Mads is BACK! For now LOL ;)

Wouldn't ya know it Boxing Day seemed to be the ticket for Mads...she woke up happy and was back to her old self again!!! ALLLLLL DAY!!! We were in heaven! You really don't know (ok well you do but it just hits home harder) how cranky your child has been when they get back to being their nice normal selves after three whole weeks of h.e.l.l.. And I'm happy to report that yesterday the 27th was a GREAT day too! Could we be getting our little cutie pie back?! I SURE hope so! We still don't know what it was, she doesn't have any teeth yet so I don't think it was that? I was starting to worry it was an ear infection but we just don't know. We are back to formula though now, guess she finally got over her sick tummy enough to want to get back on the formula and resist the b.o.o.b. heehee. So she's been eating better too although still not too interested in solids. :( We're trying to get that back on track too.

 

Christmas was great here in our household, and it's always kind of sad when it's done. Although I finally have had some time to play with my new ipod now that things have settled down and I am having a blast! I still only managed to get 4 songs loaded though and no pics, why does everything seem to take me so long now????? LOL I think there's a 6 month old who could tell you why heehee!

 

Anyway, I'm hoping to get some pics of Christmas uploaded soon, dummy me, I loaded them to facebook and then deleted them (only the fixed jpegs, yeah I'm a photo fixer not a straight uploader LOL! Those zits and red eyes just will not do! Heehee!)

 

Anyway, my little lady slept in this morning and I think she's waking up so off I go, as I always say to her "Good Morning Sunshine"...there's no face sweeter! (Kelsey is also included in that last line! Can't forget my girl that's growing up, she's sooo beautiful too!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

WOW Do I really have a spare second on Christmas day? DH is upstairs with Maddy while she is having a nap, once she gets up it's shower time and then head off to the IL's for dinner so yup here I sit dressed and ready waiting for Maddy so we can get this show on the road lol!

 

Christmas at our house this year was supposed to be scaled back but darn if we weren't all spoiled for sure! Heehee. I got an ipod touch (yay my first mp3 player!) and a digital chi hair straightener and a pair of black Emu's no...not the animal the boots that are similar to Uggs and few other things! Does is sound like I was spoiled?! YOU BETCHA!!! Thanks Honey! You are SOOOOO good to us!

 

Kelsey got a ton too but her big gift was an ipod nano, green in color of course! ;) And my lovely hubby got a sattelite radio and a new garage door opener among other things. Maddy got a TON of presents too and she loves them all so far, but only for like 10 seconds each LOL! She really did well unwrapping for being only 6 months!

 

Unfortunately she is still completely out of sorts. :(  We were up half the night and she just won't stop fussing. I think we are gonna have to go back to the doc to see if there's something wrong. We can't feel ANY teeth so it's doubtful it's that. Maybe an ear infection although she has always just played with her ears and it doesn't seem to be more than usual lately. We certainly won't forget this Christmas LOL!

Well I think she's up, so off we go! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE WE KNOW AND LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long time no post...

Well things have gotten crazy around here. Remember when I said I was sick? Well last weekend DH got it, the next day Kelsey got it and Maddy already had come down with it Wednesday night too...UGH! So the past week and a half was spent in a sick haze for everyone, except for me but dealing with the sickies left me in a grumpy haze LOL! Even my computer got sick! It got a stinkin trojan so mega bucks later it's (finally) back home where it belongs, sigh, at least I didn't lose any data.

 

I'm glad to report that everyone is finally better but Maddy has gone through some changes. Since she was sick she started b.r.e.a.s.t.f.e.e.d.i.n.g. again (which is fine I had mixed feelings about her being completely formula fed) but she won't eat solids anymore. :( I am trying but she is as stubborn as they come and is still resisting. Her appetite is finally almost back to normal (minus the aforementioned complaint LOL) so that's a good sign though.

 

She kept us up half the night last night though and is cranky as all get out today, I felt inside her mouth and still no teeth so I don't know if it's teething or not. Poor little girl and poor mommy and daddy.

 

We went to see Santa at the mall last night and she was being complimented left right and center. Everyone thought she was just too cute and since we are definitely biased we have to agree. ;) (Crankiness and all heehee.) Here's our beautiful little princess!

 

 

 

 

I have mixed feelings today, I want to get out of the house and it might do Maddy some good but with the windchill warning it's about minus 40 right now so I'm not feeling up to braving that, or even getting fixed up due to the late night last night. I might just make a Starbucks and A&W run, so we can get out and get some lunch without actually "getting out" LOL!

My Mojo is gone

Man I don't know what's happened to me, my mojo seems to have disapeared. I sit in front of the computer and just feel like going and laying on the couch...must be the cold weather or the days getting dark earlier. I just don't even feel like scrapping or playing with my photos or even editing my video clips of Maddy, it's so weird. So instead I am blogging LOL about NOTHING heehee.

 

I was horribly sick this weekend, I'm thankful I am over that for sure! Whatever it was it wasn't fun! And I'm still never going back to the restaurant that I went to only hours before I got sick, DH doesn't believe me but that's how sick I was.

