More???

Can you believe among all this change we are throwing at Taegan she is picking up on more things?!?!?! We have been doing a crash course on sign language with her and she has picked up the sign for more!!! I can't believe she has gotten it this quick. She signed it last night at dinner for some more crackers and continued doing it through dinner. She then did the sign this morning for more....MILK!!! We are really onto something here:) What a big girl we have on our hands.

Here is hoping for another good day.

Really...that is it?

I really can't believe how WELL this weekend went with the milk and sippy cup. It seems like we did not even make that much of a change, but yet it was a huge change. She is a pro at the cup so she continued to be a pro with that. She did not even seem like she missed the bottle. She is getting one bottle after bath at night, but even with that she is not seeming like she can't make it without it. The one problem we did run into was that she did NOT like the taste of the milk at all. She would take a drink, kind of gag, and then throw the cup. When I say throw, I mean she gave it a heave and across the kitchen it went. I tried to put the milk in a regular cup and hold it so she could drink it-same thing. Milk in the bottle and she was not having it. We stood our ground and were firm. We did give her water-which she drank just great out of the cup-so she would stay hydrated! On Friday and Saturday she had a total of 5 ounces of milk and that was being very generous with my amount. She was just not having it at all. She was eating like a pig-now big kid food from the table!!!!

Sunday rolled around and at breakfast she would not even look at the cup at all. She ate breakfast great, and had some water but NO milk. We were getting desperate here because she needs these vitamins. So we were out running errands and saw some Strawberry Milk. We compared the labels with that and the whole milk and the only thing different was the sugar-but not enough for us to be concerned. We bought a small thing of it and thought we would try it at lunch. We also bought some strawberry syrup so we could use that with the regular milk. When it was time for lunch I had to give her a drink of it out of the regular cup and then she was ALL about it. Could not get enough of it. I ended up giving her some for snack after her nap too, but I mixed some strawberry milk and some regular milk and had to refill it!! She drank a bunch at dinner too and some before bed. All in all, she ended up having about 12-13 ounces of milk yesterday!!!! What a success.

Even with all this change she has not skipped a beat. She has taken great naps and slept awesome at night!!! I really feel like this has been a success and that I will look back on this in a month and laugh that I was so worked up over it. I may also cry because my little girl is growing up WAYYY too fast!

No time like today...

Well today is the BIG day. We woke up this morning ready for Taegan to be a BIG girl! She was in a super mood and slept great. I woke up early so I could be ready by the time she got up and then I could eat breakfast with her!!!! We are doing the milk in the sippy all day and then giving her milk in her bottle at night before she goes down for bed. We did not feel like we could take away the bottle completely from her at this time. We will let her get used to having the cup during the day and her doing well with it, and then slowly take the night bottle away.

Here is the cup with milk:

Here is the BIG girl drinking her milk:
Here is what she thought of it:

She took about 3 big gulps of it(minor victory) and then thought it was a toy. She is one stubborn little girl. She ate her scrambled eggs, took another drink, and then was REALLY done when she launched it on the floor! She is with my mom today-so we are hoping that she is real hungry for lunch and maybe will take 5 big gulps! Who knows, but I do know we have our work cut out for us-at least for a few days! On a happier note, she has really started to love playing with her Kangroo Climber and has found out how to climb through the hole and open the door!!!

Here is her first venture in:

Made it all the way through to the door:
And back again to say hi the other way:

Wish us luck for the weekend, and the big snowstorm headed our way! Geez, I thought it was SPRING!!!!

Here we go...

Well, we are about 2 days away from our formula being gone and that means we switch over to milk and a sippy cup! Wow-I am nervous and at this point unsure of how we are going to approach this really. She is 11 months old so I know that she is old enough(even though you are told to wait until they are 1), it is just going to be the transition that is the hardest I think. We will start Friday morning and she will be with my mom all day and then we will have all weekend together to work on it. She takes the bottle three times a day and once after her bath before bed. I am more worried about the one before bed then anything else. I am wondering how this will change her sleeping patterns and what she will do! Some have said that we should keep the bed bottle and take it away later...I am not sure how I feel on this situation. I was really hoping I could just transition completely and have her associate the milk with the new cup. I will still give her milk after her bath, but she won't be drinking 8 ounces like she is now after her bath. I really feel that this time we are going to be strong and not give in like we have before, but I really need to come up with a full game plan before I start this! I thought about maybe tonight trying to give her less in her bottle and see how that changes her sleep. Really at a loss and not sure what to do....HELP!!!

Picture time...

Mommy and me at the parade
Watching the floats go by with Amy and Kate.

I love my Godmommy!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I can't get enough of my new Minnie cell phone-

it is just like a regular cell phone!!!

Grandma and me swinging

Mommy and me getting ready to go down

and HUGE slide-I laughed the whole time.

Spring Break...quality time together~

I can't believe that my spring break is over half over!! Where did the time go? Taegan fought like such a trooper through the RSV and seems to have gotten over it for the most part. Those few days were quite scary and I am glad that I took her in(against my own judgement). I really feel that she has been fighting that for quite some time, but it had finally peaked and she was miserable. She finally broke her fever on Saturday night and has been getting stronger ever since. We spent Saturday with my parents for my Dad's birthday. We went and played in Kansas City and Taegan threw her first major fit at a restaraunt. I was that lady there trying to quiet her child. Needless to say I took her outside and we ate quick! She was tired and still not feeling well at all. Sunday and Monday we hung out and I cleaned out closets-yikes that needed to be done. I got a wild idea on Sunday that I wanted to redo our bathroom...new paint, toilet, and all new linens!!! WOW it looks awesome. I will post before and after pictures tomorrow.

