New York!

We have officially moved to New York (not the city but outside of Albany!!) It's GORGEOUS here! The snow is amazing a little bit cold but so pretty and of course once I'm stuck in it and my toes are frozen I may have a different opinion but for now I LOVE it :) Wyatt is loving it too!! He is getting some good quality time with his Nana Deb and Papa Jerry :) and being spoiled rotten.. he also got to meet his Aunty Hannah for the first time too!!

He still hasn't gotten rid of the ear infections but is teething really bad so I'm hoping once the teeth come in his ears will clear up! He is scooting all over the place and pulling himself up whenever he gets a chance once he starts walking he will be hell on 2 feet lol. He is getting back on schedule the 2 day drive up here threw him off a bit and he's had some late nights but he gets used to things more each day :)

He went to get him first Christmas tree today :) it was neat you got to walk around and pick out a tree you like and then cut it down. We had fun!! It was a little cold walking through the snow but I kept him bundled up in his blanket so it didn't seem to bother him much he just kept looking around at the trees or looking at me to see what to think lol.

Fall is here!

I have been meaning to get on here and update for a while but every night after I put him to bed I'm too tired to think but finally I am updating.. I really feel like deleting facebook so I'd at least spend more time updating the blog plus I just hate fb.

Wyatt had his first halloween he was Batman (mommy's little superhero hahah) we went to visit my friends at UNC Charlotte for a costume birthday party and spent the weekend there. Wyatt had a good time and it was nice to have friends around again. We went to some cute little bakeries and of course I was in my glory loI dropped out of school but want to go back in January for the baking certificate but we'll see.. I use to be able to juggle school, work, and a life(friends, family, parties) but it's completely different when you have to take care of another person 24/7 it's really hard.. We came back Sunday (halloween day) and he wore his skeleton pjs and helped hand out candy that night.

He has been sick with ear infections this past month :( the pharmacy messed up his medicines so he never got better and now has strep throat and on his 4th week(10 days) of antibiotics so hopefully this will work and he will be all better.

He has been sitting up a lot better and is learning to get down without falling back or busting his head on the ground.. and his army crawl is turning into more of a crawl it's cute!! He is getting so big I can't believe it!!!! He will be a year in 4 months it's ridiculous although I am content with only having one kid I will miss the baby stage lol.

His dad and grandparents are coming next week for thanksgiving so that should be a lot of fun for him. I'm glad he isn't at the age to know a lot yet cause I'm still so uncomfortable about things and I really do hope he has a good relationship with them as well since they're his family too. It sucks being 12 hours away it's still so unreal sometimes cause I don't understand how the entire situation came to be.. Hopefully we will be closer soon though- it will be good for Wyatt to have both parents around and even though he will never have that "traditional" family I'm glad that his dad and I are friends so he will still always have both of us just at separate houses :).. I can't wait to see who he is going to be like. I know there are traits from both of us I'd want him to have and then ones I pray he doesn't have lol. He got hit with being stubborn from both sides though and is already stubborn as stubborn can be. People say a grandchild is a mothers revenge and well although I wasn't a bad kid in general when I acted up I went big lol so Wyatt will give me a run for my money I'm sure! And I know his daddy is no angel either lol. I am however in loveeeeee with his green eyes if he didn't get anything else from his dad those eyes would make up for it all hahah. I'm sure those eyes will get him out of a bunch of trouble with a sweet little smile I'm sure I'll melt lol.. I don't ever wanna be in the same room as him and his daddy when he wants something I can see it now "but mommm it's only a quad/dirtbike/mustang/etc" then they'll batt their green eyes and smile and I'll be sold! Imma have to sell my soul to the devil to be able to say no to those eyes haha.. Wyatt looks like his daddy more and more each day though. He has my cheeks and if he is sickly you can see it in his eyes and face like me when I'm sick but other than that all boy and all daddy lol.. Even people who don't know Wyatt's dad ask if he looks like his father haha but of course it's how it goes I do the work and daddy gets the credit for that sweet face of his haha.. I will probably be busy this next week to get things ready for thanksgiving and stuff but I will try to update about the visit and how Wyatt liked turkey :) as soon as I can.

October

So Wyatt is still sick :( he actually got worse. I had to leave school and take him to the doctor Thursday because he was throwing up with a fever but not eating anything :(... The pediatrician he was seeing couldn't "fit him in" so I took it upon myself to find a new doctor and will NOT being going back to the other one! He is on a different antibiotic for his ear infection and ZyrtecD to help clear out his nose. He seems to be getting better on the new medicine though and I take him in Wednesday for a follow up appointment. He has been miserable though and not sleeping well at night so we are both miserable and it has been a long couple of days.

