7 month interview

Today we have an interview for you to read between a mother and her son. Now since we don't speak fluent baby, we got a translator. He said his name was Doctor, and he spoke baby (was quite indignant if anyone expressed doubt) 

Name: Odin

Age: 7 months

Favorite Activities: chewing, rolling over, giggling with daddy

Favorite Food: milk!

Favorite Sister: What's a sister?

Favorite toy: KEYS!

How have you been improving lately? 

• rolling over: got that down pat, 
• crawling: I haven't quite gotten the whole thing down, but I do move forward, mommy calls it 'inchworming' the things that hold me up don't move well yet. 
• talking: Daddy keeps trying to make me say 'dada' but I just smile and giggle at him.
• grabbing: I can grab and hold things now, all the better for me to get things in my mouth to chew on!
• teething: I have two teeth in, and my top two teeth are starting to come in now.

And now, the traditional pictures of a monthly interview.

The only rattle worth his time

his 'walker' his favorite place to sit aside from a lap

His favorite toy on the walker

This is from a few months ago, when we first got the walker, still his favorite toy. 

Although now he has figured out if he wants to chew he gets the sides, not trying to get a grip on the circular part. 

Loki vs Toddler Bed

So far the bed is losing the battle. But I have some funny and cute pictures from it of odd positions I've found my daughter asleep in. 

This was during nap time. Found her in front of the closet. 

 She's not allowed to leave her room, so she sleeps in the doorway a lot. 

 One of the few times she was near her bed to sleep. 

 I laughed at this one, reminds me of the witch from "Wizard of Oz"

Blanket from Mawma, it's one of her favorites. 

 She's a blanket horder

 This would have gotten her in trouble if she wasn't asleep. (too far out of her room.) I think she just moved in her sleep though. 

 This is last night, she fell asleep coloring. 

Big Girl Bed Day 2 * Updated *

So over the next week I'm going to catalog our progress through pictures and posts here on the MommyLogue about how our little Loki is doing with transitioning to her very own big girl bed.

Day 2 Nap time:
We started out like this:

And somehow ended up like this:

She didn't really try to escape, but she did get a warning with she got a little loud, only for me to find out she needed a diaper change, so she didn't really get in trouble for that.

Day 2 Bed time:
She kept wanting to be wrapped up cocoon like for bed, which is adorable. That blanket is actually Husband's made for him by Mawma when he was little.

It took a while for her to fall asleep this time, i caught her quite a few times almost outside her room in the blanket, but she never left, which made me quite proud. 

When she finally did fall asleep I found her like this:

I know it's hard to see, but she's curled up on her bed! Only the second night too! Lets see if it keeps up.

*** Update***
Well it did not keep up, Loki woke up around 4am, (after one of the many times Odin was up last night) and it took a while to get her to stay in her room and quiet before she would fall back asleep, and to be honest I expected to be woken up by little hands scaring the daylights out of me of her coming into our room. But thankfully that didn't happen. (kind of dreading that also, although I'm sure with how bad me waking up screaming scares her it won't happen too often) But right now Loki is asleep in her doorway, I'd take a picture but I"m afraid it would wake her up. 

Big Girl Bed Day 1

So now she has no choice, Loki only has the option of her toddler bed or the floor.

If you couldn't guess the floor won, and we had quite the fight to get her to stay. (Which I talked about last post)

When she finally really fell asleep she was in this position. 

Picture Show!

We went out to see Mimi and Papa today, and since it was a roping day, Loki got to help put away the horses.

Ber and Mimi had found an awesome toddler bed and mattress at a garage sale for me, and with a newly cleaned mattress pad (also a garage sale find from Mimi) Ber and I finally set up the it up so we can start transitioning the kids to different beds. (Odin's big enough that I worry about him in the bassinet even though he's within the weight guidelines) 

Here's the view to the kids' room as you walk in 

The toy chest was a gift from a friend of a friend when they moved, and it has served us well. This kid has so many stuffed animals!

Loki's new bed, complete with stuffed animal (minus her pillow since it's still in the crib)

The bed all made up, and then Loki decided she needed more pictures taken. 

Next we have the kid's book nook, with shelves made by Papa and a good friend, and both rocking chairs made by Papa's parents. 

Here's the crib (kinda messy still) 

And lastly the new closet space, the bottom dresser belonged to Papa when he was young, and is going to hold Loki's clothes, where as the little blue cabinets will hold Odin's clothing.

Oh! I forgot some newer pictures of Odin!

This is about as far as we get rolling back to stomach, we've mastered stomach to back though.

Also, the first time I looked at his outfit this morning I thought it said 'Mommy's Major Hulk' and I kept wondering why it wasn't green until I re-read it a little later.

