NEW YEAR, STILL LAZY!

Please excuse my last post.  I had thought I uploaded it the day after New Years, but apparently my phone didn't complete the upload, and so explains the super late post date that doesn't really match up with the post content.  My apologies.  Which that said, I used to always think that a new year entailed a fresh start.  Sort of an unofficial new beginning of sorts.  I was so naive then.  The first day of the new year is no different than the last day of the year, or the 90th day of the year, or the 200th.  If you were lazy last year, you're probably going to still be lazy this year.  Of course that's just my opinion.  I really try to start the new year with vigor, ready to tackle new endeavors and to try new things.  Work out, eat right, be a better person; but really, who am I kidding?  Why should I need a new year to do these things?  I am, by nature, a lazy person.  I'm am the queen of procrastination, and I really only make an effort to do things that interest me.  And even then, when I do find something that I'm really in to, I almost always lose interest soon after starting whatever it is I was so engrossed in.  This is probably very obvious to anyone who knows me or reads this blog.  X turned 11 months a few weeks ago?  I totally wasn't ready for his 11 month picture which explains the lack of a preview and the simplicity of the picture itself.  I felt pretty bad not attempting to do something more cleaver or creative for his 2nd to last monthly photo.  This is why, in addition to planning X's first birthday X-travaganza, I have already started planning his final photo shoot. 

The theme for X's big bash is 'Zebras in the City', weird, I know.  Why would there be zebras in a city?  I don't know.  I was inspired by a damn balloon and things just sort of fell in to place.  Hopefully everything turns out as planned.  I'm really trying not to take on too much, but I have these outrageous ideas and I always think I can pull them off, but I end up crashing hard at zero hour and end up having to abandon a few things I had wanted to do.  Crossing my fingers I manage my time better this time around and everything gets done on time and how I visualized it.  Oh gawd, also totally praying to Mother Nature that El Nino does NOT attend X's party.  I'd feel so bad for him if he had a rainy baby show AND a rainy first birthday.  Poor guy.  I mean, I realize he wasn't here to experience his baby shower, but still.

So, a lot of time is going towards X's birthday planning, which is why I've been pretty absent from the blogging thing.  Sorry X.  I guess there really hasn't been much to tell either.  X isn't walking yet, but I know he wants to.  He "cruises" a lot, and likes moving things around.  He's a handful that kid, but I haven't loved anyone more.  He has 8 teeth, and I feel like he's about to start getting more even though I can't see or feel anything, but the kid is drooling like cray.  Ick!  He still also hasn't said his first word yet.  I mean, he does the mama, dada thing, but he doesn't know what it means.  Guess he's not as advanced as we originally thought.  Just kidding X!  We love you!  Although he may not be talking or walking yet, keeping up with him is...exhausting.  He's a great kid though.  I know every parent thinks their kid is great, but X has got to be one of the happiest babies I know.  I hope, hope, hope, that he stays this way throughout his life.  He's just so happy-go-lucky, and I know that life just makes you jaded sometimes, and turns perfectly happy people in to cynics, but I hope that this doesn't happen to him.  He's been sick these past few days and he's still in good spirits, laughing and smiling like nothings wrong. 

Well...Mom duties await.  My little bambino is almost one!  Yikes!  Stay tuned for bday party posts!