daniel is growing up too fast!

so just last week, out of the blue, daniel started crawling all the time, getting everywhere super quick. and a day later, he started pulling up to a kneel on things like chairs, my legs, and whatever else. yesterday he started pulling himself up to a stand, and today he pulled himself up on an empty rubbermaid container, and leaned forward, and it started moving across the tile floor (it was empty) and he was walking with it! then he let go and stood up by himself for a second before grabbing back on!! he's only 6 1/2 months!!! this is crazy talk! i can hardly believe what i'm seeing. my little baby boy is growing up. but he sure loves his mommy and loves to cuddle and eat my feet...yeah, it's his way of telling me he wants to be picked up. 

and kathryn's new thing is "i'm fine" do you want a sandwich? "i'm fine" do you want to take a bath "i'm fine" do you want some water "i'm fine" do you want some candy "i'm fine...oo, candy candy, please" it's pretty funny. it's her getting a bit of an attitude i guess.

Audio Books

hmmm...i have recently been listening to the Book of Mormon on audio, and wow! i love it! most of the time i follow along, but i can see why people love audio books! i know Aaron Saxon has a few audio books, and i may see if he's got twilight...heh heh. it is a wonderful way for people to "read" books, who either read slowly, or don't like to read. 

Twilight.

well, somehow i was lucky enough to be included in the mix of a group that got to see the movie Twilight tonight, 2 days before it's release. funny thing is, i haven't even read the books, so i don't even know what the hype was about! i just figured, nice treat for me to see a free movie...so let me just tell you...i'm going to be looking to purchase these books, because i have to read them now! i hate when movies have an open ending right after they've hooked you in. it was a great movie, but i really want to read the books because i know books are always better than the movie. so that's that. i may see if john wants to watch it with me soon... anyhow. thanks Holly for thinking of me and inviting me!!! and thanks to Jamie for giving me a ride! you guys are awesome!

what a difference

"what a difference a day makes, 24 little hours brought the sun and the flowers, where there used to be rain" (lyrics of a song, that played on a scrubs episode)

yeah, i just kept thinking of that song all day. and the episode i heard it on. but needless to say, my crazy day yesterday, was flipped around, and i got a nice decent kathryn and daniel today. kathryn was exceptionally good. she ate well, she wasn't whiny, she helped put the dishes away, and feed daniel, and put the dirty clothes in the washer...she even read my mind and got me a bib for daniel before i could even ask. she was quiet, and gave me time to get stuff done... i was so pleased with her. 

we had another toddler group. it was so nice! it was at Holly's house, and as far as i could tell, the mom's enjoyed talking, and the kids played really well, and it was really nice! thanks Holly for hosting it! i had a lot of fun, and i think the kids did too! kailey, Holly's daughter, is so sweet. she wanted to hold daniel, and play with him, and she was very talkative to a few of the other moms. she had such good manners. =) Holly, you have such a good little girl! i know she probably isn't always that way, but it's the impressions on other people that count!

a few interesting things about my babies

- kathryn's new favorite thing to do is "press play" on her movie, as soon as she wakes up, she turns on the tv and the dvd player and "press play" and then proceeds to shout it out while running to come tell me. she never lets the thing take a break. even when the movie finishes (she doesn't actually sit through most of the movie when it plays) if she hears the menu music, she runs and presses play again. she's hillarious.

- daniel hates being left alone, and will come find me if i leave him in a room...once he gets to me, he slobbers all over my feet until i pick him up...he has pulled himself up while grabbing my legs...

well, that will be it for now. i need to make my hubby some yummy sandwhiches for lunch tomorrow!

the boiling point

have you ever noticed how much energy it takes to stay calm when something really annoying or stressful is taking place? it seems to happen to me quite a bit with a toddler and a baby. i find myself taking deep breaths, trying to stop my impluses of screaming, or whatever else... but sometimes, i just don't have the energy, and i reach a boiling point. where everything boils over and i get outside to calm down before i do something i might later regret. it never fails that when that boiling point comes, and i finally calm myself down, i feel like i am utterly exhausted, winded, and light-headed... i guess all that adrenaline will do that. 