I took him to the pumpkin patch in Wilmington though and got him his first pumpkin and next weekend we are going to Charlotte (if he is feeling better) for halloween :) it should be fun!

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by he is 7 1/2 months already things are changing so fast!!
But he is passed out and I need to get some sleep too!

sickly baby

Well I am lucky that with his rough start he hasn't gotten sick earlier but it still sucks... He has an ear infection and red throat both of which can be caused by teething but because he has been miserable and snotty/ clogged up he is now on antibiotics :( hopefully things will get better in the next couple days cause I hate that he is sick..

Besides going to the doctors today was just a waste of a day we didn't do much of anything.. he slept and I did homework -so glad I have a week off after tomorrow.. I just feel like turning off my phone and computer and going to the middle of nowhere with Wyatt for a few days to just get away from everything!!! He just fell asleep so I'm going to get ready for bed now too :)

First half coming to an end..

I CANNOT believe that month 6 is almost over.. It literally feels like yesterday we were in NY and he got his first tooth/teeth and was a few days short of 6 months. I don't know where the time went.. I can even remember where I was a year ago only 16 weeks pregnant finding out Wyatt was a boy because I went into the hospital from him head-butting me so hard and doing summersaults but I thought it was too soon to even feel him considering he wasn't even a pound lol. Time has seriously flown by it's just crazyy!! He changes SO much everyday! I was looking at his pictures from NICU and just how different he looks now and so big!! He totally looks like his dad though :) which is sweet. And like I say a million times I LOVEEEE his green eyes haha. That was the only thing I really hoped for and I really hope they stay green!! It's crazy to think we are almost to a year and he is going to be crawling, walking, and talking all at once. He is almost done introduction to vegetable baby food then next will be the fruits and eventually table food CRAZZYYY!!! He is sick and miserable right now so I'm taking him into the doctors tomorrow morning but other than that he is doing really well :)

tongues lol

Wyatt finished the introduction of squash, which he LOVED, and we moved onto sweet potatoes, which he hates lol. So instead of pushing sweet potatoes more I'm going to move onto carrots and hope he likes that :) Apparently picky eating is inherited and I have a long future of chicken fingers, bacon cheese burgers, and steak SWEEEET hahha hopefully it's just cause we're sick that he doesn't want anything to do with it though. He hasn't gotten whatever cold/flu as bad as I have it and I hope he doesn't cause it could be bad :( but he has been miserable!! The other night he was up every hour - two hours like clock work worse than when I fight brought him home! I think his tummy was hurting cause he hadn't pooped in 2 days but he had a blow out yesterday and a good one today :) He is getting so big he is going to be 1 before I know it!! It will be nice because it's on my spring break so I get to have a birthday week for him hahaha. He sat up without help for over a minute the other day :) he is getting better and better at it, he tries to crawl too but gets SOOO frustrated cause he can't move but works his little legs as hard as he can lol. And as the picture shows he LOVES to stick out his tongue at EVERYTHING!! He'll bite you do an evil smile/laugh and stick out his tongue it's hilarious!!! But I should attempt homework while he sleeps :)

Squashh

YAY it's official we started baby food yesterday and he LOVED it!! Gobbled it all up lol. So hopefully I have him wired to like fruits and veggies before his daddy gets his hands on his eating habits and I'm stuck fixing bacon cheese burgers, steak, pizza or chicken tenders lol. It's funny cause I could totally live without meat but I do need to learn kid friendly ways to make it so when he does start eating table food I know what to make. He had two blow outs today YAY!! I think only a mom can be excited about pooping haha. So hopefully the fiber in the veggies help keep him regular :)

He got his 6 month shots on friday and hated the nurse more than the shots :/ unfortunately she was the only one working at the time so I couldn't ask for someone else (I think when it comes to having a kid the bitch comes out in moms 'cause if we feel like the safety of our kid is threatened claws sure as hell come out, and we're tired, still hormonal even if it's just PMS lol).. He hated her though even when she was doing routine weight and height checks. He didn't have a high fever after this time and it didn't seem to bother him after at all :) he's a tough guy haha.

School sucks, has always sucked, and will continue to suck for however many years it takes to pass but it must be done!

Football has started so Uncle AK came over and watched the Falcons game on sunday! Wyatt loved it lol he was starring at the tv intensely it was cute.. Hockey season is coming up I think our minor team starts the end of Oct. so hopefully I'll be able to take Wy to a few of those gotta embed the game in him while he's young haha. I really hope he likes hockey and plays but if he doesn't then whatever makes him happy!

