Long time no post

Well since we got home from the beach i feel like we have been going non stop. The ride home from the beach i started to feel funky and wouldnt you know i ended up being sick the whole weekend with fever, chills, etc. I still went to work on sunday night and made it through although i felt like i was floating around the whole time-gotta love sinus funk. So last week we just did things around the house and ran errand. We went to story time at Davis Kid one day. and I sent Will to MDO an extra day this week (fri) since i had to work all three nights this weekend, I figured playing with his friends would be more fun than napping with me all day. So i worked fri and saturday and slept the rest of the weekend away. We missed church on sunday but i was just plum exhausted and i heard it was crazy bc Amy Grant was there and no offense to anyone but just the idea of people only coming to church bc she was there kinda irritated to me (since that is not the reason to go to church) . I guess we wont really know that was the case unil this weekend but I am gonna go out on a limb and say it wont be nearly as crowded (but in the same sense if it is just as packed i think that will be a wonderful thing) So just like the rest of the weekend i slept the day away :( Joey took Will to the Childrens Museum for the first time and he said he had a blast! He took pictures so i got to see. I will have to download from my little camera so i can post them. After that they headed out to Bartlett since Joey had a softball game. Well at 5pm i got the call i had longed for all weekend i got cancelled from work...YEAH! So i went out to Bartlett and watched Joeys game and then we went to his parents for a bit. When I called work at i 9 thought I might have to go in but it ended up not being the case so i got to stay home. So after Will was in bed i started reading a new book. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin . It was so good that i started it sunday night and finsished it yeasterday afternoon. I am now reading Somethin Blue (the follow up ) but i dont think I will finsish it as fast bc today is cleaning day at the Bousson house and I have a photoshoot this evening and we are gonna try to go to the redbirds game tonight with Will, Thats about all the excitement that has been occuring in our household so i gotta run and do another load of laundry :) More pics to come soon!

First Big Boy Day of MDO

So I totally forgot ( way to go me) to post about Wills first day in his big boy class at MDO! I am sure I have blogged about this before but I just love Wills MDO program and his teacher was just the most amazing lady. She loved Will so much ( Im sure she loved everyone in her class Im just speaking as in she was genuine and that made me feel that he was safe there). So when the time came for him to move up to the next classroom I was really stressed. I am not good with change and after having the not so great transition at church childcare I wanted this go round to go better bc this is a more permanent situation. Well Will missed his first day bc we were at the beach so this monday was the first time he went. I had my bestie...his "Aunt" Sandra make his a super stylin all boy (car-not the movie) nap mat and I packed his diaper bag and then Daddy took him off to school. It was a typical mon morning for me got off work had a photoshoot ate some lunch and then I went to pick up my boy. Well i got there and went up to the door and saw him playing away. Icalled his name and he waved and then he proceeded to talk (in his language) to me and point to every wall in his classroom as if to tell me all about what is on each of them. And he even did a little tappy feet dance. it was adorable I wish I wouldve had my flip. After that I met one of his teachers and spoke to her for a while and my heart was immediately put at ease She is just as wonderful as Wills previous teacher and she had nothing but good things to say about his day. He even did well sleepign on his nap mat ( this was the biggest concern for me) she said he slept an hour ( that is longer than he was sleeping in the other class). So I was pleased and Will was happy what more can you ask for? I snapped a pic on my phone but dont have all the cords to upload it on here so guess this will be a pic free post just wante to make sure i wrote about the experience before it left my mind :)

Storytime and then some

I must say today was bunches of fun! It was cool this morning so I wanted to get out and about the heat has kept us in lately. So Since I didnt have a jogging stroller to get out and the last time i went to a park near the house there was a freaky guy (and everyone was at work today) I decided we would at least get out and about so I thought I remembered the Davis Kidd had storytime so I looked it up and sure enough we were in luck. I read to Will at a young age and bless his heart is true boy and would rather play with trucks and trains than sit and read a book well lately he has become more interested in all his books so I am trying to enhance that every way I can. I would like to say he did well at storytime but truth be told i think that poor old lady who reads (and gets a little fiesty) was having her nerves worked by yours trully's little one haha. They put the trains up so Will found the little truck stand behind the lady and insisted he get trucks out of there that he then played on the train set with haha. I thought it was funny anyhow and he was being wuiet so he wasnt disrupting anyone else. Except for the part where I tried to take the little trucks from him and he went crazy ( dead weight and screaming and if you remember we are paci free so I had no ammo against this battle) So we quickly left leaving a trail of stares all the way out the door I am sure we were quite the site :) Afterward we hopped into the mall so I could return a bathing suit top i didnt use while in Florida...yeah for money back in my account! It was still pretty cool at this point (yes 85 is cool to me) so I though about a quick trip to the zoo but after a quick check in the rearview i realized Will had other plans as in a nap. So we headed home to nap. Whiel he napped I caught up on photo sessions. I am completely done with the exception of the newborn shoot i did yesterday woo hoo. Once Will woke up from his nap we played with out neighbors out front for about an hour and then we came inside and got ready for dinner.
Speaking of dinner Will is hilarious these days. He is signing "more" all over the place he wants MORE of everything. We just laugh and try to figure out what he wants. The other day we were in his room and he poked me and signed more and walked in the kitchen and pointed to his cabinet. Hes such a big boy! Where has the time gone????

