Oh baby girl, you are so cute!

Well, I caved and put the christmas tree up. Its the first time I ever put one up by myself, and although its leaning a bit, it was pretty easy! LOL I put it up one night, and then bb and I put the decorations on it the next night. She really didn't care too much about putting them on the tree, which I was a little surprised with. She just wanted to help take them out of the box and hand them to me. When I lit the tree up, she looked at it for a bit, and then said "WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW"

I've been trying to expose her to as much Christmas as possible, so I have been singing her Christmas songs pretty much every day. Poor girl! She loves rocking around the Christmas tree the most so far LOL.

Her new word (well she has TONS of new words!) is Pretty. I put her hair in a pony tail (on the top of her head, because her hair is still kinda short) and she touched it and said "Pretty." She also wants to put clips in my hair, or sometimes just messes it up and says "pretty mommy, pretty." <3 Love her!!!!

I took her for pics with santa on monday, and that was quite interesting. There was only one person in front of us, so we colored while we waited. She was laughing at the other people when they were with santa, so I thought it would go fine. When it was our turn, I put her up on Santa's lap, and she cried. She didn't freak out, but she was not too happy. I left her there for a bit to see if she would stop, but then she leaned right over to me and tried to get off of his lap lol! So then the photographer brought some christmas bulbs out and played catch with her, and santa did too! She loved this, but after a while, I asked if she wanted to sit on his lap, and she said "No." The photographer asked her if she wanted to whisper what she wanted for christmas in santa's ear, and she said "No." haha the photographer said that it was a very matter of fact no, and that she knows exactly what she wants and doesn't want LOL So they got a cute pic of her standing next to him. I think I want to take her for pics for her birthday. The way she was playing and making funny faces while she was playing catch, and covering her mouth and acting all surprised, I think she will be pretty fun. At the end of the santa pics, they gave her two treats, and she walked over to santa and gave them to him!!! Man she is cute!

So I have figured out that putting her in her stroller is a much better way of getting shopping done. She is pretty content in the stroller. YAY! lol I have gotten a few more things for bb, but not much for others yet. I will be going out of town on wed, so I hope to get the rest of my shopping done then.

It doesn't look like we will be in the new house for christmas. :( Oh well. Things are moving much slower than I thought, mostly because I can't get over there to help because XH never comes to see bb throughout the week anymore. THATS a whole other story. He says he's going to come this day, then that, and over the last two weeks, has only come to see her if I am working and need him to watch her. Its really getting annoying because I have been sooo open with all of this, and he can come see her whenever he wants, and even stay at my house to spend time with her if he wants to, and somehow I think this is going to come back on me because I don't want to be with him anymore. Oh well. Its his own doing, not mine.

BB's new thing is she will find change around the house and say "money" and put it in my housecoat pocket and say "pocket." ahha.

Today she is very energetic. I spent most of the day cleaning up after her and the place still looks like a disaster. She has pulled a ton of ornaments off of the Christmas tree, and almost pulled the whole tree down this afternoon! She was trying to take a bell off, and it got stuck, but she didn't stop pulling! Good thing I caught it! She is napping now, so I should probably get a french lesson in.

Nov. update

Christmas is fast approaching, and I cannot believe it. I have only gotten LO one gift so far, and nothing for anyone else! I have done no decorating at all yet, and not sure if I will. I love Christmas, and really really want to decorate, but if I am going to be moving into grams place, there is really no reason to decorate here, and then do it there.... I think I will wait and do it there. I am getting frusterated because I do not have the time to work on the house btw work and LO. I really need to get over there and clean! The plan so far is to get LO's room done, and then we can pretty much live there and I can work after she goes to bed. Thank god for my mom and her H because they are doing so much of the work. I feel so guilty!

LO is growing like crazy. She is still a little shrimpy compared to some of the kids her age, but she is growing in my eyes! I put a pair of jeans on her the other day, and standing, they were just fine. She sat down and immediately started to cry, and I looked and they were way too tight and cutting into her belly! They fit the week before! Crazy. She is saying a ton of new words and pretty much attempts to repeat anything you ask her to. love love love her!

She is unphased by christmas so far. I took her to wake up santa last weekend. She loved making all of the noise, but really couldnt figure out what the fuss over santa was. We'll see next monday when I take her for pics with santa! I hope that goes well!

It is challenging taking her christmas shopping LOL she is great for a while, but then wants to run away from me, and if i put her in the cart, she lets out this high pitch scream and laughs, cause she knows I will take her out of the store..... eek! She did that to me today.... I thought taking them out of the store was supposed to deter her from acting like that! Instead, she knows if she screams, she gets taken out of the store, and thats exactly what she wants!!!!!!

