tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56238891176934316502024-03-13T03:20:11.123-05:00Better Together & ForeverHowever far away, I will always love youJessica @ Better Together and Foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200495908500886351noreply@blogger.comBlogger480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623889117693431650.post-54384161403328811432015-08-07T07:00:00.000-05:002015-08-07T07:00:08.540-05:005 on Friday - August 7th!<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy Friday! Tonight I played "single mom" due to the fact that poor Andy was stuck at work really late tonight. While I enjoyed spending the time with Luke, I felt like a piece of us was missing without Andy here. I know he was really bummed about not spending time with Luke too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OW9NGIS?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01">Covergirl Colorlicious Lipstick in Sweet Tangerine</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not sure what's come over me lately, but for the last couple of months I have been really into makeup. Trying new products, watching vlog reviews of makeup and seeing what works best for me! One of the vloggers I regularly watch suggested this lipstick color and I've have looked everywhere for it. Well props to Amazon and Prime shipping! I'm excited to try it out tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another new favorite makeup item of mine are these beauty blenders from good ol Amazon again! For $14.97, you get 4 of these. I tried these without googling "How to use beauty blenders" and wasn't thrilled. Then I decided to get smart and GTS (Google that S*!t) and found that you need to get these sponges good and wet. They then expand to 25% bigger in size. Wring out as much water as possible, apply foundation and "Wah-la", foundation that looks flawless on your face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can be picky when it comes to protein powder and this takes the cake for tasting good. Granted I don't drink this with just a liquid and a shaker. I like to make mine in a smoothie format. I fill my cup with ice, add a splash of a coffee flavoring (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Folgers-Iced-Cafe-Latte-Variety/dp/B00T5TIPK4/ref=sr_1_2?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1438911583&sr=1-2&keywords=folgers+iced+coffee">this</a> is my favorite right now), a scoop of protein powder and fill the cup with milk. Blend and put in a cup with a straw. It's my go to breakfast to drink in the car on my way to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yep, gotta add in the "Mommy Blog" part of this blog and say how much I love these diapers for Luke to use at night. Luke woke up 2 mornings in a row with wet mammies and I started to look for night time diapers. I tried another store brand and I didn't like them. They didn't do well and were just like the daytime diapers. I then decided to try the Pampers brand and LOVED them because Luke no longer had soaked jammies. We order these from Amazon and get a subscription every other month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What a better way to end this blog than with an adorable photo of my baby! We did a little photo shoot at home with my Canon dSLR on Saturday night. I needed to order Luke's 1st Birthday invitation and wanted to get some adorable photos of Luke with a neutral background. Trust me, we have a bajillion photos of Luke, but none with a background like the one above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello everyone! I feel bad that I haven't blogged lately, but then again I don't (not sure if that makes sense or not, but whatever). I feel like some parts of my life are coming together and other's aren't and thats ok. Not everything has to make sense all at once! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luke has been amazing! He's getting bigger and bigger by the days and it's just amazing how fast he learns new things. Our lives were forever changed for the better the day that the pee stick said "Positive"! He is 10 months old (as of yesterday, 7/12) and is the light in our eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Andy has been great too! I know he is having some hard times dealing with work but I get it and am as supportive as I can be. We have been getting along great (like always to be honest) and we just have a great time together. Yes we bicker and sometimes fight, but what couple doesn't?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keeley has been jealous of Luke but to be honest, he does care a lot about him. In fact after a grocery shopping trip with just Luke and myself, I came home and got out of the car and Keeley ran over to Luke's side of the car to find him. Every once in awhile she will sneak him kisses and it's just too cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Smokey is reallllllly great with Luke! We couldn't ask for anything more from him, well maybe one thing, to stop meowing at 5:30am when he thinks he needs to eat every morning; including the weekends! </span></div>
