First off let me say that I have the most wonderful life. Seriously. I am blessed to get to be around the people that I am around and I am so thankful to be where I am in my life. Here is just a short list of what I am thankful for, just to remind myself how blessed I am. ***WARNING*** schmoopiness involved after this point...
1. I am thankful to be married to a man who values me as a person, a wife, a mother, and a woman. He makes me feel like a better person by giving me the opportunity to do things for myself.
2. I am thankful that he still likes me (sometimes a lot even!) and he still wants to spend a lifetime together. I couldn't have asked for a better match for me.
3. I am thankful that I have finally come to terms with my body, as rickety and problematic as it is. I am proud of it. Not only did my body develop and nurture something smaller than a grain of rice into a human being, it sustained him for 9 months in my body. And now it continues to give him all the best things to help him grow into a healthy boy. I feel empowered.
4. I am thankful that I get to be let in on the coolest occupation in the whole world - parenthood. Seriously - there is no greater joy, sorrow, and challenge. And those who know me best know I like a challenge.
5. I am thankful that after a couple of years of struggling we were able to make a strong, healthy, intelligent, and loving little boy.
6. I am thankful that all of my family was able to share our journey over the last year with us. Having a baby makes us realize how much we miss being able to see our families more often. We love the fact that they welcomed our little boy with open arms!
7. I am thankful for dark chocolate Snickers. Seriously - have you tried them?
8. I am thankful for a job that I enjoy doing and can excel at. The people that I've gotten to work with are warm and caring, and most genuinely enjoy what they do. I am glad that I have had the opportunity to be a part of this team.
9. I am thankful for the fact that my dogs are happy, healthy, and mind fairly well. Sure, they're fat, but I like to think that shows that we love them enough to feed them a little extra! Ha! I am so thankful that they are good around the baby, because the thought of having to get rid of them because we had the baby was heartbreaking.
10. I am thankful for my son. My son. Yes, I get to say that now. I cannot believe that God chose me to guide this little man in his life. I love waking up to him (even if it is 2-3 times a night) and I love getting to watch him experience his world. His presence calms me and grounds me and gives me a purpose in my life. He is everything I could have ever dreamed of and so much more.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
A tale of two teeth
What's that Mom? You want a picture of my two teeth? HHHmmm...I don't think you understand I don't want to share them with the world yet! Besides, it's much too fun to play with them with my tongue!!!
I wasn't kidding when I told you that you weren't going to get a picture! Neener neener neener!
Gag, choke, gag. Get your finger out of my mouth woman! Knock it off! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can't see them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay fine, you got me. I was just messing with you anyway. 
Oh my goodness I'm funny!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
My Ed
Where we met: At the Region 1 office of course. :) On his first day in the region - sometime in May of 1998? I just remember thinking, "he's not so bad. At least he smells good."
How long we dated before we got hitched: HHhhmmm.....it depends on who you asked, I'll just give the info I'm sure about. We moved in together in February of 2002 and we were married in August of 2003.
What's your favorite feature about him: I love that he has "man hands." They are big and strong and callused and not at all girly. His eyes are the most beautiful (I know I'm not supposed to say that about a man) shade of gray green. And he's got the cutest little divot in the end of his nose that matches his dimples. The whole package still gives me goose bumps.
What's your favorite quality about him: Have you ever seen my t-shirt from our Yellowstone 2007 trip? I sleep with Old Faithful. I love that he's dependable. When you need him, he is there. He is responsible and reliable and he's that way with anyone and at his job. And, he's so affectionate. He taught me how to hold hands in public, and how to kiss in public, etc...now I grab a little handful of arse no matter who is looking. He created a monster.
His favorite color: CAMO! Duh.
His favorite food: Ramen! Hahaha - just kidding. It'd have to be anything "game-y." That man loves his meat. He's picky about his Mexican food, and he loves Chinese.
His favorite sport: To play - baseball. To watch - football.
Who said the L word first: A source of debate in our house. Neither one of us is sure who said it first. I know it came easier for him to say, but it might have been me. Neither of us really seems to remember. If you ask him he will tell you he said it first.