Strange.... I was positive I had written another post after this.....

Oh well!

Things have been super crazy the past few months. LO's great grandma died on sept 28th, and things have not been the same since. There's a bit of a family feud going on, but I think things will calm down soon. H and I are still split, although most people still don't know. I am ready to tell people though. He keeps saying he wants to work on it, but does nothing about it. He doesn't even follow through on the specific things he says he will do.... but anyhow....

I had a great weekend with LO!!! We don't usually get to do anything fun because weekends are usually about catching up. But this weekend, H and I took her to her daycare halloween party on friday night. We dressed her up as smurfette, and she won first prize for funniest costume!!! I was so shocked. She had a ball. At first she was really shy, but by the end of it, she was running around the room and I was chasing her lol. Everyone thought her costume was so cute, and most were laughing at her running all over the place!!

The next day was quite nice. I had to be at grams old house at 330, but didn't have much else to do. I had planned to take LO to the pumpkin place a few times, but never made it. I figured sat would be a good day. Just before I started to get her ready, I read on FB that there was going to be trick or treating at the mall! So I piled her in the car, took her costume with us, and went on the hunt for a pumpkin. I got a pic or two at the pumpkin place, but when you take a 21 month old somewhere like that by yourself, you usually don't get to take too many pictures. Thats one downfall to being a single parent! But she loved it, and picked out her pumpkin. I bought one for her and one for me. It doesn't look like we will have time to carve them this year though! BOO. So right after the pumpkin place, I took her to the mall. In the car I got her costume on, and then took her in. Turns out you have to wait in this massive line to get a treat bag and a map, then you have to go to the stores in order. Yeah right. my 21 month old is not going to stand in line for that long! So she pretty much ran up and down the mall and I chased after her until the line was down, then we grabbed our bag and went to the stores. I had a little bucket for her, so her treats would get put in the bucket. She didn't get the concept, but was cool with it all lol. We didn't go to all of the stores. We were there about an hour,and she started to get cranky. She threw her bucket, and laid on the floor at one point. Yep, time to go. I was proud of myself that I took her though. I am uncomfortable in those situations, because they are all families, and then there's single me and becca. I find it kind of embarressing actually..... But I went, and we had a ball.

Then today, we woke up to snow! LO and I spent the morning making a snowman, and shovelling the deck. Well, she pretty much stood there and watched me do everything... lol she giggled at the snowman, and when I asked her what his name was, she said "puppy." Other than that, she didn't know what to think of the snow, I don't think. Then her dad had her for the afternoon, and I went shopping (OMG :o) and got some groceries. Looking forward to taking her trick or treating tomorrow night, and hopefully getting some better treats than the ones she has gotten so far... I can't eat most of them LOL

Birthday Party day!

Today was the lady bug birthday party! BB was cranky as heck before we went (of course!) but she was pretty good at the party. It started to rain so they moved the party inside the garage, but BB is WAY too busy and kept going outside to play in the rain, and, well, I totally let her. It was a warm rain, and it wasn't raining that hard. She was soaked in no time, and so was I LOL But she had a great time playing on the slide, playing with the ball, and even getting on a tricyle and motorized toy ATV, which she figured out how to drive! Guess what I am going to have to get her! She was so busy, I didn't get to eat, and she only got a few cheesies and some juice! No cake or burgers or hot dogs LOL

I find those parties kind of hard, because I don't get to socialize and meet people because my daughter is soooo busy. Plus, I am always the only single parent there, even though most people don't know I am a single parent yet.... I feel kind of lower than the others, and embarrassed that I am a single parent, but I don't know why. I feel like people must think badly of me. Like I must have did something pretty wrong or bad to end up a single parent. I live in a town where there are very little single people, let alone single parents. I have pretty much no options or opportunities to meet people. Not that I am ready to date, but when I am, I don't know how it will work out. I don't even have many friends to go out with to meet people...Anyways, enough about me....

