Kate Gosslin and the Swine flu are all over the place within the media. To be quite honest I am getting quite tired of hearing about what is going to happen to Jon and Kate and their uninteresting show Jon and Kate plus 8. Today Kate was a guest on The Ellen Degeneres show and was asked all the same questions she has been asked on other shows such as my favorite morning show, "Regis and Kelly." Kate has stated many times that her kids are her number one priority and she is a mom first before any other title she may have in her life. Hmmmmm. Not so sure I agree with that. I am glad that she loves her kids. I mean, I can't imagine how hard it must be having two sets of multiples and dealing with all the insanity of having her own TV show. I have watched a large share of Jon and Kate episodes and felt bad for Jon because of the way Kate treats him on national TV. She treats him like he doesn't know what he is doing half the time and yells at the guy in public. Now I know that it probably isn't all Kate's fault for their divorce, but I also think Kate drove Jon crazy enough that he is relieved to move on. I don't agree with their decision to divorce and even if it is mostly Kate's fault I still think Jon is rather selfish. Maybe he has tried his best to work on their marriage and Kate refuses to comply, but regardless it's a mess and is really none of my business nor the media's. I wish Kate would drop the show and give her kids the peace they really need. In my opinion I think if Kate would have put her marriage first this may not have happened. Jon was in her life first and if she really cared for her kids she and Jon would both have tired to save their marriage. The one thing Joe and I vowed we would do when we started a family was to put each other first and our kids second because you can't have a happy, healthy family if mom and dad aren't putting each other first.
Now the Swine Flu is just one of those annoying topics that seems to be on ever single talk show and News channel that exists. I know people are dying of this flu but holy cow you would think we were about to be invaded by aliens or something. They just won't shut up about it. I think we get it! If you don't get your shot we are all gonna DIE! Sometimes you just can't avoid catching a cold no matter how healthy you are or how hard you try to avoid sick people. What about the sick people that don't avoid the healthy people? A huge pet peeve of mine is when sick people don't stay home away from everyone until they are over their illness! Do those people really think they want them around. My husband came home the other day and said that people were coming in sick to work. What?!!! Why do people think this is cool? I'd just love it if someone got my husband sick, came home and got me sick and then I pass it onto my son Jake! This makes no sense to me at all. Stay home if you are feeling even slightly ill people! We don't want your germs and neither do their families. Common sense is all it takes to avoid passing crap around. I certainly don't think I am immune to the swine flu but the fact that I am home 90% of the time and not around that many people I think I will take my chances on pass on the H1N1.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Jake Pictures
Here are a few of my favorite from the past couple of weeks. He is a happy little guy.
I brought Jake into Sear last Tue and had his one month picture taken. We got some pretty good shots and he even smiled for a few of them. I kind of wish I would have just gotten a little creative with taking some at home shots and printing them out instead of blowing 150 bucks on professional pictures. Oh well, you have to do it at least once in their life.
I am heading to Chicago today for a few more baby showers. I feel like I have had 10 of them already but this will only be number 5. I am very blessed to have so many friends and famly to spoiled him rotten.
Monday, October 19, 2009
A quick update
By request of my sister in law Denise I am writing a quick update. Quick, because I am trying to get a nap in today and Jake is now just falling asleep. I tried to post a few new pics but my computor is jacked up. Everytime I go to a new page on the internet a page comes up that tell me that the website I am going to is a phishing wesite. Hmmm. not sure how that is happening. I feel like my computor is being hacked. Need to get that checked.
Well, Jake is now 5 weeks old, around 12 lbs and right at 23 in long. He has grown a ton and changed much to quickly. He is a good sleeper when he is in a deep sleep that he doesn't startle himself out of sleep, a good eater besides the messy throw up during and after he eats, and he has been starting to respond to us by smiling a lot. He loves his pacifier, but also tries to find his thumb when I get tired of trying to hold the pacifier in his mouth at night.
