Five Reasons Why Not to Give Your Baby a Cookie

5. One less for you!



4. A guilty feeling that you should really be feeding them fruits and vegetables.



3. They now can recognize cookies and want one everytime they see one.



2. Have I mentioned one less for you?



And the number 1 reason why NOT to give your baby a cookie: the mess you get to clean up!

My Many Abilities

I posses few abilities/talents. I've never meet anyone else who can do all of these consistently like I can. My first uncanny ability is that I can always pull up the car door handle when someone else is trying to unlock the car, for the next five minutes. In fact the only way for people to get my car door unlock is for me to stand at least a foot away without me touching the car.

I can have an incredibly strong craving for chocolate and be able to wander the entire store and still not be able to find the candy aisle. I usually get the candy bars in the check out lane or I send Ben.

When I walk down stairs I have to concentrate and hold on to the rail or I fall. Oddly enough I can run, skip, and frolic without stumbling. Amazingly I have only fallen down the stairs once when holding a baby. It was with Brianna and she was about eight months old.

My last ability I have is I always want to go see the doctor/ dentist or make someone in my family go when there is nothing they can do to help. Today is a good example of that. Last week I noticed Brianna was getting a tooth in the wrong spot (it was also extremely red and swollen). So I got her an emergence dentist appointment this morning. As of yet he said to watch it. If in two months it is still causing problems then we take her back and get x-rays done. From there they may get more aggressive and cut the tooth out. But other then that there are no problems. She has no cavities.

My Big Girl!

Brianna just peed in the potty!!! She announced that she had to poop and wanted to sit on the toilet and she peed! I'm so proud of her.

Ben and I talk to her often about using the potty. We also read books about it to her and have watched a video about it with her, but I'm not ready to deal with the stress of potty training just yet, so I've been putting it off.

We are also planning on moving in the next couple of months and don't want to deal with a set back (and I recently destroyed her binky). We haven't pushed using the potty, but we do encourage it. Maybe soon I'll get her potty trained.

Pepperoncini!

We had a family reunion on my Dads side om Monday. It was fun! we have a game we do every year where you guess nom many items are in a container and the one who guesses the closest wins. well my increadable wife won me some pepperoncini peppers! They are so good! Thanks sweetie!

Anniversary

As of today we've been married THREE years and three days! Its interesting to think about those early weeks. At the beginning we just wanted kids. Now we just want alone time. Boy, time sure changes things.

I Give Up

I've heard that usefulness is not impaired by imperfection; that you can still drink from a chipped cup, but this is ridiculous.

Brianna's bottom teeth came in perfectly straight, but about a month or so ago I noticed that they are no longer that way (also a little embarrassing to have a two year old with a pacifier). I decided that it was time to actively break her binky addiction so I clipped the top. She cried for a while and asked the binky "why".

I thought great, we're done, but then she started sucking on it anyhow, so I cut a hole into the top. She didn't care. I then cut the top off. She thought it was neat she could put her finger in it. My sister suggested clipping the sides. It didn't sound safe to me seeing how its latex and I didn't want it to tear off and choke her, but I tried it. She didn't seem to notice. I no longer thought the binky was safe so I cut down the sides. Didn't phase her.

I'm now getting frustrated that it isn't working so I cut one of the sides off. She still sucked on her binky. I thought I had her when I then cut the last remaining side in half, but no. Brianna still uses her binky.

I did this all in the last week and Brianna is still enjoying her binky. Although, she does use it a lot less. I give up for now, but pretty soon I'll finish the binky off.



Yep, that's the binky I'm talking about. I broke the plastic a few months ago so we've been gluing it together for a while. Its still very useful. Maybe we'll pass it down to Mikayla.