1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
A whole heck of a lot....but the main thing...had a baby
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I can't really remember my resolution if I did make one. However, I am assuming that if I did since I was all consumed at this point with my new pregnancy, it would probably have something to do with have a happy healthy baby. So in that regard yes. But my long standing resolution (which is of course the same one for this year is to be more organized) and that one I failed COMPLETELY!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Me! and my friends Diana, Sara, and Jennifer
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My great Uncle died this year, but I wasn't close with him
5. What places did you visit?
No where. I'm a homebody.
6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
I would like to have a better grip on things. I hate the feeling like you are slipping backwards....I only want to go forwards, even if it means starting some things over...just in a different direction.
7. What dates from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July 24 - Leigha is born!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting to 9 cm dilated by myself. I got to the hospital at 7 cm dilated, but they checked me after I got the epidural and I was at 9, so I'm counting it as 9.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Being a good friend since Leigha was born. I still haven't really figured out how to put my friends on the front line and manage being a mom at the same time. Also, I haven't been as good at keeping it all together as I had hoped.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
If you consider the INSANE rash that I got after having Leigha, then yes, but in general, no.
11. What was the best thing you bought? I haven't really bought anything really, except for some clothes for Leigha and a few for myself.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I have 2 that go in this category. Richard. He was much better than I expected when I was delivering Leigha and that just blew my mind. Also my mom. I expected her to be way overbearing this year with having her first grand baby and all, but she has been awesome...she has been my rock and my go to person for advice.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Again, I have 2. Richard. I had expectations and dreams and they haven't turned out as I wanted and I am REALLY struggling with this. Myself. I wish that I wasn't so moody and that I was able to hold it together more.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and baby stuff.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Leigha. How could I not? She is a good baby all in all. And I don't know how I couldn't not be really excited about my first.
16. What song will always remind you of 2011?
I'm so horrible with music and titles and singers. Its really sad. Although pretty much everyone has listed a song by Adele and the only one that I can think of now because of that is 'rollin in the deep' At least I think that's what it was called.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?Today, sadder...Overall, definitely happier.
b) thinner or fatter? Thinner! Whooo for remodeling the kitchen...its easy to loose when you don't have a kitchen to cook in LOL I am currently 20 pounds under pre-pregnancy weight, and I hope to keep going. I know how good it feels to loose that weight now...and it makes me want to keep going.
c) richer or poorer?Moneywise, poorer (such is life with a baby and getting laid off work)....lifewise Richer.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Spend more time with friends and then in the later half, I wish I had taken more naps with Leigha after she was born...I think it would have kept me more sane.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
worrying, and freaking out.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With our families. I can't wait till next year when we are hosting!
21. Did you fall in love in 2011?
Oh yes, I did... with Leigha, and even more with Richard when I see her with him sometimes when he is playing with her.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
I like Up All Night and Whitney. And of course my old favs, Big Bang Theory and Rules of Engagement.
23. What was the best book you read?
I haven't read any books this past year sadly :(
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Adele I believe. I really like her music.
26. What did you want and get?
A healthy baby.
27. What did you want and not get?
An easy baby. I thought that they existed, but somehow I am beginning to doubt that.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
I got Horrible Bosses for Christmas and that was pretty good. So was Friends with Benefits, and Just go with It and I also got the Help and I can't wait to watch it. I am sure its a good one too.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
My birthday was kind of a blur this year. I had a 2 week old and I seriously don't remember what went on. Kinda sad for my 30th huh?
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More sleep, more money, more work.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
Comfy frumpy. Jeans and an old Tshirt for the majority of my pregnancy, and then after it was lots and lots of yoga pants and sports bras and sweatshirts.
32. What kept you sane?
I'm not! I really feel like I am loosing it sometimes.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I have discovered the train wreck that is the Kardashian family. They are so beautiful and I am sure that it is all for TV, but they are just so hilarious, I can't help but watch. And I WANT Kim's hair and Khloe's personality and Kourtney's money sense! LOL
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Giant FAIL on following political issues. I HATE POLITICS I think ALL politicians should take a VERY long walk off a short peer and that the government should just start all over with a new way of thinking.
