Feeling Like A Bad Mommy

I have been doing much better about not freaking out about my kids getting owie's and seeing blood, all of that kind of stuff. So yesterday Griffin fell down at the park and came running toward me crying with blood streaming from his mouth. My first thought was, oh crap his teeth! As I inspected his mouth I saw a big gash on his lip but his teeth were all intact. Poor kid. It bled like mad and I felt sort of panicked but calmed myself down and just kept holding pressure on it. He was over it in about 2 seconds and as soon as the bleeding stopped he wanted to play some more. Okay.

I figured it's just his lip and lips heal fast, right? I felt like he might need stitches but they don't stitch lips do they?? They do. I took him to the doctor today for a possible ear infection (he has one) and he also looked at his lip. Yes it needed stitches but it was too late. Now he will have a messed up, scarred lip with a bump on it. Also it will need to be fixed by a plastic surgeon. Nice.

Maybe I need to keep up with my freak out habits and not be so calm. LOL.

Fun With My Boy's

Not much going on around here lately. Nothing exciting! Just a lot of playing and hanging out with my little cuties. Have felt the need to read my Contentment book a hundred more times but have also have some really great day's in between the poopy one's :)

Nolan had his first play date! This is his little friend Konnor and they are 2 months apart. These little guy's seriously smiled and babbled at each other and it was the sweetest thing!



Griff has been a blast lately, still a "Griffin only" post to come soon. He has said and done so many hilarious and awesome things lately. I am loving him! Not loving this so much though....


Can't keep the kid out of Nolan's things...swing, crib, bouncer, jumpy thing. Drives me insane.

Griff loves stickers and Nolan is also learning to love them as well.

These Days

These days you might walk in and see me nursing like this: (totally weird)

To avoid this: (which drives me bonkers, by the way)




All to nourish this: (love him)


I totally need to do a post about Griff next. No-nie is getting a lot of attention!

5 Months

Big boy is five months old today! Little tidbits about you:

-you are a major Momma's boy
-you LOVE to nurse and use me as a pacifier, that's okay :)
-you really like your brother and you want to play so badly
-you are a good sleeper at night but you like an early morning feeding most day's
-you are thinning out but your thighs are still huge
-you love bananas, not rice cereal so much
-you still have a swirl of hair on the back of your head
-you love to be sung to
-you play with my hair and face while you nurse
-you are constantly chewing or sucking on your fingers
-you drool a lot. teeth soon?
-you weigh 15 pounds
-you don't cry much but you have a constant whine, kills me
-you insist on being held and entertained allllll the time
-you aren't the best napper. why do i have kids that don't nap???

You are so much fun Nolan and sooooo much sweeter than your brother at the moment. The two's are getting the best of your Daddy and I!

Good Eats

Tried something new and I LOVED it. It's called Bountiful Baskets. Heard about it from my Mom and a friend of mine, thanks guy's :) Basically you get online and order your fruit and produce (among other things). First you order your baskets then click on the location closest to your home and then you get an email and confirmation number when it's ready. When you get to your chosen location there are about 50 small laundry baskets full of fresh produce from local farmers and some from elsewhere. You find out what your number is and then you grab the stuff out of 2 laundry baskets. The stuff is super fresh! Better than the grocery store and way cheaper! You get $50 dollars worth of fruit and produce for around $16. I got all kinds of really yummy stuff! I washed and cut everything up so that it would be ready to eat or cook. Everything has been so yummy so far! You get a different variety of stuff every time depending on what's in season, etc. Hope this made some sense! Don't know why it's so hard to explain. Lol.

Cheese PLEASE!

This cute little boy has a milk allergy. He has handled it so well. I wouldn't have known anything was wrong but he has had a little bit of blood in his poops. Ewww, I know. I tried not to freak out but when it appeared in his dipe for the third time in a month I figured it warranted a trip to the doc. We figured out that he has a sensitivity to milk proteins and that I need to cut out basic dairy to start with. So that pretty much means cutting out my most FAVORITE foods. Milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, cheese of any and every kind, ice cream, sour cream...you name it.

Nolan's weight went from the 60th percentile down to the 30th. Eeeek. Doc didn't like that and said it most likely has to do with the allergy. Doc also told me to push bottles of formula to get his weight up but the kid will NOT take a bottle. I tried rice cereal and he wasn't having that either. Doc also mentioned going ahead and trying some first stage foods to get his weight back up. Sooo we tried banana tonight and the kid LOVED it. I hate giving him food this early but I am worried about his weight and I am trying to do what the doc says. I rarely take his recommendations (vaccinations, flouride, frenulectomy, etc) to heart so I figured that I better do it this time!

Here's to my new dairy free diet! Maybe it will help me shed my last few stubborn pounds, fingers crossed. Hello Almond Milk, goodbye cheese! I have secretly always wanted to remove dairy from my diet so we will see how it goes.

Any tips are welcome! I have no idea what to eat now! Aghh.

Story Of My Life...

....and I love every minute of it. These two manage to end up in our bed at some point in the night or early morning. I can't complain because I actually secretly love laying next to my three boy's. We fit just fine. There will come a day when there will be no babies nursing in the middle of the night and no sweet toddlers cuddling up in bed. I will miss this so much. Believe it or not, Kason loves this just as much as I do.