WOWZA!!!

Now that was a long time to be away..    I feel so bad that I have not kept up with Micah's stats like I had with T's.  Let me tell ya though.. Working full time, having two kids, three dogs, a house and school to do. Leaves ZERO time to do much of anything else.  

I will be back with some more updates.

Micah's will have a 9, 10 and 11 month update  =)
I will have both Boy's birthday party stuff updated (Super hero themed)
Whats been going on in our house of crazyness.

Just wanted to peek my head in.  Make sure my blog was still up an running. 

8 Months Old

I'm a little behind-
Oiii,  I'm not sure I like this whole growing up thing!!  Its going by way to fast and it seems faster now that I have two, just not fair!

I will say though, Micah is oodles of fun, he makes me laugh and astounds me in ways I never thought possible!  Its amazing the things this kid can do. He's my little stunt devil, has no fear!   He pretty much started crawling at 5 months (army crawling), full on crawling by 7 months and pulling himself up to standing position. Now at 8 months.  EIGHT MONTHS he is cruising the couches and everything he can get good leverage on to walk around!  SOOOO in trouble with this one!   He's into everything, all drawers, all cabinets, all toys, his and T's.   I can no longer leave T in the bath by himself because M makes his way into the bathroom and stands at the side and trys to lift one leg up and over and with the heaviness of his head I can only imagine that he would be flipping right in within a few seconds!  Yep, not happening. So I have to baby gate it every where he is not allowed to be, and he gets PISSED!!  I mean MAD!!!!   Lord help me!  The temper on this dude is beyond me!  He wants what he wants and NOW!!   He has such a great personality although very shy around new people. Even people he's seen before like my Mom or his Grandpa he freaks out!  He's a big Mommas boy for sure!  I thought T was, but I'm thinking he's more of Daddy's boy.

He's still babbling, says Maamma maama, Dadda dadda, babba, and bubbba..  We've been working on all done, so big and  clapping. He finds it funny when we clap and try to show him.

He absolutely adores his brother. He loves to be near him all the time, even though poor T just wants his space sometimes. M is always in his room, wants what T has, loves night time because we pile into T's bed and read a story or just lay there and talk or have tickle sessions. 

Micah loves to snuggle and has a preference of blankets, pretty funny. I just noticed this habit.  He has to have a blanket to snuggle his face into and it has to be one of the very puffy, soft blankets. I think its a texture thing. When he wakes in the morning he has to take it with him into our bed while he gets his first bottle, he rubs his feet back and forth on it.   He's got 4 teeth, 2 on the bottom, and two big things still coming in up top, also the two on the sides are coming right behind. I thought they were all coming in at the same time, but it looks like just the first two.  He's still eating purees, but I've also started introducing more solid food pieces. Stuff we eat at night, little bits of chicken, or steak, potato's, grapes, cucumbers,- not a ton makes it into his mouth but he sure tries.  I love this stage of babyhood, but it sure goes fast and I'm definitely going to miss this stage of his life.  Next up is 9 Months and his well check. 

Lots of happenings

Wow, March was here and then it was gone.. Just like that.. Now its April- can this year go any faster? I mean its not like I just didn't get done putting away my xmas stuff to have to take back down in 9 months.  Good lord!

Anyhow...   March has been an insanely crazy busy month.  T started Tball, I'm still is school, Micah is out of control - crawling, cruising the couches, he'll be 8 months on the 7th!  Every weekend we have something going on, every day during the week we have something going on, I started back at boot camp, which I love, but I am however allergic to working out!  True story!  It's ridiculous but I refuse to stop, I love it and I can tell that my endurance in the last 3 weeks of going is slowly gaining!! 

All this stuff going on has made our schedules less than ideal and I'm really not liking it!  It is what it is for right now! 

My plan is to take the summer off and be with my kids, I'm thinking of working from home 2 days a week to be with them and just slow down some with them. I feel like I've missed a ton of M's milestones, T's milestones.  It sucks!

