Showing posts with label babies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label babies. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Parenting & Baby Truths


The harder you try to be quiet and not wake a sleeping baby, the more likely you are to knock something off a shelf or trip over a chair. Or anything really. 

The less she naps, the more tired you are.

Bibs should be full body length. The baby will always find an uncovered area of clothing to spit the food on.

It would make more sense if babies absorbed food through their chin. Or nose. Or cheeks. Because really, more of it ends up there than in their mouth anyway. 


The more annoying the toy, the more the baby will like it.

Picking baby boogers out will turn into a game.

Catching a bunch of spit up in your hand is no big deal.


You're probably going to think almost every little thing your kid does is adorable and want to gush about him/her all the time. This will eventually annoy others. They may think your kid is cute, but probably not to the extent that you do. 

Throwing toys on the floor, out of their reach, and whining until you get that toy for them is a game that all babies learn. The most annoying game, but still a game to them. 

So many babies eventually only want to cuddle when their sick. Soak up those newborn cuddles as much as you can. 

Babies also eventually stop falling asleep in your arms so often. Soak up those moments too. 

Add your own in the comments!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Unpredictable Babies

Babies are crazy. Wild. So freaking unpredictable. 

Moms - you know. Non-moms? Maybe not so much. 

I have a 7-week old daughter that will barely sleep during the day. Babies of this age are generally still supposed to sleep quite a bit. Not this girl. But miss unpredictable usually sleeps like a champ at night. 2-7 hours at a time, usually. Last night we had a 6-hour stretch, followed by another almost 3-hour stretch. Then? We ate some more and she's been asleep for about 40 minutes now. Little miss is napping after sleeping 9 hours last night. 


While she usually sleeps great for me, my mom had her for the night Saturday night and the girl woke up every two hours all night. I've learned to expect absolutely nothing and just try to go with the flow. She does what she wants and that's that. 

A note for the baby book: The little miss discovered thumb sucking on November 13th. She sometimes has trouble getting it in, but it's adorable watching her try. Although it's not a habit I want her to pick up. 

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I don't have anything of much interest to say today, as you can see, but I am guest posting over at Create with Christina.

Christina is a real sweetie and that really shines through on her blog. I love her cute post on the responsibilities of being a wife. If you're the crafty type, you may love her post on the gorgeous burlap wreath she made. If nothing else, take a look at these beautiful family photos.

Stop by her blog and say hi.

If you're interested in becoming a partner for December, the info is here. Best of all, it's free!

Friday, May 13, 2011

Guess the Baby's Gender Giveaway

I'm having my second giveaway. The prize is undecided so far. It won't be something expensive, but it will be awesome. Giveaway is open to everyone. 

Let's Play:
- The only thing you have to do is comment guessing what gender my baby will be, 
and you are entered. Easy. 

The winner will be someone who guessed correctly, chosen randomly. 

Bonus entries:
(Separate comment required for each bonus entry, or it will only be counted as one)
- If you are a follower
- If you tweet about the giveaway (provide link)
- If you post the button on your blog (provide link)

Giveaway ends June 7th

No bonus, but please vote in the poll on my sidebar too, 
so everyone can see how the voting is going.






For the Love of Writing





Giveaway is now closed. Thanks for entering! Winner has been chosen and results will be posted soon! 

Friday, January 14, 2011

Guess what?!

Well, did you guess?

I have some news, that's what. It's kind of ironic news after I wrote up this post. It's funny. I wrote that post shortly before Christmas, but waited until Christmas festivities were over before posting it. It was innocent when written. By the time it was posted? Unknowingly, less innocent. You see, the "damage" had already been done by the time it really did get posted, but I had no idea. 



Is this enough filler yet? Because I sure as hell don't want blogger reader to give away my news with its little 'snippet' of my post, before you actually get here to read it yourself.

Are you getting annoyed with me now? 

Here goes. I am having a baby. I'm pregnant. I have a bun in the oven. I am growing a life. I am terrified, but crazy happy. 

I've heard all kinds of 'Oh my God' and 'What?!!' and even an 'Oh no'. But the 'oh no' was when mother thought I was telling her my sister was pregnant with baby #2. 

So you see? Why me writing a post so recently talking about me being worried that time was going by too fast is ironic? That I didn't want to be too old when I started having kids? It almost makes this seem planned, but it was not. Although I've been asked that a lot. 

This is very early. Even early to be announcing it to you guys, but as it has been announced on facebook to my friends, family and entire small town back home, against my wishes. So I couldn't hold it back any longer from my blog family here. I just thought it would be way too hard to go on blogging, without talking about the one thing that is on my mind the most. 

Expect changes around here. Me? I won't change a whole lot. Not for a little awhile. I've been wanting to change my blog name for awhile, but couldn't think of a good name. In the next few weeks/months, I will be changing the blog name to something that incorporates my new little family and soon may even go as far as to gasp pay for a blog makeover. 

I won't be changing to a Mommy blogger overnight, but hey, if you're a Mom who blogs, chances are you're a Mommy Blogger. 

I just ask you guys a favor - to pray:
1. That the twins that run on both sides of the family, don't start growing in my belly
2. That I have a girl. I'm terrified of having boyfriend's mini-me gamer boy running around in a few years
3. That I have a happy and healthy baby(ies?) growing in my belly, no matter what the gender

We are both incredibly happy with this. Now? Nine months to get our lives in order and get prepared. 

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Biological Clock



It has recently hit me that I am growing up. I'm not 20 anymore, I'm 23. I have friends that are getting married. Friends that talk about having babies. I have a younger sister who already has a child. Those are pretty big life milestones. 

I'm not married, nor am I anywhere near being ready to get married. I have no children, and I also don't see me wanting any in the near future. I hate the phrase 'biological clock'. 

I do, at some point, want those things in life, but I am sure they are not for me right now. 

Time scares me. 

I haven't done any research on this at all, but I've heard that after that age of 27 (ish) it gets a tiny bit harder for women to get pregnant. Through a tiny bit of research, I learned that 7% of females are infertile by age 30. 11% by age 35. So maybe it doesn't sound like there has to be a big rush. 

Someone said something the other day that stuck with me. One of my co-workers was talking about her children and grandchildren. She had her children young. Her reason? She didn't want to be really old when she started getting grandchildren. 

If I have children, say in 5 years, I will be 28. Let's say my child starts reproducing when they are 20. That makes me almost 50 by the time I first start having grandchildren. 

Now, I know I'm over analyzing, and I promise you I'm not as worried about this as the post may make it seem. These are just a couple of thoughts I've had. 

Neither of these factors will rush me into marriage or children until I feel I am completely ready for it. 


Does anyone else take these factors into consideration when they start having a family? I'd love to hear your thoughts. 

In the meantime, family and friends please continue to have babies that I can love from afar. 

Monday, March 15, 2010

Manic Monday

I forgot what my blog looked like. Whether that be from my lack of internet lately, or because I changed it just before I left.

I've been having the feeling all day that the contents of my life were thrown into one of those Yahtzee cups, shaken around, and dumped out at random.

  • We woke up at 6am to the sound of scratching at the ceiling above our bed. It could be described as a squirrel/rat/ferret or some kind of small animal trapped in there, trying to claw it's way out. We made our way to the living room for about an hour, but once it was light out, the sound stopped.


  • Once I went back to bed to try to get some sleep, work called asking why I wasn't in. The schedule got changed without anyone informing me, so what I thought was going to be a 4-midnight shift, turned out to be a 9-4 shift. At least my day was an hour shorter by being late.


  • I am quite behind on reading blogs. You go away for four days then spend the next 24 hours trying to get caught up. Blog life is important too.

So really, nothing worth mentioning has happened, I just have that feeling.

I spent the weekend away with good friends, so I'm incredibly behind on sleep (and everything else) since... Wednesday? Don't get me wrong, the friend and family time was well worth the no sleep, I'm just feeling all kerfuffled today because of it. But look at the adorable boy I got to spend the night with on Wednesday.




And my camera takes really nice pictures of trees, aparently.

Nessa needs this shift to end (43 minutes) so she can go home and have some quality couch/tv time. It's never a disappointment when Monday's workday is finally over.

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