I just said bye to the kids. They are spending the night with my grandparents. This is the first time Addie has ever stayed anywhere over night. In fact-I've never been away from her for more than 6 hours. I already miss her. I am sort of looking forward to tonight though.
DH & I are going to a movie and then hanging out at home. We had been invited to a few church parties but this is our first night alone with no kids. I kind of just want it to be us, spending some quality time together. Not to mention I will have to pump every 2-3 hours and I can't do that if I'm not at home...well, I probably could but just don't want to. Too much of a hassle.
What am I looking forward to the most?
----Having room on the bed! We co-sleep, and while I LOVE it...I miss having my space. There are four of us sleeping on a Queen size bed. Ack! But tonight...I can sleep however I want. I won't have an infant cradled in my arm, I wont be stuck sleeping on my right side all.night.long...waking up to an extremely sore body from being so still...
Whoo!
Today you are 3.5 months old. You can smile, laugh, roll over and hold a conversation in your own little baby babble. You are growing so fast and every day you learn/discover something new. I miss my tiny newborn. Please stay little forever. XOXO, Mommy♥:)
We are officially snowed in! It went from a little snow & ice to HUGE snowflakes the size of golfballs! No joke, these are the largest snowflakes I've ever seen! The winds are just awful too! It's practically a blizzard! They are saying we're in for about 2 feet of snow! Wow!
Okay so on diaperswappers.com there is a forum for "thrifty mommas." I'm not really that thrifty and tend to overspend...like I just spent $500 on Addie in the past like 3 weeks. Yikes. But I am going to start *trying* to be a little better with our money. So I was checking out the forum...I don't think I can go to the extent some of the women were going (leaving their thermostat at like 68 in the winter!! ?!?!--I constistently have ours between 75-80 in the winter. I like to be warm.) :)
Anyways, on to the point of this blog-they have a whole list of "freebies" from all kinds of different websites. One caught my eye. A free Tag Jr book from Leap Frog. Here is how to get yours:
http://www.leapfrog.com/en/freebook/splash.html
We bought Braxton Tag Jr for Christmas plus 2 books to go with it. So I saw this offer and was psyched! I signed up for it and was really hoping I would get the book before Christmas so I could wrap it and put it with his other 2 books. Well today, on Christmas Eve it came! Whoohoo! And-it was one he doesn't have yet! My only advice is if you do this-don't buy the Tag Jr system yet. The book comes with a $5 coupon for the system.
I think maybe once a week or so I'll start doing little blogs like this with freebie offers. :)
Looks like we're in for a White Christmas...that doesn't happen too often here. A couple hours ago it started pouring snow and ice. A little too much ice and not enough snow though.
I'm kinda hoping for ALOT more snow so we can take Braxton out to play in it. :)
On the downside-our Christmas plans for today are cancelled and postponed until the roads get better. (They are SLICK!) And if they get any worse we might have to cancel our plans for tomorrow. :(
And to top it all off tomorrow is Christmas & Braxton gets to open all his presents and I cannot find my camera!!! Eeeek! It's gotta be around here somewhere. And when I find it I will have more blogs to write b/c I have to share some of the pics! (Last Sunday was the church play and Braxton was a wiseman! hehe)
I'll be back when I find that camera! ;)
We're going to a movie tonight! Whoo! We're going to see Avatar (Josh got to choose the movie since I chose the last one. (New Moon! ;D))
My grandma is watching both kids for a few hours. I'm so excited! I desperately needed a little break from all the whining and crying. (oh and Addie too.) Yes, my toddler cries more than my 3 month old. Sad.
Poor Addie has a cold though. I feel awful, its her 2nd cold ever and I just leave her. :(( I feel like a failure b/c maybe I could have prevented her from getting the cold...shouldn't my breastmilk be able to do that or something? I thought BF babies rarely got sick yet this is Addies 2nd time....blame it on cold & flu season? Every time she's gotten sick its been b/c Josh, Braxton & I were sick first. :( My poor Addie bug.
Oh well....I'll only be away from her for a few hours, she'll probably sleep the whole time & then I can go back to cuddling & spoiling her. :)


Addie is 3 months old today!!
I'm about to attempt to get some 3 month pics so when I do I'll come back and post a few! :)
Fluff-O-Rama!
the goodmama is having a sale on diapers! 40 percent off!!! Also, if you sign up for the great cloth diaper hunt you will get a coupon code for 10 percent off sent to your email that you can use at any store participating in the hunt. I was able to get a GM diaper for HALF OFF. =D
With shipping I only paid $20. Awesome deal. Thought I'd pass it along. ;)
I got LOTS of fluffy mail this week. :) See above.
Bubele Bums, Bumgenious, Lil Whispers, Econobum. 4 cloth wipes & Bumgenious insert.
Addie is wearing the newest addition-Blueberry dalmation cover over a fitted bamboo dipe.
ADORABLE! But I couldn't get her onesie to close b/c of the bulky-ness. Ironically her onesie says "Does the diaper make my butt look big?" Sorry Addie-yes, it does...but it looks so freakin' cute! ;)
I've got at LEAST another 8-10 diapers coming in the mail...I'll have to post pics when I get them all in. I really can't stop buying. It's addicting.
I'm pretty disappointed with the Christmas Photos I got today. I have been meaning to them all week but with Addie's growth spurt/teething and Braxtons fever yesterday it just wasn't possible. So today both kids were actually in a decent mood so I tried to get a few good "christmas card" shots. Failed. This is what I got.
Here are the Before and After's (editing)


Then just the photos

THE ONLY photo out of 200+ where they are BOTH looking near the camera.


