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Picked my love bug up from daycare Monday night and there was another "incident". I get kids will be kids, things happen.... Blah blah. My baby having a second scratch incident with her face is different. Like seriously. Last time is was the director that told me what happened this time it was one of her teachers. The scratch is small and again she seemed unbothered. Its the principal. She's been there almost a year and now she's has 2 incidents in less than a month?? Yea, I feel some type of way. lol. I'm ultra protective over my baby.. I love her daycare but this really has me feeling some type of way. She will be one next month and since she was small I've considered a daycare closer to my job. So this week I will definitely look into them. I want to believe this was just an accident but I partially feel as though this could have been prevented.

To arrange a babysitter, then primp and prep for whatever party, pack up diaper bag, drop the kid off, drive into the city, pick the kid back up.....All just seems like to much work just to go out for an evening to be around people I don't like that well, in an establishment where the music will be too loud, and there's no real sense of interacting with others. I was a home body about 3 years before having Aria so people can't argue that she's the reason I stay in. I stay in because most of the events people invite me to aren't worth going to. If I'm going to sit in someone house. I can sit in my own damn house. I dislike clubs. And refuse to spend a lot of money to make other people pockets fatter. I enjoy being a mom. Yes things get hectic and sometimes I most definitely need a break, but going to a club isn't that break. Being out late. Isn't a break. Neither of those things sound relaxing or needed. Those are just things other people do for whatever reason they choose. If you want to do something with me let's find a new place to eat, or drink. Let's explore a new art exhibit or show.

At home cooking dinner and playing with Aria. She's chasing after me but crawling, I'm letting her catch me then attacking her with tickles. Suddenly she pulls herself up on one of the kitchen chairs, starts smiling and takes two steps towards me free handed. Absolutely the high light of my day. At ten months she is definitely on the move. A baby with a mission. It's amazing watching her grow and discover the world around her. She has no boundaries. No fears. She just lives. Its beautiful most times I am just in awe.

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About ten weeks til my love bug is an year old and today I totally got why people say the first birthday is for the parents. Just checked out the venue and confirmed my parry reservations and I became so giddy. lol. I have been pinning first birthday party ideas for weeks. Now that I have a venue with an indoor/ outdoor option I feel as though the rest should be easy. Although I get why parents go above and beyond for their kids birthday parties my finances just aren't set up that way and she won't remember any of it anyway. I have a number of DIY projects to do for the party but other than that in should come in way below what I've been told I'll spend. Can't spill all the beans then I won't have much to tell when her birthday actually arrives. More to come.

So for Thanksgiving my love bug was teething really bad then the week of Xmas she got an ear infection. The night before I took her to the doctor was awful. She would scream if I tried to lay her down, she kept tugging at her left ear, in pain and sleepy so completely confused. Seeing my child so uncomfortable and in pain tore me up on the inside. The following day I called the doctors office and luckily they had an opening for that afternoon. After the doctor examined her her confirmed it was an ear infection and prescribed pain meds and antibiotics for her. We sat and talked about her symptoms for a while and I explained to him that she never had a fever and last night was the first time she was in so much pain. He comforted me and explains that with ear infections there may not always be a fever. Prior to this incident I read several articles about ear aches, what symptoms to look for and what to expect. Glad I did because when she refused to lay down I knew it had to be an infection but since she had no fever the doctors office provided the confirmation I needed. Still on the antibiotics but she's feeling much better.

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Lately Aria has been in the bed with us more often. No reason in particular, I just enjoy having my baby near me and her room is one of the coldest rooms in the house. When the temperature gets real low I don't like her sleeping in her room. Her Dada isn't against co-sleeping, he just feels as thought the 3 of us would need a bigger bed. So his compromise, was to bring her pack n play in our room. Not exactly my first preference but if it makes peace and I can still have my love bug next to me fine. Aria has been sleeping in her crib in her room since she's been about 3-4 months old (she's currently 8 months). I never thought being in her play pin would make much of a difference.. Got a rude awakening. I don't know if it was because we introduced the pack n play to her at a time she would usually be sleep or if she just really runs the show but wither way she cried nonstop the first night. I'm such a wimp I couldn't handle her crying so after about 5 minutes I took her back out. Waited until she was sleep and tried again. That only pissed her off further and then she refused for me to put her down at all. The first night the kid win the battle. No shame here. So the next day, it was just the 2 of us at home and I wanted to try to get Aria more comfortable with her play pin. I got her to sit and play with it for a total of 30 minutes at the most. May not seem like a lot but that was definitely a small victory for me, so I took it. The third day, j think she finally felt more relaxed and at ease about the while play pin concept so she let me put her in it while I got ready for work. She sat contently and played with her toys while watching TV. Later that evening when we got home I put her in her playing for maybe 15 minutes while I cleaned and got settled in. Again no fight or fuss from her therefore another win for mommy.