Back To Reality

Well now that our yearly vacation has come to an end it back to the old hustle and bustle. I worked last night and never really made it to bed today so pardon me if there are more typos than normal hehe and now I am editing away trying to catch up on photoshoot stuff so i can edit some more beach pics :) I just wanted to state that Moms night out tonight was so much fun and MUCH needed! I had a blast and found out even more things I have in common with all my mommy friends! I am so lucky to have found such a wonderful bunch of women to get together with and share such fun stories and life experiences ( not to mention all of our mom of the year stories lol) Much more on vacation and moms group to come in the future but this post is just to state what has taken place in our house in the past 3 days since we have been home.... We are paci FREE in this household. I was suprisingly easier than I imagined ( although today when i wanted to nap and Will was not having it i sure did think about it but i didnt give in)other than that there hasnt really even been an fussiness over it which makes me happy dont wanna see my boy sad. Thats the only big news around here, hopefully i will get caught up soon and post the goods!

Quick Pic Post

There are many more to come :) Tonight is beach pics round 1

The Beach is a blast and here is proof

The Beach

So after the oil and the "we are going, no we arent, we are going, no we arent" we are indeed GOING to the BEACH....YEAH! This is an annual trip that we take with my in-laws. We stay in my husbands Uncles condo for a week and it is always Fabulous! The past 2 years by far have been the best. A month after returning from the beach in 08 we found out we were expecting :) and last year was Wills first trip to the beach. And then of course this year will be so much more fun for him bc he is such a water baby I am hoping he will be a beach bum and play the day away in the sand and ocean. I hope to carry on this yearly tradition so that he can enjoy the beach as much as we do! I have managed to pack all of his stuff in one bag (...surely he doesnt need a whole weekender Vera Bradley to himself and it certainly wouldnt be BUSTING at the seems, I mean his mommy TOTALLY knows that it completely unecessary!) When all of my stuff fits into half of a medium suitcase ( the other half is for daddy). I am so very excited about beach pictures now that i have upgraded all my gear from our last visit and got a flash i am super pumped about nightly photo sessions ( so yes there will be tons of pictures) WE usually do the all white beach pictures and I am sure we will do this one night but I am really wanting to do black and white clothes this year-black is way more forgiving anyways and I have seen some pictures lately of this and i personally think it looks alot better than the standard over used all white! I also cannot wait for the shopping!!! I love the outlet mall down there and last year i bought most of Wills wardrobe there for some great prices and I hope to do the same this year! Well i guess thats about it for now I am getting the house all clean and finsishing up the packing bc i have a photoshoot tonight in arkansas and then I work tomm night so im starting the feel the panic of not getting everything ready so unless I decide to post some pics while we are down there i guess this is tata for a week or so :)

Rain Rain Go Away

Since it was yucky outside we were cooped up in the house ALL day but we made the best of it with some photo shoots. Now onto editing pics all night !!

Mondays CAN be FUN-days

The New Way to Grocery Shop
He Likes to Ride Trucks
And Loves Shrek
Check Out this Stud!

So every monday facebook is filled with status posts about how awful Mondays are and that the weekend is over. WELL since i work weekends Mondays are my Fridays and they have been really great lately. i have started a new tradition of going to eat sushi by myself every monday. Just some quiet "me" time since Will is at mothers day out. Will only started MDO bc i work sundays and we felt MDO was safer than being cared for by a mommy who has been up all night lol. But now that I have been on nights a while i am getting used to not sleeping as much i have been getting out more and getting things done on mondays. Today i got sushi as usual and I always have the same server ( even when me and Joey go at night) and after I got done eating she said that the food was on her . I thought it was the sweetest gesture and it totally continued my good day :) Then I went to Dillards and got some bathing suits for the beach next week. After that I just ran some other errands and then headed home. Then I picked up little man from MDO and we had a great afternoon together. Now its time to edit pictures and get the house and us ready to head to the beach saturday. Woo Hoo!

