TV Miss

Dexter, where have you been?  How have I missed that you are almost at the end of the current season???  I cannot believe I am so behind.  I have no time for TV these days.  How am I supposed to catch up with the season?

Mad Men, where have you been all my life?  When is your new season going to start?  I do not want to miss you like I missed Dexter.  To live in a time where everything was so different.  I cannot imagine, but I do like their wardrobe.  Maybe not their undergarments, but the rest of it.  I cannot tolerate heals all day long, but flats are always in style.

Loving the sleep training.  I need to start waking him up and then wearing him out to get him to sleep earlier at night.  It means I need to go to bed too.  However, the training means less sleep for him and me in the meantime getting crib trained again.  Hope it is just one week of lack of sleep to success than ongoing.  Christmas is no exception.  Getting up when usual than unusual.  Once a rhythm is started, I do not want to stop it.  Ball is rolling.

Flu shot today for Adam.  What a champ!  Eyes teared, but did not cry, laughs when doing raspberries on his belly and then out the door without any crying.  Good boy.  Nap time too.  Definitely well timed and a tough boy to boot.  Best case scenario as we got a different nurse to administer the shot as well.  The 2 bumps on his leg from last month's shots are still present.  I will never let another rookie nurse touch him again if I can prevent it ahead of time.  I am tired of him suffering at the hands of amateurs.  Bed time!

Scattered Thoughts

Watching White Christmas always puts me in a good mood.  I love their dancing, dresses and singing.  So fun.  That is the way life should be.

Adam fell off the bed today.  So sad! He did not cushion his fall at all.  Head first.  Big purple goose egg.  Horrible noise, poor guy in pain and have to watch for seizures and concussion.  Poor little man.  He was sleeping and kept flipping over and over.  He usually wakes and puts his feet down, but this is the first time he went head first.  He stumbles and trips while walking all over the place, but today he made a circuit of the house without stopping or needing a break.  He's squatting and picking up objects and standing back up.  So exciting.  Leaps and bounds.

So sad also the shootings that took place in Connecticut. Shooting women and children is unnecessary. Why can these people not just kill themselves and spare the world their wrath and presence?  Guns are not the problem.  It's the people that possess them.  When will this world acknowledge that all of this violence and horror can be minimized or eliminated when the parents start doing their jobs.  Taking our children and teaching them wrong and right.  Proper gun use and improper use.  Locking up the weapons properly so they do not have access to them, etc.  Treating and properly diagnosing mental illness is another step along the way.  Parents need to agree to diagnosis, treatment and help from others.  Parents do not know everything and should look to the experts for help in teaching their children.

Parents do not take the time anymore to treat their children as some day adults and that they will be running and influencing the world in a short period of time.  The brats, bullies and horrible people of the world really can blame many factors as to their behavior.  Genetics, parental guidance (or lack there-of), societal influence, nutrition, experience as a child, trauma, school and teachers interacting to make the person grow up into the adult they will be at age 18, when they are a legal adult.  Nature vs nurture is not isolated and these gunman are getting the short end of the stick until they do that to others.  Usually there are warning signs and they are ignored or not followed up with by the parents first, then others.  Aspergers is usually an introverted disease with outbursts of some sorts.  Unusual and ridiculous all the same.  I feel for everyone one of those effected by this tragedy.  The shooter should not be glorified by the media like they have been too.  Let people grieve and the shooter buried without fan fare.  Horrible.

Will our house sell, will the money man grant us money to build or just buy?  I'm so excited by the thought I feel relieved.  So excited.

Nothing Worse Than A Sick Baby

Yesterday Adam said owie and he opened and closed his hand, palm up, indicating that he wanted a bottle handed to him.  He stacked 9 blocks on top of each other and is getting more confident and better at walking everyday.  He's a pretty proficient climber, but happily he has not taken to kitchen chairs yet.  He is so fun.

Today, he woke with a 100.1 degree temperature.  His cheeks were flush and pink.  He was pink around both eyes, tired acting all day, but still playing.  He did not drink nor eat as much as usual. He also did not take a second nap.  He's sleeping now, but I do not know if it will be for the night.  He has been sleeping well so I hope this does not throw a monkey wrench in that progress.

