When did my baby turn into a toddler?!?!?!

Oh how I miss (even though I never thought I would say this) my little baby about 8 or 9 months ago? Although he cried....A LOT...and I will never forget that time....I would love to see his first smile one more time. Or the first time he looked in my eyes and knew I was someone special in his life..not just that crazy lady who always changed his diapers. Man...now he is Mr. Independent. Walking along the edge of EVERYTHING and then crawling when he runs out of an edge to follow. Trying the meow like the cats...even though it comes out as a strange screech he seems to make the same sound every time the cats are around.

I prayed and prayed for him to gain weight but now I am starting to have back pains again (from several years ago) and wrist problems again because he is getting SO HEAVY...(so ok that is a praise and a prayer request all in one). Tonight in Cracker Barrel someone actually said that he looked big for a 10 1/2 month old. I was so proud!!!

Now I am having to make sure that I do not put ANYTHING within reach on tables and in the floor. We put the toys back in the toy basket about 50,000 times every day and 10 minutes later he crawls over and pulls E.V.E.R.Y single one out again. So I just stopped trying to clean up after him until the end of the day. I worried and wondered for 6 months when he would get teeth (cause he was droolin' and chewin' since he was about 3 months old)..Now he has 2 bottom teeth and the 2 top are coming in with the two top on either side of the 2 middle getting started right behind them.

I am so honored and I LOVE being a mom!!! I would have 19 more if we wouldn't look like those weird TLC families...OK...maybe just 1 or 2 more...lol!!!

Tag...Your It!!!

So, tonight Matthew decided that he was going to be independent. He started crawling...all by himself around the house with me chasing him the whole time. (Oh the wonderful times to come) Anyway, he was also...I think...playing a game with the cat. He would chase the cat and of course they were terrified of him and ran from him but he thought it was a game so he starts chasing them around like an annoying little brother until he found their hiding place...under the bed and in the little cat house. He didn't find them in the cat house so he kinda gave up.

He was moving so fast I wasn't able to get very many focused pictures but he still is as cute as the dickens!!!!

Total Praise!!!

We went to church today. The first Sunday we have been in a long time due to varying excuse...some of them legitimate and honestly some of them not so much. I am sure glad that we went today because the Redemption Youth Choir from Redemption Baptist Church visited and sang the song "Total Praise".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phBXe4RN3t8&feature=fvw

It was awesome!!! Totally a great Sunday to go because they sang several other songs including "Papa Nou" a Hatian version of The Lord's Prayer and "Joshua and the Battle of Jericho". I was very moved by the wonderful harmonies in their singing.

Matthew apparently loved the music as well. In the nursery he was crying and throwing a fit until the choir started singing. They said that he immediately stopped crying and starting staring at the TV when the music started. That and a cracker calmed him down. After church we went to Chevy's (our favorite Tex-Mex place!!!). Matthew has been eating extremely well this weekend and he ate 1 1/2 jars of baby food for lunch and 3 for dinner along with a 6 ounce bottle this morning, oatmeal with 6 more ounces of formula before church and about 7 or 8 ounces tonight before bed. He is now getting 4 teeth on the top. A couple have already broke through and he has 2 more on the top that are bulging. I can't wait to see those pearly whites!!!

Well I better go off to bed. Although we have a day off this week I still have to get up tomorrow and go!!

Have a great night everyone!!!

Whew...another close one

Getting ready to watch the game with momma and daddy.

OOOO...It looks like this one is gonna be a close one!!!!!

Man...Alabama and their quarterback better pull it together.

Whew....it was a close game but the TIDE pulled it off in true TIDE form!!!

Now we just gotta beat Auburn and the Gators!!! Next week we play Mississippi State so we should beat them too!!!

Roll Tide Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Apparently Matthew LOVES the song...Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. Last week when I dropped by Ms. Cookie's to get Matthew they were having music time. (which thrills me to death since I am an elementary music teacher) Ms. Cookie said that he loved the songs "If Your Happy and You Know It" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. I didn't think much of it until last night I was looking up songs on You Tube and ran across both of those songs and he had a jumpin' fit in his jumperoo.

This is him chasing me around the house.





I guess we better get ready because pretty soon he will be running up and down the hall. Our poor cats are already being tormented by him. Every chance he gets he will grab at their tails and fur.

Toddler years here we come!!! I am already exhausted.

Me and my Shadow

So no picture tonight but Matthew hit yet another milestone tonight!!! The past few weeks he has be crawling around the living room from his toy basket to the couch and back again. He even pulls himself up and walks along the edge of the couch for a change of scenery. Tonight he decided to take a little trip into the kitchen when daddy went for a drink of water. It is so cute because we here his little hands going smack smack smack and then huffing and puffing then smack smack smack again.

Later he decided to chase Roxie (our cat) down the hallway...but then got scared and started to cry because he ended up all alone because the cat (being very smart) ran and hid.

I go into the other room for something and what do I hear???

Smack huff huff smack smack smack huff huff huff...then a sweet little head emerges from around the corner!!!

Now I guess I will have a shadow for life!!!

How can I be upset about that???

Halloween ROAaaRRR!!!!!!!

Well...I would have posted a blog about Halloween before now but our internet, TV and phone were out until today so I am a little late.

First of all...we went to our clubhouse on Saturday afternoon to enter Matthew into a costume contest. We were so excited to take him in his lion costume that Nana made...but we were ecstatic that he won the contest!!!













After Matthew was declared costume king we decided to go back home for a little while and let Matthew rest until we went Trick or Treating. We got Matthew back in his King of the Jungle costume and took some cute pictures next to the jack-o-lantern. We also wanted to let him crawl in the grass like a real lion. He really had a great time.







Matthew loved trick or treating!!! We can't wait until next year!!!