how's about a list?
1. i'm obsessed with facebook these days. in the past two weeks i have found (or they have found me) two roommates from slippery rock. one i had totally lost contact with. the other reads this blog regularly (hi carrie!) and has a hard time replying to emails (*wink*) so it's great to be able to see what's up in her life with her and her FOUR kiddo's! it's no wonder she doesn't have time to email! glad we're back in touch!
2. i cleaned out my knitting stash. it wasn't totally overwhelming or anything but nothing was organized and i had patterns just strewn all through my knitting basket in the living room, lost in the half dozen totes that i use to transport my knitting. needles were out of their cases and just not organized at all. i put everything into ziplocks and now it somehow takes up half the space as it did before. yay! i also logged all of my needles on ravelry and printed out the little needle chart to put into my purse so that i don't buy duplicate needles AGAIN....
3. i've stalled out on feb lady sweater. i think my lack of organization was contributing to that... i need to sit down with her again. i'm making a date with her tonight! i hope i stick to it! it's nearing sweater weather and really i could have used her these past few mornings.... i need to get knitting.
4. max had a cold last week.... i had thought it was allergies but now that andy is a cranky pants with a boggerific runny nose, i'm now convinced i was wrong. sorry if we made anyone sick at playdates... it's apparently a very slow moving cold since it's been a week and a half since max started to show symptoms. and andy is just today showing signs of this cold. poor kid starts to cry before his little butt even touches the carpet when i go to set him down... ugh... i have yet to get it and same with chris.... which totally sucks because even if i would have caught it prior to andy then i could at least be giving him some antibodies through nursing and his go at it might be a little bit better but... what can ya do?
5. coffee. i'm obsessed! i don't know why i never realized this before but coffee can make a totally shitty day (read: cranky kids makes a cranky mama) turn into sunshine and puppydogs! i'm serious! i've found that most days by mid afternoon, i'm totally done with being a mom. my kids make me crazy and i have considered running away (ok, we all know i won't follow through so don't report me). but if i have some coffee, i'm a completely different person! i have energy to deal with whining and crying and multple shitty diapers within an hour! it's great! it doesn't seem to mess with andy and his sleeping either so that's a great thing! i've been on this iced hazelnut latte kick! i have hazelnut coffee, i brew an entire pot, use some of it that day then save the rest in the fridge for the rest of the week. i pour it over a lot of ice, mix in a bit of milk and hazelnut syrup and i swear it tastes just like i've stopped at my local coffee shop and spent $4 for the same thing! but really i've spent about $.30! woooo!!!
ok, i'm off to clean up the kitchen aka disaster area and do a little bit of photo work.
Showing posts with label motherhood. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
photo fairness
so yesterday, on one of the most beautiful days of the year so far, i packed up the kiddos and went to the zoo with a few other mommies that know. i scurried around the house prior to anyone else being up gathering up diapers, sippy cups, snacks, extra clothes for the wee one, hats, coats, sweaters, baby carriers and batteries for my flip video camera and my regular camera. got everyone fed, dressed and into the car and i only managed to be a few minutes late... due to me being behind every single slow moving dump truck along the way... needless to say, everything went swimmingly. we had to leave a bit earlier then the others since i had some family coming to visit us later that afternoon. but we managed to get through the entire animal part. then on our way out we stopped to see the polar bears.
this year, max in all of his one and 1/2 year old glory, actually knew that there were animals out there and what some of them were. IF they moved.... lol. needless to say, it was entertaining for me to watch him see the animals....
however there was a bit of a sense of disappointment. as mentioned above, i had to round up batteries for all of my life recording devices... well... you might think.... 'oh, i'll bet you got some great photos of your little ones at the zoo, it was such a beautiful day and all' well, that is a far cry from reality. i snapped 3 photos.... i didn't even get my video camera out. and did i take any photos of andy? no! i was wearing him so that made taking his photo a bit hard... but still.
