Baby girl is enjoying walking while we hold her hands. I think she is still a ways away from walking though. She still has pretty bad balance hehe! She walks super fast and does not really pay attention to where she puts her feet :) She just likes to go! I just hope she starts walking before I head back to work!
She is getting really good at imitating us. She was standing at the rocking chair in her room today, and I started jumping to see what she would do. She started jumping! She also tries to snap her fingers when we do. Its really cute :) ♥ her!
Today while I was driving, I grabbed my sunglasses and tried to put them on. I realized I was trying to put them on upside down, so I laughed. Then I heard a little chuckle from the back seat! So I laughed again, and so did she. Long story short, we had a giggle fest all of the way from the mall to where dada works! I would be quiet in btw, and so would she, so I would start laughing again, and so would she! The louder I got, the louder and more she laughed! She's too cute!!
We had a pretty good weekend. We went shopping out of town on sat, and LO was pretty good. She almost cleared the car out about 25 min from home hehehe her uncle almost puked I think! LOL She got her picture taken with Santa!! While we were waiting, I was getting her in a good mood. Bouncing her, laughing, etc. When we got up to Santa, she just looked at him. I told him I didn't know how this was going to go. He didn't yell Hohoho or anything like that. She sat on his lap and looked at him. Her shoe fell off (of course!) and the photographer took 2 pictures. One she was looking at Santa trying to figure out what he was doing, and he was looking at her, and the other one, she was looking at the camera like WTF. The second one was a second or two before she freaked out and started squirming and crying! She almost squirmed herself right off of his lap hahaha! We got the first one printed out. They looked like they were talking to each other!
Sunday, we just hung out at home in the morning, and then took her to a christmas festival where people decorate christmas trees and auction them off. She really didn't care too much about them, but she liked being out. Her gramma and grampa came with us. They had a great time playing with her and they bought her a funny monkey ornament. Its got big red lips and is stuffed. Its a grey color. I think it's off of a movie, but I'm not sure. They paid far too much for it ($10) but they love to buy LO things! They definitely spoil her. She has her own toy box at their house filled with brand new toys! She has more toys to play with there than she does here at home! They love it, and so does she haha. They brought the box of toys over to LO great grandma's place yesterday for supper. Thank goodness they did because LO gets into a lot there, and kinda gets bored. Great grandma adores her, but she can't really get down and play with her. LO HATES her play pen, but got in the toy box, which is WAY smaller than her play pen, and played for a while!!! She would freak if I did that at home!
I am having trouble transitioning her to a cup. She still doesn't like the sippy cup. I take the lid off, and tip it up to her mouth so she can see/smell/feel/sip the formula, and she spits it out!!! Even if I pour it from the baba to the other baba (cup) she will still spit it out and make the 'its yucky' face! When I put the lid on, she just chews on it. :S
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Oh its that time again :S
Yep. Cranky, runny nose, ear tugging, and drooling. Teething has come and kidnapped my usually content little girl :( The last two days she is not napping well. I hope that is due to teething, and not due to her phasing out her two nap schedule!!! But she is 10 months old, so that could be coming.... BOO.
Yesterday I took her to her play group. We were singing "If you're happy and you know it." She clapped her hands (not at the right spots, but still!) and even stomped her feet when we sang that verse! I thought that was pretty good for her age! And she even tries to imitate her dad and I when we snap our fingers. She looks at us, looks at her hand, and puts the right fingers together to make the snap!! She can't make the snap yet, but again, I thought that was pretty cool! And last night we were watching the mickey mouse clubhouse with her, and her favorite song (the hot dog dance) came on, and she kicked her feet to the music of it! I couldn't believe it! I thought it was just a coincidence until she did it again!
She had her morning nap on me today. She had been cranky, but seems to calm down when I hold her. That's pretty good for me though :) I like holding her! And I really love it when she naps on me! She rarely does either one anymore, so I really enjoy it when she lets me. But about a half an hour ago, she acted like she was tired again (crying for no reason, sucking on thumb) so I put her in her crib. She is still in there, but she is awake. She is cooing a bit, I can tell she is not happy, but she is being quiet most of the time, and not crying. I know I should probably get her, but I am hoping she will go to sleep. She's not crying, so I figure I will leave her be. But if she is still not asleep in a few min, I'm going to go get her.
