14 months

Well baby boy, you are growing faster than I could have ever imagined.  You change with each and every day and I just think of all the seconds I can't get back.  While I have never taken one second for granted, I still miss all the moments passed.  Since learning to walk, you have really changed!  You have had quite a few accidents because you are Mr. Daredevil himself.  You have had at least 3 black eyes.  You are finally cutting the next top two teeth, I had decided I needed an appt to the dentist for some pediatric dentures, lol, jk.  You haven't cut a tooth since early July.  Friday the 9th, you decided to wake up screaming because you were starting to cut them.  We finally found a bop, some oragel and tylenol and got you to the rocking chair and you felt a little better.  We stayed there for quite some time and then you slept until 9 the next morning.  You haven't had much trouble cutting them since then, but you really like your bop right now.  You haven't retired your bat yet, but you are interested in other toys since your birthday too.  You love your drum set and all the instruments, your alphabet train, your little people toys, and your stuffed animals more these days.  You love to love on your bear bear, put your blocks in the train, and watch your trucks go down the circle tower on your little people toy.  All your little people stuff is in the bottom of your closet set up to play so we can keep all the pieces together and it is your favorite place to play right now.  We also finally got a shed so we were able to get the play room cleaned up and now you love you go in there and climb up on your toy box or into your chair at your little table.  You love to eat most anything we are......your favorites are sweet potatoes, carrots, mashed potatoes, beans, bread, pasta, and ice cream.  You love going out to eat and getting mac and cheese kids meals.  You can eat a whole kids meal, I guess when you are five you will need an adult size meal.  You love to go to Gran's and stay, but when I leave you have to be eating or you want to go and you cry.  This month you stayed with Papaw and Meme while we went to dinner, this was a first for Papaw, Meme kept you some this summer while I had to go to class.  Papaw was so excited and Meme was too!  You still love to be outside and must go out with everyone as they leave or you scream.  You have to watch them leave and then you are fine to go back in.  You have figured out that Grandma will take you outside and everytime she comes by you go to her and point to the door.  It is rather cute!  You love to be at home playing with your toys or at someone else's house exploring.  Your fav restaurant is still dixie because of their milkshakes.  You have a Barney CD that Grandma brought you that you love to dance to.  You love riding in the car and hardly ever need a CD or DVD to make the trip.  You still sleep with us and we love it.  There is nothing better than waking up in the middle of the night and being able to snuggle you up to go back to sleep, Daddy loves it too!  At naptime, you usually sleep in the chair with me or in our bed.  We have to watch the monitor closely though because you will get out of bed and come see us in the living room without making a peep, too sneaky!  You love your milk and juice and will drink as much as we give you.  You typically drink about 4 oz of milk at 9am, 1pm, 5 pm, and 8 pm.  You eat at 730, 1130, 530 and sometimes have cereal at bedtime.  You take a nap in the morning (9-11ish usually about an hour) and in the afternoon (130-330ish).  You go to bed around 8 and sleep through the night until about 7 or 715.  This sometimes makes me late for work, because if I wake you you are very cranky, but you refuse to wake up in time to get to Gran's on time.  To go to bed, you take a milk cup and then snuggle with me, on occasion Daddy lays down with you.  In the car, you like to talk about your surroundings and smile and laugh at us.  You love being forward facing.  We turned you around at 13 months.  You still love to ride the golf cart and we went for a ride last week with Abbi.  You still loves Cheerios as much as before, I hope this is a lifelong habit!  SMO"s and shoes are going great, although the shoes they promised us would last 3 months are almost too small and it has been less than 2 months, so we will be going back soon to get some new ones.  The dr. thinks you need to keep wearing them for a while, but i can't tell what they are doing for you.  Church is hard these days, you know where the nursery is and there are so many cool toys back there.......and a pretty little girl or two.  Keeping your attention is pretty hard these days!  God is using you in more ways than either of us realize and I hope and pray that you will always let him use you and guide your life.  Long before you were born, I told God if you were born you would not be mine but his, I hope I bring you up the way I should so that I may return you to him someday! 

Lazy Weekend 10/10-11

On Friday, we went to church to the Kids Crusades.  Zeke watched for  a while, but he really just wanted to go up on stage with the guy especially after he took his offering up there.  On Saturday, we watched the Hogs play, they WON! YAY!  Zeke and I snuggled and he slept through part of the game.  After the game, we headed to town to eat at Dixie and do a little shopping.  We went in search of a book shelf for his room, but I didn't find what I was looking for.  I got a few picture frames so I can hang up all his pics ( I have been just covering them up as I got new ones).  I am excited to put them all up on the wall.  On Sunday, we finished up Kids Crusades and had potluck at church so by the time we got home at 130 with no nap, Zeke was ready to crash.  We took our weekly nap all snuggled up in the chair, but I couldn't fall asleep this week and he even slept 3 hours.  After he woke up, we went to visit Rachel, Bry, Ab, and Jules.  Zeke kept going into Abbi's room and she wasn't real happy about it, but as always she gave in and told him he could play in there but he could not put anything in his mouth.  She is such a good babysitter!  She showed us her brownies she made in her "dishwasher safe" pan, lol.  Then he wanted to play Nick Jr games with her and she wasn't really into that either, lol, poor girl he is kind of rotten.  When we got home, we ate some supper and got ready for the week ahead!

Busy Day 10/3/09

This morning we got up at 7 to go to Memphis to Zeke's NICU grad party at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women where he was born.  When we got there, we had his pic made and got registered.  There was lots of stuff to do, but the games were just a little old for him.  We had his handprint done and they weighed and measured him.  He was 23 pounds 5 ounces with his clothes on and 32.5 inches tall, they were all amazed at how he had grown.  The little girl in front of us was about his age and she weighed around 15 pounds and was like 28 inches.  She had started at 4 pounds too, so Zeke has really grown alot!  After the party, we went to eat at Fridays and to Babies R Us.  We rushed home to Abbi's party.  Zeke wanted to be in the middle of the stage at all times and Abbi eventually let him join her.  She is so sweet to him.  When the party was over we had pics made by my cousin Lindsay.  I was really excited over them, you can see them at lindsayphifer.shutterfly.com .  On Sunday, we got some rest time.  We ate lunch at Grandma's (Zeke's fav place to eat)  Our favorite thing to do on Sundays is to snuggle up and take a nap in the recliner while Daddy watches football, oh I dread to see the days pass when he no longer likes to snuggle with me during his naps and at night.  Most parents are worried about when they will get their child to sleep through the night or in their own bed and while I do enjoy that he sleeps through the night I will be sad when he thinks he is a big boy and wants to sleep in his own room.  I am strange I know......lol.

Fun Filled Weekend~9/26-27

On Saturday, we watched the Razorbacks game with friends (Zeke took a nap through the entire game).  After the game was over, we got some US Pizza (Zeke loves it). On Sunday, we took Zeke to Playhouse Disney.  He loved watching the people, but not the people on stage, the ones that do the sound, ha ha.  He is such a mess these days.  We bought cotton candy with a Handy Manny hat and he loved it.  He loved the lemonade they had too, so much so he had to chew on it the whole time we were there to keep him from screaming.  I wonder why he is a mess......who knows, lol.  After the show, we ate at Salsa's and did some shopping before coming home!  What a weekend, now we need a day to rest.