Absolutly could not get Braxton to look at me. No matter what I said, he wouldn't glance up. He was mad most of the time about having to sit and take pics. This is the best I could get.
Addie is going through her 3 month growth spurt and Braxton is sick with a fever.
Enough said.
Glamour mom nursing tanks are on there today. 50% off which makes them 17.00!!!!!
I just ordered one, they only have 1 color left with 2 sizes available. Better hurry before their gone! :D
Crap, Crap, Crapppppp!
I completely forgot about the 3 month growth spurt. Usually I see them coming and recognize them. For a couple days Addie will do nothing but sleep all day, she will eat very little and is pretty cranky when she IS awake. Then she will transition to being awake ALL day, crying all the time, cranky, cranky CRANKY and will want to nurse all day long for about a week. Sigh.
A few days ago I noticed she was sleeping alot and eating only 4-5 times a day. We're feeding "on demand" so I don't wake her up to eat or anything but she was eating so little I was worried. So I was telling DH about it and about how much she's been sleeping and how I just didn't know what was wrong with her.
DH: "Isn't there like a 3 month growth spurt or something?"
Me: "Oh my gosh, you're RIGHT! Crap! No! NOOOOOO!"
Yeah. I completely forgot. Sigh. I'm not looking forward to this. I've heard this is a tough one. She's been in the sleep all day phase for a few days now so anyday she should be transitioning to the cranky phase. Oh, and I was going to attempt to take the kids Christmas photos sometime this week.
This should be FUN! (Can you hear the sarcasm in my voice?)
Addie had an appointment today with a nutritionist. We are on WIC thru the Health Department so it's kind of a "have to." blah. It went very well though.
The nutritionist was SO nice. We weighed Addie-shes at 13 lbs 3 oz now! Holy cow! 2 weeks ago she was 11 lbs 15 oz! She has almost DOUBLED her birth weight! She's also 24.5 inches long now! So she asked if everything was going okay and I said yes and that was the end of the appointment...kinda crazy.
However, we got to talking and probably sat there sharing breastfeeding stories for 15 minutes or more. She noticed the same thing I have: Around here in the center of the US people are very anti-breastfeeding. She said she rarely sees any bf'ing mothers and with her job, that surprises me! The people around here see breasts as a very sexual thing and as nothing else, which is very annoying! My brother is the WORST. He's almost 30, has 3 kids and thing BF'ing is disgusting. (He doesn't know I am BF'ing) at Thanksgiving I brought pumped milk b/c I know his views. Thank goodness I did b/c there was a show on tv about bf'ing and he started going off about how sick it was and how its just for the moms pleasure (ew!) and that bf'ing moms are pedophiles. O.M.G. I couldn't believe it. I told the nutritionist and she laughed and said "Oh these rednecks around here!" She said she would have been FURIOUS (believe me I was!) and would have gone off on him...I just kept my mouth shut. No need to fuel the fire. :)
Anyways, since I am on WIC & am breastfeeding I get a FREE breastpump! So today I got mine! They are soooo nice! I got the Medela Pump in Style Advanced backpack. It's amazing! It even comes with a small manual pump! I'm so excited b/c this pump is almost $300 on babiesrus!!
While I was there she also gave me something really need. For some reason Blogger doesnt let me post links anymore (is this happening to anyone else?) I would link to it if I could but since I can't its called: Playtex Ortho-Pro teether. It's really neat. It looks like a paci but the "nipple" part is textured. Google it. I've never seen anything like it.
Speaking of teething-I think Addie is. She has been drooling like crazy & gnawing on her hands. Also very fussy, sleeps alot and is eating less. It seems so early to me-Braxton didnt get his first tooth until he was 7 months. But then again I've heard that babies can teeth for months before the tooth actually pops thru. We'll see! :)
Cloth diapers!
I bought 2 off Craigslist:
-A brand new bumGenious (PINK) AIO (size small)
-(Not sure of the brand) Bamboo fitted diaper...still need a cover for it. I'm thinking of buying one from Blueberry Diapers. (They are SUPER cute!)
I ordered a OS pocket diaper on E-bay for super cheap which I have recently been informed is a really crappy brand...haha, so its a good thing I only paid like $6 for it.
I bought another off E-bay, its a Bubele I believe. I got it on Cyber Monday so it was 50% off. ($9) I should have bought more...its a pink & brown polka dot (minky? I think?) AIO OS.
Now I just need about 8-10 more before we can start CD'ing full time! I'm also bidding on several other CD on Ebay...so hopefully I win some! I'm hoping to win some goodmamas and fuzzi bunz!
Is it weird I'm actually EXCITED about this?! :)