August Citrus Lane Box 2014

Cort was excited to get in to his newest box!

-The first thing we got in this box was a Growth Chart from petit collage, Its perfect for Cort's room as it is woodland animal themed, It will be exciting to see Cort grow through the years :)

-Pictured below is the Turtle on wheels that we also got in the box, Its so cute to see Cort crawl to it and grab it! it has a nice handle for him to hold on to.

-Packin' smart, This will be great to stick snacks in the diaper bag for Cort as he is eating alot now :)

-We also got Snuggly lotion, its pretty great & smells like Cherry's.

$20.00 Growth Chart

$12.99 Turtle on wheels

$4.00 Packin' smart

$9.50 Snuggly lotion

Total $46.49!

-We also got a tug boat and paint with water book for free with afew coupons I got a email about.

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6 month Update

Height/Weight: Cort is 27 3/4 inches tall and 18lbs 15oz,

Routine: His Bedtime is around 7:30-8:30pm and wakes up around 7:00/8:00am Then he takes a nap around 9:30am and sleeps for about a hour, Then I put him in his highchair and he watches me as I clean up the kitchen and we play and get stuff done around the house, then he takes another nap around 1:00pm for 2-3 hours,

Sleeping: Around 7:30pm I get Corts bath ready and start getting him ready fro bed, after his bath I put his PJ's on & nurse him, after he falls asleep I lay him in his crib with his sleep sheep on, Then he wakes up around 3:00am and eats, I lay him back down & sometimes he wakes up around 6:00am and eats again, then wakes up for the day around 7:00/8:00am

Eating/Feeding: Cort was Breastfed exclusively till 5 1/2 months, now I am starting him on some solids using the Baby Led weaning method. he really enjoys that, But he manly just breastfeeds still, He usually eats every 2 hours for 5min -10min.

Sizes: Cort is just starting to get in to size 6-9 month clothes, But he has rather short legs so he's still in 3-6 month pants & jeans.

Milestones: Cort is doing so great! at 5 months he started sitting up basically unassisted, also around then he started rocking back and forth on his hands & knees & on his tiptoes , and recently he started "scooting" He is such a go-getter!

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Life as a farmers wife.

For Those who don't know, I am married to a farmer & when we got married there were a lot of things I needed to learn.

John Deere is not the only tractor.

Before I got married if you were to ask me what brands of tractors I knew of I would have said John Deere, That's all I knew, you say tractor I say John Deere, you say John Deere I say tractor, now I know so many more John Deere, Case, Allis Chalmers, New Holland, Farmall and more!

(Although if you were to ask me which one of our tractor is the 8070 or the 7045 I couldn't tell you without seeing on the side.)

How to drive a tractor.

So I don't know how to drive all the tractors, But I have learned to drive a few of them when John needs me to help him get a piece of equipment unstuck, 

What Chopping & Packing is.

                                                Chopping Corn Silage & Packing Haylage

     You Might Be a Farmer's Wife...

            (I found this cute article online and thought I'd share)

• If your second vehicle is still a pickup:
• If your husband has ever used field equipment to maintain your yard:
• If you’re in the habit of buying foodstuffs in bulk:
• If "picking rock" is considered a chance to get out of the house:
• If taking lunch to the field is as close as you get to a picnic:
• If that pail with a hole in it is a flowerpot in the making:
• If your rock garden was hand-picked:
• If you can mend a pair of pants and the fence that ripped them:
• If the shopping list in your purse includes the sizes of filters, tires, overalls, chains, belts, lights, cables, spark plugs or shotgun shells:
• If your tan lines are somewhere below your shoulder and above your elbow:
• If you ever went on a date to the rodeo:
• If you’ve ever been grateful for fingernail polish, because it hides the dirt under your nails:
• If you’ve ever called your husband to supper, using a radio:
• If you have lots of machinery and each piece is worth more than your house:
• If the neighbor’s house is best viewed with binoculars:
• If the directions to your house include the words, "miles," "silos," "last," or "gravel road":
• If the tractor and the combine have air conditioning and an FM radio but your car doesn’t:
• If your storage shed is a barn:
• If you measure travel in miles not minutes:
• If your farm equipment has the latest global positioning technology and you still can’t find your husband:
• If you consider "hot dish" a food group:
• If your husband says, "Can you help me for a few minutes?" and you know that might be anywhere from a few minutes to six hours:
• If you plan your vacations around farm shows:
• If grass stains are the least of your laundry problems:
• If your car’s color is two-toned and one color is gravel road brown:
• If you knew everyone in your high school:
• If you’ve ever said, "Oh, it’s only a little mud.":
• If your husband gave you flowers, but you had to plant the seeds yourself:
• If you've used the loader to reach the windows when they needed washing:
• If you’ve ever discovered a batch of kittens in your laundry basket:
• If you shovel the sidewalk, with a skidsteer loader:
• If you can find a use for that old tractor seat:
• If quality time with your hubby means you'll have a flashlight in one hand and a wrench in the other:
• If you know the difference between field corn and sweet corn:
• If you can make a meal that can be ready in six minutes and will still be ready in two hours:
• If "sharing a cab" has nothing to do with a taxi and everything to do with getting across the field:

