Happy (very late) Birthday Donnie!

Once again, its better late than never right? Its sad that Donnies birthday was the 20th, and I'm just posting about it now!

Every year I chose a theme for his birthday. This year it was Plants vs. Zombies (a new video game we love), and Donnie got a birthday week this year! (Every year I have a birthday week!) So every day, for a week, he got a Plants vs. Zombies birthday card (that I made) and a small gift. I have to say, fun was had by all!

On Saturday we went over to my parents for the grand birthday party. Complete with Plants vs. Zombie decorations, that I had made. Even the peanut got into the swing of things! Feel free to leave (belated) birthday wishes for Donnie!

Happy (very late) Mothers Day!

They say that late is better than never right? Well..Happy Mothers Day to all you mom's out there! I had a wonderful Mothers day. Donnie gave me a day off of baby care! :-) He also made me coupons for all sorts of wonderful things, like foot rubs! A better husband I could not find! :-)

For my mom, I made her a vase. I ended up taking a Pringles can, and taping cardboard around it. Then I took pictures of Donnie, the peanut, Frankie, and myself to put on the vase. We also typed up the reasons we love my mom to put under the pictures. Then we put some tulips in it, and delivered it to my mom. I think she really enjoyed it!

Happy Mothers Day!

Look-A-Like

Over the past eight months, many people have very different opinions about who the peanut looks more like. However, the other day, my dad came over to our house, and brought a picture of me when I was about 4 months old.

Donnie and I saw this and burst out laughing! We look the same! Even the expression on my face in the picture is the same on that the peanut makes all the time. Sadly, I could not find a great picture of this to prove my point.

I'm still here!

Hello faithful readers! Life have been really busy, and sadly I have not been able to blog as much as I would like to, but I'm here now!

Seeing that the weather has been so nice, we have been going on nightly family walks, and they have been really fun! On these walks we have been using our baby carrier. The peanut seams to like this a lot more than being in his car seat stroller.

However, the only bad thing is this carrier kills my back! So I have a question. Are we doing something wrong? Or do they just hurt your back?

New Skill

The peanut is sitting by himself! I was shocked to see him doing this last night. However, when I made Donnie look he was like, oh yeah, he has been doing that now. What?!?!?! He never told me that the peanut was sitting?!?!?! I was so upset. However, I got over it while looking at how cute the peanut looks all sitting up! :-)

Pictures!

As promised here are pictures from our trip to the zoo! Here are the polar bears. There were two of them playing in the tub together, and they were so cute!

Sadly I did not get any really good pictures of the baby chimp with her mom and dad. But here is the baby with his mom.And here are some guerrillas.

Thanks for looking!

Weekend Fun

Today is a big day! Not only is today our wedding anniversary, but also my half birthday! Feel free to leave happy half birthday comments! :-)

To celebrate these events Donnie and I went to the zoo on Friday while my mom had the peanut. We had a really great time. (sadly I forgot to bring the pictures on my jump drive) There is a 8 month old chimp peanut there! He was so cute with his mommy and daddy. I will have to post some pictures of it soon.

Then yesterday the ladies at my church when to Eastern Market. Eastern Market is like my most favorite place in the world. The only bad thing about this event was that we met in Royal Oak at 6am! Needless to say I came home and took a nap.

Being at Eastern Market has made me want to grow a garden. Does any one have any ideas for veggies to grow that are hard to kill? Thanks! :-)

Answers

There were two questions recently that I thought I would answer with a post.

Katie wanted to know if we have to blow up the duck whenever the peanut takes a bath. Nope, we just keep it inflated at all times. Most of the time we just keep it in the bath tub, until someone wants to use the shower, then the duck gets moved to a bedroom.

Ann Marie wanted to know why I have a years worth of diapers. When I was pregnant we had two incomes, and we knew that I would not be working after the baby was born, so we thought we would buy a years worth of diapers while we had the money.

I hope this helps!

Problem

I have discovered a problem with my 3,000 diaper idea. I did not get any overnight diapers! When I was buying diapers it did not even enter my mind that the peanut would soak through his normal diaper.

So what I do now is put the peanut in a size larger diaper at night, and that works out fine. Let this be a lesson to us all, when buying a years worth of diapers don't forget the overnight ones!

What Would You Do?

As I have talked about many times, our house can get hot. And no, we have not fixed our AC yet. So here is my question, during the night would you leave the windows open to cool down the house?

Here is the problem, our house gets so hot, and then when it gets cool outside its time for us to go to bed. Our house is only one level, so I don't know how safe I feel with the windows open while we sleep. But if we did leave them open our house would be so much cooler in the morning.

So open or closed, what do you think?

The Duck!

I would like to introduce you all to the duck bath tub. I had some issues finding it, but on Sunday I found it, and got it home! We first put the peanut in with out water just to play, and I think he had a good time!

