Mother's Day

I think we need to celebrate Mother's Day once a month. Don't you guys agree? We do so much that it's only fair.

I had a great Mother's day. Jon has spoiled me these 2 last years.

I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for having given me the opportunity to become a mother. There is no better calling in life. I get so much joy out of being a mom.

Can I just say though that I do not know how there are women out there who are working mothers. They are amazing people because I would have lost my mind by now. I think it takes a very strong women to be able to do that and I am not that strong. So for those mother's who work outside of the home you guys need more praising.

Sleeping is going amazing

Well after starting a sleeping routine a while ago and trying to get Baby to fall asleep on his own everything was going well. Until we went on vacation and everything got ruined.

After coming back from Vegas it was a struggle to get him to fall asleep and then to top it off he wanted to be on the booby ALL night long. He would wake up in the morning not very well rested and neither was I.

Last week I got to my breaking point, I honestly felt I was going crazy. I could no longer handle his whining and him not paying attention to me. It was like everything I told him to not do he would do as if to get attention. The one day I was at my cousins house and I had to leave out of there in complete despair. He was trying to ruin her palm tree and was going up and down the stairs and ended up falling the whole stair case. Was throwing dirt on the floor from the plans and was just throwing tantrums for no reason. My cousin saw how embarrassed and frustrated I was and gave me a piece of advice. She told me to put him to sleep at night on his own. This is the one and only thing I did not want to do. I love sleeping with my Baby and I was really sad but after feeling how I was feeling I called my husband and told him we needed to get at least a playpen for Baby to sleep in at night.

That same night I did the bed time routine and after feeding him I put him in the playpen to sleep. He cried for 30 minutes and it felt like forever but finally he stopped. I was shocked he had actually fallen asleep. We have now been doing it for about a week and he is now falling asleep within 5 minutes of me putting him down. Not only that but he slept the whole night without waking up last night. Also his whole behavior has done a complete 180. There is no more whining, listens to me, is way more cuddlie and to top it off is eating so much. I am a happy mom.

For mothers day we went over to my cousins house and she was in shock of how good he was behaving. He listened to me the whole time, ate dinner, played by himself. He was even making everyone laughs with the things he was doing. I could not be happier. What a great gift for Mother's Day.

Quilting

I have started quilting, well sewing I haven't started the quilting part yet but this is what I have so far. It has been so stress relieving.

Did you know how expensive quilting frames are? My gosh I would have to sell a kidney to get one so I decide I am going to get my husband to make me one so till that happens I guess I can only do the sewing part on quilts.

I have started 2 quilts one I have all sandwiched up just waiting to be quilted and the other one I just barely started. Here is my first one though and this is the front.

This is the back of it.

What do you think?

I love dairy

I could honestly live off of dairy.

Honestly I am not lying I really could. However my body has decided that it wants nothing to do with it.

After getting married I noticed that whenever I had dairy I would have really bad stomach aches. I started to get lactose free milk and to take some pills whenever I had dairy and that seemed to help for a while. The pills worked for a few months then I think my body became immune to them but the lactose free milk worked for a long time. While pregnant I ate all the cheese and sour cream I wanted my first trimester since that was the only thing I could actually eat and I noticed that I wasn't having any stomach aches.

Hallejujah!! I was the happiest person alive. That was only for 9 months, then my son was born and whenever I had dairy he had stomach problems so no dairy it was for almost a year which was super hard. Now my baby can have all the dairy he wants with no problems but me on the other hand its a different story.

About 3 weeks ago I was at my cousins house and she gave me some ice cream, which by the way was delicious, but let me tell you what that ice cream was torture for not only me but my poor husband too for 2 whole weeks. I am not lying I was a mess at night, I had the worst gas. I know TMI but oh well. Last week I decided I am done with dairy and went the whole week with out having any dairy but by Sunday I just had to have some and I did. Worst mistake of my life the next 12 hours I spend in the toilet throwing everything up.

Well I guess I got the point now no more dairy for me. I am super sad but it has to be done.

First Birthday Party

We had Baby's First birthday party yesterday and I had a blast. It was a monkey theme since we have called him our monkey since day one, so yellow and brown were the colors I chose. It was a small party just family and one of my good friends with her two daughter who Baby just loves.

I had been stressing for days about the cake and finally I decided I would make a monkey shape cake and decorate it and then I would make a jumbo cup cake for Baby to go at. The night before the party I cooked both cake. The jumbo cupcake turned out perfect, at least I thought, but the monkey came out fine except for the face it was stuck to the pan. By that point it was 1 in the morning so I went to bed and left it for the morning to try again. I made it again and it came out perfect and then when I tried to move it to the tray it almost broke in half so by that point I decided too much had happened for me to even try and decorate it. I was too nervous I would ruin it. My cousin decided that to give it some color we would just put the frosting on the side of it. It didn't look as bad as it could have. Then the cup cake, Ahhhh! That was another problem it started to crumble as we were decorating it and so by the time we finished it no longer looked like a cup cake but just a blub of something.

Baby was so happy the whole time until I decided that he needed to blow out a candle on his cake. BIG mistake! What was I thinking? Children and fire do not mix well together. Well he decided he wanted to touch the lit candle and ended up burning his little finger. The picture below was right before it happened. After that he wanted nothing to do with his cake. So sad. His finger turned out to be ok, so no worries there.

