So Abi has a bacterial infection.. and an ear infection... and PINK EYE. Thanks a lot daycare. Poor kid can't catch a break. And I found what appears to be a swollen gum next to her 2 bottom teeth, so we may have a third poking through soon. But with the swelling I'm thinking it's not going to be as easy as the first two.
So a little bit of funny happenings. My husband went to Meijer because I found this adorable owl coat for Abi. It was on sale for 9$ from 65$!! I told him size 12 months. He got that and figured for 9$ he'd grab a larger size in another cute print. He got a 4t. Seriously hun, we have no idea when she'll be in that size, it could be the middle of summer! LOL Then he grabbed up some super nice cotton type sweat pants for her. A 12 month and two 24 month. Said she could wear them this summer inside in the A/C. I said, "you do realize 24 months is 2 years old, right??" Oh. LOL! Oh and the hanger on the owl coat says 12 months but the tag inside the coat says 18 months. So we will be heading back and praying there's still a 12 month coat left. It is soooooo cute! I've been on an owl kick lately ever since I picked up an owl tumbler at Kohls. I haven't been able to find much in the way of owls for Abi though, so if any of you own or have seen something recently let me know! :)
Countdown to baby!
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Weight watchers take 2 and update type stuff
First of all, Happy New Year to all of you! I have been a little lax with my updating even with all the "time" on my hands. I haven't really been in the writing mood. We really haven't been terribly busy but also hubby had two 4 day weekends over the holidays and so we spent as much time together as that allowed. Unfortunately I start back to school Monday, unfortunate because I am not looking forward to messing up Abi's new routine with daycare. She's settled into a perfectly wonderful (for a stay at home mom) but downright awful (for going to daycare on my schedule) routine. She seems to wake up at night and talk to herself for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. At least once. I've been missing this as she doesn't scream or cry to be fed or changed. But I figured it out last night when she woke up at 5:20a and just cooed and talked to herself until 6. Then slept in until 8. She didn't even want a bottle, which she's been getting at least once a night since the beginning of December. So when she gets up for the day, she's already tired from not having as much sleep at night at she should. Which I think is why she's been taking two wonderful 1-hour naps each day. Unfortunately, they range from 10/10:30-11/11:30 or 11-12. All times I will have to be leaving the house to get to school this semester. UGH! I've tried keeping her up until noon (which is a time she'll be at daycare everyday) but she just gets more and more cranky and crabby until I put her down. This week is going to be hell. Then her second nap is between 2:30 and 3. Again some of the time I will be picking her up from daycare at this time. Not everyday, and honestly I know she won't take hour naps at daycare... but it'd be nice to have her get in at least one hour nap before I have to leave for school. That would mean getting her up at like 6... eeek. I'm not into waking a sleeping baby unless I absolutely have to.
Which brings me to another issue. Abi has to have an MRI done on her back. Well, I finally scheduled it for the end of march. Just after her first birthday we have to wake my baby up at an unGodly hour, not feed her and take her to a hospital to have them sedate her so they can perform an MRI. Needless to say I am scared out of my mind. She won't go fully under, just into a "twilight" state to keep her from moving... but she's not going to be happy and she's not going to go easy. She hates strangers, even her Dr... plus not having been fed will make her extra cranky. I'm so worried about the potential for side effects from the anesthesia that I have mini breakdowns just thinking about it. The neurosurgeon said we could wait until she was 9 months old but her dr said we could push it till a year if we really wanted to. But now that she's having this "mild delay" her dr said that we may need to push it to February. I don't want to do it at all. Either she will be fine or she will have a tethered spinal cord. But her dr has been vague on what happens next so I think she's hoping for the best. But it's likely going to mean surgery. Which means I'm dropping out of school because my husband can't quit his job and take care of her. I'm a "worry over the worst case scenario" kind of gal... but the worst worst case I can think of is her having such a bad reaction to the anesthetic .. that... I can't even finish the sentence let alone the thought. But the next worse is surgery. I don't think she has a tethered cord. She had an ultrasound done the day after she was born to look at it and neither the sonographer nor the radiologist thought she has one. This is at our local childrens hospital that is one of the best in the country, so I'm fairly confident in their findings. But of course a neurosurgeon would say "get an MRI" that's his brand of test. Sooooooo needless to say I am freaked and it's not getting any better with school starting. Speaking of, I'll have to go to school after Abi's MRI!!! Unless I can figure out a way to not be there that day, which I might talk to my teacher about... we'll see. But Abi won't be going to daycare that much I'm sure of. Either I'll be home or my husband is taking off work.
