2 days in a row! Gung ho!

She slept great last night, Hubby's home today, I'm going to get some memory making done! AKA... actually working on the scrap book type stuff. And getting a little blogging in. That kind of stuff. She's been asleep for 15 minutes, I'm really hoping she'll nap longer than 30 minutes. But if she doesn't... we're going to try keeping her up 2.5-3 hours this time. I'll have to do the math to decide for sure. MATH! BET YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU'D NEED THAT AFTER HIGHSCHOOL! BECAUSE CALCULATING HOW LONG SHE'LL BE AWAKE THE LAST STRETCH IS SUPER DIFFICULT.

Ahem.

Not the nicest day today, ONLY 52. But it's supposed to get sunnier so we'll try doing outside stuff. Cleaning the garage, blowing up his basketball hoop and the like. I need to make a list and make sure I accomplish stuff.

Haven't gotten her to roll back to belly yet today so that's on the list too. We're trying to get her to do that at least once a day, and also get her to push off our hands to scoot forward. We're really gung ho into ruining everything by making her mobile :D

Also potatoes tonight! And now that dairy has been CONFIRMED we're going to get gung ho on my diet today. Way to go girl, making life easier on us all :D :D

Whelp, better go get something done before picking up the boy from school. He's grounded. He's been very strong willed/negative/refusing to listen. So grounded from video games. But he's been testing it, he's only listening a little, but he knows that the wooden trains go next. Actually they might go anyways, temporarily, we've got a carpet cleaner to use. I don't think we're doing that today though, I'd like it to be a spectacular day so the windows can be opened... then again there's no guarantee we'll have a better day than today with both of us home. Which is pretty much needed, one to watch the kids the other to do the damn thing.

Oy. Didn't I say something about going?

Bathtime!

Ugh, well first of all I'm sitting here with her monitor cranked to max because I keep hearing these *glug glug glug* sounds while in the living room. I don't see how it could be from her humidifier and be that loud, I even hung out in the hallway for 10 minutes listening. I don't know what to think but if I can verify it's from her room only then will I risk entering to fix it.

... It's been awhile now and nothing. So I'm guessing it's something else in the house. Well that's just weird. ANYWAYS we got some sticky things for the bottom of the tub! She's outgrown her baby bathtub and we've been having to lean over anyways to keep her from lunging into the tub with Peanut. So tonight I sat her down on the sticky things and she did amazing! She had a blast playing like such a big girl.

She's been adjusting to dairy, which has been pretty awesome. She hasn't been napping great, but I don't think it's the food. We're going to try extending awake times to help... but I don't know how that'll go. She was up longer tonight, so far so good on that. KMFX!!!

Half Birthday!

Happy half birthday my sweet little Almond! She sure had a lot to say about it, from the minute the clock struck the day. OMG last night sucked. Not sure if it was just a random bad night or she HATED my one cookie with soy lecthin in it. We'll give it a few more night and try another cookie. I'm really hoping it wasn't. I really want her to grow out of this shit. I'm not saying I want to douse my food in soy sauce, but it'd be nice to not have to be so super careful. Dang, I'm amazed today is going by so fast. After so little sleep I expected the morning to craaaaaaaawl.

We have tons to do today. If nothing else pictures! Pictures of my half birthday girl! We'll have a little party for her on Saturday. Which will mainly be a little fruit dessert or something when my parents drop off the boy from his sleepover. SO HAPPY to have them back! If nothing else, if tonight goes on repeat, at least Friday night we won't have Peanut sticking his head in as well.

Oy, I really should go clean or something... but sleepy...

Snuggly kids

Peanut has been extra snuggly lately with us, including Almond. They're becoming real good pals with each other. When she gets fussy I go ask him to show her some of his toys, and it usually works :) She's a tad bit bigger now after a growth spurt... though I feel like this isn't it. I have a bad feeling she's going to grow a bit more. She's done that in previous spurts... we'll see.

Almond has been learning to fall asleep in her crib... however it went poorly this morning. But last night she slept 10 hours straight, so that's great! She's eating peas, green beans, sweet potatoes, rice and chicken stock. Yum yum!

