Here we go again!

The next project...whether we want to or not!! Leaking shower results in: taking out our shower and putting up new tile to make the tub into a shower also.

Not just another day

Today my little guy turned 6. He's been making some changes in the past month or so to prepare himself for the big jump. One very sad example, he will no longer give Daniel or I kisses and when we give him kisses he either tries to dodge them or tries to wipe them off. He's becoming my little man of the house, especially when Daniel is at work. He tells me that he will punch anyone who tries to hurt us.
As the day was passing by I started to think of Cody's birth, developing years, toddler years until now. He's definitely a unique little guy. He was born at 9:55 am and I will never forget that special day and all who celebrated with us. Cody was always a busy body, very daring, loved to climb and got plenty of owies to prove it. He's grown into such an awesome little guy, and it's hard to believe that I have a 6 year old. Some of the ways Cody is unique to us is :

He has his own cell phone and his own keys(phone doesn't actually work but he's always loved phones from the moment he could hold one) He loves to lock and unlock the car before we can and has a special clip on them that he saw Uncle Ryan have.

He's got a (Baby-G shock) watch that he loves and gets so many compliments on it. He's learning to tell time and doing pretty well with it.

He loves to wear his rain boots everywhere with everything. First thing he does when he gets home from school is take his shoes off and if we have to go anywhere...it's the boots he comes out with.

When people ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he tells them that he is going to be a Firefighter and a police man. I don't know how that's gonna work... He has a fire station by his school and he says that station is where he works to make money.

He loves when Daniel brings home his radio from work to listen to the police and fire calls and then will mimick what they say when he plays with his toys. He also has his own pair of handcuffs and a flashlight that he will run around the front yard yelling "get your hands up", and "STOP RESISTING" among other things he's heard on the TV show COPS.

These are just a few things that came to mind when thinking of the funny things Cody does. Life would not be the same without his love and comedy!

We decided to have a very small party at Chuck E. Cheese for him to celebrate his birthday. He had a great time playing all sorts of games and loved getting his birthday crown and medal.

It's been a healthy and happy 6 years and can't imagine life without him.

Here's to my little man, Happy Birthday Cody!!

Another round of holes

I've had another round of holes in my heel due to the same problem I've been having for 9 years...huge plantar wart! The past 4 days have been a bit hard but I have to give my hubby who deserves a big shout out since he had to pick up the pieces. He had 4 days off and did all of the housework, laundry, cooking, and keeping Cody happy while I've been resting my foot. It has been healing nicely and I can almost wear a shoe now. This probably won't be the last time I have this done so those of you who see me limping around...you know what happened.

9 Years and counting...

That time of year rolled around and I am so lucky that I have an awesome husband who likes to plan fun things for us to do to celebrate. It has been 9 years and counting. Daniel surprised me with tickets to Kooza. We were mystified, we were awed, we were scared they were going to pull us on stage and have to do a dance with the clowns. We had a great time and enjoyed the show. We recommend to all!!

This Christmas

This Christmas proved to be a video gaming Christmas. It was the first year that Cody had shown any interest in them after seeing his cousin playing his. So all year he's been asking for a Nintendo DS, and boy was he excited when he saw that Santa did indeed come, and brought him is own DS. And I don't think I've seen much of his face ever since. I have to restrict it already!! This Christmas was a nice one. Shortly after putting up our decor inside the house Daniel came home from work raving about all of the traditions that another guy had told him that his family does every year. One of them being that they have a decoration that they put up every year and tell the kids that it's a camera that goes back to the North Pole to let Santa know if they are being good or bad so we decided to adopt this tradition. We picked a snowman that has black eyes. Cody wanted to see the cameras in the eyes so Daniel lifted him up and only let him get so close. But he took it hook, line and sinker!! In addition to the DS Santa was kind enough to bring our family the Wii. We have had a lot of fun family time with it already. It was also part of our fun on New Years Eve.

Our camera man, the snowman!

Tradition that Cody puts up the star

Cody's loot from Santa Our family gift

Cody playing hours of Nintendo DS

Daniel and Cody also got remote control helicopters Like the one boot out, one boot in look...he LOVES these boots!

Now that Christmas is over we have already started our first project of the new year. We decided to put up crown molding and new baseboard in our bedroom. It's not finished yet but has been nothing but one problem after the other. We found out that we had a slow leak in our shower drain which is on the other side of our bedroom wall. After making a small hole we ended up having to patch a huge one. Then it just kept going on and on with small dumb stuff that kept it complicated. 4 days later it was finally finished and I had a husband that hopes to never see another project for a while...too bad the carpet and baseboard still have to be put in!!

Pictures will follow the completion of the full project.

Frantic I lost it all.

As I was trying to change my background tonight I was venturing out and trying new websites and previewing the many different choices. After one little click to change to another background...suddenly all was lost!! Lost somewhere in the cyber world which might I add I have no idea when it comes to that stuff!! I am frantically trying to undo whatever it is that I have done, but nothing seems to work. I was working on the laptop of all things and I was going nuts so I had to switch over to our regular computer. I spent, no joke, at least 45 minutes trying to salvage whatever I could of my blog all the while Cody is in the background saying I am hungry Mommy! AAAHHHHHH, okay, calm down, give him something to eat and he will be content, but no then it's I want to watch my TV show! Trying to not yell outright at the poor child who just wants another simple request I said no, mommy is working on something right now just play with your toys for a little bit. Continuing on my quest to find the contents of my blog all I had to do was switch to another template and it all came back!! Something so simple I was baffled and yet still left with anger and frustration for having to go through the whole situation! I have now calmed down and the excitement of it all left me exhausted and drawn to the conclusion that I will never try new websites again to change my background.

Our November

This month has been a crazy one. My poor husband has been working like crazy, putting a together his first power point presentation for his Captain, taking classes, doing training, and on top of that getting 2 S.W.A.T call outs this month alone. Below are some pictures that were included in the power point. They show how tall the big ladder on the truck goes. It's crazy high!!
As for myself, I've had a few biopsies. One on a mole on my back with luckily came back as just being very Atypical (non melanoma) but something I did not know was that I guess my back is a bit sensitive when it comes to bandages...I learned that finally after a few days of wearing them and had to switch to paper tape and endure the irritation of what the bandages did to my skin in that area. It's been fun... The other biopsy was on my foot. Most of you know the back story on my foot, as it's been an ongoing problem for about 8 years now. After the failure of many, many different treatments my Dr. wanted to make sure that what we were dealing with was was he's been treating for. He decided that my foot needed a biopsy so I have a small hole in my heel. It brings back so many memories and similar pain of when I had a much larger hole in my foot from trying to cut the thing out about a year and a half ago. Needless to say, it doesn't feel good but ya gotta do what ya gotta do and am hopeful that by doing this it will help my heel get better.
Cody has been adjusting to Kindergarten and lately has been doing very well. He had a ruff start but now loves his teacher and has made lots of new friends. It's fun to hear all the kids say good bye to each other as they leave. We are glad things are going much better and he doesn't even complain about homework or reading assignments!

My heel. You can actually see the indentation where the hole is on this picture

My back wound. This one was a lot bigger and painful than anticipated.

How would you like to climb this ladder?

It's a long way down!!

In the academy they have to climb this ladder as it stands straight up, lock their legs in and lean backwards...scary!!