NY road trip.

Wyatt went on his first real road trip. We left on friday and made it to Canada saturday morning. We spent a few hours in Ontario and then crossed the border back into NY and headed to Albany. He did great though he had a couple fussy times but not for more than 5 minutes and pretty much slept the entire way! I was super happy because normally he sobs if I take him in town to target. We spent saturday night, sunday day, and monday day with Wyatt's daddy! He did amazing with him which was nice! Even got in a few diapers ;) lol. Wyatt got to meet a lot of his friends which was cute. I was SUPER nervous cause I had never met any of them and boys and babies usually don't go together lol but they did an amazing job and Wyatt loved them so after a while I wasn't so nervous.. He had never been around so many guys before (just uncle Nathan and uncle AK) so he was starring at them intently it was cute! I think the entire trip drained Wyatt cause it was a lot and he missed a few naps he is racked out now haha. He got to meet his only Grandpa so that was nice too :)... The drive back wasn't the greatest though :( he slept from Jersey to Washington which was nice but we got lost and took some backass way which added time. We had to stop in "hold your purse and lock your doors," Virginia because he was sobbing and just wanted out of his seat! Once we hit NC and got near Fayetteville our GPS took us to idk somewhere that isn't our house and added another hour onto the trip and NO ONE was happy at this point. My knees are still swollen from sitting crisscross for 10 hours lol. He wouldn't let me put him in his crib to put himself to sleep last night so he slept with me but tonight we are starting our routine back because as much as I love him he doesn't need to get in a habit of sleeping in my bed and has to learn to soothe himself to sleep.. he got THREEEEE teeth on the trip too :) one on the way, and two at daddy's :)!! one is visible and the gums re-swelled around the other two so you can just barely feel them. Hopefully all this traveling will be done with by next year if I get in UVM because 12 hours away sucks and you just miss so much because they grow and change so much especially in the first year. I think grandpa, granny D, and daddy are coming down this fall around american thanksgiving so he will maybe be crawling by then :) and definitely eating food! And hopefully I'll be able to make another trip up before he turns one this spring.

New doctor...

So I took him to a new doctor in town and I'm not sure if I like her yet or not :/ ... She changed his formula to help with his digestion issues but he still spits up and didn't listen to me when I said I didn't want him on another medicine because the other ones only made it worse and this one is linked to future heart problems and with his heart murmur I didn't feel comfortable.. It's just annoying that everyone thinks they know best and I know nothing! I know I didn't go to school for 12 years to be a doctor but you're not at home everyday with my son. We're half way to a year almost though so should be almost done with the spit up and hopefully the constipation gets better. I feel like going back to the regular formula and starting over because they've changed him so much it's just ridiculous and then go to a specialist so they can look at what's going on inside and why he screams in pain every time he tries to poop....


On a lighter note he will be going on his first SUPER long road trip next weekend for the long weekend we're going to NY and Canada so that should be fun :) hopefully he does okay in the car though.. I wish he could eat real food cause it'd be nice if he could eat a poutine or pizza while we're in NYC even though no one should actually eat them they're both super yummy haha.. We're hopefully going through VT too so I don't have to go back up in November with just Wyatt and can go visit actual friends in Wilmington/Charlotte/Boone/Chapel Hill... I guess it would be best to stay in NC since everyone we care about and who cares about us pretty much live here anyway.. I'm excited for his first holidays too :)

He is trouble though he like rolls over and scoots to get to things it's crazy!!! He was on the floor playing by the couch and rolled/scooted to the fire place DANGEROUS!!! haha He will be sitting up and then crawling before I know it!!

summer vacation is over :(

So I've officially started school it's only 2 days a week though so it's not that bad. I'm bored as sin and hate being away from Wyatt but overall he does okay at my sisters! I have some pictures to upload once I get around to it. He is still having tummy and pooping issues but we go to the doctors friday. Also he started cereal and loves it and will be starting baby vegetables this weekend :)

