Growing with love and care.

This little plant was given to me on valentines day. Little k planted it at daycare.  I am not good with keeping plants alive :/ but I've been taking special care of this one. And It's growing so much! 

I bought a new vase for it, I even cut a little piece and re- planted, so we can grow another one!

;) happy weekend. 

Some 2014 goals

I have a long list of goals for 2014. I haven't sorted them all out just yet. I'm kinda overwhelmed with my list too. 

The simple yearly ones are things like: 

Drop 20lbs or more! Which included weekly working out and healthy diet choices. 

Attend mass more often

Be more organized 

Be more focused on what I want 

Do what makes me happy. Whatever that may be :) 

Spend more time with my family now that I'm going back to work Monday! 

Others include

Potty train K this year! 

Sell the house this spring and move! 

Join a meditation class. 

And some other personal and financial goals I have too. I'll be working on my vision board soon too. 

2013 I was blessed to have stayed home an extra year with my little guy. He has taught me so much this year. Watching him grow and learn new things these past two years of him in my life has been the best years of my life. He makes my world complete, I loveeee my little guy and seeing him so independent these days makes me proud yet sad at how fast he really is growing up. 

Tomorrow I'm back to work full-time and little K loves his daycare. 

The husband and I have a new routine schedule of drop off and pick up and I'm hoping it all goes smoothly! Wish us luck! 

The one thing about back to work that was exciting was shopping for new clothes! I spent a lot more than I expected but hey, it's a new year, new job, new goals, new everything ;) 

Here are some outfits I got! Not the best pics but... 

(Minus the red bra haha oops) 

 

(Eyes closed ;)

I bought 3 pairs of pants, 3 skirts, 8 tops, 3 sweaters, 1 pair of shoes. Whoo! 

Hope you all have a great Monday! 

Last day of daycare

Baby k had his last day of daycare with the current home daycare he was in and will be with a new one soon. Both ladies are very good. I'm really happy with the choice of a home daycare. It fits our needs a little more than the larger daycare facility he was in before. 

I felt sad when we said bye to his little friends! He'll miss them and they'll miss him! 

He brought home all his artwork. I already have them hanging up around the house.

It was another beautiful fall day today ;) and his pumpkin art reminded me that I need to buy pumpkins soon!! 

 

Toddler stuff

Little K just loves his cousins so much. Baby E isn't a toddler just yet but with her big cousins teaching her everything, she will be learning it all pretty quick!! 

They adore baby E! 

Yesterday at daycare Kris went on a trip to Walmart. Haha how cute is that. We donated $10.00 and they went to buy items to send to a little toddler in Nicaragua. It reminded me of how I want to teach Kristian all about giving back. Especially during thanksgiving. Giving thanks and giving back. 

Kris will be 2 in a couple weeks, if you didn't already know by my mentions in every post ha! We have a busy month of a lot of birthdays! And Halloween too! 

It'll be a fun month!

Watching him learn and grow is by far the most amazing thing I've ever experienced. 

Today he put his rain boots backwards and he knew right away that it didn't feel right! So he took them off and switched them around and was so happy about it ha! 

He is mr babbles, copying everything we say. Daily he practices his colors by pointing and saying the color on pretty much everything around the house. He just learned silver too buy his uncle a couple days ago. 

I still get so surprised when he says new words. I love the way he pronounces them too ha! At daycare it's non stop calling his friend Sofia... Thofia. 

Loving this toddler stage. 

Approaching the terrible twos!

One month away from turning 2!!!

This little man is letting us know that he is almost 2 and ready to take on the world ha! 

Mr meltdown let's you know when he's upset. He'll scream, cry and throw himself to the floor kicking and screaming and looking over to make sure we are paying attention ha!

Little K is loving daycare. He still cried when we hit the driveway, but once he's there he is happy. And our provider has only good things to say about him. ;) the other day she said she is very impressed with all the colors he has learned. And asked if I knew! Of course! I taught him! I'm just glad he is having good days at daycare and is happy! 

 

Fun day at daycare

I have more posts on daycare that I haven't posted yet! I will soon! 

Little man had a great day at daycare.,

He cried when I dropped him off which breaks my heart! My husband is suppose to do the drop offs. It's too hard on me seeing him cry and harder on him seeing me leave. 

But when we picked him up he was all smiles! He was in a good mood and had a great day! 

Our provider gives me a list of what he eats all day and his milestones for the day.

She said he did really well at circle time with colors and numbers and it took a little while to fall asleep because he was talking and talking himself to sleep haha! 

After we picked him up for daycare we went to have a Greek dinner. We all ate soo much! 

Early bedtime for us! Zzzzzzzz

Adorable Baby Art

Wednesday was baby K's last week at daycare (more on this another day) they gave me all the art he has been doing since he started there. Can you say ADORABLE!!

