Woo Hoo!

So, I thought Chris was the only one of us who had all the luck. I guess I have a little too! My meeting at work went really well. I talked a lot and asked a lot of questions during the meeting which I don't ever do. People looked at me pretty strange though since they've never seen me work there but knew everything about the account. I told them I was a home rep. They didn't really care about me after that, ha ha!

So afterward, I asked my team leader about the scheduling issue that I was concerned about last week. He didn't quite know my situation of wanting to keep weekends work-free. I asked if there was anyway of me staying Monday-Friday. He said well, if you take 2:30-11pm then I'll get you weekends, I'm like hell yea. Whats an hour more? And I get more time with Pooder in the afternoons and maybe I won't need to pickup my mother in law since it would only be 45 minutes between the time I start work and Chris comes home from work. I think she really likes it though so maybe we'll keep doing it for her sake.

I don't know, I'm just in a really good mood about it. It seems like its too good to be true so we'll see. And I don't know when I'll start going from 2:30-11pm but hopefully soon, I can't wait to have a longer afternoon with my son!

uh oh!

So I woke up today craving eggs, I made myself two eggs and toast. Then I started craving something sweet so I made cupcakes this afternoon...I hope its not what I think it is but you never know. Maybe I'm scaring myself...even if I was the 'P' word, I wouldn't have cravings this early in the game, right??

Corey slept through the night again in his bassinet! He woke up at 7:30am and went back down for a nap at 9:30am and stayed asleep until 1pm! I had no idea 10 week old babies slept that much! Maybe he's got his mommy's traits and just loves sleeping. I could stay in bed alllll day long. It was so cute how he would stay asleep while I changed his diapers and when he stirred, I put him to breast (nursed him) and he ate all the while sleeping...yes he is my son!

A roofer came to give us an estimate on our roof on how much it would be to get it replaced. $6,500! We have the money but we also have been wanting to keep saving that money up. Oh well, we gotta do what we gotta do. When we bought this house, we knew what we were getting ourselves into and we knew that we would need the roof fixed within the 1st year. We just loved the house too much for that to be a deal breaker and we never thought of asking the sellers to knock off some more for the roof since they were already agreeing on paying the closing costs for us. Either way, we are excited about the new roof, its a good investment and it will give the house more value. I love our house but I can't wait to get new paint, carpeting, cabinets in the kitchen, curtains, decorating...when that happens, it will finally feel like my home:)

I go into work tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to it...we'll see how it goes.

Gotta love weekends

We have had such a good weekend! Even though I worked on Friday night, I made the most of the afternoon shopping and running errands. I spent most of my shopping time looking for jean shorts for Corey and spent $50 on 5 pairs of jean shorts, 1 cotton pair, and a set of Cubs onsies for him! Since the weather was in the 80's that day, I thought it would stay that way and he'd need them...today: 60's and rainy:( oh well, I got 6-9 months on 4 out of 6 of his shorts so he will fit into them in June/July!

Saturday, I woke up bright and early singing the theme song to Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood to Corey, which made him laugh and smile then he went back to sleep. I, on the other hand, got up took a shower, cleaned the house and made 2 fruit pizzas. We had a cookout/NFL draft day party to go to and then at night I was going to my mom's to see my step-grandparents and show off the baby to them and my step dad's family. The pizzas turned out very good! They better had since Chris and I had to go to the store 3 separate times to get forgotten ingredients. Anyways, I like making fruit pizzas, I think its my favorite thing to eat and make.

We got to the draft day party all decked out in our 49ers gear and it was the first time we had Corey in Niner stuff so we were super excited and giddy to show everyone how cute he looked. (see picture above) It was such a relaxing day and I loved hanging out with friends and family. My mom called me 5,000 times though to figure out when I was coming over to see her husbands side of the family...I had to disapoint her and tell her we weren't leaving until we saw who the niners were going to pick up. We got Michael Crabtree, a wide receiver from Texas Tech. Not my favorite school since they are Texas' rivals, but oh well. I was wanting them to draft a quarterback namely Mark Sanchez...oh well, again.

We finally made it mom's house with Corey around 8:30 and we had dessert there. Corey was a hit with everyone. My grandparents loved him and would not let them go and they couldn't take enough pictures. My grandma gave me a really nice gift. I think they're called willows. A willow figurine. I'm sure everyones seen one they are carved wood with no faces. Very pretty and special.

