Lessons in Mommyhood

As I have mentioned before, my little martian's birthday is coming up, and I kind of can't believe he is already turning a year old!  It has given me time to think about all the things I have learned over the past year.

Never trust a penis.
One of the first lesson's I took to heart.  Anyone with little boys can tell you that a little penis is just as untrustworthy as an adult penis.  You think you're safe, and then WHAM!!!  You and everything close to you is covered in pee.  But this lesson leads into the next...

Throwing a blanket over peed on sheets and going back to sleep is okay.
Yes, this is slightly gross, but when you re cuddling your newborn and suddenly at three in the morning you feel warmth spread across your side, changing the baby and getting them nice and dry is priority.  Sleeping on clean sheets can wait until morning.

You don't know love until you've been puked on...in the face.
Once upon a time, when little man was still tiny, I was on the telephone when suddenly projectile vomit hit me in the face.  I calmly said "I'll call you back," before tripping the cooing baby naked, cleaning him up, redressing him, putting him in his crib, and then quickly getting in the shower.  All without puking and only a little bit of dry heaving.  There is nothing like puke dripping down your face and hair while somehow managing to slide down the inside of your glasses.

Nothing is sadder than a baby having a nightmare.
Seriously, I have no idea what he dreams about, all I know is that it is distressing and that me telling him that it's alright is not going to fix it.  Which leads to...

Mom cuddles fix everything.
The only known solution to my little ones nightmares is cuddling.  They are also great for being overly tired, sick, sore, or just cranky.  I love getting the cuddles too, because now that he is older, they are sometimes few and far in between.

Sometimes the activities you think will be a hit are a complete miss.
This past summer I bought the martian a pool, thinking that it would be a sure hit because he loves baths so much.  Wrongo!  Then a while later I got him markers thinking he would like to draw.  Wrong again!  He absolutely bawled at that one.  Apparently he is not an art lover.  The only recent hit I have gotten was that I thought maybe he would like looking at the fish aquarium at Cabela's.  That was much to my relief because he loves animals and I have been thinking about taking him to the zoo and aquarium up in Salt Lake sometime this next summer, and now I am sure it will be great!

Prepare to share anything you are eating.  Ever.
Especially now that we are hitting toddlerhood, my little guy is obsessed with eating real food that he can feed himself.  And I'm loving it.  I'm a sucker for those big blue eyes as it is, but when he comes up to me and eyeballs my sandwich it instantly finds itself in shreds on his highchair table and my stomach growls.

Silence is questionable.
There is nothing more suspicious than when your normally noisy, talkative toddler is quiet.  It usually means mischief is a foot.  Or that they fell asleep wherever they just were.  Either way investigation is essential.

Well, it is one in the morning, and my brain does not want to work.  So there is most of what I can think of off hand at this time of the day!  I'm sure there will be more installments of this as time goes by, but for now, this is pretty good. :]

Have a great night!

xx

Say It Ain't So, I Will Not Go

Well hello there!  Prepare for a long rambling post!  Woohoo!

I have been incredibly terrible at this whole blogging thing this past month.  At first it was honestly because I was extremely busy, and then I was in Arizona where I had no internet access for the week.  But then the day I got back I went back to work for another work and I was just so worn out that I honestly didn't even think about blogging.  This past week, however, I have just been lazy enjoying being home.  For the most part at least.

It had been ten years since the last time I was down in Arizona and had a chance to visit that side of my family on their home turf.  I quite enjoyed being out of Utah for a week and spending quality time with my family and especially my little martian.  The trip there wasn't so bad, but like with most trips, the return trip was extremely long.  We found this awesome burger joint in Kanab though, seriously worth it.

It was kind of funny because I experienced a bit of culture shock.  In Utah, the only place you can get alcohol, other than beer, is at the state liquor stores.  But in other states there are huge aisles full of alcohol, wine, etc. at places like Walmart and the corner gas station.  Little ol' me walked into the gas station to see a wall of vodka and was like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-???"  Yep.  I had an "outside of Utah" experience.

While in Arizona my cousins introduced me to geocaching, and I am kind of addicted to it.  So, of course, I had to introduce my mom to it, and we have quite enjoyed going out and finding treasure and logging caches.  Well, I have, I really shouldn't be speaking for her.  Haha.

The week after we got back, little man took his first steps!  While I was home!!  I had been quite worried that I was going to miss it and that would be one of those major firsts that I would miss when I had so far not missed anything.  But no, my well behaved little man waited until everyone was there to see!  Such a good boy!

I had a blast on Halloween.  It was the martians first, and we both dressed up as monsters.  I must say we were pretty damn adorable.  I only worked the last part of the night, and I quite enjoyed being able to spend the holiday with him trick-or-treating and showing off his costume to the great grandparents.

So my October goal was to start the money saving challenge, and so far I have been doing pretty good at it and even though I started a little late, I caught up.  So far, so good.

Now it is November, and I can't really think of a goal for this month.  I will continue to work on my past goals, get ready for the martian's first birthday and Christmas, and try to have a better attitude in general.

My little man's birthday is fast approaching and the closer it gets the better I am feeling about it, where as a few months ago the very thought made me want to cry because my baby is going to be a toddler and he is just getting so big!!

Well, I am going to end this now before I ramble on even more.

xx