Happy Memorial Weekend!

We just missed the Memorial Day parade in Twinsburg. It brings back old memories as I marched in the parade every year for 4 years. Three of the years carrying a large bass drum in a hot band uniform.

Our softball team won it's game on Friday I went 3 for 4 with some solid hits. The Cavaliers also won their game. They were up by 23 at one point, and then began to SUCK and started losing. Orlando scored with 1 second left to put the Magic back over the Cavs by two points. Lebron James had a decent game, but no one will remember anything but the last shot. With one second left, Mo Williams (my favorite player) inbounds the ball to Lebron after he tries many times to get open, and he turns and shoots and it gets right in to beat the buzzer. It was amazing! We were listening to the game in the car, and whooped and hollered the last 3 miles home. Then we watched the replay about 3,000 times, (and never got sick of it). They are now calling that "The Shot". Thank goodness, perhaps people will soon forget Michael Jordon's "The Shot" which was against Cleveland so many years ago.

Saturday was a great day also. I had gotten some gift cards to The Gap for Christmas, and since I start work next Monday and I still do not fit in my pre-preggo clothes, I went shopping! Unfortunately, $75 doesn't go very far at the Gap, even with the Memorial Day sales. After that we went to Home Depot to buy another freezer! YAY! Now our freezer in our kitchen can hold more than just milk, and I can start buying bulk meat when it's on sale and store it in the garage freezer! After that we drove to the west side and visited my grandpa and grandma Marion and then to Aunt Di and Uncle Terry's to pick up some bicycles so Adam can fix them and resell them. He fixed up one of the nice bikes for my little cousin, and then we went grocery shopping at Walmart. $350 later(!! I guess not grocery shopping since before Ares came wasn't a good idea), we had two filled fridge/freezers, and no shelf space anywhere in our house. (our file cabinet now holds cereal, hahah!)

Sunday was fun too. We had a family picnic up at the baseball fields across from my parents' house. Great Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt were there as were all of my cousins (that live in town). we played ball, ate lots of food, and soaked up the sun and then Ares stayed overnight at Grandma Venus' house while mommy and daddy went to Mark's house for a picnic and to watch the Cavaliers play awful and lose.
Monday was a day full of buying bikes, selling bikes and fixing bikes. Adam (thankfully) made me go for a jog with our new jogging stroller. Man, am I out of shape! My body was hurting so bad, my tongue hurt! (No, actually, it did!)

More information about the baby tomorrow. His 2 month appointment is at 1. I can't wait to learn how much he weighs and how long/tall he is!!

Go Cavs! (Again!)

Monday was pretty nice. Adam had the day off to recover (and was slightly helpful with the baby). I had gotten up with the baby a few times that night, so Adam let me sleep in until roughly 9, which was really nice. We relaxed a lot, caught up on Greek, and then met some friends and their kids at the Winking Lizards to watch the Cav's game. The Cavs swept the Atlanta Hawks in the semi-finals (or quarter finals??) for playoffs, naturally. We are starting to get pretty confident here in Cleveland, I hope that these boys continue to play well. There's a game room (that consists of 5 games) so we sent the kiddos (ages 2, 7 and 9) to play games. They played about $30 worth of the claw game, and got many small trinkets, and a large stuffed penguin. The two year old RAN the penguin over to Ares, and gave it to Adam. She was beaming at the fact that they won a gift for the baby. It was adorable! She was so excited, that after she gave it to us, she was just jumping jumping jumping - and beaming! We have plenty of stuffed animals, and we certainly don't need any more, but she was so proud, it was adorable, (plus, it's a penguin, lol). Again, pictures to come soon!

Mother's Day

Again, Mother's Day wasn't ideal for me, as I still had to do everything (dishes, laundry, all diapers, spit up, etc) but it was still a pretty enjoyable day. Ares and I met my parents and Grandmother at the Golden Corral for breakfast. It's a huge buffet place, that we learned, if you get up early enough, you can beat the rush. (We went a few years ago, and my father and I vowed to never return). Mom worked the night before, so we met after she got off of work and we were nearly the only people there. All of the workers stopped by one by one to see the baby, because our server kept telling everyone how cute he was. HE WAS CUTE! I had him in his button down blue shirt and tie (from Easter), a pair of jeans, and his "new" chucks (that my mom got at a garage sale). Those shoes are my favorite, it's too bad he'll eventually grow out of them.
Since my mom worked the night before and the night of Mother's Day, and Adam was gone, it was pretty much just me and my father. My dad offered to feed and burp the baby (twice!) while I scrap-booked. What a great idea that was! I got a few pages of Ares' baby book in. I have so many pictures, I think it's going to take me YEARS to do his first month! Crazy!! I only have the first weeks amount of pictures printed up. I got home from my parents' mid afternoon to find another large box from 1-800-flowers. Adam had sent me a dozen pink roses and 6 calla lilies. It's a beautiful bouquet!
Adam got home relatively early (5:30pm). He must have busted his butt to ride 100 miles and drive up from Columbus that early. It was nice to see him, but he slept from 5:30 until the next morning, other than getting up for the pizza that I had ordered for dinner. At least he took Monday off of work!
I wish I had pictures of Mother's Day other than the flowers, Adam took my camera with him on his bike ride so that he could take pictures. I'll have to see if my mom has any from that day. Here, Ballpark is spooning with the baby.

