He walks...



I have a routine in the mornings. I have to. I am just that kind of person. If only I could fit cleaning the bathroom into my current routine. It used to be there but some how since I got back from our trip to California it just hasn't happened. Anyway, I wake up to the sound of Gavin playfully talking in his crib and once he reaches "Hey get me out of here now," status I get out of bed and head to the kitchen. I dump as many finger foods as I can find on his high chair, strap him in and pour myself some cereal. I usually turn on the Today show and make an effort to wake up. When I finish eating cereal we move into the living room where I let the Today show echo in the background while I play with Gavin. Today they were featuring a man breaking a world record for walking and then riding a bike across a tight rope several (I forget how many) stories above the ground with out a net. While he is attempting a death defying act my son decides to take a few daring and wobbly steps of his own and of course I was proud. In parallel to a man walking a tight rope stories above the ground makes Gavin's first steps nothing to blog about but in my world they mean everything. I am just glad to say that he might not need a safety net for these kind of feats but he has one, me! I can't say how thankful I am to be here for these moments and then to share them with all of you. If there are any of you still out there since I never seem to update this but if you are out there reading this thank you! It means a lot to share the small moments in our world. We don't break any world records or even neighborhood records but no can say we enjoy the small the things like 3 tiny, wobbly and hard earned first steps.

Blog Tag

I got tagged by and Niki and Nicoly so here goes.

Here how it works:
1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Write six random things about yourself.
3. Tag six people at the end of your post.
4. If you are tagged, JUST DO IT, and pass the tag along.

Now for my six things:

1. I have never met anyone famous but I would like to and I really don't care who.
2. I never finished college because I couldn't fathom spending that much money when I had no idea what I wanted to do. So I said when I knew I would go back to school. Several years later and I still have no idea. Guess I won't go back to school anytime soon.
3. I have been known to cry watching commercials. Yes, sad and pathetic I know but I do. I also cry almost every time I watch Biggest Loser especially when they get messages from home or when they get to call home or better yet when they get to go home for a visit.
4. I managed basketball in high school because I love the sport but can't play. I joined the high school golf team, I figured I could probably golf. I was #1 on the girls team for a while too. Then I went to college and have golfed maybe a handful of times since. If I had more time and more money I would golf more. I really love it! Except for when I do badly then I just hate it. Golf is kinda that way.
5. When I was young my brothers and I went to some church event where we got to make sock bunnies. Not long after I found my sock bunny pinned to a hay bale in the back yard where my brothers were using it for BB gun target practice. Why couldn't they use there own sock bunnies, will someone please explain?
6. My first car was a 1967 Volkswagen Bug. My second car, a 1965 Volkswagen Bug. It was later named "The Death Trap" someone even made me a CD with a theme song for the car. I don't remember how many times it tried to kill me but it was more than a couple. I was young and well let's face it really stupid...oh and broke which is probably why I drove it longer than I ever should have.

Tag, you're it!

Olga Smith Blog
A Cottage Family

Every other blog I know has already done this so I guess I need more blog buddies huh?