Happy Mothers Day...sorry photo happy:):)

Hello, Happy Mothers Day to all you mom's out there. We had a pretty relaxed day around here, just bummed around and went to cousin McKenzie's first t-ball game. Austin got me a massage for mothers day so I am definately looking forward to using that!! Here are some pics mostly from today, but a few are from last week. Enjoy!!!

Look at the curve on that can baby!

Mmmmm, I love eating my monitor.
Seriously, why am I doing a Sr. picture pose?

Some people may think that is a roll in my forearm, it's my muscle!

Chillin' with daddy

"Dad, what is taking you so long, take the picture!!!"

I am half as tall as mommy already. That means I am 2 feet 5 inches!!

I tricked them! I faked coughing all night long so I could cuddle with mommy.

Why won't this giraffe head go in my mouth?

If you have seen baby pictures of daddy you'd think we were twins!!

Oh yeah, thats the stuff baby. Give me something hard to do, like get my belly off the ground!

Am I really only 8 months old?

Mom, dressing me like a preppy is not cool. Where are my gym shorts and tee shirts at?

8 months old already...

I don't really know how to feel about that: a little sad that he is growing up so fast and also excited to see the new things he's learning to do and watch him grow up even more!!! Sorry it has been so long since I've posted I actually worked 40 hours this week, a glimpse of the real world, hopefully minus all the studying that I am also doing right now for my boards. Not too many changes with Austin lately:

• No teeth yet which I cant really believe because he has been drooling excessively for probably 5 months.
• No crawling, really he's not even close. Matt and I have decided that its probably because he is such a big boy, you try and lift that gut off the ground, I mean really, it'd be hard!!!!
• He is rolling all over the place though. We can lay him down on one end of the house and he will roll all the way across until he hits the other wall. The downside to this is so far he hasnt figured out how to roll the other way yet, so we have to turn him around in order for him to be able to roll back:):)
• Not sure exactly how big he is, my guess would be somewhere in the 29" range and 24lbs. All of his summer clothes are 18-24 months and they are none to big, see I told you he was a big boy!!!
• Talking up a storm. So far his vocabulary consists of: Mama, baba, papa and ball. No dada yet, but I'm sure its coming dad:):)
• Loves being outdoors and going to watch his dad coach 11 year old baseball. He has even already gotten to be the bat boy at a few games since I had to work and we couldnt find a sitter. Pretty sure he's probably the youngest bat boy ever, but Matt said he seemed to enjoy it. He even got to eat supper in the dugout in the middle of the second inning:):)

Thats about all for now. I will post some pictures when I get a chance!! Take care and enjoy the nice weather!!

Successfuly surgery....

Well, surgery went well and Austin was a real trooper. They had no problems removing the cyst and he has just one stitch and a few sterry strips to hold his skin together, so not too bad. The nurse said he went right to sleep before surgery with no problems and wasn't scared at all before. The surgery lasted about an hour and he was definately a little shaken up coming out of anesthesia. They said he had a pretty hard time in recovery, crying most of the time, but he didn't ever get sick so that was good. So far he been able to just get through the pain with a little tylenol, and he maybe doesn't even need that today, but we are going to give it to him one more day so he's not in too much pain, its hard when they can't tell you if it hurts or not. He was pretty groggy and his little eyes were very droopy all day yesterday, and he woke up wimpering a little in the night, but so far today he has been almost back to normal so thats good. I am just glad to have the surgery over, and everything was a success!!!

Left eye is still a little swollen

playing with my ball today

such a big boy

photo op with Nina (my mom)

cute pic:):)

up close day after surgery

another close up shot, yes his shirt is messy,

we were giving him a little ice cream for his throat:):)

day before surgery

before surgery

Surgery...

Well, they day has finally come. Austin has surgery tomorrow to remove his dermoid cyst above his left eye. I know its not an invasive surgery, but knowing that they are going to put him under is terrifying!!! I am sure that everything will go fine and they probably have done it a million times, but the thought of them putting him to sleep still scares me to death....Can you tell I am not looking forward to it?!?!? He has surgery scheduled for 9 am, so we have to be to the hospital at 7. Probably the hardest part pre-anesthesia is going to be keeping him from eating!! He can't eat anything past 3am, and if you cant tell by the size of him, this boy likes to eat!! So, I guess we will be waking him up around 2:30 and giving him a midnight snack to hopefully tide him over until after surgery. It is a same day procedure so we should be home by late afternoon if everything goes as planned. So I will try and post tomorrow night how he is doing and of course how we are doing too:):) Im sure Matt and I will be doing a lot better tomorrow after it is all done!!