the best feelings are this:
*When holding the baby, he resists my snuggle for a second, and then melts into me.
*The two year old saying "Mama, I want you" when he needs a hug or wants to be picked up.
*The oldest seeking me out for a hug before bed.
*The husband helping me out more than he even has to-- just because it makes my life a little bit easier.
despite 3/5 of us being sick with upset tummies, these are the good things that shone today.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
e 7 months
Dear E,
You are seven months! As of the 21st, you have 5 teeth (with one more almost through). You are still such a darling boy and we love you so much. People constantly comment on how laid back and snuggly you are. You still sit with me in church occasionally in the baby wrap and you have fallen asleep in it during church lately. You celebrated your first Halloween this past month and were an adorable baby gnome—you were too cute! Here are some facts about you…
*Size 3 diaper
*Size 9month-12month clothing
*Size 2 or 3 shoe depending on brand
*You have been eating more food and nurse 4-5 times a day and eat around a baby container of food a day. Foods you have tried so far are: banana, avocado, sweet potatoes, green beans, and peas. You like sweet potatoes the best!
*You gag if you eat anything chunky. I tried to give you a rice puff tonight and you threw it up.
*Mostly taking 2 naps a day with the occasional evening nap if you are super tired and fussy. You go to bed between 7-8p.
*You like to babble and chat and GRAB at anything.
*You can mostly sit up for long periods of time but occasionally fall over.
*You can get around a room by scooching around but do not crawl yet. You just started in the past few days to get on your hands and knees.
*You love to sleep in bed with me and daddy and snuggle. You sleep best by us but also sleep in the bassinette still.
We love you, little boy! Love, Mama
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
10 years later...
My Dearest H,
You are who made me a mommy.. but not in the conventional way. A stepmama, but taking on many of the duties of a regular old mama. Although there have been some tough days, the amazing days outshine them by far.
Today you woke up with smiles. You requested for breakfast scrambled eggs with milk and a grapefruit. Easy enough! You then got ready for school and wore a hot pink shirt with ruffles on it. At lunchtime we brought you lunch at school: pizza hut personal pan pizza with sausage, and sprite per your "order". You came home all smiles again and told us of your birthday singing happy birthday to you! Then Daddy took you to get icecream for your party tonight while I finished making your cake. (Chocolate cake, white frosting, blue and purple icing with a peace sign... per order again). You seemed happy with the cake.
Then, off to dinner at a hibachi grill (your pick) and home for cake and icecream (cookie dough/mack fudge) with grandparents and aunts/uncles/cousins... and don't forget the presents! Mandie books, 3 movies, beads and a bracelet kit, a dress, and a few other things I'm sure I'm forgetting! You were so great with your manners today and were so great all day. I had a wonderful day celebrating YOU and I think you did, too! Daddy put you to bed and prayed for you, and left you in your room to sleep.. with a smile still on your beautiful little face. We love you sweet H!
You are who made me a mommy.. but not in the conventional way. A stepmama, but taking on many of the duties of a regular old mama. Although there have been some tough days, the amazing days outshine them by far.
Today you woke up with smiles. You requested for breakfast scrambled eggs with milk and a grapefruit. Easy enough! You then got ready for school and wore a hot pink shirt with ruffles on it. At lunchtime we brought you lunch at school: pizza hut personal pan pizza with sausage, and sprite per your "order". You came home all smiles again and told us of your birthday singing happy birthday to you! Then Daddy took you to get icecream for your party tonight while I finished making your cake. (Chocolate cake, white frosting, blue and purple icing with a peace sign... per order again). You seemed happy with the cake.
Then, off to dinner at a hibachi grill (your pick) and home for cake and icecream (cookie dough/mack fudge) with grandparents and aunts/uncles/cousins... and don't forget the presents! Mandie books, 3 movies, beads and a bracelet kit, a dress, and a few other things I'm sure I'm forgetting! You were so great with your manners today and were so great all day. I had a wonderful day celebrating YOU and I think you did, too! Daddy put you to bed and prayed for you, and left you in your room to sleep.. with a smile still on your beautiful little face. We love you sweet H!
Saturday, October 29, 2011
6 months for E!
November 2, 2011
Dear E,
This month you turned 6 months old! You are getting bigger and stronger every day and seem more grown up to me. Here are some stats on you!
