Booboos and Owies

Colton had his first fall that ended in blood and tears today while out for a little jaunt around the sidewalks. It was a balmy 60 something degrees out, so we were out enjoying the weather, even though we missed the sunlight by about ten minutes. :/

We were walking along just fine, Colton holding onto my one hand and walking alongside me when he went to bend over to look at a flag in the ground and lost his balance.  His knees hit first, then his hands, and then his nose/mouth.  Got a little bit of a cut in his mouth/lip and blood was on his lips as he cried.  Luckily it was only a few inches he fell, but still, the rest of the day he was pretty whiny/cry-y, he seemed to cheer up a little bit while he got to take a bath.

I still feel bad about it.  I should have caught him, but it was too fast and I'm too slow and it was too short a distance.  He'll live and hopefully just be a little more diligent about his balance in his shoes.  Course, it wouldn't hurt to practice a little bit more walking in his shoes.

stress and pregnancy

Our family has been going through some growing-we came down pregnant in October of 2011 with our second child, a baby boy.  We are looking forward to also expanding our home to include a single family home and moving out of our long standing home that we've made in our current townhouse for almost 7 years.  With any type of change in life comes stress, the good kind and the bad.


The good stress, also called eustress, is the good stress that helps us increase our performance, it drives us to succeed and to ace that test or score that big promotion, etc.  When our eustress gets to be too much to handle it turns bad, like the Mr. Hyde of stress, it's just waiting to take over and make everything go south.  When Eustress Turns Bad, it's like a bad title for a self help book, I digress, when eustress becomes it's evil twin, it is called distress.


Distress can lead to many things, especially if you get stuck in a cycle of distress and it never recedes or lets up, as when you have too many stressors (car breaks down, laid off from work, someone gets sick and you need to take care of them- when these all happen within a short time they can lead to distress).  

Here are some different ways that could help reduce stress:

1. Meditate
2. Visualize yourself relaxed as you do this exercise: close your eyes and tense up all of your muscles as you sit in a chair.  Starting at the top of your head relax your muscles from head to toe concentrating on each set of muscles as you relax, remembering to also visualize yourself relaxed as well.
3. Exercise, as little as walking 20 minutes a day can lessen stress by increasing endorphins that your body makes in response to exercise.
4. Monitor your breathing
5. Diet, lessen junk food and sodas/sugar filled items from your diet.  Eat more healthy and your body becomes what it eats. Drink tea instead of coffee, tea has a lot more health benefits than coffee does.
6. Take an Affection Time Out, hug your spouse or children and/or snuggle your pet. WebMD says that, "Experts say social interaction helps your brain think better, encouraging you to see new solutions to situations that once seemed impossible, she says. Studies have also shown that physical contact -- like petting your dog or cat -- may actually help lower blood pressure and decrease stress hormones."
7. Make time for You.  Get a massage, take part in a class, or join a meet up group for people that like the same thing as you.  If you can't get a massage, you can get one of those massage chairs or learn a few self massage tricks.
8. See a Dr to check your levels.  Are you vitamin deficient?  Maybe you need to supplement.
9. Get More Sun and Nature. 
10. Listen to music.  Music has a somewhat magical quality to it, especially music that speaks to you personally.

I need to keep a lot of these things in mind when I feel like I'm going to explode, it might help others as well.  The last thing I am is a yogi though, so here are my references for this blog post.  ;)

Complete Well Being

Holistic.com 

WebMD 

Plus the hotlinks in the list.

Bumblebees and Spiders

I had that kid song in my head this morning, do you know it?


Baby Bumblebee Song
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
(Cup hands together as if holding bee)

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee,
Ouch! It stung me!
(Shake hands as if just stung)

I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
('Squish' bee between palms of hands)

I'm squishing up a baby bumblebee,
Ooh! It's yucky!
(Open up hands to look at 'mess')

I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
(Wipe hands off on shirt)

I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee,
Now my mommy won't be mad at me!
(Hold hands up to show they are clean)

*~*~*~*~*~*

An interesting thing when I haven't heard that song in YEARS!  And it's not as if I had an interaction with a bumblebee lately, considering it's the dead of winter.  

Colton loves the song Itsy Bitsy Spider, he always applauds at the end, I wonder sometimes if he applauds because I had stopped singing.  ;)

What nursery rhyme/song does your kidlet like?

we're breaking free

"G-O

D-R-A-M-A

C-L-U-B-exclaimation point!"

Yes, I did and am currently watching High School Musical.  I may also have subjected my 16 month old son to this wonderful exclusive to Disney movie.  He really didn't seem to mind, actually.  Sad to say, he didn't make it to see the thrilling conclusion of the movie, as he went to bed after we read "When the Stars Come Out"by Riki Levinson.

I hope that Colton likes musicals as he gets older, its one of my favorite things, having seen many of them on the stage myself.  I always did dream of being in the theater but must not have been very good considering that even in high school I never did get more than an extra part.


My favorite song from High School Musical 2.

Have you seen these movies? The fact that I love them... does that make me a dork?

actors with the voices we love

Colton and I were watching my favorite Disney movie this morning (The Lion King, if you didn't know), and I was kind of amazed that in the movie there are two of my favorite voice actors.  It got me thinking, I wonder who your favorite voice actors are?  Do you know of any by voice?  Do you know what they look like in "real life", and do you know what their names are?


Here are three of my favorite voice actors.  In order of favorites (of the ones I can think of from the top of my head), they all have very distinct and easily recognizable voices (at least to me).

1.)  Jeremy Irons

Oops! I mean...

2.) James Earl Jones

Oops..

Darn.  I'll get it right here...

and 3.) Mickey Rooney

Kris Kringle from Santa Claus is Coming to Town

and

Tod from The Fox and the Hound

but here's a real picture of him..

What a young spry fellow!

So?  Who's your favorite voice?

a bunch of sickies

Today Colton and I were hit (I think) with the bug that Dominic had this past week, actually, I'm pretty sure he's still suffering through the sinus problems and whatnot.  But me and Colton?  Just starting out.  Guess we have a few days to look forward to of barely being able to breath and runny noses.


:/


This morning started out okay, Colton got up pretty early (for him) at about 7 am or so, he was nice enough to be happy playing in his crib until 8am when he had had enough alone time and started yelling to be let out.  I obliged and we got breakfast started.  We splurged on cinnamon rolls and then spent some time hanging out with Daddy upstairs watching some TV. 


Then came the first clue that perhaps he wasn't feeling all that well.  The nap.  Normally he doesn't go down for a nap until about 12:30-1pm.  Today he went down at almost 11:00am.  He didn't get up from his nap until almost 2.  A little unusual was what came next.  A chill little boy just laying back on the sofa with his not-feeling-well Mommy watching Toy Story 1 AND 2.  Content to just sit back and watch two movies?


A 16 month old little boy?  He can't be feeling well.  I know I'm not.  We went and got KFC for dinner because cooking was the last thing I really felt like doing tonight, and Colton went down for bed early again.  Also, another clue he's not feeling good.


Now I am going to go to bed because I'M not feeling good.  This is just a bunch of sickies in this house right now.  I guess we should have watched The Princess Bride today.  Maybe tomorrow...