When I think of the benefits of blogging, I think of all the friends I have made, all the moments I have documented, all the advice I have received.
But DUDE, I was sent FOUR CELL PHONES to review!
To check out the full review, go to Lookit...but I thought I would share a couple stories about these phones here.
First off, Ray has a Palm Treo and I have the infamous Razr phone that I thought I had lost forever on a ride in Disney World last October. Ray hates his phone. Seriously. He has so many problems with it, I don't even know where to begin. I like my phone, but I just use mine for the occasion phone calls to Ray and various friends and family. Ray, being a Real Estate Agent, uses his all the time.
So when I got an email asking to review some new cell phones, I was like, Hell Ya!
Basically, Video Share phones let you live video stream (or recorded video) to another Video Share compatible phone.
I can't even begin to tell you how often we have used these.
Last Saturday, Ray was working all day. So I took the girls to Snipits to get Audrey's hair cut. Since she looked so damn cute sitting in her chair getting a hair cut, I called up Ray, hit the Video Share button on my phone, and he was able to see her as well.
The uses? Endless.
And no, you can't have my phones. All mine.
Now, if we could only convince all of our family in Virginia to get these, then we wouldn't have to go back and visit them anymore (Ha! I kid!).
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Is it really only Tuesday??
Seriously...it should at least be Thursday or at the very least, Wednesday...
Let's just say this week is not going well. And it's not just the Audrey issues, work sucks for lack of a better word.
But did Audrey sleep last night? Nope, nada, no way. Well, actually, she did sleep sort of okay, just the whole going to be thing was crappy.
But thank you to everyone for all of your suggestions, if I could try all of them all at once I would. What I think I will try is a combination of some of them, plus some other stuff that Ray read about online.
Which you know it's bad if Ray is searching for parenting tips online...seriously. He laughs at all my parenting magazines I get, but last night while I was attempting to get Satan-child to sleep, he was reading about Dr. Sears and Super Nanny.
Bottom line, Audrey wants to be held and loved and snuggled. She is one snuggly kid.
Just now her snuggling includes her wrapping her very hard cast arm around your head and periodically nailing you with it.
Let's just say this week is not going well. And it's not just the Audrey issues, work sucks for lack of a better word.
But did Audrey sleep last night? Nope, nada, no way. Well, actually, she did sleep sort of okay, just the whole going to be thing was crappy.
But thank you to everyone for all of your suggestions, if I could try all of them all at once I would. What I think I will try is a combination of some of them, plus some other stuff that Ray read about online.
Which you know it's bad if Ray is searching for parenting tips online...seriously. He laughs at all my parenting magazines I get, but last night while I was attempting to get Satan-child to sleep, he was reading about Dr. Sears and Super Nanny.
Bottom line, Audrey wants to be held and loved and snuggled. She is one snuggly kid.
Just now her snuggling includes her wrapping her very hard cast arm around your head and periodically nailing you with it.
I have told you guys about Eat Better America before...
I have told you guys about a great site called Eat Better America before, but now you can get a free sample of the original Fiber One Cereal. And if you are like me, I love Fiber One cereal and their bars and the higher the fiber, the less Weight Watchers points for those of you counting again in the New Year (Hi! That's me! I gained 6 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Years!).
The Business of Being Born Film
I was recently asked to pass on some information about a new film that's coming out called The Business of Being Born. And as I am sure it will with you, this film's synopsis evoked many feelings the whole birthing process in the United States. Both of my kids were born in the hospital and I thought and still think it was the best decision I made for their births. Also with both of my deliveries, Pitocin was administered and increased periodically through my labor (very long with Ashley, very short with Audrey).
But I know many people disagree with this, and I have seen way too many A Baby Story shows on TLC showing Moms giving birth in various locations - birth centers, at home, or in the hospital to make me wonder what it would have been like somewhere else.
In the film, Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Director Abby Epstein question the way American women have babies, and explore this fundamental question: should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency? The Business of Being Born makes a compelling argument for more humanistic approaches to birth.
Details on Film opening
NYC Opening: January 9-15 at the IFC Center. Call 212- 924-6789 or email hdew@ifccenter.com or katrainor@ifccenter.com for group discounts.
LA Opening: January 16 - 22 at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Contact: http://www.laemmle.com/group_sales.php for group discounts.
