Christmas Shopping for a 16 month old

What do you get a 16 month old for Christmas? In all reality (like a majority of kids), Teague needs nothing. But it wouldn't be Christmas if you didn't buy them some type of gift. It's sort of like last year. I knew he could have cared less if we bought him something. Same thing this year. But I really want to get him something he will love - but what? More books?? Honestly this kid can sit for hours and hours looking at books and sometimes the same book. He loves books (hence, his 16 month picture to the right). As an educator of course I think it's great, but sometimes I wonder if he just thinks that all the toys we have for him are just boring? So I asked Tina, "What does Teague play with while he is here?" and she replied - "Well, mostly books." Well that didn't help. So I have just resorted to buying him and suggesting to others the obvious - books and necessities like shoes. B-O-R-I-N-G, but not to him so that's all that matters, right?

I did some shopping yesterday, but I wasn't impressed with selection. Maybe what it really was, I don't know what to buy a majority of people on our list. And then there's always the worry that I will forget someone, so what should I buy "just in case" for that "emergency" situation. Yuck. I really love shopping, but not when I have to buy ambiguous items for people!

Have a good week!

All Better

Monkey is soooo much better. It took him 8 DAYS to get over that stomach bug. A few people have asked if he had rotovirus, but he did not and he was also vaccinated for that. It was just a bad case of the stomach bug. Up until Sunday he was still vomiting. Poor thing. But he seemed really good on Monday and was THRILLED to be back at Tina's. When Maddie (same age as Teague) woke up that morning and came down to the daycare, Teague sprinted across the room, tripped and hit his head, and got right up without crying and ran over to hug Maddie. He missed his buddy. He was, however, very exhausted from playing all day. Tina said he would play and then go over in the corner and lay on the floor like he was so tired and then get up and keep playing. That night he was in bed sleeping by 6:45 and didn't get up until after 7 Tuesday morning. Same thing last night. He is just trying to get caught up on sleep.

Other than that, life is normal again at our house. Ryan starts bball in 1.5 weeks. Teague's bedtime will likely make it pretty difficult to get to many if any games, which is a bit sad - but if I really want to see a game I will just have to hire a babysitter. The weird thing is that we do not have a single home Friday night game - there are only 3 Friday games and they're all away! I have to say I am disappointed because that was the one thing I looked forward to doing in the cold winter months - watching basketball - but we may just have to push the pause button on that until Teague is older.

Have a good week and enjoy the cold, MN weather! (Wasn't it just 70 degrees last week?!)

24 Hours

Well we have went 24 hours without puke. It's been like walking on eggshells in some ways though! I have worried anytime he eats anything besides toast, rice, bananas or applesauce. He seems to like cheerios for the time being and today we have branched out to chicken noodle soup. He loves that. I think he really misses his bottle of milk before bedtime (yes, he still gets one and yes it's my fault - it's my only cuddle time, sue me!). Anyway, he seems to SLOOOOOOOWLY be rounding the corner. And I have gotten over myself, my rants are over - though last night he was having a fun time playing with me but had apparently ate too many cheerios and drank too much water (which he proved to me when we were rolling on the floor playing and he puked half in my mouth and on my face - I deserved it). That's life as a mom - the 3 "P's" don't really bother you anymore (pee and puke in the face or poop - but not in the face). Yum.

Teague snuggling in, listening to Daddy read....A-Dorable.

We did venture to St. Cloud today. Auntie Grums and Ken are here from Seattle and we definitely wanted to be able to spend some time with them. When we asked Teague if he wanted to go "bye bye" he basically sprinted to the door. He was rather tired of looking at the walls within our house for the past 7 days! He was good there, but you could tell he was still not feeling the best. He did, however in his sickness (un)equilibrium, trip and hit his head on a chair and boy did it leave an egg/bruise on his forehead. And boy did he scream and hold his breath (but that's nothing new for him). I just feel so bad for him.

So we are hopeful for a full week's worth of work. And I am sure he will be excited to be back with his friends at Tina's.

Enjoy the COLD weekend!

My Personal Pity Party

Since I am a mom, in reality nothing can be about me anymore. And I am okay with that - there is nothing I wouldn't do or sacrifice for the sake of my monkey baby. But since this blog is mine and I can write whatever I want, I am going to have a pity party here.

I am really sick of cleaning up puke. Like EXTREMELY sick of it. Yes, you are right - like my kid is not sick of puking - I totally get that and I feel horrible for him. But I am tired. I am so tired of getting up and washing sheets and throwing away pillows and giving my poor babe a bath in the middle of the night when he is barely awake and his face and head are covered in puke and he is really mad at me because he doesn't want all his clothes ripped off of him and water being poured on top of his head and his eyes are still shut because he knows if he opens them all that disgusting slime that is dripping on his face will get in his eyes. Yep, I am sick of it. Officially sick of 5 days of this junk. If you have been blessed with the 24 hour thing with your kid, consider yourself lucky. It's not a big deal unless you are going on day #6 with your kid puking - ALL NIGHT. And then your husband is sick too. And you kind of just have forgotten about yourself and the fact that you still feel crappy because there is no time for that. Good Lord, will we ever get through this? I suppose we will - just in time for basketball season and me being a single mom again????

Yuck.

Yuck. That's the way everyone in my house feels right now. And that's how we all basically look too. We all have the stomach flu. Poor Teague. He's who I feel for the worst. Ryan and I have managed to work today, but I think we will both be home tomorrow. Yesterday I worked, Ryan stayed home with Teague and today my dad is with monkey. I officially have a fever - oh, on top of the flu, I also have a cold. So at times my belly will feel better, only to feel worse in my nose. We all are in tough shape and it has little to do with Halloween candy, unless those two pieces between the 3 of us were infected with something???