Well, why not write a blog post? I literally never get on the computer anymore. I just don't have the time! I do get on my phone though, but I can't blog from it. I have several posts on here that I have started, from months ago, and just never finished.
I have thought several times about hopping on here at night and catching up on things. But I just have not really been interested in blogging the last several months. I still read a few blogs, but I haven't been interested in writing. I have felt really private and reflective since Jude was born. I think after having August, I was so into sharing my knowledge and experience, thinking I was helping others. I thought I had it all figured out, haha. After having Jude, I am realizing how silly I sounded just a year or two ago. It is hard having one new baby....but having two babies at once is very, very hard. It is also very humbling. I am listening, reading, talking with women in my life and getting their perspective on child-rearing. No longer handing out much of my own advice. I'm soaking up others' experiences like a sponge.
I have also been reflecting a lot lately. I feel like I am keeping a continuous, private blog in my head. Always recording memories, thoughts, struggles, successes. I have been wanting to start journaling, just for myself as something to work through and be able to look back on, but it seems like it takes too long to write down everything I'm thinking. It's also hard to be as honest on paper as I am in my head. I just have really been wanting to document this stage in my life. I know it is one of the hardest stages in my life, but it will also be one of the shortest. Jude is already 5 months old (tomorrow), and August is fixing to turn 21 months old. I have no idea where the time has gone.
I have mostly been trying to find balance lately. Trying to figure out how to balance Bible study, quality time with each child, house work, fixing meals, working out, getting out of the house, ministering to others in our church and in our community, trying to find an outlet for myself outside of the house, and of course time with Adam. I can't figure out the perfect balance. It's hard to feel like I have done everything I should do in a day. I'm trying to figure out what things need to be a priority. To me they all sound like priorities, but I find myself unsatisfied if I don't get to all of these things in a day. But of course, there is no way to fit all of that in, in one day. Especially when you are working around breakfast, nap, lunch, nap, dinner, and early bed time with kiddos. I think I need to just figure out what is needed and do-able in this season of life. There will be other seasons that may be better for other things. I have been changing up our schedule lately, trying to figure out the best order of things. Here is how we are doing things right now on days where we don't go anywhere. No set times really, just more of a routine.
-I wake up and nurse Jude around 7 or so. He nurses and goes back to sleep. (He sleeps in a bassinet in the playroom right now.
- I workout in the living room. I may or may not get interrupted by August.
- I get both boys up. August drinks his milk while I nurse Jude.
- I make breakfast and get laundry started.
- Breakfast. August eats oatmeal, and I have a smoothie. My smoothie is made with almond milk since Jude doesn't tolerate dairy.
- Jude plays while we eat breakfast.
- August plays with Jude and watches Sesame Street while I clean up breakfast and get my housework started. I hate Abby's Flying Fairy School. So dumb.
- I nurse Jude and lay him down for his morning nap.
- I put August in the playroom, and I do my Bible study in the kitchen.
- After I finish, I play with August in the playroom.
- I switch over the laundry at some point.
- Jude wakes up after napping, anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours.
- Adam comes home for lunch, and he plays with August while I nurse Jude. Some days I fix Adam's lunch, and some days he fixes his own depending on what I have going on.
- August has lunch. These days he will only eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (sometimes, now I think he is getting burnt out on them), grilled cheese sandwich, yogurt, fruit, graham crackers, or anything sweet. He is super picky.
- Jude plays while August eats.
- August takes a nap. Haha, yeah right. :) I lay August down, and I make him stay back there for 2 hours. Most days he does not sleep. I used to always lay him down by 1:00, but I have figured out in the last week that if I wait until 2:00 to lay him down, he might sleep. He was getting to where he never slept, which makes for very hard afternoons.
- I play with Jude until it's time for him to nap again. We have been working on rolling over lately. :)
- I nurse Jude and then lay him down for a nap.
- Now is my time to get my chores for the day done. But what usually happens is I sit down to finally have my lunch, or if I happen to have already eaten, I will have a snack. Then sometimes I fall asleep. I have been SO tired lately. I think I'm staying up too late. But I usually at least keep the laundry going. :)
- I get the boys up, nurse Jude, and August has a snack. He usually has milk and graham crackers.
- I start supper while the boys play. August is good at entertaining Jude. He likes to make him smile and picks his toys up when Jude drops them. I keep Jude in his swing or exersaucer when I can't sit with them and closely supervise.
- Adam comes home and plays with the boys while I get supper ready.
- We eat supper together. August rarely has what we are having. I need to work on that. Jude sits in his car seat on the table. He is a beautiful center piece. :)
- After supper, Adam and August play, and Jude and I watch. :) Jude will nurse now if it has been a while.