This is all the girls in my family who actually live in USA.

All in all it turned out really well and we had a blast. Baby got enough toys and clothes for the rest of the year. Baby had so much fun he came home a crashed. He didn't even cry to go to sleep.

Easter

I have decided that Easter is Christmas and Halloween combined into one holiday.

I was looking at people's pictures of Easter on facebook and their kids get tons of toys and tons of candy. I'm not sure what I think about this.

We went to my SIL's home for lunch yesterday and it wasn't as bad, she did get candy and some toys but clearly not as much as some kids do. Baby on the other hand got nothing cause I am confused as what you do with children for this holiday because growing up in Costa Rica we didn't do anything like they do in the States. In Costa Rica is more about the food you eat and children are required to be very quiet during the weekend of Easter. Anyways...going back to my SIL's house, my niece had these carrots full of just colored sugar and Baby got ahold of one of them and he was going to town with it. As soon as I saw this going on I was on top of him taking it out of his hands. Sugar and Baby do not mix well together. Let me just tell you that last night was rough, he had way too much energy and then today he did not take a morning nap there was no way of getting him down.

I give him candy sometimes if I am eating a piece but its not a carrots full of sugar. I cannot believe they sell that stuff for kids.

On a different note...while I was trying to give him a nap he got off the bed and went to a corner to play with some toys and I heard him pooping. I tell Jon to please get me some wipes and a diaper. When he gets up to go get them he notices Baby has taken part of his diaper off. I got up to see that Baby got really his whole diaper off and pooped on the carpet. To top it off he steps on it and as I go to grab him he falls on his butt which still had a piece of poop on so now there is poop on his foot and smeared on his butt and the carpet.

The beauty of having a baby.

Lesson learned though I will no longer let him walk around without a onesie on.

Sleeping update

Everything was going great. Baby was falling asleep before I could even get to reading a bedtime story. Then we went to Las Vegas, that completely ruined it and now my parents are in town and he wants nothing to do with sleeping. I guess back to square one it is. This whole thing is harder than I thought but oh well.

I am sure that trying to get him out of our bed will be even harder. Maybe that's why he is still in our bed, I personally do not want to have to go thru that yet.

There are times I think he will stay in our bed till he can actually talk and tell me that he wants his own room and bed.

First tantrum

Not really the first one but the first one in public.

Oh boy...am I in trouble.

Baby and I went to Walmart today to do our weekly food shopping. It was about 1pm when we got there. My goal was get all the food I need and then take him out of the cart and let him walk around for about 30 minutes to tire him out enough that when we got home he would go straight to bed for his nap. Everything was going well I got all the food I needed and let him walk around. I didn't realize he was going to start taking stuff, his favorite was the toilet plunger which he walk around for 20 minutes with. When I decided it was time to go he threw a fit. He didn't want to give up the plunger so he threw himself on the floor and started crying and thrashing. My gosh he is not even 1 yet and doing this. I thought I still had some time left till this behavior started. Thank goodness no one walked by when this was going on.

We managed to make it out of the store in one piece.

I love this Baby though even with his tantrums. I looked at him today right before bed and I could have sworn I was looking at an angel. He is just such a blessing in my life and has taught me so much already in just 11 months. I would not change him for the world.

Viva Las Vegas

This past weekend my cousin invited Baby and I to go with her and her family to Vegas. I of course was not going to say no so off we went.

Ahhhh!

What was I thinking? Wait...I wasn't thinking. Seven hours stuck in a car with a baby it not what I would exactly call fun but we made it there and back. We also managed to have some fun and get out of our routine which is always nice. Baby loved all the attention he got. My cousins LOVE babies and so Baby was getting attention non stop. The only bad thing is that since he is now walking and feels comfortable with it he no longer wants to hold my hand. This is no fun for me cause he wants to go where he wants to go and period.

After this trip I have decided that I will not be going to Vegas when Baby is a teenager. Honestly. My cousin has a 14 year old and who brought a friend with him and teenagers and Vegas do not mix. Wow...I was shocked. I have been to Vegas many times but not really noticed how bad it really is.

I know that sounds stupid right?

But since I am an adult it didn't hit me before that its really bad but going with teenage boys whose hormones are going crazy made me really notice everything even more.

Did you know on every corner there are free porn magazines?

And that at night they pass out cards with naked girls on them?

These boys were collecting them like they were baseball cards. My poor son the things he will see in his life time.

My husband and I were talking about this and he said how when he was a teenager to get porn you had to really try hard it was not everywhere but now days it is everywhere. It makes me sad that our children will be exposed to more bad thing earlier in life.

Baby shoes

Since Baby started working I have been trying to get him shoes that he can actually walk with. I have gone out and bought him 3 pairs of really expensive shoes and he wants nothing to do with those. Finally I decided I just needed to go out and get a pair of soft cheap shoes. Jon and I go to Old Navy the other day to exchange some clothes and as we walk by the baby section we find only one pair in his size and it was in the clearance section and the price was $6.99. I said perfect. Tried them on Baby and they fit perfectly and then when we get to the register they came out to $2.11 with taxes, don't you just love it when that happens? I am so happy with the shoes I had to put a picture up. It is so hard to find cute boy anything I swear.