First kiss - when and where: Sorry peeps, that's for him and me to relive privately. That's our special memory. Holy cow SPARKS. That's all I can tell you.
Favorite things to do: Me!!! Hahaha. He loves to take drives in the woods or go hiking. He loves to snap pictures of animals and nature, and now G and mommy! He just loves to be outdoors. He also loves surfing the net and "fixin" stuff.
How many kids: Legitimate? I haven't checked around at the Reservation yet...He now has two sons and one daughter.
His hidden talent: He's a big ol' softy for babies. Oh - and he's very very mechanically inclined. I call him my McGyver. Seriously, there isn't anything he doesn't know how to fix.
His age: Old enough to know better, too young to care! (did I get it right Ed?).
His favorite music: He likes a lot of stuff. His ringtone is The Doobie Brothers, he likes Queen, The Doors, etc...a lot of stuff like that. He also likes country.
What I admire most about him: He's not afraid of anything. He will try anything at least once and he does it full force. I hold back. I wish I could be more like him.
His favorite past time: Watching football (college, NFL, you name it), surfing and playing freecell, getting lost in the woods.
Will he read this: I don't know if he still visits the blog or not. He knows I have one but I'm not sure if he follows along with it or anything. If I find out he does maybe someday I can get him to post to it too! Hahaha - yeah right!
How long we dated before we got hitched: HHhhmmm.....it depends on who you asked, I'll just give the info I'm sure about. We moved in together in February of 2002 and we were married in August of 2003.
What's your favorite feature about him: I love that he has "man hands." They are big and strong and callused and not at all girly. His eyes are the most beautiful (I know I'm not supposed to say that about a man) shade of gray green. And he's got the cutest little divot in the end of his nose that matches his dimples. The whole package still gives me goose bumps.
What's your favorite quality about him: Have you ever seen my t-shirt from our Yellowstone 2007 trip? I sleep with Old Faithful. I love that he's dependable. When you need him, he is there. He is responsible and reliable and he's that way with anyone and at his job. And, he's so affectionate. He taught me how to hold hands in public, and how to kiss in public, etc...now I grab a little handful of arse no matter who is looking. He created a monster.
His favorite color: CAMO! Duh.
His favorite food: Ramen! Hahaha - just kidding. It'd have to be anything "game-y." That man loves his meat. He's picky about his Mexican food, and he loves Chinese.
His favorite sport: To play - baseball. To watch - football.
Who said the L word first: A source of debate in our house. Neither one of us is sure who said it first. I know it came easier for him to say, but it might have been me. Neither of us really seems to remember. If you ask him he will tell you he said it first.
First kiss - when and where: Sorry peeps, that's for him and me to relive privately. That's our special memory. Holy cow SPARKS. That's all I can tell you.
Favorite things to do: Me!!! Hahaha. He loves to take drives in the woods or go hiking. He loves to snap pictures of animals and nature, and now G and mommy! He just loves to be outdoors. He also loves surfing the net and "fixin" stuff.
How many kids: Legitimate? I haven't checked around at the Reservation yet...He now has two sons and one daughter.
His hidden talent: He's a big ol' softy for babies. Oh - and he's very very mechanically inclined. I call him my McGyver. Seriously, there isn't anything he doesn't know how to fix.
His age: Old enough to know better, too young to care! (did I get it right Ed?).
His favorite music: He likes a lot of stuff. His ringtone is The Doobie Brothers, he likes Queen, The Doors, etc...a lot of stuff like that. He also likes country.
What I admire most about him: He's not afraid of anything. He will try anything at least once and he does it full force. I hold back. I wish I could be more like him.
His favorite past time: Watching football (college, NFL, you name it), surfing and playing freecell, getting lost in the woods.
Will he read this: I don't know if he still visits the blog or not. He knows I have one but I'm not sure if he follows along with it or anything. If I find out he does maybe someday I can get him to post to it too! Hahaha - yeah right!
Whew! What a couple of weeks!
