Going to try to get back into writing this blog!

A few times over the past couple of months, I have thought about writing in this blog. But I always thought that I didn't have enough time to write about everything that has happened. And then more stuff would happen, and I get further behind in writing. So I am going to start writing about what is going on currently.


Today, I was thinking of taking the baby to daycare so that I could get a few more things done around the house on my day off, but when I got up, it was actually nice out. We haven't had much of a summer in the way of weather, so I decided to keep her home and take her to the beach. It would be the first time I have ever taken her to a beach, and she is almost 19 months old! It took forever to get everything packed and get her ready!! I was getting a little frustrated, especially when she kept running away from me when I was trying to put her sunscreen on! But we finally were ready to go. She looked so cute in her bathing suit and skirt!!! By the time we were ready, the weather had clouded over, and it looked like it may rain. But I thought, its not raining yet, seize the day! So we drove for about 45 min and got to the beach (O.P.) Its pretty private, which I love. She went right over to the water and put her feet in, then hands, etc. She also started throwing rocks in the water and loved the sounds they made. That's probably the first thing that made her smile. She was very serious today for some reason! But she had a ball playing in the water, throwing rocks and shells, and walking barefoot in the sand.

We were walking down the beach, and a woman yelled out to us. When I looked up, she was very far away, walking with a dog, and waving. I thought that was weird.... But waved and kept on our way. About a half an hour later, she was closer, and baby was at the water concentrating on playing with rocks and shells. I noticed the dog running towards her. He didn't look to be threatening, but was running towards her pretty fast. I was knelt down beside her. She didn't notice the dog until he was a few feet away from her and it scared her so bad. She actually screamed "AHHHH" and shook :'( I felt soooo bad. Even thinking about it now, just the sound of that scream :'( it was terrible. I picked her up and comforted her and said look at the puppy, what does a puppy say, etc and she was fine. She was even pointing and waving to him.

A little while later another couple came by and they were talking to her and waving. She loved it and waved back. We stayed for about an hour, but had to leave because 1) mommy was silly and drank coffee before we got to the beach... and 2) baby threw her hat in the river and mommy didn't have another one.....

BB had a little nap on the way home, and when I got home, there was a msg from a friend saying a few of our friends were meeting and taking the kids to a playground if we wanted to meet them. BB was sound asleep in the car, and she usually sleeps for about an hour and a half to 2 hours, or more.... and then I had to feed her lunch. It was 12 and they were meeting at 1230, so I knew I wouldn't have time. I FB a msg saying I could'nt, and bb woke up right when I hit send. So I took her in, got her changed, fed her and drove back into town to meet them. It was fun. BB took to the little water park, which really surprised me, since she doesn't like water on her head in the bath. But at the center of this park were a bunch of buckets high up that would fill wtih water and then dump a ton of water, hard and fast. She kept wanting to go towards them, but she is still small, and that would flatten her lol. So I had to keep pulling her away from them and steering her towards the water that sprays up from the ground, which she loved. We got a freezie for her and a baby ice cream for me, which she got a bit of too lol. Then she started getting a bit tired, because she really didn't have a proper nap, just in the carseat. We played in the little playground for a while, and one of the girls' dads played with us. He kept saying how he couldn't believe how much bb understands for her age. He had her sliding down the slides and peeking out of the tube that connects the slide and the stairs. We had a great time. Then it was tempertantrum time when I wanted to hold her and head to the car, and she wanted to be down and running around. She fell asleep in the car again, and kept sleeping even when I put her in her crib. She only slept for about a half an hour at home, which was fine. Gane me just enough time to start supper, etc.

My mom and step dad came over for a quick visit. They had a great time watching her "dan" ie:dance and she learned how to jump yesterday, so she was jumping and giggling. Absolutely love that girl.

Easter!!

Well, it feels like its been forever since I wrote.... as usual, a lot has happened! LO is so cute. I think I fall more in love with her everyday! She now says mama, dada, bubba, up, dis, dat, byes, oh, and baby. She is also throwing temper tantrums at daycare (oh joy...). The day before last, she threw 3 very big tempertantrums for silly things like not being allowed to climb on the table! One of them was so big that the director came out of her office because she thought LO was hurt because she was screaming so loud! Yesterday, she was playing on the floor at DC and another child BIT her! Its a really bad bite too, but it didn't break the skin, so thats good.

