Seventeen

I now have a seventeen year old.  How can that be?  I have been asked the same question by others and I just don't know....  It's hard to believe my big guy was a little tiny baby!!  Then, all those horrific memories of his birth come rushing in and I remember pretty clearly him being born!!  Everything happened with my first birth that I didn't want to happen!  I delivered him face up, had to have pain medication because of hyperventilating (I was worried on top of the horrible pain and the doctors weren't telling me what was going on!!)  Him being my first born, I didn't know what to expect and when they finally told me they were going to have to take him by cesarean after pushing for quite some time, I thought, "There is no way I have pushed all this time just to have a c-section!!" and I got him out.  Worst kind of tear you can have, poor baby had a cone head and scratches from them trying to get him out, but he was beautiful and perfect in this Mamma's eyes!!  There is no other experience than the birth of your first born!!

I was young and very conscience because of it.  I told myself that I would prove to be the very best mother I could be even though I was young and prove the world wrong that young adults couldn't be responsible mothers!

Ira and Cyrus are 1 week apart in age!  They have always been best buds.

my lil' man

double trouble

Cinnamon rolls for breakfast on his birthday before heading to school.  

Treva did a bit of decorating on his truck with shaving cream.
 This was right before he sprayed it off!

birthday cake

He is none too happy to deal with pictures!  Typical boy I supposes

His requested birthday present - new boots!