Well...I always wanted a big family...3-4 kids.
That is, until today.....
My cousin watches a 22 month old boy, today she had to take her DD to the doctor so I was asked to watch him from 9:30 to 1:30. So I did. Now, I am no longer babysitting the 2 year old girl so it was just Braxton, Addie & the boy (Blake.)
The first 45 minutes was fine. He was still in the shy phase and just sat around sheepishly looking around. However the more comfortable he got the more crazy things got.
Addie didn't sleep for over 4 hours (she usually naps every 1.5 hours) because everytime I would get her *almost* asleep, Blake would bring a noisy toy in and start playing quite loudly. & she is fully awake again. *Repeat, over and over and over again.* It's now 3 pm and he is still here and Addie has got *maybe* 15 minutes of uninterrupted sleep. She is cranky, I am cranky. Braxton & Blake are running around being loud little boys.
Blake is in the stage where he is in.to.EVERYTHING. He's climbing into cabinets, playing in the toilet, putting anything and everything in his mouth, climbed in to the dryer once, made a complete mess of my house and will not, will not, will noooooot, listen to a word I say. You're probably thinking..."oh you're just not watching him good enough." but TRUST ME, I am watching him as GOOD as I can with a 7.5 month old cranky baby around. Who knows what he could have got in to if I wasn't watching him well,....my house is sooo not child friendly! Time to babyproof (yes I still haven't gotten around to that)
Okay, so I am not trying to rant...just trying to paint you a picture of what my hectic day was like. Which leads me to this point:
I don't think I want anymore kids. Two is good, I guess. Braxton never went through the above "phase" luckily. Hopefully Addie won't either. It's tiring...stressful...overwhelming. So I say-quit while I'm ahead! Life is good, I love my two kids and I think I am happy with just that...two GREAT kids! :)
Addie turned 7 months old yesterday and crawled for the first time!
She has been getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth for quite awhile now. She was getting soooo frustrated because she couldn't just take off, I could tell she wanted to crawl. I was thinking all this over yesterday as I watched her rocking back and forth. I knew it wouldn't be too much longer...I walked into the kitchen & came back just in time to see her move on leg forward, one arm forward, one leg forward *Fell down* so it wasn't much but she CRAWLED! Then she did a once more a few hours later! I'm sure by next week she'll be crawling all over the place!
Braxton & Addie...Gavin was supposed to be sitting between them but he didn't want to take photos so we went ahead & got this shot while we could...Braxtons usually not into having his pic taken.
I've been using Swagbucks for about 2-3 months now. You've probably never heard of it, right? I found it in January after lurking the boards of diaperswappers....I thought it was another one of those "gimmicks" but everyone seemed sooo in love with it so I thought I'd give it a try.
Swagbucks is a search engine. You search for stuff, some searches rewards you with "Swag bucks" (points that add up that you can spend in their swagstore.) You can also get swagbucks by having their free toolbar and by participating in contests/their blog/swaghunts.
I won't do all of the explaining here-just wanted to get the word out that Swagbucks is INCREDIBLE!!
Wanna know what I do with my swagbucks? I buy Amazon gift cards. (or should I say E-cards?) When you redeem them they just send you the "code" to use at check out. Between January and March, I've redeemed SIX $5 giftcards. Thats thirty bucks I made for searching things...searching things I normally would have "googled."
Here is their blog:
http://blog.swagbucks.com/
Main Swagbucks page:
http://swagbucks.com/?cmd-home
They've also got a twitter & facebook page, I believe those can be found on the blog or main page.
Check it out! :)
In one day Addie:
-cut her very first tooth!
AND
-started crawling backwards! (When Braxton started crawling backwards it was just a matter of weeks before he was crawling all over the place-forward-of course, he was officially crawling at 7 months...Addie is 6.5 months. Am I scared? Yes. Nervous? Yes. Excited? YES!)
This explains why Addiebug's been soooo cranky!
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