Yesterday I took her to her play group. We were singing "If you're happy and you know it." She clapped her hands (not at the right spots, but still!) and even stomped her feet when we sang that verse! I thought that was pretty good for her age! And she even tries to imitate her dad and I when we snap our fingers. She looks at us, looks at her hand, and puts the right fingers together to make the snap!! She can't make the snap yet, but again, I thought that was pretty cool! And last night we were watching the mickey mouse clubhouse with her, and her favorite song (the hot dog dance) came on, and she kicked her feet to the music of it! I couldn't believe it! I thought it was just a coincidence until she did it again!
She had her morning nap on me today. She had been cranky, but seems to calm down when I hold her. That's pretty good for me though :) I like holding her! And I really love it when she naps on me! She rarely does either one anymore, so I really enjoy it when she lets me. But about a half an hour ago, she acted like she was tired again (crying for no reason, sucking on thumb) so I put her in her crib. She is still in there, but she is awake. She is cooing a bit, I can tell she is not happy, but she is being quiet most of the time, and not crying. I know I should probably get her, but I am hoping she will go to sleep. She's not crying, so I figure I will leave her be. But if she is still not asleep in a few min, I'm going to go get her.
Monday, November 22, 2010
No real reason for this post!
Nope, nothing real special to write about. Her two bottom teeth are still not all the way in haha. She is saying up here and there, and the words bath and ball are "Ba" Then there is bubba, mummmmummmmummm, and sometimes "oh". She said "I" today, but she had no idea what she said or how to do it again I'm sure LOL
Today was PJ day. Hubby had the car in to get snow tires on, so LO and I stayed in our housecoat and jammies all day :) I love her housecoat! It's so cute. I got a lot of work done despite being in my jammies all day haha. The day has flown by. We even had a pj dance party in the living room, which LO loved, as did I hehe.
I am getting so excited for Christmas. I've always been a Christmas person, but this year I have an excuse to listen to Christmas music early and be giddy like a kid! LOVE IT. LO first Christmas is coming up! We bought her stocking and her "Baby's first Christmas" ornament. She picked her own stocking haha. Hubby held up one that looked like a reindeer and one that looked like a snowman. She looked at the reindeer and smiled. That was the one I liked the least out of the three of course.... then hubby held up the reindeer one next to one that looked like Santa and she smiled a HUGE smile! LOL So she picked her own stocking and I love that I will remember the story behind it. Also, we were walking through the store, and I was looking at some ornaments. LO was in the stroller about 3 feet away from me, with hubby. This elderly lady and her daughter were walking by and they stopped to talk to LO. This happens all of the time, so I thought nothing of it and really wasn't paying that much attention because hubby was with her. The women finished and continued down the aisle. Just before they turned away the elderly lady said something to her daughter. Hubby heard and asked me if I heard also. I didn't, so he told me that she had said "Now THAT is what Christmas is all about." Don't know why, but it made me smile. Nice to see some real Christmas spirit, and nice to know my LO brought some Christmas spirit to someone else. :)
A woman I work with had a baby girl last night and all I dreamed of last night was being in labor. Nice. Didn't make for a good sleep, and didn't make for a happy momma at 7am, even though I really shouldn't complain! Her sleeping is still great, but her wake up times are all over the place. Can be anywhere from 6am to 8:30. Hmmm Other than that, not too sure what to write! Love my girl!!
Today was PJ day. Hubby had the car in to get snow tires on, so LO and I stayed in our housecoat and jammies all day :) I love her housecoat! It's so cute. I got a lot of work done despite being in my jammies all day haha. The day has flown by. We even had a pj dance party in the living room, which LO loved, as did I hehe.
