Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
What am I going to do?
I used to hear parents complain about their children being picky or finicky eaters. I just didn't understand this. You've heard the expression "Picky eaters aren't born, they're made"? I believed this to a extent.
Until now.
Oh my, Rylan is giving us a run for our money in the food department! Don't get me wrong, he's a huge kid...over 90th percentile in both height and weight according to his 15 month checkup stats...so I'm not concerned that he's not eating enough, but, rather, when it comes to food variety, he has none. And the older he gets, the less variety he accepts.
When he started eating baby food, he liked all varities that I gave him and I thought, Great! Then when we started giving him table food from time to time, he would eat it and seemed to enjoy whatever we offered him. Well, when it came time to actually transition from baby food to table food, we somehow hit a wall.
An increasingly growing wall.
I really thought transitioning from baby food to table food would be easy with Rylan because it was with Taylor. Actually, she pretty much transitioned herself. Around ten months old she started refusing her baby food, but would pretty much eat anything and everything else that we gave her. Rylan, on the other hand...
Not so much.
At first he refused a lot of things, but also accepted a lot of things so I just thought, Okay, he's not going to be one of those "eats anything" kind of people like I am, but, rather, he will have slightly more preferences like his daddy does. And I was ok with that because he was at least trying the foods we offered him.
But now we can hardly get him to do that without him having a huge crying fit :(
I just don't know what I'm going to do with this adorabley frustrating little boy.
Until now.
Oh my, Rylan is giving us a run for our money in the food department! Don't get me wrong, he's a huge kid...over 90th percentile in both height and weight according to his 15 month checkup stats...so I'm not concerned that he's not eating enough, but, rather, when it comes to food variety, he has none. And the older he gets, the less variety he accepts.
When he started eating baby food, he liked all varities that I gave him and I thought, Great! Then when we started giving him table food from time to time, he would eat it and seemed to enjoy whatever we offered him. Well, when it came time to actually transition from baby food to table food, we somehow hit a wall.
An increasingly growing wall.
I really thought transitioning from baby food to table food would be easy with Rylan because it was with Taylor. Actually, she pretty much transitioned herself. Around ten months old she started refusing her baby food, but would pretty much eat anything and everything else that we gave her. Rylan, on the other hand...
Not so much.
At first he refused a lot of things, but also accepted a lot of things so I just thought, Okay, he's not going to be one of those "eats anything" kind of people like I am, but, rather, he will have slightly more preferences like his daddy does. And I was ok with that because he was at least trying the foods we offered him.
But now we can hardly get him to do that without him having a huge crying fit :(
I just don't know what I'm going to do with this adorabley frustrating little boy.
While we do make him take a "no thank you" bite, we aren't enforcing that he eat what we're serving as we feel he's a bit too young to understand this. Plus, when he's hungry, he is CRANKY! But...
His party is soon over!!!
We will give him a few more months (he's 17 months now so probably when he's closer to 2 years and is better able to understand reason) then the hammer comes down. There will be no special chicken nuggets cooked or peanut butter sandwiches made. There will be no yogurt cups offered or bananas peeled.
He will either eat what is served to him at meal time or he will wait until the next appointed snack time or meal time to eat.
That sounds so harsh, I know.
But, seriously people, what else should we do???
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
I love him
I'm going to take this blog post opportunity to brag on my husband :-) .
Because I love him and he more than deserves it.
There have been several things as of late that cause me to go, "Wow, I am one lucky girl!" He is just so everything I ever wanted and feel so blessed that God gave him to me. Don't get me wrong, I get plenty aggravated with him and frustrated at him sometimes, but it's usually shortly after those moments that I think to myself, "Why I am so aggravated or frustrated about that when he has so many wonderful qualities and awesome character traits???"
One of the main things I love about him is his passion to be a good dad to our kids. I know of so many dads out there who just aren't that "into" their children. I'm not saying they don't love their kids or that they don't want to provide for them, but Kraig wants to go above and beyond that. He takes part in teaching our children, in playing with them, even in correcting and discipling them when necessary. And he does all of this without me nagging at him to do so. It's just who he is being the kind of dad he wants to be. If he needs to run errands on a Saturday or a day when he's off work, he usually asks Taylor is she'd like to go with him. He knows she loves to be out and about and she especially loves riding in Daddy's truck! Often when he's working outside or in his garage, Rylan wants to be out there too so Kraig lets him (as long as it's safe, of course) and does his work while keeping his eye on Rylan (which is no easy task and probably makes whatever he's doing take twice as long!). I appreciate that he takes the time and opportunities to be the leader to our children and to be the role model they each need. I also love that he wants to take individual time with them whenever possible. I know they might not realize it now or even know to appreciate it now, but I know this is something that, espeically when they are older, they will look back on and be so grateful for.