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Jessica @ Better Together and Foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200495908500886351noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623889117693431650.post-33234481074890702202015-06-08T11:54:00.001-05:002015-06-08T20:37:15.981-05:00Working Out?Oh hey there! Yep I'm alive and here and what not. Guess my blogging has been sporadic at best (obviously) which makes me sad because I love to read back at what was going on a year ago. Oh well I'm doing the best I can. <div><br></div><div>So one of the many perks at my new job? A free gym to use! Yes I said free!! The last two weeks I was acclimating myself at the company and trying to get comfortable. Over the weekend while I was bloated and felt like an absolute cow I decided "gosh dang it Jess, get off your butt and work out". So that's what I'm doing! Today was the treadmill! You've got to start somewhere and that is what I am doing! I need to tighten up this stomach and lose some weight. Do I have any baby weight left to lose? No actually I didn't put much baby weight on at all and after birth I dropped the weight so fast. So now it's time to finally get rid of the flab and make me look fab? How about just make me feel comfortable about myself. Working out on lunch has even motivated Andy to work out, so watch out! </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIhuz0j35LFcfEBKU0SUR4fxNkgYqJOXqzdCa7U0CSq4DN0THLr_kT98kcORrXatvN6hySbMYPEln3z1tH5pJDFTKYVcVnOYPNAdCigblCgboQokpA5bj04Sul21x1sblWadjeNyPc04/s640/blogger-image--439911045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIhuz0j35LFcfEBKU0SUR4fxNkgYqJOXqzdCa7U0CSq4DN0THLr_kT98kcORrXatvN6hySbMYPEln3z1tH5pJDFTKYVcVnOYPNAdCigblCgboQokpA5bj04Sul21x1sblWadjeNyPc04/s640/blogger-image--439911045.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Jessica @ Better Together and Foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200495908500886351noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623889117693431650.post-2619192926191298372015-06-01T07:00:00.000-05:002015-06-01T07:00:08.672-05:00H-A-P-P-Y!!!!<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is a LONG time coming now! I can't believe it's taken me this long to post about Luke's room. Especially since it's my favorite room in the entire house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was always known that our first child's room would be "Finding Nemo" themed. Now try to create a room with the theme of "Finding Nemo" when the movie last came out in 2003 (the year that Andy and I graduated high school....) At first the thought of creating a room sounded daunting, but in the end I think it came out great without it looking like Nemo threw up all over the room. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up was the paint color. I knew that I either wanted a teal or ocean blue color for the room with a possibility of an orange accent wall. I also had Andy agree to do stripes on one wall. I chose some paint colors at Lowe's even before knowing the gender of the baby. I then began to second guess my color choices because I thought if we were having a girl, I would then want more of girly colored room. Also the thought of teal colored walls with an orange accent wall began to make my head hurt and I began to second guess my color options. Back to Lowe's we went and Andy decided on agreeing to paint one wall with chevron stripes. I was soooooo excited for those chevron stripes. We chose a bright blue color for 3 of the walls and 2 different grey colors for the chevron stripes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Painting began in April (2014) with the help of our ex-neighbors (long story, but basically we are no longer friends with them). The 3 walls received the blue color and the grey wall received it's first coat of paint, the lighter grey color. They then used a chalk line and measured out and taped where the dark grey color would be painted in. In the end, the paint job came out great and I was so pleased with the results! Our ex-neighbors also helped designed some vinyl stickers to add to the wall. This is where the pop of orange color came in effect. I designed Luke's name and we even were able to cut out of vinyl a Nemo and Dory for the wall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next step was to get some furniture in that room! We knew we wanted white furniture in there seeing the color of the room came out, we knew the white furniture would pop just perfectly in there! My mom graciously purchased Luke a gorgeous white dresser, Andy's parents so kindly purchased the tan rocker/glider and we received the crib from my brother (his kids used this crib also). The crib originally was a dark brown color and we thought it would be easy-peasy to paint the crib white. WRONG! Note to those out there, just get a new crib in the color you want! We spent over $60 in spray paint alone just to get that crib white. We also purchased a white bookshelf for the room from Ikea when we went there in April. I love his bookshelf, seeing that it is so unique. My only complaint about the bookshelf is, it doesn't hold books that well. We also picked up a white side table from Ikea to put next to the rocker/glider. I found the "Finding Nemo" prints online from someone selling them. I purchased them for $15. We found some white frames at Michael's to put the prints in but I wanted a little bit more orange pop to the room. So we spray painted them orange. I think the prints look great against the orange frame!