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i checked out this blog today and thought that you should too. it's called ModMom and it's pretty cool and funky.

Overlooked #2

the subject for overlooked #2 was something that you collect. the first thing that came into my mind was my matchbook collection.

i started to collect my matchbooks about 6 years ago.

at first they were matchbooks from restaurants that my hubby and i went to. then i started to find small bags of them at thrift stores and antique shops and couldn't pass them up.

my favorite matchbooks are some that my parents gave me from K&B drug store. it was a store in NOLA that we went to a lot when we were growing up.

my most memorable matchbooks are ones that my hubby and i got from Las Vegas. we went to a lot of the casinos the got the matchbooks.

right now my matchbooks sit in two glass jars on top of my book shelf in the den.

Random

i'm still here after being m.i.a. for a week. last week my boss went to a seminar and we had that whole week off. which was great for me because i got to spend the whole week with my little guy. it was so much fun.

we read, played, sang, went to the mall, napped, cooked, laughed and started feeding him carrots this week and he loves them. next week we are on to sweet potato's. it was a really great week.

this kid is getting bigger and bigger. i can't believe he was the 4lb baby that we brought home 6 months ago. he's now probably 14lbs. we'll find out on thursday when the exact weight is.

there isn't many times that i see the preemie in him but for some reason this week he decided to wake up two nights in a row, in the middle of the night. so after trying to get him back to sleep and failing i went and made him a bottle. while i was feeding him and looking down into his beautiful face and shadows in the room were cast on his face and he looked like the tiny baby that we brought home and i just remembered back to those days and smiled.

Favorite Foto Friday

i use to post these (FFF's) when i first started to blog and after seeing my friends amber and sam doing them i thought that maybe i should start again too. so here is my first one in a while. this is one of little guy's six month pictures that i took of him. i just love how serious he is. he is now seven months old. my boy is growing so fast. i can't believe that a year ago i was pregnant with him and not even really showing.

Our Little Valentine

little guy and mr. bubbles

i love this outfit

especially the patches on the elbows

he loves his hands

3:37am

my mother in law has super spidey sences. even though she sleeps with a fan on that sounds like a wind tunnel in her room she still manages to hear the tornado sirens going off.
this is when she puts on the news and calls us at 3:37 in the morning.
we sleep with a wind tunnel in our room too, but we've lowered the noise some since having the baby, but we were so out last night that we must have thought the tornado siren was more white noise.
so at 3:37am we get up, turn on the tv, watch and wait.

my hubby is standing, arms folded probably thinking...
how cool a potential tornado
i wonder if i can go out and watch it
i would love to be a storm chaser
but i guess i'd settle for a weather man
the man is obsessed with the weather.

i'm sitting on the bed thinking...
they better give me enough warning to go grab the baby
where are we going to go in the house
i guess close all the bedroom doors and sit in the hallway
if it gets really bad we could all crawl into the hall closet (it's pretty deep)
maybe the bathtub would be better
but there's a window in there

my parents are visiting us so they were awake too.
i could see my mom sitting there thinking...
can i just go back to bed already

and my dad wakes up, goes to the bathroom, watched the weather for about five mon and says, "well if it's gonna take me, it's gonna take me." and goes back to sleep.

all of this happening and here is what little guy was doing....

babies are so sweet. i love how peaceful they can be.
well we all managed to make it back in bed at 4:00am, only to wake up again, to lightening and thunder at 4:30am, a coughing baby at 5:00am and then my alarm clock at 6:30am. sweet, sweet, sleep where are you?

praises though that there wasn't a tornado.

Sleep

okay, i realize that i haven't posted since my post about little guy struggeling with naps. he must have had 2 not so good days because now he's doing great. we put him down and he usually falls right to sleep. he really is a good baby. thanks to everyone for your thoughs and words of encouragement.

Overlooked #1

i stumbled onto this really cool blog called Overlooked check it out.
the blog owner, ashley, gives you a subject to take a pic of, then gives you ideas about that specific subject, and then you scrap, journal or blog it, something.
the first subject was your coffee mug or drink of choice.
it's really neat idea and it's fun seeing other people's creative ideas with there pics.
i'm not the best photographer but i try. here is my first overlooked attempt.
i love looking at scrapbookers creative ideas and all but i'm trying to do one for baby boy and don't really have the time to do one for me either so i am just going to post them here on my blog and maybe journal them in a notebook as well.

Question for Moms

baby boy is 6 months old.
it wasn't to long ago that i was able to lay him down in his bed and he was able to fall asleep on his own.
now it's a fight just to get him to go to sleep.
it seems like the only way that he will go to sleep is if i'm holding him.
which i guess is okay but the minute that i put him down he wakes up.
what to do?
is this normal?
will he grow out of it?
today i let him cry for over 30 min and he wasn't giving in.
he wasn't even giving in when i held him.
and he had been feed, changed, played with and all but still he was fighting it.
he basically fought it until it was time to feed him again and then he feel asleep eating (he did finish his bottle) and then when i put him down he woke up.
i'm not sure if all of my rambling makes sense so i will just leave it at that and hope that i have some suggestions to follow.
am i putting to many expectations on my son like my hubby is saying that i may be doing?

2007 Books

i usually post this at the beginning of the month but every time i sat down to blog i realized that i didn't have my list that i kept of the books that i read in 2007. so finally i pulled it out and have it with me. here it is...........

Leave a Candle Burning-Lori Wick
Summer Sisters-Judy Blume
Tomorrow's Treasure-Linda Lee Chaikin
Yesterdays Promise-Linda Lee Chaikin
Captive Heart-Linda Chaikin
Silver Dreams-Linda Chaikin
Ever After-Karen Kingsbury
Sisterchicks in Gondolas-Robin Jones Gunn
How to be Lost-Amanda Eyre Ward
Forever-Karen Kingsbury
Finding Noel-Richard Paul Evans
Reason and Romance-Debra White Smint
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants-Ann Brashares
The Timepiece-Richard Paul Evans
Sunrise-Karen Kingsbury
Summer-Karen Kingsbury
On Becoming Baby Wise-Gary Ezzo

i have to say that i am impressed with the amount that i was able to read this year. still not as many as i would like to read but at least i got to read is how i think about it. there is 17 in this list...that's 2 less than last years list. i would hope that i can top that this next year but so far i've only read one book this year.