35. Who did you miss?
My grandparents. My grandma is still alive, but all the others aren't and I really wish that the were because I know they would adore Leigha.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
Leigha..HANDS DOWN!
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011.
I don't think that I did learn a life lesson.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I said earlier that I'm bad with music and such, and I'm not lying. The one that seriously keeps popping in my head is the part of the Adele song 'I could have had it all' but somehow that doesn't really seem appropriate in the grand theme of my life this year.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Finally!!! A Richard story!
So if you have ever read my husband's blog, you already know that he likes to post some funny stories about me and my pregnancy and Leigha (some funny and some not so funny to me). And if you haven't read his blog, you need to because it really is hilarious. http://itwasfun.wordpress.com/ He started his blog when we found out we were pregnant (although he switched to Wordpress in the middle of the pregnancy and copied and pasted his past enteries, so if you want to read his from the beginning, you would need to go back to April 2011's entries.
Anyways, because I FINALLY have some good dirt on him, I just HAD to post a good one about him.
Leigha has been teething something fierce lately. Poor thing is drooling constantly and chewing on ANYTHING she can get in her mouth. Anyway, last night she was fussy as usual so I handed her off to Richard (nice right? ;) LOL) and went to get the Oragel. I put some on her gums which quieted her a little.
If you don't have kids and have never been around this stuff it smells like cherries. Well Richard caught a wiff of it and asked me to put some on his gums too so that he could see what would happen and what it would taste like. So I did of course.
At first he said it tasted pretty good, but he couldn't tell a difference. He said that it felt like there was toothpaste stuck to his gums that couldn't come off and that it had kinda a gritty feel to it. I laughed and gathered Leigha up to give her a bath.
As I was stripping her down Richard comes in the bathroom he looks at me and tells me that he was just drooling a little in the living room and that he couldn't feel his top gums or his tongue (which he licked his gums with) at all. He was making such funny faces while licking his gums and rubbing them and pulling on his lip. I started laughing at him uncontrollably. He said that his top lip felt like it was fat and swollen because it was so numb. I was rolling on the floor so much that I couldn't hardly give Leigha her bath.
This went on probably for about 15-30 minutes with him describing to me what he was feeling and how he was surprised that it was able to numb his mouth that much since its made for infants. Then finally he told me that he was getting back to normal, although still felt a little odd, but he could see how Leigha would calm down almost instantly when I would rub it on her gums.
OK, now that I have written all this down, it didn't seem nearly as funny as it did last night, but oh well, maybe someone will have a smile about it at my husband's expense! :D
MERRY CHRISTMAS if I don't post before then!!
Anyways, because I FINALLY have some good dirt on him, I just HAD to post a good one about him.
Leigha has been teething something fierce lately. Poor thing is drooling constantly and chewing on ANYTHING she can get in her mouth. Anyway, last night she was fussy as usual so I handed her off to Richard (nice right? ;) LOL) and went to get the Oragel. I put some on her gums which quieted her a little.
If you don't have kids and have never been around this stuff it smells like cherries. Well Richard caught a wiff of it and asked me to put some on his gums too so that he could see what would happen and what it would taste like. So I did of course.
At first he said it tasted pretty good, but he couldn't tell a difference. He said that it felt like there was toothpaste stuck to his gums that couldn't come off and that it had kinda a gritty feel to it. I laughed and gathered Leigha up to give her a bath.
As I was stripping her down Richard comes in the bathroom he looks at me and tells me that he was just drooling a little in the living room and that he couldn't feel his top gums or his tongue (which he licked his gums with) at all. He was making such funny faces while licking his gums and rubbing them and pulling on his lip. I started laughing at him uncontrollably. He said that his top lip felt like it was fat and swollen because it was so numb. I was rolling on the floor so much that I couldn't hardly give Leigha her bath.
This went on probably for about 15-30 minutes with him describing to me what he was feeling and how he was surprised that it was able to numb his mouth that much since its made for infants. Then finally he told me that he was getting back to normal, although still felt a little odd, but he could see how Leigha would calm down almost instantly when I would rub it on her gums.
OK, now that I have written all this down, it didn't seem nearly as funny as it did last night, but oh well, maybe someone will have a smile about it at my husband's expense! :D
MERRY CHRISTMAS if I don't post before then!!
