Mommy's little helper

It never fails every time I open the dishwasher, whether it is to load it or unload it; Rayce is there to help. How can I turn the kid down with that kind of smile on his face? He is just so curious. He wants to be by my side, all the time, doing what I am doing. I love it, it’s like he’s my little protector. We do everything together.

This week went a lot better then last. Rayce is sleeping, napping, and eating better. He is also extra happy during the day. Poor guy, teething sure is rough. He’s back to only waking once, which has made a huge difference in everything.

When I woke up today and looked at Rayce I thought to myself, how lucky am I? I have the most rewarding job and I get to spend my days with this little guy. Sure I don’t have extra money to do this that or the other but one thing I do know is Rayce is happy and well taken care of. Nothing else matters and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Teefy's

Rayce now has 2 teefy's! He cut his second tooth this past weekend. I love when he smiles at me and all I can see is those cute little teefy's.

Cheerio boy

Rayce loves his Cheerio's! This boy will stop dead in his track to pick up a cheerio if he spots one. His obsessions had become quite entertaining. It's too funny.

I just can't

Let go of the infant bathtub. It's obvious that Rayce is too big for the thing but I'm in denial and I just don't want to accept the fact that my baby is growing up. I know he needs to move to the big peoples bath tub but...but I just can't. It is our time to bond and if he moves to the big bathtub then he's going to want to play and splash and I will no longer be needed.

OK, maybe I'm being a little selfish here but look he's just so happy in this thing. I love this kid; he always has a smile on his face. What can I say? I'm one proud mommy! I will try to work on getting him into the big bathtub this week but I'm not making any promises. Until then we will continue on in our infant bathtub.

Crying it out

Is not for us. Rayce will be 9 months in a few weeks and he has yet to sleep through the night for more then a few nights in a row. You see it’s not him waking up that bothers me because usually he just eats and goes right back to sleep. It’s the fact that after I get woken up I cannot go back to sleep. For those of you who don’t already know I have had serve insomnia for quite sometime now and it takes me forever just to be able to fall asleep. Then to be woken up and have to do it all over again is just killing me. I’m not talking about it taking 30 minutes or so, I’m talking hours. It’s so frustrating. So, here is where trying the whole cry it out thing comes in. I decide I’m going to do a little research on it and then I will bring it up to Ray. He wasn’t all that thrilled on the whole idea but said he would give it a go for me. Well, night time comes and I finally get to sleep around midnight and just as soon as it seems I am dozing off, Rayce wakes up, it’s 2 am. So here we go I am determined to do this. He started to whine and whimper and I let it go on for 2 minutes and proceed to go into his room to offer him some comfort. Here is where it all goes sour because he is used to me picking him up or giving him a bottle or what have you. Well as soon as he figured out that I wasn’t there to do anything of the sort he lost it and was mad. I quietly walked out of the room and let him cry for another 3 minutes. This time Ray went in and gave it a go. He lost it and couldn’t handle the crying. He comes back to bed and says I feel like such a bad parent and he’s going to be emotionally scared. WTF who says that? I’m pissed cause I needed him to back me up on this and he had no intensions of doing such a thing. So I start to have some sort of panic attack because I’m pissed and our child is screaming and is beyond consolable. We let the crying go on for 45 minutes and finally I couldn’t take it anymore. Not to mention one of our neighbors had turned on their outside light. He was screaming that loud. So I pick him up and he was so disoriented from crying so hard that he didn’t even know where he was. He kept franticly looking around trying to figure out what was going on and it was at that moment that I decided never again. I have no idea how other parents can do this night after night. It was heart wrenching. Anyway I finally gave him a bottle and he was back to sleep in less then half an hour. Me on the other hand, ya not so much. I think I finally fell asleep sometime after 5 am. So where does this leave us now? Well, right back where we started. Hopefully the situation will fix itself sooner then later. For now please forgive me if I am a little short with you.