update

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with this :( Wyatt and I have been back and forth between Wilmington and here all summer :/ so since I've missed so much I'll start back at his 4 month shots. We spent almost 5 hours at the doctors that day (they forgot about us at the end) but they had a student do his checkup first and busted his head on the wall so he was screaming and then an hour after that after I got him calmed down and back to sleep the actual doctor came in did his checkup and ramblings and switched his formula to soy instead of gentle ease because of the acid reflux and wanted to send him for an upper and lower GI track test to look for kinks in his intestines. So an hour after that the nurse came in the room to clean it and then realized we still needed shots so she went off and got everything ready and finally gave him the 4 month shots at this point it was almost 6 and I still had to drive home 2 hours away. So I kept up on tylenol for the pain and so he didn't get a fever. Which he did have a low grade one but nothing too major. So the GI track test was a week after his shots and by this point the kid hadn't pooped in 3 days! So I take him into the doctor the day before his test and they tell me give him apple juice and that should make him go but it will make his acid reflux worse ughhh! So I do the juice the rest of the day and he had a fever of 100.3 at the doc's office so I had to monitor it for the rest of the day/night. Well he struck 103.4 that night so of course I'm flippin' shit about horror stories of babies running high fevers and having brain damage so I call the hospital to talk to a nurse and she told me all about baby fevers and to just keep up on tylenol and only bring him in at 105 ONE ZERO FIVE for real?? I know they probably know what they're talking about but I hand my keys ready if that temp got to 104 we were going in because there wasn't a reason for him to have a fever so I was worried. Anyway the next morning we had to be at the hospital at 7 for the GI test. And he wasn't allowed food 4-6 hours before that. Let me tell you a hungry baby is NO joke and my hungry baby was not pleased!! So they get us back into the xray room and he is doing pretty good but then it's time to STRAP HIM DOWN to a wood bored so he can't move and take pictures so he is screaming and crying so I'm crying cause it's heartbreaking seeing him like that. so after about another hourish of that because they turn the bored to put him on each side and all that he has to drink a bottle of barium (this white NASTY chalk-like fluid that highlights his GI track) so at this point he is starving and would eat anything and I have to feed him while he is strapped to the wood bored sobbing. He took some but was still pretty upset and lying flat on his back made it come back up because you cant feed acid reflux babies on their back :( so finally he gets unstrapped and I have to feed him the rest of the bottle and they took regular xrays for the next hour to see how long it took to get to the intestines and if their were any kinks. Well come to find out barium makes you more constipated so the juice had helped and was starting to clear him out when boom barium comes in and stops all progress! So over the next week he was screaming and straining and ripping his booty trying to push this super hard poop out and it's not working even with help. So we end up in the ER for 5 hours that weekend and the doctor says nothing I can do besides a suppository and you can get a referral to a specialist! So naturally I wanted to bite her freaking head off because my poor baby can't poop and it's hurting him! So the suppository worked and he had pooped and at this point I was doing prune juice in every bottle and molasses with water to try to help him go and not rip! So he went a couple times then again stopped going so I'm trying everything still and it's not happening! So we go back to the doctor and they switch his formula to this super expensive stuff and put him on myralax. Well this so called formula that is suppose to be good for spit up as well as soft poop makes him projectile vomit and continuously gag on it as it comes back up. But it turned out that my friends mom is a baby constipation specialist so she called me and gave me some tips on helping him go with the myralax and sure enough about an hour after I gave it to him he blew out EVERYWHERE!! We were in a restaurant too lol. He soaked his carseat, his outfit, my entire shirt but I was SO HAPPY he finally went lol. So we stripped him down in the bathroom and cleaned him all up and got changed and he has been going every since and we have had a few more blow outs so I have been covered in poop a lot this week haha I rather have to take a few extra showers then have him hurting and not pooping. And that has been our month!

4 months!!

We are a third of the way done this year :) he is growing up SO quickly it's insane! I was looking at his newborn pictures and it's just crazy how different he looks -handsome of course but WAY different lol. We had our first 4th of July together- unless we wanna count when he was in my belly and I didn't know it yet lol- but we didn't do much of anything he was asleep before dark and I didn't want to keep him up just for fireworks that may or may not scare him because they're so loud! I put him in a cute little american flag jumper but within 30 minutes he had pooped out of it and I didn't even get a picture :( maybe next year lol...
I take him to the doctor tomorrow for his 4 month shots I hope he does okay! Apparently there is a recall on tylenol again (of course each time I need to give him some it's recalled ) but I have the CVS brand so hopefully that is okay to give him before his shots! He did really good last time and hopefully he will stay asleep on the 2 hour drive there and back :/ ... He has been rolling from his back to belly- he hasn't mastered it yet but tries his absolute hardest lol. He rolled over in his bouncey seat today I was cooking and had him in it and I look over and he was on his belly looking around happy as can be haha.. His acid reflux is getting worse :( so hopefully the doctor can do something tomorrow. The medicines make him projectile vomit his bottles, the similac sensitive makes him vomit, and the rice just makes the spit up chunky :( .. He is teething really bad so I don't know if that could upset his tummy enough to make him throw up acid and clabbered milk curds or what is making it worse :( it has a nasty burnt kinda smell to it too and he cries so it's obviously hurting him which really sucks! By 6 months to a year it usually fixes itself the doctor said but I don't want him to hurt for an entire year over this and the only other medicine has a serious side effect and causes heart problems so I'm not putting him on that especially with his heart murmur so who knows what else there is to help him. He has been sleeping SO well at night though for a few weeks he'll go to bed around 7:30 give or take an hour and then sleep til 4 or so and then gets up around 7 and we stay in bed for about 30 minutes then get up and start the day :)... He is racked out now and I need to get to bed too so I'll try and post again soon :)

happy fathers day!

