Whats been going on?

Well the last few weeks my DH has been out of class and home with us, YAY! We have been spending some time playing wow(world of warcraft) and building a computer for my mom, updating his and putting a old one in a new box,going to the beach, and a few other things.When we went to the beach this weekend we had no camera, it broke somehow so we have to wait for thte movies Poppop took. It was nice a bit chilly with the wind but nice. Little Sam had fun playing in the sand and taking the truck out on the 'bump bump ride' (driveing out on the beach.) He rode home with his N&P and they stoped to feed the birds. Sammy figured out if he ran up to them and screamed 'ROAR' they would flyaway scared,he had so mcuh fun doing that.Hes talking in bigger sentences about 5 words and he can carryon a pretty good conversation useing them.

We found out that big Sam has only one class to take summer semester, then he should graduate early August (right around when sammy turns 3.)

OH YES and our 2nd pet (mr.bird , yup a bird,another pet my mom brought over) died. Did little sam cry? did he worrie? did he understand? no,no,maybe? He tells us to 'kill bug' 'bug dead' bug died' (ants and spiders) but now a bird.His pet bird did he just not understand or is he just fine with death of animals? When his nana mentiond " you have a birdy at home, im gonaa have to come over and see him sometime" little Sam blurted out ' no no bird dead bird died hes all gone gone' hmmmm luckly they where in a truck with the windows up driveing down the road so no one heard him.

things we shouldent do

Well I have not posted in a while. Over the weekend me and Dada found out that there are things that we just should not do, like cut our sons hair (see photos above.) Dada just trimmed it out of his eyes a few days before, But it bothered his ears so I asked him to trim by his ears. Didn't say how or where just by his ears. So Dada did and threw all the crying and owwies it finally was crooked. Somehow Dada ended up cutting around bugs whole head. Well our bug man's hair is still crooked in some spots, he has a bowl cut and Dada and me joked about not going anywhere for a few weeks. Now I don't see why Dada just doesn't buzz it all off (at lest then it will be even and grow back normal.) Even with mommy and Dada worried about our bowl headed baby he still looks uber handsome and can still be happy and smile threw anything.



Things we should do:
Dada made the deans list. He was mad because he wanted to make the president's list. But we are still glad he made the deans. With taking 7 classes and having to do more class studying/assignments/classes themselves at home. Deans list is good.
So congrats to Dada. YAY!

ok mabye i cant

Well I guess going vegi just aint my thing. I tried for a few days. Then I got to thinking (thank you zen habits) about real food. It lives, it rots, it welts, it doesn't have a shelf life, it dies. Hmm was it around 1000 years ago? The all vegi thing aint for me, or my family.So I'm sorry chicken and cow but im going to eat you, maybe not as much because I find you very disgusting. But I'm not going to stop. Sorry to all the vegans and vegetarians but I do thing food lives and dies. Good thing to debate about would be about this: a cow lives and breaths, and you don't want to eat it because of that, but wait: a plant dose all the same thing its grows, lives, eats, and dies just like a cow: so what is the difference? Hmm check out zen habits article here. Tell me what you think about the way we eat( even about all the pre packaged quick foods.) Or you can tell me how crazy I sound. What ever one fits your ump for the day.

my book list

Rescue from Domestic Perfection Book- by Dan Ho

Rescue from House Gorgeous- also by Dan HoZen to done (its a e-book from zen habits)

The skinny bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
The skinny bitch in the kitch also by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

The organized life: secrets of an expert organizer by Stephanie Denton

the narutally green home by Karyn Siegel-Maier

green clean by Linda Mason Hunter, Mikki Halpin

the home organizing workbook by Meryl Starr, Wendi Nordeck

real simple cleaning by Kathleen Squires

Real Food: what to eat and why by Nina Planck

Real Fast Food by Nigel Slater

Put your life on a diet by Gregory Paul Johnson

Put Your house on a diet by Ed Morrow

Organizing Plain and simple by Donna Smallin

living small by Dennis Fukai

living homes by Suzi Moore McGregor



Their is more but I'll be adding them latter, as I find them.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate

