We're Back!

Well we went to the Jersey Shore ( Wildwood Crest) and stayed at The Coloseum Ocean Resort. We had full days of laying around the room, playing on the beach, taking walks on the beach, splashing in the pool, eating sand etc! Miles enjoyed the trip overall. This was our first Family Vacation and of course it was very new to Miles. We wasn't crazy about being in the water, first of all it was cold and second, his approach to the pool water and the ocean water is very similar to bath water.

Miles made friends with just about everyone on Wildwood! He also shmoozed the owner of the Motel but not enuf to knock off a couple of $$$! That's ok, We didn't get to spend a lot of time near the ocean water for very long because of JELLYFISH! I really wasn't in the mood to have either one of my boys pee on me in case I was stung by one! ( Friends Episode: The one with the jellyfish)

Vacation Pix


My guys had a long day.


We're up bright and early !


Do I have to wear these things?


I'll take a picture with then but that's it!



The water was much too cold for my little guy.


I'm sittin' on top of the world!

Wow! What is this stuff ... exactly?

On Vacation!

.....Be back in a few days! Check back for pictures.

My Son,

I have loved the very thought of you, before you were even a boy. When I saw your p-nut shaped body for the first time, I was so overcome with emotion that I couldn't see past the tears in my eyes. See you have to understand that your Dad and I had been friends for over 10 years before we had fallen in love and decided to marry. We had discussed having children and how many and we knew that we would love any child that we were blessed to have, I just never knew how much until I saw you in an ultrasound. When you began to grow, you tested your limits and boundaries early on by stretching your arms and legs. In the beginning they felt like I had butterflies in my tummy! The more you grew the more I grew, and soon settled down for a long Winters nap -- NOT! Occasionally rolling over onto my bladder, caused me to go to the potty more times than I care to remember. You would also scrunch your bottom up so that it would poke out on my right side( I'm lopsided to this day). At times your hiccups would keep me awake, but I thought they were the cutest thing your were doing at the time. (They lasted throughout the pregnancy!) You got stronger by the day and what once felt like butterflies, now feel like The Eagles' whole Defensive Line! This is because you didn't have as much room as you once did. I felt every inch of and we were fully aware of each other. We'd play Tag and Kick Ball with your ribs! You won every time.
I was able to see your growth via Ultrasound machine, I was what you call High Risk, because I have a kidney disease called Polycistic Kidney Disease. I wont go into the details now but Dr. Belden wanted to make sure that you were developing properly.

So my son, your time was coming to an end and you had no plans to move out of your housing unit! Your Birthday was supposed to be on December 25, 2005 (Christmas) But you were not budging! Dr. Belden said to come to the Hospital so that they could begin to induce me. That just means that they gave me some meds that were administered, not by IV or orally! That was @ 8:00pm on Dec. 27th. With help of Pitosin my contractions were coming but you still were just hanging on the cord! So from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning you hadn't begun to pack your bags. The medicine that was given to me in a special way wasn't working so, some genius had a light bulb moment and said, " Give it to her orally!" Hello people a lot easier this way! Wednesday was like a really bad episode of ER and Grey's Anatomy put together! At 1 in the after noon there still wasn't any progress and I wasn't allowed to eat, there wasn't any reason for Ryan to starve to death. I sent him to the cafeteria to get something to eat and plus my mom was due to arrive soon anyway and I wouldn't alone. In a split second I went from trying to manage my contractions and relax to "I need another pair of hands in here!" yelled by a nurse. No one was telling me what was going on! A pair of hands turned into anyone in the hall. They dropped my head back and kicked my feet in the air and what I could see over my belly is what looked like 4 doctors trying to see who could go the farthest. Then there was a nurse who, I'm convinced was trying to kill me with the canula asking me was she hurting me, Ahh Yeah! Then I was blanking out, things were going so fast and w/o sound. Ryan came in at the peak of high drama and I do remember them holding him back so that he couldn't get to me. All he could do was look at how much pain I was in and there wasn't a damn thing he could do! Once things calmed down the explained that my BP went up the baby' heart rate dipped. According to them there was no time to explain anything. EPIDURAL pleeeeeeeeeeese! If I was going to be tortured like that again I wanted the drugs. All day nothing and at 8pm Wednesday Dr. Belden checked me and I was only 2cm. So he called for the EPIDURAL guy and gave me more drugs to prep me for the C-Section.