"Walk a little slower, Daddy!" said a little child so small. "I'm following in your footsteps and I don't want to fall. Sometimes your steps are very fast, sometimes, They're hard to see; So walk a little slower Daddy, for you are leading me. Someday when I'm all grown up, you're what I want to be. Then I will have a little child who'll want to follow me. And I would want to lead just right, and know that I was true. So, walk a little slower, Daddy, for I must follow you!!”

and so it begins..

Teething- drooling, biting, chewing, gnawing all of it!! It's not bad yet but he LOVES to bite and suck on everything!! You put it near him and it ends up in his mouth!! He can blow spit bubbles too which is cute because everything he does is cute but still kinda gross lol. While I'm feeding him he tries to stick is fingers/ fist into his mouth with the bottle and gets mad because they both wont fit! I think he is going to have some attitude when he is older he is already such a character!! Not much has been going on with him he's just getting better at supporting his head and all that nothing new has really developed! He will be going to his first birthday on Saturday to celebrate Georgia's first birthday :) After he gets his 4 month shots I think we will start oatmeal if I get the OK by his doctor! He just woke up and is chillin' in his swing so I should get ready before he starts to cry :)

nakey babyy

We went on a walk today with Aunty Crisy and cousin Georgia! Wyatt got hot :( so on the last half of the trip he was a nakey baby :) I think he will take after me lol I hated wearing clothes as a kid haha I was always naked!!! (No jokes needed lol)

He got scared by the monkey gym today though :( the ears of the monkey crinkle and it scared him it was sad hopefully he learns to like it.

Growing up...

I guess growing up is bound to happen to us all sometime.. some fast than others but then again some hold on to their youth party days and never grow up. It's weird watching Wyatt grow he changes every single day! His looks change, his habbits, EVERYTHING! And I guess I've grown up a lot this past year too it's hard giving everything up at 19 to take care of a baby. I'd be at the beach or sleeping off a late night this time last year and now a late night consists of going to bed after 8 and the only drinking going on is formula. I'll be honest I miss it.. But don't get me wrong I love Wyatt and being a mom even if I do it alone forever it will all be worth everything I have given up one day. These past few weeks have gotten really hard I don't know if it's postpartum or the lack of sleep and maybe even some PMS but I am mad at the world! So of course I dwell on stupid things and get upset over nothing and attempt to push everyone and everything away to seclude myself from everyone. I feel bad for saying "I can't wait til he is older" cause I know I should cherish every moment I have with him and I do I love him! And not everyone is as lucky to get to be with their kid every single day and night it's just really really hard sometimes and not having friends to relate to and talk to sucks. I wish people who had negative things to say would disappear because no Wyatt wasn't planned but I'll be damned if that little boy isn't loved with everything I can give! And outsiders can tell me "I should have done this.." or "he is a mistake" or "a regret" but it's not their life and I don't see Wyatt as anything but a blessing. Sure I had to give up a lot and lose a lot but I gained way more ( not just in weight lol) I guess after writing this it seems stupid to be upset because I do love him and I wouldn't have it any other way- I just want to sleep and wish some things were different. My friend Kelcie did an interview about teen moms and asked if I could give advice to others what would it be.. It would most definitely be to wait! Wait for everything! Sex, marriage, babies wait for it all because it changes everything! No guy is gunna stay around for a baby for those girls who do it on purpose and for people like me who never thought I'd get pregnant it is still best to wait.. a few nights of fun changed my entire life by having sex with some guy I "barely" knew and now is nothing I thought I knew- it's hard we didn't love each other sure, feelings were there on my part but now for the next 18+ years for lack of a better word we're stuck with each other and some don't even get as lucky as that and never have the biological father around for their child. And yeah even in marriage most babies aren't planned but at least if you wait most of the time you won't be in it alone. But it has been done many times before and will be done more in the future so when people give you that look of disappointment and say " your life is over" you can say "no it's just begun.."

still around..