I am not adjusting well to being a working mom! I can't seem to get everything done and it seems as though food and cleaning have taken a backseat to everything else.... I'm trying to get organized, but I can't seem to do it! My Easter shopping got done the day before Easter!! I took LO to see the Easter bunny on the day before Easter, because I realized I hadn't taken her to see him yet. We approached the bunny, who was interacting with another child. I made a big deal out of him. "Oh who is that!! Its the easter bunny!!!!" She was looking interested, so I thought maybe. He was ready for us, so I brought her close to him. She held on to me VERY tightly... I sat down next to him and was still making a big deal out of him. She was thinking maybe.... I then put her hand on his fur.... she pulled her hand away... I started to give her to him, and she started crying and squeezing on to me. I decided after a few tries, to not get the picture this year. I don't see the point in making my child freak out and cry just to get a picture. Maybe next year. But I still felt good about actually taking her.

I bought her a VERY sweet Easter dress, and for her Easter treats, I got a sand pail and shovel, put some plastic bags in it, and some purple tissue paper on top, and then put a chocolate smelling stuffed rabbit, a few small chocolate bunnies, a chocolate coated marshmallow bunny in it. I also bought her a bunny purse (dollar store!) and some eggs filled with hair ties! We also bought some plastic eggs and put some reese's bunnies in them. Easter morning, she had to go and find them. I honestly didn't think she would catch on at all, being 15 months old, but she did. She got almost all of them! Then she carried some of the eggs around all day, and still even has a few kicking around! She also got one open and took a bite of the peanut butter bunny, foil and all..... I wish I had a picture of THAT face!!! HAHA. We then went over to great grammies for supper with the family.

A few weeks ago, grammy and grampy came over to visit. They brought coffee and doughnuts. LO had never had a donut before, so grammie broke her off a piece. She LOVED it. She licked the chocolate, and walked around giggling as she ate it. Then she came back for more, and more.... I think mom fed her over half the donut.... then all of the sudden, she stood behind her toy chair, and pushed it into the kitchen, and then turned around and pushed it back to the livingroom, and back to the kitchen, and back to the living room.... this continued on for 45 min!!!! She just ran back and forth! Mom says "you might want to give her a bit of sugar now and then to get her used to it!!!" She was starting to slow down a bit, so I said "is it time for nappy naps?" LO walked over to her door, knocked on the door and waited for me to open the door. Once the door was open, she went over to her crib, and waited! I picked her up, put her in her crib, and she rolled over and went to sleep for 2 hours! Mom couldn't believe it. She kept saying "Is she putting herself to BED!!???"

I have been feeling pretty guilty lately. I feel that between work, and life in general, I don't get to spend enough time with LO. It's part of the whole trying to figure out how to balance everything. But really, I don't feel like i have enough time to spend with her. We are always at work, or driving, or making supper, etc etc. Leaving the house at 6:50am and getting home at 6pm doesn't give a lot of time for anything but getting dressed. baths, bottles, and food. Its terrible. But there is nothing I can do about that right now :-(

Today I took LO to hubby's work to visit with grammy and grampy and dada. As we were leaving, she made a fishy face!! We laughed sooooo hard! She sucked her cheeks in and bit on them to make the fishy face! TOO FREAKING CUTE!

