Spring is in the Air....Poop is in the Tub?

Well well, after all my belly aching about winter, yesterday was the first day of Spring and I'm loving it! Although as you were previously warned, I also love to belly ache about the heat and if the temperatures in Spring are any indication of how hot the summer is going to be well then it's going to be sizzling. I feel espeically bad for my pregnant friends who will have to endure at much warmer than ususal spring, three long HOT summer months, and what will probably be a warm fall. I'm pumped for the pool to open though, I got Sadie Marie some 55 sunblock and I'm going to purchase one of those baby swimsuits with build in floaties. I can't wait to see how protective the baby daddy is in the pool, he barely takes his hands off at home....she may never walk. :)

Anyway, we have had some shananigans going on so I will share them!

I'm all about routines, unless I feel like a deviation is necessary and the I could care less but we do have our nightly routine that traditionally goes like so:

7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Dinner prepared and fed to the little monster by Me
7:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. - Bathtime, prepared and performed by Me
8 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Bedtime, prepared and performed by the Baby Daddy

He informed me he didn't like to bathe Sadie Marie.....I wonder why, perhaps because while she LOVES to play in the bathtub, she HATES to actually get bathed up and LOATHES to get dried off and dressed for bed. Awesome, I'll take it though one out of three ain't bad and at least he's being a team player right?

So as we are playing in the bathtub on Monday night I turned my head for what felt like a split second to shoo Bailey from the bathroom and when I turned around there it was........I was almost elbow deep in doodoo water. Green doodoo water. I shrieked for the baby daddy to come running, whatever he was doing it was not fast enough, I snatched Sadie Marie out of her little tub of horrors and just held her dangling like a fish on a hook because I couldn't hold her, unstopo the tub and rinse her off but I couldn't sit her down on the floor she was all wet, so I just stood there waiting on the baby daddy to stroll on in like a Sunday afternoon and when he finally did arrive I got her handed off, drained the tub and then I heard it. SQUIRTSHSHSHSHSH. Green liquid dooty all over my bath mat all down her legs and feet. Awesome. The baby daddy starts telling me to hurry, to clean her up and move everything to the other bathroom and I'm like why? She's already defaced this tub and bathmat, lets keep the hazmat area contained at least until she's finished......so we wait about 2 minutes, decide she's done, and move to the other bathroom where there is now ZERO hot water left for a bath. I guess I need a 1000 gallon hot water heater, after two showers and a bath ours was spent.

So I proceeded to bathe the nugget in 2 inches of luke warm water, that she clearly did not love based on her constant screaming, and proceeded to ask her not to poop in this water or on me while we got dressed. After THREE good gos (yeah, she got the bath mat twice), I guess she was all pooped out, LITERALLY, because there was no more poop for the evening. In her defense, she has not pooped in the tub for what feels like years, but because she's only 10 months old, I guess it's been like 7 months. She is also taking antibiotics for her ear infection and I know that has her tummy upset, it's just hard to remember sometimes she's even sick she so stinking happy most of the time.

The rest of this week has been rather entertaining.....I'm not sure if she's figured out that she can use her tongue to spit her food at me OR if she's just not that hungry. It had me worried for a hot minute, then she started eating again, then spitting, then eating.....you get the idea. I think she thinks it fun. I do not love it.

The other night we are all eating supper and Sadie Marie has squash and pears. She LOVES squash and pears and now that she is getting bigger and has some teeth she's not eating purees, it's all chopped up so she can gum it and I guess the textures are a little off. I jammed a big spoon full of squash in her wide open bird mouth and it came flying back out of there like a torpedo. I was a little taken aback, please understand my child has NEVER spit food out.....EVER. In fact, I'm pretty sure she secretly hoards it in her cheeks so this was funny at first. I thought maybe she didn't like the texture of the squash cut up rather than pureed, so we tried again and no dice. She was vehemently pushing food out of her mouth and then playing with it between her little vienna sausage fingers, so I tried some of the pears and of course she devoured that it was her last meal. I tried the squash again and torpedo. I was quite dismayed, I have never had to be tricky or resourceful when it came to feeding Sadie Marie, she has always been such an easy baby to feed, but I'm smart and she's a baby so I thought well, I'll fix this and mixed the squash in with the pears and TORPEDO. She spit it all out...she eventually ate some of it mixed together but I ended up just ending supper. I refuse to let her win, if she won't eat, supper is over before you judge please be aware she ate all her pears and chicken and destroyed her bottle, so it's not like I sent her to bed without any supper.

