I have a 1 year old!

So I know it's been months and months since I've posted anything, but here I am again. Rowan is now 13 months old and has a personality to match. Today he decided that he should hit his head on our hardwood floors to relay just how upset he was that I was just standing there. I understood that he was angry with me for not picking him up the second he demanded it, however, I was on the phone with Meme (my mother who teaches French) and I knew it wasn't a crisis. Of course his decision to destroy his maturing brain cells caught my attention faster than his crying alone did.

There have been more tears than normal as Rowan is teething, growing, and now has a summer cold. He's not the happiest of children right now. Although, I'm very blessed in that when he is crying and crabby I right away know something is wrong. For the most part Rowan is the sweetest little boy. He loves giving kisses over and over and over again, and I often have to stop him. Of course that's just to wipe the drool off my own face before we start the kissing again. He's also learned hugs and loves giving them.

A few days ago Rowan saw our, sorry, my cat Noli and popped out with, "kitty!" It's so great to hear him talk and recognize things around him. Of course you have to get the passy out of his mouth long enough for that to happen, but when it does it's great!

Along with the teething and growing pains that Rowan is having to deal with, he's also having to now live with the hair cut I decided he needed. His bangs kept falling into his eyes and were causing him a lot of aggravation. So I grabbed a pair of cutting shears that Will had in his shaving kit and combed out his bangs. And of course just as I started to trim, Rowan moved and I cut :0( It's really not to bad but we have to keep it swept to the side to keep him from looking like a girl! I do have some solace in the knowledge that his hair is out of his eyes. :)

Will is out helping some friends of ours put up fencing to house their exotic sheep. Regular fencing of course will not do as these horned animals can jump well over 6 feet, so I expect Will to be very tired when he finally does get home.

Well my Little Bit is awake from his second nap of the day, so I gotta go play now!

Wow it's been a while!

So it's been a while since I've been on here. I guess that's what happens when you have a little one! Rowan William is doing great! He's a very happy baby as long as he's not hungry, tired or dirty. He will be 5 months old this coming Wednesday and it's so amazing to see how his personality is developing! He's such a happy little guy and he loves to play with his piano!


Will is so good with Rowan. They play together all the time and it's so wonderful to see as a wife and mom! When we look at baby pictures of Will, Rowan looks just like him:) He has brown eyes like mine so far, but not as dark. I don't know what they will end up being but he's gorgeous either way. He has light brown hair with a reddish cast, got that from both sides. My mom has auburn hair and Will's grandma had red hair too :) Rowan has gotten very good at rolling over too. The first time he did it he seemed surprised to be on his back :) His face was so cute when he realized he could turn over by himself. Mostly he does it when he's sleeping, he seems to like sleeping on his tummy. Well that is until he wakes up and doesn't want to flip himself back over :)

Next week He will be 5 months old and I'm going to start him on food food. Peas first, although our doctor said we could start fruit. One of my colleagues suggested going with the veggies first because once he starts to like the fruit he won't want the veggies at all :)

Speak of the devil...it's time to eat :) I'll try to be better at writing :P

Wonderful things

I know it has been a long time since I've posted anything but we have had our hands full with the birth of our son! On April 23, 2009 we were finally blessed with Rowan! He was born at 9:09pm by c-section at 7lbs. 11 oz. and 20 inches long. It took Will and I a few hours to decide on a name for our little guy, so he was going by baby boy Nead for a bit. But eventually we decided on Rowan which means "Little red-haired one" and amazingly enough he does actually have redish hair. Now I don't know if it will stay that way but we shall see.

Rowan is now almost 6 weeks old and has grown so much already! I'm not ready for him to get bigger but I do look forward to all the fun things that come along as they do get bigger. Will is so good with Rowan, he's become very adept at changing diapers and doing the "burrito wrap."
We are both learning along the way but as frustrating as it can be it is all very wonderful!

Rowan is very good at holding up his head and scooting on his tummy when pushing against our hands. It's amazing how much your life changes with this little person and how little things like finally getting your baby to birb are exciting. Of course eventually you try to get them to stop birbing in public, but for now it makes us proud and everyone thinks it's adorable!

We are blessed to have family so close, both Will's parents and my mom are within a few miles of us and get to see their grandson on a regular basis. Rowan's cousins are close also. Will's sister, Erin, has 2 little ones, one of which is only 6 weeks older than Rowan. My sister, Laura, has 3 children, her youngest is a year old now. So it seems these cousins will get to grow up together and hopefully be great friends.

I was blessed that Will was able to take off a week for paternity leave, unfortunately he was sick most of the time, so we were all sleeping a lot that week. Rowan has been a great sleeper once he's gotten to sleep. Lately it's taken him a bit longer to get there but we've found he loves piano music much like his father, and that really helps him fall to sleep.

I, sadly, will be going back to work in 2 weeks and will be leaving Rowan with his Aunt Erin who lives just 10 minutes from where Will works and about 15 minutes from where I work. I know it is going to be very difficult to leave him for that long but I know God will give me the grace to go to work and do what needs to be done.

I will be posting some videos soon of Rowan, he is so cute!!!

First things first

So I'm new to the whole blogging scene, but with out first addition to the family on the way I've decided to give it a whirl. Will and I were married on October 28, 2006 after dating about 1 1/2 years, we had met about 2 years earlier at our church, Hampton Park Baptist. Will was a very quiet person which, having a large and loud family, I thought was very odd. During the summer of 2004 I went out to Oahu, HI to help Laura with her first-born, Katilyn, while Andrew was stationed in Afghanistan. When I came back in August of '04 my friendship with Will began. I saw that he wasn't really all that odd and was impressed at how much he was actually just paying attention to what I was doing and saying.
After becoming closer friends, we started dating in April of '05. And although we had our bumps and bruises along the way, we and our relationship were stronger for it. Will and I are very different people. He likes to say he's not a pessimist he's a realist, and me, well I'm the un-realist :0) But our differences are what make us so good together. Will has helped to settle me down and I've helped to bring him out of his shell. He proposed on April 25, 06 after we went to dinner to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. He had rose pettals everywhere and a poem asking me to marry him. I didn't even pick up the ring box before I was hugging him and saying yes :0) He had to ask if I wanted to put it on :) We of course called family, well I did. Apparently everyone already knew, including my mom who Will had asked the week before about marrying me. I was sure of all people she would hint at something, but she kept the secret very well. The wedding was wonderful and my Grandfather was able to fly in from AZ to give me away. I couldn't ask for anyone better to stand for my dad who has been with the Lord 11 years now.
We decided to wait a year before trying to have children, and it turned out God wanted us to wait 8 months longer. I was often angry and disappointed with God when one more of my friends would announce her pregnancy. However I was shown by God what I already knew in my heart. He has a perfect plan for Will and I which is much better than any plan I could drum up. If we had gotten pregnant at the time I wanted, we would have had the baby the same month Will was laid off from his job. He was able to find a new job but it took about 2 months and would have been much harder had we had a little one to care for. Turns out we found out 2 days after he lost the job that we were having a baby. But that has given us 9 months to prepare without the worry of how the bills were going to be paid. God provided a new job when we needed it and has provided everything we've needed along the way. There was some sifting and some emotional pain along the way, but once we accepted God's plan everything started falling into place.
Our son is due on April 27th, which isn't far away at all! And we've decided not to tell his name until after he's born. Of course at the rate we are going he wont have a name till after he's born because we can't agree! There are a few names that we are tossing around and I'm sure we'll settle on one.....eventually.