I will continue to post here:)

And place stories about my little peach and plum:)

New Spot

In my little 'about me section' on the side of this blog I wrote that I aspire to write more meat, and content about other passions in my life. Well, I decided to do just that..... Check out my new space:

http://peachnplum.blogspot.com/

I am going to document our struggles and achievement's while we try to eliminate GMO's (genetically modified organisms). I am tired of being tired, tired of fighting bloat, fat, fatigue, my son's constant running nose and mucous...my hubby is tired of being tired and I don't ever want Alice to taste high fructose corn plah if she has too. I am going to fail many times, make mistakes, detox and crave and I will not be able to do this overnight. I plan to "lean in" as Oprah suggested and I plan on doing this one day at a time. I tend to be all or nothing and I think this journey will teach me a thing or two about that as well.

A couple things I wish to explain: I do not want to eliminate a food group from our diet. I do not want to be a vegan, not something Scott nor I resonate with. We don't feel the need to be 100 percent organic, but we do feel that is a side effect of eliminating GMOs. We do not want to constantly debate the state of our mechanized food industry - we hate what it has become plain and simple. There is our stance. We just want to document our choice at becoming more pure. Food Inc. suggests: Eat Food, Mostly Plants, Not A Lot..... that is all we are trying to do here.
And after watching it we feel that it is now or never....... So let the NOW begin.

My Peach and Plum

Alice's nickname was piglet when she was a newborn, she was all pink and wrinkly and squeaky and squishy. Women, girls - have love hate relationships with weight and dieting and thought I had better can the piglet nickname as she gets older so she has become PEACH. No need to write in the baby book that I called her a pig. Anyway, Peach just became natural, rolled off my tongue.... her hair is fuzzy like a peach and her head is all round and her cheeks are sweet. So Peach is it. She has been busy, rolling over!!!!!!!!! That was fun to watch - three times from tummy to back and them she took a break for a couple days. She talks and coos- non stop! She squeals and laughs, first belly laugh was two days ago while I was down on the floor making faces at her. She is just a little bundle of love. She is sleeping well and has shown preference for her crib over sleeping on the go. If she sleeps on the go for 20 min., she considers that a nap - well I don't:) Peach is content to do much of anything, she has already sat in the exer-saucer, she loves being held, loves the baby carrier and love sitting on the table while we eat. She really just enjoys whatever you do as long as she has her hands to munch on, or her hands are free to pull up her shirt and chew on that.

Plum- Cade has been getting back into the school routine. We notice a huge difference in him now that the holiday break is over and the first week or so of school has been underway. He has been starting conversations lately and I love it. Cade usually only demanded something or tried to get our attention for a specific thing. Now he likes to talk and I LOVE that. He asked the other day if the snow could come back, and why were the piles still around, why was the snow brown and dirty? He got his wish as we have about 6 inches tonight! Today he was asking where the turtles and birds sleep:( Poor guy was feeling for God's little creatures and wanting them to be warm. We said the turtles where in their den and to be honest I really have no idea where the turtles are, I wouldn't want to be alive in this cold:) ha! I said they are in their turtle den with their turtle blankets on and then he reminded me that the birds use sticks for a blanket! Cute. He also asked us if the grass likes the snow and if the trees like the snow and we talked about that for awhile. He asked to play "you hear it" this morning. Scott and I were trying to figure out what he meant and we were racking our brains and then we figured out that he meant he wanted to play "tag your it!" Soooo funny. He got to play outside in the snow with the kids and he is "plum" tired with red cheeks. He wanted to eat his pizza with chopsticks tonight because Scott and I ate sushi.... the fun never ends!

So plum and peach are doing well- I will post some pictures soon. I am so cold at the computer that my fingers are feeling numb, time to go bump up the heat or run around or something!

Both kids are down.....

Tonight we had dinner with friends and driving home we hit a hungry spot with Alice. I was able to crawl in the backseat and give her a bottle and Cade then fell asleep on my other shoulder. I was reflecting with Scott that it basically took over two years for Cade to let down his guard and fall asleep in the car. He never ever ever ever lets his guard down, he is always in charge, always standing duty we should say. I said to Scott while we drove, that Alice and Cade will have completely opposite infant hoods. Alice doesn't usually have to be upset for very long, unless I'm tending to the tender potty issues that Cade has. She gets what she needs and she gets her needs met quickly. The only thing I could do for Cade in his infant hood was pray. Praying is powerful and I'm thankful because after raising Alice and being so alert to her fragile newborn-ness I really can't believe Cade survived with the ENT issues he had and the caregiver ratio, I have to believe my prayers worked. I have worked hard to embrace the two separate paths each of my children choose (*I believe we chose these lessons and these lives before we are born). I have a harder time embracing the pain of Cade's. We talk about Cade being in his birth mother's tummy, sometimes he says that he wants to be in my tummy for a little bit. It is heart wrenching. I wish he was in my tummy... I wish I had all those first pictures and all those memories of his growth. He asked to see a picture of his birth mother the other day, I think he might have a small grasp of what we are trying to explain. I wish I had one. Having Alice is soooo sweet and sometimes when I'm alone with my thoughts it is bitter sweet. I am lucky to have a woman in my life that can relate in totality to my experience, but the times we get to talk are too short with our schedules. And when I feel overwhelmed by it all I try and think and channel all the families that were made this way. I am not consumed by these thoughts all the time but on a night like this when I realized how special it was to comfort and feed my infant in a instant and then when I had my little guy finally after two years be able to settle down and "crash" after a busy day - it was just a moment I won't forget.

New Years Day, Christmas Morning and Snowfall Favorites

We took a trip to some museums in DC on Jan. 1 2010! Cade was so unsure of why the dinosaurs didn't have skin and why they weren't alive:) Alice in her snowsuit during the cold blizzard! And my fav. picture of Cade on Christmas morning...opening his castle from Santa.