So, Scarlett used to be a great eater, she would at least try everything.  Not anymore!  Now she only wants to eat noodles, pasta (which is noodles) and MILK! I am running out of ideas and do not want her to be living on carbs!! I need ideas for some foods that children like, we have tried everything from cutting into super small pieces to blending up vegetables.  I know this is just a phase but it is frustrating!  Yesterday she loved peas, today she won’t even put one in her mouth, she likes yogurt today but will she like it tomorrow… and so on!  What do you feed your children…?

I know that she is so young and maybe doesn’t want to have maple glazed salmon and risotto with asparagus.  Maybe tone it down a little might be another good idea.  But Mike and I like to eat fancy delicious food!  We are great cooks, and we said to each other before our daughter was born,

“We are not going to be the type parents that will make 2 or 3 different meals, our children will eat what we are eating…”

This is something that I am having a hard time maintaining, as I know she is hungry and will eat when she wants to, I just need to stop the catering to what she wants and she will come around, knowing that I am not going to leave the table during dinner to go to the stove to make her noodles!

I guess another dinner time dilemma I want to mention is ‘the throwing of cutlery and food’.  We thought this was cute when she was young and we used to laugh and take pictures,  but now she has some distance in the throwing, and does it just because she can!  I love it when she slowly takes her food to the side of the tray and looks right into your eyes, and does it anyways!  “No Scarlett”  is a VERY common saying in our house and I am starting to feel like that is all we are telling her!  She knows that our dog will be right under her high chair while she is eating and she is already feeding him her vegetables!  We have started to tell her if you throw the fork on the floor, you are done eating.  This is working but very slowly, she is still so young and I don’t want to expect to much from her, but I know that she is smart and she understands what we are saying!  ARGH!!!

Want to start a blog with all the moms I know and all the moms that know those moms and so on.  If you are a new mom or new to “mommyhood” then this is the place where we should all go to ask questions, share stories, complain, cry, and laugh together!  I am fairly new to “mommyhood” I have a 15 month daughter named Scarlett Rayne!  I love being a mom, and can not believe how fast time goes by!  I wish I had a place to go every few days and write about the experiences of becoming a mom throughout my pregnancy, with questions to ask, shoulders to cry on (besides my poor husbands), tips on what to eat or not to eat, and my ever lasting favorite, “is this normal???”

Having gone trough labor and delivery once, I would not say I am an expert at any level, just made it out alive!  (And yes boys everything does go back to normal!)  But there was many thoughts, fears, and questions I had about the experience I wish I had someone to talk to about, maybe making the first less scary!  All in all I would do it all over again, as I look at my baby girl and still remember when the doctor told us we had a beautifel baby girl and placed her on my tummy.  I fell in love with her!  It is an unexplainable love and feeling, “How do you love somone so much, that you have never really met, just talked to and wondered what they were going to be and look like! 

With Scarlett growing so fast Iwould like to have all of you join me and share your stories, questions, comments, tears, and laughs with me and all of our MOMMY FRIENDS!  I can say this might be another great way to get the children out interacting, moms to feel more connected to the outside world (I know there were days when I was home, I just NEEDED to talk to an adult!  So I am going to leave my morning blog with an invite to all of you!

Can not wait to hear your stories!

Hello to all of my MOMMY FRIENDS!

I still love to go and enjoy the hustle and bustle of the holidays, the crowds, the parking,  the pushing and shoving to get that last ELMO LIVE, who am I kidding that sounds horrible!!!!!  So as I sit here at work online on various shopping sites, adding to my online shopping carts without the guilt of logging out and not really buying anything OR the complete opposite, rummaging throughout my purse frantically looking for my credit card just incase there is only 1 left and trying to get home before my husband to hide it, or open it and pretend it is old and he just hasn’t seen it yet…

So what I am getting at here is the BIG SALE, well we are moms here, so I have saved you the time and effort of searching for a GREAT deal, Toys R Us is having a HUGE sale this Saturday!  I will be there early! The sale is only INSTORE, which totally sucks!  The snow couldn’t have waited till Monday… NOPE here it is, on our regular Happy Friday, here to ruin our weekend shopping… I am not bitter at all, just why couldn’t this be an online sale… Her is the link check it out!

http://www.toysrus.ca

Get there early girls as I am going in prepared to shop and spoil my little lady!

I really want to start trying for another child, I would like Scarlett to have a sibling close to her age, as there may be times, and there will be many, when they fight, but I really don’t think it is fair for her to not have a brother or sister!  It was best said in “Four Christmas’s”

It is like when you buy a dog, you can not just have the one, because when you leave they have no one to play with…

In no way am I comparing babies and dogs, the line in the movie was just funny!  I believe this is the line that got my husband and we slowly started talking about how we would like to have another, I really knew Mike was thinking about it when we went Christmas shopping for Scarlett and her walked down the ‘boy’ aisle, I commented to him, ‘we don’t have any need to go down there hunny so lets go…’  I think he wanted to buy Scarlett a Star Wars helmet that makes a bunch of strange noises… Whatever it was I knew from that moment he wants to try for his little boy, to have one of each, his little Princess that will ALWAYS be daddy’s little girl, and his rough and tough hockey/golf playing little boy, he can play cars and street hockey with!

So I guess I am safe to say, we are trying without actually trying, what happens happens, an OOPs, or a it slid past the goalie… Whatever you like to call it, it is sort of, well almost, slowly and soon enough we will be having another munchkin!