he kissed me!

So until recently Dominick has not done "kisses" well 2 weeks ago i was watching his niece Ashlyn at my moms and as im changing her he just goes over to her head and kisses her! i was so shocked because he hasnt wanted anything to do with kissing anyone. Well about a week later his cousin Diana (Johns niece) was watching him and i get a text saying that he just went up and kissed her! Now this is still at the time when he doesnt want to kiss me or John. Yesterday afternoon John and Dom were wrestling on the floor and John was pretending Dom knocked him out and all the sudden you see Dom go over and give him kisses (it was so cute) so i get down on the floor and wait to see if he will do it to me well i waited a very long time! I tried saying give mommy kisses and he would either smack me or turn away from me. Well last night after hours of us nagging him and saying that mommy would be very sad if she didnt get kisses from him he just bent down and kissed me! i was so happy i kinda started crying...i was starting to feel like he didnt want to kiss me lol.

He now has 8 teeth 2 just came through this week and another 2 or so are working there way through very very slowly so again back to waking up in the middle of the nights screaming our heads off and not often are we happy campers over here lol. I feel so bad because we get in our moods not knowing what to do for him but he is going through so much pain we have no right getting like that.

Dominick is also getting better at walking he takes a lot more steps now than before and he is getting so good at walking behind his walking toys but he looks so funny at the same time. were also saying the alphabet and colors and numbers a lot more than before because it sounds like he is trying to say what we say and he knows what things are so instead of just saying "ball" we say "blue ball" or something like that i realize that he wont catch on to all of that right now but cant i just try to think i can make him a genius lol?

the happiest and scariest moments of my life!

I dont even know where to begin...well Dom's first christmas was very nice we had our families over xmas night for dinner and to do gifts than they all came back over the next day for Dom's bday. He made out so good with all of his toys he still cant figure out which ones he wants to play with. New years was good my mom ended up taking Dom overnight and John and I thought we may go out but instead we stayed in like an old married couple and played board games with a few drinks counting down the minutes til midnight lol. once midnight game it was lights out! Apparently my days of staying up til 3 or 4 on hew years is over because the first thought that went through my head when my mom asked to take Dom was "Nice! now we can go to bed early and sleep in late lol"

So he is now eating more table foods he likes hot dogs and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chicken nuggets. I also had my scariest day of my entire life on sunday...Dom and I were in my bedroom putting away clothes and yes i know you always have to watch the baby but i guess when i turned my back to hang up the shirts he put something in his mouth and i didnt know well about 10 minutes later we were sitting on my bed watching a lifetime movie when i had noticed something small but white in his mouth so i go to scoop it out and because he hates it when people try to take things out of his mouth he fought me on it and inhaled it! well it got stcuk in his throat apparently, i thought for a second he was doing this crying thing when he holds his breath so i started walking ot towards the living room with him where John was when all of a sudden i noticed that his lips were going blue and his eyes rolled in the back of his head! I hate even talking about it now but he was just lifeless in my arms so i ran to the couch yelling Johns name and by the time we got to John he must have swallowed it (thank god) and he started breathing again. Meanwhile John had to wait like a half hour after this all happened til i could get myself together again to find out what had happened. So I called the doctor yesterday and when he called back he said to bring him in on monday so he could just check him out and thank god everything is completely fine with him. I realized just yesterday how fast someone can almost be taken away and it was the scariest feeling i have ever had in my entire life i hope nobody ever has to go through that EVER!!!!!

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.