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This week held two more firsts for my kiddies.
1. On Thursday Addy rolled over for the first time. Not a big deal, but it left me wondering if this would be the last time one of my kids would roll over for the first time =( She was laying on the bed next to Mike on her belly when she rolled over onto her back to be closer to him. So cute. I was glad he got to see it (I was in the bathroom getting stuff ready for bedtime), since I think he was disappointed that he missed when Joshua first rolled over.
2. Last night was Joshua’s first night in his big boy bed. We bought the mattress earlier in the week and had it delivered yesterday. I was determined to get him in it as soon as possible, as we have been talking to him about it for so long, and because Addy had created a nice little imprint in her Pack N Play “mattress.” So I spent last week and this week shopping for mattress, buying mattress, returning mattress and buying another, buying sheets and mattress protectors, and washing everything needed to make him his cozy bed. Here it is!
 Joshua & his big boy bed Joshua looked SO cute and little in his big boy bed. It almost brought tears to my eyes how cozy and small he looked. Too out in the open =) I love my little man!
He slept PERFECTLY in his new bed the first night. I truly did not expect it to be a good night AT ALL, but he really surprised me. He knew that was where he was supposed to sleep that night (and from then on), and did not ask to go to his crib or anything. And, he slept ’til 10:30AM this morning!!! YAY JOSHUA!!!
3. This also means that it was Addy’s first night in her crib. She has been in her own room since 2-1/2 months, but just in a Pack N Play. Given that she is a 17 lb 4-1/2 month old, she was in desperate need of a supportive crib. I put her to sleep as normal in her swing in our room (it’ll have to be this way ’til she can sleep through her brother going to bed about 30 minutes after her…), and moved her to her crib at about 10:30pm. She cried when I laid her down, but stopped by the time I got to our room. She got up once to eat, and then again but whined herself back to sleep, and then finally at about 6:30am. Overall, a “good” night for her.
These firsts, especially Joshua in his big boy bed, make me realize how quickly kids grow. I wish I could freeze time, but at the same time can’t wait to see how they continue to learn, grow, and develop. All I can do is give all the kisses, hugs, and cuddles I can (while they still let me), and watch them blossom. I am the luckiest mommy!
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Could’ve been a snappier title, but I have a clean mouth and keyboard =)
But it’s true, karma got me tonight…
I’m kind of crabby due to not being able to have any Whoppers Robin Eggs today, so I boycotted doing my normal part of Joshua’s bedtime routine, even though we had the additional task of emptying his potty chair. I just wanted to sit and let Mike do it all.
Mike, on the other hand, thought when he sent Joshua in to me naked after he had peed in the chair, that since I was going to finish Joshua’s routine (put on his diaper, pj’s, and lotion) he would do the icky job of emptying the potty. He obviously was not aware of my plan…
But, the lords up above apparently were, as while I was sitting in the bowl chair laughing with Joshua about something (remember, he’s naked here) and Mike was cleaning out the potty chair, I hear someone pouring water….wait…it wasn’t pouring water….it was JOSHUA PEEING on our brand new carpet!!! Right after it happened I knew why it happened. Had I done the right thing and put on Joshua’s diaper and finished his routine, it never would have happened. So I put my tail between my legs and cleaned up the small puddle.
Mike is still laughing about it.
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Addy had her first experience with “solid” food today, if you can consider two tablespoons of single grain oatmeal baby cereal in two ounces of formula, “solid.” Up until this point, she’s only had breastmilk to “eat.”
She ate about half of her first meal, spitting out about half of each bite I put in her mouth. Not because she didn’t like it; just because she wasn’t good at eating from a spoon yet.
I’m glad we’re at this point. I really do enjoy breastfeeding overall, but the start of solids means the beginning of a little more flexibility for me in that area. Knowing that she can be spoonfed means that if I need to skip a feeding (note she won’t take a bottle) that she’ll still be able to get a full belly. I’ll likely have to utilized this strategy when I go to my first concert of the summer, Coldplay, on July 25.
I decided yesterday after my post about living off of Whoppers Robin Eggs that I may need to put myself through a little exercise and see if I can go without sweets for a day or so. Starting yesterday at about 3pm I ate my last Robin Egg, and haven’t had any sweets since. I feel like crap.
Of course, what did I expect? I’ve been feeding my body ~500 cal per day sweets of some sort (brownies, candy, etc.), and now I took that away. It was bound to rebel. And boy has it rebeled. I have a dull headache that three ibuprofen couldn’t take care of, and I’ve been very lethargic all day. Joy.
I just googled sugar withdrawal, and it is a real thing. I found this on eHow.com:
“Sugar withdrawal can cause many symptoms, including headaches, dizziness, anxiety, fatigue and depression.”
Luckily, the symptoms go away in 2-3 weeks =)
I do know it’s the right thing to do, without a doubt. My diet outside of the sweets is generally very good. I eat lots of fruits and vegetables, reduced fat dairy (except milk, as I drink soy milk), 100% whole grains, nuts, and lean meats. So getting rid of the sugary sweets just seems like the right thing to do. It is the thing that’s not like the others, and it’s holding me back from losing leftover baby weight and probably causing some other long term damage to my body.
Well, we’ll see where this leads. I don’t think I can be one of those people that swears off all sugar for the rest of my life, but I am definitely up for doing something to keep it in check. So today is a start, and I’ll continue to take it one day at a time. And tomorrow is Easter…lol…great…
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I need a place to capture some ideas I have (creative, personal improvement, memories, etc.) so I thought where better a place than my blog. I’ve always been a fan of consolidation. I wonder if there’s a Facebook group for that (brb…).
