I may pay for it later...

I love that Callie is sleeping in her own crib all through the night.

I was worried that it may not happen since we were cosleeping and breastfeeding.

I kept hearing stories of kids who kept sleeping with the parents, or kept getting up all the time, and thought for sure that would be me.

I have to say though, since switching to formula, we have been able to get her on a much better schedule.

Before I was constantly nursing and she wouldn't nap long, wake up hungry and be tired, fall asleep while nursing, and then at night wake up at least 3-4 times at night.

Now she still doesn't nap quite as much in the day like Wilson did, she gets a good 1-2 hour nap around the same time Wilson goes down.

My body though has gotten so conditioned to waking up multiple times at night, is making me wake up to nothing.

I can't just put Callie right in her crib though, I've found out.

We will give her her last feeding for the night, let her play for a bit, then take her upstairs, if it's bath night she takes her bath, gets into her sleeper.

And then we cuddle for 5-15 minutes.
I wait for her to start calming down, then carry her into her room and lay her down, turn on her mobile and try to give her a pacifier.

She always spits it out and sucks on her thumb instead though.

She may fuss for a minute or two but so far it hasn't been all that long! (5 minutes seem so long when your little baby is crying.)

I stayed up entirely too late, I hope I sleep through the night, since my baby girl is finally doing it!

Too hot!

Seriously, it is really hot outside. Since we are limited to one car and husband is on the day shift, we are stuck inside a lot.
Even just trying to take the babies to the pool by myself is a challenge.
Wilson will play in the water for a little while and then want to run around and get into stuff. I have to go chase him, leaving Callie in the floaty in the water.
She doesn't go anywhere but it still is scary.

So, for the most part when husband works, we hang out inside. Wilson being a crazy 2 year old boy has LOTS of energy. He loves to run around and play and run and explore nonstop.

On husband's days off we have taken him to a lot of places to get out but still try to keep cool.
We go for walks (runs) around the mall, take him to the Playground at the Chick-fil-a, swimming (even though it's hot) We took him to another indoor jungle gym place but he was a little overwhelmed with it. We might try again and see if he does better but he had a hard time figuring out how to climb over the nets and ropes.

So for the most part my day is entertaining him and Callie. He has a new found love of popsicles which he makes a complete mess of and regularly points to the freezer and tries to wheedle me into giving him one.

His favorite game though is having me chase him all around the house. He reminds me of a cat with a laser pointer. Maybe I should invest in one? Normally he loves to run when it's diaper changing time. >.<

At some point I really want to take him to a petting zoo. I think there is one somewhere around here that has bouncy castles too. It's just so HOT out!!! 

His strap here worries me. Normally it doesn't look like this, I'm thinking I need to adjust the height on it. 

We like to jump and play on the bed just like a little monkey.

Callie likes to play too!

DIY- I did something!

After getting the babies all cleaned, bathed, and put one to bed, I made my own homemade laundry detergent.
Thanks to Pinterest and one of my friends, I was inspired to try it out.
I think I spent about 30.00 to get everything together. Next time I'll be on the look out for coupons to use.
So I got my rubber gloves and cheese grater and got to work on grating the soap.
It's a bit boring and tedious, it took me about 25 minutes to grate it all up.
 Then I started layering all the different ingredients and unfortunately, my Borax was all clumpy so I had to spend a lot of time trying beat it back down to the powder.

All in all I spent a little less than an hour putting it together and I have my first load with it in the washer right now. I have a HE washer so I'm nervous about it. I didn't add it to the detergent area like I normally would but added it right to the clothes.

I'll post an update after I use it a couple times! I'm so excited that I have laundry detergent for hopefully a year! Although I do a lot of laundry, so we will see how long it really lasts me.
 

Here are all the ingredients I used.

 The Fels Naptha Soap all grated up.

Layering the ingredients together in my storage tub.

Finished product. The Purex Crystals container is filled up and ready to be used!

I need to do this more.

I really need to use my DSLR a little more. I mean look at how adorable these two are!!! That's it. I'm taking a picture of them EVERYDAY on my camera!

Chipping away...

Go me for crossing off a couple more things of my 30 before 30 list. It's not much in fact it is very hard trying to work on the bigger ones but, I haven't even turned 29 yet so I still a lot of time to try to accomplish the rest!

 The new ones I've completed I wrote a little about underneath. Just a couple but still a great motivation to see things get crossed off here and there!



1. Become Debt Free! -this one may be the hardest to try to complete in 2 years but if I were able to it would be huge which is why it's my number 1!

2. Learn to sew, knit, crochet something!

3. Breastfeed for 6 months! (I made it 6 weeks, so I think 6 months would be amazing this time around!)
I was able to do it! Although I stopped after getting ANOTHER bout of mastitis right after she turned 6 months. I did it. I'm glad I was able to make it, but for us, a happy mommy and happy baby means she gets formula.

4. Have a monthly dinner party with friends.



5. Complete something off of Pinterest. 
Wow, I have completed a lot of little things off pinterest. Our dinners have become MUCH more fun and filled with more variety. I have found lots of little tips and tricks around the house, fun activities for the babies, and lots of great holiday and birthday ideas!

6. Have three months’ worth of expenses in our savings account.

7. Pay for a military family’s meal (a family I don’t know and without them knowing who I am) while out at a restaurant. *This we completed but I feel like not technically because it was at a Dairy Queen and we paid less than 3 dollars. So it is not getting crossed off.

8. Organize all my photos that are currently on my computer eating up space.

9. Learn to cook on a grill by myself.

10. Get both kids potty trained.

11. Take a photography class.

12. Buy all my produce from a farmers market or local farmer.

13. Bake a pie and cake all from complete scratch. (Not at the same time though)

14. Get to spend at least 2 days/2 nights completely kid free, with my husband.

15. Go to a winery and do some wine tasting. (even if I don't like it)

16. Walk more, at least 4 times a week.

17. Throw a great 30th birthday party for myself.

18. Get a pet! (Preferably a dog)

19. Get Andy another car so we have 2 cars instead of 1.


20. Get a pedicure for the first time. (yes I have never gotten a pedicure)


21. Add something unique to my Hello Kitty collection of stuff.

22. Be able to get another cute birth announcement for Baby Bean like I was able to with Wilson.

23. To have driven under 10,000 miles each year on my car. *1 year down and we did it amazingly considering we moved from Indiana to Mississipp to Louisiana!


24. To go grocery shopping by myself with 2 under 2. (this one I'm scared about)
This one can be a challenge but I was able to do it a couple times when Andy was working the Mids shift. It was a lot harder when I was breastfeeding Callie because she would get hungrier a lot faster and I would have to rush to try and get everything I needed before I could nurse her. Now that we have made the switch, I have a little more time before she starts getting hungry. But it works out pretty well. I put Callie in the Ergo and carry her and Wilson in the cart.

25. To be able to fit all my clothes again after baby #2. (hopefully this one will be super easy to do! EEP!)


26. To be able to cloth diaper both babies, which means I need to build up a stash of Cloth Diapers. (See how number 1. is going to be insanely hard to do?) 


27. Stop biting my nails. Again!

28. Be able to budget one going out dinner a month.

29. Get my in laws to come out and visit us for a little while!

30. Be able to visit Indiana at least twice!*
 1 visit out of 2 down!

Toddle Along Tuesdays

Today's TAT is Letters. I wrote a letter to Wilson over 2 years ago.

Come take a read here.

Happy Father's Day

To the father of my children, thank you.