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We had our swap today and it was so much fun! I hope to have all the recipes up soon on my recipe blog but for now, here's a listing of what all was swapped.
Group 1:
White Chicken Chili
Greek Spaghetti
Manicotti
Talapia
Group 2:
Tex-Mex Chicken Strips
Baked Ziti
Chicken Pot Pie
Layered Enchilada Bake
Bow Tie Pasta
I've already had a ton of interest for swap #2! I can't wait to dive into these meals!!!!
this lil piggy went to the doctor
this lil piggy got undressed
this lil piggy got on the scale
this lil piggy peed on the scale
this lil piggy weighs 19lbs.6.5oz.
He got one shot, puckered his lip and off we went :)
Since we have successfully avoided the pedi for a month (basically, haha) they (the receptionists, aka: Keaton's girlfriends!) they were so excited to see the boys :)
that's all for now :)
Keaton climbed out of his crib....again.
I was REALLY hoping we'd make it til his 2nd birthday without the toddler bed, but, I'm thinking it's closer than we'd like...
A friend suggested I not waste my 'energy' disciplining for him climbing out, but just make the switch...I'd rather him stay in the crib though.
Last time he did this, I put him in the crib and asked him to show me how he did it and he couldn't figure it out.
Today, he was ALL too eager to show me how he threw his leg in the air and pulled himself over.
It looks neigh impossible that he could do it - it is QUITE a stretch, but sure enough, he is...
sigh....
Zach got off work early! This never happens and it was great that it happened on a snow day (OK, it was because of the snow that he got off early, but still!)
He was able to come home and we got the boys outside and even got our first family picture....yes, B is 5 months old and this is the ONLY picture of the 4 of us! How sad is that?
And after....
Normally, our freezer is SO packed that you have to stand back when you open it, but we've been eating leftovers like they're going out of style to make room for the swap!
To start, some sweet pictures of my sugar....
And then he fell down...
That's what I'm trying to figure out. With B's horrible sleeping the past week, I've felt like one of the aliens in Mars Attacks that just sort of hover and float along ...
Zach's sister & her hubby had their second lil girl Saturday morning - we got to go see them on Sunday afternoon.
B slept much better last night! We're pretty certain it was all the teeth...we'll see how tonight goes ((as I listen to him scream in our bedroom, joy...))
Honestly, I'm just too tired to type anymore!
About Benjamin being an 'awesome teether'....about being a 'great sleeper'....
I don't think we've really slept (I just typed sleeped....what does that tell you?!) in a week...
that's all I have to say....
((hoping if I take it back, normalcy will return...))
Once again - I'm baffled?! Was he really born 5 MONTHS ago?? 5 weeks, maybe! Not MONTHS!
Ok, enough of that! :)
Well, not a whole lot to 'update' on, but here goes :)
2 teeth so far (ugh) he's not biting as much, mostly just if Keaton comes running through the room screaming and scares him :)
He's a rolling fool now :) Well, atleast rolling one way! He hasn't mastered from front to back - he just gets mad....really mad...and screams until one of us roll him over.
He loves:
Being in the wrap (as much as humanly possible!)
Being in the jumperoo (He looks like he will fly out of that thing most days!)
Snuggling with mommy (he buries his head into my neck - and I melt!)
His big brother! (He watches EVERYthing K does and quite often laughs at him!)
K's sock monkey he got for Christmas (K is growing to like it! haha)
He is slowly getting Ok with going to other people. Rarely do we see that precious bottom lip poke out anymore when 'strangers' are around :) He is DEFINITELY a mama's boy though! (And I love it!)
We're thinking he's about 19lbs. I had to pull out K's 12 month PJs for B to fit into. He's mostly in 12 month clothes (of course, depending on the brand/cut/fit - it could be 6 mos, 9 mos or 12 mos)
He loves his cloth diapers (as does mama) and he actually screamed at me the other day when I had to put a Luvs on him in the middle of the day (we do cloth during the day and disposibles at night for various reasons) He's in Med. cloth diapers and size 3 in disposibles, but we'll probably buy 4's next time - due to his Buddah belly and thunder thighs!
He's super long - not sure how much, but, very long :) Totally normal for the Jones' boys, I think!
We haven't started solids yet, for a handful and a half of reason, but we will start with oatmeal at 6 mos.
