if the diaper feels full.....dont push it against you..

SO! saturday or sabado whichever language u prefer it was a plan to go to michaels to get petyl a stocking and decorate it etc. then i was to go to target and get the rest of the christmas stuff i needed and then to frys for salsa stuff!!!!! so i picked up brieson and was suddenly hit with a hugemongous headache like ugh it was like death! and we got to michaels and went in and i was just carrying PJ cuz i thought this would be best and as we walked in to the store i was like "hmm petyls diaper seems full" i though i will just change it before we go into target and then i was distracted by the stocking choices i was going to make when i felt a squish...looked down to see i was now covered in beautiful Pea and Oatmeal POOP! and so was my little nugget! so we had to abort mission and head to the car. Now the situation was so out of control for a minute iwas not sure what to do. We opened the passenger door and bega to assess petyl (the priority at the moment) we carefully slipped her out of her clothing and wiped her down. i shuffld through the diaper bag and found some sweats and a lil hoodie for her. she was good to go and brieson held her while i then had to wipe myself down and gather the poop smeared articles. We then ran into target and i had to buy a shirt. ( now i know most would probably abort the whole mission and go home BUT i truely think it would have been more work to leave the store and attempt to doit again nother time! so i bought a white shirt and changed in the bathroom at target and we went along with our plan....we just left out the michaels because i didnt want to go back in there. IT was a pretty amazing mission and i am sad u missed it!

SALSA TIME!

So Brieson and I are going to be whipping up some of my famous Young Family Salsa

- Salsa de Joven -

We plan on bottling it up and selling it out(free samples will be available...dont buy it till u try it!)

it would be a great gift or side dish during these wonderful holidays

SO i will be posting more of the who what where when why and how later today

Tara McMurdie!

ATTENTION ATTENTION

SO TARA i was going through my junk email and deleting like crazy as usual when one of the 152 emails caught my eye....i saw ur name Tara McMurdie BUT before i could stop the compulsive deleting it was to late ur email was lost forever! u cannot undelete junk mail on hotmail! this is just not allowed i guess.... SO if you could please resend that..SORRY!


In other news ....

Turkey Day was BEAUTIFUL! uhm i love food! and today we are having turkey number two at my familys house so i am excited!

I will post more later with pics of this fabuloso weekend



HASTA

arrivals,crafts and twilight!

So this week has been pretty good good!

I got SOO much homework done and think i am finally on track..two more weeks(thats what i keep telling myself)!

wednesday my friend Sarah popped out her lil man Skyler he was 6lbs 15.5oz and 21in long and oh so HARRY! haha

Thursday both of my classes got canceled so that was pretty amazing that i didnt have to go to school!

Friday auntie Carissa came home and lil PJ was oh so excited!

Saturday was craft day at shellys church and carissa and i made these amazing magnetic boards and tiles and they trned out beautiful(which reminds me that we have to make the other one for grandma rowlan(or maybe it was grandma ellis?) but yea we should make it and i want to make one for my mom...a CAT one! hahha(u had tobe there hahaaa)

Sat night we went and saw twilight at AMC 30 and it was ehh....it was good. I mean I LOVE LOVE the books and so really nothing can compare with ones own mind but still it was pretty good! there was some cheesy lines and effects but it was still okay... i just will never forget when edward said, "hold on tight you little spider monkey" HHHAHAHAA so lame but now my favorite hahaha

OH but the preview before the movie for The Unborn ahh that looks so scary! i was like creeped out after that

So Sunday(today) trustan woke me up and said to make pancakes...so i showered and went to work on some chocolate chip pancakes

(just in case you need tips for chocolate chip pancakes see video)
for my spoiled husband just to go back up stairs to find him sleeping! ugh but he came and ate and then i got ready for church and then we were too late(well trustan was like not ready at all and my hair was still wet) so we didnt go! and i was erked at that but yea so then i did the laundry and read some of my book and Petyl by the way was sleeping this WHOLE time. she had woken up at 7 to eat and then sleept untill NOON when i went in there and woke her lil bootie up.

then we went over to my parents house and practiced some crawling exercises and then came home and I made some cookies.

