a few "oopses" i keep forgetting to blog about.

well it has been a while since i blogged about anything.
this morning i managed to stumble to the kitchen to pour my coffee, my eyes are still blurry from sleep. i keep having to rub at them so i can see! but i had to tell you about these!

now i haven't made very many "mommy mistakes" yet, but i have a feeling that i will be more as i learn about being a parent. here a few bloopers that i've been trying NOT to think about.

night before last TJ asks me if the baby monitor is on as we are settling down for bed. i look across the room and see the glowing green light indicating that the unit is indeed on. so off to sleep we go. i wake up at 7 45 the next morning -out of an undisturbed sound sleep. now what is out of the ordinary about this is that teege is a noisy sleeper. even though it is normal for him to sleep for 12 or 13 hours at a time it is not like him to sleep silently.
i go back to bed and lay there for a few minutes before realization sets in:
as i am staring at the monitor KNOWING that it is impossible for him to have slept without so much as making a peep i remember (DUN DUN DUN!) that he was throwing a fit saturday night and TJ and i had been taking shifts with him. when it was my turn to take over again i turned the volume all the way down on the monitor so TJ could get some Z's. i usually turn it all the way off if i mess with it at all. instead i just turned it down. i still don't know if he woke up and cried until he just fell back asleep, or if he really did sleep good enough that no one heard him. i assume if he got too upset wouldnt' the dogs have woken us up?

i was driving home from my sister's once and came to a red light that had railroad tracks paired with it(2 sets of them). i can see the tracks. i can see 1 car at the light already. i think to myself, oh those tracks are farther away from the light than they look i can fit between that car and the first set of tracks. i cross over the first set of tracks and then as i am slowing to a stop i see that there indeed is not enough room for a 2nd car before the other set of tracks.
"OH CRAP!" i say out loud. i oonche as close to the car in front of me as i can. i can see there are no trains coming but still, it is the idea that terrifies me! my back tires were still sitting on the tracks! not much, but enough! "OH GOD! PLEASE DON'T LET A TRAIN COME! OH GOD PLEASE DON'T LET A TRAIN COME! OHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRPA!"
i'm praying out loud as my baby is sleeping in the back seat peacefully. my head is wipping from right to left and back again! just as i open my mouth and shout "RED TEAM GO! RED TEAM GO!" my light turns green and i speed away from the railroad tracks as fast as i can. i will never underestemate the space between a traffic light and a set of train tracks again. that was horrabily terrifying! i could have thrown the car in reverse and manuvered around to the right of the car in front of my and turned right on to the highway, but i was afraid i might get stuck on the tracks altogether(though that probably only happens in the movies) i will NEVER do that again.

those are the 2 biggest. the others have been smaller and more common among new moms.
i gave teege a bath at grammy's one night. i didn't take his infanyt tub b/c it was too big to travel with, so i laid him in the tub with just a tiny bit of water.(this is actually his favorite way for bath time, he can splash more!) anyway, i lift him up and lay his belly across my arm so i can scrubb is butt and back. when i flip him back over his face is all wet! i must have dipped his face in the water at some point! he wasn't sputtering or anything so it must have been for just a secone but still........

i snipped the tip of his finger with the finger nail clippers once. he was barely 2 weeks old. it bled.

i'm sure there are a few more, but i can't think of them right now. i will add them as they surface.

i'm sure glad i'm only human
:)

a miserly mom tip:

so i ran out of hersheys choc. syrup yesterday. this is usually not a big deal b/c we've kind of outlawed ice cream around here. trying to cut back on excess sugar to help boost the weightloss around here.

anyway, TJ broght home some vanilla ice cream the other day as a treat - just enough for both of us. he likes to sprinkle nesquick on his, i like choc. syrup on mine. we were out of both. i drank the last of the quick in my milk when i needed a snack the other afternoon...... i can't eat plan ice cream - i like something on it.

so i took out my "miserly mom's" book b/c i remembered seeing recepies in the back - one of which was for chocolate syrup. i made it up. it was oh so easy and tasted just like hersheys. here's the kicker though: it tasted like the hershey's out of the can - you know, the kind you can't hardly find anymore b/c the plastic bottle with the lid that closes has taken over the can that you have topunch a hole in the top!

here's the recepie:

1 cup cocoa powder(unsweetened) i used nestle brand.
2 cups of sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup cold water
1 TBSP vanilla extract

blend sugar and cocoa together til all lumps are smooth.
add water and salt.
heat to boiling. remove from heat. let cool before adding vanilla, otherwise the flavor cooks away.

warning! this recepie is quite a bit thinner than the original guys!

tip: i added a TBSP of cornstarch to thicken. sauce also thickens some as it cools, but the cornstarch helped.


it is yummy yummy!!

growing up

cereal pictures

here's the pictures from his first cereal feeding.
we start the oatmeal tonight!!!

love of my life

here are some current pictures of teege!
i'm getting to the first cereal pictures.
but i couldn't get them all on one post.

enjoy!

baby cereal - parts 2 and 3

well, the next night went GREAT!
i decided to share this time and let daddy join in the fun.
of course i hovered - hoping he would get bored and hand the spoon over to me!!! - but he didn't.
teege ate 2 batches again, we fixed him some more - the dr said give him as much as he wants - and he ate about 3 spoons of that and then started spitting the rest out. so we wasted a little, no big deal, the stuff is as cheap as dirt. i was going to make all my own baby food, until i saw how cheap it is!!! yeah, i'm thinking SCREW THAT! until he starts eating alot more i will stick to buying it.