Sorry for not updating sooner. I have plenty of pictures to post for y'all but I'm at work right now and they're not on this computer of course! :)
***NEW COMPUTER***
My laptop finally went kaput on me and I had a hard time talking myself into buying a new one, especially so close to the holidays. But the reality is that I can't do my homework with a paper and pencil and put it in snail mail anymore, so I had to go buy a new computer. I was dreading having to spend money and decide what I wanted, but mostly I was dreading have to give up XP for Vista. What I've come to find out is that Vista isn't as bad as it's reputation would lead one to believe. I can handle it. I do miss a lot of the tweaks that I had with XP though. The coolest part is that I now have sound again, but that just encourages my Dad to "nudge" me on MSN and try to freak the dogs out. There is a webcam and microphone built in so "The Garrett Show" plays on MSN at least once a week and Grandpa, Grandma and Aunty are frequent viewers. They are going to be so surprised when they see him next week!
***SICK OF BEING SICK***
Seriously, does a little baby really have to catch EVERY dang virus out there? G has been sick with back to back colds since that first one in mid September. This last one has held on an extra long time and he is a snot factory. Lovely I know. His cough has a rattle in it and it had been keeping him up at night. Poor kid was up at least every 2 hours and the only thing that would get him back to sleep would be some booby. So I haven't gotten much sleep either! After trying to let the sickness run it's course we took him into the doctor earlier this week and he's on his very first round of antibiotics. Ever try to get a 4.5 month old to swallow 7ml of a thick hot pink liquid that he has no intention of swallowing, without getting the hot pink all over yourself and whatever you are wrestling on? Yeah, big fun. He takes the medicine a lot better from Ed than he does from me. In fact this morning he spit it right back into my face. Good thing I like pink.
G got weighed when we were there, and he's a whopping 17 pounds and 10 ounces! Can you say "Welcome to the NFL" ???
***TEETH!***
On 11/11/08 Garrett's first two teeth (the bottom front ones) popped through. We haven't gotten a picture yet because he only shows them when he is smiling and as soon as we get out a camera he stops smiling. I think he takes after me that way. Little turkey. I am still breastfeeding and determined to continue to do so, but I have to admit - those little teeth are SHARP! I'm assuming that the nips will toughen up to the beating they are taking and really the only time he hurts me is in the middle of the night when he's lazy about his latch. Since the chomp down hurts me and wakes me right up, I wake him up and make him latch correctly, and then we're good to go.
***SOLIDS***
Since rice cereal was a pretty big hit, we thought we'd go ahead and start with some fruits. So far G has only had banana's but he sure likes them. He takes them from his Dad a lot easier than he does me - but that's because he really would rather just have booby. When we were grocery shopping at Walmart the other day we picked up some different kinds of other fruits and a few veggies. G loves to watch us eat and he is fascinated with how we put things in our mouths. He has started to mimic us using his binky though. Such a smart boy! :)
***NEW FRIENDS***
Last night Ed had to run the run the range until about 8 pm (low light shoot) and I worked at 3 pm so I brought G to work with me and he went home with my boss. What??? :) My boss is awesome - she's a momma of 5 kids herself and so I trust her with him, it's just not a "relationship" I want to abuse by asking her for this favor very often. Apparently they had a great time and Cindi's (yes my bosses name is Cindi as well) two younger boys gave G some of the toys that they don't play with anymore. How sweet is that? I'd farm G out for free toys anyday - have you seen what those things cost????
Today he's hanging out with Brianna, our friend's 16 year old daughter. This is the first time I've left G with somone under the age of 30 - but I trust her too. She's a sweetie and she really likes him, so I know she'll take good care of him. I'm just proud of myself for being able to let go and do it!!!
***ROLLIN' WITH HIS HOMIES***
G's rolling is insane now! He loves to play on the floor and he rolls all over the place. The funny thing is that when he gets on his tummy (he doesn't like to be on his tummy) he tries REALLY hard to get up on his knees and elbows. I wonder how much longer we can keep him from crawling! If he's not working on getting up to crawl he gets supremely pissed off about being on his belly. He seems to have forgotten that he knows how to roll to his back for some reason. I know he'll figure it out again someday.