"Bye"

LO has started saying "Bye" recently. She loves to wave, sometimes with both hands, and say Bye. Love her. She has had a terrible cough lately. We took her to the doctor last night (she was tired and had tempertantrums on the floor in the waiting room!) and he said that she sounds clear and that her ear infection she had last week has pretty much cleared up. While we were in the doctor's office waiting for the dr to come in, LO sat on the foot stool and kicked her feet under it lol Hubby said that it is unreal how fast she is growing up. She is a little girl now, not a baby. The dr said to her that she has beautiful eyelashes, and there is nothing he could put on someone to have eyelashes like that. :D She's a pretty little girl :) If I sit on the floor and ask her to give me hugs, she will run over to me and spread her arms wide and tackle me. LOVE IT!!!! I took her to a baby easter party on sat. She loved playing with her friends. One of the little boys kept pushing her down. She didn't love that too much, but other than that she had a great time. Everyone was saying how petite she is and that she is too little to be walking. She has been walking for 4 months now, but she is still really small so it kinda looks funny hehe. When she saw the easter bunny, she smiled and waved, but when it was her turn to sit on his knee and get a present, she was scared and reached her arms out to me LOL poor girl! She was getting tired and was starting to have fits. At one point she was a the door and she got mad because a little boy wouldn't let her through, so I thought. She lost it and started screaming. I thought she was having a fit so I ignored her at first, then I picked her up and consoled her, although I still thought she was just throwing a fit. A little while later I noticed a bit of blood in her nail bed! The poor thing was hurt and I was thinking she was faking! I felt sooo bad!!!!!! :(

I was getting her ready for her bath as fast as I could last night because hubby had to leave and we were out late at her doctors appointment. I ended up putting her in the tub and forgetting to take her socks off!!! She thought that was hilarious.

She signs all done and more now. I gave her a new food the other day, and she took one bite, and started wildly signing MORE MORE MORE MORE LMFAO. Too funny.

2 new things she started yesterday!

Yesterday afternoon, she nodded for the first time! There was music playing, so we thought she was head banging.v ccccvcvv b nm b vv vv dfs cn b bb mbbb i love my mvom my b soooooooooo much nb bv yttv 000mommy is cool


LOL LO is very interested in the computer these days. Mommy and Daddy are on one every day, so she is getting very curious. Hence the typing lesson that is all over this post. The legible words are hubby trying to type in btw DD's typing...

Anyways, we thought she was headbanging, but at supper at her great grandma's, she nodded again! And this AM we asked if she wanted a cookie (to keep her out of the garbage DH was trying to take out....) she nodded yes! :)

Yesterday, again at great grandma's place, she was doing something and my mom asked her something, she said "wha" and mom said OMG she said What!! But I didn't really notice it. Then someone was talking, and LO came around the corner and said "What"!!! I couldn't believe it! Mom couldn't believe it either because it was the whole word, more or less. Very cool. She is changing a lot lately. She had a growth spurt too, so she is taller and a bit heavier. 20 lbs LOL She is still small for her age in weight though lol. Love her so much!!!

Snow day. In April.

She is now saying "Dis" and "Dat" which is so cool. She was chit chatting like crazy yesterday, TOO CUTE! She was saying "Bahabahabahabahabahabahabahba mamamammaahahhahahamammam"

Today we are kinda snowed in. Its the first weekend hubby and I have off together in about a month, and it snowed like crazy yesterday. Yay. We could get out if we wanted, but we're having just as much fun sitting in our jammies and watching DD play. She's had us read "Hand Hand fingers thumb" 5 times already, and its not even 8am!

On thursday we put her down in the parking lot of mom's store and let her walk around with DH. She had a great time. She started running though, and I knew that she would fall. Sure enough, but she didn't even scrape herself, she just got up and continued. Then she found the only mud puddle in the whole area, and sat in it. ICK! LOL Her butt was covered in mud!!!

Wed night, she got away from DH when he was changing her bum. She was wearing a diaper shirt that was open, so it covered everything perfectly LOL She was running from one side of the house to the other laughing herself silly! It was so funny. Then she took her diaper shirt and flipped up! Front and back at different times! We were laughing so hard!!! I even caught it on tape! :)

