Mine, Mine, Mine

After spending the weekend with his 3 year old cousin, Little Man will not stop saying "Mine" about everything. He was already saying it every now and then, but now he thinks it is the coolest game...so aggravating!

Here is Little Man on his way out the door to go to school (daycare) to see his

"girlfriend" Hannah. He looked so cute I had to take a few pictures.

Maw Maw & Paw Paw's House

We went to my parents' house to see my 2 nieces I hadn't seen in over a year. Almost all of us ended up sick and feeling totally yucky and it was so cold and wet the kiddos didn't get to go outside and play so our weekend wasn't as fun as it could have been for the kiddos. They are coming to visit us in a few weeks so we are crossing our fingers that the weather will be awesome and everyone will be feeling well so they can play outside with all their cool toys and we can go to the zoo, which is one of Dominick's favorite places.

We celebrated my niece/Godchild's 3rd birthday. The kids had fun despite the circumstances of the weather and runny noses. Thank God my fabulous mother was smart enough to buy and wrap a bunch of gifts for Little Man to unwrap also. Smart thinking Mom!!!

Of course we had to light some candles for Dominick (a.k.a. pyromaniac) to blow out along with B-day Girl. The child loves fire...scary!

Busted!!! I walked into the kitchen and caught Paw Paw playing with one of B-day girl's toys all by himself. He hung her little dart board on the cabinets and was throwing the Velcro balls at it. Have you ever heard that saying "Men never grow up!"? It is soooo true.

This is a video of the B-day Girl and Dominick playing their harmonicas (one of their gifts).

Daddy's LIttle Helper

Dominick is ALL BOY! It is so cute how much he loves to "help" his Daddy hammer or use a screw driver. He also loves to fill his tiny pockets with rocks...so cute!!! It's so amazing and cute how boys are just boys. You don't teach them to like rocks and tools, they just naturally like that kind of stuff...at least our Little Man does. He was SO excited tonight when we got a package and opened it and he saw screws in it. He insisted on getting a screw driver and "helping" Jon put together the Doggie Dooley, even though we had no intentions on putting it together tonight. Too bad for us, The Boss said it must be done NOW. The Doggie Dooley is a septic tank thingy you burry in the ground and put dog doo-doo in so that we don't have to keep throwing our 2 fur-babies doggie doo-doo into the field behind our house. Now that our puppies have their own potty I need to teach Little Man how to scoop the poop and put it in the Doggie Dooley...Just Joking!!!

Then we told Little Man that this was where Mickey and Gizmo are going to "poo-poo" and he said "NO, Baby poo-poo on toilet" and insisted on sitting on it. Silly boy!

By the way, this will be buried in our yard, not sitting on top of the ground.

Behavior is MUCH, MUCH better!

A few days after my last post I went to the book store and bought several books on toddlers and discipline. I love reading, especially anything that has to do with children and the way their little minds operate. I loved all the child psychology type classes I had to take in college. Anyway, after reading a lot of the info from the books, I've made a few changes in the way I approach discipline and they way I speak to Dominick and it has truly made a world of difference in his behavior. I think I was being way to hard on him before and I have a whole new attitude about his little personality now. I'm sure he will test my patience and things will not always go smoothly with discipline, but for now it is SO MUCH BETTER and that makes us both so much happier!!! He is such a sweet, perfect child...in my eyes at least.

Dominick loves playing with Play-Dough (sp?). His favorite thing to do is cut it with scissors.

It was nice and warm this past weekend so we spent a lot of time playing outside; writing with chalk, playing soccer, running up and down the street, blowing bubbles, swinging, etc. By the way, Dominick can draw a straight line or circle if you ask him to.

This is one of Dominick's favorite things to do...play with his Geo Track train set. He absolutely loves this thing!

These are pictures of my precious Little Man on his actual 2nd b-day (even though we celebrated it twice on days before his b-day). We went to a party and popped fireworks on his actual b-day and he loved it.

These are his new Blow Fish shoes. They're much cuter in person. They are raggedy looking with strings hanging off all the seems.

And these are his new Converse shoes. I love buying him shoes...I try to make sure they are comfortable but I won't let him wear the thick-soled running type shoes. He just doesn't look good in those for some reason.

Hope you all have a good week and a wonderful New Year!

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.