3 days without the kiddies!!! smile

So my hubs and i went to Stowe for 3 days, his idea, couldn't believe it myself when he suggested it. my only fear was that i would have to pump enough breast milk before we left for Madison because she will not drink formula. so i thought i pumped a lot of milk but of course my mom in law was out well before we returned home. but guess what, we tricked her. if you give Madison formula in a bottle she refuses and knows immediately that we are trying to slip her the imitation stuff. so i went and bought a sippy cup with a soft tip before we left on the hunch that maybe we could trick her. i put formula in it and gave it to her with her mid morning breakfast and she drank it!!!!! so luckily i felt comfortable that she wouldn't starve to death before we came home. if you've seen her you know starvation could take a long time.

so while in Stowe we went snowboarding and had fun like you do before you have kids in tow. I love them but you cant exactly take a 6 month old snowboarding, especially if you're not very good at it, like me. ONE set back was i had to continue to pump while we were away. so i was not as free as i expected, here's the vacation pumping sequence:

pumped 2-3 times on the car ride up to Stowe, right when we got to the inn, right before we went to eat, then right when we got home, then at 3 am, ugh that one sucked, then first thing before breakfast, once more before my snowboarding lesson, then lunch, then pump and rush back to snowboard lesson, just made it, rushed back to car to pump before we left mountain while hubs was on his last run, shower and then pump and out to dinner, yum one margarita, back to the inn pump before bed, made it the whole night, pump at five a.m., pump right before i took hubs back to mountain for one last horrah, back to inn breakfast then pump, relax, back up to mountain to grab hubs, back to inn to pack and leave in a snow storm/blizzard. car ride home was much longer than expected, so that was 3-4 times in car.

Ahhh home sweet home!

Thank goodness, because at the inn the freezer was FULL of milk and on the trip home the cooler was FILLED to capacity to milk and some Cabot cheese, not to bring much larger cooler next trip. I underestimated to output of my breasts this trip. I cannot even begin to imagine what a week away would look like.

Tantrums and whatnot

So Lizzy is almost 3 and i am dealing with tantrums for the craziest and silliest things. Friday morning i made a lovely breakfast of homemade waffles and sausage. we told her it was time to eat, she took one look and said i want blueberries! we of course are out of blueberries, but she doesn't understand that, she thinks we just don't want her to have any. no matter how we explain, she just doesn't get it yet. so i offer other things like chocolate and cool whip topped waffles, no good. i suppose she's just a wee bit to young to get it. so 3 hours later we walk into the kitchen and there she is eating her waffles by herself without blueberries.

now this morning we get ready and then i ask if we should have breakfast, she asks for lucky charms. of course we have 8 other kinds golden grahams, no, honey combs, no, trixx, nope, special k, no. tantrum begins with tears and please please please!!!!! here we go, we are out and she just thinks i am holding out on her. but guess what, this tantrum lasted way shorter than yesterdays and she comes to say i don't want a time out, she wants my breakfast. so i think oatmeal? no she wants the special k because she has seen me eating it. so here she is eating her breakfast, special k and a small bowl of pretzels yum!!

Socks-Trumpettetoo

i went to target yesterday and found trumpettetoo socks!!!!!!!!! i was a little excited because when lizzy was born we got hand me down trumpette socks. so adorable, and they actually stay on little feet.

the difference? from what i can see, it's the logo on the bottom, targets say trumpettetoo. but they actually feel thicker. they are cute as heck and cheaper too! unfortunately not cheap enough for me to buy all the little styles.



here is lizzy with her trumpettes on!

here are madisons little feet with trumpettetoos on!

Nap Time........

so here we are again, 3pm and no naps happening anywhere. maybe i took it for granted when elizabeth was taking such nice long naps. madison seems to have skipped napping altogether and is up all day it seems, but she does sleep all night, so who am i to complain?

elizabeth has come to realize that if she says she has to poop, i will come to her rescue. i have stopped but still no napping. who knew a cowboy hat and bandanna did the trick. its something different everyday. only took an hour and twenty minutes. damn i am good.

next day 4pm and no naps. i have to get on some sort of schedule! do i just have to deal with the hysterical screaming day after day until she gets it?

umm?

WARNING:you will not find correct puncuation or grammar on this site, sorry.

today is my first blog ever. Hmm, the reason i have started this is because my almost 3 year old woke me up at 5am having a tantrum because she did not like her pants. are you kidding? i guess i should start with some backstory.

my name is lauren, i am for the most part a stay at home mom. i have two wonderful girls elizabeth, almost 3 and madison, 4 months. i have an amazing husband, wait dont they all start off this way. sure everyone is wonderful but we are a real family and we all have our moments. he does forget that the garbage has to be taken out, the girls do cry and have tantrums, and mama does think shes sucking pretty bad at this mommy thing sometimes! Haha. so i figured hey i like reading about other moms bad days, it helps me realize its not just me and mommys are not perfect. though the illusion is nice sometimes.

so anyway, my elizabeth woke up at 5am, probably from the noise my hubs makes when he gets up at 4:45. she stands at the gate in her doorway, "mama, i need healp!" yes thats how she says it. then it goes, i dont like these pants i dont like my bed i dont like night time, i dont like sleep. it turns into an a.m. explosion. how did this happen? they baby wakes up too. Ugh. why do children do this? the world may never know. but right now this is the stage shes in and i have to figure out how the hell i am going to get thru it! and this is how my blog begins. lovely.