Happy 4 Months to such a wonderful baby girl!

So my little Abby turned 4 Months Saturday. She sure knew it. Friday night she didn't sleep until 1AM! She didn't fuss, cry, or make a peep. She just hung out with mommy and daddy. She then woke up at 7-8am Saturday and did not go to sleep all day long. She was content. She just sat with us and looked around. LOL We were exhausted. Luckily, she's been pretty easy about STTN since she was born and I think the nurses trained her to be that way during her 16 day NICU stay hehe

Here are some pictures during this weekend during her feedings. She LOVES them! And I don't want to hear that "I should feed my baby at 6 months" BS. I am so tired of hearing debates on that stupid subject. EVERY parent/mom/dad is DIFFERENT. If I CHOOSE to do things a certain way with MY CHILD that came OUT OF ME..then so be it. The one thing I hate the most...JUDGMENTAL parents. If you choose to do things a certain way with your child..then more power to you. But please do NOT automatically THINK that your way is better and the best way. I choose what's best for mine and you can do whatever you want with yours. I just hate people saying "Well, I do this because its so eco-friendly and so much better and blah blah blah". Frankly, I don't give a damn and it won't stop my child from growing up to be a healthy, happy baby. Just sayin'.

Anyway, just had to get that out. LOL My baby loves sweet peas and for breakfast I gave her oatmeal with bananas in it! What a hit! I try not to feed her fruits first because I don't want her liking it more than her veggies. ;-)
This was breakfast time. =) She LOVED it. She reached for more. I usually just touch the spoon on her lips to see if she'll reach for it and she opens her mouth wide and moves her head forward to eat it. So cute! Loves it! <3 She also loves her high chair. She'll prop her feet up on the high chair! I always tell her a lady does NOT put her feet on the table. LOL I guess she doesn't care! =) I love love her hair chair also. =) 

It SUCKS...

So last night...our truck was broken into. I hate that it happened. Our GPS and Radar along with some CDs were stolen. Luckily, my S/O's $600 car part from work DID NOT get taken. I mean it's just a GPS and Radar but the thought of it makes me cringe that people can do such a thing. I don't want to point any fingers but we DON'T get along with our neighbors due to them constantly blocking our driveway and many calls to the police. We have tried to be so nice, kind, and patient. We have told them in the sweetest way possible. We have done NOTHING. I hate how people act that way. But what can we do? We were thinking about installing security cameras around the house. I thought about this for A WHILE now but I really think we do need it. Even if the police takes finger prints..they told us it would be up to a year until they can tell us who. When they took our GPS, I know my S/O registered it online...it has a serial number. We're hoping that somehow, someway something happens and they get caught. I really don't understand why people have NOTHING better to do. I mean go get an education, go get a damn job, go do something positive with your life. Quit trying to ruin others' lives just for your own well-being. Just sayin'.

Anyway, I'm over it. As long as my family is safe that's all that matters. It was only $400 bucks worth of stuff and I can ALWAYS get another one. I guess they can't. Cowards.

Abigail's turning 4 months this weekend! I am so excited! She really does act like a 4 month old! I can't wait to start more solids with her. We've tried a couple of things. But nothing beats my baby girl's bottle!! She has the worse sensitive skin. She breaks out so easily. Her heat rash is pretty much gone but her cheeks are always turning reddish and I've tried Aquaphor. It helps but I just have to keep being consistent about it.

School is right around the corner. It's a bittersweet moment for me. I love when school starts but when it starts...it STARTS..so much things to do and it almost feels like my brains about to explode.

Top 5 Goals List:
1. Go grab some groceries..bread, milk, etc. -- DONE!
2. Try to look for some books for school. I need to do it ASAP because then I'll be complaining how it's all taken up.
3. Try and get alarm for the truck.
4. Clean out the file drawers.
5. Reorganize my coupon's...this is a MUST. The 31st is coming up and a bunch of my Q's are expiring! It's a sad sad day. But luckily this Sunday's a great newspaper weekend! I really need to subscribe to the newspaper people LOL But then again they might STEAL it..UGH!

Today's Top 5 Goals!