Not to be defeated, I tried the squash again last night and BOOM, my little nugget was back. She devoured all her food so maybe she just needed to get used to the texture, maybe she was not feeling, but well either way, I win. :) She will eat as healthy as possibly as long as possible. I don't want her to end up like me, picky as all get out and not a veggie fan. I am trying to retrain my brain as Sadie Marie tries new foods so that I can be a healthy mommy who she can see eating the veggies. I'm a total hypocrite and I will make her eat them if I won't but I don't want to be that way so it's still a work in progress. This week my new veggie is cauliflower.......steamed and smothered in cheese sauce. I gotta start our easy here folks, plus weight watchers said I could eat it that way. I have already added steamed broccoli and parsnips to my food vocabulary and I'm pretty proud we are adding all these veggies to our lives. Makes me feel better about myself. If I'm always going to be a little bit fat at least I will be healthy. Maybe it will be easier now that I have officially stopped breastfeeding and pumping completely since I won't have the appetite of a Tyranasauraus Rex. :)

Are you all shocked and dismayed? I stopped pumping at 10 months. I just wasn't producing enough milk to keep putting myself through the stress of pumping every 4 hours only to get an ounce or two, so then I went to every 8 hours and would only get about 4 ounces, then it was every 12 hours for 4 ounces and then sometimes it was every 12 for nothing. 10 months is as good as 12 to me so even though I didn't WANT to quite my body had other ideas. I know part of the reason my supply went down was because I wasn't physically nursing anymore, I could have continued nursing twice a day, I know a year would have been easy but I had to weigh my options.....just how important were my nipples to me? Pretty darn important and so I decided to stop nursing about a month ago when Sadie M got her first tooth and BIT me hard enough to draw blood.

I will say I had way more milk saved up than I thought, I have been slowly decreasing the amount of breastmilk she's getting and adding formula and it's been fine, so all's well that ends well. I'm a little nostalgic though, it's kinda sad to think that this part of my life has come to an end for now. It was such a big part of my life and routine for the past 10 months and it an end I didn't really want but onward and upward. I have a very healthly happy little girl so I'm not going to let something this silly ruin my day or hers :) It's not worth the stress that was mounting over not producing enough and now that I'm done and at one with it, I feel liberated!

Summer, Summer, Summertime, Time to sit back and unwind.......Thanks Will Smith. You rock.

Here are some new pictures of the nugget.

Y'all be good,


April

Lazy Sunday Afternoon! She sleeps like her Daddy!

I got a second tooth, but I am NOT showing you!

I sit like a lady when bathing!

I have ear infections but you would never know it!

Bjheebus - Is is Winter or Summer?

I HATE the winter, I hate it with every ounce of my being with it's snow, cold rain, short days, lack of sunshine, and dead foliage, I often contemplate if the summer will return so I can complain about the heat. So while nothing monumental has been going on, lots has been going on. For one thing we have decided to outsource a number of chores around the Casa de la Airhart and that makes me happy. I don't have to clean and the baby daddy doesn't have to cut grass. While I know you are all thinking we are lazy assholes, I assure that you are correct. We are lazy assholes on the weekends and since this is the only time we have to do these chores I decided the Cleaning Authority was a better option. Plus, who wants do to chores with I have the nugget to play with, especially since this crazy ass weather is making my spring fever itch like monkey butt.

Even though I loathe the winter, I was especially anxious this year because I had a new baby who I was sure would be sick at some point and I had a little glimpse of that in September after her 4 month shots.......

I was not looking forward to a winter wonderland of snot and crying, but alas I braced for the worst and hoped for the best and I have to admit we were lucky, very lucky. I attribute it to breastfeeding I have been squeezing those things dry 3-4 times a day for almost 10 months and I really think that is what saved us. Who knows what in it but if I were smart I would pump forever and sell the stuff, but I'm selfish and I really want to wear a regular bra again already, one with under wire and one without easy access flaps so I'm seriously contemplating a cease fire for my battle with breastfeeding. I have been battling inside myself contemplating this decision for the past few weeks while I have been doing nothing but pumping (since Sadie M got a tooth and started treating me like a chew toy) and I have to tell you it has not been awesome, I barely get 10 ounces a day now and even with the supplementing I'm doing I'm not replacing what I'm using. I'm going to try to finish out the month of March and then start weening completely. Sadie Marie loves her solids so much anyway she barely even pays attention to her bottle so I'm going to stop beating myself up over and move on. Ten months is as good as 12. Whew for some reason I feel so much better now that the decision has been made. Thanks Juju for talking it through with me!