Monday, December 5, 2011
Make it and love it give away
Do you like DIY blogs as much as I do? One of my fav's is Make it an Love it.
Right now she is doing a give away for $100 gift certificate to cooking.com. You should check it out and enter if you haven't already because who couldn't love an extra $100 during the holidays to use for Christmas shopping, or for themselves ;)
make it and Love it giveaway
Make it and Love it giveaway
Also as a bonus she gives an awesome recipe for turkey cutlets (which I have used on regular chicken and it is AWESOME!)
Make it and Love it giveaway
Go check it out...now! ;)
Make it and Love it giveaway
Right now she is doing a give away for $100 gift certificate to cooking.com. You should check it out and enter if you haven't already because who couldn't love an extra $100 during the holidays to use for Christmas shopping, or for themselves ;)
make it and Love it giveaway
Make it and Love it giveaway
Also as a bonus she gives an awesome recipe for turkey cutlets (which I have used on regular chicken and it is AWESOME!)
Make it and Love it giveaway
Go check it out...now! ;)
Make it and Love it giveaway
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Four month letter
My dearest Leigha.
So much has happened in this last month. You have started doing SO. MANY. THINGS now, and in just a short time frame of just a couple of weeks!!!
You are now 15 pounds and 26 inches long. In the 4 short months that you have been in our lives, you have doubled your birth weight and grown 5 inches! You are growing like a weed!!! You are still 75% in weight, but you are now 95% for height.
Doc says that you are definitely teething that he can feel that your gums have gotten much harder and they should be working their way out. Its only a matter of time, the days of the gummy sweet smiles are numbered.
Last month, you wouldn't roll over, you had just found your hands, but you didn't really seem to interested in them. You just laid there and didn't do much of anything really.
Now in the past month, you constantly have your hands in your mouth. You love to suck on your thumb and first and second fingers. You have them in your mouth so much they are in a constant state of red wrinkly-ness from being wet all the time. You have begun to talk to me when we are in the car, and speaking of cars, you used to fall asleep in them, any time we went ANYWHERE, and not just long trips, but you used to fall asleep even when we went just to Walmart.
Also in the last month you have found your tongue and your lips. If you don't have your hands in your mouth you are playing with your tongue, or sucking on your bottom lip, which of course makes you look like the sweetest little cabbage patch doll...someday I am going to catch it on video (you will love that when you are older).
You can now roll from back to front and back again both from either side. You will do it pretty much any time I put you on the ground. When you are on your stomach, I also notice that you can hold your head up at a 90 degree angle now and you are really really trying to get your feet to move. You are constantly trying to kick them to get you to scoot across your play mat.
You have also started to grab at your toys quite frequently. You are now never just content to sit and have things near you. If I am eating or drinking or reading or changing the channel on the TV, you will always grab my hand to try to get what I am holding, into your mouth.
You think that 'horsey rides' are the best thing in the world, the one where the lady, gentleman, and cowboy goes for rides in the morning and the bouncing gets progressively faster. All I have to do is put you on my knees and sing the song and you break out into the biggest grin which only gets bigger if I actually bounce my legs.
We have moved you into your own bed at night. It was really really hard on me at first. I didn't want to let you go, so we made a bed up on the floor of pillows and blankets and I slept in there for the first few nights. I didn't want you to be scared because you are never in that room at night with the lights off, and I wanted to show you that when you cried I would still be right there to get you even if I wasn't very close. It took me several days to finally get up the nerve to leave you in your room all night by yourself. But it took even longer to clean up the bed. I still slept in there every once in a while just because I like being close to you. Its so nice to just cuddle up with you, or go to sleep knowing that I just have to sit up and look in your crib and I can see your cute little self all comfy in your bed. But now the palate is picked up, even if it is just folded up and stacked at the foot of your bed.
You are now consistently waking up at 3:30 wanting to be fed, and lately after that time you haven't wanted to go back to sleep. I told your doctor that at your 4 month checkup and he said that we need to start prolonging the amount of time that it takes me to go get you and cutting back on the night feedings because you need to start sleeping through the night. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. Sure this is one of my worst times of the night because I am so tired, but I like it being us. I may be wrong, but I think that when you are ready to cut out the night feeding, you will let us know.
We are also starting to really be able to tell that you are very ticklish. You are ticklish on your feet, stomach, neck, and underarms...the usual spots. You smile and shriek whenever I tickle you there. You really like to be upside down as well and will throw yourself backwards to look at things upside down, so of course this allows me to tickle your tummy, or zerbert it. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if you like looking at things upside down, or if you like me tickling your stomach LOL.
You are becoming such a little person, its crazy. You can really see your personality come out. You like to be around people (which you get from your Daddy), but at times you like to be by yourself (which you get from me.) You are in general a very serious baby, but you like to have fun.
I hate that you are growing so fast sweetheart, please slow down and let me enjoy your cuddly littleness just for a while longer.
We love you Beautiful!!!
Mommy
So much has happened in this last month. You have started doing SO. MANY. THINGS now, and in just a short time frame of just a couple of weeks!!!
You are now 15 pounds and 26 inches long. In the 4 short months that you have been in our lives, you have doubled your birth weight and grown 5 inches! You are growing like a weed!!! You are still 75% in weight, but you are now 95% for height.
Doc says that you are definitely teething that he can feel that your gums have gotten much harder and they should be working their way out. Its only a matter of time, the days of the gummy sweet smiles are numbered.
Last month, you wouldn't roll over, you had just found your hands, but you didn't really seem to interested in them. You just laid there and didn't do much of anything really.
Now in the past month, you constantly have your hands in your mouth. You love to suck on your thumb and first and second fingers. You have them in your mouth so much they are in a constant state of red wrinkly-ness from being wet all the time. You have begun to talk to me when we are in the car, and speaking of cars, you used to fall asleep in them, any time we went ANYWHERE, and not just long trips, but you used to fall asleep even when we went just to Walmart.
Also in the last month you have found your tongue and your lips. If you don't have your hands in your mouth you are playing with your tongue, or sucking on your bottom lip, which of course makes you look like the sweetest little cabbage patch doll...someday I am going to catch it on video (you will love that when you are older).
You can now roll from back to front and back again both from either side. You will do it pretty much any time I put you on the ground. When you are on your stomach, I also notice that you can hold your head up at a 90 degree angle now and you are really really trying to get your feet to move. You are constantly trying to kick them to get you to scoot across your play mat.
You have also started to grab at your toys quite frequently. You are now never just content to sit and have things near you. If I am eating or drinking or reading or changing the channel on the TV, you will always grab my hand to try to get what I am holding, into your mouth.
You think that 'horsey rides' are the best thing in the world, the one where the lady, gentleman, and cowboy goes for rides in the morning and the bouncing gets progressively faster. All I have to do is put you on my knees and sing the song and you break out into the biggest grin which only gets bigger if I actually bounce my legs.
We have moved you into your own bed at night. It was really really hard on me at first. I didn't want to let you go, so we made a bed up on the floor of pillows and blankets and I slept in there for the first few nights. I didn't want you to be scared because you are never in that room at night with the lights off, and I wanted to show you that when you cried I would still be right there to get you even if I wasn't very close. It took me several days to finally get up the nerve to leave you in your room all night by yourself. But it took even longer to clean up the bed. I still slept in there every once in a while just because I like being close to you. Its so nice to just cuddle up with you, or go to sleep knowing that I just have to sit up and look in your crib and I can see your cute little self all comfy in your bed. But now the palate is picked up, even if it is just folded up and stacked at the foot of your bed.
You are now consistently waking up at 3:30 wanting to be fed, and lately after that time you haven't wanted to go back to sleep. I told your doctor that at your 4 month checkup and he said that we need to start prolonging the amount of time that it takes me to go get you and cutting back on the night feedings because you need to start sleeping through the night. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. Sure this is one of my worst times of the night because I am so tired, but I like it being us. I may be wrong, but I think that when you are ready to cut out the night feeding, you will let us know.
We are also starting to really be able to tell that you are very ticklish. You are ticklish on your feet, stomach, neck, and underarms...the usual spots. You smile and shriek whenever I tickle you there. You really like to be upside down as well and will throw yourself backwards to look at things upside down, so of course this allows me to tickle your tummy, or zerbert it. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if you like looking at things upside down, or if you like me tickling your stomach LOL.
