baby’s eating
I’ve spent countless hours for many days worrying that baby isn’t eating enough. He rarely eats anything for breakfast, I can’t say never because we are sharing Lucky Charms right now. I’ve tried numerous things for breakfast, cereal, eggs (he usually loves eggs), breakfast bars, regular baby food, pears, oatmeal, and probably some others but I can’t think of everything right now. I always give him a sippy cup because he hasn’t wanted much to do with that until just the last week or so. This past week he’s packed it everywhere with him. I was beginning to think he was going to be super hard to break from the bottle, but the sippy cup is coming around so I hope he’ll be better. I’ve slowly been trying to rid us of the morning bottle. He’s so hungry he just drinks and drinks and drinks. Formula is expensive and I’m broke! Especially after losing a kid from daycare who went to spend the summer with his Dad. I have a bad habit of comparing baby to a little girl I babysit. She did SO good with all foods and was done with the bottle overnight just like that. For a while it seemed like he wanted nothing but pureed foods that he didn’t have to chew. So now I’m all worried he’s a horrible chewer and can’t handle many foods. After this week with the sippy cup we are doing better. For a while there he couldn’t handle that much liquid coming out. It was just new to him I guess, it took so long for him to take to a cup I think he was in shock for a while. Lunch he doesn’t usually want either, but I’m working on that 1:30 and 3:00 bottle too, so I can sometimes get him to eat later. The 3 we may end up keeping for a while because that’s our nap bottle usually. He’s just thirsty at 1:30 so I push the sippy cup on him everyday so he realizes hey I can quench my thirst with something besides my bottle. Supper usually is a good meal for him (lately anyway) which has been good because I think it’s helping him sleep better through the night.
What are your babies eating? Drinking? I think I’m getting through this just fine. If he’s really starving he’ll let me know obviously and he’ll eat or drink his bottle. I don’t think I’m doing too bad a job figuring this out. He’s tricky that’s for sure 
1 is coming too soon
Baby isn’t supposed to be almost 1 already. It’s just not fair. I need more time for him to be my baby. This past year flew. Which isn’t all that shocking since every day flies by with babies. I think we’ve all had the days where we are wondering how it could be possible that it’s time to start a new day again. We hadn’t finished sleeping, we hadn’t finished cleaning and playing. Oh well, it’s coming whether I like it or not. I must start birthday planning though. I can’t decide what I want. Do I want fun cute little decor so pictures are that much cuter or do I want to go as cheap as possible (although it’s looking like it’s not going to be much cheaper) and just do solid plain colored plates and let all his cuteness take charge, not that it wouldn’t anyway. I’m shopping online right now trying to decide what would be a good 1st birthday present. Maybe this would be the reason I’ve been looking for to get a really cool wagon that has the belts in it and everything. Baby loves riding around in anything in the house and I think he’d enjoy a wagon outside. I just worry he wouldn’t stay seated and would fall out, which is why the wagons with belts are really cool. I’ll have to think. Maybe I should buy him a fence for the yard for his birthday! haha I’d get something too then
We had 9 people here today! WOAH! This house is NOT big enough for 9 people. My nerves aren’t either – I am wore thin and haven’t had a second to even pee yet. Pathetic. The one time I tried to go I had 4 kids following me with requests and wanting to come in with me. No privacy here.
We are always so bored around here, even though there are tons of things to do around the house, but this weekend we’ll finally have stuff to do for the kids. The fire department here has their little breakfast thing and the kids get rides on the trucks and up in the bucket. I hope baby will ride on the truck with us. Pictures please! Too cute! I should bring his little fireman’s hat – I’m going to do that. We also have Ronald McDonald coming to visit. That’ll more than likely scare everybody. Me and clowns…. they just freak me out and he’s pretty damn close to a clown. There is also a big baby garage sale coming to a local church. I would love to be the first one in the door, which means I’ll have to have the kids up and ready so we can go early! They are supposed to have baby clothes, furniture, toys, you name it. I’m also planning my own garage sale, I have a huge pile of stuff in my basement almost ready and waiting. I need stickers on everything still and I also need to figure out where I’m having it. I hate the thought of my yard being trampled, but I think I hate even more thinking of people being in my garage. Yes I’m that pathetic. My baby is parked in there, I don’t want any little grubby hands touching it. I’ll figure that out later. Looks like our weekend are going to be busy all month. We have all that this weekend and next and then we’ll have to do garage sale and before I know it, Zia and my brother will be home!!!!!!!!!! Definitely need more weekends!
Isn’t that picture FREAKY!! Reminds me of those Halloween teeth.
I now have window boxes to put flowers in! Thanks Papa!!! Now I just need the time to go buy flowers and plant them. This weekend we have MORE going on I totally forgot about! It’s baby’s FIRST HAIRCUT!!! I’m going to miss that hair. That really really really loooooong hair Those cute little curls. I decided he could have one haircut to really give him that big boy look when he started walking. Well he’s been walking for quite some time and I still haven’t let him get his hair cut so now’s the time to try it. Could be interesting and who knows it may not even happen because he won’t want to sit still. We shall see and I’ll have pictures next week.
Here’s a picture that shows his hair
I had something on my mind for this next paragraph, but for the life of me I cannot think of what it was. Oh well. Guess this is all you get today. HUGS TO ALL!!
Guess what I just did…. Ordered a wagon for his birthday! We also got him a Learning Chair. Now to decide what to get for plates and stuff. I’m getting there.
dreams
When I think of dreams I think of these fun dreams where I’m playing on the beach or going on an adventure or doing something fun. But when I actually have dreams they are horrible nightmares. I never have normal dreams. I’m either killing someone, being killed, being chased, trying to run but not actually moving, cheating, being cheated on, whatever it may be it’s always a struggle, it’s always bad, it’s always a nightmare. What’s that tell you about me?! I always remember my dreams too – I wake and they are so real feeling I’m usually a little freaked out. Last night I dreamed my house kept getting broken into. I always came home alone and the empty house next to us would be full of guys who were going in and out of my house stealing all my stuff. I of course thought I was superwoman in my dream and always tried to take ‘em on, I always lost. Seriously… how many times can a person watch themselves die in their own dream 
For some reason they kept taking the steps off the front of our house – weird. Someday I’m going to have a good dream, one of those where I win lots of money or have a gigantic house in the mountains or something like that. A happy dream. Or is that it…. am I so sticking un-happy that I cannot have a happy dream? Maybe all the stress is truly getting to me and it’s causing anxiety and nightmares. Fabulous… now I’ll stress over the stress. Typical.
In other news… school is almost out! I can’t believe it! It makes my boys grow up too fast! There’s always something to make the year seem to go faster. It seems we are always looking towards the next thing coming and planning for something else sneaking up on us. Maybe I need to learn to live in the moment a little more often. But I always worry then something will sneak up and I’ll not be prepared and I’ll be way more stressed, ya know. Wait a minute…. is this all starting to tell the story of why I have nightmares, because I live my life full of stress all day every day.
I finally got to the library last night. Got me another book by Dee Henderson – I absolutely love reading her books. I thought I’d read them all but there were 3 new books there last night. They probably aren’t so new, I just haven’t been to the library for a couple years. Now I just need to find some time to read it. If I hurry and clean up now I can read a little while the kids are sleeping.
With that said… I best get to cleaning right! HUGS TO ALL!
reveal yourself!
OOOH NOO WAIT NOT THAT MUCH! I just meant all you mystery visitors. You secret hidden clickers who end up here and then disappear. Comments welcome! New friends welcome! Just a quick hello to say oops got here by mistake welcome! My curiosity is killing me wondering who all these clicks are from.
