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Drayton says please when he really wants something like a bite of chocolate for instance.

He is great at saying thank you.

He pointed at a goat in a book of his yesterday and said goat.  It was so cute.

He repeated the letter A today.

If he is ready for bed he will say night night and walk down the hall into the bedroom and climb up into bed.  Soo cute.

His kisses and hugs are so gentle and sweet.  He makes life so wonderful.  I wonder how I made it this long before he came into my life.

He is so smart and so sweet.  He loves markers and crayons.  He has his own wall in the hallways that we let him color on it was the first wall marking he made so we dedicated that part of it to him for future fun.

He loves to brush his teeth.  It is a routine.  He has to sit down in the kitchen and I give it to him.  He insists on doing it ALL BY himself.  Won’t let me help a bit.  Hope he is doing a good job.  He puts up a fight every time I take the brush away…Wish his daddy liked the toothbrush that much haha.

I have to take his mind off the upset of his toothbrush being put away.  I usually get his vitamin which he LOVES.  He says bi since it is hard to pronounce v he sounds it like b and says bi like vi for vitamin.

He is so sweet.

He likes to eat paper towel any chance he gets and he will clench it in his hands so you can’t get it away.  He will take a rag or sponge and clean the floor on his own free will which is really cute.  Mommas little helper.

We met a nice elderly couple in our neighborhood just recently and he loves to go and visit.  We have fun stopping by on our walks to play awhile.

Drayton is such a smart little boy.  One of his recent new words has been baby…I wanna say he started this about a week ago…I guess that means he is not a baby anymore…

He was swimming in the bathtub tonight…Little fishy.  We captured a little home video.  He sure does like to splash now that he knows how and talkabout a title wave.

We went for two walks today and stopped by to visit the elderly lady that lives down the street.  She gave Drayton a couple old metal tonka trucks.  He has been attached to them all day.

The other day while I was in the shower Drayton decided…I’ll just skip the everyday peek a boo and just get in there with momma…Clothes on.

The following bath that I took he climbed in as far as I let him.  Such a water baby he is.

He has recently been very clear on his right and left feet and hands.  At diaper change time I ask him for his right foot etc and he gives me the correct one.

He is still not a meat eater for whatever reason but will take the occasional random bite here and there.  I am able to get him to eat a half of a hot dog once in a while which is progress.

He loves junk…The exact opposite of what I ever would want.  I imagined the little organic fed home cooked meals.  He is a snacker and has his eye out for the good stuff like when daddy gets out some candy or I make a bowl of ice cream…  Little stinker.  I don’t even try these days with veggies which is awful but he refuses them.  I still need to be offering though.

He does love fruit which is great.  We will skin an apple and he will carry it around and chew on it.

Going to finish the movie we bought with Blake since Drayton is bed.

I made the best berry pina colada tongiht.  yummy.

I love my family.

Got my hair chopped up to my chin yesterday and had some pink red and purple put in it.  I am liking it alot. 

wen for another walk today still looking for Egg Bubba and Giedeon…Didn’t find them still but found a dog though…This little orphan dog has been living between a few different houses in that neighborhood…no one knows where he came from.  I am calling him Weeble…

Baby woke up gotta run….

Eating a bowl of sorbet and sharing it with Lil D.  My sotmach has been bothering me again most of today…I will get to the bottom of this soon because I am going to make the appointment for the damn colonoscopy and get it over with already.  Did not go through with the contrast catscan because I am still nursing this little calf lol and well not willing to take that risk obviously.

Hopefully the damn colonoscopy is sufficient and I can be on my way to feeling better soon and having a little more tolerance for foods.

BIG NEWS IN THE DIVIN HOUSEHOLD…

DRAYTON WENT POO POO ON THE POTTY TODAY HIP HIP HOORAY…

HERE IS THE STORY.

I woke up this morning to Blake leaving for work.  We quietly wave bye so that not to wake the baby…Usually he is up to see his daddy off in the mornings but not always…I layed there beside him while he slept some more.  When he awoke he snuggled up to me and unlike most mornings when he is ready to go he was ready to stay and snuggle and we did just that for atleast a half hour or so.  I just admire those snuggles soo very much.  I kiss him and rub his hair and whisper to him how much I love him and how thankful I am to be his momma.  We eventually got our lazy butts out of the bed and headed right for the potty so mommy could go.  I had just that very minute checked his diaper and it was dry with not even a drop of tinkle in it.  As I went potty he sat on his potty and he pushed and grunted a wee bit and pushed some more and I knew immediately that he was doing it…He knew exactly what to do cause he watches us do it daily lol.

Sure enough when I was done and washed my hands I checked his diaper as he still sat there on his potty and he had actuallypoo’d LOL I was soooooo proud…

Yes he had his diaper on but he was doing it on the potty and to me that is the same thing…I just had an easier clean up to do ater=)

Soooo looking forward to our potty adventure for tomorrow…

He has been interested in that potty for some time and it was just today that I said you know what momma don’t be lazy…He is telling you that like you he too wants to use the potty and so we’ll see how it goes…I might be shopping for little HeMan or SpiderMan underoos sooner than I thought.