School sucks- I freaking hate it!  I hate Chemistry!  I was so looking forward to getting back to school and being in that atmosphere, but this class is kicking my ass!!  I was taking Nutrition and dropped it because this ONE chemistry class is just to much!!

I have to say though, March has been an extremely blessed month for us in a lot of ways!!  John and I celebrated our 3rd year anniversary!  We had such a great night! We were able to go out and have an awesome meal, he surprised me with 3 dozen red roses,  a card that of course made me cry and a ice cream date after dinner. It was so nice to actually TALK, with out being interrupted, to have an actual hot meal and enjoy every single bite!!  Funny how you savor the little things that once used to be so easy to have.

We've been doing more stuff around the house, after a long hiatus its time to get back at it.  We are doing our landscaping in the front yard, FINALLY!! I'm so excited. The front yard has not been touched since 04 when the house was bought, than 2 years ago we had it grated and dirt brought in,  to come to a halt. Since then its sat as an empty slate eyesore! 

We are finishing up our living room, well I shouldn't say finishing because we are redoing it. New paint, new texture, new drywall, new baseboards through out the entire house!!  Its going to be crazy!! I am excited though! 

I'm starting to plan T & M's Birthday parties.  This year I decided that I'm going to combine them, being that they are a month apart I just figured it would be easier. I am however making sure that Micah's big day isn't down played in shadow of T.   We are having it our house again and I'm hoping (praying) that the same crap that happened last year doesn't happen again. Last year our A/C went out 3 hours before guests were to arrive, it was 115 out that day, I was HUGELY pregnant. Yea it was a mess!! 

My Best friend came to town and I was able to meet up with her while she was here.  I went to my first Spring training game and well, we barely watched it. We were to busy chatting and taking care kids. I took my two and she had hers and her niece. All in all it was fun!  The next day we went out for drinks and dinner!! I miss this girl, I love that we are able to pick up right were we left off!! 

7 Months Old

Hold the phone..  Did I just type 7 Months Old??!?!   Hold the freaking phone!!   Gahhhhhh...  I can't believe M is SEVEN months old...  :::tears::::       7 Months of pure cuteness, 7 Months of every up and down emotion, challenge, newness! That I think one can handle.    7 Months have come and gone and every day is new!!  Especially with this kid.  This kid is new, he's a nut, he's a FEISTY child. 

M Stats:
Weight: 17lbs 13oz
Height: None

Eating:  Everything; every Veggie and every fruit (with exception of course), we recently introduced the puffs, and yogurt melts (loves). We introduced a sippy cup, he's not into it. 

Activities:  He's CRAWLING!!!  Has been since I told him he was 6 months old.  Well, Army crawling, because I would be politically incorrect if I said Crawling because he's not up on all fours when crawling.  He gets around like a speed of light with this gimp of an army crawl its quite funny and cute!!  He tries so hard to keep up with his brother.  He's a tantrum thrower!! Oh yes, a 7 month old can and will throw a tantrum!! He will throw himself back and knock his head on our tile in pure "I can't believe you just fucking took that toy away from me"!! Yea that kind of tantrum!!   He loves trucks like his brother.  He likes the wheels how they go around and around.  He loves wobble or webbles whatever those things are.  Mostly that's when he throws his fits is if I or T take them away from him.. I take them away so I can pick him up and go, T does it merely to piss him off.  and it does!!  He's very ticklish, So very ticklish. I discover new spots all the time. He's got TWO teeth. Bottom teeth. They are pretty cute. I love toofer smiles! 

Poor dude has been introduced to his first "real" sickness!  Besides the minor cold/allergies because our Az weather sucks - Its hot than REALLY cold, than hot.. Yea so its wreaking havoc on the allergy suffers.
M unfortunately was subject to a fever that was as stubborn as him and would not go away, so he paid his first visit to Urgent Care. Then 3 days later we were told he had a double ear infection and a cough. Then 4 days later told one ear was clearing up and the other was still pusy(sp) and inflamed, and his cough was worse!!  REALLY!!  If I wasn't mistaken this is all to familiar territory when we had T. Tristan was 6 months old when he first got his real sickness, ear infection after ear infection and tubes at 8 1/2 months!!  I'm pretty sure we are heading down the same path, I'm hoping that we don't have to wait as long this time around! 

