Almost December?

How in the world is Thanksgiving this week. I just can not figure out how it came so quickly. I feel like it was yesterday that I was just stressing out over his birthday. The past three weeks have just flown by. I'm just not ready for this week I guess. We have two Thanksgivings on Thursday. A rehearsal dinner Friday and Wedding Saturday. I still need to go buy a sweater to wear over my dress. I will freeze in a sleeveless dress. Plus on top of this I was hoping to go shopping Black Friday morning so I could save a few bucks for Christmas presents.

I have only been shopping black friday twice now and both times I was amazed at how rude women get in the morning. I think I will always remember two years ago when Brandon NEEDED the Wii. It was the first wave of shipments and Gamestop in the mall was only getting TWO in for Black Friday. We slept on the living room floor with our alarm clock set, while Brandons brother slept in our bed. We got to the Mall at 4am and the mall was still closed. I guess they don't open the doors till 5am but he wanted to make sure he was the first one to get a Wii. So of course out of sleep deprivation and just wanting to get this over with I showed him to one of the back doors for employees and walked the hallways until I knew I was near Gamestop. Having worked at the mall for a few years really helped me know what I was doing!

We walk up and theres a guy inside behind the chained doors, Brandon asks if there is a waiting list for today and he gives us a ticket number, it said #2. We actually got it! An hour before the store even opened at that! I sure did feel bad for all the guys that came popping out of doorways and running through the hallways trying to get a Wii! All of them turned away sadly.

We had it home and set up, playing some games by 5am!

I know I won't be dealing with any more crazy outings like that trying to get the "new" stuff first until Bradley gets a bit older

Hes a dancing queen!

Alright, I am not sure if I have ever spoken of Bradleys love to dance. Its just plain hilarious to watch. He has many styles of dancing as well.

I guess yesterday was a "floppy" day, as you will see in the video. I was just dying to get it on video because he doesn't do this crap in public or at someone elses house. I decided to pump him up and put on the "dance" channel. (you know one of those extra channels in a cable package that you NEVER watch)

Don't mind the unique styling of my house in it. We call it, Destroyed by Baby.

First Video, him practically being a Helicopter

http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn309/bradleyjaye/?action=view&current=dancingqueen.flv

Second Video, A little bit of drunken dancing, then on to telling mommy no!

http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn309/bradleyjaye/?action=view&current=littledance.flv

I think I will throw these two pictures in for entertainment.

"Wow, I have never noticed that cool dangling thing on the camera!"

"Mom won't let me touch it..."

to the doctors, he said

Oh how I am so sick of the doctors. I actually had an appointment for myself (can you believe it) yesterday yet had to squeeze in an appointment for Bradley while I was still on that side of the Bridge.

Sunday and Monday a rash started forming around his eyes but it didn't look that bad. Yesterday morning I woke up to him having a full rash covering his whole head, neck, belly, back and diaper area. He was scratching like a maniac and not happy so of course it was time to call the doctor. They didn't call me back until I was sitting in the middle of my appointment. Thankfully my doctor walked out to make appointments for me at the hospital so I was able to answer.

His Ped thinks its either an allergic reaction to something, a viral infection or his eczema flaring up a new way. She thinks its too soon to tell, so shes calling me on thursday. He looks about the same today, but his crankiness and scratching has been minimal since we started giving him a higher dose Benadryl. He actually slept last night too!! Ever since this started up he refused to sleep. The only way we could get him to sleep would be to pass out from exhaustion on the floor around 1:00am and move him to bed, then wake up crying half hour later. That crying every half hour to hour would continue the entire night. It was hard, him going to bed so late, waking up constantly, then getting out of bed at 7:30am.

I guess the only thing I have to do now is wait till tomorrow to see what happens then.

Oh, and Saturday should be fun! I get to go to work, leave at 4:00, then go get a MRI and some blood work done. Oh I just can't wait! Ugh.

No new pictures. Nothing exciting to update on!

It's my party and I cried all I wanted!

I suppose getting a bunch of shots the evening before my party was not the best of choice. Plus I was teething and still am! I also was so excited I only took a 20 minute nap before the party! How wrong was I on that choice? I may have been super cranky, but I had fun!

This is what I looked like as I anxiously awaited my friends.

I also hired a Professional present opener. She said she's done this before, I trusted her up until she started stealing my presents !

We then proceeded to have cake. It was not so good at first, but the more I ate the better it was!

Don't worry. I made sure to decorate my hair as well!

Once everyone left I demanded my overalls be taken off so I can enjoy a little time in front of the tube in my new chair

Then it was time for bed. Finally. What a long day!

My Son wants to be a Dog

I don't know if this is normal or not but I'm only assuming it is.

Lately Bradley wants to be just like Tabitha, my dog. He chases her all day. He feeds her all day. He "pets" (which is slapping and grabbing) her when he can. Now to top it off, he pretends to eat like her.

He will grab a piece of food, drop it on the ground, then bend over get on all fours and pick it up with his mouth and giggle while it dangles from his mouth. Hes been doing it for a few days now and this is the only way he ate a few snacks this morning.... its so odd to watch. I wonder if he will do that at his party on Sat. That will be amusing for the family.

I am a little interested in how things will go with the babies on Sat. Evie plays nice, they are never a problem. Nate is a year older than Bradley so I'm assuming there won't be too much issues, we have a lot of toys. Elizabeth will also be there, shes only a week older, but Bradley seems to not like her for some reason. I don't know why, I'm not sure at this age what they could possibly come up with as a reason to not like a baby.

Oh well, we will see how it goes. Hopefully everyone will be able to fit in our little apartment! Good luck people :) haha

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Bradley Jaye Bourne!

He will be One at 10:18am. OK I'll be the first to admit I cried all last night even though I did not expect it at all. Somehow the realization that I will never get to say "last year at this time you were in my tummy" hit hard. It all started when 9:30pm rolled around and that was when my water broke and it all started. After that time passed I was a MESS thinking about last year. But that's what being a parent is about. If I could care less about him turning 1 then I guess there would be something wrong with me.

Hes still my little baby even though he hasn't been for a long time. He spends most of the day playing by himself, running around the house and destroying anything in his path. Once he became a full blown walker I realized that my house just could not get any messier.

Alright enough of this emotional crap and on to celebrating!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!!

1....what?

I can't believe it. I really just can't believe it. How is he going to be one year old tomorrow?! ONE.

I actually got emotional when the clocks were set back! Geez. The last time the clocks were set back I was in the middle of labor and I was so pissed that a nurse came in and rolled the time back at 2am. I don't know why but I flipped out. I was acting like she was making me go through that whole hour of pain all over again. Labor just makes you a bit crazy I suppose. :) Its worth it once its all over with!

I have a ton of memories from the past year but the only ones I keep thinking about are the day I had him. How I called my mom from the hospital that Saturday night telling her my water broke and i was FREAKING OUT. Her calling my room the following morning wanting to find out the news. He still wasnt born so I was yelling at Brandon to not answer the phone and focus on me because I was in the middle of my 2 hours of pushing.

Shortly after it stopped ringing, his cell phone started ringing and of course he answered it only to have me start screaming at him to get off the damn phone! lol I knew it was just my mom and she was curious but it was not the time.

14 hours of labor sure felt like it was going to be the death of me but as soon as he was born, its funny how quickly you forget what the pain was. You just remember what was happening, what was said, how the Doctor almost dropped your child. I still can't get over how when I finally pushed him out the doctor caught Bradley by ONE LEG. He almost hit the ground! I would have killed the doctor if he dropped him. I swear.

But all is good now and I'm just getting sad that my little baby is gone for good. At least we have so many fun things to look forward too.

Heres to a wonderful year passed, and a wonderful year to come! Happy early Birthday my little love.