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, hey there! I'm here, I'm alive and doing well! New things are happening for our family and time just get's away from you. I use to get sad that bloggers once they had a baby would "neglect" their blog. I then had my baby and now I get it...... Time is a precious thing and I swear I never get enough time with Andy and Luke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My job - It's been something I have been dealing with lately and more times than not, I was not happy where I was. With being pregnant last year, I felt it was not a good time for me to leave. Now that Luke is a little older and I am not pregnant, it was perfect timing for me to start looking for a new opportunity. Thankfully it wasn't a long process and I have accepted an offer at a new company. I am looking forward in learning new things, working with new people and in general working with an entirely different industry. I start my new job on Tuesday, May 26th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luke - how is he already 8 months old!?! He is so much more interactive, smiles 24/7, and is getting so big. He sits up on his own, refuses most pureed foods, wants to eat like a big boy, currently has 3 teeth (two bottoms and one upper) and is cutting at least 3 more and possibly more. Teething is so hard for my little dude, but he tries to smile through as much as he can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daycare - it's been a challenge the last couple weeks, but it seems to be calming down also. I plan on explaining more about this on a later date. All I can say is, don't mess with Mommy....cause us Mommy's will go all "Momma bear on you when we feel like our baby isn't taken care of very well".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home - we FINALLY had a patio poured out back in our house. It's about dang time....and of course it couldn't go smoothly. How does this happen to us all the time??? It's like I just figure that things will not go smoothly because it never does. We also decided to upgrade our dishwasher and we LOVE our new Bosch! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okie doke, that's about it. I will leave you with a photo of Luke because, well, he is the light in my life! :) </span><br />
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Jessica @ Better Together and Foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200495908500886351noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623889117693431650.post-59287260915572110272015-05-15T13:53:00.002-05:002015-05-15T13:53:51.846-05:00Luke Andrew - 7 Months Old<div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick congratulations to my neighbor's on the birth of their baby boy early this morning! It's funny to think that Luke and my neighbor's baby will be in the same grade in school if we all are still living by each other then. Luke is almost 7 months old but the way the school's work he, our neighbor's baby and the other neighbor on the other side of us who had their baby in January will all be in the same grade. So fun! I will say though, them having a baby makes me have a tiny little bit of baby fever......and then I think about how hard it would be with Luke and then a second on with Luke's age and I let that baby fever go away. HAHA! Not for a couple years.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh my gosh, this pizza is AMAZING and I have been craving it ever since we had it last Friday, soooooo guess what's for dinner tonight! :) Haha! It's called Fox's Pizza Den and is AMAZING!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Has anyone else tried using a Bento box for their lunches? If not, I highly suggest so! I am a tupperware hoarder, just ask my husband. There are days when I bring home 3 things of tupperware PLUS a bowl that I used to eat my oatmeal in....this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B78T8U2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">Bentgo box</a> eliminates the usage of many tupperware boxes and keeps it all separate and tidy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Luke is starting to sit up more (mostly assisted by leaning up against me or Andy) he has taken an interest in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/VTech--Stand-Learning-Frustration-Packaging/dp/B0053X62GK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428673118&sr=8-1&keywords=vtech+walker">VTech Walker</a>. Anything that lights up and sings is a plus in Luke's book!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do you hold yourself accountable in drinking water during the day? I decided last week that I was going to mark on my work water bottle times of the day and where I should be at with drinking water. I am HORRIBLE at drinking water just because I forget, especially at work. On Wednesday I drank 5 water bottles full of water at work! I felt awesome and need to keep reminding myself to keep drinking the agua!