What do you get when you put baby food and Hayes together?
Colored puke!
No kidding. In our desperation to get this kiddo to keep anything down, we gave baby food a try when Hayes was 5 months old. It might have helped a little, but mostly it just added a little tint of color to his puke. Let me tell you, the kid doesn't discriminate when it comes to food! He loves it all!
I was so excited when Hayes starting sitting because I just knew he would be entertaining himself in no time. Wrong. Days after he learned to sit, he started scooting around like crazy. He has been scooting for a few weeks now but is just barely getting those darn knees under him to really get around.
So here were the 6 mo. stats...
- Height 27 in. 80%
- Weight 15.3 lbs. 9%
- Head 23%
The doctor's response to these, "He's pretty small, try getting him to keep his food down...and lets feed him baby food at least five times a day." As if my life didn't already revolve around his schedule and trying to stop the puke! :)
The latest update is our little guy got his first tooth. There it was poking out on the bottom as white as could be. He got it at 6 1/2 months and I do have to say that it is quite adorable! Now he has number two pushing its way through.
The funnest thing about Hayes right now is how much he LOVES attention. His new thing is diving into people's arms when they sit down next to us. The other day he was playing in the exersaucer and just started laughing hysterically. When I looked up to see why he was laughing, he was just staring at me with I'm-so-cute-so-give-me-all-your-attention eyes. He definitely knows how to get attention.
Girls night with my little ‘V’ (she made me laugh when she gave me permission to call her that). I am a little biased because she is my only niece, but I do have to say that Nav just might be the cutest little 5 year old ever! No joke. I just can’t get enough of her and her geniusness.
It was so fun to spend the day just the two of us. We went to dinner and then rocked out at the Miley concert. It took her a little bit to get used to her crazy aunt jamming to the music before she started getting into it herself. Next thing you know she was dancing in the aisle.
The funniest part of the day was seeing my little social butterfly in action. We saw some of her friends while we were eating dinner and our aunt Meri when we were in line getting a shirt, so she knew her friends and cousins were among the million of other girls in the crowd. The entire night she kept searching for her little friends, hoping to see them again.
After the concert…
Navie: “Um, can we just wait here on this statue for a minute?”
Me: “Sure, how come?”
Navie: “Ya know, I just want to sit and look for a minute.”
Me: “What are we looking for…your friends?”
Navie: “No, just looking.”
Long pause. Deep concentration as she obviously looks into the crowed pouring out of the Delta Center for her friends.
Navie: “Kaitlin was wearing a red shirt, wasn’t she?”
Lol! She is a hoot! On the way home I was asking her about her favorite part and before she could answer, the sweet girl was asleep. She was so tired after all the excitement! Oh man, I love that girl!
Dude, blogger keeps making my pictures blurry too. What the heck?
Hummm, what do I want the new me to be like?
- A girl that isn’t so scared...
- Someone full of goals and ambitions...
- A person who can do something for just herself and love every minute of it...
- Someone that laughs out loud (often and annoyingly loud)...
- Someone that stands up for herself...
Don't call me lame for quoting Dr. Laura, but I listen to her radio show whenever I can. I think I like her so much because a lot of her strong personality traits are my weaknesses. Do you think Dr. Laura needs validation? I don't think so. She's a woman, hear her roar! I'm just a girl that sounds more like a squeak. Anyway, she said on her program that we are the architects to our own lives and we can really build whatever we want. We can be who we want and do whatever our hearts desire and at the end of the day if we don't like who we have become, we have the power to erase the blueprints and draw up some new ones for tomorrow.
The new me is taking some risks for MYSELF (well and my little family). There is no reward without risks, so here I go. I’m going to risk it up. Risky, risk risk. I decided I am not going to just sit and watch Chris fight through this school situation by himself day after day. I can help us. No matter how vulnerable or nervous it makes me, I want to help out our little family. I want to grow, stretch my mind, and do a few things that I can feel good about at the end of the day. Old Mitzi, meet entrepreneur Mitzi. Call it a quarter life crisis, but la-de-da, it's a dang good one!
It feels good to write my thoughts down again and think. I hope I (we) like who I find at the end. This might be a little scary, but a whole lotta fun!
Bare with me, and I beg you to stick around to see where I end up. I’m curious myself.
Why am I all of a sudden singing Bon Jovi? "It’s my life, it’s now or never. I aint gunna live forever…"
outside at the air show at the beginning of summer
...was so funny! He wouldn't even blink!
watching dad and pop-pop golf in a derby
a little drive in fun
hanging out in Park City and at the cabin
Look really close at the outfit my dad bought Hayes. Yankees, Chris' family just loved that one!
and tons of swimming
(these ones are from a day at the pool with some teacher friends at Davis, I miss them already)
Summer was so fun! Now bring on the hot chocolate, chilly nights bundled in blankets, cozy sweaters, and (finally) some good TV!