well, today was one of those days. i invited my friend Amanda over (with her boys Michael and Ben) and thought Michael would play with kathryn, and the babies would entertain themselves. and we could get busy on making diapers... kathryn just wasn't being very good. she was the one starting the trouble, and doing everything she knows she's not supposed to do...flushing the toilet paper down the toilet, throwing toys/things at the babies, throwing her books all over and, yeah, just generally trying to make a huge mess...i finally just gave up! timeout after timeout, and she wasn't getting it. oh well, we went out to feed the ducks, which calmed her down a bit, then once daniel fell asleep on the floor after finishing his bottle, Amanda decided her boys needed naps too, so she was leaving, and kathryn lost it, she started crying really loud, which woke daniel up, which made me mad (there goes my break, and now i have 2 crying kids) and kathryn wants to cuddle??? GRRR. she wouldn't stop crying after my best efforts of calmly trying to calm her down, so i boiled over, she went in her room, daniel back on the floor and i went outside... of course once i calmed down i felt like a terrible mother, and kept thinking i could've handled that better. so i cuddled with kathryn and read her stories to make it up to her and let her know i loved her. later on when she woke up from her nap...i can only conclude that she must have had a bad dream, because she would not calm down...i would coax her in to stopping the crying, but as soon as i would ask her what was wrong, she would start it up again. after about an hour of her screaming no matter what i said, i gave up, boiled over, and went to lay down in bed. i had a headache and i was out of energy to deal with screaming toddlers. UUUGH. but john got her to quiet down for a bit somehow, and held daniel too so that was nice of him. my friend Amanda let me know that i am not alone in feeling the way i do sometimes. that makes me feel better. to know that someone else goes through those exact same emotions with their kids. i'm not perfect, but i keep trying.

on an up side...daniel has 2 teeth now! i still haven't been able to get a very good picture of them, he hates when you put your hands on his face to prod at him...lol. 

oh yeah, and happy birthday lydia!

a little of this and a little of that

so i am really looking forward to this week! it's when i can finally start working on some goals. it should be pretty busy. toddler group at Holly's house on tuesday! woohoo! you know, you'd think since i am in nursery on sunday that i'd be sick of toddlers, heh heh... yeah, 

so my new calling is nursery assistant. not bad. today was my first sunday staying in nursery the whole time, and it wasn't that bad. i mean, i would probably rather listen to talks given in relief society and pay attention in gospel doctrine, but nursery today wasn't bad... although i have nothing to compare it to... the only problems i am going to have is 1. finding someone to watch daniel during nursery 2. kathryn is always catching one cold after the other, and sick kids aren't supposed to be in nursery... but i think by next sunday this will all be worked out. kathryn's cold won't be contagious next week, and john should be there to take daniel.

so besides the fact that excluding john we are all sick... kids have green and yellow runny noses, and i hack up green and yellow throughout the day...i guess we're doing pretty good. oh, but the highlight of my day...every time daniel would cry, i'd pick him up and he'd spit up all over me! you'd think i would have caught on after oh, the 4th time...but no...however one of the times, he decided to give me a break, and instead spewed all over the laptop! GOOD thing it was closed!!!! but this spit up thing is really getting old...he needs to just grow out of it already. 

but i have a question for all of you out there! i need some new ideas for meals! it seems like we keep circling around the same 4 or so meals: spaghetti, gumbo, stir-fry (frozen), and red beans and rice. so what are some quick meal ideas??? i hate it when i feel like, "didn't we have this 2 days ago!"

