I never really noticed how much people who run day cares make. I finally starting realizing this when I started taking Ava to day care. I pay a lot of money for her to go to day care for two days a week all day long. She likes going to day care though, and the one I go to is really good. I figure Ava will learn to get along with other kids and get use to being in day care, because she will be going for a long time. The lady I take Ava to her name is Karen, and she has around 2-4 kids every day, and she charges $3.50 an hour. You can only imagine how much she makes just from babysitting. She starts around 830 in the morning and then all the kids leave before 6. That’s not a lot of time really, and she makes a lot of money. It could be a really good way to make an income if you like kids. The only things about having a day care is if you want to be certified by the state you have to make sure you have your house safe and up to date with baby gates and everything. If you can do that, then you could run a daycare. Some day cares are really good, like the ones through the schools. That kind of day care actually teaches kids things and helps them learns, which is really cool. So if you want to make good money and are really good with children, then you should open a daycare.

I think it’s funny that my daughter figured out how amazing big people food is. She didn’t really like baby food to much, so I started giving her big people food and she loves it. A couple days ago I gave her a French fry and oh my goodness, she was sucking on it and loved it. Her eyes got really big and she was in love, you could tell. She also like Ice cream, and peanut butter. Ava will now eat anything u give her. It’s so funny because every time she will just make a weird face, but she will eat it. It’s like she doesn’t know what to think of all this stuff but loves it because it’s not baby food. She also like noodles. Any kind she likes noodles with alfrado sauce or noodles with marinara sauce. Lol it’s so funny. What’s really surprising is she likes lemons. She makes a weird face of course but really likes them, she tries to reach out and get more when I take it away. Along with a new taste for food, my big girl is now crawling. She crawls everywhere and anywhere. She’s a maniac. One minute she is in the living room I leave for a quick second and she’s in the kitchen. She getting fast at it too. I put her in her crib while I was cleaning her room and I look over and she pulled herself up and was bouncing on her legs just standing there watching me. She is getting so big, I love it. She says Da-da-da, and now she’s starting to say the MMMMM- sound. Which is super exciting to me, because of course I want her to say the best word of all ….. Ma-ma-ma! The older she gets the longer her hair gets too. Her hair stands straight up right now and as the weeks go by its starting to get longer and I can see it progressing and starting to stand down a little. It still stick up and not as bad. By the way.. What should Ava be for Holloween Anyone.. any ideas?!?

 

 

 

On Thursday October 10^th my daughter Ava officially crawled. I knew it was coming but I didn’t think it was going to be this soon. On that day right before her nap she could crawl, she still would rock back n forth and really couldn’t get to a place. Ava took a three hour nap, and when she woke up I put her on the floor like usual and she just took off. I was so shocked and surprised because three hours prior to this she couldn’t do it. That three hour nap must have gave her whole bunch of energy because she is now on the go. She went from not being able to crawl to crawling super-fast. It is crazy how quick they can do things and learn things. In a matter of a couple hours my daughter learned officially how to crawl. It was such a bitter sweet moment. I cried! Lol. I was so happy and shocked I got my phone out and recorded her. The first couple times she did it she would cry while crawling. Now (which is the 2-3^rd day) She doesn’t cry doesn’t wine, just goes. I sat her down and ran into my room to grab a sweater and she was half way to the kitchen. Gosh I am in trouble now. Baby gates are going up today. It’s so sad my baby is growing up and beginning to be a big girl. Pretty soon she will be pulling herself up on things and then beginning to walk. What I found out too now that she can crawl is that she likes everything that’s not her toys. Such as, computer cords, random stuff on the floor, light sockets, and mostly paper. She loves missing with newspapers, magazines, anything paper. She is going to have such a fun time unwrapping all her presents when its Christmas time. I am so excited and can’t wait to see what she will do next.  

Baby Food & Prices

Why is my daughter so picky? Ava had been able to eat baby food for three months now, and she has been able to eat adult food for ½ month. Ava doesn’t like eating anything. I’ve tried baby sweet potatoes, baby green beans, pears, peaches, bananas, any kind of baby food. She doesn’t like any of it, so always spits it out and makes funny faces. At first I thought that was ok because she was getting use to it. No! She still hates it and doesn’t want any part of eating baby food. I have been trying to give her adult food now, such as mash potatoes, a little piece of noodle, and any kind of liquid substance. The only thing I found out is that Ava likes ice cream. Of course she likes ice cream mostly everyone likes ice cream. She doesn’t like anything besides ice cream, and she can’t live on ice cream. Not only is ice cream really bad for you, she needs healthy food, ice cream is not healthy food. Hopefully the older she gets she will start liking different foods because as of right now all she like is her bottle and no kinds of foods. Ava is in the right percentile and height and everything for her age so it’s not affecting her right now, but soon I will have to start shoving stuff in her mouth until she likes it (which I try to do now).

 Baby food, is cheap but when you go through a lot every day because your child wastes it all it gets expensive. I knew having Ava was going to be expensive, especially since I love dressing her up and buying a lot of clothes and shoes and head bands for her but I didn’t realize really how much money she is.  I love it and I am still going to buy her everything unnecessary she “needs”. Everything is expensive for babies, from food to clothes to diapers. I don’t know how they can price baby clothes at $20 for just an outfit. $2 for two jars of baby food.  Its ridicules! Having a baby, I guess you have to pay the price literally.