I am getting so excited for Christmas. I've always been a Christmas person, but this year I have an excuse to listen to Christmas music early and be giddy like a kid! LOVE IT. LO first Christmas is coming up! We bought her stocking and her "Baby's first Christmas" ornament. She picked her own stocking haha. Hubby held up one that looked like a reindeer and one that looked like a snowman. She looked at the reindeer and smiled. That was the one I liked the least out of the three of course.... then hubby held up the reindeer one next to one that looked like Santa and she smiled a HUGE smile! LOL So she picked her own stocking and I love that I will remember the story behind it. Also, we were walking through the store, and I was looking at some ornaments. LO was in the stroller about 3 feet away from me, with hubby. This elderly lady and her daughter were walking by and they stopped to talk to LO. This happens all of the time, so I thought nothing of it and really wasn't paying that much attention because hubby was with her. The women finished and continued down the aisle. Just before they turned away the elderly lady said something to her daughter. Hubby heard and asked me if I heard also. I didn't, so he told me that she had said "Now THAT is what Christmas is all about." Don't know why, but it made me smile. Nice to see some real Christmas spirit, and nice to know my LO brought some Christmas spirit to someone else. :)
A woman I work with had a baby girl last night and all I dreamed of last night was being in labor. Nice. Didn't make for a good sleep, and didn't make for a happy momma at 7am, even though I really shouldn't complain! Her sleeping is still great, but her wake up times are all over the place. Can be anywhere from 6am to 8:30. Hmmm Other than that, not too sure what to write! Love my girl!!
Monday, November 15, 2010
We are 10 months old today :)
I find myself saying this post after post after post, but I will say it again: I can't believe how much she is changing and how fast time is going! We got her a spot in daycare starting in Jan :( I think that is terrible, but the daycare is pretty good, and I think she will like it. I just think that a year old is too young for a child to be taken care of full time by someone other than family, well, really mommy, but that's just me!
We bought her Christmas dress on sat! Its the same one we saw weeks ago in a store in our town, but DH didn't like it. He said it looked like wrapping paper :( I loved it. But I wanted him to like it too, so we went looking for others. We went out of town and went to 6 stores, and then bought the one that I liked in the beginning, because DH said it grew on him and he liked it the best out of all of the ones we've seen LOL Even so, we bought a 6 month because she wears 6-9m clothes, some 9-12m, and a few 3-6m, but of course, the 6m dress we bought was too small, so back it went. Thank goodness the store at home had a 12m, which, is too big at the moment, of course! But she is growing a ton lately, so it might be ok.
We also looked around for a baby girl's first christmas ornament, but turns out we are late in the game for that!?!?! They were pretty much all sold out! We picked up some clothes for her, as well as a snow suit (which is way too big, but the next one down in size is way too small.) We got some good deals. One store we went to, we ended up getting $37 off, and another place we got 81.87 worth of stuff for $1.87 because of points we had built up! Awesome! :)
We went looking for a carseat for her (again). What a headache that is. Some are good from 5lbs, some 20, some 22, some are good up to 67lbs, others 80lbs, and still others 100lbs, some recline, some don't, side impact tested, or not....UGH! So we bought one, put it together, and found out that she is still too small for it. And after that, we learned there are new regulations that suggest you leave the child rear-facing for as long as possible. Rather than until 20-22lbs like we thought, its now suggested that you leave them RF until 30-40lbs! And we want it to recline well because LO still sleeps quite a bit in the car. So we took the other one back, and are pretty much at square one again! Ugh. Not fun! But I did find a good website that compares a few so that was pretty helpful. Not sure which one we will go for, I think we may just leave it for a few days!
As for LO, she is standing up on her own pretty well now. Today, I could've sworn she said "up" in her crib this am when I went to get her! She makes an "o" noise now, and she also blows like something is hot lol. She also makes the "fishy face". She started clapping last week. Every time she would stand up on her own, we'd clap, so then she started clapping her hands (not hard enough to make any noise) every time she stood on her own LOL. Yesterday she stared clapping and actually making noise. She likes to clap now hehe. She is eating so much more now too. Probably has doubled her solid food intake in the past 2 weeks.
If grampy or grammy take her hands, she will walk with them for a few steps, but will not for us. Last night at a family supper, she walked with them a lot more, and a lot better. Then DH tried it and she did walk with him!! And then with me too! Very fun! She still walks on her tip toes a lot, but is learning to put her feet flat.
