first playdate with Sophia

even though yesterday wasnt as nice as tuesday was a nice enough day for Dominick to take his first trip to the park with his cousin Sophia. He had sooo much fun just hangin out on the swings with her and staring at eachother and having their little conversations while eating the cookie that Sophia was nice enough to share with him. They literally just sat in the swings for almost 2 hours while Tiff and I just talked and laughed at them. Of course we both forgot our cameras i did take a few pics on my phone but i cant get them on the computer so hopefully if we get together next week we will both remember our cameras lol. i know Dominick needed to have a playdate with Sophia because all he does is sit at home and play by himself with his toys and we always feel so bad for him because he looks so lonely plus we dont want him to end up being that brat kid that doesnt share any of his toys or is just mean to everyone so were trying to bring him around as many kids as we can so he can get used to being a nice unselfish little boy(which is how he is totally acting now lol) Besides Mommy needs to have playdates too so i can stay sane.

getting so big

well its been a while so ill try to catch you up on what Dom has been up to. He is doing very well with his walking he walks all over the place now, we play this game...i lay on the floor or the couch with my teddy (yes i still use teddy) and he comes up and grabs him than turns around and runs away screaming while i chase him its so cute lol. but while he has his very cute moments he is now also getting a very bad temper on him. When he is told No! he does a few things...stand on his tippy toes balls his fists and screams at the top of his lungs (which is hilarious), after he gets mad he will hit something and yell than turn around and look at us to see our reaction, and his newest thing is he is now hitting himself in the head, i dont know what thats about but he just started doing it. Dominick also has started throwing his little tantrums also mainly when he is getting his diaper changed but man this is gonna be very very rough lol.

Dominick is doing very well with eating table food also, i know hes supposed to be on complete table food now but with him teething sometimes he just doesnt want to chew the food so weve been doing half table food and half baby food. As for table food he likes peanut butter and jelly samdwiches (but i also have to sing the peanut butterjellytime song lol), eggs, chicken, french fries, hot dogs, rice, chicken nuggets, donuts, goldfish, and he will try whatever i am eating.

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.