Phase 2 {Project 365 Days 31 - 38}

Here I am with Phase 2 of our catch up!! LOL!!

I'm hoping that I won't be doing too many more of these catch up posts...but who knows really. I mean, I'm barely 30 days in and don't have a very good track record so far.

I'm trying. I'll get better.

So let's get going.

Day 31:

Little Butt enjoys artistic endeavors. She really enjoys coloring, drawing, and playing with her play-doh set.

I try to take candid pictures of her while she's doing her different activities...

But the girl is such a camera hog that she senses whenever there is one pointed at her. She almost always poses.

But I try to get her to go back to what she's doing. That face right there...that's her daddy's smirk!

Day 32:

I'm not really sure what to say about this...other than...

My Baby Sis really likes to put things on Baby N's head. He's not quite sure what to make of it either.

Later that day, I was trying to get a picture of Baby N getting up on his hands and knees. And oh look!! Who should arrive??? The camera hog of course!!

She's so weird. But so is he really...They get that from their father. I swear!

Day 33:

Another example of my abnormal daughter??

She will lay there and let her brother kick her.

She even laughs about it. There's something wrong with this kid.

Day 34:

Baby N got a bunch of new toys for Christmas and he is finally starting to appreciate them.

One of them is this sea turtle. The sea turtle loves Baby N.

Baby N likes the sea turtle okay but thinks he's a bit needy.

Baby N often leaves the poor sea turtle on his own...

And finds other friends to play with. Cue sad sea turtle music please!

Day 35:

Now, let's look at a day in the life of Baby N.

His day starts off a bit frustrating. His servants don't know how to handle him and struggle to help him into his clothing.

He says "to Hell with the pants minion! Get me a bottle!"

When things don't go as planned AGAIN he gets frustrated.

He picks himself up and tries to storm away.

But he is thwarted! Gravity has gotten the best of him!

He tries to pick up himself and his very last ounce of dignity after the day he's had.

But alas, his attempts are futile and he can only hang his head in shame.

Luckily, his court jesters are always there to make him feel better.

Day 36:

You may think I'm a mean mommy but sometimes I get tired of sweeping up the crumbs Little Butt drops during meal times.

So this time, I made her clean her own dang mess!

Day 37:

Have I mentioned how much Little Butt ADORES her baby brother???

She spends a lot of time playing with him and loving on him. It's really sweet.

Day 38:

Yesterday, Baby N turned 6 months old. I can't believe it's been that long already!

He's decided he's had enough though and ignores me when I call to him.

He gets totally annoyed with me.

And that's it for phase 2! I'm happy to be caught up! Woohoo!!!

Pizza! Pizza! {Project 365: Day 21}

Today was a good day.

It started off pretty chill. My mom came over and we had our shakes for breakfast. I had my Vanilla Latte shake...again. Yes, I know I'm obsessed. It's a real problem. Today I made my mom the birthday cake shake. Seriously, it tasted like I was drinking chocolate cake with frosting! It's amazing that I feel like I'm cheating but I'm really being healthy. Win!!

Anyway. After we had breakfast, Little Butt went to play at my mom's house while her and I took Baby N shopping. We went to Best Buy first, but didn't find what we were looking for. We then went to the fabric store to get her some new fabric to redo her kitchen table chairs. After that, a pit stop into Ross. I ended up finding a really awesome picture and a really pretty elephant for my bedroom!! Maybe I'll take a picture of the elephant tomorrow. She's really pretty. :-)

We came home and had some lunch then my Older Sister and I took the kids to the Y for the Yoga class this afternoon.

Now, I LOVE Yoga. It's crazy. I feel so inspired whenever I practice. It's really hard to explain in words, but my body feels so alive, and tingly, and connected. I feel like my body and soul sing whenever I practice Yoga. I've actually been toying with the idea of getting my certification to become a Yoga instructor. But I need to get fit again first.

Anyway. So this was my very first class today! I've done DVD's but never went to an actual class. I loved it!! I can already tell that I'm getting so much better at it! Every time I do it, I notice how much I've improved. My Older Sister loved it as well!

This was also the first time I've ever left the baby with a stranger. Crazy right?? 

Anyway, the girl in the child care center said he was super good and that I can bring him back any time!! She really liked him. LOL! He is a really good baby. I got lucky...twice! It's unheard of! But I think I'll pay in the teen year.

After the Y we came home and the kids made pizzas with my Baby Sis. 

They pressed out their own dough.

Spread on their own sauce.

And added their own toppings!!

When they weren't busy eating them of course!!

Aren't their pizzas pretty?!?! Little Butt's is on the left.

They had a really great time and thoroughly enjoyed the results. Thanks for the pizza party Baby Sis!!! The pizza you made for us was dang good too!!

Welcome to the Jungle {Project 365: Day 16}

I think Baby N hates me. 