 

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Birth story // Cort Granger Schloneger {2-12-14}

My due date was February 24th 2014, 

But My whole pregnancy I've had a feeling I was going to have my son when I was in my 38th week,
and when I was 38 weeks 1 day I started feeling contractions, they were pretty light, but I could tell they were contractions and not Braxton hicks, I was on my way to go bowling with my husband & some friends, as the night went on I kept on feeling them, after we got done bowling, my contractions were going off & on, so I went home and to bed, and slept through the whole night.

I woke up the next morning and as soon as I woke up my contractions were 6 min apart and lasted 1 min ,
That's when I knew I really was in labor, I had a appointment at 1:40 so I figured I would just wait and see what she had to say, for the rest of the morning I tried to walk around some, but it just felt better to lay in bed, 1:20 came and I headed out to my appointment, it's a 15 min drive and every bump I was hopping I'd get to the Clinic soon, 
when I got to the doctors she checked me and I was 3cm 90% effaced, my contractions were 5 min apart, my doctor said that she thought I would be in active labor in the next hour or two! I was so excited, it was time to meet our son! 

She told me that it would probably be best to have someone drive me home to get my stuff, but me bring stubborn I drove home, dreading those bumps even more! I got home around 2:30pm, I was starting to get uncomfortably where I felt like I couldn't talk through my contractions, so grabbed our bags, and headed to the hospital, 

got there at 3:00pm and they checked me and I was 4cm, my sister stopped in and brought us some food, but I couldn't eat, every time John reached his hand in the McDonald's bag to get a fry id ask him to be more quite, At 4:54pm I was 5cm 95% effaced and contractions were 2-3 min apart, while I was pregnant I'd read books about pregnancy & labor, they always said that it really helps with labor & the pain to walk around, take hot showers and stuff, but to be honest the only thing that helped was laying in the hospital bed and having my husband push hea pads on my back, around 7:00 I was 6-7 cm dilated, progress! 7:26pm and I was 7 1/2 cm! Around that time I threw up twice, they said I should try to take a hot shower, I got in the shower but it made the contractions so much worse! I got out and they moved me to the delivery room,


It was around 8:35 and my doctor checked me, I was 9 1/2 cm and my water had not broken, so as my doctor was asking me if I'd like her to break it, it broke! That solved that! That's when the contractions got so intense, All I could do is lay there and just try to breath through them, then at 8:44 she checked me, I was 10cm! I could push! I started pushing, but afew minuets into it I wasn't breathing right and the baby's heartbeat was dropping, they gave me a mask to breath into and that helped some, but his heart rate still wasn't where it should have been so she said she might have to give me a episiotomy, right there & then I knew I had to really concentrate on breathing right so this little guy could come in his timing, right after that his heart rate went where it needed to be, praise The Lord! While I was pushing John was right next to me, holding my hand and telling me I could do it & he loved me,

9:17pm Cort Granger Schloneger was born!  

I pushed for 33min and got 1 small tear, As soon as he was born they put him on my chest and did skin to skin! He was so beautiful! And bigger then I thought he was going to be! 

Then after a few min they cut & clamped his cord, as they were doing that Cort peed on one of the nurses, that got some laughs, After the nurses & doctor left john and I got to just stay in the room and bond with him, he ate for 7 min and ate great! At 11:40pm we left the delivery room and walked to our room. They weighed & measured him, he was 7 pounds 14 ounces & 21 inches long, dark blue eyes and lots of dark brown hair, totally in love!

I was blessed enough to have a drug/medicine free labor & delivery, and to give birth to a beautiful baby boy,

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