***TRAVELING!***
Well we are soon to make another long drive north, this time for Thanksgiving. We are so excited to get to see our family and maybe some friends. Neither of our families have seen G since we were up there with him this summer - and he was still an itty bitty newborn! He was all of 5 weeks old the last time he saw them and now he's 5 months old! For those of you that think you are going to hold and cuddle him, good luck. The boy never stops moving! But of course we'll let you try!!! I am trying hard to get ready to even start packing. We've done 95% of our Christmas shopping so we can bring it up there and leave it instead of having to pay to ship it all up. That means I have to find out from Ed where he hid all the Christmas decorations and wrapping paper so I can get those taken care of before we leave. Oh, and I suppose I should pack some clothes for everyone.
***BAPTISM***
While we're up north we're going to have G baptized at the church I basically grew up in. This will be during the second service (11:00 am) on Sunday 11/30/08. If you'd like to know more just email one of us or call. We asked my sister Sarah and Ed's son James to be G's godparents. You might remember that that's who stood up for us at our wedding as well. :) I'll have pictures of course - but that's a week and a half away still.
***SCHOOL***
We are driving home on Monday 12/01/08. That also happens to be my first day back at school since my leave of absence for maternity leave started on 06/02/08. I'm glad to be getting going again but I'm dreading trying to figure out how I'm going to fit studying and schoolwork in with the rest of my life! Anyone with tips, feel free to leave them here!
And, I'm spent. That's all you get for right now! :)
***NEW COMPUTER***
My laptop finally went kaput on me and I had a hard time talking myself into buying a new one, especially so close to the holidays. But the reality is that I can't do my homework with a paper and pencil and put it in snail mail anymore, so I had to go buy a new computer. I was dreading having to spend money and decide what I wanted, but mostly I was dreading have to give up XP for Vista. What I've come to find out is that Vista isn't as bad as it's reputation would lead one to believe. I can handle it. I do miss a lot of the tweaks that I had with XP though. The coolest part is that I now have sound again, but that just encourages my Dad to "nudge" me on MSN and try to freak the dogs out. There is a webcam and microphone built in so "The Garrett Show" plays on MSN at least once a week and Grandpa, Grandma and Aunty are frequent viewers. They are going to be so surprised when they see him next week!
***SICK OF BEING SICK***
Seriously, does a little baby really have to catch EVERY dang virus out there? G has been sick with back to back colds since that first one in mid September. This last one has held on an extra long time and he is a snot factory. Lovely I know. His cough has a rattle in it and it had been keeping him up at night. Poor kid was up at least every 2 hours and the only thing that would get him back to sleep would be some booby. So I haven't gotten much sleep either! After trying to let the sickness run it's course we took him into the doctor earlier this week and he's on his very first round of antibiotics. Ever try to get a 4.5 month old to swallow 7ml of a thick hot pink liquid that he has no intention of swallowing, without getting the hot pink all over yourself and whatever you are wrestling on? Yeah, big fun. He takes the medicine a lot better from Ed than he does from me. In fact this morning he spit it right back into my face. Good thing I like pink.
G got weighed when we were there, and he's a whopping 17 pounds and 10 ounces! Can you say "Welcome to the NFL" ???
***TEETH!***
On 11/11/08 Garrett's first two teeth (the bottom front ones) popped through. We haven't gotten a picture yet because he only shows them when he is smiling and as soon as we get out a camera he stops smiling. I think he takes after me that way. Little turkey. I am still breastfeeding and determined to continue to do so, but I have to admit - those little teeth are SHARP! I'm assuming that the nips will toughen up to the beating they are taking and really the only time he hurts me is in the middle of the night when he's lazy about his latch. Since the chomp down hurts me and wakes me right up, I wake him up and make him latch correctly, and then we're good to go.
