DAILY WYATT

I'VE MOVED!

2010-01-27T20:45:00.000-08:00

Time out anyone?

2010-01-14T20:44:00.000-08:00

Wyatt is growing up for sure. And he sure knows how to push my buttons.
He is getting into everything!
So the other day I just had enough and I did something drastic.
Dun dun duh... a TIME OUT!
I know that some of you might say that it is too early but Wyatt understands when I talk to him ask anyone. and when I did a time out for the first time he stayed put for his full minute and hugged me and didn’t do it again ( that day anyway.)
So it works for us.
But I am not looking forward to his trouble twos because he certainly has an attitude at one.

Christmas 2009

2009-12-30T20:38:00.001-08:00

Even though this year was Wyatt’s 2nd Christmas it sure felt like his 1st. he was so excited to open and see his presents. He still needed me to tear a piece off to get him started but he did try to get the presents out of the paper by grabbing the present instead of taking the paper off. Lol. He also put all his toys in a circle and played with each present one of the time.
We didn’t have a lot of money this year (or any year for that matter.) so we only bought Wyatt 2 gifts and nothing for each other. but my friend Nicole called me on the day before xmas eve and told me that her uncle works for the xmas box charity and he didn’t need to give away any baby toys this year so he had tons left and that he was going to throw them away. Nicole instead told him that she could give them to me. Which she did, so Wyatt got so many different things that we had to give some to my in-laws so he wasn’t overloaded with toys. So I thank Nicole for being so giving and thoughtful.
We had tons of parties this year to go to which by the time Christmas rolled around I was kind of already sick of Christmas but my favorite part was when Cody and I took little Wy to see the lights.

It was cold that night and it was also snowing but that didn’t stop us. When we walked up to the first little house they had, Wyatt ran towards it and looked inside. And he kept doing that to each one until he was so cold he couldn’t move anymore so we held him.

Wyatt also loved going outside this year playing in the snow because it was this first year he actually notice what snow was. He would touch it and stick his foot in it. And he cried when I made him come in.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

my sister is going on a mission

2009-12-10T22:54:00.001-08:00

my sister alisha is going on a mission to michigan on dec 16. so my family and I started a blog for her for friends and family if you'd like to following it... here is the address! http://mymission2michigan.blogspot.com/
ENJOY :)

SinterKlass

2009-12-08T20:31:00.000-08:00

Pros & Cons of Hosting The Annual Traditional SinterKlass Party for MY 1st time.

Pros:

We got to have one this year because I hosted it.

It was a lot of fun

Everyone showed up mostly on time

You can’t go wrong with fondue

We had more candy for the gingerbread house than I thought we would

The SinterKlass presents where hilarious

Cons:

Started it too late so it ended really late.

Should have had some non premade gram crackers for the roofs.

Needed to make more frosting/glue before hand

Shouldn’t have gone to an interview before so then I would have had more time to set up

Should have done the SinterKlass shoes

More activities for the kids so my mom wouldn’t have been stuck down in the toy room with them

Read the history or a story about SinterKlass

Got the invites out like I wanted to instead of the old handy mass text.

Maybe had all of the gingerbread houses actually gingerbread.

Had more time to plan and actually plan instead of winging it.

This year my mom was so overfilled with activities and family things that she told me that she wasn’t going to do SinterKlass. I was so shocked because my mom is ALL about the traditions that we have and we have ALOT! And we couldn’t let this one go. So I said without hesitation that I would go ahead and take over SinterKlass for her. (This means I will EVERY year.)

I was excited to take this on but I didn’t have a lot of time to plan it. The only thing I really planed was to make gingerbread houses. Normally what we do on SinterKlass and what SinterKlass is, is well SinterKlass in one easy sentence is the Dutch Xmas. It celebrated on December 6 instead of stockings they do shoes. They leave them out with carrots in them for the horses and SinterKlass comes and leaves treats and small presents for them.

what we normally do for SinterKlass is we make a homemade ornaments have fondue have a Dutch dinner and leave our shoes out and wrap presents as the Dutch do which means that we wrap one layer leave a clue of what the gift is and do another layer etc etc etc. we turns out to be a lot of fun.

With my little twist on this tradition I am going to continue to have us make gingerbread houses I need to find something easy for the kids and I think I will start to plan and get things together in November.

But as for this year it was still a lot of fun regardless of the things I needed to do different.

the way you start a m o r n i n g is by changing a poopy diaper.

2009-11-17T20:05:00.000-08:00

this morning wyatt woke up happy and alert at 7 am instead of the normal 5:55am so i thought wohhh... wait a min here this must mean that we will have an exellent morning right? well it was sorta wrong.

a half an hour later after he was content with playing his toys while i read a magazine he was asking me to pick him up. so of course i pick him up and something smeared on my arm i look down at it and IT WAS POOP! omg was i disgusted. i pulled his shirt up and seen that he had poop all up his back and it was now on me and on our leather couch.

gross GROSS gross. so i scream for daddy to wake up and help me to whip off the poop on his back so it wouldnt get all over the changing table. to my surprise daddy did this with out complaining.

after this the day got a little better. we continued to play with toys and went out side and played in the snow the first time.
he enjoyed it a lot. he like to touch it and stomp in it and chase the cats in it. he didnt want to go back inside but it was then time for his nap.

so we go inside get a drink say night night to bud and callie (the cats.) get mr blankey and head into his room to be rocked asleep. he fell asleep with in minutes i put him into his crib and went out to watch my shows on the wonderful mr DVR. about a half an hour later he wakes up and im like no way it is N O T time to wake up (he normally has an 1 1/2 hour nap 2 if im lucky)

so i go in there and pick him up and say wyatt it IS still nap time and start to rock him back to sleep. he was not having it at all. he scream he swormed pinched even to get me to let him down we did this for 45 mins until i broke down and let him go which he still cried and i had to go into the living room and sing his special song to calm him down. then he was clingy for hours after.

( this is him in the bathroom just before bed time. he made me take off his pants and put his shoes on what a silly boy.)

so of course he was whinny and fussy the rest of the day because he didnt get his good nap time in. he'd play for a few mins and then he wanted me to be with him.

later in the day i took him to get his hair cut at the most wonderful kids hair cut place cookiecutters. they have little cars and things they sit in and have a tv for kids to watch and a playyard its just wonderful.

so i get this coupon in my email that i needed to print out and of course my printer doesnt work so i head down to my moms to use hers and they have so much crap on there computer that it is the slowest thing in the world. so i try to print this off and their printer isnt working! by this time i am flipping out.

breanne my sister comes home and i have 5 min to get to riverdale from central ogden for his hair cut appointment. so i screamed at her to come and fix this printer. she does and i get it printed and spead to cookiecutters getting there with in 6 min which it should take 15 min. to sit there and wait 10 min for it to be our turn. which was fine cause wyatt just played on the playyard.

when it came to our turn wyatt got scared and screamed a little but the lady was so good she got him to calm down and relax.
so my little day of ups and downs ended with my baby turning into a boy with his new hair cut.

( plus he is teething again so tonight might not be so hot...)

the price to pay to be a mother is that you pee alittle when you cough... well at least i do now.

2009-11-12T14:20:00.001-08:00

Wyatt has had a very eventful day already and its only 3 in the afternoon. First he woke up like he does every day at 5:55am how he manages to do it every day is amazing. I normally don’t care to much that he wakes up at that time but last night I couldn’t fall asleep until 3 or 4 maybe I don’t really remember I just remember coughing up a storm with this stupid cold that just won’t seem to go away.

Well after he woke up I got him to sleep a little longer while to 630 anyway and then it was time to be up and playing. Which fine I got up and we went out into the living room. This of course took only a few seconds for it to be filled with toys.
He then demanded breakfast which when he got it he refused it. That right there is a sign that tells me that today will not go the way that I want it too.

I made him eat his eggs and applesauce and drink his milk which of course made half of it be on the floor. Great... now I get to clean that up.
After the tears and me saying Wyatt you NEED to finish your breakfast. Please... I know that he is only one but I treat him like he understands what I am saying because half the time he does so when he turns into his trouble twos I know we already have me being the one in charge most of the time.

So after breakfast and me cleaning up half of breakfast of the floor he continued to play with his toys. Which I got maybe an hour out of him being fine. But then when nap time rolled around he was tired and pissed that I was making him sleep. He screams for a half an hour until he gave in. and then I went and lay down too. but it took me a few to fall asleep so when he woke up an hour later it felt like I have only slept for maybe 5 mins.

So I go in there to pick him up because he is crying which makes him cry more. Why? Who knows? He didn’t want to be picked up or put down so I got about 15 min of this going on until I decide he needs a drink for Sippy which calms him down.

He then proceeds to lose my keys. I don’t know when he took them and I still don’t know where he put them. So when I decide that we need to get out of the house I can’t seem to go anywhere without keys.

