9 months 2 weeks 5 days

I love you I love you I love you! You ate for the first time since LAST saturday!!! 1 week and 4 days! Now you didn't eat alot but it was better than nothing! I am so so sooooo happy! You made my day! I hope it continues!

Today we went to Home Depot cause I needed yellow spray for my costume and then we went to the Town Hall and wentto the park. Most of it was for big boys so we just took a quick look and then we sat by the pond and we got to see a rainbow!

Since we couldn't play ON the playground we decided that it would be best to go out side some more and play on our swings! You are takin a nap right now....you must be tuckered out from all the fun!

On Saturday we get to o to a party and then mommy and her friend are going out. Sunday is the BIG day your 1st Halloween!!! I am so excited!

9months 2 weeks and 1 day old

You are such a good boy but I am a little worried. YOU ARE STILL NOT EATING....you havn't eaten food in over a week. The only thing you have been eating - or drinking - has been formula, which according to the Dr. if ALL that you need for the first year of your life....but I can't help but worry! Its just what mommies do. We are going to the Dr. tomorrow and we will see what he says. You are getting some shots tomorrow....I hate that they have to do that to you but its just what has to happen. You get very upset and then mommy grabs you and comforts you! My poor guy..... I ham gonna dress you up in a halloween outfit to make the Dr. smile.

Today you and me and daddy are going to buy some gifts for my friend Jeanette who is having a babay girl....we are going to her baby shower next week.

One week form today is halloween and i am so excited to have people see you in your haloween costume! You are gonna look so cute!

Today you might see Grandma Connie and uncle Franky. They love you very very much

our anniversary

so yesterday was mommy and daddys anniversary. We have been married for 4 years. We love each other very very much! You have such an amazing dad and I hope you grow up to be a good man like he is. I will never ever expect you to ever be exactly like him (I don't think that it is right to put that kind of pressure on you) I just know you are going to be a great person.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we didn't do anything "special" yesterday because mommy had weight watchers in the morning (I lost 2 pounds this week - 32 total since 2/27) and as soon as I got back we went to the diner. YUMMY and tonight we are having chinese!!!!!!!!! DOUBLE YUMMY. We got 2 movies today that I can't wait to watch - one I want to watch with you its called BABIES!!!!

You are feeling really crummy. You have had bad diareha all day yesterday....i think it is because you got TAHHHHHHHHHH DAHHHHHHHHH tooth number 2!!!!!! Hoooooray! I am so proud of you but I hope that you start feeling better soon. You have been sleeping for a really long time, I am just gonna let you sleep my poor beeeee! I love you

update on Mommy's job

well littele one.....last night when pappa came home he sat down with me and showed me our budget. He said he does not want me to work. He sees how much we do together during the day and knows how tired I am by the time I put you down to go to sleep and he knows that he wants me to maintain the energey i have in order to take care of you. We do alot douring the day baby. We play and read and it all seems like fun but it is lots of work at the same time.

Being your mommy is the BEST job I have ever ever had. It pays better and I have the bEST benefits. Watching you grow and making sure that you know I anm always there for you is my only purpose in life......I was put on this earth to be your mommy and that is all there is too it.

I made sure that this is what daddy wanted also because I will do whatever it takes to give this family everything that I have....but he assure dme that he wants me to be a full time mommy and be here always. I can't complain, because I love my family sooooo much!

OH MY GOODNESS WE'VE BEEN BUSY!!!!

OK I am so sorry that I have not kept up on this. No one person is subscribed to this, I am honestly keeping this as a diary for you! My sweet boy, as you get bigger I am finding less time to write sooooooo Lets start with where we left off!

JULY was awesome! Your Aunt Helena and cousin David came to stay with us for a week and we had a blast, we went to the game farm and saw lots of animals and we went ot a concert...I attached some pictures.....

In August (14th-16th) we wet to PA for your first LOOOONG trip to see Grandpa and GiGi and you got to meet your cousins Abrianna and Zach - you also got to meet you aunt JoJo....I attached some pics of that too. You went swimming in a great big pool and you went on your very first train ride, it was super exciting!!!!! You also started eating meat and lunch this month! Your first meat was beef - and you didn't like it tooooo much.

