happy birthday vegas landry.

today you are one.

that's 365 days old, which to me... is unbelievable.

how did i ever function before you? what were my goals? what were my dreams? oh yeah, they were YOU. you are my everything. you are the drive that pushes me to want to become a better person. on my worst days, that gummy smile makes everything disappear. you are so innocent and clueless to the real world and i want to keep you that way for as long as i can. all you care about is eating, sleeping and tapping things with your middle finger... which is a pretty awesome life if you ask me. you pass no judgment, i am your mom and that's all you care about. you don't care if i have an important job, drive an import or even pay the mortgage. all you ever want from me is attention, and i really do try my hardest to give you as much as i humanly can because i know you will not be this little forever. while my heart aches just typing those words i cannot wait to watch you develop into an amazing girl. hell, you already ARE amazing, in more ways than your little brain could ever imagine.

you changed my life one year ago today, and for that i am eternally grateful.

i love you [mama].

i know you will not remember your first year, but it is forever etched in my brain. thank you for being awesome!

fathers day 2010

fathers day was pretty low key around our house yesterday.

the three of us woke up way too late, snuggled  in the bed, ate breakfast at lunchtime, laid around at the pool, took vegas to see her grandfathers grave and put flowers on it for the first time, met up with CJ's brother and sister, then headed to dinner at cheddars.

it was a perfect way to spend his first fathers day in my opinion. :)

and completely off subject [ineedatan], but i got my hair chopped off saturday. does it look like a "mommy" cut? maybe the humidity was making it poof out, idk. boo!

seven months old.

so you are seven months old. um, yeah -  not so sure how i feel about that. you are growing a little faster than i would like to admit. please slow, thats pretty much an order. 

so much has changed about you in the past month. here are a few bunch of the highlights. equipped with the mandatory photo shoot.

- you have discovered your high pitch voice, cute and not so cute at the same time.
- you completely sit up unassisted all of the time.
- you are showing no signs of crawling anytime soon, you still hate being on your stomach.
- are still a toothless beauty.
- love going in the pool!
- grab for EVERYTHING. nothing is off limits, including moms flat iron [happened, but mom intervened just in the nick of time.]
- finally growing some dang hair!

- put EVERYTHING in your mouth.
- take shorty naps, as opposed to the marathon 2 hour ones you used to take.
- are thisclose to sleeping through the night, every night.
- are so excited to see mom when she comes home from work. melts my heart, every time.
- eat 6 - 8 ounces of baby food a day.
- you are turning into quite the diva. i wonder where that comes from?!
- splash more water out of the tub than you probably should.

- are becoming so vocal! i cannot wait until you say "ma ma ma ma".
- have the cutest [pirate face] that mom trying to catch on camera. [sidenote, your gammy said that your mom used to do the same face when she was little!].

i think she may have been a little sad that i took my necklace off of her.
i also added a new monthly picture to the right sidebar for your viewing pleasure.

mothers day - with my mother of course.

there are not nearly enough words in the english dictionary to describe how i feel about my mother. those would be good words, not bad.

i am lucky to have a pretty awesome relationship with my mother. i know that is not the case for so many others.

this mothers day we went to lunch where she gave me this beautiful "mother and child" bracelet. it is dangling on the keyboard as i type this. i was completely not expecting a gift from her, so it was extra special in that sense.

vegas was a little on the crabby side today. she didn't get the memo that she is supposed to be on her best behavior. i guess she thought that since she gave me my present last week [got my hurrr did!], that she was off the hook.

ps. my mom is not a midget, all though she does resemble one in pictures sometimes. oh, and no i am not adopted, ive asked a few times because i look nothing like her. im all my dad. just like vegas, i guess.

easter 2010

every year for easter [and most other holidays] we spend it traveling from house to house. this year was no different. no cute easter dress pictures in this post because somebody chewed, slobbered and destroyed it before i could snap a picture. boo.

we got up and headed to vegas' gammys house [my mom] where she had the cutest little basket waiting for her, fully equipped with these... i cannot wait until her little hands can use them. she also had a basket for cj and i, because we are 25 and still get a basket from the easter bunny. my mom made the traditional easter meal featuring ham and her infamous burnt sweet potatoes.

not that she meeeeaaaaannnnssss to burn them every time [charcoal briquettes anyone?], she just always does. once she scraped that layer off and browned the new marshmallows to a wonderful shade of sienna it was eatin' time, and man was it good.

next we headed to vegas' mimis house [cjs mom] where she got yet another basket of goodies, including two summer dresses that after i washed and dried turned into summer shirts. they shrunk like 5 sizes.

this was her face after riding in the car all.day.long.

later that night we headed to some new friends' house and got drunk on wine while playing balderdash. what a great easter.