Baby's grow up soooooo fast... A little too fast if you ask me :( I feel like Little Man will be a man in no time. He's so alert and husky. He loves to talk and stand... and he's only 3 & 1/2 months old.

And I think he's teething already!!! I have to look that up. Hold on...

Okay I'm back lol so it turns out baby's can start teething as early as 3 months old. Some of the symptoms associated with teething which Little Man is now showing are drooling, fussiness, irritability, trouble sleeping at night, and biting.

It's so heartbreaking to see my Baby in pain and frustrated and me not being able to do anything about it. Ugh!! I need to get him Humphrey's. They've never failed us lol.

Tomorrow I am going to see this lady about day care. It's hard to have to leave your Baby with a complete stranger and hope that they will treat him good. Hopefully everything turns out good and the whole arrangement works out. Unfortunately time's are tough.. you know since the economy sucks lol.. and it is necessary.. We can't all stay home lol.

My Baby is too cute. I need to figure out how to upload pictures on this thing... If I only had the time lol..

Being a Mommy is all about multitasking to the 100th power lol.. At least you can't ever really say your bored and actually mean it. For example as I type this post Little Man is asleep on my chest. He just fell asleep so i have to give him some time before I put him down.. if I don't he will wake up and either throw a fit or want to play. That's definitely based on luck lol.

So I was at an event for work in a local correctional facility and after seeing and speaking to many of the inmates i can say that I realized how grateful I am to have the life I have and that I Love it. As an inmate you are taken away from everything you know and everyone you love.. your home, children, family, friends.. and its a real shame to hear how so many of them ended up there because of someone else. We need to give thanks for all the great things in our lives because in the grand scheme of things the little things that annoy us are most of that time not even worth stressing over.

Ok so I just had a space out moment lol that's what happens when all your free time is spent thinking about absolutely everything.. your brain just needs a break every once in a while whether you like it or not lol.

Anyway.. We have come across the "Day Care Dilemma".. and let me tell you it sucks!!!!! If you have the option of staying home with your child please do it... being at work once you have been approved to enter Mommy World is sooooooo hard lol. Chances are you will get emotional and noone will ever be good enough to take care of your baby. P.s. that feeling never goes away. Hopefully things work out for the best and we pick a place that will be great for him.

Day Care Hints:
Ask about certification
How many other kids are being taken care of there
If they've had any emergencies and what has been done
How they feel about unannounced visits by parents
Whether they provide meals
Ask for a tour of the facility so you can see what everything looks like for yourself
**Remember this is where your Baby will spend the majority of every day until he starts school, theres nothing wrong with asking questions.
The last thing you want is to feel that your little ray of sunshine is not safe.
And if your child has any special needs make sure the workers are aware of the situation and that they are capable of handling it.

Ugh my Baby... We shall see what happens very soon.. Oh yeah make sure you discuss payment amount and set up a payment schedule.. don't be afraid to accept that times are tough and we need to be more aware and careful of how we spend.

Enjoy it all!!! Be Happy and Love!

Since my last blog post my Little Man has Grown soo much. He is now 3 months old and the light in my life. I'm back at work and stopped breastfeeding about two weeks ago. The weaning process has been interesting. It's funny because he still tries to latch on and when he can't he tries to suck his thumb instead. As mean as it sounds I don't let him lol. I just don't want him to grow up to be one of those adults who still suck their thumbs. That's not sexy lol. He won't take a bobo which is great I think... although sometimes I try to give it to him if everything else I've tried doesn't work to calm him down.

My Baby is great though. He loves to smile, play, and "talk". We used to stay up all night and have conversations.. ok maybe not all night but from about 2 to 4 in the morning and then again from about 5:30 to 6a.m. It took him a bit to get on a 2 hour schedule. That was tough especially since during the day I wasn't getting any sleep. As a new mom you get extremely paranoid about everything. I must have checked his breathing like 500 times a day(that might not be an exxageration lol). Now he sleeps from 9:30p.m. to about 6a.m. Sometimes he wakes up for a bottle but its rare.

The hardest thing about the past 3 months has not been the negative amounts of sleep, or the fact that my body will never be the same again lol the hardest thing was going back to work. When I made the decision to return to my check lol I will admit I cried... I held Little Man and just cried. I'm ok with it now but I guess that's because my wonderful sister has been taking care of him during the day. She's a great help. The challenge now will be what to do about child care at the end of the summer when she goes back to school. Ugh.. si no es una cosa es otra!! (translation: if it's not one thing it's another lol)

At 3 months old Nene (Little Man) has his very own personality. And boy does he have a temper. He likes to watch t.v. , talk, play, take a bath, dance, and thinks he can stand already lol. He has a lot of hair and the unny thing is it naturally goes to the right. His hair came styled right out of the womb. He's gotten chunky but he's short... although he is husky... he looks like a little bodybuilder lol.

Oh I gotta go be a wife lol