Lottbaby08's Momaroo

7 months going on 8 years...

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:52:17 GMT

It has been awhile since I've been on. My best friend came up to MI from PA to visit me and at the end of her visit spur of the moment I decided I would go back with her and visit family in PA. My hubby said have fun and enjoy. So that is where my daughter and I are currently. So anyways to get to the point of my title...

My family last saw her when she was 2 months old. Long time. She is now 7 months. But she thinks she is older then that.. she crawls with no trouble at all... even on slippery tile floors. She feeds herself, not always in a very clean way. But she gets the job done! and She is currently working on standing without any help... She blows my mind! She will pull her self up on anything. Walk while holding onto the edge of anything. She drinks from a regular cup, just needs help setting it down when she is done completely. She has to eat what everyone else is eating... Where did my little 7 month old go??? She thinks she is a big kid! I've heard she is so advance for several reasons.. good genes (from her dad is my opinion) and because she is a first child...

Has anyone else had a child grow up so fast??

Well anyways other then trying to keep up with entertaining my daughter and finding new things for her little brain, My husband got his scores back for the ASVABS. For those who dont know what those are, they are the "SAT's" for the military. He scored an 81!!!! Which is totally awesome! I am so proud of him. Because of this score, they told him any job the coast guard as to offer is open to him.... So I am pretty excited and so is he. They originally told him that for the rest of this year they are only taking those who score 65 and above... because 65 is considered hard to get. Well he blew them out of the water!! he goes for MEPS on April 7th. Hopefully that will all go smoothly too...

well i am out. It midnight and I gotta get some sleep. Night ya'll!

MIssing mommy and Daughter time

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:13:54 GMT

I So very much miss my time with my daughter. I started working at a ski resort to help pay bills and so forth. As many people have to do to even try to make ends meet with today's economy. Well as many people can guess the christmas and new year holidays make ski resorts very busy. I was hired to work in the ski school program. As a person to run the front desk and help kids get ski rentals and so forth. Well I have worked everyday for the past 11 days. I ended up sick yesterday and had to call of work. (not my ideal day off of work) I could barely hold my daughter. I tried to keep my distance anyways cause I didn't want to make her sick. So now Since I had a "day off" from work I was asked to work tomorrow. I so desperately miss my daughter. I typically work 10 hour days. I am gone before she wakes up, and see her about half hour before she goes to bed. Working in the child care center/ski school reminds me of all the time I am not spending with my daughter. Today I didnt have anyone to watch her for me while my husband and I were at work, so she came to work with me and I had her put in the nursery. (Not my ideal situation either) Well the women I work with I trust, they did a wonderful job with her today. She did have a break down half way through the day. Remember she is only 5 months. I had to go sit and rock/nurse her for half hour and she finally calmed down. It broke my heart. I am just glad I was there to comfort her. She had a very long and big day. She zonked out early tonight. She is sleeping next to me right now. I think the experience was good for her. I just won't be doing it all the time. Becasue after she calmed down, I handed her back to one of the ladies who work the nursery part of the child care center. Of course she started to cry and reached for me...She has just started reaching for people she wants to go to. So as you can imagine, it tore at my heart even more. So I held her a little longer. She finally stayed with the ladies up stairs. When I went back up at the end of the day she had taken a long nap and then was sitting in her car seat talking (cooing) to Sharron who was doing the "dishes" SO it made me happy to see that she got beyond her break down. I asked Ana at the beginning of the day to speak spanish to her. Cause I would love for her to be bilingual. Which Ana didnt mind doing since it is her native language. Alexandria really seemed to like listening to her speak. Well I am glad for the hours, but I am glad we are through the busiest time of the season. The amount of days I work will be a lot less. Hopefully after the season is over I won't have to work anymore. Unless I want to. My husband and I decided it would be best in this economy for him to enlist. I will miss him greatly. But its a chance to be paid to travel. Not always to fun places, but still travel the country more. He will recieve a decent pay. and I will have the chance to go back to college. 6 years will pass by faster then I know. Its hard to think Alex will be 6 or 7 years by the time he would get out. Well I do believe I have babbled on and on long enough.

How is everyone else holding up?

Immus' n other things

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:45 GMT

My daughter recently got her second set of shots. I feel so bad for her. I know the shots are good for her but i have a terrible needle phobia n so someone else like daddy of grandma have to go in the room with her. And so far each time she has a rather unpleasant reactions to them. She spikes a fever . And which ever leg she gets a certain shot in swells n becomes rock hard. She gets really tired n fussy. Its just hard seeing her like that. I know it better then looking thru a hospital window or into a casket. but its still hard. So i always spend 2 days with her attached to me cuz she doesnt want to be put down and she gets Tylenol every 4 hours.

So besides shots she has discovered she loves to sit at the comp and watch me type. She would love to help me type, so we got her an old keyboard to play with. Her favorite teething toy is a wooden spoon. So much for all the fancy teething toys we got her.

Do your kids have reactions to shots and what do you do about it? and what are/were your kids favorite toys at 5 months?

Celiac disease

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:11:22 GMT

The article caught my eye on the front of Parents magazine in Walgreens. I started reading and then realized that my husband was out in the van with our daughter waiting on me. but I Later finished reading it on the internet. I think it is very interesting and thought I would post the link for others to go to and read

http://www.parents.com/baby/health/allergy/the-enemy-in-the-pantry/?page=1

Cutting the first tooth!