- Adam bathes the boys while I get their pajamas ready, catch up on laundry, and straighten up the house.
- We get the boys ready for bed and say prayers together as a family.
- We tuck August in and then I go in the playroom and nurse Jude until he's sleepy, which doesn't take long. This is my favorite part of the day with Jude. Everything is done, and I just get to cuddle him and stare at him. It's bliss.
- After the boys are in bed, Adam and I hang out or I catch up on laundry folding. Laundry folding and putting away is my biggest downfall. I never make enough time for it.
- After I get myself ready for bed, I go in and nurse Jude again, just so I can get as much sleep as possible. He doesn't really wake up. It's more of a "dream feed." I nurse him anytime between 10 and midnight, and he will sleep until 7 the next morning. It's wonderful.
- Then we do the day all over again!
When I type it out, it doesn't sound that busy. But I am moving non stop! I don't know where all the time goes. I think it's mostly getting food ready, cleaning up food, cleaning up August, feeding Jude, cleaning Jude up (he spits up a lot), spraying out poopy cloth diapers (cloth diapering two is a lot of work!), etc. Just always something to do.
Well, I'll give a short update on the boys. August will be 21 months old in a few days. I jotted down an 18 month update for him a few weeks ago, but never blogged about it. He is SO verbal. He talks about everything. Constantly. He is getting good at communicating with us. He speaks his own language of course, but I understand what he is saying most of the time. His favorite thing ever is "ball." He is obsessed with ball. Always wants to play ball. He also loves to go outside, which has been hard in these freezing temps. He is also testing us lately, and has started throwing tantrums, which is hard. I'm talking face down on the floor screaming tantrums. It's a hard stage for all of us.
Jude is quite the opposite right now. He is such an easy baby. I'm so spoiled. He is smiling all the time. The hardest thing with him is that he doesn't want to be left alone. He is very social and is always wanting attention. But he is so happy when he gets it, that I don't mind giving it to him. He very very rarely cries, and when he does cry it's usually because he is sleepy. I don't give him much opportunity to be hungry, haha. He is such a sweet boy. He also has some chubby thighs! I just wanna bite them! He is not rolling over yet, but I'm not too worried. He will do it in his own time. He has already sat up on his own a couple times. He has one bottom tooth in, and I just saw that the one next to it has poked through tonight! He is such a big boy. I weighed him tonight, and our scale said 16.8 pounds which is probably somewhere around 16 pounds 12 ounces or so. He is so big! I'm so so thankful breastfeeding is working this time. He is a champ nurser. He usually does 4-5 minutes on one side. Sometimes he will take the other side, but usually not.
Well, this turned into a much bigger update than I intended. Haha wow. I need to get to bed. I hope y'all are doing well! Maybe I will get back into this blogging thing. We will see. :) Here are some pics! Nevermind, stupid Blogger won't upload them, AS USUAL. I don't have time for that. Goodnight. :)
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
We're Switching Rooms!
Sooo.... just this week I completely finished the nursery!!! All that is left to be done is setting up the new crib. That's all!!! Newborn clothes are washed and put away, closet has been reorganized to fit clothes for 2 babies, and all of the burp cloths, bibs, and other necessities are neatly organized and in place.
I also had the glider rocker, all the toys, bookshelves, everything moved into the playroom. I was getting it set up and had started looking at decorating and layout ideas. It was looking cute.
But......I am me. And I like to reorganize and reconfigure things all the time. It's what I do.
Ask my husband.
So.....at 29 weeks pregnant (tomorrow), we are redoing all of it. Hahahaha.
Poor hubby.
While both the nursery and the playroom have the same amount of square feet, the current playroom just makes more sense as a nursery. Let me explain why. Yes, I listed reasons because this is what I had to do to convince my husband to switch the rooms. :)
1. There are 3 useable corners in the playroom as opposed to the 2 useable corners in the nursery. In the current playroom, the closet and the door to the hallway are sharing a corner. So there is more useable wall space in the rest of the room. In the nursery, the closet is in one corner of the room, and the door to the hallway is in another corner. So in the current nursery, there is less continuous wall space than in the playroom. In other words, there is very little wall space for 2 cribs without blocking a window or having the cribs in an "L" shape right up against each other. I don't want them in an "L" shape, because I don't want August messing with Baby in the middle of the night. :)
2. The location of the current nursery in relation to the front porch. The current nursery has a window that looks out onto the front porch. This has always worried me ever since August was a newborn. If someone were going to break in, they would likely go through a window...an easy to get to window like the one on the front porch.....or at least that's what happens in my mommy mind. I am constantly waking up in the night thinking I hear someone in there on the baby monitor. The window of the current playroom is well off the ground and doesn't share the front porch. Also, once the boys are a little older, I don't want going out the window at night to be any sort of temptation. :)
3. Water pipes. The water pipes run through the walls of the current nursery. Anytime I run the washer, August always at least stirs if he doesn't wake up completely. The water running is very loud in there. So I usually limit laundry to the times he is awake, which obviously is not very convenient. You would have thought he would have gotten used to the water by now, but the older he got, the more it woke him up.
