Cranky baby today

Wyatt is cutting his first tooth. Well, his first two teeth. Both bottom teeth are coming in. So without thinking I grab the kids and go out school clothes shopping for Brooke. Brooke and Madison both got haircuts. As we were picking out styles Grandpa showed up. So the shopping trip started out great. Wyatt loves my dad. So they played while the girls got their haircuts. Then we went to Subway and ate. That went well until the last 10 minutes. Nothing Grandpa or I did was ok with Wyatt. It went downhill from there. All Wyatt wanted to do from then on was fuss. We made it through the shopping trip (my sanity is still in question though). I have to exchange some jeans because they were too big. We ended up just grabbing size 7's and checking out. Well, the size 7 jeans are too big. So a return trip is in order. For sanity sake I will have to pick a day when Wyatt is in a better mood.

290 calories

Yesterday I burned 290 calories on the treadmill. That was the most I have burned yet. I also put 2.5 miles on the treadmill. I always feel so much better after working out.

Here are my stats for the last week:
8/10/10 35 minutes, 2 miles, 222 calories, 70 fat
8/14/10 39 minutes, 2 miles, 210 calories, 67 fat
8/15/10 46 minutes, 2.5 miles, 290 calories, 91 fat

I am at 123 lbs and hoping to be down to 107 by October 13th.

16 lbs to go!

Hopefully done

We have had high fevers raging through the house this week. Monday started off with Brooke having a 102.4 fever. We had to keep giving her Tylenol to lower her temp all day Monday and part of Tuesday. Then we were sick free until Wyatt got it Friday. Poor little guy had it for 2 days. Today was the first day since Friday I did not have to give him Tylenol. I do not give my children Tylenol every 4 - 6 hours. Only as they spike a fever. And it wasn't Tylenol since that is recalled. It was the Walmart or Meijer brand. Madison has not caught it yet and hopefully she doesn't.

gdiaper giveaway at marineparents blog

Marineparents is having a gdiaper giveaway that is ending tonight. Head over too: http://marineparents.blogspot.com/2010/07/gdiaper-review-and-sweet-giveaway.html and enter to win!
Good luck!

First tooth

Baby Deer (that is what Madison calls Wyatt) is finally cutting his first tooth. He has been fussier the last couple of days so I checked his gums. There were other signs too. Like I was feeling some pain too while breastfeeding, his nonstop drooling, and of course the biting everything in site.


Now comes the fun of the girls running around screaming because brother is trying to bite them. And yes, it has already started. He has bit Brooke a couple of times. She laughs right now because the tooth is just starting to come through the skin. But in a couple of days she won't be laughing. I am hoping it will be as easy to teach him not to bite as it was the girls. Brooke bit me once and Madison was a little more stubborn. She bit Brooke and I a few times. Wyatt and I have already had our differences when he was breastfeeding and clamping down as hard as he could. I would scream and he would laugh. After 15 minutes I had to put him on the ground and let him scream for 5 minutes. Then he was fine. I foresee many bites in our future before I can get him to understand that biting is not allowed in this house.


I just realized that Daddy hadn't been bitten by the girls....will he escape the teeth this time? We shall find out!

I had to blog this....

I had to blog about the Petunia Pickle Bottom Diaper Bag Boxy Backpack giveaway at http://sugarpopribbons.blogspot.com/2010/08/layla-grayce-petunia-pickle-bottom.html. Why you may ask? Well, I simply love the http://www.laylagrayce.com/Default.aspx site. It has the coolest looking baby carrier that I ever saw. The merchandise on that site is awesome. The Petunia Pickle Bottom Diaper Bag Boxy Backpack had a lot of choices in colors. I had a very hard time picking just one. And I am secretly hoping to win that bag.


Here are some features about the bag that I love:

water-resistant lining

convenient zip out changing station with detachable pad for easy cleaning

removable dirty diaper pouch

valet clips will attach the boxy backpack to your stroller


Who couldn’t fall in love with a bag with all the above features?

I could picture the kids and I walking through the stores with that fancy bag. Here’s the one that I love:

http://tinyurl.com/284ps7g

Followed closely by this one:

http://tinyurl.com/2bg2rfh

Vacation break

We have been on vacation. This is the first time in 7 years that we have taken a vacation. We went down to the father in laws house on the lake. The kids had a blast. They went out fishing with daddy on the boat a few times and fished off the dock. I think catching frogs was the big highlight for them.

I got to meet up with my Aunt that I have not seen since 1997. The last time I saw her was at my moms funeral. It was a bittersweet meet up. It was wonderful to see her but there was sadness at the missing of my mom. So many memories came rushing back when I saw my Aunt. Wonderful memories! My kids loved meeting with her. They have decided to call her Grandma because she is so special.

Here are some pictures from vacation. Sorry about the picture quality. I took the pictures with my phone camera.

Usually I cloth diaper but I decided to use disposables while visiting relatives. Here is a picture of Wyatt in one of the new blue jean Huggies. I am not a huge fan of disposables but I have to say they are cute. Here's the picture of Wyatt sporting his cool huggies blue jean diaper: