What a year!

Since my last post over a year ago, a lot has happened.
I'm still without a job, but that was a decision we decided on when I became pregnant.
Baby Isabella Marie Walters arrived September 23, 2015.
Now that she is four months old I have started the job search. Not fun!
I'm enjoying being at home with the kids and I am ready for a new job at the same time. I think I'm ready to get back to working. I've been working since I was 16. This last year and half has been the longest I've been out of work and I'm starting to get itchy. I love my kids, but I think Sam mostly needs more structure then I'm giving him. Plus play companions would be very nice for him to have.
 Back to Bella. Life with two babies has been CRAZY! I'm not sure how I'm managing it, but apparently somehow I'm surviving. Barely.
Bella is the complete OPPOSITE of Sam in every way possible. She fights bottles, pacis, sleep, EVERYTHING
 She is yet to sleep through the night, wont' sleep in her crib at all. But will sleep in the swing that no longer swings, which is crazy to me.
But she is a joy. She has the most infectious smile and when we can get her to smile it's very much worth it. Sam loves his sister. Always giving her kisses and trys to help out with her. Very good at bringing diapers to the trash. well 8 out of 10 times he is.
Lets see how the next few weeks go as I apply for jobs.

Catch Up

Wow! I'm a little behind. To start with Halloween. We went to Uncle Brian's house and went trick-or-treating with the Cousins. Mostly Noah and Ava as Alex and Sophia are older and we couldn't keep up.  We had a blast. Sam was Sulley from Monsters Inc and surprisingly he kept the costume on and it was Nick and I who finally took it off of him. It was Soooooo hot on Halloween. Arizona! We were dying. I had a cape and witch hat on and I had to take those off as I was too hot. So Sam ended the night slightly naked. :)

Death, Zombie Soccer player, Sulley, LadyBug and Cowboy!

So now lets skip to November. What a crazy month that flew by.
Sam is now going up and down the slide all by himself. Big boy and he loves it. We take him to the park and he doesn't want to come home. Not even with the promise of food.
I finally had to pull out pants and long sleeve shirts for him. But even that wasn't until the end of the month and sometimes he can still wear a short sleeve shirt. The cold is sure taking its time to get here.
Chil-fest was a very fun very successful night. Nick's Chili came in second place. Whoo Hoo.  Sam enjoyed playing in the beer cooler and would even bring beer to people when asked. So the torch has been passed. I was a Beer girl as a kid and so will my child apparently. :)
My sister Sara competed in a Cross-fit competition and Holy Hell. I never realized she was so Bad Ass! She came in second place in her weight class. Dam!

Doing squats!



Thanksgiving went by in a blur! Always a great time. We had grandparent's and Great Grandparents, and Great Uncles, and Great Great Cousins. Yikes! Also a Great Cousin with her new family. And of course a ton of Aunts, Uncles and Cousin's.

 We deep fried the turkeys as now is our tradition and they are always yummy! I tried to get a good photo of my kid with his cousins but they were just not having it. Sam has so much fun playing with his cousins and they enjoy playing with him or chasing him or laughing at him. I'm so happy he gets to grow up with them.

 

 



There is so much that you are doing on a daily basis I can't keep up. You are now saying Banana instead of Bananie and are slowly trying to say Yes, but it's more like Ya. That's a start, you say NO plenty. You are very good at your Thank You! We are working on locating body parts, so far you have belly button down and ears, except I think you think those are your eyes. LOL
You are a very good jumper and you get a good half a foot off the ground when you do it.

Your a charmer...Everyone loves you. The ladies fall at your feet. We didn't see much of you during Chili-fest. Either Jenn ( Aunt Jacy's friend) or Lucy ( Uncle Brian's friend) were holding you and you just loved it. Not to mention you are so entertaining. Everyone just eats it up and you are such a Ham. You love to have an audience and if you do something to make someone laugh you will keep it up. We hear a lot of Where's Sam? When we first walk through the door.

And singing oh dear you love to sing. Especially to frozen. Oh it's your favorite and your pretty good at it and dancing. You love Taylor Swifts' Shake it off"  We have dance parties with you. Your such a happy baby, but don't worry you have your breakdowns, and we are trying to get rid of the paci. But you are not so happy to let it go.

 

 





 

Hiding Time

So Sam has taken to hiding. In the best places. Next to his crib he tends to throw his stuffed animals. This has become a favorite place to throw himself down and HIDE! He also covers his head so that I can't see him. Man this kid cracks me up.
He also has started to hide while Pooping. One day he ran into his bedroom and went into the closet and he also likes to get under the coffee table and poop in there. What a NUT!
So he is stating to have more fun with the puppies. Katie or Eee is still the only one he plays with but he has taken to Max or BA as he call him. He is always seeking him out probably because he likes to pull his ears. But he feeds the dogs...ALOT so they love him.