4. Location of the current nursery in relation to the living room/front door. The nursery is currently in the room closest to the entry way/living room. This means anytime we have people over or the door bell rings, it wakes August up. The current playroom is further away from the front of the house, so there will be less noise back there so they will sleep better.
Those are my reasons, and I'm sticking to them. :)
I have already completely switched the contents of both closets! Once Adam gave me the go ahead, I was a woman on a mission. If it weren't for August being in bed, I would be in there right now switching the furniture....but then I would probably go into labor, so maybe that's a bad idea.
I also had the glider rocker, all the toys, bookshelves, everything moved into the playroom. I was getting it set up and had started looking at decorating and layout ideas. It was looking cute.
But......I am me. And I like to reorganize and reconfigure things all the time. It's what I do.
Ask my husband.
So.....at 29 weeks pregnant (tomorrow), we are redoing all of it. Hahahaha.
Poor hubby.
While both the nursery and the playroom have the same amount of square feet, the current playroom just makes more sense as a nursery. Let me explain why. Yes, I listed reasons because this is what I had to do to convince my husband to switch the rooms. :)
Why the Current Playroom Would Be Better Suited as a Nursery
1. There are 3 useable corners in the playroom as opposed to the 2 useable corners in the nursery. In the current playroom, the closet and the door to the hallway are sharing a corner. So there is more useable wall space in the rest of the room. In the nursery, the closet is in one corner of the room, and the door to the hallway is in another corner. So in the current nursery, there is less continuous wall space than in the playroom. In other words, there is very little wall space for 2 cribs without blocking a window or having the cribs in an "L" shape right up against each other. I don't want them in an "L" shape, because I don't want August messing with Baby in the middle of the night. :)
2. The location of the current nursery in relation to the front porch. The current nursery has a window that looks out onto the front porch. This has always worried me ever since August was a newborn. If someone were going to break in, they would likely go through a window...an easy to get to window like the one on the front porch.....or at least that's what happens in my mommy mind. I am constantly waking up in the night thinking I hear someone in there on the baby monitor. The window of the current playroom is well off the ground and doesn't share the front porch. Also, once the boys are a little older, I don't want going out the window at night to be any sort of temptation. :)
3. Water pipes. The water pipes run through the walls of the current nursery. Anytime I run the washer, August always at least stirs if he doesn't wake up completely. The water running is very loud in there. So I usually limit laundry to the times he is awake, which obviously is not very convenient. You would have thought he would have gotten used to the water by now, but the older he got, the more it woke him up.
4. Location of the current nursery in relation to the living room/front door. The nursery is currently in the room closest to the entry way/living room. This means anytime we have people over or the door bell rings, it wakes August up. The current playroom is further away from the front of the house, so there will be less noise back there so they will sleep better.
Those are my reasons, and I'm sticking to them. :)
I have already completely switched the contents of both closets! Once Adam gave me the go ahead, I was a woman on a mission. If it weren't for August being in bed, I would be in there right now switching the furniture....but then I would probably go into labor, so maybe that's a bad idea.
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| Previous playroom (New nursery) Closet BEFORE....yep, this closet is our vice. It's the only hoarding place I have allowed in the house. It contains a few craft items, high school/college memorabilia, lots of Marine uniforms and gear, back packs and purses, and a few special occasion dresses that I am hoping and praying to fit into again. |
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Previous playroom (New nursery) Closet AFTER......Baby stuff!!!! Ignore the crooked hanging shelf. Will be fixed soon.
Here is what the (ex) playroom looks like after all the junk was cleaned out and we moved in the glider rocker, book shelf and toys. The toys are still in laundry baskets waiting to be put away. If you want to see where we started with this room (aka- if you want to see my junky room), click HERE.   
The (ex) nursery looks the same as it always has except there is a blank spot next to the window where the glider rocker used to be.
So that's a little update for you! We have plans tomorrow night, so we will be switching all of the furniture between the rooms Friday night, if all goes as planned. I'm sooooo excited!!!! :) Thank you, Adam!!! LOOOOOVE YOOOOU! :) |
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Life Update! 6.5.13
Well hello! Long time no chat! I know I have been completely neglecting the blog lately, but life has just been so busy. I'll make up for it by making this a long post. :) I don't even know where to start. I'll start with pregnancy. As of today (Wednesday, June 5th), I am 27 weeks and 6 days pregnant. 28 weeks tomorrow! It really is flying by now, and I can't believe we are approaching week 30! That's so crazy! Here are a couple pictures of recent weeks.
