Prom

Victor just went to Prom with his friend Mazi Womack. We have known there family for a long time and her Dad works with Carlos. She is on Livs soccer team and on Victor and Livs Track team. They had a good time. The first Pictures are of us decorating her car so that Victor could ask her while she was at Soccer practice. He spelled out Prom with post its and covered her car with them . Under one of them was a baby picture of him so she could have a clue who was asking her, and he had some flowers under her wiper. The next pictures are of Prom. He warned me ahead of time and told me to not freak out. He said that the Photographer told them to act crazy. He must have been the only one that heard it because he was the only one looking crazy. Oh well, would you expect anything different from him?

Defeated!

Ahh....this week has been so hard. Lately I have just felt so defeated. I know I mentioned in the past that my baby was a very difficult child. I had been hoping it was just a short phase (it all started at about 9 months of age/ now he's 17 months old.) but no, he still throws the biggest fits. He wakes up crying, and goes to sleep crying. It makes me so sad. He spends his day hitting, spitting, biting and now he bangs his head on things when he gets mad. Is this normal? The other day while saying my prayers, I wondered if our sweet little baby regreted choosing our family to come too. I know that sounds silly but that is how I have felt lately. I just don't know how to make him happy. I wake up every day thinking tomorrow is another day, it is going to be better, but he still cries the second he gets up. I spend so much time playing with him and exploring new things with him but it never seems enough. Ugh! He has become so unbearable at the store or anywhere else that I avoid taking him places which in turn leaves us stranded in the house all of the time. I really wish I knew what to do. Sometimes I just want to say to him, "don't you know how much we love you, don't you know how much we prayed for you and how long we waited for you? We really are a fun family." I keep praying for patience, I guess this is how the Lord is teaching it to me. I am just not sure I like it :(

Our expensive Child

I just read a post from my sister about her son and his broken arm. It reminded me that I needed to add this picture of our little guy. This weekend he fell on our fireplace and split his head open. Luckily the DR was able to glue him and steri strip it back together. He said he probably should have had stitches.

Then today I accidentally shut his finger in the bathroom door. Man oh Man! We are not off to a good start. We have already racked up a large amount of Hospital bills from this little guy. And he is definitely our daring wild child.