13 Weeks Old (Super Late Post)

Ok so this post is SUPER late and should have been posted on April 4th but here are some pictures of my sweet Bear from his 12th week :]

He fell asleep on me, right before we went to get some Chinese Food.

 

Sleeping in his swaddle. We can't use these anymore cuz he can now kick out of them! Instead of buying the next size up we have been swaddling him in a large blanket because he still won't sleep if he is not swaddled.

 

Drinking Pedialite.

 Tummy time! He started to tolerate tummy time this week. No more tears! Yay!

His big break through: he started holding his bottle! He did this all by himself too! We did not put it in his hands. He just grabbed onto it with both hands and knew what to do. He is still a little rusty at it as he does not know he needs to tilt the bottle in the air to get the milk out. But he does grab it on his own quite frequently.

Silent Sunday: Love of My Life

<3

Spring Break 2013 Recap (In Pictures)

Spring Break was pretty laid back for us. We went out a few times but not many. We did go to a friends birthday party for her son that was turning 3. We also bought a new mattress (Score!), no more cat pee pee bed. We were going to go to the beach but after buying the mattress we were low on funds so we decided against that. 

Here are some pics of our not so eventful spring break....

 Family naps were taken.

 Yummy dinners were made. (This is egg foo young and it was great!)

 Bear went to Dairy Queen for the first time.
 

And so did Anthony! Can't believe he is 21 and have never been until just now.

 Walks were taken. And Bear rode in his stroller in big boy mode for the first time.

And last but not least desserts were made. These are banana nut bread muffins that Anthony requested I make for him.

And there you have it! Our 2013 spring break and the first we shared together as a family. :] 

Baby's First Easter

We all know Easter was 2 weeks ago, but if you have been reading my blog you should know I am super late to post about stuff due to how busy I am these days. Like I always say though... Better late than never at all!

March 31st was Bear's first Easter. It was also the last day of Spring Break (I will be posting about Spring Break soon I promise).

We are not really Easter people, I remember last year Anthony came to my house for Easter and my sister and I made him an Easter dinner. It was the first time I had ever cooked for him :]

This year, we wanted to do a little something special for Bear but did not have more than a few dollars to spend. We got a flyer from our apartment complex saying that they were having a free Easter egg hunt and cook out for the residents.

We thought "Well that will be perfect!" We even had an Easter bucket from last year that we could use to get him eggs with. We knew he was too young for an egg hunt, but we just wanted to do it for the novelty and to take cute pictures.

The event was to take place from 1 to 3 PM. So we figured we would go at like 1:30 or so when Bear woke up from his afternoon nap.

When we got there (the complex pavilion) we saw a mess of people sitting around a picnic table eating burgers. We grabbed a burger that left Anthony hungry for more. After eating our burger we sat around for a few minutes and nothing was happening so we went to the office to pay our rent. Once in the office we asked about the egg hunt and they told us it was over all ready! That they did it at exactly 1. So that was out the window.

In the end we decided to walk to Wal-Mart (since it is so close and Bear was all ready in his stroller) and buy supplies to make Anthony another burger because he was just dying for one. And we also bought a cheapo $1 bag of Easter eggs to take pictures with.

When we got back I made Anthony his burger than we headed over to the front of the complex to take Easter pictures because everywhere else, the grass is littered with dog poop.

Anthony and I did not dress up but so the photo's look kinda weird and not to mention the cars in the background and the sun in our eyes!

Someone took a family pic for us but they only took one shot and I had my eyes closed in it so that was a scrap :[

In the end Easter was one big FAIL. But at least we can look back at the pictures someday and laugh at how bad it went.

***NOTE: I finally posted the pics for Bear's 12 week update (13 weeks and 14 weeks will be up later today or tomorrow once I can get to emptying the pics from my SD card), click on the "Bear's weekly update" tab to see them.***

STRESS and Shop Banners

I have been so completely stressed and overwhelmed lately! This is the reason for my blog not having any picture updates, because it actually takes more than 10 minutes to make a post with pictures in it.