this is something that i feel horrible about. i took these three photos of max, two of them include the back of his head and an animal in the background.... but overall. this is about how the overall percentage of photos of max to photos of andy is in our entire family photo collection. for max by age 2 months, i'm sure i had over 100 maybe even 200 photos of him in all sorts of mushed up positions. sleeping here there and everywhere. being held by every visitor. in the stroller for the first time, going outside for the first time, sitting next to the cats for the first time... you get the picture... this time around. nothing! i have taken i think three sessions of photos of andy. two are of him in his swing. and now i managed to take him to the zoo and didn't document that! i need to get my butt in order and bridge this photo gap and do it soon.... he's getting so big already that if i don't get on the ball soon, he'll be 1 year old and i will have 5 photos of his first year of life....
what is it about kiddo number two? why do they get slighted in terms of photography and general life documentation? is it because what was new with number one is old hat? is it because with two kiddos to take care of you don't have time to be mama happy snaps? is it because your so tired from taking care of two children that you can't remember to bring the camera out on a regular basis?
i realize this is a pretty funny predicament to be in considering that my husband is a professional photographer and all... but really... we both need to grab our cameras and get snapping. because if we don't this little baby will be gone in a flash and will then be a big toddler and we'll miss all his little wee cuteness.
this year, max in all of his one and 1/2 year old glory, actually knew that there were animals out there and what some of them were. IF they moved.... lol. needless to say, it was entertaining for me to watch him see the animals....
however there was a bit of a sense of disappointment. as mentioned above, i had to round up batteries for all of my life recording devices... well... you might think.... 'oh, i'll bet you got some great photos of your little ones at the zoo, it was such a beautiful day and all' well, that is a far cry from reality. i snapped 3 photos.... i didn't even get my video camera out. and did i take any photos of andy? no! i was wearing him so that made taking his photo a bit hard... but still.
this is something that i feel horrible about. i took these three photos of max, two of them include the back of his head and an animal in the background.... but overall. this is about how the overall percentage of photos of max to photos of andy is in our entire family photo collection. for max by age 2 months, i'm sure i had over 100 maybe even 200 photos of him in all sorts of mushed up positions. sleeping here there and everywhere. being held by every visitor. in the stroller for the first time, going outside for the first time, sitting next to the cats for the first time... you get the picture... this time around. nothing! i have taken i think three sessions of photos of andy. two are of him in his swing. and now i managed to take him to the zoo and didn't document that! i need to get my butt in order and bridge this photo gap and do it soon.... he's getting so big already that if i don't get on the ball soon, he'll be 1 year old and i will have 5 photos of his first year of life....
what is it about kiddo number two? why do they get slighted in terms of photography and general life documentation? is it because what was new with number one is old hat? is it because with two kiddos to take care of you don't have time to be mama happy snaps? is it because your so tired from taking care of two children that you can't remember to bring the camera out on a regular basis?
i realize this is a pretty funny predicament to be in considering that my husband is a professional photographer and all... but really... we both need to grab our cameras and get snapping. because if we don't this little baby will be gone in a flash and will then be a big toddler and we'll miss all his little wee cuteness.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
a few things
i took the boys on our first outing alone yesterday. i don't know why i was worried about them acting up... because apparently it was ME that i needed to be more concerned with. we went to the mall, had a quick dinner, then went to the play area. max got his yaya's out by running around for about 30 minutes. then we went and did a little shopping. one stop a card shop... i'm trying to push this beast of a double stroller around and let me tell you, i now really feel for the handicapped people of our community. a single stroller is one thing... but a double, holy cripes... anyways, i'm standing there with cards in hand and i pick out another and take a reasonable step back away from the card stands and bam! i step right into the side of a shelf holding tons of those little figurines that are tan and have the blank faces, there are mothers and father holding babies, and expecting mother ones, i have a few, i think everyone does... but back to the story, so i bump into this shelf and about three or so of them go tumbling to the floor! i completely shatter one. i'm completely embarrassed.... i start to pick them up and pick up the broken pieces, the manager comes over to make sure that we're ok, we are. i offer to pay for it, she declines and then points out that she broke something earlier in the day. of course though, all the other shoppers who happened to be men, just looked at me like i was nuts... nice.... anyways, thank god the manager was so nice and understanding... after that, i paid for my cards and we went home... i do have to say though, that i feel much better now that i've gone out with them by myself. i know we can do it again and i plan to very very soon!