I'm getting huge! I feel like my belly is EVEN bigger this time, but I guess that's to be expected with your second baby. I have gained 16 or 17 pounds so far. Yeah, my weight took off once I hit 20 weeks. I had only gained 5 pounds at 20 weeks. Oh well, I have been eating a lot better (more healthy) than I did last pregnancy, and I consistently walk about 3 times a week. I'm not too worried about it.
This baby is SOOOO LOW. He doesn't look terribly low in these pictures, but I think he feels so low because I think he is still breech. I am feeling very very strong and painful kicks down below. They hurt pretty bad. I talked to my doctor (the OB I have to see every couple visits), and he said 1/3 of babies are still breech at this point and by 36 weeks only 2% are still breech. So I am hoping this little guy will turn soon. I remember I used to complain about August's feet being in my ribs. That was painful, but this is a whole different kind of painful.
I have also figured out that I can't eat pork this pregnancy. In the past 10 or so weeks, I have had grilled pork chops, pork ribs, and hot dogs. I have gotten extremely sick each time afterward, so much so that I think I am in labor. We have almost gone to the hospital twice. It's that bad. So I am staying away from pork for the rest of pregnancy, although bacon hasn't seemed to affect me any.
I have been waist deep in nursery and play room preparations. It's a lot less stressful this time having the nursery already mostly done. I have been cleaning out August's dresser and closet to make room for Baby's things, and I am slowly adding the newborn clothes in. It's really fun! I enjoy getting ready for him. I also just got the playroom cleaned out this week. It was a junk room. Here are some progress photos.
Here is what the play room looks like today. I would take a picture of the nursery, but August issleeping supposed to be sleeping.
Everything you see, minus the broom, is staying in there, it just needs to be organized. The rest of his toys are in the living room right now. Not pictured in a corner of this room is the new crib mattress and a box of picture frames that need to be hung. I will have to get on that. I usually get Adam to help me. I'm not good at hanging stuff. The bookshelf you can kind of see in one of the pictures is the bookshelf that was in August's room. (To see a nursery tour right before August was born, click HERE. Ignore the yellow cast in the pictures. The room is actually light gray, the same as the color of the play room). I moved the bookshelf out so we can put all the books in the play room, and it will also have extra space on it for some organizers for toys. To replace it, I put the organizer from our entry way (remember it from HERE?). It once held....junk...that we kept right by the front door, and then it held August's toys that we kept in the living room, and now I will have it in the nursery to store burp cloths, hats, no scratch mittens, baby shoes, lotions, and the baby thermometer.
For the playroom, I would like to have a little reading corner, a different area for August to spread out with his toys, and I would also like to have an art area. The art area may have to wait until August gets a little older. He already loves coloring though. I have a small wooden table and chairs set that I found at a yard sale. It's in the garage and needs to be sanded and painted. He isn't really old enough to use it yet. I will also put the glider rocker and ottoman in the play room so that I can have a place to nurse Baby while August plays.
So that's what's been going on around here! Lots of planning!
August is doing very well. He STILL isn't walking yet! He turned 13 months old on Monday. I didn't walk til I was 15 months though, so we'll see what he does. He could definitely do it, he is just afraid. He is great at walking while holding your hands or holding onto the wall, he just doesn't want to let go. The boy has safety concerns, nothing wrong with that. :) His eating is CRAZY. He literally wants to eat all day long. I seriously cannot keep up with his appetite. He gets so excited over food too. He goes nuts over it. Speaking of nuts, we introduced peanut butter (and fish) and have had no problems. Whew! I am so thankful. I feel like I am getting in a rut with his meals though. Lunch is pretty much a turkey sandwich (cut up into pieces) or a peanut butter (and sometimes jelly) sandwich every day with fruit and gold fish crackers. What do you fix for your toddler to eat? Sometimes he will eat leftovers from the night before, but we don't always have leftovers. He loves yogurt, cheese, and milk. But I'm trying not to give him too much dairy because I don't want him to be constipated. I could use some new ideas.
Here is a video from last week of August walking down the hallway (holding onto the walls)! This was the first time he had attempted to walk without holding onto furniture.
