Joy and Sorrow in the Midst of Motherhood
Oct. 12, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
Since Friday I was off work, I managed to get Bug’s hair up into pigtails and put bows in them (which lasted about 15 minutes). She was so cute and so grown up. But she didn’t want to stand up for her picture. It will be sad when she grows out of these overalls, they are so cute!
Oct. 12, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
Daddy wanted me to post some pictures of him and some of the things he does with the girls.
Reading to Littlest
But to get to that picture, this happened….
Everybody had to get in the picture. Except Sturdy Gurdy was out in the yard.
Shoe shopping with Daddy.
Hangin’ with the supermodels in the mall.
Daddy bought Bug some new shoes while he was at the mall. He splurged a bit and got these…
I had a bit of a fit that he spent more than Walmart prices, but now Bug loves them, so we can’t take them back. She likes watching the lights and usually ends up bumping into things or falling down. She’s getting better though. Big Yellow Dog loves it. He tries to get the lights. He better not chew them up - he’s too skinny to eat. Daddy’s only saving grace with the purchase of these shoes is that Littlest can wear them later. If you divide the price by two, then we have two pairs at Walmart prices - I can live with that.
Oct. 12, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
Saturday I was trying to explain the song that Delta Goodrem sings to Daddy. So I put up her video on the laptop so we all could watch it. Bug loved it! I had to play it again to get her dance moves with the camera.
Do you want to hear it again? Yup!
Her traditional move
The start of her signature finger dance move.
Add on a head swing.
Swinging even more!
Wild woman move!
Going crazy!
Did you like it Bug? Grin!
I’m not sure where she got the squinty eye cheesy grin thing, but it sure is cute.
Oct. 9, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
Bug’s photo session took place in the hall. I would tell her to act grumpy or to “rarhr me.” She is such a ham!
Look at those eyes!
Oct. 7, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
The guy who always calls me Kim is on vacation this week. So I’m imaging that Kim is on vacation in the Caribbean, Hawaii, or even the French Riviera. Wait, if she can afford to go to the French Riviera, why on earth would she be working here!
Yesterday Bug had her 18 month doctor’s appointment and shots. She is still only 23 pounds, 13 ounces and is about the 50th percentile. Her height is 31.5 inches and is in the 25th percentile and her head is above the 50th, but better than it used to be. She is doing very well developmentally and physically. She had two shots and a flu shot. Littlest got a flu shot too. Poor Bug is so sensitive when it comes to anything happening to Littlest. Daddy took Bug out while Littlest got her shot. Littlest threw up a little bit before the shots and Bug started crying and was very upset. Of course Daddy was out of the room and I had a tough time keeping Littlest from getting puke everywhere and still trying to make it be no big deal for Bug and to console them both at the same time. After the shots, they both only cried a little bit and had a good, early evening. Daddy put Bug to bed for me and did it successfully amazingly fast. I blame the shots for that one.
Bug has been quite the character lately. She does some pretty silly things. Early this morning, she was awake and crying. So that I could still get another hour sleep, I brought her to bed with Daddy and I. Apparently Daddy’s snoring, which was unusually quiet for him, was bothering Bug. She would turn to Daddy, and put her finger to her lips and say “shhhhhh, shhhhh.” (When she does this, she manages to put her finger up her nose at the same time.) She did this several times until I was laughing out loud and that woke Daddy up. He grumpily asked what he was doing wrong. Early in the week in the middle of the night, Bug let out a huge fart and then immediately afterwards said a satisfying “ahhhhh.” That girl has been hanging out with Daddy way too much. She also has been mothering her baby doll a lot. She feeds it dog food and she is constantly laying the baby down and putting a blanket over it and saying “nigh, night.” Sometimes it’s tough love, the baby gets thrown down and then covered and she always positions the baby on it’s face. I try to tell her that she has to put her baby on her back to avoid SIDS, but Bug won’t have it.
One final thing about Bug. She visited the Toddler Room at daycare yesterday. She will permanently move there in a few weeks, but they do a slow transition. She loved it and did very well, athough, someone bit her finger when she was trying to push them away. She didn’t really want to come home, but another child wanted to go home with me and that was not okay with Bug.
Littlest is just being super cute and laughs a lot. She was sitting on my lap on the couch with Sturdy Gurdy next to us. She started reaching out for Gurdy and Gurdy would lick her hand. Littlest thought this was fun, so then she would lunge at Gurdy’s nose, Gurdy would lick her hand, and Littlest would giggle and laugh time after time. Usually Gurdy doesn’t like to be bothered, but she was a good dog.
We survived another day, barely, Thank God! Onward to tomorrow!
Oct. 5, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
What a day today was. Poor Bug had a rough go of it this evening. She has been fussy, not eating much and has had very restless sleep lately. I suspect the four new canine teeth are the culprit. Anyhow, after I got home this evening, we were eating dinner and I, rather stupidly, let her sit on the dining room chair by herself. Can you see it coming a mile away? Well yeah, duh! Anyhoo, she did fine for a long time and then crash, bang, bam, WHAAAAHHHH!!!!! She fell off the chair and there was copious amounts of blood. Oh, I forgot, before that happened, I gave her a bite of food with my fork and poked her gum with it and then she got a bite without me that was too hot, THEN she fell. She cut her lip, probably bit it. You how things like that happen in slow motion and you feel like it takes you forever to respond. I felt awful. I think it really startled her the most, but she did bleed a lot. She went back and forth between Daddy and I getting love and kisses. She finally recovered and a little while later while she was peeking in on Littlest in the bassinet, she apparently fell and hit her head pretty good. I was in the garage and didn’t see that one happen. The poor girl. She cheered up when she got a bonus bath. I let her play for a long time. She has a swollen lip, but luckily it wasn’t too bad.
