Category: Diary

since im a horrible mother, i looked over to check on my child, and he was across the room finger painting in the cat puke

haha i was going to use this little SD card for something so i stuck it in my computer and discovered it had pictures on it! it had like 5 pix from jana’s bachelorette party in 2008 that i hadnt ever even seen before.

tonight paul and lucas and i went out to dinner at a chinese restaurant. the couple at the booth next to us just couldnt get enough of lucas. probably because he is so effing cute. he can majorly power crawl now, pull himself into a standing position without pulling up on anything, bend his knees to sit down instead of just falling over, and we tried finger foods but he didn’t like them much. in fact one of the first ones we gave him he threw at Matt at the museum at my birthday.

ive been spending a lot of time planning out the trip to europe that steph and i want to take in sept.

this post was supposed to be a lot longer but i didnt finish it

maybe i should start eating it myself. so last month i looked up a baby feeding chart to see how much lucas should be eating and i was shocked at how much baby food he was supposed to be getting ( we were still feeding him nearly all formula with a jar of baby food around every other day). so we majorly amped up his solids and this week i started adding stage 2 foods – instead of it being just applesauce, he has vanilla applesauce mixed with a little grain. it pretty much tastes like flavored sweet applesauce and is pretty darn good. lucas loves his fruits but still isn’t too keen on veggies. he’ll get half way thru a veggie jar and then clamp up and won’t take more bites until you switch to fruit. if you keep shoving peas in, he’ll get mad at you and kinda cry angrily (he has also started getting grumpy if you take a “toy”). the downside is he now poops 2-3 times a day instead of once a day plus it takes forever to feed him because he is all ADD about it and tries to look at everything and grab everything while being fed. we sit him up in his bumbo chair with a little bumbo tray to feed him. it’s easier than the high chair and the bumbo can be put on any surface next to you…desk…futon.

today i put up a large baby superyard (jail, pen, whatever you want to call it) because now that he learned to crawl, he’s only interested in grabbing stuff he isn’t supposed to grab rather than his toys. he didn’t seem to mind being in it and just crawled around playing with toys and watching tv.

ever since he learned to sit up at the en of Nov, we’ve been able to put him in high chairs at restaurants and in the shopping carts (end of dec) instead of toting the carrier or trying to push the stroller + buggy.

i’m loving my new craft desk. i really need to take down the christmas tree…some day

for my birthday i got a new craft desk from michaels. its built from several storage cubes with boards on top. they were on sale today so i ran out and bought a bunch and then spent from 4pm – 10pm (with a dinner break) assembling them. i did it nearly all myself (paul helped with the frustrating parts when the screws wouldn’t align). i’m really excited about working at it. paul seemed pleased that he might be able to recover the futon since it’s been my current workstation and you hafta do a jump and a leap usually to even reach it, and even then there is only enough room for myself and maybe a couple animals.

im going to be sick, they just ate an eyeball on tv. altho i assume it was fake but ewww

the day began with me waking to lucas **screaming** downstairs. i run downstairs to see what has happened, and paul is just changing his diaper. he said he had no idea why lucas was screaming and crying like he was since nothing was wrong.

well just one week ago lucas got the hang of crawling. today, when i went in to check on him when i was putting him to bed, i walked in to find him standing up in his crib. so he can now pull himself up and stand if holding something!

this will require a couple of days thought probably, but i’ll start it off

lucas is soooo close to crawling!

he also kissed me today. he didn’t get it quite right, but i understood his intention. it was soo sweet

lucas came one step closer to crawling today…he was on all fours and was able to lift a hand and smack it on the ground. then at one point he slid his knee forward but then he flopped.

on the 26th on the ride home from TN he held his own bottle in the car seat and was able to both hold on to it and tip it up