sick baby
I got in a good 3 - 4 hours of cuddle time with Samantha today. Unfortunatelyit was because we experienced her first stomach bug. After an hour of being sick she passed out and slept on me. Woke up once sick again but asleep again mere minutes later for 3 hours. I felt awful for her and can't say I handled it all that well. You live and you learn I guess. I'm happy (for now) that she woke up after her three hour nap smiling and actually ravenous. Being a worry wort I called the pedi to make sure we could feed her and did so twice before her bedtime. I'm hoping and praying for a good night for her. That was a bad few hours this afternoon and I'd feel bad if she had to do it all over again tonight.
happy mothers day!
Mom, Mom, Grandma, Gungi, aunts...Happy Mothers Day to you all!!! We love you, thank you for loving us : )
We spent my first mothers day alone together. We didn't do anything big. Mostly because I'm cheap, however looking back packing a lunch and bringing it to Morton Arb would have only been a few bucks more than eating Pot Belly's for lunch like we did, but oh well. That's not to say I didn't have a wonderful day. I spent it with my family and loved every minute. The whole weekend was actually fabulous and it was just what I wanted. Adam's been working like crazy lately so it was great to just have three full days to spend together. Samantha did try to make the day a little more interesting by taking only one solid nap and fighting her bedtime but if that's all I have to 'complain' about I'll take it!
Since I was feeling blue about making a rotten decision not going to the arb, we took some pics in the backyard before dinner.
gyming it
I am Samantha's human jungle gym. She loves to crawl over me, on top of me, up me, down my legs, etc. Most of the time it includes her trying to eat me as well but it is fun. Now if I only had a gym in this house. And a personal trainer. And a nutritionist. Then, we'd be set.
In all honesty I'm moving a bit more again now that Samantha's crawling. I probably walked 5 miles a day back when Samantha needed to be walked to sleep for all naps and bedtime. Then we did Ferber and all the 'exercise' stopped. I won't lie, I really think it made a difference in me. At least that what the scale says. Now that she's crawling I have to get up and down more often. Put her down, sit with her, play with her, watch and comment as she crawls to the kitchen, get up once she's inches away from Brody's food, bring her back to the middle of the living room, repeat.
She really is a good girl. I took her to Target today for diapers and new pacis and we used the cart cover for the first time. I think she liked it. She's smiling from ear to ear in the picture I took of her. Yes I took a picture of it. But I didn't have the casio so it's on my phone! I'm not sure how to get that online if I even can.
Blessed
I'm officially old. Alright not O-L-D but 27 is a weird age. 30 feels like it's just around the corner and celebrating the 21st is a distant memory (ha, if a memory at all). I'm just where I hoped to be around this age...with Adam and our young family.
We spent this birthday the way we did last year; at home with friends. There were a few faces missing and one new face : ) Samantha was great the whole day! She'd wake up from a nap and I'd feed her. We'd come downstairs and then she'd play with everyone. She did the best she's done at any party.
Daylight savings really screwed with us. It seemed like she was right on target for an 8 o'clock bedtime. She woke up right before 6 and I was feeding her peas at 6:45. Then that I realized I wasn't factoring in the time change. But she was still tired around 8 so we did our normal bedtime routine. She woke up about 40 minutes later though just as if she was waking from her last nap. We managed to get her to fall back asleep, we'll see how the rest of the night goes. Now I'm finishing up my birthday with Adam drinking some coronas and watching TV. It's really my ideal birthday: hanging out with friends, spending the day with my husband daughter and pup, and ending the night cuddling and talking with Adam. I feel wonderfully blessed to have amazing friends and am thankful the life that Adam and I have together. There's really nothing else a girl could ask for on her birthday.
R-E-L-A-X
I'm so anxious about Samantha's schedule these days. After 3 months of no 'schedule', we started settling into a sort of routine. Wake, eat, play, sleep. Repeat. Her bed time was anywhere from 9-11. During sleep training we've found that Samantha's natural bedtime is around 8:30, give or take. So now I'm so focused on the bedtime that I start freaking out if she takes late naps. If she needs a nap after 6 I'm all worried the entire night is going to be ruined. After the last 5 1/2 months of going with the flow I don't understand why I am now so uptight about it. I guess it's just all part of the sleep training. I feel like we're doing something wrong all of the time. Or this is just my 'inner' control freak coming out. I've done so well up until now. I think a glass of wine with dinner will help ; ) And luckily I'm cooking with it tonight or else I wouldn't actually open a bottle to have glass.
I busted out the camera and video camera today. It's my last ditch effort to get some more pictures for February. Unfortunately I don't think I caught many good ones. I was hell bent on getting pictures of Samantha sitting. She would sit for a second and then become the human pretzel in order to get a toy. I tried holding toys above my head. During the review of pics I noticed the shadow of my arm. Doh! And the video wasn't much better. There was a stick man with a sun next to him on the screen. I said I wonder if that means I need more light. Did I move? Nope. Only when I moved Samantha to another apparatus (ok, just from the play mat to a blanket) did the little man disappearand the screen become crystal clear. Double doh!