Mommin' It Up!

October 23, 2011

My VapoBaby

I am happy to announce that once again this year I am proud to be on board as a Vicks Blogger! As you know from reading my prior posts, I am a big fan of Vicks VapoRub and have been since I was a child. For me, Vicks VapoRub is synonymous with comfort. And hopefully, my kids will feel the same way about the product, since I use it on them every time they have a cold and cough. And thanks to this great product, Vicks BabyRub,

I have gotten Jonah started early on the Vicks love! Neither of my other babies ever got sick before they were a year old. I gave credit for this to my fabulous breast milk immunities. But even though Jonah’s drinking from the same fountain, if you will, he’s gotten sick a few times already – including Hand, Foot, & Mouth disease and TWO colds! Thankfully for those colds that came with yucky coughs, I could soothe his coughing with Vicks BabyRub. There just aren’t really any cold medications that are safe to give an infant, baby BabyRub is made specifically to soothe the cough of little ones 3 months and older. It’s non-medicated and soothes with lavendar, eucalyptus, and rosemary. I love that familiar comforting VapoRub smell! It’s been so helpful to my little baby guy when he’s been sick. BabyRub helps get my Vicks VapoBaby back to his cheerful self!

Isn’t he a cute little VapoBaby! You know I’m a VapoMom! Over the years Moms have been at the forefront of the Vicks VapoRub brand, but on this coming Tuesday, October 26th, Vicks will be announcing the first ever VapoDad! He’s a celebrity and dad of two who a lot of you probably see on Sundays. 🙂 So stay tuned to Vicks’ Facebook page on Tuesday to find out who it is!

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I am being compensated for my role as a Vicks Blogger. Woot!

September 27, 2011September 27, 2011

My name is Jonah

Hi, my name is Jonah. I am nine months old. Even though neither of my siblings dared to pull up or cruise at this age, I enjoy it immensely. Mostly I enjoy making my mommy work double-time, but also it’s just FUN!

It’s fun to pull up on the end table:

(and don’t my Mommy’s floors look nice and clean? She is trying to keep me from putting pine needles and dirt in my mouth! Which is kind of a bummer because I love them. And also Capri Sun straw wrappers left for me by my big brother and sister. YUM! Geez, the older I get the more I am realizing that my Mommy is kind of a buzz kill.)

I also like to pull up on the bathtub:

I like to try to pull up on Joshua’s box of cars, too! It’s fun having big siblings, it provides you with some unique pulling-upportunities.

(And yes, I am wearing shoes with no pants. You see, my 2nd favorite pasttime – after pulling up – is trying to roll over while Mommy changes my diaper and dresses me. Sometimes at the end of the day, she will just give up and leave me pantsless. Since I prefer to be pantsless, I try to give her as much trouble at diaper-changing time as I possibly can.)

But anyhoo – what I really love to pull up on is my diaper pail. Even though it’s not that tall, it’s full of stinky diapers and the potential for tipping it over is just too tempting!

Mommy dropped a clean diaper on the floor and I got it!! I was really proud. I also wanted to know what it tasted like.

It didn’t taste very good, but it was fun watching my Mommy run over to get it out of my mouth. After she took the picture, of course.

Tonight, the coffee table got the best of me. But I recovered pretty quickly. Battle scars!! It’s all worth it! My goal is to be walking by 10.5 months, because that’ll REALLY freak my mom out!

I’ll keep you posted on how it’s going!

July 29, 2011

Don’t poison the baby!

So apparently, Jonah is allergic to oatmeal. Like any genius mom, when I started him on baby food six weeks ago, I gave him oatmeal first instead of rice because my older two wouldn’t TOUCH rice but they loved oatmeal. I gave it to him for a few days like you are supposed to, and then introduced bananas, then apples, then sweet potatoes. Sometime in the second week, I noticed a teeny tiny bit of blood in his stool. So of course, I consulted my friend Cortney, because she is an expert on baby allergies as her son Carter had a bunch.

“It’s probably the oatmeal,” she said. She advised me to take out the oatmeal and sweet potatoes and then introduce them both back in after 10 days or so, one at a time, to see if there was any reaction.

On the fateful day that I re-introduced oatmeal, our House Church was having a get together at Cortney’s house. I fed him before we left and about an hour into it, he projectile vomited all over my poor friend Jen, then all over me, like 400 times. At first I honestly thought he had a stomach bug, because the vomiting was so similar to when my big kids have had something like that. But, much scarier when you have an infant. We rushed home, with Jonah throwing up FOUR TIMES in a 10-minute drive. Then, he threw up a couple more times at home. All in all, about 9 times in 4 hours. By the last few it was just bile – VERY upsetting when you see your baby throwing up that nasty stuff!

I decided to shelve oatmeal for awhile, because I thought vomiting was an odd allergic reaction and I really thought perhaps he just had a stomach bug. So I waited about a month and tried it again. Last week. Just before going to the POOL. Clearly this is evidence that I wasn’t convinced he was allergic! I gave it to him BEFORE WE LEFT FOR THE POOL.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I am kind of dumb.

Guess what happened next? Baby boy projectile vomited (again on my poor friend JEN!!) in the POOL. And it was A LOT. Gross. Sorry, people of Kettering!

He threw up again a few minutes later, so I packed the kids up and headed home. This time, I am thoroughly convinced that oatmeal is the Devil. For Jonah, at least.

And just in case the projectile vomiting wasn’t enough to spark my memory, Joshua made me this reminder, which now hangs on our dining room wall:

Ok, well, since there’s a sign and everything, I think I’ll just toss the oatmeal in the trash!