Can't wait till Christmas! We still have to get her a stocking and a 1st christmas ornament. We will be taking her to santa pictures on the 12, but there are so many people supposed to be going, I'm not sure how it will turn out.
We bought her Christmas dress on sat! Its the same one we saw weeks ago in a store in our town, but DH didn't like it. He said it looked like wrapping paper :( I loved it. But I wanted him to like it too, so we went looking for others. We went out of town and went to 6 stores, and then bought the one that I liked in the beginning, because DH said it grew on him and he liked it the best out of all of the ones we've seen LOL Even so, we bought a 6 month because she wears 6-9m clothes, some 9-12m, and a few 3-6m, but of course, the 6m dress we bought was too small, so back it went. Thank goodness the store at home had a 12m, which, is too big at the moment, of course! But she is growing a ton lately, so it might be ok.
We also looked around for a baby girl's first christmas ornament, but turns out we are late in the game for that!?!?! They were pretty much all sold out! We picked up some clothes for her, as well as a snow suit (which is way too big, but the next one down in size is way too small.) We got some good deals. One store we went to, we ended up getting $37 off, and another place we got 81.87 worth of stuff for $1.87 because of points we had built up! Awesome! :)
We went looking for a carseat for her (again). What a headache that is. Some are good from 5lbs, some 20, some 22, some are good up to 67lbs, others 80lbs, and still others 100lbs, some recline, some don't, side impact tested, or not....UGH! So we bought one, put it together, and found out that she is still too small for it. And after that, we learned there are new regulations that suggest you leave the child rear-facing for as long as possible. Rather than until 20-22lbs like we thought, its now suggested that you leave them RF until 30-40lbs! And we want it to recline well because LO still sleeps quite a bit in the car. So we took the other one back, and are pretty much at square one again! Ugh. Not fun! But I did find a good website that compares a few so that was pretty helpful. Not sure which one we will go for, I think we may just leave it for a few days!
As for LO, she is standing up on her own pretty well now. Today, I could've sworn she said "up" in her crib this am when I went to get her! She makes an "o" noise now, and she also blows like something is hot lol. She also makes the "fishy face". She started clapping last week. Every time she would stand up on her own, we'd clap, so then she started clapping her hands (not hard enough to make any noise) every time she stood on her own LOL. Yesterday she stared clapping and actually making noise. She likes to clap now hehe. She is eating so much more now too. Probably has doubled her solid food intake in the past 2 weeks.
If grampy or grammy take her hands, she will walk with them for a few steps, but will not for us. Last night at a family supper, she walked with them a lot more, and a lot better. Then DH tried it and she did walk with him!! And then with me too! Very fun! She still walks on her tip toes a lot, but is learning to put her feet flat.
Can't wait till Christmas! We still have to get her a stocking and a 1st christmas ornament. We will be taking her to santa pictures on the 12, but there are so many people supposed to be going, I'm not sure how it will turn out.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Busy Busy Busy!
WELL! It was a very busy October, and I can't say that I am sad to see it go.
LO had her first ever sleep-over on Oct 23rd! She stayed the night at her grammy and grampy's house while hubby and I went to a halloween party. She did really well. She went to sleep around 8 and slept until 8, which is her normal schedule. Or was....
The next day I took her to a baby Halloween party! How fun! It was so neat to see all of the babies dressed up. They were so cute. There was an angel, skunk (LOL), little red riding hood, dragon, elmo, and a ton more. They were soooo cute. LO was a little cranky until I fed her a bottle. After that, she was back to climbing on everything and chewing on everything. Haha. As per usual these days! She was a monkey for Halloween, and it was a bit big in the tummy making it kinda heavy.... she fell backwards a few times LOL. The hostess had her parents dress up and come over to see the kids. Most of the kids hated it LOL But we all thought it was pretty cool. LO didn't really love it, but didn't cry like the rest of them. We had a blast. While I was packing up her diaper bag and treats that she got from the party, LO was unpacking.... I lost one of her treat bags! :( I was a bit disappointed when I got home and searched the bag, car, house and couldn't find it... oh well. What can you do! While we were at the party, I overheard one of the mom's say that her kid had been puking the day before. I thought why on earth would you bring him today then?!?!
