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Birthday Surprise!

Nothing like Florida in October!!!

Happy 6th Birthday Alexander!!!!

Alexander came into the world 6 years ago if you can believe it. I remember writing on this blog that very day and saying how good of a baby he was and how he slept all day, ate well, and was just the best baby. Oh father time has showed us the many sides of this wonderful little creature. As it turns out he wasn't a good sleeper, he ended up being a lazy eater and was so horribly demanding my poor mother in law was strung out all day from watching him. Believe it or not, he is still that way today. He at least sleeps through the night now (thanks to all day Kindergarten) but begs on a nearly daily basis to sleep with us or at least snuggle with mommy before bed. Rarely is either of those allowed. As far as eating goes...he can't eat enough to get full most of the time but what he will eat varies from time to time. If it's chicken and noodles, he'll eat that all day long. Note eating noodles is a fairly easy task. He will go all out on a man size steak though and not balk at all about it. And demanding...oh my. Ricardo has graciously stayed at home with Alexander over the past 6 years and worked out of our house and taught karate classes at night. He knows first hand this little man's level of neediness. At the same time, we both know his level of intelligence, caring, love, and last but not least his strong will that we hope will take him far in life. But regardless of all the idiosyncrasies my little manny has, he always brings a level of joy to our lives each and every day that wouldn't be there had God not blessed us with him. He has taught me patience I thought I'd never have and at the same time a level of irritation I thought I'd never have. I also never thought in a million years I could love someone like I love him. It is truly a love only a mother can know. Happy Birthday Little Manny! I'm so glad you're mine!

Oh the play set...will it ever be content?

I think we've worked on this thing 500 times! Between the tarp replacements, the slide, the painting...I wonder if the thing will ever be content! Hopefully the neighbors didn't see me climbing up the ladder and then going down the slide. I'm sure that was a sight first off but when I climbed up it again later on the regular ladder and got stuck because I couldn't get my middle to cooperate to get down...ya, not cute! My sister about died laughing! 

It's a girl reveal!

When your husband is a Sensei you have his karate kids help you plan surprises...and let me tell you they get into and love every minute. Especially, when they get to do the whole class with balloons tied to their belts!

Trip home

Last weekend we went to visit my grandparents in my hometown. We don't get to visit then as often as we'd like but we try to make it fun when we do. I took them a freezer full of homemade freezer meals made from the recipes of my grandmas favorite chef on the cooking channel, Pioneer Woman. Ironically, our high school name is Pioneer. Anyway, Alexander got to eat all my favorite stuff, eat Papaw's homemade popcorn, Mamaw took him to see the donkeys and get ice cream, he rode in the back if Papaw's truck, saw our old church, and finished the day eating at a hot dog stand and drinking yummy rootbeer from a cold frosty mug in the car with the tray hanging off the window. Doesn't get better than that!  

Week 12

Week 12 has finally arrived. I'm nearly over the hump of having nausea and/or aversions to things but I think it will be another couple of weeks before it's gone 100%. I was able to celebrate today by throwing away all the left over progesterone I had and putting away the baby aspirin. I've never been so happy to just take one pill a day! One of our friends made a snarky comment on Sunday during lunch about the bottles of meds that were on the counter. I refrained from punching him in the throat at least. We should find out very soon the results of our first trimester screening which will include gender. I've been trying to come up with fun ways to tell Ricardo since the Dr. will call me about the results. Hmmm...I'll have to spend some time on Pinterest for that one I think. Darn!

Love Note

Alexander came home yesterday with what I would call a love note in his bag. Oh yes, a love note. It was romantically written on an envelope too. 

Week 9...

Today I am 9 weeks pregnant and if you're not keeping track that leaves only 30 weeks until baby. I say 30 because I will likely get a scheduled c-section a week before the baby is actually due. I'll take a week so don't judge me. I decided that this time I will not be chronicling the weekly size if my stomach because let's face it, that ship has sailed! Instead I thought I'd blog whenever I found what I ate, felt, or funny things I heard from people about being pregnant because it's just more humorous. So, this eveing I'm going to get a hair cut...nothing major, just a trim. But deciding what to put on that didn't make me look frumpy was going to be a challenge. Maybe the loaf of bread and McDonalds I ate today wasn't a good idea. Ok, maybe it wasn't a loaf but a good amount of carbs does the body good when you're prego...at least it makes you feel better! I read today that the baby is now the size of a grape so please tell me why I feel about 6 months pregnant and the word BLOAT is in my daily vocabulary???  

State Fair Fun...yet again!

Nothing better than the state fair and when you add your pals it's even better! I think we are everything under the sun including chicken rolled in frosted flakes...might I add, was delicious! Eli's mom, Nancy got in on the fun too! Had a great time and got some great pics of our kiddos who are best friends! Love this time of year!

State Fair 2014

Our first state fair trip was a success! As you can see from most of the pictures Alexander was enjoying time with his Aunt Meme as usual. Ricardo was in Iowa for karate and totally missed out on the food! There were a couple of moments were Melanie clearly showed her skills as the animal whisperer...take note of the kissing sheep!