Just a Thought

So have you ever had one of those days when nothing is going your way. Example: the house is a mess, dishes need to be done, there's a mountain of laundry staring at you, the baby won't sleep or the baby won't let you put him down or leave the room without crying, the dog needs a walk, dinner needs to be cooked, you need a shower or even just need to brush your teeth, bills need to be paid. Well the list could go on forever! I have to say some days I am guilty of just wishing I had even one hour to lay on the couch and do nothing. I asked Josh the other day, what did we do before Wade? I can't imagine what we did on the weekends with all of our free time. Now don't get me wrong I would not change one thing. Wade is the best thing and I am so blessed to get to spend my days with him. Some days though I tend to get frustrated with everything that needs to get done. I know the house will get picked up later and stuff will eventually get done and spending time with him is so much more important than all that other stuff. I came across this story and wanted to share it with you guys. (I am not sure how many mom's read our blog but this story really touched me) It was something I found at Kelly's Korner blog. I don't want you to think I am sharing this to make us all depressed or feel bad but it really touched me and made me think. This mom would probably give anything to have one of those days again. Josh always asks me why I read such sad stuff on people's blogs and I have no idea. But this sad story had an impact on me and I thought I would share it with you in case you didn't see it. Here is her story http://ramerbunch.blogspot.com/2009/08/worst-2-days.html. She is such a strong person for being able to share this! Just something to think about. I am so grateful everyday that God has allowed us to be the parents of such a precious child. I also have to remeber that each day is a gift and we are not promised tomorrow. Sometimes I think I take that for granted. Oh... girls get the tissues out when you read this.

Oh how times have changed!

Well things have changed drastically around the Foltz household. For the longest time I just assumed Wade would not crawl and he would just walk. I never thought he would just start crawling one day. Well he has and boy oh boy are things different. I can no longer sit him in the living room and clean the rest of the house while he plays or watches TV. Yes I know it is not great parenting to have the TV on but Wade loves it!!! He gets so excited when we put Nick Jr. on. He will just smile and stare. He used to sit and watch but now he will crawl around and then take a break and watch TV. This morning I had the TV on and I thought I would try to sweep the floor and make my bed. Well of course I came back into the den and he was not where I left him (this is no surprise these days). Instead he was eating the cheez-it out of the trash pile that I had already swept up. So I quickly checked inside his mouth to see if there was any other "trash" in there but only the cheez-it; thank goodness. So I vacuumed up all the trash and took him into the kitchen to get some water. He loves to sit on the floor and play with the toy we have on the fridge. So once again (not sure what I was thinking) I went to clean up the trash off our bedroom floor before he got into that. When I came back he was having the time of his life splashing in Charlie's water bowl!!! I could not help but laugh. So we changed clothes and I decided to just wait until nap time to do anything else! The only bad thing about this crawling thing is he wants to crawl and pull up in his bed instead of sleeping these days. He is really fighting us hard during his afternoon nap and even during the night some. Last night was better he only woke up once at 10pm and then I didn't hear him until close to 5am. Maybe I will finally loose this last 6lbs or so since it seems I will not be sitting as much anymore.

 

 Here is what he likes to do at naptime ...

 

 and this

  

Here is an action picture of him crawling to get Charlie's toy 

 

Happy Valentines Day!

 I hope everyone had a great V-Day. We had a really nice day even though I had to work that evening from 6p-12a. I can't complain though I have the best work schedule ever. I work every other weekend and Saturdays I work from 4-8p and Sunday from 6p-12a. I love that with this job I do not have to leave Wade all day. I especially do not miss the old 12 hour shifts. It is great to have most of my weekend day free. I always try to pick up more time either during the week or maybe a shift during my weekend off if we don't have plans. It is great during the week because we don't start work until the office's close which is 5pm. So if I work I usually do a 6p-11p. Here is a picture of our house. I have been meaning to post one for awhile. We really like living here we just wish it was a little bigger. But we know we are just renting for now until we sell our house in Greenville. (hopefully in September- we have our fingers crossed that the renters we have living there now will buy it)

On Valentines Day we dropped Wade off at mom and dad's and we headed to church. He has been well for a few weeks now so I am still not taking him to the nursery yet. We are going to start taking him in March when the warm weather finally gets here. After church mom and dad grilled out a Valentines Lunch for us, Ashley, Zach and my Grandad. He is just precious and brought all of us a heard shaped box of chocolates! We were not able to stay too long because someone was getting tired. That someone was Wade but once we got home Josh and I decided to take a nap as well and it was wonderful. 

