Stupid baby sites!

When Kota was born I made a website for family who don't live near us or are unable to come visit to see pics of him. I made it on www.aboutmybaby.com. Well, today I got an email from the site saying they will no longer be open and all sites and content will be deleted. Because of the economy they are no longer able to stay open. CRAP! Now I have to move all that site's content somewhere else. That was the best damn baby site host I ever found, and now they're leaving. Turds. I found another place that i'm working on building his site, on www.totsites.com. I'm getting aggrivated with having to move everything though. I don't save all the stuff on my laptop. I had it all uploaded on the AMB site and on a special photobucket, so nothing takes up space on my ancient laptop. Now I have to save everything back on here, and re-upload it on this new site. Ugh, how aggrivating. Then I have to email everyone who visits the site and let them know it's moving.

A very merry un-birthday, to me!

I feel like such an old fart. I'm now 24 years old. Sunday was my birthday. w00t?

My mom watched the little man while Mason and I went to the mall. I got new glasses, woohoo! We went to Lens Crafters and I picked out this really cute pair of pink glasses with sparkly rhinestones. I know, sounds tacky right? But they are so fucking awesome. After I pick the up i'll show you guys. They're friggin' sweet. :-D

I got my first Ed Hardy shirt. I know, I know, again, sounds tacky. But I thought it was so cute and I had to have it! I finally got a pair of stiletto boots too. I've wanted a pair since forever. I got a few other shirts too. So my birthday was pretty decent. My parents got me a chocolate fudge cake. So good!



In other news...


Today I got a text message from a 503 area code. It started out normal then got weird...

503: hey
me: who is this
503: Ryan who are you
me: Amy, I think you have the wrong number
503: how old are you?
me: 24. again, you have the wrong number, bye.
503: cool wanna text chat?
me: wtf no i'm blocking you now

and then I blocked his number. It was weird. I've never 'gotten the wrong number' when texting. And even if I did, I don't think i'd try to make friends with the person, or flirt with them or whatever. I'm glad my phone has the block feature. I'm not really up to seeing what else Mr "Ryan" had to say...

Round 2, Xmas update!

So, as I said in my short other post, Kota had a decent Christmas. I guess. Before the holidays everyone was talking about how great it was going to be shopping for the baby and spoiling him with tons of gifts. But once it was time to open presents, everyone was like "Oh, well...we couldn't think of anything to get him, so here's a stuffed bear". Yeah. He got lots of diapers, stuffed bears, and $100 cash.
I got a couple hundred dollars and a couple gift cards.
We got our PS3. It was a used one. Guess what? It worked once, and then DIED. Go fucking figure. Mason's parents buy everything used. I'm not surprised that it broke. So we took it back to where they got it and got a brand new, never used, not a re-furb'd WII!!! I love the Wii! It's so awesome! :) The only games with played on our PS2 area Guitar Hero, we have everything for that on the PS2, so we don't really need and PS3.

The one thing I got for Christmas that I really didn't want, was a cold. Blah. I feel like poo.

My birthday is this Sunday. I'll be 24. Man, i'm an old fart.

Christmas pics!

I'll post more later! I didn't really get a lot of gifts, mostly money. People know i'm picky, haha!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

So i've been busting my ass all week cleaning the house for tomorrow (Xmas Eve) when we're having all of my family and all of May-son-ies family over. I've been going through boxes of stuff and putting a bunch of crap we don't need on CraigsList in the "free" section. Mason would probably kill me if he knew I was giving away stuff he paid for. But it's just JUNK! He goes out to flea markets and yardsales and buys JUNK! And then puts it in our spare room where it sits for months. This shit needs to GO NOW!!! Ugh.

Tomorrow i'll probably still be cleaning up until the last minute and people are arriving. I'll be cooking too. I'm cooking a ham, side dishes and baking a red velvet cake (my favorite, screw everyone else lol). I was up till 2am last night cleaning. I got up at 8am this morning, fed Kota, and got right back to cleaning.

