HELP!

UPDATE: Thanks all for making me feel better about this. I thought for sure I did something especially since our computer at home has crashed and we can no longer get it to boot up. But my husband might be to blame for that on Saturday. So for now my blogging is limited to my lunch hour at work.

I need some help! For some reason all of a sudden I can not see anyone's blogs, not even mine. Luckily my dashboard is still working. Can anyone explain this message two me and how I can make this problem go away?

HERE IS THE MESSAGE I GET WHEN I CLICK TO OPEN ONE OF YOUR BLOGS:

Google
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We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

WORKING (ALOHA FRIDAY)

Aloha Friday!

The school year is fast approaching and Luke will be going into first grade. Last fall I had a meltdown because I wasn’t managing two kids, working 40 plus hours a week and so on. So I went to my boss and worked a plan to cut my hours down to 32 hours a week. I was pleased that I could be a Marketing Professional and work for a company that allows me to work on a part time scale. Who could ask for anything better? Anyway I work 8-5 (Mon, Tues & Thurs) and 8-12 (Wed & Fri).

I have loved having these half days. The whole reason for the half days was so I could remove Luke from expensive daycare and I would pick him up from school on these days and grandmas got him on the other days. Now going into first grade we no longer technically need those half days.

SO MY QUESTIONS:

1. Do I keep my half days that I really do love?

2. Do I change my schedule again and work 8- 3:15 each day? This would allow more evening time for homework, etc.

3. Do I do what my husband really wants me to do and go back to working full time?

Warning: Do not pick # 3 or you will no longer be my friend, because I don’t like this option. LOL….

In all seriousness this is what my husband wants me to do. We have argued over this because I am managing my life so much better with working fewer hours. I do all the kid running, all the house cleaning and 90% of the cooking. It seems unfair that he expects me to carry this load and he is not OK with me working part time. I would also like to say money is not a factor here at all. Technically, money isn’t a factor for me working at all because I buy groceries, pay for child care and am about to make my last car payment.

Play along at An Island Life for Aloha Friday. If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link at An Island Life.

OUR SUNFLOWER

At the end of the school year Luke
received a couple sunflower seed
& we plant them in my garden.

We ended up with this beauty!

I want to know is it really
a Sunflower or is it
a Beanstalk in disguise?

You decide!

Visit Angie at 7 Clown Circus for more great Wordful Wednesday post.

BABA

I am stressing because Thomas is fast approaching the age of 2 and he has a major attachment to his bottle.

Months ago I took it away from him at the baby sitters. Went fine! Am I allowed to be jealous by this?

I took it away during the day time at home for a short stint of time. And then one day he figured out how to say “BABA” and it was over.

When I pick him up from the sitter he is drinking from a cup just fine. The second we are in the car he starts ranting about “BABA”. The rant becomes worse when we enter the house. He will not take a cup at this point and throws a royal fit just to have his “BABA”.

Bed time is even worse! He will not go to bed with out it and in the middle of the night he wakes and has a major fit for it. There is no consoling him until he has “baba” in hand.

Eating dinner at night is awful because he has a belly full of milk so he doesn’t eat the way he should.

On the other end of it, he will drink from a cup but if you put milk in a cup he has a fit and will not drink it.

I have never met a more stubborn child. Yet my mom swears he is just like me, I don’t see how.

So what do you do? How do you get him to drink the milk he needs each day and get him off the bottle?

I won this great book from Melissa at Sweet Serendipity about raising toddlers. It had some very good suggestions. I took one of them and went a step further and during the day I have replaced the belly filling milk with water in his bottle.

He drinks the water with out argument. The good news is he doesn’t drink it as fast as he does the milk. Bad news is he still wants his “BABA”.

Please, please no one teach this child how to say milk.

Now at bed time I was still giving him milk because I want him to get his daily milk intake. However his milk intake at night is so strong that he has been getting up two and three times at night and crying for “BABA”. (I have another post on bed time but that is for another day).

Last night I replaced the milk bottle with water in the bottle. We woke up 5 times. He would drink a little and then go back to sleep. I think he is missing the full belly, sleep well syndrome. Oh and forget about the cup, he will throw it down and do a major melt down until he gets “BABA”.

Now I need to make a tough choice, do I stick with the water for a couple weeks to wean him down from the bed time milk belly and then go cold turkey with the bottle? Or do I just get it over with now and go cold turkey? Either way it is going to be several sleepless nights for all.

I would love to know if any of you had a child that would not give something up and how did you make the break? This is new to me because Luke gave up his bottle at 12 months with out a blink and never had an attachment to anything.