No really.

He is at least determined to drive me crazy.

See. I decided last week that I was going to start getting up early to work out. I will set my alarm for 5am...and he will wake up even earlier.

Take this morning for example. I set my alarm for 5am. He wakes up at 4:30am. (He started waking up at 3am but officially got me up at 4:30am).

What kind of crap is that??? I swear! That child.

He had physical therapy today. 

He's getting a lot better with it. He loves to work and play with Miss Helen.

He really hates the stretches though.

But it has to be done. He will thank us for it later.

The other really important thing that got done was our yard.

I noticed when we got back from Alabama after Thanksgiving that there was a jungle in my backyard.

Well...things just got worse...

So I called our lawn guy and got him over here. I kept waiting for him to just show up but he never did.

Oh well. At least it's done now.

It's time for bed.

Wish me luck with the boy!!

Turning Frowns Upside Down {Project 365: Day 9}

Today was just one of "those" days.

Baby N woke me up much earlier than I wanted to be. I was definitely WAY exhausted when we got up.

I absolutely did NOT want to do my workout but I pushed play and did it anyway. I'm so glad that I did. I felt great afterward!

When Baby N woke back up from his nap, we were playing together. I was holding him, standing on my lap and he decided to vomit right down my shirt. It was awesome!

Later, I was feeding him some oatmeal for second breakfast.

I gave him a big bite JUST in time for him to sneeze. All over me!

Then he proceeded to kick the bowl of oatmeal out of my hands.

This was all before 9am!

Little Butt woke up in an ornery mood. She was kind of a butt head all the way up until she went to school.

By the time she got out of school, she was in a much better mood, and so was I!

We came home to play and watch Rent.

Luckily, our day ended a lot better than it started.

Even Baby N was feeling a bit silly by the end of the day.

How was your day today?

Noise

My thoughts feel very erratic lately.

I've wanted to blog for days...about different things...but my thoughts won't form into words and sentences.

It's annoying.

Anyway. I took Baby N to get his skull x-rayed today.

I keep thinking about his poor little neck and how he doesn't use it as well as he should.

He's gotten a lot better. He's sleeping right now and his head is facing left all on his own. But it's not completely there yet.

And his head is flattened a bit. The doc says it wouldn't be a huge concern if not for his forehead is starting to jut out a bit.

So I took him today to get x-rayed. The order was a STAT order so I thought I would have heard from his doctor this afternoon. I didn't.

But from what it sounded like when he went to his 4 month check up, he's probably going to need a helmet.

I keep thinking that I should stop stressing about this. It's fine. Lots of kids have helmets.

I should be grateful this is the major problem. I have friends who have faced unspeakable tragedies. In the grand scheme of things, this is trivial. I should be grateful.

So why does it make me want to cry?

How do I not blame myself?? How do I not wonder if there was something more I could have/should have done?

I know I haven't been doing his stretches like I should. I haven't been working with him. I've been busy. Or I forget. I'm so annoyed with myself.

Oh well. I can't change it. I just have to keep trucking along and take things as they come. If he gets a helmet, he gets a helmet. It's for the best.

He is a big boy though. Like I said, he went to his 4 month check up last week.

He weighs 15 pounds 14 ounces (70th percentile) and is 25.5 inches long (72nd percentile). He's not fat...just big. People are always shocked when they hear he's just four months.

He also had rice cereal for the first time last night. He did really well and liked it a lot. I actually came away from it clean. I did have to hold his hands though since he wanted to eat those along with the cereal.

He fared pretty well too.

He had cereal with his bottles today and he only ended up eating 4 times today. When he had cereal and a bottle he ended up going 4 to 5 hours between feedings instead of the normal 3 to 4. 

And yes, I know it's kind of early to be feeding him (most babies nowadays wait until 6 months) but the doc even agreed that the poor boy needs more to eat. 

Well, that's the update on Baby N. Maybe getting these thoughts out will help me sleep. I haven't really been doing much of that lately. Wish me luck!

Today...

I know that I'm supposed to post about Veteran's Day.

Trust me, I'm thankful for everything our Veteran's have given and still continue to give today.

However...I'm going to write about me instead. Because today has been a day.

First off, I think Baby N is going through a growth spurt. He's 3 months now and his sleep schedule is all jacked up like it was when he went through his 6 week growth spurt.

I thought it was the time change at first, but it just keeps getting worse. The first couple days after we set back the clocks, he was waking up at about 6 or 6:30am, which is normal (usually 7 or 7:30am). However, yesterday he woke up at 5am. Way early, but still doable.

Then today happened.

Today he woke up at 4am.

I told him I was not getting up at 4am. There was no way. But when he was screaming at 4:30am I figured I didn't have a choice.

I did go back to bed for about an hour after he finished eating. But I am crazy exhausted.