I can feel the summer coming and I'm getting excited for all the things that means. First, Sadie Marie will turn one on May 24, 2012 and as a professional event planner I already have half the party planned, moonbounce booked, outfits ordered, and an invitation to the loony bin from the baby daddy. He thinks I'm insane but really Airhart!?! You only turn one once and let's get real this party is as much for me as it is for her! He continues to remind me she won't remember it but he does not know he's getting a daddy cam and can video the entire event so we can relive it on her 16th birthday. Ah the memories........

Second, I'm going the homeland for a nice long visit and a trip to the beach over the July 4, so that also means I will be there for my birthday! We gonna be at the beach and now that I have adamantly decided to stop breastfeeding I am going to really start working on my beach body which means I will really have to start running again. I hate getting back in shape, but I will LOVE myself once I'm there. Baby steps.

Third, the baby daddy has decided he wants to go to a NASCAR race this year in Richmond so I'm saving it for the September race. I'm so pumped, I never thought that sweet boy from Iowa would want to go drink beer and hang out with rednecks as much as he does but I love him for it. Richmond here we come!

So as you can see, we have a jammed packed summer ahead of us and I can't wait for all the travel. I'm so ready to take Sadie Marie to many of the places I have already been and to many of the new places we plan to go. Some folks don't like traveling with little ones but I look at it as an adventure. You can't stop your life because you have a baby and why should you, they want to live too! I also have to get stories for my blog somewhere and what better place than an 12 hour road trip to Alabama with a one year old, the baby daddy, and two dogs in tow?

Switching gears a bit......

So Sadie Marie got her first real "ouch" today at daycare. She's got a black eye, well not really but she has a mark and it's swollen......I walked in and she was like, "but mom you should have been the other guy,"

The evil toddler chair. That's right, my little nugget got beat up by a chair! Susan said she didn't cry which I believe because she's tough, but I still felt bad for her, it was swollen and everything! What can you do, she gets fantastic care at daycare so as the French would says, kids will be kids and that means getting their hands dirty.....or in this case black eye by toddler chair.

My mom was here over the past weekend and since my Grandmother turns 84 on March 19 so we had a little birthday party at Juju's house on Saturday and Cunnie decided it was time to intro Sadie Marie to CAKE.....and ICE CREAM. Did I mention their was frosting involved? She looked exactly like a kid with cake.......eyes glazed over as they basked in the beauty of frosting and cake batter ice cream.....and of course a chocolate frosting mustache.



While the past weeks have been pretty calm it has given me the opportunity to reflect on our lives over the past year and even though I'm still waiting on my breastfeeding girl scout badge I'm pretty proud of where we are. I returned to my job 7 months ago and I'm finally not feeling like a retard most days. it's take efficiency and excessive organization to do what I do and the difference is now I really have to WORK at my work. I thought I used to make lists to remember things, I had no idea what it meant to be organized before. I have a list for EVERYTHING. If I don't write it down the minute I think it, you can forget about it. This thing they call mommy brain is something different for me, my brain didn't get stupid.....it was awakened with Sadie Marie's birth and I just added something so much more important than work to my life that my brain just subconsciously chooses to focus on that more than work. I now have to work to be good at my work, which is something I'm not used to. I used to go in and BOOM, I could do my job with my eyes closed and I did it well. I feel like I'm getting back to that place.....SLOWLY......but in the meantime it has given me a HUGE appreciation for working mom, especially some of the ladies I work with who have more employees that I do and who have some serious stress that comes with their positions. In the same turn I'm glad I'm not them. I know my  team will grow over the years but hopefully by that time I will have a handle on this mom thing too and I can grow as a mom and as a manager.

Today we had another first, Sadie Marie is finally tall enough to walk in the walker and she LOVES it. Below is a video of her maiden voyage. (Well I couldn't get the video to load, but its on Facebook you can view it there!)

Sadie Marie's turned nine months old as well! Below are her pictures.

Clearly annoyed I dressed her up in yet another tutu.....save it Sadie M, tutus are a part of your life until your at least 10 years old.

This was last night while I was getting her supper ready. The baby daddy had gone to pick up our supper and unfortunately I don't have 4 arms so the poor child had to be put down for 5 minutes. I can already see where this is going. Poor mom and dad.

Y'all be good,

April