We are the Millers

This week, I'm saying So What if... Little Man had 5 straight nights of sleeping and the second I mentioned how well he was doing on the blog, he had the worst night ever.  I'm just going to keep my big mouth shut from now on. I'm almost done with my Christmas shopping and I am so excited about it.  My Mom and I are venturing out Friday even though we hate to.  I can't wait to set all my gifts out, sort them and wrap them.  I love to see all the gifts under my Christmas tree! I can't wait for our family photos this weekend! Baby Girl gets the worst diaper rash when she cuts teeth.  We actually let her run around naked the other night to air out a bit.  Then she peed on the floor.  Wonderful. I Googled what the fox said.  I wasn't impressed. I'm ridiculously disappointed that it didn't snow at all here yesterday. I'm starting to hate my iPhone.  I'm trying to only use it on Wifi so it sucks bi

No doctor's stats this time.  He doesn't go back until December when he gets his next round of shots.  Baby Girl goes in for her 2 year check up at the same time.  Daddy will be coming with us for that appointment and I'm hoping it goes more smoothly than the last one! The basics? Little Guy has graduated to size 2 diapers.  I knew I needed to move him up when he started peeing through the size ones.  Like his sister, he needs them in length but they are loose around his belly so we have to make them extra tight.  He is wearing some size 3-6 month clothing but mostly 6 month.  I just ordered his holiday outfit and I'm hoping his Christmas PJs still fit on Christmas! I was right in thinking that by this post, he would be a formula baby.  I'm still not happy about this but it is what it is.  He is happy and healthy and that's all that I can ask for.  Giving up on the stress this has created for us has really helped us to become a happier family.  Hopefully I

This is my first time linking up for Five on Friday.  Head on over to Hello! Happiness and link up! ONE This video made me cry.  I thought it was so sweet that this guy recorded this song for his sister in remembrance of their Father.  I can only hope that my children have this kind of sibling love for each other some day. TWO   This video made me cry too.  Why?  Because I have a son and eventually he is going to propose to a girl. And holy shit do I hope he can come close to this kind of proposal.   THREE   Old Navy wins big with me this week.  I got Christmas outfits for the entire family and I am so excited!!  I'm not sure what we are wearing for our family photos yet but at least Christmas is taken care of.       FOUR   Ebates is awesome!  I have been getting cash back like crazy!       FIVE   My life just wouldn't be complete without a naked baby in it.  My kid loves to be naked!  Just look at those chunk a munk arms

    Dear Baby Girl,  even when you are napless and cutting your last set of molars, you are still an amazing child.  Only a few more teeth left to go and you are in the clear.  PS thanks for loving on your brother so much lately.  It warms my mushy mommy heart. Dear Little Man,  this sleeping stuff you have been doing the past two nights has been amazing.  How about you keep it up?  PS the smiles and laughing are ridiculous...keep that up too! Dear Christmas,  you are coming way too fast...slow down!  PS I love you!  Dear Grey's, this thing you have going with Meredith and Christina reminds me a lot of my last friendship.  Hopefully they can work it out the way my friend and I weren't able to.  PS I really don't see how you are going to top any of your most recent season finales. Dear Parenthood,  you got me again.  This time it was when the woman with cancer came to vote.  PS I hate that she lost. Dear cold weather/snow, why is it that you are

This week, I'm saying So What if... I tried having Little Man sleep in his crib last night and it did not go so well.  We were awake on and off all night long.  This is getting old. I get like 5 catalogs in the mail every day and I look forward to looking through each one of them even if I don't need anything. I can't wait to put my Christmas decorations up and I think I'm going to do it early this year.  Baby Girl is seriously interested in all the decorations this year and that makes me very happy. I am creating my own 30 day challenge for myself that will consist of a combination of the ab, squat, arm, crunch and plank challenges.  I'm also putting myself on a very restricted diet plan.  Lose It is going to be my very best friend. Baby Girl is pretty much nap-less now.  I don't push them because she doesn't seem to need them.  If she does, she curls up with her blanket and falls asleep on her own. I'm fina

I've never been what I'd call a skinny girl.  I always had some meat on me.  When I was in high school, my lowest size was a 5 in juniors (4 in misses).  When I got to college, I was more into a size 7 in juniors (6 in misses).  Of course as a high schooler/college goer, I was always self conscious about my weight.   If I had known then what I know now, I would not have considered myself overweight.  I worked in retail from 16 on up.  I was always moving and hardly eating.  I never had an exercise routine or counted calories.  I just went to school, worked and ate whenever I felt like it.  It wasn't until I got a bank job that I noticed the weight gain. I was always sitting and never moving and it did nothing but hurt me. Now a size 9 in juniors (8 in misses), I still didn't feel that bad.  I should have seen the pattern here and stopped it but I didn't.  My husband (at the time boyfriend) and I went on vacations to Mexico and Bermuda and I still didn't thin

First of all, what do you think of my new blog design?  Pretty plain and simple but that's what I was going for.  I was tired of the bright pink and random colors.  I think I'll keep this for a while. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I struggled big time when I went back to work after having my daughter.  I had never wanted to be a stay at home mom but going back to work was horrible.  I hated being away from my girl.  I hated knowing that someone else was spending more time with her than I was.  My work production was way down because I was so distracted with missing my little girl. My husband and I decided that I needed to stay home.  We weren't happy with the daycare anymore and we had a second baby on the way.  We sent our girl to a church daycare but having two in daycare?  Just too expensive.  So I left my job this past July and never looked back. This new job I have, this stay at home mom job.....hardest job I've ever had.  Hands d

  Dear Baby Girl,  I don't think I can tell you enough how much of a rock star you really are.  You have your moments but for an almost two year old, you listen pretty well.  You had some play time and lunch with Maya today and you rocked it.  You are so well behaved and I am so proud of you. Dear Little Man,  you have no idea how happy it makes me to see you smile and laugh and to watch you master your new trick of blowing raspberries.  You are so stinking cute it makes my heart hurt.  The smile you gave me this morning brought tears to my eyes (see above).  I know that in no time at all, you will be a walking, talking toddler just like your sister.  Let's slow it down a bit OK? Dear Me, stop being jealous of all the ladies you see that barely gained any baby weight and then barely look pregnant afterwards.  You are built differently and have to work a little harder to lose that baby weight.  Get it done. Dear vibrating bouncy chair, you are the best inv

This week, I'm saying So What if... Little Man has two good nights and one bad night.  Last night was an amazing night so I'm expecting a very shitty night tonight. I think my daughter is a vegetarian.  She never wants to eat any meat. I love the video function on the iPhone  I was never able to send or upload videos with my Droid for some reason.  Still not 100% sold, though. I took both kids grocery shopping for the first time alone this week and I hated it.  Mostly because the super cool race car cart was so hard to maneuver and the actual cart space was so small I barely had enough room.  Both kids were great. I'm seriously addicted to HGTV. I always feel like I'm burdening my parents when asking them to watch my kids.  I'm addicted to Woman's World magazine, mostly for the crossword puzzle. I have our first family of four photos scheduled and I can't wait to have them taken! I have a good start o

  Dear Baby Girl,  I just don't think I can tell you enough how amazing you are.  You went without a nap today and you were perfect.  You had a great play date, showed off for the people at my old office and were not bothered one bit by no nap the rest of the day.  I'm not sure I'm ready to give up your naps yet because I need that quiet time but it's nice to know you won't be too much of a terror without one. Dear Little Man,  I know you're a baby and all but this not sleeping at night is for the birds.  We have two really good nights and then one really bad night and it's killing me!  Mama needs some sleep if she's going to take care of you and your sister.  Let's work on this buddy.  Oh and keep up those awesome little smiles. Dear #30daysofthanks,  you are really helping me see the little things I have to be thankful for every single day.  You can see my 30 days on Instagram (vmiller0918) under #30daysofthanks. Dear Husb

This week, I'm saying So What if... Little Man stayed awake until 3am.  But then he slept until 9:30am.  We just need to get those hours shifted a bit. Little Man still has thrush.  Not sure why it's taking so long to go away but we might be needing to call the doctor. I'm not a big fan of country music anymore but I am looking forward to the CMA's tonight. I stay in my PJs all day if I know I don't have anywhere to go.  Kids do too. My house is never clean.  Every time I clean, Baby Girl (aka the tornado) seems to make it messy again. I've been allowing the dogs to lay on the couch because the floor is cold. I forgot to do my SWW post last week. I use Little Man's late nights to watch the shows that I like that my husband doesn't (American Horror Story and Sons of Anarchy). While I am thoroughly enjoying The Voice, I don't think the talent is as good as the previous seasons.  I may have

The only thing my husband wants for his birthday is a weekend away without the kids. No problem, right. Here's the thing....my son is only 2 months old. I honestly thought that I would have no problems leaving the kids behind but the more I think about it, the more anxious I get. He wants the kids to spend the weekend at his brother's house while we spend some much needed adult time away. I'm in love with this idea and yet I get teary eyed every time I think about leaving my little boy behind. It's not that I don't trust my brother in law and sister in law with my kids. Baby girl loves her Uncle and Aunt. But my little guy still doesn't sleep through the night so that's a burden on them that I would feel pretty bad about. Plus, he's my little guy. I mean he's my fragile little guy. While I would give just about anything to get one solid night of sleep, I'm just not ready to leave him. My brother in law's birthday is only two weeks after

My husband and I seem to forget quite a bit about the early months with our baby girl.  We keep thinking that our little guy is so much smaller than our Baby Girl was but that's not the case!  They really are quite comparable so I'm really anxious to see how the little guy keeps growing.  He just feels like he is so much smaller than she was at that age. He seems a bit more fragile than she ever did. The one big difference is the size of their heads. Baby Girl had a much bigger head than the little guy does.  That also means that the little guy has much better control of his head now than Baby Girl did at this age.  He really holds it up himself well. Little Man is only sleeping about 3 hours at a time but in total he sleeps way more than Baby Girl ever did. At this point, she was staying awake a large portion of the day and then sleeping 5-6 hours at night. Little guy sleeps a lot during the day, only staying awake for a few hours total throughout the day. Regardless o

    Dear Baby Girl,  you have been very sweet to your brother this week and I can't tell you how thankful I am for that.  You have your days when it seems like you're ready to drop him off at the nearest bus stop but then you have your days when you are so attentive to him and it melts my heart to see you try to calm him when he cries or cover him with a blanket.  You are a rock star! Dear Little Man,  I've stopped checking the clock at night to see what time you wake and sleep because it just reminds me of how little sleep I'm getting but I'm pretty sure you slept 6 hours through the night.  Um...can you keep doing that please?  Love you! Dear November,  I'm really glad you are here.  I can't wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas and I know they will be here before I know it!  I did a series last October for 31 days of gratefulness and I'm going to do it again this year for the month of November.  30 days of thankfulness.  If anyo