I can't wait to try out his art skills here at home haha. I bought some crayons and paint to try out. Little man will most likely want to eat the paint so I'm thinking of using ketchup and mustard to finger paint with first! Saw this on the baby first channel.

If you have any baby art ideas please send them over my way!

Christmas is almost here!

Christmas is almost here! I am off until Thursday and I'm soo happy to be spending this time with my family.

Kristian received some gifts from daycare Friday. A picture of him in a frame and some goodies from his friends.

It's only been 2 days into the holiday and our schedule is already out the window. Up late and sleeping in!

Lots of fun to come the next couple days!

And great news, my grandmother is doing much much better! Thank you for your prayers. She has some recovery but she is on her way and is almost back to her normal self!

Hope you all have a great Christmas!!

Sleep training and Christmas shopping

This weekend my husband started sleep training without me. Friday night I went out with the girls for nice evening to catch up. My husband let baby K cry it out to sleep. He went in every 5 minutes to tell him to sleep and within 30 minutes he fell asleep. He screamed and threw his head back slamming it against the crib over and over (eek) but eventually stopped and fell asleep. We did it again yesterday and it took 17 minutes with less crying. Hoping tonight it's less! We are working on it!

I also spent the weekend doing some Christmas shopping. I got his daycare teachers all a gift and a little gift for each of his little friends in his class.

I'm not even close to being finished Christmas shopping. But we love last minute shopping so we won't be done until Christmas eve!!

Did you Christmas shop this weekend!?

Zombiemoms taken to the next level

Hi, I'm tired... No wait... Exhausted! I can't tell you how my eyes are still even open right now.

Mr K has been sick with a cold, ear infection now a cough since he started daycare last month.

Last night was the worst. He cried ALL night. He slept only a couple of hours and not in a row. We were up all night! I stayed home with him today to bring him to the doctor. He has a bad cough and he prescribed a puffer.

Kristian is soo tired too. Last night was too much even for him (mr hates sleep)

He hasn't been eating to well either the past 2 days ;( which makes me worry he will drop some weight.

Ahh the stresses of a mom!!! And work? I don't even want to talk about it. But the last 2 days I was located Downtown in the mall. Love DT and the mall ha! but not the drive when you live in the suburbs ;) and not when daycare calls that baby has a fever and getting to him takes over an hour.

Praying my little guy gets over this bug and gets a break from it all too!!!

Overwhelmed working mom

My take on being a working mom....

It's HARD!!!!!!!!! HARD HARD HARD I actually feel like I'm being punished for all the bad things I ever done in my life right now haha I am not kidding.

I'm exhausted. How do you even get to enjoy life and your sweet growing baby when as soon as you walk in the door from being at work all day it's go go go!  cooking dinner, eating, bathing the baby, bathing yourself, cleaning up (which I hardly do! My house is a disaster) getting everything ready for the next day.... and trying to fit in life in between even relaxing time, tv time forget that! My little one doesn't have the best sleep patterns. Going into work sleep deprived makes a very grumpy me. Then I look at our own schedules, and it's never the same 2 days in a row, I don't blame him for the sleep patterns he has, I blame us for not having a consistent life or routine. 

I've been trying to let go... let go of having a messy house, who cares right. Let go of the laundry piled up, clean clothes in baskets for weeks... not a big deal. Another thing that is hard to get control of is eating healthy... I'm trying hard to keep it going for baby K, I don't want him eating junk food but life is busy and the Mcdonalds drive through for nuggets is convenient some nights :( And me, I won't even go there! I think I've been eating the worst I ever have! I don't have the time to even think about what I want for lunch the next day when I can barely see straight or have the time. And the stress of my job is on high the past couple weeks, going for interviews not knowing what the outcome will be. DH has a demanding job too so both our stress levels have been high. It's not fun.

I have a new respect for moms... we do it all... Men, haven't got a CLUE!

I wrote a post on the happiness project last week. But I can't even imagine how to change anything in my life right now when I'm struggling to get through my day and my main focus above all is to spend whatever time I have playing and teaching my son a few things, before I blink my eyes and he's 20! Sigh!

I don't usually use my blog to vent all my problems (only when I get totally overwhelmed which has been a lot this year) I try to keep it light and focused on the more positive aspects of our life... but right now... I'm not that positive. I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm feeling exhausted, guilty, frustrated, hopeless. If I could just cry all day I would! Trying to focus on the good things in my life like watching baby K play at daycare. He has so much fun. I know he is happy and healthy and that is the most important thing. It's been 3 weeks and I still do not have a grasp of being a working mom at all, and I miss my baby boy so much every day :(


Does your day to day get overwhelming some times?

Letter to Santa and Walking all over!

Little K is walking a lot! A couple weeks before his birthday he took 2 steps and and every week since it's been more and more. Now he is walking all over the house! Walking more than crawling. He is 13 months and growing and learning soo much!

