I am trying to enjoy the silence.

It has only been forty five min since Sophia has left and I feel my heart aching. I miss her. Earlier in the week Diana asked me if I wanted to take a day trip down the shore with the kids and as much as I wanted to I knew I couldn't take off of work especially with Sophias birthday a couple days away. I was bummed, but I knew this wasn't going to be the only day. So last night while talking to diana on the phone she had asked if she could take Sophia for the day so that I could just relax and then go to work and not have to worry about a babysitter. I had to think about it for a min so about ten min later I gave her the okay! Ater hanging up the phone with her I got really excited and then...sad! Sophia woke up early today I think she was excited to be hanging out with dom all day! After doing our normal morning routine I asked her to pick some toys out and put them in her little ducky bag that she was going to bring with her. It was so cute watching her do exactly what I had asked. We then got a whole bunch of food and snacks together and got dressed and picked out some "just incase" clothes. Diana had called and said she was planning on leaving an hour earlier now. They arrived about 9:30 the kids were excited to finally see eachother since both of us kept telling them about today! After going through the what I packed in the bag and what to dos if... it was time for them to leave. I gave my kisses and my I loves and watched them pull away with tears in my eyes. I came into the house and cleaned up her toys and called diana to find out what she was doing! Dianas response: DRINKING from her cup! I was happy! glad to hear she wasn't crying! I then again went through her bottle/nap routine, I had to stop myself because I would of kept rambling on and on! Diana knows what to do; we'll all be fine!
Lately Sophia has been venturing out! My uncle rich has watched her a couple of times do our work schedules and my friend kathy and bella from work took her out for a couple hours because I thought I had work, but come to find out I didn't so instead of them dropping her off back at home she stayed out with them. From the sounds of it she really enjoyed her self. So everytime I have been away from her has only been for a couple of hours. Today will be the longest time apart and that is why my heart aches. Okay so let me stop moping and fill you in with some news. Sophia has been taking a few steps here and a few steps there nothing more then 6 untill wednesday night/thursday morning! Since my parents house she has been walking soo much more now although she still crawls most of the time she will walk over to her toys or to me or whomever. it is amazing watching her she concentrates so much on walking it is too cute. I can not believe she will be one on sunday. WOW! she is still eating everything and anything. always wanting to try new things! the doctor said this should be her last month on formula we go to her one year visit next thursday.
well, i guess i will go check my facebook/comcast emails out and then ....relax?!?! I feel like I should be doing something productive, but I am kinda!

walmart,target,mc donalds 7/09/10

Diana and I left the house around 10 finished around 2 and only went to 3 places=walmart,target,mc donalds! We had soo much fun they are too cute together anytime one of them does or says something the other will stare and have this blank look on their face. Sophia put her arm out and knocked something down and then mins later dom did the same thing. While we were at mc donalds Sophia started acting up so I gave her a straw...That was the best thing it kept them both in a good mood! before we left I made sure I grabbed a hand full of them then we headed over to target and cleared them out of their straws too!

I always looked at those carts that they have and could never imagine myself pushing them huge things around, but it wasn't really that bad. Okay yes it was they are "HUGE" Diana and I aren't the best pushers especially when we had to turn! it really does take two people to move that thing around, but the kids loved it. At both stores if anybody needed to find us it was never a prob because they left cheerio trails! At first they were eatting them and then they liked to drop it and watch it fall to the ground.

Sophia @ Doms home! 7/09/10

That day Diana and I took Sophia and Dom out shopping! (those pictures will be on the next post) Diana invited Sophia to join Dom to a birthday party later on that night so we went shopping for a gift. After shopping I had to go to work so Di just kept Sophia for the rest of the day till after the party was done. When they left they went back to "Doms home" ( thats what I tell Sophia) That was one of the first times I left sophia. When I saw them pull away well no I am lying it was actually when they were dropping me off is when the tears started! I was nervous but it wasn't a bad nervous I was just nervous that since Sophia had been sleeping when I was dropped off that when she would wake up I would not be there. :-( Thank goodness for dom. Diana said he really cheered her up and showed her all of his toys,his big bear, and even how to open his drawers! After playing there for a bit they went over to my aunt and uncles and played, ate and took a long nap, and then it was party time! Diana said at first they both were silent but then they warmed up and had a really good time. I actually got home from work before Sophia got dropped off from the party which was after 9pm!