 

 

Josh took Wade to target after I headed to work but before going he took some of these great new pictures. He took Wade to pick out his Valentines Gift. We were the slack parents who waited until V-Day to actually get him something. Josh says that he gave Wade a choice between two things and he pointed to the one he wanted!! He got him the V-Tech alphabet train and it actually is really neat. Wade seems to love it.

 

My Big Boy

Big News!!

We have some big news around here today. As of today Wade will be moving up to the crawlers room in church! He decided today that he would not only crawl some but he also pulled up three times by himself. Our church is huge so he will be in the late crawlers room but thats ok. We had given up on crawling and figured he would just walk like Josh did. But he really wanted to get the remote today so I guess he decided to go for it. Now don't get me wrong it is not fast crawling by any means. Actually a couple of times he stopped after doing a few crawls and rested. I have never laughed so hard... he was out of breath! I am thinking he will not be our track star. He did great pulling up though. He has been so close the last few weeks and today he pulled up on the couch and chair. So I guess the baby proofing finally begins. Another new thing he is doing is pointing at EVERYTHING. He points like he wants to show us stuff and grunts until we acknowledge it. We have to say, "yes that is the light switch" or "yes that is the picture on the wall" You can tell as soon as that little finger points and his arm stretches out he is excited about something. I hope it doesn't take him as long to learn to talk as it did to crawl or we will be hearing this grunting forever. Actually I probably will look back and be so glad he didn't crawl until 10 months because I have not had to chase him around. Josh walked at 9 months and I walked at 10 months but I don't think he is quite ready yet. I am thinking by his first birthday he will be walking. He is cruising while holding onto the couch. Maybe after seeing all the other kids crawling at church this Sunday he will pick up the pace a little and not have to take rest breaks!!!!

Finally Rested

Today was the first day since October that I have gotten up and felt rested!!! I think I have finally started to catch up on my lack of sleep. Since last week Wade has only woken up one night!! And yesterday I realized why... he has a new tooth and another one that is almost in. I could not believe it usually he is fussy and I had no idea he had a new tooth that had come in. Somehow Josh and my mom had seen it already but I must have missed it somehow because it is really in??? Now is almost has 8 teeth in. We are so happy he is sleeping so well. We have been in bed by 10pm every night and it has been wonderful. 

Wade is doing so many new things these days and everyday he surprises me with how much he is learning. A couple of days ago he was wanting to play with Charlie's toys and I kept telling him "no" those are not yours they are Charlie's. Well I did not think he understood well as soon as I said it a second time he looked at me and the turned around and pointed to Charlie... he had this look on his face like yea I know who Charlie is and he doesn't care if I play with these. I just laughed at him! This morning when we were playing in bed he was pointing to my chapstick on the dresser. Well I figured it wouldn't hurt to let him play with it. So I gave it to him and when I layed back down he took the chapstick and put it up to my lips like he was putting it on me. It was so cute! I guess he has been paying attention when I put it on in the mornings. Here are some pictures from last week and my family birthday party.

This was before our dinner date to The Melting Pot (which was wonderful)

                     

I think he is hinting to us that he would like a pillow!

Forgot to post these

I just found these pictures on my old camera and couldn't believe I forgot to post them. This was Jan. 5th when Wade had his tubes put in.

Here we are trying to distract and entertain him(he did great even though he was hungry)

Reading with Daddy

Time to put his gown on

My sweet angel right before surgery

Birthday Pictures!

Here are some pictures from today! This is the only half way decent one that I got with him in his bed. He was all over the place and grabbing the sign in the others so we took some outside when Josh came home for lunch.

10 months old
He will not smile for the camera!

28 and 10 months

Finally got a little smile (excuse the hair it was windy)

Looking everywhere except at us