Okay so we are still around and as soon as everything gets set up and we're settled in I'll get some pictures up and I'm sure babble on and on about everything :)

For a smallish update Wyatt is doing well :) (but I mean duhh the kid is perfect ;) lol.) He is getting SO big and eating lots! We're still working on the reflux issue and watching the hydroseal hopefully they both go away soon! He smiles allllll the time which is adorable and can put weight on his legs and his head control is getting better every day :) -- We had our first and hopefully last ER visit when I woke up and he was doing this gaspy-ish thing and it scared me cause I didn't want him to stop breathing completely- doc said it was cause of acid reflux and sent us home.. I felt like an idiot but better safe than sorry.. We haven't really ventured out into Raeford much mind you there isn't much here anyway lol but I have to do school stuff in a couple weeks so I guess we will see what's poppin' around here hahaha...

Facebook is back up :( so we'll see how long that lasts it's just hard cause I hate it and all the drama it starts but it is nice to keep in contact with people in Canada and everyone that I don't talk to on a regular basis.. Plus I get to show off more pictures of Wyatt hahah

But it is WAY past bed time and I will try to get on here again soon with pictures :)

2 months old

Well he is growing up fast! This year will be over before I know it!! He turned 2 months old on Friday so I took him for his 2 month check up today and he got shots :( he did great though!! He was more pissed he got woken up than that he got stuck with needles. I guess 9 days in NICU gets you used to being stuck a lot. He only fussed for a few seconds and then wanted to eat lol. We changed his formula again :( so hopefully the spitting up with calm down and he stops choking on it! His doctor also noticed a little fluid in his boy parts so it could be a hydroseal and if it doesn't go down he has to go for an ultrasound.. Tylenol got pulled off ever shelf so it took me forever but we found some generic tylenol to give him. I guess it makes them sleepy cause this kid is racked out and sleeping like a little angel hhaha. I love how he has his hands by his face he did it when he was in my belly too. I think it's cute that he sleeps like me I never thought that would be hereditary! Granny G said she hopes he grows big and strong like his daddy and not be weak and sickly like me ahahha thanks ma!!! I do hope he gets only good genes from both of us but he is perfect either way!! It seems like he is definitely getting the better gene for eye color though they're going so GREEN I love it haha!!! I will love his eyes no matter what color though haha.

We slept at the new house last night- I'm allergic to it surprise surprise!!-I'll be glad once everything is set up and settled there besides the entire wall dividing me and Wyatt :( he will be fine I'm sure but I'm not sure I will haha. The extra space will be nice for sure though!

I think he is stoned off tylenol he is waking up and kinda looks around with droopy eyes then goes back to sleep :/ I hope he doesn't have a reaction to the shots though! I'm worried cause he isn't fussing for food :( I guess I'll try and feed him and see what happens...

more pictures

the tie dye is when he was a few weeks old but i love it :) haha

pictures

They're blurry cause the new phone has a sucky camera :/ but you can still see his cuteness :)

Happy Mothers Day!

"While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about."

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. "

"Simply having children does not make mothers."

"Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives."

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."


I didn't feel like typing much so quotes are always good :) Happy mothers day!!

Experiment 626

So I feel like after you give birth 2 extra arms should just pop out of your sides like Stitch- just for the first year or two. Do you know how are it is to change a poopy diaper while trying to hold a paci in his mouth? Let me tell you it's not easy. Or trying to hold the baby and the paci while trying to make the bottle? Again not easy. So you see the simple solution would be to just have two extra hands that you can pop in and out as needed. And it's definitely needed at 3 am! I feel bad because he was sleeping so good except for the last few nights he's been waking up twice instead of once because I guess he can tell I'm restless and toss and turn all night :( hopefully we get back on track within the next couple days. He ate SIX oz last night and would have had more but I was SO scared I was over feeding him so 2 hours later had another 2.5 oz and went to sleep.

I think when you have kids because it's not just you anymore you become more jumpy or at least I do. Wyatt and I were taking a nap yesterday as you can see from the picture we were racked out haha. Well Granny G decided to take pictures and Wyatt moved a little so it woke me up and when I open my eyes her camera phone was shoved in our faces and it scared the crap outta me!! And this isn't the first time I've definitely woken up and saw her and before I realized what was going on I did the jump back kinda gasp thing cause I get scared. Wyatt of course slept through it all lol. He has been ending up on his tummy a lot more lately during his naps and I just leave him ( yes I know back to sleep tummy to play) but he roles over and does it himself so I'm not moving a sleeping baby. He is precious though! Granny D got him this blue stuffed bunny and he loves to hold on to things as a comfort this includes but is not limited to hair, skin, clothes, my face..etc so he is sleeping right now and is holding on to the bunny's ear and pulled it up to his lips! and yes ANOTHER rule broken "don't put anything around them while they sleep" but I'm kinda over peoples "rules" I may not know everything but I know my son and if anything is near his nose or face that obstructs his breathing he picks up his head and moves it or screams for me lol- plus I'm right here so if anything happens I'd know. I'm not disregarding all the rules now I'm not about to give my kid strawberries but a bunny or a blanket I'll let it go...