We go next Friday (I think) for some shots (we're doing a delayed schedule)
He is sleeping through the night almost always. Teeth and rolling have screwed this up the past couple of nights (OK - almost a week now, sigh)
And that's our baby!
Keaton loves...scratch that - ADORES his little brother! Today, on the way back from the chiro, I looked back and K was just about asleep (B was) and they were holding hands...they were still holding hands when we got home. :) I'm enjoying that while it lasts ;-)
While K napped today (and I use that term loosely) B & I took some pictures :) Here's the most recent of my sweet baby! Oh, Tooth #2 has officially emerged through...for those who care, he is LOVING biting while nursing (mama, on the other hand, is NOT loving this!) He continues to roll and roll and roll and roll :)
Well, B (finally) did it! ...and we missed it! We were frantically running around getting ready for church, he was on the floor on his back on his play mat. I turned around to grab something, Zach looked away to put on his sweater...we both looked at B at the same time and I screamed, "Did you do that?!" He was on his belly! He's just laying there, propped up on his arms, looking all around with this, "WHAT just happened?!" look! He didn't do it again today, but he now knows how...and the excitement is about to begin...
Tooth #2 is making it's entrance. I take back anything I've blogged, said to friends in person or on Facebook - he is not a 'great' teether. NOT as bad as his brother, but I think the pain of it all is finally hitting him. Naps have been few and far between the past 2 days, last night was a pretty bad night (I can't complain because it was nothing like VA Christmas or HFM)
Keaton has expanded his vocab some more: "stuck" (which he exclaims whenever he sits in the Bumbo...He has to sit in it or it gets no use...I can't get B out by myself...chunkster!) and "Q" (I got him a magnetic alphabet set and he was holding the Q, Zach told him what letter it was and for an hour, all we heard was 'Q')
This morning, he woke up and this is what I heard after a moment or so of fussing...
"Hey! Mama....Dada....B? Hey! Where is? Ok...oh no! One....no...no....GO GO GO GO GO!!!!! ::more fussing:: Mama?? bye!"
haha, I LOVE it! Of course it was screaming after that, but it was cute while it lasted! :)
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In grown-up excitement...We bought a Wii!!! We are slowly catching up with the rest of the world! ;-) We have been playing WiiMusic, WiiSports and WiiPlay since Friday night! I have since found out that I'm addicted to golf games!! And I'm not all that bad! I've been told that if I want WiiFit, I have to buy it myself...but I'm thinking about getting a kettlebell to work out with instead for now...
That's about it for now...
In random annoying news...
Just a real quick post.
Keaton (& Benjamin!) and I had a play date with some friends this morning.
Keaton was chasing Addie (the daughter) and then it got really quiet. Kristen (mom) and I got up to see where they were...
Keaton was lavishing Addie with hugs & kisses!!
He eventually got her pinned up against the fridge in a huge hug...
Poor Addie...she looked scared out of her mind!!!
...
while we were there, Keaton decided to show off and say, "dump truck" - OK! :)
Wait - what?! 21 MONTHS?! like, in 3 months he'll be 2???? oh my!
Keaton has new discoveries everyday and never ceases to amaze me.
His vocab is taking off. I was 'warned' by other mama's from the 'older toddlers' class that once their child was in that room, there was no stopping their vocab. Now, I know what you're thinking if you know Zach or myself - we were worried about this child talking?! (how about getting a word in edgewise?!) :) I wasn't worried. I just wasn't pleased with where he was when he went into that class. But a few things have happened since he entered the older toddlers class room 3 months ago - I do not compare my child anymore to other children, I ignore other mama's and their 'well, my child is doing x, y, and z...' and well, Keaton proved those mama's right!
His latest words include:
Blue, shirt, grandma (he said it 2x when he saw Zach's mom!), carrot and drill (he got a tool set for Christmas)
He has started a handful of 'sentences':
"what's that?"
"where go?" (Where did it go?)
"there is!" (There it is!)
"Where is?" (Where is it?)
His vocab (atleast what we can understand!) is growing everyday! Of course, 'no' is still the word of choice, but I've given up on changing that (I have not given up on disciplining for it as needed, however). He said "Benjamin" once, way back when, but continues to call him "B". He recognizes the letter "B" (probably because there is one in Benjamin's room and we always talk about it) - I can show him a B and he'll respond correctly. Sometimes with A as well.
He will count "1" and hold up one finger, but anything past one is "no"!
