heated and we began beating each other up. In this hallway, there was wainscoating all down it and above the wainscoating were framed pictures. So in the heat of this fight, we slammed one of the hall doors so hard that the three framed pictures fell off the wall and knocked the molding off the wainscoating on that side of the wall!!!! It was the loudest thing you ever heard and this is after my mom had yelled at least 10 times for us to stop fighting. Immediately, we turned into damage control and joined forces again. When my mom exploded into the hallway, we chased her back out together claiming that she was ruining our game and that loud noise was just me falling or something insane like that. We smiled and hugged each other like all was well. When she reluctantly left (she knew we were up to something!) we worked together to hang the pictures back up and we SCOTCH TAPED the molding back into place. That is right, we used scotch tape to put molding back on the wall. The funny thing is that it took my poor tired mom weeks to notice that tape was holding up her molding and by that time, we had already taken the sister oath not to tattle and claimed total ignorance. My parents are lucky to be alive after raising the three of us! :-)

Some other time I will tell the story of Meredith and the great gum incident of 1985. hehe!

Happy Birthday, Girlies! :-)

Rest and Closet Cleaning!

Lots of stuff going on today!! For starters, Colin only woke up ONE TIME last night. He had a bottle at 2:30am and that was it. He then woke up for the day at 6:10am!! That is SO LATE! That was the second night in a row that he woke up later and decreased his night wakings. I have jinxed myself lots of times before, so I am not getting too excited about this. I am just taking the gift of good rest one day at a time and enjoying the good days when I can. Having almost a full night of sleep does amazing things for the soul.

I cleaned out my closet and drawers today. This may sound like small potatoes, but if you had seen my closet, you would think otherwise. My closet was a horror movie. You could not even walk in it and it is a walk-in closet! I needed to get all my suits and dress clothes moved out of the way now that I don't have to dress for work. That opened up a LOT of space! I spent the day sorting everything into "donate", "keep", and "toss" piles. I finally faced the fact that I am never going to get back into the size 6 jeans that I kept like an idiot, so I added those and all my super skinny clothes to the donate pile. That way I will jinx myself into becoming a size 6 again. HA! And the stuff was all from 2003 anyway, so it needed updating regardless!

Other things on my mind today...should I sell Colin's clothes to Kid to Kid? I have kept absolutely everything thinking that I would possibly need it for my second child...assuming it was a boy. But now I am thinking that maybe it would be easier to just sell it now and buy more down the line? I kept all the important stuff that I want for memories, but all the other stuff is piling up! The size of the storage at this point is huge and he is only 6 months old! After two years, I will have mountians of stuff! Maybe I should start getting rid of some of this. None of my friends are preggers with boys, so I don't really have anyone to pass it down to at the moment. There are some super cute things that I think I should keep just in case...lord, I don't know! I will probably just keep thinking about this and never sell it. ;-)

Oh, and for those of you keeping tabs...the philly burgers with cream cheese and mushroom topping were fantastic. As I knew they would be. Next week is going to be a rude awakening! ;-)