The mother of the bday girl asked about BBs costume, and I told her I made it. She said "You made it? Oh look at you!" I wasn't sure how to take that, lol but it made me happy. Then I couldn't remember if BB was wearing the hat or not at the time, because I didn't make that, and they will find that out if they ever go to the dollar store.... :D I really don't think she was wearing it at the time. I have to say, I was proud of the costume, even if it had no wings lol I felt like a mommy staying up and making it last night. Love my baby girl.

aug 26th-27th

Today was an absolutely beautiful day. I would have liked to take BB to the beach or park or something like that, but instead we spent the day running around trying to find some things for a birthday party bb was invited to tomorrow. Its a ladybug theme and the little girl's mom put on the invitation "you can dress up." I mentioned this to some girls at work, and they started giving me ideas on how to make a costume. I am not exactly the craftiest person in the world... I actually never even thought of using iron on patches and a red shirt.... I'm the kind of mom that would look everywhere for a ladybug costume in Aug, and if I couldn't find it, I would have got pjs or a ladybug towel... anything at all with a ladybug on it, and call it a day... But this time, I ran all over looking for clothing that I could use, iron ons, pipe cleaners, etc etc. as well as a gift for the birthday girl. Well, this is how things go for me when I try to make something (Food or otherwise....) First off, I literally had to go to every store in the town looking for something for her to wear, hoping I could find a ladybug coat, or shirt, or something. But I couldn't find anything. So I went back to a store I had already been to, and got red pants and a boy's red shirt. When I got home, I realized I had gotten the wrong size shirt. So I had to go back into town, which is about a 30 min drive. Awesome. So the first thing I did was trace circles onto the iron ons. I used a black permanent marker and the bottom of a bottle of calamine lotion. How's that for crafty? :P Well, when I went to iron on the patches, the ink that was left from tracing the circles got smeared all over the shirt. I actually thought the iron was burning it for a min! Then, after all of the iron ons were done, I started to peel the backing off. For some reason, the backing came off fast, but it left glue behind! So there I was scraping the glue off of every one of those little spots, with a quarter. Fun times! So even though I finished at 10pm ish, I had to put it in the wash after! The party is at 11am tomorrow, so I have to get it all done tonight. It is still in the wash, so the verdict is still out on how it will turn out.... fingers crossed... Stores don't open until 12pm here on sundays....

While we were shopping in one particular store, bb was getting bored. She was being such a good girl (seriously, shopping all morning, in the car seat, in the cart, back to the car seat, etc) I looked down and there she was getting her arm out of her cute dress she was wearing. I fixed it, but she must have done it 15 more times. Then she got both arms out and took the top of her dress down! LOL I had to laugh. No one saw her, but it was too funny! Mom calls her "teeny weeny nude-eenie" now lol.

She was yelling hi and waving to everyone as we walked through the stores. It was like we were in a parade haha! Everyone said hi to her and she loved it. Some would say she is very talkative, one lady had a little conversation with her and told her she was cute (which she agreed with), that she is agreeable (which she also agreed with) and that she is smart (which she also agreed with LOL)


She is still wearing 6-12 month clothes in some things (bottoms, and certain brands) But she is catching up and is wearing some 18 month clothes, but mostly 12-18 months.

I love that right now,she cuddles in and gives me hugs when I go to put her in the car. I know its because she doesn't feel like getting in her carseat, but I love it. I will stand there for a few min holding her in the parking lot before I put her in her car seat.

I almost forgot! I took her on her first pic nick yesterday after work! We went to Mcdonalds and got some food, then I drove up to the little park behind her daycare, and we had a little pic nick! It wasn't really planned, so I sat on my coat and she sat on her blanket, but she loved it. She actually sat for most of her meal. Then she played at the park for a bit. She loves the slides and teetertater, but really doesn't care about the swings. She always wants me to put her in, but then 2 sec later she says she is all done.

I'm sure there is more I want to write about, but my eyes are starting to cross, and I have to try to stay awake until I can put the load of laundry in the dryer... I seriously just about fell asleep sitting up right there! gtg!

What she is up to now

She says:
Uh-oh
mine
bubba
mama
dadda
duckie (kind of, sounds more like dada and she flaps her arms lol)
nana (banana)
nite nite (sounds like na na)
all gone
wow
woah
no
yeah
dance (sounds like dan)
bubbles
baboon (balloon lol)
ba (ball)
up
Hi
Bye
Muah


She just learned how to jump too
She "sings" the abc's with me... lol I sign a few letters then I stop and she makes this singing sound. Sometimes she doesn't and I say its your turn, then she does lol

She is starting the tempertantrums phase.... its not too bad yet, but it is coming.... :(
She is also biting, hitting and throwing things.... This worries me a bit... I know every kid does it, but where my hubby and I split up a few months ago, I never know if she is acting out because of her feelings from not having her dada around, or if she is just going through normal stages.... It seems as though they are normal stages at this point, but it's always in the back of your mind... and you always worry about it. The biting may be from teething. She has almost all of her bottom teeth (left eye tooth seems to be on its way, as well as the tooth next to what will be the eye tooth on the right side...) she already has molars. Not sure how many teeth she has on the top, because she doesn't often let me see LOL Brushing teeth is sometimes a challenge too! LOVE HER!!!! :) :) :)

Pooped on the potty today!!

