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Shopping Disaster

When I look at this picture I just see germs. I was having a moment of desperation and was not thinking of covering or cleaning the shopping cart.

Saturday was so amazingly nice outside. I didn’t want to just sit home, so I rushed around all morning to get the house clean so me and my little shopping partner could have an adventure together.

An adventure it was. Most days Rylie loves to shop. She just sits in her stroller and takes in all the sights. But not on this day.

For those who don’t know me, other than the 2 grocery stores down the street, there is nowhere to shop within 45 minutes of my house. So when I go shopping, I make a day of it.

First stop, Hobby Lobby. I was in search of some fake fruits for a work project. Mission accomplished, so I decided to browse a little and possibly pick up some fabric to make backdrops for some photos of Rylie. FAIL. Not too long into our shopping experience Rylie started to scream. So uncommon. She was thrashing about and trying to climb out of her stroller. I started to panic a little. I’ve never been in this tantrum situation in public before. As I started to pull Rylie out of her stroller, she was trying to escape down below under the front tray. The stroller started falling backward, my plastic strawberries and bananas were rolling down the aisle. The situation was completely out of control. The sales associate was certainly thinking to herself “lady, get your act together”

I managed to get Rylie back in the stroller, composed myself, and planned to get the heck out of there ASAP!

We got in the car and Rylie calmed down. In fact fell asleep. So I thought maybe we could make 1 more stop at Babies R Us. They have those fancy carts with the baby seat built in to the front of it. I figured as long as she could see me maybe she would be ok. FAIL. Another tantrum.

I was over it at this point, we headed home without running our last errand. She slept all the way home and then screamed for 4 hours once we got there. Harris was out golfing and I was at my wits end.

My sweet little girl has been having some serious stomach issues which has been the root of all the fits she has been throwing. I just recently started her on carrots and pears so I believe one of them to be the culprit. I sure hope all these prunes I’m feeding her solve the problem. I’ve never been so excited in anticipation of a poop.

Baby Smells

It always baffles me when people ask to hold Rylie and then immediately smell her and tell me how they love the smell of babies. In no way does Rylie have that new car smell. In fact she rarely smells good, maybe 1 hour every other day after a bath.

On a typical day Rylie will smell like a combination of sour cream and dirty wash rag. I’m constantly sopping formula up from under her neck and still it turns into stinky cheese. EW. And that mouth of hers never stops drooling. There is a constant flow of water, so much that we could probably replenish Arizona’s water supply.

And oh the farts and the poops. We won’t even go there!

I love my baby like whoa, but I’m going to need to buy this kid some perfume.

But boy, she sure is cute!

And… we’re back

Welcome to our new little space on the inter webs. I’ve really missed blogging and I’m really hoping I can keep up with it more now that the holidays are over. Since we are starting fresh with a new domain name and a new blogging tool, you will probably slowly see changes to the site, I just don’t have time to sit down and design it all at once. And if you’d like to go back in time, feel free to visit our old site until I can transfer all the posts over.

I was starting to feel a little discouraged with the whole blogging thing for a while. I follow a lot of mommy blogs and they really started to make me feel bad about myself and my blog. While I get a lot of good advice from the other blogs, and I love looking at pictures of adorable babes and how they are progressing, I also start to wonder how these mommies keep themselves and their babies so well put together. I’m a hot mess, there’s no doubt about that. And then I start to second guess the choices I make about raising my baby. Is she watching too much TV? Is she progressing as well as other babies? Am I spoiling her, or not paying enough attention to her? Should I stop rocking her to sleep? The fact is that not one of these mommies are an expert on raising babies. Everyone does it different and I can’t feel judged by a bunch of people I’ve never even spoken to (or even those that I do talk to).

Aside from all that, I guess I lost sight of why I started my blog. All I wanted to do was document my babies life and share with a few friends and family. But then I got greedy. I noticed the large followings the other blogs had, saw that a lot of mommies make a living out of blogging, and wondered what I was doing wrong. Well I guess that all comes in time, and really, I’m over it now. I’ve lost a few months time keeping track of Rylie’s milestones. I stopped taking pictures (other than with my phone). And now that makes me more sad than anything mentioned above. It’s time to pick up my chin and move on. If people want to follow me, great! If they learn anything from me, even better! In the end all I care is that I remember all along the way the things Rylie has done in her life, both good and bad.

So as you can see, Rylie has grown big and she is now sitting up! She’s a whopping 15.5 lbs and has a silly little evil laugh that makes me smile from ear to ear. Yesterday at school she started eating cheerios! I love it! She’s getting to be so big, so human.

She is the best little girl in the world.

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