Family Pictures!

My friend Naomi took some absolutely amazing family pictures of us. Here are our favorites!









Can you believe that it was only about 40 degrees out and dreary looking and we were freezing? I swear she's such an amazing photographer!

Carving Pumpkins and "Pumpkin Guts"!

I know it's been forever since I've updated unfortunately but Dominic has been sick and my Dad is in the hospital after having surgery and all kinds of other problems. You can check out the updates on Dommie, my Dad, my school stuff, and some awesome new scrap pages at Mommie To A Dramanic.

Now, onto what you really want to see! Some updated photos of Dommie. These are from the night we carved our pumpkin. Dommie was hilarious, he didn't want to touch the "pumpkin guts" inside the pumpkin, but he was more than willing to touch them once they came out of the pumpkin. He would take them from the spoon and plot them into the bowl. One of the scrapbooking pages on Mommie to a Dramanic is about that.

Getting Ready to Dig In! (or not)

Helping Mommie with the Spoon

Watching Daddy get it all cleaned out

Mommie tried to get me to put my hand inside...ewwww

All of us together! Mommie figured out the camera timer!!!

That's all for now but stay tuned for more tomorrow if all goes well. Dommie and I are probably going to stay the night with Charity tonight so we can spend tomorrow visiting my Dad.

Halloween is here!

We decided to go with the Devil costume - here are some pics! Dommie LOVES his costume!





Dominic picking out pumpkins and gourds:





After picking out pumpkins, we went to the "Halloween Nights" festival at Parky's Farm.

Dommie is sick

Dominic woke up sunday night with a temperature and had a fever all day. It got up to 105.4! We took him to the doc and they said it's most likely a viral infection that's going around that should only last 2 or 3 days. They also took a throat culture to test for strep and will have the results by tomorrow. Tiffany stayed home with him yesterday and today. We've been keeping the temp down with tylenol and motrin, and a few impromptu baths. Hopefully we can avoid catching whatever it is that he has. Poor guy!

A Dommie Video!

Tonight there will be a Dommie video for all of you. We have tons of pictures that we have just uploaded so check them out here if you want. I'll be posting them over the next few days.

Without further ado here's the video!



This is a video of Dommie watching his favorite show right now! The Addie show! Addie is the little girl of one of the mommies on my mommie board. She and Dominic are actually only a few days apart in age. Every night when I get on the computer Dommie runs over and asks for "Addie" It's really too cute. He got shy when we turned the camera on this time but it's still pretty cute.

Dommie loves videos of Addie :)

My friend Cory has a blog called "Yes, they keep me busy" the link to it is on my personal blog.. Cory posts tons of fun videos of her kids, Addie and Ben, (I know we need to post more fun videos of Dommie) and Dommie LOVES to watch videos of Addie. He asks every night to see "Addie Videos" it's seriously way too cute. While the videos are on he stares at the screen without even blinking periodically saying "ah-dee!" and smiling lots. We actually took a video of him watching Addie videos tonight so we'll post that soon. John also got a great video of him dancing and playing "Ring Around The Rosie"

Stay tuned for the videos in a few days!

Check out these Halloween Costume Ideas for Dommie

Here are some of the costumes that John and I liked as we were looking around tonight. What do you think? We would really love your thoughts!

Elephant

Devil

More ideas to come later. Please feel free to add any ideas you see too!

Halloween Costume Ideas

We are trying to decide what Dominic should be for Halloween and we would love your ideas! He doesn't seem to care all that much so far. He liked a puppy costume we saw in a magazine and John and I were thinking since he LOVES Mickey Mouse he might like that too.

What do you think?

Possible costume links to follow in a post later today. Feel free to add any pictures or other ideas you have in the comments section.

Playing with other kids

Dommie's friend Ezra came over for a visit today. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures but the too of them had so much fun together. Dommie was actually playing with Ezra and sharing his toys and everything. If Ezra reached for a toy Dommie would hand it to him even if Dommie had been playing with it already. It was way toooo cute.

At one point Ezra was crawling after Dommie and Dommie was giggling like crazy about it. I wish we would have gotten some pictures... Next time though.

Our Little Tape Recorder

Tonight Dominic was repeating everything that we said. John and I thought it was the cutest thing. Finally John asked Dommie, "Can you say tape recorder?" Dommie looked at John smiled and began bouncing around the kitchen saying "Tay-pe RE-coor-dah!" over and over again.

I really love this age he's so much fun. People kept telling us it would be the terrible toes but so far I think it's both of our favorite age for him. We get to do so much more with him.

5 days of new posts in a row!

This must be a record for us, I am trying to keep up with posting something new everyday and not forgetting all about our blogs.

Today's news is that there isn't much new! LOL

Dommie's fish are doing great. He feeds them in the morning when he gets up and a night before dinner. He loves watching them eat and every night before he goes to bed he says "Goodnight Gold Fishies!"

