Christmas is over :)

whew...after lost of procrastination...I decided to blog...:) ok so we had an awesome Christmas week and we are thrilled that it is over with....right honey?

Josh had the entire week off last week and Mati moo stayed with her daddy Monday and Tuesday while mommy slaved away at the office...lol..She acted weird all week last week...low appetite which always scares me...a little fever and congestion to the point of gaging herself to throwing up....in my bed at 3 am Christmas morning...Ohhh the joys of mommyhood :) Last Wednesday Josh took a guys day and went hunting with my dad since mommy was off. My mom and I went shopping and we shopped until we dropped... I was so excited to see my lover when he walked in the door.. we are rarely apart for the day...absence makes the heart grow fonder.. Thursday we had a nice day at home before getting ready to head to my father in laws for Christmas dinner... I let Mati open a couple of her gifts so she could wear a new dress... I curled her hair and it look fabulous...lol...She looked so cute...She played with her baby and loves to feed it, its bottle... She has also put her baby umbrella stroller to good use..She loves pushing her baby around. After a fun night at Josh's dad we headed home....

Mati enjoyed opening her gifts...of course we had to start it and she finished opening her gifts....she would wait saying " oh oh oh" until you got it completely out of the box. Then we were off the "The Kozel" family Christmas. Mati pooped on her shirt....awesome...so I was in the bathroom washing it out...so we put Mati in her jacket until it dried...uhh that was horrible..she is naturally hot natured like her daddy so she was soooo fussy...wouldn't eat...it was just one of those mommy moments where you want to sit down and cry with them....or just leave...option 2 wasn't an option....hopefully next year will be tons better. Then we headed over to my parents for some left overs and watched "Four Christmas's" together...I laughed so hard...it was hilarious...highly recommend.

Saturday was our last Christmas and by this time I was wiped out. We had Christmas with Josh's mom and then did a little shopping with our Christmas loot....lol... I got some decor.....whats new?

Monday we were back to work...

I can't wait until Thursday....we don't have anything planned surprise surprise...Hopefully I will add some pics tonight...

A few funny things Mati has said lately:

One of her Christmas gifts was an Ariel doll that floats in the water....it was clear she didn't like her so Josh walked the doll up to her and said in a girly voice...."Can I have a hug?" Mati so innocently.... "no"....Josh "Can I have a kiss?" Mati....."no" So we gave up....

When she is done eating its "no no"

Josh was putting together her kitchen and she looked at him through the hole from the other side and said "hey Josh"

Lately she has picked up "wa wa" for water from someone at daycare so we are reinforcing "water"

She jabbers on nonstop and can have a full length conversation....lol...in her own language....you can make our some words...

She always thinks she needs to hand you her binky if she is taking it out of her mouth....and she responds with "my bink" like your just holding it mommy

She also loves to tell us to "go away"...I haven't figured out where she picked this one up...

When she hears anything about counting she says the number 6....no idea....

She can now sign "more"

She hates for Josh to love on me...she gets really jealous and moves his hand or she lays across me...I wonder how she is going to do with a sibling???? "no no daddy"

Lately anytime we are shopping and Josh walks away she will yell "da " "da".....it gets so annoying...lol...

Every time she looks at the tree she says "balls"

ok ok enough..there is so much more I could share but I have no time!

So Tired!

ok ok so I am owe you guys a catch up so here we go.....

Last week we had plans every night....and I was so sick so it seriously sucked...Now I am just anxiously awaiting the weekend so I can try and catch up on some kind of sleep. I am so exhausted...I will do a quick run through...Monday shower...Tuesday night...a little Christmas shopping ...buy baby shower gift for that Thursday night...Wednesday night...Dinner with Amy and Ben and their 2 adorable kido's...Mati loves them BTW. Mati had a blast playing with them and we can't wait to do it again.. (after the holidays...hehehe)...Thursday night I made an amazing pulled pork barbeque....amazing...my mom, dad and niece and nephew came over to help us eat all 9 lbs... we of course didn't conquer that! We had barbecue for 3 days...lol...My mom and I took off to the baby shower... Friday night we headed out to the Woodlands for my little brother's surprise birthday party...Saturday we shopped until we dropped....finished up the night grocery shopping..went home and watched a movie way too late..We skipped church on Sunday and spent the morning in BED!!!! Then we headed out to do more shopping...We cam home and my parents brought over Mati's Christmas...We put that together and got all of our gifts wrapped and under the tree. Thank God. We are definitely done with Christmas...so..moving on...