SF Opening: January 18-24 at the Roxie Cinema from January Call 415-431-3611 for group discounts.
The film will also be available on Netflix in February.
But I know many people disagree with this, and I have seen way too many A Baby Story shows on TLC showing Moms giving birth in various locations - birth centers, at home, or in the hospital to make me wonder what it would have been like somewhere else.
In the film, Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Director Abby Epstein question the way American women have babies, and explore this fundamental question: should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency? The Business of Being Born makes a compelling argument for more humanistic approaches to birth.
Details on Film opening
NYC Opening: January 9-15 at the IFC Center. Call 212- 924-6789 or email hdew@ifccenter.com or katrainor@ifccenter.com for group discounts.
LA Opening: January 16 - 22 at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Contact: http://www.laemmle.com/group_sales.php for group discounts.
SF Opening: January 18-24 at the Roxie Cinema from January Call 415-431-3611 for group discounts.
The film will also be available on Netflix in February.
Monday, January 07, 2008
Don't you hate it when bloggers whine about sleep?
I hate it when I whine about my lack of sleep. I really do. But it's catching up to me and Ray really, really quickly.
It started the weekend before Christmas. Both the kids got sick on our trip to Virginia. On all three nights staying with my parents, Audrey decided sleep was optional as the cold she had moved into her chest and aided by her asthma, made her miserable at night.
But she got over it. What she did not get over was the water/juice/milk and love and rocking she was getting in the middle of the night. And just when we thought we would turn a corner, BAM, she breaks her arm and I am spending the night laying on the floor in her room.
Which she thinks is cool now.
So Friday night we turned her crib into a toddler bed. We did the same thing with Ashley as the same exact age. Ashley acted as though there was still a wall on her crib. She wouldn't climb out, called for us when she woke up, was a breeze to move into a toddler bed.
Audrey is the polar opposite. She knows she has freedom now. She knows how to open doors. And she has a cast on one arm, so we feel sorry for her and coddle her and make sure she's safe. Which means I spent much of Friday and Saturday night on the floor in her room or rocking her to get her back to sleep.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. Let me first preface all this with one tidbit, Ray and I are not in favor of letting her cry it out. We just aren't. And no, we absolutely don't think you are a bad parent if you do, it just doesn't work for us. We absolutely will let her cry it out for a few minutes or ten, but as far as longer than that, we don't.
Back to the drastic measures. Since she seemed to be content being rocked to sleep in order to go back to sleep, we took the Granddaddy Lazy Boy chair (that honestly smelled like garlic bread throw up from last week's Mommy gave her too much milk throwing up escapade) out of her room. This is in hopes of when she did say "Rock, Mommy" in the middle of the night we could say "Nope, no chair, no rocking."
I am chalking up Friday and maybe Saturday night to the fact that she was probably still in pain. Now? Considering she was beating the side of her crib with her cast last night, I am pretty sure she is okay. I am waiting now for the day she attacks her sister with her cast....
Yesterday's nap, she decided that since Mommy slept on the floor, she was going to sleep on the floor. Fine, whatever works. But when she wanted to do the same for bedtime, I pulled her crib mattress on the floor and told her to sleep there.
Two hours later, she was still awake.
But she did do better in the middle of the night. She woke up sort of once, I gave her a sippy cup, she drank very little of it, and said "Rock" and I said, no, but told her I would lay beside her. On the floor. No wonder my back is really killing me today.
So, any ideas on how to keep her to stay in her bed? SJ gave me some ideas, and I was thinking about doing something my stepsister does with her 3 year old. She has a video now player, and her daughter watches one video, and she says she's asleep by the end of it.
I just want some sleep.
It started the weekend before Christmas. Both the kids got sick on our trip to Virginia. On all three nights staying with my parents, Audrey decided sleep was optional as the cold she had moved into her chest and aided by her asthma, made her miserable at night.
But she got over it. What she did not get over was the water/juice/milk and love and rocking she was getting in the middle of the night. And just when we thought we would turn a corner, BAM, she breaks her arm and I am spending the night laying on the floor in her room.
Which she thinks is cool now.
So Friday night we turned her crib into a toddler bed. We did the same thing with Ashley as the same exact age. Ashley acted as though there was still a wall on her crib. She wouldn't climb out, called for us when she woke up, was a breeze to move into a toddler bed.
