Read my post first for pics to make sense...

Jr's birthday

Kevin Sr and Kevin Jr, couple hrs old

Chubby baby~!

So when we were at my mom's house for New Years Eve, we were playing this cool card game called "Pounce". My dad was keeping score and was asking everyone their team names... My little brother (who was married in Feb 08 and is expecting his first baby in Apr 09) looks over at his teammate, his wife, and says: "the BABYMAKERS~!" His wife busts up laughing and my dad says, "Hey now, who is the one here who has made seven babies? That's who should be the Babymakers..." My brother says they are just getting started and may have even more than seven so nah nah nah boo boo etc etc ... It was pretty funny at the time and it just made me remember how that first year of marriage was and also how when you are pregnant it seems like everything you do and say revolves around that subject (as well it should). They are just so cute together and don't seem to hardly be able to be more than an arms length away from each other. If I ever did get married again, I really would want to be with someone that I felt like that about with. I think I had something like that with Kevin, and now after 10 years of it being just me and Junior, I just wouldn't want to ever just settle with someone that I didn't feel that strongly about again. (Ok now, seriously, I DO need my space and I don't like to feel smothered or checked up on since I'm pretty independent, but the point is, if I WAS with someone 24/7, I'd hafta want to be with them; even when I wasn't.) So being excited for my little brother having his first baby has just had me thinking about the days when Jr was born and so little. Dang, don't our kids grow up so fast~!?! When he was little, he used to want to look at his baby book and photos all the time, but apparently, when they are almost 14 years, that is not really something that they find on the same level as playing Halo online with their friends... Maybe if there were younger kids in the house, then I could be going "OH hey, look how much fun your little sister/brother and I are having doing this thing that you used to find SOOOO fascinating to do with me!", but then he'd prolly just be thinking, "Whew, now I don't hafta do that anymore"... GRRR -- I swear I'm not that overprotective (at least not super-overprotective) mom, and I swear I won't follow my son on his mission to BFE, or to college, but I can't promise since he is my only child that I won't move to at least 30... err... 20 miles from wherever he eventually settles down and starts raising my grandkids and I DO promise that I won't make him go on a reality show called "Mama's Boys" and make him let me choose his girlfriend/wife for him. For now, I will just be grateful that I have this great kid named after the only person I liked enough to marry and will share a couple pics from his baby book with YOU~! =)

p.s. if anyone knows how to put pics at the end of a post (or in the middle) instead of at the beginning, call me... I tried searching the help stuff, but couldn't find the answer...