I again was on zen-habits, stumbled upon this article, witch led me to this website. I haven't read the website much yet but on zen habits it talks about teaching our children compassion, And how we discipline our children is not showing them compassion. They compare this to if a friend is crying/upset/angered we wouldn't go to them and put them in timeout or discipline them in other ways, we would show them compassion and hug them,try to calm them down, but mostly talk to them. And when our little loved ones throw there tantrums they are often upset about something and usually don't have a way of telling that to you, so they have a tantrum,we punish them and they do not learn compassion. If we showed them compassion and gave them the words they were looking for they would learn compassion and how to use there words over violence. But anyway read the post check out the web site, and let me know how you think of this way of parenting.

yes, he got knocked down

No not really no one got knocked down, actually he fell. We had bath time like any other bath time, Got out the tub stood on the potty getting ready to brush his teeth, flop. He fell backwards. He broke the bathroom-paper holder off the wall. His little chunky butt has a red spot and so did 2 places of his back. He did not bruise tho, Hes a tough one I can tell everyone that. Also with how many times hes hit his head on our sink, and all I do is kiss it better and tell him that its OK its not even a bump( it never is.) Hes defiantly a tough bug,a lot tougher then me. I hit my head on the sink (same spot to) the next day, I'll be honest, I cried. It hurt like a I dunno what.


Hes been falling down a lot lately, just did it again. He will be running down the hall way and bam he falls and slides a little bit..wonder whats up with that...



I took this one of my and my bug man today while cooking dinner, Dada has text us from school and has a photo of himself attached so i sent this one back. Doesn't he have the best smile ?




Oh also for some random photos i have taken with my phone u can go here. There is a photo from out inside table-top snow man. Dada said we can keep him in the freezer until we move, that could be a year from now, hey we will have him for Christmas of '09 in case it doesn't snow.Oh but bewarned there is some very odd pictures of random thing that just came out of no where.

Things to do

Well this year so far is the same as any other. We all get a cold, and slowly get over it. We all just have a snotty nose now. We even got N&P sick. I didn't finish my community service nor have I even called to tell them anything. Wow I wonder what they are gonna say, oh I wonder what I'm gonna even tell them. Oh well I'll figure something out.as usual. Tomorrow is the beginning of a new week. There is a few things I read over the weekend like this website here I stumbled upon. And also a guy named Dan Ho( have to Google him I can't find no real web page about him) But anyways he has 2 books out: Rescue from House Gorgeous. And also Rescue from Domestic Perfection:the no so secrets of balancing life and style. I want them both, maybe Swap Tree has them. Also on my list of things to read is The Skinny Bitch and Apartment-Therapy-Eight-Step-Home-Cure.....Yup that's my list. But anyway back to my post. Tomorrow Dada is gone all day again, Has to make-up 'snow days' ha ha. But he does have all day Thursday off till his night class and then Friday is ours, maybe I can convince him of date night. But this week I really want to clean out out utility closet (its like out attic on ground level.With a washer.) Hopefully we all will get over our colds. Get our pictures developed( and organized and dated ha ha. ) And maybe Monday will start out right. But I'm not gonna get my hopes up.

Hey look bug! What is that?

That is what we where saying to Bug this morning when he woke-up. Snow we whispered to him. SNOW! he said back. We got about 4-5" of snow last night and now tonight its starting to ice over.
Yes we did take Bug out to play with the snow. We took his toy box lid and used it as a sled(didn't have a trash can lid.) But he liked it,sorta. He thought the snow was "eww, yuck". But he did slide down the hill a few times make a snow -baby and threw a snowball at mommy. After about 15 minutes we went back in to warm up. He is fighting off a cold,but with 2 layers of clothing we and his first "real snow" we had to take him out for a few minutes. His cold is getting better, compared to Friday. Hes just left with a snotty nose and a cough. Dada took the car out in the little bit of snow we got to pick up bug some more med. He said people don't know how to drive in the snow. HAHAHAHA its only 4" theres not that much snow.

