Blueberries & Blackberries

We gave Graham blueberries and blackberries for the first time...and well, you can judge for yourself whether you think he liked them or not. :)

New Toys...Courtesy of Mimi

Friday afternoon, Shana (she used to be married to my brother...I don't like calling her my ex sister-in-law because to me, she is still my sister) and I left Little Rock to go to Texarkana for the weekend for Mother's Day. Mimi got Graham two new toys that he just LOVES!!! He is already standing at his Learn and Groove table all by himself...well, with someone very close behind him for when his chubby yummy lil legs give out on him.

Playing with Brooklyn, Shana's niece

First Boo Boo

Graham had his first accident at daycare Friday morning. I got a call from CDC around 9am to let me know that they had to write an accident report because Graham rolled over onto the shelves at school and got a small cut above his eye. :( Poor baby. Boys will be boys though and accidents can happen in a blink of an eye.

My Favorite....

This is my absolute favorite outfit of Graham's. I got it on sale at Pottery Barn Kids for 9.99. I wish I would have gotten another one in a bigger size. He looks so handsome in it...I am a bit biased though. :) His daddy says he's going to the yacht club when I put it on him with those shoes.

I have a TON of updates and a TON of pictures so I will do some more posting later when I get a chance.

42 Day Challenge

My blog friend, Melissa, asked me how the challenge was going and I realized that I hadn't written an update in quite some time. So here goes:

So far it's going pretty good! I'm not going to say GREAT because I haven't been able to work out as much as I would like to. I've lost a total of two pounds (I think I've lost a couple of more pounds though but it's THAT time of the month and I am so unbelieveably bloated) and used two cheats (which by the way were pretty awesome and totally took my cravings of sweet things away!). I've started working out to Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred and I can already tell you that I LOVE IT! It's such an awesome workout and is ONLY 20 MINUTES LONG!!! You cannot BEAT THAT!!! I ordered the DVD on ebay and it took 14 days (grrrrrr..bad seller) for me to FINALLY get it...only to realize that I had it on our U-Verse On Demand this whole time...FOR FREE. Oh well. I'm pretty sore but I love being sore after a workout.

"Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body."

I got that quote from one of my fellow "beauties" and I always recite this quote in my head when my legs, arms, abs, muscles that I don't even know the name of, are killing me.

I haven't had any problems with drinking all of the water that is required of me, or not eating sweets and fried foods. I pretty much stopped eating a lot of fried foods after I had Graham. I was constantly eating salads but pretty much realized that I can't eat salads EVERY DAY either. It does a number on my poor belly.

I pray that my thyroid medication is really helping my metabolism. I will go back to the doctor at the end of the month to have my levels tested again. My doctor told me not to get discouraged if I worked out and ate right but didn't see many results...she said it will take time and lots and lots of hard work. I have to keep telling myself that this is a whole new thing for me and I can't just have the pounds fall off or get toned as easy as I did before the hypothyroidism.

Please pray that I can continue this challenge without getting discouraged. To be honest with you, a lot of times I do get discouraged because it's just NOT as easy as it used to be. I need your prayers. I need your encouragement, your advice. I can't let the devil get into my head and fill it with all of the pessimistic thoughts.

I'm blessed to have all of my "Beauties" and the "Beast". What a great group of people! I only wish I knew them in person!

growing like the weeds in our yard

Our BIG boy is now wearing size 4 diapers. this is just ridiculous to me. size 4's are for 22 - 34 pound babies. I have a friend whose child is a year old and wearing size 4's. i've started calling graham "the beast." why? because he is a freakin beast. this baby is BIGGGGGGGGGG. I took him to drug emporium a few weeks ago and decided to just carry him around and not put him in a shopping cart. I thought my arm was going to fall off and I was going to die. by the time we were walking out of the store and to the car, my arm was shaking. i carry him around so much so you would think my chubby arms would be pretty defined. I don't know how I am going to carry him when he's a year old. he's going to be carrying me. this child is already wearing 18 month clothes. when we were in branson, all of the clothes that we bought him were 12 month clothes...well, it looks as if he won't be wearing those for too much longer. *sigh* guess we are going to have to make another trip to branson SOON. by the way, out of 9 babies at daycare, Graham is the second to biggest/heaviest and he has the CHUBBIEST thighs of them all...the thighs he certainly got from his momma!

