Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus!

Our Christmas was great and Dominick is doing much better. He still pulls at his ear but other than that he seems to be fine. He is off the breathing treatments but still on medicine for his ears. I did terrible with pictures this year. Everything happened so quickly, I didn't take many pictures of the whole family and none of Dominick opening his presents. We got it all on video though.

This is Jon's only sister and her 2 daughters (our nieces) who came to visit from Arkansas. We hadn't seen them in over 2 years so it was great to share Christmas with them this year.

Dominick with his Granny (Jon's mom).

My family at dinner on Christmas Eve. My dad's head is blocking Beckey, sorry about that.

One of my presents was a robe from my fabulous brother. I thought is was funny because Gizmo saw it and walked in the middle of all the gifts to get to it and take a little nap.

Dominick's actual b-day is Monday (New Years Eve) but the daycare is closed so I brought a cake and party favors to daycare today. It was too short notice for Wal-Mart to do a train cake so they made him the cutest Elmo cake. It turned out so adorable and was only $14.00. It didn't taste nearly as good as his train cake but it sure was cute.

Update on Dominick, his behavior is HORRIBLE. I don't know how I'm gonna make it through the terrible 2's. His vocabulary is unbelievable. He speaks in sentences and never stops talking. He says "what's that" anytime he doesn't know what something is. He wants to do everything himself and says "No Momma, Baby do it" all the time. He dropped a toy in the car last night and wanted me to get it. I said "No, Momma's driving" (I really wasn't). And Dominick said "No Momma! Daddy driving! Momma no drive!". Jon and I were dying lauphing. I guess we can't trick him as easily any more.

Happy Birthday to Meeee!

Yesterday was by 31st b-day...luckily we celebrated it on Sunday because yesterday was not a good day. I woke up, got ready for work, got Dominick out of his crib and laid him on the floor to dress him and noticed blood all over the side of his face, neck, PJ's and dripping out of one of his ears. I'm not sure what it is to have a panic attack but I think I had one. I had to keep telling myself to breath. Long story short, after 4 hours in the doctor's office and pharmacy, Little Man has RSV. If it weren't for the ear situation, I would have never known that he had RSV and he would have probably ended up in the hospital. He doesn't have a runny nose and is hardly coughing...I had no idea he was so sick. I of course freaked out again because Jon and I both have lots going on a work this week and neither one of us could take off the whole week of work. Luckily my parents came to the rescue, they took Dominick to their house (3 hours away) for the rest of the week. They will bring him back on Sunday since that is when they were planning on coming into town for the Holidays. I'm gonna miss my Little Man but I know he's in good hands and he more than likely won't miss us a bit. The relationship he has with my parents is hard to explain...it sounds weird but when they are around, Dominick wants nothing to do with Jon or myself. He loves them to pieces!

For my b-day we went out to dinner and then went to the zoo for the winter lights and Jon surprised me with another Couch handbag and matching wallet. I wasn't expecting a gift because Jon just bought me a new dining room table and wedding ring a few weeks ago. I still don't have the ring, the jeweler sent the ring back to the designer and they are gonna make the same ring in my size because I didn't like the idea of them altering (cutting and sizing) the ring.


These are pictures of my class from last Friday. Every year the 1st grade students are allowed to bring blankets and PJ's and the parents are invited to come. I read the story The Polar Express and then we have hot chocolate and Santa Claus brings each child a silver bell (like in the story). Then the children sit with their parents and read Christmas books together. It's so much fun...I love my job!

Birthday Party!!!

Dominick's birthday is December 31, but we decided to have his party a little early since his b-day is so close to Christmas. To find out what his b-day theme was...check out the videos!!!

Dominick loooved his choo-choo party! He stayed on the train for a solid hour and waved and blew his little train whistle non-stop. It was an amazing party and Dominick had a blast!!!

The train just drove around our neighborhood.

My friend Nanette made this adorable cake.

This was Dominick's present from Jon and me. He also got 2 different train sets and lots of other cool gifts.

Tio (my brother) is a huge LSU fan.

Dominick did not like it when his Momma was pretending to be a football player.