Play date @ Corinnes con't

Liv Loved pushing Sophia around in her "Doll Stroller"!! and so did Sophia!

play date at Corinnes

These pictures were when Diana and I went to Corinnes house tohave a play date with Char and Liv.

so big so fast

today is sophias 11 month birthday i can not believe she will be one next month! the time flew by so fast!

So much to do so little time!

From the time we get up in the morning I am on the go! of course it really all depends on if I have work or not that day. So that is why I have not updated in fooorevveeerrr! Sophia has been growing up sooo fast! She now has four teeth!three on the bottom and one on the top. I see another tooth on the top ready to pop out! Her bottom teeth didn't bother her as much as the top did/do! we actually had to give her baby tylenol! other then her teeth lets see she is the best crawler around town! she can beat out any kid in a crawling race! she walks around the sofa like its her job and is starting to stand like a pro! Her diapers are a big help with the padding when she looses her balance! eatting well thats not a prob! she eats anything and everything! honestly anything! she loves going on her million walks a day and feeding all the duckies and their babies! she makes loud sounds when she sees the doggies walking down the street! I am always comparing them to tori! now that the weather has been sooo hot she tends to only wear her bathing suit! she loves to splash around in the pool. climbing in and out in and out! oh yea and she LOVES crawling on the concrete! i know!! you would think it would hurt but she moves pretty darn fast on it!

Last month was johnny and jennas wedding! it was soo much fun , but the only sad part was that joe had to stay home and watch sophia:-( we didn't have a babysitter... wish he could have been there. the wedding was so pretty! i talked about it for days especially about the cookies and milk and allll those yummy cheese burgers from mc donalds at the end of the recep waititng for all of our drunk butts to leave! Grandmom had the best idea by renting us a limo for the ride up there and back! it was so loud going there but no coming back! well kinda!

last wednesday di and i went up to corinnes to with dom and soph to play with char and liv! it was soooo much fun! i can not wait to play again! i thought it was going to take awhile to get there but it wasn't that bad got stuck in a little traffic but the kids were good in the back seat! liv pushed soph around in her little doll stroller! remindng us that she was her mom and that she was born july 3 and she was 2 but then five min latter she told us she was now 3! dom was such a little boy too cute watching the girls play. he got a boo boo on his eye because they beat him up! nah he missed the step. :-( he got soph back by shutting her inbetween the doors but then soph did it right back to him! Corinnes made us these awesome drinks from the] blender made out of srawberries,cucmber, banana,spinach and kale! it was really good i was shocked i actually couldn't get the straw out of sophia mouth she loved it! I could just go on and on about our day i can not wait to do it again. liv asked if we could come over everyday! i told her we would come back soon and she said okay how about next week!

well, i better get going sophia is taking her morning nap and i want to get somethings done before she wakes up. i have off today so our day is full!

there was one but now there is two!

Sophia had her first tooth pop out friday night and then had her second tooth pop out sunday! She has been really good during the whole process. cranky but not tooo cranky. Especially not like how some people explain teething to me! Thank goodness, but there is still a whole mouth more to come! Other then that she is growing up so much she is crawling around like she is in the olympics and standing on her two feet like nothing! She is a very daring baby! She loves trying new food. She really like broccoli, clam chowder soup both red and white! She loves sharing her toast with me in the morning! Oh yea and she loves when i cut up a bananainto little peices and let her feed her self.
Today joe and I were finshing painting th laundry room and I opened the door to see what she was up to in her walker and she was drinking her juice out of her sippy cup! That was the first time I ever saw her do it for real! I saw her try and do it before but never accoplish getting anything out. It was amazing watching her hold it with both hands and actually drink!

