I thought it was pretty hilarious but at least she remembered our talk about one leg goes in one hole.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Olivia and her pants
Last week it snowed and Olivia wanted to go outside so I told her to put some clothes on and she had to wear pants and shoes. I was half asleep so I didn't help her but she was super resourceful. I have to tie her wardrobe shut or she will pull all the clothes out while looking for a dress so her only options are the clothes laying around the living room from a previous wardrobe change. She couldn't find any pants laying around so she put her red shirt on as pants.
I thought it was pretty hilarious but at least she remembered our talk about one leg goes in one hole.
I thought it was pretty hilarious but at least she remembered our talk about one leg goes in one hole.
President's Day Weekend
We headed down to Utah to visit Mike's family for the long weekend. I was prepared and brought a lot of half baked projects I had to finish and amazingly enough I did complete them all but that is another post.
We went swimming at the wave pool in Layton and Olivia loved every moment. She probably swallowed way too much pool water but I can't get her to keep her mouth shut. Then we went out to dinner with my sister at Tepanyaki which was fun. It was my first time. Olivia loved every moment with her cousins.
We went to church on Sunday and I had to throw in this random picture of Mike and Olivia before church. I don't get many pictures of Mike.
Olivia found Adie's puppy and loved it the whole time. Aunt Emily decided to give it to Olivia and it has joined Olivia's toy posse that she sleeps with every night.
On a side note. Olivia has more hair on one side of her head and whenever I do pigtails they are never balanced. And it is really noticeable when grandma curls them.
We went swimming at the wave pool in Layton and Olivia loved every moment. She probably swallowed way too much pool water but I can't get her to keep her mouth shut. Then we went out to dinner with my sister at Tepanyaki which was fun. It was my first time. Olivia loved every moment with her cousins.
We went to church on Sunday and I had to throw in this random picture of Mike and Olivia before church. I don't get many pictures of Mike.
Olivia found Adie's puppy and loved it the whole time. Aunt Emily decided to give it to Olivia and it has joined Olivia's toy posse that she sleeps with every night.
On a side note. Olivia has more hair on one side of her head and whenever I do pigtails they are never balanced. And it is really noticeable when grandma curls them.
Sweet babyfood deals
I have been working on our food storage and since we are expecting a baby and all this hoopla about the inflation of the dollar and the imminent skyrocketing of food prices I decided to stock up on baby food. Mike thinks I should have bought more but I sometimes chicken out on buying too much on my first purchase.
I bought all this organic baby food from Babies R Us when they had a sale and used manufacturer's coupons and it only cost us $26. I got 40 stage 2 and 10 stage 3 jars of food. I am pretty proud of myself.
I also found a great deal on another brand of organic babyfood from Amazon.com. It was half price and it received excellent reviews. Olivia ate a pouch and loved it.
I bought all this organic baby food from Babies R Us when they had a sale and used manufacturer's coupons and it only cost us $26. I got 40 stage 2 and 10 stage 3 jars of food. I am pretty proud of myself.
I also found a great deal on another brand of organic babyfood from Amazon.com. It was half price and it received excellent reviews. Olivia ate a pouch and loved it.
Pictures of Olivia
I am terrible of taking pictures consistently but I thought it might be nice to throw these random ones of Olivia.
Olivia doing crafts after breakfast. She is still learning how to hold scissors correctly.
Sometimes toys are a waste of money. Olivia would rather play with random stuff like all our tupperware. Her favorite by far are cardboard boxes.
Olivia doing crafts after breakfast. She is still learning how to hold scissors correctly.
Sometimes toys are a waste of money. Olivia would rather play with random stuff like all our tupperware. Her favorite by far are cardboard boxes.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Finishing projects
So I finally finished two projects. They were fairly easy but still time consuming. I got my blog made into a book for 2008 and 2009. It was more expensive than I thought but I think well worth the money. It will be nice for our family to look back and read the entries and look at the photos which made me realize I don't take too many photos. Maybe I should make a bigger effort to take a photo everyday but at this point that is a distant dream.
When I was pregnant my hope was to make a cute scrapbook for Olivia. Back to reality. Between working and being a mom and a wife, I didn't have the time to complete one. With baby #2 on the way, I thought it would be nice to have a baby book for Olivia. So I have been patiently waiting for a fantastic photo book deal. Many came and I missed many deadlines on shutterfly and snapfish but I finally got one made tonite with 40 minutes to spare on walgreens.com. I only had to pay for the $6.99 shipping. Score!