He absolutely loves to do puzzles. He got a super cool puzzle book for Christmas and I seriously think he would play with it all day if I didn't 'hide' it!
He has gone to the bathroom on the potty once, totally by chance but has (thankfully!) shown no desire for a repeat performance!
He climbed out of his crib once, and again, no encore.
However, while at Zach's parents for Christmas, we had laid him down for a nap. The next thing we hear from the top of the steps is, "Hey! Hey!" He had climbed out of his pack & play, opened the door and wandered down the hall! Thankfully, he didn't try to go down the stairs (we were all down stairs at the time)
He still loves to play peek-a-boo, but has his own twist on it. He takes your hands and covers your face and takes them away when HE is ready for peek-a-boo! Another game he could play for hours! :)
In the last couple of weeks, he has become very affectionate in giving hugs and 'kisses' (aka: headbutts!)
He LOVES Benjamin. That's all there is to it. He must be wherever B is. If B is on the floor, Keaton is on the floor. If I go to chance B's diaper, Keaton must tag along. He is super sweet with him and would hug him all day if I'd let him, but he gets a little aggressive with his hugs on occasion.
I've started thinking about his 2nd birthday festivities....not ready to share quite yet, but, soon :)
The inevitable happened. I knew it was bound to happen. But I really thought Zach and I made big babies that don't get teeth til much later (K got his first tooth at 9 months-ish)...
Well, we make big babies...
But Benjamin has decided now is a good time to start getting teeth. I noticed last night his bottom teeth were right below the gum line.
Today we were eating lunch and he was ready for lunch too, but I needed to get K down first and I stuck my knuckle in his mouth to gnaw on ...and I felt it. Bottom, front right tooth.
Sigh. We're not even done with K yet - he has 2 more 2 year molars to go. I just wanted a week long break from teething. The hope is he'll get it over with quickly...maybe?
The good news - he's a MUCH better teether than K was/IS! You'd never know there was a tooth coming through.
I have a feeling K is working on one of those said molars. He's warmer today and clingy and fussy (the later two are nothing out of the ordinary, but the 'warmness' is usually his teething indicator)
And finally (because both boys are napping and I want to lay down and read!) head on over to my mommy blog and enter for a chance to win some Mabel's Labels! I had a chance to participate in this giveaway via The Giveaway Connection, a new blog in the momgeneration.com circle. There are 6 bloggers participating in this giveaway - and you can enter at all the blogs!
Seconds after 'pee pee on the potty'...I've been meaning to update: Since this happening, K won't go near the kid pot! haha! He'll still go into the bathroom, but he has NO desire to sit on it!! YAY!
Whenever Benjamin takes a bottle and he's super tired, he starts rubbing his head, it is so sweet :)
Keaton had a bowl of cereal for breakfast the other morning, it went great! He loved it!
(sorry for the blur!) But now he can see!!!!
And that was our New Years/Birthday weekend! :)
Whew - it flew by and is over already!
Thursday, my mom got into town mid-afternoon. We celebrated Christmas with her and had delicious chili that night (if I may say so!)
Friday, we went to Coldstone Creamery to get my cake (cookie dough!) and run a couple errands. Later that evening, we went to Michael's and stocked up on Christmas items!
Saturday we celebrated my birthday and his dad's birthday. I got lots of goodies! :) Sat. night, after Keaton was in bed, my mom stayed and entertained Benjamin while Zach and I had a much-overdue date at Kanki - we absolutely stuffed ourselves with yummy food!
Today (Sunday), was church, lunch and a quick Target run (including stocking up on more Christmas!)
Let's just say, our trees (yes, Trees!) will be fully decorated! :)
It was a fun birthday :)
Now, it's loads and loads of laundry!
And for the record, I'm 27 :)
((Pictures to be posted later))
I added the "pee pee on the potty" so you know what you're getting into when you begin to read this post!
We have a toddler potty (a kid pot as I like to call it) in our hall bathroom. Whenever I use that bathroom, I try to get K to sit on it, just for kicks (for the record: I have NO desire to potty train/potty learn. Pre-B, I was gung ho. B was born...I'm totally fine with 2 in diapers!) Normally, K runs from it screaming and I laugh. Sometimes he'll sit on it and "sing" me a song (??)
Today, I had him sit and he started screaming, but it wasn't "NO, don't make me" screaming, it was screaming combined with him tugging on his pants to get them off...
I figured he'd run away once the pants were off.
