Wow it has been a while since I was able to post! A lot has happened in our lives! We moved a good amount of our stuff to our new place. We still have some more to move but we have time for that.
Sprout has been cutting TEETH! Yes I did type that right! She is now cutting her second tooth! She won't anyone near her mouth to check them out, or take a picture for that matter! The only way I saw the second tooth was because she was chewing on a marker as we were carving pumpkins.
Speeking of pumpkins, we carved our first pumpkins and I tried to do the lovely Pinterest baby in a pumpkin picture. Here is what it is supposed to look like
Cute right???? Well this is what we got!
Not exactly what I was looking for!
But I did get some better ones.... Just not in the Pumpkin!
She was very facinated with Cody opening and cleaning the pumpkin as well.
Oh and she kept trying to eat the seeds!!!
While I have been away Sprout has been getting more stable on her feet and is now letting go of one hand. She is also now doing the regular hand and knees crawl and is getting pretty fast at it too! Finally she is now trying to climb up our stairs. She is still a little too short as her legs keep slipping off as she is trying to pull herself up.
The past two weeks Sprout has been growing by leaps and bounds! While she has been pulling herself up for a while now but now she is learning to bend down and pick things up and also starting to learn how to get back down. She is spending most of her time on her feet or knees.
This is where I normally find her if I leave the room.
Sprout has been sleeping better! Finally!!! She is now sleeping usually until 8! There was one morning that I woke up before her. It totally freaked me out. She is going down still at 7:30 most nights. sometimes earlier and sometimes a little bit latter.
Sprout has been eating everything she can get her hands on! Last night i gave her some of the left over homemade meat sauce from the lasagna I made this week. She of course LOVED it. I have made her home made pancakes and she devoured them. She loves yogurt and Cheerios .
We are still working on Sign language with her. She knows "more" and we are still working on "all done". I have now added "eat" I think next ones I am going to do are help, diaper, and bottle or milk. I haven't decided what one I want to teach her.
Sprout has been doing a mix between an army crawl and a hands and knees crawl. She has for the past few days gotten more of the hands and knees crawl... until her knees slip out from under her. I know she will get the hang of it here really soon!
With us moving next week, I may be a little late on the post but I'll post ASAP!!!!
This past weekend was SO much fun! We went to Gull Meadow Farms with my Mom and Renea. We had a blast! We took lots of pictures and then went Apple Picking and got Sprout her first pumpkin! Ginny has a bit of a cold so by the end of our 2 hours there she was exhausted and fell asleep within 5 minutes of getting in the truck.
Still under 2 feet!!
Cody and I have decided this is going to become a yearly thing to go and get her picture in the chair and at the measurement chart!
Wagon rides were a Big hit!
She tried to eat the apple right then and there sans teeth!
So Sunday we were out at Dad's once again. And I decided since we are moving in 2 weeks that I was going to FINALLY prep her cloth diapers. I only have 12 and need to get some more or else I am going to be doing laundry EVERY night. So I used my new cloth diaper laundry detergent Rockin Green. It smells like watermellon!!!! Does you clothes smell like watermelon?!?!?! NOPE! It smells so yummy!
Well we decided to go ahead and to put one on her for over night. I chose my Bumgenius Freetime Lovelace diaper. It did AMAZINGLY well! I will definatly be putting her in a cloth diaper tonight as well!
Finally I have been working really hard on Sprout's Halloween costume! I decided when I was pregnant that if I had a girl I was going to make her a Peacock her first year. I found the best picture for inspiration and decided that it looked easy enough I could do it! I finally Finished her outfit and tried on all the pieces on her and here it is!
So I heard yesterday on the news that Katy Perry has put of a challenge for high school students to make a 2 minute video using her new song Roar about bullying. Here is one of the schools that have touched me the most. Look up some of them, there is even one from MI!
If you are my family you know my story well, if your not my family let me share my story. I was never the most popular or had the most friends growing up. I was always battling my weight and of course kids can be cruel. I was pretty good during elementary school. When I started entered 6th grade I was fine, I was on High Honors and I had my group of friends. I was getting picked on, called names, but I was dealing with it. When it came to my 7th grade year I nearly FAILED the whole year because of the abuse I was getting at school. I would be called horrible names, I would get hit, shoved in to lockers, and I was even spit on at one point. I would tell the teachers, my parents, anyone who I thought could help. The teachers did nothing! My parents are amazing people. They stood up for me when no one else would. I think the worse part about the whole thing is the fact that the Vice Principle live ACROSS the street from us!!!! How could she not do something to help me when I was BEGGING my mom not to make me go to school because of how scared I was. It got to the point where my parents went to the principle and told him if he didn't do something we were going to go to a different school. Well the principle did not do his job and we started looking at new schools.
The next year I left my 300 student class size school to my new 95 student class size. The one bad thing for me is that there was someone at this new school who knew someone form my old school and they were told all the names I was called. While my 8th grade year was not that great I found a few friends and I joined cheerleading. I started to train with the high schoolers in gymnastics. They took me under their wings and I felt safe for the first time in a long time. Also this kid that knew someone from my old school was tormenting me and my AMAZING Mom made sure he knew if he even talked to me again what would happen. I was never bothered again by him.
Don't get me wrong my grade still were pretty unkind to me but I found my group with the cheerleaders and some great girls that were a year ahead of me. My Sophomore year I was nominated to be on Winterfest Court as a joke by my grade. I have no idea how many people it took to really get me voted, but I am so grateful for that. I never in my life though I would ever get to be on homecoming court at all! Those cruel kids who thought it would be funny to put me up with a fairly popular guy really lost on this one. The guy who was nominated with me was great! He made it a great night for me and was very nice to me the whole time. Eventually we would also be nominated the most School Spirited of our class.
So what is the point of this post?????
Well I PRAY that Sprout does not have to go through what I went through.I will fight for my baby no mater what! I really hope that by the time she goes to school or middle school that there will be laws that punish kids for bulling. I believe that cyber bulling should be punished as well. I think the schools should be able to do more to protect the victims that if left to go on, has caused so much suicide that it is not right! I wish there was someone else besides my parents who did something for me, protected me. I was lucky that my parents did step in because who knows if I would have been one of those teen suicides. It's really scary to think about it.
So in the end this mom lion will always protect my little cub with a great big ROAR!!!!