I made my mom's day by letting her take the baby for the night even though Chris and I didn't have plans. I cried and cried. Everyone who was there laughed at me. It was embarrasing but we finally left and caught a late movie in Pekin. We watched Obsessed with Beyonce!! O man, it was good. Scary...man that girl was off her rocker obsessed. We then went out for a drink and it was nice just the two of us.

Even though I only had 4 hours of sleep I woke up at 6am and got ready to go get my son. When I got there, everyone was sleeping still. By everyone I mean my mom, step dad, brother, step grandparents, and step uncle. They had all stayed there that night. I woke them all up, even Corey! My mom said he hogged the bed trying to stay close to her all night and he only woke up once at 12am and once at 6am (when I got up, weird). Since I was there, I was talked into staying for breakfast. I love my grandmother's cooking so I stayed and it was good:) I stayed until 1pm and when I went home, I took the longest nap ever since Corey's been born. Most of the time, Corey was asleep with me, too. We woke up to take a walk with Chris to Jimmy Johns and then to Dairy Queen. We live down the road. We then went to wal-mart for some grocery shopping and I went back home to nap some more.

It was such an amazing weekend, I can't wait until the next, MAY!

oooo noo!

I think I created false hope for my mother this weekend. She was joking that she should have Corey spend the night. I said yea right but then I said hmm maybe not such a bad idea, Chris and I could go out and hang out with some friends. She sounded happy about the idea, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have a night without him. I called her up and told her this but she thinks hes ready. I know he's ready and he'll be a good boy for his grandma but the thought of him needing me, especially since I nurse, is making me not want to do it. What if he doesn't have enough to eat?? I have him on a strict breast milk-only diet so she wouldn't be able to give him formula or water, oh well I'll sleep on it for a couple of days...

Has it been a week already?

Oops! I really forgot to do updates for 7 straight days, it has been pretty busy. Corey has been sick with a cold for this past week and that was exhausting.

I've been back at work for 4 weeks now and just getting used to it but then my work decides to change my schedule up in May so I'm not guaranteed weekends or 1:30-10pm like I have now. I'm pretty upset about it but but I am trying to look at the bright sides of things like if I had Monday's off, I could go see my cousin on her 1 day off and if I got a 12pm start time, I could get off sooner to be with my boys??? O man who am I kidding...I want my schedule to stay the same:(((

Anyways, we had a good weekend, I saw my cousins on Saturday and hung out with Austin. We also got Corey's 2 month pictures a week late, the pictures weren't very cute so we picked out a silly pose with him sticking out his tongue! He is so cute in it and he looks really devious and we can tell by his expression he is going to be a handful!! I love it;)

Yesterday, I took him to get his first shots, I was so nervous about it. My mom knew how I wanted someone there so right before the nurse gave him his shots, she walked in and held him for me. He screamed his little head off but it was only for a couple of minutes then he was good, I took him home where I nursed him whenever he wanted to eat and gave him tylenol every 4 hours so he never had a fever, I was grateful. Next time, I'll be able to do it myself.

This weekend is going to be jam packed. NFL draft party at my in laws and dinner with my step family...Sunday night hoping to go see my aunt and her family, we'll see:)

I love life:)

Oh I have so much to be grateful for today.

*I'm happy for friends like T & E who check up on us to see how we are doing, I'm excited to see them this weekend.
*I'm happy and grateful for my mother in law who came today, she was so helpful and even did my dishes:) At one point when I was working, I thought I heard Corey crying so I ran to the hall and was about to go down the stairs when I heard not him crying but her singing to him and I went back to work:o)
* I'm so grateful that we have our health and that we have God to get our loved ones thru tough times with health issues. Our grandmas are not doing too good and I'm praying for them that they get better. I'm praying that they get to see our son grow up.
*I'm grateful for our jobs, that we still have them and I'm hoping I will have my job for a long time. I'm so happy i can stay at home and not send my baby off to daycare:)
*I'm happy and grateful for my loving marriage, after 8 years of knowing him nothing has changed except for the love I have for him grows more and more:)
*I'm grateful for my mother, she is so awesome. We talk so much throughout the day, I love it! Its so nice to come to a point in life where you're not fighting with your mother, she's actually a best friend!!
*I'm grateful that we waited to have a child because we wouldn't have this child. He is everything I wanted and imagined my baby would be:)
*I'm grateful for food, water, clothing, & shelter...of course.
*I'm grateful that I have a good supply of scrapbooking stuff so I can send cards to people...my brother in particular who's bday is Thursday and I have to make it and mail it by...tomorrow, lol.