The daycare is saying that she is a happy girl and that she is funny. Its nice to know she is finally comfortable there. It took over 2 months, but she is finally herself there. Mind you, she was sick for pretty much 2 and a half months straight, so I am sure that would play in. They had a photographer come in and take "school pictures" on monday. First, I think that is a total money grab, but oh well. I guess I may as well get used to it now. That morning was so messed up because, like always, we didn't plan ahead. I knew what I wanted to put on her, but I didn't try it on her, and I asked hubby to find her shoes, but he didn't. So that morning, I put on her dress (the same one she wore to her first birthday party, because we didn't think ahead and go shopping, because we don't really have the money) and found out it was TOO SMALL!!!! So we put another one on her which ended up being a bit too big, but it worked. But we couldn't find her shoes anywhere. Hubby didn't look for them the night before like I asked him too, so there we were in the AM running around looking for them. I sent him to the car to look for them and he said they weren't there either. So I said whatever, we'll send her without any. I was not impressed, but what can you do. I decided to take the one shoe we could find with us, and when hubby was in the coffee shop, I looked in the backseat and after 30 sec, found the other shoe. UGH Hubby! I was glad to find the other shoe so we didn't have to send her without any.... even if white shoes would have looked so much better.

She is very curious about the computer. Today she is trying to 'type' on it LOL. She sees mommy and daddy playing on them all the time!

We may have to get out of the house after all.... hubby is driving me nuts. He knows I am typing and he says "did you finish typing the msg to your mom?" I reply with "Yes, a long time ago." He says "Oh I thought you were going to send your mom a msg." ??? WTF?? He needs a hearing test, I am so sure of it. I repeated what I had said, and he said "Oh I thought you said no." WTF how does yes sound like no, and even so, I said " A long time ago?!?!?!" UGh, this could be a long day.

Ahhh....

Things have been pretty good for the past few weeks. She got over her cold pretty easily. I, however, was super sick a few weeks ago. I have never been that sick before in my life! It started with a sore throat and cold. I missed one day of work because of the fever and sore throat. That weekend, I was tired, but just had a regular cold. I fell asleep on the couch really early on sunday night (8:30!), and when I went to bed at 10, I started throwing up. And I really didn't stop until 3 or 4am. I even got some blankets and a pillow and tried to sleep on the bathroom floor, but our bathroom is small, and I could smell the diaper genie LOL so that didn't last long. I sent DD to daycare that morning, but there was an ice storm and the daycare closed early that day (of course.) DH had to come home from work because I couldn't take care of DD! I spent the day in bed sleeping, which I have never done before in my life. DH texted me at around 4 and asked if I was still alive down there! haha. I stayed home from work on tues to, but I was feeling a bit better. Wed I went to work, but I shouldn't have. I was so nauseated, It was the longest day ever! BUT the good thing, DD didn't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

DD is eating pretty much everything we are these days, and that has made us realize that we do not eat enough fruits and veggies. Not even close actually.... We are carb-a-holics! I am in the process of trying to find new veggie recipes that are quick, or that I can freeze. Not getting home until 5:50pm every night means that we have been eating a lot of quick foods. I want to find some good recipes that will freeze well, so I can cook everything up ahead of time. I am not a very organized person, so I am not sure how I will get into this type of routine, but I have to do it so we can eat more than toast, pasta and soup. :)

Sat, we decided that its time for DD to get rid of her morning bottle. She is 14 months old now, and really, the bottle should have been gone altogether 2 months ago. But she resisted the sippy cup so much, she wouldn't even drink out of it until 13 months or so. Now she is fine with it. However, she is a very routine baby, and when we put milk in it, she wouldn't have anything to do with it. Milk doesn't go in a sippy cup in her world. She kept slapping it away, and would not drink out of it at all. I had to go to work, so we packed her up, brought her sippy cup with the milk with us, and away we went. She cried pretty much the whole way into town. She was hungry. I have to say, I wasn't too sad to kiss her good-bye and say have a good day as I headed off to work that morning.... I know.... Terrible.... DH fed her some yogurt and she was fine for the rest of the day. The next day, she slapped it away a few times, but then drank out of it. This am she had her arms reaching out for it as I gave it to her, and she drank all of her milk no problem at all. So that wasn't so bad. Now I guess we have to get rid of her night time bubba. I actually don't want to do that. I like holding her and feeding her at night. Its usually our make up time, as she has usually frusterated me to no end trying to get her out of the bath, diaper on, and dressed...... :S Oh well, its gotta be done!

