I dared a fellow blogger Janet, to ask me some questions to see what she could come up with. And boy did she come through. This is where it all started!

This is my interview with Wonder Mom
1. If a Firefighter or Policeman were in a fight who would win?
Well obviously, since I am married to a firefighter and would like to stay married, I'll go with Firefighter. Especially Engine men!

2. What is the funniest joke you have ever heard?
When is a door not a door? When It's ajar!

3. What is the one thing you wouldn't want your family to read about on your blog?
I'm not tellin. You trying to get me into trouble!

4. What if cows gave root beer instead of milk?
Then I would be swinging on an udder as we speak.

5. What is most important to you in a friend--loyalty, generosity, honesty--why?
Honesty. I abhor liars!

Out Like a Light!

Today Miles woke up at dark:30 am and neither on of us wanted to be up. He would not settle down and with the crib acting up I didn't want to risk anything happening to him. I went to get him and he as usual was very happy to see me! I took him down stairs and put him in the hiighchair because now I gotta hit the head! Thank the potty gods that there is a bathroom in our livingroom.





I give him his morning coffee(milk) and Play with me Sesame. We played and played. I am noticing that he isn't interested in being into every dang thing. I guess he is tired from his early wake up time.





So at 12pm I took him upstairs to put him down for his nap and he put up a 5min fuss and was, Say it with me everyone Out like a light!





Is this too cute or what?

Trapped!

This morning like every other morning I go to get Miles and begin our day! Well today the rail on his crib would not drop as it is supposed to. We have had this problem usually after we change the sheets on his matress. This is not the case and I am not, I repeat I am not tall, so getting him was a lil difficult. Once I got him out I called Ryan to see if he had any tips and there was nothing said that I hadn't already tried! He just said that he would take care of it when he came home tonite! Sweet dude. The it occored to me that I have to put him down for his nap "in the crib". I tried and tried and nothing. I had to get the step stool I use to get into our bed. Please no laughing! I hear you out there! To make matters worse he wouldn't go to sleep. I was standing there on this stool lokking like the MC at a circus in the cartoons. BTW why are thaey always sooo short?

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The ABC's of Miles

Amazing appetite
Big brown eyes
Completely capable of caring
Determined daredevil
Easily energized
Fantastically funny
Great growth
Hard head (it's been tested!)
Independent
Jolly jumper
Kind king
Living life
Mighty Miles
Naturally noisey
Opposite of ordinary
Perfectly pleasant
Quick and quirky
Rapid ripper of books
Sparkling smile
Tall thinker!
Undenialbly the best thing since sliced cheese!
Volume Volume Volume!
Wobbly walker
eXquisite
Yummy
Zipper puller

A Sighting!

***********UPDATE*****************

Well I did a little homework and found out that the teeth coming in are right on schedule! They just seemed too far back. Shucks what do I know!

You have only one guess of the sighting.... give up OK I'll tell you! Miles has 2 new teeth and they are not the ones that are supposed to come next! He has really been mooooody! and rashy on his jaw line and low appetite. Well yesterday we were in Home Depot to get a new kitchen faucet to fit our dishwasher and he was ULTRA fussy and I decided to give him some orajel and I put in the spot where I thought the next ones were coming in and boy was I wrong because when he tilted his head back and opened his mouth I saw two white edges and of course I put my finger back there and sure enuf they were bona fide teeth!

I am so in love!

Well the other day I was outside sweeping my front porch and my neighbor who barely speaks, nearly talked my ear off! She is a "Foster Parent" I put the quotes there because the motives are questionable. ( That's another post!) She brought out this little angel and her name is Marie. She had little curls on the top of her head and short hair around the sides and back. It was perfect like she had been to the hair cut place! Her eye were so bright and brown and full of wonderment. At 3months old she was already sick and on the road to recovery. Everytime I spoke to her she smiled at me like we were bonding, meanwhile my heart was in my throat! Here she was potentially an orphan and with this "questionable" Foster Parent. If some one told me that she was mine for the taking, all you would have seen were dust trails!

OMG, I couldn't believe how attached I have become to this little one that I've only seen once! She has even been my dreams 2 nites in a row! I would love Ryan to see her. I know he'd feel the same! I wish I could have taken a picture!


Thanks for listening!

Our New Car!

Miles The Builder, Can he Fix It.....

Yes He Can!

Something Neat!

Make your own Click to play

14 Months Old !

Well Miles is 14mos old ! I can't believe that it has been going by so fast! All of my other Mommy friends have been talking about how they grow up so fast and how we aren't exactly ready for them to need us less and less with every passing milestone. Miles is really handling toddler hood pretty well for now, I do know that he has toddler sizes teething grenades of attitude ready to have the pin pulled!

Today I packed away all of his bottles and nipples, not because he's 14mos but he has been drinking from a sippy cup pretty consistently for about a month, so no time like the present! I bought these and these, since he seems to be comfortable with them. I also did it because if the sippy cups are dirty then Daddy would use a clean bottle, I know this cuz we have done it! On to more news, Miles is actually playing with the rocket that his Grandmommy and Poppie gave him for Christmas, before he was just too attracted to the wheels. Naptime is less traumatic, however he falls asleep before I put him down. This is usually where I find him sleeping!

Miles is finally getting over a cold! Yippeeeeeeee. Now I believe that he HATES his Playroom! I know that all last week we tried to put him in there so we all could play and he had a fit. You'd think it was a torture chamber or something. Before he was sick he loved being in there. I will try him on Monday to see if he likes it again. I had so many plans for the room but now I am not motivated to work in a room that torments my son.