All in all Micah is an extremely happy, outgoing, go getter, snuggler, shines his smile to those he knows but timid and reserved around those he does not.   Both boys are complete opposites!! COMPLETE opposites. Not that I expected them to be the same person different names kinda thing. It's just so strange that while pregnant I had these imaginations about what M would be like because T was like that. I was very wrong!!!

He wears most of his dinner. It suits him. =)

Baby Food Makin..

I'm honestly surprised at myself!! I really never thought I would be that person who makes there kids baby food. I do. With T  I didn't, sorry T you were my test run baby. I really just followed all the rules of the book, the pedia and society. Suddenly when you learn not everything is done by the book and you open your mind up, you find Cloth diapering, baby food making, Baby Led feeding, baby wearing, etc etc etc. world out there. Way beyond the confines of a book.  Pretty interesting I tell ya.
So I wanted to try a few new things with M, being that he's my last baby and things I wish I would of done with T, I wanted to do for M.  Not to say that T didn't get the nutrition, attention etc that his brother is getting. Its just done with more of an open mind. =)  Ive had many friends do it. I've watched, I've read, seemed pretty simple and totally feasible. So when the time came I looked up what I needed to do, what types of food were good to make and freeze and the baby food making experience started!!
After the first batch I was pretty happy with myself, like one domesticated diva.. HA!  I will say though, I  felt myself asking is this really worth my 2-3 hours to prepare all of this?  When time is not on my side as of lately. So when I ran out of the small batch I had made, I went ahead and bought some jarred food to last me and weighed out the positives and negs.  Two negatives I noticed right away was that  the cost of buying jarred versus making my own was in fact quite a bit more especially if I continued on this route. Secondly M, noticed the difference, I really didn't think he would but he did and was most noticeable with Carrots and Apples.  So I'm baby food making diva. And quite honestly the time- 2-3 hours of peeling, baking, steaming, pureeing, are ALL more than worth it. I now have a rhythm down and it makes this process a bit easier. I do fruits one weekend and veggies another. I make more than just a month or two worth, I typically pick up about 2-3 lbs of fruits and veggies I also watch for sales on organic fruits and veggies at a local store called Sprouts for deals. This is lasting me quite a bit longer than the first batch. Not only do I have to supply for myself I have to supply for my caregiver. So doubling up just makes since.  I will say this though my kid still gets some Jard food I typically only do this on weekends that we are out and about and I have no way to thaw out the food and i don't feel like carrying all the extra bowls etc. 

So far since M turned 4 months- He's tried;
Veggies: Carrots, squash (butternut and acorn), green beans, sweet peas, sweet potato's, mix of carrots and squash, mix of green beans and acorn squash.
Fruits: Avocado, banana, apples, Cinnamon apples, pear, peaches, blueberries, mango, blueberry/banana mush, banana/apple mush, peaches/banana mush, (he's still very unsure about peaches and I think its the bitter/tart flavor he's not digging).


This was the start of a  veggie weekend, I needed to make more apples for my caregiver hence the apples you see.  I forgot to take pics of the Sweet potato's and the carrots I had made earlier. Ttypically the Squashes are the longest to make. I bake (about 45 minutes), then peel then puree.

Acorn and butternut Squash

Cinnamon Apples

 The Squashes baked and ready to be peeled and pureed.

 Butternut squash

 Acorn Squash

Easy Peasy and I'm glad I opened my mind to to things like this. I can offer M so many new things, that I was once limited to with T. I'm hoping M will have more of an open mind about food than his poor brother. I know most, if not all of T's pickyness is due to me. I hope to change that with M and maybe T will follow.

Here's the website I used to make baby food.  I also got useful info from a few friends who also blog. Lisa and Amber. 

Sleeping through the Night!!!