September was fun - I took you to the park on the 9th and it was your first time in a swing....you loved it. On the 11th (my Birthday) we went to SHIKI for sushi, and you were a very good boy (I let you eat some vanilla ice cream!) Then on the 20th, you started to get sick - my poor guy, it was the very first time you felt sick! Mommy was very sad and kinda worried because you weren't eating.....you wernt sleeping good either. On the 21st you were up late and you finally said DaDa....then on the 22nd you projectile vomited! EEEEW yucky, but I think it made you feel better! I had been calling the Dr and asking him worried questions...he kept saying that you would be ok and that you might not want to eat anything so I had to keep giving you liquid (Formula and Pedilyte) By the 27th you still were not back to your normal slef so I took you to see the Dr cause I felt that you were loosing wieght....BOY WAS I WRONG! when we took you on Aug 30th you were 20 pounds 12 oz....then at this visit you were 22 pounds 4 oz!!! WOW my boy has gotten soooooooooo big. And then guess what happened the very next day...YOU'RE FIRST TOOTH BROKE THROUGH!!!!!! isn't that exciting!!!!! and it looks as if your second is right around the corner.


Here we are already in October!!!On Saturday the 9th went went to vosot your GREAT Grandma and we also got to see Grandpa and Gigi and the next day you went to the pumkin patch and picked out your very own pumpkin....you even went on your very first hay ride. We had such a nice day! You wore a special hat that daddy really liked (st first he didn't but then he loved it) Today is the anniversary of when me and your daddy started to date....that was 5 years ago. In 2 more days it will be the anniversary of when we got married 4 years ago! I can't believe it. I still ove Daddy so soooooooooo much he is the best Husband in the whole world I love him just as much if not more than the very first date!

Hunny, mommy is a little upset lately. My hope was to be home with you ALL THE TIME....but the people at Daddy's job didn't keep a promise (they promised hima raise) so Mommy has to take a part time job at night. It will only be 20 hours a week and Daddy will be here with you....but mommy still cries about it. I know that daddy will do a good job, but mommy has tucked you in every single night since you've been born and she is going to miss that. I worry that daddy might not give you your leg massages, I worry that you might give daddy a hard time at dinner and you might be hungry late late late at night. I just don't want to leave you. I like to read to you and just love you and I still love even though I am not there I will be thinking of you every minute. This is just what we have to do for our family....we have to do this to make ends meet. I hope I don't have to work there for long.....so I can get back to being a full time mommy!

Aunt Helana might come for another visit at the begining of November and you and I get to go to a special party on the 30th (a baby shower for my friend Jeanette) AND BIG HAPPY HAPPY NEWS you have the cutest halloween costume! Well you just woke up from a nap and I can't wait to give you your luch! I think after lunch we will go for a nice walk and then we'll come home and go in the swings! OH YES...You got your own swing set since you loved the swings so much!!!!

6 months 1 week six days

YOU SAID MAMMA YESTERDAY!!!!!!! I just can't believe you said it - well, I mean I can believe that you said it because you are brilliant! I attached a short video...
It has been a BIG 2 days.....yesterday was the whole MAMMA thing - which sent me over the moon....we gotta keep working on DADA....Mamma is easier. Then TODAY we went to "Babies Boogie" and then we went BACK to the library to get you your very own library card!!!!! Then we took out your first 3 books. I LOVE reading to you! When we got home from the library we went into your big boy pool for the 1st time together and you LOVED it. Now you are sound asleep and momma has to get laundry together cause in a few days you get to meet aunt Helenna and cousin David - they are coming all the way from PA just to spend time with you. I love youso much my sweet boy

6 Months and 3 days old

My goodness you are getting so big. Everybody said it would be fast - I really had no idea they were THAT serious! Evey minute you are doing something new. Today was a big day....well, you are teething. It is causing you lots of discomfort, I feel like crying cause there is nothing I can do...so I just hold you and tell you it is gonna be ok. You didn't take a nap after breakfast - like you normally do. But you did take one right after your big 8 oz bottle followed by 2 oz of juice. Then we went to the pool with your best buddy Noah....I attached a really funny picture from a couple of weeks ago (it looks like you wanted to bite him). It was your first BIG BOY pool...you could float when I held you and you were kicking and splashing - you LOVED IT!!! I can't wait for the pool we ordered to get here...its just 2 feet deep but it is bigg enough for you and me to go in together.

Then we got home and played a bit and it was time to eat....you ate another amazing 8 OUNCES!!!! followed by 4 oz of juice (how you didn't throw up is beyond me). You held mommy fold clothes...you especially like it because I swiiiiish the clothes over your face...it makes you smile. Then I put you into your bed.

I was watching you in the monitor...and you were trying to roll over - AND YOU DID IT!!!!!!! I mean you've done it before, but mommy has always had to help you get your arm out. NOT THIS TIME you did it! I am just so very very proud of you. As I am typing this I keep glancing at the monitor because not only did you roll by yourself but you are presently sleeping on your tummy!!!!!!! I usually put you to sleep on your back, I am just so proud of you right now!