I say screw it take the spare keys and is off on my way to the park. but of course its freezing outside because it is of course FALL so we were at the park for a few minutes when I than take him to the mall to the indoor play ground where I never thought I’d go because every time I passed it on my way into work (sears) I thought these are some lazy parents sitting on the sides while their children play for hours and no one interacts with each other. But there I was sitting on the side watching Wyatt play with barley any interaction with anyone else. But for that half hour I had a little peace no whining and no screaming it was alright.

I was surprise to see how shy Wyatt was though while we were at the indoor park. It took him a few minutes to be able to play without me standing right next to him or without him turning and looking at me to see if I was still there. I guess it would be kind of scary to be in a place you have never been filled with loud annoying kids who are running everywhere and into everyone and no one tells them no! (Which is what I hate the most please can people not discipline their kids anymore?!)

so on our way home from the park he falls asleep in the car and normally he doesn’t take a second nap but I thought what the hell why not maybe it was a little selfish on my part but I think he also needed it. Because I think he is coming down with my lovely little cold so I can’t really get mad at him if he doesn’t fill well.

Sometimes I just need to vent for a second and then look back at the cute times that so far we did have today. The lovely wet snotty kisses and the giggles and him learning to crawl through the tunnels on the playground. Also him dancing in the car to his songs.

so it started bad today but I think it will end wonderful like it always does because how can u be upset with him when he cuddles and gives kisses that’s his way of telling me he loves me and of course I love him even more so sometimes it’s hard being a mom but the price you seem to only pay to be a mom is that u might pee a little when u cough but any hug from your child makes it okay that you did.

Any takers?

2009-11-11T10:06:00.000-08:00

As Wyatt is taking his nap I sit in this quite house with only the sound of the laundry in the dryer as I reflex on my last 24 years.

Well it’s been some fun times some hard times and some alright times. The things I mostly remember are the times when I had those great parties in my teens when I had the girls come over and we would shoot spray cheese at each other chug down soda and have tons of homemade pizza and put mattresses down on the stairs and slide down them with sleeping bags. Those were the days.

Lately growing up just seems to make me less fun at parties.
Like last year... I totally forgot about my own birthday party. I got off work put my jammies on and held baby Wyatt and drifted off into a nap when my sisters called me and said aren’t you coming to your birthday party? I was like omg I totally forgot! So I rushed up there to eat cake and to leave because I locked Cody out of the house. So it was not very fun not fun like in those old days of my wild teen parties.

But besides parties my birthday just seems to be getting lame. Or maybe I just don’t get as excited as I use too.
Life is harder now not so carefree my attitude seems to have change which is really sad.
Cody told me well just throw more energy into Wyatt’s parties now. I guess that’s what I will have to do right?

I am now old well old whereas I have bills responsibilities and a child! Eck... is that what being 24 is all about?
It’s hard to think that I have grown so much that life can get to me now. I was a wild child and free spirited and now... what I barley have time to take a shower dishes pile up and I am responsible for them! When did that happen? Laundry chores chores and chores and work I change diapers I have to cook and it’s up to me if these things get done.

Why did I want to grow up so fast when I was young?

So I am determined today with it being my 24th birthday to get OUT of the house do something amazing! And maybe fill like I am 16 again.

Who is up for a party where we ride down the stairs on mattresses and spray can cheese at each other!?
And I will take anyone on in a soda chugging contest!

Any takers?!!?!

2009-11-10T14:52:00.000-08:00

1. Did you date someone from your high school?Yes, he was younger than me and he was my first real kiss. Then I also dated someone older than me this was in the same year I think. What a little playa.

2. What kind of car did you drive?The bus. It’s yellow and picks u up at certain place each morning.

3. What is your most embarrassing moment in high school?I don’t remember any. That’s good right?

4. Were you a party animal? Not really I didn’t go to school a lot so I didn’t have a lot of school friends I mostly hung out with kids who were already out of school.

5. Where you considered a flirt? I was consider one of the guys.

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?Negative.

7. Were you a nerd? Well I wasn’t popular. I was the weird kid that liked to be loud and annoying but I don’t think I was a nerd.

8. Were you on any varsity teams?Nope. Didn’t do sports.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled? Yes… twice. For reason I won’t say… I was a bad

little girl.

10. Can you still sing the fight song? I have no idea what it was.

11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Mr. Sernick I can’t remember how to spell his name. But the drama teacher.

12. Where did you sit during lunch? Well when I was at school I sat in the lunch room with whoever were my friends at that time.

13. School Mascot?Tiger

14. Did you go to homecoming and with whom?Nope. I asked my boyfriend once and he didn’t want to go he said we’d go on a better date that night. I don’t remember going on a date.

15. If you could go back and do it again, would you? Yes… I think I’d actually go to school. And learn something.

16. What do you remember most about graduation? My mom and family at the end giving me gifts and I just kept thinking I don’t even know how I graduated. I scraped by barley.

17. Where did you go senior skip day?I think I went to school at least once a week if that. So every day was that for me. But on that day I went to the dam and it was so stupid that I left, I didn’t fit in with those kids.

18. Have you gained weight since then?Oh yes…

19. Who was your prom date? Didn’t go.

20. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion?I might. Depends on how I feel then it would be kind of cool to see what people are up too.

21. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself?To care about school to realize I should of study and learned new things. to not be so angry at people and not to feel bad that I was a little different and that it was okay to be loud and annoying and not to hate people that couldn’t stand me because they didn’t understand and not to chase a certain boy that was older than me for so long because all he did was hurt me in the end. To have had pride in my school and to go activities and I wish I went to prom. So the advice would be … that it’s okay to be who u are and that peoples opinion about that doesn’t matter and that education is important and you will need to when u grow up.

off the bottle... what an amazing idea!

2009-11-09T20:48:00.001-08:00

So after many days of thinking i wouldnt beable to take wyatt off the bottle because i was scared about how long he'd cry and how upset it would make me. (yes i was being a little selfish.) i did finally do it only because i ran out of formula and didnt want to go buy more.
so i washed both his bottles and had him say ba bye to them and put them in his memory box and close the lid. but before he could do that he had to play with them first but i finally after a little scream got him to put them away. then i put all the other boxes on top of his memory box so it would take me awhile to get to them so i wouldnt cheat. so when nap time came around i was alittle panick inside but i took him and his mr blanky and cuddled him and rock him to sleep after about 15 to 30 mins he gave up and when to sleep. for about the same amount of time he would have with a bottle. then later that night when putting him to bed i thought for sure he would be very upset at me and scream even more because he would get more formula at night then he would for nap time. so i went in at 8pm and i was out with no screams by 8:05 i was amazed! i told cody that was just to easy. he did end up waking a little bit in the night but for the most part he was better then he would have been with a bottle. so i was okay waking up with him.
then ever since that day of taking the bottle away. i spend only about 5 min in the room with him and he will sleep through the night (well until 5:55am then i have to make him go back to sleep but thats alot better then it was with the bottle.)
im so very proud of him for being such a big boy!

i have a very cute story about what he did to today that i must tell.
wyatt likes to get into my paint brushes and pens and carry them around and scream at them and then throw them... it sounds fun doesnt it! i think i need to start doing that... anyways... i was sitting on the floor with him and he had a couple of those things in his hand and he threw them and one of them hit me and i said ow! wyatt that hurt. he looks at me and comes up to me and gives me a huge kiss on my lips. so he kissed me better! i thought it was so cute.
because he is on this new trend of giving kisses and blowing kisses and i love it. because random times of the day i get a little snotty kiss or kiss to make my owie feel better. what a thoughtful little boy.

post birthday

2009-10-21T13:31:00.000-07:00

Well Wyatt’s party was great I think he had fun and so did everyone else.
I left at 11 am to go and set up at Rohmer Park in Washington terrace and we couldn’t reserve the park after September but I have never really seen anybody go to this park so I wasn’t worried. Boy was I wrong. I’m there at 11 setting up have everything almost ready and then the guy comes with two big trucks filled with BBQers and then proceeds to tell me that he is having a football party with 100 people showing up but he just use have the park. by this time its 1230 the party for Wy starts at 1 I’m flipping out and take everything down because I don’t want to have to share a park with these loud annoying football people. So now I have to find a different park with no one at it and then make signs reset everything up pick up the cake and the hubby and Wyatt in less than a half an hour. People are calling me and I’m yelling pissed off and annoyed. So I find this park right next to our house called Wright Park and its perfect small enough for us the park is right there so u can watch the kids carefully but still enjoy themselves. My parents set everything up while I go and get the cake and do everything else and I’m grateful for them because I was so mad that I couldn’t seem to get anything done. So I’m okay that no one really showed up on time because by the time people came everything was done and ready and I think the name of this park fit the party we had because I think it was better than Rohmer Park "Wright Park" was definitely the right park.
We ate played games and did presents and then of course what I was waiting for was Wyatt and his first cake! He didn’t seem to be like how all the other kids are with their first cakes he kind of just touched and played a little didn’t do any smashing but that was okay it was cute and he enjoyed himself. But all in all he had a great party he loves his new toys and I think the new clothes are cute thank you to everyone who helped and dealt with me yelling at them.