I enjoy him being little and to be able to love on him as much as I want but I will be thankful (as well as my back) when he can hold his head up! He does not like being held football style unless he is eating so again the extra hands would come in handy (hehe) when I'm holding a fussy baby upright over my shoulder and trying to eat or drink- it's a back breaker for sure! But then again once he can hold his head up before I know it he'll be sitting up, then crawling, then walking, and next thing I know he'll be graduating :( he is already 2 months old today and I'm sad my baby boy is growing up so fast lol.. I'm totally going to be one of those moms who cry on the first day of kindergarden haha. Dads are so much better at things like that they're just like "eh see ya later" and moms are like" ahhh :'( call me if anything happens! OMG I'm leaving my baby :'(" go back for 13 kisses and hugs and a million i love yous and then we call 12 times to make sure everything is okay! I've been told I'm not allowed to baby or spoil him- but we'll see about that ;) haha. I won't make him into a sissy boy but when he is hurt the best medicine is momma medicine.. And the whole spoiled thing you can never love your kids too much and he will know "no" and have to work for what he wants when he is older so he isn't a spoiled brat but I can totally spoil him now and then secretly do it later :) haha.. I want him to stay little-( not just so I can love on him all I want but so the want to have another one never comes cause you know you see a little baby and will forget all the pain and sleepless nights and say "awww I want one!!" No, no you don't!! lol and if I did have another one- in 5+ years- all my attention wouldn't be focused on him- but then he would have someone to play with.. it's like politics just too complicated lol!!)- but then again it will be nice when he is older and I get to do fun things with him! Plus once he is in school and I'm teaching we will have all the same holidays besides spring break usually and summers off to do lots of fun things and travel! I really want to be able to take him places during the summers so he can learn about and see the world and go camping and fishing and lots of fun stuff haha. But he is stirring and I've written a novel so I'm going to get his bottle ready :)


oh and p.s. for all of the english majors or grammar freaks we're gunna say the blog is stream of consciousness because I blog how I speak and commas and semicolons aren't in my vocabulary and very rarely do I use periods -they're usually at the end of like 6 run on sentences :) and I never reread what I type haha

I GOT IT!! I GOT IT!! I GOT IT!!!

AWWWWWW he smiles :) it's humanly impossible to not be totally in love with this little guy haha!!

Cinco de Mayo

Not only was today cinco de mayo it was the last day of class hell and yeah!!! lol. Aunty Crisy and cousin Georgia came into town and we all went shopping at the mall. It's weird when your mom all the cute short dresses that I use to wear are just way toooooooo hoochie now so I had to buy some full length ones today lol. Wyatt was a little fussy at first but after I loved on him he slept the rest of the time :) But backing up before we even got to the mall I dropped my car off to get 4 new tires since I got a flat last week and needed new ones anyway. So they tell me that my car will be done by 4:30 and this was around 2. Okay fine! So we go shopping have a good time whatever. I go back around 4:45 and my car hasn't moved.. Seriously? So I go in (totally not happy) and ask bluntly "why isn't my car ready- and when will it be?" the response "uhhh it won't be in for another 45 minutes" THANKS FOR THE CALL AHOLE! I'd be a little mad if it was just me but do you know how heavy baby stuff is?? a 12 lb kid plus the carseat and a loaded diaper bag- I'm lugging around about 20 pounds of stuff ( no joke that diaper bag is almost 10 lbs ) so I'm even more pissed. So it's not like I can snap my fingers to speed things up and I tell him to call me when my car is done because we had dinner plans. This was around 5 it is now almost 10 and yep still haven't received a call.. Needless to say tomorrow morning isn't going to be fun for them! So we got to dinner around 5:30 and it's our favorite mexican restaurant so of course it's busy because of cinco de mayo and dollar taco night- the wait was around 30 mins (not bad at all right?)... Well the hostess, who is dumber than a box of rocks (and I'm not being mean I went to highschool with her- sweet yes, smart NO) crossed us off the list some how and sat almost 2 pages of people before us so we ended up waiting almost 2,TWO, 2 hours with 3 kids in 80 weather not cool!!!!! Poor Georgia is STARVING by this time because well dinner time was 2 hours ago !!!! So we get the table and I finished feeding Wyatt while we were waiting but because it took so long to get seated it was now fussy time. Every night he gets fussy around the same time it lasts til 8:30 ish and then he sleeps til 3 or 4 sometimes later so I don't complain too much. So the 2 minutes I was able to sit in my chair (while holding him over my shoulder) I inhaled my tacos- still think half the shell is stuck in my throat I ate so fast lol- and the rest of the time I was standing in the middle of the restaurant trying to calm him down so he wouldn't scream.. So needles to say cinco de mayo wasn't so dandy lol- maybe next year :)

