So, in case some of you have no clue .....it's exam time for me! So, I'm at the library more than I'm home and won't have much time to post videos and pictures. I did post 3 new videos from this weekend, which should be available to the right of this post!
My exam end on the 19th of December....so you may have to come back then for any updates!!
Thanks!!
So I belong to a mommy group here in Oklahoma City. It's through yahoo so it's all through emails and some meetings when we can. I love it, I get to make new friends, talk about my son, my day or anything else that is needed. However....
One of my fellow moms asked about getting rid of the pacifier....(at this point Tanner did NOT have hs any longer). So I proceed to tell her how we got him off of it, gradual but hard and we were so excited when we did it. This was in September I do believe.
Come October Tanner went to the hospital and I felt so bad for him I gave it BACK to him. I know....Jason and I both gave him because he couldn't hardly leave his bed and we just felt so guilty. Well now it's all he thinks about, it's like a freaking drug.
We'll be out somewhere and he will get tired and just say "pacie" "pacie" over and over. So I've had to start remembering to bring the stupid thing along wherever we go and it's so dang annoying.
I have yet to tell my mommy group that we have reverted back and we don't know when we are going to try to take it away AGAIN! I keep making excuses and now it's b/c of my exams. As soon as I'm done with school we are going to get rid of it, which will be Dec 19th! By then I'll say, oh just wait until the new year and then it's gone! Ha Ha Ha!! So I guess I won't be asking my mommy group how to get rid of a pacie anytime soon!!! :)
So....it's that time now for Mommy to let her precious baby have a babysitter that isn't a great friend or family member. It was pretty rough on me dropping Tanner off at the sitters when we moved here. I cried the whole way to school and I probably called the poor girl like 5 times. She didn't mind and seemed to understand!
Now, with Jason having to work a few nights a week and with me having to study for finals, we thought we should find a sitter come to our house. Normally Michelle or Alex will watch him but they are getting ready for finals also, so we had to find someone we could get to come to our house who didn't have to study 12 hours a day for finals!
So I asked my mommy group and nobody really had anyone near me, so then I asked around and still nothing, so I finally posted an ad on Craiglist. I wasn't sure how it would work but I had about 20 people email me and the majority said they could watch him in THEIR home. I specifically asked for someone to come to our house so Tanner wasn't being shuffled around at 9pm.
So I found a couple of girls/women that I really liked and scheduled an "interview" with them. So last friday I one appoitnment at 10am and the second at 7:30pm. Guess what...NEITHER showed up! I was so dang mad! How do people not do what they say they are going to do? One did email me to explain some medical problems for being the reason, which was fine but off my list and I have yet to hear from the other one.
So I had a few other girls I wanted to interview, so I scheduled two more today. My hopes were not high...so the first one showed up and guess what, we loved her! She's married with a 5 year old daughter. She's just looking to make extra money and we live right by her work. So she can come by after work and watch him when we need her!! I was so excited!! So then the second girl showed up and I loved her too. She's a college student who is super sweet! Just loved her! Both gave references, phone numbers, etc. So I have one coming tomorrow night for her first night and the other girl is coming Saturday morning! YEAH!!
I didn't think it would be so difficult to find a sitter....but I'm glad I stuck it out. I'm still going to get some type of nanny cam, I'm not above that! I know people think I might be crazy but I'm headed to the "spy" store tomorrow morning to find something. This is my child we are talking about and unless I know you...I can't trust you with the most important person in the world to me!!
So all those moms out there that have had to deal with babysitting issues...I've now become part of that world!!!
So halloween isn't the holiday that I've really ever looked forward to. I've never really gotten into it for a number of reasons.
One, most women costumes are way to slutty for me to wear. This year proved no different!!
Two, I never really have an imagination for the holiday, I can never think of what to be.
Third, you don't get a day off of school or work for it! :)
Well last year Tanner was a pumpkin and we didn't much but go to the zoo and walk around (carrying him) and then just handing out candy at the house. Neither Jason nor I actually dressed up last year.
This year we were invited to a friends house for a halloween party, so we were kinda excited that we got to dress up along with our little guy!
So Tanner was a dinosaur. Our friends little boy was going to be Buzz Lightyear so Tanner was going to be Woody. I ordered his costume online TWICE and both times they came back a few days later saying it was sold out. So I ended up buying a dinosaur costume that I actually LOVED! Last year it was so cold that I wanted him to have something warm, and sure enough it was in the high 70's most of the day but it did get a little chilly towards the end of the night.
So Jason and I.....so I went looking for something and couldn't find anything where my boobs were hanging out or the skirt was too dang short. So one day I came across a red haired wig with braids sticking out....I was so excited...PIPPI LONGSTOCKING!! I loved those movies and made up my mind to buy the wig!! I went to the thrift store to get a bluejean jumper and found some striped stockings at a halloween store! YEAH!
Now for Jason...all week I kept asking, what are you going to do for halloween. He just kept saying "I'll figure it out"...I would be out and see a somewhat good priced costume and I would call and he would say "No, I'll figure it out"....well I knew what that meant. I better figure something out for him or he's not going to dress up! So I talked to my friend Michelle in AL through instant messanger one day and she found some website of cheap costume ideas. We were going through them.
1. put on a hat, hang a leaf in front of your face...when someone asks what you are, you blow on the leaf and say "leafblower"
2. Put on a white trashbag and we "whitetrash"
3. carry around a hammer and a quarter, when asked, hit the quarter with the hammer "quarter-pounder"
4. ok I can't think of the rest but the list went on and on.
So Jason gets home on FRIDAY...the day of halloween and says "I have to figure out what I'm going to be"...ya think!
So I gave him the suggestions....guess what he picks......
Yup, he's WHITETRASH! The hat he's wearing is MINE!! He ended up adding some paper and a lot of other things in the bag before we got to the party so he was actually pretty funny!!
Here is Tanner and I, Pippi Longstocking and the Dinosaur!! :)