You are becoming such a little person, its crazy. You can really see your personality come out. You like to be around people (which you get from your Daddy), but at times you like to be by yourself (which you get from me.) You are in general a very serious baby, but you like to have fun.
I hate that you are growing so fast sweetheart, please slow down and let me enjoy your cuddly littleness just for a while longer.
We love you Beautiful!!!
Mommy
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Randoms and a couple of vents
- I ended up sending Leigha an email. Its not a sappy one. I just told her that I loved her and told her about the blog and sent her the link and told her what it was about. I'll probably send more.
- I am pretty sure that she is teething, but being a first time mom, I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE what I am looking for. I know she drools a lot, constantly chews on her hands, feet, toys, me, and the sides of her pacifier. Oh yeah, and she is REALLY grumpy. I ask what I need to look for and people tell me that she would have a little fever, (which sometimes she feels warm and has a tiny 1 degree temp, not sure if that is from her fussing or not) and that her gums would be swollen (I have no idea what swollen is), and that I would feel the teeth, (I can't, but they have to come from somewhere right?)
- Today has been the day from hell. For some strange reason I didn't sleep last night. I was super tired, but I couldn't shut my mind off I guess. She woke up once which is fine, but then woke up at the butt crack of dawn at 6:30 and was up for good so in total I got 4 hours of sleep. I even tried to bring her back to bed and get her to sleep with me but didn't have any luck. She then pooped, peed, or spit-up on every single outfit that I put her in. We went through 6 outfits today and 2 changes of jammies tonight. She pooped in her bouncer. She wouldn't nap except on me. She peed in my bed. She rolled over from back to stomach several times, but refused to go back the other way which led to lots and lots of screaming. I REALLY hope that this is a one time deal because I don't know how many of these kinds of days that I can take.
- I started my period back last month, and I think its getting ready to be that time of the month. I guess there is one good thing that being sleep deprived causes....PMS! I have been nursing her like crazy trying as hard as I can to increase my supply, so I'm hoping that it stays away this month. I really don't feel like dealing with it.
- I've been incredibly frustrated lately. I'm frustrated that there are times that I can't figure her out. I'm frustrated that she is still not sleeping through the night. I'm frustrated that I try to tell Richard what is going on with her and that he NEVER listens to me. I'm frustrated that I feel like I'm doing this all by myself with no help. I'm frustrated that Richard seems upset and frustrated, I'm sure because of work, probably because of me too. I'm frustrated that this whole parenting thing isn't going how I thought that it would. In short, I'm just a joy to be around at the moment LOL. (PMS at its finest) I feel bad that I just called my husband out on my blog, but I tell him the same things in person anyway. He really is a good dad, I just wish he would listen to me.
- I feel like I need a vacation LOL. I'm only 4 months into this and I already feel that way...how in the world am I going to handle the next 18 + years. EEK!!
- My little brother is getting married....still really weird to say that. But he may elope. Not sure how I feel about that. I think that it would be awesome to do that because how cool are destination wedding pics! and part of me wishes he would stay and get married her because it would be hard to afford for us to go (yeah, thats selfish but I don't care, I only have one brother)
- I am a pinterest addict. I can't help it. I wish that I could say that I do some of the things that I pin, but I don't...YET! I have a huge board of things that I want to sew, and I am going to widdle that one down once I get my machine tomorrow. And I am planning a pinterest dinner once our kitchen gets back to normal.
- I love love LOVE my kitchen. Its tore all to pieces, there are no doors on the cabinets, and half the cabinets are down and getting reinforced by Richard and we have no counters, but I LOVE IT! Its going to be so pretty when it gets finished.
