My, how times have changed......

I can't believe it's been one whole year since I got to marry my best friend. It's been quite a year! We got to experience both extreme highs (our wedding, finding our we were pregnant) and extreme lows (losing Uncle B and Mike's dad, my undergoing surgery while 27 weeks pregnant) but in the end we made it through. We now have this beautiful baby boy who brings so much joy (and sleep deprivation!) to our lives and we continue to work on building the foundation of our marriage and I couldn't ask for a better partner to go through life with. I still can't believe how I lucked out in the husband department! I guess there is something to be said for marrying a younger man :)

To celebrate our first anniversary, we decided to go "out on the town" for a night of fun while mom-mom came down to watch Jack. When asked what time we thought we'd be home, my response was - "Oh, by midnight I should think", while secretly hoping I hadn't given too early of a return time. So we go to meet our 6:00 dinner reservation (this alone should give some indication of how times have changed - we wanted to "beat the rush") and have a wonderful meal where we discussed what we would like to do after we ate. Should we go to a club? Go to a bar? Go for a walk? Go get some coffee? The possibilities were endless and the night was young. So what did we end up doing????? Well, we both agreed that the thing we would like to do most after our delicious meal was......to go home and go to bed!

We were home by 9pm and spent the rest of the evening with a wailing Jackson who decided that even if WE didn't want to be up all night, HE certainly did!!!

Jack's First Fever

Well, we experienced Jack being sick for the first time this week. Luckily, he was home anyway with his grandma b/c daycare was closed for spring break. So, on Monday the 4 of us trooped to the doctor and then had to get blood work done and then he went back home. Everything has come back negative - thank God - so it appears he just had some sort of virus. The fever only lasted for a day but it took a few days for his appetite to return.

We are hopefully headed to see the Cherry Blossoms in DC tomorrow. I know that Jack won't remember the trip but I am hoping to take lots of pics so that when he's old enough to go through them he can pretend he remembers!

I am still not getting nearly enough sleep to be a normal functioning person but every day is a new day and I keep hoping that one of these nights Jack will actually stay asleep.....The fact that he doesn't nap or really sleep at night doesn't seem to phase him in the least. He is a pretty happy little boy, it's the rest of us that are having trouble!

So, it's back to the daycare routine next week. No rest for the weary!!!!!

My Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades....

Jack's First Easter

Jack celebrated his first Easter yesterday and we all had a nice time even if he was pretty oblivious to most of what was going on. We started the day with his cousin Marcy finding all of the Easter eggs that the Easter bunny left for her and Jack and then opening the baskets left by the bunny. We had dyed eggs and left carrots out for him and he must have really liked what we did b/c he left a boatload of stuff for Marcy and even little Jack!



We went to Mom-Mom's house for Easter dinner where Jack got to see more of his cousins and his great-aunts. He was a bit overwhelmed by all of the love he received and had a meltdown when we got home last night but all-in-all it was a good day.

It is back to work today for both Mike and I and my mother-in-law Nancy is watching Jack for the week while his daycare is closed for spring break. I must say it was nice getting up this morning and not having to "prepare" everything for the day and run Jack over to daycare before getting to work.

Other than that things are humming along as we are acclimating to our new hectic schedule. I'm learning to just take one day at a time and trying to just "go with the flow" as things happen. For me that means, planning every detail as much as I can and then having a heart attack when things go out of whack :) I'm actually learning to at least avoid the heart attack portion when things go wrong. I'm down to just worrying obsessively. Baby steps......