hes growing up so fast

well as you all may know Dominick will be 1 on saturday. And even though i should be very excited im actually kind of upset. I dont want him to grow up and i think its because im afraid as he gets older he wont want/need me as much anymore and im afraid for that to happen. He has changed my life so much and i cant picture life without him as hard as it may get sometimes i still cant imagine him not wanting or needing me every second of the day.

Anyway hes all ready for santa to come on thursday night actually i think we are more than he is lol. We started christmas shopping on friday ( yes we wait til the last minute) and we had so much fun playing with all the little toys that we got him. We were like little kids all over again lol. So we just cant wait for him to wake up on christmas morning and go to the tree and open his gifts. Its gonna be a very busy week I have work everyday including xmas eve than on xmas were having his family and my family over for dinner and gifts (we decided to have dinner at our house because it would be too much to travel all over with him that day) and the next day is the big day! My cousin Christine is supposed to come down from Boston for his bday so im so excited!!!!!

As for the things he does now... he has been eating a lot more now, he eats chicken, eggs, spaghetti, burgers and pretty much anything anyone else is eating he wants and will eat lol. he started tickling himself the other day lol its so cute when im changing him he tickles his fingers on his stomach and says "tickatickaticka" i love it! he makes some hilarious sounds and faces that we finally caught on video so as soon as i figure out how to do it they will be on here. Oh and he loves the show "Reba" actually he just loves the song in the beginning lol. As soon as it comes on he throws his toys down gets a huge smile on his face and dances and claps lol. Well ill check back after his birthday and let everyone know how it goes have a merry christmas and a happy new year!

well its been a long time since ive been able to let you all know about Dominick. His vocabulary is slowly getting bigger he now says whats that, whos that, momma, dad, and i think he says yay. He waves bye bye now and he has gotten very ticklish. he loves playing peek a boo and screaming and dancing. hes so so cute! He had a very good Thanksgiving, he loved having everyone over and eating some mashed potatoes we didnt have him try any turkey yet i was too scared lol. I am trying to have him try more food but i get very nervous but im getting a lot better he eats eggs, pizza, cheese, cheeseburgers, and chicken nuggets.
He pooped in the bathtub for the first time! it serves me right though because the whole time he was in the tub he was "making bubbles" and laughing at them so of course we were laughing too than all of a sudden we saw something floating lol. So John ran out of the bathroom gagging and left me to clean it up lol.
He yells back and forth with us, when we either yell at him or tell him no and than he yells back at us and it will go on for a long time lol. Well i think thats it for now ill try to keep everyone updated and i will let you all know how his christmas and birthday go.

I do NOT like him being sick

Last night I came home from work and heard Dominick crying through the front door I walk in and Johns sister was watching him and she said he wasnt acting himself last night and he felt pretty warm. So I checked his temperature and he had a 103.9 fever! Well, I lost it! So I forgot where I keep the tylenol and was walking around repeating "what do i do" while all that is going on Dominick is crying "momma" and i still cant remember where the tylenol was. So she calmed me down and i found the tylenol and gave Dom his dose and text John to come home. He came home and Im crying, Dom is crying and Terri is trying to calm both of us down lol. I was ready to go to the hospital but John and Terri convinced me to just wait a few minutes to check his temperature to see if it was going down if it didnt than we would go for sure. Well within 15 minutes his fever went to 101 so i calmed down and just thought maybe its a bug and ill wait til the morning to call the doctor and see what his temp was then. This morning it was 102.6 which is still very high for the morning so i called the doctor and he told me just to keep and eye on his fever today and keep giving him tylenol but dont worry. So I have decided that im going to wait until later today to see how Dom starts acting and see how his fever goes and if it goes back up to what it was last night im going to the hospital for sure. If there is any suggestions im open to any im still very new with this and dont know when i should be panicking or just relax so i pretty much panic all of the time.

Halloween

Halloween was so much fun! Dominick had a blast and he loved going around from door to door and getting candy however, mommy and daddy are now paying for it because all that candy we ate now our teeth are killing us lol. Here are some pics of Dom on Halloween in case you dont know what he is supposed to be its Chuckie...

he has me wrapped around his finger

So Dominick has started his hitting stage probably about a month ago but its just recently getting worse up until now we just told him NO! but we decided that now we have to start smacking his hand and say NO! Well, apparently i made him upset when i would smack his hand and he would get the frown face going and start crying, I of course would feel bad and pick him up and apologize but of course at that point is when he would start laughing like haha ive got her right where i want her. Well last night he smacked my face and i smacked his hand his reaction wasnt like it was before he stared at my hand than up at my face than back at my hand and all of a sudden he smacked my hand! I had to turn around because i started laughing but i guess he has figured that out too because than he started laughing. We have a smart one on our hands and we are in for one hell of a ride with this one lol.