Then I made some veggies for dinner at the rowlans which i was worried about because it was just randomness from the fridge BUT! i must say when we went to dinner they were pretty good!

so yea we hug out at the rowlans and ate and talked and laughed way to much(i swear everytime we all get together for dinner it is so hard to eat because i laugh so much and then water and food almost comes flying out my nose and mouth every second! it is pretty dangerous!)

and now the babies are sleeping and i am up writing a blog about nothing


so now i am off to attempt to finish the last twilight book

LATES

feeding baby fun

so first of all(i think i say this a lot ...i like to start that way i guess..it can be my trade mark!)

Anyways

So first of all I must appologize because i feel i have not given a great post lately....i mean an amazing thought out post..they have been pretty thrown together and lame so i must assure you this one will be interesting and yea okay but it is long...

INTRO

As a first time mamacita i have been learning SO much. it is so amazing and rewarding to know that i am taking care of this beautiful little nugget..but it is also SO SO SO scarry sometimes to think of all these things I have to do and DO RIGHT! ugh so with the feeding thing I really tried to listen and learn and learn and learn..

breastfeeding... I was so set on doing this I really wanted to be able to give that if nothing else to Petyl. i think that if possible it is best and now after 6 months of doing it i feel even stronger about it. sometimes i am not gonna lie your mind wanders and your like oh man those things are like doing something and you feel crazy for a minute (and like when your beautiful little nugget looks over and smiles...not at you..but at THEM..you really feel crazy!) but then you feel good like God's purpose is in action and that is awesome!

*side note- i went to this breatfeeding clinic once and there was this poster that had a mother feeding her baby and then all around her were different animals feeding there babies and it said something like "you cant get more natural than this" and i admit i kinda laughed cuz it's soo cheesy right but i mean it is true it is how God made us and there is nothing weird about it...

**side note 2-i must say tho i do think it is weird to just whip it out and do the buisness without no cover or anything i mean yea no

THE NEXT STEP(getting ready for cereal)

so then after i feel i mastered that last concept i felt safe and secure....and scared to move on LOL i really wanted to do things right i didnt want to rush my little girl for selfish reasons(so that i can sleep through the night) or give her allergies or whatever all those people tell you ya know. So i waited...i asked the doc. and waited some more. I listend to all his signs to look for and waited for ALL of them - the interest in food, the putting everythin in mouth, the drooling, the sitting up, sitting up reaching out and not falling over....then when she was sitting up and sneezed without falling over(and about to be 6 months old [TODAY SHE IS!]) i dived right in.....well sort of... I told Trustan today was the day and we were going to do it. I took all that doc advice and passed it on to him to go to the store "get some rice cereal and some infant juice because you mix the juice instead of breast milk because in order for iron to absorb the body needs Vit. C" so the now informed papa went to buy the goods(and call me when he got there so i could reiterate all the requirements).

LETS TRY IT(eating cereal!!!)

then that night when he returned we made a family diner date for petyl and got started. I read the little cylindar thing of rice(which trustan spent and extra $4 on for the DHA- he called it the supper brain cereal). I read and read and could not find any directions of how one goes about this. it ust said to mix in to desired consitancy. Now i do have common sense so i went with that and we just made a little bit and pretty runny for the first expiremental stage.

so yea she tried it and made crazy faces and was so stinkin cute and yes it was amazing!

day one....hmm i dunno bout this stuff

day 2 - still thinking

what do you think...AHHH

happy girl - give me more!

STILL SCARED!-Research Mode

so tonight was day 4 on rice cereal and little bug has jumped on board very quickly SHE LOVES IT! so then i was still worried well how much do we feed this beast? how often? then what do we do? so with all these questions running through my head i laid little girl down and ran for the internet search engine! i have looked at everything and i mean EVERYTHING. i first went to just the gerber website..and then the parenting magazine website and then i found the American Academy of Pediatrics website

but my favorite which i found most helpful and most useable was this http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ I was actually looking for like a chart to go by on what and when baby should eat but they just have so much on here!