Bear is 14 weeks old today but according to my blog he is only 12 because I never had the time to post the 13 week update nor did I have time to post pictures onto the 12 week update from two weeks ago.

I had lots of blog posts lined up for the past few days inducing ones about our Easter and Spring Break which were like almost 2 weeks ago that I have yet to post!

And oh dear God you should see my house! The dining room table is covered in crayons, the kitchen counters are covered in molds, the living room has baby stuff scattered everywhere. There are piles of clean laundry stacked in chairs and laundry baskets still overflowing with dirty laundry. The bathroom is a mess and needs to be scrubbed. The kitchen floor is rainbow with crayon flakes and the stove is splotched with melted wax. Just about the only thing that is clean is the spare bathroom!

On top of that we ran out of paper towels last night and my dog keeps peeing on the carpet for reasons unknown and now we have to use our cloth towels to clean it up because we can not afford to buy paper towels. And we only have 4 cloth towels at that. I love Charley but he really needs to knock it off! We can not afford for him to be peeing everywhere. And we just got our carpet steamed about a week ago by the complex who only do it once a year!

I get up at 5 AM and go to work, to come home to a mess but can not clean it because I have to cook dinner for my starving boyfriend and then make crayons so we can launch our Etsy shop that should have launched on March 31st (11 days ago)! I am so completely overwhelmed. And all the stress has caused me to gain 5.5 lbs! Yea you heard it I am now 128! >:[ I am so very angry about this! I have been eating less and yet I am still gaining weight. At this rate my fat pants are not going to fit anymore!

And yes Anthony does help me cook and clean and make crayons but Bear is not a very tolerable baby. He always wants to be held or needs something so one of us has to take care of him while the other does something else or else he will be screaming his head off. This is also the reason Anthony can not get anything done while I am at work, because watching Bear is a 24/7 thing there is maybe 30 minutes out of the whole day that you can get things done in.

Ok rant over!

Now for some good stuff! I made the banner/reserved listing/avatar for our Etsy shop yesterday! I made these in Photoshop all by myself and I am so very proud! Even though they are like super simple and just about anyone with 2 brain cells could have made them lol.

The banner :]

The avatar

And the reserved listing image

I was originally going to put our train shaped crayons that we made around the words but than I got to thinking that may look odd with the typed text so I went with this cute little train instead. :] At this point I have no earthly clue when our shop will launch but I am really hoping it is soon. We still have to finish making crayons, start taking pictures, and make the listings, so that is going to take some time, but we do have I believe at least 1/3 of the crayons made at this point. Maybe in 2 weeks-ish? Who knows.

Hope everyone has a great (stress free) Thursday!

Friday's Letters: Etsy Edition

Dear Etsy.com, You are so awesome! I wonder whoever created you... Anthony and I have been just a slaving away in preparation of our shop's big launch. We had hoped to launch on March 31st but that didn't happen, then we hoped to launch April 7th, but that won't happen either. Now we are just winging it! Either way we are pumped! Look out cuz we are coming! Dear Other Crayon Sellers, Get ready to get your socks knocked off, because we have got some innovative new ideas (in the crayon making world) that we are bringing to Etsy. I am sure you guys will run off and copy us sooner than later (shame on you) but I will still feel proud knowing that we were the first to make the product! Dear Apartment, I am so sorry you are messy and full of crayons and crayon making supplies. Bare with us while we mass produce crayons for our shop launch. After the initial launch things should get better *should* no guarantees there. Dear Fingernails, how are you liking your new rainbow look? I know the color is supposed to go on the TOP of the nail, not jammed underneath in wax form, but hey at least you have some color in your life! Dear Camera, Get ready to take hundreds of photos! It's a coming! Dear Neighbors, Yes I am going to go outside and take pictures of crayons for several hours a day over the coarse of a week. No I am not crazy. Thanks. Dear Florida, PLEASE BEHAVE YOURSELF! I need bright sunny weather for picture taking! None of this rainy stuff you have been doing lately, so knock it off! Dear Wal-Mart, Yes we did buy all the crayons you stocked like 30 seconds after you stocked them 5 times in a row, and yes we will continue to do so! I really wish you guys could stock more than what you do at a time! That would make life like 30 times more easier and not to mention, less work for you guys. Dear Self, Please try not to get too stressed out! Dear God, Please help me.