- Its midnight and Leigha has been asleep for 2 hours now and I'm just now getting sleepy. This is going to be a fun day tomorrow at my makeover appointment. LOL
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Emails
So you know that commercial that they had on a while back. It ran most of the time towards the end of my pregnancy where this dad sets up and starts emailing his daughter details about their life starting when she is a baby, and he sends her videos and pictures and things like that? Well, Richard has been doing this. He has set Leigha up an email account and has been sending her emails. When he told me a couple of months ago I fell in love with that man all over again. (Yes, granted he probably got the idea from the commercial, but who cares, he's doing it! LOL) Anyway, I begged him for the email address so that I could send her emails too. I didn't want her to have several email addresses already set up that she would have to check, I would rather her have just one email address to have all these special letters from her parents.
Anyways, I haven't sent her any emails yet. I know that I want to, but I have no idea what I want to say to her. And partially I'm scared that Richard will read them, and I don't want him to. So I asked him to give me the password (he refuses adamantly!) He won't give it because he doesn't want me to read her letters from him. Makes sense...afterall isn't that the whole reason I haven't sent her anything yet? LOL.
I'm torn. I still don't know if I want to send her emails, I'm afraid she will think that they are stupid and corny, and even though I'm sure at multiple times in her life she will think I'm stupid and corny, I don't want it to happen too soon.
Maybe I will at least start one, and then I can decide if I want to send it later....I mean after all, I will tell her about this blog so she can read all about how she came to get here....Yeah, I think that's what I'll do.
(Yes, I know I"m weird and that I overthink things, but hey, that's part of my charm...right? ;) LOL)
***And honey, if you are reading this, can I please get the password to the account? Just think of it this way, if something were to happen (GOD FORBID!) I want to be able to tell her the account is there so she can read your letters.
Anyways, I haven't sent her any emails yet. I know that I want to, but I have no idea what I want to say to her. And partially I'm scared that Richard will read them, and I don't want him to. So I asked him to give me the password (he refuses adamantly!) He won't give it because he doesn't want me to read her letters from him. Makes sense...afterall isn't that the whole reason I haven't sent her anything yet? LOL.
I'm torn. I still don't know if I want to send her emails, I'm afraid she will think that they are stupid and corny, and even though I'm sure at multiple times in her life she will think I'm stupid and corny, I don't want it to happen too soon.
Maybe I will at least start one, and then I can decide if I want to send it later....I mean after all, I will tell her about this blog so she can read all about how she came to get here....Yeah, I think that's what I'll do.
(Yes, I know I"m weird and that I overthink things, but hey, that's part of my charm...right? ;) LOL)
***And honey, if you are reading this, can I please get the password to the account? Just think of it this way, if something were to happen (GOD FORBID!) I want to be able to tell her the account is there so she can read your letters.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Quick update
Leigha is in her room asleep and while she is in there she will get about 30-45 minutes total of sleep before she wakes up. She has been in there about 15 minutes already so I only have 15-30 minutes left to type this. (Oh I hope this gets better LOL)
We have moved the beautiful one to her own room. I decided that with her being 13 pounds and rapidly gaining more, I would rather not break her bassinet since we are just borrowing it from some friends of my parent's. So we started on Sunday night. The first night she slept on the floor with me. The second night she slept half in her crib, and at about 5am came onto the floor with me. (I made a "bed" with pillows and blankets) The next night she slept entirely in her bed while I was on the floor. and last night I tried sleeping in my own bed using the monitor, but it didn't end up so well, she woke up every 2 hours and since I am not feeling so well I slept in there from about 2 am on. (Is that enough nights from Sunday to today? I can't think straight. It probably isn't but it probably was some variation with her on the floor and in the crib.)
I wasn't planning on putting her in her crib till Christmas, so this has been incredibly hard on me. I'm totally not ready for this stage in her life. I know that its for the best, but still doesn't make it any easier on me at all. I have spent the last couple nights crying to sleep.
Well its been about 30 minutes in her crib and right on time she is waking up....Time to get her. I will try to post more later. So much has happened that I need to update on.
Till later!
We have moved the beautiful one to her own room. I decided that with her being 13 pounds and rapidly gaining more, I would rather not break her bassinet since we are just borrowing it from some friends of my parent's. So we started on Sunday night. The first night she slept on the floor with me. The second night she slept half in her crib, and at about 5am came onto the floor with me. (I made a "bed" with pillows and blankets) The next night she slept entirely in her bed while I was on the floor. and last night I tried sleeping in my own bed using the monitor, but it didn't end up so well, she woke up every 2 hours and since I am not feeling so well I slept in there from about 2 am on. (Is that enough nights from Sunday to today? I can't think straight. It probably isn't but it probably was some variation with her on the floor and in the crib.)