If you are having a bad day, think of all that you can be grateful for, it will lift your spirits up immediately:)))

weekend and today's updates...

I've been so busy this weekend, I haven't had time for any updates...Friday night not much going on except I dropped my phone in soup and it got fried. Saturday did all the laundry which I'm very proud of since I haven't done it since I got pregnant...Chris wouldn't let me lift the baskets or bend to fold so he's been doing it ever since and he started to like it, lol! We went out to dinner with his parents who had his niece and nephew so we invited them to watch a movie at our place and while they were there we colored easter eggs for the next day, it was so cute...Corey couldn't care less though! Sunday we lounged around and I got him all dressed up for Easter but we didn't go to church like I wanted to.

We went to my moms house and had dinner there...so nice:) My aunt and her daughter came over to see the baby for the first time and she had told us that they had to put down their family dog the next day (today) and you could just tell how sad they were. My uncle and their son would've came she said but they were too torn up to see anyone. I was thinking about them all day, I hope they made it through the day...

Today was pretty tough for Corey and me. He was pretty sick with a runny nose, sneezing, and coughing...throwing up a lot as well. He barely ate anything today considering he couldn't breathe with a stuffy nose, so he would eat maybe 5 minutes at a time. I think hes getting better though even though he still only eats 15 minutes at a time. He has no temp so thats good. Both my sister in law and mom came over to check up on him (both nurses) and they both think its allergies/sinuses so we'll see...

Though it was tough, I couldn't imagine what my friend is going through right now with her baby who has been in the hospital since he was born and now needs a blood transfusion. I emailed her and let her know what a brave, strong person she was and how much I admired her. Its so sad but I'm praying for her as much as I can.

Tomorrow, I have my mother in law coming to help watch the baby during the lapse between me working and Chris getting home. Its about an hour and a half and since I've been working I've been trying to get him on a schedule for him to sleep that hour and a half but its not working so she's coming to help which i'm thankful for:)

a laugh and a half!

My brother and I had a good laugh today. His eye is pretty red which isn't so funny but my mom came by yesterday to check up on him and she saw it. She got really concerned so I took it upon myself to change the sheets and get him some visine. My mom texted me today to see if it had gotten any better. I said it still looks the same but there is no drainage and it doesn't hurt or itch. She says back, ok I will call the doctor and set up an appointment for next week. Omg mom wtf!! (thats what I texted back) I don't think she knows what it means but Austin calls her and hes like "No, you are not taking me to the doctors. I must have scratched it. Its no big deal." I was in the background laughing and laughing at their conversation. I was laughing because Chris tells me all the time that my mom goes overboard when we are sick. Before I was pregnant I would call mom up and tell her I had a cough or a sore throat and she would tell me to go to the doctor so I would go to the prompt care here in town. Then when I got pregnant she would tell me to call my obstetrician alllll the time. Then Corey comes along and I've called his doctor maybe 4 times with questions and concerns because my mom didn't know so she tells me to call. One of the calls I made to his doctor could've saved Corey's life(more on that later). Chris gets mad at me in a kind of joking way when I listen to her. But she's my mother who else is going to take care of me and be concerned for me...mommy!

It was just funny and what was even crazier was that the way Austin was talking to mom. He seemed so grown up! How did that happen? I remember his first words and now he's all grown upyelling and joking around with mom!! Soon it will be Corey's turn to yell and joke with me on the phone:)

a wonderful day:)

I give up on organizing my ipod its impossible to edit the names, albums, and cover art on each and every song...o well, its just as unorganized as our other ipod. The fun thing about setting up this ipod though was listening to old songs I have on my list like 'I'll be there for you' by Bon Jovi. Omigosh, I love that song and I haven't heard it in forever! And you can't go wrong with Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There'! I'm so going to dance to that when I get off work, lol.

Corey slept through the night!! We put him to sleep at 10:30 and he didn't wake up until 6am!! And he stayed in his bassinet...next obstacle is having him sleep in his room in the crib alone, but that's more me taking that step than him. I'm sure he'll do okay with that transition but I don't want him too far away yet.

Also today I was working and Chris hadn't come home yet, Corey woke up so Austin, my brother, rocked him back to sleep. I'm so proud of my little brother! He is amazing with Corey and he's having a good time here.

