Naptime Antics

During the past few weeks Paxton’s nap schedule has been changing. He has been taking 2 naps (around 10 and 2)  but has gone to taking one nap if I’m lucky and many days no nap! The one saving grace, the fact that when I put him down for a nap, he typically is content playing in his crib! {I’m so thankful he doesn’t stay in there screaming and crying.}

As you can imagine, a child in a crib for an hour with only a teddy bear, a baby doll, a blanket, a bottle and a sippy cup gets creative as far as entertaining himself!

The new trick:

Trying out the one shoulder look! The past 2 days now I’ve discovered him after “nap time” {aka, play time in the crib} just like this! It’s hilarious! 

Our silly boy!

His other recent form of entertainment lately, taking off his socks and chewing on them! Yuck! I’ve been finding him sock-less with damp socks on the floor after naps!! Seriously, there is never a dull or non-entertaining moment in our home, I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s going to be like with 2!

Our Little Explorer

Paxton loves being outside! I suppose most little boys do! When we put on his shoes to go outside, he just lights up and has a blast exploring the world around him in our yard!

Lately he’s been into rocks! We have a paved driveway but there are some spots with some gravel and he loves examining the little rocks! 

He looked so cute exploring with his little boots on!

He found some sticks outside while looking around! {Sticks make wonderful drum sticks for little boys!}

Marching around with his “drum sticks”!

And he found flowers!! They might be dandelions but he loves them!

Diaper Tales

Tuesday was one of those days! Monday Paxton started to develop a bad diaper rash (which we’ve never dealt with before, thankfully!) He woke up Tuesday morning around 4:30 and had poo’d. It was all over his bottom and he was hurting and didn’t want me cleaning off his bottom  so I had to wake John David up for help. We were able to get him cleaned up, gave him some milk and put him back to bed. This was only the beginning!

He woke up around 9:15 with another poopy diaper. I took his diaper off and carried him to the tub to rinse off his bottom with warm water so I didn’t have to rub his bottom at all. While he was in the tub, he pee’d!

When I got him out of the tub I dried him off and figured since he just pee’d that I would let him run around naked for a little while so his bottom could air out. Not 2 minutes after drying him, I look over to see him peeing in his bedroom floor. {Thankfully on the hardwood and not the rug!} I grab him, carry him to the bathroom and as soon as we get in there he pees again! {At this point I’m thinking, where does this kid keep all this pee!}

I wash him off again and put a pre-fold on with a snappi without a cover for air flow! He goes off and starts to play!

About 9:45 or so (a mere 20 minutes after peeing in the floor twice) he comes to me with his snappi half off and the pre-fold is wet! {Again, I’m thinking, how did he pee again?!}

So we walk to the bathroom so I can take off the pre-fold and just dump it in the diaper pail. As soon as the pre-fold comes off, he pees and pee and pees! I figure he has to be out of pee now so I let him roam naked once again!

About 5 minutes later, I’m sitting at my desk and he comes up to me and pees all over my legs! At this point I say forget the whole airing out his bottom thing because I’ve cleaned up 4 big puddles of pee in less than 30 minutes! I put him in a pocket diaper!

I’m guessing his bottom was itching a little because I found him with his little crack showing! Incredibly cute!!

That afternoon I decided to put him in a disposable so I could put diaper cream all over his little bum. He wasn’t in the disposable long until he had done this:

So funny! He was just walking around as content as can be with his bum hanging out!

Tuesday was certainly full of humor for me but it was quite  a bit of work! Throughout the day he poo’d about 5 times and every time I brought him to the tub and rinsed his bottom off. Of course the events of the day were funny but I felt so bad for Paxton and his poor bottom. Thankfully it didn’t seem to bother him too much and he was acting like himself as long as I wasn’t changing his diaper!

We’ve kept diaper cream on him throughout the week and finally today his bottom is looking almost normal. I’m so thankful he hasn’t dealt with diaper rash much and has only had one severe rash. My heart goes out to mamas and babies that deal with constant rash.