So sometimes I feel so unproductive being a SAHM. I kind of feel like I don't contribute as much as I should, but my S/O tells me that I do enough and he appreciates me for it. Maybe I need to stop thinking so negative about myself so much...it's pretty hard since that's all I've ever had to hear were negative things that really affected me growing up. But back to my top 5 goals for today. I have been unproductive lately...shopping like its nothing (my S/O thinks I am crazy!) and I can't help it! LOL
Yesterday I went to go pick my sister and her "boyfriend" up. Ehh, not really a fan of her having a boyfriend at such as young age. But anyway, I shopped all day and came home right before S/O got home. I felt pretty bad, I'm out shopping while he's out working. But I am blessed to be where I am and blessed to have such a wonderful family. I figured why not make some goals everyday so that I CAN feel PRODUCTIVE.

Top 5 Goals List:
1. Finish washing all of the clothes we have and folding them. (I kind of lack at that department lol)
2. Sweep the floors
3. Try to make dinner before 5 as soon as the meat thaws (I lack at that department also)
4. Eat something!! (Abigail and I usually wake up at 11am everyday..yes I know I sound lazy!) I currently have my leftovers in the microwave...its beeping and telling me to come get it but I'm sitting here on the computer...lol
5. Try to tidy up a bit. Every time I do this...my S/O comes and puts his stuff everywhere! I swear I have to nag at him! Lol

What are your Top 5 Goals for today? I would love to hear it!

Anyway, Abigail's napping in her crib right now! Yay for that! She rarely sleeps in her crib. But now that we have a video monitor I can easily watch, hear, and see her! I'm putting it to use today. =)

This is only day one of testing it out but It works pretty well so far. Her room is pretty dark and I can see her clearly in it. We'll see how it works out. =)

Photo Bomb!

So these past couple of days have been pretty much the same. Lol Yes I have such an exciting life.

We took Abigail to the doctor Wednesday and she has heat rash going on. The doctor looked in between her arms and face and said it looks like mild eczema but then again it could just be a minor rash. She prescribed us a cream and its doing great except her heat rash is still all over her body. My poor baby. It doesn't seem to bug her though so that's a good thing.

Yesterday, my S/O and I took Abigail to go see her cousin KD! =) (SILs baby 4 weeks younger). He is much bigger in volume but feels lighter. They kept starring at each other. LOL It was cute. Then I wish I would've recorded a session with Abigail and I. I kept blowing in her face and talking to her...and she made the biggest laugh/giggles ever! She did it for about 5 minutes straight. SIL called my MIL and had her listen also! I wish DH was there! My baby learned how to laugh. She giggled here and there in the past but NOT like this. I mean she laughed so loud and so hard, it tickled my SIL and I! Then when her daddy came, she laughed for about a minute or two but not as long as she laughed for mommy! =) I mean she LOL'd so loud I couldn't believe it! My baby is growing up! =(

Here are a couple of pictures from this past week. =) I bought her her first pair of shades (well two pairs, I couldn't help it!). It's still a bit big on her, which I thought was odd because it was in the infant/baby section of Target. But I think Abby is just small! Lol

 

Tummy time this morning

 Her in her new sunglasses. Well one of them..

 One of those mornings where she sleeps crazy-ish LOL

 Her and her cousin KD

 Early Morning playtime (Friday)

 Just some more tutu pics from my phone

 "What is this thing?!?" Lol

 Posing for mommy!

 And again......

 AND once again...

 One more time :)

 

Last one <3

Every time I tried to fix her tutu, she would grab onto it and mess it up.. lol

Fun Stuff!

Yesterday, Abby and I were extremely bored so I decided to dress her up and take pictures! :) It's so cute! I love it! I tried the best I could to fix her tutu (it was my first time making one!) but she kept trying to grab on it! Lol! That's my baby! Mommy loves dressing her little one up <3 Her onsie says "This is my little black dress". So cute!

(Click on picture to make it slightly larger. Sorry that's the largest it's gonna let me do it on here! Boo!) 