His new favorite thing to do lately is to help me unload the dishwasher. Sometimes he doesn't like to give up the silverware though. :) Don't worry, all knives were removed prior to this video. :)
Adam and I also celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary yesterday! It seems longer but shorter all at the same time. Longer because we have had SO much happen in the last 3 years, and shorter because the years pass by so quickly. I actually don't have any pictures because we were really lame for our anniversary. We have been so busy lately that we were both pretty tired and just wanted to relax together, plus I had a Captain D's craving. LOL. I know. So we drove to Captain D's to pick up supper (with August). I saw that their "Original" 4 piece fish meal was only $4.99! I got really excited because I looove their battered fish. So I got that. Well, we decided to stop at a kids' park on our way home so we could eat and then let August play some. Well, when we got to the park, I opened up my meal to find....not battered fish. It looked like the fish sticks you cook in the oven that you buy from the grocery store. It was definitely not battered. I got mad. Haha. You don't mess with a pregnant girl's cravings, ok? So I decided we were going back. What else could "original" possibly mean? I mean, when you think of Captain D's "original" fish....do you think of anything besides their regular, battered fish? I sure don't! That would be like going to KFC and ordering their original recipe...and then they give you a bucket of hot wings.....say what?! So yes, I was ticked. So we go back to the drive-thru.
I ask the lady, "Is the 'original' recipe the same as the battered fish that y'all have always had?"
"No," she says.
I was so mad. That is false advertisement, is it not?! I know I'm worked up over this, but I hate things like this! You can't say something is "original" if it is brand new!
Ok sorry, I'm getting carried away. So I end up ordering what I really wanted (we forgot to order for August anyway, so he gets the nasty looking fish sticks. Sorry, August. He liked them just fine by the way. Poor kid doesn't know any better.) The battered fish meal was literally double the price! Grrrr. I hate Captain D's.
So we pull around, and I am going to say something to the girl at the window. I was actually going to ask to speak to the manager. Adam's head is about between his legs at this point. But when we get to the drive-thru, we see there is a different girl there, and we actually know her. She used to go to our church. So Adam begs me not to get into it. I spare him the embarrassment and promise I will write a letter to corporate. Oh the rants of a pregnant woman.
So on the way home, I'm trying to put out my fumes. We are at a red light, and I hear the car next to me honk. I try to ignore it, thinking it's probably someone I know, and I'm too mad to look cheerful right now. Adam's points to the car next to us since they apparently were trying to get my attention. A girl (who is driving) is leaning over the passenger seat, hanging out the window. I roll my window down just in time for her to yell out, "You got a lighter?!"
............"No, no I don't have a lighter."
She steps on the gas as the light turns green. Adam and I about fall out of our seats laughing at this point. Here I am, rolling in a mini van (yes, we got a mini van), with a kid in the back seat, bumpin to our Christian rap, and this lady wants to know if I have a lighter. It was just kind of hysterical....and weird.
So while we are laughing about that, I bring up the subject of baby names. (I bring this up every day.) We have it narrowed down to 3 names. We decide that we both really like one name in particular, but we always come up with a reason as to why it just "doesn't work." We both suddenly decide that it can work if we want it to work, and who's to say it doesn't? So we both decide, yes, that's his name! So then there was a lot of celebrating and laughter the rest of the way home as we talked about our Captain D's trip, the girl who needs a lighter, and our new baby boy's name. Haha, that car ride alone made it a memorable anniversary.
We came home and had dinner together, gave August a bath, watched Extreme Makeover Weightloss Edition, stuffed cloth diapers and folded laundry. :) It was a great night. Haha. We didn't need a fancy dinner. I couldn't have asked for a better evening. We do plan to take our first overnight trip soon without August. It will be very sad, and I know I will cry, but I will be glad I took a little get away when the new baby gets here, I am sure. I won't be able to go overnight without a baby again for a while since the next one will be nursing. So I am going to take advantage of the opportunity.
Well, I guess that's about it for my update. I need to get busy reorganizing baby clothes into tubs. I did this last year, but they have gotten messed up as we pull things out and put things back in. I will leave y'all with some recent pictures!
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| 26 weeks....sorry for the quality |
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| 27 weeks |
This baby is SOOOO LOW. He doesn't look terribly low in these pictures, but I think he feels so low because I think he is still breech. I am feeling very very strong and painful kicks down below. They hurt pretty bad. I talked to my doctor (the OB I have to see every couple visits), and he said 1/3 of babies are still breech at this point and by 36 weeks only 2% are still breech. So I am hoping this little guy will turn soon. I remember I used to complain about August's feet being in my ribs. That was painful, but this is a whole different kind of painful.
I have also figured out that I can't eat pork this pregnancy. In the past 10 or so weeks, I have had grilled pork chops, pork ribs, and hot dogs. I have gotten extremely sick each time afterward, so much so that I think I am in labor. We have almost gone to the hospital twice. It's that bad. So I am staying away from pork for the rest of pregnancy, although bacon hasn't seemed to affect me any.
I have been waist deep in nursery and play room preparations. It's a lot less stressful this time having the nursery already mostly done. I have been cleaning out August's dresser and closet to make room for Baby's things, and I am slowly adding the newborn clothes in. It's really fun! I enjoy getting ready for him. I also just got the playroom cleaned out this week. It was a junk room. Here are some progress photos.