On friday when I picked her up from daycare, the daycare worker said that DD was "crazy!" She was laughing and running around and kissing one of the little boys at daycare LOL The little boy happens to be a distant relative of hers, and he was born on the same day as her. I have the boy's mom on facebook, and she heard about it too, and that her DS was running after DD kissing her too. LOL Wish I would have seen that. Then that boy's mom's status was updated to "holy pink-eye!" Crap. I knew it was coming to my house for sure! And sure enough, she rubbed her eyes quite a bit, and yesterday morning, I noticed a tiny bit of pink in her right eye, and a bit of puss. Not enough to glue her eyelid shut, but I knew it was coming. We took her into ER before I headed to work and he said that it could be viral, and to let it be unless it gets more puss. So so far, its really mild. She is home from DC today and tomorrow because I am off, so it should be good to go by then.

New things she is doing: She is pointing at a lot of things and saying "DAT" Also, she makes this crazy face if she is trying to open something, or if we give something to her and say "try to open it." She grits her teeth and acts as if she is straining to get it open! HAHAHA its sooo funny! I should really get that on video....

I have her down for a nap right now, but so far its not working LOL she has been kicking the wall for a bit now, but I think I am going to let her be for a little while longer. She has been a very good girl today. We played a lot this AM. LOVE my DD :D

What's going on these days

We have been puke and diarrhea free for over 2 weeks!!! :) :) :) SOOO Happy! She has a cold right now that has her coughing like crazy when she first goes down at night, and at least once throughout the night, which is worrisome. We thought she was going to throw up at one point last night because she was coughing so hard. But she kept sleeping. Poor little girl.

She hasn't said any new words lately. I don't think I should worry yet, but she is almost 14 months old, and at 18 months old, they say she should be able to say at least 18 words. DD says like 3. Mama, dada(sometimes), and Bah. She points to what she wants now.

Her latest thing is that she likes her Dada more than her mama. It kinda sucks, but what can you do. Just makes me think I did something wrong.

She is throwing more temper tantrums. I have to put my hand behind her head as she throws her head down, just to make sure she doesn't hurt herself, but then I pretty much let her go. Of course my MIL says "my kids never did that." Bullsh*t. She still does that and so does SIL. ugh.

She is eating much more adult food these days. She had a full turkey dinner and cake last weekend! She is eating almost everything we are which is pretty cool. She still doesn't love new textures, or colder temperatures. She throws a lot of her food on the floor.... hehe. I've been noticing lately that she is changing a lot lately. She is growing up fast. This morning when DH was getting her dressed, she was "talking" to me. She would be like "ba ba dada mama" and I would say "really?! What else happened?" And she would continue "mamababadada." It was pretty cute. Love her so much.

We had to buy her new jammies, she grew out of a lot of her old ones. I still haven't packed them away though.... no time for anything these days! I'll have to get to it soon though, because I am getting annoyed putting ones that don't fit on her because I can't remember which ones still fit....

She hates getting out of the bath. She yells and cries and tries to run away. Its always a fight.

Yesterday she started arching her back and screaming when I put her in the carseat. Looks like this is going to be a new trend. LOL

I am having trouble making Healthy suppers in time during the week. We don't get home till close to 6, and then I have to make supper after that. We don't have a lot of money either, so things have to be made on the cheap. Plus I can't eat wheat... yep. Awesome. Slow cooker works well once or twice a week, but I need to find cheaper options for the slow cooker, as chicken, roast, or ham every day is too much.

One thing that really made me sad was the other day when I went to pick DD up from daycare, the worker said "DD had a great day today! I don't think I heard her cry at all." And they said they heard her laugh for the first time that day!!!! OMG So basically DD has been unhappy there for the past 2 months. Ugh that makes me sooo sad. Although, she has been sick non stop for the past 2 months too, so she may not have been feeling up to herself.... but still.... breaks my heart. I was pissed they never told me at first, but then I thought that knowing would make it so much harder because I don't have a choice in the matter, and it would hurt and suck even more than it already does having to leave her there, knowing she hated it.