Okay so on to my next little bit. I've started weight watchers again. My grandparents-in-law sent us some money for Christmas and I'm using my share to pay for an online subscription. So far, so good. I lost 20lbs on it last time before having to cancel my subscription so hopefully it will work to help me lose more this time around. But I find myself out of points and still hungry daily. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with ww, they assign you a certain number of points each day and all the foods you eat have a specific point value you add up and deduct from your daily allotment. When you hit zero points, that's all the food you can eat, unless you eat a zero points food such as veggies.) I will take time to "shrink" my stomach back down to a more reasonable size to accommodate such small portions, but measuring things out and really thinking about what I'm eating seems to be helping me. I've got such a long way to go... and hopefully once I'm down a few lbs I can start trying to exercise again. It's been far too long. :-/
Sorry for the downer post, I haven't got many people to talk to these days and it's my hubby's birthday so I don't want to drag him down today with my gloomy thoughts.
Which brings me to another issue. Abi has to have an MRI done on her back. Well, I finally scheduled it for the end of march. Just after her first birthday we have to wake my baby up at an unGodly hour, not feed her and take her to a hospital to have them sedate her so they can perform an MRI. Needless to say I am scared out of my mind. She won't go fully under, just into a "twilight" state to keep her from moving... but she's not going to be happy and she's not going to go easy. She hates strangers, even her Dr... plus not having been fed will make her extra cranky. I'm so worried about the potential for side effects from the anesthesia that I have mini breakdowns just thinking about it. The neurosurgeon said we could wait until she was 9 months old but her dr said we could push it till a year if we really wanted to. But now that she's having this "mild delay" her dr said that we may need to push it to February. I don't want to do it at all. Either she will be fine or she will have a tethered spinal cord. But her dr has been vague on what happens next so I think she's hoping for the best. But it's likely going to mean surgery. Which means I'm dropping out of school because my husband can't quit his job and take care of her. I'm a "worry over the worst case scenario" kind of gal... but the worst worst case I can think of is her having such a bad reaction to the anesthetic .. that... I can't even finish the sentence let alone the thought. But the next worse is surgery. I don't think she has a tethered cord. She had an ultrasound done the day after she was born to look at it and neither the sonographer nor the radiologist thought she has one. This is at our local childrens hospital that is one of the best in the country, so I'm fairly confident in their findings. But of course a neurosurgeon would say "get an MRI" that's his brand of test. Sooooooo needless to say I am freaked and it's not getting any better with school starting. Speaking of, I'll have to go to school after Abi's MRI!!! Unless I can figure out a way to not be there that day, which I might talk to my teacher about... we'll see. But Abi won't be going to daycare that much I'm sure of. Either I'll be home or my husband is taking off work.
Okay so on to my next little bit. I've started weight watchers again. My grandparents-in-law sent us some money for Christmas and I'm using my share to pay for an online subscription. So far, so good. I lost 20lbs on it last time before having to cancel my subscription so hopefully it will work to help me lose more this time around. But I find myself out of points and still hungry daily. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with ww, they assign you a certain number of points each day and all the foods you eat have a specific point value you add up and deduct from your daily allotment. When you hit zero points, that's all the food you can eat, unless you eat a zero points food such as veggies.) I will take time to "shrink" my stomach back down to a more reasonable size to accommodate such small portions, but measuring things out and really thinking about what I'm eating seems to be helping me. I've got such a long way to go... and hopefully once I'm down a few lbs I can start trying to exercise again. It's been far too long. :-/
Sorry for the downer post, I haven't got many people to talk to these days and it's my hubby's birthday so I don't want to drag him down today with my gloomy thoughts.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
OH and Worst reason to not have more kids...
Hubby says that he worries about Abi when she's sick. He doesn't like to worry, so that makes him not want more kids because then he'd have more to worry about. He says it's yet another "mark in the no more kids column"
To that I say "are you kidding me????" Of course you worry about your baby, that's a parent's lot in life! We will never NOT worry about her until the day we die. End of story. I worry about her daily, but especially when she's sick and that makes me sick, all the worrying. But I'd at least like one more baby.
To that I say "are you kidding me????" Of course you worry about your baby, that's a parent's lot in life! We will never NOT worry about her until the day we die. End of story. I worry about her daily, but especially when she's sick and that makes me sick, all the worrying. But I'd at least like one more baby.
9 months old!
I will probably say this forever but I cannot believe how fast the time has gone! Abi is 9 months old already! Holy cow, when did that happen?!?!?! Ha! I think I blinked at some point... So here is what's up with miss Abigail this past month!