I have many half baked projects that I am going to try to finish this weekend. Hopefully I can get something accomplished and will have some pictures to show.
When I was pregnant my hope was to make a cute scrapbook for Olivia. Back to reality. Between working and being a mom and a wife, I didn't have the time to complete one. With baby #2 on the way, I thought it would be nice to have a baby book for Olivia. So I have been patiently waiting for a fantastic photo book deal. Many came and I missed many deadlines on shutterfly and snapfish but I finally got one made tonite with 40 minutes to spare on walgreens.com. I only had to pay for the $6.99 shipping. Score!
I have many half baked projects that I am going to try to finish this weekend. Hopefully I can get something accomplished and will have some pictures to show.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Hypnobabies Class
Mike and I decided to take a hypnobabies birthing class since I wanted to do natural childbirth. With Olivia we took a hypnobirthing class and honestly it was a waste of time and money. It was taught at the hospital and a L&D Nurse taught the course and gave contradictory information to the book. Plus I didn't feel like it gave enough information or techniques to get through transition.
So I did some research about the Bradley method and came across Hypnobabies and have only read raving reviews. Basically it teaches me how to do self hypnosis and how to deal with the discomfort of labor instead of how to work through the pain.
We took our first class last week and have a class tonite and Mike actually enjoyed it. The instructor limits the number of couples in the class which is nice and the information we are learning is really invaluable. American civilization trains us to think that birth is suppose to be painful and that it is normal to have all this medical intervention. While I do believe there is a time and place for medical intervention, I don't think majority of women fit into this category. So the class does a lot of work on correcting misconceptions about pregnancy and birth.
This isn't a class that we can only do once a week. We both have a lot of homework to do daily but I know that it will pay off. I really like it because Mike has his own materials to work on as my birthing partner. And even though I feel overwhelmed by the daily activities I am suppose to do it really is only 10 minutes here and there but have a huge payoff in the end.
I am super excited to finally meet the baby. I think that this birthing experience will be a really good bonding experience for Mike and I and I look forward to that. I guess I could relate it to training for a race and knowing that I have done all the training I can do and I am pumped to perform.
So I did some research about the Bradley method and came across Hypnobabies and have only read raving reviews. Basically it teaches me how to do self hypnosis and how to deal with the discomfort of labor instead of how to work through the pain.
We took our first class last week and have a class tonite and Mike actually enjoyed it. The instructor limits the number of couples in the class which is nice and the information we are learning is really invaluable. American civilization trains us to think that birth is suppose to be painful and that it is normal to have all this medical intervention. While I do believe there is a time and place for medical intervention, I don't think majority of women fit into this category. So the class does a lot of work on correcting misconceptions about pregnancy and birth.
This isn't a class that we can only do once a week. We both have a lot of homework to do daily but I know that it will pay off. I really like it because Mike has his own materials to work on as my birthing partner. And even though I feel overwhelmed by the daily activities I am suppose to do it really is only 10 minutes here and there but have a huge payoff in the end.
I am super excited to finally meet the baby. I think that this birthing experience will be a really good bonding experience for Mike and I and I look forward to that. I guess I could relate it to training for a race and knowing that I have done all the training I can do and I am pumped to perform.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Just chugging along
Not much happening here. Just kidding. Olivia is growing so fast it amazes me. I have noticed she loves to spending a lot of time by my side lately even if it is just laying around in the bed for half the morning. She also has an amazing appetite. She has really chunked up and there hasn't been a meal she has turned in a very long time. She is still helping me clean the dishes and cook. She even helps me pick up her toys at night and she always volunteers to say prayers every night. She absolutely loves bath time and she loves it whenIi join her but my belly is getting big very fast so we probably wont be able to do that much longer. One of her favorite movies right now is Mulan. Olivia thinks she is a warrior and loves to do sword fights with Mike. She can count to twelve and is getting really good at singing church songs with me. She prefers to read books at bed time instead of sing and she always has certain toys that have to lay in the bed with her. Anyway I just wanted to capture these thoughts because she grows so fast and time flies and next thing I know she has moved onto another stage.
