Standing like a big girl!
I swear that as soon as we got home from the holiday in New Jersey that Addison grew up! It’s incredible! All of the sudden she’s climbing on everything and even trying to stand on her own. You remember when I was telling you that she really doesn’t like to sit? Well, if she’s not standing and walking along the furniture, she’s sitting. She’s even doing this thing where she stands up and holds onto the couch, tucks her head back under and lowers her bum slowly to the ground. She’ll do that over and over again! It’s like she’s practicing sitting down …
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I know you guys are still getting to know me, but you will start to notice that I love to “do-it-yourself” on anything and everything I possibly can. Last year, I started making my own goat milk soap and even sold some of it to friends, family and online. Now that I’m nice and comfortable with it, I’ve decided to move on to other projects.
I plan to cloth diaper my baby, and have started accumulating quite a stash of diapers, covers and other accessories. For those of you who are unfamiliar with …
Now that baby is born we are constantly bombarded with offers to take pictures. On day #2 we were asked to take pictures in the hospital room. I went ahead and had them done because I felt bad for not having a 4D sonogram done for her. With my son I had everything done from sonogram video to expensive picture packages.
I don’t want to not have pictures done and then years later she asks me why she doesn’t have any baby pictures. I feel like a crazy picture mom lately. A few days ago I had even more pictures done so that we can make sure we captured her first …
I am extremely committed to a natural birth. It’s not some kind of sadistic need to prove I can do it, I just grew up in a family where natural birth was the way things were done, so it’s always been my plan even before I conceived. I’m number four of my mother’s six kids, five of which she gave birth to naturally and without throwing a huge fit over the matter. Epidurals were readily available, but until she was in her forties and had been laboring for days with my youngest sister that she finally decided to just go ahead and get an epidural. After the experience, she said she had been a bit too harsh with women who …
We have had to do a complete remodel to get our house second baby ready. The office was to be the new nursery meaning the computer, the books, the desk, and everything else had to be relocated. The only other place we could find to put the office was right in the kitchen meaning the kitchen had to be rearranged. Then, we had to put new furniture in Elli’s room so Smaller Waller could have the crib.
Just typing all of it makes me tired – it’s been chaos and I hate chaos. Still it had to be done. The disorder was frustrating, the mess drove me crazy, and the process …
The second trimester is supposed to be the best part of your pregnancy. Your energy levels return to normal, nausea tends to go away, and your hormones have leveled out a bit. I’m not in my second trimester; I’m well into the third. The ridiculous flood of hormones that triggered intense mood swings are back with a vengeance and causing the littlest things to make me cry uncontrollably. It’s not necessarily tears of sadness, but they’re tears nonetheless. I’m exceedingly sentimental or just downright sensitive at times. I try not to let this be an excuse for me to be a meanie to the people who matter or as a tool to get what I want, although the next time I’m denied ice …
Addison is almost 9 months old now and I’ve been noticing a few flaws in some of my pre-baby purchases. I am here to give all of you soon-to-be mommies a head’s up on what to look for and hopefully get you to think a bit differently about how to buy so that your furniture, car and clothes can grow with you and you baby.
A broken face ready to happen.
The first thing that immediately comes to mind is my TV stand. Yes it may seem small and insignificant, but when your kid starts pulling themselves up on everything you’ll understand. We bought our TV and stand right …
One thing I am really working on in preparation for Smaller Waller is teaching Elli how to play alone. I worked on that before I was even pregnant because I feel it is a very important skill, but when I saw that positive pregnancy test, it became my mission. I
know that there will be times when I will need Elli to entertain herself because I will need to tend to the baby. I think waiting until the baby arrives is too late to start teaching this skill so I’m working on it now. The verdict is – I’m not very impressed with my teaching ability. Elli is a …
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It’s hard to believe it, but I’m at 20 weeks — I’m halfway there! This pregnancy has been a roller coaster of ups and downs, but it’s still exciting to get to the halfway point. I’m feeling him kick more often (usually right square in the bladder), and what’s really exciting is that he can hear and recognize my voice. That is one of the neatest things about pregnancy, knowing that when the baby is born, he’ll know me right away just from the sound of my voice.
I definitely can feel him kicking more and more often now. I also have to use …
We’ve all been reminded at one point or another that “diapers ain’t cheap,” and I’m beginning to realize that nothing to do with raising babies is cheap. From clothes, to diapers and gear, it’s all really expensive… if you’re not smart about it. So as I make the budget each month, I have included a significant amount as the “baby budget” to make sure we aren’t hit with a huge amount of things to buy right before our daughter is born. I have a small addiction to online shopping, mostly because shopping around online means I have a chance to find the best values. I’ve been stocking up on cloth diapers and covers, $20 at a time, adding things to …
