5 months old!

My super cute little stud muffin is 5 months old now! I need time to slow down just a bit. I already miss the newborn stage :( Xavier is stating to get his own little personality and so far it's pretty laid back. He is such a good baby! He knows how to roll over...I have seen him do it before, but he doesn't ever do it now. He can sit up on his own for about 30 seconds at a time. I can't remember when the first time he sat up on his own was...I'll have to look at his daddy's phone. He is holding his bottle completely on his own now. He loves to grab our faces and pull us in so he can "kiss" us. When he is sleepy he wants his paci and to put his hand in mouth of whoever is holding him. It's strange. I'll have to try to take a picture if it the next time. He has eaten peaches, bananas, sweet potatoes, carrots, and applesauce. He loves sweet potatoes and will tolerate peaches if it's in baby cereal. He doesn't too much care for the others. He has had a cold for going on a month now! My friend has a baby that takes breathing treatments and gave me his machine to try to clear it up. I have only used it once and it seems to already be working. I don't think he will crawl because he HATES tummy time. He just lays there and cries until you roll him over or pick him up. He loves his Sophie the Giraffe. I call it his lover :) He still loves baths and Adele...really any kind of music but Adele usually gets him calm if he is super fussy. He hates the car seat, his swing, and the baby carrier thing. I guess he doesn't like being confined. And his eyes....still blue :)

Xavi and Sophie

Xavi getting ready to go to bed



Super Cute Baby Shower!

My brother-in-law is having a baby girl due in July...as you know I have 4 boys...so I am super duper excited about this little girl's impending arrival. Her mom is living with us for the time being until her and my brother-in-law can get on their feet and situated. I threw her a baby shower and I am so happy it is over! I have spent the last 2 months planning and creating things for this baby shower. It all turned out perfect and was absolutely too cute for words!

                                     I made these wall letters out of poster board and foam board

Baby's Name is Miah (my-ah)

I saw this idea on a website. It is called a stork bundle

and I used the new Hawaiian diapers

The It's A Girl banner I made out of poster board

These are tissue paper pom poms made out of

tissue paper for gift bags

I made this awesome travel wipe case.

I'm going to make Xavi one too with owl

fabric. I just haven't had time yet...

I may do a how to blog.. hmmm

The flowers are little zebra print flowers I made

but I didn't even think to get a close up picture of

And my do it yourself balloon columns

Diaper Cake..this was my first time making one and

I love it so much!

My husband and his sister playing

"Make my baby"

This is the baby they cam up with...I was dying laughing

the entire time they made this

This was the other groups baby. While both were hilarious

My husbands group was way funnier and ultimately won. LOL

This is Momma to Be trying to decide between the 2

Mommy and Daddy To Be

Mother's Day

I know this is late but trying to find time for blogging is proving to be a difficult task!

Anyhoo...Mother's Day was great! I am so in love with my little men :) We went to my grandmother's house which is traditional for us. I got to see my cousins baby for the first time too! He is only 2 weeks younger than Xavier. He was like the happiest baby I have ever seen! Anyway we ate and took lots of pictures and had a good time just hanging out with family!

                                                               Me and My Littlest Love

I have better pictures where Keelan isn't making this face,

but I love this one because usually I make these faces in pictures :)

My Mom My Sister Xavier and Me

Me and Gavin

Me and Xavi

Me and My Mom

Me and Keelan



How did you break your leg playing baseball?!

This is the question my son has been asked repeatedly for the past 3 days. Malique and Keelan had baseball practice on Monday. Everything was going great Malique was catching pop flies Keelan was hitting the ball great and then it happened...10 minutes before practice ended! He was running to tag out his best friend on 2nd base and some how they got tangled up and bam broken leg. I thought he got his in his private parts and kept telling him to get up. My poor baby was trying so hard to suck it up and not cry but it hurt bad. His leg was not swollen or anything it just had a little knot on it. We kept trying to get him to get up and walk on it thinking it was probably just sore and maybe he got hit in the shin with Tay's cleat. When they came in and said is was broken. We were so sad for him. He is in a cast toe to hip for up to 6 weeks. No more baseball until fall ball. Derrick just wanted to cry. I feel the same way. I can't imagine how much it must suck to not be able to walk or really move around. Right now he is being a ham though :) The hospital gave him crutches but they are impossible for him to use. We searched all day Tuesday for a wheelchair and I was getting to discouraged because they are too expensive to rent or are all too big. The orthopaedic said they could wrote him a prescription for one but not until they saw him which isn't until the 25th. Finally I called back to the ER and talked to someone and they had him a wheelchair delivered to the house the next morning and a note to excuse him from school for the rest of the year. (A whole 7 days) My poor baby :( i know when this cast is off I'm gonna take him to the park and just let him run until he can't run anymore.

