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My one year old son, Hunter, has a obsession with the TV remote control. It must be a man thing! The first thing he does in the morning is find the remote and and he has been known to fall asleep holding the remote against his cheek like a stuffed animal. It’s funny because Hunter does not like to watch the TV at all and he could care less if we put in a kid movie for him, but he has this fascination with the remote control!

The other night my husband and I had put the kids to bed and sat down in front of the TV ready to relax and watch The Office. Well, our remote was mysteriously missing. We spent 45 minutes tip-toeing through the entire house looking for the remote. We were going through all the bedrooms, even the ones with our sleeping little ones, trying to think like a one year old would. We were just about to give up when my husband looked behind our toy basket in our living room and found the missing remote. This is not the first time we have had to hunt for our remote and I’m sure it will not be the last!

We are taking a trip to Disneyland this fall! We are so excited and can’t stop talking about it, neither can our two year old!

Yesterday we were telling Lexi who was going to come to Disneyland with us. We are going with a bunch of my husbands siblings and their kids. Since our last trip to Disneyland Lexi has always called my brother-in-law “Prince”. We are not exactly sure where this came from, it was very sudden and she is sure that he is “Prince”. It’s funny because she even knows that his name is Allen, but she still calls him her Prince. What a lucky guy! So, yesterday we told her that Allen was coming with us to Disneyland and she said, “My Prince coming and he live happily ever after!” Too cute!!!

Lately my two year old is really in to naming things. Instead of the usual “What’s that?” that most two year old’s say, she says “What’s that name?”. I blame this on the dog, when we got our puppy we kept asking Lexi what we should name it. We have also had a lot of babies born in our extended family recently, so there has been lots of baby naming going on.

Anyway, this means that every day I have to name at least 50 of Lexi’s toys, book characters, and anything else interesting that we happen to see in passing. Lexi is so funny, because if you say a name that she doesn’t like she will say “No” and you have to name it again.

One day my mommy brain just couldn’t think of any more names. Grandma had just given Lexi two new puppy toys and they were lacking names. I was thinking and thinking, but I had nothing. Finally I just read the top of the little doggie house the puppies came with, Fisher Price. So, I told Lexi that the puppies names were “Fisher & Price”. She was very happy with these two names! Now usually the names I give to everything don’t stick and the next day we end up giving them new names, but not with “Fisher & Price”. Lexi loves these two puppies and their names have stuck. It is so funny to watch my little girl introduce her puppies “Fisher & Price” to anyone who will listen!

In 2007 we had our baby girl, in 2008 we had our baby boy, in 2009 we… got a puppy!

Crazy? Maybe a little, but so much fun too! We got a labradoodle this summer, her name is “Cash”. Raising a two year old, a one year old, and now a puppy is exhausting. So many mouths to feed, messes to clean, and don’t even get me started on all the poop! If this puppy didn’t make my two kids so happy I would be having serious issues. But, my kids adore Cash! Sometimes they love her too much. They squeeze her, hug her, pat her, pet her, pull her tail, kiss her, ride her. (I swear this isn’t puppy abuse right?) Cash is a great puppy and is so soft with the kids even through all this torture. We have been doing lots of puppy training, but I feel like we need to train our kids on how to enjoy their new puppy! Any tips on having a puppy and little kids?

My one year old, Hunter, has never crawled. He actually started walking pretty well 4 days after his 1st birthday. But, he is still a little hesitant about walking, mostly because he can “scoot” much faster. Hunter has a special way of getting around that involves scooting around on his butt. I searched “butt scooting baby” on YouTube and was surprised at how many other “Scooter Baby’s” are out there. Thank you for letting me see that my son is not the only baby out there that prefers this type of transportation! It is funny everytime you see it, believe me I still laugh out loud almost every time I see my little Hunter scooting around!

Here is one of the videos I found…

This weekend we spent the weekend at a cabin with my husbands family. Recently I have quit drinking Diet Coke, well I guess my two year old is having Diet Coke withdrawls. One morning she announced to the whole family, “I want a coke beer!”

I’m not sure if she ment root beer or a diet coke, but she was definately wanting some type of soda to start her day!

(Don’t get the wrong idea with this post, we do not drink alcohol and would never give our children beer! Oh, the things kids say to embarass their parents!)

