The smell of green veggies, specifically peas and broccoli is starting to make me sick. Other than baby mum mums and the snack Puffs, Brayden only eats green veggies (and sometimes mixed with baby cereal). So when a dirty diaper smelling like fermented peas enters my life every day, I reaffirm the fact that I will never again eat peas. Not that I really HAVE anyways, except in pork and peas.
Even though it grosses me out, here's a method, and reason, for my veggie faze. Kien had a really great pediatrician when he was born. She has since moved out of state but I always agreed with her crazy methods and styles so I've stuck with them for Brayden. The eating schedule she gave is:
1: Poi (if you aren't from Hawaii, google it) and/or rice cereal.
2: Green veggies (Brayden has so far has green beans, peas, avocado, and broccoli. Next week he'll have spinach which I cook up and blend with water and baby cereal)
3: orange veggies like carrots, corn,and then we'll also enter into sweet potato. Whether purple or orange depends on the season.
4: fruits
5: meats. For the first year, that's ALL I think. I can't remember about yogurt, but I think that comes with other dairy like milk at one year old.
Anyways, that's why I'm sick of green veggies. Don't put anything green on my plate for a while please. Thank you.
Greened-out,
Lyn
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
my etsy ;)
I had my first Etsy sale today and it is EXCITING!!
In honor of my first sale, I wanted to share a couple things I found (not mine) that I'm in love with:
Of course don't forget to check out MY shop =)
In honor of my first sale, I wanted to share a couple things I found (not mine) that I'm in love with:
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| Coffee poster from Etsy shop Of Life and Lemons |
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| "Do what you love" art print from Etsy shop Letter Happy |
Of course don't forget to check out MY shop =)
Monday reversal
Monday has a different meaning now that I don't have to go to work. It's my watch Hulu and fold clothes day, so I look forward to catching up on some Desperate Housewives and Terra Nova. The tv time gets me looking forward to folding clothes, otherwise the pile will take over my couch for weeks on end. The sad part is that it's the first day in two days (or in today's case it's four) that it's just me and Brayden. No big brother or daddy to talk to or to watch Brayden while I water the plants or take a longer than necessary shower. But I actually get things DONE on Monday. There's no sense cleaning anything while the two older guys are home; they are a destructive tsunami of ropes, dishes, snack wrappers, and clothes. So all-in-all I like weekdays, even Monday, now that I spend my weekdays in a job I LOVE ;)
My only beef with Monday is that it's a little harder to get Kien to school on Monday mornings, but that's only an hour-long battle so it's really not that bad.
So GOOD MORNING Monday, let's DO today!!
Conquered the Case of the Mondays,
Lyn
My only beef with Monday is that it's a little harder to get Kien to school on Monday mornings, but that's only an hour-long battle so it's really not that bad.
So GOOD MORNING Monday, let's DO today!!
Conquered the Case of the Mondays,
Lyn
Monday, November 21, 2011
BREAKing Dawn. Broken. My review (part 1)
Fact 1: I read the entire Twilight Saga at least four times, and certain books even more than that.
Fact 2: Regarding the movies, I loved New Moon, liked Eclipse a lot, but I hated the Twilight movie. I felt that the director, Catherine Hardwick, ruined it in every way possible.
Fact 3: I think that the Breaking Dawn Part 1 movie made the Twilight movie seem pretty decent.
The opening scenes includes the beautiful Jacob ripping off his shirt and turning in to Jacob-Wolf. Considering that it was the only shirtless scene, it was a little too shaky and a lot too quick. Yes, it was the only shirtless scene. Why were the wolves always fully clothed? They were always shirtless in New Moon and Eclipse, why ruin that streak of pure-brown-gorgeousness?
