Daycare!!!

Ugh! I can not find a friggin daycare. I went to a couple places in Edmond today. One I didn't like so much. Just the women who worked there also could look like women I worked with at a truck stop way back in the day. White-trashy :( Plus, it was kinda far for me. 10 miles away. There was one that was half the distance and I fell in love with it. It was amazing. BUT the tuition is $1,010 ! OMG! That is crazy- and they don't accept assistance from DHS. Hell no! I really liked that place, too. Shoulda known.

The first place the ladies were really talkative and shared numerous horror stories of home day cares. So, immediately after leaving I called the two I had appointments with. There are waiting lists for the centers right by my home, but there are no openings until January and March! May not be too far for me though. I plan on paying the rent for Dec and Jan with my student loans. I don't really have to get a second job until then I guess.

Ok gotta go, Doctor app in 45 mn.

Ok Day

Dru went to his Mother's Day out program today. He didn't eat for them :( He ate for me though tonight. He had some spooned baby food and then a bunch of pringles. Like a half a dozen. He loves them! Billy has come over every day so far to see him. Has been late in the day until today. Today he stopped by between work and class. Tomorrow is his day off so he will either stay here or take Dru to his mom's while I run errands. I have to go get a debit card for my student loans and then look for a job. I didn't know what I was going to do about the bills but luckily I did some searching on my credit card websites and increased my limit. Tomorrow I am going to go stock up on all the things I will need around the house so just in case I don't have $$ later I won't have to worry about being out of shampoo, diapers or toilet paper.
I always get myself out of the holes I dig. Always.

I slept really good the first night alone. Last night not so good and tonight is not so good. I don't think Dru has even noticed a change around here though.

Better day!

So, Dru had half a jar of sweet peas and a few french fries at Mcdonalds today! Yay! Much better than before. He had some of my chicken too, but he didn't like it much. I think it's pretty seasoned. Man, we have played SO much today- I haven't turned on the TV once. We usually hang out in the living room all day, but today we played in my bedroom and his. Well, in his bedroom he played and I updated his baby book.

He's been up on his knees crawling like a pro for about two weeks now. For the last week he hasn't hardly done his army crawl.
Let me tell you- It is hard to keep up with him now. He's a little escape artist. He also knows when he's getting to something I'm gonna keep him from. He makes eye contact and then BAM! He's gunning for it! Whatever it is! And if he knows we're coming for him he starts to laugh. Unfortunatly he's not coordinated enough for the fast crawl yet so he usually bites the dust, but I'm already on my way so I catch him.

Right now he's trying to master his sippy cup. Apple juice is getting all over the floor. I must go now!

The Laughing Boy

I got this crazy baby boy that laughs TOO MUCH! Ha ha, there is actually no such thing, but it has happened just this past two days. I'm a big fan of watching videos on YouTube tagged with "cute babies" or "funny babies". Most of them are babies laughing hysterically. I thought to myself, man it takes Dru a little more than that to get a belly laugh out of him. But this past few days he has been a laughing machine.
Some things that get him rolling on the floor are:

*Mommy bobbing her head "like an Egyptian"
*Ozzy chasing the cat around the room
*Any type of anticipation. Like when he knows we're about to "get him"!
*& When we tickle him of course.

It's cute! I love it- we're having more fun than we used to and it's great.

I got his Halloween costume today. It's a Mouse! It comes with a big belly too. Way cute- we tried it on in the dressing room and everything. He screamed the whole time though. (He wasn't a happy boy. We had been shopping for a while- Tired)

We also went to the doctor yesterday. He's 18.4 lbs and 28 inches. This woman in line behind us at Ross shared with me that her 6 month old is 20 lbs at 24 inches. Now that's a chubby boy! Ha ha. She was a nice woman- Dru was being a cranky butt so I handed him something I wasn't planning on buying. (It was a red box with jewelry in it. Perfectly shakable toy to distract him from the fact I could not hold him and pay at the check out counter at the same time.) She and her friend distracted him from the box while I put it back up. He is not a nice baby to be around when something gets taken form him.

So, the doctor thinks he may suffer from "Breastfeeding Starvation". It's a condition where the baby doesn't want anything but breast milk and the breast milk can't keep up. Baby won't take a bottle or take solids very well. (That's him!) It's frustrating. In the next week and a half Doc told me to try really hard to get him to eat foods and if he doesn't put on any weight we will have to start weaning him! Basically force him to take a bottle and solids. That just sounds like a lot of stress to me. We did have a few pieces of string cheese and a little bit of sweet peas. He didn't even have a quarter of the jar though. The woman in Ross said her son has two jars of baby food a day. : ( It's really hard to get him to take it. I tickle him and make him laugh so that his mouth will open and then I shove the spoon in really quick! Not fair- other babies just open their mouths because they want to!) Ugh.