In fact now that I look at this picture of her, her upper left lip is only slightly swollen and there a little bit of a bruise. She is growing up so fast, it’s unbelievable.
Littlest on the other hand faired a little bit better. I only managed to maim her a tiny bit. I’m not sure how, but when I was laying down with her and feeding her, she ended up with a scratched lip or something. She was having such a good day otherwise. She, too, is growing up fast. Nine months old already and over fourteen pounds. She is an amazing little girls who loves to laugh out loud. 
Yes, her sleeper is a bit too small and her bad haircut hasn’t grown out yet. I’ve been doing the clothes transition again. It always seems to be a huge ordeal. Since certain brands of clothes are smaller than others, I started putting them with the size they really fit and then I have to wash the new size clothes coming in from the garage, then wash and put the old ones away. I don’t know how people with five kids or even three kids do it.
Today was World Card Making day. So to celebrate, I drove out to the outer edges of the earth and met Auntie Brat and Sweet Smiling Girl to make 9 cards and a card holder. It was a beautiful drive out there, but it was far!. I used to be such a perfectionist when it came to making cards. Auntie Brat could make 10 in the time I made part of one. These stamp camps have been good for me, no time for perfection.
The purple one is my favorite.
This is a folder to hold all the cards.
Sep. 15, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
My girls are growing up so fast, it’s unbelievable. Tonight while Bug was getting her bath, we decided to put Littlest in for just a minute. Well, Bug was so excited, she kept saying Littlest’s name and saying, “Yea!” Then she was pouring water on Littlest and helping to wash her. It was cute! Littlest liked it too. She kept trying to grab what Bug had and smiling. So after the bath, both girls were lotioned up and put in their jammies. I put Littlest in the crib and Bug on the bed so I could finish up with bottles and get everybody snug. Littlest went to sleep right away. Bug took her bottle and when I went to lay down with her, she shook her head “no!” That’s a first. Usually she won’t settle down unless I lay down with her. (I know, I’m trying to break the habit.) Anyhow, I did a few more things and went back in and she shook her head “no” again. When I went back in again, she was sound asleep. Both girls were asleep at the same time. It was amazing! I don’t know what to do with myself. It’s 8 pm and I have BOTH girls asleep, formula made, stuff ready for work….now what do I do??? I’m too excited to sleep now. No new TV shows on. I guess I could actually sit down and talk with Daddy. Whoa…better not do that, he might get used to it!
Aug. 13, 2008 1 Comment Posted under: Uncategorized
Maybe I’m too sensitive or maybe it’s been building up to this, but I think my doctor just fired herself yesterday.
I have been going to this doctor for quite some time, years in fact. I followed her from the big clinic when she left to start her own clinic. After a while she wasn’t quite the way she was when she started out, too rushed. I never felt I got things taken care of and her front office staff was awful, borderline incompetent. We took Bug there since the doctor is a pediatrician/internal medicine and she was great at first. When Littlest was discharged from the baby factory, they gave us names of physicians who specialize in preemies, so we went with the bigger pediatric clinic in town because of the specialized doctors, they were close, open 7 days a week with late hours and we always could get in without problems. After a few problems with getting Bug diagnosed with ear infections, we moved Bug over to Littlest’s doctor. Then I found out my doctor quit her affiliation with my hospital. Yesterday was the clencher.
I’ve been going to the best ever OB/GYN for pretty much the last 2-1/2 years as my primary doctor, so haven’t been to see my PCP very much. I needed to have my ear checked and I actually got in to see my PCP the same day. They added two more new doctors, but didn’t have enough exam rooms, so they emptied out an office and put in two little tables and two plain old chairs until they get tables and such ordered. So I sat in this big, empty room with the thin walls. I listened to the patient next door have some sort of angry discussion with someone else. Then I heard all about the patient’s ER visits for anxiety, what the physician wanted to do and what medications they were going to try. My doctor comes in and we talk about hearing the patient next door. Then we do some catch up and she asks me if Littlest is going somewhere else. I tell her yes and explain why. Then she asks if I’m going to transfer Bug’s care there too. I said “probably” (nonconfrontational passive person that I am). At which time the doctor says that it’s probably better to have both kids at the same place. Then she proceeds to say that if I don’t trust Littlest care to her, then I probably shouldn’t trust her to care for Bug, and if I don’t trust my kid’s care to her, then I probably shouldn’t trust my care to her. Huh? I told her that we needed better hours and Littlest has been in the hospital three different times and we need my hospital used and she isn’t affiliated with it anymore. We went on through the visit and of course she didn’t find anything wrong with my ear, but prescribed something. I didn’t get a chance to ask her about my other questions since she was so rushed and kinda peeved. Shoot, one of my questions got answered by the magazine I was reading while waiting for the doctor. I think I need to find a new doctor now.
What I read in the magazine was a study talking about people who sleep only 4-5 hours a night (like me) and weight gain (again like me): “Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that partial sleep deprivation alters the circulating levels of the hormones that regulate hunger, causing an increase in appetite and a preference for calorie-dense, high-carbohydrate foods.”
I also found this:
“They found women who slept five or fewer hours a night were a third more likely to put on at least 33lbs more than sound sleepers during that time.”
They also mention that the lack of sleep triggers or doesn’t trigger two different types of hormones in the brain that deal with hunger and feeling full. It also mentions that if you are a bad eater anyhow, this just makes it even worse. You crave higher calorie, high carbohydrate, and high density foods.
So basically I have to change my whole lifestyle - at least 7 hours of sleep a night (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….), less caffeine (again HA!), and eating better types of food. Also exercise more.
So, anybody know of a good doctor?
Jun. 8, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Uncategorized
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