Oscar Meyer Has a Way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A

Apparently Hadley is NOT a fan of ham. She chowed down on bologna on Saturday but we didn't have any in the house to give her today. I thought I'd see if she'd eat any ham. I put a bunch of little pieces on her tray and watched her as she would put a piece in her mouth, suck all the salty flavor off of it, and then spit it out. Hilarious. She kept doing that over and over. Then I went into the kitchen to fix her something else to eat and I come back into the dining room and see this:
I have no idea how she got that piece up on the wall above her, but I'm sure she had fun doing it!

Mom, next time stick with the bologna, ok? (This is her new face. She even says "EWWWWWW" as she crinkles up her nose!)

Naughty Gus-Gus

Gus, if you wouldn't run off with my toys for the 500th time this morning and chew them to death then Mama wouldn't punish you and throw you outside.

I'm going to keep banging on the window to taunt you. Nanny nanny boo boo--I'm insiiiiiiide and you're nooooot!

Are you sorry yet? I'm not so sure. You don't look apologetic to me!

I Win the "Worst Mom of the Year" Award

Uncle Bob, Barb, and Eric from Chicago are here in Colorado camping and sightseeing for 2 weeks. This Saturday the plan was to meet them in Idaho Springs and then we were going to visit Mt. Evans. Hadley and I met Team Coleman at their house so we could caravan up there. I bring Hadley and the diaper bag in their house. You see where this is going now, don't you? I change Hadley's diaper. We then are all ready to go. I carry Hadley and the diaper bag out of their house. I put Hadley in her carseat. I get other things loaded in the car. We're all ready to go and we leave in 2 cars. Hadley, Jenny and Anna are in my car. I LEAVE THE DIAPER BAG SITTING ON THE SIDEWALK. I don't realize this until about 3 hours later. Are you kidding me???? I'M THE WORST MOM EVER. Thankfully, I had brought one 8-oz. bottle of water/Pedialyte. I also had Hadley's sweatshirt. I had absolutely ZERO diapers or anything for Hadley to eat. UGH.

Hadley didn't realize any of this until we were almost at the top of Mt. Evans. She started getting really cranky. I knew she probably had a wet diaper and I assumed she was also probably hungry. There was nothing I could do. She finally fell asleep. I sat with her in the car while she slept and everyone else got out and checked out the view from the top of Mt. Evans. We were only at the top for about 5 minutes and Jenny told the people in the other car that we'd meet them down at the bottom for our picnic lunch. We drive down and find a gift shop/restaurant. I carry Hadley out of the car, I head into the gift shop to inquire about diapers, and as I'm standing there talking to this lady, Hadley pees all over me. Nice. She was soaked, poor thing. They had one pack of medium Huggies and they sold them individually. I bought 3 diapers for $3 and also bought some Rocky Mountain animal cookies. They were the only baby-type food they had.

After the diaper change and all the cookies, Hadley was a happy camper again. We had our picnic lunch and Hadley devoured a ton of bologna--that was a first-time food. She also had some cherries. I think she was so hungry that she didn't pause to realize that she was eating new foods. (Usually she takes a few minutes to warm up to new tastes and textures.)

It really was a fun day, and as Uncle Giant said, Hadley never will remember any of it. But I sure will--my memory is very long for that sort of thing! We'll have to take her to Mt. Evans another time with a fully stocked diaper bag.

A Couple of "The Muppet Show" Favorites

When we were little Dana, Jenny and I used to have a Muppets record that we completely wore out. A few years ago I found a bunch of those old songs online, downloaded them and burned them on a cd. That cd became a family favorite. Ok, maybe it's mostly one of my favorites. I LOOOOOOOVE the Muppets and have never grown tired of them. I'm totally going to force Hadley to watch the Muppets. I'm hoping she'll like them as much as I did and still do.

"Day-O" by Harry Belafonte (The part at the end where Fozzy is trying to sing along is the best. Cracks me up!)



"Lydia the Tattooed Lady" (I laugh out loud every time during the part where Animal beats the drums and Lydia shakes it!)