Monday night I spent the entire night cleaning and thankfully Josh helped with laundry. I got all of my weekend housework down and my bathroom is sinfully clean. :) Tuesday Josh and I headed to Hobby Lobby add some finishing touches to a Christmas gift and mama got a few frames for the casa. Last night I went to a Vendor party and had a great time catching up with a friend. I bought Mati a few bows and can't wait to see the other one's I ordered. They are awesome! Thankfully Mati cooperated most of the time and only turned into a little terror the last 30 minutes or so. She is so funny!

Warning to men and my dad this might be TMI: Ok so to make a long story short Mati totally stole my boobs after she quit nursing. Frankly she sucked it all out I was left with a small B and pancakes....yuk. I have hated that part of myself until recently. Before I got pregnant it was my favorite part of my body!! Nice full C to a small D. After nursing it was scary..I tried every bra...and unfortunately my boobs got lost in all the padding seriously. I even bought a wonder bra....Don't really recommend.. :) I had been seeing the new Victoria Secret bra and I was very curious....2 cups sizes really? So I bought it this past weekend, and I am in love. In Josh's own words "I appear to have boobs again"...lol...I plan on getting a boob job after we are done having kids but I didn't want to walk around like this for the next 5 or 6 years... I love this bra...my girls sit up nice and pretty and I love the profile again...lol....No one wants a bra where your boobs just lay underneath... so yeah buy it!

Moving on.. I can't freaking wait until Christmas. Mati is going to have a blast and I can't wait to eat all the desserts...As much as I look forward to food you would think I would be as big as a house. Thanks to Josh.. I am not...hahah Love you HB...(my nickname for him...can't expose the whole name so I will leave you wondering what HB means..)

I will blog tomorrow all about Mati...she deserves her own post!

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What a weekend...

Last week/ weekend Josh has been incognito due to finals and close coming up at work... So I barely talk to him during the day...and at night he has way to much going on... Last week he would have dinner and get Mati ready for her bath while I cleaned up the kitchen.....we would trade off and off he would be to study. He was up all hours of the night, and up and going in the morning....He was able to relax over the weekend a little.. You know he is stressed by him twitching his back....once you notice it...it can be quite distracting... he stores all his stress in he back and chewing holes in his mouth. This use to be a constant when he worked at Gringo's so it was like a flash back to watch it all appear this past weekend...when he wasn't studying he was being pampered so don't feel too sorry for him. He finished up finals last night and I think his close is almost over so maybe I will see my hubbs again! I miss him!

Last weekend was quite a productive weekend. I cleaned out all my cabinets and drawers in the kitchen...wiped everything down.....cleaned my floors by hand.... all our laundry done and still managed to workout..... wow right? I hate to toot my own horn BUT "toot toot"..lol.... Next on the list would be closets...I have got to clean out Mati's stuff. She has so much that doesn't fit anymore...ohh well..

Saturday we decorated the tree at my mom's and had a little family time with my sister...then headed home to a night alone...Sunday after church and nap time I had a very productive day...lonely...yet productive :)

Last night Mati and I went to Taylor's wedding shower. She was in our wedding and all I can say is she is going to make a beautiful bride...inside and out. She is just a beautiful person! Mati had a blast and added her "ohhhhh" as Taylor opened her gifts...it was too cute...she was leaning over the gifts and trying to eat her envelopes... It was pretty funny, Sorry Taylor.

Let the day begin...hopefully my week just gets better~

Baby its cold outside~

Man O Man is it cold? Gesh!

Yesterday Mati's daycare called and said that she had woken up from her nap, and couldn't open one of eyes due to all the gunk that had accumulated during nap time...great! So...She had to be picked up ASAP, right in the middle of the busiest part of day ..and week ...so I got to a stopping point..got Josh to make her an appointment and I went to go pick her up. I quickly became agitated when I noticed a nice blue circle on Mati's forearm. She came home earlier in the week with a blue bruise on her shoulder from running into their fridge so I am sure the anger was a bit intensified. She had been bitten by a little boy. Thankfully they have a low tolerance at the daycare so if he bites many more he will be gone. :) moving on...I brought her back to work with me. She sat in my lap until I could get my stuff finalized for the day. Off we went to see the Dr. ..where to no surprise he let me know she had pink eye... She weighed 24.3 with her clothes and boots on. They let her stand on the big kid scale now. I thought that was pretty cool. After the diagnosis I spoke the Dr. about how much my little motor mouth speaks. He told me that she is an early talker and that is an early indicator for intelligence....Cool with me!!! I have to admit I kind of swell with pride in moments like that!