Happy 8 Months to Graham tomorrow!!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from our latest shoots:

i think he is throwing gang signs again...

not too thrilled about the hat

uh oh...he sees the kitty...we can forget about him looking at the camera anymore

pointing his lil finger at sebastian...

so...my poor husband has been sick and bedridden at home since last Wednesday. He went to the dr. Wednesday morning and she told him he had rotavirus which really made no sense to me whatsoever because one of the biggest symptoms is diarrhea and he had none of that. he had a fever, weakness, muscles and bones ached, headache, nausea. All she did was check his stomach and she said rotavirus. Didn't run any tests or ANYTHING. I'm no doctor or anything but from everything that I have read about rotavirus, you have to take stool samples to test for it. but whatever. his symptoms sounded like he had the flu to me. but like I said, I'm no doctor. the only thing they did was give him a shot of phenegran and a shot of pain meds, gave him a script for phenegren and sent him on his way. so that left my poor hubby living in the guest bedroom for the rest of the week because his "doctor" said that it was highly contagious and I certainly didn't want Graham getting sick. Nor did I want to get sick either. Taking care of Graham all week all by myself was hard enough. no way did I want to do it while being sick myself. I give single moms so many props for what they do. I felt like a single mom for four days and it was not fun. anyway. After a day or so of Chad not getting any better, he started taking flu medicine and by Sunday morning, he was back to his usual self. Thank goodness. I absolutely cannot sleep in our bed without Chad in it with me. I had no one to dig my "dragon toes" into at night. and my "dragon toes" really missed his legs. :)

every morning, I always sit Graham in the living room floor to play while I make his bottle. Thursday morning, I did my usual routine and I brought the bottle over to Graham and showed it to him and he looked at me and looked at his bottle and said, "ba ba." :) I think our baby said his first word. he may not have known what he said but momma heard it...and so did Chad. he came out of the guest bedroom and was like, "I heard that!!" We were quite excited but it hasn't happened again. But I know we have Einstein on our hands. ;)

graham has this thing about constantly moving his hands and feet. he "rolls" his wrists and ankles all the time.

he still isn't crawling yet and i've decided that I am okay with it and i don't want him to. nope...I'm okay to carry him around so he can get where he needs to go. even if it does kill me.

Queen of ALL THINGS AWE-SUMMM!!!

This is the first award that I have ever received so I'm feeling a lil giddy about it. ha! i'm such a dork! Thank you Brandi for awarding me my first. :)

The Rules Are:

*List 7 Things That Make You Awe-Summm!

*Pass It On To 7 Bloggers Who Are Awe-Summm!

*Be Sure To Tag Your Awe-Summm Bloggers To Let Them Know!

*Then Link Back To The Queen That Tagged You!

7 Things that make me Awe-Summm:

1. I have a wonderful husband and he treats me like a queen and loves me no matter what...even when I am having a terrible day and being the biggest witch in the world...he makes me want to be a better person everyday.

2. I know that I am a good mother and there isn't anything that I wouldn't do for my sweet little boy. I will always ALWAYS put him first.

3. I have the best mother in the entire world and I have always said that when I have kids, I want to be as kind, giving, and loving as she is to her children.

4. I am a child of God. He is my strength when I am weak.

5. I strive to be the best at everything that I do. Failure is not an option.

6. I'm very kind-hearted and loving.

7. I'm just AWE-SUMMMMMM!!! period. :)

7 Bloggers Who are AWE-SUMMM:

1. Amy

2. Jennifer

3. Holly

4. Hannah

5. Courtney

6. Amanda P.

7. Anna