YAY! I haven't really been potty training her. I brought the potty out about a month or more ago because I was letting her run around with no diaper one night to get rid of a bum rash, and she sat in a shoe box and peed! I thought 'ok, time to bring the potty out!' I just have the potty out and I get her to sit on it when mommy is pee peeing. She loves to sit on it, and recently, she wants her diaper off when she sits on it. But she has never peed on it. She likes to wipe her bum and put the toilet paper in it, but that's about it. Oh she also loves to take the potty apart. But she was using it more as a toy, so I was thinking of putting it away for a bit, until I am on vacation in 2 weeks. But tonight, she was in the bath and we were singing and playing. I guess the singing relaxed her, because she started to poop in the tub! She has never done that before! So I asked her if she pooped, and she said yes. I picked her up and there was only 2 little pieces in there, so I put her on her potty and told her to poop. She kept getting up, and I kept putting her back. I started to sing, thinking that helped her before. So there I was singing "mmm mmm goes the little green frog one day mmm mmmm went the little green frog..." over and over again, and sure enough, she started to poop!!! She said "uh oh!" and pointed. I told her it was ok, and I made a big fuss telling her she was such a good girl, clapping, etc. She signed "more" and went back on the potty. When she got up, she seen the poop and I made a big fuss again. She again signed "more" and did it again. She wasn't actually pooping any more, but she loved the attention. Then she put the seat down and said bye bye and all gone lol What a good baby girl.

Going to try to get back into writing this blog!

A few times over the past couple of months, I have thought about writing in this blog. But I always thought that I didn't have enough time to write about everything that has happened. And then more stuff would happen, and I get further behind in writing. So I am going to start writing about what is going on currently.


Today, I was thinking of taking the baby to daycare so that I could get a few more things done around the house on my day off, but when I got up, it was actually nice out. We haven't had much of a summer in the way of weather, so I decided to keep her home and take her to the beach. It would be the first time I have ever taken her to a beach, and she is almost 19 months old! It took forever to get everything packed and get her ready!! I was getting a little frustrated, especially when she kept running away from me when I was trying to put her sunscreen on! But we finally were ready to go. She looked so cute in her bathing suit and skirt!!! By the time we were ready, the weather had clouded over, and it looked like it may rain. But I thought, its not raining yet, seize the day! So we drove for about 45 min and got to the beach (O.P.) Its pretty private, which I love. She went right over to the water and put her feet in, then hands, etc. She also started throwing rocks in the water and loved the sounds they made. That's probably the first thing that made her smile. She was very serious today for some reason! But she had a ball playing in the water, throwing rocks and shells, and walking barefoot in the sand.

We were walking down the beach, and a woman yelled out to us. When I looked up, she was very far away, walking with a dog, and waving. I thought that was weird.... But waved and kept on our way. About a half an hour later, she was closer, and baby was at the water concentrating on playing with rocks and shells. I noticed the dog running towards her. He didn't look to be threatening, but was running towards her pretty fast. I was knelt down beside her. She didn't notice the dog until he was a few feet away from her and it scared her so bad. She actually screamed "AHHHH" and shook :'( I felt soooo bad. Even thinking about it now, just the sound of that scream :'( it was terrible. I picked her up and comforted her and said look at the puppy, what does a puppy say, etc and she was fine. She was even pointing and waving to him.

A little while later another couple came by and they were talking to her and waving. She loved it and waved back. We stayed for about an hour, but had to leave because 1) mommy was silly and drank coffee before we got to the beach... and 2) baby threw her hat in the river and mommy didn't have another one.....

BB had a little nap on the way home, and when I got home, there was a msg from a friend saying a few of our friends were meeting and taking the kids to a playground if we wanted to meet them. BB was sound asleep in the car, and she usually sleeps for about an hour and a half to 2 hours, or more.... and then I had to feed her lunch. It was 12 and they were meeting at 1230, so I knew I wouldn't have time. I FB a msg saying I could'nt, and bb woke up right when I hit send. So I took her in, got her changed, fed her and drove back into town to meet them. It was fun. BB took to the little water park, which really surprised me, since she doesn't like water on her head in the bath. But at the center of this park were a bunch of buckets high up that would fill wtih water and then dump a ton of water, hard and fast. She kept wanting to go towards them, but she is still small, and that would flatten her lol. So I had to keep pulling her away from them and steering her towards the water that sprays up from the ground, which she loved. We got a freezie for her and a baby ice cream for me, which she got a bit of too lol. Then she started getting a bit tired, because she really didn't have a proper nap, just in the carseat. We played in the little playground for a while, and one of the girls' dads played with us. He kept saying how he couldn't believe how much bb understands for her age. He had her sliding down the slides and peeking out of the tube that connects the slide and the stairs. We had a great time. Then it was tempertantrum time when I wanted to hold her and head to the car, and she wanted to be down and running around. She fell asleep in the car again, and kept sleeping even when I put her in her crib. She only slept for about a half an hour at home, which was fine. Gane me just enough time to start supper, etc.