Hanging out with Xavi

Eating His Popsicle

He was so loopy from the medicine

Toe to Hip

Loopy Medicine lol

Can't even tell! But it's this leg

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My pregnancy story

It has been a little over a year now since I found out I was pregnant with Xaiver and I was thinking back to when I found out I was pregnant! :) I don't know if I have ever told my story. This may be very long but I want to share it.

I found out I was pregnant in January 2011 and sadly lost that baby at 9 weeks in February 2011. I have never been so devastated in my life. When I would hear of other people that had a miscarriage I would think oh that's sad, but at least they weren't that far along. I don't know I guess I thought it didn't hurt as bad if you weren't that far along. Not the case at all.

My birthday was March 25th. I had been on my period for 5 days and my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday I said I just want another baby. With the baby I lost I really wanted a girl. But after losing that baby I didn't care boy or girl. I just wanted a baby. I started temping and charting and took a test 8 DPO it was the faintest line I have ever seen. I had to hold it a certain way. I decided I wasn't going to tell ANYONE until I was out of my first trimester. Each test I took looked that way for about a week and then I started spotting. I thought I was having a chemical pregnancy. I called my husband and told him I didn't want anymore kids because I couldn't go through this again, and told him I had another miscarriage. I waited and waited for my period to come and nothing...I took another test and it was without a doubt postive. I was so excited and scared at the same time. I started getting morning sickness at 5 weeks. Trying to hide the fact you are throwing up every 5 minutes is very difficult! Finally at 8 weeks I decided to tell my husband.
We called the baby we lost Cupcake. I was cooking dinner one night and decided to tell him. I still had some stuff left that I had bought for Cupcake. I set all that on the counter and wrote him a note that said "Our Cupcake could not stay, but we will have a Little Muffin on Christmas Day!!!" I went back to our bedroom and yelled out to him to please but the rice in the pot. The stuff was sitting right in front of the cabinet so I thought for sure he would see it when he went to get the rice out. I hear all this fumbling around and then he says "Where is the rice" I was like really!!! He doesn't see the stuff?! then it got very quiet and he said "So the rice was a set up?" He was so happy! I then begged him not to tell ANYONE until I was out of the first trimester. We went to the doctor and had the NT scan at 13 weeks 5 days and after hearing everything looked perfect his sister was the first person we told.

I then spent the remainder of my pregnany scared to death he was going to be stillborn. I rented a fetal doppler the day I had my first ultrasound at 8w 5d. I used it 3-4 times a day until I could feel him kicking consistantly. Then I would do kick counts all day long. Right at the very end of my pregnancy he gave me a big scare. I hadn't felt him move in about 6-8 hours and I kept trying to lay down and drink something cold to get him moving. But I couldn't calm down because I was trying everything to get him to move. Usually when I would push on my stomach he would move around but not this time. I trying crying and couldn't be still. Derrick was telling me I needed to go to the ER but I didn't want to go because I didn't want them to tell me he was gone. I agreed to go it was about 2am. When they put me on the monitor and I heard that heartbeat it was the best sound ever.

I wouldn't pack his bag, wash his clothes or, take anything out of boxes. The night before my c-section I finally did but not before I did one more kick count. When we got to the hospital that morning and they hooked me up to the monitors I was so happy to hear that sound again. She turned it down and I asked her to turn it back up. Because as long as at could hear it I knew he was ok. I was freaking out inside when they took me off to go get him out. And the whole time they were doing to c-section I just kept saying Jesus over and over and over again. When he came out screaming I finally felt relieved.

I am so happy that he is here, happy, perfect and amazing. I can't imagine life without him. He has compelted our family and I am so greatful for him!