I wasn't planning on putting her in her crib till Christmas, so this has been incredibly hard on me. I'm totally not ready for this stage in her life. I know that its for the best, but still doesn't make it any easier on me at all. I have spent the last couple nights crying to sleep.
Well its been about 30 minutes in her crib and right on time she is waking up....Time to get her. I will try to post more later. So much has happened that I need to update on.
Till later!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
3 month letter
My darling little beautiful one,
3 months has come and gone SO FAST. I never knew time could move so quickly. But I have loved every minute of it. I love waking up to see your face, which starts out as crying until I pick you up, then you are all smiles and cuddles for about 5 minutes before you remember that you are hungry.
You have started smiling a LOT more. Last month you pretty much smiled only in the morning and at night. Now you smile a lot more during the day, and you have started smiling at more people and not just your Daddy and I. However, you still pretty much refuse to smile for the camera if you know its there. I can catch you sometimes if I hold it far enough back and zoom in because you still can't see that far away, and forget shooting a video, you just stare with this blank look on your face most of the time.
This past month my Grandma (your Hun-hun) was in town. You loved her. You felt so content with her you fell asleep in her arms most every time she held you, and towards the end of her visit, she was even able to have a 'conversation' with you because you were talking so much. She loved it. I know it was very hard for her to leave you and go back home to California, but she will be back in the spring hopefully so you will get to see her again.
You do like to talk alot to me and your dad, and when we make the same noises back at you you think its the greatest thing ever! You smile so big. You also have recently started trying to stuff your hand in your mouth, which makes for some very interesting sounds when you try to talk or cry even.
You are even trying to roll over. Kinda. You like to roll on your side and sometimes you are perfectly content to stay there but other times you really try to get all the way over. I have tried to put you on your stomach several times to see if you will roll over that way, and you have done it once, but I think it was more of an accident because I haven't been able to get you to do it since. But that's OK, all in good time sweetheart, you will get there. And if I'm being honest here, I don't want you to do it too quickly because that just means you are getting so big.
Speaking of big, I had to take you to the doctor last week because you had some weird skin things going on on your back and chest and legs. They had me weigh you and you now weigh 13 pounds 2 oz. You have grown a whole pound and a half since our last visit a month ago...A POUND AND A HALF IN A MONTH! I can feel it too. I can no longer pick you straight up out of your bassinet, now I have to tilt you to a sitting or kneeling position in order to pick you up that way. But that's what I get for having such a tall bed huh ;)
But at the doctor they told me that you have eczema, and that's what is wrong with your skin. But we have all kinds of creams and lotions and it is getting a smidge better so far. Your doctor has also put me on a special diet. I am no longer allowed to have dairy, nuts, eggs, or seafood. The seafood part is pretty easy because I don't like fish (although I won't ever tell you that till you're older because I want you to like it) and I can do without shrimp. The dairy, eggs and nuts though are a whole other ball game. I LOVE those things. Its hard, but I will do ANYTHING to help you get better because I know that your skin makes you uncomfortable...I am sorry for that sweetie. I wish you didn't have to go through that.
This has been a really fun month so far. I can really tell that you are getting so much bigger. You are still throwing us for a loop with sleeping though. Sometimes you do it, and sometimes you don't. You still take the small cat naps during the day, only about 30-45 minutes at a time and you take several throughout the day. Sometimes this is nice as it occasionally will help you sleep for a longer stretch at night because you are so tired by the end of the day, and other times its frustrating because I no sooner put you down then you are back awake again, so its hard to get things done around the house like cleaning. Although I have to admit, I would rather you do that and me have to entertain you all the time than clean. Hopefully you don't inherit the same hatred of cleaning that I have. I hope you are a neat freak and teach me to be one.
You still do this little curling into a ball when you are waking up and we pick you up. I am trying to find someone to capture it on video because I want to have that on record because its not something that you do every time, and I know soon you will stop.