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| Playroom Before....view from doorway |
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| Playroom Before....view from doorway looking left |
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| August's closet Before....yep, it got had gotten messy. |
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| Nursery organization/clean out in process! |
Here is what the play room looks like today. I would take a picture of the nursery, but August is
Everything you see, minus the broom, is staying in there, it just needs to be organized. The rest of his toys are in the living room right now. Not pictured in a corner of this room is the new crib mattress and a box of picture frames that need to be hung. I will have to get on that. I usually get Adam to help me. I'm not good at hanging stuff. The bookshelf you can kind of see in one of the pictures is the bookshelf that was in August's room. (To see a nursery tour right before August was born, click HERE. Ignore the yellow cast in the pictures. The room is actually light gray, the same as the color of the play room). I moved the bookshelf out so we can put all the books in the play room, and it will also have extra space on it for some organizers for toys. To replace it, I put the organizer from our entry way (remember it from HERE?). It once held....junk...that we kept right by the front door, and then it held August's toys that we kept in the living room, and now I will have it in the nursery to store burp cloths, hats, no scratch mittens, baby shoes, lotions, and the baby thermometer.
For the playroom, I would like to have a little reading corner, a different area for August to spread out with his toys, and I would also like to have an art area. The art area may have to wait until August gets a little older. He already loves coloring though. I have a small wooden table and chairs set that I found at a yard sale. It's in the garage and needs to be sanded and painted. He isn't really old enough to use it yet. I will also put the glider rocker and ottoman in the play room so that I can have a place to nurse Baby while August plays.
So that's what's been going on around here! Lots of planning!
August is doing very well. He STILL isn't walking yet! He turned 13 months old on Monday. I didn't walk til I was 15 months though, so we'll see what he does. He could definitely do it, he is just afraid. He is great at walking while holding your hands or holding onto the wall, he just doesn't want to let go. The boy has safety concerns, nothing wrong with that. :) His eating is CRAZY. He literally wants to eat all day long. I seriously cannot keep up with his appetite. He gets so excited over food too. He goes nuts over it. Speaking of nuts, we introduced peanut butter (and fish) and have had no problems. Whew! I am so thankful. I feel like I am getting in a rut with his meals though. Lunch is pretty much a turkey sandwich (cut up into pieces) or a peanut butter (and sometimes jelly) sandwich every day with fruit and gold fish crackers. What do you fix for your toddler to eat? Sometimes he will eat leftovers from the night before, but we don't always have leftovers. He loves yogurt, cheese, and milk. But I'm trying not to give him too much dairy because I don't want him to be constipated. I could use some new ideas.
Here is a video from last week of August walking down the hallway (holding onto the walls)! This was the first time he had attempted to walk without holding onto furniture.
His new favorite thing to do lately is to help me unload the dishwasher. Sometimes he doesn't like to give up the silverware though. :) Don't worry, all knives were removed prior to this video. :)
Adam and I also celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary yesterday! It seems longer but shorter all at the same time. Longer because we have had SO much happen in the last 3 years, and shorter because the years pass by so quickly. I actually don't have any pictures because we were really lame for our anniversary. We have been so busy lately that we were both pretty tired and just wanted to relax together, plus I had a Captain D's craving. LOL. I know. So we drove to Captain D's to pick up supper (with August). I saw that their "Original" 4 piece fish meal was only $4.99! I got really excited because I looove their battered fish. So I got that. Well, we decided to stop at a kids' park on our way home so we could eat and then let August play some. Well, when we got to the park, I opened up my meal to find....not battered fish. It looked like the fish sticks you cook in the oven that you buy from the grocery store. It was definitely not battered. I got mad. Haha. You don't mess with a pregnant girl's cravings, ok? So I decided we were going back. What else could "original" possibly mean? I mean, when you think of Captain D's "original" fish....do you think of anything besides their regular, battered fish? I sure don't! That would be like going to KFC and ordering their original recipe...and then they give you a bucket of hot wings.....say what?! So yes, I was ticked. So we go back to the drive-thru.
I ask the lady, "Is the 'original' recipe the same as the battered fish that y'all have always had?"
"No," she says.
I was so mad. That is false advertisement, is it not?! I know I'm worked up over this, but I hate things like this! You can't say something is "original" if it is brand new!
Ok sorry, I'm getting carried away. So I end up ordering what I really wanted (we forgot to order for August anyway, so he gets the nasty looking fish sticks. Sorry, August. He liked them just fine by the way. Poor kid doesn't know any better.) The battered fish meal was literally double the price! Grrrr. I hate Captain D's.