ok, so i mentioned a few posts back that i was going to start reading again :) i have. i lost interest in Freakonomics... it just wasn't what i was looking for at the moment... but, my copy of Happiest Baby on the Block came to the house on saturday and i've been complete engrossed. i have realized that reading a hardback book isn't very easy with a baby nursing.... so i have resorted to reading it a bit just before i go to bed. dr. karp is amazing! granted i don't think we have a very sensitive baby in his terms but let me tell you i think his methods are awesome! and so is his theory on "colic" and the "fourth trimester". regardless, his methods sure do help with prolonging sleep periods at night! whoa! two nights straight, andrew has slept for 6+ hour stretches! i'm in awe! and i'm only 1/2 through his book, the swaddling suggestions alone have helped this much. i was swaddling before but i don't think i was doing it tight enough. max always got out of them and andy was a bit too...
anyways, i really suggest reading this book. all new moms or mom's to be, pick this one up. there are cheap copies on amazon, i got my copy for $3.59 or something insane like that! it's worth it!
ok, so i know there was a third thing that i was planning to write about this morning but i can't remember what the heck it was... mommy brain strikes again...
ok, so i mentioned a few posts back that i was going to start reading again :) i have. i lost interest in Freakonomics... it just wasn't what i was looking for at the moment... but, my copy of Happiest Baby on the Block came to the house on saturday and i've been complete engrossed. i have realized that reading a hardback book isn't very easy with a baby nursing.... so i have resorted to reading it a bit just before i go to bed. dr. karp is amazing! granted i don't think we have a very sensitive baby in his terms but let me tell you i think his methods are awesome! and so is his theory on "colic" and the "fourth trimester". regardless, his methods sure do help with prolonging sleep periods at night! whoa! two nights straight, andrew has slept for 6+ hour stretches! i'm in awe! and i'm only 1/2 through his book, the swaddling suggestions alone have helped this much. i was swaddling before but i don't think i was doing it tight enough. max always got out of them and andy was a bit too...
anyways, i really suggest reading this book. all new moms or mom's to be, pick this one up. there are cheap copies on amazon, i got my copy for $3.59 or something insane like that! it's worth it!
ok, so i know there was a third thing that i was planning to write about this morning but i can't remember what the heck it was... mommy brain strikes again...
Sunday, February 10, 2008
from 3 to 4
wednesday, feb 7
i had a feeling that something was going to happen... i just felt "odd". i needed to shower and chris had some events planned for work that made it so he wouldn't be home until late. so i called my mom to come hang with max while i showered. we ate dinner, hung out, chris got home, we put max to bed and i sat down. then i had a contraction around 9 pm. then another about 6 minutes later. they started out a little light but then soon turned stronger and bypassed the braxton hicks contractions that i had been having on and off for about a week and a half prior. they were never really uncomfortable. after i had these contractions for an hour i called the doctor and they suggested i come in to be checked out. i called my mom, she came to stay at the house with max and off we went. it was just before midnight. i got to the hospital they took me to my room and promptly checked me. i was 5 cm and 70% effaced. my water was still not broken. they said, that i was in fact in labor and that i was "a keeper" they started an IV drip so that i could have my epi then have my water broken. the epi took really well initially, when i couldn't feel anything they broke my water, holy heck what a relief that was.... it was like the balloon had been popped and i had room to breathe again. after that i was instructed to get some rest. it was about 3 am. for the next hour i started to feel contractions coming harder and harder and quicker and quicker but i could only feel this on my left side. i paged the nurse but the hospital paging system was all wonky because we were having some bad weather and the system was knocked out. she didn't come for about 20 minutes... oops... i was a bit groggy so i kinda didn't notice tooo too much... until they got to be pretty unbearable and i was about to send chris out to find her when she came in to find me in pain. she then had my epi fixed and in no time i was comfortable again but since the fix really fixed the entire epi, it made my right side completely numb.... i had cement leg and couldn't move it to save my life! i so didn't care though because i was a happy laboring woman about to have her baby. about an hour after the fix i was checked again and was at 8 cm. 6 am rolled around and soon after that, it was time to push. but since i couldn't feel much, that was a bit of a challenge. we took it slow at first until i got my barrings and could start to feel a bit more.... then we really started to push around 7. but of course that's when my contractions started to get a little spacey... they gave me a small dose of pitocin and off we went. it was just chris, me and the nurse for most of the pushing. which was really nice. just about when i was ready to deliver, dr fuoss came in and got everything ready. i pushed a few more times with him and out came andrew at 8:33 am, feb 7th. it was not as painful this time as it was with max. i think partially because the epi was in full throttle. he was just perfect! and stunned everyone with his whopping size! 10 lbs 3 oz! yipes! i laughed and said, "holy shit! you have GOT to be kidding me!" when they told me how much he weighed. nice to curse but hey, it was an emotional time!
