Adventures of Making Homemade Baby Food

I have just began my first steps into the: 

"Adventures of Making Homemade Baby Food." 

Why waste the pumpkin that never got carved when I can make puree out of it and make some baby food without preservatives and other crap! I know it's 'not as sweet' as pie pumpkins but I think I found a recipe that makes up for it.

Sweet Apple-Pumpkin Baby Puree

We actually did some "Black Friday" shopping. (Don't hate me.) We waited until almost noon to go out. I have a hard time passing up killer deals but nothing and I do mean nothing is worth fighting other people; standing in line hours and freezing my ass for! I did manage to wrangle myself a fire pit for 22 bucks! YES! My back yard is gonna fall into place next year!! Bricked off patio with a picnic table and grill, a fire pit and my garden area! 

Hopefully we can rebuild the retaining wall and put in the other steps by the garage like I want too. Then all we need is a Koi pond! Which conveniently enough my brother-in-law can help with!

I can't wait until SPRING!

Custom Charts, I need ideas

I need to come up with a super cute growth chart for Tiny Viking! We can mark down the measurements we already know and label :

18 inches at birth
21.5 inches at two months

I'm not sure if I want to keep following the jungle/forest animal theme, because a tree would be easy, or if I want to make something Viking themed. Since the nickname stuck!

Also on a side note for Tiny Viking. I think there needs to be some Adventures with Trinny and Tiny comics. I'll have to keep thinking on it. It has been way way too long since I drew a comic.

Oh! I bought more tulle and fabric yesterday to make her some outfits! She will hopefully be our little Christmas faerie!!

Update on my Tiny Warrior Woman

We've had some success!! 

Posted this on Facebook a few minutes ago:

Update on my tiny warrior woman. Miss Cassie has gained!!! She went from 6 lb 1.8 oz at last weeks visit to 7 lb 0.5 oz! Her height and weight are back in the same percentile (5th for those curious) so she is still tiny but we're headed in the right direction!! Thank you for all the prayers, we've still got some catching up to do but the Dr is no longer worried! I am one incredibly relieved Momma!

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I have decided that if I am going to continue to stay home that we are going to try cloth diapers. There are some that I have seen at Babies R' Us that consist of a cover and either cloth or disposable inserts. I might go that route. It would be more expensive at first but if we stuck to the cloth inserts or other cloth diapers at home and used the cover and disposable inserts while we were out we would save a ton on trash, and who cares having one more load of laundry. Tim seems to think it isn't a bad idea and says that diaper services here are really cheap, so there is that too.

Also, if I continue staying home after the first of the year I plan to look for a dog. Hopefully we'll find a young one at the shelter.

EDIT: The diapers I mentioned from Babies R' Us are the gDiapers. I REALLY want to try them.

The Ginger Oh! Snap!

Can we say OOPS?!

A certain little lady had her first inadvertent taste of food last night.  

She was in her rocker completely asleep and content, just long enough for me to stick a ginger snap cookie in my mouth. She started crying, I swear before she was even fully awake and in the seconds it took me to reach for her she had almost hit melt down level. I held her up so that she stood on my lap and I looked up at the TV for just a moment, the cookie still hanging half out of my mouth. 

I felt her lean forward and didn't really think anything of it until I looked back to see her happily gumming away at the other side of my cookie. Her eyebrows were raised and eyes were wide open. She looked very satisfied with what she had found. She barely had it in her mouth but when I moved her back away from it, she had cookie mush and drool all over her face. 

It was so cute and funny I almost choked laughing so hard.

I knew it was about time for her daddy to be on his lunch break at work so I sent him a text message asking for him to call me when he had a moment. I just had to tell him about our little cookie thief!

I really wish I had thought to get a picture or that I could have gotten video of the incident. Re-telling it to someone just doesn't do justice for how funny the scene is as it replays in my own head.

Added Note:

Her rocker that I refer to is a Fisher-Price My Little Lamb Rock 'n Play Sleeper. 

I found the deluxe one here. 

Ours doesn't have the vibration. It is SUPER cute and very useful! It folds up and is light weight for easy moving, we have taken it with us to my in-laws and used it over at their house before. Tiny Viking seems to LOVE it! We give it 4 thumbs up!

No weight gain = stressed out momma

She slept with me in the bed and not in the bassinet last night, but we had our first sleep through the night! I count that as a victory! Two short bouts of wakefulness to eat and then back to sleep. Over eight hours worth!! She also slept a couple hours in the afternoon on my chest while we did a Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives marathon. 

Yes. Sometimes I co-sleep. Don't judge me. 


We had our week follow up and she didn't gain any weight. 

UGH. 

So we're going to up the supplementing and I'll keep trying to get my milk production to increase. This means I may have to either postpone going back to work a couple more weeks or just make up my mind to stay home with her and find other ways to help with the income. I did manage to mail off checks to get rid of two bills from the pile and one more gets paid tomorrow. So I feel accomplished there. 

Still need to get stuff together for her two month pictures before we reach 3 months!! 

Tiny Bubbly Baby Laughs!!

SO EXCITING!!

We have heard our first tiny baby laugh. 

It was AWESOME. 

Also, Ms Tiny is getting quite drooly the last two days, waiting to see if it is because she is becoming more adept had getting fingers in her mouth and keeping them there or if it means the first tooth is on it's way. It would be really early for a tooth but not unheard of. I am hoping, of course, it's the first option. 

The hair on the top of her head is starting to come in more now that we seem to have gotten rid of almost all the cradle cap.  

She will soon have more hair than her daddy! *GRIN*

I love you Pandora

We have made some progress today! Even if it doesn't seem like much to everyone else.

Baby girl and I can now consistently nap for 3 hours or just a touch over that together. Swaddled with some lullabies playing, thanks to Pandora and my Android phone, she is currently on her second solo sleep in the bassinet. The first being this morning. I put her down after nursing her, while swaddled until she fell sleep, at around 7:20 AM and she stayed asleep until around 9! She's been down for about 20 minutes so far so there is hope! 

I absolutely love to cuddle her to sleep but I need to know she'll be okay on her own the two nights a week with grandpa. I'd rather have her asleep the majority of the time there than being stressed out. After consistency is gained on the solo sleeping we shall work on setting a little more solid sleep routine. 

(UPDATE: 5:58 PM she slept 40+ minutes) 
She woke up long enough to dirty a diaper, eat a few minutes and is now attempting to fight falling back asleep.  Three solo naps total the longest lasted over 2 1/2 hours! 

Proud momma!