The [boring] life of a SAHM

Braxtons cake made by my cousin Lindsey

The decorations, except the punch hadn't been set out yet so just imagine 2 punch bowls filled with red punch in front of the spiderman, lol. Cupcakes & rice cripie treats made by Lindsey & I.

Braxton didn't get much sleep the night before the party so he was really cranky...which means he cried most of the time. Probably didnt help that his 7 y.o. cousin brent was opening all of his presents.

My cute "Spidey" birthday boy!

Exhausted after the party--& all the toys. (well most-he still has some from family who couldnt make it to the party)

opening presents


Pinata!

opening gifts

These are in no particular order. Overall the party was a huge hit. We got tons of compliments on the decorations. I don't think you can see all of them so I'll just explain them: you can see the food table, we also had 4 5 other tables with red/blue/spiderman table cloths, each table had red & blue confetti as well as spiderman confetti and spiderman/enemy cut outs. The ceilings were too tall to hang streamers across the room so we have streamers along the walls as well as spiderman confetti taped to the walls with double sided tape. We had other hangings like a spiderman happy birthday banner & 3 other spiderman hanging things. We also had a spiderman pinata & tons of red & blue balloons all over the room. Then my favorite-we had spiderwebs (the kind you can buy at halloween) strung across doorways and tables and on some chairs, with plastic spiders in them. We also froze some spiders in ice and then put the ice in the punch (no one choked on a spider btw) ;)

Braxton was really cranky because Lindsey & I were up late the night before making all the goodies, she had her daughter as well as another little boy with her so there was no getting Braxton to sleep when he had kids to play with!

Only thing that didn't go well is opening the gifts. Last year Braxtons cousin Brent kept trying to open his gifts for him so I knew to watch out for that again this year and I even told my mom, grandma & DH to watch for it & stop it if they saw it happening. Well, not even 2 gifts in & it happens. Brent is grabbing Braxtons gifts, tearing them open & throwing them to the side before Braxton can even see them. There were FOUR of us telling him to stop it and let Braxton open his own gifts...he would stop for a minute and then just start doing it again. The worst part? His mom was just watching...didn't say a WORD. I was soooooo upset. Then after all the gifts were opened Brent tried to take them all out of their packages, we told him no and I had DH take them all to the car. I told Braxton to choose one toy that he could open now and that daddy was gonna take the rest of them to the car. He chose a train & Brent grabbed a car out of one of the bags & ran away. We never got it back.

No idea what I'm going to next year but now 2 years in a row almost ALL of the "present opening" pics are of BRENT opening presents. *sigh*

Other than that Braxton had a great birthday, he fell asleep on the car ride home & then stayed asleep about 4 hours. He woke up & played with all his new toys. :)

His real birthday wasn't until Monday the 29th though. So we slept in, went to the park, played outside alot and then got a sitter for Addie and took Braxton to a movie. (How to train your dragon=CUTE!!!) It was a good day =)

The kids both had check up appointments today.

Braxton:
Braxton did okay. I was terrified I was going to have one of those screaming kids that wouldn't let the dr near him. Luckily the only time he threw a fit was when he was called back. Josh had Addie & I was trying to walk Braxton back. He kept screaming & crying 'NOOOOO! LET DADDY DO IT. DADDY! TAKE ME! NOOOO" *sigh* so Josh had to come back out & we traded, then he was fine. They weighed & measured him. 46 lbs, 43 inches. The nurse tried to get him to read an eye chart but he wasn't interested..she said most 3 year olds won't do it anyways. She checked his hearing & eyes. He was being stubborn though..or scared. The nurse put a thing up to his hear and told him to tell her or daddy when/if he heard anything. She kept asking do you hear it? and he would say no but I know he could hear it. He just freaks out and gets quiet when he's scared.

Adelyn:
All the normal stuff, she was weighed & measured also. 18 lbs 8 oz & 26 inches. Shes in the 50% for height, 80% for weight....so basically shes short & fat? ;) Anyways, checked her ears, her eyes, etc etc. Here are her stats:


birth: 7 lbs 13 oz, 19 3/4 in
1 month: 9 lbs 5 oz, 22.5 in
2 months: 11 lbs 15 oz, 23 1/4 in
4 months: 15 lbs 4 oz, 24 3/4 in
6 months: 18 lbs 8 oz, 26 in

I of course got the "solids" talk and my babyled weaning views were basically shot down but oh well! She had never even heard of it so its not like I expected her to understand.

Addie got shots today too. Poor thing. She does really good though & doesn't cry too much. After they were done though & I was getting her dressed I laid her down on the table to put her pants on-got them on-look at her and guess what? She's almost completely asleep! She's been sleeping the past 2 hours.