I posted that M has started sleeping through the night!  It's TRUE!   I didn't want to say anything, or announce it on FB or even remotely tell my brain that M has been sleeping through the night since the 2nd week I started school.    I mean he's been sleeping in his own room since about 3 months and was on and off getting up anywhere from 2 -5 times a night. I really thought I would never get to have uninterrupted sleep again.  The week I started school, I prayed and prayed and told M please please help me out a little and sleep!! I start school this week and for the love of God I need some sleep. YA, that didnt happen, I was pretty much slapped in the face that night!  M was up EVERY.HOUR.ON.THE.HOUR.  I seriously was beyond frustrated, even the hubs got up to help. I finally went in to check on M AGAIN, and he was fussing and moving about. I put his Pacifier back in and off I went, and not even before my head hit the pillow he started crying, balloring, and whining, when John went to get up I quickly said, "DO Not get up"!!!  let him cry, I can't do this anymore and started crying quitely into my pillow. I was at my breaking piont,  I wasn't sure what else to do. So I let him whine for about 5 min, and right before I went to get up for what seemed like the millionth time, it got quit! I waited and waited,  Ahhhh back to sleep for 30 min. =(  So after that night, I just figured I was doomed. Even after praying, and having a talk with M. It just wasn't happening.
BUT
 Then it did!!
I seriously have no idea what happened but that weekend he slept both nights without a peep. I figured it was a fluke and I was sure he would start up again, knowing that I had work and school coming. Sunday night, he did it again, HE SLEPT all night!  I even doubted him again for Monday night, Nope he slept Monday night, ALL NIGHT, No peeps, no whining No fussing. NOTHING!! 
I didn't want to shout for joy just yet, figuring I would jinx myself or this was just a silly joke he was playing on me. Week one, Sleep! Week two, Sleep! Week three, Sleep! and Week four, SLEEP!!  

I am now going to shout this "MICAH IS SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!"   Can I get an AMEN?!?!?    

Seriously I thought I was just doomed. We were beyond spoiled with T, and we still are. That kid can sleep. He's 3 1/2 and still takes a 3 hour nap, still sleeps 10-12 hours through the night. 
Now that M is getting into a groove its making my life so much easier. I'm still frazzled at times, still trying to figure out a good routine for the mornings, I doubt I'll ever get that down. HA!  When I had T, we just kind of fell into a routine, he was easy.
Getting into a routine/schedule with M has been challenging. Maybe i put to much  pressure on us to get to that point thinking that it was supposed to be like when I had T. I've definitely had to learn other wise.   M & T are completely different!!  T was laid back and chill, he was a slow mover- He hit milestones a little later than "normal", M on the other hand is feisty, he has been since being in my belly. He's not laid back, he wants to be part of the action. He wants what he wants!   Either way, I am super happy that he is sleeping through the night  now. I seem to be regaining myself back.  My energy is coming back and not just in shifts or because of an awesome sugar high!  
I can actually say that, life is slowly returning to a "normal".  I'm working, I'm going to school, my house is a mess(oh well), I'm trying to figure out how to fit in some Gym time.  All in all, I feel way better about having two kids, than I did a few months ago.

5 Months and NOW 6 Months Micah

Yea I know, I SUCK!!   I'm just going to combine these two months-   I really have no idea how people have more than 2 kids, I can't even mange having 2, work full time, go to school and try to keep up with a house, 3dogs and the list goes on.. oiiii..  Blogging apparently has taken a semi permanent back seat at the moment.  =(