Tuesday we spent the day downtown at the St. Patricks Day parade. It was long and started getting hot towards the end. Taegan did great and was asleep after being in the car for 5 minutes on the way home. I will say that there really should be parade rules. I mean those people were so rude and I really thought Amy or I was going to hurt someone!!! We managed without hurting people and without really even being rude to people.

I am off to finish listening to the KSU game and head to bed. A day of cleaning awaits me tomorrow, but I will make sure to post new pictures of our week together so far!!!

Real quick...

After spiking a 104.1 fever we took Taegan into the doctor yesterday to see what was going on. After some lab work(a stick shoved up her nose) and 3 chest xrays we found out little peanut has RSV and bronchilitis. We are to watch her and take her in at the slightest change of her breathing and make sure to keep her hydrated. So, that is what we are doing right now. We are able to keep her temp under control with Tylenol and Motrin, and she is drinking pretty well. I am hoping that this is a mild case and she will be back on the road to recovery soon. I am off for spring break now-so it came at a good time!!!

Off to snuggle with my little love!

A day of days...

I can't believe my little girl is already over 10 months old! She is growing so fast right before our eyes and becoming more independent I can hardly believe it. She is eating more and more from the table with us, and as of yesterday has decided that the bottle and formula are not good at all. She drank 10 ounces of her formula yesterday and was NOT interested in it at all. I tried some milk in a bottle(any advice on when you switched your child to milk?) and she was a bit more interested in that, but really was not wanting to drink. I am hoping it was just the time change and her day was WAY off, we will hope for better today. Just this weekend she has decided to let go of things and see what happens while she stands-the result is that she falls rather quickly, but we are making progress. She loves talking and being social. She is still afraid of those she does not know, but warms up pretty easy to people. Her new snack of choice is cheese...

Her knees are so raw from crawling she is crawling one legged now...poor thing!
Taegan and Mommy being silly one night while dad was gone!
She loves laying on her belly and playing with toys.
Eating spaghetti for the first time.
Loving every bite!
Not quite sure what to do at first.

Really???

Okay, I am not having a good day, week, month whatever it is that I am having right now. This diet and weight loss thing has got me very down right now. I know that I can lost weight because I have done it before. I lost 20 in college in one summer and fall so I know I can do it. For some reason, I can't do it now. I gained another pound this week and just lost another half pound. How disappointing to stand on that scale and watch it do that....I am soooo mad at myself for letting me do this. It seems as though I have no control over myself and my eating habits right now. What is the deal? I want to be healthy and look better for myself and for Justin and Taegan. So what is my problem? How can I fix it?? Right now life is so crazy busy and full that I feel like I blame it on that and I need to get away from that. I have to make time to do it, but I have NO motivation to do that. Where can I get this motivation???

On another annoying note, Taegan has been battling a cold, cough, runny nose crap since November. It has gotten pretty bad this week with her cough and wheezing that I felt she needed to be seen. She was laboring to breathe and I could hear her wheezing across the room. I have asthma and I know all about that. So I was afraid she would be showing signs of it as well. Nothing was seeming to help her and I was frustrated. So off she went yesterday to the doctor with daddy. He calls to tell me the doctor says it is just a cold, nothing we can do for her. Really? And that is that? I wanted more answers...why has she been like this for over 3 months? Why does she sound terrible? I am glad it was nothing more serious, but I felt like she was blowing him off. She has had a low grade fever and can't shake that either. Needless to say I feel helpless and wish I could do something for her. You can't tell by looking at her that she does not feel well, it is the way she sounds. So again I feel like a failure....not a good day!

Good weekend...

Although we had snow on Saturday, our weekend turned out to be pretty good. Justin and I headed to Manhattan around 2 on Saturday to enjoy a day together just relaxing and hanging out before the basketball game. We ate at my favorite pizza place(Gambinos) and did some quick shopping. We found a few good buys for Taegan and then we drove around the city looking at places I had never been before. We laughed and had a blast together!!!! It was a great game and we headed home with a WIN!!! What a relief that was. Taegan was at my parents so we got up Sunday morning early and went to clean the salon(side job) and picked her up at 8:30. She was tired and grouchy and took a great morning nap. After some relaxing and picking up we ran to Kmart for a few things and then back home again for her to nap!

Last night was an AWFUL night for Taegan. She has been very clingy and needy and whiny. I have no idea what is going on and it was bad last night. She has a cough and runny nose and seemed so uncomfortable. She went to sleep fine, and then woke up at 10:45 screaming her head off and would not lay back down! She was a mess. We brought her to bed with us where she slept off and on until 1 and then she began screaming out again and throwing herself around. We put her back to bed on her tummy and she slept peacefully unti l 6:30. Who knows what is going on with her....hope she figures it out soon!

I am so excited for the Bachelor tonight-my vote is for Melissa!!!