One BAD day

Today was a bad bad bad bad day. I just was overwhelmed and burnt out. I have so much on my plate I feel like I am spinning in circles. Working from home is getting to me at times. This morning Bear was hungry and wanting BFast. Dad forgot to clean up his plate area last night so while I was cleaning it up and bear was screaming to crawl up on his chair work called with crummy news that the project we worked on wasn't good enough...REDO! Right away tears came streaming. I had a kitty running up a screen, a toddler screaming, a boss crabbing, a phone beeping in on the other side...and me....just crying. The day continued where I just couldn't get it all under control. I had conference calls for work where bear had to play in the living room by himself= momma guilt. Bear had an explosive diaper where I had to throw out an outfit = momma guilt. I got crabby at him when he squished his whole lunch in between his fingers and dumped his milk all over it = momma guilt. I had to let him scream for a few minutes so I can change the laundry = momma guilt.
Sometimes us mommas just can't do it all....but we HAVE TO!

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Too long

It has been too long since the last post. Momma just needed a break from thinking about every little thing and documenting it all. As a new mom (yes, I still consider myself a new mom) I just get anxious about wanting to document and tell every story and every milestone. I know when we decide to have baby number 2 it will be much harder to do this- but there is so much I want to share and have Brandon read his journey when he gets older. I think as moms we try to do it all and sometimes we need to lower our expectations of our self and just enjoy the moment.

Some new updates on Brandon

September 14th was his first hair cut at SnipIts. He did great with the help of a sucker. He had a few second melt down and we had to pull out the nuk to help but he actually did really well. Mom cried!

September 22nd- 5 shots! OWIE! Both arms and legs got poked. Gma H. has shingles and we are worried about Bear getting the Chicken Pox so it was a priority to get his shot for that.

B. is saying "ome" for Home. "hice" for Hot. "HI" for Hi. 'OhNoh" for No-NO. He babbles a lot and sometimes you just know what he is saying.

He will go get something when you ask him to go get it...if he knows what it is you want him to get. He knows when we say, "Lets go take a bath" and he runs to the tub.

He can do stairs up and down just fine.
He can go down the front steps out to the garage or the front of the house.
He can walk really well-we like to walk around the block or to the park and back and he will walk the entire way.
He is now wearing 18-24 months....even though he just turned 17 months.

We weighed him the other day at 27 pounds and he is just over 31 inches tall which puts him in the 50-60% for height/weight.

His highchair is retired and he is sitting at a booster seat at the table. He eats- cheese, berries, muffins, nutragrain bars, crackers, pb&j, pizza, chips, bananas, yogurt, applesauce, chicken, puffies, and the toddler meals.

My new goal- keep updated!