So Easter is coming and we are so siked to giver her;her easter basket. She wll actually be using the eater basket i used growing up.

Ramble Ramble...

I have been meaning to write on the blog now for a couple weeks and after Johnny and Jennas Bridal Shower I was pushed to write more and more often! Here all along I thought I was the only stalker when it came to blogs and facebook pages, but I was wrong! Least now I am not alone when it comes to stalking!!
Last saturday was the shower and I was able to get off of work. It started at eleven so we had to leave around 10ish. Sophie, I, my mom, and my grandmom drove down. I knew there wasn't going to be a prob with Soph because she loves car rides. Sher normally takes hermorning nap anywhere from 9:30-10:30. So around 10:10 she past right out! Grandmom couldn't believe how fast she fell alseep..."I never saw a baby fall alseep that fast!" Once we got down there she then woke up. It was very nice out even though it was chilly and windy, but the sun was out and it was not raining! We made our way in side and once we settled in Jennas arrived. Perfect timing even though it wasn't a surprise least we made it there before her! Aunt Debbie and Diana picked a table back in the corner so that we could have our mess out of the way from everyone else. Good idea because there was ALOT of mess...DOM! While walking around getting things to drink and eat we had to walk by Lori aka Aunt Lori and everytime she would stop us and say somethingto Sophia. Each time Sophie would just give her a blank stare. There were alot of people there so Soph had to get situated. We all got our food and sat back down I held Sophia in my lap while I tried to eat then I noticed a little hand going into my plate! She grabbed a hang full of coleslaw and shoved it into her mouth! It was so cute watching her eat it. She went back for seconds! I then started giving her other things to try. She liked everything just like all of us.Once Jenna started opening up her gifts diana and I moved our seats more into the corner so that we could have soph and dom play together. Jenna gave them wrapping paper which was a great idea because they loved it. Dom was crawling under the table and of course sophia had to follow. After the opening of the gifts we all got up and started chatting with one another. Sophia and I walked by lori again but this time while we were chatting Sophia grabbed on to her arm and wanted her to hold her. it was adorable watching her do that! Lori... I know your ready this! You are sooo funny! I am still laughing over what you were saying! And yes, I will try to write more and more often! The shower was coming to an end and we said our good byes and then we drove over to Bennys to see how everything was. I walked out on the peir with Sophia she couldn't stop staring at the water. Our drive home was good sophia took her afternoon nap and I took mine as well! I had such a nice shower and what made it even nicer was being down the shore.

I get it all to myself!

now that Sophia is getting older were trying different foods with her ya know human food lol not babyfood! she loves the whole fruit strawberry frozen bars and evertime either joe or i are eatting one she sits there and tugs at our clothes and opens her mouthand shuts it over and over again making a mmmmm sound. well, she just went down for nap and the bright idea popped in my head... yes, i can have a frozen fruit bar all to myself! now that im sitting here enjoying it i wish she was here with me sharing it!
there are many other things she enjoys like pizza crust (sucking on it!) french fries,pickles,sherbert,water icem and are you ready for this one.....clam juice! last night at my parents we were in the kitchen slurping down some great clams on a half shell and i had Sophia sitting on the counter and she was staring at us so i gave her a clam shell and in the mouth it went! she loved it so then i put some clam juice in the shell and she didnt even make a face! like my mom always says "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!" ain't that the truth! my parents always told me of when my brother and i were growing up around Sophias age thats how they started us to like seafood, especially clams! They used to have to wait for us to go to bed so that they could have the clams to themselves much like me and the frozen bars now with sophia! well, let me go see what else i can enjoy before the crawler gets up!

watch out here comes sophia!

Sophia started crawling tonight!!! I am soo happy! especially since I was there to see it! I knew it was going to be happening soon, but unsure when! We were over my parents tonight and she has been sticking her little booty up in the air on her tippy toes not going anywhere. and then it just happened!! i was in shock! it started with one leg then another she would go a short distance and then stop and lay down on her tummy but now that we are home she is going across the room! i can not wait for tomorrow! watch out here comes sophia!