I am a few weeks away from putting him in his own room at night. He has been keeping me awake at night when he should be sleeping after I feed him. We were going to wait until he was aleeping through the night to move him into his own room, but last night I fed him at 2:30am and I wasn't alseep again until 6am after I fed him a second time. He had fallin asleep for about 45 min but then suddenly woke up fussy. I let him cry for about ten mins and when I turned the light on realized he had scooted of his sleep positioner and kicked all the blankets off of him. He wasn't too happy about that so I cuddled him in bed for a few minutes to warm him up and then realized that it was time to feed him again. So now I am trying to catch up on the 2 hours of sleep I could have gotten last night.
I love being a mom. Every week gets better and better. I love getting to know him and what he needs when he cries. Sleepless nights are worth it and I treasure every moment I get with him.
Off to take a nap. I will try to post some picture later today. I don't expect it to download but I will give it another shot. You can check facebook for a three pics I posted two days ago.
Well, Jake is now 5 weeks old, around 12 lbs and right at 23 in long. He has grown a ton and changed much to quickly. He is a good sleeper when he is in a deep sleep that he doesn't startle himself out of sleep, a good eater besides the messy throw up during and after he eats, and he has been starting to respond to us by smiling a lot. He loves his pacifier, but also tries to find his thumb when I get tired of trying to hold the pacifier in his mouth at night.
I am a few weeks away from putting him in his own room at night. He has been keeping me awake at night when he should be sleeping after I feed him. We were going to wait until he was aleeping through the night to move him into his own room, but last night I fed him at 2:30am and I wasn't alseep again until 6am after I fed him a second time. He had fallin asleep for about 45 min but then suddenly woke up fussy. I let him cry for about ten mins and when I turned the light on realized he had scooted of his sleep positioner and kicked all the blankets off of him. He wasn't too happy about that so I cuddled him in bed for a few minutes to warm him up and then realized that it was time to feed him again. So now I am trying to catch up on the 2 hours of sleep I could have gotten last night.
I love being a mom. Every week gets better and better. I love getting to know him and what he needs when he cries. Sleepless nights are worth it and I treasure every moment I get with him.
Off to take a nap. I will try to post some picture later today. I don't expect it to download but I will give it another shot. You can check facebook for a three pics I posted two days ago.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Infant Acne Solution
For those of you who have kids or babies and you are dealing with infant acne, or even have acne yourself I have a solution that worked for my 3 week old. He started getting a little acne at 3 weeks old. I hated to see all those little red bumps appear on his cute little face. I know he didn't know any better, but I didn't want him to look that way so I dug through my natural remedies kit and found some Melaleuca Oil. I put a drop of the oil on a warm wet wash cloth and wiped the cloth all over his face. Within a day the acne dried up and the red bumps were gone. He still gets a few red spots here and there so I just wipe off his face once a day with the oil. There you have it. Just like Magic!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The past couple of weeks
Being a mom is fun, though very tiring and I will be glad when I get to the two month mark when I can start working on getting Jake to sleep through the night. I know some people may think that two months is too early for a baby to sleep through the night but I have had several friends who were very successful at it with all their babies. It may take a little longer for him to get into that kind of routine but I know it is possible.
Hearing your own baby cry is much harder to listen too then I thought it would be, however, the times that I have let him cry himself to sleep has only lasted about 5 minutes and he was out cold. It always seems longer then it actually is. There have been a couple of times we have been in the car and I had no choice but to let him cry it out and that gave me confidence that I can let him cry sometimes. It isn't going to hurt him, it just sounds horrible.
Nursing is going great! He loves Boobs that's for sure. Jake is a spitter, but we have figured out that the more breaks we take to burbs him the less vomit to clean up. I was very unsuccessful at burping him this morning and 15 min after handing him over to Joe so I could catch a few more Zzzz's I guess Jake lost so much of his meal he soaked threw two towels and his outfit and a couple of burb rags. I ended up having to feed him again shortly after that.