My mom and step dad came over for a quick visit. They had a great time watching her "dan" ie:dance and she learned how to jump yesterday, so she was jumping and giggling. Absolutely love that girl.

Easter!!

Well, it feels like its been forever since I wrote.... as usual, a lot has happened! LO is so cute. I think I fall more in love with her everyday! She now says mama, dada, bubba, up, dis, dat, byes, oh, and baby. She is also throwing temper tantrums at daycare (oh joy...). The day before last, she threw 3 very big tempertantrums for silly things like not being allowed to climb on the table! One of them was so big that the director came out of her office because she thought LO was hurt because she was screaming so loud! Yesterday, she was playing on the floor at DC and another child BIT her! Its a really bad bite too, but it didn't break the skin, so thats good.

I am not adjusting well to being a working mom! I can't seem to get everything done and it seems as though food and cleaning have taken a backseat to everything else.... I'm trying to get organized, but I can't seem to do it! My Easter shopping got done the day before Easter!! I took LO to see the Easter bunny on the day before Easter, because I realized I hadn't taken her to see him yet. We approached the bunny, who was interacting with another child. I made a big deal out of him. "Oh who is that!! Its the easter bunny!!!!" She was looking interested, so I thought maybe. He was ready for us, so I brought her close to him. She held on to me VERY tightly... I sat down next to him and was still making a big deal out of him. She was thinking maybe.... I then put her hand on his fur.... she pulled her hand away... I started to give her to him, and she started crying and squeezing on to me. I decided after a few tries, to not get the picture this year. I don't see the point in making my child freak out and cry just to get a picture. Maybe next year. But I still felt good about actually taking her.

I bought her a VERY sweet Easter dress, and for her Easter treats, I got a sand pail and shovel, put some plastic bags in it, and some purple tissue paper on top, and then put a chocolate smelling stuffed rabbit, a few small chocolate bunnies, a chocolate coated marshmallow bunny in it. I also bought her a bunny purse (dollar store!) and some eggs filled with hair ties! We also bought some plastic eggs and put some reese's bunnies in them. Easter morning, she had to go and find them. I honestly didn't think she would catch on at all, being 15 months old, but she did. She got almost all of them! Then she carried some of the eggs around all day, and still even has a few kicking around! She also got one open and took a bite of the peanut butter bunny, foil and all..... I wish I had a picture of THAT face!!! HAHA. We then went over to great grammies for supper with the family.

A few weeks ago, grammy and grampy came over to visit. They brought coffee and doughnuts. LO had never had a donut before, so grammie broke her off a piece. She LOVED it. She licked the chocolate, and walked around giggling as she ate it. Then she came back for more, and more.... I think mom fed her over half the donut.... then all of the sudden, she stood behind her toy chair, and pushed it into the kitchen, and then turned around and pushed it back to the livingroom, and back to the kitchen, and back to the living room.... this continued on for 45 min!!!! She just ran back and forth! Mom says "you might want to give her a bit of sugar now and then to get her used to it!!!" She was starting to slow down a bit, so I said "is it time for nappy naps?" LO walked over to her door, knocked on the door and waited for me to open the door. Once the door was open, she went over to her crib, and waited! I picked her up, put her in her crib, and she rolled over and went to sleep for 2 hours! Mom couldn't believe it. She kept saying "Is she putting herself to BED!!???"

I have been feeling pretty guilty lately. I feel that between work, and life in general, I don't get to spend enough time with LO. It's part of the whole trying to figure out how to balance everything. But really, I don't feel like i have enough time to spend with her. We are always at work, or driving, or making supper, etc etc. Leaving the house at 6:50am and getting home at 6pm doesn't give a lot of time for anything but getting dressed. baths, bottles, and food. Its terrible. But there is nothing I can do about that right now :-(

Today I took LO to hubby's work to visit with grammy and grampy and dada. As we were leaving, she made a fishy face!! We laughed sooooo hard! She sucked her cheeks in and bit on them to make the fishy face! TOO FREAKING CUTE!