TOSRV

Adam is out of town this weekend doing his 200 mile bikeride from Columbus to Portsmouth and back. He's finished the first 100 miles, and is sleeping over at a high school gymnasium tonight. I really miss him. It's not easy watching a puppy and caring for a 6.5 week old baby all alone. Props to single parents. It's tough - not to mention the fact that I just miss him. I got my first mother's day gift from Ares this year. I thought we were just going to count the patio furniture as my gift, but Ares "stole my credit card and logged online" (according to Adam) and had a beautiful azelia tree delivered. It's about 6" tall, and beautiful. I'm not really a flower person, (I like the way they look, but don't like the fact that they die so quickly) so a tree is a perfect gift! It was a nice surprise.

I had always pictured Mother's Day as sleeping in, breakfast in bed and then a family day. I guess I will never have a Mother's Day like that as TOSRV is always this weekend. I guess it'll be like when my brother and I hit the high school age and were always out of town on Mother's Day. I am looking forward to Adam getting home tomorrow, even if it is going to be late. He also has Monday off of work to recover, so hopefully we can spend some time together before the Cav's game.

Short

While I lay here listening to Ares scream through the monitor (he doesn't want to fall asleep), I thought I would tell everyone that Ares slept for over 8 hours last night- straight! What a marvelous baby. *sigh* back to the crying....

Is there a return policy?

Alright, so the title of this post is a little harsh. We had the WORST day ever yesterday. By far, I don't know who the child in my house was! It started when he refused to sleep Monday night. He woke up so many times, it was a vast change from Sunday night where he gave us 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep. He took one half hour nap the entire day. I took him to visit my coworkers, where he was good, but VERY fussy. Once we got home, he cried non stop for about 6 hours, it was very frustrating. The doctor didn't return my calls until this morning! To make matters worse, there was projectile spit up, which ruined many of my clothes and robe and all of his outfits for the day, not to mention the diaper blow out we had that got all over his beautiful swing. It's washable, but to take the cover off to wash it takes a long time. Ah well, TODAY is a good day so far. I hope it continues that way, it is only 10am. But so far, he has been such a pleasure to have around!

He's out of his newborn sized clothes, and out of NB sized diapers too! He's growing so much! Today I had to put him in one of my favorite outfits for one last time. Then it's time to box them up, and on to 0-3 and 3 month clothes! WOW!

Not a Gambleing Man

It's too bad. As we sat down to dinner Saturday night, the Kentucky Derby was just about to start. Adam sat down, and said "#8 is going to win". Damned if he wasn't right. With a 1 in 50 odds of winning, we sure do wish he would have put $10 or something larger on that feeling he had. Oh well!

Our softball game was cancelled on Friday due to rain, but we still made it to our sponsor's bar. Of course, Ares slept the first part, but after we fed him, he was wide eyed and very observant. He was such a good boy. He let my teammates hold him, and smiled and stuck his tongue out at them many times. Nathan thought it would be funny for our young Miller child to be called "Miller Lite" now. Again, I had absolutely no part of this. But I do think this is a fun picture. Ares was dressed up in all of his Cavs gear. He looked GOOD!

The Past Week...

We have ourselves a big boy! At the doctors office on Monday (he was exactly 5 weeks old) Ares weighed in at 8 lbs 10 oz and 21.25" long. He didn't grow too much in length, but he sure did get some meat on his bones! He is noticeably bigger than a couple of weeks ago. We also saw Ares really smile. He will now smile back if you smile at him. I'm waiting for the laugh, but the smile is so big and it just warms my heart.

My mother saw some cute Cleveland Cavaliers outfits for 0-3 months, and since the Cav's are in the playoffs, she bought them, ALL of them. There are 3 different outfits, 2 caps, one baseball hat, two sets of booties, a onesie, footsie pants, a jumper, pants, and a sweater, each outfit came with a toy as well. The really cool thing about all of this is that all of the outfits SORT of match, so we can mix and match all of the pieces. I have a softball game tonight, and I'm not sure if I'm bringing Ares or not, but if I do, he's dressed excellently!


Look at Ares' muscles! Almost as big as Daddy's!
Go Cavs! We're gonna win!