Go Broncos!!

On Sunday we took Luis to his very first Broncos game. We got tickets from Erin and Doug because they know how much Oscar loves his Raiders. The seats were 9 rows up from the field and were amazing, too bad the Broncos sucked so badly I wish I had been in the nose bleeds!

Luis was so good and just hung out watching people most of the game.

He of course made friends near the end (as is his usual style when we are out in public), the following pictures are him flirting with the grown women sitting a few rows behind us.

He has two silly faces he does when he is trying to attract "the ladies", one is his "electrified face" and the second is his crooked smile face...both get rave reviews from people.

He loves his momma

I don't have pictures this week, guess since he's one I am not as camera crazy :O)

I did have to post about some of Luis' new tricks:

1~ He is at a stage where he completely ignores his toys because he could much rather walk all over the house. He will sometimes carry a phone or pencil like he has work to do, but mostly will just walk while patting himself on the tummy.

He got some new shoes last night and was having a little trouble with them because they have hard soles. He kept trying to kick them off but after a few minutes he was back to pacing all over the place and getting into trouble.

2 ~ Luis now points to himself when you ask who Luis is and he sometimes says "baby" as he's pointing. He thinks he is so cute because he gives a big cheesey grin each time he does it.

3 ~ He LOVES his momma! Oscar was hugging me last night and Luis started to yell at him. We thought it might be a fluke so he hugged me again and sure enough Luis started yelling with a very mean look on his face. I think if he hadn't been in the shower he would have gone after Oscar :O) I know he loves me, but that kind of showing sure does make a momma feel good!

And while not Luis related, I did need to note that I'm going to see NKOTB tomorrow night!!! We are going to have so much fun screaming like 11 year old girls (I think that is how old I was when they were cool last time). I don't think I'll be able to take my camera in, but you better believe I'm taking pictures with my phone!

Luis' Birthday Party

So I know I'm a week late posting these, but I just needed a week of not doing anything after the craziness of the previous 10 days.

We had a good party, lots of friends came and Luis seemed to have a great time...although he was asleep for half of the party, you just can't plan naps when a little boy is tired sometimes.

Here are the treats that I made for the party: there were crows claws, witches hats, zombies, and witch brooms.

Luis wasn't all that interested in his cupcake, I think he would have preferred chocolate...

I want to thank everyone that came, Luis made good notes as to who gave him what so you'll be getting a thank you note soon.

Luis' Big 1st Birthday

I have had a crazy week so it took me 3 days to get these pictures up finally.

Luis James turned 1 on Monday and we had a great day as a family. We went to Anderson Farms in Erie for the day which was very fun...much to Oscar's surprise. We saw alpacas, goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, a buffaloe, and cows...Luis called all of them dog, but whatev.

After Anderson Farms we went to Cracker Barrel for lunch and Luis was flirting with the waitress and an old lady THE ENTIRE TIME! I couldn't believe how obnoxious he was being, but I guess he is my son :O)

We let him have part of a brownie and Oscar let him have part of a sucker, both of which resulted in an amazing sugar high.

He was pretty grumpy in the evening because he didn't take a very good nap, but we did go to Gaga's house to get his present from her.

This weekend is more birthday fun because Luis' party is Saturday afternoon, I have so much to do still to get ready, but thank goodness I'm off tomorrow to get busy!

The Day My World Changed

At 6:18 p.m. on October 27, 2007 my world changed forever. This was the moment that I became a mother and Oscar became a father. It was the moment that everything else in my life fell to the background because of a screaming, messy little boy with an amazing head of hair and long, beautiful eyelashes.

I always knew that I wanted to be a mother but even through the previous 9 months I never understood the love that I would feel for a little person who I had just set eyes on.

From that moment forward Oscar and I were his protectors, his cheerleaders, and the ones who would always make sure he was loved and knew it.

This last year has been an amazing journey and I have loved every minute of the exhaustion, spit-up, diaper blow-outs, boogery shirts, and pee fountains. From his very first smile to his yelling, "BA DA!" (bad dog), I love this baby and wouldn't change any minute of it.

It has been hard at times, don't get me wrong, but he makes it worth it with his sweet smiles and sloppy kisses.

Thank you Luis James for changing my world for the better.

I love you!
Momma

Haircut!!

Well I finally bit the bullet and cut Luis' hair. I had been waiting until as close to his birthday as possible but we want to get pictures next weekend and he needed a cut before that happened. He was also called a girl on Friday and that was just enough!

He absolutely hated the whole thing. We started out with Oscar holding him but he was so hysterical that we had to take a break in the middle to switch to me holding him...which means all three of us were covered in hair by the end. I hope his hysterics were just because he was tired because this kid is in for about a million more haircuts in his lifetime! Here are the before, during and after shots.

We also went back to Monkey Bizness on Friday and had so much fun. He likes the little kid area a lot, he throws himself on top of the soft stuff and laughs so hard...but he prefers the big kid area because of the slides and tunnels.

Sorry for being so obnoxious with pictures today, but here is one more of Luis helping dad with the dishes while chewing on the top of a bottle

Little Monkey Bizness

Of course I only have one picture from my cell phone, but Luis and I had so much fun at Little Monkey Bizness on Friday afternoon. We met my moms group there (about 9 kids total) after I got off work on Friday and stayed for about 2 hours.

Luis was a little nervous at first because he doesn't like hanging out with too many kids, but he finally warmed up after an hour and just played and played. Most of the little kid area is padded blocks and such so he would dive into stuff and climb over everything.

I finally let him into the big kid area at the end and he loved the big slide best. He was always following some big boys around and laughing at everything they were doing. I think he is just dying to be mobile enough to run after them.

We are going back soon hopefully because Oscar is sad that he missed out on the fun. Maybe next time I will actually have my camera with me so I can get more pics.