"Bye"

LO has started saying "Bye" recently. She loves to wave, sometimes with both hands, and say Bye. Love her. She has had a terrible cough lately. We took her to the doctor last night (she was tired and had tempertantrums on the floor in the waiting room!) and he said that she sounds clear and that her ear infection she had last week has pretty much cleared up. While we were in the doctor's office waiting for the dr to come in, LO sat on the foot stool and kicked her feet under it lol Hubby said that it is unreal how fast she is growing up. She is a little girl now, not a baby. The dr said to her that she has beautiful eyelashes, and there is nothing he could put on someone to have eyelashes like that. :D She's a pretty little girl :) If I sit on the floor and ask her to give me hugs, she will run over to me and spread her arms wide and tackle me. LOVE IT!!!! I took her to a baby easter party on sat. She loved playing with her friends. One of the little boys kept pushing her down. She didn't love that too much, but other than that she had a great time. Everyone was saying how petite she is and that she is too little to be walking. She has been walking for 4 months now, but she is still really small so it kinda looks funny hehe. When she saw the easter bunny, she smiled and waved, but when it was her turn to sit on his knee and get a present, she was scared and reached her arms out to me LOL poor girl! She was getting tired and was starting to have fits. At one point she was a the door and she got mad because a little boy wouldn't let her through, so I thought. She lost it and started screaming. I thought she was having a fit so I ignored her at first, then I picked her up and consoled her, although I still thought she was just throwing a fit. A little while later I noticed a bit of blood in her nail bed! The poor thing was hurt and I was thinking she was faking! I felt sooo bad!!!!!! :(

I was getting her ready for her bath as fast as I could last night because hubby had to leave and we were out late at her doctors appointment. I ended up putting her in the tub and forgetting to take her socks off!!! She thought that was hilarious.

She signs all done and more now. I gave her a new food the other day, and she took one bite, and started wildly signing MORE MORE MORE MORE LMFAO. Too funny.

2 new things she started yesterday!

Yesterday afternoon, she nodded for the first time! There was music playing, so we thought she was head banging.v ccccvcvv b nm b vv vv dfs cn b bb mbbb i love my mvom my b soooooooooo much nb bv yttv 000mommy is cool


LOL LO is very interested in the computer these days. Mommy and Daddy are on one every day, so she is getting very curious. Hence the typing lesson that is all over this post. The legible words are hubby trying to type in btw DD's typing...

Anyways, we thought she was headbanging, but at supper at her great grandma's, she nodded again! And this AM we asked if she wanted a cookie (to keep her out of the garbage DH was trying to take out....) she nodded yes! :)

Yesterday, again at great grandma's place, she was doing something and my mom asked her something, she said "wha" and mom said OMG she said What!! But I didn't really notice it. Then someone was talking, and LO came around the corner and said "What"!!! I couldn't believe it! Mom couldn't believe it either because it was the whole word, more or less. Very cool. She is changing a lot lately. She had a growth spurt too, so she is taller and a bit heavier. 20 lbs LOL She is still small for her age in weight though lol. Love her so much!!!

Snow day. In April.

She is now saying "Dis" and "Dat" which is so cool. She was chit chatting like crazy yesterday, TOO CUTE! She was saying "Bahabahabahabahabahabahabahba mamamammaahahhahahamammam"

Today we are kinda snowed in. Its the first weekend hubby and I have off together in about a month, and it snowed like crazy yesterday. Yay. We could get out if we wanted, but we're having just as much fun sitting in our jammies and watching DD play. She's had us read "Hand Hand fingers thumb" 5 times already, and its not even 8am!

On thursday we put her down in the parking lot of mom's store and let her walk around with DH. She had a great time. She started running though, and I knew that she would fall. Sure enough, but she didn't even scrape herself, she just got up and continued. Then she found the only mud puddle in the whole area, and sat in it. ICK! LOL Her butt was covered in mud!!!