part 3 - yeah, this one was a huge flop!

we had been at my mom's for my sisters b-day;

happy birthday sis!!!

so he was tired anyway. i thought about not giving him his cereal b/c he had been spitting up alot and acting like his tummy was upset. but i though to myself "lets get his tummy full and maybe he'll go to bed early."
not a chance.
he did great at first; he likes to try and suck the food off the spoon. the book said this is a great idea when you are introducing cereal, allow them to use their sucking skills at first, just til they are used to the flavor and texture. but when i actually tried to feed him myself he cried.
he wasn't spitting it out and turning his head, he was just making his "i am starving!!" cries at me and acting like "what the HELL do you think you're doing!!". so i gave him a few sucks from a bottle of breastmilk.something else the book said was to give them a bit of a bottle first, fedd them cereal, finish it off with more milk, it helps them associate the cereal part with eating, that way they understand. but when i took the bottle away and gave him another spoon of food he totally melted down!! i think he though he was getting some more from the bottle and was totally distraught when he felt the spoon.
then he spit up all of the cereal he had dmanaged to keep in his mouth and swallow. then he cried some more so i decided not to force the issue, i just gave him the rest of the bottle, then i gave him a bath and got him all snuggled in his jammies, finished nursing him, and put him to BED!

or so i thought.
his tummy was really upset all weekend.
i shouldn't have introduced cereal at the same time as his 2nd set of imunizations. he was already not feeling good, i didn't think he'd really notice. the last set of shots he was fine, but this time he was extra cranky. and then the food made his reflux worse so he seemed to get a dbl whamy!

he was up til 10. of course the time change has us all screwed up!! so it was really only 9 to him but it felt way later to me!!
but the cereal most definately has his reflux acting up. it was under good control. i was hoping the cereal would have an even better effect on his reflux, but it seems to be worse than it's ever been! he's back to spitting up a TON, and being very fussy and crying when he burps. you can hear a lot of gurggling again in his tummy/chest area. but i'm going to keep trying. i'm just making an extra effort not to overfeed him and i think tonight we'll just have a very small bowl of cereal.
and i'm also making an extra effort to be super observant when he gets his medicine so that he does get it on an empty stomach like he's supposed to. hopefully that will help.

i don't think it's that he doesn't want it. i think it's that he doens't quite understand how to do it yet. the dr said if he cries and turns his head away from you, wait another week and try again. and there's been none of that.not the first 2 times anyway, and last night he was just really tired.
the dr said to give him his cereal at 6 in the evening. i don't think i'll wait quite that late though, i think around 5 is a good time. he tends to be more fussy the later it gets in the day.
at 5 months i am supposed to move the cereal to the morning and start a veggie at dinner. i would rather give him his cereal in the morning now, but i know it's so he sleeps longer at night that she has me giving it then.

hopefully tonight goes better!!!
if not i will be putting it off for a week or so.

baby cereal - part 1

WE GOT TO START CEREAL LASTNIGHT!!!!

i was planning on waiting til 6 months, so that TJ would get as much breastmilk as possible, but i had noticed him seeming to be hungry all the time so i though "waht they heck? we can try it since the dr. said it was a good time to start. he'll tell us if he doesn't want it." HE ATE 2 BOWLS!!! of course 2 bowls isn't much. i mixed a tbsp of cereal with 2 tbsp of milk..... he was just getting the hang of eating it when it was gone. the dr said if he seemed to like it to give him as much as he wanted. so i mixed up another batch, and he ate all that. AND he took a 6 oz bottle to wash it down!!! this was at 5 30. i nursed him some before bed like always, he was in his bed and asleep by 8 15.

and then he slept straight thru the night!!!

he usually sleeps form 8 to 5 30. his dr said that was still a little early for him to be waking up. i didn't know how to break him of it though. i'd give him a good 30 minutes before i'd go in and feed him. he wans't going back to sleep so i had to do something so i could go back to sleep! so maybe the cereal will help him stay asleep at night. i heard him at 5 30 this morning but he never really woke up, he just stirred around some. i woke up at 7 30 and went and peeked at him. he was sucking away peacefully on his thumb.....i didn't have to get him up til a little after 8, and then i only went and got him up b/c i knew he was mostly awake, he was in there talking to himself off and on, and it had been 13 hours since he ate last.

he was so cute last night. he made some funny faces when he was eating! and he talked thru the whole thing!! he made this motor boat noise alot. he would mash his lips together and try and blow air thru them and make this little "bbbbbvvvvvv" noise. he sounded like a little boat taking off!or he'd do it real fast "bbvvv" bbbbvvv" bbvvvvv" making short and long sounds, he's so smart! of course he sprayed cereal everywhere more than once!! it was fun!!

i can't wait for dinner tonight!!





oh, and she said if he does' good on the cereal and doens't act too gassy or uncomfortable we can reduce his medicine to night time only in aout 2 weeks, and then in 2 more weeks if he still seem comfortable we can stop his medicine all together.

YAY!! hopefully his cereal helps his reflux rather than makes it worse!
i think that's the way it's supposed to go actually..... i don't know, i'll have to read about that part again.....