Oh How Time Flies!

Okay so anyone who says parenting is easy is either lying or not doing something right! I come home from work & the next thing you know, it's 10:00 PM! I'm drop dead tired. After the bottles are made, diapers are changed, dinner is cooked, husband and baby are fed, house is cleaned up.... whew.... I don't have the time to keep up with this blogging stuff! ...and so now you know the rest of the story.... as Paul Harvey would say.... I can't believe I've only done 9 blogs for the year of 2009 thus far...

Well to catch you up on this week's news... let's see....

Last weekend Jace started the "GI JOE" crawl as Joe calls it. He gets on his belly, extends his little arms as far as they will go, uses his hands like suction cups to the hardwood floor, and scoots his little body across the floor! So much for the foam puzzle piece pad we bought to keep him off the floor!

On Monday I was feeding him his solid food and he did something. I shook my head no and said, "NO NO NO". He mocked me by shaking his head no, too, and smiling a big ol' smile at me. Now how in the world do you discipline something as preciously cute as that??? hee hee hee I use the old distraction method....

On Tuesday morning he was playing with something in his crib. I was proud of whatever he was doing at the time and I said, "Yay Jace" while clapping my hands. He started clapping his hands, too. Much to my surprise!!! It was the cutest thing.

On Wednesday when I picked him up at the daycare, they told me he was getting up on all fours & just rocking back and forth. I don't think it will be much longer before he is mobile! I'm half excited and half nervous about it. He'll be into everything. He's such a nosy little thing. We already have a problem with him "eyeing" the electrical cords to the ficus tree lights. He loves that tree and now he sits on the floor looking at the cords and rocking back and forth until he musters up the nerve to get onto all fours. That will then lead to the belly to where he'll "GI JOE" over to the cords. If we give him a stern "no" he cries and decides to play with something else.

I can't believe we're only a few days away from him being 9 months already. Where has time gone? I started planning for the first birthday party. I plan on making his cake. Maybe someone should warn the guests to eat before they come to the party for cake & ice cream????
Actually I can't wait to make his first cake. I hope that it will turn out the way I want it to. That's all I'm going to say about that. I don't want to ruin any surprises. But yes, plans are underway. In fact, when my sister's bridal tea was over, I was in the backseat of the car on the way back to Tennessee making plans for Jace's birthday. Have I mentioned I love party planning??? ha ha ha ha

Today Joe passed his P&C for his new job! Yay, Daddy!!! Jace and I are so proud of him.... He's our "P&C" hero.... For all of you non-insurance folks, that's "Property & Casualty".. HA HA HA Yes, add yet another insurance employee to our family. Joe will be selling insurance via an in-bound call center. Now that he's passed his tests & obtained his license, they are going to put him through training on policy, sales, & the company's system. So he's got a few more weeks to go before he'll actually be in production.

Okay, well, it's bed time for this sick MaMa.... Yeah, I've got some head cold or some sort of crud going on. So I've got a hot date tonight with the NyQuil bottle.

Good night!!!

Trying to Crawl

Walking Down The Hall

Funny Face Video

I don't know where he gets these facial expressions from, but Jace is one of most expressive babies I know. I think this video is too cute. You'll see the face I'm talking about....