8 more days

A year ago I was crying almost everyday because I was still pregnant. I HATED being pregnant. I was going through hell with a midwife who kept hemming and hawing daily about whether or not to induce me. Finally, after two weeks of that, I switched to an OB in the office who induced me 8 days from today last year.

One year later, I am no longer crying everyday. I come home from work to be greeted with the biggest of smiles from my two-tooth baby. We crawl on the floor together and play with his favorite Mickey Mouse basketball together. I get hugs and every so often, a kiss from my son. Those 9 months of pregnancy sure were worth the outcome almost a year later.

I cannot believe Cheeks is going to be 1 year old a week from tomorrow - where in the world has the year gone??

Roseola

Poor Cheeks has is first "real" illness. He had a fever that fluctuated between 99 and 103.2 for about 3 days. Now the fever is gone, and he is COVERED in a red, spotty rash. Doc took him to the doctor this morning and it turns out he has Roseola (I had it too as a baby). Nothing we can do for the poor guy until it goes away.

It's horrible when your baby is sick and you can't do anything about it :( Perhaps I will have to buy him a new book today. He sure does love his books.

Disney Play Date!

One of the excellent things about living in Central Florida is that we are so close to a children's wonderland - Walt Disney World. On Monday, 2/7, my friend A invited Doc, Cheeks, and I to join her playgroup at a play date at the Magic Kingdom. Of course we jumped to go! Cheeks enjoyed it well enough. Including Doc, Cheeks, and me, there were 10 mommies and 13 kids. A huge group to go to Disney, but oh so much fun!

The best part of the day to me was when we got home. Cheeks isn't yet walking, and he obviously couldn't crawl around the park, so he was relegated to his stroller for most of the day. Now Cheeks is not one to be confined! He needs his freedom to move and stretch and play. When we got home, he was SO excited to be free. He found his Chuck the Dumptruck (his favorite toy at the moment) and kept saying "AHHHHH" with a huge grin on his face. I wish I would have videotaped it - definitely a moment to remember :) I don't think Cheeks is ever going to get rid of Chuck - I can see him holding on to it for his children because he loves it so much. My child is a truck man!

11 Months!

Cheeks is 11 months old today! Has it really been that long? Seems like yesterday that I was itching to get home from the hospital with him. I wish I would have taken pictures throughout the year of him holding up a sign of how old he was at that point. Too late now - perhaps with the next baby.

Another exciting event happens today - Cheeks' future wife is being born via c-section at 12:00! My best friend from college is scheduled to have her little girl this afternoon - we joke that she will be Cheeks' future wife. I'll need to come up with a blogname for her. Haha - ok - she is being referred to as "Girl Baby" from now on. Story behind this - my best friend has a cat - she never named the cat - the cat is now referred to as "Girl Kitty". Girl Baby it is :) I am very excited to meet her later today!

This blog entry is all over the place, but wanted to document the funniest thing that he started doing. He has the Fisher Price Lil' Zoomers race track.
He knows how to put his cars in it and turn it on so they spin 'round and 'round. Lately, he has been putting everything and anything in it and then trying to turn it on - rings, cars, books, sippy cups, bottles, and the list goes on. If the track doesn't start to spin, he removes items one by one to see if it will start spinning. Very analytical! Maybe we have the next engineering wizard on our hands. The other night, when cleaning up, I found his bottle just sitting in the track. I got a good chuckle out of that :)