*At your doctors appointment, you weighed 19lbs, 2oz and were 26 ½ inches long. That is 75% for weight, 50% for height. (You used to be in the 95% for weight and 25% for height, so you are even-ing out a little bit!
*You ate your first food—bananas—five days before you turned 6 months. You ate it and acted like you had always been eating. You are only eating bananas at this point and today when I gave you avocado you gagged on it so much you threw up!
*You sleep well most nights… from around 8p till 7 or 8a and then still 2 or 3 naps a day. You are still in the bassinette next to our bed, but you love to sleep next to me—the closer the better! (for you at least ;))
*Mama started a part time job and is gone 3 nights a week for 6-7 hours a time. I think it’s good for you to bond with Daddy, but I do miss you, and I think/know you miss me, too! You think bottles are strange according to Grandma A ;) and don’t love them, but you do tolerate them.
*Size 3 diaper, 3 shoe, and size 9month clothes.
*You are almost sitting up without falling over. You can sit, but if you try to look behind/to the side, you fall over.
*You roll, but not a lot. You do, however, scootch backward all over the living room. If I put you down in one place, I will come back to you in another.
*You don’t really like your jumper gym toy any longer. You do like to sit in the boppy pillow with toys all around you. You play great with toys—picking them up and looking at them and chewing all over them!
*You have 4 teeth (as of October 29th… so that is in the 7th month but I thought I’d include it since I’m late in writing this letter.)
*You love J and H and they can get you to laugh easily.. well, pretty much anyone can!
*You grab hold of my ears/hair and pull me towards you and open your mouth to try to eat/kiss me. It is hilarious and sometimes painful!
We love you so much little Bo-bo! Love, Mama
Dear E,
This month you turned 6 months old! You are getting bigger and stronger every day and seem more grown up to me. Here are some stats on you!
*At your doctors appointment, you weighed 19lbs, 2oz and were 26 ½ inches long. That is 75% for weight, 50% for height. (You used to be in the 95% for weight and 25% for height, so you are even-ing out a little bit!
*You ate your first food—bananas—five days before you turned 6 months. You ate it and acted like you had always been eating. You are only eating bananas at this point and today when I gave you avocado you gagged on it so much you threw up!
*You sleep well most nights… from around 8p till 7 or 8a and then still 2 or 3 naps a day. You are still in the bassinette next to our bed, but you love to sleep next to me—the closer the better! (for you at least ;))
*Mama started a part time job and is gone 3 nights a week for 6-7 hours a time. I think it’s good for you to bond with Daddy, but I do miss you, and I think/know you miss me, too! You think bottles are strange according to Grandma A ;) and don’t love them, but you do tolerate them.
*Size 3 diaper, 3 shoe, and size 9month clothes.
*You are almost sitting up without falling over. You can sit, but if you try to look behind/to the side, you fall over.
*You roll, but not a lot. You do, however, scootch backward all over the living room. If I put you down in one place, I will come back to you in another.
*You don’t really like your jumper gym toy any longer. You do like to sit in the boppy pillow with toys all around you. You play great with toys—picking them up and looking at them and chewing all over them!
*You have 4 teeth (as of October 29th… so that is in the 7th month but I thought I’d include it since I’m late in writing this letter.)
*You love J and H and they can get you to laugh easily.. well, pretty much anyone can!
*You grab hold of my ears/hair and pull me towards you and open your mouth to try to eat/kiss me. It is hilarious and sometimes painful!
We love you so much little Bo-bo! Love, Mama
Saturday, October 22, 2011
for memory's sake
Today we had a great family day. After breakfast, we headed to the local beach. It was chilly, but beautiful. did not have my camera, so for memory's sake, I never want to forget:
*Eating at our favorite bagel place-- the whole family there and eating yummy food (cheddar jalepeno bagel with cucumber ranch cream cheese) and enjoying eachothers company.
*H making baby E laugh in the car so hard that he was gasping for breath.
*Watching the hubs hold J up ontop of a small dune at the beach to show him the barge coming in the channel.
*The way the way the sky was bright blue and chilly and streaked with white clouds.
*Walking along the pier-- the hubs pushed baby E in his stroller/carseat while E took a nap.
*H walking on the large rocks by the pier and J wanting to, too. "I'm as big as her!"
*Pulling back the shade visor on the carseat to see E smiling at me.
*H wearing my coat. Then later, H taking off my coat, and also her boots/socks to climb the swing set on the beach monkey-style.
*J saying, "I'm tired. I'm too heavy for this." While he walked on the sand.