1. I think I could live off of Whopper’s Robin Eggs. Except that they are only sold for about 2 months out of the year. So I’d have to plan ahead and stockpile for the 10 months that I couldn’t purchase them.
2. In total opposition to #1, I am thinking about writing a log of what I eat in a very public place, like my blog or Facebook page, to kind of embarass myself out of eating what I do. If I just gave up the sweets (probably 500 calories a day for me…ugh…already embarassed), I’d lose a pound a week. Committing to writing this log, however, would be committing to change, and for some reason I’m just not ready. I think I’m scared of sugar withdrawal.
3. I really am SO excited about the semi-launch of my freelancing career! With two official clients and most of the HTML training behind me, I feel like I have made a great start. The blue, seriously page is just so much fun for me to brainstorm about. The home page is simple right now, but the ideas just keep flowing – from a music player to a fan club to a twitter feed to ads. I just can’t wait to put it all into action.
4. With that, I am also excited about the forming of my business. I can’t wait to learn more about the legalities, business, marketing, and development aspects of what I am doing. For once, I feel totally energized to learn and do and teach where I can. Isn’t that what a passion is supposed to be about? And I really did think I was passionless….that my only real lasting interests were my family and friends. But I believe this has been right under my nose for some time.
5. I’m getting more motivated to get Joshua into his big boy bed and Addy into her crib. We’ve been putting it off for some time, but I think after a week of generally better sleep I am ready to commit to getting them to sleep in more permanent quarters. After that’s done we’ll take on the potty training!
6. Oh! I finally did shave my legs after about 2 weeks (this is a LONG time for me – normally I have to shave 1/day in the summer to avoid obvious stubble). Here are the before and after pics:
 Before, in my fav red pumps  After, in a more casual look becoming of me 7. By the way, there is no Facebook group for “consolidation,” or for “laundry,” another something that I am mos def a fan of =)
Kiddies are starting to awaken, so off I go to my day job!
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Thanks to Wil Wheaton for that title. He used it recently and gave credit to both Ice Cube and someone else I don’t know. But in a nutshell it describes my day, as it described all of theirs.
Here are the great moments of my day with the kids today. It was a normal Thursday – me home with the kids and Mike at work.
- Addy got up at 7am and ate and pooped. We usually lay in bed together for a while after she poops (when her diaper is clean again) and just cuddle and smile and play. She’s so cute and smily in the morning. Then eventually I start to drift off and she starts to fuss, which is when I put her back in her swing and we both go back to sleep until Joshua wakes up. Well this morning the little cutie-pie fell asleep right next to me! She hasn’t done that since she was only a few weeks old. But I drifted off, and when I awoke I saw her sleeping right in my face. SO CUTE!!! I still moved her to her swing, as I knew my movements would wake her up if I left her there.
- Next, Joshua didn’t get up ’til 11am!!! How nice is that??? So I slept that late too, and Addy woke up shortly after at 11:30am. He has been waking up a bit earlier in the morning than usual, and his naps have been shorter, but I thought he was just making a natural transition to less sleep. Well, I guess he was short because he made up for it today! And I think we all needed it.
- Since we all got plenty of sleep, it was my goal to finally start looking at mattresses for Joshua and to go to Target. So we came down and ate “brunch” and Joshua got his poopie out (in 2 messy bouts!), but then as I was feeding Addy prior to leaving, she fell asleep on me so peacefully. I could tell she just wanted to go for a nice long nap, and I couldn’t hold her back from that. So I brought her upstairs. But, I knew I had to do something different with Joshua. It was sunny at 50-some degrees, so I brought the monitor outside along with some bubbles and a bat and ball. We played out there for a good couple of hours, then snacked outside, then Addy woke up. We had such a nice time outside! Joshua blew a million bubbles and I blew a million more. He didn’t quite get the hang of the bat and ball, so instead he would throw the ball and we’d both chase after it (I let him get it every time, of course). He got a big kick out of that. And he thought he was the coolest little boy to get to eat his snack outside in the big chair! I really had a nice time out there with him. Just how I imagined times with my little boy would be…
- Now with Addy up that left me another round of diaper changes and another feeding for Addy before we could get out. We did those things and actually made it out the door around 3:30pm. Amazing!!! We looked at mattresses at a couple places (full size big boy bed for Joshua, so that Addy can move out of the Pack n Play and into a real crib), and I returned jeans at Target and picked up a few other items we needed. Joshua loved laying on all of the beds, especially because he was tired since it was approaching what would have been his naptime if he hadn’t woken up at 11am =) And, he loved eating the Whopper’s Robin’s Eggs in the car that Mommy let him have for being such a good boy during all of the shopping (Addy mostly slept during shopping, but is still too little for Robin’s Eggs).
- When we got home at about 5:30pm, it would have been pretty easy to just go out to eat or make something easy, but I had ingredients for tacos, and more importantly, GUACAMOLE (the Grande Jake’s kind again…nom nom!) at home and I had been dying to make both. So I went for it! And let me tell you what, these tacos with my guac beat out any mexican restaurant meal I’ve ever had. SO GOOD!!!
- After dinner it was straight to bathtime for Addy and bedtime for Joshua. Both went very smooth and by 8:15 Mike and I were left to the downstairs by ourselves. Now, at 10:45, I’m chatting on Facebook and blogging (obviously), and Mike is napping on the other couch with a Barrett Jackson auto auction on TV (obviously).
Yep, today was a good day.
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