FREE DOG

seriously he drives me insane.  No we won't get rid of him.  But just the fact that this post exists makes me a little more happy!

PICTURES

Today Jacob and I went to The Picture People and got his 1yr/Christmas picture taken.  Of course we spent waaaayyyy toooo much money, as daddy had to give mommy a lecture, but I then reassured him that we were now to the point in Jake's life that we would be doing once a year pictures.  Obviously snapshots will happen!  My hope is that if we have any money after buying our plane tickets to Ft. Myers for the end of March we will be able to get a new camera!  That is my hope!  But if not the one I have works and it takes good photos, I just really want a better zooming lens!  Anywho, hope you enjoy the pictures!  And I hope all of you are well!

BIRTHDAY!

My baby turned 1!!!  Wow-  it's mostly gone by quickly.  There were a couple weeks when he was teething  and the sleepless nights again that it was long.  But I surprisingly didn't cry at his birthday party.  It honestly was harder on me when he turned 10 months old than it did a year.  I think because at 10 months he was walking and already saying quite a lot (really acting like a toddler before he had too)  but now it's (for lack of a better word) appropriate for him to be doing these things.  We are done with the bottles!!!  That was the one thing I couldn't wait for to be done buying formula and not having bottles.  At his one year check up Jake weighed in at 25# 2 oz., 32 and 3/4 " tall.  He is a big man!  He didn't make as big of a mess that I had anticipated with his birthday cupcake (made and decorated by me thank you! - home made buttercream icing too)  actually for never having sweets before he ate it like he had one everyday of his life!  Crazy!  Well my big boy is wreaking havoc on something because it's quiet and the dog isn't in sight either so you know nothing good is happening!   

No there's nothing wrong with your eyeballs!

So I know I'm a loser blogger.  So since it's only been 2 months since my last post you'd think this would be action packed.  Sadly I do not lead such a life.  My life is very normal take care of my baby, sleep when I can, work, sleep take care of baby... I know... RIVETING!  You can't wait to scroll and see what else could possibly happen!  Anyway my sweet man Jacob is now today actually 9 and 1/2 months old!  He's so cute!  And hilarious I laugh so hard everyday!  He's now a MAN and drinks from a sippy cup!  (Except he's a bit of a binge drinker, in that, whatever liquid is in his sippy cup he will finish in 20 minute time frame.  So needless to say he tests just how dry the Pampers Baby Dry diapers can hold.  He was winning that battle but mommy has since gotten smarter and doesn't give him that much liquid in his sippy cup!)  I know PAGE TURNER!  Jake is standing more and more by himself.  Dan and I are just waiting for him to take those steps he's so close.  He'll hold our fingers and walk fabulously and basically sprint behind his push toy.  I'm torn with how I feel about this because I'm so excited to see it and I can't wait for all the fun that we'll have once he walks.  Running outside, hide and seek, just seeing what all he's interested in now that nothing really can hold him back.  But I'm sad to just one more thing that he's becoming a toddler and less of a baby.  I think I held him for the first 2 weeks of his life and that seems so long ago and those moments weren't enough!  We just put him in bed we don't rock anymore so our cuddle times are less and less.  Oh well!  That's what kids are supposed to do grow up.  Anyway my son is 22# 15 oz and 31 inches tall!  HUGE!  We took him to the Cincinnati Zoo (which is excellent and everyone should go wether you have kids or not) he petted a goat and LOVED it.  

My new job starts October 6th.  Sorry to my North friends you all are great, good luck, and I'll miss all of you!  Can't wait until GNO!  I'm excited about weekend option.  I have so many plans cleaning and organizing my house.  I was just telling my husband tonight how I feel we live day to day we just make sure we have clean clothes for that day and food and things like that so I am looking forward to not having a laundry room with Mt. Everest piles and utilizing my closet and maybe don't tell my mother making my bed.  In early August I got a heck of a deal on new bedding from Macy's and I think I may even want to make my bed at least!  WHO AM I???  I am really embracing this wife mommy thing.  I feel like when maternity leave was over I lost myself which I'm sure a lot of new mom's feel.  And now I can finally feel the old me coming out and being better and more motivated.  I'm so sick of my body I can't stand it!  And just know the weight issues with myself and in my family history it really makes me want to be more active for my son.  Behaviors are learned at home and a lot by example.  Yes I know he doesn't know I'm the BIGGEST I've ever been, nor does he care, nor will he remember but I want to be able to play with him and shoot toddlers are active little bugers you got to be in shape to handle that!  So basically to the point with the new hours I'm going to be working my goals are to be a better me which is mom & wife.  I love being those things.  So wish me luck!  I've got a TON of work to do!  Take care!  (and no I don't know how this became underlined!) 

7 months brings teeth, sippy cups, biter biscuits, pulling up to stand and so much fun!!!!

