goals.

so i dont really have anything significant to write about today, but i feel that since there are only two days of sanity left in my life for awhile maybe i should write just one more entry. on friday the crazy pills get started and i will be on them until we hopefully achieve another pregnancy which doesnt really lend any hands to bringing sanity back.

but there have been a few things ive been thinking about since we will be actively trying next week. ahhhh!!!!

at averys last appt the dr talked to us about a few goals we should be keeping in mind as we near his first birthday:

1) he should be sleeping in his own bed, in his own room

2) he should be drinking from a sippy cup pretty exclusively

3) he should be on an almost complete regular food diet

we are doing terribly on all three fronts.

1) i know he should be in his own room, and i honestly have tried, theres just so many little factors that make it so difficult. the first being the hubs' odd work sched. if ave went to bed at 7 every night, they might go a week without ever seeing each other. not cool. and not only that... about a week ago i decided i was gonna make ave try it. ugh. so from the get go hes screaming, i try to calm him down and leave the room. and with the 'cry it out' method, you let them cry obviously, but you go in at different intervals to try to calm the baby... this did not work. after no less then 10 minutes of straight screaming and three visits into his room, i can see in the dark that his face his really really red. i pick him up and bring him into the hallway and my child was so upset that his entire face was red, he gave himself hives, and the eye that always swelled up was of course, swelled up. we havent tried again since.

2) i am fairly certain that we have about 15 different sippy cups currently in our house. my son hates almost all of them. there are a few that he will try to use sometimes, but hes no sippy cup pro. and he does try but i cant figure if he just doesnt get that he needs to tilt his head back some, or if he just doesnt feel like tilting his head back...

3) we currently have two faces of disgust that we get from the little man when making him try something new. there is the 'tart face,' which looks like hes just tasted a lemon, and the 'im gonna barf' face, which i think is self explanitory. and let me be clear, this child has had nothing that could be considered too tart or acidic in any way, hes just silly. the barf face is also a fake. he will try something and the moment it hits his lips, that little face is contorted into the most terrible gag you have ever seen... i only wish we had a picture of the awful face of disgust he gave when he tried my mashed potatoes.

in conclusion, im not sure how great im gonna be at child number 2, and i am dreading with everything in me the big '1 year' appt. they are going to look at me like i am the worst mom ever if we dont tackle these above mentioned items within the next two months. so if any of you moms out there have any suggestions or tips, they would be greatly appreciated. thanks.