At 8:51pm on Wednesday you were evicted...Uh, I mean born. I heard you whimper and again I couldn't see past the tears in my eyes. They brought you to me, as they put Humpty Mommy back together again, what I saw was that from true love, great things happen --- you!

I love you from your feet to your nose!
Mommy

Mis Primos Continued

Mis Primos!

Well the time has finally come , we got the boys together Miles, Elijah and Jackson. Our location for this meeting was at aunt Faye's House. We played, drank bottles, Jackson was the only one eating Cheerios, we sat on the laps of Family, let me show you a few: Aunt Ryde, Aunt Bill,Uncle Keith, Uncle Sunny, Aunt Valerie, Aunt Tammy, Evan and Elijah. Well the time came and we took several group pictures, this is what we got!

(MILES in red, ELIJAH in denim shortall, JACKSON in Cubs shirt and denim shorts)

Reading IS Fundamental!

More Marvelous Miles Mugs!

Hi, I'm Your cousin Jackson! ... You must be Miles!

Miles' cousins from Chi-town came to Philly and stopped passed our house. This is the first time that they have met each other. We check out each other's blog but that is really the only way we know what's going on with each other's children. When I saw Jackson, he is just as adorable in person as he is in pictures! As I watched both boys it was bananas how many similarities they have in mannerisms alone! I have gotten so many responses that Miles and Jackson resemble each other.... they are family after all! Here are a few pix from the visit!


* Look at how Jackson is sizing up Miles and Miles is totally unaffected by him.
They did warm up to each other and got along well. Must be their awesome parents!

You Look Mahhvelous Dahhling!

This is me all decked out in my Christening outfit that my Godmommy Stephanie bought me. I thought you all might enjoy these pictures that I took just for you all!

My Special Day!

Hello everybody! I just put my Mommy and Daddy to bed, they have had a very long day. I got Christened today and everybody kept telling my parents how quiet and good I was. The ceremony itself was very quick. It was me, Mom, Dad, and My Godparents: Stephanie andKarron to witness it, all other family were seated. They said a couple of prayers and he put his wet finger on my head and prayed again. ( I hope he doesn't put his hands in his mouth, like I do!) I wasn't afraid at all! No tears from me! Service was long for me and I began to get a little antsy and began to talk and sing on my own. It was all so very chaotic, people everywhere looking at me with goofy faces! I never got a chance to take pictures in my outfit so Mommy said that she is gonna put me back into my clothes for a photo shoot!

Once the service was over, we headed on home and Mommy jumped out of her church clothes faster that Flo Jo! Mommy still had to cook food for everyone and she had the help of her good friend Lisa. People started to come bit by bit and before you know it we had a small mob! Family and friends stopped by to see me. Most people hadn't seen me yet (out of mommy's belly that is!) Mommy wasn't able to take pictures of everybody with me and she apologizes, but if you remember she was busy taking care of guests and me and don't forget burning food!
people were requesting the burnt food.... go figure! I took pictures with my Aunt Virginia, Aunt Karen, Mrs. Benjamin, my cousins Lisa and Jan, Uncle Robert and Poppie.

We had all kind of snacks and things but most importantly ...dessert! Two chocolate cakes, apple pie, lemon cake, cheesecake. Yummo!

Anyway, it was a busy day for both of my parents, which is why I put them to bed and I'm blogging! :) My mommy will be so proud of my progress. Stay tuned for more pics that will be taken from the other digital cameras my mom can get her hands on!

Luv,
Miles

This just In .....