***SOLIDS***
Since rice cereal was a pretty big hit, we thought we'd go ahead and start with some fruits. So far G has only had banana's but he sure likes them. He takes them from his Dad a lot easier than he does me - but that's because he really would rather just have booby. When we were grocery shopping at Walmart the other day we picked up some different kinds of other fruits and a few veggies. G loves to watch us eat and he is fascinated with how we put things in our mouths. He has started to mimic us using his binky though. Such a smart boy! :)
***NEW FRIENDS***
Last night Ed had to run the run the range until about 8 pm (low light shoot) and I worked at 3 pm so I brought G to work with me and he went home with my boss. What??? :) My boss is awesome - she's a momma of 5 kids herself and so I trust her with him, it's just not a "relationship" I want to abuse by asking her for this favor very often. Apparently they had a great time and Cindi's (yes my bosses name is Cindi as well) two younger boys gave G some of the toys that they don't play with anymore. How sweet is that? I'd farm G out for free toys anyday - have you seen what those things cost????
Today he's hanging out with Brianna, our friend's 16 year old daughter. This is the first time I've left G with somone under the age of 30 - but I trust her too. She's a sweetie and she really likes him, so I know she'll take good care of him. I'm just proud of myself for being able to let go and do it!!!
***ROLLIN' WITH HIS HOMIES***
G's rolling is insane now! He loves to play on the floor and he rolls all over the place. The funny thing is that when he gets on his tummy (he doesn't like to be on his tummy) he tries REALLY hard to get up on his knees and elbows. I wonder how much longer we can keep him from crawling! If he's not working on getting up to crawl he gets supremely pissed off about being on his belly. He seems to have forgotten that he knows how to roll to his back for some reason. I know he'll figure it out again someday.
***TRAVELING!***
Well we are soon to make another long drive north, this time for Thanksgiving. We are so excited to get to see our family and maybe some friends. Neither of our families have seen G since we were up there with him this summer - and he was still an itty bitty newborn! He was all of 5 weeks old the last time he saw them and now he's 5 months old! For those of you that think you are going to hold and cuddle him, good luck. The boy never stops moving! But of course we'll let you try!!! I am trying hard to get ready to even start packing. We've done 95% of our Christmas shopping so we can bring it up there and leave it instead of having to pay to ship it all up. That means I have to find out from Ed where he hid all the Christmas decorations and wrapping paper so I can get those taken care of before we leave. Oh, and I suppose I should pack some clothes for everyone.
***BAPTISM***
While we're up north we're going to have G baptized at the church I basically grew up in. This will be during the second service (11:00 am) on Sunday 11/30/08. If you'd like to know more just email one of us or call. We asked my sister Sarah and Ed's son James to be G's godparents. You might remember that that's who stood up for us at our wedding as well. :) I'll have pictures of course - but that's a week and a half away still.
***SCHOOL***
We are driving home on Monday 12/01/08. That also happens to be my first day back at school since my leave of absence for maternity leave started on 06/02/08. I'm glad to be getting going again but I'm dreading trying to figure out how I'm going to fit studying and schoolwork in with the rest of my life! Anyone with tips, feel free to leave them here!
And, I'm spent. That's all you get for right now! :)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Happy T Day everyone (it's early but I forget easy)
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off of your thighs!
Monday, November 17, 2008
For your viewing pleasure...
No one makes G laugh like Daddy makes G laugh! :) This is from over a month ago but I just got around to downloading some stuff of the camcorder. :) Enjoy Mr. Giggles!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjC1DyA3q0o
It's about 5 minutes worth, but you don't have to watch it all the way through to get the picture. :) They go on and on like that for 15-20 minutes at a time. I would have put it directly on here but it's too big of a file, so I had to just link you to my youtube!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
eek! another big thing!!!
G grabbed my hand this evening and went to chew on it, something he does regularly. And I felt a tooth! I stopped him from chewing and deliberately felt...and sure enough - HE HAS A TOOTH! It's his lower left front tooth, and I can feel that the right one is just about to erupt as well. He wouldn't let us really see it, he kept putting his tongue in the way! I'll get a picture just as soon as I can sneak one in!!! This certainly explains why his sleep patterns have been so whack for the last couple of nights. I can't believe my baby has a tooth already!!! I shouldn't really be surprised, considering he's been teething for at least two months now.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Bring on the roller derby!!!
Ed was in Boise again last week, for what will hopefully be his last trip over there until he has to go pick up his new SUV for Powell. On Thursday of last week, while Ed was driving home from Boise, Garrett rolled from his tummy to his back, a couple of times. I almost hated to tell Ed because I knew he would be sad that he missed it. He was.
