Letter to My Baby boy!

In Jacksons baby book there is a spot for a letter from Mommy…. with the billion things I have felt and wanted to say over the last year, I just never got around to writing one. So, I decided to write it now….a year after he was born! Goodness, still can't believe it has been a year! I hope one day he reads this and knows how very, very much he is loved.

My Dear Jackson,

            Hello baby, this is your mommy writing you! I have been meaning to write this letter since the day you were born, and now you are over a year old! I have had 12 months to watch you grow and to fall even more in love with you than I knew possible.

Jackson, when I was a little girl all I ever wanted was a baby doll, and to play house and be the mommy. When I grew up, all I ever wanted to do was babysit and dream about the day I would someday have my own. When I met your daddy, I knew that he felt the same way, and that someday, we would make both of dreams come true.

Sweet boy, you were all I ever wanted my whole life! When we found out you were on your way, I was nervous, but I instantly felt a love for you that I couldn’t explain. Throughout the next nine months I enjoyed every second of being your home, I loved watching you grow and feeling you wiggle around and I anxiously awaited the day you would join us on the outside.  The moment you were born I felt every little piece of my heart fill up and overflow. That night I stayed awake all night and held you on my chest and watched you breathe in and out and stared at your sweet face. There was nothing in this world I wanted more than to be right there in that moment. You were perfect, everything I had ever hoped for, dreamed of, and wished and prayed for, right there in my arms.  You had to stay in the hospital for an extra night and I couldn’t sleep right next to you. I remember feeling so lost and thinking that I would give anything just to hold you in my arms and you were only a few miles away.

We brought you home and that night I laid you in your bassinet next to my bed….for about 5 minutes. I couldn’t sleep worrying if you were too hot, too cold, if you were lonely, or if you just wanted mommy. So, I laid you next to me and there you stayed for about 9 more months, my little snuggle bunny! You were the cutest little newborn I had ever seen. You had great big hands, big feet, your mommy’s eyebrows, and a full head of dark hair! I had never seen anything more handsome in my entire life! Every day that passed, I swore you got cuter! I would wake up and tell Daddy, “Look, he did it again! He got cuter!!!” How could you be so cute?!  I saw your sweet smile for the first time about a month after you were born and my heart absolutely melted!

I have enjoyed watching you grow so much my boy. I remember being SO excited the first time I noticed you were looking at something and watching it, following with your eyes! When you rolled over the first time I think I cried from excitement! When you started crawling, your Grandma Suzi and Auntie Kelsey were here to witness along with Mommy and Daddy. We were all cheering you on and couldn’t stop smiling! Your first steps, my goodness, what excitement that was! We had the biggest grins and clapped our hands for you, we were so proud!

Sweet Jackson, you are such an amazing boy. Everything you do, you do with such character and such enthusiasm. You are always focused on what you are doing and busy with something that interests you. You never sit still, and you are always on the go looking for something else to do or to get into, or something else to make us laugh! We knew from your first couple months of life that you were a comedian. You love to make us laugh and to laugh yourself! You laugh at everything and every time you do, my heart warms up! You have the sweetest, greatest laugh I have ever heard! Your laugh could probably bring peace to warring nations! You also have the best smile that never goes away! You smile even when you are crying. You smile when you are happy, when you are tired, when you are grumpy, and even when you are sick, you smile through coughs! Everyone who sees you comments on how smiley you are and what a happy baby you are. You are such a flirt, you love to smile at every person you see and I know that it brightens their day, just like you brighten mine every single day!

You are so young, yet such a little person already. You love to run and climb everything. You love “petting” the dog and playing fetch with her and you love to be outside in the grass barefoot. You don’t like wearing shoes, and you really don’t like wearing much of anything! You wake up happy every morning and instantly you want to go explore and find something fun to do.  You love to read books, sometimes I find you in your room with twenty books pulled off of the shelves and you are just sitting on the floor going through the pages. You like to play peekaboo and chase me around the house while I pretend I am running from you, it cracks you up… If I even look at you from around a corner or through a hole or a window, you start laughing. You are very well-behaved. You like going places and you never throw a fit or cry. I can take you anywhere. You are the messiest eater I have ever seen. You don’t eat anything without some of it ending up in your ears, in your hair, in your eyebrows, and all over your lap! Oh and all over me!

