tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61703746579723199572011-07-08T05:34:07.265-06:00All About My Precious Boy...and maybe some other aspects of life as well.MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-66928349076381535882009-08-31T07:57:00.002-06:002009-08-31T08:04:57.691-06:00

My title jumped into my head when I was trying to come up with something witty in case anyone actually still happens by this little corner of the internet. It's been quite some time since I posted anything here. I didn't even make it over for Nicholas' second birthday...what a shame!He's grown so much since last time I posted when I was concerned about his opening and closing doors. Now it's

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-33167728749056621072008-10-15T13:18:00.003-06:002008-10-15T13:26:12.624-06:00

Our little cutie pie has just recently become proficient in opening doors periodically. Uh oh. It was two days ago that he opened his first and I just watched him open another today. Goodness gracious are we in trouble and yet, at least we'll be relieved of the whole "I've shut the door, I'm trapped, come save me!" screams that we've become accustomed to. That will be nice.Another nice thing

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-29623576700950018782008-09-16T10:37:00.003-06:002008-09-16T10:42:06.338-06:00

We bought Nicholas his first official pair of tennis shoes on Sunday. Nothing overly fancy...primarily just nice and functional.I was a bit surprised to learn via the process that his feet fit in size 7 shoes right now. What?! He was just wearing size 5s at the beginning of the summer. Wow. He is growing like a little weed...a cute little weed, if there is such a thing. He does such a great

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-73321856204203937562008-09-11T15:20:00.002-06:002008-09-11T15:37:45.832-06:00

The little guy will need supervision on Halloween it appears. He's already causing mischief. My son has discovered the joys of unrolling the toilet paper. Beware! Your house could be next! Or not...he's only 15 months and can't get there very easily. I guess you may be safe...for now.This morning was a busy morning for me. I think Mark even wondered at one point if I'd up and forgotten how

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We've had a few firsts here this week. The most notable is that Nicholas had his first taste of ice cream last night (as an ice cream lover, this is the most important thing out of our list - ha ha!). He made the funniest face since it was cold. We tried to record it, after he did it two times in a row, but on the third and fourth time, nothing. On the fifth when the video camera was stashed

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Nicholas has recently become fascinated with the drain cover at bath time. The house that we rent has a grate over the drain so we have to use one of those plastic disk things to keep the water in. He likes to pick it up, feel the rush of the water as the tub empties and then put the cover back on...multiple times.He gets into trouble when he puts the cover back on upside down for the current

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My son has a love for our piano....which is good. He enjoys tinkering on it from time to time which is quite cute. However, his habit of shutting the lid everytime I am playing is quite annoying. I rarely get to play an entire tune. Makes me want to growl sometimes.Tonight Nicholas seems to have more teething pain. Joy. And we tested the teething tablets and it looks like they were the

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-57712163621420759362008-08-12T20:06:00.002-06:002008-08-12T20:14:03.748-06:00

My absolute most favoritist ever color to dress Nicholas in is baby blue. For some reason, that color just suits him so well. Maybe it's me and the fact that he's my baby boy. It could be a mental something, but I really do believe that with his adorable red hair and light skin baby blue is one of his best colors. He was wearing it today...until no one noticed that his diaper was

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We have been putting in quite a few lately. Tonight is probably a great chance to make up for them and here I sit blogging instead of sleeping. *sigh* I just really wanted to catch up on everyone's week and also post a little about ours. Teeth, teeth and more teeth is still the drill. It has been pretty tricky lately trying to deal with a very unhappy and in pain cutie pie. The fact that he

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-89418941441465754642008-07-29T17:55:00.003-06:002008-07-29T18:08:58.180-06:00

Since I forgot to do it on Saturday for his 14th month day, I did a little weigh in and height check in today. The little goober is measuring a healthy 32 inches and a whopping 24.5 pounds. Apparently, he's between the 75th and 90th percentile for length and the 50th to 75th for weight....which if you were a reader of our family blog last year has you shouting a big woo hoo since he was in the

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-51155603410822554032008-07-28T11:04:00.002-06:002008-07-28T11:09:41.162-06:00

And never slowing down. What a blessing it has been having this little guy to amuse me. He's such a doll.He's been working on his walking/running again lately. We're still doing about 8 steps and then a boom on his bum, but they seem to be a little more sure. He's also just a little chatter bug. I wish I could understand all of what he's saying because I just know it must be amusing as all

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-7727487097237300512008-07-24T22:09:00.001-06:002008-07-24T22:09:49.276-06:00

Nicholas took his first bath in the big boy tub without me this evening. Ever since he moved from his small tub to the big tub, I have jumped in and enjoyed in his water play antics. Tonight, though, I thought we'd try things without me in the tub and it didn't seem to even phase him so we may just keep on this path.It's yet another sign that my little guy is growing up. It really does happen

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-87244985883532077932008-07-24T09:38:00.003-06:002008-07-24T09:42:47.387-06:00

Nicholas is back to being my loveable (well, he's always been loveable!) kissy boy. I was beginning to suffer from withdrawal symptoms as he'd gone through a kiss strike or something. But last night it came to a close at dinner time when he decided that it would be a great time (when he had food all over his face, of course) to give Mommy a ton of kisses. It was too cute and I didn't even mind

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-90057394858850244782008-07-23T07:03:00.003-06:002008-07-23T07:37:05.792-06:00