Miss Fussbucket

We've had an interesting week with Hadley. She's definitely crawling and into everything. She's always not far behind if you leave her to go into another room. And if she's in the kitchen with you, then that means she's in either Gus' food or water bowl. "No" doesn't do anything--I've already had to pop her hand several times. Then she'll look at her hand, then look at me, with this look on her face like "did you just do what I think you did?" She usually doesn't cry if you do that either. She may shriek with annoyance but that's about it. Oh man--we're in for it. She's stubborn like the rest of the family! Adrian thinks she's going to push my buttons even worse than he and Gus do. I'm sure she will.

All week she's been doing this horrible shrieking noise and it's super annoying. I think she does it out of frustration, but not really sure. I also think she's getting those 2 other teeth on top, but I could blame everything on teething. That's what I hate about teething. Sidenote: she's got a gap between her two front teeth on top and Jenny calls it her Madonna gap. Funny! So along with the possible 2 new teeth, she also has had diarrhea, which yes, points again to teething. THEN to go along with all of that, she's had this horrible diaper rash that had only gotten worse due to her runny diapers. It got so bad that it was bleeding, so on Thursday Adrian and I called in an appointment with the pediatrician. Pediatrician diagnoses it as a yeast infection. Yuck. Pediatrician suggests putting Lotremin on it, which is a cream for athlete's foot. Adrian says, "so she has athlete's foot on her hoo-ha?" He's a comedian, that one! Odd thing is that the Lotremin has helped and I think she's back on the mend.

She's been quite the fussbucket all week. She's a good kid for the most part, but between the whining, and the crying, and the wrestling her down every time you have to change her diaper, she really has worn me out. Today I decided I was really tired of those nasty diapers so I decided she was only getting oatmeal and water/Pedialyte. She hasn't had any diarrhea all day--only wet diapers. Whew. Maybe this week will be a better one. (Aunt Midge and Uncle Giant did babysit Hadley on Thursday night so Adrian and I could go out to dinner and see a movie. So nice to have a date night and to have Hadley spend some time with her aunt and uncle. They're practicing on how to deal with a whiney kid for when Willis gets here!)

Took this video tonight before she went to bed. She's getting so big! The two staples of all our home vidoes: Gus following her every move and "Law and Order" on in the background. Oh--and that blue toy that she's playing with? That's one of Gus' chew toys. She plays with it more than he ever has.

Me and Bob Mugabe

I saw this here: http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/

You should be warned that the website sometimes has very graphic and heartbreaking pictures on it. I haven't talked about Zimbabwe on here much because I tend to voice my rants usually through emails to certain people instead. Maybe one day I'll get brave and talk about my "typical American spin/opinion" on Zim. Until then, only probably a select few of you will understand this video.

Take Your Cousin for a Drag

I came across this video last night and had to share. John took this on June 23 and I cracked up when I watched it! So many funny characters! Tim and Hadley, Gus and Damyn...just overlook our crazy overgrown grass, ok?


from Kerri on Vimeo.

Patriotic

I'm trying out a new blog template. I think it's a bit too busy, but it is July, so maybe I'll keep it up for the month.

Need to download the videos of Hadley crawling. Will try to get that done soon.

In the meantime, here are a few recent pictures.

Gus salutes the flag on our front porch














The Peechs on the 4th (Adrian had to work mandatory overtime that night)














Hadley still loves those pickles!

SO TIRED

It was our maintenance weekend for work so I showed up yesterday around 2:00 p.m. and didn't get home until around 9:30 a.m. this morning. I'm so very very tired. Adrian had taken off work yesterday to watch Hadley. He was supposed to sleep today so he could go back to work tonight. Needless to say that didn't happen. He called in sick (he actually really doesn't feel well and I think he caught Hadley's sinus-y cold) and he watched Hadley today while I caught a few hours of sleep.

Watching Hadley usually means trying to constantly redirect her because she's in Gus' toybox, or Gus' dog food, or trying to play peek-a-boo with the rug by the front door, or making this horrible screeching noise that would drive ANYONE to drink...seriously, what is up with that noise? Is it because she's sick? Is it because her 2 front teeth came in and she's got 2 more on top trying to break through? That noise is HORRIBLE and no matter what you tell her, she still continues to screech. She doesn't really feel good, we can tell, but she still does try to be happy and smiley.

I'm so zoned. I'm going to go veg on the couch.