pass the bucket

Go ahead click here. watch it, all of it. and this one too, and this one. Maybe I should finally cut out all meat from my diet, my husband wont, but hey if I do, That is a few more animals who will live. I do eat chicken and beef and occasionally pork chops. Yup that is right I said it. I eat meat. Now do I honestly want to , no. So why do I? I was raised that way first of all. Next is my husband does, and so does most of both of our families. I'm so accustomed to it, its just routine for me I guess. So I am going to cut it out. Now if their is a time I cant avoid it like tonight( dinner at my inlaws...yup KFC) I might eat a small bit of it, But besides that, sorry I'm going to have to pass. Now my husband thinks I'm on the crazy side, and its natural to eat a chicken or hell even a deer( yup he hunts)and that half the stuff they put on the clips are not real but, I'm going to do this. Why its something I have been wanting to do for me for a long time. Now I am going to miss my canned chicken salad, But hey theres still meat substitudes...and a real salad with crisp lettuse and juicy tomatoes and a little oil and vinager( im not much of a ranch fan no more). But please watch the clips...

Milk

I just got done reading a article of of Sheryl's blog. Talks about breastfeeding and its history. Here is just one thing that not many people thing about: You breastfeed your child until he or she is so old, and then stop. Cows feed their calf until they are so old and then stop. Same with sheep,dogs,cats, ect. Why do we stop breastfeeding ,or for some even formula feed, and then give our child cows milk? There has to be some reason we stop breastfeeding our children, am I right? Our babies grows, can eat solid foods, and get their (calcium and vitamin d) from REAL FOOD. Not a animal. We would not let our children have another woman's breast milk,so why do we keep shoveling another animals milk into their bodies? Convenience? Another marketing scam? To long of a tradition?
This is just one thing to think about.

Just another morning!!!

Yes the title says it all. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Those mornings your Husband ( or yourself) wakes up late for school/work rushing out the door trying to put on his shoes. Yes your morning can be headed for disaster, I know my was. OK so he got out the door a hour late for class. Bug wakes up right as the door closes behind him. Where Dada at ? he says missing a few vowels from just waking up. He had to go to school he was late. :( bug looks sad, or just maybe tiered still. Who knows. OK so breakfast easy.Right? Whole-grain mini blueberry muffin- check. Diced fruit- check. grapes- hmm...I know we had some, where did they go- fumble threw fridge a bit more. AH GRAPES. Opening bag. Bad idea, VERY BAD IDEA. bag pops open, crystal light iced tea goes all over the counter. hmm paper towels. none. under the counter,ah found 'em. Unplug toaster- check. Wipe off- check. Move- check. Unplug coffee pot- check. Wipe off coffe pot- hmm. Should of moved the glass pot first. Yes it fell, and shattered. GREAT. No coffe pot. No coffee. Thankfully it was emty. OK Bug get out the kitchen. OK Bugs out. OWCH sh*t d*nm OWCH. Yes I steped on the glass. Another thanfull- dident get cut, just got a peice stuck. No blood. Good. OK broom- check. Dust pan- Check. Cleaned up glass- check. Back to breakfast. Grapes- hmm. mold. Why do we have moldy grapes. Why do I buy so many grapes if we don't go threw that many. How did they get mold there not but mabye 4 days old. oh my. no grapes. Wasa? None. Banana? No he has diced fruit? Gold fish? No not for breakfst. hmm... ah apple slices, pre sliced in a bag, no nife needed. Taste test, descusting. Nope nothing. OK. Here Bug. Muffin and fruit. Dont forget your juice. Hm breakfast for mama. I think i'll just take a muffin. Tea can go into a pop-top water bottle. Skip the glass, the cup and the nife. HAVE A GOOD MORNING

bug a few days ago enjoying nap-time.