This is my Fav. Picture

Sophia was looking up at my dad when this pucture was taken. My mom made me a 8 by 10 and put it in a frame. I just hung it up last night and I cant stop staring at it! Everytime Sophia sees it she smiles!

Sophia is now 7 months!

Like they said ..time flys when your having fun! That is the truth! I can not believe Sophia turned 7 months yest! And today she took her first bath in the tub! She was starting to really out grow her baby tub. My mom baught her a bath seat that is a ring she sits inside so that she won't be able to fall over. She loved it! She has a real bubble bath and her two little duckys and her mr. crabbie joined her along with two little plastic rings. She looked adorable sitting in the tub.

So as for crawling..nothing yet still crawls backwards, but now she sticks her little booty straight up in the air while on her toes! She now flys around the kitchen in walker especially when the cat walks by! she has even made in on the carpet with her walker! Sophia is a eater! She loves her food. I can actually say there is nothing she doesn't like..baby food that is! We have totally cut down on her formula BIG time! She is sleeping through the night for the most past. in bed by 8-8:30 and up at 8ish sometimes alittle bit earlier but no 4-5 am anymore! although I just lied Last week she woke up at 4am and was wide awake for no apparent reason i fed her and then sat her on the sofa with me while we watched the morning news and I did let her know it was not play time! After sitting with me I out her in her swing and then came the time moans and soon after she past out! Why didnt I try that sooner! We have been trying new things with her and letting her taste different things that were eatting. Now that we started that whenever were eatting she stares at us and opens her mouth and makes these mmm sounds its cute kinda! she loves the whole fruit strawberry frozen bars. I used to love them too before i had to share all the time! she made a funny face when i gave her mashed potatos. We are waititng for a tooth to come in, but nothing yet! she is showing all the signs for one.

time flys

I know I know, I have not been on here in what almost a month! As Sophia grows up I find it's harder to find the time to get on the comp. I really need to get a lap top so that I can bring it with me down stairs or in our room as she is playing, etc! I think it would be easier! Anyways so let me think... So much has changed since I last wrote. Sophia will be 6 months on monday! wow and they did say time flys! and it sure does... Her sleeping has gotten better through the night must be a "stage" thing! But she still does not like to sleep during the day. she is too afraid she is going to miss out on something... really sophia what are you going to miss out on... cleaning dishes, our room, or all of your toys scattered around?!?! You know I wouldn't do anything FUN! without you! Especially taking a walk, shopping, making the bed, or putting the clothes away! I know how much you love all of that! specially making the bed! I do this thing with her EVERY morning after we watch our daily shows and eat of oatmeal and fruit we go up stairs and I lay her against the pillows and I then make the bed~forgetting she is under the covers! nah, she thinks I forgot her but... thats the whole game! I lay my head on her body likes she is part of the pillow and she kicks her legs and laughs really loud! its just too cute! She is now eatting oatmeal we tried that out last week and she enjoyed it more then the rice! and she is enjoying all of her fruits and veggies, well all except for applesauce and string beans! she loves pears and prunes and sweet pot, heck she loves food! yest she ate so much! i felt like thats all i did was feed her! aww she is a growing little girl! She is now sitting up on her own! well, we have to place her on her little butt but she stays and hardly falls down. just a alittle wolbly! she is a very daring little girl. afraid of nothing! we have a cat and that is her best friend! she gets soo excited when gyspy walks in the room. she sits in her little walker and stares at gypsy. so cute when she is all smiles and talking to her. Gyspsy has really long white hair and Sophia tends to grip it sometimes, but gyspy doesn't seem to mind! She still enjoys her walks... her long walks! it could be freezing cold of and she is on cloud nine! people must think I am crazy bringing her out in this weather, but heck it makes her happy! it's not like i bring her out in a bathing suit! If she were not happy she would let us know! and that I know is true! Joey started feeling a hard little bump~tooth on the right side of her mouth bottom part and last night I felt it too! omg! already! she is still putting anything and everything in her mouth something we notice her with all eight fingers! she loves stickers! she will hold one in her hand for hours!
well, all in all she is growing up so nicely! everyday and every night we thank god for what he has given us we couldn't be happier parents!

happy new year everyone!

