Dear Greyson,

Mommy is so sorry about taking you to that mean lady who stuck those pointy things in your legs. I tried to punch her but she ran out when you started screaming. I think you scared her out....way to go son! She says that those pointy things are something you had to have now that you're 1 year old. Mommy still can't believe that! Right now, you're in your crib and you have a bandaid on each leg. They sure are colorful! I just wanted to let you know I am so sorry you have to go through that.
I love you so much baby,
Mommy






For those of you still reading....LOL, Greyson had 1 year check up he is proportioned perfect and weighs 23 lbs and 11 oz. She said he is tall but not taller than normal measuring in at 29 and 3/4 inches long. That was nice to hear considering his Dad is only 4'2...JUST KIDDING! He's 5'6. That's much better, jk.

If they can't handle it, we deserve a raise!

I though this video was hilarious! Watch it here

You have got to be kidding me...

Another funny video

I agree with Miss Teen USA

What's all the hub-bub about? She is so good with her words!
Watch this video.

HARTY HAR HAR!!!!

Today....

was such a good day for us as a family. We didn't even go anywhere. Carlos and I cleaned the house and BBQ'ed early. Carlos played with Greyson so much today. He was down on the floor acting like a 1 year old with Greyson, LOL. He was showing Greyson how to do flips and when Greyson was crawling, Carlos was over the top of him on all fours crawling with him. At one time Carlos even had a paci in his mouth acting like Greyson. So, I snapped a couple pictures, I know I don't usually do that. It was an eye opener though. I am thankful for my life and I feel very blessed to be me. I loved watching my husband have so much fun with our son, acting goofy and giving tons of hugs and kisses. God is amazing.

Just waiting for baby..

Carlos and I went to our friend Julie's co-ed baby shower yesterday! It was really fun. Anyway, I was in awe over her nursery. I thought I'd share it with you guys. My poor Greyson's nursery was so boring, LOL. They don't know what they are having yet. She is 37 weeks today, and her letters spell out their last name.

Happy Birthday Beautiful Boy!

Greyson,
Mommy can hardly believe that you are turning a year old already. It was just yesterday when they laid you in my arms for the first time and you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. This has been such a fun year and you've learned so much just in the last month. Every day you amaze me with something new. You're saying Bye, uh-oh, Momma, shaking your head no, and are so close to walking. I took you to get your pictures taken today and you were such a good boy as usual. I look at the pictures and it makes Mommy want to cry because she can't believe God blessed her with such a beautiful little boy. I hope your birthday is so wonderful. Nothing will ever compare to you.

I love you so much Greyson,
Momma

Where you at?

OK, so I was wondering how many people actually look at my blog, so I put a counter on here for a few days. By the way I took it off last night. I had like 166 hits on my page and no comments. Why doesn't anyone ever comment? I don't get it? Sometimes I feel like I am just talking to myself. I wish people would start talking.

On to a different, important subject..haha, Greyson is getting his 1 year pictures taken today! I hope they turn out good like the 1st ones did. He is so unsure about people that he's never seen. I just know he's going to spend half of the time just staring people down. Hopefully not the whole time...OMGosh. I can just see it now. We're going back to the place that did these pictures, Portrait Innovations. I love that place.

And another one!!

Greyson's sitter had a birthday party for him yesterday. Well, I brought everything and she had the party. But, I thought it was cute. It was no biggy. I got to be there for a couple hours but then I had to leave for work.

Greyson LOVES Mickey Mouse more than anything else, so she bought some stickers and decorated his face and highchair with them. I came back to pick him up about 5 hours later and he still had them on his face. The kids colored Mickey Mouse pages for him. I thought that was adorable! I just love birthdays!

Brusha, Brusha, Brusha....

Remember that from the movie GREASE? I love that movie! Anyway, we dug out the toothbrush we had waiting for Greyson! Aunt Tam sent it to us when he was like 2 weeks old. It's been sitting in the medicine cabinet this whole time.

When I stuck it in his mouth he laughed. Don't know why, but he did. He has such a funny personality. I wonder where he gets it from? I waited so long for him to laugh and now he does it so much. I love to listen to it. It will never get old.

Back to the toothbrush, it's his Tom-Mater toothbrush from the movie CARS. Here are some pictures of him brushing his own teeth and also a video of him with it!

Everything must go....

Higher and higher that is. Greyson is destroying my house. He can reach everything. Just when you think you've move everything he gets up to something else. I'm glad he's growing and learning don't get me wrong, but they forgot to put this in his manual when I brought him home from the hospital.

And we'll have fun, fun, fun.........

What a day we had yesterday! This is probably going to be a long post so you might wanna get up and stretch every now and then!! There were so many people there to celebrate Greyson's 1st birthday and I want to thank everyone for that first of all!!!