we think we figured it out

Ok so about the sleepness nights, we are oretty sure that we know why it is happening. We are sure the teeth have something to do with it but the fact that they dont hurt him during the day is boggling us so one of the nights around 3:00 am we heard upstairs walking around and making there noises again. Thats when it hit us, they are waking him up! When we first moved here we had this problemwith them making noises all night long but they were only waking up John but we did make a complaint and the neighbors tried telling us that it was the people on the 3rd floor which is ridiculous. After that we decided to keep our mouths closed because we didnt wanna be the pain in the ass new neighbors in the building. Well things are gonna be a lot different now because now they are waking up Dominick and Im not happy at all with that. So now everytime he wakes up in the middle of the night John throws something at the cieling lol its actually kind of funny, and when we pay rent this week we are sending a note in to the office and hopefully something will be said because Dominick cant keep losing his sleep and neither can I.

still no sleep

ok well it has now been a month or so that i am going on with no sleep. He is def getting his days and nights mixed up (apparently its exactly what i did when i was a baby). Im still hoping that its just from his teeth i can tell his 1 year molars are trying to come through his gums are extremely white but for some reason im not totally sure if thats what it is because they dont seem to bother him during the day its only at night. I cant let him cry at night though because when he gets up he is screaming its not just a normal cry so i really dont know what more to do. And yesterday he slept pretty much all day because the night before he was up every hour on the hour and last night he woke up quite a few times. Im getting so tired its unreal lol. However John will be getting laid off soon for the winter and than he will finally get a taste of what i Have been going through these past 10 months, well see if its all a piece of cake then lol. Somehow i still think that ill be getting up at night with the baby but oh well thats all part of being a mom right? (good luck tiff lol)

Well im done my crying for the day so on to the fun stuff! Dominick is growing up so fast and getting his own personality its so cute. Other than being as stubborn as his parents he is becoming such a little man who wants to do things on his own. He is so determined to do or get whatever it may be that he wants which will be a good thing in the future but for now its not so good because the things he is determined to do he is not aloud to be doing lol. He is trying to stand up by himself without using the couch or anything he is almost there but not quite. He does love dancing (just like mommy lol) everytime a commercial comes on with music he starts rocking back and forth and on his see and say he knows that when the animals come on not to dance and when the song is on he dances. He also got thic chicken in an egg from Johns mom for Easter thats sings the chicken song and walks well for a little bit he was scared of it but now he starts off just rocking a little bit than when the song gets faster he starts bouncing really fast lol and when the song is over he knocks the chicken over! Its so cute I think he got that from us because when he was scared of it we would knock it over and say bad chicken so now he just knocks it over! He is also doing a great job at copying whatever we do! I cant believe in 2 months he will be 1 NOOOOOOOO!

why isnt he sleeping EVER!

ok so as you may know Dominick has NOT slept through the night in about 2 weeks at first we thought it was because of his 2 teeth coming in at the same time, but now im starting to think otherwise. He hasnt been going to bed ontime and has been waking up 3 to 4 times a night. like last night he refused to go to bed until midnight and woke up at 2:30, 4:00 and again at 6:00. now obviously i wont give him nyquil but is it wrong to want to just to get more than 4 hours sleep in one night. I am beginning to not be able to function during the day and having to work full time and this its just not getting any easier. If there is any suggestions (CORINNE!) please help me! Im still a rokkie at this and basically have no clue what to do! Im prying that it is just his teeth but something is telling me that he is like me when i was a baby and had my days and nights mixed up.

he broke his mobile!

Yesterday we put Dominick down for his afternoon nap when we still heard him in his room talking and playing so we peaked through the crack in the door and saw him playing with something but we couldnt figure out what it was and how he got it. So we opened the door just a little bit more and saw that he had gotten a hold of his mobile! So we go on into the room and he immediately had this oh crap! look on his face lol. As he was sitting there (still playing with the mobile) we saw that he had literally broke the mobile in half off of the crib! We couldnt help but laugh it was so funny i mean, we know that he is strong but didnt really think he could break the whole thing in half like that i dont even think i could do that lol. Needless to say the mobile is no longer in his room and now we have to buy batteries for the aquarium so he can fall asleep

I now know how my mom felt

I dont know why but Dominick isn't sleeping through the night again! I'm not sure if its his teeth or he just doesnt feel like sleeping now but last night was horrible! He didnt go to bed until 11:00 which is 2 hours later than his bedtime and I didnt fall asleep until 12:30 because i was waiting for John to get home and Dominick woke up at 2:00 a.m. and decided to stay awake until 4:30! And normally when he wakes up in the middle of the night he will sleep in in the morning but not his morning nope he woke back up at 6:30 and has been up ever since! I feel like a total zombie like how my mom always told me she felt when i was little and has my nights and days mixed up.

gap casting call

so Dominick is now entered in the gap cating call for a new baby gap model! I sent out emails but just in case you didnt get it here is how to vote... the website is gap.com/castingcall than click on the gallery tab than on the top right where it says search type in either diana56713 or 284959772 than click vote! His picture doesnt come up on the pages yet so I still have to figure that part out so hopefully that will be soon but until than thats how you can vote for him. Thank you for all that will be taking out sometime out of their busy days to vote! And if you wanted to you can vote once every 24 hours lol until November 17. Thanks again! cross your fingers!

