Gaga for 10 Months!

I have a 10 month old! Yikes! I can't believe how fast my little dude is growing up! Each new stage brings so much joy, fun, and sometimes hair pulling (literally)! Tanner is becoming very independent in some things, but is very attached to his mama! He is very spoiled (by everyone) and hates to be more than an arms reach away from me! This is hard, especially when the house is totaled or I would like to go pee! I keep reminding myself that I will miss these tender moments when he is a teen, but know that I have to start cutting the cord before I return to work in October (which I am dreading lol)!

What's happening in month 10:
*Tan is trying to crawl, but he prefers rolling
*Has 4 teeth and looks pretty funny
*Thinks biting is funny and thinks getting in trouble for it is freakin HILARIOUS (I'm gonna have my hands full with this guy)
*Got a big boy carseat and of course the only one that fits in my stupid car is the most expensive one at the store! Big thanks to daddy for working a side job so we could get it!
*Can say dad, dadee (daisy), and awa (water)
*Has discovered the art of being mean to girls, which really means he likes them (hair pulling incident of 2011, sorry Audrey)
*Loves being outside and pulling the tops off of my flowers in the yard
*Loves eating big people food! His fav is mac n' cheese, chicken, and any kind of bread!
*Loves Lady Gaga (daddy calls her Lady Goo Goo) and goes nuts when her music comes on! And totally freaks if he sees her on tv (DO NOT know where he got this from cause we listen to country all the time)
*Loves spending time away from mommy with his grand parents
*Loves to drive in his NASCAR (fisher price car) all day around our house
*Is getting tan lines in his fat rolls!

I am loving every moment with my kiddo! Even the sleepless nights and screaming fits when I put him down. He is my everything and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life in total awe of him! I can't believe in only 2 short months I will be celebrating his 1st birthday! Crazy!!! I guess I better get started planning his big day!

Woohoo  I love this song!

She's funny mom!

I Should Be Skinny. . . (key word "should be")

Let me first say I love, love, love, being a mommy! I loved being pregnant and honestly can't wait until I am once again, but for right now I don't love what pregnancy has done to my body!!!! I am trapped in a body that doesn't belong to me (well actually it does) and I am sick of it! I lost ALL of my baby weight in about 6 weeks and am happy about that, but was left with saggy skin, love handles that I never had, enormous boobs (which I thought would be awesome pre prego, but they are just stinkin annoying and will probably hang to my belly button after I am done breast feeding), stretch marks that aren't fading, and a very poor self image! Oh and to top it all off, I lost the little bit of butt that I had! Way to go body! Flat butted with a muffin top! The one thing that I can't wrap my sausage arms around is the fact that I NEVER stop moving all.day.long! Tanner is at the stage where he wants me to hold him all day and night. The only way I can get anything done is by pushing him around in his little car for hours on end! I never sit down! Then in the evening I take him for a walk around the neighborhood, other nights my hubby watches him and I endure an hour of hell at spin class! I stopped drinking cokes (well kind of) and NOTHING is making my tummy tight again! Jillian Michael's kicks my behind a few times a week and still nada! I have exactly a month and a half to get my swimsuit body back cause the stupid  great mommy that I am decided to enroll Tanner is swim lessons that I have to be a part of! Swim suit shopping today was a nightmare so to drown my sorrows I went to Wendy's and then my mom made biscochitos and I downed about a dozen. So it's back to Jillian Kick Your Ass Michaels for me tonight. .  . ugh!  I am  seriously considering getting knocked up again so I don't have to worry about weight for another 9 months and can be fat and guilt free!

Tanner driving his car all day long! We have about 100,000 miles on this bad boy so far!

March For Babies

Wow! What a weekend! We were so busy, but had an amazing time! Saturday was the day I had been looking forward to for a very long time! My hubby and I signed up to participate in the March of Dimes Walk. Before having a preemie of our own, we had no clue about this cause! Having Tanner opened our eyes to this cause and it is something that is very near to my heart. Morgan and I raised $150.00 and hope to do better next year. I don't think Morgan realized the importance of this walk until we actually got there and heard stories from parents who had it a whole lot worse than we did. Seeing babies hooked up to oxygen really showed us how blessed we are to have such a healthy little boy! I will walk every year in this event in honor of my little boy and my future children. The chances of me having another preemie and another difficult pregnancy is very high, but hopefully with more research into why premature births occur, I won't have to worry (fingers crossed). I already can't wait until next year!

Getting Ready to March!

Starting line

Tanner trying to throw everything out of his stroller

Meeting the storm Trooper

My not so little preemie!

Our reason for walking!

Even though Daddy complained a lot, he walked the whole 4 miles! Bad knee and all!

Weaning and Dr. Brown's

So Tanner is 9 months old and getting to the point where he is practically undressing me when he wants to nurse! This was cute at first, but now it obnoxious! I want to continue nursing until he is a year old, but want to gradually cut down his nursings so my supply drops slowly. So last week I decided to replace his 5pm nursing with a bottle of formula! Tanner was not having it, but I did it all week. Then this week I decided to cut out his 10 am feeding! Tanner's world just about ended and the devil child emerged! He kicks, screams, nuzzles for boob, and finally if he grasps the bottle he will throw it! I feel like a horrible mom, but this HAS to be done! I don't want to be the woman nursing her kid til he's 5! I research, bought every type of bottle there is, asked adivce from other mommies, and I still feel lost! In a perfect world I would only nurse before bed, maybe once if he woke up, and first thing in the morning, but alas it's not perfect! Tanner hates being covered so when he wants to nurse and we are out it's a dressing room or bathroom for this mama!

Proud to announce that we had a small break though today though!  He only drank 3 oz out of a bottle, but it's more than yesterday! Dr. Brown's bottles are my savior!  So far this is the only bottle he likes and will actually drink milk from! I love you Dr. Brown's! And I love my boy more than life itself so it's so hard for me to be tough! It is a miracle that he is here so I feel bad complaining about the bottle issue or his lack thereof  sleeping! I know I have to get tough because one day he will be a teenager, but it's hard with a face like this!

My future cowboy! Love you even though you give me a hard time!