Nope.
He ripped off his diaper, grabbed some toys from the edge of the tub and sat down.
I said, "are you going to pee pee?" He just smiled and seconds later...there it was...
Granted it was all over the rim of the kid pot and not IN the pot, but, none the less, he peed on (literally) the potty!
I cleaned him up (along with the kid pot) and let him flush the big toilet (I told him that was the privilege for peeing on the potty)
Then, all the fun was over. I went to put his diaper back on and he HATED that. I mean, I had to practically sit on him to get him to lie still and once it was on (forget the pants!) he was on the floor, kicking, screaming and bawling! Ohhh boy...
So now I don't know what to do. I'm NOT ready to PT him...I don't have the energy for that! But, I don't want to delay something that he wants to do...
Mamas??? Help!
On Sept. 1st, I started using Google Analytics to 'track' who came to this blog, from where, what they looked at, how long they stayed, etc...Not for really any other reason other than I was bored and thought it'd be fun!
Here are some interesting facts:
Since 9.1.08, I have had 1,512 unique visitors! And a total of 5,657 visitors!
4,087 of my visitors came from the United States. Canada, South Korea, Australia and the United Kingdom rounded out the top 5!
My top 5 most popular posts have been:
#5 - Menu plan Monday
#4 - The post I did on Cloth Diapering
#3 - My Bloggy Carnival Giveaway
#2 - My 200th Post Giveaway
and #1 - My main page
The day with the highest traffic day was Oct. 29, 2008. I didn't post on that day, but it was during the Bloggy Carnival Giveaways, so I'm thinking it was due to that.
The top 5 search words or phrases were:
#5 - 'giveaway'
#4 - 'journey picture'
#3 - 'free cloth diapers'
#2 - 'unc midwives' (an astounding 14 visits just for that alone!)
and #1 - people simply typed in 'the jones journey'
Branching off of the keywords, here are my favorite keyword searches that brought readers to my blog (I wonder, did they stay??)
*oddly enough, 2 people found our family blog my searching for IHOP's new pancakes (I take that back, in reading through the list I found 9 more searches for IHOP panckaes!)
*I want to know what was found when typing "box on the wall" + "chiropractor" (for the record, I tried and never found our blog!)
*Another favorite - "rat tail" hair -comb -gray
*I want to say congratulations to the person searching for "Contractions are 2-5 minutes apart and 45-60 seconds long" - hope you made it in time! ;)
*Also, congratulations to the one searching for "how to get a UNC medical records number" - hope you had better luck!
*I feel for the person searching "nonstop nursing in the evenings"
*Person searching for "how to find some me time" - did you?? Do share!
*"terra post chunky house call nurse" is definitely one of my favorites!
*I wonder if we have a 'twin' family out there, do share if you found me by searching for "the screaming tunnel"
*UNC was a popular topic, adding to the midwives, medical records number search was:
~health care my record
~hospitals birth stories
~chick-fil-a
~walk-in clinics
~midwife birth story (sorry to let you down on that one!)
~midwife reviews (They are AMAZING!)
~midwives appointments
~midwives VBAC (DO IT!)
~women's hospital clinic B
And finally,
*Wish I would have searched for "Walgreens drive thru how does it work?" before going myself!
Thanks for sharing the year with us! :)
Zach and I often chat on Google chat in the evenings. He takes B back to our bedroom and gets him to sleep while I clean, blog, fold laundry, etc...
Tonight, B was exceptionally fussy.
After some time, it was pretty quiet. I was hoping that he had indeed fallen asleep and soon, I would be following suit.
I sent Zach a message trying to ask him if B was indeed asleep and here is the conversation that followed:
Terra: How is her?
No, not her, he?
Zach: Nope
Wide
Awake
.....
what?
Whatever normalcy is around here with 2 under 2.
Decorations are (almost) down - only the snow man out front and the garland on the banister to go
Benjamin is sleeping
Keaton is coughing
I'm way behind on laundry
...home sweet home
We were able to head to VA earlier than planned on Friday. Zach got off work and we were on the road to VA about 5pm.
The boys napped most of the way there so we let them play for a bit before getting them ready for bed.
Benjamin woke about 20 mins after falling asleep - super congested. Long story short, we were up just about the entire night with him.
Saturday night - repeat of Friday with about 1 hour more of sleep.
The boys got spoiled rotten and got lots of fun stuff.