On a more Melanie note, I made my first Rachael Ray recipe. It was great if you like it like this! That is so not like me to do that, I re-toasted the bread in the oven and it was great if you like it spicy! The Gyro burgers were great! Oh Janet, maybe Mike can make these cuz I know you don't do the whole hadling of raw meat, however the Greek salad you'd probablly like!

How did you start your Morning?

Well I was soooo tired last nite I decided to turn in early but it didn't happen. I knew that I should have put the trash out, bur Ryan told me not to worry he'd take care of it when he got home in the morning. Well the problem with that is we no longer are dealing with the same trash men as before. Sometimes our trash would be picked up as late as 130pm! Even in the summer. Back in the story, Miles was up at 638am and I got up took care of the yuck mouth. I got him and noticed that he had peed thru everything. I cleaned him up and dressed him and as I was fixing his clothes I heard the rumble of the Trash Truck. I quickly threw on a bra and sweatshirt( I was a vision in red pj pants w/hearts and a grey St. Joes University sweatshirt and red Old Navy flip flops. Oh yeah the pony on top of my head had me looking like Pebbles! I'm running after the truck with like 5 bags of trash! Anyone who knows me knows I don't run after anything! The trash was collected!

A Better Day

Well the snot fountain has seemed to slack off a bit and the coughing has decreased. Yesterday miles was fit to be tied, nothing I did made him feel any better. I would feed him... nothing, I would change his diaper...nothing, I checked his temp...nothing. He just cried and cried and cried. I mean real tears and seemed like he was pissed at me for something. I don't care what room we were in he wailed! Well until we got to the bathroom and it seemed like he was a different child. But we couldn't spend the next 3.5 hours in the bathroom.... or could we? He was insistent upon walking down the hall to his playroom himself ... no tears and as soon as we got to the doorway of the room " down came the rain ..." Oh my gaw what is wrong with my kid? I needed intervention and Ryan wasn't due home for 3.5 hrs! Well once Daddy got home he calmed down. We put him in the tub to relax him for bed and it helped a lil!

Today was much much better! I am glad to report. We started our day @ 6:30am, Ryan was on his way to work and I had to get Miles and myself up and dressed and fed because the plumber is coming to finish his work! Well he called to cancel and I was irritated , it is taking him too long to finish the job. Anyhoo, we were paid a visit by Auntie India and her mother Ms. Connie. They were our first official visitors and got the grand tour and said that they loved the house!
India has told me that she is pregnant and is going to the doctor to really confirm it. She looks it to me! I am happy for her. I let her play mommy and let her change Miles and he wound up peeing on my newly cleaned duvet cover! So she did really good for a newbie! Then she took him into his room and put him down for his nap! 5min people ... that's it 5min was all it took!

Then later on My mother came over to give us our V-day cards ( miles and me and ryan) !

Ryan was supposed to be coming home tonite but he took an overtime instead!

nite- nite!

The Deep Blue Book Nook

Look at Me!

Mr.seewhatIcangetinto!

Naptime

This was Miles' first atttempt at Naptime in his crib It took him 2.5 hrs and then he zonked out!

Naptime Blues

... See my Tabblo>

Snorts, Sniffles and SNOT!

Well Miles has been at war with his mucous and has been losing! This mess has been funning from his nose like one of those meditatiing waterfalls! Needles to say I keep wiping it with whatever I have ie. tissues, tp, my shirt, his shirt, bib, etc. Oh yeah like you haven't done the same. I think mucous is really like the Mucinex commercial, just move in and take over the nasal cavity! I think we have worn out the welcome of that dammned aspirator, I know that no child likes that thing but Miles used to be more tolerant of it. Now anytime he sees that green aparatus he begins to scream bloody murder! That goes the same with the saline nose drops. That was when he learned to call his Da! Yes folks the traumatic experiences of mucous removal has led him to develop a name to call his father!

We all have been looking like a hot bag of crap these days and just as soon as Miles is better we are getting all dressed up , ok at least dressed and take pictures. So stay tuned for those pics.

In other news :
We now have a working doorbell! Ding Dong!
Miles has a new closet rod to hang more everlovin clothes!
Ryan delivered his first baby on the job. It's a girl.
Cousin Jackson is sick with RSV. Get well soon!
Miles is getting better at brushing his teeth, HA !
I bought this and this and love it!

Well That's All Folks!

The Latest News From the Hacienda

Well as everyone knows I have been trying to make sense of our new life in this new house, one box at a time. No new home would feel like home unless you have christened it properly! Well Miles has been snorting and snottin all over this house for the past 14 hours. He has been sneezing here and there and I just figured that it was from all the dust flying around from unpacking and stuff. It wasn't until 6:30 that he was getting all congested and irritable, he even had a low temp. I rubbed him down in baby vapor rub and some saline drops. I hadn't finished our bedtime routine before he fell asleep. At 7pm he was all "lights out". At 10:45 He woke up and UNCOMFORTABLE! He was was soooo stopped up he was breathing like a mad man. I tried to aspirate him but he put up such a fuss you would have thought that I was killing the boy. Miles was up and down til about 12am. Then I put my humidifier in his room and I think that the hum of the machine in combination with fatigue he zonked out, and was up at 6:24 am.

Now I am feeling congested and snotty! I am in for another long nite. Ryan was at work when all of this was happening and will be away tonite as well. We will be taking the Munchkin to see the doctor tomorrow. Keep your tissues handy .....aaaaaahhhhh aaaaaaahhh aahhhh chew!

This is Miles' Playroom! His room is almost done. Here are a few pics of him enjoying his space. He has tons more toys, we have to get containers to put them all in, as well as hang the curtians and pillows, lots ans lots of pillows! P.S. I am going to make them! Ha Ha Ha , no really I am!