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I am ready to paint the town pink!

I am normally not the betting type!

Tomorrow we are finding out if I have a little lady or a little Mister growing inside me! I change my mind like a girl changes clothes (a little hot n cold for ya ;)  . My "uncontrollable cravings " (shh... that is what I tell The Husband, I am completely and utterly helpless when a craving hits....he doesn't buy it) For salt and vinegar chips (because that is the secret to growing a healthy baby) points to a little boy, but later in the evening when I am over our dumpster losing the same salty vinegar goodness I am convinced my little girl is behind it...

The chinese calender said I was having a boy....they also said that the little Mister was a girl.

My sister Noreen had a very experienced ultrasound technician that claimed that 4 year olds are always right! She said they just know! The technician had been keeping a log for years and only once had a four year old been wrong. They were apparently heavily influenced by their older brothers and sisters. Coincidently Noreen had a four year old at home who was insistent it was another little lady, sure enough she was right!

I asked my sweet little two year old niece Gwen what I was having. She said a boy. I asked her what she was, she responded boy.....

We casted out votes:

The Husaband:  boy

Me: girl

The little Mister: undecided


Any guesses??

Celebrating baby Dallas!

My Sisters and Madre hosted a baby shower for Candi and oh my did they go above and beyond....I thought baby showers like this only existed on pinterest! 

The triple threat and Candi were all together again!! And of course our sixth grade teacher Mrs A loved her!

Before I forget...

I really love being a mother......but I would be fibbing if I said I love everything that goes along with that job title. One thing that has headed south for the winter (besides certain body parts) and I fear  may never come home is my memory....I didn't have the sharpest one to begin with, the fact that it is clearly worse is nothing short of tragic......I went to sign my name the other day I spelt my last name wrong....not okay.

This morning I woke up wracked with fear that if I didn't record all the millstones that my little mister has triumphantly achieved they would be lost forever...yep in my mind they would have never even happened.

Jett Facts That I Still Remember:

*7.1 months pulled himself up for the first time

*7.5 months Jett being enticed by the flashing button of an abandoned cellular device crawled clear across the room to retrieve it....that was the moment my life changed forever.

*11.5 months went from 0-6 teeth in one week (unless you count the tooth that popped through at six months and then went completely flat again) I am ashamed to say I think I felt worse for myself then him that week!

* 12 months On July 8, 2011 eleven days after Jett's first birthday on his original due date I was picking up Jett after an appointment at his s Aunties and Uncles house when I turned the corner only to have Jett walk across the room towards me!! Shock! His walking days were short lived and now he prefers to run everywhere he goes. But mostly he prefers to climb.

* At 16 months he loves waving bye to everyone he meets. He loves to be chased, climb, eat eggs and yogurt read stories, take showers, be outside, He is beyond sweet and is so so so quick to smile, he is currently getting three molars in and is handling it like a champ, apples, channel changers and gum are not safe when this little mister is around  and most importantly he loves to  play.....play and when we have free time play some more.

And that folks is a Fact. I suddenly feel so much better that at least this blog has the responsibility of remembering these important dates and not yours truly. You know because  I am sure Jett is reallllllly going to be interested in all of this when he is grown up.....riiiight? Actually I am doing this for his future wife.

I think I fell in love...again

Actually this falling in love business keeps on happening. After I met The Husband I swore I was done, that was it. Then I gave birth to my little mister. I watched my twin sisters son come into  this world 8 days ago, love again. And yesterday I went to a Dr. appointment that I had scheduled for way to early in the morning in the pouring rain with a husband and little puppy boy that really didn't want to be there. I waited 50 minutes in a sterile doctors office only to have a doctor come in for three to four minutes......but I guess that is all it took. I heard my babies heart beat and felt my heart start falling in love yet again. I felt like my whole body was smiling. For the first time this child seemed more then hypothetical, it felt like mine. In less then five weeks we will be finding out what we are having.....$10 bucks it is a boy just because I have the color scheme and bedding picked out for a nursery if it is a girl....and I brought out my baby bracelet making kit....you know just in case ;)

We are Shameless

Fall was in the air, but 8 inches of snow, a fire crackling in the fire place and [ahem] Pandora singing her little heart out to Mariah Carey Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 

quickly changed the mood.....

In the bottom right hand corner is that a...branch!?! {gasp} Yes! It's true, shortly after these photos were taken our sparkly little pumpkins had to make like fall and leave....get it. ha..... And our  Christmas decorations went up....I know what you are thinking, Before Thanksgiving?? Shameless I know!

The little Mister was sad to see the little pumpkins that he would ever so carefully throw on the ground several times a day be packed away. 

He is taking consolation in the fact that now he has a whole tree of (shatter proof) ornaments that he is able to hide or rearrange till his little heart is content......whoever the smarty pants is that invented shatter proof ornaments should definitely be in the running for a noble peace prize! People are so clever.