Audrey is the polar opposite. She knows she has freedom now. She knows how to open doors. And she has a cast on one arm, so we feel sorry for her and coddle her and make sure she's safe. Which means I spent much of Friday and Saturday night on the floor in her room or rocking her to get her back to sleep.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. Let me first preface all this with one tidbit, Ray and I are not in favor of letting her cry it out. We just aren't. And no, we absolutely don't think you are a bad parent if you do, it just doesn't work for us. We absolutely will let her cry it out for a few minutes or ten, but as far as longer than that, we don't.
Back to the drastic measures. Since she seemed to be content being rocked to sleep in order to go back to sleep, we took the Granddaddy Lazy Boy chair (that honestly smelled like garlic bread throw up from last week's Mommy gave her too much milk throwing up escapade) out of her room. This is in hopes of when she did say "Rock, Mommy" in the middle of the night we could say "Nope, no chair, no rocking."
I am chalking up Friday and maybe Saturday night to the fact that she was probably still in pain. Now? Considering she was beating the side of her crib with her cast last night, I am pretty sure she is okay. I am waiting now for the day she attacks her sister with her cast....
Yesterday's nap, she decided that since Mommy slept on the floor, she was going to sleep on the floor. Fine, whatever works. But when she wanted to do the same for bedtime, I pulled her crib mattress on the floor and told her to sleep there.
Two hours later, she was still awake.
But she did do better in the middle of the night. She woke up sort of once, I gave her a sippy cup, she drank very little of it, and said "Rock" and I said, no, but told her I would lay beside her. On the floor. No wonder my back is really killing me today.
So, any ideas on how to keep her to stay in her bed? SJ gave me some ideas, and I was thinking about doing something my stepsister does with her 3 year old. She has a video now player, and her daughter watches one video, and she says she's asleep by the end of it.
I just want some sleep.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Pictures of the Pink Cast...
Completely waterproof cast
Ignore the random clothes, finding something to fit over her cast (and worse was the splint) can be difficult. I have raided Ashley's old clothes for some short sleeve stuff for Audrey to wear now.
Thanks Grandmommy and Papa Mocha for the balloons!Do You Know Anyone Who Had a Baby in December 2007?
TurboTax is sponsoring a contest for all of those parents who had a baby in December 2007. The contest is called "America's Cutest Last-Minute TaxDeduction." Parents are invited to upload a photo of their newborn to the contest's web site, where their fellow taxpayers will vote for the cutest and most original photo of the baby. The winner will receive a $5,000 savings bond ($10,000 uponmaturity). The site is CutestTaxDeduction and the contest ends January 9.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
Friday, January 04, 2008
Friday Pictures will be soon...
Don't worry, I will have some great pictures to post of Audrey.
Wanna know why?
SHE BROKE HER ARM.
Yup.
About 9:15 last night, she attempted to climb out of her crib. We heard a crash and instant crying, and we ran up. She was pretty inconsolable, and then we noticed she wasn't really moving her arm. So the decision was made for Ray to take her to the ER (I just can't handle those things...) and I stayed with Ashley.
They came home about midnight with instructions to go to an orthopaedic doctor today. She also had a splint on which was not fun. She could not use her hand at all, and she just kept saying "take it off."
Today they put on a cute pink cast, and she has full use of her hand. The cast is waterproof which is cool, but we have to go back next week as they are concerned she will be able to pull the cast off after the swelling goes down. She might have to have it redone.
And yes, we are converting her crib to a toddler bed today. We had been talking about doing it for the past two weeks, and well, now we have to.
I promise pictures later today...
Wanna know why?
SHE BROKE HER ARM.
Yup.
About 9:15 last night, she attempted to climb out of her crib. We heard a crash and instant crying, and we ran up. She was pretty inconsolable, and then we noticed she wasn't really moving her arm. So the decision was made for Ray to take her to the ER (I just can't handle those things...) and I stayed with Ashley.
They came home about midnight with instructions to go to an orthopaedic doctor today. She also had a splint on which was not fun. She could not use her hand at all, and she just kept saying "take it off."
Today they put on a cute pink cast, and she has full use of her hand. The cast is waterproof which is cool, but we have to go back next week as they are concerned she will be able to pull the cast off after the swelling goes down. She might have to have it redone.
And yes, we are converting her crib to a toddler bed today. We had been talking about doing it for the past two weeks, and well, now we have to.
I promise pictures later today...
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