We went to church for the first time since Jake was born today. He slept right through the whole service. I was amazed at how much babies are a magnet for attention. Everyone wanted to come and peek at the baby. I was glad that he was asleep in his car seat so I didn't have to hand him off to everyone and their grandma. I love it that people want to hold him, but at the same time, I am a little selfish and like to have him all for myself most of the time. This is also a really bad time of the year to have a baby since everyone is always getting sick. I am not the kind of person that has hand sanitizer all over my house and require hand washing before anyone touches him. Personally I think hand sanitizer is silly, especially the anti-bacterial stuff. You not only kill bad bacteria, but the good bacteria too which is what we all need for a better immune system. A good old bar of Ivory is best!
Joe came home alive from his climb up Mt Rainer. It is a good thing I didn't know how dangerous that trip actually was until he got home. He said it was the hardest thing he has ever done, but glad he got to do it.
Having people bring you meals for a week or two is a lifesavor! I am so thankful for all those people who have brough us dinner this past week and for my mom and mother-in-law for making meals for us! That's one less thing for me to think about.
Mice are gross and they are starting to invade our house. I keep a clean house, so when I see bugs and mice it makes me feel like I have a dirty house. I know that isn't true, but they poop all over the place. I got up to feed Jake two nights agi and we set three traps out on our counter top. We were successful at traping the little stinker. He was still alive when I found him. I threw him out the back door and left him to suffer in the cold. I felt bad and wish I had a heavy boot close by so I could finish him off quickly, but I had Jake alseep in my arms.
It's time to feed the boy AGAIN! I feel like that is all I ever do now a days, but only about 6 more weeks of the every three hours routine and I will hopefully get a little more freedom and some shrinkage in my chest. I thought I would enjoy having a bigger chest. Nope! I won't ever complain about my chest size ever again!
Hearing your own baby cry is much harder to listen too then I thought it would be, however, the times that I have let him cry himself to sleep has only lasted about 5 minutes and he was out cold. It always seems longer then it actually is. There have been a couple of times we have been in the car and I had no choice but to let him cry it out and that gave me confidence that I can let him cry sometimes. It isn't going to hurt him, it just sounds horrible.
Nursing is going great! He loves Boobs that's for sure. Jake is a spitter, but we have figured out that the more breaks we take to burbs him the less vomit to clean up. I was very unsuccessful at burping him this morning and 15 min after handing him over to Joe so I could catch a few more Zzzz's I guess Jake lost so much of his meal he soaked threw two towels and his outfit and a couple of burb rags. I ended up having to feed him again shortly after that.
We went to church for the first time since Jake was born today. He slept right through the whole service. I was amazed at how much babies are a magnet for attention. Everyone wanted to come and peek at the baby. I was glad that he was asleep in his car seat so I didn't have to hand him off to everyone and their grandma. I love it that people want to hold him, but at the same time, I am a little selfish and like to have him all for myself most of the time. This is also a really bad time of the year to have a baby since everyone is always getting sick. I am not the kind of person that has hand sanitizer all over my house and require hand washing before anyone touches him. Personally I think hand sanitizer is silly, especially the anti-bacterial stuff. You not only kill bad bacteria, but the good bacteria too which is what we all need for a better immune system. A good old bar of Ivory is best!
Joe came home alive from his climb up Mt Rainer. It is a good thing I didn't know how dangerous that trip actually was until he got home. He said it was the hardest thing he has ever done, but glad he got to do it.
Having people bring you meals for a week or two is a lifesavor! I am so thankful for all those people who have brough us dinner this past week and for my mom and mother-in-law for making meals for us! That's one less thing for me to think about.
Mice are gross and they are starting to invade our house. I keep a clean house, so when I see bugs and mice it makes me feel like I have a dirty house. I know that isn't true, but they poop all over the place. I got up to feed Jake two nights agi and we set three traps out on our counter top. We were successful at traping the little stinker. He was still alive when I found him. I threw him out the back door and left him to suffer in the cold. I felt bad and wish I had a heavy boot close by so I could finish him off quickly, but I had Jake alseep in my arms.
It's time to feed the boy AGAIN! I feel like that is all I ever do now a days, but only about 6 more weeks of the every three hours routine and I will hopefully get a little more freedom and some shrinkage in my chest. I thought I would enjoy having a bigger chest. Nope! I won't ever complain about my chest size ever again!
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