He is such a sweet and very smart little man…He really understands so much like just now he was moving his stoll around in the kitchen and then suddenly wanted to follow Daddy down the hall so we walked away…I said put your stool back before you go and he did just that.

kkk wrappin it up cause I am going to get lil man ready for bed.

Time sure does fly by…

I just can’t believe it has already been 7 months since Drayton had open heart surgery on 10-14-08.

He is doing soo well and I am so thankful every second of every day for his great recovery.

Although it returns to thought atleast once a day that he had surgery, it just amazes me that no one would have ever known if they weren’t told…He is the strongest boy I know.

His scar is barely visible and while that is great I hope it doesn’t completely dissapear because I think of it as a badge of honor…He is a fighter and that is a symbol of his recovery and his strength.

We have noticed that he might still be getting feeling back or may have a lack of feeling in that area still…his entire chest area.  He will occasiopnally pinch himself on the chest in different spots and wimper a little while looking at us with a confused look on his little face.

This different feeling is his nerves that were cut through are all out of whack and this can take a year or more to return to somewhat normal.  Soooo with all this being said it is apparent that there is some awkward feeling going on across his little chest becuase he tries to express this to us.

Tonight after I tucked him into his crib I gently tickled his chest until he fell asleep.  I remember with both of my c-section recoveries I enjoyed when Blake would tickle gently over my incision area…It was such a gentle touch and it triggered a sensation of waking up the nerves if you will…Stimulating the nerves for a lack of better words.

I am in the process of beading and blogging…It is almost bedtime but my stomach is upset which has become normal these past couple of months…

The problems used to be few and far between but now my stomach is more sensitive than even I know how to manage…I ate a cookie and some swedish fish and it’s all upset.

I still have not gone for my colonoscopy…

I can only explain it one way…OVERTHINKING/ANALYZING

Upon becoming a parent you feel an urge to take better care of yourself as you have a child to live for and be healthy for…

I have come to realize that I have abused my stomach for soo many years with all of the processed foods and crap that I have eaten…

Finally my body said ENOUGH and it just can’t tolerate it anymore…I will be aware of what I eat for days after each episode naturally as I don’t want to feel this pain…But days will pass and gradually I begin eating the crap again…

I was always able to eat anything and everything and so changing ways in general can be dificult to become accustomed to.

I am trying nevertheless. 

I get this overwhelming anxiety and fear that I have abused my body over the years and that I may not be as healthy as I would like to be.  I worry about alot because to me Drayton is my everything and I am his everything…I need to buckle down and train myself to like healthier foods as hard as it may be I need to do this for my baby…

Well it is time for me to wrap it up for tonight because it is 12:30am and I am wide awake needing to be the opposite of that.

I just want to be more consistant about blogging than I have been in recent months and always for that matter…

Oh and forgot to mention in my earlier blog that Blake me and Drayton Brandi Kevin Londyn and Taylor went to Shogun last night.  We sat at the big fry table where the chef put on a show.  The kids were all weary of the blazing fire…I can only imagine how wild that must have been for their little eyes…We had to push our chairs back because it was literally balzing.

Boy do I love tempura “fried” shrimp and veggies…That place is sooo yummy…It is a shame that Picky Pickleton aka Drayton is so anti anything good to eat…  He just won’t open up to eating anything that is really good.

I never knew that the baby would dictate to this degree how he ate…I always imagined being that mom that was organic all the way and processed her own food and made homeade fresh everything…We always said no fast food and no soda…Well the only thing I have stuck to is the no soda…And will stick to it for several years atleast.

Little man loves french fries or hashbrowns…He likes chips and cookies and most of all fruit…We call him a fruit a tarian.

He has created this meal plan that works for him but is not healthy.  Typical for his age but I am trying my best to open him up to new food choices so that he doesn’t become literally set in his ways…

I do worry alot about him getting what is good for him because afterall his body has been through the works…He may not show it but I know it and I just can’t help but worry myself about alot.

Well I am headed towards bed to snuggle my little cutie pie….It doesn’t get any better than snuggling with your baby.

I am such a lucky girl and soo thankful to be an active parent and loving every second of it all.

Such an Adventure.

What else was I going to make the title be…I am so random and jump from one thing to the next.  I sometimes don’t even know what the focus of an entry is going to be before I begin.  I simply get this feeling that there is alot of memory logging to do and I better get to it…Soooo here is a quick update on our little family.

Our Star Drayton is such a flirt…Today in the grocery cart he was staring at a cute girl in the line behind us.  Boy was he into her…He just couldn’t take his eyes off her.  Sooo funny.  I think he may have even been blushing lol. I tell lhim in the sweetest of voices of course “You can’t be flirting with all these older woman…They are far older than you are”.