I know it's been a while sorry!  I guess I never realized the commitment it would be to have a blog!  Anyway, my Jakey is 7 months old now.  He amazes me everyday!  He's pulling himself up in his crib to where he is standing.  And it's funny when he does it.  Makes it look like he's in baby jail!  He's getting his top 4 count 'em 4 teeth.  He's been struggling w/ it.  I can't imagine the pain.  4 teeth at once holy cow.  So we've had about a week of not sleeping through the night and Sunday was bad he got up at midnight, then 3 am, then 5:45, I was exhausted.  So I'm pretty easy w/ tylenol and motrin.  My theory is it's not going to hurt them so I'm pretty liberal when giving it to him.  Unfortunately proved no relief same w/ orajel.  My husband unfortunately had the brunt of it because I was at work on Monday night and he texted me at 1 am and said Jake had slept collectively about 2 and a half hours.  So Tuesday morning he's just not feeling good at all and he's pulling on his ear more and more.  So I call my pediatrician and ask if it's related to teething she said is he sleeping through the night (no) and has he been fussy (yes) the nurse says well just come in so we can rule out that it's not an ear infection.  So we go in.  There is a new nurse and she asks me what's wrong or why are we there basically so I tell trying to figure out if his ear is infected versus just pain from teething.  New nurse "Oh so he's just teething?"  Me: "Well I know this for sure but the ear pain, sleeplessness(he's also not napping a whole lot either) and fussiness".  Of course my dear sweet baby who loves people is just smiling and talking to her to make me feel like more of an idiot.  but no hard feelings!  Anyway so the doctor comes in physical exam looks great just teething.  Her sage old advice "Try motrin and orajel before bed"... Me thinking in a sassy smart ass way "wow what a great idea, if i'd only tried this earlier"...you have to understand I do really enjoy my pediatrician i think she's wonderful, and she did not make me feel like an idiot but that nurse who said "so he's just teethin'" put me in a mood that i couldn't shake in the 20 minutes we were there.  The top picture is my new favorite.  I think he's just absolutely adorable and i love that picture.  The second one obviously bath time fun, he tries to drink the water and eat the bubbles.  Thank GOD almighty for giving someone the brains to come up w/ biter biscuits Jake is challenged for up to 20 minutes at times and I can fold laundry or empty the dishwasher in this time.  That's what i say I don't really fold laundry or empty the dishwasher I usually just watch him contemplate how to take down that biscuit.  The last I think is hilarious.  We just got back from an Indians game.  Dan's work gave everyone 2 free tickets so we thought hey that sounds like a fun evening.  And it was beer hotdogs and jake really enjoyed the grass and how strong he is the he can rip it out in handfuls!  Dan was holding him and wanting a picture of Jake w/ the field behind him.  I think it came out looking like hey what's that dad!  But that's just me!  Good evening to you all!  

HAPPY 6 MONTHS TO MY SWEET BABY BOY!

My Jacob Scott is now 6 months old.  We went to the doctor the other day and found out he is 19 pounds 9 ounces and is 28 and 3/4 inches long!  He's eating fruit w/ oatmeal in the morning and vegies with oatmeal for supper!  He doesn't seem to not like anything.  He's showing a little favoritism to the fruit than the vegies but he cleans his bowl either way I just think the fruit is sweeter so obviously he'll like that better.  My sweetheart doesn't even make a funny face at those God forsaken peas.  Mommy does because have you smelled them seriously but he eats them just the same!  He has his bottom 2 teeth and loves for everything to be in his mouth you gotta love that oral stage!  Everyday he gets better and better at sitting up!  This is going just way to fast.  I'm excited that he's growing well and is healthy and happy and he's meeting all his milestones, but a little tiny little bit of me is sad like not even 2% because he's just showing more and more that he's not a baby anymore!  But I know all of the fun that is going to come and I can't wait!  How embarrassing that 27 Dresses is the audio for my video but what can you do!

My house

Hello all!  So I know my layout isn't very good considering you'll read this first and then have to scroll down for pictures of my house.  but oh well.  So I decided to take you all on a tour of my home.  It's little but has character.  My husband and I are really starting to love our house it's just the days of edition living get old fast and our neighbors are fine it's just the both of us grew up out in the country dan had neighbors and was in an extremely small town where as I had one neighbor it was my grandpa and a corn field separated the two of us.  When the corn grew tall we couldn't see his house.  The town I'm from was 3/4 of a mile away from us that was all our driveway.  So to say the least I feel slightly congested most of the time.  Anyway enjoy our home as we do we have an office but its kind of a catch all and isn't pretty.  I hope this encourages my friends to put pictures of their homes up so I can know what you all live like.  Oh we also have a laundry room but it's a laundry room!  We are working on our outside and I would show you what we've done but my camera is dead so when it's charged I'll be back to post those.