The next night, hubby and I went to a movie, and LO stayed at grammy and grampy's again. She was quite cranky. Mom said she was not herself at all. Tues morning, Oct 25th, she popped her second tooth through! So we figured that was why she was so cranky. The other tooth popped through on thanksgiving but is really taking its time actually coming in!
Tues night, we put her to bed and around 9:30pm she started crying. I waited for a bit to see if she would go back to sleep, but she kept crying. So I went in, and she was covered in VOMIT!! It was all over her and the crib :( Poor girl. So I got her all cleaned up, and she did it again. That night, she hit the crib, the floor in her bedroom, and the floor, blanket, etc in the living room. The poor little thing was sick 4 times between 9:30 and 11:30. I couldn't believe it! At one point, she was on her hands and knees with no sleeper on, getting sick on the floor. I'm rubbing her back when I realize there is vomit on my hands and her back too. :'( She would cry while she was getting sick, but then after I could make her laugh. That's the kind of baby she is. She still would smile and laugh... A baby that little should never be sick like that, especially because some silly mom wouldn't keep her kid home from a party.
The next day wasn't much better. She didn't throw up much, only a tiny bit in the kitchen around 11am, but she didn't want to do anything. My baby that is full of energy and never wants to be held because then she can't move around turned into a heap that only wanted to stay still and sleep or be cuddled. I loved the time with her, but I knew she was pretty sick to be like that. And then the poops started.... She got quite sick that night in the living room around 7:30pm. After the first time she threw up, we covered everything and everywhere that we would be holding her in blankets and sheets. We did a TON of laundry that week haha.
Thursday, she was getting better. She was playing, but still not eating much, and refused juice, water, and the pedialite we bought. I tried freezing it, spoon feeding it to her, sucking it up in a straw and putting it into her mouth, you name it. NO GO. She is a pretty picky eater...
Friday, Oct. 29th came around and she still had the poops, but at this time, really nothing was coming out. Just little bits, and a bit of liquid. She still was not eating well. Mom and grandma wanted us to take her to ER that night because our family doctor was away. So we decided we would. First trip to the ER. We waited 3 hours. We knew it would be a long wait, it always is. We had to change her diaper 3 or 4 times while we were there. I didn't want to change her at the ER bathrooms, so I would take her down and around to one I thought looked cleaner. I put her on the change table and she freaked. She was so scared! She was even shaking! We don't have a change table, we just change her on the floor, so I think being in a new place, and then being strapped to the table really did it for her...
Back in the waiting room, she was entertaining the other people that were waiting! I was holding her and she would hang her head behind her and look at everyone upside down and smile! Everyone was laughing and saying how strong she was. Then one lady across the room started making lip smacking noises to her, so she did it back to the lady! Back and forth the two went for like a half an hour! The lady was like haha look what I started! I was really proud of her. It was past her bedtime, she wasn't allowed to crawl on the floor, and she still did very well. She started to seem like she was going to fuss a bit, so I went for a walk with her before she could get into it. But she always stopped. When we got in, the dr was examining her and she screamed! He said that was a good sign, and that she had tears when she cried, and that her mouth was still wet, everything looked good, she was not too dehydrated at all. As long as she kept drinking her milk. He said that milk products is the best thing for diarrhea. Follow the BRAY diet. Bananas, Rice, Apples, Yogurt. Which is what I had been doing, minus the yogurt. She has not been introduced to yogurt yet. So that was that. We were doing everything correctly. That's always nice to hear! :)
She was pretty much better by sat, but still had a bit of the poops. We decided that we would not take her out trick or treating on sunday night because we did not want to get our family sick. Hubby and I both got it (not as bad as she did), and we never get sick, so we knew it was a pretty good flu. We told everyone we'd take her next weekend, and they all agreed. I didn't realize how crappy I would feel about it on sunday though :( I know she will never know that its not halloween next weekend when we take her, but I will!!! She missed her first trick or treating!!! I think we may have been overcautious, but I guess that's that's better than getting everyone sick. So we took pictures of her outside in the leaves with her costume, and with pumpkins. We carved pumpkins, and roasted the pumpkin seeds (FAIL. They got thrown out the next day....), and tried to make it as halloweenish as we could for her. But I still feel bad! But she was cranky has HELL that day, so taking her out could have proved to be a bad idea....