Today at daycare he wrote a letter to Santa and added his little painting on the letter too. How cute!!!

This weekend will be December and Christmas is getting close!!! I have not started any gift shopping at all! And with all the up coming events, I'll have to find time! Chop chop!

Have you started your Christmas shopping yet?

Learning to walk! Big boy!

My little guy is learning to walk! Last month he started with only 2 steps and every week he adds a few more! Yesterday he took 8-10 steps before falling and crawling haha.

These days he is soo adorable copying everything we do. The cutest thing is when we tell him to close his eyes and he will squeeze them shut and laugh.

We were home the beginning of the week because he is sick with a ear infection. He is doing much better. Yesterday when I dropped him off he kissed me and said bye. The cutest is when I pick him up, right away he says bye to his friends haha it always cracks me up!

Today was bring your favorite toy to daycare so he brought his dancing Mickey! Haha! I was the only mom that remembered. Gold star for me! Ha!

He is getting to be such a big boy!!! Where is the time going!!! Where is my baby!!!

Not even a week and exhausted

I heard other mothers tell me that the first week back to work is the hardest, and oh they are sooo right.

We have been doing well with timing after work and before. Getting out the door is fine! Coming home making dinner is ok too, although with a hungry baby I need more ready made things to feed him quick!

There are a couple things happening the past couple nights.

Mr cranky teething baby with his new Whiney cry ;( it's hard seeing my sweet baby so cranky.

He has been falling asleep at 8pm sharp with no hassle. But has been waking up many times at night and last night was the worst!! He was up every 1-2 hour screaming!!! And nothing helped, Tylenol, nursing, nothing!

I'm not sure how I even made it out the door.

Being a SAHM is tough too, no breaks it's a 24 hour job I know this! Now Being a working mom is just as hard. It comes with some other things. The guilt of spending less time with your little one, and when they are cranky makes it worse!! Having to go into work on 2 hours sleep is crazy too!

I see other families doing fine with their routines... Are they? Or they don't talk about it or complain like I do haha. I know with time we will get it too... Right... Right!?

It hasn't even been a week and it's getting hard to see how we will make this all work out.

This mama is tired!!!!

Love my baby boy and he just melts my heart with his smile. I want to see more smiles! Less cries! haha he only has 6 teeth so we have a long way to go.

First day back after maternity leave!

Today was my first day back at work. Maternity leave is officially over ;(

To make our mornings run smooth I made sure to prepare everything the night before. It all worked out. I got ready in the morning while baby played in his crib (crying on and off to get out) luckily I was ready fast! We had breakfast together then I dropped him off at daycare and headed to work.

I logged on many times throughout the day to watch Kristian play. Even had to hold back tears all day ;( he was at daycare 9.5 hours today. I missed him!!

When I picked him up he was sooo happy to see me he gave me lots of kisses! Love my little boy!

Little Kristian is getting a new little cousin! My sister is having a baby and just found out she's having a girl!!! So I'll have 3 nieces!!! We are soo happy

Colds, Ear infection, hospital. My busy week!

This is my last week, well down to last Friday tomorrow of my maternity leave. It's back to work Monday! :(

This week has been soo busy!

My mom had day surgery yesterday and stayed over night. I brought her in and stayed with her for a bit yesterday then stayed with her all day today too. I have a cough that is driving me crazy! The hospital has big signs saying to not even enter if you are sick... hmm but it's a hospital weird ha! But I followed their rules and wore a mask... ummm I was the only one! And everyone looked at me funny. But the air in the hospital was sooo dry that it had me coughing soo much! Ugh!

haha!!!

I brought my mom some magazines and a warm scarf which she loved. Everything went well with her surgery and she is back home today.

I dropped her off about 4pm today then headed to get baby K at daycare.

We have all been fighting a cold here and this morning I thought that I better bring Kris to the doctor before I go back to work! So after I picked him up from daycare we went to the doctor. Kris was cranky and in no mood to be there. Neither was I! I was soo tired and hungry from running around all day! I told the doctor that he had been stuffy for about 9 days! He took a look and said that he has a ear infection. Because he was stuffy for so long and hasn't been able to blow it out, it infected his ear. He faxed the pharmacy the prescription and I went down to pick it up. It took about 10 minutes thank goodness no longer, carrying the baby, his jacket my purse and diaper bag I was completly exhausted. Then we rushed home for dinner, both of us were starving!

So glad I am home now in my pj's relaxing. What a day!

Daycare update: Kris did really well today, they even got him to drink 4oz of milk and 1 whole yogurt! He ate all his lunch and all his snacks as usual haha. His teachers always mention how he loves to eat haha. When I walked in today he was crawling around, I watched for a bit until he noticed me and he got so excited and cried until I picked him up.

Yesterday he got back his proofs from picture day. Look how cute!!!! He looks like such a big boy! How did they get him to pose so well hahaha :)