So we pull around, and I am going to say something to the girl at the window. I was actually going to ask to speak to the manager. Adam's head is about between his legs at this point. But when we get to the drive-thru, we see there is a different girl there, and we actually know her. She used to go to our church. So Adam begs me not to get into it. I spare him the embarrassment and promise I will write a letter to corporate. Oh the rants of a pregnant woman.
So on the way home, I'm trying to put out my fumes. We are at a red light, and I hear the car next to me honk. I try to ignore it, thinking it's probably someone I know, and I'm too mad to look cheerful right now. Adam's points to the car next to us since they apparently were trying to get my attention. A girl (who is driving) is leaning over the passenger seat, hanging out the window. I roll my window down just in time for her to yell out, "You got a lighter?!"
............"No, no I don't have a lighter."
She steps on the gas as the light turns green. Adam and I about fall out of our seats laughing at this point. Here I am, rolling in a mini van (yes, we got a mini van), with a kid in the back seat, bumpin to our Christian rap, and this lady wants to know if I have a lighter. It was just kind of hysterical....and weird.
So while we are laughing about that, I bring up the subject of baby names. (I bring this up every day.) We have it narrowed down to 3 names. We decide that we both really like one name in particular, but we always come up with a reason as to why it just "doesn't work." We both suddenly decide that it can work if we want it to work, and who's to say it doesn't? So we both decide, yes, that's his name! So then there was a lot of celebrating and laughter the rest of the way home as we talked about our Captain D's trip, the girl who needs a lighter, and our new baby boy's name. Haha, that car ride alone made it a memorable anniversary.
We came home and had dinner together, gave August a bath, watched Extreme Makeover Weightloss Edition, stuffed cloth diapers and folded laundry. :) It was a great night. Haha. We didn't need a fancy dinner. I couldn't have asked for a better evening. We do plan to take our first overnight trip soon without August. It will be very sad, and I know I will cry, but I will be glad I took a little get away when the new baby gets here, I am sure. I won't be able to go overnight without a baby again for a while since the next one will be nursing. So I am going to take advantage of the opportunity.
Well, I guess that's about it for my update. I need to get busy reorganizing baby clothes into tubs. I did this last year, but they have gotten messed up as we pull things out and put things back in. I will leave y'all with some recent pictures!
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| Pinky up |
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| Heidi and Doug (Doug's a girl...don't ask.) |
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| Favorite breakfast lately...strawberry cream cheese toast topped with strawberries |
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| Red Robin date night |
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| Playing in his crib while I work on the nursery |
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| Think he's tired? |
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| Yes, I think he is tired. This is his "I hate lasagna" face. |
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| Sunday afternoon newspaper reading with Grandpa (my dad). |
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| My lunch date with myself! Veggie roll and Glimpses of Grace. Nana had August since I had a doctor's appointment. |
Saturday, May 4, 2013
August Turns One!
Wow, what a whirlwind! August turned a year old yesterday. It was an exciting, emotional, and exhausting day. I am glad it's over. :) Days like that are hard on a momma. I can't believe it has been a year since I first set eyes on this new blessing. I am not really sad that he is growing up (ok, maybe I am), but it is just so emotional looking back at everything we have been through together. From the day we found out we were expecting a baby, to the day we found out he was a boy, through pregnancy, to labor and delivery, to nursing, to enduring the flu, to crawling, to rare and unexpected cuddles, to talking, to turning one, I can't remember life without him. He is so much a part of me and who I am becoming.
I know this post is about August and his birthday, but I think it's a time of reflection over the past year for me as well. I have changed so much. Becoming a mom has really pointed out to me the areas that I struggle in this flesh. Patience is something that I have noticed I struggle with. Patience over a crying baby, patience when I haven't had enough sleep, patience when I think August should be able to do "more", etc. The Lord is teaching me to wait on Him and rely on Him to give me everything I need. He is teaching me to be more forgiving and more understanding. He has got a lot of work to do in me, but I know that He is faithful to complete the work He started.
I have also grown a lot in the past year. It's amazing what I can accomplish in a short time span. 10 minutes? Plenty of time to unload and reload the dishwasher, switch over the laundry, start a new load, and pick up the living room, etc. Things that I usually would put off are now my "quick" chores. I have become much more diligent about tending to the laundry! Y'all know me, and that is a big accomplishment! Remember this? Yep, that's when we first got married. Haha. Times have changed. I have also learned to be more flexible. I can now come up with supper on a whim, straighten up the house super fast if someone decides to pop in, and run a quick errand with baby in tow if necessary. On the flip side of that, I have also learned to stick to a schedule. Having a baby definitely enforces that. They need to sleep, eat, play, etc. in a predictable time frame, otherwise your day is chaos...and not fun. I have learned to get things done in that schedule when I can because I know that is my one chance during the day to get that chore done, unless I want to be up super late, which I don't. I know Adam likes for me to have all of my work done before he gets home. He says he can't relax if I'm not relaxed. I can understand that. I don't mind doing chores at night, but I know I need to use that time to spend with Adam and recharge for the next day.
