Our Kids

We are still working with Landis on first foods. The barfing continues and it is kind of cute:) LOL! She has started to take some water from a bottle which is good here in good ol’ AZ. Not that she needs water since she is bf but if the food kicks in it would be nice for her to take some water to keep the ol’ bowels running.

Speaking of first foods I was digging around in Landis’ diaper the other morning (yes I know, gross) and there was some construction paper in there! It looks like it just passed right on through since I could easily identify that it was a corner piece of construction paper! LOL! So she barfs with applesauce, sweet potatoes, and rice cereal but not paper!

It is definitely interesting to have one starting to grab and put everything it its mouth with two 3 year olds around. I did not realize how much stuff is on the floor, on the cabinet, on the carpet and anywhere else she can reach. This is going to be interesting:)

We caught a bug! It started with Piper and I thought it was just allergies since we had been having a lot of wind. Then it started to move around the fam. One day I was talking to Lela and I said that we were going to have some quite time because Piper was sick. As Lela skipped and twirled down the hall she said, “I am not sick yet BUT I will be.” It was so funny because she was happily skipping along and sing songing that to me. It was so cute and so true:)

The bug made it around the kids, not really a bad one just runny nose and cough. It landed on Landis with a thud. The ped said she had “older sibling syndrome.” Ha, that means she won’t miss a day of kindergarten, LOL. She got an ear infection but it cleared up pretty quickly without the use of antibiotics! She is doing great now resting peacefully after an all night buffet (that is where she happily nurses all night long and I can’t seem to get up in the morning;)

Do I do this post every month? I don’t know if it is the age, the fact that they have been a little ill, the fact that I now have 3 kids, the girls language advancing or what but I am left feeling, “what about me” almost every day. Maybe it is a sign that I am not meeting my own needs….ahhh I think an epiphany just occurred. I am not meeting my own needs. Note to self, re-evaluate where you are and what needs are not being met and fix them. I think a sitter is in order and I might have to take drastic measures on this front.

I definitely think that Piper and Lela are in a transition phase where they can do more things for themselves but they are not sure they want to. I have been really good at doing things for them and sometimes they like that better either because they get to spend time with me or they just don’t want to do things. It might be a reason for them to spend a little time out of my presence so they can get more comfortable doing things for themselves.

The girls are doing great. I have not posted many new pictures because it seems like we are doing a lot of the same things and because I generally have my hands full, literally! Lela is really into puzzles, Piper is really into annoying Lela as well as words, letters and sounds. We are still transitioning out of naps and it still sucks but we manage. The other day they were picking on each other so much that I put Piper in her bed and then told Lela to go and get in her bed thinking they needed a minute to calm down, well within two minutes they were asleep and slept for 1.5 hours at 4 o’clock! So Piper did not go down until 9:30 and by then I was toast, so much for time with Jason:)

Speaking of Jason he is such a trooper. It has been a hectic, crazy last seven months and I am sure he has some unmet needs too. I think one of them involves a vasectomy, LOL! Anyway, I could not ask for a more supportive, doting, loving, kind husband so I am truly thankful for that!

Well we have tried two feeding of cereal and one sweet potato with Landis. She is very grabby and wants to grab anything near her, all types of food etc. I am taking it as a sign of wanting to eat but I really think she just wants to grab everything. Maybe it is a sign that she wants to crawl. I am anticipating a very active crawler that gets into things:)

Anyhoo, all feedings have gone about how the girls first feedings went. Lots of gagging, dirty looks, evasive techniques and finally vomiting. This time it is certainly funnier than with the girls. With the girls I expected them to be like, yeah food finally delish gimme so more. But this time I expected the total rejection that I got so I can laugh at it. I have a good two minute video that should be up later with a nice vomit at the end. LOL! We will keep at it though.

Landis had her 7 month check up which was actually her 6 month check up but I am following my own plan with Landis;) Anyhoo, she has met all her milestones, is growing like a weed and got a clean bill of health. She got two shots (which I hated to do) but was a champ about it all. She is in the 50-75 percentile (not that that means anything) for height, weight, length and head circumference. She is 18lbs and growing and all on breast milk! I might be starting rice cereal next week just to see how it goes. She and I are doing great on the breastfeeding and I am not prepared to replace that as her main source of nutrition just yet.

I have trimmed both the girls hair, mostly Piper and a few quick snips on Lela for good measure. Lately Piper has been telling me every day that she wants her hair cut short. Noa and Corbin (the neighbors) both got short bob cuts for the summer and I think that is where she got it from. So I told her that I would take her to get her hair cut. She told me several time that she wanted it short like Landis and Daddy. Now I was not (and am not) prepared to cut her hair that short off the bat so I figured we would get one cut and if she wanted it shorter then I would get her another. I searched around to find a kid friendly salon and found CoolCuts4Kids. In theory it sounded good but in reality it kind of sucked.

I found the place dirty and I don’t know what I expected but Bozo the dancing hair cutting clown was not in the hizzle. Instead I got the washed up, chain smoker with the 70s do. She was competent enough but she did not give me (or Piper) warm fuzzies. Piper liked sitting in the little car to get her hair cut but was unimpressed with said smokers carside manner. At one point she looked up at me and said, “what….she don’t talk?” referring to Piper and the fact that she was not chattering away at her. Needless to say we just got the cut and moved on and declined the frequent cut card. After that experience I doubt Piper will be asking for another hair cut any time soon.