Today is the hubby's half birthday, we're going to celebrate with strawberry cheesecake and a trip to the mountain. Peanut insisted on the latter... and the former, actually. He helped me make the cheesecake last night, now I have to make the strawberry topping. I also should go get the boy outside, it's already 43!

Picture dump!

The snowman is a goner today.

Teaching her the iPad

One last sledding in before it all melts

RSV

We've had a few weeks of illness here. We all were slightly sick a few weeks ago, then last week Peanut was very sick, fever all week, then this week Almond came down with RSV. Thank goodness warmer weather is here ( 36 today, 40s this weekend!)

Their grandparents are still off visiting the Texan family. 1.5 weeks into their vacation. We're hoping they'll be back by her half birthday. But today is MY half birthday, hooray!

We're pretty excited, I'm soon going to grab the mailbox for her to play with. We're talking like REAL toys now. Not just jamming things in her mouth, but we think she'll be able to activate the music on the spinner thing. Only one way to find out, right :) It's weird to think about the next few months. Crawling? Finger foods? Standing/Crusing? Holy shit it's going to start moving fast now. Yesterday you could see her brain spinning trying to figure out if she could manage to lunge at the cat. She loooooooooves that cats.

Peanut is mostly still into the same stuff. He wants to make some leaves for his stuffed 'wild turtle' to eat though. So that's a plan for today. I do owe him some quarters, he did listen yesterday and helped me clean a bit yesterday. He's been pretty needy. If we're not in the room he gets scared and will follow me around instead of staying and playing if I need to change her diaper or whatever. That also means when I'm trying to get her to nap as well, which has been... swell...

We're talking about trying sweet potatoes today! We'll all just  eat them today and enjoy :) Which reminds me she hasn't had any solids yet this morning... I could suggest hubby goes feeds her some beans or I could pump... Oy, decisions.

So we tried the mailbox. She didn't quite get it, but that's ok :) I'm thinking in the next month she'll get very into it, just still a little young yet. Peanut enjoyed it terribly.

Ok, little update done! Better than no update :)

Almond at the clinic. She ripped the crinkly paper to shreds while we waited! I know I don't post as many pictures of Peanut but he's been refusing to smile/pose lately. Sigh.

5 months!

The girl is 5 months. Time both goes slowly and flies. The hall bathroom got repaired. Peanut had show and tell, he brought in a Canadian National, a book and a picture of his Enterprise cake. Almond is sitting up independently. We all got sick. The kids are sick again. Peanut very very sick. Fever, cold, stomach pains. Almond kept waking up 8-12 then I was up with Peanut 1230-630 or so. They're both asleep right now... at 9 in the morning.

But when they're healthy both kids play really well together. Peanut enjoys playing snow plow train outside, it's a crap week this week so hopefully we're all better next week. When the weather is much nicer.

But next week we'll be in the 30s. But no Grandparents, they've gone off to visit the rest of the family for the rest of the month. So jealous, I'd rather be in 70s then dreaming of just getting into the 30s.

Almond tried avocado and carrots. She reacted poorly to the both of them :( That's exactly what our little family needs. No tree nuts, meat, wheat and now latex foods? We don't eat much. Once we're a little bit more on our game we're going to see about getting her tested. I'm now eating even less, but actually now that I'm avoiding like the potatoes and grapes too, she actually had a normal BF diaper. I very rarely see those, maybe we're finally onto something. I can hope. And maybe after we get her tested we'll find out I CAN have dairy, and it was just coincidence that she improved upon taking them out.

Hey, I can hope.

It's January!

Peanut was sssssssssssuper excited this year about Christmas this year! The Santa stuff, the presents, the cookies, the everything :) It was so much fun to see.

Really he's just super excited about life, which makes it all doubly as great.

Almond is doing great at sitting and smiling, she's our little ham.

So far so good on the health front, I'm still waiting for the illnesses to start, but he's been back in school a few weeks and nothing. Maybe his immune system has advanced. She's been a terrible fuss pot the last few days. Hopefully it's just from her vaccinations on Thursday. Almond is 4 months 2 weeks today.