I think the horoscope for Wyatt on his birthday fits him well so I’m going to post it

Born today you are surely noticed whenever you walk into a room so strong and colorful is your personality and so palpable your drive and energy. you like to do things your way but unlike so many Libra natives you’re not satisfied with going about your business unnoticed indeed the more notice you attract the better as it is the attention of others of others that provides that certain satisfaction there are times when you will do too much to turn heads but this is not a lesson you are quick to learn so you will surely make this mistake again and again fortunately you don’t harm others in this way and any harm you may do to yourself is fleeting. you are quick to make others feel good and you know how to talk to both kings and paupers and make each feel as though he or she is truly the most important person in the world at least temporarily you are likely to break a great many hearts in your lifetime.

I think this is pretty accurate. I think he will for sure break many many hearts.

I love you my little bug!
Momma

Wyatts ONE!

2009-10-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

You are offically one now wyatt. this whole year has seem to have gone by so fast. i remember when the day you were born it was a scary event but the happiest of my life. i was worried just because i had to go into emergancy c-section and i was worried that there was something wrong. but you were a trooper you didnt have anything wrong you didnt even have to go into the nicu i got to have you right after they were done stiching me up and i havent left you since.
you are so smart you know how to turn on and off the tv daddys xbox and his iphone and the lights. you can walk now and you talk all the time you can say dada, mom grandma, this, kitty, hi, bye, no. you can eat with a spoon and a fork you can open the bathroom door and the fridge. you are the most happy little boy i know you will laugh for 20 mins straight for no reason you are so funny you are a light heart calm little boy no longer a baby. you are no longer my baby and its crazy to think that. wow you are one!! one! oh my goodness you are so big now! i love you wyatt happy first birthday!

less than a week...

2009-10-09T22:15:00.000-07:00

im sitting here thinking that my little wyatt will be one on thursday. can you believe it? this year has gone by so fast that im afraid ive missed it.
wyatt is so big now i couldnt have even imaged him being this big.
i kinda miss the days when i was pregnant with him feeling him kick and turn inside.
yesterday cody and i were talking about the day he was born and the feelings and thoughts we had. and for me because it was an emergancy c section i was a little bummed that i didnt get to experice the whole nature birth that i wanted so badly. but i am happy that he was born healthy and happy. but when i got to hold him in my arms for the first time it was the best thing and when i took him home for the first time i didnt know what to do with a little baby but i did it was a very strange feeling. and now i dont even know what it would be like to not have him around i cant even think of that. it diffently changes your life but in away that life couldnt be anymore better than it is with out him. its amazing.
but then thinking about all his first its amazing how just in a blink of an eye he did something he never has done before.
how do they know just how to do it?
its amazing.
im sad but thrilled that he is growing and having more of a personality and he is able to call me mommom and i love that we can play and chase after him and to hear his laugh just brings joy to my heart.
he is really everything that i could ask for and more. and i can not wait until he is one. and i cant wait until he has more and more birthdays. each year with him will be a blast and something i will look forward too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUSBAND!

2009-10-04T08:51:00.000-07:00

your 25 now which is soooooo old! gees... ;)
i hope that you have an amazing day filled with lots of love and happiness. even though you say its only another day i know you still enjoy your birthdays. when you got off work you will have a homemade cake from me and presents from wyatt even though you say you dont want any! TO BAD! its your birthday dang it! SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY I LOVE YOU!

Happy 11 months wyatt!

2009-09-15T10:51:00.000-07:00

Wyatt is 11 months today. The new things that he has learned are he can walk he can crawl on his knees now he says mom dad gramma book hi bye kitty. He points to everything and wants to know what it is. He will finally hold his Sippy cup by himself now. He eats only what we eat now no more baby food. He loves spaghetti and burritos. He sleeps pretty much throw the night. He has a big boy car seat now. He climbs over everything!
He is still a very happy baby. He laughs for no reason he tries to tackle us when we are sitting on the floor. He loves to play games with me and daddy. And he dances oh it’s my favorite thing in the world! He will watch HI-5 which is his favorite show on TV and he will dance to every song that comes on. And also when we are in the car he will dance in his car seat to the music. Every time he does that I can’t help but laugh because he gets a serious face on and he moves his head back in forth and his body as well! OMG its sooooo cute! I can’t believe that in one month he will be 1! This time has gone by so fast and I have loved every minute of it!

wyatt is walking can you believe it!!!!!

2009-09-12T21:50:00.000-07:00

wyatt took his first steps on sept 6 with cody and me. he was with daddy when he just walked to me it was amazing! he took 5 steps and i about died! i made him do over and over. then on friday 9/11 he took bigger and longer steps here he is on friday.

im a proud momma!

wyatt is growing so big....

2009-08-25T13:35:00.000-07:00

wyatt stands up in his crib now. so we had to drop the mattress and he thought

it was so fun... he played and rolled around in there and stuck his foot through the bars he laughed and laughed... it was so cute.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

2009-08-25T13:02:00.000-07:00

For my dads birthday we went to a raptors game and then on that following weekend we roasted hotdogs and had smores at the firepit in my parents backyard it was a blast! happy birthday daddy!

Wyatts 10 months! OMG

2009-08-19T16:19:00.000-07:00

wyatt is now 10 months old and he has 2 teeth that you can see and another on the way. he is still a very happy baby but he is such a mommas boy its annoying some times. he still will only army crawl if he has to. he walks on walls though to get to where he wants i still cant believe that he hasnt walk all on his own yet because he has been walking with our hands since he was seven months old. i think its because he is still alittle scared. because he will start to walk and then he remembers that i am not next to him and then he screams for my hands and wont stop until he gets it.

he eats regular food now and wont take my breast anymore but he will still take a bottle. which i am a little sad about. he gets on the screaming kicks where he will scream for no reason all day long! ugh... i hate it. he loves cars and trucks he plays with those all day long. he likes to play this game with daddy and i where he holds on to one of our hands and runs and daddy chases him and grabs at his feet he thinks that is so funny he laughs so hard that he falls on to the floor. and he will want to do it forever! he loves books and he points at everything now. he can say hi bubye kittkitty mama dada and papa. he likes to play the piano at grandmas and loves to dance and listen to music. ( we have to have his cd in in the car or he will cry the whole way.) he is a spoiled little brat but i love him so much! happy 10 months! (it was on the 15th)

swimming with daddy and cousins mercedes and harley

2009-08-11T06:54:00.000-07:00

out of the blue we decided to go swimming up at aunt Brenda's house. it was a blast! Wyatt just sat in his tube and floated kicked his feet and just enjoyed watching his cousins jump in and out of the pool!

wyatt reading his book to me.

2009-08-11T06:49:00.000-07:00

Wyatt loves books. he loves to point and read them to me. here he is sitting in his chair just talking away and pointing at the pictures its so cute.

3 teeth.

2009-08-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

well ever since Wyatt was 3 months he has been teething. i would see a tooth and then the next day it would disappear. poor bubba this has been going on for awhile.
well now at almost 10 months 3 teeth are finally an inch above the gums.
but instead of get one at time this last week Wyatt teeth 3 all at the same time. ugh... which makes it hard for me. one day he would not let me sit him down he had to sleep all night with me in the bed it was awful!
Wyatt has 3 bottom teeth. its so cute!

HAVE YOU VOTED TODAY?!

2009-08-05T11:50:00.000-07:00

GO TO http://www.standard.net/live/babycontest TO SEE THE PICTURE AND INFO ON HOW TO VOTE FOR WYATT! HE IS NUMBER 33 PLEASE PLEASE VOTE!!!! OR YOU CAN TEXT BABY 33 TO THE NUMBER 801-513-8855!!!
GET VOTING AND GET YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE!

booked a cruise...

2009-08-04T16:26:00.000-07:00

so i booked a cruise today to go with just cody and i on nov 30 tell dec 4. im already freaking out about leaving wyatt for the first time ever! ahh..... but we have a timeshare and we needed to use our points before dec so there you have it. i will being leaving wyatt for the first time for a week.
we will be driving to san diego staying there a night then going on the cruise for 4 days and then drive back.
i hope wyatt will be alright with me leaving for that amount of time. because he is just a mommas boy that its hard for him when i leave for work that i cant image how it will be when im gone for 7 days.
he will be with both grandparents but... not with me.
ugh.
any tips?

i enter wyatt into the standard examiners baby contest starting Aug. 5th

2009-08-01T15:45:00.000-07:00

this is the picture i entered into the standard examiners cutest baby contest. so if everyone can vote for him that would be great! the voting starts aug 5th thru the 15th so if you read the paper please vote for my wyatt! THANK YOU! i hope he wins!

(he would win 100 dollars and diapers and wipes!)

OMG

2009-07-30T10:41:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday I was cleaning and reorganizing Wyatt’s room. And I was going through all of the clothes that he has grown out of and putting the ones that I want to save into his box and others that I will be putting into storage for my next babies in a box. And I cannot believe how little Wyatt really was. Looking at these clothes made me start to cry he is growing up and it is going to fast I don’t have a little baby anymore. I’m starting to have a little man. Oh...