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Well, Well

Sam started class again today, 7 classes. At lest its not the 8 he was going to take. They canceled the class because there was not enough students( just one, Sam) So me and Bug-Man have been hanging out today. We accomplished a few things like cleaning mommy and daddy's closet, picking up all of his toys in his room and putting them back into the right cubby. Hopefully tomorrow we can continue on our cleaning journey and have the house done by the end of next week.I say next week because some days he dosnt feel like helping mommy and insists to have me spend every minute possible playing with him( yup no pee time for me. ) Ive been takeing pictures of my handsom guy almost every day since I started blogging.I'm hoping I can keep it up all year,both the blog and picture takeing. Theres no really big exiting new around here lately. Little sammy learned how to peel a orange tho. He loves thems. Hes trying to figure out how to ride a bike, and Leaning his number 7-10.he has a good hand on 1-6 and pretty soon were going to be throwing some more abc's in there to. Hopefully it wont confuse him. Me and Dada saw this your baby can read program, were debating on if we should get it or if its a scam. If we get it, and it doesent work, it would be a waste of money. But if we dont get it fine out later on it works, theres one opportunity that he could have had. So we are debaiting.

Night time drama

Well the last week was full of night time dream-beams and jelly beans, not really but Bug-man would have a hard time falling asleep, wake up more than his usually once to pee and say hes scared or something hurts. So after about a week last night mama and dada sat down with him and gave him a strict but reassuring reminder that nothing is going to happen to him, and that his room is not scary but peaceful, and that he should go to sleep, God is watching over him and hes going to have sweet dreams. Well it seems our talk worked. Last night he went to bed like he always does with 3 cows a horse and a pink panther 2 blankets and a pillow....yes hes attached. But he didn't get up he fell asleep,and stayed asleep.

Yes before we talked to him we tried everything to figure out what was going on behind the night time panic. But no we couldn't figure out anything except that he spent new years with N&P and slept in a little bit of light and not complete darkness,saw shadows and that triggered him to start being 'scared' at night. well all and all hes back to sleep, in fact he taking a nap right now.

just talk, house talk

Well its the beginning of a new year,a new month, and well for my husband, a new college semester. Hes was talking about taking 8 classes this semester that way next semester he would only have 2 then he'd graduate. But I don't know, I don't know. I will fine out this afternoon when he comes home from registration. January is probably going to be a calm month around here for me and the bug man, maybe not for Dada but for us yes.Hopefully January will be a great month. Maybe I can organize our back closet and utility closet this month, maybe. Maybe something completely unexpected will happen. who knows.

I found 2 rolls of fill the other day, nothing is on them and then i found my old camera, had a use roll in it. I'm hopeing to finish off both rolls my the end of this month and post up some more pictures. And talking about pictures im trying to organize my photo collection, Any Tips???? I never thought about geting the date put on all my photos so only half of them are dated, the other half I dident even date. and the majoraty of them are in a scrambled mess, its disaterious, if thats even a word, if not thats better. so if you ask me if theres one thing id change yes, id go back and date all my pictures,date every memorie, and mark every photo befor I even thought of trying to put them into albums. so my picture colection from birth to 2 years is in a mummble-jumble but im working on it, thats a nother jauary project.

About a week ago someone asked me if our apartment was big enough, I said yes cuz it is big enough,if we had less stuff, the next day my father in law comes by with all of our stuff from the shed i had put in his truck befor new years. Now i know he was bringing it over, i dident know i had put that much in the truck tho. so yup this month also is trask month im selling things on craigslist and donateing everything i can get rid of in the next week. for thte rest of it, im trashing it. yup everything I can possible get away with is gone by febuary. I cant stand haveing all this...sh*t.....both me and my husband have a hard time throwing things out...oh ok really its just him, i have a hard time throwing his things out cuz then a week later hed be like wheres the peice of papper that was next to thte bed that had such and such on it....looked like trash,sorry dear.....and all the computer wires,and cables and other wires and cds and papers and i dunno we just have to much stuff and no where to contain it in a presentilbe matter.