Jackson, you have made my life so enjoyable, and so fulfilling. You are everything I have ever wanted and more. There just aren’t words to describe how much I love you and what you mean to me. I pray that you would know how special you are, and just how much you are loved. I pray that you know that no matter what happens in this world sweet boy, I will always love you and I will always be proud of you and who you are. You are such a vibrant, kind, and funny little man and I pray that you keep that forever. Above all else Jackson, I pray that you will grow into the man that the Lord has planned for you, and that you would become a mighty servant of him and that you would always take comfort in Him.

The love of a parent is amazing, incredible, and indescribable. Thank you for blessing my life so richly my little man, I can’t wait to continue watching you grow and to share in all of your adventures!! Happy first birthday big boy!!!

Mommy

July 31, 2011

It's a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Party!

When Jackson was very little I would take him into my bed for his nap at 10:00 every morning and turn on the Disney Channel more just for me, but also, it's appropriate for kids and it calmed us both down to just lay and watch a quick cartoon before nap! Well, at 10:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse comes on! We would sit and watch the other shows that came on before and he never really cared…but when that silly mouse came strolling down that polka dotted sidewalk, my boy's eyes would LIGHT up! He would have his pacifier in mouth and behind it I could see the hugest smile ever. Sometimes the pacifier would even drop clear out of his mouth to make room for that gummy grin! He was obsessed… I started DVRing it and very quickly our lineup was full, over 80 episodes of MMC! haha. When he got a little older we stopped watching before naps because he just won't sit still for a cartoon anymore, AT ALL. He could care less. But, I still turned it on in the afternoon for some background noise and he would be across the house and the second the "hot dog song" came on….that little booger would come scooting/crawling/walking/running and the dancing would commence! Still obsessed… So, when it came time to start planning his first birthday party (TEAR!) I knew exactly what it would be!

 M I C K E Y      M O U S E!

So, here is a description of everything I did for the party and how I made everything! Have fun!

Here is the Mickey flower arrangement we had outside the front porch. My mom planted it and just used a few pony packs…well, it looked like a heart, not Mickey, and nobody even noticed. Maybe more flowers would have been better, or just single flowers instead of pony packs? Either way, it was probably the least impressive of al decor. Wish it had turned out cuter! Oh well!

The banner I made! I got a big pack of black cardstock and a pack of these simple colored/patterned cardstock and some red polka dotted ribbon at Michaels. I cut out the black squares and then the colored ones a bit smaller using fun patterned scissors. I hole punched two holes in the back of the black cardstock and strung the ribbon through. Piece of advice, try stringing it at the TOP of the letters so they don't flip over like mine did (I had to tape the middle ones to the window!) After I strung them I glued on the colored cardstock and taped the back of the black to the ribbon to keep it evenly spaced. I printed out the letters and the Mickeys and glued them on.  Super easy, but time consuming and it really hurt my fingers using the fun scissors so much!

I had a TON of the black cardstock left, and a few of the red polka dotted paper, so I printed up each of the clubhouse members and glued them onto the red and then black background and I just punched one hole at the top and strung it with some red ribbon and cut them to different lengths and taped them to the fireplace, in the center of course, is the cutest little Mickey Mouse in the world :) Anyway, the clubhouse was all here!!! 

These water bottle labels were SO fun and easy to make! It took me forever to find a background but I eventually found one on google images and then used Word to type the words "Happy Birthday Jackson" onto it. I used the fun scissors again to cut out the banner and then glued it into red cardstock that I measured using the original label. I then wrapped it around the water bottle directly over the label and used packing tape to seal 'er up! Super easy! And they held up great even in the ice chest!

Door hanger/welcome sign! One of my favorites, it was just so cute! Pretty self explanatory, downloaded Mickey font and printed up the words onto red cardstock, cut out, again with fun scissors, and glued onto yellow cardstock and then glued that onto a big piece of red! I also put some extra little Club member stickers on the sides to make it a little more attractive. I also printed that Mickey at the bottom.

Now THIS was probably my favorite piece!!! My mom made it! SOO cute! We got this medium sized blue pot at walmart for like 2 bucks and then planted some cute yellow flowers in there! She used a wooden dowel and wrapped it in some really cute red checkered ribbon. She used 1 big round piece of styrofoam and 2 smaller pieces and painted them…. using spray paint! Ah….the styrofoam melted! So, we salvaged it and painted with ACRYLIC this time! She then used stencils and red paint to paint his name across it and then wrapped a cute Mickey head ribbon under it. She fastened the ears and the ribbon on using toothpicks.

