Mother Nature

Mother nature has returned to me. It came back a week ago and lasted an entire week. Which is long for me, I'm used to one three days long not seven. I'm not sure how fertile I am right now but we're not trying to have another baby, not yet. We're going to move out first, hopefully get something with two bedrooms. Just need to get the money together for the deposit and first month's rent. And work on our credit, I know it's not the best right now from stuff Chris did before we were married and such, and since I don't have any I can't help out with that. I probably wont be able to get any either since I don't have a job. But we'll be fine.

Other then that not so great development, my class is coming along; finally. I only have one more thing to do before I'm ready to turn it in. Though I am wanting to record myself reading it so that I can listen to it. I'm an audiant learner, meaning I learn best by listening; so the more I can hear the better off I will be. Other than that it's done, and I just have to meet up with my mentor next week sometime. I'm really excited. Also the hubby isn't taking the class anymore, I'm not mad at him about it; it would have been nice to do the class together but he isn't ready to do it and that is fine, I just want to learn so that I can teach RR. Well and so that I know what I'm doing. I've always wanted to get really into the faith with a real teacher not just books. I'm glad that I've finally found a way to do that.

I think that's about it.
~Cathrin

Mr. Potty.

Sunday was an eventful day, it started off with deciding what to do for the day; which of course ended up changing. RR decided to poop in the bathtub right after I put her in. She stood up and pooped. She knew what she was doing and add that to her waking up dry from naps and in the mornings quite often and we decided to get a potty.

So yesterday we started. I'm being more strict about it then I thought I would be. The main reason for that is because I can tell she knows what's going on. I can tell she is ready. I'm not expecting it to be fast and I know that we will be having plenty of accidents but so far we're going good. She loves getting her cookie (it's really a nalla wafer) for sitting and using the potty. So, so far so good, a lot of other mommies in the mommy group are potty training which is good; that will help and we're even having a potty training play date in a week or so. Which is great.

I honestly can't believe that I'm writing a post about potty training when my baby is eleven months old. She is growing up fast, way, way to fast. Now I just have to decide if I want to bring Mr. Potty around with us while we're out, I don't know if I'm ready to take that step, but considering that so far today (and it is already seven, so almost bedtime) we only had one wet diaper while at home, it might be time, since the only other wet diaper happened while we were out and about for several hours.

 I just don't want her to grow up so fast. But I don't want to hold her back either.

~Cathrin

This past week has been crazy. last Thursday hubby and I started our Wicca classes. So naturally since then life has gotten really hectic and it has nothing to do with the religious class.

RR keeps breaking out in hives every few days. I had taken her to the doctor after the first time and I felt that he just wrote off my concerns as me just being a first time mom that freaks out about everything. So after the third time she broke out I took her back in and saw the doctor that I am comfortable with. The first doctor was saying she could be sick, or it could just happen for no reason ect. the second doctor said that if it is because she is sick she could be breaking out for two weeks from it. That would have been nice to know the first trip. So after talking about my worry that she is allergic to apples (the one thing that I can think of that is the same from all three days) She gave me a prescription for Zyrtec to give to her once a day for about two weeks. During this time I'm not supposed to give her anything new or give her anymore apples. after the two weeks I'm supposed to take her off the Zyrtec and give her what ever I want and "see what happens". If she breaks out at that point then we'll get the referral to the allergist. I feel a lot better waiting to see the allergist after this trip than I did after the first.

Other than the breaking out we have our normal everyday busyness to contend with. Mondays and Wednesdays RR has swimming lessons at the Y, Tuesday and Saturday I have running class at the Y, most mornings there is a playdate that RR and I go to. Hubby gets off work at one and is home by one thirty so I try to make family time in the afternoons and on Mondays I work. Our "free" time is spent watching RR like a hawk since the house is not baby proofed and with her running around (yes she is walking/running) she can go from playing with her toys to climbing the stairs way too fast; and cleaning it seems that there always something that needs to be cleaned...

We also did some looking around this weekend and found that there are some places that we could afford to live with what my hubby makes right now. I'm ready to move out NOW but hubby wants to gets our car paid off first. Which means that we're going to be putting almost all of what is being brought in to that for the time being. Yay for getting the car paid off but I really would like to have my own home.

Right now I'm busy planning RR's Chuggington birthday party. Trying to get hold of Chuggington party stuff is turning out to be harder than I thought. Who would have guessed that it would be hard to find stuff from a Disney show? I've been too three stores and come up blank so I've decided Amazon is the way to go! Lucky for me they actually have it, unlike the Chuggington ball I was looking for last week...

Now that I'm home from the gym, store, and lunch with the hubby I need to clean.... I really hate cleaning...

~Cathrin

Christmas

Well now that Christmas is officially over, it's time for me to update y'all about it.

On Christmas eve we went over to my grandmother's house; which is the tradition for my family. My dad's sister and brother were there along with my cousin, her husband, and their three your old son, B. B is actually really good with RR but he was having a good time ignoring everyone. He really seemed to like playing with RR though and looking after her while we were eating dinner. This year we really only did gifts for RR and B. RR got an Alphabet train walk behind/ride upon toy from my grandmother, and my cousin and Aunt got her clothes and a pink little people minivan. She also got money from my Uncle. The adults did do a gift exchange, it was the white elephant game, we got money, which went straight into the RR's new car seat fund.

For christmas after opening gifts with the family at home. We went to the house that one of my aunts on my mother's side rents. My mother's family was there which consisted of two of her five siblings (and their families) and my grandmother. One of my three cousin's present had a baby six months before RR was born and they her RR a little fisher price talking dog (we ended up returning it and getting the leapfrog dog instead). We did the white elephant gift exchange there too.

Our last christmas thing was this past weekend. We traveled back up to see the hubby's family. I gave his mother a hand made dolphin that I put RR's footprint and name on. And She got RR one of those read along books, a fisher price dog, and a little pick blanket. The trip wasn't too bad, his mom spent a lot of time with RR and she hadn't when we visited before. I was going to put a stop to visiting them if she didn't spend time with us. It was really rubbing me the wrong way that she would complain about how she didn't get to see RR but when we had visited she had chose not to spend all her time with her.


So christmas and Yule were good this year. I'm looking forward to next year and hopefully we'll be in our own home by then.

~Cathrin.