I also love so much that Kraig has never questioned my desire to be home with our kids. Before we ever got married, this is something we discussed and decided...that I would become a stay home mom once we had kids. It's one reason we waited seven years to start our family! Not that we have it all together, but we wanted to reach certain financial goals (mainly no debt other than our house) before bringing a new life and responsibility into our lives all while losing an income. I'll admit, going from two full time incomes down to pretty much just one income (I do still work usually just one day per week) over five years ago was very challenging to say the least. There are a lot of things we had to change and even just plain give up, but Kraig never complained (and still doesn't!). He loves to have his "man toys" ('62 Chevy, motorcycle) and his fun hobbies (car tinkering, gun collecting) and things like that, but he finds creative ways to save and even make extra money sometimes to pay for those things. I'm sure he would like to do more on a regular basis, but he doesn't make that his priority and I'm so thankful for that.
It's also wonderful to me that he is just HOME. He's home from work by 5pm and, while I know he'd love to make more money or have a job where there is opportunity for overtime, it's so nice that he gets to be HERE. He's not constantly at work. He's also not going out after work with "the guys" or hanging out with "the guys" on the weekends. When he's not at work, he's with his family and I just find that incredible because, trust me, we are not always that lovely to be with LOL ;0)
Since he was a teenager, Kraig's life verse has been
"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." ~ Luke 6:45
How thankful and blessed I am that the abundance of Kraig's heart is that which is good!!!
Because I love him and he more than deserves it.
There have been several things as of late that cause me to go, "Wow, I am one lucky girl!" He is just so everything I ever wanted and feel so blessed that God gave him to me. Don't get me wrong, I get plenty aggravated with him and frustrated at him sometimes, but it's usually shortly after those moments that I think to myself, "Why I am so aggravated or frustrated about that when he has so many wonderful qualities and awesome character traits???"
One of the main things I love about him is his passion to be a good dad to our kids. I know of so many dads out there who just aren't that "into" their children. I'm not saying they don't love their kids or that they don't want to provide for them, but Kraig wants to go above and beyond that. He takes part in teaching our children, in playing with them, even in correcting and discipling them when necessary. And he does all of this without me nagging at him to do so. It's just who he is being the kind of dad he wants to be. If he needs to run errands on a Saturday or a day when he's off work, he usually asks Taylor is she'd like to go with him. He knows she loves to be out and about and she especially loves riding in Daddy's truck! Often when he's working outside or in his garage, Rylan wants to be out there too so Kraig lets him (as long as it's safe, of course) and does his work while keeping his eye on Rylan (which is no easy task and probably makes whatever he's doing take twice as long!). I appreciate that he takes the time and opportunities to be the leader to our children and to be the role model they each need. I also love that he wants to take individual time with them whenever possible. I know they might not realize it now or even know to appreciate it now, but I know this is something that, espeically when they are older, they will look back on and be so grateful for.
It's also wonderful to me that he is just HOME. He's home from work by 5pm and, while I know he'd love to make more money or have a job where there is opportunity for overtime, it's so nice that he gets to be HERE. He's not constantly at work. He's also not going out after work with "the guys" or hanging out with "the guys" on the weekends. When he's not at work, he's with his family and I just find that incredible because, trust me, we are not always that lovely to be with LOL ;0)
Since he was a teenager, Kraig's life verse has been
"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." ~ Luke 6:45
How thankful and blessed I am that the abundance of Kraig's heart is that which is good!!!
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Oops
The garbage disposal and one of Rylan's spoons had a little run-in this morning...
This hasn't happened to me before! I really thought my sink was about to bust out of the counter and take off!!
Whoa.
Garbage disposal=ONE
Baby spoons=ZERO
This hasn't happened to me before! I really thought my sink was about to bust out of the counter and take off!!
Whoa.
Garbage disposal=ONE
Baby spoons=ZERO
Friday, January 6, 2012
They're here!!!
Remember this post when I talked about the Stompeez not arriving in time for Christmas?
Well...
Drum roll please...
TA DA!!!
Those adorable little Be-Bop Bunnies, along with these cute lil Growling Dragons
Well...
Drum roll please...
TA DA!!!
Those adorable little Be-Bop Bunnies, along with these cute lil Growling Dragons
arrived four days after Christmas on Thursday, Dec 29th.
This is Taylor when I called her downstairs and she saw why.
She was SO EXCITED!!!
And here both kids are modeling their brand new Stompeez for me.
So, about these Stompeez...
They come in general sizes like Small, Medium, etc. So, I got Rylan the small and Taylor the medium and both pair are too big on each kid! It's ok though because it means they'll be able to wear them for a while, I guess. Like, seriously, Taylor will probably be able to wear these when she's 10 ~ HA!
Here she is jumping to try to make them work like she saw on TV.
Poor kid, between them being too big for her and her not being quite heavy enough, they don't work quite like she saw on TV...surprise, surprise :0) . They do, however, work great when Mommy tries them out so, when Taylor gains another 100lbs, she'll be good, LOL :) .
Check out the video of Taylor demonstrating how the Stompeez work (notice how deliberate she has to walk!) and Rylan demonstrating what his favorite thing to do with Stompeez :0)
We noticed the second or third day that we was wearing them and playing with them that one of the bunny's ears doesn't flop back down automatically. They get stuck in the raised position and you have to push them back down with your hand. *Sigh* So just yesterday I called customer service and they're supposed to be emailing me a prepaid shipping label so I can exchange them for a new pair.
So, looks like the saga of the Stompeez continues... :-D
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