Our living room/dining room combination is fine, that rooms not messy at all, no there is the toys and the occasonal pile of clothes on our table we never eat at anymore. but no its not messy out furniture is a little miss-matched and strange but we have somewhere to sit with our oversized older than history TV. but hey we do have furniture and that room stays presentable, just give me 5 minutes. our kitchen well, its a kitchen. functions like a kitchen looks like a kitchen , and like most kitchens lacks counter space. there age some good things about our kitchen tho, it has a panty, yes one with a door, and our water filter, got my husband off the bottle, and where helping the enviroment.yup our kitchen is plain. it has the basics sink microwave stove and fridge...then it has our specials, my gorge foreman, and dont need to hold can opener and crystal light iced tea. Then theres our room, its not bad just his side of the bed and our over floweing with junk/storage boxes/ paper..... closet. the bath room and halway and linnen closet our fine...bugs room is fine to he just has a lot of toys. so i guess its only 3 places in our place that i wish would grow, move out or disapier. our closet utility closet and our storage closet....wow so many closets.


well i think my ranting and talking and typeing should move along, I have somethings to get done and a place to go. have a good week , im sure ill be back just keep checking in ya never know

bugs last time being in his crib, ever.even tho hes been in a toddler bed almost a year.
valintines of last year, he thought hed try a butterfinger,wraper and all.

The Holidays.

Yes the holidays are now settling down.New years day has come and gone,well for most. This year the holidays where a little off for us. Now figuring its the first time in our own place, you would of though we would have spent the holidays here.Nope not us. Thanksgiving was spent in Jacksonville. My mother-in law's mom has family there and that's where we went,me my husband our son my mother and father in law (N&P) my husbands niece and bug mans great grandma M. Yup food was great, people where nice, but somehow I guess I just don't fit in with large crowds. Little Sam on the other hand he loved it, he carried on conversations with almost everyone there. I didn't get any pictures(for got the camera) but N&P got video so hopefully ill get some clips up sooner then later. Then Christmas eve was already here, before we knew it. no supprise that it just pops up on the calender out of no where. I really do think eleves come threw the not-there-hole-in-the-windows and rights it on the calender the day before.Christmas eve,we spent about 4 hours bakeing cookies and boiling eggs for the next day. Christmas morning we spent watching our boy open is gifts up,wondiring if the coffepot was going to turn its self on.Then I ended up makeing egg salad and macaroi casoroll.yes I had to make something, they asked me to , and the only thing im really good at is the macaroni. We all got ready and headed over to N&P's house. Dada was left to go pick up both his grams while we got to hangout with Nana, pop-pop was busy makeing the house smell good with all the kitchen work that was going on. we tryed to stearclear of there but sometimes he just couldent help it he needed his pop-pop. later that evening it was christmas morning all over again, little man sould not belive it,more gifts. Yes he was worn out by the end of the night,fell asleep on the ride home, but he had fun. He loved new years tho he got to spend the night with N&P, while mama and dada stayed up till about 4 am reading books and wrighting, how fun our we?. retorical question please do not respond. but yes the holidays are over, I think I only have mabye 4 pictures from my phone. But its now january and its a new year and the only 'resolution' I have to keep is to take the camera out more offten.

this was taken a couple days befor new years, thats my bug riding on the back of Dannys christmas present( a blue fourwheeler, the ones that are rechargable, not gas) he loved it.Danny is one of his favorite friends, he lives next to N&P. And to everyones suprise when Danny let little Sam drive, wow he could he loved that so much, we really need to get him one he drove it all over the yard. they played with it for about 2 hours.They even stoped a few times to let everyone get a quick picture.

