Week in Insta-pics {Really?}

 

                     

{Included: the yellow and flower shirts are 2 of my thrifting finds, the barrett and charm are a gift from my cousin, she is so sweet. The boo boo cheesing in the car while running around doing errands with daddy. The next 3 we taken in the car (you will notice the white onsie, yep those were her PJ's at 3 in the afternoon.), Averie passed out and Mommy tired too! Lastly, Daddy bought Averie a Dream Lite. He is so funny/sweet sometimes. Lunch, and PAYDAY!}

So last night, I tested my theory of feeding Averie a bigger dinner, and I think it worked. I think that the problem was that she was waking up in the middle of the night hungry, poor baby. I must have fed her well too, because at 6:45 this morning she was still asleep. She is usually always awake when I leave the house for work.

However the kicker to all this is.... All last night my Husband was sick. Really? I mean, your kidding right.
He was throwing up all morning. He said his stomach hurt earlier in the evening, and sure enough at around 12am he let me know he did not feel well. I felt so bad for him, but there was not much I could do to help. He tried pepto, tums, and I went out o buy him 7up at 10 o'clock at night. The moral of this story is, instead of being up with Averie all morning, I was up with Brian all night/morning. I am pretty sure that they were not supposed to swap needing to be taken care of. So, I am very tired today. Poor guy was up most of the night and so was I. the bad thing is that he is home with Averie all day, I really hope he does not have the flu. I have no idea where this thing came from. I think that both Averie and I got the flu shot. So, are we okay? I hope so.

So, So, TIRED!

This is what TIRED looks like.

Okay so Averie has decided that she likes to wake up in the middle of the night. Around 2am to be exact, and she has only been doing this for the last couple of weeks. Brian and I are so tired. I am stumped on what to do to make her sleep through the night. She has always been a good sleeper.

{Oh no! Did  I just jinx myself?}

I can usually rock her back to sleep in about 10 minutes, thankfully. But last night we were up from 2am to 4:30am, and today we are both tortured. When she woke up at 2am, I did what I normally do, I grabbed her up, and started to rock her. This time was different though she was not cooperating. She wanted to sit up and play. I would push her back down onto my chest, trying to get her to lay her head down {knowing that if she did she would realize that she is tired.}and she just popped right back up. I could not win with her last night. After multiple attempts and trying to lay her back down in her crib, Brian finally took over. He did this little cuddle thing that he does, and she went right to sleep, but we would not dare try and lay her in her crib. For fear that we would have to start the process all over again. So, she slept with us, or better yet we slept with her. She does take up 2/3 of the bed after all. Brian and I both sleep on the edges trying to make room for her.

The end result was her sleeping for the rest of the morning, but I woke up exhausted, tired, and my arms feeling like noodles from the patting /swaying motion that I do to get her to sleep, and Brian woke up in pain. Both of his hips hurting from trying to lay in a position that would make her fall asleep, and then a position where he would not wake her.

Solution to this is......

I checked to see if she was teething, no luck. She did not have a fever. I changed her diaper, so we are all good there. Then we decided to give her a bottle, she drank half. I think maybe she was hungry. We have been feeding her table food, and it is a little harder to figure out how much of it she is actually eating. So maybe I need to do a better job at regulating that. I don't know I am reaching for a solution. Any ideas? I guess I will try to change her eating pattern, Maybe feeding her a little later. We will see if that works.

Geese, I need sleep. I have a full time job, and my husband's job is very physically draining. Fortunately for him, he is home with her all day today and can take naps when she does. I am so jealous. What I would give. Well, I have to be a productive adult today, so here it goes.

Wordless Wednesday {Standing kinda WK7}

She is so strong, it is bound to happen soon. She of course stands and walks while holding onto things, but I am striving for some independent standing, and finally..... walking! I know it takes time. Mommy is just impatient.

Linking up with Parenting for Dummies, and the paper mama.

Attempt #1 Kale Chips

I have been staring at a Kale Chip recipe on Pinterest for about a month now, and a week ago I finally bougth some at the Farmers Market. I was thinking that it would be nice to trick I mean get my family to eat healthy salty kale chips instead of potato chips. Needless to say my first attempt at these chips was not very successful. However, I now know for next time the changes that I need to make to make them tasty. Here is the altered recipe for those of you that are magically attracted to the same pinterest recipe that I was.