The first vampire scene is pretty light and cutesy, with the Cullens carrying various pieces of furniture and tree trunks around the yard to set up for the wedding. I like this scene because it seems candid and not like the room is about to explode with awkward tension. There was enough of said awkward tension in the next scene in Bella's bedroom. It's the night before the wedding and Bella and Edward and having their moment. Between the story that Edward tells Bella about what a monster he used to be (and giving us the forced-visual of his mouth oozing with bad-man blood), the background music, and the horrible emotionless close-up stare down of Bella's face, it was a bad soap intensified. I can see that they were probably going for a romantic scene showing that Bella is committed to Edward forever, and that she is aware that she will be some monster when she turns to vamp-hood. But the MUSIC. It was supposed to be background music but it was MUCH too high and would not fade in to the background. I was just about to look past the loud music until Emmitt shows up in Bella's window "hanging on" to the window frame. Yes that is what is supposed to happen, but did it NEED to look like he was being held up on a wire, unable to hold his body still? Probably not. Corny scene number 1.
Wedding day. The wedding was beautiful when we could see it. It felt like it took way too long for Bella to walk a short distance down the aisle, but we really don't know how long the aisle was because most of the shots were a close-up of her (once again) emotionless face. Sorry, it wasn't "emotionless", it was full of emotion. I'd say those emotions were "trying too hard", "fake crying", "suffocating", and "burning alive". Wasn't she supposed to be nervous yet incredibly happy? Edward's facials were great for once. He looked so happy that was about to jump out of his skin. I think he even smirked at a point, and I know that is something that you for real can't help but do when you're just so HAPPY.
My favorite part of the movie was actually the wedding toasts. It was added in for the movie (not in the book), and it was light and comical, especially Emmitt's snide comments about not getting much sleep anymore (which only the vampires and werewolves could fully understand correctly), and Charlie's reminder that he can shoot a gun.
Jacob shows up at the wedding and it's basically a scene out of the book, with the exception that Sam and the others were supposed to be in the woods as WOLVES just incase Jacob lost his cool. Instead, they all came out of hiding as men. If a fight broke out between wolves and vamps right there, the wolves are powerless in their human form against vamps. That's actually a point that bothers me a lot; the wolves are too-often HUMAN. If there was no dialog, they should be wolves. There was no problem with them being wolves in Eclipse.
Anyways it's OFF TOO THE HONEYMOON, and yeah-yeah-yeah, it matches the book and she seems nervous and all is fine. Fine but not GREAT. Except the scene when Bella is all nervous about her night with Edward. He has gone out to the ocean, naked, and she is trying to mentally prepare herself. It's a funny scene and I like it because, just like the opening vamp scene, it seems candid. Okay so the obvious comes next. WEDDING NIGHT. The sex scene is a okay, again with the BAD music though, and it's just a little awkward. When Edward broke the headboard, and then the whole bed frame, the audience LAUGHED! Pretty funny.
Fact 2: Regarding the movies, I loved New Moon, liked Eclipse a lot, but I hated the Twilight movie. I felt that the director, Catherine Hardwick, ruined it in every way possible.
Fact 3: I think that the Breaking Dawn Part 1 movie made the Twilight movie seem pretty decent.
The opening scenes includes the beautiful Jacob ripping off his shirt and turning in to Jacob-Wolf. Considering that it was the only shirtless scene, it was a little too shaky and a lot too quick. Yes, it was the only shirtless scene. Why were the wolves always fully clothed? They were always shirtless in New Moon and Eclipse, why ruin that streak of pure-brown-gorgeousness?
The first vampire scene is pretty light and cutesy, with the Cullens carrying various pieces of furniture and tree trunks around the yard to set up for the wedding. I like this scene because it seems candid and not like the room is about to explode with awkward tension. There was enough of said awkward tension in the next scene in Bella's bedroom. It's the night before the wedding and Bella and Edward and having their moment. Between the story that Edward tells Bella about what a monster he used to be (and giving us the forced-visual of his mouth oozing with bad-man blood), the background music, and the horrible emotionless close-up stare down of Bella's face, it was a bad soap intensified. I can see that they were probably going for a romantic scene showing that Bella is committed to Edward forever, and that she is aware that she will be some monster when she turns to vamp-hood. But the MUSIC. It was supposed to be background music but it was MUCH too high and would not fade in to the background. I was just about to look past the loud music until Emmitt shows up in Bella's window "hanging on" to the window frame. Yes that is what is supposed to happen, but did it NEED to look like he was being held up on a wire, unable to hold his body still? Probably not. Corny scene number 1.
