So my blogging sucks.

So does my journal writing.

Oh well, not like I have too much important to say!

I'm doing good I guess, the holidays are on us again. Tonight Charley and I get to go to the TSO concert and I am really looking forward to that. Tomorrow night is my annual company Christmas dinner.

Charley has been on call all week and it sucks. He has had a really really busy call week with calls every single night. . .and two in the middle of the night. I will be glad when Monday comes and he hands the call off to another. Of course, he is going to be on call New Years Eve which will put quite a damper in any plans we have-- especially since Ashley announced she might be home and wants to babysit!

Sick again.

Sigh

So early Saturday morning Charley brings me a baby boy to nurse and as soon as he latched on I could hear the hoarseness in his breathing. I knew immediately that we were NOT going to swim lessons that morning.

Instead we woke up at 8 and made him a doctor appointment. The doctor thought it was croup again, coughing, runny nose and just extra whiney. Didn't keep us from going out a bit, took Z to Bates Nuts Farm to look at the pumpkin patch and got him some really neat handmade wood toys really cheap.

I took him to day care today certain that they were going to call and make us come get him early. I was just hoping to get a few hours of work in first. But its already 1:30 and no call so I guess they will keep him all day.

I just hope he kicks this pretty quickly.

Finally Friday!

So it is FINALLY Friday, I am so happy. In about six hours, I go pick up my little boy and have the rest of the weekend with him.

We went away last weekend which was great but sometimes, that just doesn't recharge my body the way just hanging out at home does.

Zayden is almost walking now! He took his first steps this week. At first, just one or two but then day care said he took SEVEN in a row yesturday! I can't believe how big he is getting.

The last few nights have been really rough though. For three nights now he really hasn't slept good, the first two refusing to go to sleep and then waking up in the night, last night he went to sleep fine but then woke up three times screaming. When he wasn't fussing, he was tossing and turning, turning on his glow seahorse, and just not getting a good night sleep. And neither did mommy and daddy!

So here is a recent picture from last weekend. More to come but this one is really cute!

I am missing my baby boy :(

I have been at work all day and right now all I want to do is hold and hug my little guy. He has gotten so very big now, he has even taken his first step!

Some days I wish I could hit rewind and go back in time an entire year to October 1 of last year. I would enjoy the last month or so of pregnancy and the amazing joy of having my baby all over again. I miss those times when I was on maternity leave and it was just me and him.

In about an hour or so I will be home with him but that seems so long from now. I want to be home right now!

Oh well, maybe if I actually started working on something, time would go by faster!

The morning rush

Today, Z decided to make life as difficult as he could for mommy to get ready for work.

I was running late to start with. I have to be in Court today at 1:45 so I was rushing around looking for a suit to wear that still actually fits post pregnancy. The one I picked was way to tight, the cream shirt looked horrible with it, I don't seem to have a white shirt etc. So a few outfits later, Charley is ready to leave, Z is still not dressed, I am rushing to braid my hair and put on make up.

Charley leaves and Z starts wailing so I, braid in one hand, try to sooth him with another. Didn't work.

Finally mostly ready and its time to change and dress Z. Run to his room, grab a clean diaper, one wipe, and his clothes for the day. Run back, get him on the bed and halfway undressed before I realized that he had a poop. So plop him on the floor so I can run get more wipeys but he starts screaming again. Realize the diaper bag is right there, grab wipe out of bag,plop baby back on bed and start changing. Of course then I realize it was not just a poop -- the prunes daddy gave baby last night worked and now we have a whole blow out on our hands. So of course he decides to roll over, stick his knees in there. . ..uck -- huge mess.

Anyway, get him cleaned up, dressed etc. I am now really running late so forget cleaning his sleeper, will do that tonight (Or make daddy do it as revenge for the prunes! LOL)

So mommy then runs to the bathroom herself, and of course Z has to follow crying the whole way. I'm sitting on the potty and he is clamoring trying to get in my lap. I finally pick him up and he stops crying but wants to pull out all the toilet paper.

I put him back down and scramble to finish getting ready. I grab a pair of hose and put it on, he is now back at my feet trying to get me to pick him up. He is giving me this look like mommy why don't you love me! And, of course, grabs my hose and runs them. Sigh.

new hose, same problem -- all he wants is mommy to hold him. I FINALLY finish getting dressed, realize my shirt has a stain on it, oh well I'll wear my jacket all day. Grab the kid who is really tired now, get out of the house, get him in his car seat, listen to him wail even louder (the whole neighborhood now realizes what a horrible mom I am by his crying) give him his bottle and he is asleep before I get out of the driveway.

When I got him out of his car seat at day care I tried to let him sleep but he woke up. At least he was ready to go play at day care instead of want to be held. Wound up 15 minutes late for work, have already run my hose again. And yes, I really miss my little boy even after the morning from hell!

Wow, I haven't posted on here for quite awhile. Life just gets to busy. Here is what I "should" be doing. . .writing direct examinations for witnesses for a trial going today (this week) and writing points and authorities for another motion. Here is what I am doing... umm writing a blog!

State of the world today. Well my older two kids are still living at home. Ash is back at school working on her pre-reqs for vet school, Age is just working at her preschool. My youngest daughter is back at ASU after working at my office the later half of the summer. It was nice, we were able to work on our relationship some and repair some damage that had been done.

Little Z is growing so fast. He is ten months old now, fast on his way to a year. He is crawling everywhere, up stairs, down the hall. He loves to crawl over and stand right now. . .on anything. My little boy is growing up too fast.

Well, I gotta get back to work now. Hopefully I can update more later!

Well, I haven't been writing for the past bit! I have taken the stance that if you don't have anything to say nice. . . . lol. Too much drama in my life with my older girls. I love them to death but dang I will be happy to have our house back to just Charley and I and my little one. It is just too hard to combine so many adults with their own way of doing things and their own needs and desires into one small house. The lack of privacy also puts such a strain on our relationship too.

Anyways, that is not what I am here to talk about today :)

Instead, we had a WONDERFUL three-day weekend. I loved it!

Charley and I both had Friday off so we started our weekend a little early. We decided to go for a bike ride around Mission Bay.

Here is daddy getting Z into the bike seat-- a modified bike trailer with his car seat

and we are off

On our bike ride we stopped at Barefoot Bar and Grill, Z was playing on the seat and pulled himself up onto his hands and knees for the FIRST time! (that we know of)

That night, we had to go do some laundry at the laundromat to wash a sleeping bag for Uncle Drew so we stopped at Lorna's for dinner while we waited. Z sipped water from a real cup for the first time.

Then, on the fourth of July, we went to Corona to my brother's group home for their celebration. Z got to walk in his first parade with mommy.

Then Sunday we went hiking at Torrey Pines State Park (which I did not get pictures of) and had peel and eat shrimp and lobster bisque at one of my FAVORITE places. After lunch, Z got to play in the sand for the first time!

So that was our weekend, I am sad its Monday and back to the grind. Oh well, only five more days until the next weekend!