Speaking of CraigsList, people on there are picky as fuck. They want everything for free, and they want it in brand new, still has the tags, great condition.
Ya know what, I was feeling extra generous. I made two gift bags for babies. In the bags were: about 10 jars of babyfood (fruits, veggies, meats EVERYTHING! not expired either!), toys, shampoo, lotion, etc... I put them in two NICE diaper bags that I don't use. I posted an ad for them on CL. A very detailed ad. NOT A SINGLE FREAKIN PERSON WANTED THEM. I'm giving away good, nice, clean, practicly brand new toys that Kota doesn't use, and FOOD, and not a single person was interested! I'm shocked! I figured someone would atleast respond and take the stuff and try to re-sell it, but nope. Not a word from anyone!

Then I put an ad for 3 free prom dresses. Davids Bridal brand for craps-sake! Size 2, 4 and 11 ( a little somethin for everyone lol).
Again, no one responds. FREE DRESSES!! Expensive ass dresses, FREE!!! Barely worn! No stains, no tears. PERFECT. FREE. DRESSES.

My niceness gets me no where.


I just really want this stuff out of my house. I'm trying to be nice and give it away for free, but no one wants to take it. I don't want to throw it away. I guess if it's not gone by next week, then i'll donate it to Salvation Army or something.

Oh blog, how i've neglected you!

I've been so tired lately. My little beefcake is teething and its getting bad. He stays up till midnight or later sometimes, then wakes up at 8am. I still feel dead tired now matter how much sleep I get. He's just a real crabby patty. I feel bad for the little guy, but i'm so freakin tired. He's not happy in his swing, or his bed, or his bouncy seat, or on his tummy time mat. He's happy when I hold him, for like, 5 minutes, then he's crabby again.
That damn baby orajel REALLY pisses him off! He likes teething rings, but only when their cold. Once its back to room temp he's crabby again. So we bought about 6 of the stupid things, so we always have one cold and ready.
Ugh, I just want to be able to go to sleep at 9pm and wake up at 7 or 8 like usual. I wish those little white toothy demons would poke through, maybe then he wouldn't be such a crabass. *sigh*

Oh, and Kota scarred the shit out of me this afternoon! I was in the bathroom straightening my hair, I had him sitting in his bouncy seat in the door way. He had a pacifier and a toy, and he was happy just sitting there playing. All of a sudden he started screaming. I look down, and he's turned the paci around and has gotten the 'button' part of it stuck in his mouth. He somehow wedged it in, and it wouldn't come back out! His mouth was stuck open and his little arms were flailing and he was screaming and crying. I picked him up and attempted to pull the stupid paci out, but it was stuck in there good, it was behind his gums. He couldn't open his mouth wide enough for me to pull it out. So I squeezed his chubby cheeks to try and get his mouth to open wider, and yanked it out. He cried for a few seconds and then was fine.
This was the first time he's done that with this kind of paci (its a differant one than I usually give him).
That bastard paci is now in the garbage.
I cuddled him and kissed him for a little while and then sat him back in his seat. He started playing again like nothing ever happened. :-/

Last weekend we went to the Wire Grass outdoor mall and saw the Christmas tree light show. It was freakin' sweet. :)




Huge trees!


Xmas trees at Wire Grass

ღஐღ I ♥ my little family!ღஐღ MySpace Video

Christmas Gifts

Mason and his parents have been running around all week looking for a backwards compatible PS3. Mason is all excited because it's going to be his Xmas gift. So he's tellinge everyone else he wants PS3 games as gifts. We were talking last night and he was like "Wow, my parents are really going all out this Christmas! There spending a lot of money on gifts!!" I said "That's awesome, I can't wait to see what they're getting me if they got you a PS3!" and he looked at me and said "Oh....it's a 'joint gift', it's for both of us..."

What?
Why the fuck would I want a PS3 for Christmas? I was never even asked what I wanted. Mason has been talking about getting one for months, so now his parents are getting one for Xmas. Now I find out that because all Mason wants for the holidays is a PS3, that it's *my* gift too. Fantastic.
How about instead of spending hundreds of dollars on this stupid thing, we just ask for money for rent. We can barely afford to pay our own bills! Now we'll have a game system we wont be able to buy games for. WONDERFUL!

All I want for Christmas is someone to watch the little beefcake for a few hours while I go get a mani/pedi or a massage, or something else equally relaxing.

Half a year old!

