Oh Jumper How I LOVE Thee!

Short but sweet post. Ryder has now been introduced to his Baby Einstein Musical Jumper. He keeps him occupied for a good 20 minute chunk. Which once was me having to entertain him. Now that he is awake for longer periods during the day.
It certainly has saved the day a couple of times now.

First Flu

So far the hardest thing I've had to go through as a mom. My baby is sick with the flu. He has been sick before, with a common cold that lasted for about four days. However, that cold was nothing compared to this. Throwing up, fever, diarrhea, and dehydrated. Seeing my little helpless baby boy laying on the adult size hospital bed made me start to cry. All is well now, after some sleep and fluids but man oh man this mama was freaking out!!

Baby's 1st Halloween

I've gone to write something a couple of times now. I sit down and start..then think to myself why in the world would anyone want to read what I have to say? I still don't know what to write.

So here is what we did on Ryder's first Halloween. Nothing. We dressed him up as the cutest little robot ever. Took him to Adam's mom's house for a little while. Hung out with Grandma, Great Grandma & Great Grandpa. Once Adam was home we went over to his dad's house. That's the excitment of baby's 1st Halloween.

Looking forward to this weekend, we are having people over. We'll see how that goes. With early bedtimes and noise restrictions. Usually Ryder will sleep through anything but with my lucky lately he'll be up 5 or 6 times through out the night. On the topic of rough nights, sleep depervation is starting to takes it toll on me. I knew being a parent would be hard. I knew I wouldn't get much sleep. I am actually really lucky, Ryder usually sleeps great. Asleep by 8pm then awake at 2 or 3am eats, cuddles then back to sleep from 2:30 or 3:30am then awake at 6am for the day. For the last two weeks it has been asleep by 7pm awake at midnight back to sleep by 1am sleeps until 5am asleep at 5:30 then awake by 7am for the day. I am getting sleep but disturbed sleep is not good sleep. But I don't want to complain. I want to be super mom. I want to take care of everything on my own. Ugh..deep breath! I'd love for Ryder to take a long enough nap for me to take a shower though!

Next Tuesday is Ryder's Christmas photo session. I am so excited! We have the most fantastic photographer, we are so lucky to have found her. She did Ryder's newborn pictures and our family photos just a couple weeks ago.

My Beautiful Life..

Pretty sure I am the luckiest girl on this planet. I have a beautiful 4 month old baby boy. I am married to the most amazing man. Although we sometimes hit road blocks we always make it through together. Adam and I also have a Jack Russell named Bo. Who can drive us crazy but we both love to death (even if Adam will never admit it!)

So a little bit about me? Although I am pretty sure the only person that is going to read this is my mom. I am 25, married to the love of my life Adam coming up on three years and I recently gave birth to Ryder our first child on June 27th. Ryder lights up my life. I never knew I could ever feel the emotions that rush through me every time I look at him. Before Ry was born I could sleep for hours and hours, now I run on little sleep but I wouldn't change it for the world.
We live in a small town in Central Alberta. I didn't grow up here, I grew up in mild and warm Lower Mainland, BC. I am not going to say I hate Alberta but I definitely do not like the winters. I greatly dislike the long cold days.
I work from home as a day home provider. Right now I say I am on maternity leave but I do take care of one little girl, A. I have been taking care of her since she was 5 months old and she is now 2 years old. The reason I took her back so quickly after giving birth to Ryder was simply because I missed her, she is a fantastic little girl. I am thinking now that I'll start taking more kids sometime next year but I am not sure when. I am really enjoying just having two kids to take care of. It gives me lots of freedom to do whatever I need to do. Adam works in the oil fields but he is home every night and doesn't work weekends. Compared to all the shitty jobs in the oil field we are really lucky. People often ask why Adam doesn't go up North to work and make more money. It is very simple, I won't let him. I don't care about the money. All I want is for my husband to come home to me everynight, sleep beside me everynight and spend as much time as possible as a family. It would break my heart for Adam to miss out on all the exciting milestones of his son. He isn't going to be there for all the firsts of course because he does work all day but he'll be able to come home and see first hand.
So there is a little about me and my life. My blog is going to be about what/who I love, my life and mostly about Ryder since he is now the center of my entire world.