Hey Ladies! Well, I've been MIA for a large part of the last month, so I'm sure there's lots to catch up on! I've been reading along though, and while I'll probably miss some people, know that I've been thinking about all of you!
DMickey -- you did the right thing for your family. *hugs* I know how hard it can be, especially since I've grown up with dogs all my life. Also, I feel you about the comfort of the night bottle! Colin still gets a morning one with whole milk and a night one with formula. I know that we need to stop it (my niece didn't stop hers until right before she turned 3!!) but it's just our routine I think! But, I've got a goal in sight -- I don't want to be washing bottles in Disney, even if we DO have a dishwasher in our room!!
Michelle -- good for you for making the change, as scary as it is! I've been thinking about it too -- my current job is an hour commute one way, I leave the house at 6, home at 5...but, I feel like I've got a connection to the place I'm at -- my dad's been working there since before I was born, and I love all the people...I don't know. We'll see after we have #2 how I feel about a 2 hour daily commute!
Ash -- I made Colin's Hallowe'en costume last year...he was a pirate, but I bought a cheapy stroller and the costume included a pirate ship for the stroller! I'll see if I can find and post a picture -- he was pretty darn cute!
Kelly -- if you're checking DIS, you're not having enough fun things to do at Disney! Enjoy it!!!! Hopefully you haven't had TOO much rain and yuck from Gustav!
Denise -- we're big Yo-Baby fans up here too! We also have another brand here called "Lil Ones" that's made by Dairyland...not sure if it's just a Canadian thing or not, but they're a fair bit cheaper than Yo Baby -- you get 8 for about the same price as the 4!!
Becky -- just say no to the politics!!! It's interesting though -- we were down in Michigan this weekend and saw a lot of Obama shirts... Also, yay about being famous -- wish I had stopped at
Walmart this weekend! And, I've downloaded that program -- I'm doing WW (again...still...) but thought this might help too, so we'll see. I'm with you on wanting to lose before #2 -- DH thinks it's stupid because I'm essentially losing weight to turn around and put it back on, but I don't want to start the pregnancy so heavy...
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So, here's what's happened in the past month around here:
-- I got into a fender bender on my way to work. Rear-ended someone in stop and go traffic. $8k worth of damage to my SUV. Yuck. But, I'm alright, everyone else was alright, Colin WASN'T in the car, and the insurance company was really good about replacing the car seat even though he wasn't in it at the time.
-- Colin had a raging ear ache, his first real fever and then developed what we think was roseola. We weren't able to get into see the doctor before the rash disappeared, but we're pretty sure that's what it was. Now, he's got horrid diaper rash from the antibiotics from his ear infection. I've got my annual physical tomorrow, so I'm going to see if the doc will prescribe something sight unseen, but if not, will take him to the clinic. Poor little monkey.
-- We spent this weekend in Dearborn, Michigan on a mini holiday. The good: a visit to Greenfield Village was really cool. The bad: Colin no longer does very well sleeping in the same room as us. It was BAD!! Also, I got food poisoning or SOMETHING after eating at the Olive Garden, spent most of Saturday night in agony on the bathroom floor and the entire visit to the Henry Ford museum in pain. It passed by about 7 last night, but totally ruined the trip.
-- Today, we took a detour upto to a great outlet mall in Auburn Hills, MI and got a TON of clothes for Colin for the fall/winter/trip to Disney in December. Got some great deals too -- bought $220 worth of clothes at Osh Kosh for $88! And, all the summer stuff was on crazy sales ($2.99 for shorts at Children's Place) so we got lots of stuff for our trip.
-- And now, at only 9:30, I'm off to bed. Thankfully, tomorrow's only a half day of work, but I'm certainly not looking forward to my physical tomorrow afternoon. I also have to drive up to my parents house and pick up our dog, who was having his own little mini-vacay up there!
I promise to check in more often! We're slowly getting into a routine now with work/day care/etc.
Take care ladies!
I've heard meat is an acquired taste and some babies just don't do it unless it's in the nugget form so I'll wait til Mo gets more teeth and go with that a little later. I'm going to try eggs later this week...just the yolks I think it is and see how he does with that. He's going to be nine months in just 4 days! WHAT HAPPENED??!! He's FINALLY holding his bottle on his own now and we're still working on the sippy cup. Wish us luck on the eggs and sippy cup! 
But, I always pick up "All You" magazine at wal-mart, and I get e-mails about trying new products (once I got a package of fake nails to try!). And they send out e-mails with tons of questions they want readers to respond to, and I answered a couple of questions, and they picked one of my responses to go in the magazine and they put a teeny tiny picture of my head right next to it. On page 95. 
Change can be scary, but it's also exciting. This sounds like a step in a great direction for you!
