It is incredibly too late for me to be up writing this blog, but if I don't do it now it may never get written! ;-)
Today was a fun day. Gabe slept in! He never sleeps past 7-ish and I heard him crying a little around 6:15 so I went in and gave him his pacifier and he was out until 8:30! I couldn't believe it! So the down side was that his feeding schedule was shifted, so I gave him cereal and fruit with a bottle first (normally I just give a bottle), and he was fine with that, and he actually went down for a nap around 10. I was thinking he would wake up in plenty of time for us to leave at 11:30 for an appointment. But I had to wake him up. I had gone to see my friend who is a chiropractor on Monday for a weird bump on my wrist that sometimes hurts, and she said it's probably a harmless cyst that is apparently common in women between 20 and 40, and it will probably go away on its own. But she had to check my spine and found that I was out of alignment in several places, so she adjusted me and wanted me to come back today to check everything, and then we went to lunch. So that was fun.
And then tonight my crazy friend Angie came over and we experimented with cake pops. My aunt Mitzi and Grandma bought some silicon cake pop trays while we were at Hilton Head and they were really cute, so they gave me one of the trays and I found a great website that had an awesome recipe for beach ball cake pops. So with these pops, the directions said to dip the pops in white coating and stick in a styrofoam block to let them dry. Well, of course I didn't have styrofoam, and hadn't bought any, so we were trying to think of another way to stand them up, and we got a shoe box, which ended up working well. But I was telling Angie about how on the website they put the finished pops in brown sugar to make it look like sand, and that sparked all these other ideas in her: We should make a whole beach scene! We should make stick figure people and blankets for the sand! No, we should put OUR heads on other people's bodies and have us swimming in the ocean! We decided on cute beach clip art people and here is how they came out:
Since Angie is a brunette, she said I was the one in the bikini...it's sooo me! :-) We sure did have fun making these, but I think I've had my fill of cake pops for a while...they are cute, but the perfectionist in me says they're too hard to get just right.
Gabe missed out on all the cake pop fun because he had to go to bed, but it was a good day. He got one less feeding than normal because he started so late, so I'm going to see if he wakes up for a bottle or if he is able to go without. His eating/sleeping habits seem to be shifting and changing, and it's a huge guessing game trying to keep up with him and figure him out, but I'm trying to just go with it. I have nothing planned for tomorrow so there should be no reason to wake him up from any naps or interrupt his schedule in any way. What I should do is clean my room...what are the odds of that happening??? Haha...my goal is to declutter our room some time before Tim gets back.
Speaking of the hubby, he called this morning and said they're doing well, and their training started today. He said he should be able to call in the mornings and give me updates, so I will report anything of importance that he tells me. :-)
And now it is off to sleepy land for me! I will leave you with a super cute picture of my little dude. :-)
Today was a fun day. Gabe slept in! He never sleeps past 7-ish and I heard him crying a little around 6:15 so I went in and gave him his pacifier and he was out until 8:30! I couldn't believe it! So the down side was that his feeding schedule was shifted, so I gave him cereal and fruit with a bottle first (normally I just give a bottle), and he was fine with that, and he actually went down for a nap around 10. I was thinking he would wake up in plenty of time for us to leave at 11:30 for an appointment. But I had to wake him up. I had gone to see my friend who is a chiropractor on Monday for a weird bump on my wrist that sometimes hurts, and she said it's probably a harmless cyst that is apparently common in women between 20 and 40, and it will probably go away on its own. But she had to check my spine and found that I was out of alignment in several places, so she adjusted me and wanted me to come back today to check everything, and then we went to lunch. So that was fun.
And then tonight my crazy friend Angie came over and we experimented with cake pops. My aunt Mitzi and Grandma bought some silicon cake pop trays while we were at Hilton Head and they were really cute, so they gave me one of the trays and I found a great website that had an awesome recipe for beach ball cake pops. So with these pops, the directions said to dip the pops in white coating and stick in a styrofoam block to let them dry. Well, of course I didn't have styrofoam, and hadn't bought any, so we were trying to think of another way to stand them up, and we got a shoe box, which ended up working well. But I was telling Angie about how on the website they put the finished pops in brown sugar to make it look like sand, and that sparked all these other ideas in her: We should make a whole beach scene! We should make stick figure people and blankets for the sand! No, we should put OUR heads on other people's bodies and have us swimming in the ocean! We decided on cute beach clip art people and here is how they came out:
Gabe missed out on all the cake pop fun because he had to go to bed, but it was a good day. He got one less feeding than normal because he started so late, so I'm going to see if he wakes up for a bottle or if he is able to go without. His eating/sleeping habits seem to be shifting and changing, and it's a huge guessing game trying to keep up with him and figure him out, but I'm trying to just go with it. I have nothing planned for tomorrow so there should be no reason to wake him up from any naps or interrupt his schedule in any way. What I should do is clean my room...what are the odds of that happening??? Haha...my goal is to declutter our room some time before Tim gets back.
Speaking of the hubby, he called this morning and said they're doing well, and their training started today. He said he should be able to call in the mornings and give me updates, so I will report anything of importance that he tells me. :-)
And now it is off to sleepy land for me! I will leave you with a super cute picture of my little dude. :-)
1 comment:
CUTE CAKE POPS! I love the beachball idea!! But the cutest picture of all is that one of Mr. Gabe! Sounds like you're doing great! Love you!
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