I'm still going to the beach

I know, I know. Who the hell is this person and where has she been. Is what you are all saying...if there are any of you left here at all.


I think about blogging everyday and I do miss it. I am still here reading everyone and commenting when I can.

But I am peaking out of my crazy life for a moment to tell you that my Baby is almost 14 months old andwherethehelldidthetimego? He is walking and babbling and growing way too fast. The Kid is 5 and enjoying every minute of Kindergarten. (full day, bytheway) We are all doing well. Other than growing not much around here has changed. We did finish the construction upstairs and moved up there last May. My grandparents that live with us were here for the summer. My grandmother broke her hip, recovered beautifully and they have already gone back to Florida.

Oh, and the real reason I just had to blog tonight, I wanted to share..... It was such a beautiful day that we blew off TaeKwonDo and went to the beach. And guess who was there?

Bruce Springsteen!!!!

He was so nice and was taking pictures with anyone who asked. It was just a few scattered people, but hey, he didn't have to do that. It was my first real celebrity encounter and it was awesome....now I want to bump into Jack Nickelson or Bon Jovi...they are all local Jersey guys too. :)

Spring is so close I can taste it!

So guess what? I'm pregnant again....

APRIL FOOLS!!

Just had to do it.

The boys are getting so big. I am on my laptop so I don't have pictures on here.

The Kid is coming out with some doozys. I was using my navigation on my phone last week in the car and he says from the back seat. "Mom, when the rays of the sun hit your phone the shininess gets in my eyes." So I had to move my phone.
Today he says, "Mom, did you know that the sun is a star? And when we are waking up the other side of the world is going to sleep." Where did he hear that? I ask.... "Blue's Clues." Glad we are sending him to pre-school.

The Baby is rolling all over the living room. He just rolls and rolls and rolls. It's just a matter of time before he is pulling himself up. He will be 7 months old on the 23rd this month. I believe that the Kid was was cruising around by then. Oh boy. But we don't even have full sitting up alone yet. So we may get a little delay. YEA! I am not ready for another mobile baby. He does the Pilate's move when you lift up your legs and your head and kind of balance on your butt. Very funny. He is trying so hard to sit up. He can stay for about 10 seconds and then he tips over.

April and May are uber-busy. This weekend we have egg hunts galore. Then Easter weekend the Kid starts his peewee soccer every Saturday morning. I can't wait to see the pack of kids running up and down the field after the ball. I start my running class every Sunday morning the week after that in prep for the 5K I will be running at the end of June. I did walk a 5K last Saturday and it was nice. I borrowed a friends double jogger and it was great having both boys with me.Now I am on the hunt for a cheap used double jogger. Anyone?

I have been walking a lot lately and I have lost 41 pounds since the day I gave birth six months ago. That excites me! I am below 185, and I haven't been there in about 3 years. I am still dairy free for the Baby so I am sure that has a lot to do with it. I am afraid to try anything. It just breaks my heart when he screams. My pedi doesn't think it has anything to do with the dairy. At his 6 month visit he told me so. He also told me that I can 'let him cry' to get him to sleep better. He actually told me that it would take up to an hour of crying for him to 'learn' to self soothe himself.. WTF? I like this doctor for the fact that he is always available (he sends his off hours calls right to his cell) but really? an hour? After 5 minutes I want to cuddle the Baby. I am more of a 'Dr. Sears' type mommy. Not a Dr. Ferber.

I am so glad I finally got a post update and it's not just pictures. I am still reading all your blogs...they are just in my reader now. I try to buzz through them, but I don't always have the time to click over and comment. You all know your kids are adorable too. :)

Top O' The Morning to You

Seriously. look at those eyes!

Should be sleeping

Hi Hi!

I know I haven't been around, but here are a few shots of the boys that I have been taking.

Right now they are both sleeping.

In no particular order. We have some beautiful blue eyes, a tinkertoy snowman, a baby that can put both his big toes in his mouth at the same time, a Valentine's Day photo at the rehab my mom went to after her knee replacement (she is fine, thanks), and a couple kids playing in the tub.

These were all taken last Feb. and I will try to get some up from March....sometime before April!

Tickets to the Circus

A really quick post...just to tell you my friend, Ice Cream Mama, is having a contest to win 4 tickets to the circus here in Jersey. Go check it out if you are in the area and want to win...or not, then I can win. ;)
Click Here to visit her and let her know I sent ya! ----> CIRCUS

I'm still here, a zombie, but here.

Hi.
Hey.
Anybody out there?

I know I have been a very bad bloggy friend. I have been trying to read every one's blogs, I just haven't had a chance to comment. I haven't had a chance to write.

I am exhausted.

Last month the Baby decided to start screaming. The ear piercing can't hear my self think want to cry with him screaming. He was in pain.

Every night we would push through his once a day screaming session. Then the next day he would be just fine, so we didn't call the doctor...right away. The screaming session slowly moved earlier and earlier until he had one at 2 in the afternoon. I called the doctor. It was 2 weeks later. He was on vacation so we went to his dr that was filling in. She heard the screams in all their glory since she did a strep test on him since his throat was all red. (It was negative.) She told me he had reflux and colic. She prescribed Zantac and told me to lay off the dairy and the chicken. Huh? What the hell am I supposed to eat?!!?

I started doing some online research (including reading the dairy chapter in Skinny Bitch <- don't do it...) And I decided myself that I was going to start with going completely dairy free to see if that helps with the pain. Well as of today the Baby has been on the Zantac for 15 days, I have been completely dairy-free for 11 days and he has been screaming in pain-free for the last 9 days. I don't know if it's the medication or the no dairy...but I'll take it and keep going until he is scream free for 2 full weeks. So cross your fingers for me.

He is still not sleeping very well. He is up anywhere between every half an hour to about an hour and a half. I don't think he has slept more than a 2 hour stretch in a month unless he was on my lap, including naps. I am this close -> <- to letting him in the bed. It would totally keep me sleeping a bit longer if I don't have to climb out of my warm bed, make the trek out to the living room to nurse, wait until he is in a deep sleep and then put him down, hope he stays and try to fall back asleep myself. The Kid co-slept with us from 6 months to 18 months and I haven't decided if I want to do that again. The Baby will be 5 months old this Monday!

As if lack of sleep wasn't enough, to top off my lack of computer time...we just got Fios installed last week and our main computer (with all my passwords/pictures/favorite places, etc) has been moved upstairs. We are still not living upstairs, but will hopefully be up there within the next 2 weeks or so. Until then, I go up there occasionally to use the main computer but I have been on my laptop downstairs slowly finding all my sites again on here. So please forgive me for being a bad commenter. I will be back in full swing soon. I am going to try to post some of the many pictures I have taken in the last month this week.

Tomorrow I sign up the Kid for soccer. On Tuesday I sign him up for KINDERGARTEN!! Holy crap!
Till next time....