New Year's Resolutions

So Greg and I have made a few New Year's resolutions that we want to share with everyone. So far we have really tried to stick to them even though it has only been a couple of days....

-Ensure that 2008 is the BEST year for Ryan!
-Spend more time together as a family
-We will try to eat healthier...limit junk food (not totally eliminate it though)
-Try to exercise more at least 3x week
-Try not to spend money frivolously
-Try to limit trips to walmart/target/golfer's warehouse/Dick's/golf galaxy
-Try not to eat take out/limit dinner's out (limit once a week)
-Limit purchases made at the grocery store (we end up throwing food away a alot)
-Try to rid our house of useless junk by selling some of it on Ebay
-Clean our basement and garage
-Donate clothing to the salvation army/goodwill/big brothers
-Try to live a simpler life
-And the list goes on.....but you get the general idea

BABY MUTINY!

I know I have discussed this in earlier posts but it has been very evident lately! We call it baby mutiny....Ryan has a little bunny that he sleeps with and cuddles at night and for naps. We have designated the bunny to stay in the crib so it does not get lost and so he associates the bunny with sleep. Well he decided that he would exercise his baby mutiny on the new bunny we gave him for Christmas. Gasp.... We have in the past rotated 2 bunnies with Ryan one for home and one at my mom's without a problem. But now that he is a bit older now and understands more there was major bunny mutiny going on when handed the spanking new ultra soft bunny blankie. I literally had to hide the old bunny blanket and stuff the new one in my shirt for a while before he would even look at the new one. Eventually after 2 days he finally took to the new one..phew. But there is still baby mutiny going on when he wakes form his nap and when he wakes in the morning. All we have to do is peer in the baby monitor and if the bunny is on the floor (baby mutiny) we know it is definitely time to get up.

POTTY TIME

Greg and I decided to get Ryan a new potty over the weekend. I know it is way way early for potty training but we wanted to see if he had any interest in sitting on it (with his clothes on) I was thinking of popping him on after bath time to limit the amount of clean up if he happens to poo in the tub. Knock on wood has not happened last week. So we wanted a basic simple potty minus the bells and whistles not to distract him from actually going potty and after a little research we decided on the baby bjorn potty (had pretty decent reviews for boys)So we practiced today and told Ryan to sit on his new potty chair and he DID it! We yelled HOORAY! HOORAY! and Ryan had a huge smile on his face clapped his hands and repeated HOORA HOORA. It was the cutest moment ever. He will now sit on the potty on command and smile shouting HOORA HOORA! We are not pushing the pottying but want him to familiarize himself with the potty so it is not a scary experience for him we want it to be a positive one.

NEW YEAR'S EVE

Tomorrow Greg and I are getting out of work early and headind out to a romantic dinner sans baby. Polina is watching Ryan a little later tomorrow she will feed Ryan dinner and get him in his jammies while Greg and I enjoy an early dinner at Pane Vino in Westport.

TEETHING WOES

Ryan was a bit overtired tonight before dinner and appears to be cutting 2 molars, and seriously like 6 others, 2 sets of uppers including his eye teeth, and a set of lowers. He was extremely irritable not his norm and nothing we did seemed to calm him down. We tried giving him a snack, rocking him inthe rocking chair (his favorite), self feeder with apple (baby mutiny), tried ice (repeat baby mutniny!), tried nursing, tried singing and walking around the house, nothing seemed to do the trick for more than a few seconds! Finally we gave a dose of Tylenol and tried a bath in the ducky tub and played with some bubbles (his favorite...something magical about bubbles!) and he was cured! Thankfully we are almost certain it was teething he has been drooling like mad and putting everything in his mouth, gagging himself with his hand, and I could feel the teeth erupting on his poor sensitive gums. He was so happy after his bath. I tried to give him some meatloaf, mashed potatoes and broccoli for dinner but again their was baby mutiny going on he ended up only eating the broccoli and a few bites of mashed potatoes...I think he mouth was too tender to chew the meat. Oh I have to add that Dylan LOVES baby mutiny during meals! He sits right under the high chair with his head up waiting for baby mutiny to occur! We think it is his favorite time of the day!

Here are a few links to some of our ebay items we hope to add to them soon!(you will probably have to copy and paste in your browser)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESEX:IT&item=150200540006&_trksid=p3984.cSELL.m315.lVI

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESEX:IT&item=150200524905&_trksid=p3984.cSELL.m315.lVI

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESEX:IT&item=150200545868&_trksid=p3984.cSELL.m315.lVI


Wishing everyone a very happy healthy 2008!