We just got Lexi to go to bed in her bed without having one of us laying on the floor of her bedroom while she falls asleep. I know, two and a half years, this should have happened long ago. Lexi has never been a good sleeper, but I think she is growing up and finally is getting the whole going to bed process. Every night my husband and I tuck her in, read a story, say prayers, and kiss her goodnight. Last night I was kissing her goodnight and she asked me to sleep in her bed. I told her that I wouldn’t fit in her bed and she said, “But, Mommy it’s a comfy bed!”

I’m just glad she likes her bed so much. Having her put herself to sleep has made our lives so much easier!

Last night we were outside playing while the sun was setting. It was a beautiful sunset and Lexi said in her most excited voice, “Look Mommy a pink moon!”

Last week Lexi said, “Mommy, my ear is hurting. I need to go shopping and get a new outfit!”

I took her in to the insta care that night and turns out she had an ear infection. It is scary how girly this little two year old is! Her Daddy and I are in trouble!

My sister had a baby about three months ago, she did a post on her blog, Managing Mommy’s,  a few days ago that was awesome! It explains what every mom goes through after she has her first baby. Here it is…

Oh, and a big thank you to Kristen for letting me post this on my site! Check out her website ManagingMommys.com and see how she has managed having a baby and getting back to work.

Post Pregnancy Bliss

You’ve just had a baby; you feel a sense of euphoria, you love the way it has changed you and you have accepted your new body and well life is just perfect! …..yeah right! Like Megan mentioned in a comment before, the period after you have a baby isn’t really talked about and guess what, it’s hard and it just plain sucks sometimes! So I want to talk about it! I think there is this idea out there that once your baby is here, everything is supposed to be wonderful, and why wouldn’t it be? You have a sweet, innocent bundle of joy that many people, who maybe aren’t as lucky, envy you for. Babies are a great blessing but there’s a little bad mixed in with all that good. Plus everyone is always telling you to enjoy these times because they grow so fast, which is true, but that doesn’t mean it is all smiles and giggles. There’s a lot of poo, pee and spit up to deal with, let alone feeling like you’re completely crazy because your emotions are worse than when you were pregnant, you might have a hard time breast feeding or choose not to and there’s guilt with that because BREAST FEEDING IS BEST and then every time you turn around you feel like someone is JUDGING your parenting skills and evaluating what kind of a parent you will be. Oh and you’ve just realized those 30 to 60 pounds you’ve gained WASN’T all baby weight! You can’t fit into any clothes, you feel too young to be a mom and even if you can find something to wear to go out and maybe even get a babysitter, well you just might not want to, either you’re too tired or you just plain feel DEPRESSED and want to sit at home and do NOTHING (where’s the spontanaeity?). Yes, I said DEPRESSED! Even if you don’t have to deal with full on post-partum depression, I think every woman feels parts of it after having a baby. It could just be because youre down because you’re frustrated or all of the hormones; nothing you do makes you feel any better and you find yourself staring at a blank wall for who knows how long and getting extremely frustrated every time your sweet baby cries or fusses. You’re supposed to be this super mom you’ve always imagined right? But really most days you don’t even want to get dressed, let alone shower… (or work on losing all that baby weight). Most of this has nothing to do with your baby, yes they can be frustrating sometimes, especially if you have a fussy baby but most of it is because you had the baby and even though the best thing you’ll ever have came out of that and yeah it’s WORTH IT, it’s hard and it takes a while to feel normal and like yourself again. Also, I don’t think I have gained back the 15% of brain cells I lost when I was pregnant… When does that come back? Or does it…?

A few weeks ago I felt like I had no girlfriends and that they were all just so different from me and I think part of me really wanted someone to talk to about it all because it’s kind of a shock. But this last little bit I’ve realized how many AWESOME girlfriends I do have and how many are going through the same thing! I realized that I had isolated myself a little by not making an effort and so I started making more of an effort but mostly I just plain got lucky and have been able to hang out with many of them lately. I don’t have 1 group where we always hangout and do everything together, I have a lot of different girlfriends; single, married, pregnant, married with kids, etc. and they all are great for different things. Some of them I talk to on a regular basis, some I don’t see for years at a time, some I see once a year, some I only see at group gatherings, but I can talk to all of them and it’s never awkward, I love it! Anyways, so lately I have talked to some of them who have had kids recently about different things and was so glad to know they had some of the exact same feelings and struggles! So thanks for listening, sorry I’m a little crazy!

Oh and guess what, I was looking for an image that could maybe back up my theory here, I googled a few different mom and post pregnancy things and they are all showing off the euphoric feeling I talked about… What’s so scary about being honest?