Oooooh...so THAT'S why they say...

Consistency is Important!

CAUTION: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SNIPPETS OF A PERSONAL NATURE. IF YOU WILL LOOK AT ME FUNNY OR THINK OF ME DIFFERENTLY AFTER READING THIS, AVOID THE ITALICIZED AND RED PORTION OF THE LAST PARAGRAPH.

For the time being, I'll tell you about Brighton's newest things. He now tells us what a CAT says (softly) "Muuuuu" and what a COW says "MMUUUUHHHH". He's very smart. He will pick out a ball and bugs in every single book we read. I also caught him in the bedroom with the radio blaring and dancing. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen. He closed the door for privacy LOL and hit the "sleep" button on Dad's alarm radio, and proceeded to dance the day away!!

UGH! What a long night lastnight. I dreaded putting Brighton to bed lastnight for fear of sitting in my rocker in his room for an hour, rocking, and rocking, protecting the opposite boob and tender nipple from which he was nursing (that's an on going battle I'll talk about in another post), rocking, singing, rocking, waking my feet and legs and arm up...you get the idea. For some reason I was just dreading it! So instead of keeping consistant and doing what I always do nowadays, I opted to lay down with him in our bed at about 8:30 and fall asleep with him...WHAT WAS I THINKING?! It was a VERY long night. Not only did I have NO pillow, I slept on a space approximately three inches wide by 6 feet long all night long. We fell back asleep at around 6:30 (he woke up for good at around 5:00) then we both slept until almost 9! It turned out to be a good day afterall. But I'm still protecting my innocent nipples...oops. sorry about the no warning! ;)

How my life has changed

On my Mamasource webgroup, a soon to be new mom posed the question "how has your life changed?" She asked about money, chores, sex life. All those fun things. But my life has changed in profound ways, not so much in the little ways. So I thought I'd share my response:

"You know, my life changed drastically, but those things you mentioned are the minor things that I didn't even really notice. Money got diverted to diapers and miniature clothing instead of double tall skinny vanilla lattes and lunch out every day with my friends. Chores? they now include bathtime every other night and picking up tractors and little people, Sex Life? Well, that's not a whole lot different than it was before. Though for the first few MONTHS poor Daddy was on his own.

The ways in which my life changed were: I feel more compassionate towards other people. When I get upset with someone, I am shocked back into the reality that they were someone's baby once. I can no longer watch violent movies or television shows. I get TONS of hugs and kisses from a chubby cheeked toddler. I respect and miss my mom more than ever. Make sure you let your mom know how much she means to you. My mom died the day after my son was concieved. I never thought about just how much she did for me or how much she went through (my dad passed away when I was 15, so she was a single mom for a long time.)

So my life changed in BIG ways, in profound ways. The basics, they just kind of filled in like water through a jar of marbles. Just make sure your jar is full of marbles :)"

Let's see if we can do this again...

Christmas 2006

Christmas Hangover

I love the Christmas season, but I'm glad it's over. Now I just have to get rid of this blasted Christmas Candy I made!! Brighton woke up on Christmas morning to already set out toys. Namely a "Little People" barn set, a "Smartville Tree House" and several trucks. He had a few yet to open from Mom and Dad and of course his stocking. His eyes lit up when we walked out into the room and he saw all of his new stuff. He almost didn't want to eat breakfast, he was so busy! He opened a little at a time so as to not get overwhelmed - which he ended up being anyway. But he managed to get through it :) He also got a lot of tractors from Aunt Amy and "The Petes" and from Grammy & Grampie O. among other fun stuff. I'm not going to list all the things he got or it would take up all of my blog. But you get the picture. His favorite thing so far is his "Twilight Turtle". We put it on at night and he can sleep under the stars. While I'm rocking him to sleep I try to figure out what the constellations are. So far, I've only found the little (or is it the big?) dipper. We turn it on and he says "Stars Mom!" It's so cute :) O hyeah, one thing he had in his stocking is a cookie made by a friend of ours. She makes the best sugar cookies, cut out like santa's and beautifully decorated. Mom put them in each of our stockings and we ate them on Christmas morning. It's not something we do all the time but since Christmas is a celebration, we decided it was OK for the little man to eat his on Christmas Morning AFTER he had some of his breakfast.

Elfamorphasis

This is the most hilarious thing I've done in a long LONG time. It's a great release after a long day at work. Enjoy all! Click on the title to go see Brighton's elfamorphasis. And just for fun, here's DAD'S and MOM'S