Wed night, she got away from DH when he was changing her bum. She was wearing a diaper shirt that was open, so it covered everything perfectly LOL She was running from one side of the house to the other laughing herself silly! It was so funny. Then she took her diaper shirt and flipped up! Front and back at different times! We were laughing so hard!!! I even caught it on tape! :)

The daycare is saying that she is a happy girl and that she is funny. Its nice to know she is finally comfortable there. It took over 2 months, but she is finally herself there. Mind you, she was sick for pretty much 2 and a half months straight, so I am sure that would play in. They had a photographer come in and take "school pictures" on monday. First, I think that is a total money grab, but oh well. I guess I may as well get used to it now. That morning was so messed up because, like always, we didn't plan ahead. I knew what I wanted to put on her, but I didn't try it on her, and I asked hubby to find her shoes, but he didn't. So that morning, I put on her dress (the same one she wore to her first birthday party, because we didn't think ahead and go shopping, because we don't really have the money) and found out it was TOO SMALL!!!! So we put another one on her which ended up being a bit too big, but it worked. But we couldn't find her shoes anywhere. Hubby didn't look for them the night before like I asked him too, so there we were in the AM running around looking for them. I sent him to the car to look for them and he said they weren't there either. So I said whatever, we'll send her without any. I was not impressed, but what can you do. I decided to take the one shoe we could find with us, and when hubby was in the coffee shop, I looked in the backseat and after 30 sec, found the other shoe. UGH Hubby! I was glad to find the other shoe so we didn't have to send her without any.... even if white shoes would have looked so much better.

She is very curious about the computer. Today she is trying to 'type' on it LOL. She sees mommy and daddy playing on them all the time!

We may have to get out of the house after all.... hubby is driving me nuts. He knows I am typing and he says "did you finish typing the msg to your mom?" I reply with "Yes, a long time ago." He says "Oh I thought you were going to send your mom a msg." ??? WTF?? He needs a hearing test, I am so sure of it. I repeated what I had said, and he said "Oh I thought you said no." WTF how does yes sound like no, and even so, I said " A long time ago?!?!?!" UGh, this could be a long day.

Ahhh....

Things have been pretty good for the past few weeks. She got over her cold pretty easily. I, however, was super sick a few weeks ago. I have never been that sick before in my life! It started with a sore throat and cold. I missed one day of work because of the fever and sore throat. That weekend, I was tired, but just had a regular cold. I fell asleep on the couch really early on sunday night (8:30!), and when I went to bed at 10, I started throwing up. And I really didn't stop until 3 or 4am. I even got some blankets and a pillow and tried to sleep on the bathroom floor, but our bathroom is small, and I could smell the diaper genie LOL so that didn't last long. I sent DD to daycare that morning, but there was an ice storm and the daycare closed early that day (of course.) DH had to come home from work because I couldn't take care of DD! I spent the day in bed sleeping, which I have never done before in my life. DH texted me at around 4 and asked if I was still alive down there! haha. I stayed home from work on tues to, but I was feeling a bit better. Wed I went to work, but I shouldn't have. I was so nauseated, It was the longest day ever! BUT the good thing, DD didn't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

DD is eating pretty much everything we are these days, and that has made us realize that we do not eat enough fruits and veggies. Not even close actually.... We are carb-a-holics! I am in the process of trying to find new veggie recipes that are quick, or that I can freeze. Not getting home until 5:50pm every night means that we have been eating a lot of quick foods. I want to find some good recipes that will freeze well, so I can cook everything up ahead of time. I am not a very organized person, so I am not sure how I will get into this type of routine, but I have to do it so we can eat more than toast, pasta and soup. :)

Sat, we decided that its time for DD to get rid of her morning bottle. She is 14 months old now, and really, the bottle should have been gone altogether 2 months ago. But she resisted the sippy cup so much, she wouldn't even drink out of it until 13 months or so. Now she is fine with it. However, she is a very routine baby, and when we put milk in it, she wouldn't have anything to do with it. Milk doesn't go in a sippy cup in her world. She kept slapping it away, and would not drink out of it at all. I had to go to work, so we packed her up, brought her sippy cup with the milk with us, and away we went. She cried pretty much the whole way into town. She was hungry. I have to say, I wasn't too sad to kiss her good-bye and say have a good day as I headed off to work that morning.... I know.... Terrible.... DH fed her some yogurt and she was fine for the rest of the day. The next day, she slapped it away a few times, but then drank out of it. This am she had her arms reaching out for it as I gave it to her, and she drank all of her milk no problem at all. So that wasn't so bad. Now I guess we have to get rid of her night time bubba. I actually don't want to do that. I like holding her and feeding her at night. Its usually our make up time, as she has usually frusterated me to no end trying to get her out of the bath, diaper on, and dressed...... :S Oh well, its gotta be done!

