Money sucks!
I’ve been extra stressed about money lately and today it’s been laid on me BIG TIME! I’ve been having mouth/teeth/gum issues for a couple months but keep avoiding it thinking it will magically go away. Well yesterday something happened and now my mouth is in a ton of pain. We don’t have dental insurance because I never thought we needed it. I started calling around today and the fees are not that bad. I then found out most insurance you have to wait 1 month before they can be activated, great! Now what? I call for prices with no insurance and they are SO EXPENSIVE! It looks like I’m going to pay out of pocked for the first visit and assessment and then just wait around in pain until Sept. 1st when the plan goes into effect. Serves me right for putting it off, but now I’m in pain and want the pain to stop NOW!
Another big expense and even bigger step in our lives is Moses started going to a home day care full time! I don’t know how many times I’ve said I’ll never be a working mom and put my kids in day care, but life has taken many different turns and here we are, working and going to day care! It’s a home day care so she only watched 6 kids full time. We happen to know one of the little boys, who is a week older than Moses, so it’s exciting he has a little buddy at day care. He seemed to be adjusting well the first week but now on a daily basis he just wants to be held. He cries if she leaves the room and crawls over to her to be held if she’s in the room! I know it’s an adjustment, and I know its best for him to learn how to play with other kids, it just makes me sad to know he cries. But I guess it’s easier for him to cry over there than to cry at grandma’s house, because grandma will just hold him and that’s making him addicted to being held! Over the weekends we make sure we play with him on the floor a lot and I don’t mind giving him lots of hugs to make sure he’s getting his weekly dosage J
Our new favorite thing he does: Laughs sucking in, like a reverse laugh. It almost sounds like a big gasp or acting like he just saw a ghost, but he’ll get himself so excited when he just sucked in really loud for a long time and cracks us up. As if he was too excited to make a real laugh. His personality is blossoming so much and it’s so entertaining to just watch him.
He now likes to crawl over to the foyer and pouts! He will crawl to the door, sit down, and cry/ whine until you convince him to crawl over to you!
He still has his “lucky” fin, and as cute as it is, I hope it’s not a physical disability because then I would feel really bad for joking about it. He seems to be able to crawl on it and use that hand just fine, but for some reason he just loves to flap it around to feel everything out. When he was getting his six month pictures taken last week he just sat there and his “fin hand” rose up slightly off the ground hanging there. I’ll ask the doctor next time we go in if he feels anything wrong, but hopefully it’s just a Moses trait.
Like if we don’t already have enough going on in life, we are thinking about moving when our lease is up in October! I’m not stressing about it, but the thought of looking for a new place is stress enough!
Jul 27, 2009
Jul 13, 2009
twenty.
I’m sorry I always start the blog with an update about Moses, but I just can’t help that he’s growing up so fast!
Our newest update is he’s an official crawler. I feel like it wasn’t even a month ago when he started sitting up unsupported and now he’s moving all over the house. He would first start by getting in the crawling position and then raise his back legs really high and kind of fall forward, then he realized it’s a hand AND leg thing, and now he’s crawling everywhere. Sometimes he’ll do the strange crab-walk like crawl and other times it will be the classic crawl. Just last night I was laying on my bed and here he comes down the hall way just crawling right past my door. With him being so active, we are having the baby proof the house already. He loves electronics and any kind of cord. Even when Davy hides the Xbox/ DVD player with a towel, he’ll crawl right over, pull the towel away, and go straight for them!
His other big update he started doing last week was pulling himself up on things. When he first did it, it took us by surprise that all the sudden he was standing next to the couch! Now we’ve gotten used to it and try to keep an eye on him. I feel like the crawling to standing period was so short lived. Hs new found freedom needs to be closely monitored because once he starts standing there, he tries to move around and tumbles over. He hasn’t figured out that he can sit back down, so he’ll just stand for a long time and then either cry for help or fall over.
This last update I don’t even want to say because I can’t believe its happening, and feel like he’s some kind of daredevil freak! This past weekend he was holding on to Davy standing up and then let go and just stood on his own for a second before grabbing back on! We were shocked and couldn’t believe it until he did it a couple more times over the weekend. I hope he doesn’t keep trying to do it and just enjoys crawling for now. It’s hard to watch his dare devil self all the time when before I could just let him sit still playing with toys!
Still no food. We’ve tried, but he just spits it out and hates it. He’s been waking up a lot at night now and I’m hoping once he eats some food it will keep him full and satisfied during the night. We went for his 6 month check up last week and he was 17.7 lbs and 28 inches long. The doctor said he’s growing fine because both of those stats are in the “90th percentile”, but I just hope he starts sleeping better because it’s really taking a toll on me at work!