Anyways- I think I'm going to bed now!

Dru is an evil baby

I think I am being punished by the baby gods. The baby gods that control the temperment of little ones day in and day out.

Dru has started a new thing.

He cries EVERY SINGLE TIME he is put down. And not only does one have to hold him, but also walk around at the same time. When my nephew Bryce was Dru's age he did it too. That's actually when I started to babysit him. I swore that day if I ever had children I wouldn't let it get to that point. I never wanted a needy baby. Even last week when he was sick- he enjoyed being held, but if I put him down he would let me. Now he screams like someone pulled his hair or pinched him. It's an aweful sound. This has been happening for three nights now.

He woke up at 2:15 am. (2 Hours ago.)

and I can't go back to sleep. He screamed for about 45 minutes off and on. I would go in make sure he was ok. It's the saddest thing, but the books say let him cry it out.

hehehe This is what the search came up with for "Evil Baby" on PhotoBucket
.... it works though

Poor little sick boy Part II

Last night after I went to bed I still kept missing my baby boy. I decided to go check on him. When I went into his room he was sitting up in his crib wide awake. I picked him up and held him close just like I had wanted to for the past hour.... and he vomitted all over me. Talk about some mother's intuition.

We immediatly took a bath together, kicked Billy out of my bed and then Dru and I snuggled up close. He fell asleep pretty quickly but woke many times throughout the night. I had given him more pedialite while we were in the tub, but I still worried about him not getting enough fluids. This morning I attempted to nurse him again, he had about half the amount he usually does. His diaper was completely dry when he woke up too. Bad sign. So, I doubled up n the pedialite a half an hour later. He hates it, and I hate forcing him to take it.

Afterwards, we snuggled on the couch and watched "Little Vampire" on cable. (I just want to mention that he never cuddles so much. When a healthy baby Dru is held close when he wants to play or be down on the floor he wiggles and squirms his way down and out of anyones arms.) But for the last 24 hours he has been in our arms pretty much the whole time. Although I hate for him to be feeling so sick- I sure do enjoy all this lovin' I'm gettin' from my baby boy.

About an hour ago he started to rub his eyes. (Even though he hadn't been awake for long). I layed down with him again in my bed again. He was moaning : ( I started to tell him a story and the moaning stopped. I just thought off the top of my head about the day Billy and I met 2 years and 5 days ago. I summed up the whole back story in less than 5 minutes and by the end of it he had already konked out. It was really sweet. And that's where he is now. Sleeping soundly. I really hope he doesn't get sick again. I left the door open so I can hear him though.



Pray for my sick little one.

Poor little sick boy

Normally Dru is nursed four times, has two bottles, a couple dozen "cherry puffs" and a jar of baby food.

Today he has only had two nursings and a bottle. He's really sick. It's so sad. But the little trooper still seems to be happy. Billy and I took turns holding him tonight.



He snuggled up close to each of us making sweet little baby sounds. He was tired so we got extra sweet baby time. He went down for bed an hour and a half early too. Currently, he is sound asleep. I hope he wakes up soon. Writing about him makes me miss him. I want him to sleep with us tonight.
Last time I hoped he would wake up it was because I searched on YouTube "cute babies"... Then I watched a bunch of videos and missed my own baby so much I prayed that he would wake up so I could love on him. Sure enough I heard him rolling around in his crib less then 15 minutes later.

But if he does sleep sound until the morning I hope I have a sweet Baby Dru Dream. Those are always awesome! haha Good night readers.

O yea, btw since he didn't eat very good today we did give him some pedialite. So, don't worry too much about him getting dehydrated.

Someday

There are a lot of things that I have always wanted to do. Voice lessons and guitar lessons are a couple of them. In highschool my dad took care of drum lessons. That was a lot of fun. Unfortunatly, I'm an independent adult now and daddy doesn't buy me stuff anymore. I can only look forward to finshing school and finally being able to afford the hobbies I have wanted to start. It's four years away, but guess what else we will have in four years....

A four year old lil boy who will be my buddy and go with me to guitar lessons and voice lessons! I wonder if I'll have to buy him a special tiny guitar?