the i told you so's

don't we all hate to hear that! we always want to think we are right, and when we aren't, we certainly don't want it rubbed in. well today was lydia's birthday party, and steph's baby shower, and i could've said i told you so, but i decided against it... and then when steph opened her present from me (the baby bedding) she LOVED it. she thought it was awesome and so did everyone else. they were amazed to hear that i had made it. well thank you. i said with a huge smile on my face, so glad that my workmanship is appreciated. mom even threw out the comment, you could sell this stuff honey! haha, no. but that is where mrs corine gave me an "i told you so" about how she would love it, and i was crazy to think that it didn't turn out good. that is one i told you so i would gladly accept! heh. 

so kathryn is desperately needing some new pants, she has one pair of jeans i'm not fond of, and that's it. i looked at target, all they have is a few leggins and a few sweatpants, but i'm looking for jeans or khaki's! so i got the idea from one of Jamie's pictures of Holly's cute girl Kailey (she was wearing super cute jeans, and i noticed the patch with the logo) and i went to the children's place...so worth it! they have such a selection, i now remember why i wish i could shop here for all the kids clothes! i think i am going to go back monday and get another pair. 

and lastly, the pictures of the bedding that i made.

one cute picture of Ethan giving Lydia a kiss good bye!

the quilt folded to get a better shot at the name...

yeah, it is really big, it measures 45" x 59"

this is a large receiving blanket, brown flannel with green serged edges...the green is light and almost doesn't stand out, until you see it next to white. it measures 1 1/4 yards square. i like this size, becuase you can use it for longer than 6 months. kathryn uses the one i made her and loves it.

the back side of the bumper pads, or they could be reversible, and green could be on the inside. either way, this is one side.

the animal print on the front side of the bumper pads with brown flannel at the ends of  the longer bumpers.

the far away shot of the front of the bumpers. i'm pooped. night night.

i hate deadlines.

and that would be why i could never actually be an architect (that's for amanda)

so i kept putting off making the bedding for my nephew, and finally when steph told me a little less than 2 weeks away when she was going to have her shower, i decided, i'd better get on it. i figured two weeks is plenty of time! but i forgot to factor in that i am a mom of 2 kids that never stop needing me, and it seems as if every time i need to work on something, they decide they need me more. i think the bumper pads turned out great for my first time for sure! the quilt on the other hand...i'm not even going into that other than, i only had 4 days to work with...minus all the time my kids demanded my attention, and the day i hung out with nats and helped clean up a few areas of my mom's house. so i kept thinking, all i have to do is this, this, this, and this (assembling the quilt) that shouldn't take long at all...unless you are in a hurry and you sew something backwards, and have to rip it out...twice. see that is the problem with me and a sewing project. i have to concentrate, and i like to do things start to finish in one go. around my house, that is impossible. so there is almost a guarantee that something will go wrong, fixable, but, still a set back. and so here i am trying to finish the quilt the last day i have (shower is tomorrow) (if i don't give it to her then, i'll never finish it!) and so lets just leave it at that, the majority of work was done in one day, with plenty of interruptions, and, i am just glad it's complete. i feel like i have a life now!!! 

i would post pictures, but now i get to make oreo balls for the shower tomorrow. and it's midnight...maybe i'll just cover oreos in chocolate. i am pooped and i don't want to feel like i am running out of time. AHHHH. oh well. anyhow, i am going to take a break. i just want to kick back and relax tomorrow. to bad it isn't MY birthday tomorrow. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENN!! hope you have a good time!

candy: the miracle cure

so i'm sure before i had kids i could be found saying "i'm never going to bribe my kids, that's just wrong" and yet, it seems to work!

when kathryn gets hurt to the point of crying she usually cries for a while, and nothing quiets her faster than a piece of candy. when kathryn has taken all of her toys and dumped them on the floor just for the heck of it and doesn't want to pick them up...candy gets them cleaned up really fast! so when we started potty training, i tried on my own, and she actually regressed, until a friend gave me some advice: candy and amazing praise, and it definitely worked! now that she is potty trained, she goes to the bathroom so many times that as soon as i put her pants back on (she takes them completely off) she has them off again, and refuses to try to put them on herself. so i have come up with a plan...candy. i have seen her successfully put her panties and pants on, so i know she can do it...so if she does, she gets candy!

