I'm a little late.

Blake turned 7 months on 01/17! I can't believe in 5 more more months we'll have a ONE YEAR OLD! He is growing so fast!

Not a lot has changed from 6 months. He is pretty much mobile now though. 

1. He likes to roll around the entire front room.
2. He has favorite toys.
3. He is going to be TALL!
4. He wears 6-9 months now.
5. He weighs 18 lbs.
6. He babbles.

Now a little update on myself. Rob & I have been "mall walking". We have been doing about a mile a day. I have an app on my phone that tells me how many calories I've burned. I didn't realize how out of shape I was! After a mile I'm pooped! I keep pushing myself though, because I want to lose the last of this weight so bad! I'm just glad it's roughly 10 lbs!

I wanna make a lot of changes this year. Starting with people. I'm beginning to realize who is real in my life and who isn't. As much as it hurts to get rid of certain people, it's for the best.

There is a 2 bedroom apartment that our landlord is remodeling. Hopefully it'll be done soon so we can go and look at it. I want to give Blake his own room even though he co-sleeps with us. At least it'll give us more room to store his stuff!

I have't blogged in a while, and I'm not sure what to blog about, so I guess I'll just go with the flow. Christmas was pretty good. On Christmas Eve we went to Rob's grandparents on his dad's side. After that we went by his parents, and then headed to mine where we celebrated the rest of Christmas Eve with my family. We spent the night, and headed to Rob's aunts over in Fairview for a little bit to celebrate with his mom's side of the family. Over all it was a really good Christmas and we all got a lot of good things!

I stayed with my mom the rest of the week and came home on Monday. Blake was sick pretty much the whole time and didn't sleep much. When we got back, Rob's parents kept him all night and Rob and I ended up sleeping instead of celebrating. So the first night home I had Blake all night, he slept really good :) Maybe it's just the comfort of home? I don't know, but he slept until 9AM.

My cousin Jeffrey's baby girl

Blake, Whitney, & my self at Rob's aunts

I'm not gonna lie...

It really bothers me when people say Blake is "big". He's a healthy, growing boy. Get it right!

I posted a status about his weight the other day and I got a 'whoa' and a 'wow'. Really? He's perfectly fine for his height & weight. He is six months, 17 lbs, 27 1/2 in. He's in the 41 % for his weight, and 84 % for his height.

On halloween my cousin came over with his baby girl, who is a month older than Blake and weighs about 11/12 lbs. (That's a guess, because she was 10 lbs at six months). I kept hearing "Blake's a beast!" "Wow, he's like double her size!" SO WHAT?! He's HEALTHY! This is where he's SUPPOSED to be!

Blake's SIX Month Update!

Blake at six months:

He loves green beans & sweet carrots! Actually, he loves food all together! Anytime I'm eating he'll stare at the food, or try to grab for it. Sometimes I'll give him a little taste ;)

Anytime we try to change his diaper, he'll roll over and try to take off! He can't crawl yet, but he kicks his little feet like he's trying to get away.

He will stare at his hands, and try to put his feet in his mouth. He's so interested in them.

He will kick his feet when he starts to throw a fit, and scream to get your attention. The only time he cries is when he wants a bottle RIGHT away!

He still sucks his thumb!

He goes CRAZY in his jumper roo!

He likes to watch spongebob.

Daddy can make him laugh more than anyone else :)

He LOVES to pull my hair! He'll grab it, yank it, then try to put it in his mouth. It hurts so bad!

He still drinks 7 oz and he is in a size 2 diaper.

New beginnings?

Since Blake is taking a nap, I decided to re-do my layout a little bit. I wanted something more mature and exciting. I feel like my blog is so boring, but no one reads it anyway.

I decided to go on birth control again, and just like before, it's making me mean and impatient. The reason I decided to go back on it again is because I had a pregnancy scare. The condom broke completely! I was in complete stress & anxiety until I finally started my period. I have never been so excited to start my period before. Sorry if that's too blunt, but I could of shouted it from the roof tops!

It's been a bad one this week though. I feel like I can smell everything, and thoughts of certain foods make me sick. I'll be glad when it's over with. I am gonna stop taking the last week of my birth control so that it will stop me from having a period completely. My best friend & my aunt do the same thing. I talked to my aunt about it, to make sure I'd still be protected. I have a check up Dec. 26 (ugh) and I'll talk to them about it as well.