*Watching other families who had the same idea as us: enjoy this while we can!
*Praying that H would not read the super sketchy graffiti on the light house at the end of the pier. (I used to do that as a kid and totally got yelled at for it..) She didn't read it, but did ask me, "Mom, do you have a sharpie? You are allowed to write on the lighthouse!"
*Coming home and having lunch on the green blanket from Miss B out on the front lawn. J got the peanut butter sandwich he has been asking for days for. There was leaves, sun, cheese sandwiches, carrots, cucumber, homemade applesauce, and venison stew.
*The hubs mowing the lawn to get the yard winter-ready. Starting to put away outdoor toys.
Today was the most wonderful of fall days made even better by the fact that it is baby E's 6 month birthday. We love that little love!
*Eating at our favorite bagel place-- the whole family there and eating yummy food (cheddar jalepeno bagel with cucumber ranch cream cheese) and enjoying eachothers company.
*H making baby E laugh in the car so hard that he was gasping for breath.
*Watching the hubs hold J up ontop of a small dune at the beach to show him the barge coming in the channel.
*The way the way the sky was bright blue and chilly and streaked with white clouds.
*Walking along the pier-- the hubs pushed baby E in his stroller/carseat while E took a nap.
*H walking on the large rocks by the pier and J wanting to, too. "I'm as big as her!"
*Pulling back the shade visor on the carseat to see E smiling at me.
*H wearing my coat. Then later, H taking off my coat, and also her boots/socks to climb the swing set on the beach monkey-style.
*J saying, "I'm tired. I'm too heavy for this." While he walked on the sand.
*Watching other families who had the same idea as us: enjoy this while we can!
*Praying that H would not read the super sketchy graffiti on the light house at the end of the pier. (I used to do that as a kid and totally got yelled at for it..) She didn't read it, but did ask me, "Mom, do you have a sharpie? You are allowed to write on the lighthouse!"
*Coming home and having lunch on the green blanket from Miss B out on the front lawn. J got the peanut butter sandwich he has been asking for days for. There was leaves, sun, cheese sandwiches, carrots, cucumber, homemade applesauce, and venison stew.
*The hubs mowing the lawn to get the yard winter-ready. Starting to put away outdoor toys.
Today was the most wonderful of fall days made even better by the fact that it is baby E's 6 month birthday. We love that little love!
Friday, October 21, 2011
one banana two banana
With baby E, I decided to do things a little different food-wise than I did with J. I have been reading a lot about babies/first foods and decided to wait till closer to 6 months and to skip rice cereal entirely. The first food? Bananas.
On Monday night, with my first offical day of work looming over my head, I decided to chain myself once again to the roll of "food masher". It was seriously on a whim, but he was 5 days shy of 6months, so I thought, "why not!?" That way my motherinlaw could always fall back on bananas if he didn't accept his bottles of mama milk on Tuesday.
The conversation to the hubs went like this,
Me:"Think we should start bananas today?"
Hubs: "Sure."
I then ran around and got the bib, mashed banana, bumbo seat, baby spoon that hasn't seen the light of day in 2 years, and of course, the camera.
I only mashed up about 1/4 of the banana.. maybe even less. I was thinking in my head that he would love it. He has always been a serious eater and has the rolls to prove it. After giving him his first bite, my predictions were correct. He was a PRO and swallowed the very first bite, instead of pushing it out of his mouth like his brother did.
He ate those bananas and probably could have gone for dessert, too, but mama cut him off after that.
I think I'm still in shock that my baby is grown
enough to know what to do with a mouthful of bananas.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
the things they say
Tonight after dinner I was standing in the kitchen and J walked up to me and said something to me.
J: "mumble"
Me: "Weight?"
J: "No, mumble!"
Me: "Wait?"
J: "No, mumble!!"
I could not for the life of me figure out what he was trying to say to me which is pretty uncommon these days. J was getting pretty frustrated at the lack of communication between us and he then says, "I don't know what my problem is." I laughed so hard, I can't believe he is able to use phrases like that in context!
J: "mumble"
Me: "Weight?"
J: "No, mumble!"
Me: "Wait?"
J: "No, mumble!!"
I could not for the life of me figure out what he was trying to say to me which is pretty uncommon these days. J was getting pretty frustrated at the lack of communication between us and he then says, "I don't know what my problem is." I laughed so hard, I can't believe he is able to use phrases like that in context!
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