Happy 17 Weeks My Sweet Little Turnip!!!

Happy Easter and happy 17 weeks our precious little TURNIP! :) I'm naughty and haven't taken a picture yet today...it'll have to be tomorrow! It has been an amazing day!
It is of course Easter and it has been a beautiful, wonderful one. Church was awesome today! It seems like our church has taken a new turn and has been rejuvenated in the past few weeks. Maybe we needed this new location....it just seems like a happier place! The people actually seem happy. JP certainly likes it too! This was the THIRD week that he made it through the service without having to have mama sooth some serious and major tears. I actually wasn't worried about JP today and I didn't even check on him (!!! ie. sneak up on the nursery and listen in at the door!!!!) !
Today for lunch we had Grandma and Grandpa Mac (Olive Oil and Popeye), Auntie M and Uncle D, Grandma and Grandpa Goettl, Jerry Jr., Nick and Trevor. It was a full house and actually enjoyable!
It's so crazy that as I put JP down to sleep every night I just never want to let him go. As I snuggle him I listen to his breathing....feel his breath on my neck....his little hand sometimes clutching my shoulder or hair....as I pray over him I pray life over him. We pray for health and peace, long life, that he would always walk with Jesus and never stray, we pray for his wife that she is being reaised by godly parents that love and nurture her and accept him as their own...we thank Him for his sweet spirit and that it always stays sweet. It's so crazy the love you have for your child. It's overwhelming...I don't want to put him down. I just want to snuggle him forever and never let him go. He's not been burdened by this life. He doesn't know what it means to be stressed out or overwhelmed by surrounding, earthly things that ultimately don't and shouldn't matter now. His greatest problem is not getting to climb high and run in place on the couch, or not get anymore food when we are done or I've given him one too many bites of yummy ice-cream. He's always so happy and loves to play and make his 'vroom' sounds. His smirky little smile is what really gets me. I just melt. In the mornings he's usually happy and chatty in his crib before we go get him. Lately, he always points to the elephants on his crib sheet like "look mama, this is so cool!". I'm so grateful for this life that He has entrusted to Matt and I. Thank you Jesus for this precious little life.
Well, I still need to get his 15 month picture taken in his growth chair...as I have been extra naughty and not done if for a few months! YIKES! I don't want him to to grow up. I know, I'm selfish. :)
Well...I have a lot of pictures to post on FB (and here!) from this fabulous day....
Oh!...there was a 7.2 earthquake just south of the CA / Mexico border this afternoon. People in my area felt it! I think I felt something but didn't think anything of it because I'm pregnant and have wierd feelings and stuff happening quite a bit.
We have an appt. with Dr. in less than two weeks when he is going to give us the 'slip' to get an ultrasound to find out if we have little missy or a little mr. for JP to be a big brother to. :) Can't wait!! At the same time I can. I kind of don't want to find out....but if it's a girl I want to sew her crib stuff.....so I guess I have to know. :)
Well, this has been fun and exciting but I'm really tired now and gotta get to bed STAT!
Pictures to come soon!
xoxo

Sew....I've been busy...:)

I am so excited to say I've been working feverishly....well, okay, maybe not that hard!... on getting my business up and going! I am so excited and can't wait to launch! I have been browsing and seen some really awesome things...I just need to remind myself that I'm doing this for fun and for some extra moolah! JP and the babe are my inspiration. Can't wait!

Time is tickin'

Wow! Time is going by so fast! I'm naughty and haven't blogged since JANUARY!!! Right now my blog is in some wierd mode...I need to get Matt to fix it! :)

JP is almost 15 months (April 1st)!!! He's such a big boy! It's amazing how fast he is growing and learning and changing. I'm so happy he's healthy, but it makes me sad how fast time goes. He's always so happy. He could eat anything in sight...I'm a little afraid for when he's a teenager! He's all over the place and tries to climb anything he can touch! Right now he's snoring on the floor having a nice little nap. It's a miracle!
He still LOVES to take Maverick for walks and is obcessed with his collar and leash.
His new thing lately is to touch/point to his diaper when he's wet or dirty and sometimes even goes to get a new diaper. Big boy!
He knows when his books are upside down and quickly turns them right side up when reading his books....which he does several times throughout the day! In the middle of doing whatever he'll just sit down and go through one of his books, sometimes I'll get to join him, and then go back to what he was doing!
Everything is 'DA' or 'DADA', and the dog is 'DOG' and cat is 'CA' and sometimes 'CAT'. He knows "Mama" but saves that one for when he's really tired or crying. :) He's so precious!
He brings carpet fuzzies to us constantly so we can get rid of them! (I think this goes back to him trying to eat the carpet fuz and we would race over to him and grab it out of his hand!)
He loves his juice (mostly water)!
He LOVES balloons! Everytime he sees one he says "DA!" and points repeatedly at them!
He loves rough-housing with daddy and squeals with joy when they play together!
He also likes to mess with my sewing pedal when I'm sewing as I have most recently discovered!
Usually when I'm folding clothes he likes to come over and pick up the piles and throw them around. Silly boy!
He loves his toy cars and makes the 'vroom' sound when playing with them. It just melts my heart!
He also loves to throw just about anything that fits into his hand which can get a little dangerous...we're working on that one!
Well he just woke up and it's a tearful one so I should go...

Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk...

Okay...here we go. So I burned the first grilled cheese sam. While waiting for the 2nd one JP and I were slurping on some tomato soup and I turned ever so slightly and he grabbed that big ol' mug of soup and I caught it, but not before it spilled all over the counter, down the wall and on the floor covering nearly ever square inch it came near....and milliseconds later I had bumped another mug over while catching the tomato soup mug and that mug fell onto a large piece of glass that was on an old trunk. So I get to clean up glass with 1/2 the vacuum parts missing (where are they mom?!). Now, they say don't cry over spilled milk, but I nearly did when I pulled the milk out of the fridge thinking nothing could go wrong...but...I was indeed wrong. The milk exploded out of the top as I opened it all over the counter and down the cabinets and on the floor. :) I'm not kidding people, all of this happened just as I say. Would you cry over this spilled milk?

The Flu? or Not The Flu?

After 4 hours in the waiting room (Matt) and my 2 trips to Walmart, Old Navy, Bath & Body Works, and 2 1/2 caff. starbucks we found out that Matt does NOT have the flu....he's got the FLUBBERBUCK! Yes, folks, the flubberbuck. It's our name for the crappy crud of fever, body aches, headaches, sore throat, and just plain old feeling like total crap...flubberbuck. Doctor's orders (and mine) are to rest, drink lots of fluids, eat good and healthy, rest and more rest...oh, and some Tylenol.

Baby and mommy are well. :)

Not Me! Monday!!!

Well, well, well...It's Monday again and it's a relief to know I'm not the only one admitting my imperfections and reading about others', too.

I most certainly did not fill my child's pack 'n play with small loose toys again and again only so that he could take his time throwing them out and I could have a tiny little moment to myself (rrrright!) 4 feet away from him on the chair reading a magazine, no! not me!! I also did NOT 'recycle' the leftover pasta for 3 dinners, 3 days in a row making my oh so manly husband eat it, once again...nope, I didn't do that!!! Oh, and I definitely did NOT wear my most cherished, favorite article of clothing (VERY comfy black skirt) 3 days in a row without washing it!!! Nope, I couldn't ever imagine doing that!!!

So, do you have anything you'd like to share? Please do!!

Put It Away or Give It Away!!!

So, I'm joining the Procrastinator's Party!
Yes...I totally admit it. I'm a procrastinator. I get overwhelmed by CRAP and don't do anything about it. I hate this and am going to change. Now. I'm changing now. I'm changing now. (Just keep swimming, just keep swimming....) ANYWAY....my new friend (no, she doesn't know it yet!) is hosting a Procrastinator's Party and I'm in! We announce to the world (by picture!!!!! YIKES!) what our project is that we have procrastinated on. We have two weeks to do something about it. Yes...only two weeks. But, c'mon people! That's a lot of time and the way I see it, if the president was coming over, it would be put away like now...right? Right! SO...get to it. This is my project. I know. It's scary. It is the office/music/sewing room. BTW, the 'sewing room' seeps into the dining room. I'm okay with that because I'm starting a new business and I need more than one square inch of space. BTW, I don't care if no one reads my blog. This procrastinator's party is for me, and me alone. I will enjoy the result and so will Matt and the boy...and the dog and cat. I digress....SO...I'll post pictures later tonight. You may want to shield your eyes as this is going to be a painful experience for me! I will feel so much better! The way I see it...a cluttered house leads to a cluttered mind and a cluttered spiritual life. I don't want clutter. I hate clutter. Clean up the clutter and you have room, literally, to create and grow! Yeah! So, if you do read this...you have permission to keep me accountable. There I said it....GO! GO! GO!