Random-ness

So this morning, while watching a very interesting interview on the Today Show, my TV switched channels to CSPAN. Thinking I must have been sitting on the remote, I looked for the remote and found it under my lap desk. I tried to change the channel back to the interview, and the remote would not let me change the channel. So, I walked over and swapped the batteries with the ones in the secondary remote, and nothing happened. It wouldn't let me change the channel! So I went upstairs to the TV up there (luckily Finn was taking a nap) and that TV worked just fine. So I watched the rest of the interview up there and then retreated back to my larger TV to finish the program. But it was still on CSPAN and I couldn't change the channel. I couldn't figure it out. I turned the cable off and then on again, and when I turned it on, it told me that the Today Show was on, but then some trial from CSPAN appeared. WHAT?? I figured someone from the Cable provider was having fun with the power :)

So after I couldn't get the TV downstairs to work properly, I went upstairs for a shower and to do some chores while the baby was sleeping (or resting in his crib as it may be). I returned back downstairs after a bit and the TV was back to normal. Weird!

Favorite Quotes...

Do you have a favorite quote? Something funny that you've heard in a movie or on a commercial that just makes you smile when you hear it and laugh when you try to say it? I have... Here are a few of my favorites:

• "Fruit: Good. Cake: Great. Fruit Cake: Nasty Crap!" - Jim Gaffigan
• "You have a baby... In a Bar!!" - Melanie on Sweet Home Alabama
• "Eminem called and needs your decision." "Plain... Peanut!!" - 13 going on 30
• "My sister loves them candy cigarettes. I got second hand diabetes from them things." -Larry the Cable Guy
• "Your son Rip called and he's on line Toot!" -Gas-X commercial

What are some of your favorite quotes??

BabyWise HELP!!!

Friends - This post is in request of help from those of you who are "Babywise" parents (read the book, followed the methodology etc)

I need some help! Some major help! Up until now, Finnegan (10months tomorrow) has been pretty consistent with his schedule on Babywise. He'd sleep 12 hours (or 13) at night, and sleep 2 naps during the day, each about 2 hours each. Then we went to MI and adjusted to the 3 hour time difference and had a super crazy schedule. Although he wasn't getting many great naps, he was sleeping well at night. We've been back home now for 3 full weeks and although he's adjusted back to our time, his schedule continues to be off. He started to pick it back up but now we've introduced two new factors into the game... teething and crawling. This week, he's been teething (front left tooth coming in) and I definitely know that for a fact. So we've had the awakeness with him and he doesn't want to go to sleep. He's also learned to crawl and I can't get him to lay down during the night (or at nap time when it's time). So, I've been leaving him in his crib to figure it out (he doesn't really cry, just crawls around and plays with stuff, grunts and squeals). Sometimes, he'll cry, but I time it and go in to calm him etc. But when he wakes up in the morning, he's not happy anymore. He's cranky and whinny.

So, after a week of following our same old schedule, with no improvement, I changed it up abit. He woke up (after 10 hours of sleep) and was cranky and all, so I got him up and fed him and then put him back in his bed (he was rubbing his eyes all during breakfast) and I was sure that he'd lay right down and go back to sleep. But he hasn't. He's been up there for 45 minutes now, playing and crawling and all and hasn't gone to sleep. Even during this previous week, I'd feed him, play with him and then put him down, and he'll play for an hour or so in his crib (some whining), and then sleep for 45-1hr and then be up. But not waking up happy. He wakes up cranky, so I know he hasn't gotten his sleep down right... Any suggestions?

Part of me thinks that I need to just chill out and let him do what he's going to do, while I decide that place (whether his crib or where-ever). If he falls asleep, great, if not, great. I guess my main concern is that he isn't waking up happy. He doesn't wake up content like he used too. He wakes up cranky and whinny (and no one likes a whinny baby! especially mommy :) )

Thanks for your help friends!!

Hugs!
xoxo

Family Search...

So, several years ago, I became interested in my heritage and where my family came from. I worked on some things back when Ken and I lived in VA and then kind of got bored with it. Recently, my curiosity has been sparked because of meeting a fellow "Stepleton" on Facebook. So, I've begun to work more and more on my family tree and see if I can find the roots of my family within the United States. It has been very interesting... And here are some things that I found...

• I have a line of cabinet makers and funeral directors in my family.
• I have collected 8 generations of people that I am related too (mom and dad's only - and only a selected "sibling" lists
• I have a legitimate set of twins in my family.
  
• I am related to a murderer (scary - but we knew that)
• I am related to a Native Indians
• My great-great grandfather's grave is in Mecosta County... about 20 miles from where Trina lives.
  
• My great grandfather's cousin was in the circus after living in Oregon and Washington for a while.
  

Just a few random tid-bits about me. And tracking your family is becoming so much easier on line and there are many people out there willing to help you with information. It is very cool. But some people don't know what their talking about, so you have to weed those weirdo's out :)

Anywho - That's my new hobby - especially now that my TV lamp is broken and I can't watch TV. I'll post more when I get to it. :)

Hugs all!

We have a 3rd tooth!

Finnegan woke up this morning with the front left tooth making a debut! How exciting!! Yesterday he was super fussy and wouldn't nap at all and had difficulty falling asleep. And now we know why! And because he was super shy on his sleep amounts yesterday, he is sleeping a lot today. So we both get a break today!

We have a stander!!

So we have a stander now... And he's even taken a few steps with the help of his tonka truck. We are so proud of him and so happy that he's learning all these new skills.



On Sunday, after I opened the toy chest, he pulled himself up and proceeded to reach in and grabbed out his BearBear and other toys. So Cute!!


Finn and his favorite daddy!! (Ok, his only daddy - but still his favorite). He just squeals when Ken come home. He gets so happy!!
I love these boys!

Sore Throat and Runny Nose?

The morning after flying on the plane home from MI, I woke up with a sore throat and runny nose. About two days later, I was feeling much better, but Ken seemed to be sick with the same symptoms. And now that I've been home a week, I woke up again today with the same symptoms. So what gives? It's sunny outside and beautiful during the day, and I'm sniffling and can hardly talk... Who knows...