opening his presents

The little man opening his presents on Christmas day. Actually, him and his father opened a few presents on Christmas eve and if I did not tell them to stop they would have opened all boxes. The little man had a lot of presents from everybody and he likes them all. The living room gets more crowded than ever and I have to clean up after every time he plays because he wants to scatter everything. He is doing good so far. He even opened a few books earlier before taking his nap. He got the brunch of the Christmas presents this year. The husband went all out for his little boy and was so excited to help him open the presents.

i am back :)

I am back from a long, relaxing weekend. Actually, we got home from our trip yesterday but I had so much cleaning to do that I did not update any of my blogs. I figured it can wait while I tidy up here. I had to clean the whole place starting from the bedrooms to the kitchen. The kitchen took a while to clean because I had to scrub not only the sink but also the floor and I had to clean the faucets as well. I did not leave anything unclean. Aside from the cleaning I also had to do laundry so it was a whole day affair, lol. I am finished with chores though so I can relax today and spend more time with the little man. Which reminds me, I have pictures of him I took over the weekend and I will post some in this blog when I have the time. I still have to fix him breakfast though so it will have to wait until I finished helping him. How was your holiday weekend? Was it fun? Ours was amazing!

gas?

I woke up in the middle of the night last night with the little man's whine. He had a stomach ache. We could tell when he had spasms because he held his breath and then cried his discomfort. I rubbed his tummy in a circular motion and did it for a few minutes before he passed gas after which he settled down and went back to sleep. I am glad I remembered what to do even if I was disoriented at first. He was colicky when he was a baby and I guess he still is now. He knows how to deal with it but there are times he needs Mama's help. I am glad he only woke up once and he slept through the night after that. I just hope it will not happen again. I hate to see my child in pain.

Merry Christmas to one and all!

toys and more toys

There are a lot of presents for the little man under our tree. The husband's employer gave four separate presents for him while the doting father bought lots and lots of toys which he, himself, wrapped. Most of the presents are his, there is not even a single present for me since I did not let the husband wrap the earrings he bought for me. I decided to wear it right after I opened the package delivered by UPS this afternoon. Anyway, father and child already opened (after meticulously wrapping each just a few hours ago) three boxes. The basketball with matching hoops is the winner. The little man cheered, laughed, clapped his hands, jumped up and down, when he scored. He is a sight to behold. He has been in it for about thirty minutes now. Amazing, really. He also seemed to like his remote controlled backhoe. There are more presents for him under the tree and the husband is a bit disappointed that his son did not want to open all presents under the tree. I guess he wanted his son to rip everything apart looking for more goodies. He is a good kid and when I told him they cannot open any more presents tonight (they have to wait until tomorrow) he did not care. He already have his basketball game going anyway and he is happy with it. I am sure his sister bought him toys too. We will spend Christmas in their house and have dinner there. I will try to take pictures to post here. Merry Christmas!

we went shopping (again!)

We went to Tanger mall outlet yesterday to met up with the husband's friend. Since we were there we decided to roam around and look for items to give to the kids. There were a lot of sale going on but I still thought the prices were a bit high even after the discounts so I did not get any. The husband bought more toys for the little man because a toy store was on closeout sale. I am telling you, the little man has never had this many toys in his life, lol. He must be surprised that after all these time we only start buying him lots of toys this particular holiday. The husband said it is because his son is now ready to play with different kinds of toys without us worrying he will dump everything in his mouth. He already gave his daughter her early Christmas presents so that leaves the son and the grand kids. I have a feeling we will be broke before the New Year if he keeps on giving gifts the rate he is doing right now, lol. It is only a few days before Christmas and I can't wait for my present to get here. I just hope I will find something for the husband so he will not go without this holiday.