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like you thought I wouldn't think I would post a photo of Luke on the blog......HA! Yesterday it was very warm and humid, a perfect weather pattern to set up for tornadoes...... Luke and I enjoyed hanging outside while Andy barbecued us some dinner. We tried some Apple Chicken Sausages from Trader Joes. They were ok, not my favorite but I'd probably eat them again. I am not a fan of bratwursts so the chicken sausages just didn't excite me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you all enjoy your weekend. We were going to try to get to the zoo on Saturday, but I set up an appointment for an estimate to getting a patio poured on our house. So not exactly sure what's in store for our weekend. It doesn't really matter to me though, as long as I get to spend it with Andy and Luke, I am happy! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've learned in the 31 years of life I have lived, that EVERYONE LOVES TO GIVE ADVICE and it only get's worse once you are in a relationship, and then you get married, and then comes the baby. While I appreciate all of the advice that I receive from everyone, there are that tiny few that I actually listen to. So bad to admit, but I'd rather be honest than not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having a Baby, it's NO WHERE THE SAME for every single person. I really did listen to all the advice on having a baby and I read every book possible. Then you give birth to this tiny human and all advice and things you've read have gone out the window. Your mind goes blank and you begin to panic once the baby starts to cry and won't stop. The best advice I ever received was from my mom and she said, "The first 3 months of your life with a newborn are called 'survival mode'. You do what works for you." I thought I was the worst mother to let my son sleep in the bouncer at night and then once you go just one night with very little sleep. You begin to stop caring about what others think and what others say and you do what works best for you. You hear about how awful co-sleeping it, but there were some nights where Luke just wouldn't sleep without sleeping on me. So yeah, some nights I would snuggle him in-between my arm and my body and he would sleep and I would sleep. I wake up to every sound possible and was use to sleeping on my back, so this was nothing. While I didn't like to co-sleep, I did what I had to do to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning Luke decided that 3:30 AM was "time to wake up". I am pretty sure the thunder woke up him and he thought it was time to get up. So I go in and give him his "bink" and lightly pat his back. He begins to fall asleep. I lie down and he's crying again. I go back in and do the same thing over. He falls asleep. "Sweet!" I lie back down and 15 minutes later he is back up. So I give in and start our weekend morning ritual; reason for the weekend ritual, because I had NO desire to start getting ready for work at 4 AM...... I change him and then feed him a 6 ounce bottle. He gladly takes it and falls asleep. I lie him in the crib, creep back into bed and begin to relax. 4:30 AM Luke is back up. I bring him into bed with me, NOPE. He think's it's play time. Give him some tylenol thinking teething is bugging him and lie him back down in the crib. He finally falls asleep at 5 AM, juuuuusssstttttt in time for my alarm to go off.....dang! But you know what, I wouldn't trade this life for anything! And this ladies and gents is why I go to bed at 8:30 PM every night..... :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh Mr. Luke, this month has flown by and it seems like time is flying by faster and faster the older you get! You tried out your airplane swing for the first time just before your 6 month birthday and are still a little too wobbly for it. You have been practicing big time how to sit up on your own and you roll all over the place if we leave you on the floor. You are still the king of the jumperoo and prefer that toy of our anything we own. In fact, Mommy went out and purchased a second jumperoo secondhand for $15 so that we can use it indoors and outdoors! You still smile 24/7 and are such a happy little boy. You are a drooling fool and we keep thinking you are about to get a tooth, but still nothing have popped through just yet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I had hoped to get this post up yesterday. In fact on Sunday night, I loaded all the photos up and just needed to type it all up. However time got the best of me and it looks like the post is going up for Tuesday! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Rewind* On Thursday at work, I got the "brilliant" idea that we just NEEDED to take Luke to sit on the Easter bunny's lap. You know, the weekend of Easter is a PERFECT time to do so.....or NOT! I began to do my research on Easter bunny's and of course the mall offers this BUT you HAVE to pay to get a photo. for 2 - 4x6 photos you pay $27......NOT!!!!! I do not think so. Then the thought of having to wait in a line to get a photo was not a fun thought....so I began to research my alternatives. Bass Pro had a free Easter bunny but I was too tired to go on Friday afternoon. While searching on facebook I saw that our local grocery store, Schnuck's, was offering the Easter Bunny for FREE on Saturday. SOLD!! So we packed us up and headed to Schnuck's at 11am. When we first pulled into the parking lot, it looked like it was going to be a nightmare. We walked into the store and there was no line at all for the Easter Bunny!!!!!!! We took a photo with my nice Canon and was out of the store in 5 minutes! SCORE! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, I didn't think for the month of March that I would have taken so much time off of blogging, but I did. I don't feel guilty at all for it either. March was a really tough month emotionally for me. Nothing majorly happened, it's just everything decided to hit me at once and I had no desire to talk about it at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This cutie turned 6 months old on March 12th!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We celebrated my 31st birthday early on Saturday, March 14th with a delicious breakfast from The Pancake House! Oh my gosh, it was soooooooo good! I had the lemon blueberry pancakes, hashbrowns and fresh squeezed orange juice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we are practicing with our sippy cup. We are using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philips-Avent-Classic-Bottle-Trainer/dp/B009YSYDN4/ref=pd_sim_ba_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0CM8VSV6X0R4ECQVB9ZD">these</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00792RG1S/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3CG2TXUKA3P2H&coliid=I2V6VMGRHMX721&psc=1">these </a>with Luke right now. Caution though, these are NOT spill proof! We are just trying to get Luke use to sippy cups right now.</span></div>
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First time swinging in the airplane swing on March 11th! His Uncle Jack, Uncle Joe and Aunt Jena used this swing when they were babies along with his cousins Jackson and Claire. It has now been passed down to us for Luke to use! :) </div>
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6 month pediatrician check up on March 16th! </div>
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Sick little dude on March 18th. </div>
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Jessica @ Better Together and Foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200495908500886351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623889117693431650.post-69069938353291261702015-04-01T07:39:00.002-05:002015-04-01T07:39:34.997-05:00Guest Posting over at The Girl in the Red Shoes!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought I would start April off the right way to not only blog, but also to guest post over at <a href="http://www.girlintheredshoes.com/2015/04/the-breastfeeding-diaries-jessica-from.html">The Girl in the Red Shoes</a> about my breastfeeding experience! Ever since I became pregnant, I was obsessed with reading all the breastfeeding stories on Julie's blog and today I am happy to get to share my own experience! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good Morning Everyone!! My name is Jessica and I blog over at <a href="http://bettertogetherandforever.blogspot.com/">Better Together and Forever</a>! I am so thankful for Julie allowing me share my story of breastfeeding. I found hers and other's stories on The Breastfeeding Diaries so helpful while I was pregnant and wanted to share my own story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would have asked me 2 years ago if I would breastfeed, I would have laughed and said no. It wasn't until my husband and I began to try for a baby that I became more informed in breastfeeding and I then decided that I was going to breastfeed. Everyone told me how hard it would be, but that made me even more determined that I was going to breastfeed. Once I became pregnant, I began to be even more interested in breastfeeding and how the whole process worked. I read blogs, I read books, I took a breastfeeding class and brought along my husband with me, and I even joined my "Birth Club" on Babycenter.com to learn more about breastfeeding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday, September 12th, 2014, my son Luke Andrew was born in this world at 2:10 AM after 18 hours of labor. I told my nurses that I wanted to do skin to skin immediately after birth and then try to breastfeed him before we allowed visitors in the room. Thankfully Luke was born with no medical complications and I was able to accomplish skin to skin and breastfeeding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 25 hours of age, your baby goes through the newborn testing. The nurse and I spoke about when to take Luke for his testing. We agreed that after his feeding at 1 AM that I would call her and she would take him to the nursery for the testing. He came back to me about an hour later and the nurse told me how it went, but to honest, I don't remember what she said because I was just so tired! I awoke around 7 AM and asked the nurse again what she said. She told me that his bili-rubin level was elevated and the pediatrician would be checking on Luke to find out if he needed to lie under the lights to get rid of the bili-rubin. Around 8 AM I fed Luke and he was then taken to the nursery to "sun tan". He could only be in my room to nurse and then was taken back to the nursery to drink some formula and go back under the lights. At that moment, I knew that nursing Luke would start to become difficult. I tried to feed Luke a bottle of formula but he just wasn't having it. The nurse told me that