I have been feeling the baby move more and more.  I can no longer lay on my stomach comfortably.  I am on a good target for weight gain and am pleased with my conservative, but good caloric intake.  I bought a mini trampoline to try to get my lymph system jump started in order to avoid swelling later in pregnancy.  I really hope it works.  That and drinking drinks with lemon or orange oil in them.  The oil gives flavor without needing to drink all the sugar of a juice drink.

Christmas 2012

I hope to go play in the snow if the temperature warms enough to take Adam out for more than 10 minutes.  His new snowsuit was a great use today.  Love it.  He was a champ when we went to get our flu shots today.  I did not even really feel it.  I do not know if they just use a really small needle or if she  just had good technique.  Whatever it was, I appreciated it.  A good experience.

Talk Talk Talker

 Yesterday he said Count, for The Count on Sesame Street, pretty, I always say pretty flowers and without ever having seen one in real life, nor said the word before, he blurted out bike when passing the display in Kmart.  How fun.  He was really off his schedule because of travel yesterday and I do not like traveling because of it now.  That will be the last travel we do for a long time I hope.

His one year pictures finally came in :)

Very excited for Christmas!  I need to start wrapping now that 99% of my Christmas cards are sent.  This weekend we have a birthday party, I have an appointment and I'm going to start getting the house ready to list to sell.  I am ready to move on.  I hope it works out that we sell and that we have a place to go when the time comes to move.  I am overly excited about it so I need to temper my spirits in the meantime.  I am going to invite some fellow realtors over and ask their opinion on what to price it.  Too excited.  I already  have a house in mind as to where I want to go.  If it works out, it will be a miracle and I'm due for another miracle.

Speaking of miracles... I'm pregnant.  I am not online official.  So good to be done with the first trimester.  Week 14 is great.  Cold and windy with blowing ice snow, but great.

Happy

Today Adam started saying something like happy.  Happy, happy, happy.  What a guy.  I wish I could curb his throwing of everything, but he needs to understand before discipline will work.  Consequences these days are just taking away objects and distraction.  I have to say today was very productive for inner peace in this house.  It is a lifetime struggle to be happy in this work in progress house.  No house will ever be maintenance free, but we need to live simpler and purge the clutter.  I have been purging in stages.  I love the feeling of less clutter and clean.  Clean sheets are the best smell.  Always puts me at peace.

Adam is dealing with high lead levels.  We have lead paint on our radiators and they need to be refinished, minimally covered.  I worry about his health constantly.  The eczema, sores that won't heal, ear infection, growth and development.  Ugh.  I know that will not go away, but the lead levels may explain why he has delayed or impaired healing.  Not good.

I had a fall that hurt my back and neck.  All my usual practitioners agree I really did a number on myself.  I tried to control the fall and tensed up my muscles.  The worst thing I could have done.  Not ever good timing, but now is tough enough with lack of sleep, extra weight to carry around, desire to exercise and a heavy baby to take care of/carry around.  Loving the direction I'm headed right now.  Riding the waves can be so enlightening.

New Day

Adam stacked 3 pop cans today with no problem then proceeded to throw them across the floor.  They then got taken away.  He enjoyed salsa, beans and chips for nachos today.  Funny boy.  He also took off all ornaments within reach on the tree and handed them to me.  How considerate of him.  At least he did not destroy them or something else.  Now the tree is just bare at the bottom tier.  The tree is still good.  Love that he is paying attention and is observant.  He is due to wake any moment from his nap.  One hour flies by when I want to get something accomplished while he sleeps.  Hope to get out into the sun today.  We both need the Vitamin D.

More Words

Today he said cookie (for cookie monster), blanket and yesterday he said gobble gobble.  He says something like drat, but we have not figured out what that means yet.  He slammed his left pinky finger in the measuring cup drawer today.  He also was spitting and drooling greatly.  He walked into the kitchen asking for dad.  He jumped off his little chair and thought it was hilarious.  He laughs at Luke Skywalker's name and if you say, "You, you, you."  I hope he stays asleep now that he's in bed.  That means I need to go to bed too.  I know he will still get up early tomorrow.  Lots of productivity today, on top of a nap (thank you to my husband).  Christmas shopping close to being done.  Just kids of relatives left and 2 birthdays to attend to for December.  I do not like to remember those poor December birthdays.  The holidays are enough for me.

Christmas tree 2012