4th of July BBQ, so excited!!!!

Our 4th of July BBQ is next weekend, I'm so excited!!!! Since we've been in our new house, I love having people over. Half because it's just fun - half because I love to show off our house. I'm still completely in love with it. Even the 3 flights of stairs haven't gotten on my nerves yet.

Fireworks are set for Thursday night over the bay and I can't wait for that either. This will be BabyGolightly's first 4th of July. I got him a cute little outfit and everything. One irky thing though is hardly nobody has RSVP'd to our invite. Lots of people have viewed the online invitation but noone except 3 guests have responded. Am I the only one that gets totally peeved by this? As soon as I get an invite, I figure out if I can make it and respond. How hard is that? Ack - anyway just a little vent. I don't know if we're only going to have 8 people or 80 but we'll see....

I wish I would have never heard that story

My Mom told me a story yesterday about one of her students' sons. My Mom said he was such a sweet, smart, boy. He's been into the school to visit a few times and really attached himself to my Mom. She said he was always so well behaved and happy. When his Mom picked him up from daycare last Friday, she noticed a few bruises but the daycare told her they were already there when she brought him in. All throughout the weekend he seemed to be ok except he was a little tired. Sunday evening he had a seizure and they took him to the hospital. After examination, the doctor found that the baby had bruising around his neck, a skull fracture, and swelling in his brain. He's basically a vegetable now and won't ever be the same. The Mom, the Mom's live-in boyfriend, and the daycare are all under investigation for child abuse. The Mom and her boyfriend were arrested and aren't allowed to see the baby w/o supervision. The doctors say based upon the size of the bruising and the damages to the baby's skull, an adult had their hands around the baby's neck and were banging the baby's head against some hard surface. I've always felt children were so innocent and pure and any abuse towards them is wrong on every level, but now being a Mom myself of such an innocent, beautiful, pure angel - I fell it all the more. Hearing that story brought tears to my eyes and I wish my Mom hadn't told me about it. It's so painful to think of this baby being hurt in such a way that he will never be the same and I can't begin to understand what would bring a person to do such a thing. I can only pray that the person that did this will feel such guilt and be haunted by it the rest of their days. I also pray that the Mom isn't responsible and that she'll be exhonerated. It makes me all the more grateful that my son doesn't have to go to a daycare center and makes me want to hug him and kiss him a thousand times over.

I was thinking.....

Sometimes these stupid little thoughts come into my mind and I just can't let them go. I was laying in bed last night watching the news, feeding BabyGolightly and it hit me out of nowhere - If a set of twin sisters marry a set of twin brothers, would their children look exactly alike too? I mean the twin sisters have the same DNA and so do the brothers and if the sisters look exactly alike and the brothers look exactly alike that would mean that both couples' children would have parents that look exactly alike, so would they look exactly alike too? Someone please give me some answer to this so I can let it go.

Baby shots round 2

Baby Golightly had his 2nd round of shots yesterday. We split them up because of the things we've heard about them possibly causing Autism and I'm so glad we did. If he got all those shots in one day, that would have been 4 shots and 1 oral injection! I can't imagine how he would have handled that. He's a pretty tough cookie. He cried for just a second when the doctor put the needles in his thighs but as soon as the needles were removed, he started laughing. The rest of the day was pretty rough - no sleep from 1p.m. until 9p.m. That makes for a really tired, cranky baby. He was up quite a bit last night too not really wanting to eat, just grouchy and I feel so bad for him. This morning though, he was happy, smiling, laughing, and so much better. That little guy just makes my world.

Brand new blogger!

Welcome to my brand new blog!!!!! I haven't ever really tried my hand at this but I'm hoping I'll be able to keep up and keep posting. I love reading other people's blogs and I can only hope I have enough intersting things to say to keep it going.



Anyhoo - we had terrible terrible storms in the area yesterday. We faired out ok at our house but there were 14 North Beach homes damaged, 5 are completely uninhabitable. Neighboring Chesapeake Beach had a roof torn off a restaurant and some homes damaged. There were lights out everywhere, trees down, and tons of traffic. I'm grateful we didn't get any wind or rain damage to our house and SweetBaby and I got home alright and MrHusband got home not too long after. Today most things seem to be back on track - it's sunny and bright and the drive in to work wasn't so bad - no street lights out at all.