Corey's first haircut

Terence and I have established a tradition with our kids that we don't cut their hair until their first birthday. I was planning on having a friend of ours cut Corey's hair since she cuts my hair and she gave Connor his first haircut. However her little girl had her tonsils out the week after Corey's birthday and she was a little busy taking care of her, so I did not ask her to do it. Instead I decided I would take care of it myself. HAHA! The way I cut hair is to put a guard on the clippers and cut it all down to one length. I put Corey in the highchair gave him something to play with and set to work.

Before

During the haircut. Corey was not terribly in love with the clippers and not amused.

After! Terence was not home and did not know I was cutting his hair, when he got home he thought at first glance that Corey was Connor. I have to say with the shorter hair they do look an awful lot alike! It turned out pretty cute, although next time I will probably leave the haircutting to the pros.

My (not so) Dirty Little Secret

I am not the best at house work. After working all day coming home feeding and bathing the boys and then working for 2 more hours after they go to bed I just don't have a ton of time to do it. Terence is pretty good about helping out (in fact as I type this he is out cleaning the garage) but sometimes things just start to pile up. My laundry seems to be the ultimate example of this. It always gets washed but I am horrible at folding it when it comes out of the dryer. As a consequence it piles up for months on the floor of my closet.

The other day I finally told myself I was just going to do it. I took all the laundry that was on the floor of my closet and piled it up in my living room. As you can see I was not exaggerating, it was a huge pile! The boys had fun jumping off the couch into it.Well I buckled down and folded and folded and folded! Corey had fun coming behind me and unfolding everything I had already done which made it take twice as long.

About 6 hours, 8 bags for the DI and a huge bin plus two garbage bags full of baby clothes later I was done!
The lesson I have learned from all of this is to just fold the clothes when they come out of the dryer. It has been about a week since my laundry folding marathon and I am happy to say I have no unfolded clothes piled up in my closet right now. Hopefully I can keep it that way.

Twilight DVD

The Twilight DVD comes out March 21st and I have to say I am totally excited for it! Amazon is having a pre-sale of the DVD here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P5HRMI?ie=UTF8&tag=stepheniemeye-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001P5HRMI). I already ordered my copy. I know I'm a nerd...what can I say.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Birthday

As mentioned in my previous post today was Corey's birthday. We had a little party for him with Terence's parents, my Mom and Dad, Jared and Emily and Brian. With some Christmas money that I received I bought myself a deep fryer (I know that should be great for my resolution) and we had a fry fest. I was inspired by Aunt Pam's recipe for krokets and decided I would take a crack at it. This was my finished product, they actually turned out really well for a first try.

Oddly enough krokets seem to be an acquired taste and were not huge among the party goers tonight so I have lots of left overs (good thing they freeze well). In addition to krokets I also made lumpia and bloomin onions (no leftover there). After dinner we did the traditional opening of presents but Corey did not seem too interested so Connor ended up doing most of it. I don't think that bothered either of them too much.

Of course this being his first birthday we had to give Corey his own cake. He LOVED it! I found a miniature cake when I was at the store yesterday. It was the perfect size. He was not shy about digging in. Connor helped him a little with that too.

By the end of the night Corey was pretty tired and decided that falling asleep in Grammy's lap sounded like a pretty good idea.

Jared on the other hand was ready to party all night!

Happy Birthday Corey!

Corey was born exactly a year ago today at 7:03 PM he weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 21 inches long.

Corey is such an amazing little person. He brings so much to our family and we are so lucky to have him. It is amazing to me how different kids can be from each other the second they are born. Corey is so goofy and you can tell he's always looking for something to get into (which can be a pain but is also pretty funny). Not only was today his first birthday but he also took his first step this week and stood up on his own for the first time. I could not be more proud of both of my children. Terence and I are truly blessed. Happy 1st birthday Corey!

Best Picture Ever

I don't know why but I just love this picture so much!