Happy Valentines Day. It is such a Hallmark holiday, but I secretly love it. As a child we always got presents. How cool is it to celebrate love, yes it is something that should be celebrated year around but to today is a little more special. Ryan was up early, I know that it is because he was so excited to wish me a Happy Valentines Day!!!!! Well that is what I am going to tell myself because it is 7 am. Well we hope that you all have a wonderful day filled with all the love and joy that one day can bring!!!!!

Fireman's Prayer

Fireman's Prayer

When I'm called to duty, God, wherever flames may rage.
Give me strength to save a life whatever be its age.
Help me to embrace a little child before it is too late
Or save an older person from the horror of that fate.
Enable me to be alert to hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently to put the fire out.
I want to fill my calling and to give the best in me.
To guard my every neighbor and protect their property.
And if according to Your will I have to lose my life,
Please bless with Your protecting hand my children and my wife.

This prayer is hanging in our home along with most homes of Firefighters and in every Fire Hall. I am reminded of the prayer often. It is something that I find comfort in. I know that Rexer was made to be a firefighter and I take comfort in knowing that Jesus is with him every step of the way. Rex was home most of the afternoon, but went in for overtime about 3.30. He is working with a different shift, one that I do not trust as much as his own shift. He works a 24 on Saturday. So he will be home Sunday morning, right now Sunday seems a life time away. We celebrated Valentine's day this morning. When you are a firefighters wife or child you learn very quickly that holidays are not always celebrated on the day that the calender says. I actually just opened my card, without Rexer. I was reading it and remembering all of our previous 10 Valentines Days together. Not five minutes later Rexer called. He was so excited, he had just been on a fire nothing toooooo big but he got some good action. He and his partner where first in and did search and rescue. Well it was just a search, there was no one to rescue. As a firefighter he lives for fires and as a firefighters wife I hate them. Although I just spoke with him and he is fine, everything that could have gone wrong in that fire goes through my head. I got off the phone and cried, cried for several reasons. That is the love of my life and the father of my child what would I do without him. How could I live. For a moment I was a mess, I collected myself and put Ryan to bed. We said our prayers. At the end I always say Jesus loves you, Daddy loves you and Mommy loves you. Than I was reminded of the fireman prayer. Rex's job is a Blessing, I am able to stay home, he loves what he does and he is an amazing compassionate Firefighter Paramedic that loves Jesus. In that moment I was given peace, peace that on Sunday morning my husband will come home to us.

Cute pictures

One of our families favorite time of the day is Ryan's bath. He loves being in the water, he always has. He also seriously laughs the entire time. I get the best pictures of him in the bath. So enjoy!!!!

No look at the camera!!!

So we all know that Ryan is a pretty independent little guy, this is nothing new. But he is really testing my patients. When ever I get the camera out he will not look at me. I am not kidding, no matter what I do he will not look at me. In this picture he is looking at the dog. The funny thing is that as soon as I put the camera down he will look at me and smile. It is pretty funny but I took 49 pictures and this is the only one where his head is not turned or it is not blurry. 49 pictures for just one semi cute one, that is crazy. Thank God for digital cameras. He is getting so big, his pants are 18 months and all his shirts are 12 months. The thing is he is so long, so they are usually baggy on the sides, but the length is what I have an issue with. When I hold him or rock him he curls up on me like a froggy. His legs are tucked under him and his arm are on his chest. We are cutting back on the bottle. I feel like we get less and less snuggle time each day, so I am setting aside time to just snuggle without distractions. I know that it is more for me than him. I already miss that face to face snuggle time you get when feeding your child a bottle. I had my moms group today, Ryan cried for the first time when I dropped him off at nursery. It was totally heart breaking, but I handed him off and went and enjoyed my Mommy time.

Slobber kisses, just the way I like it!!!!

Today I was kissing Ryan, something that happens about a billion times a day. Unfortunately he already loves to push me away. Today I was getting slobber kisses, they are the best. It totally melts my heart when he lets me give him kisses. Now when we make the kissing noise he makes a noise back. It is so cute. I am not sure how he is doing it, but I love it. I need to get it on video tape. Today we had the pleasure of babysitting a good friend's baby. He is almost 4 weeks old. Ryan seems so big and independent next to the little baby. It is so funny how quickly you forget what it is like to have a newborn. Ryan was really sweet with him, so that makes me hopeful for when Ryan has a little sibling.

I love this picture of Ryan, he gives me this look a lot . I believe it is the what are you kidding me mom look. Ryan loves the remote, I actually have one in my purse so he can play with it when we are out and about running errands. I did not realize that this was weird until I was at Fred Meyer and the girl at the check out was making a huge deal about it. She kept saying how cute it is that he plays with remotes. He always likes the most inexpensive toys and the ones that I would least expect.

King or queen

This morning I woke up and our queen bed felt really small. Not only were Rex and I in bed, oh no Ryan and the dog were also in bed with us. It is so amazing that Ryan is so small, but yet takes up so much room. I am not sure when Ryan came in bed with us or when the dog jumped up on the bed, it was probably somewhere in between 4:30 and I am exhausted. Although the bed was over crowded it was so nice. I love having all of my family in the same room. One of the great debates in our home is if we should get a king bed or another queen. I usually say queen, but I think I am going to have to rethink that one. The boys all got up- even our dog is a boy, I was able to sleep for a couple more hours. I woke up to the smell of waffles. By the time I actually got out of bed the waffles were long gone and the kitchen was clean. Perfect timing, I am not a huge fan of waffles but Ryan and Rexer love them. It has become a tradition of theirs, I will sleep in and they will eat a big breakfast and play together. When Ry was a newborn Rex us to take him in the living room of our tinny house so I could sleep. He use to just watch him. Well now things look a little different. I think, no I know that this is the best part of Rex's day!

Ryan has a voice

Ryan has always been a pretty vocal kiddo, but lately I feel like he has found another set of pipes. He is getting bigger each day and so is his voice and opinions. He is starting to object when I take a toy away from him or if I tell him no. He is getting really good at throwing balls unfortunately the down side to this is that he throws everything else. I am not a huge fan of food flying at me or a ball flying at my face.