Thank you, Blog!

I realized my last blog was basically all about Miss O and not about my little boy so I decided I needed a blog for Mr. J.  So what do you blog about an almost one year old?  Well, most of my day is dealt with feeding or thinking about ways to get him to eat.  You see, J has decided that he doesn't like meat.  Or veggies.  And isn't crazy about oatmeal, rice, really grains of any kind.  He really just wants to eat fruit.  He has been making faces, spitting, waving his arms, etc. whenever food other than fruit is offered to him.  So I decided that I was going to get some pictures to post. 

One face(normally the spitting happens right after this face)...

Arms waving about...

my personal favorite...

Those of you who are very observant will notice that J is in different clothes in each picture.  That's because it took several meals to get those pictures. You see, he loves the camera...

Well, the first time I tried getting pictures he decided he was going to eat meat!  He ate the whole serving! Yes, my child is a ham(he just doesn't like it- hee hee)! So thank you blog for getting my child to eat!  One other thing he loves to eat, Gerber Puffs and Cheerios.  And yes, it has to be the Gerber brand.  In fact, this is the face he makes when he sees the container of Puffs...

In fact he loves Gerber Puffs and Cheerios so much he refuses to pick up and feed himself anything else!  I'm going to have a fun time with this picky one!

There is sad news though, the camera trick no longer works.  He is back to eating 3-4 bites of meat and then refusing.  So if anyone has any more ideas on how to feed a one year old(with two teeth!), let me know!

One more thing, I would like to take a poll.  Which sounds better:  grapes dipped in Taco Bell sauce, blueberries dipped in honey BBQ sauce, or peaches dipped in mustard?  Explanation will come in the next blog(which may or may not be on a Wednesday or Sunday :)

So this is my second blog and I'm already behind! :)  Per advice from a wise friend who is also a blogger, I'm going to try to blog on Wednesdays and Sundays.  Today, of course, is Thursday but I am claiming tiredness.  Here are a couple fun stories from this week.
Monday morning started out with a call to my mom asking her advice on whether or not to call the dr. if my daughter had swallowed a rock.  Yes, you read right, a rock.... well, we will call it a pebble because that sounds a little better.  It was a small rock.  You would think a 2 year old who doesn't like to be dirty would not think of putting a dirty rock in her mouth yet alone swallow it!  Anyway, I decided to call just in case.  They weren't worried about it since it was so small and I was told to "wait it out."  Just in case you were wanting to know the end result, we are still "waiting it out" so maybe she didn't really swallow it after all....

Monday night O decided to wake up at 2am and not go back to sleep until 4am.  This information is helpful background information for the next story.  Tuesday night I put O to bed like normal.  She listens to a cd when she goes to sleep and I've been letting her push the button to turn it on.  Well, when I went to bed later that evening I heard something strange.  I listened and realized that it was still O's cd playing!  It's a long cd but not two hours long!  My only thought was somehow she had pushed the repeat button.  So I went to bed listening to a barely audible song by The Go Fish Guys.  After about 5 minutes I realized something horrible, it was the same song playing!  She hadn't hit repeat for the whole cd but just for one song! So I laid in bed listening to "It's time to take a snooze" for an hour(which since it's a kids song and only about 3 minutes long I only heard it played about a bazillion times in that hour) thinking of my options.  When James came to bed I asked if he had ear plugs.  The answer was no.  I know some of you who don't have kids are just thinking, "just go in the room and turn it off" but those of you with kids are thinking "no! no!"  James even mention flipping the breaker off but that option was vetoed due to the possibility that the electricity in all of the rooms go off(it's not that big of a house). So the only option was for me to go in there.  Fearing another night of not alot of sleep I tip-toed to her door and slowly turned the handle.  I snuck in and stood by the cd player for a moment trying to figure out what was best- do I turn it off and possibly make a loud noise or do I turn it down and possibly turn it the wrong way?  I opted for the turning down and hoped I went the right way.  I did but as I was leaving the floor creaked and O moved.  I ran from the room and quickly shut the door.  I held my breath at the door.  Would she wake up?  Is it going to be another sleepless night? And then, silence.  She went back to sleep.  There was no Go Fish guys singing.  And I could go to sleep.  Finally.

No pictures from these stories so I'll just post a fun one of the two of them together.

The first blog

So I've decided to start a blog.  I'm really not sure why since I'm never on Facebook and seem to have less time to check my email these days but it sounded like a good idea so I thought why not!  I make no guarantees on how often I will post or even if it the grammar will be correct(I did notice they have spell check so that will help!).

For my first post I would like to say how proud I am of my husband.  This weekend we had a party to celebrate the completion his masters program.  He was done in June so we were a little behind with the party but everyone who came had a great time.  Anyway, he was able to work full time, be a wonderful husband and father(both children being born shortly before or during the program) and still be able to complete a master's program with a 4.0!   I, unfortantely, didn't get any pictures of the party but I did want to share a picture I took of a present he recieved.  We all had a good laugh.

And because I have to mention my wonderful children too, I'll post of picture of them. :)  Here are O and S having a "drink."  We had frequent parties under the kitchen table with unopened cans of pop.  They may be disappointed when they look under the table tomorrow and find all the pop gone.

Until next time...