since it was a thursday morning and family members were at work, chris and i really got to get to know him alone for a while until we got our first visitors, chris's mom and max and my mom. max didn't really know what to make of andrew at first and i think he was confused as to where he was and what was all going on. in fact the entire time i was in the hospital max was a little amiss.
the next two days, were pretty uneventful. a few visitors came to see us, we nursed and bonded and i got to nap and sleep as much as possible. we got home saturday around 11 am. then around 3 pm my parents brought max back home and we spent the rest of the day getting to know each other as a family of four. that evening, things got a little rough... max went to bed, and apparently didn't hear a thing the entire night. chris and i were not so lucky... andrew kept us getting up and out of bed at least 15 times.... my milk had not come in and he was starving.... we ended up supplementing with formula a bit just to get him satisfied so that we could get a little sleep. then this morning at 8:45 am, it was like someone had turned on the faucets and we haven't had to look back. he has however, spent most of the day attached to me... i think he was making up for lost time with no food.... poor little guy.
As for the rest of us. i'm feeling pretty good considering... chris is just tired, totally expected. and max, well max is doing great in his new role as a big brother. since we've been home, he has been very interested in andrew. he gets concerned when he starts to cry and he gives him kisses when it's time to go to bed. it's very cute and very endearing. i can't wait to watch these two get to know each other as brothers :) it's going to be such a huge treat as a mother to watch this story unfold.
more to come in the next few days
i had a feeling that something was going to happen... i just felt "odd". i needed to shower and chris had some events planned for work that made it so he wouldn't be home until late. so i called my mom to come hang with max while i showered. we ate dinner, hung out, chris got home, we put max to bed and i sat down. then i had a contraction around 9 pm. then another about 6 minutes later. they started out a little light but then soon turned stronger and bypassed the braxton hicks contractions that i had been having on and off for about a week and a half prior. they were never really uncomfortable. after i had these contractions for an hour i called the doctor and they suggested i come in to be checked out. i called my mom, she came to stay at the house with max and off we went. it was just before midnight. i got to the hospital they took me to my room and promptly checked me. i was 5 cm and 70% effaced. my water was still not broken. they said, that i was in fact in labor and that i was "a keeper" they started an IV drip so that i could have my epi then have my water broken. the epi took really well initially, when i couldn't feel anything they broke my water, holy heck what a relief that was.... it was like the balloon had been popped and i had room to breathe again. after that i was instructed to get some rest. it was about 3 am. for the next hour i started to feel contractions coming harder and harder and quicker and quicker but i could only feel this on my left side. i paged the nurse but the hospital paging system was all wonky because we were having some bad weather and the system was knocked out. she didn't come for about 20 minutes... oops... i was a bit groggy so i kinda didn't notice tooo too much... until they got to be pretty unbearable and i was about to send chris out to find her when she came in to find me in pain. she then had my epi fixed and in no time i was comfortable again but since the fix really fixed the entire epi, it made my right side completely numb.... i had cement leg and couldn't move it to save my life! i so didn't care though because i was a happy laboring woman about to have her baby. about an hour after the fix i was checked again and was at 8 cm. 6 am rolled around and soon after that, it was time to push. but since i couldn't feel much, that was a bit of a challenge. we took it slow at first until i got my barrings and could start to feel a bit more.... then we really started to push around 7. but of course that's when my contractions started to get a little spacey... they gave me a small dose of pitocin and off we went. it was just chris, me and the nurse for most of the pushing. which was really nice. just about when i was ready to deliver, dr fuoss came in and got everything ready. i pushed a few more times with him and out came andrew at 8:33 am, feb 7th. it was not as painful this time as it was with max. i think partially because the epi was in full throttle. he was just perfect! and stunned everyone with his whopping size! 10 lbs 3 oz! yipes! i laughed and said, "holy shit! you have GOT to be kidding me!" when they told me how much he weighed. nice to curse but hey, it was an emotional time!