Well, that's all for now! I'm hoping to write up an update monday since I have the day off.

A post in pictures and sarcasm

This is what you think of with the phrase "sleep like a baby"

Or this:

This one is also adorable:

But....

This is the correct definition of 'sleep like a baby:

and one last little piece of funny

(Husband actually helps out a lot, but still this picture makes me giggle)

Also, none of the above pictures are of my actual kids, like I could get them to sleep or sit still long enough to get a picture like this....

Yeah, my kids are pretty cute when sleeping. (Both pictures taken by my sister Ber, evidently they prefer to sleep for someone other than mama.)

Crazy weekend

Well Saturday was fairly uneventful, Ber and I hung out some and did a little shopping so I could get some non-maternity work pants. Plus drop by work and say 'hi' to everyone while we were there. I also got hair dye while I was out, in anticipation of the girl's day we had planned for Sunday.

With all the snow and ice girl's day was canceled but Husband and I went over anyways, partially because we still wanted to go over, but a big reason was the fact of we had no heat. Yes, our heater happened to break between Saturday late evening and Sunday early morning. I went ahead and called the emergency maintenance line around 6 am, and they sent someone out before 9 am. The first guy didn't know what was wrong, and said he would be in  contact with one of their other workers who would know more. I liked the second guy who came out (he's the one we normally see when we need any work done so I'm more familiar with him)
So he goes through and works on the heater for over 2 hours and finally takes the motor back up to the office to test it because he believes that it's no longer working, but he needs to double check. Turns out he was right, that it's broken so after calling the company the apartment complex has a contract with but they weren't open, so we wouldn't have heat until they could pick up the part on Monday.
Long story short on the heater (I know, a little late already) The kids and I stayed at D's last night but Husband needed to stay at home due to his allergies, and not feeling 100% comfortable with having people tromp around the house with no one here. They got the part and came over to fix the heater around 9 am, and before they got it all done they had all three maintenance workers here had three or four things go wrong (including blowing one of the fuses and having to go get a new one) All in all it took them until after 2:30 before we had heat again. I'm just glad that D let us stay with her and her husband while we were without heat.

But we had lots of fun! Ber came over on Saturday to help D dye my hair (there's a picture below, it takes almost three full bottles of dye to get all my hair covered.) Ber had to go home to her hubbie for dinner, while Husband stayed until almost nine before he went home where he piled under all the blankets we have (he said it got down as low as 55 degrees that he saw) before falling asleep.
Loki got to sleep in a big kid bed for the first time (she didn't like it very much, I think she likes the familiarity of her crib bars) but she did end up sleeping and then also took a nap the next afternoon. Odin didn't sleep very well last night, but while I had to stay up most of the night not only did I have company but we watched Netflix most of the night. Some Serenity, Doctor Who and then I got introduced to Warehouse 13 (which I'm very much enjoying so far, looking forward to seeing it more when I have time)

The boy's first sleepover


The next morning both boys were sleeping better although as cute as it is, Odin didn't sleep very long after I put him down, which was a little unfortunate I thought.
But when we got home Odin slept almost 4 hours before waking up. I quite enjoyed that time, I was able to make dinner, do laundry -even getting it folded and put away which is always a struggle for me- emptied the dishwasher filled it. Husband put away the leftovers from dinner and I loaded the dishwasher and started it after Loki went to bed.


We had a lot of fun hanging out at D's all day, but it was nice to be home.

Oh! And before I forget, here is the finished product of my hair. It turned out a little more brown than I had planned, but I really like it, and very important Husband really likes the color of my hair as well.
Also a peak at the awesome phone cover Ber got me for Christmas. For those who can't see it very well, it's a TARDIS, and if you don't know what that is, you have my pity. (it's a Doctor Who thing) 

Maternity Pictures!

Courtesy of my lovely mother, who stood out in the cold with me and took very beautiful pictures and then later took the time to make sure each of them looked awesome and had the 'right coloring'

Love all the snow/ice in these two pictures! I just love the winter (so long as I don't have to drive) 

Ber was trying to show Loki how to give Victor a kiss. It didn't quite work out very well, Loki was more interested in trying to play in the snow

She did pause her running around to give me a kiss

Loki giving Odin some sibling love

October 2012

I have been looking back through my 'drafts' folder her on my blog and found a few posts that I always meant to get up, but never remembered to, or I got distracted, either one is highly possible. So these next few days I'm going to post a few older ones (with the date they were from up above) and kinda look at my past a little bit. Not a whole lot, I mean I think there are only like 3-4 that actually made sense anymore. But here you go!

Ber and I went out to see Mom