He has recently discovered that he dictates his own  independance.  Soooo now when we are on an aisle in the craft store for instance where Brandi and I spend alot of our time these days…Drayton insists on walking vs being in the cart.  He will climb right out if I don’t give him his way hence me already saying he has me wrapped around all his little fingers.

It is so cute to watch him and his little friends Londyn and Taylor as they thumb through all the beads and hand us things we might like=)

He sure does have a great time with his little buddies and they can take over an aisle that is for sure. 

In the last month he has started to say “Thank You” and quite clearly at that.  The most unique part of it is how he sounds it out.  He says it like thaaank youuuu high then low…well that is the only way I can type/describe it.  It is soo cute and it is how we say it to him.

He does the same when he is peeking around a corner playing peek a boo or just looking for you about the house…It’s “Daaaa” or “Maaa”

Not sure if I already posted about:  When Daddy brought the skateboard in the other day for his first lesson at (1yr of age) lol.

He was loving the rush.  We got some cute photos of this and luckily I uploaded them before my memory card was stolen by the contractor I hired…nm that though…ughhhh some people make me sooo sick to my stomach something I am alreade enough of with these stomach problems I have=(

Now back on track! 5-17-09 After his skateboarding lesson, Daddy placed the board beside the couch and it was sticking out some…This is expected of him lol…God forbid he take the extra couple steps and put it outside the door but no (LOL)

Soooo later that afternoon Drayton walked beside the couch and tripped a little meanwhile he scrapes his lil’ knee and that sweet lil’ baby skin came right off…

Soooo he got his first big scrape and handled it like a man=)

He was not into the bandaid that I put on and was insisting I take it off so I did and put pants on him instead to keep it un exposed.

WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF I COULD HAVE GOTTEN A PICTURE OF THIS BUT SOMEONE WAS IN DIOR NEED OF A MEMORY CARD THAT THEY STOLE MINE=(

THE CARD I HAVE HAD SINCE RIGHT BEFORE DRAYTON WAS BORN…THE CARD THAT HAS TAKEN EVERY SINGLE PICTURE OF DRAYTON AND THAT IS ALOOOOOTTTTT OF PICTURES.

I did snap a video of it so that is better, way better than nothing.

Not sure if I have posted anywhere about his love for the slide.  About a amonth ago Grandma and Cotton brought out Uncle Cole (6)’ hand me down…

Drayton loves it so much and after the first couple times of me holding his hand he was off on his own going up the latter and zippin down the slide.

He loves to drive and cars are his main attraction.  I took him to the park yesterday and it is a private pay to et in park and they have those classic yellow top red cars we all have or had at one time…well I was pushing him around the little track…It’s so funny because when he gets in he puts his feet up just enough so that I can push him around…He hasn’t really discovered he can drive it with his own two feet…or maybe he just prefers that I do it for him lol.

I love him to pieces…I don’t know if other mom’s are the same but I still just stare at him daily in amazement…

It’s like a dream…A perfect dream come true…To be reminded when I look at him that he is mine and that I created him never gets less amazing to me when I focus on that.  I have always love babies but this baby I don’t have to hand over  to someone at the end of the day.

Since having him I am still always noticing other cute babies here and there but never have that desire or need to hold them…I AM SO CONTENT WITH MY GIFT.  He is so much fun.

On 5-18-09 Which was this past Monday…Drayton had a Doctors checkup…He had two vaccinations and everyone knows me and my fear and uncertainty about vaccines…Well I could go on forever about my concerns but will not jump that far off track.

He weighs 181bs 8oz…

Later on after the appointment we headed over to our other house in Bear Creek where I had some projects to do and where I had to meet with the contrators that I mentioned above.

It was shortly after Grandma arrived that I came to the decision FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF to let anyone take him.  I let Grandma take him in my car where his seat was over to her house where she needed to get so that she could get Uncle Cole off the bus.

It was a big deal for me because every body knows I don’t let him out of my site really.

He was a happy camper at Grandmas and didn’t cry once.

Grandma said that he walked around while playing with the phone on his ear/shoulder like he does at home mimicing me…

Yes I am known to be a phone junkie…  I got some work done something else I wasn’t able to snap pictures of ughhhh because of selfish people that like to steal grrrrr grinds my gears lol.

Been making bracelets like crazy and have sold quite a few…Just hoping to atleast break even.

It is addictive so much that it makes a drug addiction look better since you then wouldn’t be as aware of the money dwindling away…Boy am I going overboard…Sooo ANYONE WANNA BUY SOME JEWELRY??? Please do’nt feel obligated.  I know you won’t.

Well I better wrap up this blog because my little sweet pickle will be waking up from his nap anytime.  Making dinner in a bit and neighbor is coming over to bring my my money for the bracelets and necklaces she sold for me at work…wooo hooo.