The Verdict is In...

And it's a boy! Here's the proud big brother sporting his Lion Country Safari shirt before he got it covered with spaghetti sauce. But yes last we left off we were anxiously waiting to find out and I wish my Bood would scan the sonnagram pictures already so you can see the definitive package from the baby in the belly, maybe the next time I can post a view of the biscuit within.

And Brandola did such an awesome job at taking pictures of their day at Lion Country Safari and there were so many and so hard to choose from I just uploaded tham all to my KodakGallery http://www.kodakgallery.com/AlbumMenu.jsp ~ I'm not sure if this link will work or if you have to be logged in first but their all there. Let me know if you can't see them, email me and I'll email an invite to see the pics. I just uploaded a couple albums, we got Memorial Day beach pictures and we were thankful to our veterans for our day off together; there's Julio's VBS pic who I'm sure is thankful to be home and far fromt he clutches of my worm; then there's all the ones from the last few weeks when Tara visited with the Noodle and Hopey (the wormy still asks to go to Hopey's house and he promises not to push her, yeah right! I tell him Hopey's house is too far and he says "no mami, airpane to Hopey's house!" as if it was that simple). He also asks for the "Wuvey" (Jonathan A.K.A Lovey) He says, "Me no boom "wuvey" no!" Meanwhile, we were just looking at the pics in the camera before I downloaded them and everytime he saw the Lovey in a picutre, he'd shuve the camera! Yesterday I struggled in prayer with the Lord Who told me to pull him out of VBS this coming week for the safety of the other babies and his team leader doesn't need to be chasing him out the front door into the street so I went today and unregistered him. I was looking forward to my week off but the Lord is worthy and only He knows why and He's leading us in this parenting business anyway so we're refocusing his energies in a positive manner next week. This morning he hugs me and says "I doe dou, mami" and I said, you do, you really love me? and he said "yes mami, me no boom fwens." Now how did he know my concerns were all about him pushing his friends first thing in the morning? I'm telling you, the wisdom the Lord gives theses babies amazes me.

So that's the scoop for now! Have a Happy Father's Day weekend and check out the new pics at Kodakgallery.com.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." ~ Proverbs 9:10 ~

Back by Popular Demand

I just knew I wasn't going to be able to keep up with this. I probably have stuff I need to be doing right now I just can't remember what so I'm actually sitting in front of the computer for leisure as apposed to handling the task of checking my endless list of new emails while I wait for an approoval responce from work or paying bills. However, Tara is in town and has brought to my attention that I do have people (in Tallahassee, at least) anxiously awating more updates, so here we are back by popular demand.

Last I blogged was a long time ago and ALOT has happened. By alot I mean I fianlly accepted the realization that I'm pregnant, 5 months now, surprise, surprise! Next Tuesday hopefully, we'll be finding out if it's a boy or a girl. People are more anxious than me but I figure, might as well know early on, besides, I am so done with surprises. Only the Lord knows why and His purposes are way greater than how we think things should be and so our Bood-ventures are only sure to pile up on me. I'll blog as much as I could now that finally retrieved my username and password to this. Did I mention, it's been a while since I've blogged?

The Wormy is such a good big boy, he sings his abc's everywhere we go now, at the top of his lungs. I couldn't spell out his pronownciation (I think I spelled it right) of most of the letters in his wormy alphabet you just gotta hear him sing it. My favorite letter of his would have to be "papoowee" (translation "W"). And the only difference between "V" and "Z" although they both sound like "V", the "Z" includes an extra effort in his facial expression when he says it, so you can definitly tell which letter he's actually refering to. He still does his own thing, always swimming agaisnt the current and not cooperating with the rest of civilized society, doing just as his strong character dictates but we pray the the Lord will use that for His glory growing up, He created him like that so we trust He will.

AND! oh my goodness! After such long struggle and countless set backs, I am so proud to announce that my Worm officially potty trained!!! Yesterday he even made "apu" at his Ama's house, which is huge since he only used to make apu in his potty seat here at home (Dr. Oz calls that 'safe toilet syndrome'). Well, he's got 2 safe toilets to go in now. We are hitting major milestones here. And what's awesome about that is I can now register him for pre-school for the fall, at least a couple days a week to establish some kind of routine for when the new baby comes. Our due date is October 6, by the way.

Anyway, now I'm going to see if I remember how to get some pictures up for you all to see. I'm going to strive to take more pictures from now on. All the ones I have are still in the camera. I probably took ten whole shots from our trip to Chicago, an embarrasment compared to Brandi's 52 million shots she took on their outing to Lion Country Safari. When she sends me those I'll have more to post but for now these are some I took when we went last month for Abby's wedding.

The Wormy looking proffesional, ready for the job - ringbearer. ~ My Bood, his mom, Willie, Jesenia and the worm, of course.

My Bood's mom's house in Chicago. ~ Pacific Garden Missions in downtown, we took the tour, that whole organization is an awesome work of the Spirit, this is the part of Chicago everyone MUST see to really expeirence the heart of Chicago, let me just say!

Beginning...with the End

Ok, this is the very first post of the very first blog I've ever done, this should be fun to do, I'm sure it'll be an interesting year. So far it still doesn't feel like it's a new year to me, maybe because we were home being sick for New Years or maybe because I still need to have some resolutions to make and start on, I haven't decided yet. It's probably because Heroes hasn't started back yet, I dunno but at least starting a blog is something new to do for the new year.

So far this year, my Wormy has been taking his naps in big boy underwear and waking up dry. It was scary at first but I figured I'd leave the last load of laundry to do after his nap in case he woke up in a puddle and he was dry as can be. Dukies are still too scary to venture into so I'll wait til he takes his morning squat before we put on our big boy underwear but at least he's not holding it anymore. This is exciting stuff for us, soon as he goes on his own he can go to school, I'm so feeling like this is the year for my Wormy to start pre-school, I just know it...if we can afford it, we'll see, maybe.

Alright, at least the end of our year was fun. We got to go to Disney World for free! Chachi had these tickets she had to use up by the 31st so we had to go help her out with that. So my Bood and I and the Wormy traveled up to Orlando where we met up with Moni, Julio, Chachi, Wilfredo and la Wiñie. It was fun for the Wormy who loved riding on all the choo-choos to get there (trolley and the monorail). We ate, waited in line for the race cars, rode on some other little kid rides and watched fireworks. I saw la Wiñie cry for the first time, the speaker wigged her out on the trolley. It was pretty laid back for a day at Disney even with a worm, except for the screaming he did while we waited for the ferry, it was great. Julio didn't care for Thunder Mountain, "I don't like it, I don't like it...!" But he did alright, he only peed his pants "a little bit... but only a little bit," so it was alright.

That's it for now. You can see more Disney pics on the my kodakgallery album...uhh...although I don't think a link would work from here unless you got a loggin so just email me and I'll just send you an invite straight from the kodak site if you want. You can also see pictures of baby Michael. He was born Dec. 4th...I think and he wasn't able to go to Disney but maybe next time.

Happy New Year!