spending time with family

Nothing much happened today. We just spent time with the kids. The husband's daughter came by to visit and she brought her whole family with her. The little man was happy to have somebody his age to play with. There were incidents but nothing really major. I guess it is normal for kids to be rough with each other while playing especially between two hyper toddlers. The little man may have been rough with his nephew but he was so gentle with his niece. He was in awe of her. He touches her hands and smiles when she smiles at him. I now know he will be a good older brother if we ever decide to have another baby. The living room was in chaos but as long as the little man was happy I don't care. His happiness comes first, cleaning up is secondary :D We have not decided what to do on Christmas but hopefully we will get to spend it with the whole family again. We are all loud and rowdy but, hey, we are family and I think we are allowed a little of that in the comfort of home. I just wish the husband will have a huge Christmas bonus so we can go to Myrtle and maybe visit Dixie's Stampede. And hopefully he will be off the day after Christmas so him and the little man will be with me the whole day on my birthday. Am I selfish or what? Lol.

picky, picky

The little man is still a picky eater. There are times when he would try to eat food I fix for myself but most of the time, he prefers his own food. He knows his choices and although I don't deem it healthy, I can't really do much about it right now. I do try to camouflage some food he doesn't like to eat to make it look like his choice of food. I am telling you it is not easy. The husband often tells me to keep on giving his son food and milk. After the little man finishes his cup of milk, the husband will tell me to give him more which of course I don't. I mean, how many ounces of milk can a child consume a day? Besides I don't want to give him too much milk because it may cause him to deliberately not eat. Besides I don't want him to be obese. His weight is ideal for his age right now and I want it to stay that way until he is a teenager. I don't want him to be like his brother who grew up with other kids taunting him because he was fat. He still is now. A child may look cute if he is chubby but it is different when he is older. Besides, I don't want to spend too much money buying Lipovox when the little man gets older. He has to stay lean and healthy even if I have to make him eat foods he doesn't like when he is older. It will not harm him and maybe, like me, he will come to love foods he didn't like before.

up, up. down, down

There is nothing much going on here right now. The little man is still a handful and never fails to try our patience. He follows his father everytime the latter is home which makes the latter annoyed when he trips over his son, lol. Wherever the husband is, you can be sure to see the little man: perched on top of his father when they are in the couch, sitting between his father's legs when they are in the kitchen, trying to get his father into a conversation where only the little man talks and the father is supposed to just say really, good, and is that so, snuggling in bed where the little man tries to kick me out so he can have his father alone. The list goes on and on. In as much as I like to believe that he is a Mama's boy, it is changing everyday. He is growing fast and so full of energy and I try so hard to keep up. He says words from time to time but there are words I don't understand no matter how hard I try to comprehend. And in his frustration, he drags me to the kitchen if he is hungry and looks up at the cupboard where his food is kept. Or brings me to our room to tell me he wants his blankies and could not get it because I closed the door. Small things to let me know that he is developing good albeit slowly. I used to worry about his development but I realized that kids develop differently and so I should not pressure myself (or my son) because it will only cause frustrations and disappointments. I am already happy when he reacts to the shows he watch on tv or when I say words and he knows what it was about. Just like the other day. I wanted to change his clothes so we can go to the store for groceries but he was lying down in the carpet. I told him up, up, up which he countered, no, down, down, down. I burst out laughing. Just when I don't expect him to say anything, he does and it makes me happy. Small things yet it means so much for me.

he sleeps with us, sometimes

I have new pictures of the little man but I am not sure if I want to publish it here. I don't want to plaster his face all over the internet more than it is right now. I am being silly I know. There are a lot of pictures of kids younger and older than him on other mom blogs and I like to look at kids pictures but I still have reservations when it comes to my little boy. It may be the greedy mother in me, lol.

Anyway, he is doing good now. He still has the sniffles but he does not whine about it anymore. I am concerned of his snuggling us every night before he sleeps though. I don't want him to get used to it or he will want to sleep with us all the time. He is getting older and he needs privacy as well as we do. I want him to get used to sleeping in his own bed alone so there will be no late night trips to our bed. Around dawn today I woke up with the husband helping his son get to bed with us. He slept with us until morning. The husband said it is fine with him, that his son needs the warmth we can offer in cold nights like this but when this becomes a habit I am afraid it will be hard to break. I am torn.

a little better

The little man is feeling a lot better. Although he is coughing, he is not as congested as two days before. He slept through the night last night and he did not fall off his bed. Two good news in one, lol. I still kept on checking on him everytime he made a sound, afraid he might fall or he will start his screaming fits again. Thankfully he did not. He woke up this morning coughing and we decided to get up with him and gave him something to drink to help him feel a little better. I hope he will continue to feel better. And I hope what I have right now will be stopped before it will get worse. Yes, I am sick too. But I am taking otc medicine to get rid of this awful feeling because I don't want to be bad sick. This is one of the reason I don't like winter.