Well, I really didn't intend to go into all that. Thoughts of a momma. :) Let's talk about yesterday. It was a full day for sure. We have been super busy the last several days. Just busy with life and church things. Out late, weird nap schedules, etc. have resulted. So we started off yesterday sleepy, but we wanted to really enjoy the day since Adam had taken the day off.
We decided to take August to the Tennessee Aquarium. We have a fish tank in our living room, so I knew he would enjoy seeing the giant fish tanks! His daddy loves the aquarium too. I could tell August was sleepy before we even left the house, but I was hoping that he would still have a good time. Here he is right before we got there. Haha.
By the way, he never sleeps in the car! Thankfully he woke up as we were getting ready to go in. His favorite exhibit by far was the penguins. I think he had the most energy for them because they were toward the beginning. :)
I know this post is about August and his birthday, but I think it's a time of reflection over the past year for me as well. I have changed so much. Becoming a mom has really pointed out to me the areas that I struggle in this flesh. Patience is something that I have noticed I struggle with. Patience over a crying baby, patience when I haven't had enough sleep, patience when I think August should be able to do "more", etc. The Lord is teaching me to wait on Him and rely on Him to give me everything I need. He is teaching me to be more forgiving and more understanding. He has got a lot of work to do in me, but I know that He is faithful to complete the work He started.
I have also grown a lot in the past year. It's amazing what I can accomplish in a short time span. 10 minutes? Plenty of time to unload and reload the dishwasher, switch over the laundry, start a new load, and pick up the living room, etc. Things that I usually would put off are now my "quick" chores. I have become much more diligent about tending to the laundry! Y'all know me, and that is a big accomplishment! Remember this? Yep, that's when we first got married. Haha. Times have changed. I have also learned to be more flexible. I can now come up with supper on a whim, straighten up the house super fast if someone decides to pop in, and run a quick errand with baby in tow if necessary. On the flip side of that, I have also learned to stick to a schedule. Having a baby definitely enforces that. They need to sleep, eat, play, etc. in a predictable time frame, otherwise your day is chaos...and not fun. I have learned to get things done in that schedule when I can because I know that is my one chance during the day to get that chore done, unless I want to be up super late, which I don't. I know Adam likes for me to have all of my work done before he gets home. He says he can't relax if I'm not relaxed. I can understand that. I don't mind doing chores at night, but I know I need to use that time to spend with Adam and recharge for the next day.
Well, I really didn't intend to go into all that. Thoughts of a momma. :) Let's talk about yesterday. It was a full day for sure. We have been super busy the last several days. Just busy with life and church things. Out late, weird nap schedules, etc. have resulted. So we started off yesterday sleepy, but we wanted to really enjoy the day since Adam had taken the day off.
We decided to take August to the Tennessee Aquarium. We have a fish tank in our living room, so I knew he would enjoy seeing the giant fish tanks! His daddy loves the aquarium too. I could tell August was sleepy before we even left the house, but I was hoping that he would still have a good time. Here he is right before we got there. Haha.
By the way, he never sleeps in the car! Thankfully he woke up as we were getting ready to go in. His favorite exhibit by far was the penguins. I think he had the most energy for them because they were toward the beginning. :)
It was a really fun time. We actually made it through the entire Aquarium (both sections) without any meltdowns! Hurray! :)
After we picked up some lunch and his cake, we came home to get ready for the party crash for a too- long nap. August crashed, and we crashed right behind him. We woke up just before 5 (party was at 6). Haha. So we did some scrambling! I felt much better after my nap. I was hoping I could make it through his party without having a mommy meltdown!
After everyone arrived, we ate pizza, opened presents (WOW! He got a ton! We were not even expecting gifts.), lit his candle, sang Happy Birthday, and then my sequestered tears poured. Haha. I flashed back a year ago to when we sang Happy Birthday to August in the hospital. What a beautiful day that was! In that moment, I didn't imagine that my little newborn would ever be a 1 year old. Ohh the tears. :) And yes, that moment was captured on video. Here are some clips!
August wasn't too sure about his cake at first, but after a few licks of frosting, he decided it was pretty good! We had a really great time celebrating August's birth with everyone. I love you, baby boy! Happy 1st Birthday!!!
August wasn't too sure about his cake at first, but after a few licks of frosting, he decided it was pretty good! We had a really great time celebrating August's birth with everyone. I love you, baby boy! Happy 1st Birthday!!!
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