Life with Nicholas

My baby is a year-old today...how did that happen?!?  It just seems like yesterday they laid him on my chest and now he's walking and running around me...

Happy Birthday sweet little boy..mommy loves you soooo much!

So Nicholas is 9.5 months old now!  I can't believe he's so old..and I'm already thinking of his party.

Here's what he's doing...

• Crawling like a madman
• Pulls up on everything
• Can take a few steps holding on to something
• Says ma-ma, da-da, ball, dog, and sometimes hi
• He looooves balloons
• He loves our dog to pieces and squeals when he sees him
• I can see the white of his two first teeth..just waiting on them to come through
• He's off babyfood and on finger foods/table foods
• He is only on a night bottle, the rest of the time it's his sippy cup.
• Next weekend we're going to put him in his crib for naps..then after that's down he'll go there at night (much to my dismay..I want him to stay in bed with me :)).

Well my husband, while having a good job that pays well (around here it does), he hasn't been really home in two weeks.  It's frustrating for me, because his body is here but he's still working well until 10 pm everynight after getting home at 5.  He helps me with Nicholas long enough to make him something to eat then I'm on my own (like I am all day anyway).  But he seems to be the only one that needs a break...okay what about me!  Tomorrow he's leaving for three days, so I won't get any help at all until Friday night..and even then I'm sure he'll still be working all weekend like he was last weekend.  On top of working he's studying for a test he has to take next monday!  I know he's tired...but I guess I'm not allowed to be or something?  Anyway, just getting that out.

I am just so heartbroken for Heather, I followed the nov mommies group, and she was always so sweet.  Life is just so unfair, and these things just shouldn't happen.  I volunteer for an organization called Now I lay me down to sleep, and they take photos for parents whose babies "didn't make it" and do it free of charge.  These photos, and babies are so beautiful.  After hearing all those stories, and seeing what these parents have been through since, it breaks my heart to see someone else go through something so unimaginable.  But it does happen, and more often than people realize...Heather you are in my thoughts and prayers..and will always be.

He did soooo good, I can't wait to get his pictures back, he smiled in almost all of them.  I couldn't be happier with how they turned out, even I didn't look horrid...hard to do!  I would reccomend them totally, I paid 119.00 and basically got like five 8X10, three collages, a bunch of 5X7's, 3.5X5's, and wallets..and got every pose but one (I was laughing at him to hard and Nathan said I look like a witch!)  He left at 4 this morning to go to Ohio with his dad for a fishing tournament, hope he wins..we could use the money.  So a day with the MIL who I love, and hopefully a little after two I will find out how he did!