Letters to my Long Lost Friends (After High School)

Ever wonder what happened to your long lost friends? This is something I think about all the time. Currently I do not have any friends, I have LOTS of acquaintances but no friends. This kind of upsets me at times but not really, as I barely have time to watch TV now a days let alone hang out with friends.

Letters to my long lost friends:

Laura:
We met when I was 18 and you were 20. One day Tiffany and I went up to where you work and I asked you if you wanted to come over to my apartment, you said yes and we became friends. We did all sorts of crazy things together but mainly we just sat around and sulked. We reached rock bottom together. We enabled each other and we were bad for each other. I do not think we really should have been hanging out at all. I got the vibe that you were using me to stay in my apartment, hang out with my friends, and for money; all the time. But I still hung out with you because I was so lonely. We did have some really fun times though doing things like walking up to the 7-11 to buy Slurpees or to the Publix to buy cupcakes. We made art together sometimes too. We were covering my wall with papers trying to make it into a rainbow. That was fun. We even went up to the pizza place you worked at to get free pizza every night. I remember you used to clean my house sometimes while I was at work or buy me random things like sodas. I felt as though you were trying to butter me up but I still accepted your offers. Laura, together we were BAD! One time you tried to convince me to shoplift from Publix with you. I am glad I didn't because I later saw you got caught and spent 3 months in jail. You hooked me up with alcohol all the time and enabled me. Without you I do not know that I would have ever gotten as addicted to it as I did. Eventually you tried to kill yourself and got sent away. I never saw you again. I really felt for the longest time that that was my fault because the day you almost killed yourself, I bought you alcohol and you were depressed. Instead of coming to my house you went to yours to drink alone. I heard from some people that you got out of the mental institution and moved to Wisconsin with a guy that you met. I also heard you broke up with him and moved back? Who knows. I hope you are doing well but I do not wish to ever talk to you again. You introduced me to a very bad man who did very horrible things to me and you knew before hand what he was capable of because he did those same horrible things to you. I forgive you but I do not think that I could ever bring myself to be your friend or even acquaintance again.

Lindsay:
We met when I was 16 right after I had dropped out of high school. We always had an off and on friendship. We first started talking online on Myspace and then I hooked you up with Justin (my ex's brother). You would come over and the four of us would hang out and do dumb things like listen to music or make bacon together. After you and Justin broke up we hit a wall in our friendship and did not hang out for probably a year with little contact in between. Later you started coming over again to talk to Justin as friends. You got into some bad things with him so I kept my distance from you. Unfortunately you never got away from those bad things at all. We stopped talking when I was about 18 and did not start again until about a year later once I had broken up with Zack and moved into my own place in Bartow. I got to know you better during this time it was the closest we ever got. I did not like the person you became though. You were hanging out with bad people and dating drug dealers. I never stayed around you when you were doing drugs I always went home because I did not want to be around any of that. We did drink together a few times maybe 4 but that was it. We had some fun too like going to get you a tattoo, driving to Kissimmee to see Anthony, "trying" to go to the beach, and going to Halloween Horror Nights, and just hanging out and talking. I remember one time I called you to see what you were doing and you said you were going to an NA meeting. I told you I wanted to go to give you support! I was so proud of you. Turns out you were no where near getting better. I was forced to stop hanging out with you all together because I did not like your lifestyle. If you get clean and get it together maybe we could be friends again. But I do not know that I could ever trust you as you have told me you have turned your life around before just to turn around and go back to your bad ways a few days later. I am sorry I had to stop talking to you I was just looking out for myself.

