You know that adorable phase when your baby learns to hold their own bottle, and sometimes they play with their ear while they eat? That's sweet, isn't it? My second baby started doing that at around 6 months, it was something i loved terribly, when one day it morphed into something totally different!!
There he was, laying in his crib drinking his bottle, when i noticed that instead of the cute little ear tug there was a less than cute nipple pinching going on... yes, i said pinching... not some little "hey, why does this feel different than the rest of me" kind of caress, but full on titty twister!! It kind of caught me off guard at first, but i figured that he was just doing his own thing, always has been kinda unique! lol
I remember one specific trip to walart when he was about 8 months old, he was sitting in the front of the cart with his bottle but wouldn't drink it until he had fought his hand under his winter jacket, sweater and t-shirt to get to his nipple. His dad was trying to get him to stop but i told him, while laughing at the sight of this, that it's a phase and he'll grow out of it and he's not hurting anyone!
That adorable little bundle of joy is now 4 years old, and guess which phase he didn't grow out of?! Let's see, he's not still doing the wounded soldier crawl everywhere, he's off the bottle, even fully potty trained, what does that leave?... Yup, the nipple thing!
I tucked him into his bed last night, fresh from the tub, and looking sleepy. Gave him his hug and kiss, told him i loved him, what a perfect bedtime right? The second i turned out the light i turn and see him goin to town on his nipples again! How do they not get sore?? He does it sometimes out of nowhere too, just standing in the kitchen trying to scold him for having just up and hit his older (yes older) brother, when he just reaches up and twists his nipple... It makes it really hard to give him shit with a straight face!! I guess i'll just continue on with assuming he'll grow out of it and not end up like the guy on little nicky, but i have some solice in the fact that if he carries this into adulthood at least I shouldn't have to bear witness to it then!!
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
The top 9 reasons mornings make me twitch
1) I have to wake up at a specific time, and i'm of the opinion that there shouldn't even be a 6 am!!
2) Every weekday the baby will have me up to early to stay up for the day, but to late for me to go back to bed without worrying i'm going to sleep in and therefor miss the school bus!
3) I have to wake my 7 year old up which i can honestly say makes me worry about the teen years considering I have to strip him of his blanket and pester him for 10 minutes to get him to notice i'm there as it is, all while trying to let the 4 year old sleep which almost never works.
4) Trying to convince the big one to get dressed and ready for school, including making sure his back pack is packed (which was supposed to be done the night before but isn't) and all of his winter gear is by the door ready to go.
5) The breakfast debate, every mother is familiar with this, it never goes smoothly when you're on a schedule! They never want to eat the same thing, someone always wants something completely unreasonable, and they end up eating in a hurry. This causes problems for meals the rest of the day when you tell them to slow down, and that they don't need to shovel their mouths so full!
6) Packing a lunch for school, he is in grade 2 and requires his sandwich or soup, drink, and at least 4 snacks for his day... That is 6 small debates all while trying to get him to actually eat the breakfast we settled on!
7) By now we're behind schedule, so I have to push the oldest that much harder to get on his touque, sweater, ski pants, boots, jacket, mitts and scarf before the bus arrives while I end up packing his back pack since it still didn't get done!
8) After we somehow manage to get all this accomplished so we're ready by the pick up time, his school bus is 5 minutes late, causing whinning about being to hot, being bored, tired legs, ect...
9) Trying to get all of this done on that schedule while the baby needs to eat, be changed, and just gripe at me for not looking at him every minute, and a 4 year old pushing his way into the middle whining because his brother "has so many important things to do and he has none!!"
2) Every weekday the baby will have me up to early to stay up for the day, but to late for me to go back to bed without worrying i'm going to sleep in and therefor miss the school bus!
3) I have to wake my 7 year old up which i can honestly say makes me worry about the teen years considering I have to strip him of his blanket and pester him for 10 minutes to get him to notice i'm there as it is, all while trying to let the 4 year old sleep which almost never works.
4) Trying to convince the big one to get dressed and ready for school, including making sure his back pack is packed (which was supposed to be done the night before but isn't) and all of his winter gear is by the door ready to go.