After we all got ready, it was time to go meet a friend for breakfast. Earlier in the week we had decided we would meet up at Denny's this morning.

I got to doing stuff on the computer and lost track of time. When I realized it was time to go, I packed me and the kids into the car then realized I needed gas. So we rush and fill the tank then jet over to the restaurant. The restaurant was crazy busy so we searched for parking. Unloaded 2 kids, diaper bag, me, locked car, walked into restaurant. I pulled out my phone and was texting my friend to see if she was there yet when she called me. She told me she was pretty sure she was in the right place. I looked up and it dawned on me...I was at IHOP. Grab kids, walk back to the car, load kids back into car, throw diaper bag back in, get me in car, jet to correct restaurant.

For all the trouble, the meal was fantastic!! They have these pumpkin pie pancakes with a pumpkin maple whip on top that are to die for! And the Christmas cookie milk shake is going to be in my dreams tonight.

By then, it was time to rush Little Butt to school then hit up the grocery store. Did that, came home, dropped off groceries, fed the baby. Grab Little Butt from school, get car washed then head to a friend's house.

When we finally made it back home for the evening it was time for Little Butt to start cleaning her room while I hung out with my Older Sister. I had just sat down when I heard Little Butt in her room crying. This was not the normal cry, this was the "I'm really hurt cry." I jump up and meet her in the hallway and she's GUSHING blood from her lip.

She had tripped over a bin and face planted it into her book shelf. I got some paper towels and my sister grabs ice and Little Butt sat crying for a while. She finally calmed down and took some Tylenol. I decided to take her to the hospital just to make sure she didn't need stitches. The doc said we could put one stitch in to reduce scarring but I opted out of that because it would be traumatic and it was not absolutely necessary.

So, now we are home and Little Butt is back to cleaning her room.

Poor Little Butt...

The Children...

They are conspiring against me.

I am outnumbered.

Please send reinforcements!

LOL!

That's about what I posted this morning on Facebook.

I've decided that these two little heathens I have are doing this on purpose to drive me crazy.

Baby N has started sleeping through the night...kind of. Most nights, he will sleep from about 11pm to 6am. Awesome right?? I think so too.

Except for last night. Last night he woke up starving at about 3am. I got up and fed him and he would NOT go back to sleep until sometime around 5am.

I figured this was no problem, Little Butt went to bed a bit late last night so she would sleep in right??

WRONG!

She decided to wake up at 7:30am. (Usually she sleeps until 8:30 or 9am)

This seems to be a recurring theme for my children. When Baby N sleeps in, Little Butt wakes up early. And when Little Butt finally sleeps in...Baby N wakes up at 6am and stays awake until Little But gets up.

At least I have my coffee back...

And...because I hate posting without a picture, here are a couple recent pictures of these buttheads that I have given birth to:

Y'all know how awesome Little Butt's fashion sense is...

And look at what a chunky monkey Baby N has turned into! BTW, the Torticollis makes his head turn that way. Poor guy...

PS. Little Butt is a sucker for animals and Amber over at Goodnight Moon is having a giveaway for the movie Spooky Buddies (a movie about dogs who talk and dress up for Halloween). I entered to win it for you and if you want a chance to win you should enter too. Jump HERE.

Daddy Box and Song of the Week

Don't forget to enter my giveaway HERE if you haven't already!



A few months ago, I saw this idea for a deployment box on Household6 Diva's page.

I loved the idea so much that I knew I wanted to do this with Little Butt and The Hubble before he took off.

See...this box is basically a blank craft box (the huge one Little Butt picked out was like $4). The kiddos and parents decorate the box and talk about the soldier's impending absence from the family.

Throughout the absence, the soldier sends things home to the kiddo and the kiddo puts these things in the deployment box. So whenever kiddo misses soldier, they can go to their box and look through the things that have connected them through the absence.

Cool huh?? So we had to do it of course!

We started with the box. We first got Little Butt excited about the whole experience by letting her pick out the box and the stickers that would go on it. I picked the letters and "wrote" the I Love Daddy on the front of the box.

The Hubble tried to explain the first item that was going into the box. He had printed a map and was showing her where he was going to be compared to where she is. However, Little Butt was very distracted by the lovely, blank box sitting in front of her so she didn't really want to listen.

So we started decorating! We made dots with different paint colors and attached her stickers. She chose where everything went and we just helped a little bit.

She was so proud when it was done!

Look at that sticker detail! And you KNOW this kid chose the dinosaur stickers. LOL!

Look at all that detail. Isn't her box so pretty???

In honor of daddy and daughter, my song this week is their favorite song together right now. This was a big family favorite before The Hubble left but it has definitely turned into their song. They sing it on the phone together. They are just too cute.

Enjoy!!!

If you want to link up and join the dance party, just head over to Goodnight Moon and start grooving