Tag I'm it!

Tag I'm it!


I have been tagged by "Luke I am Your Father" to participate in a sort of blog chain letter of sorts. Here are the rules:

Go to your documents
Go to your 6th file.
Go to your 6th picture.
Blog about it.
Tag 6 friends to do the same. (unfortunately I don't know if I have 6 "blog friends". I know I have readers, but no one leaves comments so I don't have blog people to list....how sad! )


This picture as you can tell is pretty old. Jake was only 2 1/2 days old and we were visiting him in the NICU. He was there due to some minor complications with his birth. He was born with a fever, circulation problems, and bad jaundice. He was able to go home after 5 days and has never had any complications from his birth. Paul was feeding him for the first time after Jake didn't have the patience to try and nurse with me. He obviously got over that problem very quickly and was attached to me for his meal time for the next 14 months. It is so funny when I think about this picture because the nurse said that Jake couldn't go home until he could eat 40CC's of milk from a bottle......40CC's!!!!! I just got done feeding him a 12 ounce bottle! 40CC's wouldn't even wet his whistle now-a-days!!!

Here is who I am tagging!

The Feisty Five
The Corcoran Clan


*** I just found out that the reason I don't have any "blogger friends" is because my comment section of my site hasn't been working (thanks nonna!). I don't know why it wasn't but all should be fixed now so hopefully next time I get tagged I will have 6 people to tag back! ((fingers crossed))

Is it over yet??

Is it over yet??

(12/28/08 - 1/3/09)


I am sooooo glad that the "Holidays" are almost over. Starting Monday everyone gets back to the grind of work and maybe just maybe my house can get back to normal. Christmas was great, but then came the visiting. Monday was spent hanging out with Jacob's godmother. We had a great lunch and it was a good lunch hangout session. Tuesday was spent visiting Jacob's Grandmother, which was also a good trip. Wednesday was spent trying to get Jacob to take as late a nap as we could so that we could squeeze every last second out of him New Years Eve. We only managed to squeeze out 9:00 but hey that is better than his normal 7:30-8:00 bedtime. With some embarasment I have to admit that I was asleep by 10:30 and for the first time in many many years I actually missed the ball drop to ring in 2009! But I got a heck of a nights sleep so that made it all worth it!

After Wednesday night we FINALLY started to wind down and the next few days were spent playing with Jacob's new toys that he got for Christmas. Paul and I are in the process of changing our "formal living room" which was never ever ever been used into Jacobs playroom. We noticed that by having the play area in the main family room that the TV was starting to be watched waaaayyyy too much. I am a self proclaimed TV-aholic and I also love to have noise in my house, a quiet house drives me nuts so usually the iPod or the TV is always on providing that noise for me. Jacob for the most part would ignore the TV except for when his two favorite shows "Imagination Movers" and "Thomas and Friends" would come on (it used to be Backyardigans and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"). So by moving all of his toys into a room that doesn't have a TV in it he has started caring less about the TV again and will spend 80% of his day playing on his new train table and using his new found imagination.

When the new playroom is done I will post a picture of it, it is still in the process and a few more things need to be purchased and organized but it has been really nice not having EVERYTHING in my family room and being able to contain the chaos a little better!