On friday when I picked her up from daycare, the daycare worker said that DD was "crazy!" She was laughing and running around and kissing one of the little boys at daycare LOL The little boy happens to be a distant relative of hers, and he was born on the same day as her. I have the boy's mom on facebook, and she heard about it too, and that her DS was running after DD kissing her too. LOL Wish I would have seen that. Then that boy's mom's status was updated to "holy pink-eye!" Crap. I knew it was coming to my house for sure! And sure enough, she rubbed her eyes quite a bit, and yesterday morning, I noticed a tiny bit of pink in her right eye, and a bit of puss. Not enough to glue her eyelid shut, but I knew it was coming. We took her into ER before I headed to work and he said that it could be viral, and to let it be unless it gets more puss. So so far, its really mild. She is home from DC today and tomorrow because I am off, so it should be good to go by then.

New things she is doing: She is pointing at a lot of things and saying "DAT" Also, she makes this crazy face if she is trying to open something, or if we give something to her and say "try to open it." She grits her teeth and acts as if she is straining to get it open! HAHAHA its sooo funny! I should really get that on video....

I have her down for a nap right now, but so far its not working LOL she has been kicking the wall for a bit now, but I think I am going to let her be for a little while longer. She has been a very good girl today. We played a lot this AM. LOVE my DD :D

What's going on these days

We have been puke and diarrhea free for over 2 weeks!!! :) :) :) SOOO Happy! She has a cold right now that has her coughing like crazy when she first goes down at night, and at least once throughout the night, which is worrisome. We thought she was going to throw up at one point last night because she was coughing so hard. But she kept sleeping. Poor little girl.

She hasn't said any new words lately. I don't think I should worry yet, but she is almost 14 months old, and at 18 months old, they say she should be able to say at least 18 words. DD says like 3. Mama, dada(sometimes), and Bah. She points to what she wants now.

Her latest thing is that she likes her Dada more than her mama. It kinda sucks, but what can you do. Just makes me think I did something wrong.

She is throwing more temper tantrums. I have to put my hand behind her head as she throws her head down, just to make sure she doesn't hurt herself, but then I pretty much let her go. Of course my MIL says "my kids never did that." Bullsh*t. She still does that and so does SIL. ugh.

She is eating much more adult food these days. She had a full turkey dinner and cake last weekend! She is eating almost everything we are which is pretty cool. She still doesn't love new textures, or colder temperatures. She throws a lot of her food on the floor.... hehe. I've been noticing lately that she is changing a lot lately. She is growing up fast. This morning when DH was getting her dressed, she was "talking" to me. She would be like "ba ba dada mama" and I would say "really?! What else happened?" And she would continue "mamababadada." It was pretty cute. Love her so much.

We had to buy her new jammies, she grew out of a lot of her old ones. I still haven't packed them away though.... no time for anything these days! I'll have to get to it soon though, because I am getting annoyed putting ones that don't fit on her because I can't remember which ones still fit....

She hates getting out of the bath. She yells and cries and tries to run away. Its always a fight.

Yesterday she started arching her back and screaming when I put her in the carseat. Looks like this is going to be a new trend. LOL

I am having trouble making Healthy suppers in time during the week. We don't get home till close to 6, and then I have to make supper after that. We don't have a lot of money either, so things have to be made on the cheap. Plus I can't eat wheat... yep. Awesome. Slow cooker works well once or twice a week, but I need to find cheaper options for the slow cooker, as chicken, roast, or ham every day is too much.

One thing that really made me sad was the other day when I went to pick DD up from daycare, the worker said "DD had a great day today! I don't think I heard her cry at all." And they said they heard her laugh for the first time that day!!!! OMG So basically DD has been unhappy there for the past 2 months. Ugh that makes me sooo sad. Although, she has been sick non stop for the past 2 months too, so she may not have been feeling up to herself.... but still.... breaks my heart. I was pissed they never told me at first, but then I thought that knowing would make it so much harder because I don't have a choice in the matter, and it would hurt and suck even more than it already does having to leave her there, knowing she hated it.

Craptacular.

Baby girl has been healthy for a whole week now! Well, she has a runny nose, and we are now dealing with constipation, but its better than the puking and diarrhea that has been haunting her on and off for 3 weeks.....

For the past week, she has been getting up at 5-5:30am!!! I don't know what happened to my little sleeper! And she has been pretty cranky too. She is teething, but she is always teething, so I don't really think that's it. She has been making me feel like crap by only wanting her dad, and screaming if he has to leave, or if he has to hand her off to me. She doesn't cry at all when I leave, but has a fit when he leaves. She has even been fighting me when I change her diaper. But not Dad. Ugh. Makes a sleep deprived momma feel crappy :(

She finally started taking her sippy cup on sunday. She doesn't want to be without it now. She loves it. