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.