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K. Bear is “1” Today!!

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My baby is “1” today!!! With this comes much joy, excitement, and sadness…..a true milestone, a mark of new beginnings and past reflections. We are certainly enjoying our little “Boo”!!

Her spunky attitude, her huge smile that can fill a room, her sassy jabber, her big brown eyes with gorgeous eyelashes, and so much zest for life you can’t help but want to squeeze her!!

As I reflect back on this day 1 year ago…I remember it like it was yesterday:
an unplanned Dr’s appointment around lunch time….(midwife “maybe we’ll have a baby”….me “NO, we WILL have a baby today”)

Walk a few stairs at home….put Pumpkin down for a nap…make some zucchini bread (contracting for 2 hours every 2-10 min)..hmmm is this labor? Call hubby….put him on alert. Hubby works a full day comes home…..says “well, your water didn’t break yet!”

NOTE: We were waiting for my water to break since that is what signaled “baby is coming” the first go around…contractions every 2-10 min was not a sign to me…just a nuisance!! 🙂

Feed Pumpkin dinner…call midwife…off to the hospital….

contractions…STOP!! What? How can this be? Walking the halls…missing my little one at home…Nonna brings her up so she can walk the halls with mommy :)…

Midwife; “how about you hop in the shower for a bit to get things moving” Me; “I hated, HATED the shower with my first delivery” ….this time LOVED IT!! Hopped in at around 10:00ish….out about 10:45 …..hardly standing, gripping the wall…

The Nurse; “sweetie, you want your epidural?” inching my way to the bed….checked….almost complete….prep the room….hustle and bustle about me…trying to breath…no epidural here….and baby came in 1 hour from the time I got out of the shower!! “ITS A GIRL”

Moving forward:
Boo loves her Mommy, loves to play with Daddy, and can’t get enough of her big sissy!! Miss Independent….wears more food than she actually eats, will nurse until she 5 if I let her (not happening by the way…any tips on weaning I’d love them!!), has 3 teeth (4 on the way), says “Mama, Dada, o’wow, waves “hi” “bye”, uh-oh, yum (um), stands on everything, climbs everything, and loves toilet paper!!

Will Boo be our last baby? I do not know…a question asked daily by friends, family, and even myself…but what I can say is she is a true joy, a blessing, Gods gift, and I can’t imagine my life without her!!!

Mirror Image

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I have never been one to really look at a child and say “O’you look like ____” “O’ you have so in so’s eyes”. I have always held firm that a child is born to look like him or herself and no-one else.

We are all unique, special, gifts from God…no 2 are the same!!

Then……

I took these pictures….O’my it was like looking at a picture of myself…(SCARY!) It was a mirror image….my baby days looking back at me! People have often said how much K.Bear resembles me and until this day I never saw it!!

Children are great not only do we get to be a kid again with our kids….but we get to see ourselves in a new light. A mirror image looking back in time. How did we act? What interests did we have? Were we good? How did our parents see us? A mirror does not lie!!

Whether you have birth children, adopted children, foster children, or no children at all….this can hold true! The next time you look at a child think of it as Gods way of showing you yourself. Keep it real what did he intend for you to do? Are you doing it?

In the everyday craziness it is easy to get caught up in the moment and not appreciate the “todays”!! I think it is also important to mention the tomorrows and yesterdays!!
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bumps, bruises, O’my!!

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Well you know you haven’t blogged lately when….your husband say’s I can’t believe you didn’t blog about “fill in the blank”…LOL

Our little house has been keeping pretty busy these days! Summer months tend to bring about chaotic schedules in our little piece of the world. Our days are filled with out door play, exploring, and fun. At the end of the day I am whipped (so are the kiddos) AMEN for 7:00 bedtimes!! With that all being said I will now….”fill in the blank”

K.Bear fell out of her crib.….or climbed we are not really sure!!


I was out visiting with a friend who just had a baby…and got that heart stopping phone call from my very panicked husband “K fell out of her crib”….

Me: Im coming…

DH: O.K

Me: Handing back the newborn….Running like mad through the hospital to get home to my sweet little one….is she hurt? Does she have a bump?…. Does she need stitches? I knew we should have put that mattress down sooner…..(mothers guilt kicking in) I walk in the house to quiet (this is good…she stopped crying) Amazingly, thank God she is fine!!! Checking her over 1000 times….not a bump, not a bruise, nothing but a little cut on the top of her ear!! WOW!!

I might add Pumpkin climbed out of the same crib at 18 mo (on Mommy’s time) so I know that thump to the ground that my poor husband had playing through his head all night. A very helpless feeling indeed when your children get hurt. We have been so blessed with only minor bumps, bruises, and scrapes I pray it stays that way because this Mama who once wanted to be a nurse…LOL has over the years developed a phobia of hospitals (I am a complete germ-a-phobe) at all cost I would like to stear clear!!

So here’s to some SAFE, Fun filled Summer months!!