Sleep Abi is sleeping mostly through the night from 7p-5/6a I wish she'd go back to her 7-7, but since she's been sick it's still so much better than the alternative. There have been a few nights that she wakes up to be fed, but unless she's sick they're few and far between. The past couple of nights (Christmas eve and Day) she got up at 11/12 and screamed for an hour. Now this screaming is not a cry, it's an "I'm mad or bored do something about it" but I can not calm her down for the life of me. She's not in hysterics or anything, so I fed her, burped her, kissed her and laid her back into her crib. But no one got much sleep. I made several trips back in but nothing really made a difference, until finally an hour and a half or so later I'd give her a few more ounces (which I'd offered her to begin with!) and she'd go back to sleep. UGH! Thankfully that only lasted a few nights. She's also been taking between 2 and 3 1/2 hours of naps during the day. Usually in two naps, the first in the late morning for about an hour and the later one mid afternoon/early evening for at least 2 hours. It's amazing! I know this will not happen at daycare in a few weeks. .. I'm hoping she'll need a little less sleep during the day by then. But who knows!
Eats Abi's favorite food is sweet potato, so much so that when we introduce something new I have to pair it with sweet potato just to make her happy! She's had avocado, squash, sweet potato, bananas, pears, apples, whole milk yogurt and now as a finger food broccoli. She LOVES broccoli I think mainly because she's feeding it to herself. She'll put a piece in her mouth and clap her hands! It's soooooooooooooooooo cute! She has also taken to water recently, which amazes me because before she hated it! But again I think it's because it's in her sippy cup and she can drink from it herself. Oh and just this past Saturday we started bits of green beans. Can you say "love"? lol
Play Abi has lots of new toys from Christmas and so far she's loving all of them. Of course she's still putting everything in her mouth, so I can't let her play with some things since I can't wash them.. but she's still enjoying rolling around and grabbing/chewing/slobbering on everything else. She still doesn't like me to leave the room for too long, and that's a problem because daycare doesn't "coddle her" (they say coddle I say play with...) as much as I do so I think the first week back she'll be screaming all day. I'm freaked about Fridays now too as I'll be in class 10-5:30 and I don't know if I'll be able to see her at all that whole time. Anyway, Abi is starting to get up on her knees and elbows and rock. Finally! She hasn't quite made it to her hands and kness yet, but I know that's coming. She's scooted a little, forward and backward and is slowly starting to grab onto things and try to pull up. She's "delayed" according to her dr. but only slightly. (grr)
Other Abi has two teeth that are sticking out pretty well now, but no other teeth seem to be coming in. She seems to hate being tired so much so that she'll scream and cry while playing until I rock her to sleep. But only for naps, for bedtime she stays awake after her last bottle and talks to me until I put her down in her crib. At least last night she talked to herself for about 15 minutes until she finally fell asleep. It was so cute! I wish she'd do that for nap time too... I'm sure I've got more to add to this but little miss is awake...
Sleep Abi is sleeping mostly through the night from 7p-5/6a I wish she'd go back to her 7-7, but since she's been sick it's still so much better than the alternative. There have been a few nights that she wakes up to be fed, but unless she's sick they're few and far between. The past couple of nights (Christmas eve and Day) she got up at 11/12 and screamed for an hour. Now this screaming is not a cry, it's an "I'm mad or bored do something about it" but I can not calm her down for the life of me. She's not in hysterics or anything, so I fed her, burped her, kissed her and laid her back into her crib. But no one got much sleep. I made several trips back in but nothing really made a difference, until finally an hour and a half or so later I'd give her a few more ounces (which I'd offered her to begin with!) and she'd go back to sleep. UGH! Thankfully that only lasted a few nights. She's also been taking between 2 and 3 1/2 hours of naps during the day. Usually in two naps, the first in the late morning for about an hour and the later one mid afternoon/early evening for at least 2 hours. It's amazing! I know this will not happen at daycare in a few weeks. .. I'm hoping she'll need a little less sleep during the day by then. But who knows!
Eats Abi's favorite food is sweet potato, so much so that when we introduce something new I have to pair it with sweet potato just to make her happy! She's had avocado, squash, sweet potato, bananas, pears, apples, whole milk yogurt and now as a finger food broccoli. She LOVES broccoli I think mainly because she's feeding it to herself. She'll put a piece in her mouth and clap her hands! It's soooooooooooooooooo cute! She has also taken to water recently, which amazes me because before she hated it! But again I think it's because it's in her sippy cup and she can drink from it herself. Oh and just this past Saturday we started bits of green beans. Can you say "love"? lol
Play Abi has lots of new toys from Christmas and so far she's loving all of them. Of course she's still putting everything in her mouth, so I can't let her play with some things since I can't wash them.. but she's still enjoying rolling around and grabbing/chewing/slobbering on everything else. She still doesn't like me to leave the room for too long, and that's a problem because daycare doesn't "coddle her" (they say coddle I say play with...) as much as I do so I think the first week back she'll be screaming all day. I'm freaked about Fridays now too as I'll be in class 10-5:30 and I don't know if I'll be able to see her at all that whole time. Anyway, Abi is starting to get up on her knees and elbows and rock. Finally! She hasn't quite made it to her hands and kness yet, but I know that's coming. She's scooted a little, forward and backward and is slowly starting to grab onto things and try to pull up. She's "delayed" according to her dr. but only slightly. (grr)
Other Abi has two teeth that are sticking out pretty well now, but no other teeth seem to be coming in. She seems to hate being tired so much so that she'll scream and cry while playing until I rock her to sleep. But only for naps, for bedtime she stays awake after her last bottle and talks to me until I put her down in her crib. At least last night she talked to herself for about 15 minutes until she finally fell asleep. It was so cute! I wish she'd do that for nap time too... I'm sure I've got more to add to this but little miss is awake...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Merry Christmas!