My sweet sweet boy...you are the light of my life you make every single day even more wonderful than yesterday - it really just keeps getting better. If we ever get to add to our family I want you to know that your siblings as sooooooooo very lucky to have a big brother like you! You as mine and daddy's very best friend and life is so good little one, life is just so good

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5 Months 2 weeks 5 Days

Hunny, I love you so much! I am very sad today....a little boy who was sick for most of his life passed away and went to heaven. He had a disease call cystic fibrosis and andother disease called Prune Belly Syndrome (you really great friend Frank has that). He suffered alot....his mommy and daddy loved him so much and they took such good care of him. He is not in pain anymore and can now take really deep breaths. His mommy is so very strong.....I am so grateful that you are a healthy and strong boy. But I promise you, if you ever need me to be strong I will be! I read her blog and I cried and cried....even though you have only been on the earth for almost 6 months, I could NEVER imagine what life would be like without you. Connor is an angel in heaven now - and you are my angel on earth! I promise I will always love you and take care of you and tuck you in and read you stories and give you tons of kisses and bake you cookies (when you are old enough to eat them). Tonight you go to the Dr. I can't wait to see how much you weigh! Today is Grandpas birthday....we made him a great video...here it is

5 Months 1 week and 5 days old

Yesterday was Fathers Day....it was Daddy's 1st. HUnny is just so happy to be your Daddy. You smiled at him - and thats all he needed for a gift. We decorated and gave him a few shirts....but I think thta the thing he liked best was the mug. It has your sweet face on it! I think it juts makes the coffee taste better! You mean so much to him. You know, Daddy's Daddy is in heaven...that is who you both were named after. He was a great man! He went to heaven before mommy even got a chance to meet him...but I know he was looking down on us yesterday and was VERY proud of his son and VERY VERY proud of his grandson. If he were here, he'd give you and Daddy so many hugs and kisses! We called my Daddy on the telephone - he lives allllll the way in PA. Last year we made his Fathers Day SUPER special be cause we drove all the way to PA to tell him that you were in my belly! It made him so very happy. Bobby, one day you will be a daddy and you will remember your first Fathers Day as being one of the best days ever! We love you!

4 Months 2 weeks 5 days

This is going to be your 1st Memorial Day weekend. It'll be lots of fun. We are going to get the yard all ready for summer - WE have a pretty fountain and a lovely gazebo. I also got you your 1st baby pool....its a silly hippopotamus!!!! I look forward to sooooo much with you. Usually, people eat Burgers and Dogs....but Mommy is going to be very good this year and grill up some fish and some PINEAPPLE YUMMY! I hope you like pineapple as much as I do.

This week we went to the Dr and it was the 1st time we went without Daddy. I felt sooo bad. You haven't seen this Dr. since you were 5 days old (normally you see her associate)...well between meeting a stranger, and her VERY cold hands - you got VERY upset. You were crying and crying - even BEFORE you got your shot. The shot almost didn't even phase you, you just wanted mamma to hold you! So I did. I'll hold you forever if thats what you need baby! I will always be there to kiss a boo boo or huold you if you are sad don't ever forget that. And always remember, even though you are a boy it IS ok to cry - no matter what anybody says! Oh you are 17 pound and 12 oz and 26" long!

4 Months 1 week 5 Days old

I am still amazed that I am a parent. We tried to have you for so long....we are so lucky and blessed that we got lucky on our first round of IVF. Mommy will explain IVF to you, when you get bigger. But for now, all you need to know is that BIG dreams make LITTLE miracles! You arrived in such a positive way - the labor was amazing - I felt like I could do it again and again....I felt like I could do ANYTHING!

I used to keep a handwritten journal - and you will get those when you get older, but I find that keeping a blog is easier - while you are napping I can just jump on the computer and type!

Yesterday you put your feet in the grass for the very first time....Its fascinating isn't it? Its prickly....and tickly - the ground was warm and stickly (cause it rained the day before)...you got mud on your little feet. You got upset when I picked you up. You wanted to stay in it all day! We blew bubbles, took pictures, and looked at the big trees! You smiled when you heard the mocking bird chirping...tweet tweet. We waited as long as we could for daddy but it was getting toooooooo late and you were getting hungry.

Mommy does not remember the 1st time SHE put her feet in the grass....and you probably won't either. When you have your own baby, trust me son - it will be such a special day.

Seeing you go through life and watching you accomplish goals like simply lifting your head while laying on your tummy, make my life worth living. I feel like I was put here on this earth to be your mommy - and NOTHING will ever make me feel different....Not a temper tantrum, not a time out, not when you say you hate me, not a bad grade, not a missed curfew, not if you make a mistake - NOTHING will ever change the fact that I am so lucky be your Mommy.

When I was on bed rest I would spend all day imagining what it'd be like once you got here...well, it is SOOOOOOOO much more than I expected! I am so proud of you already, I can't imagine what the future has in store for us!