Just figured I should update this since its been a few months.  Christofer is now one year old.  He's amazing, and he's my entire life.  He is now 22 lbs, 4 oz, and is 30 inches tall I think.  He's normal weight, is a little bit tall, but overall perfect.  His hair just keeps getting lighter everyday.  He's showing his personality more and more now.  He shows off late at night before bed, dancing in the living room and spinning around making himself dizzy.  Right before he goes to bed, thats when the best stuff happens.  He has his temper tantrums now, though.  He gets incredibly red in the face and throws himself down when he gets really mad...and now he has this new yell.  His "This is some f'in bull****!" yell.  He sleeps pretty well now though.  Every night at 8:30 he's in bed.  He just got 5 shots in his legs the other day, so the last night and tonight have been a little rough....but normally he's only waking up once or twice for a bottle.  He learned how to drink out of a sippy cup a couple days ago, and also how to twist the lid off.  So now he thinks he's the ultimate shit.  Which, I mean, who could really argue with that? 

His birthday was a huge success....with the exception of fiesta dip.  A couple of my old friends came, and of course Ryan was there bearing a HUGE bag of gifts from him and his mom.  That I think was the biggest hit in Christofer's eyes......all the noisy toys.  Lol.  He got his own birthday teddy bear cake, which had bright blue icing that he got everywhere on his face, I have pictures on here to prove it.  It was a good first birthday.  I loved it. 

Ryan and I are still going strong.  I swear I dont know what I would do without him and Christofer.  I wake up everyday hoping I get to see him that day, and I know that everytime I do... it makes for a perfect way to end the day.  What can I say?  He's pretty much too good to be true....and I love him.

Obama '08!!!

Heres an update on Christofer!  We took him to the doctors the other day and he is now 20 pounds and 10 ounces, and he's only grown an inch from the last doctors visit.  The doctor said that if there was 100 more kids in the room with him, he would have exactly 50 kids shorter than him and 50 kids taller than him, which means hes perfect!  I still cant believe this one....they said that if you put those same 100 kids with him, 60 would be fatter and 40 would be skinnier...and here this whole time I thought my kid was a little chubber!  Guess not.  They say that hes a little bit underweight because he's getting a lot more exercise now that hes learning to walk.  He also got one more shot and I didnt even cry!!  Then he got to take a hearing test and they said that he hears perfectly...which i had no doubt about. 

Christofer walked clear across the living room today with no help!!  He usually walks about 4 steps and he falls down, but today he actually walked from the couch all the way to the entertainment center!  He makes new faces now, like a new smile where he sticks his neck up and puts his head back and grins from ear to ear....it's so cute.  I can never capture it on camera, though. 

Everything else is going well...Im still looking for a weeknight job if anyone knows any!  Help a sister out!!!  Ryan and I are going strong..like always.  We may have our disagreements from time to time, but theres no one else I would rather be with.  Everything in our house keeps breaking.  First was the fridge and freezer, then came the drier, then we got a new one and that peice of crap doesnt work, and now our car is not wanting to start half the time.  We are going to go see Terry before he ships off overseas for the second time next month, and I cant wait to see him and Jessie!!  My birthday is next month on the 26th!!  The Big 21!    Other than all of that...everything is going well! 

So first off let me just say that Christofer is doing much better...no hospitalization needed.  We give him breathing treatments every 4 hours, and hes doing great. 

Now for the exciting new...Christofer sits up by himself now!  And he started to crawl!  The crawling thing didnt last too long, but hes definitly just rolling around and sitting up completely on his own.  Its so cute.  I took videos of it to post on here, but I'm going to have to have Ryan fix them cuz they wont play....yet.  Give me time and you can see him!  He's so big!!!!!  I dont know if thats the exciting news that everyone was expecting, but there it is!  My little boy is growing up!!!

I just got home from the doctors.  Christofer has been really sick for a about 2 weeks now, so we took him in and found out that he has bronchiolitis, which is bronchitis for babies.  Sometimes he struggles to breathe, so the doctors read his oxygen levels.  The normal for babies they said is in the 90's.  Christofer was about 77-80, so they gave him a breathing treatment and it brought him back up to about 90.  They gave me a breathing machine with some medicine to use on him every 4 hours, and if hes not doing any better by tomorrow then he's going to have to go into the hospital for a few days.  And believe me, if it comes down to me staying with Christofer in the hospital the entire time and starting my new job, trust that I will choose my son.  I just hope that hes going to start feeling better now.  Poor Mr. Man.

I just wanted to tell everyone that Christofer's first tooth popped in today.  You can see it a little bit, and you can feel it.  He's miserable today, cranky as can be, and sick.  He just keeps coughing and coughing, even as I write this.  Poor Mr. Man.  But he's got a tooth!!!! YAYAYAYAY!!!!!  That's excitement right there.

Today was Christofer’s checkup.  He is almost 5 months old now.  Hes growing up so fast!  He had to get four shots again today...and of course...I cried.  I cant help it.  I hate seeing Christofer in so much pain.  We found out that he has exzema or however you spell it on his face...so Dr. Hamilton gave me two prescriptions for him.  Although, she did say that most babies that get it grow out of it eventually.  So we just have to wait.  So...my little not-so-tiny baby now weighs 16 pounds and 12 ounces, and is 26 inches long!  Hes getting so big!  He can now roll all the way over sometimes...not all the time, though.  Hes working on it.  His next check up is at the end of May, where he gets 3 more damned shots!  Thats about it for now...I’ll update again some other time.