Today my mom came to see Miles since she had been at the beach for the week,relaxing and enjoying her time alone. She had her camera with her and showed me some of the pictures that she had taken. As I was flipping thru her images, I saw pix of my baby boy. Here are some never before seen pix of Miles' early days.

Enjoy!

Happy Fodder's Day!

June Cleaver I am not!

It has been a while since I blogged and I must admit that I wasn't sure that I really wanted to. I am starting to feel theless than positive effects of being a stay-at-home-mom. Please do not get it twisted, I absolutely love watching my child grow up and shine. I just feel a bit BLAH!

Alert!! Maybe it's because I'm going thru the girl thang, but I feel like I'm caught in a whirlpool and not in a good way. The world is just spinning around without me and no one seems to give a damn! Ooops! pardon me but, that's where I am right now! I'm torn because if I was offered some relief so I could go spinning around with the rest of the world I'd probablly be hesitant and decline. Being a first time Mommy is bittersweet, ya know! I'll talk all BIG and act like I'd turn him over to to the "Grands" but when confronted with it I punk out! If I'm doing anything it is usually with my baby on my hip which as you know can get a bit cumbersome!

I think that I have to learn to ask for help because, no one is going to know you need it unless you open your friggin' mouth! There's so many things that need to be done in a day and and it simply can't be done. By the way who dubbed me "The Laundry Lady"?

Oh yeah! what about the house constantly being in a constant state of chaos? Nothing gets put back where it belongs and I'm constantly picking up onesies, socks and bibs and the like. No sooner than I pick it up its right back! I can totally sympathize with the Fabreeze lady on t.v. .

Anybody else have the bottle washing and sterilizing woes? I beleive that I have developed Tourettes Syndrome giving me a tick that forces me to keep saying Shit, shit, shit! To be honest there have been times where there have been a few bottles that haven't made the sterilizer cut. I mean is it really gonna damage Miles? If so let me know and promise that you won't report me!

Arrgggghhhhhh! Diapers! Smelly, poopie, pee-pee! Don't get me started, Enuf said.

Tune in for more .........

Miles' MOMA moments...

MOMA Moment #1
Medium: Crayola Crayon 8-pack
Date: 5-29-06

MOMA Moment #2
Medium: Rose Art Finger Paints
Date:6/28/06

My Day Care!

Play Time

Nap Time

Snack Time

And Pretend Play
Just some things I do during the day. I enjoy the safe atmosphere, I'm fed when I'm hungry, I nap when I'm tired. I'm sung to, played with, hugged and kissed. Relax peeps my caregiver is my Mommy! She took a whole year to be with me. I grow so fast that she didn't want to miss a bit! Isn't she great, I think so! Oh yeah My daddy is pretty neat-o too!

Mamamamamaaamaa!

Miles and I were about 10 minutes into our nighttime routine, and all of a sudden, out of the blue were clear sounds.

Mamamamamaaamaamaamamama!

I couldn't believe my ears! I'm solo for the night and I immediately called Ryan. At first he was acting like Michigan J. Frog : (The frog from The Bugs Bunny Cartoons or for you youngins: WB frog)
Silent, then he let loose and Ryan couldn't believe his ears and was excited to hear his son speak recognizable sounds. To make sure that it was legitimate and not me just fixating over my perfect kid (LOL!) .... I called my mom. I let her listen to Miles and she confirmed that he in fact was saying Ma Ma!

Miles insert: Oh Yeah Sweet Potatoes Rule!

Party Pix!

Ryan and Miles









Miles and Grandma









Ryan









Elijah












Cheeeeeeeeeese!

Happy 33rd Birthday Daddy!

Today is my Daddy's Birthday and Mommy is taking Daddy to see X-Men III. I'm going as a chaperone. I didn't like X-Men, and I was asleep when my mom snuck into The Break Up. Well the day was busy for me they kept me up all day and boy am I tuckered out! Don't I look it? I am wearing my gift to my dad. Do ya like it? Mommy did it 'cuz I'm not allowed to use the iron yet.