This was the fruit tray I made, I really tried to stick with the color theme as well, so we did watermelon, pineapple and blueberries! Red yellow and blue! We used a Mickey cookie cutter and it worked GREAT on the watermelon, but the pineapple was a disaster, I had to hide most of them under the few good ones I got. 

The cupcake tree! I bought this at party city it was so cute! I also got stickers to write Jackson on the top, but silly me…I bought black stickers. Don't know WHAT I was thinking!! So, I made rainbow chip cupcakes using the mickey baking cups and then I used a pastry bag and regular frosting to ice the cupcakes. I put yellow and red sprinkles on each of them and then on some I cut out blue polka dots from fondant to put on the edges. We ran out of frosting so we used fondant on a few of the cupcakes like you can see in the middle, and put on some Mickey sprinkles…REALLY cute, but of course, no one at them…who wants to eat a fondant cupcake?! When they were done I stuck in Mickey toothpicks! Turned out really cute!

A view of the food table, the fruit platter and that is hummus and flatbread that I also cut into Mickey shapes. For lunch we barbecued hamburgers and hot diggity dogs! I wanted to make sure that everything was yummy for adults and also easy for tiny toddler fingers!

Here are the shirts I made….round 2. I made the cutest shirts for the 3 of us and they were PERFECT, took HOURS upon HOURS of work and time to design on the computer, and I used an iron on transfer.. FAIL. I can't believe Michaels would sell such a product! The transfers did NOT stick to the shirt and peeled off, and what did stick ripped right in half as soon as I stretched the shirt over my head! So frustrating… I cried! We tried using fabric glue to adhere them..no luck. Puff paint around the edges..no luck. Okay, day before party, we are starting over friends! Walmart 3 shirts for about 4 bucks each and one teal flat sheet… I cut out the number ones from the flat sheet and hand sewed them on. I then used stencils to trace letters (Mommy, Daddy, Jackson) onto the front and traced over it with puff paint. On the back I used the same stencils but with teal acrylic paint to paint "West" across the back like a jersey. I loved them… even if they were second choice :)

My cutie booty tooty boy and his giant one year old hands!

Really bad view, but this is my cake! Well, Jackson's cake (whose birthday is it again?!) .. It turned out PERFECTLY! I practiced several times and finally figured out how to get it perfect! I baked two rounds, cooled COMPLETELY and then flipped and cut the top off to make them even, frosted the top of one and stuck the other on top. I then put a plate on top of the whole thing to flatten it out and stuck it in the freezer and let it freeze for a couple hours. I then used a template that I just printed up on Word to cut it into the Mickey shape. I then brushed off the crumbs and froze it again! I iced it once and then…froze it again! Iced it a second time and then used fondant and circle fondant cutters to make polka dots and then I cut out a JGW for the corner of it. Love love love...

Enjoying my cake, I ate til I threw up! That's the way it should be!!

Yum mommy yummmm!!!!

All in all, we had a BLAST! We had great friends come out for it and everyone had a good time. It was so great to see how many people love my boy! I also made a video of his first year and it was about 30 minutes, to my surprise, most people actually watched it! I couldn't watch it…I cried everytime and I had to chase around my track star, but it was great to feel the love! My baby boy is such a special little man and is SO very, very blessed to have so many people love him! We were even fortunate enough to have several friends send birthday gifts for him from out of state! What a blessing! His birthday party was perfect, and as I brought out his cake to him and started the birthday song, my eyes welled up and I realized that THIS was what I had waited for my entire life… THIS boy is my life, my whole world, everything I ever dreamed of and ever wanted to be. I love being a mommy :) can't wait for the many, many more birthday parties to come! 

