Flashback Friday

I cannot believe that this was taken one year ago.......today.


Still attached to yor sassy and still sleeping in a crib......
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My my, how you have changed, Bubba!


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"Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks"

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We've gone to two Frisco Rough Rider games this summer and have had an absolute blast!!


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Grayson, you love, love, LOVE going to the ballgame. The lights, the noise, the fireworks......the ice cream with sprinkles and of course the peanuts and cracker jacks....you just breathe it all in.
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Oh, and let's not forget about Daddy's heart attack fries....
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He's already feeling the burn.
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That's ok....we will just have to cool him down with a frozen cherry chill, huh?
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Tonight we had AMAZING seats (thank you very much Daddy's work)!
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You received your very first baseball card.
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Sipped on a cold one like Daddy...
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And tee tee'd on the big boy potty SIX TIMES!!!!
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Walking to the potty....again.
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SO BIG!!!

You walked up and down the empty row counting all the numbers on the back of the seats......"one, two, three...." all the way to 14! Mommy was SO proud of you.

You weren't so sure of taking your picture with Duece......
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but once you saw Mommy do it, you said, "My turn too, my turn too"!
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I just love summer!

may. june. july. august.

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Just back from a lovely four days in Galveston with my boys:
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It was a beautiful beginning to our 12-week-summer-mommy-daddy-son-before-the-baby-comes time together.

This summer is all about Grayson....
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This trip was very important to me.

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I needed to get away from it all.....bills, work, t.v....and spend some quality time with my boys before this little girl comes.

Grayson will be THREE in 2 1/2 months....where in the world did the time go?
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He is budding into this incredible little boy who speaks his mind and does everything himself. "Me do it, Mommy" is something I hear at least 100 times a day.

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I needed this.




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I needed to hold Grayson's hand in the ticket line and ride the Kemah Boardwalk train
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing fifteen times in a row, listening over and over as Grayson pointed out the boats in the harbor.
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"Look, Mommy! Anoder boat...so cool!"

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I needed to watch as he made new friends while running around the splash zone for four hours straight.
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To hear him ask, "Where all da Nemo's-es?"....."They hungry Mamma, I feed dem".
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Watching him never tire of running through the water....even at 9 p.m.
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Only stopping for a quick drink
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Always willing to share
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I needed to sweat under the blazing sun......to regret taking him to NASA.
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I needed to watch him do somersaults in the sand and watch
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I needed to chase him screaming down the beaches of Galveston, half-crying, clutching my belly, sprinting as fast as I could until I found him hiding behind the farthest lifeguard tower.
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I needed to tell him I loved him a hundred thousand times and listen to him make up his very own lullabies for the baby.

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"Baby sissy in you tummy I sing song?"


I needed to hear him ask why he doesn't have a baby in his tummy, too.


"Di you know that, Mommy? I not have baby in my belly."


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I needed to draw Saturn and the number 5 for him and read The Noah's Ark book a thousand times and remind him to wash his hands. I needed to applaud him for thanking the waitress for bringing more chips and green dip
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I needed to watch him ride the zebra on the carousel.....
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing"all myself, Mommy....you sit on reindeer over der"
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I needed him to pick out 3 icecream flavors,
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I needed to spoon him in the hotel room overlooking the sea, his little hands pulling my arm over his waist, playing with my fingers.


view from our room.

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All of this because I needed to watch him grow-up.
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so very different from his Mommy bond. Two peas they are.
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So that when he's old enough to understand, I'll be able to tell him about the 3 months before his sister came and how we spent it just the three of us...
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I feel ready, now. For him to grow up....just a little, though...not too much and not too fast.

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May, June, and July will be about Grayson so that August can be about her...



28 weeks and counting....

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August. I can't believe how soon it's going to be August.