Hey lady! Ya got some poop on your arm!

Only a mommy can be caring her baby around the house for a good 5-10 minutes before she realizes there is poop all over her arm...

Yes...this happened TWICE this week!

Mike 'Phoenix' Tyson

I fear I may be one of those moms. You know the one. She's sitting in the restaurant trying to enjoy a meal with her family and talk with her husband and her child is screaming, banging on the table, crawling around all over his chair. The mom in the grocery store who has to keep taking stuff out of the cart, because her kids keep putting them in. The mom who is chasing her son through the Target, or bargaining with him to please get in the car. Or better yet the mom who is smacked in the face, kicked in the shin, or bitten by her lovely child while being watched by a crowd full of other moms. Yes, this will be me. A few weeks ago when going to get Phoenix's blood work for the GI (which still hasn't come back, what's up with that?) we are in the waiting room and he's bouncing up and down on my lap and he tries to go in my purse and I say no, and he smacks me in the face. There's like 5 people in the waiting room, so I kind of chuckle and say " No Phoenix, don't hit Momma". Well it didn't end there, ever since then whenever he doesn't get his way, we tell him no, we are slow with the food, he gets pissed! He's hitting and doing his shrill little screech. Banging on the high-chair. Just throwing out right tantrums...Geeze wonder where he got that from.

This is his mad face.

Of course I never want to be that mother who's kids are running all over top of her. That's not my style, so Shawn and I are trying to get this under control now, with firm "No's" and trying not to laugh or giggle when we say it, because he seriously looks so cute when he's mad. I can say that it's not fully working, but when we do say no (after several times) he will stop and just start talking angrily (you can totally hear in his voice that he's pissed). He is a very independent strong willed child. I fear we may be finding ourselves in for a world of trouble!

Silent Sunday

New Finster Man pictures

Look at these lovely pictures my friend Ashley took of me and my Fin at the Jason Upton concert a few weeks ago. Phoenix all strapped in the Moby so Momma could work (or walk around trying to find work to do LOL)

We also just got back the proofs from the photo session we did a few weeks ago. They look so great! I'll post some when I get them on CD.

No more milk milks for us

I am a grieving mother this evening. Today marked the end of one of my favorite moments with Phoenix...breastfeeding. I sadly put away the nursing cover, the boppy, the nursing bras (ok not real sad about that one), the extra calories, the pre natal vitamins. And out comes the liquor! Kidding, kidding...well maybe it will ease the pain a bit! But today I finally decided that Phoenix was not getting the nutrients from me that he needs. With starting real foods and being on formula my supply has just completely tanked. I tried fighting it for the last week and a half but I realized yesterday morning that he was just using me to snuggle. He'd suck for a few pull off and scoot off my lap backwards no less. Instead of stopping cold turkey I am going to continue to nurse him once at night before bed time just to keep that "connection" even if it's just for a minute or so. With the exception of supplementing with the formula I had a very pleasant experience with BF. No clogged ducts, engorgement (except when my milk first came in), no mastitis or anything.

So it is with great sadness that I watch my baby slip further and further away from me and into that cap and gown.

Is it time for another???

Video's for your viewing pleasure

I've been trying to upload cell phone video's to my blog for a looooong time, but every time I did it made the weirdest noises. For my push present (yes I asked for one) I got a new Gateway laptop. So it was only 8 months old, but last week it broke, it was a mess! So I got a new HP one that I LOVE but that was a hassle because the Gateway was a 32 bit and the HP was a 64 bit (whatever that means) so none of my work programs worked so I had to buy new ones, long story short the 64 bit is supposed to be better and I decided to see if video's would work now and guess what? They do!

Here are FOUR video's from this week. Sorry they are grainy. It's from my cell phone and you have to tilt your head to the left to see the other two. I'm not a cinematographer, but I'm tryin'. Now that I know this works I'm going to pull out my RCA Small Wonder will work.

Enjoy my screechy baby!

Recipe Rave!

I have to rave on last nights dinner. It was delicious!

It was a mock risotto and parmesan crusted tilapia. Usually I do tilapia with potatoes and just lightly season the fish with s & p and lemon juice and a little red pepper flake. But this is certainly going to be my new go to recipe for tilapia. I really wanted to look for some new side dishes. If it was up to my husband we would rotate between stuffing and mashed pototes every night

Mock Risotto
The changes I made: I added mushrooms, because I had left overs from Monday night, and I did not add peas. Before I met Shawn he didn't eat any vegetables, I've since gotten him to eat a few and only if I beg. But peas (and bananas) are something I can not even attempt to get him to eat. But he will eat snap and snow peas....weird. Oh and I also had to use purple onion, because I sent Shawn to the store for white onion...and that's what he came home with.

Parmesan-Crusted Tilapia
Changes: I added a few shakes of crushed red pepper and when it was done I just squeezed the lemon over top of it.