The [boring] life of a SAHM

I forgot to post the pics I took of Addie on her "4 month birthday" I'm dating it 1/17/09 so its in the right spot :)

These aren't that great because I totally forgot that I needed to take her pics until like 11:30 pm on 1/17...so I got what I could together and we had a short photoshoot. Not the greatest, but oh well.

My little Addie bug is addicted to the boobie.

You know, when Braxton was born...we had problems breastfeeding and basically went straight to the bottle after a week or so. Opposite problem with Addie. We couldn't switch to a bottle if we tried (and yes we have!)

When my little princess was a month old or so, we introduced the bottle. At first she didn't care for it. Then she realized milk was coming out of it! She sucked down bottles in minutes and cried for more. Didn't matter to her, food was food.

Then....BAM, 3 months hits. It's a total bottle STRIKE. It's been a month and she still will not take a bottle.

Remember when I blogged about leaving the kids overnight with my grandma? What I forgot to blog about was that, THAT was the night Addie decided the bottle was not good enough for her. I was without my phone for SEVEN hours while DH and I were on our date. When I got back home to my phone I had multiple calls from my grandma. I called her back only to find out little Addie hadn't ate a bit the entire time we were gone. =0 We immediatly drove over to pick her up. I nursed her and she ate for a good 30 minutes!

Since then we have tried giving her a bottle and she will not have it. She's boobie addicted. We're trying to break this addiction. I wasn't sure if it was my frozen milk that was the problem or if it was the bottle so I pumped some milk and DH offered it to her in a bottle....she had a FIT! So its not that the frozen milk was bad or something. Definetly the bottle so tonight we went out and bought a few different types of bottles/nipples in hopes of finding one she will accept.

Wish us luck!!

Guess who is now fully potty trained in the daytime?!?!?

Yeah, if you guessed Braxton you're right! ;)


I think I blogged a couple months ago about how he spontaneously started using the potty all by himself. He did really good for a week or so and had some regression. When there were other children around or he was too busy playing to go potty he would have an accident...and then there was one week where he just started having accidents all the time. It was frustrating (especially when he would go through 6-7 pairs of pants a DAY!)

But, lo and behold...things got better! The past few weeks he has been using the potty ALL DAY LONG. (#1 and #2!) Go Braxton! I am soooo excited! He only needs a diaper at night time! :D

I learned to knit! I kinda taught myself through Youtube about 7-10 days ago. After spending a few days just doing practise stitches and such, I decided to tackle a pattern

I chose a diaper soaker. Here it is:

Just the first 10 rows-the ribbing.

10-15 more rows

Half way done (I totally messed up THREE times!) When doing the stockinette stitch I would stop knitting for awhile and then come back and forget whether I wad doing purl or knit and would end up doing the wrong one so it went (example: knit, knit, purl, knit, purl...instead of: knit, purl, knit, purl.) That made it "backwards" with the ugly stitch showing on the side that is supposed to be pretty so once I realized what was happening I would have to fix it by going (knit, knit, purl, knit, purl, knit, etc) Yes, I could have just undone it to fix it but I'm not that advanced and this was just practice anyways. :)

It looks oddly shaped b/c the ends were curling in and I couldn't get them to flatten out for the photo.

Finished the ribbing for the back half and sewed up the seams. Finished product:

It's supposed to have leg ruffles but I couldn't figure that out so I left it as is. It's also a size Large b/c I don't know how to adjust the pattern to fit Addie (sm/md) so it looks like shorts on Addie!

Action shot: (I've got the waistband folded down)

I realize the yarn is super ugly but since I was just practising I bought whatever was on sale! lol! It was like $2 a skein. I've got some nice, pretty wool on the way. ;)

Look whos wearing cloth now!


She grabs toys now and brings it up to her mouth to chew on it. :) SO cute

Silly Face!

Her new skirtie wool soaker!

She's SITTING!!!! (and very mismatched-I know!)

So...I kind of have a "job" now.

It all started a few days ago when my cousin Lindsey asked me to watch the little girl she usually babysits b/c she wasn't able to. I said I would...DH was so excited, he kept saying "I hope she likes you so much that she switches to you! We could use the extra money!" That got my mind going...maybe I should start watching a kid or two from my house during the daytime. So I talked to Lindsey about it and asked her how I can get started, she told me to put an ad on craigslist. I thought about it and had planned on doing so.

So, the day before I was supposed to watch the little girl (Sydnie) her mom wanted to meet me so she came over to our house that evening. Turns out we used to work together!! We worked at a daycare together 2.5 years ago when she was pregnant with Sydnie!

So she drops Syd off the next morning. Lindsey texts me and says she is thinking about handing Syd off to me since I was wanting to start. I told her that would be great but to clear it with her mom first obviously. So Lindsey said she would next week b/c that is when she starts watching 2 other kids.

Well, Julie (the mom) comes by at 4 to pick up Syd and asks if I had heard anything from Lindsey and if she was gonna be able to watch Sydnie tomorrow. I told her I had no idea so she asked if she could count on me if Lindsey said she couldn't, I said sure. Then she told me she wished I was the one watching Syd full time. I told her me & lindseys convo and she said OMG that would be soooo awesome if you did it. I would much prefer that! Especially since she is getting 2 more kids next week (including her own child she would have been watching 4 children at once.) and she said her friend used to use Lindsey alot but had a lot of problems with her b/c of how flaky she is. (I can toooootally relate to that!)

So it looks like I have a job now! Crazy how it just happened like that! I watch Sydnie 5 days a week from 7:30-3:30. $90 a week. That will help us out soooo much. My income alone can cover our rent! :D

Oh and get this-she works at the Elementary school in the 3 year old class. Braxton will be going there NEXT YEAR! :((( I can't believe it! So she will be Braxtons teacher next year! How neat! (and how funny would it be if I'm still watching Syd then...she would be watching DS while I watch her DD.) LOL

I'm pretty psyched! I was feeling kinda bad for staying home and not making us any money but now I can do both. :) Braxton & Sydnie get along pretty well. She's 2. He's not liking this "sharing" thing at all, I hope he gets used to it. Any time she plays with something of his he lets out this piercing scream and starts crying and tries to grab it out of her hand. I'm trying to teach him to share but boy, its not easy!

That's what little Miss Addie has been doing!

A few weeks ago she learned to roll from her tummy to her back...and yesterday she learned how to roll from her back to her tummy! Now I cannot keep her still! LOL

She is just moving all over the place, rolling, rolling, rolling. Diaper changes are starting to get difficult. Especially when trying to snappi a prefold (I still have not mastered this.) She just rolls right over and I have to flip her over and try again. hehe.

She's also been rolling to her tummy and trying to get her legs/knees under her. I know crawlings not too far away! 3-4 months! Ahh!

I'm loving this. :)