TUDE....IS THAT EVEN A WORD??

I THINK OUR LITTLE PRECIOUS ANGEL HAS FINALLY GOTTEN HIS FIRST TASTE OF ATTITUDE. YOU SEE LITTLE NICO HAS GOTTEN HIS WAY MOST OF HIS LIFE AND NOW HE HAS FIGURED OUT HOW TO WORK IT. FUNNY AS IT IS, MAYBE GRANDMAS WILL LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT, BUT I DON'T HAVE THE PATIENCE OR THE TIME TO WATCH HIM SCREAM AND CRY WHEN IT DOESN'T GO HIS WAY....YOU THINK, HOW POSSIBLY COULD IT NOT GO HIS WAY AT 1 YEAR OLD YOU ASK??

WELL LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, IF LITTLE NICO WANTS TO GO OUTSIDE, BUT MOMMY IS SAYING NO BECAUSE OF A RUNNING NOSE OR IT'S GETTING DARK OUT, LITTLE NICO LOOKS AT YOU LIKE YOU JUST TOOK AWAY HIS BEST FRIEND AND SCREAMS....SERIOUSLY DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT'S GONNA HELP, KID? OR HOW ABOUT WHEN YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT MOMMY PUTS ON YOUR PLATE AND YOU WANT TO THROW IT ON THE GROUND BECAUSE IT'S NOT CHEETOS AGAIN...THERE COMES HIS "TUDE". I AM GOING TO SAY THIS AND MAYBE I WRONG BECAUSE HE IS ONLY 1, BUT.....

EVEN THOUGH HE MAY THINK IT'S NICO'S WORLD....OMG HERE IT COMES, IT'S NOT!!! SO THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME WALK AWAY OR IGNORE MY PRECIOUS ANGEL IT'S BECAUSE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, NICO HAS THROWN ANOTHER TUDE!!!

SO FOR ALL OF HIS GRANDMAS AND THOSE WHO LOVE OUR LITTLE ANGEL, REMEMBER THIS, IF YOU THINK NICO COULDN'T COME UP WITH THAT HIMSELF OR DO SOMETHING TO BE A LITTLE ORNERY, HE CAN....HE KNOWS MORE OF WHAT HE IS DOING THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE. SO WITH THE NEXT TUDE THAT COMES ON, IT'S TIME TO DO WHAT MOMMY AND DADDY DOES, WALK AWAY AND ACT LIKE YOU NEVER EVEN SAW THE OTHER SIDE OF OUR PRECIOUS ANGEL!!!

WALKING......

My baby boy has really gotten down walking and it's funny as with anything he has accomplished, it seemed like forever to get here but when he has finally completed the task it went to fast. Maybe that doesn't make sense to anyone else as when I say things like that Bryan thinks I am CRAZY and maybe I am a little bit.....but he has finally gotten a grasp on walking.

As you watch him get himself up and walk across the room you don't want to fuss about it because when you do he just falls down as he losing his balance, but as any trooper he gets back up and starts again. When he reaches you we clap and tell him how great he is, and his beautiful blue eyed smile just melts you heart. And I think he is not my little baby boy he was when we brought him home such a short time again, but we are beginning the first stages of the toddler years.

So for every step he takes and the one more then last time, I thought is he walking more?? Until we fast forward to today and I don't ask myself that, but instead think man I better get into better shape because he is definitely faster than me!!! Although he gives himself away when he knows he is doing something like going up the stairs Mommy just told him not too because he is laughing hystorically or is being just a little too quite. So today it's walking and tomorrow it will be talking and building until we'll be waiting for the school bus for the very first time.....and Mommy will be crying harder than you :)

Happy Birthday Nico!!!

You are now officially one year old!!! Who can believe how fast a year has gone and how much you have grown in such a short time! You are loved by so many and our love for you is so hard to put into words, but no matter what we love you forever and always!!!

So today as we celebrate your "birth" day remember how special you really are and what a miracle it has been to us to have such a special son. I just hope as the years go by, we will cherish every moment as it is a last one because before we know it you'll be off to college and we'll think didn't you just turn ONE????

We love you Baby Boy!!!

Love,

Mommy & Daddy