sometimes babies don't want to take a bottle from a mother who is breastfeeding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday afternoon we were given the green light to take our baby boy home, but with our very own portable bili-bed. The bili-bed became a constant pain to have to drag around the house with us. He was to be on the light unless he was eating or needed a diaper change. So needless to say, breast feeding on top of the stupid bili-bed/blil-blanket became a challenge, but I was determined to make it work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, I am SO proud of myself for sticking with breastfeeding, even if it was for 2 months. Do I wish that I stuck with breastfeeding for my original goal of 1 year? Yes, of course, but I made the best decision for me and my son. I tried to up my water intake, I tried taking a ton of fenugreek, I ate oatmeal and I drank Mother's Milk tea. None of it made the difference and stress took over. Formula is fine for my little guy and he is thriving. Today at 6 months of age he is 19 pounds and 29 inches long. He is the happiest little guy and smiles on cue when I say "cheese" with my camera. All I ever wanted was the best for Luke and even without breastfeeding, Luke is still getting all the nutrition that he needs and that is all I ask for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank goodness it is Friday! Seriously, this week was dragged on and I thought it was never going to end! Yesterday just felt like a Friday so it kinda feels like groundhog day today since today is really Friday. It's a rainy and dreary Friday at that! </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least it's been nice all the other days this week and we were able to get out daily evening walks in. Keeley and Luke are in heaven during those walks. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I am picking up my car from the shop. I can't go into detail at the moment of what happened, but let's just say I got into an accident (thankfully Luke and Andy were NOT with me that morning and I am OK too) and the poor Prius (that isn't even a year old) needed to be fixed. As much fun as the rental has been (Nissan Rouge), I am ready to be back in my Prius. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not a very fancy blogger. I have used blogger.com to write my blogs and to read my favorite blogs and lately, it has been making me disgruntled. I am finding that most of my favorite blogs that I have listed in the left hand column of blogger.com are showing up in my feed, but some are not. What is up with that? Also, I used to get an email every time someone would comment on my blog that was posted for that day and now I am not. Am I doing something wrong? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luke turned 6 months old yesterday! How can he be that old already!?! But then again I look back at life before Luke and it's hard to ever imagine our life without him in it! It's been the best and hardest 6 months of my life and I wouldn't change a thing about it! He is the happiest, calm and generally in a good mood baby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of Mr. Luke, it is time once again to move his bottle nipples up to the fast flow. I noticed this morning that he is collapsing the nipples because he is too fast at drinking the bottles. Thank goodness for Amazon.com and their deals. As much as I like to shop in local stores, I prefer the prices on Amazon.com more often than in store deals. I picked up 3 packages of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Evenflo-Pack-Classic-Silicone-Nipple/dp/B00005C0EN/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1426256101&sr=8-2&keywords=evenflo+bottle+nipple">these</a> and 3 packages of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Browns-Natural-Standard-Nipple/dp/B003KMW4EA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1426256152&sr=8-2&keywords=dr+brown+bottle+nipples">these</a>. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love to look every once in awhile at the Buy Sell Trade pages on Facebook in my area and came across a deal that I just couldn't pass up. A lady posted her son's Baby Einstein's Jumperoo up for $15! I jumped at the chance at getting it and was the first to comment so it was mine!!! Luke tried it for the first time yesterday and while it took him some time to get use to since it's not exactly like his Fisher Price jumperoo, I think he will love it in time. It will be nice to bring this outside too so that both Andy and I can get stuff done outside but Luke will also be entertained also since he's not crawling or walking yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey guys! I would say "Sorry" for my unplanned radio silence around here. Life lately has really gotten me down and sometimes I just like to go silent to deal with my things. So let's bullet point life, shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was well known in St. Louis that we were expecting to get some crummy weather all weekend long. The forecast was predicting freezing rain and snow sometime during Friday and into Saturday. I had lunch plans with Ali, but we decided to cancel due to the stupid winter weather, bummer. When I left work at 3:30 PM, the weather hadn't started yet (thankfully) and