But today Garrett finally made it from his back to his belly! That one was tough for him - getting that one darn arm out of his way took awhile. Now he's a rolling fool!!! I watched him do it a couple of times before I went to work tonight, and he's since done it several times for Ed. I think Garrett was getting more excited about the fact that I was excited than what he actually did. I was jumping up and down, hootin' and hollerin' and kissing all over him.
That's my boy - making changes in his little world and growin' like a weed!!!
But today Garrett finally made it from his back to his belly! That one was tough for him - getting that one darn arm out of his way took awhile. Now he's a rolling fool!!! I watched him do it a couple of times before I went to work tonight, and he's since done it several times for Ed. I think Garrett was getting more excited about the fact that I was excited than what he actually did. I was jumping up and down, hootin' and hollerin' and kissing all over him.
That's my boy - making changes in his little world and growin' like a weed!!!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Profound & so true...
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. ~Christopher Morley
Garrett's sitter
A lot of you have asked about who watches G while Ed and I are at work. I thought I had somewhat introduced his sitter on here before, but I guess I hadn't.
Ed and I work opposing shifts as much as possible to save money. And when we overlap (i.e. I work at 1 pm and Ed gets off work at 4 pm) G goes to the sitter. His sitter is a woman my age named Cami (not to be confused with our granddaughter/G's niece Cami) who is A.W.E.S.O.M.E. She's as stay at home mom to 3 year old Jordan, a little boy that G finds hilariously entertaining. Cami's husband is a resident doc at Portneuf Medical, where G was born. Strangely, but luckily, I found her on www.craigslist.org. You might remember reading a post from around August about a woman who offered to "eat" G, but rest assured this is not that woman.
We feel very blessed to have found Cami and her Jordan - they are so sweet and loving with G. Cami takes great care of my baby boy. It makes going to work easier, but not easy!!! Thankfully G hasn't started the "my Mom is leaving me" cry thing. I hope to avoid that altogether but I don't know if I'll be so lucky!!!
So I hope that satisfies your curiosity!!!
Ed and I work opposing shifts as much as possible to save money. And when we overlap (i.e. I work at 1 pm and Ed gets off work at 4 pm) G goes to the sitter. His sitter is a woman my age named Cami (not to be confused with our granddaughter/G's niece Cami) who is A.W.E.S.O.M.E. She's as stay at home mom to 3 year old Jordan, a little boy that G finds hilariously entertaining. Cami's husband is a resident doc at Portneuf Medical, where G was born. Strangely, but luckily, I found her on www.craigslist.org. You might remember reading a post from around August about a woman who offered to "eat" G, but rest assured this is not that woman.
We feel very blessed to have found Cami and her Jordan - they are so sweet and loving with G. Cami takes great care of my baby boy. It makes going to work easier, but not easy!!! Thankfully G hasn't started the "my Mom is leaving me" cry thing. I hope to avoid that altogether but I don't know if I'll be so lucky!!!
So I hope that satisfies your curiosity!!!
The Great Diaper Debate
When G was born we used Pampers Swaddlers, and they worked okay. Then he started peeing out the front of them. We switched to Huggies. Those worked for a couple of weeks, then he started peeing out of the front and sides of the. We went up to the next size of Pampers, and all was well.
G's size 2 diapers are too small (of course after I bought a case of 200+ of them) so we've had to make the switch to size 3'd (yes already). Thankfully we have Ed's granddaughter Cami to pass the size 2's onto.
We went with Pampers Baby Dry since those worked so well in the size 2's. And more than once a day we've had the pleasure of repeated blow-outs out the top back of the diaper, all over his back. Thankfully we've learned the beauty of that laundry helper called Shout. Have you ever tried to change a wiggly 4 months old diaper on the backseat of a car while trying to get his dirty onesie off over his head without smearing poop in his hair? Yeah, well...Garrett has had a poopy head more than once, let me just tell you that. Anyway...we decided we've had enough of poopy back syndrome so we tried some Huggies again. They are cool because they have this elastic thing at the top back of the diaper. No more poopy back! Now it's coming out the sides in the front. WHAT THE HELL???
