Memory

Dominick amazes me every day. He is picking up on so much and he is so smart. He likes to play with my phone. A lot. If you give him a "fake" phone, or an old one without a battery, it's not fun because it doesn't make noise or light up. So I let Dom play with my phone a lot. He loves it. He will just walk around and talk and talk and talk. Then he puts it down and moves on to something else.

Sometimes I don't see where he puts it down and this makes me nervous. But so far, Dom has remembered where it was every time! All I have to do is ask.

"Dommie? Where is Mommy's phone?"

And he stops whatever he is doing and goes and finds it and brings it back with a big smile on his face.

Such a sweetheart.

He amazed me even more than that this morning.

I know Dom knows what a phone is, or what Mommy's phone is. He plays with it everyday. But this morning, I was finishing getting both him and I ready, when he wanted his socks out of my hand. I wadded them into a ball and gave them to him to play with until I was ready to go downstairs and put them on him along with his shoes. Well, when I was ready to go downstairs, Dom didn't have the socks in his hands anymore. 'Great' is what I was thinking. I have a hard enough time finding any two socks, let alone socks that match, so this was going to make us late. I started digging through laundry baskets with Dom just watching me and I couldn't find a single sock of his. Finally I turned to him and asked,

"Dommie, where are your socks?"

Well wouldn't you know it? Dom got up from the floor, walked over to the bathroom door and picked up the socks he had set by the tub. He brought them back to me and sat down for me to put them on his feet.

Are you kidding me?? When did my baby get so old? Or so smart?

I just need to come to terms with the fact that my baby is getting to be a big boy. And I'm so proud of him and so excited to see what tomorrow will bring.

Another new cousin!

My cousin Tommy and his wife Val, had their baby this morning!!

They had elected not to find out the sex so we were very excited to "meet" their baby girl! Gianna Lynn, 7 lbs. 10 oz.

A beautiful baby girl!!



So now this is two new babies born this week, I have 2 friends that are due with their babies in the next 3 weeks, 4 friends pregnant and due in August/September and another one due in November!!

The baby fever is coming on strong!! If I hear about one more pregnancy, I'm just going to have to go and get pregnant! Geez!

Uh oh!

I just was looking over my blog and noticed one of my tickers on the right hand side...The one covering the St. Louis Marathon...

It's in 18 DAYS!?!?!?!?!

Yea, I'm SO not ready for this. At least my Mom and I are walking it instead of running it, but still! Geez!!

18 Days??

Wish me luck. I'm gonna need it!

New Cousin!

My cousin, Kevin, and his wife, Diane, had their baby yesterday! Yay!

They had a beautiful baby boy, Theodore Kevin (Teddy). He was born at 9:20 am. He was 7 pounds, 2 ounces and 20-1/2 inches long.

Congrats Kevin and Diane!!

New Glasses

Did I ever mention that Ruby ate my glasses??

Well she did. My beautiful wonderful perfect Vogue eye glasses. I LOVED them. Here's a picture of me and Dom when I'm wearing my glasses:



Anyway, Ruby ate them. I was devastated. They were expensive, first off, but also, they were perfect for me. I liked how they looked, but I also liked that they were big so I could see really well with them. I liked how they were big on the sides so it wasn't blurry off to the side (which really bothers me for some reason!) and I don't know what else, I just liked them.

But I needed to get new ones. So I went to a new eye doctor and found out that my insurance covers glasses, which is awesome. But I also found out that my new eye doctor doesn't carry Vogue or much like it. So I had to branch out and try some new stuff. I was looking at a ton of different styles when I found these glasses from Elle. Not exactly the same as my old ones, but pretty darn close!

Here's a picture of me and my Momma with my new glasses (yes this is the same picture as my post from the auction).


I like them. They still aren't my Vogue glasses, but like I said, pretty darn close. I'll take it!

Teeth, teeth, teeth!

Dommie's got more teeth!

I haven't posted in awhile and I apologize. Dominick got his top molars! It's amazing how much those hurt my poor baby. He was so fussy for awhile and we finally figured it out. He was getting those molars. Now that they are in, we have a whole new baby.

We also got Dommie a toothbrush and some Sesame Street toothpaste. And who would've guessed but tooth brushing is our FAVORITE time of day now! I guess it tickles, because Dom opens his mouth and I start brushing and then we get the giggles for the next 15 minutes!

It's so cute though. I'll have to try and get a video or at least a picture of it...I'll work on that!

The Auction

Nick and I went to the auction at IWA last weekend. We go almost every year but this year was very different. First off, my sister decided not to go. That was a big change. She always goes. But this year she decided to stay home since she had been out of town, away from her daughter for the previous three days. She wanted to stay home with Cecilia and I understand that. So already this auction was going to be different. Then, we called on the way to find out which table we were at (we were running late, which is NOT different) and found out my dad was sick and going home. So this year we were without my sis and my Dad.

We still managed to have fun though. I love going to the auction because I get to see people I haven't seen in years and there can be some pretty good stuff!

Here are a few pictures of us at the auction:
Me and Nick at home getting ready to leave (both in brand new outfits!):



Aunt Lisa, Sam and Rick:


Me and My Momma:


Me and Nick at the end of the night:


Me and some friends from high school:



We had a really great time even though it was "different". Nick and I got a Wii and a Wii Fit! I'm so excited to set it up and get to working out on it! I have to go buy the Biggest Loser DVD!