Stopping to Smell the Roses

Everyone knows the scenario..there arent enough hours in the day to get everything done, If only you had a few extra limbs to assist with household chores etc. I always seem to find myself in a sprint to get things done. Being practically a stay at home mom ( i work 2 nights a week while little man sleeps)you would think I had all the time in the world. I have now added photography into my daily routine which I LOVE but it can definitely keep me busy lol. Anyways enough rambling my point is that although I am with my son 24/7 I often feel distracted with the rest of lifes demands. When I feel this way it makes me sad I dont want my son to see me as the top of a head behind a computer screen (editing pics) or staring down at a phone or always trying to keep a clean house instead of playing. So lately I have been trying to really pay attention to what my son sees me do. Will isnt the little baby he once was, there isnt any down time so I have begun to take advantage of it and I couldnt be more happy with the outcome. I hope this doesnt sound awful to anyone you read some blogs and its always peachy keen jelly bean but this is how i am going to remember things and I want it to be the truth and not the sugar coated kind! We have had so much fun lately. I have begun to blog and edit and facebook ONLY when he is napping or in bed for the night. I now know the dishes can wait ( believe me that wasnt the hardest thing to do i was already pretty good at this) We have been singing lots of songs and working on animal sounds and body parts. He likes to say ah ah ah (monkey) and unfortunately the only body part he "knows" is well his boy part and mommy didnt teach hime that ( dont worry daddy didnt either and NO we dont say where is your boy part and he points it out he just holds on to it whenever he is naked as if it might fall off lol. Life is changing so much and it is so amazing to see their little minds work ( i know i probably say that all the time). Dont know why i went off on this ramble i guess you just wonder if anyone can relate? Either way the new schedule has been a lot more fun than the old one. I will leave ou with my favorite recent pic of Will. He is growing so fast! Oh and I almost forgot when we left church wed am as i was closing the door closest to him he was pointing and yelling dadadada, of course dada was no where around so as I got in the car i looked in the direction he was still pointing and wouldnt you know there was a silver truck (liek what his daddy drives) lookd like they are a lot smarter than we give them credit for :)

New Header

Yeah I know I am always changing it up but thats just me. I changed it up this time bc this is the little project i was working on. This is just a rough draft bc Love is spelt with only my hands. I hope to get a letter with Joeys hand and then a letter with Wills hand (not sure how that will work so his face may just end up being the O, and then I am trying to think of a crafty way to include the dogs maybe have em all lay down for the E and use a stick to connect it together heck i dunno. Any whoo this is what I want to put about my bed when we redecorate our master bedroom. I really loved the art you can get these days where your name is spelled out in letters that are pictures of everyday stuff ( i will try to find a picture to explain) but EVERYONE has them not to mention the are UBER expensive so i thought this was and individual spin off that i am very pleased with. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to make it better :) My craftiness only goes so far

Picture Time

A Few of todays Faves

Wills new BIG BOY shoes (sz 6 from a sz 3)
Fabrics for the attempted nap mat i am going to try and make for MDO

I noticed last night at work that it has been a LONG time (with exception of horses) that I have just taken pics of Will just to take pics so driving home today my only agenda was to capture the day in photos (which wouldnt be easy bc i was exhausted from working all night and Will had MDO) soooo as soon as I walked in the door I scooped up my camera and took some pics before he left and then I took some when we got home. he is napping now so I though I would post a few :) I witll probably edit this post and upload more later but my silly comp takes forever and I am trying to upload some more storyboard actions to pse so I can change it up a bit. I mentioned a photo project a while back and well i kinda started on it this morning so i am hoping one of these storyboards serves its purpose.....more to come

Its Really August...already?!?!

Time just seems like it is flying by so quickly! I cant believe it is already August it seems like it was just Wills first birthday and now here we are rounding the corner to 18 mths. One plus to it being August 1st is that I sucessfully ordered my ZOO BREW tickets today for Sept 3rd woo hoo. Me and Joey had such a great time earlier this summer at the first one that we are going again and this time our friends Rachel and Clint S. are joining us :) Can you tell I am excited :) I am not a lush I just truly enjoy the taste of beer from time to time for those of you who enjoy wine tastings this is MY version!)

