So if all goes well with inspections and negotiations and everything, this could be my new digs!

Maybe :)

Be my echo

I know I'm biased and all, but I don't care who you are...this is toothache cute right here:

Pictures! We got pictures!

We encourage playing with your food :)

And playing in the snow for the first time was

awesome!

Mama's favorite part is warming up afterward.

How did it get to be February?

So record time since last post - do I get a prize or something?

Honestly, I have had a typical winter with a kid in daycare....SICK!

The holidays were grand, and for the most part everyone managed to stay reasonably healthy. We got lots and lots of family time with my folks coming down, Sara came in and ROCKED it on New Year's Eve, and we got to see Jon's family in Nashville, so it was great. Then came the bugs and they will not QUIT, y'all!

Jack started it all with a super high fever that freaked me out, and when that subsided, the virus turned into a continual two week cold. He then got the Pray For Death tummy bug that went around the schools here like wild fire. Then I got it, then Jon got it, then I got the cold, and thank the gods Jon didn't, and now I have a vicious sinus infection (the kind that makes you feel like all your upper teeth are going to fall out), and Jack has a double ear infection.

Because I've already bored myself with this pitiful account, I will shut up now and stop whining.

Besides, it's mid-February, Spring can't be far, and maybe we'll get a month or two before the allergies kick in :)

Delirious...

There's no other reason this could be so funny. He must have just been completely slap-happy.

BUT, I could listen to this every day of my life and never get tired of it.

It must be love :)

Birthday Pics!

Happy Birthday, Jack

My darling baby,

It's your first birthday, and you have no idea why we've been acting so crazy all day! You can't figure it out, but you seem to like it anyway :)

You won't remember today because you're only one, but I thought I would tell you about it here so you can read it yourself some day:

The start to your first birthday was exciting because we played with you before daycare, and there were all sorts of new toys in the living room that weren't there before.

Then, we gave you breakfast at home and it was something new and sweet called a cupcake.

When you got to school, everyone sang to you and smiled at you all day.

After nap time, you got ANOTHER sweet cupcake, and all the other babies did too! Everyone was very sticky and very happy.

Then I came to get you, and we came home and you played with Buddy and the new toys while I fixed your very favorite dinner: Mac and Cheese, Broccoli, and Chicken Nuggets.

When you got tired, we played in the tub for a long time, and I made you laugh by squirting you with the raccoon toy.

Once you were all snug and dry, and teeth brushed, and hair combed and all ready for bed, we played your favorite game, "try to get away and then get caught and tickled" until you were so tired you were ready to snuggle without a fight.

The last thing we did on this very special day was rock and sing in the rocking chair until you were sleeping. You were so sweet, and so very precious to me that I held you for much longer than you needed me to, and I smiled and smiled at my sweet baby that's somehow turned into a big boy when I wasn't looking.

Then I tucked you in, and tiptoed out of your room.

Happy birthday, sweetheart.

I love you.

Mama