New Beginning... Sort of.

January 2010 was my last post here. Wow. New record there. Let's be honest here, it's tough to blog once you have a kid. So a year and two different jobs later and I decide to blog once again. A friend of mine at work is pregnant. I can't remember what led me to think about it, but I thought to tell her that if she ever gets bored (and I mean bored) to check out my blog. I explained that I kept up with it fairly religiously all throughout pregnancy and then here and there for about a year or so after. So she could see what type of things I went through, etc. not that she needs to, but again.. if she was REALLY bored. hehe.. so it got me thinking of looking back on my blog myself. And in doing so I was reinspired to continue it on.

They say that after you have the baby that you tend to forget about a lot of things; that it's mother nature's way of getting you to have more kids. And to some degree that is true. I clearly remember the day I had Toni and MY LACK OF AN EPIDURAL, but honestly I don't remember the pain. My head knows I was in pain, but I don't remember what it was like. Well, reading back on this blog i was reminded of things I went through and I ENTIRELY forgot about. (Ok warning, if you are new to my blog I don't filter. Read at your own risk) So the pain i was having in my groin from the baby... TOTALLY forgot all about that!!! Ok I got a little off track. That's not what inspired me to blog again. lol...

I was inspired more by the posts of after I had Toni. The videos and pictures of her... it brought tears to my eyes. I almost forgot how small and dependent she once was. Not that she is not dependent now, but she is much more independent! And I thought to myself, how awesome is this? One day she can look back and see what Mommy went through before she was born and see her progress as she grew. Given she will be three in less than three weeks which basically means I missed an entire year.. even a little more. But one year in the span of a lifetime isn't so bad.

So what better way than to start off right before her third birthday? By now she is full fledged talking. And non stop at that. She is one smart cookie. She knows her ABC's, 123's (perfectly until 20ish) and can also count in spanish. She knows her months and days and her colors. She is learning to read and is pretty good at that too. The logic this little girl has blows me away sometimes. It's amazing. Ok, so maybe it was just one year but I admit a ton of development was missed in my blogs. In my defense I sort of documented it through Facebook. Does that count?

So we're coming up to her 3rd birthday (I know, can you believe it???) but it's almost like her 1st. I say that because this is the first year she is truly excited about her birthday. Her second birthday she sort of got the whole cake and presents thing, but not completely. This year, it's all she can talk about. So it's pretty exciting for me too. It will be a Hello Kitty theme and I will be making the Hello Kitty cake and Hello Kitty cake pops. <--- yes that is new sinceI last blogged too. But if you sort of follow me through Facebook then it's no new thing.

So more to come and pictures too! Thanks for reading! (again for some of you).