State Fair

Rayce and I had our first state fair experience on Saturday and let's just say well um it was ok! After waiting in traffic for over an hour we finally got there. It was very crowded, you could barely walk without bumping into someone and the lines were long for everything. I will never go again on a Saturday but I tried to make the most of my time nonetheless. After grabbing a bite to eat we made our way to the animal barn. Again, nothing to exciting just a bunch of stinking animals which Rayce had no interest in at all. After that we made our way to the midway where all the rides and games are. Here is where I started to have a little fun. I only say a little because I'm not a fan of riding rides and by this time I am dealing with a very cranky, non napped son and a husband who doesn't feel all that great. After doing some more standing around Ray and I decided to part ways with the others and take our chances at some games. First Ray decided he wanted to try and shoot a basketball in an oval hoop. After 3 shots and 5 bucks later we walk away empty handed. Then we decided to try our luck at toss the ring on the coke bottle game. At first I'm thinking this game is impossible just like all the others. So we start tossing the rings while watching numerous people walk away empty handed and I think to myself there goes another 5 bucks. Then all of the sudden Ray got one, he got a ring around the coke bottle. We flag the guy down and I immediately start looking to pick out one of the gigantic stuffed animals. There was so many I couldn't decide. I was trying to think which would be the best for Rayce to play with. It was a hard choice but I decided on this Dalmatian dog. I was so excited and I couldn't wait to show the others.

I mainly got it for Rayce and as expected he showed little interested in it but I was still excited heck it is the biggest stuffed animal I have owned. It is nearly twice his size and if I were him I would be terrified of the thing. He pokes and pry’s at the thing but that about all the attention that poor dog gets. So all and all my first state fair experience was ok. The food was good and I got a dog but we were all so wiped out the next day. Rayce was very cranky from not getting a nap and Ray spent the night vomiting and missed work on Monday. I don't think it was fair related but I do think he was starting to come down with something and should have stayed home to rest instead of going to the fair. With all that being said there is defiantly several things I will change if we go next year because I know what to expect.

New Wheels

Rayce got some new wheels, a Jeep walker! He would have preferred a Chevy lol.




I felt he was ready for one and I was hoping it would keep him entertained and off of the furniture but I had no such luck. He hasn't quite figured the thing out and isn’t to amused at the same time. He just seems to want to chew on it more then anything. Hopefully soon he will get the hang of it because he is sure all over the place. Now that he has got the pulling him self up thing down pat he is trying it on everything. Which is fine except that he doesn’t always keep his balance. I counted how many times he fell and hit his head today and it was a grand total of 6 times. You think he would learn but no he just gets right back up and does it again (after crying of course). So, I’m just trying to roll with the punches and let my baby just keep growing up right before my eyes. *Sigh* Time to go sit and sulk.

On all fours

I caught him on video crawling on all fours! He wanted me to pick him up and was chasing me lol. If you look real close when he opens his mouth you can see his tooth. It's a long shot but give it a try!

Pulling himself up

Rayce pulled himself up for the first time today!

I'm telling you I can't keep up with this kid.

Mr. big boy

Rayce is growing up WAY to fast. Just in this week alone he has done so many new things. You would think being sick would keep him down. Heck no this kid is going for broke lol. He can now go from crawling to sitting up on his own, crawl on his hands and knees (when he wants to), and for the grand finale he can now pull him self up onto things (gets into a standing position). What am I going to do? My little one is growing up WAY to fast. I can't keep up with this kid.


Also, he is showing a HUGE interest in wanting to eat what we are eating so I think it is time to start giving him some big people's food. I started last night with some bread because he is refusing to eat his baby food. He ate half of one slice and absolutely loved it.
It's so funny because he gums it but it looks like he is chewing only without any teeth.
I love this kid what else can I say!?

sick

Rayce is sick for the first time in almost 8 months. After a busy holiday weekend we both woke up feeling under the weather this morning. I'm not sure if I gave it to him or he gave it to me. We've both been around a lot of people lately so anything is possible. I know that if he feels anything like I do then we both feel pretty crappy. It sucks because we had somethings planned for today that didn't get done. I guess we just wore ourselves too thin and are now paying for it. I plan to rest up this week and lay kind of low. So, if you don't hear from me or I don't answer your call you now know why.

The pic below was made on blingee.com, he is so cute I just had to post it. Love him to peices!