Great Moms 5K Run/Walk January 29th,2011 Merritt Island

Please share and Bring everyone you know. Early registration is almost over on 1/19.
This is a family friendly event and fun for everyone!!!! Dads,moms,teens,moms with strollers,children,grandparents, whoever you may be.

Merritt Island MOPS Presents the Great Moms 5K Run/Walk January 29th, 2011 8 a.m. Mitchell Ellington Park, Merritt Island. Proceeds benefit Merritt Island MOPS and the Childrens Clothes Closet of Grace United Methodist Church.

ENTRY FEES:

Postmarked by 1/19/11 or after 1/19/11

5K Run/Walk 15 & up $22.00 $27.00

5K Run/Walk 14 & under & 17.00 $22.00

Chlidrens 1K Run FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE

Visit our website to register!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.merrittislandmops.com

Free T-shirt with paid registration
Register by 1/19/11 and save $5.00
Post race refreshments
Free Fun 1K kids run for ages 7 and under
Family friendly event with lots to enjoy
Bounce House

Become a Sponsor- Contact Vanessa Torrey 321-693-8205

Wow it has been Forever, Life has been Crazy.

So, where Do I start? Skyler is now 15 months in 3 days. A walking running machine. She now has a voice and a huge attitude. The girls fight over toys, who is going to walk in front and who is going to to to eat first. Welcome to sibling rivalry. The other 5% of the time they love each other. The baby loves her sister. When Peyton wakes up in the morning she is so excited to see her and hug and kiss her. Within an hour or so the fighting starts once the breakfast has set in.
Peyton is in VPK this year and we are starting to research Kindergarten for next year. What a stressful thing to think about. I have already gone to two schools. One private and one public. How to know where to put your child for school is extremely hard. Hopefully it will just feel right.
I have been really busy lately also with my MOPS Moms group. I am the fundraising coordinator and we have an upcoming event. I will post it in my next post.

On the Way!

Things have been pretty hectic around here. My new business is starting to take off and I am so excited about this opportunity. I feel very passionate about the products and what they are. I have three parties scheduled for this month and am looking to schedule many more. The company is very generous to thier representatives and the incentives are great. Each year they have a trip somewhere and you can earn points toward that trip to go for free. I am working towards that. I can even win the trip for two and bring the kids if I wanted to. This years trip was to Maui. I am excited to do this for our family and myself at the same time.
Skyler is definently getting so big way too fast. She has been military crawling and scooting around the house now in full speed. She lifts herself up to a standing position on just about anything. Yesterday morning while I was in her roomwith her going through clothes(again because she is growing so fast) she was in her crib watching and pulled herself up and was so excited she had accomplished that. It just seems like her infancy is going by too fast to even keep track of. She is now in 12month clothes and I think she is going to be tall. She has a longer torso than Peyton and alot of her shirts are too short.
We have been having alot of fun this summer. We try to have playdates at least every other day, if not every day. Today we are going to the riverfront park to let the kids play in the water fountain and run around in the grass. Skyler will like the big feild thay have to crawl and play in. We have been going to the beach alot. I have realized it is almost impossible for me to go to the beach with the kids without another adult. Skyler is in a hard stage where I cannot keep her in one spot so she is crawling off the mats into the sand and eating it for lunch. It is kinda cute but i am sure it cannot taste good.

MAMA on Command:))

Last night Skyler finally is saying mama on command. Daddy came home and still does not believe it. The look on his face was as if she betrayed him (hehe). This morning again when she woke up, laying on her change table touches my cheek and says mama. Oh just melts my heart. There is nothing in the whole world that compares to the feeling of being a Mom:)

Finally updating!!

I know it has been forever since I updated the blog.It has been crazy busy around here with a 7 month old now army crawling all over the place and walking in her walker. I put her in the playroom to play and with in minutes she is in the living room or whatever room I am in following me around. She is waving Hi now and very vocal but we have not heard any true words. I have a feeling I will not be able to keep up with this one. She is just as active as Peyton at 4 years old. If I have her in my lap she bows her back and jumps off my lap to the floor and stands there and giggles. She is now fully wiened as of May 2nd. She is doing great on formula except the soy does constipate her a little. Solid foods do not agree with her very well. Every time she eats baby food she has horrible reflux and throws up everything. We just eat cereal and formula with the occasional baby food and she is good.

Peytons birthday was this month and we went to Seaworld. She had so much fun. The baby did great and actually watched the Shamu show. I was amazed. It was scorching hot and we were all drenched with sweat all day but it was well worth it. Tylers birthday was Saturday and Peyton made him a special card and a cake which she was very proud of.

I am very excited about starting a new business. I am a representative for a geat company called Sensaria natural bodycare. They are all natural based products and are priced right. I have been using the products the last few days since I received my kit and I am AMAZED at how wonderful these products are. I am loking forward to getting out there and sharing these products with everyone. I should have my website up soon to view and order from. So far I have 3 parties booked for this next month and am hoping to get many more.

This last month has had alot of milestones. Skyler is now eating solid foods. Thanks to a great friend giving some formula advice, she is now used to the Similac Soy formula and the last three days has taken a bottle. It has been a rough road with the bottle but she is getting used to it. We had to ease in to the formula by first putting it in rice cereal with baby food then slowly taking out the baby food. I have been giving her a bottle every day with formula in hopes of eventually she will suck on it. Three days ago she did and every day gets better. She is laughing and playing with Peyton more and more. It brings me joy to see my two children interact with each other. today Peyton was blowing on her belly and Skyler was laughing hysterically. Here are some pics from the last month of the kids.

Yummy

Went to Skyler's appointment on Thursday and she has gained a pound in 3 weeks. YEAH!! We did it. The Prevacid has been working great and she is nursing normal now and getting full. We also started our first solid food on Friday. Now they say to start with yellow vegetables(squash,sweet potatoes) intead of rice cereal and then start rice. I gave her sweet potatoes first and she loved it! She was definently ready for solids. She kept grabbing the spoon and forcing it in her mouth begging for more. The only thing I cannot get her to take is formula. I have tried numerous times and many different kinds. She just does not like the taste. I want to start trying to wean her but I do not think she is going to allow me too. She is a stubborn kid and likes what she likes:) I will try again today to do the formula half and half and see how that goes. She got some rice cereal this morning and I tried mixing it with formula and she outright refused it spitting it out.Then mixed it with breastmilk and she ate it. What a stinker.