Fall is in the air! And so is my birthday!

Fall is in the air! And so is my birthday!, originally uploaded by JoelGonzales.

They took several photos of Christian this time around when the photography people came to his school. Julie brought him back for several poses!

We were in San Antonio this weekend hanging out with Uncle Freddy and family and Aunt Hilda for a little bit too talking about Christian's birthday party in one month. Time has flown by.

After one year, it's as if I was born a year ago also. Bringing up Christian has filled both Julie's and my life with so much happiness. Julie is going to be sad when he turns a year because momma's never want their babies to grow up. I can understand that, but I look ahead to the next milestone we have to look forward too. The wrestling matches, the races, the one on one games, the teaching and the learning. There's so much to look forward too.

One of the reasons I've kept up with this blog is for myself to sit down and remember the day he was born. The first time he rolled over, when he started to crawl, his first tooth (which was just a few weeks ago).

Christian makes me laugh as much as I try to make him laugh. He laughs at momma when she dances or plays peek-a-boo with him. He laughs while holding on to December's tail and beating her on her belly. He laughs and runs when I'm going to "bull" him over.

I laugh at the games he gets you to play with him whether you like it or not, fun games like pick up his sippy cup for the 82nd time he throws it on the floor. I laugh whenever he starts dancing randomly, sometimes even to music. Today I laughed because he was chewing while resting his chin on the table and his whole head was bouncing up and down.

Till next time. Keep laughing.

I just got ratted out!!!

Tunnel Vision, originally uploaded by JoelGonzales.

So late at night, Julie had already gone in to put Christian to bed a couple times and the next time was my turn. Sure enough, Christian is very unhappy about being in his crib, so I go in to comfort him and it works. I put the pacifier in his mouth and he drifts back off to sleep, but with one eye open, making sure I don't leave the room. OK, I think, I'll just bring my laptop in here, do some work, he'll be happy that I'm in the room and he'll go to sleep. Win-win right? Wrong, apparently the laptop gives off too much light and the neat pictures on the screen are somewhat of a distraction to an infant with no desire to sleep. Christian gets to his feet in the crib and I feel a pacifier hit my leg (I'm sitting on the floor). Not wanting to give him any attention, I hand the pacifier back to him without looking up. 3 seconds later, I hear it hit the floor. I gather it up and hand it to him. He hits my leg with it again. I quickly feel around for it and hand it to him. I get the hint of a chuckle for my efforts. Again, it hits the floor, but I put it in his hands before he knows what happened and I'm rewarded with a little chuckle again. He throws it down again and it bounces onto my laptop. I pretend to frantically look for it. Christian is laughing and laughing. We repeat this several times when all of a sudden the door swings open...busted! Christian, without missing a beat, goes from cracking up to CRYING!!!! He started crying as soon as he saw Julie. His cry seemed to say "I've been trying to go to sleep, but Daddy has been in here keeping me awake". Julie and I both laughed and then I was banned from ever trying to get Christian to bed again.