All last week she slept until 9 or 9:30ish, because she was sick I guess. Usually she is 8-8ish. She got up in the middle of the night on sat night. I think her teeth were bugging her. It seems to be that she is getting up more and more at night. This morning she got up at 5:15!!!! I tried to let her go for a bit. Once she actually started crying, not just making noises, then I got up and held her in the rocking chair for about a half an hour. I already figured I'd just feed her early. I put her back in her crib at 6am and she jumped right up and started saying mama baba. mama baba. So I thought why not. She has been very cranky lately, and I thought it was just that she has been sick, and her teeth are coming in. But I was thinking yesterday, maybe her appetite is changing and she needs more food. So today I am feeding her a bit differently, and even though our schedule is messed up because she got up so early, she seems to be not as cranky.... she still is a bit though... haha.
I have given up on making her food. It was fine at first when we were introducing apples, pears, plums, carrots, peas, beans, etc., but now that we are into meats and things like that, we are having texture problems.... she won't eat it, and I don't blame her because its usually very dry, or too chunky, etc, so I think its best to give her some baby food, and get her used to the tastes first. She is already a bit of a picky eater, so I don't want to make it any worse... I've been wondering if she is so picky because we didn't introduce enough foods to her, but when I look at the menus/instructions the nurse gave us, we aren't that far behind. We are a bit, but not too bad. Wheat I held off because of family intolerances, but am introducing it now. Well, I started last week, but she barfed it all up that night. LOL She hates the apples, bananas and pears mixture from gerber. She likes all of those fruit by themselves, but you should see the faces when I try to get her to eat this! She is making fishy faces now. And they get really exaggerated when I try to get her to eat that mixture LOL Today I gave her vegetable chicken dinner, and she LOVED it. Its her new favorite!! At first she was like um, no. I put some on a spoon, and put it to her mouth so she could smell it. She opened her mouth, I put some in, and she made a "eww yuck" face. I told her it was good. (smelled great!!) Gave her some more. She had the yuck face.....then hmmm wait...... this isn't so bad....... and then the eyes went wide and the huge smile came over her face LOL Then she opened her mouth and waited for me LOL She has NEVER done that before!!! Love my little girl!
Sat she got her first toothbrush and had her teeth brushed for the first time! We got her a cute little pink piglet toothbrush (although I have a hard time buying my daughter things with a pig on it, but she loves it....). She, just like we anticipated, freaked out when we first tried to brush her 'teethies.' She clamped her jaw down, and kept whipping her head away. When she cried, I put the brush in. It was a bit of a struggle. But today, she is pretty much opening her mouth for me, although she still doesn't love it....
Yesterday we ate cat food for the first time.... I have a box up blocking her from the cat food and cat box. She got in and got a cat kibble before I could catch her. I had to dig it out of her mouth.... I thought ok, she's tasted it, now she'll know its gross and never do it again. OH NO. SHE LIKED IT. I can't get her to eat a banana, pear and apple mix, but she's all over seafood flavored cat food?!?! Now every time I turn around, she's over there, at that box, trying to get more. Looks like I will have to move the cat stuff soon..... but WHERE?!?! Baby's up. gotta go!!
LO had her first ever sleep-over on Oct 23rd! She stayed the night at her grammy and grampy's house while hubby and I went to a halloween party. She did really well. She went to sleep around 8 and slept until 8, which is her normal schedule. Or was....