Enough of that though onto more interesting things like that fact that Wills nickname should be spiderman because he is climbing all ovr everything. I am truly impressed that we have not ended up at the hospital yet!! Just today he climbed into his high chair which ours is pretty high so it looks like i will be keeping it on its lower leverl from now on. The funny thing was that we can actually remove the chair from the high part and it can sit on the ground (its a convertible highchair) So i thought it would be cute to put it on the ground and see what he did and well wouldnt you know it wasnt hardly as exciting for him anymore lol. My little man the daredevil. He is also teething and well it is making for some LONG nights :( He wakes up screaming and it just breaks my heart I have actually given in and given him a bottle the past few nights (we stopped bottles a few weeks ago) but it seems to be the only thing that calms him down. We are also using the teething tablets and I am not sure what my stand is on them sometimes i think they work and then other times im not so sure. Not to mention they are just belladonna tablets ( a medication that use to be and rx and is now over the counter and was used as a sedative back in the day lol) I am sure the tabs are very small doeses but the only information I can find on belladonna links it to opiates and phenobarb haha kinda crazy. makes me wonder if im sedating my child????

Speaking of treatments we are currently treating Will for a spider bite :( So a couple of weeks ago we found what we thought was a brown recluse. Well it was actually just a cellar spider but either way Will was bitten by some icky critter right on his left elbow. It is swollen red and has a dark center so being the paranoid nurse mom that I am I immediately went to the urgent care office yesterday seeing that our dr office was closed. I only did this bc i thought if it were a brown recluse bite (brown center) that I would much rather start antibiotic therapy prior to a dr visit on manday whenever we could be fit in and i thought the copay was the same as the peds office....Well NOPE the copay was actually 40.00! (upon hearing this i kinda felt that maybe we shouldve waited but anyone who knows me knows that was out of the question haha after all its just money right lol) So we were actually the only people there (nice to know that I wasnt exposing him to twice as many germs just to get his arm looked at! He totally put on the charm to he was flirting up a storm walking all over like he owned the place! We ended up seeing Dr. Wllis he was very nice and indeed confirmed my fear it was a spider bite BUT he didnt think it was a brown recluse :) He said to watch him and do motrin. benadryl and neosprin/peoxide to the site) and monitor for increased swelling-oozing etc (and follow up with dr if the s/s appeared). Well today it was more red in color but no increase in the brown aread or size so i guess we are ok for now?! I dont know what I am gonna do with this little guy I wish i had taken a picture of him he has 3 mosquito bites on his face his left eye is black and blue from a run in with the laptop (laptop-1 Will-0) a slight rash all over his body (whats new my baby is the rashy-est kid in the world) and then his spider bite on his arm...good thing his pictures were a couple weeks ago :)

speaking of pictures in 2 weeks I will be heading to the BEACH and I intend on taking TONS of pictures while I am there :) I hope Will enjoys the ocean this year last year he did so good ( we had the greatest set up bouncy seat in sun shade tent under the umbrella with the fan blowing in his direction) this year i hope he enjoys playing in the sand and water. Maybe he will even come back with a head full of white hair seeing how me and his daddy were little toe heads ( i believe thats what they call white hair beach babies). Guess we will have to wait and see!

And lastly I am needing some advice from my mommy friends out there. We have been going to HOPE for a while now and we have LOVED it. After Will was born I became part of the moms group there and we even started putting him in the nursery during sunday service. In the crawler room he LOVED it and you could tell the volunteers really loved taking care of the children and they would always give you a little report on how he did and we would always get the same thing "Please bring him back to our room next sunday he did great and we had so much fun playing with him" This made me feel so good bc as a mom im sure most can relate in the fact that you dont like leaving your child with strangers even if it is church! Well since he has started walking he now goes to the one year old /walking room and well I must say that I am very dissappointed with it. Everytime we have gone to drop him off it has felt more like a burden than a positive experience ( i have even started grabbing a pager bc it makes me that nervous). I guess i should say me and Joey go to the 1000 Hope service (lol they only have a 930 service we are just normally 20 minutes late bc it takes forever to get out the door and on our way) So i understand that by the time we drop him off most of the classes are full but instead of addressing the number of children in each class as a safety concern for the child (which i understand so many kids per adult) they make it seem like you cant come here we are full (and if they are truly full there is a sign on the clipboard that says this class is full please go to classroom such and such)I mean today the first room we went to was full so we went to the room it said to go to well then that woman said we have 14 kids go to the next room then that woman asked if we checked the other room and when I said yes she said they have 14 she said well we have that many too. WELLLLLL...so I looked at my husband and said maybe we should go to the cry room with him and they lady looked like that is what she wanted me to do but my husband handed her will and we headed towards church ( i also stopped to get a pager and there werent any so i was even that much more nervous seeing that last week the lady told Joey that Will got the climber of the day award since everytime they turned around he was on top of the tables ugh!) So I guess the help I need is some advice I dont want to find another church for this reason but its really weighing heavy on my heart and i dont know what to do? I mean i volunteered there one wed night and had an awful experience so i politely declined to continue volunteering bc i knew it wasnt for me. I wish others would do the same.

Ok so I think that is all that has been going on in my world this week. I hope everyone has a wonderful week :)