 is that mentality wrong? i am trying to teach her that if she does the right thing she will be rewarded...i guess that may not be the lesson she is getting from it. i know eventually candy will turn into money, but i guess it's better for her to know she has to do something to be rewarded, she can't just get something for nothing right? i know this is far too deep for a toddler to understand, but what is your opinion on "bribes"?

ranting

well, the toddler group today was really fun, i am so glad we are able to keep it going. there were 5 moms each with a baby 4 mo to 9 mo, and toddlers ranging from 2 to 4 years! there were 11 kids in all. pretty exciting. i hope the other mommies that came enjoy this group as much as i do!

well, the toddler group was at my MIL's house, because my apartment is tiny, and because she offered. she has a large "play"room with odds and ends, and the few things i thought would be ignored, KATHRYN decided to get in to, when she usually has no interest in them. i think she acts out when a bunch of other kids are around. overstimulated.

she asked for and ate red beans and rice this morning for breakfast...if that isn't strange idk what is.

after we got home she insisted on feeding daniel his baby food. and i showed her how to do it, and she was doing good, so i decided to let her take over...completely. i got up and went to do something in the kitchen when i hear he's whining, i turn around and he's staring at me. kathryn has a spoonful of babyfood trying to give it to him and he's turning his head, i tell her you have to get him to turn his head. so she barely touches his head, he turns, she puts spoon in mouth (very well i might add) and he jerks his head my way with a mean pouty face as if to say, why are you letting her feed me MOM! what's wrong with you! i had to laugh. i got it on video, but it takes too long to upload, so i'll spare. he refused to take the food from her when i wasn't around, but as soon as the spoon got in my hands, he gobbled it up. what a turkey!!

tonight when i put them in the tub, daniel started to get really fussy, and i knew it was because he was tired, so i hurried up and bathed him and got him out and dressed and let kathryn play a while longer while i nursed him to sleep. it took maybe 5 mins to get him to bed, and when i returned to finish with kathryn, i noticed the water was really sudsy, more so than what would have been on the rag i bathed daniel with, i looked at the bottle of baby wash on the edge of the tub, picked it up and it was empty!!! it had a good half bottle left, and some how kathryn had gotten it open and emptied it into the water! haha. the water had a slimy feel it was so thick with soap! i just laid her down in the water and rubbed it all over her. she was pretty dirty, but she should be squeaky clean with all that soap!  fun stuff. 

well, i guess that about does it. 

tired tired

well, i am a wee bit tired, so i'll post more tomorrow, but i am super excited. tomorrow is a toddler play group, and i am hosting it! yay! i am also starting up a sewing group! we'll see how that worlks out!

i conquered the mood swings!

well,  today has been interesting. we got to church on time! WOO HOO. haha. it's really big for us. and church was really good. i really felt the spirit. you know, there are just some sundays where no matter what you hear it just feels so powerful. that was today. daniel was adorable, i dressed him in a button up shirt, and he looked so much older. 

oh yeah, and i got a calling! but i haven't been set apart, so i'll wait till next sunday to share. when we got home tho, i started making red beans and rice and after chopping the onion my eyes were burning like crazy, and daniel was crying from being hungry, so i took him in bed to lay down and feed him, and i dunno what came over me. i felt like i had no motivation to do anything, i felt depressed, but i was determined to shake the mood, so while daniel slept, i played with kathryn flipping her over, and hanging her upside down (getting those endorphins going) i broke a sweat! and that cheered me up, but i had to get out of the house while i was feeling good to make it last. heh heh. i visited my friend amanda, and then went to my mom's to visit for a bit. i managed to scrape the crappy mood and let go of the silly grudges! yay for me! 

go home nick saban!

i really don't like this guy...he's the highest paid coach in college football, and as soon as someone else comes along and offers him more money he's gone like that! what a shallow guy. i guess that's just my opinion. anyhow...i was quite impressed by how the tigers played today, and i wish they would have won. what an intense 2 half tho! i hope they get the QB thing straightened out real soon.

