the eat like (you have) a toddler diet

i went to work the other day and realized i had not had anything to eat. i did have two cups of coffee, i did feed my son two meals, but here it was 4pm, and i was empty.

this does happen on occasion, and it got me thinking, so here are the rules for this diet:
1) completely forget to feed yourself while making nutritious meals for your toddler
(that he will not eat so you end up feeding him milk and crackers...again)

2)make yourself a nice hot cup of coffee or tea, take a sip if you get the chance, set down cup to attend to toddlers needs, when you remember you made it and go back it is cold and not worth drinking ( see no calories!)

3) make yourself a bowl of soup for lunch after attempting to feed toddler (who threw his food and cried to get out of highchair) as soon as you sit down to eat it, toddler crawls into your lap and eats half the bowl. -half of a can of campbells goldfish and meatball soup is about 100 calories but you didn't get any meatballs cause your toddler needs the meat more than you do!

4) ignore the fact that your stomach is growling because you work second shift and get to bed around 1-2 am, your toddler is convinced you only need about 4 hrs of sleep and gets up 5-6 am. so you are too groggy to care that you are hungry, you just want a cup of coffee and said toddler to go down for morning nap-again no calories-remember rule 2-you're not gonna drink that coffee anyway!

5)decide you are still hungry after your oh-so-filling lunch of half a bowl of soup, make a bag of popcorn that you and your toddler munch on. (it's only light popcorn people-that doesn't count as food!)

6)when you are at work and hungry (again) be thankful you work in a hospital and grab cereal or peanut butter and crackers and water to inhale while you try to do your job...cracker for me-meds for mrs. jones, craker for me-call doctor about mr. smith, eat crackers while talking face to face with the doctor who reaches over and grabs one too(hmmm..wonder if they have a toddler?)

7) when you have a toddler free moment(nap time) eat something that does not qualify as healthy or nutritious because it is fast and requires no prep...a can of olives, chips, goldfish crackers, popcorn, ice cream etc. avoiding the fresh fruit (you bought it for the toddler), or anything that requires more than a quick zap in the microwave.

when you get on a scale and are not happy with the number-180-remember that you eat crap so why wouldn't you be chubby!?

when (attempting) to cuddle with a toddler

i used to have a baby boy, i would sit and hold him and stare into his eyes and study his features, i played with his baby soft hair, smelled his baby smell, studied each detail....

and it's a damn good thing i did, cause that is so over!

the other night while i was rocking my baby before bed, he took my hand and rubbed it across his cheek, so i did for a while, then he looked up at me in the dim bedroom night light. i looked at his beautiful little face for a few seconds, and then out of nowwhere...he stuck his fingers up my nose!

i started laughing, he started chortling, we both got a little hysterical, i laid him down in his crib and kissed him goodnight, since the moment was definately gone!

such a boy

i am watching my son play next to me on the coach, he is surrounded by 7 matchbox cars( five more than he can hold) as he makes rummm-rummm noises. and i can't help but wonder, how did i get such a boy? i am sure i am not the only mom who has had this thought, i know it is not original, but i am so struck by it that i immediately started writing.

i knew months before my ultrasound that he was a boy, i had a dream i was driving and looked into the back seat at a little boy who looked just like my husband, and i was right, i have a little boy who looks just like my husband. he was supposed to be a girl, in my family we always have girls first and even my husband has an older sister, but i knew...this one was a boy, breaking the generations old birth order, girl-boy-boy.

i watch this little boy run and climb and bruise himself almost daily, he climbs the chairs and the coffee table, he wrestles and rides the dog, i have turned into the kind of mom who wrestles and runs around the house playing i'm gonna get that bum....he loves to throw, anything and everything, while driving i hear ohhhhh caahhrrr from the back seat while he points out every moving vehicle we drive by...

yesterday he brought me a toy to fix so i pulled out a screwdriver to change the batteries, i was doing this on the island so he could not see what i was doing. he went to the cupboard pulled out a different screwdriver turned another toy upside down and started to try to remove the screws. (we have since moved the tools)

even his hugs are rough, he climbs me like a jungle gym, grabs my hair with both hands and pulls me in as hard as he can.....i love it.

he is always surprising me, pushing me to be a different mom then i thought i would be because if he likes bugs(and he does) i will show them too him, if he wants to wrestle i will, if he wants to push cars and trucks around i will, i will sit on my front steps with my hair a mess and in pajamas so that he can watch the garbage truck or the milk truck. i will buy the pajamas covered in cars...that he is wearing right now....so he can look down and be delighted when he notices.

i am a mom of a BOY.... and i wouldn't have it any other way!

new baby !

hi everyone!! since it has been a while since i posted i figured i'd say hi and give you an update... my sister had her baby Donna Elizabeth on august 30. she was sure she did not want to breastfeed despite my gentle prodding.

so formula it was until day 3....the day she was being discharged at 1pm....when she asked me if she could pump and give formula, i told her she could, went running for the nurse who grabbed the lactation consultant who brought in a pump and we taught her all about pumping in about 45 minutes. my husband ran my pump over the the hospital so she would have one to go home with.

she went home saying just pumping because it would be too wierd to latch the baby on, by the next day we latched the baby on because it would be just as weird as pumping. well my little neice latched right on four days after birth like she had been doing it all along, and now that smart little girl has decided she doesn't really love formula, and she much prefers breastmilk right from the tap thank you very much! my sister seems to have gotten over her wierdness, and is sounding like a seasoned mama, how much she has pumped, what helps all that good stuff...
I am very proud of her!!!

my sis and her husband are both walking around with stars in their eyes saying isn't she cute, isn't she beautiful? they are young(20 and 23) but after seeing them go through labor and delivery i feel like they have a chance. he was so concerned about her and the baby asking everyone in the waiting room questions about labor and delivery when he ran out to give updates.

i have been going over there to help clean, or whatever i can do, yesterday i was there while they were out doing baby paperwork for two hours cleaning, decluttering, chasing will around...
so thats the brief update and here are some pics!

ok i'll try to add pics later because blogger won't me!

i'm back....again!

remember way back when (like my third post titled i'm back) when i mentioned that i didn't know how to navigate around blogger? well apparently i managed to somehow set comments so that i had to publish them and didn't know it. so just when i was deciding this blog was a bust and maybe i should stop posting here i accidently found a whole page of comments i had never seen!!! so being the comment dependent person i am i did a little happy dance and published them all.
smart enough to be nurse....smart enough to be a mom....not smart enough to find my comments!

so for the second time, i'm back again, hopefully i won't do anything else like this!