We're going to stick with the Huggies for right now, but that's mostly based on the fact that I learned the hard way last week, after paying the $50 to become a Costco member, that Costco only carries their brand of diapers (Kirkland) and Huggies. It's handy to buy diapers in bulk at this point, since he should be in size 3's for awhile.
So that's just a tidbit of uselss info about our recent battle with diapers! Aren't you glad you came here?
G's size 2 diapers are too small (of course after I bought a case of 200+ of them) so we've had to make the switch to size 3'd (yes already). Thankfully we have Ed's granddaughter Cami to pass the size 2's onto.
We went with Pampers Baby Dry since those worked so well in the size 2's. And more than once a day we've had the pleasure of repeated blow-outs out the top back of the diaper, all over his back. Thankfully we've learned the beauty of that laundry helper called Shout. Have you ever tried to change a wiggly 4 months old diaper on the backseat of a car while trying to get his dirty onesie off over his head without smearing poop in his hair? Yeah, well...Garrett has had a poopy head more than once, let me just tell you that. Anyway...we decided we've had enough of poopy back syndrome so we tried some Huggies again. They are cool because they have this elastic thing at the top back of the diaper. No more poopy back! Now it's coming out the sides in the front. WHAT THE HELL???
We're going to stick with the Huggies for right now, but that's mostly based on the fact that I learned the hard way last week, after paying the $50 to become a Costco member, that Costco only carries their brand of diapers (Kirkland) and Huggies. It's handy to buy diapers in bulk at this point, since he should be in size 3's for awhile.
So that's just a tidbit of uselss info about our recent battle with diapers! Aren't you glad you came here?
Ed, G, and some rice cereal...
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Last night (11/01/08) Ed decided to feed G his rice cereal mixed with a little expressed breast milk, with a spoon and bowl. I was at work so I missed it :( Ed said G did great - ate up all his cereal like he was a starving Ethiopian child. That's my boy!!! I hope to be home before 8 pm tonight so I can watch them this time!!!
I ordered a high chair off of www.walmart.com so we just have to wait for that to get to the store so I can pick it up. I wasn't about to pay shipping on something like that!! There were only a handful of high chairs at the stores around here, and they were all super girly - so I had to order it online. It makes me wish I was shopping in Missoula already!!!
I ordered a high chair off of www.walmart.com so we just have to wait for that to get to the store so I can pick it up. I wasn't about to pay shipping on something like that!! There were only a handful of high chairs at the stores around here, and they were all super girly - so I had to order it online. It makes me wish I was shopping in Missoula already!!!
G's first Halloween!
We had intended to take G to a pumpkin patch on Friday (10/31/08) since Ed and I both had that day off together. We had a copule of things slowing us down that day so we didn't get out there until the afternoon, and by then it was closed down. So no cute G in the pumpkins pictures. :( But then we went home and waited for the trick or treaters!!! I figured I would try to "cherish" what is likely my last Halloween for a couple of years since I'm pretty sure we're not going to get anyone trick or treating our house in Powell. And if we do they might get shot.
Anyway, back to our Halloween. G found the trick or treaters hilarious. He smiled at all of them (except for the Grim Reaper - I think the sickle scared him but it kind of scared me too) and he flirted like crazy with all the girls, of course. Ed taught him that. I didn't have as much humor at the whole situation. Many were teenagers, well passed the age to be trick or treating. They didn't bother me as much as the honest to shout ADULTS that were trick or treating. And their costumes were half-assed to put it kindly. They were not taking their kids out - but taking their kids out and bringing along their own bag/bucket/pillowcase and looking for candy.
I had one 3' tall and 3' wide Native American kid who was probably about 8 carrying two sacks and he wanted candy in both. It's mean I know but dude needed to lay off the candy anyway. He had 3 adults with him who were also getting candy. I asked him why I should put candy in his second bag and he told me it was for his "other uncle." WTF? I said, "well where is he?" "At home watching Tv." OMG.