Micah is now 6 months old, ohhh this guy!!  This chub full of love is something else I tell ya!!  They always say the 2nd one  moves faster than the first, and WOW are they 10000% correct!! 
Here's some new stuff this guy has been up to:
* Rolling ALL over house, no sense in having a mat anymore.
*Sitting up by himself since 5 1/2 months- no assistance, meaning no boppy to hold him up
*Army crawl/scoot-  this has just started within this last week.
*Gets up on all fours and rocks
*Tucks legs under him and pushes off to get to a toy
*SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!  Can I get a AMEN!!   More on that later.
*Started solids at 4 months, all oranges,  greens and most of all fruits- Anything I make
*Drinks 6 oz of formula, 2 solid feedings during the day- brunch/dinner
*No longer in Physical Therapy for his torticollis! YAY!!
*No signs of Flat head, or the need for a Cranial Band!! YAY!!
*He's a drooling feign, his bottom two teeth are right there and ready to pop through. I can feel them and see the very tips, its just making that cut.
*He's got a temper, Oh yay this guy means business- When you take something away from him he gets MAD!!!  Throws him self back if sitting, shouts at you and shows you his disapproval of you taking something from him.
*Loves bath time
*Loves to EAT, EAT, EAT
*Loves hanging out with T, T has a way of getting M to just crack up. Its the funniest, cutest laugh ever.  T has become pretty protective of his brother I've noticed as of late.

That's all I can really think of at the moment and I'm sure there are a million other things he's doing. We go on Friday for his 6 month well check, with some shots to go along with it.  YUCK!  I'll Update when I get his stats.  Here's a boat load of pics to catch up us up on all the growing this guy has been doing.

6 MONTHS OLD

02~07~2012

(I'm not sure why this one won't stay rotated) 

T mean Muggin!

Scooting

and up on all fours, the pillow was getting in his way.

Posts I said I would get to....

Lets start with T and M's Room's....  T's room has been finished for awhile, except the missing dirt bike silhouettes I still have not gotten.  Call me lazy.. Oh well.

You've been warned!!

John and I got this on our Cruise - I thought it was super cute and fitting considering we have two boys. His room is not Pirates, but I still wanted to put it up.

Monster Trucks... I don't think T will ever get sick of his Monster Trucks. LOVE LOVE LOVE's Them!!

The decals were purchased from Fathead, they were a pain in the ASS to put up we used spray glue to make sure they don't come down.

His bed was his old crib we converted it to the full size, which he loves and honestly he's lost in it. It takes up so much of his room I feel bad, but we made it work. The rub was purchased at IKEA and he loves it. Its his little town for all his cars or monster trucks.

The wall is full of basketballs, baseballs, footballs, a hockey stick and a jersey. all which have been signed by numerous professional ball players. We also have one of Shaq's GINORMOUS shoes.

Onto M's room

Looking in from the door.  This decal was purchased off of Etsy and holy hell it was a pain in the ass to put up, piece by piece we had to do it plus add extra glue. Definitely meant for flat non textured walls. but of course I wanted what I wanted and this will have to do!! At least it'll be easy to take down when its time for a change.

The picture frame was made by one of friends, the baby inside however is Not Micah. The owl bank, I found in Vegas and had to have it!

These owls from my baby shower that my sister gave me, So cute!

Oh this dresser.. This dresser has some meaning!!  This used to be my dresser, My Dad made this dresser for me. The first two drawers fronts even had my name engraved on them.  Its made of solid Oak and heavier than heavy!!  Its been at my moms ever since I moved out and she's been asking what she wanted me to do with it. Of course I wanted to keep its sentimental to me, even more so now because my dad is gone.  She asked me again when I got pregnant with M and right away I was like I can use if for M. I just had to figure out how to get a new drawer front and stain it to match the crib.  Luckily I'm in the cabinet, counter top biz so we know people. I asked my friend if he could take it clean it up, stain it and change the sliders for me. He did, it took awhile but I got it back about a month before M came. I LOVE it and I hope M will keep it forever. Its a very meaningful piece something that I hope gets passed down to his kids and so on. I'm sure it will with stand the times, I mean its Oak and it means business!!  =)

This is a Mobile I had made from etsy, it matches the colors of the bedding. It freely hangs over the top of the crib. I love it!  M seems to enjoy it as well.

I saw this owl in a parents magazine when I was trying decide on bedding and themes for M's room. Once I saw this I was in love and knew I had to have some owls in his nursery.

And the finished product. The rod that's being used to hang those curtains is not staying I just needed something to get them off the dang floor. I'm still searching for the ONE that I want but haven't come across anything, who knows if I will but this will do for now.