Here's to a New Year 2010

I was looking at the blog and I saw the last post was of tiny little Sophia and Avery playing in diapers from FOREVER ago. Lucky for Avery and I we were able to spend the evening with Sophia and it was wonderful! I wish I had taken pictures! She is beautiful and her and Avery were holding hands on the way to the car...it just makes my heart melt.

I have so much to look back on be thankful for this year. I have two wonderful boys! Elijah is almost 5 months old now - it went so fast. Avery is in pre-school and he LOVES it. My Husband and I are both busy working. Life is busy! When I stayed home with the boys the last few month I took for granted how amazing Fridays were to look forward to because it was just another day. Now that I am working again I cannot wait to get home at the end of the week and be with them - they are growing up too fast...

A Day in the Life of Avery

Avery and his new gal pal Sophia eating lunch.

Avery unaware how adorable he is sporting his swim trunks. Too cute!!! Who doesn't love baby swim trunks? Who?

Babies speak their own language. I think they're saying hi. LOL.

I told Sophia to do a really cute pose and voila! She did so perfectly! What a great listener!

Avery's turn!

The aftermath of playing following an extremely messy bath. I had to bribe them with an episode of Bunnytown to get everyone to stay in one place for a quick wardrobe change :). (F.Y.I. This photo was taken while Sophia was in mid-dance.)

Finishing off the end of Bunnytown, wardrobe change proved to be a success. Now it's snack time. How cute is this? They both crossed the opposite leg. Awwwwe...

Sophia and Avery in the playroom finishing off their long day.

Avery's 1st Birthday

Can you believe it? I am finally posting Avery's 1st Birthday! Everything turned out perfect. We were surrounded by Family and Friends we love and enjoyed everyones company. Thank you everyone for coming out.

Handsome Avery gearing up to open presents. Awe...

Mommy opening up Avery's gifts because he had no interest. Yet, he loves ripping up things on a daily basis in our home. Go figure.

Avery's cutsie elephant cake.

The community cake, LOL.

The happy Birthday boy before cake...

Thinking about it...

After...

What's funny about this? After the camera batteries died on both the video camera and digital camera, Avery really decided to let loose. How you may ask? Well, by smashing cake into his hair and face, throwing cake on the ground and anywhere else it may have landed, finishing off somehow by getting it behind his head.

Avery we love you so much and are so blessed to have you in our lives. We are so proud of our big boy celebrating his 1st year!!

Gross Gross Gross

I am scared to go to bed. Why? Oh nothing big you know? There are just spiders overtaking our bedroom and bed - if my you can imagine the words I type making sounds, you would hear screaming. No matter how many spiders I kill a day, they just send in more troops. I am beyond terrified if you must know. I can't sleep. When I do fall asleep, my comforter is over my nose. I fear those disgusting things are going to crawl up my nose or into my mouth - yuck yuck yuck!!!

It was pretty warm out the other night so we had Avery in summer pajamas without socks. That poor guy woke up with spider bites on his little tootsies. Poor little man :(. I don't know what else to do besides keep killing them. And I don't think you can comprehend how difficult that is for me, I almost can't follow through sometimes for fear of them jumping on me. I am a girl, girls are not supposed to like spiders or touching them. Ugh, just talking about this is making me cringe. I have looked all over the internet for remedies. It's just that I don't want super poisonous stuff to spray all over my home, especially because of Avery. But I am definitely far from being that natural kind of gal who will just let them roam freely in my home and munch on us when they are hungry. Aggggh!!!

Our Little Boy Is Walking!!!

Out of the blue the other day Avery, with phone in hand, walked 5 steps over to Daddy!!! Overnight our little man was walking across the room!!! Of course he pauses here and there, but walked all the way from the couch to the T.V. without being prompted today. Even to get to his toys now, he just stands up and walks to them. It was exciting enough to see him take 5 steps...the next day he just, well started walking everywhere!!! It is so strange to think he was just a tiny little baby 1 year ago. Hooray for Avery!!!

I Miss Sleep

I am thrilled to say tomorrow is the last day of Mod 4!!! I have never experienced such madness, well, academically. To my surprise I have done very well so far, one more exam to go tomorrow and then onto another phase. I took my final today in clinicals and here are my overall scores.

Side - Note: Yes, I am supposed to be studying. But need to gloat first :). And hopefully not jinx myself for tomorrow.

• Med-Term Exam 98%
• Heart & Circulatory System 100%
• EKG/ECG Exam 98%
  
• EKG/ECG Proficiency I, II 100%
  
• Cardiopulmonary Disease Report 100%
• Diversity Project 100%
• Insurance/Patient Billing Sim I, II 100%
• Final Exam/Respiratory System 94%
• Final Exam/ Recordkeeping Simulation - Today!!!!

Update! 94% on Recordkeeping final! 100% on Pegboard Simulation final!!!!

I cannot wait to spend this weekend doing anything, anything but studying!!!

Missing Baby Days...Sigh.

The cutest sad face you ever saw...

Our little boy is reaching one of his biggest milestones tomorrow, completion of his first year on dry land. I am so excited about his birthday even though he won't remember it. I can't explain how strange it is to go from, "when is the crying going to end, I need sleep, it will get better when he gets older" to "I miss him being tiny, I can barely remember now, he needs a little brother or sister." I have been told for a while now that children often give you amnesia, now I see why. This age is so fun and interactive. Avery is just starting to stand on his own and push a little cart to practice to walk. The little rants of gibberish are growing. I think I am going to be a crying, gushy, mess tomorrow. Our baby is going to officially be a big boy tomorrow.