aside from the game today...daniel decided he would start crawling hands and knees style. he's been pulling himself forward on his tummy with his arms for at least a month now, and been rocking back and forth since 2 months ago...but out of the blue, he lifted one arm, then moved forward, then lifted the other arm! i was a bit shocked cuz he hadn't been using his arms at all when he was on all fours, he'd wait till he dropped to his belly to pick stuff up etc. so, of course i tried to get a video. i dunno just how good it is, but i'm just amazed...this little boy is growing up too fast! he's got soooo much energy...i am just bracing myself for what is to come...need to baby proof 100% asap...but how do you baby proof when your toddler comes right behind you and leaves things within baby's reach that they really should have??? ahhh...oh well. 

the kids room

so we live in an apartment but our landlord says it's ok if we paint as long as we repaint over it. before we moved in we painted their room because the walls looked really bad... but i decided since i painted their room already, i would dress up the room more. so recently i did a bit more, and have been meaning to post it!

i painted kathryn's name above her bed, and gave her some flowers. my plan was to do it in pink, because her "colors" i picked when she was born was pink and green, well, as i was mixing the paint and she saw pink, she said...NO purple purple...so, i changed it to purple. 

i made their curtain a while back but just getting around to posting that too. it turned out really good.

kathryn has way to many beanie babies, so to consolidate to one huge 72 gallon container, i decided to put them on the ceiling. it took longer than i thought, so i never really finished, but what's the difference. they like it. 

maybe i'll get around to painting daniel's name on his wall. 

we'll be here probably another 2 years, so might as well make ourself at home.

daydreaming

so i had an incredibly vivid dream last night, i'll spare the details, it's not necessarily interesting, but when i awoke to daniel crying at 6:30 it was like i was on auto pilot, i grabbed him and brought him in bed with me to feed him, and my dream continued where it had left off. now most of the time i'm abruptly woken up from a dream, i forget what i was dreaming about...but this dream just kept going! even when i kathryn woke up at 7:30 and i got up to get breakfast, the dream was still continuing to play out. but every time i tried to think about what i needed to do today, my thought process would freeze and the dream would continue! it started to get annoying, and i couldn't figure out why i couldn't just block it out. when i laid down with kathryn to get her to take a nap, i fell asleep and had a dream about something else, and have since stopped "daydreaming". i wonder what that was all about! i know dreams are supposed to describe what your unconsious mind is thinking, and your true feelings about things, but i couldn't get out of my own head!

anyhow, i opened the door today cuz it was feeling rather nice outside, and daniel went for his escape. he is really getting around, although i'm not sure it's considered crawling yet.

he's going for the plants...

he knows where it's at

so i've been (for the most part) strickly breastfeeding Daniel, and just recently he has become very aware of where his milk comes from. to the point where when i catch his attention he will look me in the eyes smile, his eyes drift to my chest, then back up to my face and smile big...i think it's kinda funny, but i was trying to give him a bath, and i was resting my chest (fully clothed and all) on the side of the tub so i could reach him better, and he was sitting up and he kept reaching for my chest to pull my shirt open... and he'll do that when i have him on my lap and i know he's not hungry, he tries to pull open my shirt (if i'm wearing a button up shirt)...

my mother in law Corine said that this was the age that she would stop breastfeeding when they started to know where and how to get their food. i'd like to keep going with it, but i'm begining to wonder...if i go til he's a year, how in the world do you wean the off the breast?? it seems like at that age, they'll have it engrained in their head that that's where they go when they're thirsty. hmmm.... am i wrong? i haven't gotten to talk to a whole lot of mama's that have been this far or past this point BF. 

