Seperation Anxiety anyone?

My darling adorable daughter will not let me put her down or leave the room for more than 5-10 minutes before screaming her bloody head off. We spent a week at my mil's and I just knew nana could spoil her and I could get a break. AS IF!!!

Miss Skyla would let nana hold her as long as I sat by them and only for a few minutes at a time!!!

Nana did atleast get to spend lots of time with Chip and they actually went on a couple of by themselves outtings just the 2 of them which seemed to do well.

Oh and my darling son has a GIRLFRIEND!!! He's only 3.5 !!! She is a much younger woman she's 2.5. Her name is Jordan and she is absolutely beautiful and she lives across the street from my MIL with her mom Lisa (who is sooooo awesome I wished she lived closer we would be best friends). Jordan is very blonde and has these huge hazel eyes and she and Chip get along great .. hehe okay when they aren't acting like an old married couple and aggrivating each other.

We took Chip and Jordan to pump it up ( a play place that has the big blow up houses that have slides and climbing walls and such) two times and Chucky Cheese twice. They had a BALL!!! Skyla enjoyed watching all the big kids play. Unfortunately somewhere we picked up a bug and we all woke up snotty yesterday. I seem to have it the worst ... I feel like death. The kids seem to be fine other than runny nose.

Preschooler ESP?

Ok last week Chip and Skyla were playing and Skyla fell on Chip and he looked at me and Charles and said " Skyla broke my spleen!" Charles and I cracked up laughing and then looked at each other and were like .. where in the world did he learn the fact that even had a spleen much less that it could be broken and where it was located. Chip is not like Stella and fascinated with body parts so this was totally out of the blue. I called my mother and asked her if she knew where Chip would have learned the word spleen and she said she had no idea and that they had never used it around him. Well I forgot about it until yesterday when I found out from my MIL that Charles's cousin Brian had been in a serious head on collision the very day that Chip said this and his spleen had been ruptured and had ended up spending several days in ICU (he now thankfully is out of ICU and they think he is going to be fine .. THANK GOD!). I just find it really weird that Chip would mention breaking his spleen which as far as we know no one ever even told him he even had one .. on the exact same day his cousin Brian actually did "break" his spleen. Doo Doo Doo Doo .. freaky huh.

We must be insane!!!

We are pretty sure we are getting Chip a drumset for Christmas. On Saterday Charles took him with him to the music store because he wanted to check on some stuff for his guitar. Well Chip totally fell in love with playing the drums at the store. Charles said he played until he literally worked up a sweat. Charles's family is really big into music and they pretty much all play multiple instruments and so I think we have decided to get him a junior drum set for Christmas (bring on the ear plugs!). I will keep ya posted when we end up finding the right one and getting it.

The big problem will be in convincing Charles to not give it to him early. His family was always the kind that they never made it to Christmas before getting their Christmas presents and he can't stand waiting to give people their gifts.

Skyla sleeping in her new crib. See I told you it was huge .. she looks so tiny in it.

What a sweetie!!!
 

Skyla's Crib

Skyla's new crib. It's HUGE!!! But gorgeous (I might be a tad biased)

 

Bye bye cradle

Skyla has been napping and half way sleeping in her cradle for the past 6 months .. but last night I caught her standing up in her pack n play (it's up high in the bassinet phase) so now we have dismantled the cradle, and Charles is putting her crib together in our bedroom right now and I have to lower the pack and play to the lowest setting. When I turned around last night and saw her standing (arms and legs locked) with half of her body above the rail of her pack and play I about had a heart attack.

Skyla's 6 month appt.