In other news, I’ve become obsessed with the Twlight saga. I made fun of my girlfriends for so long for liking it, and then I finally netflix the movie and loved it! The following week I borrow the 2nd book and read that in a week and now I’m onto the 3rd book. I forgot how much I enjoy reading an attention grabbing book. I love being able to pick it up anytime and be right back in the story. It’s hard to sit down and enjoy movies with a baby, but with a book I don’t have to worry about finishing it all in one sitting, just enjoying it when I have time.
This past weekend we celebrated Davy’s 23rd and Alex’s 2nd birthday. For Davy’s birthday we went out Saturday night to dinner and around downtown for drinks and dancing. I had lots of fun but have no idea how people party all the time. We were both wiped out Sunday and it was hard to bounce back for Alex’s birthday party. For the birthday party some of Davy’s family I’ve never met came into town and it was really nice meeting them. It’s interesting to see how truly different our families our and how no one in his family is anything like my family. I’m surprised Davy and I get along so well coming from such different backgrounds! Since David isn’t doing too well at all, some family came from far away to kind of see him for the last time. It was really sad to remember the real reason they were there and I chocked up watching them give goodbye hugs. I don’t really want to open that topic up right now, but I just don’t understand how I can be laughing and talking and looking at someone whose supposed to die in a couple months. It’s not fair, I don’t understand, and I don’t want it to happen. I can’t imagine what its like for David and I think it’s wonderful how he can still have a positive attitude day to day.
Sorry to end that on a bad.
I promise to post pictures with my blogs one of these days!
Our newest update is he’s an official crawler. I feel like it wasn’t even a month ago when he started sitting up unsupported and now he’s moving all over the house. He would first start by getting in the crawling position and then raise his back legs really high and kind of fall forward, then he realized it’s a hand AND leg thing, and now he’s crawling everywhere. Sometimes he’ll do the strange crab-walk like crawl and other times it will be the classic crawl. Just last night I was laying on my bed and here he comes down the hall way just crawling right past my door. With him being so active, we are having the baby proof the house already. He loves electronics and any kind of cord. Even when Davy hides the Xbox/ DVD player with a towel, he’ll crawl right over, pull the towel away, and go straight for them!
His other big update he started doing last week was pulling himself up on things. When he first did it, it took us by surprise that all the sudden he was standing next to the couch! Now we’ve gotten used to it and try to keep an eye on him. I feel like the crawling to standing period was so short lived. Hs new found freedom needs to be closely monitored because once he starts standing there, he tries to move around and tumbles over. He hasn’t figured out that he can sit back down, so he’ll just stand for a long time and then either cry for help or fall over.
This last update I don’t even want to say because I can’t believe its happening, and feel like he’s some kind of daredevil freak! This past weekend he was holding on to Davy standing up and then let go and just stood on his own for a second before grabbing back on! We were shocked and couldn’t believe it until he did it a couple more times over the weekend. I hope he doesn’t keep trying to do it and just enjoys crawling for now. It’s hard to watch his dare devil self all the time when before I could just let him sit still playing with toys!
Still no food. We’ve tried, but he just spits it out and hates it. He’s been waking up a lot at night now and I’m hoping once he eats some food it will keep him full and satisfied during the night. We went for his 6 month check up last week and he was 17.7 lbs and 28 inches long. The doctor said he’s growing fine because both of those stats are in the “90th percentile”, but I just hope he starts sleeping better because it’s really taking a toll on me at work!
In other news, I’ve become obsessed with the Twlight saga. I made fun of my girlfriends for so long for liking it, and then I finally netflix the movie and loved it! The following week I borrow the 2nd book and read that in a week and now I’m onto the 3rd book. I forgot how much I enjoy reading an attention grabbing book. I love being able to pick it up anytime and be right back in the story. It’s hard to sit down and enjoy movies with a baby, but with a book I don’t have to worry about finishing it all in one sitting, just enjoying it when I have time.
This past weekend we celebrated Davy’s 23rd and Alex’s 2nd birthday. For Davy’s birthday we went out Saturday night to dinner and around downtown for drinks and dancing. I had lots of fun but have no idea how people party all the time. We were both wiped out Sunday and it was hard to bounce back for Alex’s birthday party. For the birthday party some of Davy’s family I’ve never met came into town and it was really nice meeting them. It’s interesting to see how truly different our families our and how no one in his family is anything like my family. I’m surprised Davy and I get along so well coming from such different backgrounds! Since David isn’t doing too well at all, some family came from far away to kind of see him for the last time. It was really sad to remember the real reason they were there and I chocked up watching them give goodbye hugs. I don’t really want to open that topic up right now, but I just don’t understand how I can be laughing and talking and looking at someone whose supposed to die in a couple months. It’s not fair, I don’t understand, and I don’t want it to happen. I can’t imagine what its like for David and I think it’s wonderful how he can still have a positive attitude day to day.
Sorry to end that on a bad.
I promise to post pictures with my blogs one of these days!
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