4th of Ju-Ly

Okay so I'll start this with the story of the farm since many of you are interesado… My husband's grandparents bought the property (50 acre pecan farm) many years ago and moved their house (the house my mother-in-law grew up in) here… So yes, Jackson's room was his grandmother's room when she was a little girl, kind of sweet :) Anyway, it made its way through the family and now Thomas and his 3 sisters share ownership of it and we are living here taking care of it for now. It is a pecan farm but there are animals (cows and horses) on the property but we don't take care of them…someone else does. We really love it here and we are having so much fun fixing it up and "playing house", but we are also looking forward to buying our own home in a nice community sometime next year! It's nice being secluded and having privacy, but I want my boy to be able to play with the neighborhood kids too. BUT, here is one big plus of the farm---parties!
We had a 4th of July party and it was so much fun! 4th of July's have always been both mine and Thomas's favorite holidays. When I was little we would always go to my grandparents house and have a big party, eat lots of good food, and then at night we would walk over to the lake and watch the fireworks and play games and then we would all lay out a million blankets on the floor and everyone slept in the living room. It is still one of my favorite memories of my grandparents and I hope that one day we can make these lasting impressions and memories for JJ. For Thomas, he always had…welll…farm parties! His dad used to do it big, as in BIG big…well, we are just getting started and trying to carry on tradition! This was our 2nd annual 4th of July party, and I would say it was a big success! Last year I was 37 weeks pregnant and although it was fun…. it was pretty stressful for me and having to clean with a giant belly is impossible enough as it is much less cleaning after a big party! So, this year I was determined! I planned everything way ahead of time, cleaned the whole house before, and on the invitation I made sure everyone knew to bring something…aka, no cooking for me wohoo!!! So, needless to say, this year was much easier! I would say we had about 30 or 40 people here between family friends and coworkers.

The meat smokin!

setting up the volleyball net

just some of the cars parked out front

pool 

flying the flag by what used to be the lake, it has since dried up…oh drought

having fun

thomas and lee

my little Jackie Bear, his shirt says, "Mommy's little firecracker" He is so precious

These are some of the decorations I made, the banner and the tablescape

I thought this was pretty cute for some paper and puffy paint and about 2 minutes! Surrounded by twizzlers and gumballs! I wanted redvines but I couldn't find them, what is that Texas!?

So, the day started…well…the night before! At midnight Thomas started the brisket and woke up every couple hours to check the temperature in the smoker. Around 11, Thomas's grandmother came over and it was great to see her, she was in great spirits and she and my mother in law and her sister all had matching shirts on--so cute! Jackson was having the time of his life pushing her wheelchair around and she even took him for a ride! He much preferred pushing the wheels himself, but he appreciated the ride! We also set up his baby pool and he had a blast getting in and out and filling the pool with grass and drinking the water (EW!) Friends started arriving and the fun began! We had a pool full of ladies, including the very pregnant Christi (cousin) who thought it would be cool to copy me and be 9 months pregnant for the 4th of July party… We had 2 washer pits set up and the guys were pretty occupied with that! Later in the afternoon we started in on volleyball! One of T's coworkers brought the net and what a great idea! SO fun! We must have played 10 games…and let me just tell you, a certain little lady happened to serve 10 consecutive points during one game…ahem, thank you verrrry much..haha.  I really only played a couple games because I hate that nasty rash you get from the ball. Yuck.. So when it got dark the party moved back into the pool for some pool basketball and then after being attacked by killer mosquitoes for an hour, it moved inside and the games of pool began.. Side note, mama was not happy about this! Hello, my baby is sleeping 15 feet away can we NOT hit balls with sticks right now?! Okay thaaaanks. We couldn't have fireworks because of the drought, there was a ban, so that was sad. But, there is always new years! Mark your calendars for fireworks people!! Everyone left and someone broke the gate on the way out and that was about the only bad thing that happened the whole time! No other damage and no huge mess! Success!!! There wasn't too much to clean up, I kept on top of everything all day and we just vacuumed and swept and mopped after everyone left and we were good! It was so much fun and I had such a great time planning it and spending time with friends and family and playing outside! Can't wait for next year!

The sweetest boy on the planet returns!

