You're Invited

Since I trust those who read my blog.... I am posting a link to a site that is held by my group of family friends from NY-friends that I've held an extremely long time and are like family to me.This site is adminstered by my friend Swanny and his wife Anna and it has photos and small clips of our lives.This site is many years old and is constantly changing.The kids pictures have followed them as toddlers and now as adults.Enjoy!
http://swannydude.tripod.com/408.html

Hannah Montana

I'm finding myself hopping to Miley Cyrus-what happened to me?I like all kinds of music especially Godsmack and Jay Z now I'm bopping to this ha ha My husband goes "who sings this I like it" and I proceed to tell him it is 15 year old Miley Cyrus and we both laugh.....so he switches the station and we listen to Stereophonics....times are a changing...ha ha...and we're changing with it!

Passive Aggressive PD-Thought for the Day

My thought for the day....I have dealt with people many times in life with this disorder.There are many articles on the subject but I chose this one because it is written in an easy to read format and is pretty all inclusive.It is very hard to deal with anyone with this disorder....they can drive you insane because you can never win...........though most of the time these people have no idea they are actually like this...they perceive themselves as something much different.Although in this article it is giving an example of a husband and wife...you can get the understanding.
The whole article..http://www.newliving.com/issues/nov_2003/articles/passive.html

One piece of this article that stands out is:
Often passive-aggressives can appear pleasant and congenial, but time eventually proves such qualities are a part of a disguise. Beneath the surface are traits that could be changed but are not.Most prominent are: a “quiet” anger, irrational fear and a need for control. Let’s look at each separately. A quiet commitment to anger: Some people falsely assume that anger is only manifested in loud raucous behavior. If you don’t shout or curse or throw things, you probably don’t have anger issues, Right? Anger, is not that one-dimensional. Passive-aggressives experience anger as a means of self-preservation. Instead, they choose to register their anger via non-compliance, hidden rebellion, withdrawal and seeming to act oblivious to everything. This behavior quietly shouts: “You bug me and I’m going to punish you for thinking counter to me.”




Here is another article on the subject that I liked!

http://www.steadyhealth.com/articles/Passive_Aggressive_Personality_Disorder_a289_f137.html

His favorite place

The bathtub!


That little butt



I used to get excited to take a bath too-when I had more than 3 minutes to do it ha ha It was a time of relaxation-now it's a race to see how fast I can get in and get out! But many things like that have changed-and so what.I make up for it on the weekend when Joe's around and shave the legs ya know the whole gammit-I even put makeup on ................................ I'll never forget Griffin's cute little butt for the rest of my life... small enough to hold in my hand...ha ha

A mama and her baby

This is a mama rooster we watched in Key West..It was so sweet to see the baby follow its mama around all over and Griffin was fascinated by them.We ended up sharing some sweet potato puffs with them:)

Still being Sentimental

Just a look back....over the first year of Griffin's life...and yes I am obsessed with taking pictures lol...................

Let Him Eat cake

Look at this birthday boy having his first taste of cake! (a cake my proud self made) He wasn't sure at first but it didn't take long for his taste buds to understand that sweet cake and frosting are good and you should eat as much as possible ha ha He's a 1 year old now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He started out at 6 lbs 2 oz




Now a year later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1







He's like I've got this handled

Getting Back Into the Swing

So I'm trying to change my house around a bit and baby proof more and get back into the swing of normal life.It is going well,albit slow,but well enough ha ha I ut up some curtains and still have to get some for the bedroom.After all the moving and changes I guess it's high time to settle down in this house.It has been so sunny outside which has been wonderful.It's been a bit chilly but it is winter after all but having the sun is so nice.In Rochester gray skies were normal and to have the sunshine makes such a difference! I would love to walk more with Griffin but loose dogs worry me.WE go to the library on Tuesday mornings at 10:15am for Song and story time and Griffin has been loving it-seeing the other kids and clapping to songs has been great.We even colored with crayons last week.I try to get him out to see and experience this world of ours at least every other day if not every day.

Well my little man is changing very fast.He has taken a few steps (usually when he doesn't realize it.He is constantly dancing and rocking his head back and forth and I seem to always have nursery songs playing on the CD player so he is using his hands to imitate me when I do the itsy bitsy spider etc... He gets very excited when certain songs come on and when he's eating, if I don't have the CD player on he will rock his head back and forth and look at the radio so I turn it on.The amount of toys he has acquired from Christmas and his birthday is unbelievable.They have completely filled up our living room.And there is more on the way from family.I will have to upload a picture I took a couple days ago to show it for the full effect ha ha He understands so much more now so I am busy teaching him so many things. think about all the things he will learn this year and there is so much!