Sam and Mommy Selfie

Captain Bananas

What a Weekend

Sam had such a fun and exciting weekend. We started out the weekend by having Erin and Madalyn Fisher over for dinner on Friday night. Madalyn is 7 months and is on the move. It was a lot of fun to watch Sam interacting with a Baby. And he did good, gives this Mama hope for whenever there is a new born in the house. Although he is very much still at the stage of "That's Mine!" So Madalyn never really got to play with a toy very long. Boys!
On Saturday we made the trip up to Prescott for my Grandma's 87th Birthday! The trip was okay. We had to stop about an hour into our 21/2 hour trip to let Sam walk around as well as make a pit stop. He did pretty good the rest of the way. Got fussy when we were about 30 minutes out but was able to be calmed down with food. Kid is too easy. Sam had so much fun running around with his Cousin Ava and Noah.  I love watching them play together. There older he gets the better the three of them play together. Ava took on the roll of watcher and tattle-teller. LOL!  She very much likes to carry him around and took every opportunity to do just that.
Sam also got to enjoy his first bon fire as well as s'more. Or a marshmallow and graham  cracker. He did pretty good not going to close to the fire. But he was distracted by opening and closing the back door.
Tonight we are going to dinner with Nicks Mom and sister to celebrate Stacey's birthday. I think this little guy is going to have a very mellow week with all of this excitement this weekend.

Tempting Fate!

Sooooo first this week we had a poop incident and now I can say we have had a pee incident. Ahhh the joys of parenthood. Now I must admit that we were tempting fate for the past year and half. Sometimes after Sam gets out of the bath we will let him hang out so to speak without clothes or a diaper on. Well that backfired last Thursday night. I was hanging out in bed waiting for Sam and Daddy to finish up the bath. When they were done Nick put Sam on the bed to hang out for a bit. After a minute or two Nick lunges forward as I hear a NOISE! Yeah that noise was pee hitting our headboard. Luckily Nick caught him before he emptied the bladder but the damage was done. He managed to not do much damage to the bed. Just a quick sheet change and some wiping down we were set. We are on our learning curve.
On a happier note I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but we have some new words in Sam's vocabulary. Banana or Bananie as Sam says. We are working on Mouth and Nose and learning where those are located on his face. I also finally have uploaded some new photos so I can post those. Naked Bath photos. A mothers favorite!!!!

Sam loves Daddy's hats!!!

Oh Pooh.....no POOP!

Oh the joys of motherhood. So yesterday i let my son run around without pants on. BIG MISTAKE! Apparently at some point he took a poop and as the smell had not yet reached me I was not aware that he had. At some point I noticed he was scratching his leg near the diaper. Thinking he was merely uncomfortable just said "Sam stop scratching" That's when I noticed the hand, not noticing there was something on it just that he put it to his Mouth...YES his mouth at this point I was Fast Mommy moving in to action I was still not sure what was going on but with mother intuition I was pretty sure it wasn't good. Sure enough I turned my son around and realized he had given himself a Poo facial. UGH! I honestly had to hold back the vomit because it wanted to come out. So gagging I dragged him down the hall to deal with the poo diaper first to stop the source of poop to mouth. All the while during the changing I attempted to clean hands and mouth and then plopped him into a bath with some tooth brushing. As we were relaxing after bath Daddy came home. Lucky Duck he missed all the FUN...nope I meant HORROR! Oh little man Please, Please, Please don't make Mommy have to deal with that again. It was just too much for this mommy to handle.

On a slightly happier note we also went for his 18 month check up, with Shots. Man that kid is like a Dog who realizes they are headed to the Vet. As soon as I opened the door he started to cry to only be calmed with Food....works every time.
He weighed in at 23 pounds and is 31 inches.
So he very much does not like the nurse as he cried during her whole check up, but was quite the peach for the doctor. Go figure and he was a champ during the shots. Barely a whimper, and DAM those ladies are quick with those. He barely registered the first one and the second one was already in.

Needless to say I was not up to cooking dinner last night. Fajitas were on the menu and it just made me think of poop so Daddy had the joy of figuring out dinner. :)

My little man is growing up

You reached into a drawer in the kitchen and pulled stuff out, that was when i realized you are getting to big. I swear you couldn't reach those a week ago. The constant babbling or baby talk, you want to talk so bad. I can't believe that he is practically one and half years old. Where the hell did time go. I love the things you do and there is something new almost weekly. You copy anything and everything we do, and sometimes with much more flair. Like your NO. Where did the finger wagging come from. Not Me!
Funny faces man you still are. Which makes Mommy happy. I finally brought out my nice camera and was taking pictures of you. Except you were much more interested in being behind the camera then in front of it so we ended up taking more photos of daddy. Oh yeah still a Daddy's boy but you have come around to Mommy and I feel like we have a special little bond that Daddy isn't part of. Plus we like to scream at each other. Which I don't believe Daddy enjoys to much. Especially as we get louder each time we each scream. God you are so much like me.
I don't have any photos but I will soon. You look so much like your Papa DeMario when he was a baby. I didn't realize how much until we were looking at his photos last weekend when they were out here. Oh yeah the DeMario grandparents bought a house in AZ, so you finally have all grandparents in AZ as of Jan 2015. I am so excited. You really took to Nana when she was out here. You FORCE fed her goldfish crackers and would run open arms whenever she came in the door. I'm so excited that they will get to watch you grow up. It has been a pleasure so far for your parents. :)

These are some photos from the camera. You are unhappy in crying in most because you wanted me to pick you up so you could be behind the camera.