Wedding day. The wedding was beautiful when we could see it. It felt like it took way too long for Bella to walk a short distance down the aisle, but we really don't know how long the aisle was because most of the shots were a close-up of her (once again) emotionless face. Sorry, it wasn't "emotionless", it was full of emotion. I'd say those emotions were "trying too hard", "fake crying", "suffocating", and "burning alive". Wasn't she supposed to be nervous yet incredibly happy? Edward's facials were great for once. He looked so happy that was about to jump out of his skin. I think he even smirked at a point, and I know that is something that you for real can't help but do when you're just so HAPPY.
My favorite part of the movie was actually the wedding toasts. It was added in for the movie (not in the book), and it was light and comical, especially Emmitt's snide comments about not getting much sleep anymore (which only the vampires and werewolves could fully understand correctly), and Charlie's reminder that he can shoot a gun.
Jacob shows up at the wedding and it's basically a scene out of the book, with the exception that Sam and the others were supposed to be in the woods as WOLVES just incase Jacob lost his cool. Instead, they all came out of hiding as men. If a fight broke out between wolves and vamps right there, the wolves are powerless in their human form against vamps. That's actually a point that bothers me a lot; the wolves are too-often HUMAN. If there was no dialog, they should be wolves. There was no problem with them being wolves in Eclipse.
Anyways it's OFF TOO THE HONEYMOON, and yeah-yeah-yeah, it matches the book and she seems nervous and all is fine. Fine but not GREAT. Except the scene when Bella is all nervous about her night with Edward. He has gone out to the ocean, naked, and she is trying to mentally prepare herself. It's a funny scene and I like it because, just like the opening vamp scene, it seems candid. Okay so the obvious comes next. WEDDING NIGHT. The sex scene is a okay, again with the BAD music though, and it's just a little awkward. When Edward broke the headboard, and then the whole bed frame, the audience LAUGHED! Pretty funny.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
DAWN at MIDNIGHT
BREAKING Dawn, I mean :)
I have never been to a midnight movie before, so now seems like a perfect time to start! It's also logical; the boys will go to sleep and then I'll leave Ryan home with sleeping kids. Yes I'll be tired on Friday, but that's what caffeine is for right? It makes sense for us mommies to do this tomorrow night and we're STOKED! I'll post all about it afterwards!
Team Jacob (yes even though I know he loses),
Lyn
P.S.- I don't believe people can call themselves die-hard fans if they haven't read the books. Same goes for Harry Potter. Posers ;P
I have never been to a midnight movie before, so now seems like a perfect time to start! It's also logical; the boys will go to sleep and then I'll leave Ryan home with sleeping kids. Yes I'll be tired on Friday, but that's what caffeine is for right? It makes sense for us mommies to do this tomorrow night and we're STOKED! I'll post all about it afterwards!
Team Jacob (yes even though I know he loses),
Lyn
P.S.- I don't believe people can call themselves die-hard fans if they haven't read the books. Same goes for Harry Potter. Posers ;P
Sunday, November 13, 2011
If the stores can do it, so can I.
I pulled out my Christmas decorations today!!! I'm so very excited. Because I got most of my Christmas shopping done I just felt holly-jolly already and wanted to put up the tree. And baby, IT'S GOIN' UP! 
Thursday, November 10, 2011
sickies, babies, and sick babies
Well a couple weeks slipped me by while I blinked.