Happy New Year

well this is a post in between postings, I just wanted to say Happy 2009. I'm hopeing this year will be better.Actually I know it will be. Bug-man did not make it to see the ball drop in between movie watching (burn after reading.) But Nana and Pop-pop did take him for the night. so we can spend our first day of 09 catching up on sleep while they love on their 31st grand baby. Well its late im'ma hop in bed,doze off. Wish y'all a great new year. Don't forget to check out these clips from Raleigh NC

Hes One.And Then Two

Now after his 1st birthday, he could say quite a few words,walk and almost fully run. But he didn't know that in the next year he would go without Dada around for a few months,move,and go on a lot more vacations. He went to the farm in WV many more times, also to the beach, both Carolina beach and Myrtle beach. We also got to meet some new family. We traveled up to Virgina and traveled the blue ridge all the way down to the end. we then ended up in SC . so we called grandma Cathy, to see where my MEME lives and we decided to stop by, haven't seen her in over 2/3 years,so we did. he loved meeting her,and he was on his best behavior to. That year he also met his great Aunt Sue and Uncle Len. Got to see meme again and meet cousin Kelly and her family. Later that year(September) Dada left for the Army,no one knew he'd be back in November tho. That's another posting for why hes hurt now. We also moved in April of 08( but he was still one so it doesn't count as the next year.) He missed his N&P but he loves when they come visit. When we first moved we had to explain to him the this was now 'our home' and N&P have to go back to 'their home'. Finally he got to understanding it. He had is 2nd birthday party here, he was so surprised when everyone started singing happy birthday to him. From then on he tells everybody happy birthday, sometimes even out of no where on no ones birthday. He loves going to WV, he outside all the time, gets to ride the big 4 wheeler and his small one. he has this huge field to run in instead of a small back yard that's shard. He was scared of the ocean for quite some time, but he loves pools. The way he has changed from birth to now is unbelievable. Hes grown so much both physically and intellectually, and they say babies can not be smart, that they cant do this that and what not-s. i disagree on so much because i have watch my son grow in such a way that its truly unexplainable. Now that hes two(and 4 months) and you read a bit about his first few years I'm hoping to keep up with my blog, share our stories with everyone, and read all of yours. I guess my next post will be about the holidays and getting up some pictures

here is a picture from the blue ridge, its my two men fishing(couldn't catch nothing on the blue ridge so we took a detour and went to a stocked pond nearby)

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this is his 1st carousel ride, we where at Broadway at the beach in Myrle beach,SC


here we are at wal-mart, he want to ride the air plain so we put him in it, put the quarter in and oops, now we have a crying screaming tot who wants out the air plain, we tried calming him down in it, but there was no use, he needed out, hench the face.


This is taken in Raligh, nc my cousin Lenny was down to play rugby, and dada and baby both had their head shaved. talking about rugby below is a vidio of my cousin Lenny. the 1st one he got knocked down, cant say i blame them, hes the fastest,and best one on the team(sorry guys you know its ture tho) and the other one is just more of the game. Its the best sports game I ever wathed. Hope to see them back in NC soon to play again.

The First Year

Ill be honest, the first year of Sammy's life flew by me like it never existed. Theirs a million pictures I have on c.d,film, and the computer but they wouldn't all fit. So ill have them for a later post and for now just add a few and a lot of text. When we brought our little man home from the hospital I had major headaches till i got the blood patch,after that I was fine, but I missed his first day or so at home. He didn't really open his eyes much for me the first week or two but he did for his Dada. As he got older,month by month, well even by week he was learning so much. Then he did it, he rolled over.He hit almost every mile stone before he hit the age.
We went on a lot of trips to before he even turned one year, he went to the beach here in NC, West Virgina, and even the zoo. His first Halloween, he was a puppy. He made a great puppy to, he was about 3 months old then,had no idea he was even dressed up like a dog. Christmas,he was about 5 months or so, we got him a Santa outfit. Oh he was the best looking Santa you'd ever seen. His first birthday I made him a small cake all for him, we all went to the park near our church ( Living Water ) and he got so many things including a bubble lawn mower and a convertible bike(goes from a bike to a rocking bike ) he still loves playing with all his presents from his 1st birthday.

He grew up fast from birth to age one. Couldn't believe it, just a few months before he was just starting to roll and hold up his head, then crawl and fall down walking. I thank God everyday that he is healthy and full of love and joy. now his next year was pretty crazy, but youll just have to wait to read about it.

below are a few photos from his 1st year i have saved on the computer.yep,hes a screamer he didn't like the hat, but he did like being nakie on papas table.then theirs the one where hes UBBER small and taking a nap tucked under my arm.The on with him under the tree is his first Christmas, sleeping under the tree, so peaceful.

Sammy's birth

My labor story: It was just a another night we where sleeping out in the small trailer in my in laws yard at the time. I kept wakening up that night didn't think nothing of it just kept trying to go back to sleep. It was about 3 maybe 4 in the morning, and I gave up my baby was not going to let me go to sleep, so I sat down at the table in the other room, turned on the laptop and played Super Collapse 3, my game of choice at the time.After a few hours I finally realized that this could be it, my baby wanted out, or so I thought. I woke Sam up told him whats been going on, so he was ready to go, hoping to drive a fast as possible,but I was not ready.I wanted to walk. So we walked around our front yard for,maybe 5-10 minutes, contractions were getting close. very close. Not even 2 minutes apart.So we woke up his parents, called the doctor, they said to come in. By the time we were in the car I was having bad contraction,with a very bad picture to go with them.On the way to the hospital I would not let him drive fast at all, I'm guessing now it was my unconscious was of making my labor longer. So we finally we get there,and park. NO I was NOT letting him get me a wheelchair, I was determined to walk. Well a nurse seen me and got me one even tho we were 10 feet from the door( soo close ) We got in and they checked me in, by that time I was glad I had a chair. In the delivery room they gave me a iv with a drug that made me feel drunk and talk a lot about..well I don't remember, I never really did remember what all I said. Then they checked me, 6cm dilated.wow. even the nurse said that was unusual, most people come in 1 or 2 cm and screaming. nope not me, painful but yes, I do think I have had worse. I called my mom, she said shed be on her way. I talked to the doctor, because I was almost 9 cm dilated and I wanted my mom to be there for the birth of my baby, She said the baby was not in distress and waiting would be fine. So we all waited and waited. She got there on time. 10cm dilated, I could push. Oh wait no I couldn't, the epidural worked a little to well. I didn't feel it go in and it numbed me from my ribs down. The doctor had to suction my baby boy out,and she did it a few to many times, my baby came out with a cone head, but that was fine at the time he was healthy and man he looked handsome. So yes they messed up my epidural(wet tap with horrible headaches for almost a week after birth), I vomited a few times,they suctioned my baby, and they gave me a doctor I requested not to have,but hes healthy and at the time that's all that mattered. My after labor story is a lot shorter. Like I said they messed up my epidural, they drew fluid from my spine gave me headaches to the pont I couldn't even sit up to hold my son! sent me home a few days later then planned just because I wanted to wait and see if they would subsided with out getting a blood patch. so I finally went home,3 or 4 days later(most of what I slept by) we went back to the hospital,had the blood patch, and I was good to go. I wish I would have done it in the 1st place, I wouldn't of missed those first few days of my sons life. I cant change it, I can just enjoy all the time with him now that I can.
above right is Sam holding little Sammy, wow how much they both have changed.above left is little Sammy, he had jaundice so he was our little glow worm for a few days with his adorable pop out tummy.to the left right he is my borther,such a pround uncle he is.

The Beginning

My cousin Sheryl's blog (can be viewed here ) has inspired me to finish this. My son is two years and four months old now.Me and my husband have been married one year and a half also. We've tried many times to keep up with a few websites dedicated to our family but we never really did. So now I am going to blog. My son was born August 18th 2006,that day has stuck with me like it just happened yesterday.but that's another post. Ill try to back up 2 and a half years for the next few posts and go over whats been going on with the H3's (short for Harris 3's). The picture on the right is me, before I was pregnant .And the one next to me is the oldest one I could find of my husband.