THE PLAN

So after reading through and thoughts i have had for a long time about feeding little beauty i really have concluded i want to try and give the most natural and organicness to her. that website had all these little recipes for baby food and what the veggie or fruit does for them and all that but as i was reading (and taking notes...lots of notes!) i began to realize that some of these things i am just not going to do...for example the squash recipe....

1. Cut acorn, hubbard, or butternut squash in half, scoop out seeds2. Place an inch of water in a baking pan, then place squash halves "face" down in the pan. Check on water level while baking3. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 40 minutes or until the “shell/skin” puckers and halves feel soft then scoop squash “meat” out of the shell4. Place squash "meat" into your choice of appliance for pureeing and begin pureeing. 5. Add water as necessary to achieve a smooth, thin consistency.6. You can also peel the squash, scoop out the seeds and then cut into chunks and boil/steam until tender (like when boiling potatoes for mashed potatoes) then follow steps 4 and 5

im not going to bake something for 40 minutes just to mush it up and feed the lil one. i know i just wont do that. so from reading i found there are these organic baby foods now too.... i am going to do my best to give petyl organic...and as much like fresh things as realisticaly possible. I have a little baby food masher thing to try and make as much at home as i can. I just want to give the best i can ya know

EXCITED! and scared still LOL- am i a crazy mom

i dont know i am just excited like SO excited to have took all this in and learned. Like i think before i was just so uneducated on the topic and i felt like unconfident but i feel better now i feel ready to do this LOL!

there is one more thing tho that makes me nervous...AM I A CRAZY MOM? i mean do all moms start out excited and like gung ho about being healthy and then in 5 years am I just going to be throwing french frys at my babies?? I would like to think that I try and keep this healthy ness going i feel that I am pretty healthy (aside from my need for baked goods) and I dont think there is anything wrong with a french fry here and there....but am i just crazy do i got it all wrong is my plan...CRAZY?

FOLLOWERS

ugh i know i dont really blog for weeks and then i lay down another big mama but give me advice or just commentary thoughts(brieson) and yea i will appreciate it much!

dominos online delivery

So right now I was like hey i want pizza and i do not even care i want it NOW! so i went to dominos.com to do the online ordering cuz that is easier than having to talk to anyone! but yea so i placed my order and this thing poped up on my screen . it is called the dominos pizza tracker...see picture

so what this nifty contraption does is it tells you every detail of the making of your pizza. and the time so like underneath the thing would say YOU GOT IT ON THE WAY: Angela put your order in the oven at 9:05PM.... it is kinda hard to explain but anyways then it came on and said our pizza was being dilevered by Fatmire and that name made me laugh but then a cute old man came and i felt bad for laughing but anyways the pizza was AMAZING and you must order online from them so you can experience the amazing pizza tracker THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT

whew it has been a while

i guess not many exciting things have happened lately..this is sad!

I did get my hair cut and collored by my amazing amiga Sam..you can find more information about her life at http://www.samanthatrenkle.blogspot.com/. Anyways i turned out soo good and i love love love it!

I skipped school for like two weeks so i could do homework this was exciting and i am pretty much cought up now i just need to get ahead..the goal for the weekend!

In the classroom things have been crazy as usual. i think i am getting used to all the little monsters in there..i really feel bad for them because they really cannot learn that much when they havent been given the tools to know how to learn in class...ya know. like the teacher needs to lay it down and never did so theyre crazy. I had a little moment in my head on wednesday when they ere getting lined up for lunch. I looked at the wild beasts in line and thought 'i can do this...and i can do it better...' this made me excited. excited for a classroom of my own to turn little beasts in to well behaved educated little beasts lol. it was a good moment!

big news for the new job i was working....i got fired! well i mean not really fired our schedules just didnt work so much and ugh i am relieved. i mean i didnt want to turn in down cuz the extra money would be nice but it is SOOOO far! and i just wasnt into it ya know! so this is better. i will just pick up hours now and then until student teaching and it will work out.

well this is all for now... a borin update i know and i appologize i will try and find something exciting to write about soon! but now that i gave my self bed time(for 10:30pm) i must go and sleep! so good night.

oh and YAY for prop 102!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!