birthday party success!

Micah's Birthday party was a success :) we had around 48 adults and 7 kiddos there. Our house was so very crowded but there was a lot of fun and love floating around :) Micah got great gifts, enjoyed his cake, and truly showed mommy that yes,... he is a toddler .. *phew* i said it!

life has become very interesting here in our family. Lots of fun stuff happening. I'll go more into detail about all that later ;)
I'm on the hunt for a part time job.. got offered one part time as a senior caregiver at elderly people's homes who  need help. I'm considering it.. it would be a rewarding job :)
I'm still tring to recover from all this party business.. can't believe my baby boy will be one yrs old on March 30... wednesday! ahh!

Motherhood

Yep. You heard me... my little boy... 11 months..just got his first hair cut!!! Thought I'd share his before and after pic :)

Motherhood is absolutely amazing. I taught infants and children for so long at daycares and preschools that I felt I would know everything and all the pieces would just come together when I had a child of my own..all those veteran moms... the ones who have grandchildren or children in schools all told me that it would be different...I thought they were wrong...but boy was I surprised! When they laid Micah in my arms the first time, I was suddenly scared to death! Gone was the feeling of "oh I've got this!" and it was replaced with doubts and worries and wonders whether I could do it or not. When his big blue eyes stared at me that first time... so full of wonder and trust. All those fears were swept away. I knew I could do it.. I'm his mother. I was made to be his mother just as he was made to be my son. 

Now, almost a year later, it's amazing looking back at his changing personality, physical appearance, and transition from a helpless newborn baby whom I was so proud that he was holding his head up so well to a pre-toddler who is walking everywhere, "reading" books aloud, and exploring everything! 

I love being a mommy.

Busy , busy with first Birthday favors!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! The weather here is A-MAZING.. crazy thinking we had snow a couple days ago and i'm in a tank top today :) Took little man on a walk and then while he napped, I worked on his first birthday favors .. they're super cute! I bought some cute blue gingham ribbon and glued it with modge podge around some baby food jars, cut out tags and stamped airplanes on them, and wrote some cute sayings "5 ingredients to a happy 1 yr old" to them.

almost done!

my little irishman

baby food anyone???

First Post!

Hoping to be able to keep up with this blog this time. I'm loving all this time home with little guy... planning his first birthday is ugals of fun :) He's having an airplane theme birthday. I have been trying to find some fun ideas for favors and such.


so far, I have a magnet with his picture on it... still working on the main party favor though... a baby food jar with ribbon wrapped around and a stamped on cute tag with votive candle inside. Yeah.. it's going to be cute :)
pictures will be up when done.. in the meantime I'm taking my friend's idea on a picture frame tray and working on that tomorrow..can't wait to start :)

Still have to figure out this cake-making business as I'm going to attempt to do the inevitable and make my first 3d cake..an airplane of course. I can't even make a pineapple upside down cake without the pineapples dying so we'll see how it goes