I took a picture of Wyatt with the only little outfit that fit him when he was born. (Thanks to Alisha for getting it because he would have just had to wear newborn size and had it be really big on him because this one was still drowning him.)

look how little he was... omg!

pioneer days

2009-07-24T08:44:00.001-07:00

motorcycles jumping the truck wyatt loved to watch this he was so excited clapping his hands he didnt look away once.

family at the rodeo

dont you love his hat?

rodeo grandma corbridge and him at the fireworks at weber mom pick me up! fireworks at weber state me and bubba at the fireworks grandma wyatt and cousin james at the fireworks

well this week we started off going to the fireworks at weber state on sunday for pioneer days. we went with the whole family we had a good place and the cannons scared the live out of wyatt. but he stayed up for the fireworks he loves them he trys to get them in his hands its cute. then on Wednesday we went to the rodeo which wyatt loved he clapped his hands and waved to the animals and wanted to walk everywhere (of course he wanted to walk while i held his hands. when will he be brave enough to go on his own?) then today we are going to some place in layton where you buy tickets and you can try all different types of food. then saterday he will be going to his cousin jesses 2nd birthday and go swimming again. ( i have to work so grandma is going to take him.) so this week is full of exciting some new things! but he is such a good baby he rarely crys he loves to people watch. i am glad that he is so good that i can take him to all these things.

9 Months!

2009-07-21T16:45:00.001-07:00

Can u believe how fast time has flown by? Wyatt turned 9 months on the 15th he is almost walking he cruises along the furniture he does a little army crawl he SLEEPS thru the night. he eats with a spoon (sometimes he still likes to shove the food in his mouth and lick his fingers.) he can say mum and da da and kit kitti he has said hi once and ba bye. He waves and claps his hands. He dances to music and he likes to pretend things are telephones. He screams to get your attention and then laughs when you look at him. He snorts and laughs hard all the time. He won’t sit down in his tub anymore he has to stand and get things. And he is a little spitfire. He throws little fits and throws the toy or whatever he has in his hands at you. He has an attitude for sure. I know that when he is older I am going to have my hands full. He plays with the cats all day and also when he plays with his trucks and cars he pushes them on the floor and says vroom... vroom it’s so cute I don’t know where he picked up on doing that. He is an observer for sure. He will watch u then copy u and once he knows how to do something he does it all the time.
Just think in 3 months he will be 1! Ahhhh that’s a scary thought.

best friends

2009-07-15T16:02:00.000-07:00

Wyatt and Callie are the best est friends. Callie will follow me and Wyatt around the house she at least makes sure she is in the same room as Wyatt. the other day while Cody me and Wyatt were sitting on the couch Wyatt was playing with his flag that he got on the fourth and waving it around. it fell i picked it up and Callie who was laying on the couch with us started to play with it. so i played with her for a min or so then i gave the flag back to Wyatt. he then also started to play with Callie and the flag he poked her with it and she pawed at it and caught it in her mouth. and Wyatt thought this was so funny he just kept doing it and he was laughing so hard. it was so funny and cute i could help but laugh along with him.

then today Wyatt has been cruising along the furniture and Callie always lays in his stuff. well she laid in his toy and he cruised along to it and they started to play with each other. i just think its cute that them two are such good cute little friends. its great!

a day at lagoon

2009-07-12T13:04:00.000-07:00

can u tell its the end of the day... i was tired for sure.

here he is waiting for us when we got of a ride holding on the bars

wow grandma this is my stroller?

checking out the little kid rides to see if he can go on any.

wyatt and grandpa wearing the same type of hat so cute!

we took little wy to lagoon for the harmons days (my sis and aunt work there so we got cheap tickets.) he was still a little to little to go on any rides which i was bummed about but next year he should be able to go on at least a few of them. so he just hung out in the stroller and grandma watched him while cody and i rode some rides he loved just hanging on the bars and looking in his stroller and i think he liked the sounds and the people because he didnt cry once when we were there he didnt even take a nap. he loves to be outside where everyone is.

wyatts black eye

2009-07-07T15:29:00.001-07:00

well lately Wyatt is trying to walk all on his own and he was holding on to the coffee table and he tried to move from there to the couch he lost his balance and slammed his head onto the coffee table. which resulted in this black eye. i took him to the doctor just in case but they said he was fine but that it will look worse as it heals. my poor bubba. this is he first real injury. he is such a brave little soul that i am surprised its taking this long for him to have an injury. but he can now stand up unassisted for 20 to 30 sec if u don't say anything. and he is also trying to crawl alittle as well. so who knows.

a few first...

2009-07-07T15:11:00.001-07:00

for Wyatt's first 4th we went to grandma corbridges and had a BBQ then went up to Weber high for the fireworks Wyatt stayed awake the whole time and loved the fireworks he tried to grab them he clapped and sang songs at them. it was so cute. ( he also went to the parade in the morning with my mom caused i worked she said he loved it and ending up falling asleep on grandpas shoulder.)

we took Wyatt to the Roy aquatic center on June 27th this was the first time he went swimming. he loved it! he would splash in the water and jump up and down and blow bubbles. but he eyes are so blue that it was hard for him to keep them open i bought sunglasses but he wouldn't wear them. so by the time we left he could barley open his eyes but he didn't get sun burned thank goodness.

wyatt learning to eat with his spoon.

2009-06-24T10:36:00.000-07:00

wyatt refuses to let me feed him. he wants to do it all on his own now. he will scream until i let him hold the spoon. he first started to dip his cookie into the bowl and got food that way then i bought him a bigger spoon and now he can feed himself. and if you dont let him WATCH OUT!
he is getting better and better each day but it sure is a HUGE MESS!

(this is him dipping his cookie in the bowl to get food. i tried to give him one spoon and me another so then i could still sneak some food in his mouth. but he ended up taking my spoon away from me too. he had to have it all. sometimes he will even put his fingers in the food then lick his fingers. he is a little piggy.)

(here he is the first time he wanted to feed himself. he had to have both spoons and his cookie in his mouth.)

HAPPY 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY HONEY

2009-06-23T12:17:00.000-07:00

June 21st was Cody and mine 2 year anniversary and Cody's 1st fathers day. so it was a day full of celebrations. we both worked but we still had a nice time after. we did presents and Wyatt went to bed early so we could spend time together. thanks Wyatt.

these 2 years has had its ups and downs but more ups then downs. i have found my self loving Cody more each day. i love to see how far we have grown since the time we started to be with each other.

i asked Cody what was the best time in these 2 years he said when Wyatt was born and i agree. Wyatt has made us stronger and more in love with each other. but it is hard i cant lie. but its worth it.

thanks Cody for being a great father and a great husband. i love you and i look forward to many more years together.

(pictures of us through the years.)

Its been 8 months already!

2009-06-15T11:29:00.000-07:00

My little Wy is 8 months today. He has defiantly got his personality now. He is very stubborn when he wants something he wants it now and he wants it how he wants it. He has a little temper too because when I am not paying attention to him or not feeding him how he wants he starts to bang on the high chair and starts yelling until I do it how he wants. But he is also a very happy baby. He loves to giggle and laugh he loves tickles and being thrown up into the air and to go upside down.
And now that he knows that if he holds onto my hands to walk he wants to do it all day long. He doesn’t like to sit down anymore either he wants to be on his feet. So whenever I go to a different room we walk there together. He loves it.
But he is also in the stranger phase which means I cannot leave the room or he will scream bloody murder. He has to see me at all times. And that is hard because sometimes I would like to not have to be in the same room so I can get some stuff done.
He plays this game with daddy too. Where he will put his hand in his mouth and move his head back in forth to make noise with his mouth and then daddy does it then Wyatt will do it louder and they will do this for hours. He also just learned yesterday how to wave bye bye. He can turn off lights and is almost has master sleeping in his crib all night he will go until 5 am.
These 8 months have been bliss regardless of the poppy diapers and him getting sick and throwing up all over me and the early mornings and late nights being up with him without having any time to myself. It’s all been worth it. Because I don’t even know what life was like before my little bubba.

visit my new blog

2009-06-10T13:52:00.000-07:00

http://biggerisntbetterforme.blogspot.com/

its about my goal of losing 70 pounds.

baby rocker

2009-06-08T10:01:00.000-07:00

wyatt loves to hit things and hear the different noises it makes so while i was cooking dinner i gave him a pot and a spoon and a rock star was born!

wyatt learning to walk...

2009-06-02T18:15:00.000-07:00

wyatt refuses to crawl but he will pull himself up and he will walk if he is holding onto my hands. here is a little taste of it.

my little bubba is sick.