So last night Jackson went down easy enough…no fuss. We went to a barbecue with a few new friends and had a blast and Jackson was able to play with 3 other babies and even stole some kisses from the cutie, Millie. He loves everyone. Anyway, he fell asleep in the car and when we got home I just put him in his crib and he fussed about 30 seconds then OUT. He slept until 3:30 and I immediately went in and got him because lately I have been trying to let him cry through his early morning wake up but his cries have been really sad! So, I went in and got him and brought the cutie in bed with me. Usually he nurses for about 20-30 minutes and tosses and turns trying out all different ways of laying down while still being attached (nice visual eh?!) Well, last night…he would NOT go back to sleep! He was up for about an hour and a half and then finally fell asleep and about 3 minutes later, the crying started. Jackson doesn't cry…he just doesn't, it's not his style. So I knew something was wrong. He kept doing it allllll night long waking up out of his sleep crying..needless to say, I was freakin' milkless and sore. Oh and tired, duh. So we watched some cartoons at 5:30 and Thomas played some words…He went back to sleep and woke up a few times crying again. Then at 7 we got up and I handed him off to daddy and said "Hold him while I pee." He reached his arms out and grabbed on. 45 seconds later I hear a big thud followed by crying…? "Is he okay?" "WHAT?!?!?! Where are you?!" Okkkk, so apparently my husband sleep holds the baby? So after consoling my poor baby (he was fine, not even a bump, he is getting pretty good at catching himself) and arguing about whose fault it was … clearly it was his…duh. Anyway, I went in and scrubbed my hands and decided it was time to check! Opened up his mouth while Daddy kissed his tummy and THAR SHE WAS! A big pearly white on the top left! Almost all the way through, right under the skin…. I knew it. He wasn't just being neurotic. So, for his first two teeth, he was fine, he never got grumpy or anything and so I kind of scoffed when people would talk about "TEETHING" like it was so horrible..pshhhh, it's not that bad! Well, now I understand after this last week! I'm sorrry, I'm sorry, I'm sorrry to all the mommys who talk about teething, I know you are not lying now! It really IS that bad! But…. just like that, it was gone. My happy boy was back! Smiling and laughing and playing all day. I may even venture to say that today was his cutest day of life so far. We played this morning and he kept trying to go for the plug as I was blowdrying my hair… I swear the electrical outlets emit a magnetic baby charge. He watched as I put my makeup on and climbed in and out of the cabinets in the bathroom--one of his favorite pastimes. I emptied them out so he can just climb in and sit. We went to the Little Gym and he took a quick nap in the car so he was pretty recharged! He was soooooooo cute today! Let me just tell you some of the things we did today. Well….we walked around and showed everyone how big we are being a walker now. We gave Miss Pat a high five even when she was asking for one from someone else. We did forward rolls and instead of tucking his head, he just laid it down to the side. We walked on the balance beam and wouldn't put our feet down because it feels weird on them, feels velvety. We climbed stairs onto the higher balance beam and then jumped off. We stole everyone's turn to do..welll..everything. We tried to make out in the tunnel, but Millie wasn't having it. Last week Isabella was all over it, so he kind of had his feelings hurt when she wouldn't smooch on him. We tapped sticks together to the beat and used them as swords on our friends. Annnnnd, for the first time, we PUT AWAY OUR SHAKER! We have been working on it for months and he always gets angry and not only will he not put it away but he tried to grab the other ones. Well, today he took the shaker, walked over to Miss Pat and dropped it right in front of her while she sang, "it's time to put the shakers away!" My heart melted…. he is learning! What a good boy he is! After our class we met Daddy for lunch and J sat in his booster seat like a big boy and ate the turkey and squash from my wrap and bobbed his head to the music playing in the restaurant. It was literally THE cutest thing ever. He also kept flagging down the waiter and babbling at him like, "I need some ketchup, and could you bring me a sippy cup of juice please?" He is so precious. I love him so much. Then he slept the whole way home. We played outside with the dog for a bit, and tried to eat grass. Then…before dinner time, we just played on the ground. He was pushing my legs around and laughing and cracking up and giving me kisses!!! I haven't gotten a kiss in so long, and tonight it was like he remembered he loved me and couldn't stop telling me. We ate dinner, had a bath and he SAT in the tub…which he never ever does, and stuck our letters and numbers on the wall all while laughing and splashing around. We brushed our hair and teeth and and got our jammies on, read a bedtime story and I just spent about 20 minutes rocking him, nursing, and telling him how much I loved him and how special he was to me. How I hoped that he would be happy in life and that he would always always know that no matter what I love him more than life. I kissed him a million times and brushed his sweet hair and smelled his head and just took in every ounce of him. My baby will be one in less than a month and it has flown by too quickly. I know the days when he will let me rock him and whisper in his ears and stroke his head will soon draw to an end and it breaks my heart to think of it. But then, I think…even when is 12 years old I will just sneak in and do it while he sleeps. He is my baby, and he always will be…but watching him grow up and the days passing at the speed of light makes my heart ache. I'm so blessed to have the cutest, sweetest little man by my side every hour of every day. He is my partner, my sidekick, and my best friend. He is happy and funny and silly and as he develops more and more of an actual personality, I love him more every single day. Wow, that is a lot of love in one blog :)

Jumpin' on the Bandwagon!