He has a new aloe plant that we picked up at a yard sale for him. It's just a little baby one that he can carry around with him if he wants. The rest of his plants are thriving (except one that John and I had basically killed before he got so into them).

That's about it, scroll down for the latest pics and news about Dommie and us.

If you haven't visited in awhile...

The last few posts show some of the latest pictures of Dommie and Dommie's FIRST REAL SENTENCE!!! Very exciting.

In today's news Dommie's favorite thing to do right now is say "bye-bye" or "goodnight" to EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. Trees, rocks, butterflies, random people walking by, cars, you name it. His other favorite right now is Mickey Mouse. John and I think it might be genetic since we were both really into Mickey Mouse as kids. He gets so excited when he sees Mickey and asks for him all the time. We got him a stuffed Mickey and a Mickey poster at a yard sale on Saturday.

That's all the news for today. So far so good on posting every day, check back tomorrow for something new!

Dominic's First Sentence

Dommie spoke his first clear and rather concise sentence today. He woke up from his nap (which he took thankfully, he's been trying not to take them lately) and he had spilled his sippy of water on himself while he was sleeping. I think he was laying on it and so it leaked out on him. Well he woke up and thought he had peed through his diaper on himself and started crying. Once we got him all cleaned up he was sitting on my lap and looking at me. After a minute he said "Mommie, I pee-peed in my bed" clear as can be. Then since I hadn't said anything he said it again and asked "bad boy?" We told him that no he was not a bad boy and he seemed okay with that.

The other day Moshi Moshi had peed on his bed and he heard me yelling at her about it. I think he thought that since I said that she was a bad kitty for doing it he was a bad boy for leaking through his diaper (Yes we scrubbed his bed before he laid back down in it and we are extremely thankful for having had the foresight to put a waterproof mattress cover on his bed).

Anyways that the latest news in the land of Bermanity. We are going to try to make a post here and on Mommie To A Dramanic every day so keep checking back!

Dominic at the Zoo!

This is from our last zoo trip in August. It was a lot of fun, when we were at the Manatee house another little boy ran up and hugged Dommie. It was too cute, I wish I could have gotten a picture of it.

A flower I took a picture ofDommie looking thoughtful with his Mommie

Being super cute in the car

Baby Rhino!!!!

Baby Red River Hogs

Gazing out at the lake

Baby Gazelles

The Elephant gathering

Sorry for taking forever to make new posts!

School has kept me super busy. We have tons of new pictures to share so stay tuned and keep you eyes peeled. I've also posted some of my latest scrap pages at Mommie to a Dramanic.

Speaking of our little Dramanic he is being the cutest little boy EVER lately. Tonight when we left Kroger (grocery store) he said in his sweetest voice "bye-bye Kr-oh-ger! nite-nite Kr-oh-ger! Goodnight!!!" over and over again. Sounds like it might be annoying right? Nope, it was wayyy too cute.

In other news Dommie got his very first pets! He has two "goldfishies" a red orando and a pearlscale. Neither have names yet, but both seem to be thriving and he loves feeding them and talking to them. He even tells them goodnight before he goes to bed.

Now on to what you really want to see, picture of the Dramanic! Tons more pictures to come later as we are still getting the past month's pictures uploaded.

Dommie and the Children's Museum (Thanks Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Terry!!!)

Climbing the big spiderweb

Look what I made!

What's in here?

Ohhhh sand!!!

Fishies!

Balls! Lots and Lots of flying BALLS!

Water!? How wet can I get?

Probably pretty wet seeing as I won't wear a smock.

TURTLES!

Stay tuned tomorrow for pictures of our latest zoo trips, followed by pictures of our latest trip to Louisville for GrandMary's birthday (we had a wonderful time, an amazing dinner, and awesome company) and pictures of Dommie's latest activities at home.

ENJOY!

Our Visit to GrandMary and George in Louisville

Dommie was so cute the entire time, he really hammed it up. He smiled, talked, and even learned both of their names. We went to a place called Hometown Buffett for lunch and it was very yummy. Dom even showed off his healthy eating and chose veggies over a piece of cake. Afterward we went back to the house and talked for a while. We all had a really good time and hope to head that way again soon. Dommie was even asking for GrandMary and George this morning on the way to daycare.

Here are the highlights. You can see all of the pictures here.

Dommie watching Daddy and George at the computer. Dommie smiling at GrandMary
Of course there are some pictures of Dommie with the plants.
More plants
Dommie, Mommie, and GrandMary
Dommie and George
George, John, GrandMary, and Dommie

Fingerpainting!

Dommie's new favorite activity is fingerpainting. We brought the paints out the other day and since then he's asked again and again to paint. Heather even called me today to let me know he's asking to paint and find out where she should set it up.

Here are some pictures from the other day. I'll try to get some pictures of his final pieces to post soon as well.

Grabbing just a little bit of paint for his masterpiece

Mixing it all together

Time to switch to the next painting and maybe have a bit for snack too.

What? you mean I wasn't supposed to eat it?