We started off with eating Mostaciolli and a Caesar salad and then it was off to opening presents. Lots of presents! Lots of FUN presents! He got so many musical toys he doesn't know which one to play with first. I didn't get any pictures of him opening presents because I was the one opening them. I had a friend recording it for me with the camcorder and forgot to have someone take pictures with my camera..agh! Greyson's birthday decorations were from the movie Ratatouille. What a cute theme. Here is a couple pictures of Greyson with his chef party hat on!!



Mom and Kylie (my niece) made Greyson his very own little cake to destroy. Well that's what I hoped he would do but he never did. He would touch it and then almost just look at his fingers like uh oh I have something on my fingers I better lick it off. My Mom thinks I don't let him get dirty enough so he doesn't know how to, LOL. We had to eventually stick his fingers in it..hahaha. Here is a video of Greyson with his cake





After he got all messy with his cake I had to take him straight to the tub. Aunt Tam was playing with his hair and putting it in a Mow hawk. Yesterday he also found his stuff if you know what I mean. Yep, he found it in the tub. He was yanking so hard, I thought it would fall off. Tami and I were laughing so hard. So, I guess you turn a year and all sorts of new things start. Oh man it was funny.




After the party we hung out with everyone for a while and it started pouring down. Greyson and I braved it to the car and went home. He didn't make it 2 minutes in the car before he was out. He'd had enough fun and his eye lids were too heavy.


When we got home he heard the doggies barking at the door and his legs started kicking, he was ready to get up. I was ready to put him to bed...it was 8:00. But, he wasn't tired so I put him in his highchair so I could open up some of his toys so he could look at them. He got a tool bench, a toy cookie jar, a Mickey Mouse doll, a basketball toy that he can throw the balls into, a toy vacuum, and on and on. I can't think of everything.







This morning I woke up and Carlos wasn't in bed anymore, I went downstairs to find them on the couch together. This just melts me and takes my breath away. I want this to last forever.

Thank you Rachel!!!

I am so excited about this right now!!! So last night I'm on my way to Walmart to get the stuff to put in Greyson's goodie bags for his party this Saturday. I get a call from Rachel telling me I need to go home and print off these coupons she just sent me. I didn't really want to go back home to print off some coupons. Rachel says TRUST ME it will be worth the drive. The coupons were to expire yesterday and they were for Target which closed at 10pm. By this time it's already 8:05 and I'm thinking do I really wanna do this? Well, I'm so glad I did. I got about 50+ jars of food and snacks for Greyson for $2.16. Not joking! Here is the picture for proof!!!

Got a fussy kid?

Give em a sucker they'll forget all about it!

This is some funny stuff!

At work I found some ugly glasses, put them on and started playing around with my cell phone camera. I showed one of the pictures to this guy named Greg at work. He thinks I look like Roz off of Monsters Inc. What do you think??? Be prepared....it's funny!




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4 more days...

Until Greyson's FIRST birthday party! I am really excited about this! I think I am now living through him. I could care less about my birthdays but know how much fun his will be and it's all exciting again! YAY!




It has been so blistering hot in St. Louis that that is a little bit of a downer when I think about his party. I would have rather had a BBQ, but instead I am going to make Mostaciolli so no one has to burn to a crisp outside! I really don't know how we'll be able to stand doing a Pinata either in this severe sauna. I'm sure it will all turn out good. I think I have spent too much on it, but you can't spend too much on your child's 1st birthday, can you? Nahhhh......

Sometimes I wish I had a maid...

Do you ever feel like there's no point in cleaning your house because it's going to look dirty all over again? That's how I feel right now. We will clean the house really good and what feels like 10 minutes later it's messy again.

I work full time and I come home at around 5:30-6:00 every night. I put Greyson right in his high chair, give him something to snack on and basically keep him satisfied or busy while I cook dinner. I feed him dinner, scarf mine down and when I'm done I don't want to clean. I'm tired, full, and lazy by that time! After all that I give Greyson a bath, a bottle, and it's his bedtime. How does one have enough time in the day? Can you believe about a month ago I was wanting to get pregnant again? Am I nuts? I can't handle it right now, LOL. Does anyone know the number to a good maid??? Just Kidding.....

The craziest thing

happened the other day. I work in Ophthalmology. I heard that a guy named Justin died at a Dr's office and I know a Justin from my last job so I went to STLtoday.com and typed in Justin Thompson just for the hell of it to see if it was him. It wasn't the same guy but then found out that Justin had died also??? Last I knew he and I left Pepose (where we worked together) He was going to the Police academy and I went to work for another Dr's office. I am just sick about this. He died in February after playing hockey. He was on his way home and wasn't feeling good all of a sudden and so his friend drove him to the hospital. He was having a heart attack. They tried to revive him in the emergency parking lot. I am so sad about this and also freaked out about the way I found it out. This guy was a hockey nut. He was so healthy and it just makes no sense. He was only 26 years old. I know I can't question God, but he must have wanted him in Heaven really bad. Here is a picture of Justin and a link to his memorial website.



Justin's website