My poor baby girl started breaking out real bad. All on the back of her legs, her arms, some on her tummy, and her neck/face. We're taking her to the doctor tomorrow to see what's going on. I tried putting Aquaphor on and it only worked for a bit. Then we tried some baby eczema cream. We just started today but I wanted to make sure it wasn't anything serious (like an allergic reaction). I think it's from the Aveeno baby wash she started using. I started some on her last week because that's all I ever hear mommy's using on their LOs, and they also said Johnson and Johnson sucks. But in my case, its the opposite. My poor baby...I didn't notice anything until after I used the Aveeno baby wash on her. Her cheeks are dry and rosy red from it. I thought I would love Aveeno because I love their lotions but I hate the smell (its lightly scented also) and it seems like it doesn't work well with her.

Anyway, last week I ordered some things to make homemade liquid hand soap! Liquid hand soap is the number one used item in this house. I am such a neat/clean freak! All my friends make fun of me for constantly cleaning after myself right away. Lol! I try my best to keep my house and other places cleaned. By all means I am NOT perfect at cleaning but I try! Anyway, my stuff came in today and I decided to try it out with some Ivory soap bars that I got for free with coupons back when I was preggers. =) Loves it!

Here are the results! Homemade liquid hand soap! I love it so much! I just put it in my soap dispensers and it works GREAT! It yields one huge liquid hand soap refill bottle which costs 4-5 bucks at the store. I only spent 2 bucks on the ingredients because I got the Ivory soap for free as stated! Yay! I don't really like the smell of Ivory soap so I decided to just use it up. Such a great idea! We only use Dove when we shower so using up the Ivory bars was a great idea!

I just woke up from my nap and my S/O and DD are asleep. My dog Dash and I are out here in the living room watching Teen Mom. I made some chicken quesidillas for dinner tonight. Yummy! I am so full right now. I think I'll be wide awake for quite a bit. I need to go to sleep no later than 2am because Abigail's appointment is at 9:15am tomorrow. Too bad my S/O only took a half day! It's mommy matinee tomorrow and I really wanted to go but the movie playing doesn't sound so good.

I need to start having some fun but I can't fathom the thought of leaving my LO with ANYONE. My family want's to watch/baby sit her SO BAD. They always tell DH and I that we need to drop Abby off and just go out even if its just to the movies or something. I can't do it. It's sad that my LO is about to be 4 months old and I haven't left her at all. Lol, well besides leaving her with DH to go to the store or something. But I know when school starts, I have NO choice what so ever. I am going to take full time classes and that's a handful in itself. Finding someone to watch my LO while I'm taking my classes is a must. =( I just have to accept it.

Talking about classes, I have to get my books before it runs out. It's almost August and people usually wait last minute. I'm glad I didn't wait last minute to pick my schedule because the good ones are always taken up so quickly! I also have to talk to the counselor about transferring. I am finally gonna transfer to a University after 3-4 years. I am SO embarrassed and ashamed of myself for taking so long to get my Associates while my classmates have already graduated with their Bachelor's this year. =( I feel like a failure. But as long as I'm trying, I don't think I should be negative about it. At least I'm getting both of my Associates (Science and Arts in Teaching) and if I decide to not pursue my career in being a Kindergarten Teacher then I can always have my Associates of Science to fall back on and continue to do something else that I love. It takes time...right now I am stuck between two Universities I want to go to. I just want to go to the best one possible so that I know I did the best I could as a student. I am so blessed that DH helps me out so much and offered me to be a SAHM and let me go to school. =) Now I have to tackle getting some books. Those things cost an arm and a leg!!

Anyway, G'night all! I have some research to do and books to look up. AND some Teen Mom to catch up on! xoxo

So ashamed of myself

I am so disappointed. Right before I was preggers, I tried my best to live a healthy, fit lifestyle. I ran, worked out, ate healthy as best as I could. And looked great, felt great, and then being pregnant for 9months, got me in big big trouble. Lol I ate everything I wanted. Well, now I'm paying for it. When I had Abigail, I lost so much I only had 10lbs left before my pre-pregnancy weight. Lately, I've been eating so much junk, bad carbs, and everything..I gained back what I lost post-pardum. I know it's partially my fault with all the sodas, fast food, and bad dieting, lack of exercise. But goodness, I am one sleep-deprived mommy! Not to mention I start back full-time classes in August and I don't know how I'll handle an infant and school. At least I get to stay at home with my baby girl because if I had to work, I don't know what I'll do.