since it was a thursday morning and family members were at work, chris and i really got to get to know him alone for a while until we got our first visitors, chris's mom and max and my mom. max didn't really know what to make of andrew at first and i think he was confused as to where he was and what was all going on. in fact the entire time i was in the hospital max was a little amiss.
the next two days, were pretty uneventful. a few visitors came to see us, we nursed and bonded and i got to nap and sleep as much as possible. we got home saturday around 11 am. then around 3 pm my parents brought max back home and we spent the rest of the day getting to know each other as a family of four. that evening, things got a little rough... max went to bed, and apparently didn't hear a thing the entire night. chris and i were not so lucky... andrew kept us getting up and out of bed at least 15 times.... my milk had not come in and he was starving.... we ended up supplementing with formula a bit just to get him satisfied so that we could get a little sleep. then this morning at 8:45 am, it was like someone had turned on the faucets and we haven't had to look back. he has however, spent most of the day attached to me... i think he was making up for lost time with no food.... poor little guy.
As for the rest of us. i'm feeling pretty good considering... chris is just tired, totally expected. and max, well max is doing great in his new role as a big brother. since we've been home, he has been very interested in andrew. he gets concerned when he starts to cry and he gives him kisses when it's time to go to bed. it's very cute and very endearing. i can't wait to watch these two get to know each other as brothers :) it's going to be such a huge treat as a mother to watch this story unfold.
more to come in the next few days
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
just a little update
max is 1 year and 1 week old and doing great! he's slowing down a bit on his food intake, so i just offer him food and if he doesn't eat it, i don't press the issue, i just offer him more at a later time. that seems to be working, sorta...
he is also very very close to taking his first steps. right now he is so excited to walk holding onto my hands or anyone elses for that matter all around the house, or in the yard, or down the sidewalk. it's cute! chris and i have been encouraging him to walk a short distance alone between us but as of right now, really all he can manage is to do a belly flop in either direction, close but not quite... not trying to rush anything though.
he has also started to brush his own teeth, talk about adorable! i plop him on top of the (closed) toilet seat, put tooth paste on his brush, and hand it to him. i then do the same with my own toothbrush and we brush our teeth together, he tries to mimic everything i do except for the spitting into the sink part. talk about adorable :)
we also went out this past weekend and got him his big boy car seat! he now faces forward in the car and loves it! i can look back at him and he just smiles right back! it's fun, i just have to remember that i'm driving and i'm supposed to keep all eyes on the road at all times, not on my cute kid in the backseat lol...
as for me, i'm almost 18 weeks along (just shy by two days). i feel great! i just started sleeping with my body pillow again and i don't know why i hadn't done so a few weeks ago because i'm finally sleeping well again. well, as best as i can expect to be. one thing i'm patiently waiting for is for the weather to cool down soon so that i can go shopping for some fall/winter maternity clothes, something i really don't have much of... chris doesn't know it but he he should be so glad that since i'm not working i can get away with piecemealing my outfits together at the moment, something i could never do if i were working in an office or something... however i have no long pants that will fit in a few weeks except for one pair of very nice dress pants which i don't plan on wearing around the house while i push max around on his tractor... so a shopping excursion will be in order soon, i hope sooner rather than later, this heat and humidity is really starting to get to me... i want the cool crisp fall days to return and i want that soon!
oh, as of about a week or two ago, i had to take my wedding rings off... one part of pregnancy that i absolutely hate. i can manage to wear them during the day but if i dare sleep with them on... it's not good. so instead of forgetting to take them off at night i just haven't been wearing them at all. something i hate to do because when not pregnant, i never ever ever take them off... i've managed to wear them for special events and such but on the normal day of errands and what not, i just don't bother. so far i haven't noticed any "looks" from the local biddies with regards to my lack of ring, child on my hip and another in my belly... hopefully i don't encounter any stupid no-it-all's because i guarantee they will get an ear full if they even so much as look at me funny... and yes, i realize i could wear a different (larger) ring in their place and i did that last time but it just makes me feel like i'm cheating... on what, i don't know...
well, that's about all for this week.