I hope everyone had a great new years! I had to work and all in all it was a good night despite two tables one inparticular! They had a package deal going on.. 65 dollers four course meal(lobster. filet mignon, surf n turf, and a few others) and open bar for 3 hours. I had a four tables section and they way the reserved the tables...ugh! but after they got some drinks in them all was good! other then my two top who apparently was one of the managers friends who from the get go were assholes! so but they really were theor nose was so far up in the air! i treated all my tables the same. and what they give me.... ten dollars! all that running around i did for them ..more then any of my tables! okay so i just had to vent! other then that i made out good. even the owner said something to me tonight on how happy he was of my service! Hope everyone enjoyed their night. happy new years!

Christmas eve at grandmom corneys

What a great Christmas!

I have been meaning to come on here sooner and post this picture along with how our Christmas went! But as you know life gets pretty darn busy with a five month old! So let me back track! On our days leading to x-mas our excitenment was getting pretty crazy! I was so thankful to find out I had off x-mas eve. Of course I didn't find out until like 3 days before hand! ugh!! but the outcome was what I wanted to see! Sophia and I went to my parents house and opened a ton of gifts they gave her! It reminded me of when I was little! I loved everything they got her. I cant pick out my favorite! Actually I think that chair is! It is soo helpful! I was also shocked to see what they have gotten me! I got a canon camcorder I was thrilled it even takes pictures too! now I just need to figure out how to set the darn thing up on the comp. I am having some trouble! ughh. I have off tomorrow so hopefully i can take some time and figure it out. i have so many cute videos already! Its so neat I can turn the screen around so that she can look at herself when i am taping her! So anyways After we opened up all the gifts we went to my grandmom corneys. my grandmom wiley joined us which was very nice having her there with us since I was not going to be seeing her x-mas day. Sophia had a really good nap inthe afternoon before going to my parents so she was pretty good. Once we got to my g-moms only my sunt debbie was there. Once everyone came Sophia had her eye on everyone. Going from one arm to another. She especially had a liking to her "2nd cousin" Oliva. Liv was too cute! Everywhere Sophia was she was right next to her. When I had to change sophias diaper we went into my grandmoms room and it was sophia liv and i sitting on the bed talking and sophia was all smiles and laughing. I then had to feed her and liv asked if she could help. So i had liv sit on the reclinner in the den and i put sophia in her lap and she fed her the bottle. they looked adorable.

I can tell liv is a great "helper" for corinne! We are going to have to get the girls together! especially since char and soph are so close in age! As the night grew Sophia started getting really tired. I wish she wasnt because my cousin diana finally got out of work~those darn dollar tree customers! She had came with dom and I really wanted to get them two together and interact but it was late and the little girl was turning into a tired monster! we'll just have to do it when its earlier. so we ate and then did out pollyanas. My pollyana was corinne and she gave me this awesome necklace. its silver and its a cirlce with sophias name on it and her birthstone. i love it. i got soo many compliments already. its perfect! sophia had my cousin ricky. which i just reminded myself i need to call him and thank him because he was not there for me to do so. he got sophia these rolling balls that have neat textures on them and also a pink glow worm. she really likes both of them. especially the glow worm. i have a cute video of that. hopefully you'll be able to see it soon. so after we did our exchanges it was pretty late so my dad took sophia and i home. once we got home she decided to wake up! but not for long. before we went to bed we put her gifts down under the tree. once we all went to bed i felt like we just had closed our eyes and then it was time to wake up! it was just about 6 am and we heard voice down stairs! ughh Joeys brother steven had his kids sleep over they are 2 and 13 and they were all downstairs opening up gifts. so of course sophia didnt want to go back to bed! so we headed down stairs and then our long day started! she was great she sat in her little chair that my parents gave her and she held onto wrapping paper in one hand and her toy in the other her smile didnt leave her face! after opening up all the gifts we had breakfast and then started opening up the toys. which one to play with first! we were all soo tired but there was so much going on nobody could take a nap! later on that day my grandmom wiley and my aunt audrey came over to give sophia their gifts. my aunt audrey gave her an adorbale wooden sled that has padding on it for the snow. its too cute i cant wait for the next snow fall. its ashame all the rain washed it away. so instead joe had been pulling her around in the house. she loves it! my grandmom got her tons of cute little outfits that she will grow into.

