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My classroom

Here are three things from Louis' classroom - the Friendly Firefighters room - at school. The first is a painting he made with his hands which is hanging on his classroom wall. The second is his cubbie where we keep his clean clothes and blankets. The last picture is the birthday wall. All of the kids have a balloon with their name and birth date on it. Louis' is the yellow one in the upper left hand corner.

Go Friendly Firefighters!

Turning 1

Even though it's still January, I'm already thinking of cute themes for Louis' first birthday in April. His birthday is on Friday this year and I'm thinking a pizza/beer party for the adults and I want to get a cute little cake for him to smash....He loves Dora and Diego but those themes are so over done. But, on the other hand, there's lots of cute stuff out there to decorate with.

Maybe a Farmyard animal theme. That could be cute! A little barn cake or something. Anyway, I'm having fun planning already.

Reminiscing

This is a pic of me leaving the hospital with Louis for the first time. He was such a small bundle. I'm sitting in the wheelchair waiting for Matt and my dad to bring the car around and pick us up. It was a beautiful, bright, cool April Saturday. Louis cried the entire way down the elevator and in the lobby as we waited. As she waited with the nurse and I, my mom managed to capture this brief moment of tranquility. I'll forever be grateful for this photo.

Snuggle Buddy

Louis loves to snuggle. We had a long holiday weekend and I got to spend lots of time cuddling and rocking him as I put him to sleep. It's the most amazing feeling to hold that heavy, sleeping body and watch him breathe in and out so content and safe in dream land. He's also started doing this really funny thing of instead of cooing to let you know he's up, he kicks the walls of the crib so you hear this loud pounding throughout the house. I guess it's better than crying :)