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!