So it's already almost February. I haven't typed anything on here for even longer than I thought. Oopsie.
Summary of December and Janauary ...ready go.
Christmas was very just chill and low key, which was what we wanted. We miss our family and friends but it was so nice for us 4 to be together and not have to rush from one place to the next. We received a lot of really heart felt and personal gifts and it was really cool. Our new years started off with running out of oil for our heat and freezing our butts off for like a week. Then Mitchell and myself and then Mitch getting a terrible stomach bug. I felt like I was dying, seriously. It was so bad. I don't remember being that sick ever. My cloroxing and quarantining must have worked a little because Eden didn't get sick. I feel like that was a miracle.
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Mitchell was REALLY mad that the Grinch was in the picture too. In this picture he's trying to rip it out of Eden's hands and bite him. I have no clue why he got so mad but Eden and I thought it was funny...mean Mommy. |
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Candy and toys all day!! Wooo! |
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Sitting in the Christmas wreckage, combing her new Eloise doll's hair. |
Mitch has been working like crazy and hating his job still :/ He's still enjoying riding his bike and being a chicken farmer. I got a job! Woop woop! But I don't start until the Spring but it's something right? I'm going to be an instructor at the YMCA.
Eden is still doing great and swim lessons are going well too. She is on a waitlist for gymnastics, which stinks, but hopefully they'll call soon. She's loving little chapter books and writing a lot too. She's getting smarter and more mature every day. She's insisting on continuing to grow despite my best efforts to get her to stop :)
Mitchell is saying a lot of stuff now. His personal favorites are of course are: no, mine, cookie, rice (he loveeessss rice), Mommy (also known as help, get me something, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm bored ect.). He says "ee-oh" now for "Edo" which is freakin adorable. He's a climber and climbing up everything he possibly can. He can use a spoon and a fork very well now, so there's a lot less mess for me to clean up at meal times! Small victories for mom, yesssss. I've tried introducing the little potty, but he just thinks it's the chair to get naked on and doesn't quite understand the point yet haha.
He hates, hates, hates the doctors office. The only thing he likes about it is the giant fish tank in the waiting room. He hates sitting on the paper on the exam table, he hates sitting on the scale (no idea why?), he REALLY hates when the Dr checks his ears and obviously hates getting shots. The Dr was talking to him and he was just glaring at her and not answering her questions at his last visit. Their conversation went something like this. "Mitchell, do you know where your eyes are? (glares) Do you know where your belly is?(glaring still) Do you like to eat lots of food? (stop glaring for a second because he loves food and then remembered he was still really mad and glared again) Mitchell, are you going to talk to me today?" "NO!" Poor guy haha.
I have friend here who has a little boy, who is month younger than Mitchell. He's really allergic to milk. I started looking up some non dairy things to cook so I could have them over for dinner. I then started doing some research on healthy diets in general. After reading and documentary watching, I've decided to try out a plant based only diet. Also known as vegan. Before you jump on the judge me wagon, do your own research. Do not come at me with the "humans are supposed to be carnivores" argument. It's bogus. I don't think I intend to cut out all meats and dairy forever, but I'm going to give it a shot for the health of myself and my family. I've been trying out vegan alternatives and they aren't that bad. In fact they're pretty tasty.
That's all that's new for now I think :)
ta ta friends xoxo