New Car Seat for Chad

So, I've been desperately needing a new car seat for Chad. The weight limit for his Infant car seat went to 22 lbs. And that's how much he weighs, so we finally went out and purchased an Alpha Omega Elite car seat for him. We really wanted to get a Marathon Britax like Maddie's but they are so expensive. So, after I got home w/ the Alpha Omega, and took it out of the box, I started feeling a little guilty for not getting Chad the better car seat like we got Maddie. So, I boxed it back up, took it back the next day, and spent the extra $120 and got him the Marathon just like Maddie's. I'm so glad I did. You really can't beat the Britax car seats, they are the best, and so comfy for them. I'll post pic's later of him in his brand new comfy car seat.

We took the kids to the Discovery Center today. What a rip off, terrible idea taking them on the weekend. It was so packed, Maddie couldn't even play w/ any of the stuff because all the rowdy kids running like mad everywhere. We'll have to take her during the week I guess.

Work tomorrow.

Chad's 9 month appt. on the 1st. Will post his stats then.

Easter Sunday

We had a pretty mellow Easter. Chris was in bed all day with a terrible cold, the kids and I were finally over our sickness, and we just kinda veged all day. Our day started with Maddie seeing her easter basket, she was so excited with all the candy. My bad, shouldn't have gotten her so much, she insisted of having a cadbury egg for breakfast. What the heck, it was easter!

My brother and Lisa came over, we made sandwiches for lunch, drank some wine, and roller skated. Ok, so it's been years since I've roller skated, and I felt a little silly, but it was fun :)

Derek and Lisa surprised Maddie and Chad with fun Easter Baskets. NO CANDY! HURRAY!


Maddie got a kick out of her princess heels, too cute.


In all we had a great day, other then Chris being sick of course.

Easter shopping and egg coloring!

So, today is Saturday and everyone's working but me. I was planning on doing the easter eggs with Maddie last night, but our target shopping ended up taking longer then expected. I keep telling myself, next time I need to go shopping, I'm leaving the kids home, but never fails, I end up always bringing them with. Chris was working late, so my mom came with me. I needed to get easter stuff, w/out Maddie seeing, so my mom took the kids over by the toy section, while I went and scoped out the easter section. Everything was of course all picked over, but I got the basics, and couldn't resist picking out a few cute outfits for Maddie. Having a girl is so much fun. Boys are fun too, but I just love all the girly stuff. Anyway, after I got the stuff I needed, I went to look for my mom, and of course heard Chad crying, he was all frusterated and tired poor thing. So, my mom took over the easter shopping and I strolled around target w/ a crying baby who I had to hold to settle down, and a 2 1/2 year old toddler who kept whining "I hold you mommy" agh. So frusterating. Finally, my mom was done, and came walking up and said "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I think Chad pooped." Great! Here that's what his problem was, and me w/ my stuffy nose couldn't smell a thing. I was like, why didn't you tell me this earlier!!!! So, next time, note to self, leave the kids, or at least one of them home.

So, today, when Chad went down for his morning nap, I got all the stuff ready for Maddie to color the eggs. She was so excited. She did pretty good, except for dropping the eggs in the dye, after I told her to gently set them in. So, some of them are cracked, but she didn't care :)

He got it!

Well, Chad got our sickness, he's finally starting to feel better today. Yesterday was the first day I didn't have to give him tylenol or motrin. I hate it when they're feverish, seemed like he had a neverending fever, but thank goodness he's better, just has a little cough now. Maddie's all better too, just that lingering cough w/ her also. Now Chris has it, he had the fever last night and the chills, and he never gets sick. And he had to get up at 6:30 to go to work today, poor guy. I hope everyone is feeling better by tomorrow.

Another Monday...

Well, here it is Monday again, and here I am, getting up at 6 am, getting ready for work. Good news is, Chris has 2 jobs lined up and starts one on Wed. I've been sick this past week, Maddie is coming down with it, and I pray Chad doesn't get it. Starts with a slight fever and cough, then runny nose, chills, everything, yuck!

This last week has been a rough week for Maddie. She has been acting out more lately, bad tempers if she doesn't get her way, yelling, screaming no, throwing herself down to the ground. Chad took something from her the other day and she got so angry she almost pushed him, I had to stop her. This is so out of charecter for her. I just don't understand what is going on with her. She's wet the bed twice this past week, and she's been out of diapers since January. Some say it's because I've been working more and havn't been home with her as much. I don't know. Chris says she'll think of me and get really sad and say "I want my mommy". It just breaks my heart. I want to be here for her, I just wish she understood that sometimes mommy has to go to work. Hopefully more jobs will be coming in, and I can be home more often for her. She's also pretending to be a baby a lot more lately. It's so frusterating, she whines, and cries at the littlest things. I hope this is just a phase that she grows out of quickly. I want her to be a strong little girl, confident and not shy, but she is completely the opposite. I need to try and get her into some sort of play group or something to help her come out of her shell a little bit.

Chad has been crawling everywhere, getting into EVERYTHING. He's already starting to pull himself up onto things, and will hangout on his knees. He loves to sit in his crib and watch Elmo, he gets so tickled and makes the cutest little squeals when he sees Elmo and even more so with Big Bird. He's doing well with cheerio's, and he's still at 22 lbs. I can't believe he'll be 9 months on the 29th of this month. Where has the time gone?



Well, better start getting ready for work.

Diet update

I've actually been sticking to my diet, and slowly but surely I've lost 13 lbs! Now I'm on my next goal of 10 more. Yipeeeeeee! I had Chris go out into the garage last night to get some of my old clothes that I havn't worn since I got pregnant with Maddie. He bought me a bottle of my favorite champagne the other night, he never surprises me with things, I thought that was so sweet of him.

UMMM?

Is 22 lbs to big for an 8 month old? That's how much Chad weighs now, he's huge! His little belly (well, not so little) is so round, could I be feeding him too much? He only drinks 4 6oz bottles a day, and he eats a full jar of fruit for breakfast (stage 2) and 1 1/2 scoops of cereal, a fruit and vege for lunch, and a vege & fruit for dinner plus 1 1/2 scoops of cereal. I don't know, he never seems full, and even when he's done w/ that he could still eat more. Thoughts, suggestions? I know they say not to worry about your childs weight until after age 2, but still, I worry that I may be overfeeding him.