Fun and shopping!

Ok, so after all the chaos for the last week and a half, things have finally calmed down.  We now have work A/C upstairs to sleep (thank God). We went to the lake with friends of ours and had an amazing time!!!.

Went to Opry Mills Mall and got some fantastic deals! Thank you to The Children's Place and Carters, my kids look amazing in your clothes!!! Speaking of thanks....my kids and my friends' kiddos all LOVE this one toy that we have.  It draws every child to it, which amazes me. 

Thank you V tech for this toy :)  Lots of pictures to come with my kiddos in their new clothes (and maybe some of me in my new clothes).

Breasfeeding to formula

Ok, so I was a breastfeeding momma. I fed the 2 year old until she was 6 months and we got preggo with her sister and the milk dried up (pretty funny way to figure out you're pregnant).  It's a good thing we wanted another baby and weren't using breastfeeding as birth control (it's not a reliable method, lol). I breastfed the baby until she was about 7 months old and I started drying up.

So, apparently not all formula is created equally.  They are all supposed to have about the same ingredients, right?  Not so much.  We used enfamil for 6 months with my older child and it worked well.  Should've kept to what works, huh. Noooooooo....someone told me to go with the cheaper stuff since it's all the same.  Diarrhea and explosive diapers 2x a day!!!! I should also add in that we tried to go witht the cheaper diapers as well.  If they all work about the same then it shouldn't matter, right?  WRONG again.  She exploded so many diapers we finally wound up returning the rest of the box (thanks to the 100% satisfaction guarantee) and the rest of the formula.  So far, since we've made the changes, we haven't had to throw out any more outfits.

Sleep training?

Well last week was a crazy week.  Not only was it quite warm outside (90s and 100 degree temperatures), but our upstairs air conditioning broke.  So we have been sleeping with lots of fans which keeps our upstairs at around 89 degrees LOL.  It's better than no fans :)

I told you about our air conditioning issue because somehow or another our wonderful sleeper turned into a sleep training trainwreck.  One of us would read a book or two to our 2 year old and she would fall asleep within minutes on her own.  Not last week.  Now she asks for more books, tries to get out of bed, screams, throws tantrums, etc.  Basically everything she can do to get mommy's attention.  Unfortunately since it was a new issue I gave in immediately thinking something was wrong and now it has turned into habit :(  Hopefully we get this under control again soon!!!!!

In other news, the baby is now doing better since we changed her formula.  We were giving her store brand formula figuring they all have to be about the same quality- we were wrong.  We changed it and her belly aches are almost history :) 

We went out to breakfast the other day at Cracker Barrel and our girls got down on the floor and started playing with the dollhouse they have for sale there.  They were playing together and so nicely.  A parent's dream.  We are, of course, putting that on a birthday wishlist.