I made a little slideshow to "celebrate" Kota being 6 months old yesterday (Tuesday). And yes, I know I spelled 'month' wrong at the end, but thats okay. And turn your speakers on, there is music too! I had a dream, while I was pregnant, and it was like a home movie looking dream. Of me holding a baby (couldn't see his face) and of our little family. And this song was playing in my dream. So I thought it would only be fitting to use it now! :) Enjoy!

All I want for Christmas...

Kota had his 6 month checkup today. My suspicions were confirmed: he has two teeth coming in the (bottom) front. Poor teething baby! He's had trouble sleeping and has just been an all around crabby patty. :-/ His pedi said they'd probably break through before Christmas! Someone, please, stop this child from growing up. :( I don't want him to get teefers. I love his toothless smile! And he just wont seem like a baby any more!!! :( "Little kids" have teeth, not "babies". NOT BABIES!!!! waaaaaaaahhhh!!! :(

Anyway.

He got his vaccines again. Two shots and the oral vaccine stuff. Then I decided to get him his flu shot. He didn't even cry at first. He got the first two shots and just kind of got this confused look on his face. Then he got the third one and his face scrunched up and he opened his mouth. Before he could let out a cry I threw the pacifier in there lol! I picked him up and he was okay within a few seconds. My little trooper. ♥

Today I went on a walk with the baby. He had his Pooh Bear in the stroller with him and he was "talking" to him the whole way! I decided to give jogging a try. I learned that mommy doesn't jog. Back in high school I ran on the track a lot (for fun, not on the team). That was back when I had more of an "athletic" figure to me. Now I have a "mommy" figure, and this mommy doesn't jog. I'd like to do this walking thing every day to get back in shape, but the Florida weather has been really shitty lately. Rainy all the time, and cold as hell (wait, that doesn't even make sense lol).

We got the tile finished in the kitchen. I'll post pics tomorrow or something. It's still a mess in there.

Thankful to be a mommy!

Why i'm thankful to be a Mommy...


♥ I can work at home! Yeah, the pay kind of sucks. But the benefits are totally worth it!


♥ Feeling the love for your baby is like no other feeling in the world! It's a natural high!


♥ I get to see his smiling face every morning! I love walking into his room and seeing his big goofy grin staring up at me. I'm as happy to see him as he is to see me. :-D

♥ He makes me a better person. That sounds cheesy, I know, but it's true. I don't think i'd be where i'm at now if he weren't here!!

♥ He makes every day worth living. He's the reason I get up every morning. Every day is a new adventure to him, and it's a good reminder to look at life the same way!

♥ He's teaching me how to be a kid again. I get to be silly and make up silly songs and sing and dance. All to make him smile and laugh!



For all you other mommies, why are YOU thankful to be a mommy? :)

Should I go there?

Ok, so i'm having major bloggers block. I wrote a new post, but i'm kind of iffy about posting it. I have it saved as a draft.
It's about my dating history. It even includes pics of the guys. I'm kind of iffy on posting it because, well.... i'm just not sure. It's kind of putting everything out there. I know they'll probably never read it, but i'm not worried if they do. It's a really random blog, and i'm not sure how many people would be interested.
Some of it is funny, some not so much. I just think it's something a lot of people could relate to.

Soooooo gimmie a few hours to think about it.

Lots of pics!!

Man, did we have a busy weekend!! Thanksgiving was busy, and it was all down hill from there! We avoided going out on black Friday though. Except to Chic-Fil-A. The one down the road from us has these amazing Christmas Lights every year. So me, Mason, baby and my parents took the little guy to go see some awesome lights!



Me and baby in the parking lot with the Chic-Fil-A behind us!




Daddy and baby

We went in and I got one of the holiday milkshakes: peppermint and chocolate chip! It was soooooo good!!! :-D One of the employees was giving all of the little kids balloons and he asked if we wanted one for baby. Mason was like "Nah, what the heck is he going to do with a balloon?" but I said "Hellz yes we'll take one!!". So Kota got his first balloon! :) He kept staring at it bob around. I tied it to his little wrist.




Saturday we drove out to Spring Hill again to spend the weekend. We helped Mason's aunts put up their holiday decorations and lights. They cooked us some delicious Italian sausage (omg soooo good!!!).
When we got home Sunday, Mason put up some lights outside and and put up the Christmas tree. I got to give him the surprise ornimate, yay! It's next to one of our other custom ornamates we had made a few years ago. :)



And over the weekend we made a very special discovery! Kota is getting a tooth!!! Which would explain his crabbyness and extream dooling! Awww! I'm going to miss his toothless smile!