so on a quick side note...i volunteered to make my nephew's baby bedding and i had never done this before...a quilt sort of, but bumper pads no...and i must say...IT IS NOT EASY...making bumper pads that is. ok, so it isn't that hard, but when it comes to me, i tend to "teach" myself how to do things the hardest way possible. but i have one bumper pad out of 4 done and i must say...it is GORGEOUS! well, she couldn't make up her mind with what she wanted,so i chose for her! i chose green and brown (like a sea foam green) and an animal print, and i LOVE it. i'm almost jealous i'm giving it away! haha. when i finish all 4 parts, i'll take a picture and post them. 

feeling a bit down

well, with all four of us being sick, daniel probably being the sickest, and only wanting to be cuddled, not sleeping well, and always spitting up from the yucky stuff lingering in the back of his throat...yeah, that alone bums me. i thought that by breastfeeding him, he would avoid the colds that plagued kathryn, not so. 

john and i are trying to get completely out of debt, and clean up our "credit score" so we can be sitting pretty come time to buy a house...we had some dental credit cards that we needed to pay off asap, or else they will add retroactive interest of the tune of 700 dollars, so we decided to do a loan at our credit union. we figured since we have never had collections of any form, never been delinquent on any bill, and just knocked alot of debt out and closed out some credit cards within the last year that we'd get a super good rate, since a little less than a year ago i checked our credit score and it was 717, and 704 (john)...so i was pretty confident that we'd get approved hands down. the loan officer calls me back asking if i wanted to put up collateral to get the loan...what for?? well, you don't have good credit. SAY WHAT? HOW!? well, that's what i'm trying to figure out. there isn't any mark against you...i guess it's just that you don't have a mortgage and you only have 3 credit cards 2 of which is over 50% of the limit charged...those are the only things i see that might bring it down...down to what??? 609. WHAT?!? 

so let me get this right...because we aren't more in debt, we have a lower score???? because we paid off and canceled about 5 credit cards and didn't leave them open we are penalized for that in our score??? because we don't owe money on a house we have a lower score????? WHAT KINDA CRAP IS THIS!!! yah know, i am totally there with DAVE on this one. i refuse to worship at the alter of the great FICO.  i can't believe that this is how the credit score works...so disappointing. all the hard work we've done in paying off over 20,000 in debt in the last 20 months...never being late on bills...all to have such a crappy credit score. there is something wrong with this picture.

and i don't even want to get started with OBAMA...

and that is why i am feeling a bit down. what is this world coming to?

A happy baby makes a happy mommy

oh last night was much better. i somehow managed to bathe both kids and had kathryn in bed by 8:30, and daniel asleep and in bed by 9. i made a pork roast for dinner last night, and corn on the cob, and kathryn tried out the corn for the first time. she didn't eat much but it was fun watching her try something new. she ate a good bit of dinner, so john asked if he could make her a "kiddie" cone (the kiddie cones are small) so i agreed as long as she was in her highchair. in about 20 mins, i noticed this:

poor kathryn. she hadn't had a nap (those are becoming harder and harder to get out of her, and more of a hassle, besides, she goes to sleep on time without one! and goes without a struggle. lol.) and at 7:30, she pooped out, but she was covered in ice cream so i woke her up threw her in the tub and tossed her in bed. she was so good for me when daniel wasn't. it's nice when it works out that way. 

i got to have about 2 hours of play time after the kiddos went to sleep and then i pooped out myself, and no crying was heard until kathryn started beating on her door at 7am. i'll take that over last night! it's always a plus to start out good. 

i have 4 major chores to do today, and i told john to pick two...i gave him his choice! how nice is that. lol. so we'll see just what gets done. 