Oh but the pictures are of him half smiling cause I wasn't fast enough to get it but I'm determined to get one!!!! haha and of him trying to scoot to gracy it looks like he wants to eat her haha.

"A baby will...

make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for"

So the house is like gutted right- so Wyatt and I are sleeping on this cushion so I put him on his side and I lay down on my side. Well apparently children are like magnets to their parents and little houdini ends up practically on top of me lol. Now I'm all of snuggles and lovin' but not at night just because I'm such a heavy sleeper I don't want to roll over and hurt him- plus I'm not trying to have a 5 year old crawl into bed with mommy every night haha- and I like my space to spread out.. We do take naps together and yes I break my rules and have him on my chest but only like once-ish a day haha. But normally at night he is really good about sleeping in his own bed. At the new house he will have his own room :( I'm not very excited for that just because I like having him so close and being able to sit up in my bed and see him in his.. I guess it's for the best but I'll probably end up on his floor for a while before I'm comfortable being so far away haha. He usually sleeps really well at night though and we even got in a few 8 hour stretches lately but we were party animals last night and stayed out til 8:30 way past bed time so he woke up twice last night. I think I woke him up though just because I was up late on the phone and then tossed and turned :/ All this talk about sleeping is making me tired and he is racked out already so I think it's nap time :)

Smiley Wy-Wy

So I forgot to mention he smiles now!! It started last month a little before my birthday- so it was totally the best birthday present ever lol. He usually smiles in the morning when I tell him good morning and when I tickle his chinS haha. I can't wait til I can get a picture of it!! He has that crooked, country boy grin that says "I'm up to no good but I'm so damn cute if I smile I'll get away with anything!" He's just like his daddy set for life with those green eyes(with some blue still) and sneaky grin haha. He totally has attitude too! If I don't have him in the right position to feed him or if I don't get it fast enough he does this high pitched scream and gets all pissed off it's the cutest thing ever!! I'm in for a treat when he hits his terrible twos lol. Oh he also LOVES to pull my hair when he is upset he latches on and won't let go. So I think the reason parents go bald is because the kids pull their hair out not that they pull their hair out because of the kids haha- although this theory may change when he is 16 Imma stick with it for now lol.

Baby Mac :)

Well we have been quite busy these past 2 weeks! Lots of doctors appointments- from my no more babies appointment to switching his formula and acid medicine we have been on the go!! We celebrated my 20th last Wednesday at fondue with my high school english teacher it was yummy :) We have also been very busy packing for the 23903849384 (more like 40 something) move. This is kinda the public announcement we're moving to Fayetteville so when we aren't here and people say "What you never told me you were moving!?!" I can say "I did if you read the blog!!"

Back to what's really important: Wyatt has cradle cap :( but it's not that bad so just have to put this cream on it after bath time. His acid reflux medicine was making him throw up entire bottles so we switched formula's and went off the old medicine. Unfortunately, the new formula isn't keeping the acid down so we had to put him on an acid blocking medicine which his first dose was this morning and he threw it up :( I'm going to give it a week and if he continues to throw it up or his bottles I'll be starting rice cereal in his bottles to make his tummy heavier to keep everything down! And a plus to the rice is he may sleep longer at night but I'm not really complaining about that anyway 6-7 hours for an almost 2 month old is pretty good :) He smiles now too but has been extra fussy and fights his sleep :( he also has a gunky eye from allergies, an infection, or clogged tear duct so he has eye drops twice a day for the week and he does really well with them! At the end of the month we will be taking our first road trip to Canada and New York! I hope he does okay! He seems to like his car seat which is nice. Well the computer is dying and I'm not sure if the charger is packed or not so I will try and get on again soon!

phone pictures

Wyatt Racked out in my bed with the blanket great aunt Denise in colorado made him and Georgia and Wyatt racked out on Aunty Crisys couch :) Georgia started out at the other end and scooted (in her sleep) until she was next to Wyatt!! Such cute cousins lol