It’s been just over 6 months since A was born! Time goes so fast. Six months of tan­dem nurs­ing. Six months of being a mom of two. Six months of night feed­ings. Six months of lov­ing another lit­tle per­son more than I ever thought possible.

Lov­ing his Jumperoo and his sun­glasses that he is wear­ing at K’s insistence

Jason snapped this pic­ture of me and A at Tar­get one day

Thanks to Corin at The Human Paci­fier for my very first blog award!

Here’s what she had to say about my blog: “The Beau­ti­ful Let­down for the most cre­ative, and in my opin­ion, well…beautiful…blog name with the best play on words.“

By accept­ing this Excel­lent Blog Award, I have to award it to 10 more peo­ple who’s blog’s I find Excel­lent Award wor­thy. I can give it to as many peo­ple as I want but please award at least 10. Thank you out there for hav­ing such great blogs and being such great friends! You deserve this! If cho­sen, you agree to the same infor­ma­tion above. If cho­sen, also feel free to award peo­ple who have already been awarded…

Here is my top ten list of blogs that I feel deserve an Excel­lent Blog Award:

1. Adven­tures in Baby­wear­ing- Thanks for the Baby­wear­ing tips! I’m a wannabe baby­wearer, and read­ing your blog inspires me to get out my mei tai when it’s been on the shelf a lit­tle too long!

2. Breast­feed­ing­Mums Blog- Sinead was the first per­son to com­ment on my blog and encour­age me to keep writ­ing. Her blog has great breast­feed­ing infor­ma­tion, and she recently started a social net­work for women.

3. Breast­feed­ing 1–2-3- I can always find some good infor­ma­tion here. I like her breast­feed­ing quotes and reviews of books that I don’t always know about or have the time to find on my own.

4. The Lac­tivist Breast­feed­ing Blog- This is the first breast­feed­ing blog that I started to read reg­u­larly. It’s also one that I know when I have a new thread in my blog reader there will be some­thing thought pro­vok­ing and well worth reading.

5. Mama Knows Breast- This is one of my newer finds. Right now I am par­tic­u­larly lov­ing her posts of “One Mom’s Story” giv­ing dif­fer­ent breast­feed­ing experiences.

6. Not a DIY Life- I found this blog dur­ing NaBloPoMo and I’m still enjoy­ing it.

7. Nurs­ing Your Kids- This is another blog I found dur­ing NaBloPoMo. Still enjoy­ing this one, too!

8. On Pans and Knea­dles- Since I’m always look­ing for new recipes, I appre­ci­ate this blog for sav­ing me from eat­ing spaghetti with meat sauce 10 times in one month.

9. Mama Speaks- I love this blog! It’s reviews and links to prod­ucts and web­sites that are mom-approved. I just recently started read­ing this one, and I love when I go there and find a new entry.

10. A Blessed Life- This is one of my favorite blogs, but I may be a lit­tle biased since it belongs to my husband’s sis­ter. She is a pho­tog­ra­pher and is con­stantly post­ing pic­tures of the cute kids she pho­tographs and my beau­ti­ful nieces! What more could I want from a blog?

Well, I did the elim­i­na­tion diet for a few days, and I saw no results. I ate only chicken and rice. To be hon­est, I don’t even really like chicken all that well (unless it’s a spicy chicken sand­wich from Wendy’s with mayo on it), and now the thought of that chicken makes me a lit­tle queasy. Yuck.

So, for­tu­nately, it appears that A does not have food aller­gies (other than the pre­vi­ously men­tioned dairy allergy or sen­si­tiv­ity). This means he won’t have to spend his life ana­lyz­ing every bite that enters his mouth and won­der­ing if he is going to have reac­tion or if it will be okay. I won’t have to dress him in a shirt that say, “I have severe food aller­gies. Please ask my mommy before you give me any food” at fam­ily gatherings.

Unfor­tu­nately, we really don’t have any leads on the fussi­ness, rest­less­ness, or lack of sleep. I feel like I’m walk­ing a line. On one hand, if there’s some­thing that is wrong and both­er­ing him, I want to know. On the other hand, if he’s sim­ply not a good sleeper, and he never will be, I hate to drag him from one appoint­ment to another, from one diet to another, and from one tech­nique to another. I guess I have to decide at what point I just need to sit back and be okay with not know­ing why he doesn’t sleep and why he cries. That’s a hard thing for a mom though.