Rob gave me my Christmas present early (the day after Thanksgiving). A galaxy s3! I absoultely love it! It took me a few days to get used to the touch screen. I'm still a little slow at texting, but I'm getting better each day. I ordered a case for it off of amazon, but it's taking forever to get here. Probably because it's coming from Hong Kong.

We also ordered Blake this adorable hat. It's been getting cold here (in the 30's) lately. My aunt also got him another hat simiular to that, but it's a blue bear I think. We need to buy him a winter coat, but are having no luck in finding him any!

There's this website on facebook that is pretty much a rummage sale. We ended up getting him some clothes since he's gonna be in 6-9 months very soon! They are all in great condition and super cute. I've sold a few things on there myself. The only thing I hate about it is when you have to meet with multiple people in one day! 

A year ago.

A year ago today, I was 11 weeks and had my second ultrasound. I remember, Blake was just wiggling around. Now he's taking a nap on our bed.

It's crazy how fast time flies. Everyone said it would, but I didn't expect it to be this fast. My baby boy will be six months in just nine short days. I remember the day he was born like it was yesterday. It was the most painful/exciting day of my life.

Now he sits, smiles/laughs, rolls around, GROWLS. I love my big boy so much!

My five month postpartum update & Thanksgiving.

I am still struggling with my weight. I stay around 106-108 pounds. That is my fault though, I am addicted to bad food. I'm not depressed about my body per say though. I'm pretty much just content with it and I have faith in myself that one day (hopefully soon) I will drop these last 10 pounds.

Btw, I haven't wore those jeans since before I was pregnant. I have a pair of jeans that my friend Tara gave me from Hollister with holes in them, which Rob's grandma hemed up for me and we need to go pick them up today. I'm soooo excited to try them on! They are a size 3 (so are the one's in the picture) so I hope they fit just as good.

Now on to my Thanksgiving...

Me and Rob had plans with both of our families, so we went to my mom's first, ate, drew names for our Christmas present drawing (does anyone elses family do that?) and then headed back to Mt. Vernon. We stopped by the apartment and I went over my hair (I am re-obsessed with my curl wand!!) and headed to his grandma Kaye's. We stayed there for an hour or so. We left Blake with Rob's parents and decided to go to Black Friday. Blake stayed the night at Rob's parents so we didn't have to take him with us. When we got there we saw that the phones don't go on sale until 5AM so we went home and napped until 2AM and headed back up there.


We waited in line for an hour or so, but only got one phone because with the fee it was over $500 and Rob only have 400 something. He let me have it, of course, but he was pretty upset that he couldn't get the phone he's been wanting for months which made me feel like shit. I am truely greatful though!! Best Christmas present ever (:

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!

Blake's five month update!

At five months:

1. He is almost always giggling and talking.
2. He loves playing in his jumperoo.
3. He now wears 3-6 months, and some 6 months.
4. He can almost sit up on his own.
5. I swear I've heard him say 'mama' a few times.
6. He still sleeps in bed with me, and I don't mind one bit!
7. He wakes up about once a night still.
8. He is now interested in his feet.
9. He still drinks 7 oz and LOVES green beans and sweet carrots!
10. He is a thumb sucker.

Well I ended up going to the emergency room the other night when I wasn't feeling good. It got to the point where I could barely move, and I felt like I was gonna pass out. I had a u.t.i., a bacterial infection (a.k.a. acute diarrhea), and I was dehydrated. They hooked me up to an i.v. with fluids, which hurt so bad I cried. I've never cried duing an i.v. I think they didn't know what they were doing to be honest. Or maybe I was just really weak and couldn't handle it. Either way, I now have a big ass bruise on my forearm. They took my blood and I guess something came back low, so I had to go back in the morning and get more blood drawn. I think I'm officially scared of needles now.

I came home on Monday, but I secretly wanna go back to my mom's. Rob's been doing over time, which helps us a lot, but that leaves me here alone more. I've been feeling lazy since I got back and haven't been cleaning as much. Everything is picked up, but I'm super slow about it. Especially the dishes. And we have a dishwasher....

I had a talk with my friend Tara about how I felt. She started texting me saying she feels like a shitty friend to me cause we haven't hung out and she keeps pushing herself away from me cause she felt like she couldn't relate to having a baby and she thought that annoyed me. I knew it had to do something with the fact that I had a baby now. This is it though, if things go back to the way they were one more time I'm done. She came over Friday and I trimmed her hair and bangs. Then this morning we went to walmart. I guess we'll see how long it lasts.