I jinxed myself

call it what you'd like...before i went to bed i said it didn't seem like Daniel was cranky from teething...and then it started. apparently daniel woke up about 1am, john got up with him tried calming him down till 2:30 then woke me up to see what i could do. i tried feeding him, but his nose was so stuffy from crying, he couldn't breathe but out his mouth which frustrated him more, and he just kept crying and trying to nurse for about 30 mins or so, then he gave up and just started trying to suck his thumb to sleep, but with the same problem, i think he may have slept for about an hour and a half, but at 5:30 it was more screaming for him. poor guy...but when i don't get sleep i don't have a whole lot of patience. so i tried feeding him again, and i attempted to try falling back asleep, but he couldn't breathe still, and went back and forth from crying to nursing for about an hour. finally at 6:45,  (i forgot to set back my clock so it said 7:45) i woke john up and asked him why he wasn't heading for work...he reminded me of the switch, then proceeded to get dressed. daniel started semi smiling at john who was trying to cheer him up while i feel dead and just want the crying to stop. well, i try feeding him again, and after 5 mins he gave up, and about 7am kathryn is banging on the door. nice. now it's hopeless, i'm certainly not getting any more sleep. i tell john to put daniel in his bed so he can cry there, i can't hardly hear myself think from the ears ringing. 

so kathryn gets in bed with me and i still desperately fight both kids being up to try to sleep even for 10 more mins. well, i almost fall asleep when john comes to tell me bye, he was leaving for work. about 7:30 daniel is still crying, so i take him out of his bed, change his diaper, try to give him tylenol which he just lets drool out of his mouth, then, since i was nursing him all night i knew i had nothing left, i made him a bottle, and let him drink it in bed hoping it might put him to sleep...i meanwhile crawl back in bed, kathryn following, and close my eyes, even though kathryn is jabbering away at me, my eyes just burn. i sing some songs until i hear daniel wail again, i get him out of bed and put him on the blanket in the living room to crawl around so i can get breakfast for me and kathryn and possibly start getting read for church. it's like 8:30 now, i'll probably be late but what can i do...so i get breakfast (cereal) try to eat it fast as daniel is staring at me wanting some...i notice spit up on his mouth, i go to wipe it off and find where on the floor it was when i pick him up i realize he tracked all through it and now he was covered from neck to waist in it. gross. i get the water ready for a bath, strip him down, bathe him, start drying him off when he starts again...WAILING. ahhhh make him stop make him stop! i try to dress him but he's stiff and uncoopertive and try holding him and comforting him, he only turns to scream directly into my ear. so i decide i am going to jump through the window if i don't let him calm down away from me....i stick him in his bed half dressed in his bed and quickly leave the room. i hear kathryn say "sta cying dan-do" as she closes the door. that made me laugh. 

after about 5 or so mins he was only hooting, so i go back in there, as soon as he sees me he starts screaming again, but i figure, maybe he wants solid foods, he hasn't had those all morning, so i stick him in the swing, and try to feed him he's so worked up but wants to eat that he takes the bite, but blows it right back out as he tries to breathe, then realizes he didn't take the bite and screams again. finally i decide to search for the medicine..orajel, i lost it, and so it took me all of 5 mins to find it, i got the swab, tried to swab his gums, the screaming only got worse...come on please...i fight with him to get more on his gums for a bit longer, and he sticks his thumb in his mouth and within minutes he is sleeping. oh finally!!!! 

 

on a funny note, kathryn kept tripping over her shoe that was laying on the floor and i kept telling her you need to pick it up so you won't trip on it, then finally she tripped again, and i told her if you would pick it up and put it away you wouldn't trip on it, so she proceeds to grab her shoe run over to the diaper bag and pusehed the shoe in then proceeded to push it down with both hands over and over while saying angrily "sta in deh" (stay in there!) it was just funny because that's exactly how i am when i get mad!

Ahhh a tooth

so daniel cut his first tooth...i dunno if it happened today, but it had to be within the last 2 days, it's pretty new. i would take a picture, but there is nothing to see yet...the tooth just barely broke the gums, so we gotta wait for it to sprout up. no more toothless grins =(  i sure hope this doesn't mean he's gonna get them all at once though! i'd like to keep breastfeeding him, but not if he's going to bite! it just doesn't seem like he's been cranky from cutting a tooth...although i have noticed an increased desire to chew on everything...hehe. he's getting energentic already and it's so cute.