'Ode to the Bottle...

'Ode to the Bottle: oh bottle...oh bottle...how I am so glad you have fed my baby milk for the last 18 months of his life, now I wish you well goodbye.

My question is HELP? Yes it's a question. Baby Jaiden loves his bottles for milk, he drinks everything else out of a cup/sippy cup but not the milk. Today, I learned that either you stop the bottle at 1 year or the next best is Eighteen months. The challenge is now...we to break the bottle and w/in three days, he was back on the bottle.

He really loves his Milk bottle. Everyone has told me to throw away the bottles and start putting the milk in a sippy cup and keep telling him that, "your milk is now in the sippy cup and when you are ready to drink milk, drink from the cup." Can I say, "Challenge."

I want to keep him on the bottle, he is still my baby...but at the same time I don't want to give him future tooth/teeth issues via the bottle. Oh the challenges of trying to be the best...again HELP?

To Bumbo or not to Bumbo?

"Look at me Mommy, I can sit on my own."

Quite a few parents and to-be-Parents always ask me, "would you buy a Bumbo?" For those people who do not know what a Bumbo is, it is a small seat for infants to sit in to help with back muscles and bones basically to help learn sit on their own with no support.

Personally, I have not heard anything wrong with the Bumbo. I have only heard positive feedback. Of course you should not leave your child unattended while seating on the Bumbo and never keep it close to the the edge of a table. But I personally believe that the Bumbo is great for children under 6 to 7 months old.

My son loved his Bumbo, I wish we had purchased it earlier, we bought it when he was about 5 months and only benefited for the next two months. It did help him and eventually sat down w/out any sort of support.

So the answer to my title question is - Yes to the Bumbo. Go buy one, blue/pink/yellow and I believe there is a green. You can also put a eating tray on it, so one day in the near future your baby will be able to learn to eat on a highchair. The picture above is my Friend's baby on a Bumbo...Look how great she looks and is sitting on the Bumbo with such comfort!!!

Hello 2011!!!

I know it's been forever since I have updated my blog...say 9 months ago was the last entry...:-(

Well, alot has happened since my last entry but here is a quick update:

October 17, 2010 - Jaiden turns 1!!!

October 18, 2010 - Jaiden is in the 90th percentile for height - WTH to that...(hubby and I are small) - go figure

September 10 to December 13, 2010 - Mommy takes a short term Job Contract and misses Jaiden's first steps... :-(

January 17, 2011 - Jaiden is 15 months old and boy can he understand so much more now. 23 lbs and 31 inches tall - still in the 90th percentile. I blame the milk :-)

March, 2011 - Bye Bye Pacifier FOR GOOD :-)

So here we are April 12th - Today Jaiden talks alot, asks for everything, is in everything and most of all is loved by all that love him. He is such a good baby, there are days were I can already see the terrible two tantrums in the horizon, but I am ready...... BRING IT ON TANTRUMS!!!