Stay at home mom: AKA Director of Operations

So everyone asks me, "How do you like being a stay at home mom?" My usual answer is, "I like it a lot, thanks." But truthfully, I am loving it. There are good days and there are not so good days. But everyday I am thankful that I am the one that is here with Victor, to see him pull himself up, to see him crawl, to hear him call out to his "daddy", and to see him discovering the world. And of course, thankful that I am the one that is here when Victor falls and bonks himself. That way I know exactly how he received the cut or bruise, rather than wondering if he is being abused somehow (this comes from the mind of a social worker!).

There are times that I feel that I should be intellectually stimulating Victor a lot more than I am. I often hear things such as, "Are you teaching him sign language?" "Are you using the baby Einstein videos?" "You should have a...blah blah blah..." I end up tuning people out. Not because I don't think that they have good ideas, but because there is too much out there and I cannot teach my child everything!! My goal is to have a happy, healthy, age-appropriate child. I will not push him to be a child genius. He already is a genius just by the fact that he has Tom and I as parents (ha ha)!! But seriously, how does one know how far too go with all these crazy things out in the world? I guess as much as you are able to give and the baby is able to absorb. Each moment is a teaching moment. I keep having to remind myself that he is taking everything in. I wonder what his first sentence will be?

The thing that I like the best about staying at home, is the ability to live life. Now, I see the sky, I see the scenery, and I am able to enjoy it. It was always there, but I did not have the time to enjoy it. I was too stressed out with work. My life had to fit around my work schedule. Now I wake up in the morning to a husband changing a diaper and singing "sunshine boy, sunshine boy, we have a little sunshine boy" and to the sounds of my little boy trying to decide if his daddy is funny or hurting his ears!! Now if only our little sunshine boy would stop waking up at 6 a.m., life just might be perfect!!

Victor shows us the finger

Victor has now learned how to point. In this picture, we see that Victor wants to show Tia Rosa the surfers...He learned this method of pointing on his own.

Meet the REAL Zoolander 

MESSAGE BOARD TO YOUR LEFT

Just wanted to let everyone know that there is now a message board that everyone can leave comments on w/o having to sign up for anything!! The only thing is that Tom has not created a link back to the o.g. page, so just use your back button to see your message after you have posted it!! Thank you everyone!! We are enjoying seeing your comments!!

Victor looking teethy

For those of you who need a Victor fix, here is a picture. But if you need a fix that bad, you should come over and watch him for Maria!!

Toms black eye

I "fell" and hit my eye on a doorknob...That's the last time I'll leave the toilet seat up.

Actually, I got an elbow playing basketball, then tweaked my back! I can hardly walk. I am getting old...I look like the leaning tower of Pisa!

For those of you that haven't noticed yet, I created a little message board [here]. Take a look.

Scary Victor

For those of you who think that I have it easy staying at home, take a look at this and decide for yourselves!!



And look at this one:



But most of the time my little silly boy is like this:

Wazzzz up everybody

So Tom created this website MONTHS ago......like forever and ago.....and I kept telling him, "Show me how to do it and I will add things on it". And he was like, "Woman, I will get to you when I can." Hmmmm....who taught him to talk like that? So anyways he FINALLY found a way for me to update this webpage w/o having to bug him about it. (Of course if I was not running after my little boy all the time trying to keep him from fighting w/ stools then I could have figured it out on my own, really I could have.)

So check us out every once in awhile and don't be afraid to leave us a comment, free advice that we may never use, or just a hello :)..