She did great. She's still tiny .. dr. said she looks great but he wants to see her back in a month to see how her growth is doing. He's not the same ped we had with Chip so I explained that he did the same thing Skyla is doing and explained how everyone on Charles is side of the family is skinny. He said it was probably just genetics and that his daughter did the exact same thing as a baby and is still petite now at 13. He said he wasn't going to be an alarmist but he didn't want to wait 3 months to see how her growth is doing .. so we go back at 7 months to do another growth check. I told him I was expecting it. He said she is perfectly proportionate though 12lbs 8oz and 25" long and her head is 40 centimeters around. He said since she is doing so great eating and nursing not to do anything different. He also said her waking up at night meant a choice for us .. whether we think we want to keep getting up at night .. or whether we want to force her to figure out the sleeping issue on her own. He said at this point its a habit and if we decide we want her to break it the earlier the better because the older she gets the harder it will be on both us and her but he said it was totally our choice. He said she was totally precious .. she was totally flirting with him!!! The shots sucked she got 4 of them .. and she held her breath and turned purple and then let out this heart breaking scream. It was awful but she was fine by the time I got her dressed and she fell asleep in the car and is sleeping it off.

6 months ago today

I was in a lot of freaking pain right about now. I had labored (induced) all night long and had been throwing up from the pain of the foley bulb catheter and the pitocin. Tonight at 11:04pm Skyla will be exactly 6 months old! She was born by c-section after a 25 hour labor. I remember it all like it was yesterday. I don't know how it's possible that she is already 6 months old! As of 2 am tonight she will have been nursing for 6 months (they wouldn't let me have her in recovery so I didn't get to hold her and nurse her until 2 am). She hasn't had a drop of formula which is so big for me! I had supply issues with my son and had to start supplimenting with formula at 5.5 months. He ended up deciding at 9 months that he no longer wanted to nurse and that broke my heart. Skyla is the exact opposite. She refuses a bottle (we are trying to talk her into taking ebm from a sippy cup) but really I would prefer this to the other. I totally see Skyla being a late weaner and that is totally okay with me!!!

Happy 1/2 birthday Skyla!!!

The mom of two minus one

One of my little ones, namely Chip the 3 year old is visiting his mema and papa right now in Georgia. It's amazing when you have your first child the infant stage seems so hard!!! Then you have a 3 year old and in infant and you learn about hard. Then you send your 3 year old to visit relatives and just have the infant to take care (well and your first baby .. namely your DH) and it feels like you are on vacation. This infant stuff is so EASY compared to taking care of a 3 year old AND an infant. I miss Chip , but at the same time, I think this break is good for both him, Skyla and myself. Me because he's EXHAUSTING (he is more energetic than 3 average kids put together .. just ask all my friends who ask "How do you do it?") and I needed a break. Good for him because my mother and stepfather, aka Mema and Papa, are spoiling him ROTTEN! But only in a good way. He is getting lots of attention right now which he is eating up. And Skyla is really loving being an "only child" for just a little bit and getting some one on one mommy time and lots of floor time to crawl and roll with out me having to worry that her brother is going to run over her or leave a toy in her path she can choke on.

Anyone who says "It's just as easy to have 2 kids as to have one" LIED!!!! Not that I don't love every minute of it, but goodness it takes alot of physical, mental and emotional energy.

I have no freaking clue how moms of like 4 or more kids do it .. but my hats are off to them!!!

Tantalizing Tuesday (and yes I realize it's actually Thursday)

So this weeks assignment from Jen *Three shades of Blue in my blog roll* is football food. Here is my contribution

Steff's sweet and spicy meatballs
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large yellow onion chopped
1 large green bell pepper chopped
black pepper to taste
garlic powder to taste
1 16oz bag of frozen meatballs
1/4 cup Texas Pete Hot wing sauce
1/4 cup Hunts Hickory Brown Sugar BBQ sauce
1/4 cup Kraft Thick N Spicy Honey BBQ sauce
1/4 cup Ketchup
1/4 cup grape jelly
1/4 cup orange juice
1 can of diced tomatoes

Saute your onion and bell pepper in the olive oil in a large skillet until soft. Sprinkle with garlic powder and black pepper. Add frozen meatballs and cook for about 5 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir well. Bring to a boil for a miute or two then lower heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes. Serve over white rice.

Skyla's first hair clip. Grow hair Grow!!!

Skyla 

This was just too sweet not to post. 

Baby feet! 

He looks so grown up to me in this pic!!! My baby boy is growing up way to fast. 

Up Close and Personal! 

Such a good big Brother!!! 

Holding hands 

Like Brother Like Sister 

They love each other so much. 

Don't they look so much alike ???