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:08:10 GMT

Is it really possible to be cutting her first tooth? At age 4 months? I didn't think that babies cut teeth this early. But we can see the first one peeking through her gums! I feel so bad for her...she has been chewing on everything she can get in her mouth. So to help her cause I want to do as much natural as I can. My mother in law mixed her some chamomile with water. Use a q tip dip it and then ring off excess then rub in all over the gums. Make sure if you use it...that your baby isn't going to want to eat any time soon. They will have a hard time eating. But it works wonders! It helps my daughter a lot. Especially since teething rings don't help her. Well at least she doesn't like them.

Anyone else going through the teething stage?

Would you offer to be a surrogate mother to your sister?

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:03:18 GMT

I am currently watching on Discovery Heath. And an older sister offered to surrogate her younger sister's babies b/c her younger sister couldn't carry her own cause of cervical cancer. And it hit me would I be able to offer that gift to my older sister if it came down to it? I remember how awesome it felt to be pregnant, except the last month b/c I was hospitalized cause my daughter kept trying to come early. The two sisters were very close and got along great. My sister an I get along good. I don't know if I could offer to surrogate her child though when her and her husband decide its time to have kids if it came about that she couldnt carry her own. We get along, just not to the point of surrogating her child. But then again I know how badly my sister wants kids, so I just might. Being able to give someone the gift of life through your God given talent to be able to carry children. I think my problem would be the emotional attachment that I would have with the baby/babies.

Would you be able to surrogate your sibling's child/children? Would you offer it?

Follow Up to Previous Post from personal experience: The cry out Method

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:14:53 GMT

Awhile ago I posted about The Cry Out Method. With my daughter who is now just a few days short of being 4 months, I have been doing everything to avoid using the cry out method. And Geeze does it get tiring at times. But ya know what, it is probably the best thing I could do. She has become so interactive. She loves to learn and do new things. She is beginning to teach herself how to go to sleep on her own and unlike the cry out method, she doesn't spend time screaming and crying, she finds her thumb and talks for a bit and then goes to sleep. She is learning how to play with toys. She loves to read books, they don't even need to be baby books, she just loves to be read to. Her ability to conversate is well beyond most 4 month olds in my opinion. She is already mocking simple words, like hi, da da, ma ma and so forth. Tonight she even tried feeding herself cereal for the first time. (She has been on cereal once or twice a day since she was 2 months old b/c of reflux problem. A little bit of cereal before nursing helped her keep the milk down a lot better.) I will post the pictures of her trying to feed herself. Its so cute! She is also very social. I think the biggest advantage to not using the cry out method is simply that it is not a crying match between me and her of who ends up crying themself to sleep first. She has also began to sleep through the night. Which I know is normal for this age, but its just niceto know that she isnt afraid or mad when it comes time for bed. I would highly recommend to anyone to throw away the old cry out method and dont be afraid to answer your child. For full details about the cry out method on why its not healthy for your child, check out my blog "The Cry Out Method"

More humerous quotes...

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:41:34 GMT

"I've reached the point in life that the only thing I can exercise is CAUTION"

"If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."

"If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished."

"One man's definition of "mixed emotions: Watching your mother in law drive off a cliff with your new cadillac."

"Men have three basic hairstyles: parted, unparted, and departed!"

"My idea of a balanced diet: a cookie in each hand!"

"The three stages of Life:
You believe in Santa
You are Santa
You look like Santa"

"The second day of a diet is always easier then the first. By the second day, you're off of it!"

"Like a sundial...
I resolve to only count the sunny hours!"

Funny quotes to give a chuckle

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:45:30 GMT

"The easiest way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage."

"A greeting card verse we'll probably never see: You had your bladder removed,
now you're on the mend.
Here's a bouquet of flowers
and a box of depends."

"Dieting tip #1: Never weigh more then your frig"

"I'm approaching the age of 30." "Really? From which direction?"

"There are three type of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't"

"You know you're getting old when you make mental notes to yourself...and then forget where you put them."

"You are a child of God, call home!"

"If we are what we eat, I'm easy, fast and cheap."

"There are two theories for arguing with women. Neither one works."

"I'm not fat, I'm a nutritional overachiever!"

"Live each day as if it were your last. Someday you'll be right."

"I am in shape, Round is a shape"

"If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: 'take two aspirin' and 'keep away from children'"

More to come another day...hope it put a smile on your face...

TO believe in Santa or not to believe in Santa?

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:28:20 GMT

This post is written from a Christan point of view...so those who are not Christian believers just wanted to make you aware....

I am not big on jumping into holidays before they really ever have begun...but as you roam around different stores and look through magazines and watch TV, Christmas is already a big topic of conversation. So I feel compelled to write a blog about it, especially as this is going to be my daughter's first Christmas.
Christmas is about the birth of Jesus our Lord...the greatest gift ever given to mankind. So the whole gift giving idea is very much in line with the tradition of Christmas...a time for gift giving. But the question is who gives the gifts? Some jolly man in a red suit named Santa? Or God? The question is do you allow your kids to believe in Santa because its a fun childhood tradition or don't you because it takes away from the true meaning and understanding of Christmas? Allowing kids to believe in Santa can also take away from knowing where their blessings came from. Though the idea of santa can take away from the true meaning of Christmas there are other issues to be addressed...I was allowed to believe in Santa growing up and when i figured out that he wasn't real I was devastated...there is a level of trust that is broken with your child...if you can lie about where the gifts come from, then what other little white lies can you tell as a parent. If you expect honesty from your child no matter what age they are, you have to set that example. Many people would say its just a harmless childhood tradition, bout how harmless, truly, is a little white lie?

Did you believe in Santa growing up? Do you let your kids believe in Santa? Or will you when they get older?