Happy Easter

Dominick has been a busy little man. He went to a b-day party 2 weeks ago and spend time with his 2 favorite people, Maw Maw and Nicole (cousin). Last week he spend more time with his 2 favorite people and went to an Easter party at church. And this weekend he helped his Daddy put up a fence and helped us celebrate our 11 year wedding anniversary. By the way, the fence and more landscaping were my anniversary gifts from Jon. That's what I wanted this year, just to spend time with my 2 special guys and finally get a fence. I'm so thankful to have such an awesome hubby. He is the best father to my Little Man I could have ever imagined!!!

This was the coolest b-day party I've ever been to. It was at a children's gym and was so cool!

Making cookies at Maw Maw's house.

That's all for now (I'm in a rush). I'll try to post more from Easter in a few days.

More Train Parties

Dominick had so much fun this weekend. He went to another b-day party and they rented the same little train we had rented for Dominick's party so he was able to enjoy it again!

I'm the photographer and videographer of the family so it is rare to see pictures of myself. I guess Daddy was so happy to have off 1 and a half whole days of work that he decided to get camera-happy. (Jon usually works at least 6 days a week, usually 7 days and he's always tired. )

Dominick is looking forward to going to another b-day party this coming weekend. It is his fake-cousins' 2nd birthday (the triplets). He's also soooo looking forward to seeing his Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw and his real cousins.

Today's Wish

If I could have one wish granted today, I would beg God to stop time so that my precious boy would not grow up. I just love this age (most of the time at least).

I was thanking God tonight and thinking about how absolutely perfect my Little Man is. He has such a great personality, he is so very sweet and so very smart. Not to mention I think he is the most gorgeous human being I have ever seen (I know I'm a bit biased). He's so sweet and innocent. It is too cute, his nick name is Baby and he always refers to himself as Baby. Jon put Mickey (the dog) in the bed with Dominick tonight and Dominick was so excited as was asking Mickey "Mickey. Bed with Baby? Mickey goodnight bed Baby?" And he was just looking at Mickey waiting for him to answer. I just sat on the floor and smiled with tears running down my face, wishing Dominick would stay this age forever.

Fun with Cousins

Dominick's cousins spent the weekend with us and they had so much fun. They were so sweet to eachother and loved playing together. Dominick absolutely loves other children, especially kids that are older than him. Which confuses me even more about whether or not we should adopt another child. We really like the idea of Dominick being an only child. Life is so hectic and things are just so expensive, Jon and I both love the idea of us being able to totally indulge one child. It would be cool to be able to allow him to bring a friend every time we go on vacation, put him in every sport and activity he wants, send him to the best private schools, buy him a brand new car when he's older, and so on. But on the other hand, what if our Little Man will always regret not having a sibling??? I don't know why we stress so much over whether or not we should have a second child, I feel completely confident that God will reveal to us what his plan is for our future and Dominck's best interest. If He wants Dominick to have a sibling, He will open the right doors and lay it upon our hearts for that to happen. And if not, I will be forever grateful for my one perfect, precious child.

Passed Out

Here is Little Man passed out with all his beads after the parade.

These pictures are for you mom. For the rest of you, I've been trying to find outfits for Dominick and my neices to take pictures together. We didn't want anything dressy or expensive so it was really hard to find anything to match.

If I could just find a yellow shirt for Dominick, this would be cute. The brown skirts are much cuter in person.

Happy Mardi Gras!!!

For those of you who have never been to Mardi Gras, it is like the biggest party you could ever imagine. As the sun rises, people are beginning to get intoxicated and setting up for huge crawfish boils with loud music. Whether you are a 3-day-old infant, or a 90 year old Granny, everyone comes out to enjoy the parades. It is a family event with children riding skateboards and bicycles and playing football in the streets all day while waiting for parades to come. Each float usually has their own DJ and loud music, but there are also marching bands, horses, clowns, fire trucks, police cars and dancers. I'm posting a vidoe of a Mardi Gras parade for those of you who may not live in Louisiana and have never been to a parade. We live in a very small town right outside of a very large town, so this particular parade was a small Coon-Ass (Cajun) version of a Mardi Gras parade.

Dominick had so much fun catching beads, cups, candy, stuffed animals and bubbles; and of course he was quick to make friends with the other children while waiting for the parade to come.

Thanks Pop and Hunnie

Here is Dominick on his way out the door Monday morning in his new outfit from Pop and Hunnie (grandparents).

I told him to smile for this picture but I'm not sure what he was doing.

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!