Thanksgiving pics!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone else did too! :-D
Kota had his first taste of real pumpkin pie and whipped cream! He loved it!

Pie face!

Me and baby!

We went out to lunch with my family for Thanksgiving. Kota got to sit in a resturant highchair for the first time!




My toy, mine!!


Then we went to Spring Hill to visit Mason's family. There we soooo many people at his aunt's house! Kota loved all the attention he was getting. He was worn out when we got home!


Daddy, grandma, greatgrandma and baby!



Yes, we are!!

Of course i'm also thankful for family, friends and my hubby. But I feel espeically blessed this year to have my adorable little Dakota here with us!

You will now be graced with his uber cuteness!!!

My little collector!


Having a "blah" kind of day!

Don't be fooled little guy, mommy is always watching!!!

I just want to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving! I'll be gone alllllll day tomorrow, stuffing my face!

New pants!

I went to Ross and got two pairs of pants the other day. Both Levi's. I've never owned Levi's. I love them, I should of been buying this brand years ago!! I'm happy that I now have pants that actually fit, instead of my pre-pregnancy pants! w00t!

We get to have two Thanksgivings on Thursday! We're going out with my family to celebrate, then we're heading to Spring Hill to go to Mason's aunts house. We always have fun up there. :) The only problem is we may have to drive his mom and grandma back to Tampa with us, which I really, REALLY don't want to do. We would just spend the weekend up there, but we're tiling the kitchen counter and putting insulation in the attic. We've already done half of the counter, and it looks fabulous! It's beautiful black tile! I'll post pics when it's done!!

OMG soon Kota will be 6 months old. SIX FREAKIN MONTHS OLD!! That's halfway to a year!! I can't believe it's been that long already!

From itty-bitty:


To "big boy":

He's growing up so fast!!! My precious little man ♥ ♥ ♥

Meet Agent Boner!

Word of warning, you may want to make sure the kids are out of the room before looking at this. Or heck, it may be a good time to teach them about anatomy. I'll leave that up to you....

Here we go!

No, you don't have to adjust your computer screen. It *is* what you think it is.A frog with a giant penis. Yep.
Now i'm sure you're wondering why, oh why, I am now the proud(?) owner of this fine piece of...whatever. Art? Anyway. It was a gift. From my in-laws. Yep.I collect frogs (specifically, tree frogs). I'm not manic or anything, it's not like I have a huge collection. I just have 3 stuffed ones (stuffed animals, not like, taxidermist stuffed!) and a metal wall art thingy of one. I think they're cute. :)But I draw the line at frogs with boners. I don't know what was running through my in-law's heads when they saw this. What made them say "OMG, Amy would LOVE this! We must buy it!" They seriously thought it was the bee's knees when they brought it to me. They were so excited, and thought it was hilarious. I was just kind of like "Oh, wow....thanks(?) Um...how...funny. Yeah.... *whispering to hubby* where the fuck am I going to put this?!"Now i'm trying to figure out if it's one of those things that you hide in the closet and only take out to display when you know the person who gave it to you is coming over. Or do I just shove it in the back of the closet, never to be seen again? Quite honestly I just feel awkward having it in my home. Heaven forbid, when Kota gets more mobile, he gets his hands on it. And anyone with a baby knows that what gets in the hands, goes in the mouth.Oh sweet Jesus pants that would be bad!I named this quirky little guy Agent Boner. While the in-laws were still here, chatting about...who knows, I had a murder mystery show on TV and the detective that was on there happened to be called Agent Boner. So I named froggy-with-big-wiener Agent Boner.

Ya know, when I was 16 I probably would of found this hilarious. But i'm almost 24. Married. With a baby. Now it's just awkward. And trust me, I have a sick sense of humor and a dirty mind. But this, this is just WEIRD! I don't know what to do with the damn thing. I'd feel dirty and creepy trying to sell it, or even give it to someone else.

I went to Google to try and look it up on there and see who made it or what exactly it's for (Father in Law said I could sit it near the sink and put my rings on it when I wash dishes! *shudder*) But I feel like such a perv going to Google and typing in "Frog with boner" "Frog with big penis" even "Ceramic frog with boner" shit just any variation of that just weirds me out.

