Dip!!!!

With football and fall comes tailgating and food!! My parents always had a big tailgate for Clemson games when I was in college and hopefully we will be able to venture down once or twice this year with baby Ethan in tow in Tigers gear of course. =)

Anyway back to my point (can ya'll tell I have baby on the brain 90% of the time?) tailgating food! A favorite is of course DIPs! and Boo Mama is hosting a DipTacular tomorrow for people to share their favorite dip recipes! I am sooo excited. Her blog is fabulous anyway but the fact that she is hosting a DipTacular makes it even better. So hop on over there and check it out!

Daggers

So my dear husband and I have a system when it comes to getting up with the baby at night.

Before 4am: Me
After 4am: Him

Now some might think this is unfair since I have way more hours to cover. However he works and I don't. So thats a fair trade off in my book. Plus if it is after 4 he can feed him, change him, and put him back to bed.. then shower and go to work.. which allows me to get a few more hours of sleep.

This morning:

5am- Ethan wakes up-- Scott gets up
5-5:45- Ethan randomly screaming bloody murder
5:45- Jen gets up to see if she can help
5:46- S: can I help you?
J: just wanted to see if I could help?
S: I dont need help he is fine
E: *deafening screaming*
J: did you change his diaper? (seems obvious but often that is last on my sweet husbands list)
S: I said I don't need help
5:47- J turns around and walks back to the bed and puts pillow over her head
6- J hears S put E in crib. and thinks. He must be back to sleep
6:01- J hears E on baby monitor crying.. and shower running
6:02- J gets up and gets baby E

Nope he didn't need help at all.

Cue texting:
J: what was the deal with your big attitude this morning?
S: I was defending myself from the daggers you were shooting through my head with your eyes and body language
J: I didnt know that was possible.. sometimes we all need a little help with the baby, dear
S: There were definetely daggers. PS can you make sure the dog has food?

He sure does know how to change the subject.

Men.

It's September?!

Today is September 1. Holy Cow. Exactly 2 months ago at this time I was as big as a house and on my way to the doctors for my due date appoitment.. and now my little boy is almost 2 months old!


AND Clemson Football starts this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope all my exclaimation points showed my true excitement! because I L-O-V-E CLEMSON FOOTBALL!!!!! everything about it: the orange, purple, and white, the tiger paw, the cadence count, tiger rag, the hill, the rock, tailgating, death valley.. ALL of it!
I took the above pic for a project my senior year.. love it too.

and since it is September 1 it is a lovely day because it is my sorority liTTle sister, Lydia 's BIRTHDAY today!!!!! so HAPPY BIRTHDAY LiTTle one I love you!

Burritos, Nipples, and Running

So yesterday I ventured out to get a few things.. cereal nipples for my little one and new running shoes were on the top of my list..

as was having lunch with my mom here:


But shhhh don't tell my loving husband because he gets mad everytime I eat there with out him..


Which brings me to my next point.. my little man (who is almost 2 months ahh!) eats like a horse/pig/gorilla.. any of the above work.. so his pediatrician has suggested we add rice cereal to his formula.. we tried this before and this results were not pretty. I will spare you the details. However we have since added a new bottle to our collection (mostly because Ethan is not at all picky when it comes to eating and because I liked them) BUT they don't make nipples for thicker liquids (such as rice cereal added to formula) so I bought fast flow ones and I am going to make the hole bigger myself.. please pray that this does not lead to me spilling formula all over my child or him turning into the fat kid at school in a few years


Wow my life is so exciting..


anyway.. If you have read this far you should also know that my doctor cleared me to return to normal activity after my horrible delivery c-section. So I decided it was time for me to shed the rest of this baby weight and the extra weight I had before getting pregnant and get back into my running routine. So I bought some new running shoes because my old ones don't fit quite right after having a baby.. people said my feet would grow at least 1/2 a size. They were wrong they are still the same size I just think they are a tad wider so my narrow nike shox were not working for me. Back in the day I didn't sweat when I spent over $100 dollars on running shoes.. however now with the 3 B's.. Bills, Baby, and Building a new house (not to be confused with the 5 B's of recruitment all my fellow sorostitutes -- Bibles, Boys, Booze, Bucks, Brands) I was on the search for yet another "B" a bargain..


3 stores later and just over $40 dollars later I came home with some black/pink/gray/white Sauconys. They are way comfy and equally as cute as my other much more expensive shoes.


How did my run go you ask?


I ran a mile. ONE mile. and I thought I was going to die. So did my running partner, my pup Jackson.

Happy One Month!

Yesterday was Ethan's One Month Birthday!!! and today we had his one month check up at his doctor and he did so well! I think I was more upset about him getting his vaccination than he was!
We took pictures with Jackson and with Ethan's big lion stuffed animal so we can compare his size every month and see how he has grown!

So little baby boy.. What are you up to now that you are one whole month old!?

• You weigh 11 pounds and 7 ounces
• You are 23 and 1/4 inches long
• You wear size one diapers
• You wear size newborn but more and more of your 0-3 month outfits are starting to fit!
• You love your pacifier
• You also love your swing
• You love looking at yourself in the mirror on your swing, tummy time mat, and in the car
• You have crazy arms and legs and your grandpa says that because your exercising your little muscles so you can be an awesome athlete!
• He is probably right.. because you are SO strong! you hold your head up and sometimes you try to stand up on Mommy or Daddy when we are holding you!
• Mommy and Daddy have lots of nicknames for you including: Baby Boy, Stink-a-sorous, Curious Ethan, and Savage (daddy's favorite)
• You are starting to like bath time
• Everyone says you look just like Daddy!
• You have a lot of his mannerisms too -- like sneezing lots of times in a row and sleeping with your arms above your head.
• Dr. Sheth says you are very healthy and right on your developmental marks =)
  

Time is flying! When I was pregnant I never thought he would get here and now that he is here it is going soo fast. I'm loving every minute of it!

PISSED

Jillian should not have picked Ed. Over Reid AND Kiptyn.. seriously..

enjoy those short shorts and massive amounts of chest hair.. FOREVER!

and thats all that needs to be said about thats

Short Shorts

As a young child my dad taught me many things.. some of which include things like, "girls have long hair, boys have short hair" .. Included in this lesson for my children will be "girls wear short shorts, boys wear long shorts"

NO self respecting man should ever and i mean EVER wear these.. especially on national television!

MILLIONS of people now seen way more thigh of Ed than they ever need to see. I never did like him anyway and this just solidifies it for me and sweet tank top too while we are talking about this train wreck.

I liked Reid and I still like Kiptyn. Don't even get me started on Wes. But either way, Ed can go.. and apparently the chemistry wasn't there in the bedroom. If you are gonna marry someone you better make sure there is bedroom chemistry.. you are stuck with them forever..

not that any couples on these shows stay together anyway.. but a girl can dream.