I met Andy over at the Toyota dealership to get the 10,000 mile maintenance done on the Prius. We chose to drop the car off overnight because who has time to sit in a dealership to get maintenance done on your car? Not this girl! We then picked Luke up at the daycare and headed home. The rest of the evening was filled with making and eating dinner and play with little dude. I fell asleep around 9 PM in bed with the TV on. Andy "woke" me up sometime later where I apologized in my sleep numerous times that I fell asleep with the TV on. Note: this isn't the first or last time I'll ever do that. Seriously, who apologizes multiple times in their sleep?!??!! LOL</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little dude started stirring around 6 AM and the ever awesome husband of mine got up with Luke so that Mommy could sleep in a bit. Brownie points to Andy! :) I woke up around 7:30 that morning. I could have slept longer, but I just feel guilty sleeping in too much now. I'd rather spend that time with my family. Andy made us breakfast (pancakes and bacon) and we had fun just lounging around the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got up with little dude at 6:30 AM and Daddy wasn't too far behind at 7 AM. I watched a cheesy Hallmark movie, "So You Said Yes" and didn't do much besides moving laundry around. I loathe laundry by the way..... Around 10:30 AM I called my mom to find out if she was dressed and ready to go out. She laughed and said, "It's only 10:30 AM" I said, "Exactly, I've been up for 4 hours already!" Boy how have times changed!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went out to lunch at a mexican restaurant, and shopped at Kohl's and Dierbergs. I used my Kohl's cash plus a $10 off $30 purchase and picked up Luke 4 summer creepers/rompers (<a href="http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2049585/carters-striped-henley-romper-baby-boy.jsp">this</a> (in blue), <a href="http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2033221/carters-striped-applique-creeper-baby-boy.jsp">this</a> (in blue monster and grey baseball), and <a href="http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2033242/carters-print-creeper-baby-boy.jsp">this</a> (in red) in size 18 months) to wear. All 4 of those for $14!! WINNING! Can I also mention HOW HARD it is to purchase clothes ahead of the time for this kid!?!! Seriously, he is wearing 9 AND 12 month clothing at 5 1/2 months old! He's going to be in 5T at his 1st Birthday.....this kid is so tall! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's SO SO cold out! I am over winter and ready for spring. Remember when I wanted some snow? Well we got it and I'm over it! Bring the spring temperatures and sunny days back!! I will say, I am pretty darn proud of myself for getting 3 posts out this week! My week started out pretty bad and is so far ending on a positive note. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first month where Andy and I have noticed a big change in Luke. The afternoon/evening use to be a tough one for us and Luke. He would be fussy and tired but we would be trying to keep him awake so that he would sleep longer for us. Now, we is super happy until around 6 PM. He "knows" when it's 6 and is ready for the 3 B's (bath, bottle, bed). Car rides were tough there for a little bit because Luke just didn't want to be confined to the car seat. Now he knows that he won't be in there long and is pretty content. Luke has discovered his hands and feet. He is getting better everyday at using his hands to put items in his mouth to "eat" and is even getting the hang of putting his "bink" in his mouth by himself. Sometimes it's not in correctly (upside down or even half way in) but he doesn't mind. He absolutely LOVES his jumperoo and can spend a good hour in there bouncing away. He also likes to watch TV....in fact if he doesn't hear the sound of the TV on, he is looking at it like, why isn't the TV on? Sometimes we will put on Baby Einstein's for him on the TV and if we are in the car and he is crabby we will YouTube Baby Einsteins and he instantly quiets down. That show is magical. :) Daycare has been going well and he loves it there. His teachers are amazing and I wouldn't wish for anyone else to be in there with him. Sickies are here and there. It's almost like he is dealing with a sickness every other week. The middle of January a big flu bug went around and Luke got it also. Diarrhea and throwing up were the main culprit and I swear the exorcist came out of him when he was throwing up. I have never seen someone throw up like that....OK that's enough details. Thankfully (only thankful for the fact that I didn't have to take time off of work) the bug really hit him late Friday night so we spent the entire weekend cuddling and changing outfits and sheets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The title of this post probably sounds like it's going to be very feminist, but in all actuality, it's no where near it. In fact, I am going to just point blank say it: I work better with men than women. It's taken me 16 years to figure this out, but seriously, I can work with men so much better than women. I don't know if it's me or them, but I just have a hard time with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've worked many jobs since the age of 16 years old and every job where I have had a male boss, my work quality is better, my work relationship with that boss is better and my happiness level is better. With women I've always had issues working with and for them. In fact every job I've had, all of my women bosses (except one) and I have not worked as best as I did with a male boss. But I just keep trucking on and working, because there's nothing I can do. Just grin, bear it and go home. I always say, "I just do my job and then go home". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mom taught me at a very young age to be respectful, say please and thank you, and work hard and in return you shall be rewarded (it doesn't always happen....). The one important thing I have learned and still struggle with is, "Leave your work at work and your home at home". Especially now with having Luke, I want to leave my work at home (I'm not talking about actual work either). I don't want to bring my drama or bad mood home and effect that quality time I have with Luke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday while driving home I was in a bad mood because of work. I tried to shake it but my brain wouldn't stop. My bad mood was brought into the house and effected me. While eating dinner Luke kept staring at me and smiling. I am talking hard core staring at me and wouldn't stop until I looked at him. The minute I looked at him, he would smile. That right there snapped me out of my bad mood and reminded me, "LEAVE YOUR BAD MOOD AT WORK"!!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seriously, where is the caffeine? Why does my child not like to sleep? What did I do to deserve these sleepless nights? UGH!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now it's an ear infection keeping him up and screwing up the nighttime sleep and I am about at wits end. I love you Luke but can you just pllllllleeeeeassssseeeeee sleep! We have a "conversation" every night where I talk to Luke and say, "Ok buddy, tonight you are going to sleep the whole night through and not wake up once until it's time to get up. Right buddy?" But our "conversations" are useless right now because he just "isn't listening". I know, he will sleep eventually. I'm still hoping for sooner, rather than later! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the alarm goes off and you go get your squishy little one from their bed and they give you a big gummy smile; your heart melts and you immediately forget that you are frustrated at the lack of sleep. Trust me though, once you're at work, you don't forget and struggle with keeping those eyes open all day. That gummy smile is what keeps me going through the day. So keep up those smiles Luke. Those smiles are worth a night of crappy sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a week and boy am I glad it is almost over! Luke is finally on the mend from his sickies, my boss is back from being on vacation, and we received a tiny amount of snow/ice on Wednesday. I realllllllly wish we would get a good blizzard this year, but so far it's a no go with the white stuff. In fact tomorrow' high temp is suppose to be in the 60's. Any normal person would be excited about that, but to be honest I am not. Any time in the winter when the weather does this (changes from 20's to 60's and then back down to the 20's) you can almost bet that sickies will be right around the corner again. BOO! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey there cute kid! Luke yesterday was in a great mood (for a good 5 minutes in the high chair) until Mommy took too long in making his sweet potatoes and he became increasingly hangry. Obviously this photo was taken before the hangry stage. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last 2 month's we have been dealing with a sickness every other week, no joke! Of course Luke picks up all sicknesses from being at daycare. He handles it all like a champ, so I can't really complain there. I just have to keep reminding myself that he is building up his immunity to all these illnesses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then you hear about the measles outbreak and it's scaring the living crap out of me because my son is too young to receive the measles vaccine. I'm not here to preach about if you should or shouldn't get the vaccine, however; I am going to be PISSED if my son get the measles because you chose to not get your child vaccinated and now you have your child with measles and mine! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm also in a rut with working out. I'm a slacker. I have no desire to get on the treadmill that's in my own house. My evenings are already short as they are and getting on the treadmill or working out with a video just doesn't sound like a good time to me. Literally when we get home it's: play with Luke, make dinner, eat dinner really fast, play with Luke more until he can no longer handle being awake, bath, bottle, baby to bed, and then I finally get to relax around 7 PM. I just need to suck it up and workout. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there you go and that is where my head is at. At least I have this adorable baby, that is what makes my world go round!</span></div>
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