Well….here I am. And here is my life right now:
So, I graduated in 2008, got married in 2009, and had a baby in 2010. We moved to Texas December 2009 to birth our babe on Texas soil. I worked about ten days and the rest of the time I just incubated. Then came Jackson Gregory…the light in my life. I could write a million words about my baby, but they would never be enough. Since then I have just been running around chasing after him, inspecting his poop, soothing every tear, kissing his boo boos, singing him made-up songs, and feeding him…lots and lots of feeding him! I can't say all of this without the HUGE shout out to my hubby Thomas who makes it all possible and works full-time and goes to school full-time all so that Jackson and I can play all day long and plan our tomorrow.
Lately I've been staying up late and working all day trying to get the house clean for our fourth of July party. I have no idea why, I mean…we live on a farm. Come on. But anyway, I am trying…and getting angry every single morning when I see how much dirt my husband/son/dog have dragged in. Last night I went through the cabinets in the bathroom and threw away a million things that were here when we moved in and I was what…waiting for someone to ask if they could take it? Anyway, I found a thousand dead spiders, one so large that all I could do was pray that I never ran into his brother. I also cleaned off a spot on the wall that had been there also since we moved in…guess what it was… Oh yeah, a rollie polie wrapped in dirt and hair. I almost threw up. Yep….we live on a farm. For the last three days I have had to let the dog out to round up the cows and get them off of the front lawn. FARM.
Thomas is taking a class this summer…listen to this, the politics of globalization. Exciting right? I know, I sometimes wish I could go to class with him just to sit and listen! He is taking this class for the first session of summer school, and then another class online the second session, and then in the Fall he will have only 2 classes left! It's been a long road and suffice it to say WE ARE PROUD. He's also working, as I mentioned before… he still hates it, but he only works Friday-Monday and evenings, so we still get to spend our days together :)

And nowwwww, for the little man of the house. JACKSON! If I could describe him in one word, it would be WILD. He is wiiiiild. Right now he is getting his top teeth and he is grumpaaaay. He is usually so happy and smiley all the time and lately all he wants is to nurse and hit me. Oh yes, he hits. He is kind of mean like that. I have been asking for a kiss for a week, and tonight, I finally got one instead of a smack, and I think it was a fluke because he was extremely tired. In fact I think he smacked me afterward like, "Oh wait…shoot!" He also just started walking! And he has taaaaken off! One day he walked a couple steps while he was holding my cell phone (texting and walking, I know…) and we thought he did it just because he was distracted. The next day he took about 5 steps on his own! The next day, he did about ten! And the next day….well, he walked around the entire house up and down halls and all over.  Today he figured out how to stand up on his own without holding onto anything so he stopped crawling almost completely. Every time he would start to, he would stop and then stand up. He is learning so fast! This evening we went outside and walked around in the grass and he played with Easton and her chuck-it. What an adventure we are on now! I still can't believe he is walking, every time he does it, I just sit and stare in awe. My little guy…growing up. So bittersweet. He's also eating like a teenager. The kid can put away a meal. He still nurses about 6 times a day and eats 3 solid meals. For breakfast he loves pancakes or oatmeal with fruit and of course, cinnamon graham crackers! For lunch we like to mix it up…usually whatever we are eating he eats too, or he eats leftovers, or mac and cheese or beans, or whatever. He likes vienna sausages, which makes me kind of want to barf. For dinner he loves ravioli, any pasta really, and he loves meats and rice, but not vegetables. I always mix them in, but he usually picks them out. It's pretty cute. The other night we spent about 10 minutes playing "eat the pea." Every time I would get him to open up, I would literally throw a pea in, and he would take it out and throw it back at me and crack me up. It was so funny I didn't even care that he didn't eat the peas. He also gets dessert every night. He is so spoiled. He loves Nilla Wafers and basically any other cookie. He loves to laugh, all day. I think his goal in life is to make mommy laugh… a lot like his daddy in that sense! I could go on and on about my boy and how wonderful and unique he is… but at this point I am realizing I am just procrastinating my pointless cleaning.