2009-05-28T11:46:00.000-07:00

it all started tuesday around noon. i was trying to find wyatt his lunch and he refused to eat. i didnt think a whole lot of it because he does that some days were he just wants to be breast fead all day. so i start to put all his food away when all of a sudden wyatt is scream out of the blue on the top of his lungs i turn around and hes throwing up all over not just a little spit up a whole gush of throw up. so i pick him up and i clean him. i thought well maybe he tummy didnt like the piece of orange i let him taste. and then that was that. i put him down for a nap. and stick him in his swing instead of the crib cause sometimes he will sleep longer if i do that. he sleeps for two hours and then again i hear him scream and the same thing happened again throwing up all over himself me and his swing. no i started to worry. he refuse a bottle my breast a sippy cup everything. he just wanted to cuddle and sleep. and each time he wakes up he started to throw up. well i got so worried because he didnt have a wet diaper since early that morning. so by this time its 1130 at night and hes refused any type of drink and if he did take a sip he threw it up. we tried pedialite too. so we had to take him in to the ER because he was getting dehyrated. they gave him a shot for the nausa and hoped that we would have to do an iv. so thank god we were only there for an hour or so and didnt have to do an iv. because the shot worked and let the nausa stop so he could get some pedialite in him. they put him on a 24 hr liqued diet. and told us to see our doctor in the morning. well our doctor was on vaction so we took him to another one. which he was just a PA but he was really good. told us to try a little breast milk and keep doing pedilate and that he just had the tummy flu. and that if contuies to throw up and have diaerrha that last more then 3 days for throwing up and 2 weeks for the diaerrha to come back in to do more tests to see if its bactria. well so far wyatt for the most part has stopped throwing up he did once last night. but thats all since then. but he still has diahrea. he today he has only been up for 15 mintues and he is sleeping most of the day which is good. but i feel bad for him. my poor little bubba.

day out with the cats

2009-05-21T09:04:00.000-07:00

2009-05-21T08:52:00.000-07:00

Well Wyatt is now 7 months and he loves to explore and look around and study everything.

He wants to eat everything and he wants to do it himself. That he ends up grabbing his bowl out of my hands and pours it all over himself.
He was so messing this day I had to put him in the sink just so I could clean him and everything else. Then of course he grabs the utensils I have next to the sink. And what gets me the most is this day I scrubbed the kitchen floor just before I feed him lunch. Why u ask? I have no idea because I ended up doing it TWICE!
He now weighs 15 pounds and his is 27 inches long. I thought for sure he was heavier.
The other day Cody and I where watching the videos of Wyatt when he was born and he fit in one arm and I can’t believe how fast it is going. He fills both arms now.

He’s my little momma’s boy.

mothers day

2009-05-14T15:23:00.000-07:00

I had a good mother’s day. First the best thing that could ever happen happened. Wyatt SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!! So I woke up refreshed for mother’s day!!!!! It was the best present Wyatt could give me. Then I had to work... blah no fun it was the slowest day ever but I work weekends and mother’s day was a weekend dang it! But then after I got off we went up to great Grandma Thomas’s and had a little lunch then we visited my moms. Then finally I got to have mine. I got a book that u write in about the firsts of Wyatt, and then this thing for shoes. It was nice.
So since mother’s day Wyatt slept in his crib the whole night except last night. Oh it was awful. It seemed like we went back months with him waking up every 2 hours. But I am still determined to kept going and getting him to sleep through the night I WILL NOT GIVE UP!

cellphone pictures

2009-05-07T18:15:00.000-07:00

here he is sitting in a shopping cart this was when i think he was 5 months...

he hasnt crawled yet but here he is when he got himself up on his knees for the first time this was 2 days ago! what a big boy!!

2009-05-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

heres a week in pictures.

2009-05-04T09:59:00.000-07:00

so on the 2nd of may we did a whole sister and mom thing and wyatt tagged along. we took a few pictures...

me with most of my sisters. we are missing lacinda.

wyatt with grandma and grandpa corbridge

wyatt with his great grandma VanderDoes they look related huh?

wyatt and daddy just before wyatt went to bed.

wyatt and his sippy cup

2009-04-27T21:38:00.000-07:00

So we had Wyatt’s 6 months doctor appointment the other day and I thought for sure that he was 20 pounds because he has gotten so heavy. But boy was I wrong he was only 15 pounds 11 ounces and 27 inches long. He’s gotten longer but not heavier. but the doctor said everything looked good and he could believe Wyatt was already sitting up on his own he thinks he will either skip crawling all together and go to pulling himself up and walking or he will only crawl for a short while. So I’m not looking forward to having to chase him around but I am excited to see him learn to do those things.
well Wyatt has defiantly gotten a personality he is so stubborn the other day when I was feeding him or trying to feed him I was getting his food ready and I sat his Sippy cup on his tray in front of him and turned my back to finish getting his food ready. And I hear a commotion so I turn around and there he is drinking by himself out of his Sippy cup. I didn’t say anything to him because I didn’t want to startle him so I just continued to do what I was doing. well... when I finally sat to feed him I moved his cup out of the way for a moment and then put it back well he kept moaning for me to give him a drink and I said "Wyatt I just saw u do it yourself I know u can do it."
well I think he understood what I was saying so he seemed to get mad at me and I would try to feed him and would put his upper lip over his bottom lip so I couldn’t get anything in his mouth he did this until I pick up his Sippy cup and gave him a drink. And then the rest of the day he refused to eat until I gave him a drink out of his cup. And was like you little snot. But he is better now. He likes to feed himself food like baby chettos and some bread they make for babies and bananas and finally he will drink from his Sippy cup BY HIMSELF! But oh is he stubborn!

A day at the park.

2009-04-21T16:57:00.000-07:00

Well the day after easter Cody and I took little wyster out on a walk to the park. he loved the swings and he didnt really care for the slide.
but by the end of our nice little walk he fell right asleep and took a nice long nap for me. it was nice. we try to take him on a walk everyday it just depends on this utah weather we have. because if we dont take him out of the house at least once he get crappy. silly boy.

work sucks

2009-04-17T17:39:00.000-07:00

Im here sitting at work and its aweful today. People don't show up and I didn't get a break until now so im tired and annoyed and I've been here since 945 and I still got tell 9 tonight before I can go home and then I do it all over again tomorrow but I tell me self its worth it. Its worth it because I get all the week days with my baby boy. But when weekends come I know I will be stuck here questioning why I do this to myself..... its all for wyatt.... its all for my baby wyatt. Be postive right? Oh it hard to be today.

2009-04-14T21:29:00.001-07:00

Well it worked! I tried to see if I could send a picture it wouldn't work... so that's kind of a bummer but it says u can do it by email but I haven't figured out how to use the email from my phone so when I do I will let u know. But until then u should expect more messages from my phone!

2009-04-14T20:43:00.001-07:00

So I just signed my phone up to post on my blog so this is a test... does it work is the question?:-)

Wyatt sits up in the tub all on his own

2009-04-13T11:50:00.000-07:00

besides it being easter wyatt sat up in the tub for the 1st time and he loved it! he would kick his legs and splash his hands in the water. so i think i need to get him so tub toys so he will have even more fun!

Happy Easter!

2009-04-13T11:38:00.001-07:00

well wyatt had a good 1st easter we spent the first part of the day at home and eating candy and playing then we went to great grandma thomas's house and had an easter dinner then we went to grandma corbridges and did a easter egg hunt. by this time wyatt was so tired that he didnt care for the eggs but he lightened up by the end and he enjoy holding them. so all in all it was a great easter!

6 MONTHS!

2009-04-06T07:40:00.001-07:00

Wyatt Alexander will be 6 months on the 15th. Time as gone by so fast and he has grown so quick. He has always been a happy baby but he is even more. He loves to put everything in his mouth especially his blanky. He tries to have that in his mouth at the same time he eats. And if he can’t do that he rubs in all over his face. He loves his little toy keys and he also tries to eat the remote. (Daddy won’t let him.)
He eats so good he seems to love all of the food. He wants to eat ours now and he kicks and screams at you to try to let him. But he’s still too little. He has taste some things like my burritos which he loves but I try not to let him eat any of that yet. He LOVES strawberries.
He can sit up now for hours and I think he will soon crawl. He never liked to roll over I think he did that maybe 4 to 5 times. But we can put him up to the coffee table and he will stand on his own.
I think back to the very beginning and I just can’t believe that I am a mother first of all but I just can’t believe that I have a very good baby. He is always happy he only seems to get fussy when he wants to sleep. But his happy. I worry some times that I am not a good enough mom for him and I worry how it will be in the future will I always be able to be there for him? Will I do a good job raising him? Am I doing okay now?
I just want to make sure that he is happy and that he gets a better education then I did or that he actually cares about getting one. I want to make sure that he is involved in sports and out time activities and that he doesn’t get sucked into this generation of just video games and never getting out side. I just want the best for him and I hope I can provide it for him.
So I guess we will see how it will be when he is older but I can’t even image that now. I just can’t believe he is already 6 months. Gosh, it’s gone by fast.

trying to get wyatt to sleep in his crib is a tuff job.

2009-03-31T09:43:00.000-07:00

(the last night wyatt slept in bed with us.)

