Snuggles & Blow Out

My Happy for today... Snuggles...

- Teancum is 8 months old (as of Dec 26) and unlike Maya (who had her first tooth at 5 months) he is still toothless. However I can tell a change is coming. He has been drooling like a little puppy lately and warm food on his gums make him cry. He's so good natured that crying is just not very much a part of his vocabulary. It's funny because my sister in law was in awe today as she watched him, "For a baby that is teething he sure doesn't act like it" He is still so good natured that you wouldn't be able to tell unless you were his mother and with him all the time. But he is more cranky than normal. The good part about all of this is that he wants to snuggle more. It is so cute. I love it. I've really been taking in the moments. I think I kissed him over 100 times today and I loved EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!

- Maya too has been a little under the weather. She threw up 3 different times yesterday. She is also very good natured so you'd never guess it either. She bounced right back today :) After her bath she took this morning (since the last episode of throwing up was around midnight and I wasn't about to put her in the bath when all we both wanted to do was sleep), she let me snuggle her. Because of being sick she was a bit more snugly too. I love it when my kids let me snuggle them. I never thought I would but I do. I just love them SO much and it is such a fun way to express that love. I never considered myself a snugly person but I am. I even snuggle with Jake EVERY NIGHT.


My Sad for today... Blow Out

- I have had my fair share of Blow Outs but today was pretty bad. I think it was mostly sad because he (of course I'm talking about Teancum - if Maya had a blow out it I would be more than sad about it) had 2 yesterday. The kind where you have to stick them in a tub or sink because wipes just won't be enough (unless of course you want to wash the changing table after too). I was sitting in Teancum's room after nursing him (a time when I am forced to pause - so I read) finishing up my Book of Mormon reading for the day (I like to read The Book of Mormon during my first feeding and maybe the second one too - just to start my day off right). When all of a sudden I could smell Teancum (I really think that God gives mom's that gift of strong smell to help us care for our children - and it starts during pregnancy - and doesn't end there). I had set him down and was even headed down the hall (crawling away from me) and I could still smell him. Sure enough he had had a blow out. But as I started to strip him down to give him a bath I noticed he not only had poop running all down his pants (not to mention that I had just dressed him in), he had it coming out of every opening in the diaper!!! I am somewhat of a diaper snob because I don't want things like this to happen, but today Huggies sort of let me down. I thought you were supposed to be the best??? Anyway I digress, it was coming out of everywhere. I quickly cleaned him up and redressed him.

What can I learn...
I think the biggest thing to learn from a blow out is to just clean it up and move on. To even be grateful for it. I'm glad my baby boy is eating and digesting his food well. I'm glad that he is alive and well and working properly. Poop is a natural part of life and if he were not pooping there would be a serious problem. I know that life is about attitude and I know during a blow out situation I can just roll my sleeves up and get to work cleaning it up. And I get some more snuggling time if it is bad enough I have to bath him because Teancum is more cuddly after his baths - and he smells more delicious too!!!