Things That Have Made Me Happy In The Past Week

I thought I would write these things down, since it's been a really good week this past week. They aren't in any particular order...just whatever comes to my mind first.

• Having a great time at Daxton's 1st birthday party and our friends and family being here with us.
• Having the Merry Maids come clean the bathrooms, living room, dining room and kitchen the day before the party!! Huge relief and felt SO GOOD to have someone do all the stuff I haven't been able to get to...the floors and showers!!
• My husband busting his butt to get the things done around here that I wanted him to and making our house look that much nicer! Who cares that he didn't get my pictures that we had printed out hung up ;)
• Watching Daxton devoure his cake!
• Having leftover pork sandwiches and potato salad my aunt made!
• Having leftover cake! This is a HUGE thing for me! I LOVE my cake and frosting from By The Dozen Bakery!
• Staying up WAY too late sunday night, lying in bed talking to Nick about Daxton's birthday and everything.
• Having Heather come and take pictures of the party, so I didn't have to worry about picking up the camera at all!
• Xavier staying up the night before the party to help me decorate.
• Drake being so lovey and sweet to everyone at the party...especially my grandma...he even asked her if she loved him. Melt my heart.
• Being told I don't look like this is my 5th baby by 4 guys in an elevator at the doctor's. Ha ha!
• Being told by the doctor that the baby sounds great and things are going well with the pregnancy.
• Our new 2008 Suburban. Ok, technically we got it a couple weeks ago, but everytime I get in it I am in love with it all over again! With a sunroof, heated leather seats, remote start, automatic back door, lots more cargo room, DVD player for the kids, seperate heat/ac in the 4 seats, navigation, back up camera, OnStar, XM radio, and other things, who wouldn't love it?!
• Seeing the "hole" in Toots' mouth from where her first tooth fell out two days ago.
• Spending the day just Toots and I @ a Paint and Fun store painting. Our little outing, just her and I before school starts next week. I painted a big carriage plaque and she painted a smaller one and also a box with a horse on it.
• Watching Toots have a HUGE grin on her face when we all went to watch her at her new gymnastics class last night. She LOVES that class...even more than ballet, she says.
• Angela watching Xandria and Drake today (Xavier was with his grandpa), so I could get some much needed picking up and freezer cleaning done while Daxton napped today. Aah the peace and quiet was nice!
• Nick taking me to Red Lobster tuesday night, because after I watched Jon&Kate Plus 8 the night before, I was dying for crab legs!
• Crunchy bacon...what I've been craving lately.

I know there are more, but time's run out for me. There are some things I'm happily looking forward to...going to Gurnee, going to the Renaissance Fair, and enjoying a long weekend with Nick and the kids before they go back to school on tuesday

More pics from Daxton's first year

showing his lil toof bud poking through @ 9months

Here are some more photos from Daxton's first year. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that he's ONE YEAR OLD!! He still looks like my lil baby to me. Yea, it's going to definitely take some getting used to.

We had his birthday party yesterday here at home. The weather was perfect and we had a great time. He had a monkey theme party, so there were monkeys hanging out in different spots. He had a blast, and didn't get cranky at all. I think he enjoyed seeing everyone. When it came time for his cake, he was a little slow at the start...I think it was from everyone standing around watching him. He's not used to having an audience when he eats! Didn't get a chance to do the candle, as soon as he spotted the cake, he wanted it! We did do the candle on his actual birthday, so that's ok.

Anyway, once he was warmed up enough, he dug RIGHT into his cake...not holding back!! WOW did he eat and eat it!! Or should I say shovel and shovel it in!! He kept making "mmmm" noises which were so funny :) When the cake was just about all gone, he decided he would just bend down and stick his face in it! TOO FUNNY!! Sadly, there came a time when the cake was all gone...he even picked up the plate to make sure! I could NOT believe he devoured that WHOLE cake...not much ended up anywhere other than in his mouth, though don't get me wrong, he was covered in frosting!!! It was definitely very entertaining to watch!!

He was whisked away right to the bath :)

Daxton had Daddy to help him open up his presents. I know one of his favorite gifts was one my parents got him...a SpongeBob furry blanket. Drake has a Cars one like it that Daxton LOVES...he crawls in Drake's room, right to his bed, grabs it and leaves the room with it! So, my dad thought he should have his own...when he pulled it out of the bag he held it to his face and didn't want to let go!!

He didn't have a nap at all yesterday and remained a happy guy until we put him to bed just a bit before his usual bedtime, and slept until after 11am today.

That's all for now...gotta run!

ONE YEAR AGO...

Seeing my new little man for the first time. Aww.
In Daddy's arms before we left the hospital.
Sporting his name on his hat that I got when he was still in my belly.
Not wanting to be stuck in the boppy pillow :)
Just learned to sit up by himself on my old blanket.

One year ago this little man entered our lives. And brought more joy and love into our lives. I honestly can not believe it has been a year. I remember when I had him I told myself I was going to enjoy each and every little thing and think I did that, but it's still gone by faster than I can imagine. And with each baby it seems to only go by faster :(

Anyway, yesterday he was officially a 1 year old. We gave him a cupcake with one candle on it (which Daddy helped him blow out) and he couldn't eat it fast enough!!He didn't care about the candle, he wanted the cupcake! He ate it ALL in record time and was looking for more!! I couldn't believe it at one point he just picked it up and SHOVED it into his mouth!! It was too funny!!

That's one thing that boy can do with great speed...EAT! And he eats by the handfulls!! Don't mess around with him and his food! My dad learned that the other night...he had given Drake a hot dog and turned his back to get something and when he turned around Daxton had half of it in his mouth...and it wasn't cut up! My dad was afraid he was going to choke, but knock on wood, that's something he hasn't done, no matter how much food he has shoved in his mouth!

Here's some photos of our sweet little Daxton from his 1st year.

I'm going to add more photos later...I ran out of time!

It Works!!

My internet is finally back up and running!! It's been a long week or so without it...when I've really needed to use it, of course! Luckily, I have a very persisent (and sweet) husband who was up until 2am messing with it...which still didn't work, but before he went to work he got it running. Yay!!
Anyway, for those of you wondering...Daxton's 1st birthday party is sunday the 24th @ 1pm. Just got the invites today in the mail (finally!!) and they will be going out tommorrow.
Hope to update more later...it's been a long time!