Kale Chips

What you need:

Olive Oil
Kosher salt
Red Pepper flakes {only if you like to eat hot/spicy things}
Parchment paper
Cookie sheet

It is this easy really.



Wash the Kale, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Tear it into medium peices.
{it shrinks in the oven so keep the peices a decent size}

Toss all the kale in a bowl with olive oil and kosher salt.
Limit the salt, a little goes a long way.

Spread the peices out on parchment paper that you have placed on a cookie sheet.
Try to lay them flat.

You want to bake them for 10-12 minutes. 15 is too long.
They taste burnt.

Tada! Kale Chips. Like I said before this is a failed attempt.
Just think how good a successful attempt will look.

Averie's 15 month Check-up

15 Month Stats (@16 months)

Height: 31 3/4 inches (75 percentile)
Weight: 22 pounds 4 ounces (45 percentile)
Head Circumference: 18 1/4 inches (70 percentile)

Tested negative for lead poisoning. YAY! Averie is still beign charted on the regular growth chart too. Should get Thyroid results today (Monday, June 25, 2012)

Weekend Wrap-up

The weekend was really nice, and pretty relaxing. On Saturday I actually had time to have a cup of coffee while Averie ate breakfast. Anessa and I went thrifting later in the afternoon, and Brian went to a swap meet in the morning with his nephew Luke. Anessa had been asking for weeks to go thrifting, and I had bags of stuff to donate, so we knocked out two birds with one stone. We went to a few Goodwill's and the one Downtown on L Street proved to be the best. It was very clean and organized. I would definitely go back. Then.. we grabbed a little lunch and headed home. All in all, a good day. If I remember correctly I cleaned  the house for the rest of the day. Later that night, we all sat down at the couch and watched John Carter together. It was nice to relax and unwind.

Sunday... was great too. I took Anessa driving, and Brian and Averie took a nap. This weekend like all others consisted of a handful of cleaning as well. We also went to my parents house to visit with some family that was passsing through town. I think I see them every 5 years, so it was very nice to visit. It was about 75 degrees here in Sacramento, but thats not too cold for the out of towners from Washington, they jumped right in the pool. We are not that crazy, it has to be at least 100 for us to go in. 75 degrees is cold. Brrrr..

Week in Insta-pics

Here is my week in Insta-pics. It was a very traumatic Thursday. Talk about a whole life re-evaluation. I definitely think that there are some things in my life that need to change. Just how exactly I am not so sure. I do know that my goal in life is to be happy and healthy, and I am failing on both accounts at the moment. There is nothing like feeling hopeless all the time, like you just can't change anything. The only solution there is, is to leave, run away, start fresh. I am just not that kind of person. I like to confront all of my demons head on, I want to beat them, not let them beat me. There are a few things changing in the coming months that might make things better. fingers crossed. We have decided to move closer to my step-daughters school. This way she can walk to school. We live in a 2 story house at the moment (actually a tri-level) and the cleaning is killing me. I am seriously dying a slow death with all the stairs I have to vacuum. We will see how that change helps the current state of mind.

Pictures, right. This is the fun part. Sorry for the seriousness, but writing is a better outlet for me to vent.

Wordless Wednesday {Pasta Anyone? WK6}

I think that these pictures are the epitome of what Wordless Wednesday's are supposed to be.

Grammy and Cousin Jamie set her up for this one, man she is going to be mad at you two when she gets older, HAHAHA!!!

             Linking up with, the Paper Mama, Parenting for Dummies, The Bates Motel, and Jenni from the Blog.

Splish Splash

Averie is coming down with something, or maybe she is finally breaking one of those upper teeth. It does seem a little swolen. I am not sure. What I do know is that even when my little girl is in a bad mood or is not feeling well, a bath, or swimming cures all. She loves the water, as does her family. I cannot wait to do it again next weekend.

Father's Day Weekend

The weekend was packed full of stuff to do and I think I managed to document most of it via camera. I have very few words today, so I hope the pictures say it all.


Averie and I at the Salon.

Saturday at the Farmers Market.

Jer Jer later that day at Skips.

Chillin in the pool.

Averie and Jer Jer cruisin the internet.



Refreshing!

Father's Day 2012

What Averie, Grandma, and I made for Daddy.