The next day I took her to a baby Halloween party! How fun! It was so neat to see all of the babies dressed up. They were so cute. There was an angel, skunk (LOL), little red riding hood, dragon, elmo, and a ton more. They were soooo cute. LO was a little cranky until I fed her a bottle. After that, she was back to climbing on everything and chewing on everything. Haha. As per usual these days! She was a monkey for Halloween, and it was a bit big in the tummy making it kinda heavy.... she fell backwards a few times LOL. The hostess had her parents dress up and come over to see the kids. Most of the kids hated it LOL But we all thought it was pretty cool. LO didn't really love it, but didn't cry like the rest of them. We had a blast. While I was packing up her diaper bag and treats that she got from the party, LO was unpacking.... I lost one of her treat bags! :( I was a bit disappointed when I got home and searched the bag, car, house and couldn't find it... oh well. What can you do! While we were at the party, I overheard one of the mom's say that her kid had been puking the day before. I thought why on earth would you bring him today then?!?!
The next night, hubby and I went to a movie, and LO stayed at grammy and grampy's again. She was quite cranky. Mom said she was not herself at all. Tues morning, Oct 25th, she popped her second tooth through! So we figured that was why she was so cranky. The other tooth popped through on thanksgiving but is really taking its time actually coming in!
Tues night, we put her to bed and around 9:30pm she started crying. I waited for a bit to see if she would go back to sleep, but she kept crying. So I went in, and she was covered in VOMIT!! It was all over her and the crib :( Poor girl. So I got her all cleaned up, and she did it again. That night, she hit the crib, the floor in her bedroom, and the floor, blanket, etc in the living room. The poor little thing was sick 4 times between 9:30 and 11:30. I couldn't believe it! At one point, she was on her hands and knees with no sleeper on, getting sick on the floor. I'm rubbing her back when I realize there is vomit on my hands and her back too. :'( She would cry while she was getting sick, but then after I could make her laugh. That's the kind of baby she is. She still would smile and laugh... A baby that little should never be sick like that, especially because some silly mom wouldn't keep her kid home from a party.
The next day wasn't much better. She didn't throw up much, only a tiny bit in the kitchen around 11am, but she didn't want to do anything. My baby that is full of energy and never wants to be held because then she can't move around turned into a heap that only wanted to stay still and sleep or be cuddled. I loved the time with her, but I knew she was pretty sick to be like that. And then the poops started.... She got quite sick that night in the living room around 7:30pm. After the first time she threw up, we covered everything and everywhere that we would be holding her in blankets and sheets. We did a TON of laundry that week haha.
Thursday, she was getting better. She was playing, but still not eating much, and refused juice, water, and the pedialite we bought. I tried freezing it, spoon feeding it to her, sucking it up in a straw and putting it into her mouth, you name it. NO GO. She is a pretty picky eater...
Friday, Oct. 29th came around and she still had the poops, but at this time, really nothing was coming out. Just little bits, and a bit of liquid. She still was not eating well. Mom and grandma wanted us to take her to ER that night because our family doctor was away. So we decided we would. First trip to the ER. We waited 3 hours. We knew it would be a long wait, it always is. We had to change her diaper 3 or 4 times while we were there. I didn't want to change her at the ER bathrooms, so I would take her down and around to one I thought looked cleaner. I put her on the change table and she freaked. She was so scared! She was even shaking! We don't have a change table, we just change her on the floor, so I think being in a new place, and then being strapped to the table really did it for her...