I know I am bad I got into the habit of bring Wyatt into my bed with me. I was being selfish and wanted more sleep and I figured out how to breast feed while lying down so I would bring him into bed the 1st time he woke up at night so that I could get some sleep.

So now I have the fun process of teaching him how to sleep in his crib all night. But we are slowly getting there.

Last night I thought oh my gosh he’s in bed its 9 I bet he'll sleep the whole night. Boy was I wrong. he woke up a little bit so I thought if I went in there and turned on his mobile it would put him to sleep. NOPE! It kept him awake!!!!!! So he woke up and stays awake from 11 to 1am! And then he woke up every couple of hours... dang it I was so close! I’m never using his mobile again!
So wish me luck for tonight!

other cute pictures of Wy.

2009-03-24T10:28:00.000-07:00

wyatt he is just growing so fast just a couple of weeks ago he worn 0-3 months clothing and now hes in 6 months! finally hes wearing what he is supposed too. he also likes to talk and scream at things. he will grab onto one of our cats and pull their hair and scream at them. he will grab my hair and scream at it. and loves to laugh and loves to be tickled. and now he has this thing when he is on his changing table he turns over so he can try to grab anything thats above him. he just a bunch of giggles and SCREAMS. lol

wyatt fell alseep in the tub

2009-03-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

he was going crazy in the tub splashing and kicking his feet and then in a split second he just fell asleep... the picture is so cute that even though it showed his "lovly" i had to black bar it... so sorry for the very personal picture.

WYATT CAN SIT UP ALL ON HIS OWN!

2009-03-24T08:29:00.001-07:00

he standing on his own but we had to put him there...

he has very good balance now...

but here he is sitting all on his own. he did this the day before but he could only sit up for a mintue but now he can sit for hours... im so proud!

HES SO BIG NOW!

wyatt covered himself in carrots last night at dinner. lol!

2009-03-16T11:10:00.000-07:00

he decided to smear carrots all over his face last night. its in his eyebrows and eyelishes all over his hands EVERYWHERE!

cute pictures of wyatt

2009-03-10T09:20:00.000-07:00

hes the same size as hes newnorn cousin james... and his 5 months! lol.

aunt breanne and wyatt at james blessing

this is wyatt in his walker we just got. he loves it.

me and wyatt at james blessing

me with my new hair color and wyatt after his bath. we are looking into the mirror. he has to everytime he gets out of the bath or he throws a fit.

wyatt in his NEW bath the other one he grew out of. so we have to put this one into the bath tub instead of in the sink.

almost 5 months can you believe it?!?!

2009-03-01T18:21:00.001-08:00

Well Wyatt will be 5 months on the 15th and it’s gone by so fast. He can get his toes now and he has rolled over twice he doesn’t like it too much. He coos and giggles and loves to do this weird scream/laughy thing I can’t really describe it. But it’s like a loud hitch pitch sucking in sound that takes his breath away its really funny. He has eating cereal and peaches and carrots so far he likes peaches and loves his cereal. He hated carrots. Lol... he always ALWAYS has to have he’s hands in his mouth. He’s tooth is there but hasn’t broken though yet. Its a little bugger. He loves to sleep in his swing and he likes to stand up he could all day if you'd let him. He always is watching you with his big blue eyes he’s defiantly an observer. And he loves to have his belly tickled and be thrown in the air. He will play super man with us. (That’s where we put him in the air and hold him up by his belly and move him around.) And he always eats my hair or grabs it when I hold him. He’s gonna get a hair ball. Lol. But we love him and I just can’t believe he is so big now.

hes a talkin'

2009-02-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

carrots and wyatt

2009-02-25T07:29:00.000-08:00

heres wyatt eating carrots. he didnt like them.

wyatt and his sock...

2009-02-09T13:00:00.000-08:00

Today Wyatt learned that if he grabbed his sock he could almost eat his foot. So he does this then he screams at his foot like his telling it to go in his mouth.

silly boy.

wyatt 1st day eating cereal!

2009-02-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

Well we feed cereal to Wyatt and he loved it! We couldn’t get it to him fast enough. He wanted to eat the cereal and his hands at the same time! Oh gees… crazy little boy. So he now gets cereal in the morning and at night For Breakfast and dinner. He also loves to drink cold water especially if it’s in my cup. He’ll kick his legs until I give him a sip. He’s getting so big!

updates and pitcures...

2009-02-01T14:18:00.000-08:00

So far Wyatt is still a happy baby he loves to stand up and see himself in the mirror he giggles a lot and coos. He loves to sleep in his swing and puts everything in his mouth which by now I though that his tooth would have been here but it’s seemed to have disappeared. Strange... I swear it was there a week earlier.

I will be starting him on baby cereal in a couple of weeks and we bought him a highchair he is growing and growing. He will be 4 months on the 15 can u believe it. It has gone by so fast and I have loved every minute of it!

We also blessed Wyatt on the 25th of January we made it a huge event at Cody’s aunts house it was really nice. My mom made his blessing outfit which was really cute on him. And Cody’s uncle brad blessed Wyatt. It was a really special day.

OUCH HES TEETHING!

2009-01-14T15:55:00.000-08:00

Well in the last week Wyatt has been fussier then usual and having a mild fever and drooling a lot and blowing bubbles. And I’m thinking gees boy you’re just not acting like yourself.
So this is on the weekend so my doctor’s office is close and I just think he’s a little sick.
Well when Monday rolls around I’m checking his mouth because I thought well maybe he could be teething. and what do u know he has a little white spot on his bottom gum and it’s not quite broken the skin yet and I’m like that’s why you’re so fussy my poor little guy.
Wyatt will be 3 months on the 15th and he is already teething. My doctor thinks that the tooth will either break though in about 2 weeks or a month but he will soon get others.
So my baby is already growing up... it is so strange how fast he will grow. Soon he will be crawling and walking and going to preschool and becoming a teenager and then dating and become an adult while all the while I have grown old too.
I was just saying to my mom I will soon be your age with an adult son and I won’t believe it I still feel 12! Gees. :) time flies.

He's 2 months!

2008-12-22T15:59:00.000-08:00

he doesn't like to be bundle up. poor baby...

this is our favorite picture of him so far. look how adorable he is.

he loves hes car seat when hes not bundled up.

its almost 2 months...

2008-12-07T08:48:00.000-08:00

Well in the last month he has kept me busy were I seem to have no time for all the stuff I like to do anymore. That’s motherhood. But he has been amazing I love to sit and watch him learn new things he will copy me when I make certain faces and when I stick out my tongue. And he is a big smiler. He smiles so much and he laughs and coos. And his eyes light up when you talk to him. And he is so strong he lifts his head up and can keep it up for a couple of minutes. But the last couple of days have been hard Thursday night he had a fever of 101 all night long he could sleep and nothing was bringing it down. So the next day I took him to see his doctor and he had to admit him to the hospital since he is only 7 weeks it’s mandatory that they be admitted. Well I am still at the hospital and the doctor says he just has a virus but it was scary when we didn’t know what it was they had to put ivs in and take tons of blood test and he had to have a spinal tap. So he has been poked everywhere and he's not a happy camper. But so far the spinal tap was clear and some of his blood test things were elevated like his white count and so far but nothing to where he is in any danger. And his temp is normal. They are actually trying to warm him up because his a little lower then they want. He can’t seem to make up his mind. He wants to be hot then cold. Crazy boy. But if everything goes well we should be out this afternoon. Oh and he doesn’t have RSV thank god. I was worried about that. His strong little man so he will be alright. My poor buba.

pictures when he was 5 weeks

2008-12-07T08:44:00.000-08:00

can you believe its been a month!

2008-11-16T22:17:00.000-08:00

on the 5Th of November Wyatt turned a month old! can you believe it? its crazy i guess its true what they say time does fly by. hes a still a good baby. well for me anyway. cody still has moments where Wyatt cries when he is alone with him while i am at work. but it will get better for him soon. Wyatt is just a momma boy he misses me when i am gone and i miss him.

but one day when i got off work i came home to this beautiful moment of cody and Wyatt cuddling. oh... dont you just love that? i still cant believe we have a blond hair blue eyed baby. lol... but its great to have him. it will be weird when wyatt is turning one. i have a feeling that it will go quicker than i can image.

went back to work.

2008-11-06T18:28:00.000-08:00

So I went back to work Tuesday. it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be a little nice with having some me time but I still worry consistently about little buba. He did okay he had to learn to take a bottle so he was a little fussy. More fussy then he would have been if I was there. But I called and check in on him and he was so happy to see me when I got home after 8 hours! Ah... I know people say why go back so soon? Well it’s called MONEY people. Money if we didn’t need me to work then I wouldn’t. And I’m doing fine after my surgery. I know I thought it would be worse than it was but the next day after the c section I was up and walking around. I’m not one to be tide down so I didn’t let this get to me either.

