Posts Tagged: Cousins

Now We Are One — No Comments
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Aug 09

So what do you do when…

You just can’t think of anything to say?

I’ve been in a writing slump this entire summer.  I suppose it’s because much of my impulse to “write” is pacified on twitter and facebook.  Or it could be due to all of the home upgrade projects we’ve been doing since May.  I dunno.  But nothing is hitting me.

I’ve thought about just posting updates on Jack-Evan, but who wants to read just plain ol’ updates of someone else’s child? Even if he happens to be the cutest, sweetest, most lovable little man in the world, thankyouverymuch. :)  But still, I must have creativity in the things I post.  But it’s not happening.

So here I am, just stopping in to say hello to my, oh, say, 3 remaining readers. (Hello!)

Jack-Evan is about to turn 16 months old in a few days.  The other day my mom, Aunt Mae, Jack-Evan and I went on a day trip.  On the drive back, I remarked to my Aunt that I couldn’t believe a few of my cousins were in upper level high school.  I still felt they should be in Junior High or something.  In my astonishment, I remarked “Where in the world did the last year of my life go??”

My aunt, without missing a beat, replied “He’s sitting here in the backseat….”

….

Jack-Evan isn’t quite walking yet, but he is standing (hurray!) and taking a few steps once in a while.  The doctor says he just needs to get his confidence up.  His Papa says that Jack’s just simply figured out that the best way to travel in life is to let everyone else carry you!

He’s also picking up new words and actions each day.  The past few weeks, we’ve been working on body parts.  ”Belly” is his favorite, and if you ask him where someone’s belly is he tries to raise their shirt to show you.  The only embarrassing part is when he decides that he wants to point out “boobie” instead and raises the shirt too high.  Jack & his daddy have also been working on showing their happiness with a drink.  After taking a sip from any drink, Jack-Evan will pull away, open his mouth, and go “Ahhhhhhh” in whispery delight.  He even does it after nursing.  The first time he did it after nursing, I almost dropped him because I was laughing so hard.

Ohhh the delights of motherhood, right?!

9-12 Months / Thoughts from Mom — No Comments
9
May 09

So this is what we’ve been up to…

(If you can’t see the video below in your reader, come to our site!)

That was a video I took with our new Sony SR-11. It has a built in slow motion feature, and I went quite silly over getting slo-mo’s of the waves, birds walking, and Jack digging in the sand during our trip to the beach at the end of April.

We went originally to visit with my husband’s brother and his family, who were down from New York on vacation. Then we ended up staying for 2 more days after they headed back home. It was the first vacation we have had (where we were totally by ourselves) in ages! It was Jack’s 2nd time seeing the ocean (the first time he was only 3 months old), and he had a blast.

(Two brothers, two cousins)

(My nephew headed down to the beach)

(I had a blast flying Jack-Evan’s kite!)

 

(The beach wore him out)

Peace out, everyone!

Thoughts from Mom — No Comments
23
Dec 08

So, it’s great to have cousins

I have this most adorable little cousin named Christina….

Here she is on the right in the blue top.

Ok, well, she’s not exactly little anymore – she’ll be 16 in a couple months.  That picture up there was taken the day before I graduated from high school in 2001.  But I still remember diapering her and sometimes I wonder when she ever stopped liking Barney. Where have all the years gone?

Anyway, today I gathered up some sample clothes from my online store, www.CollieShop.com and went to her house to have her model them for me. Real clothes on real people look so much more professional than the cafepress generated plain products that are in my store.

Here’s two of the ads I’ve worked up so far from our shoot!

I’m quite proud of her!  My sweet little babydoll is all grown up…sniffle…
:)

Our Homelife / Thoughts from Mom — 2 Comments
21
Nov 08

We’re off to the Humane Society

….we’re taking our dog PupPup to their clinic be neutered. It’s pretty nice – they offer it for only $50. Our main vet cost over $200! His appointment is at 8:00, and we’ll be picking him back up this evening at 5 pm. He wasn’t allowed to eat or drink anything after 6 pm last night, poor fellow. He has no clue what’s about to happen. I just hope it isn’t too painful.

In the meanwhile, we’ll be helping my dad clean his yard up – tons of family folks are coming for thanksgiving! Mom is the “matriarch” of her siblings….her 8 siblings…and we’re a very close family. I love when all of us get together, even though I am the youngest one of the “first-grandchild generation” that lives in SC. Almost all of my cousins are at least 8 years older than me….one of them is 44, I believe…and all of the others are at least 8 years younger than me. I’ve always felt like a baby around the older ones and a big, protective sister around the others. :) But such is life.

Afterwards, we’ll be leaving Jack-Evan with my mom and dad at 5 pm while Kevin and I take the SUV to pick up PupPup. He’ll need to be able to lay down in the back, so we have to remove the baby car seat base to make room to let the seat down.

If I didn’t have a baby, we’d also be headed to the Kelly Clarkson and Reba Macintire concert in Charlotte, North Carolina tonight at 8 pm. Kevin was the 10th Caller on a local radio station trivia contest and won two tickets this past Wednesday (they’re worth around a hundred bucks each).  He was so excited when he told me!  But after deliberating about 3.6 seconds, I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave my baby for that long yet. We’d be gone round trip about 7 hours! Kevin even offered to let me go alone with a girlfriend, saying he would like to see me go have fun for my birthday (Dec. 1), but I passed that up too. I just can’t fathom being away from Jack-Evan yet. In my mind, I know he’d be fine for that amount of time since he’s now accepts sippy cups and baby food, but in my heart, I knew it wasn’t him I was worried about – it was ME. I’d probably have a massive meltdown being away from him. It’s. Just. Not. Doable.  No way, no how.  Maybe when he turns 26 or something, but at just 6 months old?  nope.  Not even the fun of a power vocal duo concert could draw me away from my sweet little baby.  Plus, what if he decides not to take the sippy cup?  What if he just wants good ol’ fashioned mommy cuddles?  What if he starts crying and I’m not there to sooth him?  What if he says MumMum and I can’t hear his calls? what if he turns his head around justso in that way he does that’s so cute, looking for me, and doesn’t see me? What if he thinks I abandoned him?  His reasoning skills and sense of time isn’t too well developed ya know.  I just couldn’t bare it if one ounce of him missed me.  I just couldn’t bare it if one ounce of ME missed him.  He’s my little poopie head, you know.

Anyway, I’m making myself cry, silly sentimental momma that I am.  And I’m not even going anywhere!  Just the thought of being that far away sends me into emotional meltdown.

Luckily I have an understanding husband.  He found someone at work to gift the tickets to, and hasn’t said anything more about it.  He’s quite the nice guy.

So I better go.  Keep PupPup in your thoughts!