Dom's first golf cart ride

Dom had his first golf cart ride with John today it was so cute! Dom sat on Johns lap while John just drove around for a little bit than we sat him in between us and drove to the pond and fed the ducks. Dominick had no clue what was going on but we could tell that he loved watching the ducks eat the bread that John was throwing for them.

On another note we decided it was time to start him on stage 3 baby food. He is doing really good with eating the little baby snacks that desolve in your mouth but he instead of letting them just desolve he was chewing them and last night we gave him a banana and mashed potatoes and he loved it! He has been waiting for the day that standing or sitting at the bottom of my feet while i eat would finally pay off and he could have some. But he did really well with the turkey rice dinner that had all kinds of pieces of veggies in it and rice. So i guess he will be eating all of our food of of our plates in no time lol.

Vote for Dominick!

Friday night my mom, Dominick and I went to the mall to do some winter clothes shopping for Dom and as were shopping we went into baby gap (thank you Aunt Cheryl) and saw that they are looking for a new model. So as were checking out the lady is talking to Dom and hes flirting with her lol and she hands us this paper and say "make the cute little flirt a model" I was so flattered when she said that. I mean of course every parent thinks there child should become a model but when other people say it, it means so much more. So his picture will be on the website one day this week once i get my moms camera to put a recent picture of him on there and as soon as I do I will post the website so everyone can vote for him lol.

our sleepless night

So Dominick has been doing very good with sleeping through the night lately of course he has had a few nights when he woke up but for the most part he has been sleeping through the night. Well last night i felt like it was January again when Dom was first born. I dont know what happened but he woke up 4 times last night screaming bloody murder! The only thing i can think of was tooth number 6 is trying to break through. Which I didnt really think would happen because we didnt even know when his 5th tooth broke through I guess each tooth is different. And like when he was younger and got very cranky we put on his favorite video from Nickelback and he just sat there and watched it over and over again. Now normally it doesnt really bother me when we replay it 17 times for him to watch but at 12, 2, 4, and 5 o'clock in the morning it wasnt so cute lol. And now he is like a new kid laughing, playing, giggling, and making his funny faces and noises its like last night never even happened and I am just ready for bed lol.

its official! I am my mom!

ok so I swore it wouldnt ever happen (no offense mom) but i have turned into my mom. I just started noticing it this morning when i was telling Dom NO! and as im yelling at him for about 20 minutes to stay away from the wires i say "i know you can hear me!" and "do i speak chinese?" (that one was more my father) but i cant believe that i say the same things my mom used to say to us and even in the same tone! I guess no matter how many times you say in you lifetime "Ill never turn out to be like my mom" it does happen. But its not so bad now that i think back she was just doing what was right and I never realized that until I had Dominick.

teeth and hitting

So on saturday Dominick's 9 month birthday my mom and I noticed that Dom had his 5th tooth come thru and his 6th tooth has just about come through. They arent coming through in the order the first 4 came in which i guess is wierd because my mom said normally they come in in the order they started. He is getting so good at eating the baby snacks, about a month ago we tried letting him eat the snacks but i panicked when he started gagging and told John that he wasnt going to be eating them again for a long time. Well that long time only lasted about 3 weeks when i realized that Dom has to start getting used to chewing so he can eat the foods he is supposed to eat. So we started doing 1 or 2 of the snacks a day until he started getting used to them and now he just sits in his highchair and eats them. Last night he figured out how to fit his hand into the container and take out a snack and than put it in his mouth! Up until than he would just open his mouth and wait for us to put them in his mouth. He's growing up day by day right in front of my eyes.

As for his hitting he recently started getting into this hitting stage. He thinks its funny to smack people in the face and laughing. the look on his face is too funny when he does it but were trying to teach him not to hit and he is very quickly learning the word NO! However, just because we say NO all of the time to him it doesnt mean that he listens lol. He looks at us with this face when we tell him no than he laughs and continues doing what he was doing. This week he did start fake crying when we say no. he lays on the floor and puts his head to the ground and tries to start crying but he doesnt realize we are onto him and there are no tears so we know he is being fake. We are definately going to have our hands full with this little guy.

football sundays

Well, yesterday was my first sunday off in a long time and i was very happy to be able to watch football all day with John and Dominick. However, as happy as i was it was like i wasnt even there! They apparently have their own sunday tradition where they sit and watch football and see how Johns fantasy teams are doing. John explains to Dom what is going on either on the tv or on the computer and Dom actually sits there and listens when John says something that isnt good Dom smacks his hand down on his tubs and when John says something good about football Dom claps. Its so funny! However, sometimes Dom claps or smacks the tubs at the wrong time and John will say "no buddy thats not what your supposed to do" than John will show Dom what his reaction is supposed to be and Dom will do it! I cant believe this actually goes on when I'm not here. I didnt even realize that John made Dom that big of a part in his football days.