Back in the waiting room, she was entertaining the other people that were waiting! I was holding her and she would hang her head behind her and look at everyone upside down and smile! Everyone was laughing and saying how strong she was. Then one lady across the room started making lip smacking noises to her, so she did it back to the lady! Back and forth the two went for like a half an hour! The lady was like haha look what I started! I was really proud of her. It was past her bedtime, she wasn't allowed to crawl on the floor, and she still did very well. She started to seem like she was going to fuss a bit, so I went for a walk with her before she could get into it. But she always stopped. When we got in, the dr was examining her and she screamed! He said that was a good sign, and that she had tears when she cried, and that her mouth was still wet, everything looked good, she was not too dehydrated at all. As long as she kept drinking her milk. He said that milk products is the best thing for diarrhea. Follow the BRAY diet. Bananas, Rice, Apples, Yogurt. Which is what I had been doing, minus the yogurt. She has not been introduced to yogurt yet. So that was that. We were doing everything correctly. That's always nice to hear! :)
She was pretty much better by sat, but still had a bit of the poops. We decided that we would not take her out trick or treating on sunday night because we did not want to get our family sick. Hubby and I both got it (not as bad as she did), and we never get sick, so we knew it was a pretty good flu. We told everyone we'd take her next weekend, and they all agreed. I didn't realize how crappy I would feel about it on sunday though :( I know she will never know that its not halloween next weekend when we take her, but I will!!! She missed her first trick or treating!!! I think we may have been overcautious, but I guess that's that's better than getting everyone sick. So we took pictures of her outside in the leaves with her costume, and with pumpkins. We carved pumpkins, and roasted the pumpkin seeds (FAIL. They got thrown out the next day....), and tried to make it as halloweenish as we could for her. But I still feel bad! But she was cranky has HELL that day, so taking her out could have proved to be a bad idea....
All last week she slept until 9 or 9:30ish, because she was sick I guess. Usually she is 8-8ish. She got up in the middle of the night on sat night. I think her teeth were bugging her. It seems to be that she is getting up more and more at night. This morning she got up at 5:15!!!! I tried to let her go for a bit. Once she actually started crying, not just making noises, then I got up and held her in the rocking chair for about a half an hour. I already figured I'd just feed her early. I put her back in her crib at 6am and she jumped right up and started saying mama baba. mama baba. So I thought why not. She has been very cranky lately, and I thought it was just that she has been sick, and her teeth are coming in. But I was thinking yesterday, maybe her appetite is changing and she needs more food. So today I am feeding her a bit differently, and even though our schedule is messed up because she got up so early, she seems to be not as cranky.... she still is a bit though... haha.
I have given up on making her food. It was fine at first when we were introducing apples, pears, plums, carrots, peas, beans, etc., but now that we are into meats and things like that, we are having texture problems.... she won't eat it, and I don't blame her because its usually very dry, or too chunky, etc, so I think its best to give her some baby food, and get her used to the tastes first. She is already a bit of a picky eater, so I don't want to make it any worse... I've been wondering if she is so picky because we didn't introduce enough foods to her, but when I look at the menus/instructions the nurse gave us, we aren't that far behind. We are a bit, but not too bad. Wheat I held off because of family intolerances, but am introducing it now. Well, I started last week, but she barfed it all up that night. LOL She hates the apples, bananas and pears mixture from gerber. She likes all of those fruit by themselves, but you should see the faces when I try to get her to eat this! She is making fishy faces now. And they get really exaggerated when I try to get her to eat that mixture LOL Today I gave her vegetable chicken dinner, and she LOVED it. Its her new favorite!! At first she was like um, no. I put some on a spoon, and put it to her mouth so she could smell it. She opened her mouth, I put some in, and she made a "eww yuck" face. I told her it was good. (smelled great!!) Gave her some more. She had the yuck face.....then hmmm wait...... this isn't so bad....... and then the eyes went wide and the huge smile came over her face LOL Then she opened her mouth and waited for me LOL She has NEVER done that before!!! Love my little girl!
Sat she got her first toothbrush and had her teeth brushed for the first time! We got her a cute little pink piglet toothbrush (although I have a hard time buying my daughter things with a pig on it, but she loves it....). She, just like we anticipated, freaked out when we first tried to brush her 'teethies.' She clamped her jaw down, and kept whipping her head away. When she cried, I put the brush in. It was a bit of a struggle. But today, she is pretty much opening her mouth for me, although she still doesn't love it....
Yesterday we ate cat food for the first time.... I have a box up blocking her from the cat food and cat box. She got in and got a cat kibble before I could catch her. I had to dig it out of her mouth.... I thought ok, she's tasted it, now she'll know its gross and never do it again. OH NO. SHE LIKED IT. I can't get her to eat a banana, pear and apple mix, but she's all over seafood flavored cat food?!?! Now every time I turn around, she's over there, at that box, trying to get more. Looks like I will have to move the cat stuff soon..... but WHERE?!?! Baby's up. gotta go!!
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