Beso me Mucho!

Jude loves to kiss. A lot! I love this about him!
He kisses all sorts of things. People, books, toys, every dog in sight at the park! His favorite things to kiss though are his stuffed animals. He kisses them all, but he does have his favorite, Boo! Boo is an Internet sensation dog and he loves to watch his clips on YouTube! One day we were shopping and came across Boo in stuffed animal
form and he just HAD to have him! Judah just loves him and calls him booboo!
Back to kissing! Most days before naps and bedtime he will make a kissing noise while heading to his room, and this means that he wants to kiss his friends! He has like 20 and he wants to kiss them all! It's the most darling thing!

I hope you always have a sensitive side my dear sweet boy!

A Baby in Our Bed

So Jude hasn't been feeling well the last few days. Feverish off and on, a steady stream of thick snot, and a newly developed cough. It is absolutely the worst thing for a parent to see your kiddo sick! I wish I could take it all from him and give it to myself! Jude's little nose is raw and you can tell it hurts so bad to have it wiped! But the damn snot keeps coming:( we are also getting two year molars and slobber has been just falling out of his mouth 24/7. I feel so bad for this kid, but he's been a real trooper so that's good!
The last few nights Jude has been waking up in the middle of the night and we can't get him back to sleep, so to mama and dada's room he goes. We don't often cosleep, but when we do you just never know how it's going to go! Sometimes he sleeps perfectly and it's awesome! And then other times he insists on being the horizontal bar in a capital H! Which is not so awesome, even in our huge king size bed! So, being the desperate for sleep mama that I am, I usually just find any place in the bed that I fit and try to get a few hours of zzzz's.
Last night he joined us around 1am and when I brought him in our bed he kept getting down and going to the fridge. He selected the carton of blueberries, brought them up to our bed, and snacked on blueberries for the next 30 min. It was cracking me up! When he was finished he handed me the carton and went peacefully to sleep. Lol! He is so silly!
I really hope that he feels better soon! I am so over this season of colds and the flu!

Geesh!

When I tell my darling child no, stop, quit doing that, etcetera -
This is what I see...
I am in for it!

Funfetti!

I love it when I find something simple that entertains my babe! Woohoo!

Burrrrr!

It's cold here in Indiana. There is lots of snow outside and we don't get out much. Today I am really wishing we lived at the beach! Oh to be here again...

Baby it's cold outside!

We got our first snowfall here in Indy last night. It looks beautiful and is right in time for Christmas! Jude has been staring out the window all morning and saying "hot", which for him means cold! I decided to bundle us up and go on our first walk in the snow for the year! My child usually refuses to keep his hat, gloves, jacket, and a blanket on, and usually wants out of the stroller about 5 min in, so I did not have high hopes for this walk! Well, he stayed perfectly bundled the entire time, which must mean, Baby it's cold outside!!

Your parents may know a thing or two...

My advice for you today is this- if you still have your parents around listen to them! If they want to teach you something- learn it! And be grateful you still have the chance to do so!
The summer after college, before my big move to Chicago, I stayed with my dad! I am so thankful to have had that summer! My dad and I did all sorts of things together and made some great memories. We cooked a lot, because my dad loved to cook- and was great at it! One day he wanted to show me how to cook a whole chicken. I declined the offer because I was perfectly happy cooking with chicken breasts (and would be for the rest of my life... Or so I thought!) keep in mind I was 20 (and had an aversion to raw meat)!
Let's skip ahead to today. Today I cooked a whole chicken, and have several times before. Not only that, but I made and used the chicken broth too! I can successfully do this, and I actually like to! I would love to be able to tell my children that (and teach them) this is how your grandpa Harry cooked a chicken, instead I'll have to tell them I learned from ehow.com. Not quite as heartwarming!
I lost my dad at 23. I know it is so hard to lose a parent at any age, but that feeling that I got robbed that I lost mine before I got married, had babies, and before my life really started NEVER goes away.
So I can't tell you enough- don't take your parents for granted! Learn from them! Take care of them- because lord knows they have done so much for you! And be thankful for every day you have with them!
Thank you to my mom and my mother in law who do so much for my family! I am eternally grateful!