I just checked my weight today and just about fainted. Lol =( I also hate summer time because I am SO LAZY. I am not a fan of Texas heat, and I get so mad when I'm out and about sweating like a pig! When it hits winter time is usually when I work out, and do all the exercise crap. Then summer time its a different story. Maybe I should get on the treadmill instead of complaining so much on here....

Horrid Walmart Experience with LO...

DH and I decided to take LO to Walmart. Before I leave the house, just as any other mommy would do, I always always make sure I am prepared. But no matter how prepared you are...something always goes wrong. =/ Go figure. I always change my LO's diaper before leaving the house. I use a mixture of Pampers and Luvs. I loved using Luvs when she was in her newborn stages. My friend actually bought me a pack and told me she used it with her daughter. I was hooked. Now that Abigail has doubled her birth weight..Luvs has started to get worse. It started off with LO having one minor blow out at the store with me and DH a couple of weeks ago. Nothing major just a bit on her onsie. Then another teeny tiny blowout at home. Nothing major. Then, every 2 hours that she's in Luvs, it starts to STINK like pee! Literally, strong! I can't even go 3 hours with that diaper being on. Sucks! Its disgusting. I have a 300 count box of Luvs that I'm only HALFWAY done using and I can't wait to finish the pack. I think I have 40-50 left? I might just give that to my S/O's sister to have her try it out and see how she likes it.

Anyway, today was horrible. We were only gone for an hour and a half maybe 2 hours MAX. We took LO inside Walmart in her car seat. She was fast asleep. That Walmart was so hot and humid for some odd reason. But then again we weren't in the BEST side of town at the time. She woke up in a pretty good mood. I noticed she started to make funny faces. It looked like she was pretty frustrated so I decided to take her out of her car seat and carry her. Not knowing she's trying to poop. I then see the side of her leg covered in poo! Her receiving blanket was covering her leg up. My S/O was behind me and he saw that she was still pooping because it kept coming out of her diaper! It got all over her car seat. I was furious! Funny, we didn't even bring out diaper bag because its so heavy and I just brought in her bottle with formula in my purse. We didn't think we would take long. My S/O runs to the car in less than a minute! Lol! I am so frustrated..I'm trying to find a family restroom and when we do find it, its locked. The stupid Walmart girl was talking AND texting on her phone. She was sitting RIGHT by the door of the family RR and didnt even care when we asked her. So I didn't want to wait and decided to go in the public restroom. It was HOTTER than the rest of the store. I was so mad. To top it off, there was a person taking a crap in there. It stunk so bad! I hated it. The stupid diaper changing table was right next to the stall. Stupid I know. It was in the way of people trying to walk to the restroom stalls and in the way of the sinks. How dumb of them to build it there. Anyway, I proceeded to take everything out. Put DD on the changing mat and she started to SCREAM. She cried so hard. And lucky me, people kept coming in and out! I was so mad. I hate Walmart. I rarely go in Walmart. Only if I have to. They gave me dirty looks especially one lady with I think a 9-10 year old daughter it looked like. She kept starring and eyeballing me. I was so annoyed. DD was crying, I had to rush and clean her blow out. I threw away her blanket, onsie and socks. Hurried and put her in a new onsie and gave her to her dad. Then I came back in and cleaned her car seat. It was all over her buckle and straps, her car seat bottom and seeped through under the fabric.

Never again will I use Luvs. People say its because she needs to move a size up. This is the size up I moved her to. Its still a bit big on her while newborns are bit small on her. I think its just the combination of her growing up and Luvs not fitting well with the shape of her body. I was sweating. I swear it was so hot it felt like the AC was broken. I'm never going to that Walmart again either. Lol

I'm still paying for it. I'm trying to clean her car seat cover in the washer and it still smells like poo. Lol =( We came home and I hurried and showered DD and then myself. I'm exhausted. DD is knocked out and I'm going to bed.

xoxo