We had an eventful Christmas eve, starting with my husband not wanting to take Abi anywhere. Mainly because she's just getting over being sick... We *almost* always go to my uncles for Christmas eve.. Well there has been a ton of animosity since my grandfather passed away between my husband and my family. It's a long story that I'll get into later.. anyway I ended up crying and bawling and we talked and he finally decided he'd be okay with us all going. Well we went and had a great time! I am so glad we went and that everything turned out alright. There are some issues that still need to be ironed out, and we're working on them slowly... but again that's for another post! For now, here is a sneak peak of our Christmas!
Okay this was the day before Christmas eve, Abi's 9 month birthday! Lol
We let her open a gift early.. and she just loved the wrapping paper!
See, no interest in her toy! My child entirely! :)
Thursday, December 20, 2012
RAD
Reactive Airway Disease. It's a term that's overused like colic. But apparently Abi has it. Whatever it is exactly. I've been Googleing and talking to my friends with kids who have it but I'm still in the dark about what exactly it is. I mean I know the definition, but what I want to know is what it means for me and my kid. That's all yet to be seen because we have to go through the trial and error of which meds help and such. Ugh. My poor baby. I hate seeing her sick, I hate having to medicate her because she's sick. I feel like I'm feeding her poison.. little bodies can't tolerate so much crap. I'm not stopping her meds, but I don't like giving them to her. I don't like taking medication myself. I don't know where I'm going with this... to be honest I just want it to all go away. Especially with Christmas coming...
By the way, what's the worst reason to not have more kids you've ever heard??? I'll explain this question later...
By the way, what's the worst reason to not have more kids you've ever heard??? I'll explain this question later...
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Yesterday
A tragedy...
I was flipping through Yahoo news when I saw the headline "Tragedy in CT" I read the article briefly as Abi had just awoken from her nap. I scooped her up and hugged her so tight she began to protest. My husband heard about it at work and when he came home he said "you'll never guess what happened.." and I told him I knew and we sat and held Abi and tried to make sense of it all. My dad took his own life when I was 16 and I have never been able to wrap my mind around why someone would do such a thing, hurt so many people and not try to get help. I am grateful that dad didn't take anyone else with him.. but I still don't understand why he had to go. Just like I don't understand why on earth a 20 year old man would walk into a school of beautiful, innocent children and open fire. It sickens me to the core to think we have people like this and worse among us. It makes me leery of everyone around me and my daughter. It forces me to reconsider home schooling (we had decided against it as we were afraid the lack of socialization would isolate Abi and make her for lack of a better word, weird. Not that all home schooled kids are weird...! But my husband is such a loner that I'm afraid Abi will be too, and I enjoy my friends too much to think of Abi not having any.) But I would take a socially awkward and alive kid over a social butterfly who is dead. I'm rambling, but I just don't know what else to say or how else to say that I don't get people in this world anymore. I miss my childhood and the carefree, innocence that I once had. Hopefully I will be able to allow Abi to be innocent and naive for a long long time.
I was flipping through Yahoo news when I saw the headline "Tragedy in CT" I read the article briefly as Abi had just awoken from her nap. I scooped her up and hugged her so tight she began to protest. My husband heard about it at work and when he came home he said "you'll never guess what happened.." and I told him I knew and we sat and held Abi and tried to make sense of it all. My dad took his own life when I was 16 and I have never been able to wrap my mind around why someone would do such a thing, hurt so many people and not try to get help. I am grateful that dad didn't take anyone else with him.. but I still don't understand why he had to go. Just like I don't understand why on earth a 20 year old man would walk into a school of beautiful, innocent children and open fire. It sickens me to the core to think we have people like this and worse among us. It makes me leery of everyone around me and my daughter. It forces me to reconsider home schooling (we had decided against it as we were afraid the lack of socialization would isolate Abi and make her for lack of a better word, weird. Not that all home schooled kids are weird...! But my husband is such a loner that I'm afraid Abi will be too, and I enjoy my friends too much to think of Abi not having any.) But I would take a socially awkward and alive kid over a social butterfly who is dead. I'm rambling, but I just don't know what else to say or how else to say that I don't get people in this world anymore. I miss my childhood and the carefree, innocence that I once had. Hopefully I will be able to allow Abi to be innocent and naive for a long long time.
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