Taylor:
We met when I was 19 and in college. You were my first and only college friend. Hopefully I will have more when I go back. We had a few classes together and we talked a lot of times but I don't think you liked me very much because you never wanted to be my partner. And when I tried to add you on Facebook you didn't want me to. We stopped talking when I stopped going to college. I bet you are way ahead of me now and we will never be in the same classes again. This saddens me some but not a whole lot because our friendship was very short lived. I hope you are doing well, I would have really enjoyed becoming great friends with you. Too bad that never happened.

Selena:
We met when I was 17 but didn't really become friends and start hanging out until I was 19, right after I moved into my apartment that was right down the road from your house. We started talking on Facebook and the first time we really hung out was at Halloween Horror Nights. That was fun! After that we became great friends! We did lots of fun stuff together like cook, clean (that's not fun but together we had a good time), talked, walked, played Xbox, and sometimes we drank together too. I enjoyed having a friend that was a girl that lived so close. You were one of the best friends I ever had and I really enjoyed the time that we were close. We started slowly drifting once you started hanging out with Jessica more. She basically replaced me. I am still upset over this. When I talked to you about it you said the only reason you hang out with her more is because she calls you everyday and tries to hang out all the time.You then told me to be close with you I would need to talk to you everyday because you forget. This offended me. I felt like you wanted me to put all the work into the friendship while you put close to nothing in. It seems one sided to me. I stopped talking to you to see if you would still make an effort to talk to me but you did not. At that point I knew our friendship was dead. You probably think we drifted because I had a baby and my boyfriend moved in, but that is not the case. I do think about you and I chose not to talk to you because I feel like you do not care to talk to me. If you talk to me first, call me or facebook me... I will be glad to talk to you and be your friend, but until then I am not interested. <--- UPDATE: Since I typed this post you have contacted me on Facebook, you invited me to your son's birthday party. Me and the family went for a few minutes and then left because we had other things to do, since then we have been texting and talking a lot more. I hope that our friendship gets stronger like it once was, but only time will tell.

Lexi:
We have known each other since the middle school but did not start to talk until I was about 18. We talked on facebook ALL the time! I thought we were really good friends. We talked about my crayon sales on Etsy and about how you were going to help me one day. We were into all the same things and had fun talking about them. We didn't hang out until I was 20. One day you came over to help me paint my bedroom. You were supposed to help paint a whale on the wall but that never happened. We ended up just painting it all blue. After that you wanted to move into my apartment along with Drew. I said yes and was very exited. I was so thrilled by the thought of someone living with me! And a girl that was my friend at that! I was over the moon. I thought we were going to have so much fun together all the time. But boy was I wrong. When you moved in you stayed in your room 24/7. We only ever hung out probably 5 times over the course of 8 months. On top of that you ruined my house and I developed a lot of resentment toward you for that. I am sorry that I had ill feelings toward you but I feel that the way you were treating me was unfair. I felt as though you were stealing from me when you took my food with out asking. And I felt like you did not care about me and were very inconsiderate when you made a huge mess and left it there for weeks. I refused to clean up after you and Drew because you are both grown adults and you need to clean up after yourselves. And not to mention that if I cleaned up after you the place would be a horrid mess again just a few days later. We stopped talking when you moved out. I really wish to never talk to you again that is how angry I am with the way you treated me and my house. You are supposed to come by sometime and get the few things you left there when I call you. To be honest I have been putting this off for a month now because I do not want to see you. You also owe me $700 and I do not want to get let down when you come over and say you don't have the money (because we all know you are never going to pay me back). I hope you are doing well in your new apartment and not reeking as much havoc on that one. Maybe your new roommates are pushovers and clean up after you. To be honest I just feel bad for them.