feed me
This little dude is going to eat us out of a house before we even own another one! He's moving right along trying new foods; so far we've tried sweet potatoes, acorn squash, bananas, green beans, apples, pears, and butternut squash. He's also randomly tried white potatoes and bread. He normally eats 3-4 cubes of food in a sitting, sometimes more, sometimes less but rarely. We're at an impass with milk. I think 6 months might be my internal limit or something; I can't be sure but I think he's not getting enough from nursing any more. So today I'm giving him bottles of pumped milk trying to see if he sleeps better at night because currently he's waking up three times to eat. Three. Mama is tired. We'll see!
coming up orange
We can check another one off the list! Dylan was all over the acorn squash today and finished it in about 3 minutes flat. And since I had already put the rest to freeze I had to improv with more sweet potatoes and cereal, but that didn't seem to bug him as long as it was something to eat. And I'm happy he liked it BUT I meant to give him butternut squash. Why you ask? Well I wanted to follow the orange sweet potatoes with what-I-thought-was a yellow veggie. First cut in, surprise mama, it's orange too! Even Adam knew butternut squash was the yellow one. I have nothing to blame this on other than I'm an dope.
Other news...none. The kids are good, Dylan is rolling over but only when he feels like it and Samantha is a little feisty but I think she's cutting another molar. Adam is busy. I'm reading the Twilight Saga, again.
happy mothers day!
Mom, Mom, Grandma, Gungi, aunts...Happy Mothers Day to you all!!! We love you, thank you for loving us : )
We spent my first mothers day alone together. We didn't do anything big. Mostly because I'm cheap, however looking back packing a lunch and bringing it to Morton Arb would have only been a few bucks more than eating Pot Belly's for lunch like we did, but oh well. That's not to say I didn't have a wonderful day. I spent it with my family and loved every minute. The whole weekend was actually fabulous and it was just what I wanted. Adam's been working like crazy lately so it was great to just have three full days to spend together. Samantha did try to make the day a little more interesting by taking only one solid nap and fighting her bedtime but if that's all I have to 'complain' about I'll take it!
Since I was feeling blue about making a rotten decision not going to the arb, we took some pics in the backyard before dinner.
ladies who lunch (w/out the lunch)
I took Samantha to Oakbrook for the first time today! I wasn't confident enough to venture out alone with her like that when it was nice in the fall. I needed to go to Crate and Barrel and thought it was a good temperature so off we went this morning. After 30 minutes in the car seat she let me know she was not having any of the stroller business I planned so I wandered around C&B holding her and pushing the stroller. It worked out I suppose since I used her stroller as my shopping cart. But since I had more to do after C&B I tried to put her in and luckily she complied. We were there early enough before the lunch hour so it was pretty empty. Just other women with their babies and some old people. I thought back to when I used to walk the mall during lunch at APL and I was so envoius of those ladies who lunch women. I personally am still far off from a lady who lunches, but it was fun to pretend today. And clearly anyone who actually goes out with a huge stain on their shirt is not a lady who lunches. Only once we got home did I happen to see catastrophe that was my outfit. Oh well. I hope people who saw me just chalked it up to the congested little baby I had on my hands.
I call it like I see it
Samantha crawls. She moves her hands and her knees together to move in one direction. 95% of the time it's backwards. On a rare occasion she'll go forward. She's not zooming around me in circles yet. I don't think I have too much more time until then however. Over the past few days she'll get much further from her starting point in shorter spans of time. From the time I got up to walk to the fridge and back to the floor to play she had gone from the coffee table to Brody's toys (o joy of joys). This week I'm going to analyze the situation here so we can move some things, ground some things - namely the shelf in the corner, remove and/or bundle all electric cords, and come up with a decent looking way to block the way to the back of the TV. Oh, and the main thing, find a magical way to help Samantha not be afraid of the vacuum. With her scooting off her blanket it's really important to begone of all the Brody hairs. I guess I or Adam can just do it every night before/after dinner so one of us is around to hold her. We'll see.
We made a family trip to the library this weekend. I'm not overly impressed with the kids section. I keep comparing it to the Riverside Library and while if I remember correctly it's not like it was perfect it was nicer than this. But she's still to young to care anyways and they're voting this week to expand the library anyhoo. Adam got a number of books and I checked out two total chick books. This was late morning Saturday. Sunday evening at 12:15 am I finished the first book. Apparently I have more me time than I thought.
The weather is crazy...why is it snowing in April!?!? But we made it out before it all started and went to lunch today with BT and Brie to finally have that celebratory. We put Samantha in the high chair at Texas Roadhouse. She did good for about 20 minutes then wanted to be held. I'll take it, you have to start somewhere!!
What a day!
We had a great day! Of course we were off to a questionable start because Samantha woke up later than planned. But we managed to get her fed, bathed, walk Brody, get gas, and be on our way only 40 minutes late. Eek. You'd think we'd miss it, lol. We got there in great time and because she decided not to nap on the way there I didn't have to feed her before we walked to the river. We found a spot around dearborn and wacker right before 10:45 and Michelle, Josh, and Michelle's friend Laura met up with us. We thought we were golden. HA. About 40 minutes later we were still standing there and the river was still it's regular green. Finally I decided we'd had enough of just standing in the cold so after a few minutes of wandering around looking for other friends, we decided that the three of us were going to see if we could catch the parade. First we walked up the river a little further and tada, neon green river awaited us. To our surprise Samantha had fallen asleep in the stroller! Butch and I walked a bit and thought we found a great spot for the parade. It was about 20 minutes before we realized we were not even close to the parade. That's what yout get for following the crowd. It was getting late so we decided to get some lunch and then go home. Samantha only woke up after the second El went by on the way to lunch. She hung out with is in Cosi while we ate. Overall we had a wonderful time in the city even though nothing went like it was supposed to. That's life. The day made me more excited for the spring and summer than I already am. Samantha was great with the unexpected and I'd say that I did pretty well with it too. For the first time I breastfed in the public (I know, I know, only 6 months later)during lunch at Cosi and with no changing table in sight did with changing her diaper on a small area next to a sink. I'm so proud of how well she did.
We were only home for an hour before it was off to Chrissy's for Gungi and Grandpa's 50 Anniversary party!!! Another fun party, Samantha was a little crabby at this time. But wouldn't you know that by the time we got home she was all smiles. She's a stinker like that.
This is from her 1/2 birthday a few days ago on March 11