In the morning they both get in their football jerseys and watch espn until kickoff than they start watching football every now and than Dom will throw his hands up and John will yell "touchdown! Yay!" and Dom gets excited and claps. So now instead of us saying "so big" when he puts his hands up we decided to yell touchdown! to get him more into the sport lol. What shocks me the most is Dom actually sits there and watches any kind of sport that is on tv even golf! He doesnt watch cartoons but when sports are on he watches them.

babysitting

Well today Dominick and I are babysitting his little niece and I'm pretty nervous because the last time she was over and I held her Dominick had a huge fit! So now I'm not sure how he will do with another little one around with just his mommy. This is a good practice for me now to see if Dominick will be ok with a little one around and I have a feeling he wont like it especially today he is being very clingy with me. Hopefully John's sister will be around to keep him busy.

For those of you who know I am going through a pretty tough time right now dealing with post pardum depression. I started seeing a therapist and taking medicine for it and it has been helping out. About a month ago I really didnt want much to do with Dom or John and just didnt really care about anything at all. I wasnt playing with Dom or enjoying him being at this fun exciting age that i should have been. I felt like Dom loved John more and had more of a bond with him and basically didnt need me or want me around. When he was awake i wasnt playing with him, I just sat him down with his toys and was more worried about what was on tv than what he was doing. Well, luckily we googled ppd (post pardum depression) and found that a had a lot of the symptoms and didnt even realize it. Now it wasnt as bad as it can get i wasnt thinking of harming anybody i just didnt want anything to do with the mother life. So i started seeing a therapist and she put me on meds and now all i wanna do is be around Dom and I am a lot more involved with him and his life. I feel like we are starting to have the mother/son bond that i have always heard about. The way he smiles at me now when i walk in the room is amazing. There are some days when he just wants me to lay or sit with him on the floor and he just sits next to me and plays, not really acknowledging that im there but i think just the fact that im there makes him feel more comfortable. We spend a lot of time just talking to eachother and enjoying the time that we are together now and I have never felt so better about my life and being a mother than i do now. Up until now i kind of felt like a babysitter and now i feel like a MOM. I look forward to being alone with Dominick and I never did before but this weekend we are going to have pretty much all weekend to ourselves except for saturday night when i work but Im really looking forward to it. I cant wait to watch football in our matching jerseys on sunday lol he lifts his arms up and we yell touchdown and than he claps his hands! However, on saturday we wont be alone we will have his little niece around who he doesnt really care for right now lol. So hopefully I can figure out how to share my time with both of them. Well i will let everyone know how today goes wish me luck!

Well, thanks to my entire family i have decided to start a blog lol. I'm not sure how often I will be able to be on here but I will be trying to update everyone on our new life with our son Dominick and how he is growing so fast. Here is a quick update of what he has been up to until now... the first 6 months he was a little angel and now he is my little monster lol. When he started crawling he was getting into everything! Which of course is normal but we had decided to make him a fort in the middle of the living room lol but he loves it and so do we. I know it isnt good to keep him confined but we just couldnt keep up with him so he walks around the fort holding onto the tubs and the couch. He makes this funny noises i cant explain them but they are just so cute and we have no clue how he even figured out how to make them. On september 9 he said momma (yes his first word!) however, he only says my name when he is whining or crying lol. He is trying to say dada but it is coming out deda. Last week we believe he started to wave but were not quite sure though lol he just sticks his arm up in the air and holds it there so thats what were figuring it is. Dominick is very excited football season is here Uncle Frank got him his first eagles jersey that he wears on sundays and sits and watches football with John its so cute.

He is doing very good with eating solid foods however about 2 weeks ago he ate some bad food! So being the paranoid parent that i am called the doctor right away and as soon as i got off the phone with him i emailed beech nut and they sent me a box to send them the jars of food that are bad. Thankfully Dominick didnt get food poisening or real sick from it.

Dominick figured out how to stand up in his crib and since he has started doing that he is now waking up in the middle of the night again! He did the cutest thing yesterday... when he was taking a nap he woke up in the middle got up on his knees and turned his aquarium on and layed back down and went to sleep! It was the cutest thing ive ever seen. Well thats pretty much it for now I will try to be on here as much as possible to keep you all updated.