Then was the moment of truth. The duck with water. The peanut has never been a fan of the water, but he only whimpered a little bit in the duck! I think we have a winner!

Problem

We have a problem, and it goes by the name of baby tubs. We stared off with this tub. Now it says its for infants, babies and toddlers, but the peanut is already too long for it. Thus started our search for a new tub.

First, we tried the one below. The problem is that the rim of our tub is two wide for it. So we had to take it back.

Next we got this ring seat. The problem with this one is that our bath tub is wavy, so the suction cups do not suction onto the tub. Back this one also went.

So I think we are going to try the duck. When I first saw this at Target, I thought it looked so funny. I did look at the reviews online for it, and people do tend to like it. Wish us luck!
All you moms out there, what did you use for baths?

Too Funny

Now that the peanut loves to eat solids, we have a problem. He wants to grab the spoon and feed himself. As you can see, this leads to one peanut covered in carrots. But he does look like one happy peanut covered in carrots! I think my goal is to get the food into his mouth before his hand gets a chance to get the spoon.

A New Book to Read!

I have only watched Jon and Katie Plus Eight a few times on TV, but when I heard that she wrote a book I did want to read it. My mom got on the waiting list for it at her library, and two months later she got the book for me.

I have to say I really enjoyed the book. Its a fast and easy book to read. I'm sure many people could read it in one sitting. From the shows that I have watched at times Kate can be a bit pushie, and I was happy to know that she knows she has issues and is working on them. :-)

Reading the book was also good to put things in perspective for me. At times I think the peanut is SO much work, but after reading about having eight, the peanut is a walk in the park!

So go out and read this book! :-)

WV

On Easter we left Ohio and headed to see Donnie's dad in West Virgina. The peanut was not to excited about all the hills we went through to get there! The pug however, did very well. And when we got there, he even put on the bunny ears for his grandpa!

Donnie's dad was SO happy to see the peanut. The last time he saw him was Christmas, and the peanut has gotten SO much bigger than then! So the two of them got to spend lots of time together.

Sadly, the weather was very rainy the whole time we were there. However, when we left on Thursday, the sun was out! It was a great time to get pictures of three generations together!

I'm back!

I know I have not posted in a very long time, but I'm happy to report that I'm back!

Donnie and I took a week a headed both to Ohio to see my family, and to West Virgina to see Donnie's dad. For this trip we not only had the baby and all the baby stuff, but we also had the pug. Needless to say, and adventure was had!

We left for Ohio on Saturday, and stayed Saturday night with my Aunt Deb. Then it was Easter! And you know what? The Easter bunny came to visit us! I love that bunny! (even though I don't want the peanut to do the bunny hehehehe)

The peanut was very excited to get a new book, and we got a book to teach him to sign! How cool!

Then we headed over to my uncles house for Easter with the family. At some point during the afternoon the peanut let me borrow his bunny ears!

My Grandma was also very happy to see the peanut! She loves her great grandson!

And what Easter is complete without an Easter egg hunt? We put out eggs for my younger cousins to look for, and even their new puppy got in on the fun!

The peanut had a great first Easter!

Easter Pictures!

Today our family headed over to my mom and dad's to take Easter pictures! I'm shocked to report that the peanut did really well for all the photos! First the peanut got to take pictures all alone. Please note that he is all decked out in, not only bunny ears, but an Easter bib and a bunny on his wrist!

Then we had family pictures!

And then we headed to The Village in Rochester Hills to have pictures taken with the Easter bunny. Also note, as some of you know I don't want to do the whole Easter bunny, Santa, Tooth Fairy thing with the peanut, but I thought pictures with the Easter Bunny would not kill him.

He did really good with the giant bunny. He was just looking around at everything as content as could be. We also had the lady there take a picture of the three of us. I really like going to The Village, because you just use your own camera, and the line was really short!

Park!

Yesterday the weather was so nice we took the peanut to the park for his first visit! The whole time we were there, I think he was pretty unsure of the whole thing. Donnie and I, however, did have a great time!

First we tried the baby swing. I was all about the baby swing, while Donnie was saying that the peanut is too small for it. As it turns out, Donnie was right. :-)

And this is my favorite picture of the whole day. I believe it needs no caption. :-)

Next we moved on to the slide. I don't even think the peanut noticed that we were going down a slide, because he was so busy checking everything out around him.

Then it was on to the tire swing. Once again, I think he just wanted to look around.

After the tire swing it was time to go home. The peanut looks a bit relived to be back in the car

I could swear I heard the peanut saying, "Thank goodness that is over!" :-)

Yeah!

The peanut is eating!!! I'm not sure what changed but he ate his fair share of carrots last night! Yeah!