Blog Giveaway

I'm trying to win a Kidco Babysteps 123 Natural Feeding System from A Mama Stork Knows blog because I am planning on making Toot's baby food whenever he starts solids. This feeding system would help me out a TON to accomplish this process so I really want to win it!

If you want to try to win, too, go to A Mama Stork Knows and enter for yourself!

Faith Newman

Toots got a new friend the other day, courtesy of my friend (and future Godmother to Toots!) Michelle. I am stealing the story behind it from her blog because it's so funny and I couldn't have written it better.

Toots LOVES Faith Newman and we're so excited to have her! Here is the progression of what happened the first time he met her.

Yep, she's his new favorite friend. But why is her name Faith Newman, you ask? Perhaps you even know her as Sophie...Well, here's the story, courtesy of Michelle:

Here's the story, which actually sounds more stupid once it's said aloud. But I still think it's special. So, anyone who knows me knows that I am a Young and the Restless junkie (as am I, which is why this is awesome). I have professed it here more than once. Anyway, so I was browsing on Amazon for bouncers for Colt and I came across this sweet giraffe that I recognized immediately. Enter the following screen shot from an episode of Y&R a few weeks ago...

And now enter a really long run-on sentence... Seeeeee, in this scene Ashley is crying because she forgot to pack Faith's favorite giraffe in her overnight bag after she had to give Faith to Nick and Sharon once they got the DNA results that showed that Faith was indeed Nick and Sharon's baby, NOT Ashley and Victor's baby because back in the early days of Ashley's pregnancy Adam, Victor's evil son, scared Ashley and she fell down some stairs and she had a miscarriage, but theeeen Adam convinced Ashley she was still pregnant, blackmailed Dr. Taylor into backing up his story, all causing Ashley to continue in a hysterical pregnancy, resulting in a hysterical labor where Ashley passes out and Adam stealing Sharon's baby (Faith Newman) and giving it to Ashley bringing her to this point months later where she has to give her back.

Yay for Michelle being an AWESOME friend and thinking of Toots and, well, me, since we always talk about Y&R and sending us a new friend! Thanks, Michelle and Colt :)

Here's What You Want to See...

My little (or not so little!) munchkin!

By the way....I took him to the week before last (he was fine, I was just worried about something), and he weighed 15 pounds 11 ounces!

Whoa..what is this?



Who's that handsome kid there in the mirror?
First baseball hat. Not quite sure what mom is doing...
First time in the exersaucer. I think I like this monkey!
My little chubs
Stop taking pictures of me, mom!


Playing on his play mat. He loves hitting the toys and also grabs them now and pulls them toward him. The bells you can see in the background, next to the elephant, when they are hanging up he likes to grab the yellow one.


First time in the Bumbo seat! No, I do not put him on the counter in it. It was just for the picture.


Talking to me while we're doing the photoshoot ;)


Going crazy before his nap. I WAS holding the camera still and it was on the "sports" setting to help catch the movement but he was moving so fast, I couldn't catch it.


Happy baby!


The dreaded tummy time


Cute bottom :)

La Cucaracha

Sorry for the blogging hiatus last week. I can't promise it won't continue at some point because Toots is sleeping horrendously! We're trying to figure out what's causing it because he had been going 8 hours a night but haven't figured it out yet.

I started working part-time from home for Tim's firm to bring in some extra money and keep my mind fresh on some legal stuff. It's more difficult than I thought it would be to find time to work since I really can only do it when Toots is napping and there are other things that need to be done as well. It also makes it difficult when he's not sleeping because I am SO tired! Hopefully I will get into a better groove because I want to do a good job at this.

