Christmas Updates

So I know I said I was going to take a break from posting for Christmas and all, but I had to pop in with these photos of him!

He has got to be the most adorable child I have ever seen, he always has a smile, even if he's sick and he's always making faces!

He loves putting everything he gets his hands on into his mouith and gumming it to death. Well he actually has a few teeth...and by few I mean he has two. He got them last month and has been trying to put them to work as much as possible.

He is still standing and now he's starting to pull himself up from a sitting position as well as trying to crawl up the steps in the living room. I'm quite proud of this accomplishment. And as always, when he sees the flash on my phone he smiles for the camera.


What a camera ham right?!

I nearly had a heart attack when he started to reach out for this ornament...I was just glad he didn't fall back out of the present box! I am now working as a photographer at JC Penny's Portrait Studio and I got to have these pictures for free. I am so happy with how they came out in the end I had to share them with all of you. I am still attending school so that is why I haven't posted in a long while but I am still writing here and there when I get a bit of time between classes. Let's see what adding a job in the mix does for my writing abilities.

Halloween

So baby is totally not feeling well. He has been puking quite a bit, but after a few hours at home and keeping down two meals just fine we have decided to go out trick-or-treating after all. He is so cute as a little bumble bee! And my Vampire husband looks good too. I'm a mixed breed of vampire bumble bee. My stingers are my teeth lol. 

I want to see your pictures! Send them and a story to me and maybe I'll even put you into one of the books!

Weddings galore!

So a friend of mine's dad has an awesome digital SLR (single lense reflect) camera...for those of you who don't know that is the kind that have different lenses that are long and you turn them to zoom and focus. He asked me to go with him to do a wedding photoshoot and take pictures of the actual wedding and then after reviewing the photos decided he wants to try and make a buisness out of this! How awesome is that? I am having super amounts of fun with it, and my friend's wedding was also this month so he let me borrow his camera to take pictures of it.

Anthony dressed up in a onesie that had a tux print on it and looked adorable, but right before going out to drop him off so I could do pre-wedding pictures, I was rear-ended.....not so cool. Anthony's first car accident and it freaked me out like SUPER bad. He cried a bit but when the EMTs arrived he was smiling at them and giving a soft bit of a laugh...since he's not fully laughing yet. Here's hoping that this job is a real one! It would be so much easier for me to keep that as a job and get paid nicely for short bursts of work here and there.

First Father's Day

So today was Hubby's first real Father's Day. It was pretty awesome. We got a few good pictures and had a blast together. Tomorrow is his one month check up! He's doing so well and I'm so happy to have my little one in my life. He really is a blessing.

 Side note: Still taking things easy and hevily medicated from the c-section so no writing just yet. I know, writing shouldn't be THAT strenuous, but really its not that...its that everything takes ten times as long to do when you're being careful and taking things slow.

Sorry that the pictures are showing up sideways. I don't know why but blogger won't let me change that. : /

Welcome Home Anthony!

So as I said, he was born via C-section. I didn't have any problems with it in the end, though I was so scared I couldn't even speak. Hubby diligently held my hand and ran his hand through my hair to try and soothe me as they did the procedure. My sister was also in the room, that was something that we weren't allowed to do per say, but since she was actually already there for her high school classes and doing a study in that department my doc made an exception for her to only view not participate in the procedure and be there when he was born. I didn't even see her till I was in recovery afterwards.

He was born at 2:35 PM CST and was 6 pounds 12 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. He screamed right away and was just fine. I didn't know what on earth to think cause firstly, I was frozen on my upper half of my body and secondly I couldn't feel the other half, so when they brought around this ball of blankets that was screaming at me I could barely muster a smile for the camera as the anesthesiologist took a quick pic. (above) In my mind I was going, "I thought they screamed louder than that? He kinda looks Chinese....are you SURE that is the baby you just pulled out of my gut? It doesn't look right." I felt the same way when they came in later with the same 

little bundle and handed him to me for the first time. I wasn't too sure what to think at all. Should I accept willingly that they are right and this is my son, or should I demand video footage as proof from them bringing him out all the way to delivering him in that moment?" Now, I realize I may have just been in shock....I was a mother. I did rather well in the three day stay at the hospital. My family and friends all visited me and little Anthony and when it came time for me to go home I was happy to leave, but sad to loose the support of the staff I had been so fully relying on to bring him to me at night and let me get some rest.  

Once we got home JD (Our dog) was all too thrilled to have another person in the house, then again he always loves new people in the house, and quickly took to the baby. Instantly he started guarding the door and barking at anyone who entered our stairwell. (with a broken concrete step and a horrible echo that was everyone! It also didn't help that we are above the mailboxes so it was an all day affair) Anthony took to him just as easily happily sleeping with his puppy right away.

We shall see how things go from here on writing. I can hope that I'll get enough time for this all the time. But I am really tired right now and I barely pushed through this simple blog post. (though this is probably the most complex post I've done so far...)

Manic Monday!

Currently Watching: Torchwood: Season 2 on Netflix

Craving anything? Yes....ice-cream!! Double Fudge = YUM! 

Okay so I know this post is a bit late in the day, but I really have been having a Manic Monday!It kinda kicked out last night pretty late, what with little Anthony kicking me and tossing and turning most of the night long so I didn't get much sleep but when I got up it was rush, rush, rush right out the door! I barely had time to shower and dress before the Mayhem started. 

This Saturday is my sister's Cotillion Ball and as a photographer my mother wants me present to take pictures and such, but when you're pregnant you can't really pick out the dress till right before since you're constantly growing in size. So soon as my mother could she whisked me off to start the search for a good enough dress for the ball. Boy, did I feel like a weird version of Cinderella. Once we found a suitable dress it was off to find shoes to work with that and to make sure that they fit right with the dress so that if it needed to be hemmed they could send it off today.

Next I was sent off to find good materials for Anthony's play blanket so when he's on the floor in the living room he'll have something to set on instead of the floor. Since my husband and I haven't reached an agreement on the decorum of Anthony's room quite yet I had to pick out two versions one with a Hotwheels theme and the other Thomas the Tank Engine (NOT THOMAS THE TRAIN!) but it seems before I can get started on that I had to stop there and rush over to my Aunt-in-law's house to babysit for an hour or so. Why I even bothered is beyond me...Josh (my husband showed up within ten minutes of me since his work is right down the street and I just wound up sitting around working on next weeks illustrations for B is for Bonnie instead of the babysitting part since I'm supposed to be on BED REST right now...but alas....

Once we finished that I was stuck with food for both me and my husband...and a long drive home...and I can't cook at all! So let's just say I went with microwavable quickies and tried to call it a night...but as usual...the internet calls! So here I am trying to keep everyone up to date.