Boy, you look good in white! So professional! Sucky that school already keeps you up way too late at night. At least one of us should be getting some sleep. Anyway, I just wanted to say that you worked hard to get here and we are darn proud...you little pharmacist (in training) you!p.s. Update from last post...we didn't find a darn thing wrong with Hayes. Good news, but now we must look elsewhere for answers. A third medicine maybe, a voo-doo doctor, anything else we can think of... we are pulling out all the stops here.
Let's just say that we have quite the demanding child (to say the least). I feel like I haven't been able to do anything for the last four months let alone catch up on a little blogging. Why? One hand is always full. All I do all day is try to entertain a fussy baby. He DOES NOT want us to do anything except sit outside and bounce his little stubborn bum. Let’s not even talk about the sleep issue. I know what you are thinking, just put the baby down and he'll get over it. I've heard it over and over, you have to let him cry it out and he'll learn. Nope, not this child. He'll cry all day and night and it doesn't even faze him. Hayes sucks at sleeping!
Lack of posts lately, that's the least of my worries. I still have a stack of thank-you notes to send out from baby presents. Oops! Seriously, I apologize to everyone for the lack of...well the lack of everything. I truly want to be thoughtful, but my brain can't get past the yearning for sleep. I am not trying to stare into space all the time, I really want to be normal but normal is hard lately.
The puking has to stop. Four months of wiping puke off everything is quite enough. We have tried everything from Zantac to Prevacid and rice cereal and nothing seems to work. I stopped eating dairy and chocolate (and just about everything else) for months, but still more puke. At times I think it is even getting worse.
So tomorrow Hayes has an ultrasound and Barium x-ray to see if we can find the problem. I'd love to tell you more, but my brain is already shut off and refocusing on the screaming child.
I do love you child. I wish we could figure out what's wrong so we can stop the puking/fussing.
Hayes’ 4 mo. stats…
Weight 13.2 lbs. 18%
Length 25 in. 57%
Head 23%
Oh you little stink, you are just too adorable!
Can you feel the excitement?
The Thompson's that said...
Super FUN! I am a friend of Kami's and saw this on her blog! I would love to get this done! I bet you will do so well doing this once the word is out! Who can resist a set of great long lashes.:)
August 6, 2009 11:46 AM
If you don't win, I will still give you $10 off a full set just for posting on your blog!
How about a before and after
Before
After
And a big fat thanks to my gorgeous eyelash models! The pictures don't even explain how awesome you look!
Girl, look at you work this one!
Or maybe edited like this?
The question isn’t can I do it, because sure I can. The question is do I want to do it and is it worth it. Is it worth my sanity?
For the last month or so I have had anxiety about starting school again. The last two years have been so hard for me. Maybe it’s just my personality, but sadly my entire life revolves around school from August to July. The housework slacks, the good wife disappears, and out comes the obsessively stressed out teacher with way too much to do. Teaching is like a heavy burden that follows me around everywhere and is constantly in my head telling me how many papers I still have to correct and how little time I have to do it.
After the first year of pulling in my parking space in the early morning dark and pulling back out at night without seeing a drop of daylight, I decided something needed to change. The obvious answer was that I was trying too hard and doing too much. Yes, I am a perfectionist, but the solution of slacking a little more and depending more on teacher aids still didn't solve the problem. I feel like I slack already, how can I let even more go? I decided I picked the wrong subject to teach. It’s not just me, all the English teachers seem to have my same time problem.
So, is this what I really want again for this year? Do I want to jump back into school when I just barely found happy Mitzi again these last few school free months?
With Chris’ first year of pharmacy school and a new baby, I often think I need to be at home. With us both going full speed, I'm sure Hayes would suffer if not. When school starts, Chris would have to give me more laundry responsibilities and dish scrubbing lessons though so I could be a good wife again. But at the same time, I think I shouldn't waste my degree and give up on something that helps society and doing something that I think I do well. Why can't I make a decision? Either decision I make makes me feel guilty and like I'm doing something wrong or letting people down.
I have one week to decide or I'll have to pay a $500 fine if I quit. Right now I'm leaning toward staying with my family and trying to make money wherever I can. My family is my numero uno priority, so I need to do what is good for them, but thinking of quitting makes me sick to my stomach. What to do, what to do?
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To leave on a happy note, here is a picture I snapped of my 3 month old!
Our little guy three months
one week old
Mitzi
Me: Living a busy life is just one way to put it. I am a teacher by profession, a family girl by choice, and a school widow by force. During the day I teach High School English & Health, and yes, I might have been a little delirious when I picked my career. I love it, but boy is it a lot of work! I am happiest June through August just relaxing by the pool with my sunglasses and a magazine. My best job in life though is being a mom to our new little guy that can melt my heart in seconds!
Chris
Him: Chris through and through is a sports loving, ESPN watching, hard working guy. He really is an awesome husband and is always doing way too much! He is an asst. golf pro in the day while also trying to balance family and school. He just got into pharmacy school and will attend the University of Southern Nevada (West Jordan campus) this August. Chris is a great husband and one heck of a dad! Luckily, he chose me and we balance each other out quite nicely (if I say so myself).
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