I'm going to do a separate post of pictures because I have a lot of them to post. I also have a cute video but I've got to figure out how to post that as well. The title of the post refers to weekend before last when my friends Jill and Kaitlin were visiting us for the day. We went to a Mexican restaurant for lunch and a little mariachi band showed up and started playing while we were there. It was absolutely hilarious, Toots started dancing to the music (bobbing and swaying back and forth) and even started going "whooo whooo" like he was singing! It was TOO cute. I got a video of him dancing a little to the music on his exersaucer as well. I think I need to find a mariachi CD to play him :)

Tim and I switched off nights this weekend getting up with Toots so each of us could get a full night of sleep. He ended up letting me get better sleep because he decided to come out and sleep on the couch. Next time, I'm going to do that so he doesn't wake up at all. So sweet of him!

We will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary one week from today. We're going to go to Waco for the weekend this weekend to visit and to go eat at this restaurant we love there called 1424. Kind of funny we are going from Fort Worth to Waco for somewhere to eat! We also wanted to hang out with family, though, so it gives us the opportunity to do both.

As far as my mentioning about Toots eating from bottles now on my last post, he got a cold about a month or so ago and wouldn't nurse when he had it because it was hard for him to breathe and I think tilting him to the side hurt his sinuses. So, I started giving him pumped milk then. When he got better, he still wouldn't nurse because I think he got used to getting the milk easier from the bottle. I was really upset about this because I was actually starting to enjoy nursing but I have been able to keep up with it and give him pumped breastmilk all day and he just gets one bottle of formula (which I was doing even when I was nursing). I actually was able to get him to nurse yesterday evening but when he starts having to work harder to get the milk out, he gets mad and won't do it anymore. I mostly just care that he gets the breastmilk for as long as he can so I'm just going to try to keep up with the pumping.

I can't think of anything else exciting except less than one month til we close on the house! Everything came out great with the inspection and we got the final approval on our loan the other day, so we are all set to go. Yay!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I will follow this post with a post of pictures.

Skinny Tuesday

I lost 1.2 pounds at Weight Watchers last week, which brought me to 146.8. I was happy with that, but of course I'd always like to be losing a little more.

I've noticed I am starting to eat less at meals. For awhile there, I was always finishing everything on my plate and now I'm not doing that most of the time. So that's a small victory. I can also tell I'm starting to get back in shape and get some muscle tone again.

My struggles this week were with some of my food choices this weekend and also with working out. I only made it to Stroller Strides twice last week and I think I'm only going to make it twice this week as well. I'm hoping things will get back to normal after that and I can be there at least 4 days a week again (I have been missing Thursdays because I like to go to Weight Watchers first thing in the morning and it interferes with Stroller Strides).

How was your week?

Newbies

I noticed I've gotten a few new followers this week. Welcome! If you have commented in a post already, then I'm glad to have met you :)

If not, I have a little "rule" around here to keep away creepies (haha) that I need you to go ahead and comment on a post so that I know you're just interested in reading and not a stalker or solicitor. Feel free to just go ahead and comment on this one and tell me who you are.

Thanks!

Skinny Tuesday

I lost 1.4 pounds at Weight Watchers last week, bringing my weight to 148. Our anniversary weekend is in three weeks and I'd really like to be down to 142 by then because that would be 10 pounds from my lifetime goal at WW, but I don't know that that's feasible. At the very least, I'd like to be down to 145.

I didn't go to Stroller Strides yesterday because we were making the offer on our house, but I hope to be there the rest of the week. If I'm not, I HAVE to make myself do some other kind of exercise.

I've done well so far this week as far as eating goes, but I have indulged in a few more sweets since Lent has been over. I'm really having to force myself to watch it because I want to eat them SO bad! My mom read an article that when you are sleep deprived you crave sweets more because of something your body isn't producing enough of when you aren't getting the sleep you need. Obviously, I wake up at least once a night with Brendan, so I am a *little* sleep deprived ;) He's starting to sleep more, so hopefully we'll fix that problem soon. I think battling my love of sweets is something that won't ever go away completely, though.

I've also not been so great at tracking my points, which is likely why I haven't lost weight as quickly as I usually do. I've more been trying to choose healthy options rather than really counting points. Right now, I am satisfied with that because I am still losing weight, even if it's slowly, but if the scale doesn't continue to go down, I'm really going to have to be more diligent about it.

How was your week?