Stupid fucking frog.

Not of age?

I was heading to Dairy Queen last night when hubby called me and asked me to pick him up some ciggies while I was out. I was driving right past Wallyworld, so I decided to just pull in there and get them. I wait in their infamous long as hell line. Go up to the counter, ask for a pack of Newports. She asks for my ID, I give her my ID. She types in my birth date. Then tells me i've been declined.

What?

I tell her I'm almost 24 years old, how am I declined? So she puts in my birth date again. Again it says i'm declined. Apparently i'm not of age. I tell her to put it in AGAIN. It's 1/3/86. Damnit do you want ME to do it?! She said she can't do it any more and she cannot sell me the Newports.

BITCH!

Ugh. So I go around the corner to a liquor store. I got the Newports there. EIGHT FUCKING DOLLARS! Sweet Jesus Pants. I tell the cashier dude there about my Wallyworld dilemma and he just laughs and asks to see my ID. No problems there. I don't know what the idiot at Walmart was doing, I don't think she even knew what she was doing. I thought maybe they raised the age limit of buying cigs to like, 30 or something.

Stupid Walmart bitch. Makin me look like an asshat. Everyone in the line behind me was giving me the death stare. They probably thought I had a fake ID or something! Ugh.

IN OTHER NEWS!!

The finalist for Baby Idol will be announced later today! Everyone keep your fingers crossed that Kota is one of them!!!!! :-D

Fuzzy mothman and turkey baby

Sunday morning hubby was outside smoking and come running in and told me to come outside and "see this awesome moth!". When I think of moths, the word "awesome" isn't usually associated with it... But when I saw it, I had to admit, it was a pretty awesome moth. It was big. And hairy...

I'm sure it's harmless. Besides eating your clothes. But you know if that thing would of flown at me I probably would of shit my pants and ran. :-/

I made Kota's Thanksgiving babylegs today. They are so cute! They match his Thanksgiving onesie perfectly! Good job, Mommy! :-D So I decided to work on his 1st Thanksgiving pics too. He didn't want to cooperate, he just wanted to play with the pumpkin and drool everywhere.

Silly baby, lol! :) ♥ I'll probably get some better pics this weekend. I want to make Thanksgiving cards for his grandparents. I was looking at some fall leaves decorations at Walmart, thinking it'd be cute to have him sitting in the leaves for his pictures. Then I looked at the price tag. $7.99. Eight friggin' dollars for a strand of fake leaves!!! I don't think so, scooter!!! I'll gather some up from outside and rinse them off and use those, it's cheaper. :-P

Stupid debit card. Stupid Taco Bell!

So I got a call yesterday evening from the library telling me my books were over-due. So today I took them back. On the drive home I passed by a salon/spa that does waxing. So I did a quick U-ie and went to get my brow's waxed! :) After a lovely (and painful) wax, I whip out my debit card to pay. The lady tells me they only take credit. I said she could run it as credit and it'd work too. So after about 10 swipes, she tells me my card is being declined. AHHHHH!!! So I give her my car keys and run across the street to a Micky D's to use their ATM.

OUT OF ORDER!

FUCK! So I bought a vanilla iced coffee and got $40 cash back. Go pay the waxer lady and go on my way.

Next stop was Taco Bell because I was hungry. Duh. I get a chicken burrito and a large diet Pepsi. Go through the drive-thru, hand the lady my debit card. DECLINED. Again! So I pay with cash.

Munchin on my burrito as I pull into Wallyworld. Head to their ATM, pull out $40 (so I don't look like an asshat at the register if my card is declined again) and get what I came for. Which was:

Herbal Essences Tousle Me Softly shampoo and conditioner (never used it before! if you have, tell me if it works or not!)

Clean & Clear foaming facial cleanser

Aquafina Advaned Hydration exfoliating facial scrub (LOVE THIS STUFF!! it's hard to find though!!)

Venus Spa Breeze razor

New makeup train-case storage thingy

Latest Teen Vogue

and tampons (w00t?)

So I get home, log on to my bank's website to check my balance and make sure I haven't over drafted or anything. It says I still have $101 in my account, and it shows all the transactions I made today (McDonalds and the ATM at Walmart).