I know that there is a LOT more stuff that you have started doing my sweetheart, and that I need to start typing this letter out as the month progresses, but as I said before your napping times leave me very little time to get much done around here. But hopefully things will get better.
I love you my sweetheart, you are the light of my life and I love you with all my heart.
Mommy
3 months has come and gone SO FAST. I never knew time could move so quickly. But I have loved every minute of it. I love waking up to see your face, which starts out as crying until I pick you up, then you are all smiles and cuddles for about 5 minutes before you remember that you are hungry.
You have started smiling a LOT more. Last month you pretty much smiled only in the morning and at night. Now you smile a lot more during the day, and you have started smiling at more people and not just your Daddy and I. However, you still pretty much refuse to smile for the camera if you know its there. I can catch you sometimes if I hold it far enough back and zoom in because you still can't see that far away, and forget shooting a video, you just stare with this blank look on your face most of the time.
You do like to talk alot to me and your dad, and when we make the same noises back at you you think its the greatest thing ever! You smile so big. You also have recently started trying to stuff your hand in your mouth, which makes for some very interesting sounds when you try to talk or cry even.
Speaking of big, I had to take you to the doctor last week because you had some weird skin things going on on your back and chest and legs. They had me weigh you and you now weigh 13 pounds 2 oz. You have grown a whole pound and a half since our last visit a month ago...A POUND AND A HALF IN A MONTH! I can feel it too. I can no longer pick you straight up out of your bassinet, now I have to tilt you to a sitting or kneeling position in order to pick you up that way. But that's what I get for having such a tall bed huh ;)
But at the doctor they told me that you have eczema, and that's what is wrong with your skin. But we have all kinds of creams and lotions and it is getting a smidge better so far. Your doctor has also put me on a special diet. I am no longer allowed to have dairy, nuts, eggs, or seafood. The seafood part is pretty easy because I don't like fish (although I won't ever tell you that till you're older because I want you to like it) and I can do without shrimp. The dairy, eggs and nuts though are a whole other ball game. I LOVE those things. Its hard, but I will do ANYTHING to help you get better because I know that your skin makes you uncomfortable...I am sorry for that sweetie. I wish you didn't have to go through that.
This has been a really fun month so far. I can really tell that you are getting so much bigger. You are still throwing us for a loop with sleeping though. Sometimes you do it, and sometimes you don't. You still take the small cat naps during the day, only about 30-45 minutes at a time and you take several throughout the day. Sometimes this is nice as it occasionally will help you sleep for a longer stretch at night because you are so tired by the end of the day, and other times its frustrating because I no sooner put you down then you are back awake again, so its hard to get things done around the house like cleaning. Although I have to admit, I would rather you do that and me have to entertain you all the time than clean. Hopefully you don't inherit the same hatred of cleaning that I have. I hope you are a neat freak and teach me to be one.
You still do this little curling into a ball when you are waking up and we pick you up. I am trying to find someone to capture it on video because I want to have that on record because its not something that you do every time, and I know soon you will stop.
I know that there is a LOT more stuff that you have started doing my sweetheart, and that I need to start typing this letter out as the month progresses, but as I said before your napping times leave me very little time to get much done around here. But hopefully things will get better.
I love you my sweetheart, you are the light of my life and I love you with all my heart.
Mommy
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
I'm still here!
I am, I promise. Just lately we have been struggling with emotional issues, breastfeeding issues, my grandma was in town, work has been crazy, my mom got sick, the remodeling of the kitchen is in full swing, and basically life has gotten in the way of blogging LOL.
I have been working on her 3 month letter and just an update in general, but its a slow process. Leigha will usually only sleep in my arms, and I think she is getting her days and nights mixed up again.
I am trying a new nap technique of making the room as dark as possible and letting her nap in her room, so hopefully that will go well and I will be able to post a little more in the next few weeks. I really promise this time too. I have found that blogging is a good for me!
I have been working on her 3 month letter and just an update in general, but its a slow process. Leigha will usually only sleep in my arms, and I think she is getting her days and nights mixed up again.
I am trying a new nap technique of making the room as dark as possible and letting her nap in her room, so hopefully that will go well and I will be able to post a little more in the next few weeks. I really promise this time too. I have found that blogging is a good for me!
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