Not alot going on in the Kozel house this weekend. We are spending this cold snowy night in, and Mati and myself will be making ourselves sparse this weekend since Josh has finals due. I think my mom is making some jumbo tomorrow maybe we will play cards and hang out..who knows... I need to do a little Christmas shopping.. We have only bought a few things so I need to get cracking....

Tons of snow this morning put me in a hot chocolate mood. BUT none of that....down 2.5 lbs and I am stoked...can't wait to weigh on Sunday!!!

Thanksgiving...and a little catch up

Ok so I am for sure this post is going to take a while. I doubt I will get to post pics until next week so just bare with me.


We had an awesome Thanksgiving....My sister came into town the week before and had our family dinner the Saturday before. The week of Thanksgiving seems like a blur...we had family in town...we put up the tree..(which is beautiful) and we went out of town.

We always go to Mississippi and spend the holiday with my extended family there. It is always so nice. Josh went deer hunting 2 mornings in a row. (he didn't get anything) Unfortunately this has sparked a new passion in my hubby...Now everything he gets for Christmas is hunting related. I won't lie I loved the fact he didn't care about hunting...now he is singing a different tune. OHH well...We spent the morning half at my maternal grandmother's...Mati and I took a nap and then went to my paternal grandparents....all I can say is I think I ate a whole pie ..plus some... We had been eating terribly and the scale was just getting heavier...or maybe that was me..lol...so yeah Josh and I are back on P90X until Christmas and it feels great!

Mati had a blast with all her cousins..keep in mind she never see's them and they are all over the age of 8, but they are so good about letting her play with them. They love her so much and they treat her like their little doll even then boys... One of the days all the kids were on the trampoline and Mati just stood at the door wanting to go play so bad. She just kept watching them and screaming "yes" at them like come get me now, I want to play. Poor little thing.

Mati has her own little Christmas tree in her room and she loves it. After her bathtime I will turn it on and she goes nuts....she will stand at the door and yell for her daddy to come see and she will run and wait by her tree to show it to her daddy.. lots of "ohhhsss"...Once he is on his way she will motion for him to come and will run to her tree to see. Its the highlight of the night sometimes. I will hate to put it away. Speaking of tree's, Mati loves to take the ornaments off our tree. I have a bag of about 8 ornaments that I couldn't find the hooks for that will be making there way back to the tree today. She is definitely in the "wait until mommy is not looking" phase. She waits patiently until I am not lookin and will open the trash can or whatever is she is trying to get her little hands on... It is so hard to keep a straight face.

A couple nights ago we were in her room after bathtime and she was telling me "shoes" so I repeat it back..than she moves on to "socks". She stayed on that for a while so I asked if she wanted her socks on and she answered yes..so I got he socks out and told her to sit down so I can put them on so she sat down and lifted each little foot one at a time...Right after she got up and went on her way. I think its cool that she know that shoes and socks go together. Everytime you change her diaper or she see's her diaper before it goes in the trash she says "yuck"...love it...lol...We will be moving into potty training after the holidays. I think she will be ready by them. She will pretty much let you know when she has "potted" and will say the appropriate word for each. When you tell her "lets go change your diaper" she walks to the changing table. She will also walk to her high chair when she is hungry and attempts to put her own bib on. She pretty much says anything you say. She can repeat anything.. and the little jabber box never stops...

She loves to act like a chicken...one night out of boredom I taught her how to "bok" with her little hands under her arms like wings...even if I say I am making her some chicken...she will act like a chicken..its hilarious.

Everyday on the way home we repeat words back and forth, she loves it. When she gets tired she will simply answer just "yes" when I say " Can you say..sippy cup?"....lol..She has such a big girl personality. She is still addicted to Cheeto's (Gerber) and I don't think the lady at the library found it too funny last week when Josh called it her "crack"...lol...

She is really good with helping you dress and undress her. When you tell her to come and put in her jacket she walks toward you with one arm out....lol.. and she won't leave until it is zipped.

The ladies at the daycare told me yesterday that all the new babies that are transferred into Mati's room, Mati will call them "babies"...Keep in mind they are only 2 months younger than her. Every little kid is a baby. She loves to give you a hug and say "hug"... I love that too... Tuesday when I went to pick her up ...her and 2 other little girls were standing in a little corner all shoulder to shoulder...I wish I had my camera...it was adorable..

I am soooo excited about Christmas this year. I have had so much fun picking out toys and clothes..

There are so many things she is doing and saying that make us laugh everyday. I wish I had all day to list them. We had a great Thanksgiving surrounded by friends and family. Isn't God good?


**** Pic's will be up next week...hopefully I will blog before then .. :)