5) The breakfast debate, every mother is familiar with this, it never goes smoothly when you're on a schedule! They never want to eat the same thing, someone always wants something completely unreasonable, and they end up eating in a hurry. This causes problems for meals the rest of the day when you tell them to slow down, and that they don't need to shovel their mouths so full!
6) Packing a lunch for school, he is in grade 2 and requires his sandwich or soup, drink, and at least 4 snacks for his day... That is 6 small debates all while trying to get him to actually eat the breakfast we settled on!
7) By now we're behind schedule, so I have to push the oldest that much harder to get on his touque, sweater, ski pants, boots, jacket, mitts and scarf before the bus arrives while I end up packing his back pack since it still didn't get done!
8) After we somehow manage to get all this accomplished so we're ready by the pick up time, his school bus is 5 minutes late, causing whinning about being to hot, being bored, tired legs, ect...
9) Trying to get all of this done on that schedule while the baby needs to eat, be changed, and just gripe at me for not looking at him every minute, and a 4 year old pushing his way into the middle whining because his brother "has so many important things to do and he has none!!"
A little about me
I am a single mother of 3 boys, Tristan (7), Xander (4), and Landon (3months), needless to say the age span between them keeps me on my toes as they are always in completely different phases! One could say i'm lucky to have 3 the same gender as they will have the same likes and hobbies, one would be greatly mistaken! lol The baby is obviously still to young to be lumped into this part just yet, but the older 2 are completely different, and I suspect that as Landon grows he will find a third path to being his own completely different person. Life would just be to simple if they were to similar!
I have a blog on tumblr that I have had for some time now, it's basically for me, all the things I like and find inspiring from poetry to art to shoes i'll never own which works since i'd never have anywhere to wear them! I started that blog when i found my life to be nothing but kids and felt that I needed somewhere, even if only online, that I can focus on myself. I have found that since adding my third little man to the mix that to say i'm all about my kids is a serious understatement! At the end of the day, if you strip away the diaper changes, games of peek-a-boo, alphabet practice, thomas the train stories, homework, video games, bath time x3, and sometimes hair raising bed times there's not a whole lot left of just me! And when I have the bit of time when the house is quiet and I could sit down and scroll through my tumblr dashboard for something for me, i'd rather just go to bed!
After stumbling across some other blogs about motherhood and the gross, exhausting, and sometimes horrifying things that no one tells you about before you have kids I decided that I would start a new blog and join in the imperfect mommy movement! I watch the home page on my fb and see all these moms worrying about organic foods, 70,000,000 things that most parents do that are actually horrible, judegement, and criticism towards other moms and less and less understanding and support!
So this shall be my space to share all things motherhood, the good the bad and the ugly! The things that make me twitch, and the little heart warming moments that make it all worth while!! I hope you enjoy, and feel free to submit your stories, comments, and whatnot, my only rule is that i will not post anything that includes judgement of other mothers, we should all stand together no matter how different we raise our kids!!
I have a blog on tumblr that I have had for some time now, it's basically for me, all the things I like and find inspiring from poetry to art to shoes i'll never own which works since i'd never have anywhere to wear them! I started that blog when i found my life to be nothing but kids and felt that I needed somewhere, even if only online, that I can focus on myself. I have found that since adding my third little man to the mix that to say i'm all about my kids is a serious understatement! At the end of the day, if you strip away the diaper changes, games of peek-a-boo, alphabet practice, thomas the train stories, homework, video games, bath time x3, and sometimes hair raising bed times there's not a whole lot left of just me! And when I have the bit of time when the house is quiet and I could sit down and scroll through my tumblr dashboard for something for me, i'd rather just go to bed!
After stumbling across some other blogs about motherhood and the gross, exhausting, and sometimes horrifying things that no one tells you about before you have kids I decided that I would start a new blog and join in the imperfect mommy movement! I watch the home page on my fb and see all these moms worrying about organic foods, 70,000,000 things that most parents do that are actually horrible, judegement, and criticism towards other moms and less and less understanding and support!
So this shall be my space to share all things motherhood, the good the bad and the ugly! The things that make me twitch, and the little heart warming moments that make it all worth while!! I hope you enjoy, and feel free to submit your stories, comments, and whatnot, my only rule is that i will not post anything that includes judgement of other mothers, we should all stand together no matter how different we raise our kids!!
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