Another post from work

I'm at work right now, waiting for the clock to hurry up so I can check my baby's for the last time and see the bright and happy faces of day shift! I make myself laugh because one of my baby's is rocking out to the backstreet boys right now! Things I have to accomplish this week, )note to all it is Thursday already) clean my whole house. Sunday is the big Tupperware party and I invited mostly family and I don't want them to think because I already know I'm not good at housekeeping. Then I have to pack because we are going to Cincinnati on Friday and coming home Sunday just before the tupperware party which will stress me out a little but it's all paid for so I do not have much choice. I do have a story to share with all of you about my Jacob! I got up from my nap about 1145 which is later than usual but I was working 2 in a row. So I get up and Jake's sleeping so I tell Dan's grandma she can go ahead and leave and I went back to bed. 20 minutes later he is awake so I bring him in bed with and turn his portable DVD player on and I'm laying still dozing in and out. I don't know how long I was asleep but I open my eyes and Jake is eyeball to eyeball with me and I notice this funny sensation on my nose my son was sucking on my nose. I laughed so hard I nearly wet myself and he's just smiling his big 1 toothed smile at me so I assumed we should get up because he was obviously bored!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mom's out there! Enjoy your day! I hope you get to spend it with the ones you love! I am going home after work and getting a little nap and then my mother and aunt are coming to help us make a patio in our backyard. I will have pictures when done! Before and after shots. I have a cute baby story of course it involves my son! I was leaving to go to work a couple of nights ago and I was telling him goodbye. Jake was standing on my husbands tummy while Dan was holding Jake by his sides and I lean forward to kiss him and Jake turns his head to where his mouth is on my mouth and his hands are on my ears and he gives me a big open mouth kiss for probaly a good 10 seconds until he let me go! It was sweet, cute and funny. I love my baby!

Working!

I'm at work again right now. Wishing I were at home w/ my baby and my husband and sort of even kind of missing my dog too. I'm kind of bummed out. I really do enjoy my job, I'm one of the few people I know that actually like's their job. The journey that these babies go on and we get to see it right before our very eyes is so cool to me. But this time at night when I'm beyond exhausted I just want to leave and go home. Watch Jake sleep for a while and crawl in bed with my husband. But knowing I get to do that tomorrow night helps make the night go a little better. Jake can now roll from his back to his belly and belly to his back. He's trying every day to sit up and getting stronger and stronger. His tooth is coming it feels like he's been teething forever, we can finally see white. Speaking of teething, my wisdom teeth keep pushing there way through and now I'm in a nice constant dull pain and can not open my mouth all that wide as well as my ear hurts. I wish I had a vacation coming up. I have to work this weekend even though it is with some of my favorite people I feel like I miss out on a lot. With my husband and son up and awake and me sleeping. Many of you working mom's out there did you or do you feel like you just suck? I feel that way a lot. I try putting Jake in his saucer to play and swing or on the floor w/ his videos and then at night time I feel like I spent no quality time w/ him. I need to start reading to him again so I feel like I'm already putting him behind. I don't know maybe it's just being a new mom and trying to figure out how to balance everything out but some days I feel like I suck at this.

Finally Something!

Hello, it's been a long time! I did do some stuff, granted not a whole lot. Now that I know about the pictures and stuff here at work I may be able to keep up a little better. With work being so slow right now! I know some of the songs on my playlist don't work, and I hope it's free i'm getting kind of nervous now that it may not be!

Jacob Scott Duchemin

Another man has stolen my heart: Jacob Scott. He's the best! I can't believe he is already 12 weeks old. He was born on his due date, rare, December 2, 2007 at 8:06pm. He came in weighing a whopping 9# 11 oz. and 23 inches long. To all of you who saw me in my last month can believe that quite easily. My water ended up breaking which is what sent me into labor. My parents decided they were going to take my husband and I out to dinner on the 2nd, because I was going to be induced on the 3rd. Needless to say I had to clean my house before my parents came. I was vaccuuming and was wrapping up the cord and bent over and felt a pop. This was at 12:30. I told Dan my water broke and he said, oookkkkayyyy..., and then we headed to the hospital. My contractions started about 15 minutes after my water broke. Dan was calm until in the car we were timing my contractions and the started out at 4 minutes apart. About an hour and a half to 2 hours later I got my epidural THANK GOD!!!. It was basically smooth sailing after that. I pushed for about 40 minutes and out he came! And he had hair. That was what I really wanted along with a healthy baby and healthy me!

Work

I've been back at work for almost 4 weeks now. I'm at work right now. I still love my job, I really do, but it's no where near the top of my priority list, anymore. My hands are cracked open and hurt anytime I wash them or put the hand sanitizer on them. My car has to be scraped off in the morning. I'm trying to not work back to back shifts, so for anyone who has worked nights knows that I'm exhausted all the time because working every other day I never know if I'm coming or going. As much as I enjoy the adult interaction at work; all I want to do is stay at home w/ my Jakey and my husband. I always tell Jake before I leave to smile for mommy, to be good for daddy and to NOT laugh or roll over, then I tell daddy to lie to me if he does these things anyway because it will be heartbreaking if I'm not there to see/hear it. I try and tell myself that it is only 12 hours and he'll be asleep most of the night. It still sucks though!