Sunday morning

I woke up around 1:30AM not feeling good at all. I felt nauseous, and my stomach was hurting. I went back to sleep and woke up around 5AM because of Blake and took some ibuprofen. Thankfully he went back to sleep and when we woke up around 8AM I was feeling a little better but my stomach still hurts. I just hope it's not the flu!

Rob is coming to get us tomorrow morning after he gets off of work. He was going to get us Saturday morning, but after just getting off from working 12 hours, he was to tired. I'm excited to go home though. I'm glad I ended up loving living there. I used to be so depressed over the thought of it!

I really think my zoloft is helping more since I stopped taking birth control. I feel more outgoing, and happy. Plus me and Rob don't fight near as much as we did!

His grandparents sold their house to a doctor and they are living in the fruit bowl while they build a smaller house. I wish we had that kinda money! They own a daycare, storage place, and something else but I forgot.

I dyed my hair black and I LOVE it! It looks so much healthier, and fuller. I just hope it doesn't fade too fast.

Halloween

I've been blogging for at least a year now, because I remember blogging about halloween last year :) This year instead of being pregnant, I got to take my son trick or treating for his FIRST halloween!

I took him up to a few houses and he started to get so heavy, and grumpy, so I put him in his stroller and bundled him up. He ended up sleeping the whole time! We did get a good amount of candy though.

We ended up having family come over. My mom and aunt finally made up and even my sister went. Her and my aunt haven't gotten along in a long time.

I got to see my baby cousin KayLynn, and I can't believe how much smaller she is than Blake. She's almost six months and she weights ten pounds. 

Isn't she a doll though? I feel so sorry for her. I wanna keep her!!

I'll end this post with more pictures from last night.

 I hate the way I look in this picture, but I think it's a good picture over all if that makes sense.

Breath of fresh air

When I went to my mom's I didn't think I'd be staying as long as I did, and I forgot my refill pack of birth control. I figured I'd just start the new pack whenever I got home. Well, I changed my mind. Birth control messed with my hormones WAY too much! I am so much happier, and I feel like I've fallen in love with Rob all over again. Whenever I was on birth control, we'd constantly argue. I just didn't feel happy with him at all. Also, (sorry for t.m.i.) but I now feel like I want sex all. of. the. time. I feel like the guy in the relationship....

I took Blake's swing to my mom's because he never used it. Of course, once I get it there he falls in love with it. We brought it back and got some batteries for it. Now I can just put him in that in front of the tv whenever I want to clean, cook, shower, ect. Except right now when I'm trying to blog he wants to be held.

I'm about to make honey sauced chicken in the crockpot that I learned off of pinterest. I made it a couple of nights ago and it was so good! I'm craving it so bad so I guess I better end this and get started on it :)

Blake's Four Month Update (Re-Do)

I'm re-doing Blake's four month update because I finally have a picture of him in the bathtub. I want to do that for each month. I was at my mom's when he was officially four months and didn't have his bathtub there.

 

Blake at four months:

1. He loves his bouncy! Even though we still have to get batteries for it.
2. He likes to suck on anything he can get ahold of! (I think he's teething.)
3. He likes to stand up. (Whenever I'm holding him, of course.)
4. He's ticklish!
5. He still likes to be sung to :)
6. He is so into the tv!
7. He likes to kick and hit things.

I decided to stay at my mom's for another week because I want Blake to be close to his doctor in case he needs to go back. Plus Rob still needs to clean the apartment. He came here Monday and stayed the night. Monday night Blake starting screaming and crying like he was in pain so we took him to the emergency room. Of course once we get there, he acts perfectly fine. The er doctor checked him out and said he looks really healthy, and he's strong (multiple doctors have mentioned him being a strong baby). He said he might be colic, but for some reason I don't think he is.

Today was his four month check up and the doctor there said there's a tummy virus going around, so he may of caught it. He used the bathroom five times yesterday, and today he hasn't screamed once. I pray that he's back to his normal self! No one likes seeing their baby hurting.

He is now 14 lb 6 oz and 25.25 in long! He cried after getting his shots, but stopped the moment I held him. I also fed him some rice cereal, and he didn't like it. He spit out and wanted a bottle! I need to get different nipples so I can start putting baby cereal in it.

I'm relieved

Blake's face is looking soooo much better today! Rob is getting everything cleaned at the apartment for when we go back. He goes back to work tonight, and I'm hoping they don't try to fire him for not being able to go in over the weekend. But I'm pretty sure it's illegal to fire someone over a medical issue?

Since I don't have much to blog about today, I'm gonna post pictures of my mom's new house!

It's so beautiful and peaceful out here!