But it was a bad day for my little man. He had to get his circumcision done today since he was too small at the hospital we had to wait until today. So he was not happy with me today and I hated being in the other room and hearing him cry and not being able to go in there and pick him up. But it needs to be done. But he has been sleeping pretty well today although it took him a little bit to get to sleep more rocking and loving the usual. But it should be all cleared up in 5 days hopefully. So it won’t be to long until he feels better.
My poor little buba.

a couple of 1st...

2008-11-02T14:13:00.000-08:00

Wyatt's first Halloween was great he went to my moms annual Halloween party and everyone enjoyed him. he couldn't wear a costume because he is too small. but i still think he was still Halloween enough.

Wyatt did have his 2 week appointment on Halloween and he is doing good. he is now 7 pounds 20 1/4 inches and his head measures 36 cm. he is under his percentile but they say that its normal for how small he was when he was born. i still cant believe its been almost 3 weeks since we had him. it feels like he has been here forever. he is a good baby he barely cries and he sleeps a lot. the only thing is that he has a pooping problem. his stomach muscles are not strong enough for him to push the poo out on his own so we have to help. Dr rose told us we might have to do this until he is 3 to 5 months old. but its not that bad and since we have helped him with his little problem he can do some on his own.

he does open his eyes more to for us. i think they are going to stay blue. how we got a blond hair blue eye baby is crazy. cody and i thought we'd have a dark hair dark eyed baby.

here he is taking his first official bath. he was squirmy but didn't cry a lot he ended up enjoying the warmth of it and cried when i took him out. now if he doesn't have a bath each day he is more fussy. so he might be a good bath baby.

wyatt's 1st walk.

2008-10-27T12:52:00.000-07:00

We took Wyatt on his first stroller ride the other day and he loved it!
He was wide awake the whole time and didn’t cry once.
We will have to keep doing it before it gets to cold.

TAG

2008-10-25T23:02:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by Jessica

TV Shows I Love to Watch:

1-greys anatomy

2- tmz

3- Jon and Kate plus 8

4- little people big worldPlaces

I love to shop:

1- target

2- Wal-Mart

3- Shopko

4- Albertsons

Things that happened Yesterday:

1- fed Wyatt

2- held Wyatt

3- changed Wyatt’s diaper

Things that I look forward to

1- the Halloween party on Monday

2- Christmas

3- maybe buying that house

4- BUYING THAT HOUSE… hopefully

Things I love about Fall:

1- The leaves changing colors

2- The smell of fall

3- Halloween

4- in-between weather not hot but not cold.

5- Wearing scarf’s

Things on my Wish List:

1- Financial Freedom!!!!!-me too!

2- Being down with school!

3- Traveling

4- a house

5- cars paid off!
I tag Cassy

so true.

2008-10-22T10:58:00.000-07:00

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. --Ellen DeGenres

Jaundice levels...

2008-10-20T15:22:00.001-07:00

We took little Wyatt to his first official doctors appointment today. It wasn’t a big normal appointment it was an appointment to check his jaundice level.

Back-story to catch up today:
While we were in the hospital Wyatt was tested and tested coombs positive which means that he has antibodies that act against his red blood cells which for Wyatt is caused by Erythroblastosis fetalis which develops in an unborn infant.

Basically this means when the mom and the baby have different blood types. The mother produces substances called antibodies that attack the developing baby's red blood cells. So since I’m O+ and his is A- this causes him to be coombs positive.
The Symptoms in a newborn baby may include: Anemia, Enlarged liver or spleen, generalized swelling and newborn jaundice.

Wyatt only had jaundice.
Our pediatrician Dr. Rose was concerned with was the jaundice which Wyatt only had a small case of it but since he's coombs positive it could get out of hand and could harm Wyatt.

So Wyatt had to have a billi blanket which was a blanket with UV lights so it could clear the jaundice. It all sounds so very serious but in fact our doctor caught it early enough to prevent anything from going out of control and harming Wyatt.

So when he started with the billi blanket he was at a 75% and when we left the hospital he was at an 8%. So the reason for the hospital visit today was to check he’s billi level and make sure that he was in the clear.
He was.
He was still an 8% which is excellent.
Also when we left the hospital he weighed 5 pounds 10 ounces (babies always lose some weight after they are born.) but today at the appointment he weighed 5 pounds 14 ounces. So he is doing really well.
He is breast feeding well and he rarely cries he is a very peaceful baby!
Thank goodness.

Wyatt is born!

2008-10-18T17:17:00.001-07:00

Well Wyatt was born Wednesday Oct 15, 2008 at 4:07 am but it is a story all in its self.

we had our regular appointment with our midwife on Tuesday at 9:45am but around 9:15am I started having contractions and it took us awhile to get into the midwife he was busy. So we saw him around 10:15am and by then my contractions were 5 mins apart. But my midwife didn’t seem to believe me that they were that far apart. Because he said its most likely false labor and pre pre term labor. So he suggested that we just go home or work whatever.
I knew that these were contractions and that I was in labor but we listened anyway. So I go to work. I’m working for about an hour when I decide that I can’t be there because they were still 5 mins apart. So I call my midwife and he says go home and try to relax and if they are still making you uncomfortable go to the hospital. While I knew that there was no point to go home and wait another hour when I know that I was in labor so I go to the hospital. (Cody was working so he didn’t want me to call until I got admitted.)

so I get to the hospital and it takes a little while for them to check me and see if I was going to be admitted so while I was waiting my contractions started to slow and not be so intense. so when I get in the room and they start to hook me up to the machines and have me monitored for a half an hour during that half hour I didn’t have intense contractions so they didn’t show that well on the machine but what did show up was that Wyatt was in distress every time I had a contraction.

So they keep monitoring his heart beat and final they decide to call my midwife to see if they need to start me and make me have more intense contractions. They decide too. So by this time I call Cody and he comes up and we start to go into labor.

my cervix wasn’t dilating and Wyatt kept going into stress with each contraction so they stop the potosen and put something up me to thin my cervix after two hours that only bring me to a 2 so they remove the thing and then use a fully catheter to get me to dilate they got me to a 4 and then it fell off. Oh and by the way during the whole time I was going natural. No drugs for me baby! Anyways after the catheter fell out I got to a 6 by myself but Wyatt was still in distress.

I call my mom to tell her that I’m at a 6 and that maybe she should come up. And right after I got off the phone with her an alarm went off and all of a sudden everyone rushes in and my midwife has his hand up me shake Wyatt trying to get him to react because his heart beat went from 160 beats to 80 beats. And Cody was asleep at this point so my midwife is yelling Cody’s name to wake up and he’s trying to get Wyatt’s heart beat up.

but I had all these people talking to me having me sign papers to do an emergency c section and Cody’s over by the side of the bed almost fainting because he just woke up to me having the anastegealigious tell me that I might have a tube in my throat. And then I have nurses putting a catheter in remember now I haven’t had any epidurals or any medicine. So they are saying that they don’t have time to do a spinal so I might be going under general ansigia which means that I wouldn’t be able to see Wyatt being born and that Cody won’t be able to be in the room with me. They start to roll me out of the room on the way to the c section room and poor Cody is being held up by the nurses and we think that he won’t be able to be there with me.

And I am crying and worried about Wyatt. They get me into the room and the surgeon wasn’t there yet so they decide to put in a spinal thank god so then they go and get Cody so he'd be with me. We get into the room at 4am and we have Wyatt at 4:07am. It was the scariest thing ever not knowing what’s going on with Wyatt and also thinking that I won’t be able to have Cody with me.

But it all went well and they couldn’t find a reason for him being in stress. The cord wasn’t wrapped around his neck nothing looked to be wrong. They say that sometimes you just don’t know.

But Cody got to put on his first diaper and he got to hold him and bring him out into the room so I could see him while I was getting stitched. So when that was all done we were taken back to our room with my parents and Cody’s parents waiting. So Wyatt just wanted to enter this world in an exciting way. But he’s healthy nothing wrong he didn’t have to go to the ICU or anything. He weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces and he was 19in long. And we couldn’t be happier.
We love you Wyatt Alexander Christensen!

7 DAYS AND COUNTING...

2008-10-12T21:15:00.000-07:00

So we have 7 days until my due date and I am done.
So done, that I want the doctor to pull this kid out of me.
So I am hoping that when we go Tuesday for our appointment that he will say
"Let’s have this baby!"
But knowing Cody’s and my luck it won’t happen and we will have to wait and let him come naturally.
(Which is better I know...)
But dang it I am done being pregnant.
I’m not very uncomfortable it’s more of just I have waited long enough I have everything ready and I want to see this thing that kicks me and keeps me up all night.
But then I am also scared too because I will be responsible for a baby.
A BABY.
A real life baby that I am in charge of
I can’t hand him off
I am the one he will cry for
I have to be his milk machine
His everything.
I know Cody will be there too but he can’t do a lot when the babies hungry
He can’t do anything but watch me breast feed which I doubt he’ll do.
But still I go into Wyatt’s room that we made up for him and I sit by his crib and I think about how it will be when he is here.
How I will get to hold him
Smell him
Who and what he’ll look likeI just can’t wait.
I don’t want to wait any longer.
So please doc let us have him already!