Stupid freakin waxer lady and Taco Bell! I wonder why my card wouldn't work there? Grrr... Makin' me look like an asshat. :-/

I'm at a place called VERTIGO!

Vertigo is the feeling that you or your environment is moving when no movement occurs. Imprecisely called dizziness, the term vertigo is the specific term used to describe an illusion of movement. Unlike nonspecific lightheadedness or dizziness, vertigo has relatively few causes.

Vertigo Causes

Vertigo can be caused by problems in the brain or the inner ear.

Back when I was in high school, and for a few years when I was working, I'd get this dizziness when i'd get up in the morning. My alarm would go off, i'd get up and get this really warm feeling, the room would spin and i'd feel really disoriented. I'd sit or lay back down for a minute or two, and i'd be fine. It hasn't really happened in a few years, maybe once in a blue moon. But last night was HORRIBLE.

Hubby's alarm went off at 4am. I woke up and was super thirsty. And it felt HOT AS HELL in our bedroom. I was sweaty and uncomfortable. So I got up to go get a drink and check to see what the temp was in the house. I stood up and the room was spinning. So I sat back down. I got back up when I felt okay and the room started spinning again. I was like Ok, i'm just going to the kitchen, i'll be okay.

WRONG!

I started walking down the hall, and the room was not only spinning, but it felt like it was tilting to the right. So i'm going down the hall, leaning on the wall because it felt like I was going to fall over if I stood up straight. I check the temp, it was 74 degrees. I was sweating. I stumbled into the kitchen, got a drink, stumbled back to bed. I felt like I was going to puke. So off to the bathroom I went. But once I got there, the nausea was gone. So I started my stumble back to the bedroom, and I felt like I was going to puke again. Back to the bathroom. I tried to make myself throw up, thinking that if I did then I would feel better.

WRONG AGAIN!

Then Kota woke up. He had heard Mason's alarm going off and woke up. And he was hungry. I was thinking Crap, I can't pick him up feeling like this! What if I fall down?! So I made daddy get up and feed and change baby. I went back to bed.

Mason came in and woke me up asking if I needed him to stay home from work. I told him no, just let me rest and i'd be fine. He asked if I had been drinking. WHAT? Drinking?!

The asshat of the year award goes to my lovely hubby. Yes, I totally drank that bottle of vodka that magically appeared in our home. Grrr.....

So Kota let me sleep in till about 8:30, when he woke up hungry again. I got up, thinking i'd be okay.

Wrong. Yet again. *sigh*

So i'm stumbling around the house trying to find my cellphone to call my mom and ask her to come over and take care of the baby because i'm terrified that i'm going to fall down while i'm holding him. Or puke on him (eww). My mom wasn't home. She was at the store with my grandma across town. FUCK! I don't know anyone else that could of came over to help. Mason works an hour away. So I got baby's bottle ready, and instead of sitting in the livingroom or in our bedroom to feed him, I just put the side of his crib down, pull him out and sit on the floor next to his bed and feed him. Go figure, that after he ate, he didn't want to go back to sleep. So I put him in his swing, and went back to bed.

My mom got home about an hour later and came over and took care of him. I didn't feel better till about 12 this afternoon. And even now, I still feel a little dizzy, but the room is no longer spinning or tilting.

It's never gotten that bad before. I could literally see and feel the room spinning and tilting. In my mind I knew that it wasn't, but I could still see and feel it happening. Very strange and disturbing.

When I was feeling better I explained to my mom what had happened in detail and she asked if this was the first time it had happened. I said no, but this is the worst it's ever been. Usually it's just feeling dizzy and really warm and goes away rather quickly after sitting back down. She told me that her and my dad have had the same problem and they both went to the doctor and it was diagnosed as Vertigo. She said that I should of said something sooner. I always thought that I was just getting up too fast and it happened to everyone. Apparently I was wrong (noticing a pattern here? lol).

My mom said she'd take me to the Dr to see if there is anything they can do, but i'm not ready to go yet. If it happens again today or tomorrow, or I still feel kind of dizzy tomorrow, i'll go. If this starts happening more frequently, i'll have to go. I can't raise a 5 month old by being in bed all the time!

But of course now that i'm feeling better, baby wants to take a nap. :-/ Guess i'll go wash dishes or do something productive. Or just take another nap. :)