I had one girl who was probably right around 8. She stepped into my house, reached her hand right into the bucket and took a handful and left. No trick or treat, no thank you, nothing. I was so flabbergasted that I had nothing to say to the little demon. Hard for you to believe I know...but it's true. I had nothing to say, not even to her parents who were standing right there.
I had one group of teenagers who had 1 actual "kid" with them. I had the first "shift" and Ed had the second. The jerks came back a second time (Ed was at the door by then. I just happened to walk out and see them and was like, "WTF are you doing back here?"
I had two younger boys who were probably between 7 and 10 and they rang the doorbell a couple of times in the 20 seconds it took me to get to the door. And when I got there they were smashing their little piggy faces against the window of the door, so now I need to break out the Windex.
And, as a last piece to share with you - I had one girl who was at least 15 and she had no costume on...I thought I was being generous and I gave her 2 pieces of candy and she said, "Didn't you see the sign around my neck?" It said something like, "Will work for candy." I told her to mow my damn lawn and I'd give her more candy. She laughed and said, "No that's just my way of asking for more candy." WTF? I said, "Well I actually DO work to buy this candy - so enjoy what I gave you and quit begging."
Good thing I won't be having Halloween duties again for about 6 years huh? Oy. If G pushes to participate we'll have to take him up to my Mom and Dad's house for trick or treating. But I kind of like the idea of just having costumes around the house for him to wear whenever he wants to anyway...I can see him having an active imagination, he doesn't need Halloween to be a reason to dress up. Can't you see Ed coming home from work one day and having a dragon greet him at the mud room? Or a dinosaur, etc.???
Anyway, back to our Halloween. G found the trick or treaters hilarious. He smiled at all of them (except for the Grim Reaper - I think the sickle scared him but it kind of scared me too) and he flirted like crazy with all the girls, of course. Ed taught him that. I didn't have as much humor at the whole situation. Many were teenagers, well passed the age to be trick or treating. They didn't bother me as much as the honest to shout ADULTS that were trick or treating. And their costumes were half-assed to put it kindly. They were not taking their kids out - but taking their kids out and bringing along their own bag/bucket/pillowcase and looking for candy.
I had one 3' tall and 3' wide Native American kid who was probably about 8 carrying two sacks and he wanted candy in both. It's mean I know but dude needed to lay off the candy anyway. He had 3 adults with him who were also getting candy. I asked him why I should put candy in his second bag and he told me it was for his "other uncle." WTF? I said, "well where is he?" "At home watching Tv." OMG.
I had one girl who was probably right around 8. She stepped into my house, reached her hand right into the bucket and took a handful and left. No trick or treat, no thank you, nothing. I was so flabbergasted that I had nothing to say to the little demon. Hard for you to believe I know...but it's true. I had nothing to say, not even to her parents who were standing right there.
I had one group of teenagers who had 1 actual "kid" with them. I had the first "shift" and Ed had the second. The jerks came back a second time (Ed was at the door by then. I just happened to walk out and see them and was like, "WTF are you doing back here?"
I had two younger boys who were probably between 7 and 10 and they rang the doorbell a couple of times in the 20 seconds it took me to get to the door. And when I got there they were smashing their little piggy faces against the window of the door, so now I need to break out the Windex.
And, as a last piece to share with you - I had one girl who was at least 15 and she had no costume on...I thought I was being generous and I gave her 2 pieces of candy and she said, "Didn't you see the sign around my neck?" It said something like, "Will work for candy." I told her to mow my damn lawn and I'd give her more candy. She laughed and said, "No that's just my way of asking for more candy." WTF? I said, "Well I actually DO work to buy this candy - so enjoy what I gave you and quit begging."
Good thing I won't be having Halloween duties again for about 6 years huh? Oy. If G pushes to participate we'll have to take him up to my Mom and Dad's house for trick or treating. But I kind of like the idea of just having costumes around the house for him to wear whenever he wants to anyway...I can see him having an active imagination, he doesn't need Halloween to be a reason to dress up. Can't you see Ed coming home from work one day and having a dragon greet him at the mud room? Or a dinosaur, etc.???
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