So it went pretty well...Braxton goes back next year for booster shots (Oh how fun THAT will be!) and Addie goes back in 3 months but doesnt have to have shots! Yay! :)

Infantino has issued a recall on their SlingRider & Wendy Bellissimo slings. We have one of these we used on Addie when she was a newborn but then she outgrew it and we moved on to the peanut shell! Soo scary and so sad!

The only good thing is they are offering exchanges. To see if you're sling is part of the recall see:

http://service.infantino.com/SlingRider.html

From there you can determine if your sling has been included in the recall and can get more info on how to return your sling for another product. (Thats the part I love!)

You can choose between one of their Wrap & Tie Carriers, A shopping cart cover or a 3 in 1 play gym PLUS they include a free jittery pal elephant as well. I was thinking of getting the wrap & tie but I'm not sure if I'll like it...and I wouldn't want another toy...our house is flooded with toys, a swing, bouncer, jumperoo...plus we saved all of the "big" toys Braxton had so we're good there. No use for a shopping cart cover either...I think I am going to try the carrier.

so anyways, if you have a sling make sure you check & see if its been included in the recall!!

2nd-The kids are sick. I have no idea how but they're both so miserable it breaks my heart. Braxton has been sleeping most of the day, when he does wake up his little eyes look so pitiful. He's whiny and cranky and clingy when he's sick. Addie has been really sleepy too...it's just getting her to stop fighting sleep that is the problem. This whole day has just run together. This is how its gone: Wake up, diaper change, feed her, tummy time (didnt last long..she was screaming after a few minutes, try to play, more screaming, check temp, give tylenol, try to get her to sleep, after 20 minutes of fighting she finally falls asleep only to wake up 20 mins later-now repeat over and over and OVER again. It's quite tiring...and of course they both had to get sick during Braxtons birthday week when I will have looooots to do. Ohwell. At least Josh has a 4 day weekend this week. ;)

Addie got up on her hands & knees today! I'm somewhat shocked! She was just playing in the floor, I look over and she is on her hands & knees! She went back to her belly then back up....this went on 2-3 more times. The whole time I'm going "Omg, Omg, Omg"

Crawling is just around the corner! I know it is! Braxton started crawling at 7 months. I'm sooooo not ready for the crawling stage. I've got so much baby proofing to do...right now the house is SO not child friendly. (Braxton KNOWS not to get into or touch certain things that are "mommys" or things that will hurt him.) Right now the dining room table is taken over by a huge pile of fabric, my sewing machine, cups full of needles/straight pins/scissors/etc. I've got a table in the living room that has a bin full of yarn, scissors, tapestry needlesm etc underneath it...Braxton has legos all over the floor of his bedroom. Sigh. I can fix the craft problems and start putting dangerous things out of reach but I'm really going to have to work with Braxton to make sure he keeps small toys away from Addie.

So my goal for this week: BABYPROOF!

We started BLW tonight. Addie is just a week shy of 6 months and has shown an interest in our food and meets all the milestones, so why not? ;)

We had porkchops, potatoes, cauliflower & broccoli. She LOVED the broccoli. At first she pushed all the meats & potatoes away & focused on the steamed veggies. After 15 mins or so she tried some potato and put it down, then moved on to meat. She had a hard time figuring out how to get the meat in her mouth, she would bring it up to her mouth & then lean backwards. She finally figured out she shouldn't lean backwards & got in her mouth & continued to suck on the meat for a while. At one point while eating broccoli she bit of a piece, tried to swallow and gagged (totally normal!) so she gagged it up, sucked on it a bit more and then spit it out!

We had so much fun watching her & she was so excited to be eating with us. So much better than doing purees in my opinion (we did purees with DS & it was just blech...he hated it & we hated it. No fun)

She didn't actually swallow anything which is normal, babies normally start actually eating around 8 months, right now its all about learning to eat, exploration & fun! :)

Enjoy the pics!

Nope, not talking about the fact that it's DH & I's anniversary again. No, it's something better! (Sorry honey!)


I've recently started using Big Sexy Hair products. This is the stuff my hair dresser uses on me everytime I go in for a cut/color/shampoo & style...speaking of-I need to get my hair done soon!

Anyways, these 2 products below are FAB! Big Sexy Spray & Play volumizing hairspray and Big Sexy Root Pump. Ahhhh!

I have thin, flat hair...always have and I always hated it. No amount of teasing/tousling/hairspray would get my hair nice & fluffy. This stuff changes ALL that! It's like magic. Seriously. I spray a little root lifter on my roots, blowdry, style, top it off with hairspray and voila' Big Sexy Hair. ;) (Or as my hairdresser says- "I'm gonna give you Big Sexy Texas Hair!" Haha-she likes to style it a little bigger than I like though.) ;)