My son is an impatient boy. He seems to be like his father and rush into things head first...and he's suffering because of it. You all know he's teething...no surprise there since I've mentioned it countless times. But imagine my surprise when I discovered on Monday evening, when cleaning his teeth, that there was a lower canine tooth that had pushed through right next to his first molar!Ay

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Nicholas is a little socialite...and he might garner the name LL Cool Nick if he doesn't watch out. Ladies Love Cool Nick. It's very true. Tonight we went to check out a young adults group starting at our church...not sure if it is our "scene," but it was nice to chat with a few people we've seen there our age and get to know them a bit better. There was a little BBQ at one of the couples'

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-21714891796052428272008-07-17T12:22:00.003-06:002008-07-17T12:36:14.465-06:00

Diapering and dressing a baby could be so much fun? I'm guessing other mommies and that is about it! I chuckle as I write this because my little brother Doug and his girlie Lea came and watched Nicholas during my grand opening last weekend (Daddy had another class to attend). I only got to see them for a couple of seconds as I was rushing out the door, but my brother made sure to show me the "

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-86210309489553868082008-07-16T15:35:00.002-06:002008-07-16T15:45:19.315-06:00

Every Wednesday for some months, Nicholas and I have jumped out of bed (more like crawled unhappily) to take Mark to Panera Bread for his weekly BNI meeting. After this morning's meeting, we discovered our trips to Panera on Wednesdays have come to an end. Praise the Lord!One of the members of Mark's group has graciously offered to pick Mark up in the morning and take him to the meeting then

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-5599724191914093182008-07-15T21:07:00.003-06:002008-07-15T21:15:20.544-06:00

Yep. We're in trouble. The sprout has become a creeping weed. He is enjoying this new trick that makes Mommy squeal with delight (despite her knowledge that she soon will have even more of a handful on her hands)...walking. We've had several instances of him giving it a shot now. I would love to get it on video, but I have this funny feeling that the moment the camera is on he'll abstain.

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Nicholas took 3 steps yesterday. They were tentative and tiny, but I saw them...my life is very close to changing and it frightens me a bit! It doesn't help that our dear Daddy is suggesting to the little guy that he should start running...forget walking. Ugh. No running, please...how shall I keep up?I just remembered a funny little discovery I made when I arrived home from my grand opening

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-78096197036555777442008-07-13T11:04:00.003-06:002008-07-13T11:40:37.194-06:00

Nicholas had great fun in church today during the announcements. I'm not sure if the priest said something fun, if I made a funny face or if an angel whispered a funny joke in his ear, but he started giggling like crazy! I failed miserably at trying to keep a straight face...and I wasn't alone. There were people all around us who were trying not to giggle along with my jovial boy. What a

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-66889397790089017222008-07-12T22:03:00.002-06:002008-07-12T22:09:52.380-06:00

This is the number of pounds I have left before I am my pre-pregnancy weight. Not too shabby. I am noticing I'm looking much better in a lot of my clothes again.I definitely do miss having Nicholas "on the inside" sometimes. I barely remember all of the bad stuff about being pregnant (I'm not going to rush and read any of my posts from those days when I was having a tough time of it either!),

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-28219171172416291202008-07-11T22:04:00.002-06:002008-07-11T22:11:09.070-06:00

I have not yet mentioned here just how much my son loves a bath. It is quite amusing. Turn on the water and he immediately crawls to the bathroom and starts saying "eh, eh, eh..." It's utterly adorable. Of course, if the bath isn't for him, the resulting tantrum is not very adorable at all. I tried once to take Nicholas into the shower with me when he was having a tantrum. Someone had told

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-20020180978513505892008-07-11T10:21:00.002-06:002008-07-11T10:31:01.007-06:00

Aside from watching him sleep, watching him eat (especially bananas...it's so darn cute I tried to get video this morning, but the little goober got full around the time I thought to grab the camera!), and pretty much just watching Nicholas do anything, there is something I love to do with him. We enjoy a good chase. For now this is an easy task on me (unless he heads to the tile kitchen floor.

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-4057718489219707812008-07-10T22:15:00.003-06:002008-07-10T22:26:28.463-06:00

I'm going to run out of catchy titles sooner or later, but we'll enjoy them while they come to mind. We ended the day as we started it, with me rocking Nicholas to sleep. How precious. No real fights tonight which is a blessing. Usually it is a bit of a battle. I was a "bad mommy" and didn't brush his teeth this evening, though. And, much to his chagrin, I'm sure, there was no bath...it was

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-5573910878412896742008-07-10T08:26:00.003-06:002008-07-10T08:32:03.734-06:00

Few things are as relaxing to me as rocking with Nicholas. This morning I enjoyed a little piece of heaven by getting out of bed with my sleeping baby and going to the front room to rock so that he could enjoy a few more moments of restful sleep. The little guy is having a tough time with the whole sleep thing thanks to the teething issues. I feel for him.He and Mark and I enjoyed a visit with

MeLissa Rocconoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170374657972319957.post-2891918570216374582008-07-09T14:42:00.002-06:002008-07-09T14:48:48.415-06:00

A very wise mommy suggested I get back into the blogging habit by blogging about little things that make me happy. So I set this up to try to do just that. I'm not sure I'll post pictures here, but I will try to at least give you one moment in my day with my dear son that has made me feel joyful. I'm sure it will be good for my soul...hopefully it will be good for yours as well.Today's moment

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