so all in all we had such a great christmas sophia now had soooo many toys to play with! oh yea and my aunt debbie gave us the jumper thing that hangs on the door way. sophia thinks its really neat that she can just hang there and move around with nothing next to her. it makes her feel like she really is standing in her own!

Now that x-mas is over was relaized we really next a toy box for her! so I think cupid is going to be looking for one for her!

I want to thank everyone for making this chrsitmas so wondeful. thank you

we are so excited!

We so can not wait for christmas this year! Other then a few last min gifts we still have to get Sophia is set! I can not wait to put the gifts under the tree and wake up christmas day to show her what santa brought! Even though she is too young to understand it is still exciting! She loves helping us wrap gifts especially when we give he some of the gift wrap!

ho ho hoooo

On saturday we took Sophia to the rec center that is right around the corner from us for "brunch with santa". This would be our "trial run"! We had her in a cute little x-mas outfit and stood in line with all of the other kids. I walked her up to santa and placed her in his arms and she was great not even a peep! So we knew she'd be okay for the "mall santa"! After eatting brunch and walking around and Sophia staring at all the little kids running around we had walked back home. When we got home we relaxed for awhile and then her cousins came over. Sophia loves when her cousins come over because Rosie who is 13 carries her around, etc. it was so cute i was in our room watching tv and i heard the two of them talking to eachother and i walked in the door way of the room they were in and rosie was sitting at the comp holding sophia. it looked so cute sophia was sitting there so still looking at the comp and then up to rosie. after a little while i took sophia and we went down stairs to plau with angie who will be 2 x-mas eve. she was playing with her little dolls. there like barbies but smaller. alot smaller! so i sat sophia on the sofa like a "BIG GIRL" and gave hera doll to hold and we all played dolls for a little bit sophia loved it she felt like such a big girl.
Today was the day for the "mall santa"! We dressed her in a little x-mas dress that had white fur around the kneck and around the arms and her little white stocking. We stood in line and she was staring at all the things around santa. It was then our turn... joe and I stood behind the lady with the camera calling her name she did soo good once she looked at santa she didnt stop looking at him. hopefully next year she will be as good! we saw plenty of kids crying! we picked the picture we liked the most it was a hard choice because the one of her looking up at santa was also good! but the lady said i can always come back and get that one. there were so many people at the mall during lunch she was staring at these two older ladies making face with her mouth as they were eatting! she wasnt even blinking! While we were there we got her stocking with her name on it. now we just have to get a bunch of goodies to stuff it. That should be fun! Tonight we will be wrapping her gifts i am soo excited i got the cutest wrapping paper~pink (of course!) with x-mas tress , little cats on it and x-mas balls.
I have been working alot with in the last couple of weeks with my normal days off (tuesday and wednesday) so i took off today, but i picked up a banquet on wed afternoon. When i was feeding sophia her breakfast this morning i could not believe how well she did with everything. i had her small bowl of rice cereal and a small bowl of her sweet pot. (this morning was the first time i actually got to feed her them since i was home.) she ate everything! and she wasnt even messy after she finished that i offered her her bottle and she ate some of that too! i am excited for dinner tonight! hopefully she does well with that again! I am going to try and out the picture of her and santa online so that everybody can see it.