Sometimes I worry how she will react when the baby comes. I am pretty sure that she will be jealous. Mike thinks she will take it really well but I imagine it will be quite a shock for her to have to share the limelight even though she will enjoy being the big sister. I will admit that I am a little worried how I will transitioni from one child to two children. My goal is to breastfeed and I think this time I will have a better handle on things because I know what to expect. Number one I will recognize a lot faster if I have post partum depression, two it is a learning process for both of us and I should try my hardest and hopefully by week six I will be more comfortable. Olivia clicked her tongue when she nursed andIi was worry that she wasn't getting enough milk or she was swallowing too much air. Lesson learned was she did the same exact thing when she was bottle fed and eventually grew out of it. Third lesson I learned was it hurts like hell and that is normal until my nipple gets use to it. And maybe if I tell myself i don't have a choice it will me out because pumping for nine months was a labor of love and looking back I can't believe I did it for so long.
One issue we have been dealing with is Olivia resisting taking here nap. She use to take one at one thirty every afternoon and then she stopped. Mike learned that she was much more willing to take one later in the afternoon around three which means she sleeps much later. Usually past five. The problem with that is she is not tired at her usual bedtime fo eight thirty. And even if I let her stay up till nine or nine thirty I am pretty sure she doesn't fall sleep until after ten. So I was reading some books and they said she might be ready to drop her nap but we decided that was a bad idea. My new plan is to wake her up earlier like seven in the morning and hopefully that will bump her nap time to at least two and not let her sleep past four. Any advice would be appreciated like when your toddler stopped napping regularly.
Pregnancy. May seems so so far away. I don't remember It being this uncomfortable already. It is probably because I have a toddler to take care of this time. On a daily basis I am counting down the months, the weeks, and sometimes the days. I figure it won't be a countdown until I am 36 weeks and even then it will be a slow one. Everything is just so different this time plus I have a lot of other things going on in life. I am super super excited for the baby to get here. My plan is to do a VBAC and i think I am going to be really prepared this time for the labor and pain with the class Mike and I are taking so I haven't worried about that much. I still need to figure out who we can leave Olivia with during the delivery and how I am going to get more than six weeks of maternity leave from work. Oh yeah. We still need to find a name we both agree on. I suspect it might take us a lot longer than last time. The nice thing about having the baby is I will forgot all these unpleasant moments of pregnancy and one day I will actually want to have another baby.
Sometimes I worry how she will react when the baby comes. I am pretty sure that she will be jealous. Mike thinks she will take it really well but I imagine it will be quite a shock for her to have to share the limelight even though she will enjoy being the big sister. I will admit that I am a little worried how I will transitioni from one child to two children. My goal is to breastfeed and I think this time I will have a better handle on things because I know what to expect. Number one I will recognize a lot faster if I have post partum depression, two it is a learning process for both of us and I should try my hardest and hopefully by week six I will be more comfortable. Olivia clicked her tongue when she nursed andIi was worry that she wasn't getting enough milk or she was swallowing too much air. Lesson learned was she did the same exact thing when she was bottle fed and eventually grew out of it. Third lesson I learned was it hurts like hell and that is normal until my nipple gets use to it. And maybe if I tell myself i don't have a choice it will me out because pumping for nine months was a labor of love and looking back I can't believe I did it for so long.
One issue we have been dealing with is Olivia resisting taking here nap. She use to take one at one thirty every afternoon and then she stopped. Mike learned that she was much more willing to take one later in the afternoon around three which means she sleeps much later. Usually past five. The problem with that is she is not tired at her usual bedtime fo eight thirty. And even if I let her stay up till nine or nine thirty I am pretty sure she doesn't fall sleep until after ten. So I was reading some books and they said she might be ready to drop her nap but we decided that was a bad idea. My new plan is to wake her up earlier like seven in the morning and hopefully that will bump her nap time to at least two and not let her sleep past four. Any advice would be appreciated like when your toddler stopped napping regularly.
Pregnancy. May seems so so far away. I don't remember It being this uncomfortable already. It is probably because I have a toddler to take care of this time. On a daily basis I am counting down the months, the weeks, and sometimes the days. I figure it won't be a countdown until I am 36 weeks and even then it will be a slow one. Everything is just so different this time plus I have a lot of other things going on in life. I am super super excited for the baby to get here. My plan is to do a VBAC and i think I am going to be really prepared this time for the labor and pain with the class Mike and I are taking so I haven't worried about that much. I still need to figure out who we can leave Olivia with during the delivery and how I am going to get more than six weeks of maternity leave from work. Oh yeah. We still need to find a name we both agree on. I suspect it might take us a lot longer than last time. The nice thing about having the baby is I will forgot all these unpleasant moments of pregnancy and one day I will actually want to have another baby.
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