cough and cold

The little man has cough and cold. He woke up twice screaming so loud last night. I did not have enough sleep. I don't think I even slept at all. Last night was a blur. We were all frustrated. He usually is good natured even if he is sick that last night was new to me. He seemed annoyed that he was sick and cried so loud and did not stop until after thirty minutes later. It was so bad. He did not go to bed right away. I let him do what he wanted to because I was afraid he will cry again and will lead to more screaming. We did get to take naps this morning and we both feel better now. He is watching tv and being a good boy. I hope he will be good tonight. I am not very keen on a repeat performance of last night.

browsing the web

Browsing the internet has been my past time ever since I got married. I don't work outside of the home because I need to take care of the little man so I have to have something I can do aside from the normal chores to pass the time while waiting for the husband to get home. The little man may prove to be a handful sometimes but he listens if he wants to and he knows when Mama means business, lol. So when he is either playing with his toys or taking naps, I get online. I surf different websites, online stores, blogs, watch my favorite television series online, update my blogs, and do just about anything I can think of like searching for promotional business gifts even if I don't have a business and I don't have any business searching for it in the first place. It gets boring during the day and I long for another adult to talk to but this is what we think is best for now while the little man is still young and needs me to take care of him. When he gets older and we can be sure it is safe to trust him to somebody else then I may start looking for jobs and maybe cut off my online time. I know I need to do it because I am getting dependent on it. The husband's description is I am addicted to the internet. Yet, when we don't have connection he is the one who makes sure it is restored right away to make me happy :)

the closet

The little man is fixated with the closet in our bedroom. He gets in, closes the closet door and waits for mama to knock. When I do, he opens it giggling like it is the best thing in the world to happen. Silly kid. He did it the other day and the husband called me because he said he told his son to get out but wouldn't do it. I told him he is supposed to knock which he countered with how the hell is he supposed to know. Not very encouraging at all, lol. When we got ready for bed last night, the little man picked up his blankies, said night-night and then proceeded straight to the closet. It was so funny. He stayed there playing for a long time. When I started singing the alphabet song he loves, he hurriedly climbed to our bed where he snuggled between us. I let him stay until he was ready for his own bed before I transferred him. He slept good last night and surprisingly, he didn't fall out of bed. Good job!

on boys and cars

We visited the husband's friend yesterday and he told us to get inside their home because he was watching his 22 year old son. His wife had to run errands and so he was left alone to take care of his son. We went in and the let the little man play with the friend's son. They had a good time running after each other, playing with toys, and just had fun. Apparently, they share the same love for toy cars because their living room was littered with toy cars and car parts to the little man's delight. In fact, the first toy he picked was a race car. They are like their fathers who are into cars being mechanic and all. It was funny to look at them playing without any attempts to hurt the other. Even the husband said his son will be safe playing with his friend's son because the little boy was good natured and well behaved. If we will move near their place then the two boys might just have a chance to have playdates anytime they want. I don't mind babysitting as long as the little man is happy.

first night in his toddler bed

He did good on his first night without the confines of the crib. Maybe it helped that he did not take a nap and so he slept for twelve hours. I did not sleep good. When it comes to my boy, I am a worrywart. I kept on waking up and checking on him. And for good measure I moved the little man's bed close to ours in case he will fall off his bed which he managed to do with all the precautions I took. I got up when he whined and I was so worried when I saw his butt in the air while his head was stuck between both beds. I got him out right away with my chest doing crazy thumps. Silly kid. Just when I thought he will be safe he went ahead and fall off and how he did it beats me. I told the husband about it and he laughed so hard. I guess it was funny but still it was scary for me. I guess I will move his bed farther away and then put another mattress or a thick comforter beside the bed just in case he will fall. That would be safer than him getting stuck between beds. After the incident though he moved to where his head was on the side with the rail and his feet on the open side. Learned his lesson quick enough. All in all, he did good. We are proud of him.