Sleep

Eli has decided against the long stretches he was giving me (5-6hrs a night!) and now wants to eat every 2-3hours again. Lovely. I was hoping it was just a growth spurt, but it has now been about 2 weeks. How long does a growth spurt last? Unfortunately he never wakes at the right time so I can watch blind date.

Rowan has decided he can only sleep on the floor. He moves around so much at night that this might be better for him. Half the time he ends up with only his head on his bed- strange child! I don't know what we'll do when he outgrows the little-low to the ground- toddler bed, probably just put a mattresson the floor.

Not to worry his perfectly good bed is not left unused, he has lined up lots of cars on it so at least they can get a good night's sleep! Sometimes we wonder about OCD??

5 Things About MeMe

Mommy Schiff and Quigs tagged me for this meme. This is my first one ever so I apologize if I do it wrong! :)

1. Post the rules of the game at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they've been tagged and asking them to read the player's blog.
4. Let the person who tagged you know when you've posted your answer.


What were you doing five years ago? Mike and I had just gotten back from our graduation trip to ourselves- 6 weeks traveling/camping out west, and I was starting to look for a "real" job.

What are five things on your to-do list for today?(tomorrow)
1. Go to Old NAvy for cheap jeans (cause I'm not paying full price till more baby weight is gone!)
2. Deep clean Rowan's room (he seems to be getting a lot of strange bites).
3. Sew my diaper I bought
4. Clean the office
5. Take a nap- or drink a lot of coffee

What are five snacks you enjoy?(this is why the gest. diabetes really sucked!!)
1. Ice cream
2. Dark Chocolate
3. Brownies
4. Cookies
5. Fresh Fruit with Yogurt


What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?
1. Go to school forever (and not work)
2. Buy/Build our dream house in the country with a lot of land and buy a place in a city
3. Set up our futures and people we are close too
4. Do fun stuff with my boys all the time
5. Have more babies and hire a nanny to help


What are five of your bad habits?
1. Spending WAY too much time online
2. Laziness
3. Eating too much
4. Biting my nails
5. Being too unorganized


What are five places where you have lived?
1. Decatur, IL
2. St. Joe, IL
3. Boody, IL (yes it is an actual town)
4. Charleston, IL
5. Longview, IL


What are five jobs you've had?
1. Arby's
2. Direct Care at a CILA and Day Training Program
3. CILA Supervisor
4. Teacher's Aid
5. Only 4 jobs, and 2 were at the same company- I like to stay places for a while.


Now I'm supposed to tag people, except I don't have anyone new to tag and everyone I do know already did it so I guess it will just end here :( I guess I need to meet more people online and in person!

The Garden/ Pumpkin Patch

Our garden is pretty much all Mike's I really haven't done much to it at all, but remember I started the summer out HUGE and now usually have a baby in my arms so I'm not much help at all. But NEXT summer I am getting into the garden. Mike has a dream for our future which involves us having a farm, not the corn, beans, tractor kind of farm, but an organic garden kind of farm. I'm starting to get into the idea so I figure I'll have to help and maybe even learn something about the garden ( I barely know what the weeds are, Rowan probably knows more than me). I've decided that the way for me to get involved and learn more is to start a blog all about the garden- OOHH exciting right? Then I can keep track of what I learn and how the garden is doing- like where everything is planted, Mike sometimes forgets little details like that!

Anyway the garden is doing great and we are trying to come up with creative ways to eat tomatoes everyday. Mike underestimated the germination power of the pumpkins and we now have a gazillion (or like 13) pumpkins, BIG, ORANGE pumpkins, so we are ready for fall and Halloween- if only it weren't the end of August!

Not the best pic. but the left side is pretty much all pumpkin- behind the sunflowers is a corn field, that's why it looks so tall!
This is the left side of the garden, Mike says this is one large pumpkin plant- I don't really believe him..

To Do, To Do, To Do...

I think that maybe having my internet FINALLY fixed (and new computer that works!) is a bad thing for me. It is so easy to get caught up in what is going on with everyone else than to actually do what needs to be done. Luckily Eli is napping and Rowan is at daycare so I won't be neglecting anyone while I get caught up in the lives of people I don't know (or barely know).

After I'm done here I will....
-Clean the kitchen
-Clean off the dining room table (I hate this table, everything sticks to it!)
-Pay Bills
-Attempt to sew the diaper I bought from here
-Hook up the new printer (and possibly learn to scan something)
-Find a kickass WAH job, that I love and pays great, or an out of the house one with perfect hours, or one that lets me take my baby with me (I'll let you know how this one goes!)
-Laundry- including folding and putting it away when dry
-Pick green beans from the garden for supper- YUM

Maybe if I post this it will encourage me to at least do some of them, , now I'll have to learn how to cross stuff out when i'm done- how do you do that?

Future X- GAMER?

Last weekend we went to a birthday party for one of Mike's friends, of course it was really a party for kids so Rowan had to entertain himself. When he noticed the skateboard someone so generously offered to "teach" him how to do it, thanks!! I was not too excited about it, but was told "kids can get hurt anywhere!" And then I remembered a doctor's appointment a few weeks ago that left Rowan with a lovely scar going through his eyebrow- so I guess they CAN get hurt anywhere!

They said he was pretty good, and he loved all the attention!!

Trying to do a trick...

(Is that what it's called?)

Yeah he did it... and is quite proud of himself!!

And the little one, just cause he's so cute!!

Green Baby

Eli is now only being diapered in cloth. We did this with Rowan but would use disposables at night and on outings- so we really weren't saving money. We have only bought one pack of diapers for Eli and we were given one as a gift. So we've only used 2 bags of disposables, not bad for 6 weeks of diaper changes!! We just tried out the cloth on outings this week and so far so good. I also just found a site where I can order a kit to make my own so i think I'll try it out and sew some- very excited about this since I love to "try" and make stuff! We will probably buy disposables for longer trips/outings but I'm thinking (if I can remember) to keep track of how much we spend on them, I'd hate to know how much I've spent on Rowan's. I've heard kids potty train quicker when using cloth, hopefully we'll keep it up and find out- maybe Eli will be trained before Rowan!

1 Month Appointment

Eli had his 1 month last week and is doing great. He weighed 11lbs. 11oz, that is up 4lbs!! from his initial weightloss. Chunky boy!! He was 21.5in, but I really don't pay attention to length since it is so hard to measure a squirmy baby. At his checkup at 4 days he had lost 2 inches, pretty sure that's not right!

He is holding his head up really well, and got praise from the doctor for that! He likes to "stand" on us, loves to be held like that and facing out to see the world. I'm also realizing he doesn't really like to be cuddled with, Rowan could sleep on us or right next to me for hours. Eli fusses when I try to lay close to him for like 5 minutes. Oh well, I guess they are different people and will have different personalities (hopefully Eli's will help him to listen better than his big brother!).

Rowan has his 3 year check-up today and I also have my lovely 6 week this week, can't wait. We are getting our computer fixed and should have it back today.