Our Day…So Far

Life with a toddler is certainly never, ever dull! Here’s what’s been going on in the Boreing household so far today:

At 6:30 I was woken by a crying little man! I quickly made my way to the bathroom (a curse of pregnancy!), put some milk in a bottle (he’s taking cow’s milk…just out of a bottle still, we’re working on transitioning to milk in sippy’s) and went and grabbed him! At the first sight of me the crying stopped! After checking to make sure he wasn’t too wet, we go climb back in our bed, he drinks an ounce or two of milk and rolls over, puts his hand on my face and falls back to sleep (so sweet!)

Around 8:30 I wake again and John David is ready to leave for work and Paxton is up and active! Since he’s leaving I must get up or our toddler will tear the house down! After a quick trip to the bathroom, I walk in the kitchen to discover this:

Yes, he’s learned to climb! This is the second time he’s climbed on the table! 

Just hanging out on top of the table!

After snapping these pictures, I get him off the table and we eat breakfast. We hang out in the living room eating our cereal, playing on the iPad and reading Little Farm in the Ozarks {I decided last night that I wanted to start reading a chapter book to Paxton}. He listened to the first half of the chapter pretty well and then got down to play while I continued reading.

When we’re in his room for a diaper change, he notices his tennis shoes so I give them to him and he insists on socks. He tries to put on the shoes and socks and finally brings them to me so I can put them on! Once the shoes are on, he starts pointing to the door and saying ‘bye’! I go change out of my pjs, put on some shoes and we head outside. We put some letters in the mailbox and then decide to pick up sticks. We spent about 45 minutes picking up sticks (he picked up a pine cone or two!) While I was picking up sticks he was exploring!

By the time we’re finished with the sticks, it’s nearly 11 and we’re both sweaty! We head inside and take a bath together…the first bath we’ve taken together in months! After bath, Paxton’s asking for another snack. We both had a little snack and then I put him down for his morning nap which should have been around 10:30, it’s now nearly 12!

Thankfully he goes down easily and I climb in bed and read some blogs and look at baby names and just rest! It’s 1:00 before he wakes up and it’s time for lunch! We eat lunch and while he’s finishing up, I wash dishes! Then I gather a load of laundry to start and pull some milk and meat for dinner out of the freezer to thaw out.

After this, he heads to his room where I catch him on his computer!

Sweet little man! {And I am completely envious of his chair!}

I decide this is a perfect time to stuff diapers which dried overnight on the drying rack. After stuffing diapers, we head in the office so I can upload photos and blog. Paxton has kept himself busy pulling books off the bookshelf, playing with clothespins, bringing me my flip flops and trying them on and giving me the occasional hug!

It’s now 3 and we’ve already had a busy day but I’m sure there’s much more excitement to come in the next few hours!!

Storm Damage

We had a huge storm with straight line winds blow through here about 4:45 on Saturday afternoon. It was downright scary for about 30 seconds with the wind and I spent about 15 minutes post storm lying on our bed trying to get my heart rate down! It’s moments like these that I wish we had a basement!!

We lost power but thankfully it came back after only 12 hours. Two days later there are still people without power in our area, we are so thankful!

We did have damage, we had trees and limbs fall down and there are sticks everywhere but our house had no major damage except for losing a single piece of siding and a ridge vent.

This is the tree that was over our pool. It was a large tree with multiple large limbs that fell everywhere.

We had tree limbs in our pool and all over the back of the deck. Thankfully our pool was not damaged!

One of the large limbs knocked out a whole section of deck and busted our pool pole.

That’s me standing on our porch post storm looking around in disbelief at all the limbs, sticks and pine cones in the yard.

We lost a large tree top to a pine tree in our front yard.

Since these pictures were taken just 2 days ago, John David has been hard at work! Yesterday he sawed the limbs out of the pool so we could begin cleaning the pool and today he borrowed a chain saw and has been sawing in the backyard for the last little bit.

My plan is to wake up early (before it gets too hot!) and pick up the sticks in the yard…I figure that is the least I can do since I can’t ‘man’ a chain saw!!