Side note.

2008-10-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

Cody just pointed out to me that I put up the wrong spider that attacked him at work.

So sorry to misinform everyone

but it was actually a black widow.

Which is even worse.

So still watch out for your produce!

I have a great husband

2008-10-09T21:15:00.001-07:00

You know these last days of my pregnancy I have been very emotional and cry at everything and feel like I’m not getting a lot of attention and love from Cody.

But honestly he’s is an awesome husband.

Yesterday I had a night of boo hooing because he wasn’t cuddling me enough even though all he was doing was holding me. He couldn’t do more than he was.
And then today when I got of work he had a huge bouquet of flowers for me.

I know I am hard on him and he tries his hardest to please me and this proves just how much he loves me and it was what I needed. He is an amazing husband and I know he puts up with a lot and I just appreciate him so much. I love him more than anything in the world.

He is an AWESOME husband.
Thank you, Cody.

I love you so much.

Check your Grapes.

2008-10-08T10:29:00.000-07:00

Cody almost died the other day at work. He was putting away some grapes like a good little worker he is and when he was on the last bag he looks down to see a huge tarantula crawling fast towards him

He moves his hands quickly and shuts the box lid.

Then he goes over to the meat department with it where Johnny (our friend) puts on the chain metal cloves they have and captures him.
Cody takes him home and gives him to his dad to freeze.

But isn’t that scary a huge tarantula coming after you. He came all the way from California.

So people check your GRAPES!
It was funny too because his boss says "what are you trying to die before the baby comes?" Cody always finds different little bugs or small spiders in the produce but this was the first time that it could have harmed him.

I would have flipped out if it was me.

1 CM DILATED!

2008-10-07T10:25:00.000-07:00

I know everyone says not to get so excited about being 1 cm dilated but I am...
I have 12 days and I’m finally starting to get somewhere. Even if its 1 cm. but I’m also 70% effaced.
We had our appointment today with my midwife. And Wyatt is now 6 pounds 15 ounces. And I’ve gained only 10 pounds threw the whole pregnancy and close to 7 of those is Wyatt.

So I’m pretty stoked about that.

My midwife did say though when we were looking at the ultra sound that Wyatt has his mom’s nose. Poor kid. He is stuck with the dreaded Dutch nose passed down from the VanderDoes's.

So hopefully it won’t dominated over the rest of his face and that he get some cute features from Cody so you don’t notice the nose too much.
Lol most likely not though.

I have decided that I am done being pregnant. I’m tired now and my feet are starting to swell and my pelvis hurts. I waddle and I’m feeling really pregnant for the first time threw this whole pregnancy and I don’t like it.
I’m done!
12 days is tooooooo long to wait!

2008-10-06T10:28:00.000-07:00

HAPPY 24TH BIRTHDAY CODY!!!

Cody turned 24 on Oct. 4 it’s so strange to think that he is 24 it seems so old. I feel like we are still 19 and dating. But we are adults now.
Scary.

Ultrasound Pictures of Wyatt

2008-10-03T09:51:00.001-07:00

The first picture is of Wyatt when I was 22 weeks along. It’s a side view with his hands in front of his face.
The second is a profile of his body when I was 17 weeks along.
And the third is showing that he is a BOY!

We haven’t been able to get any more good pictures because he is hiding all the time now. He always has his hands in front of his face. He’s must be shy like his daddy.

" Cats smother babies.."

2008-10-03T08:57:00.000-07:00

So we have this friend who thinks he knows it all and the other day he comes into the baby’s room that we just finished and sees that are cats have slept in the crib. and he gets so upset and says " you know cats smother babies." first of all he doesn’t like cats he has made it clear to us many times how DOGS ARE BETTER. Who cares I say I think they are the same. We’ve had many arguments about that subject. Ugh….

He then goes to work (he works with Cody.) tells everyone there how we let our cats sleep in the brand new baby stuff which makes some of the people there I guess mad (like its anyone else’s business what we let our cats do.) So they then proceed to tell Cody how cats will come in the baby’s crib at night and lay on his face and kill him.

Okay first of all it could happen but like I’m going to let that happen. Because I’m not going to be some mother who doesn’t know what’s going on in her Childs bedroom especially when he’s a newborn. And second of all dogs could do the same thing.

Well then he comes over last night and tells me that my cats have this disease that can harm the baby. And that I need to just get rid of my cats. What he is talking about is Toxoplasmosis which is in the cat litter and as I have read about the subject also in rare undercooked meat. That’s why my midwife at the beginning of the pregnancy told me that I couldn’t change the cat litter and that I need to make sure all meat is properly cooked.

This has made me so mad that he thinks that he has the right to tell me that I need to get rid of my animals because I’m having a baby. so of course I go on the internet and research info just so I am informed as well as to throw it in his face because cats and babies have coexist for years so why now would it be a problem. So reading on the subject I have found these important facts...

1. Toxoplasmosis is rare among indoor cats.
2. Eating raw or undercooked meat is the most common way that humans contract toxoplasmosis
3. There are old wives' tales about jealous cats harming infants by suffocation or mauling. These scare stories are widely circulated and regularly crop up on pregnancy forums. They are usually exaggerated and the few that are genuine are only newsworthy due to their EXTREME rarity. Tales about cats suffocating babies abound, but actual occurrences are very rare; in many cases the presence of the cat was incidental.

So I am sorry that I have cats and that I will be keeping my cats and still have my baby too.

My mom had cats when I was born and I was not smothered same with all of my 6 siblings. so I am just a little annoyed that he thinks he knows what’s best for me and my son and that just because my cats sleep in the crib now when there is not a screaming baby in it that that means that they will when he is here.
So please don’t tell me how I need to be when you are single childless and hate cats.

Pregnancy!

2008-10-01T14:53:00.000-07:00

The pregnancy has been pretty good compared to others I seem to have had a very good one. At the beginning I did have morning sickness more like EVERY MINUTE sickness. I was sick for 5 months.
But that was the worst part. I haven’t had swollen feet or been very uncomfortable. And I have gained anything but 8 pounds. And I didn’t start showing until 4 weeks ago. Lol. So I am pretty happy with everything so far.

About us.

2008-10-01T14:08:00.000-07:00

This is the first post so I will tell you what’s has been going on with us. Cody and I got married June 21, 2007 in bountiful at a little place called El ridge Manor. It was a gorgeous wedding we were married in the garden outside and the weather was perfect. And I couldn’t believe how handsome Cody was when I started to walk down the aisle. I was so nervous that I can’t remember even saying “I do." I just know that we were up there they were talking and then the next thing I knew he said "now kiss the bride." and I was married.

Before we got married we were together for 2 years and we met at Harmon’s Grocery Store it was both of our first jobs. I was a cashier and he was in the produce. He was "produce Cody" to me.

We were friends for 2 years which then developed into a close and wonderful relationship. I remember the first time that I thought he was cute and that I wanted to start dating him. He was putting something away at work and I came in to get something because I no longer worked there and when I was talking to him he was bending down and then looked up at me with his dark brown big eyes. It sort of took my breath away. So I started calling him more. And hanging out at his house. And then in November on thanksgiving he took me on our first official date. We went and saw the movie Alexander. And it was a little nervous sitting next to him on a "First Date" our hands brushed against each other’s and he grab and held onto my hand. And I remember a huge spark ran threw me and I thought”I will marry this man." and I knew from that point on that we were supposed to be together forever. The next date we had was going to see the Xmas lights in Salt Lake City and going out to eat at California pizzeria. And taking a carriage ride. We talked about cell phones of all this the whole carriage ride and I wanted him to kiss me. But he didn’t he said it was because he didn’t want to kiss me with braces on. LOL. We now go on that date each year. It’s our annual date.

Dec 21 2004 was our first kiss was in his basement after I ate a huge hoagie sandwich it took him a whole month to kiss me. We were cuddling on his couch watching movies or TV... something. And I wanted him to kiss me. I did the whole puppy dog face everything for him to realize I wanted him to kiss me. When I finally gave up and lay down on his lap he said my name and I looked up at him and he kissed me. It was AWESOME! It was short but sweet.

After a year of dating he finally proposed to me. It was on Dec 21, 2005 he had a bouquet of balloons with a little teddy bear that was holding a bag with the ring inside. He said nice wonderful things which I am keeping private and he got down on one knee and proposed. Then we went out on our annual date.

So to bring us back to today. We found out in February that we were expecting our first child. And it was great because I crashed Cody’s car the same day. So he wasn’t too happy with me. And then with me throwing "I’m pregnant!" on top of the situation didn’t make it the best way to find out. Lol...
But he was happy more scared then anything but happy.
So 9 months later we are having a boy and he is due anytime. We decided on the name Wyatt Alexander Christensen. And so far the midwife tells us that he is 6 pounds 11 ounces and we can see a lot of hair flowing in the ultra sound.
So we are both excited but defiantly scared. We will soon have a real life family and we will be parents and have to be responsible.
Let’s see if we can do it.