 

I have so much to do lately and just so little time, Maddy is still my velcro baby so we can only get small amounts of things done at a time, but hey, I'm not on mat leave to clean the house or cook gourmet meals, I'm on mat leave to care for her...or at least that's what I say to myself when I feel bad about never being able to get things done haha!

 

We have pretty much stopped b.r.e.a.s.t. f.e.e.d.i.n.g. now, when we got her to take a bottle she decided that she likes it much better and will hardly eat from me anymore. That's ok I guess, I really was not planning for her to be like walking and still doing it so hey not too bad of a run I guess. So she gets her bottles (about 6 oz) and 2 meals of rice cereal a day now which she enjoys immensly!!! On her 6 month birthday we will introduce her to sweet potatos I think. ;) I got these cool home made baby food containers called baby cubes and I can't wait to use them. The "I have to have it" magic bullet that I have never used yet will finally come in handy LOL! (I hadddd to have it one day while pregnant and shopping at Costco so I could make myself smoothies and well spent the $$$ and never made a smoothie, sounds like me doesn't it ROFL!)

 

I still need to take my little cutie to see Santa but I think it will be either Friday or Monday before I get to that cuz we have stuff to do lately. I have met a great groups of new mommies and we are taking our babes swimming tomorrow morning and then the next day is a get together at one of their houses so I'm excited and Maddy would be too if she could talk. ;)

 

Oh and it finally snowed here :( with freezing rain beforehand so the roads are pretty slick. At least for my taste. I did go out today and my traction control kept kicking in and we were still sliding sideways, not a lot but when you feel it start to slip it's still scary, especially with my precious cargo! I would rather if it has to snow have it cold enough for dry powder than hovering around freezing so we get wet snow and ice YUCK!

 

Ok enough rambling from me, we've covered mojo, being sick, velcro babies, the fact that I s.u.c.k. as a housewife LOL, a baby's meal plan, shopping at Costco while pregnant, fun with friends and snow.....hmmmm......think that about sums it up! LOL, how's this post for random?! Now for more randomness, I'm off to make a grilled cheese at 11 pm, I've been craving one every night for days now so I might just have to do it! 

Some pics of the new highchair and the eating :)

 

Isn't she cute?!

 

Gotta love a messy eater!

 

She LOVES the spoon too!

 

She looks mad here but she's not, she's talking. She was quite the chatterbox during dinner heehee!

 

Love those chubby cheeks!

 

Fun Days!

Yay we are now proud owners of a high chair!

I know that's sooo exciting to all of you LOL but it is to me, it means my little cutie needs one now and I just love watching her eat her cereal! It's too cute!

 

She also waved at Daddy today and I mean actually waved not just flailing her hands around at him ROFL! When he comes home or even just at random points throughout the night he always says "Hi Everybody" and waves at her just like Dr Nick on the Simpsons and tonight when he came home she really waved at him...it was just so darn cute!!!

 

Well I'm off to bed, it is 12:30 after all and I'm exhausted! And it sounds like someone's up for dinner #3 now heehee! Back to work! ;)

Mads had her first food!

So we decided to introduce Maddy to rice cereal last night...we just couldn't wait and she's been trying to steal my food for quite some time during dinner so we figured she was ready. (Plus if she wasn't overdue she would have been 6 months last night.) It was so much fun. She really didn't want anything to do with it at first. It was funny, I would just hold the spoon in front of her and without even having any she would turn away and make a funny face LOL! Then I realized I never let her make friends with the spoon, duh! So I gave her the empty spoon to play with for a minute and she liked that so when I put food on it she decided she would give in and try it! :) She was so cute, by the end of the meal she was reaching for her spoon and bowl and begging for more LOL! Our little girl is growing up. She also got one bottle last night too and wouldn't let me put it down, she ate about 6 or 7 ounces after the cereal! She just kept reaching for it and when I tried to put it down she'd freak out so I gave it back to her. Little piggy, I think we're gonna have our hands full! ;)

 

Sorry no pics, can you believe I FORGOT?! We did get video though, although my dvd's and corresponding computer clips are in huge disarray so that's what I'm trying to work on is cataloging everything and what disk it came from and making a table of contents so we know what's where.

 

On a side note...why is it that my darling baby seems to not want to sleep anymore?! YIKES! ;)

Yay it's done!

So that went quickly this morning, man I could just scream at the fits blogger was giving me last night! The Blog in a Box from Zoe Pearn is adorable and so easy when blogger is actually cooperating! Ahhh now off to do things like housework and stuff that actually has to be done! ;)

Ugh Blogger Issues!

So I decided to buy a blog template and all for the holidays and install it cuz it should have been easy-peasy right?! WRONG! UGH I could cry! All the hard work I put into my own design from before is now gone and it looks worse. It's late and I'm tired so excuse the "dust" as I try to find time to fix and renovate this poor ole ugly blog now. :(