he is also very very close to taking his first steps. right now he is so excited to walk holding onto my hands or anyone elses for that matter all around the house, or in the yard, or down the sidewalk. it's cute! chris and i have been encouraging him to walk a short distance alone between us but as of right now, really all he can manage is to do a belly flop in either direction, close but not quite... not trying to rush anything though.
he has also started to brush his own teeth, talk about adorable! i plop him on top of the (closed) toilet seat, put tooth paste on his brush, and hand it to him. i then do the same with my own toothbrush and we brush our teeth together, he tries to mimic everything i do except for the spitting into the sink part. talk about adorable :)
we also went out this past weekend and got him his big boy car seat! he now faces forward in the car and loves it! i can look back at him and he just smiles right back! it's fun, i just have to remember that i'm driving and i'm supposed to keep all eyes on the road at all times, not on my cute kid in the backseat lol...
as for me, i'm almost 18 weeks along (just shy by two days). i feel great! i just started sleeping with my body pillow again and i don't know why i hadn't done so a few weeks ago because i'm finally sleeping well again. well, as best as i can expect to be. one thing i'm patiently waiting for is for the weather to cool down soon so that i can go shopping for some fall/winter maternity clothes, something i really don't have much of... chris doesn't know it but he he should be so glad that since i'm not working i can get away with piecemealing my outfits together at the moment, something i could never do if i were working in an office or something... however i have no long pants that will fit in a few weeks except for one pair of very nice dress pants which i don't plan on wearing around the house while i push max around on his tractor... so a shopping excursion will be in order soon, i hope sooner rather than later, this heat and humidity is really starting to get to me... i want the cool crisp fall days to return and i want that soon!
oh, as of about a week or two ago, i had to take my wedding rings off... one part of pregnancy that i absolutely hate. i can manage to wear them during the day but if i dare sleep with them on... it's not good. so instead of forgetting to take them off at night i just haven't been wearing them at all. something i hate to do because when not pregnant, i never ever ever take them off... i've managed to wear them for special events and such but on the normal day of errands and what not, i just don't bother. so far i haven't noticed any "looks" from the local biddies with regards to my lack of ring, child on my hip and another in my belly... hopefully i don't encounter any stupid no-it-all's because i guarantee they will get an ear full if they even so much as look at me funny... and yes, i realize i could wear a different (larger) ring in their place and i did that last time but it just makes me feel like i'm cheating... on what, i don't know...
well, that's about all for this week.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
the funniest woman on the face of the earth
that's me! yep, all me! apparently, i am the funniest woman ever and it's not just in my head this time around.
ok, so maybe all mom's are hilarious to their children at least when they are in the "baby" stage. i know my mom was pretty cool until i hit my "teens" then she was the farthest thing from cool. she's now regained that "cool" status but that's another story for another day. back to ME being cool!
all i have to do is look at him, LOOK at him! and he smiles like he was just given a golden ticket, and giggles and *raspberries* like it's going out of style! this in turn, just melts my heart! it's the coolest most gratifying feeling on the planet to be a mom and to be someones most exciting form or entertainment! no one else can get these kinds of reactions from him. only me! that's why I'M the funniest woman on the face of the earth and no one else is... poor daddy...
i know i promised knitting photos... but they didn't turn out how i would have liked, so i need to enlist chris and his expert shutter operating skills. THEN... i'll have some photos for you all.
i'm now off to play with the bubby...
ok, so maybe all mom's are hilarious to their children at least when they are in the "baby" stage. i know my mom was pretty cool until i hit my "teens" then she was the farthest thing from cool. she's now regained that "cool" status but that's another story for another day. back to ME being cool!
all i have to do is look at him, LOOK at him! and he smiles like he was just given a golden ticket, and giggles and *raspberries* like it's going out of style! this in turn, just melts my heart! it's the coolest most gratifying feeling on the planet to be a mom and to be someones most exciting form or entertainment! no one else can get these kinds of reactions from him. only me! that's why I'M the funniest woman on the face of the earth and no one else is... poor daddy...
i know i promised knitting photos... but they didn't turn out how i would have liked, so i need to enlist chris and his expert shutter operating skills. THEN... i'll have some photos for you all.
i'm now off to play with the bubby...
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