Kien caught a cold just a couple days before Halloween, infected Brayden, and now I have been fighting it since. I think I've finally failed. For the most part it's a super sore throat, and I can handle THAT. But now I'm mutating to the nasty cough and extreme irritability. Okay the irritability might not be related to my cold at all.
Brayden sleeps all night, I've gone over that I think. It's AMAZING that he has slept an average of 12 [uninterrupted] hours each night. While he first got his cold, there were two nights that he woke up around 3 am and I fed him because he's sick. Well his cough got worse this weekend, so when he woke up today at 3:00 I fed him and snuggled him for a bit. He dozed off for three seconds.. and he's still awake. It's 6:00. Ryan's alarm clock is beeping. This baby has had me up for THREE hours. And I was trying to fight off this cold. At 5:30 I finally decided not to fight him and just to stay awake since I'd need to get my morning moving along in such short time anyways. So I'm wiped out and have some killer cramps, a foot that feels broken, and I'm running on four hours of sleep. But guess what?! I'm gonna keep truckin' on. That's what mommies are supposed to do right?
Now I am not even going to attempt to say that Ryan is not an amazing dad, man, and husband, because that would be a lie. He's the best. But when this man gets sick OMG he's more of a baby than our babies are. I WANT to be able to take care of him and I WANT to love on him so much that he feels better. But when he feels the need to tell me every little whiney symptom while he sleeps in bed, during which time I'm ALSO not feeling well, not bitching about it, and functioning for the boys, it makes me mental! I know it seems kind of selfish, and I can't explain what I want. I think I want to feel acknowledged since I'm working my best to appear strong and healthy while I feel like hell inside. There's also a huge chance that I'm just wicked jealous because I would love to be able to sleep it off all day in a closed-door bedroom while the boys are taken care of. I often wish I could take some Nyquil and conk out for 14 hours.
Oh by the way Brayden just fell back to sleep O_O.
Sick and Tired (literally),
Lyn
ALRIGHT I swear that is enough bitching.
Kien caught a cold just a couple days before Halloween, infected Brayden, and now I have been fighting it since. I think I've finally failed. For the most part it's a super sore throat, and I can handle THAT. But now I'm mutating to the nasty cough and extreme irritability. Okay the irritability might not be related to my cold at all.
Brayden sleeps all night, I've gone over that I think. It's AMAZING that he has slept an average of 12 [uninterrupted] hours each night. While he first got his cold, there were two nights that he woke up around 3 am and I fed him because he's sick. Well his cough got worse this weekend, so when he woke up today at 3:00 I fed him and snuggled him for a bit. He dozed off for three seconds.. and he's still awake. It's 6:00. Ryan's alarm clock is beeping. This baby has had me up for THREE hours. And I was trying to fight off this cold. At 5:30 I finally decided not to fight him and just to stay awake since I'd need to get my morning moving along in such short time anyways. So I'm wiped out and have some killer cramps, a foot that feels broken, and I'm running on four hours of sleep. But guess what?! I'm gonna keep truckin' on. That's what mommies are supposed to do right?
Now I am not even going to attempt to say that Ryan is not an amazing dad, man, and husband, because that would be a lie. He's the best. But when this man gets sick OMG he's more of a baby than our babies are. I WANT to be able to take care of him and I WANT to love on him so much that he feels better. But when he feels the need to tell me every little whiney symptom while he sleeps in bed, during which time I'm ALSO not feeling well, not bitching about it, and functioning for the boys, it makes me mental! I know it seems kind of selfish, and I can't explain what I want. I think I want to feel acknowledged since I'm working my best to appear strong and healthy while I feel like hell inside. There's also a huge chance that I'm just wicked jealous because I would love to be able to sleep it off all day in a closed-door bedroom while the boys are taken care of. I often wish I could take some Nyquil and conk out for 14 hours.
Oh by the way Brayden just fell back to sleep O_O.
Sick and Tired (literally),
Lyn
ALRIGHT I swear that is enough bitching.
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