Chris made a great dinner tonight...I hate that I can't cook supper since I'm working, I feel like a bad wife for not cooking or even packing his lunch at night. Maybe I'll do that tonight, he will like that:)

I love baby Corey

I'm missing my baby right now, I can't wait to hold him and rock him to sleep. Last night he slept in his bassinet the whole night only getting up once for a half an hour to eat. Usually what happens is he wakes up to eat 3 times around 1:30 3:30 and 5:30 then each time I try to put him back in the bassinet he will wake up and stay awake until I put him in our bed in between us but last night he let me put him down in the bassinet after the 1:30 feeding and he didn't wake up until 8am!!! Thats amazing! I hope it stays that way but I don't care either way. I think I would stay up all night with him if I had to. He's just an easy going baby and he doesn't demand stuff like other babies do. Sure he has his moments. To me though its so cute when he puckers up his lips to cry.

Agh! I'm a mother totally in love with her child:)

Working

I'm working right now almost done...less than 2 hours left. I have my husband, son, and 13 year old brother downstairs hanging out right now. My brother Austin is on spring break from school this week so I thought it would be good to spend some time with him:) Since we are so far apart in age we aren't very close but I try to change that as much as possible when I get the chance like this week. He's a good kid.

Yesterday Chris and I went shopping and I took back some jeans I bought right before I gave birth to Corey thinking I would fit into them within the first 2 weeks...yea right. Nobody told me that I would keep my weight on when I go in for a c-section longer than if I went naturally. It really sucks. One of my friends had twins in the beginning of October and by Halloween she was in her regular pre-baby jeans, I thought I was going to be the same way. When I took back my size 2 jeans I realized I have to lose 20 pounds to get back to my weight from before I got pregnant. I haven't even started exercising. It makes me sad.

Once it gets warmer out I'm going to start walking around and I bought a brand new pink ipod yesterday to motivate me! I'm so excited for it even though ipods are old news and I already have an older ipod. Chris takes the older ipod to work to listen to so I don't have anything at home when it comes to music. Yay, I'm excited to get my pink one going but its taking forever to organize the music on it the way I want to, lol. I want it perfect unlike the other ipod that is sooo unorganized.

Anyways one more hour until I'm done for the day...its going by fast:)

lived through it!

I have just a few minutes to write about last night before I go get laundry going.

Last night went well. As well as it could have gone...We got to my mom's house and I didn't want to leave. I was procrastinating & trying to make up stuff to do before we left for good. I made him a bottle and explained everything in the diaper bag twice. My mom was like 'This is not my first rodeo. Ha Ha mom. I carried him to the door where I started to tear up, man it was hard. So I got into the car and started bawling. Wow did I cry. Well when we got to TGI Friday's we sat down and the first thing I wanted to do was order a drink. I thought I would be tough and go for something strong so I ordered a long island iced tea....big mistake. I got 3 sips down and I got really emotional. I was telling Chris how much I love his parents (long story) and how much I love him and how much I miss Corey, he was like 'Don't drink the rest of that' This is coming from a man who looked at the price tag (6.99) and said you better drink all of that its the price of my whole meal! He could see I was drunk by just drinking half of the damn tea. H knew I was determined to finish it so he tricks me and says, let me try some and I go sure, (he never tries anything of mine so I was all for him trying) and he takes 3 big gulps and finishes it! I was so thankful. I must have been a light weight from not drinking for 11 months.

I called my mom between dinner and the movie and she said Corey cried and cried so she gave him the bottle but he didn't want it so she gave him his paci and he fell right to sleep, at that time I was weary about going to the movie, what if he doesn't eat at all while I'm away? We get to the movie parking lot and we see old friends, sat there and talked for a few minutes and they invite us to go downtown later that night since he could see that we didn't have the baby...it actually sounded like fun especially since I had just had that drink and was feeling good. Not tonight, lol. So we get inside and we pay as students, I'm glad we look young enough. They don't even ask, they just assume, so we don't say anything. I see my little cousin and she's towering over me and I can't talk because of the drink, lol. She must have thought I was off my rocker. I asked her how the family was and how her sister is. Her sister is 17 & pregnant. Nothing wrong with that I guess as long as she has support from her family.

I then sit through at 2 hour movie...I love you, Man. It was funny and Chris and I had a good time laughing at the way the main character said redouncuros instead of ridicules. But I kept looking at my phone for the time...it was eating at me.

We finally get back to my mom's and its 9:30, she lives out in the country. Mom said he was fine, he was sleeping when I got there. He only ate 6 oz. of breast milk that we had frozen. The reason why he didn't take the first bottle was because it was cold, he needs it really really warm for him to take it. Mom reassured me that he knew I wasn't there, that made me feel good and bad at the same time. I left him but he remembered his mommy.

