This Week and PICTURES!!!

This past week has been a little off for the whole family. . . For starters I have been up at the school since Monday helping give the TAKS test.  For those who don't know what that is, it is the standardized test that Texas gives out to all their students, grades 3-12.  It stands for Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.  Anyway, I have been having to be up at the school by 7:30 everyday (Mon, Tues, and Wed).  Because of this Reid has had to make other arrangements.  He has had two daddy days and then took an adventure with my grandmother and aunt (his great grandmother and great aunt)  to visit my great grandmother (his great great).  Anyways, he had a good time, got in some good lovin' from different people, and has been thoroughly spoiled in my absence.  However, this small hiatus has led to a major break in schedule.  Daddy is good, but he isn't like mommy in making the little tike stay in his crib even when he wakes up screaming in the middle of a nap.  And you can just forget sleep if you're with Aunt Lori, so he did!

So that leaves me with today, trying my hardest to get a schedule of some sort while also trying to get myself rested and feeling a little better.  This is no easy task!  Seriously!  Like today when I had him sound asleep in my arms and when I laid him down he just started screaming.  I just left him there to have him cry it out. . . Poor guy, he is just like me, it takes him a while to get to sleep and OH DOES HE FIGHT IT!  I guess this is what they call paying for your raising. . .

On another note, to end the week Mark's family is coming down to practice for Cliftones.  It will be a good time for us to host them and them to get to play with Reider!  In fact instead of sitting here doing this blog, I should be cleaning and preparing for their arrival, making a shopping list, etc.  However, I can take a breather for a minute because I have a wonderful mother who after 3 days of coordinating TAKS and teachers, and subs, and students came and watched my baby and CLEANED my living room and did some of my laundry!!!  Yes I know people, I have the best mother in the whole wide world!!  Be jealous!  Seriously though I need to get up and get moving because he s actually staying asleep!  Come back though, I hope to get a chance to put 6 month pictures up as well as those from California!

5 months old

6 months old

Yea for being big!

Worst Blogger Ever! AAANNNDDD Happy Birthday to a Great Mom!

Seriously I am sssoo the worst blogger ever!  It is so sad that for 3-4 weeks I have been meaning to sit down and blog, but just HAVE NOT DONE IT!  How sad am I?  Honestly. . .

I think the lull is due to lack of pictures which is due to the fact I thought I had lost my camera, when in reality it was stuck inside the Hubby's office after he took it without asking (silly boy).  We have had many things go on, the first of which being a disciple now that my husband along with other youth ministers from the surrounding areas put on.  I have to say I was a little nervous about this, how it would all work out, whether it would actually go ok (read: minimum disasters), and it went sssooo good!  I really have to hand it to the hubsters, he did a GREAT job!  Usually details are not his thing, but everything was thought of, all possible scenarios accounted for, he out did himself!  Unfortunately there are no pictures because he had stolen my camera.

We have also started weight watchers together in the past week or so.  Mark is really liking it (I would too if I got 50 something points) while I as a nursing mom get like 30 something.  It is good, really makes you think about what you're eating, but sometimes I would just rather not and eat the brownie that is still sitting in the kitchen lol.  However, I must remain strong, and must loose weight, because let's all face it, summer is right around the corner and I want people to be astounded that I look that good after just having a baby (let's see if that happens, I still have slight stretchmarks around the belly button as well as that dern dark line, which is fading, put still stinking there!).

Today is also a very special day because it is my mother's birthday!  I cannot tell you how happy I am to have this woman in my life and to call her mom.  She has been a constant rock for me, especially this year when I had a rough time easing into motherhood myself.  She has been by my side all of my life and I couldn't make it without her.  She is also the best Grammy to Reid, loving on him, playing with him, telling him stories, and making him do knew things!  Really our whole family depends on her for a lot, as well as the school, I don't see how she does it all, it must be because she is super momma!

He loved his grammy from the moment he met her!  Look at that smile!