Got home and went to sleep, woke up an hour ago and he wants to be fed and changed.

Cutest thing happened while I rocked him to sleep in his room. We have a sports theme in his room and it was the first time he really looked around his room. Omigosh! He loved it. He smiled up at all the basketballs, soccer balls, footballs, and baseballs. I could see in his face he wanted to play with them. Before I put him back to sleep I read from his baby bible that his aunt's mom got him. He liked the colorful pages and he liked to hear my squeeky voice talking about Noah and the Ark. I hummed him to sleep and off he went. What a good little boy...

Ready for the day...

I survived last night. Chris didn't take Corey anywhere which helped and work wasn't too busy. I changed his diaper on my side of the bed yesterday and he pooped all over it so we didn't get to bed until around 12o'clock last night waiting for the sheets to dry. Fun Fun;)

Chris says I've changed since the baby was born so I have been trying to get it together. I want to be that fun loving girl hes known before the baby so tonight I will be taking the baby to my moms and we'll go to a movie and dinner without Corey. I'm not looking foward to it but I think its good to get out and be with just my husband for the night, i think he deserves it and I do too for surviving my 1st week back at work.

I just got back from scrapbook shopping, I didn't get too much but it ended up being like $26 for everything. The scrapbook place I go to is really expensive, you buy a sheet of paper for $2, but they are so cute and rare. I'll scrapbook tomorrow...if I get myself to put the baby down for a bit, lol.

Happy Friday?

I'm so glad I have the next 2 days off after tonight...

Its been sad going back to work after 6 weeks off for maternity leave, I wish I could just be a stay at home mom but work at home mom is the next best thing! I'm so glad I can come downstairs on my breaks and feed Corey.

Ugh, 2nd shift, I thought I would absolutely hate it but its not so bad. I've been on 1st shift at my job for 5 years and when Chris and I decided to have a baby we realized we did not want to pay for daycare. Also I didn't want him exposed to all the germs that go around in daycares. So in order to have a baby we needed one person on 1st shift and one person on 2nd shift, I got the short end of the stick and went onto nights, there were reasons for it like Chris's job: people on 2nds do not usually get asked for overtime. Either way if i were to stay on 1st and Chris went to
2nd we wouldn't see him at night, at least we are all at home at night:)

Tonight is going to be hard though. Chris is planning on going to his parents house with Corey while I'm working to visit them and work on his '96 Camero before selling it also to have dinner with them. I've never been without Corey for more that 20 minutes, so I will be obsessing over if hes doing ok or eating ok. O man, having no control over what your baby's doing sucks. I just want to be with him 24/7. Is that normal? Is it healthy? Hes only 7 weeks old (today), is it time to cut the strings already? Then tomorrow Chris is wanting to take me to a movie and dinner, am I ready for a Corey-free date night? My mom is more than happy to watch him actually she may be the one pushing me out the door for alone-Corey time. I hope I'll have the strength to stay working tonight...

Right now Corey has a rash on his face...not sure how he got it, I changed his lotion to bedtime lotion but the rash is just on his face not his body. I wonder if he got it from his dad's unshaven, scruffy face rubbing up against him. Or maybe a heat rash...I'll keep an eye on it even though I want to rush to the dr's office to show them and ask what it really is.

Anyways, more later, I have to rush to Wal-Mart to get some diapers:)

why and why

I live to love and I love to laugh:) Haha, i have a bunch of those. Its my favorite saying live, laugh, love. I try to follow that as much as possible. Anyways, I just thought I would explain my page title a little.
Just a little background on why I started this page...I like writing and I blog sometimes on my myspace page but I like this idea better because the blog on myspace feels like its there when I really have something to say...I sometimes just want to write down how my day is going and what Corey did and I have nowhere to share it...this will be nice to do that on. Like i said, I have a myspace page, I also have a facebook page, and I'm on twitter (whatever the hell that is). It feels like its getting old and juvenille but I keep them going because I like keeping up with whats going on with family & friends...if it weren't for myspace I wouldn't have found my bff from 2nd grade or see my little cousins grow up with pictures that they post of themselves:) I like talking to my high school friends still and see how they are doing with their new little families so for now I'm not taking down any profiles that I have.
So this blog page is for me, to put my thoughts down and if anyone wants to read it thats fine...no pressure:)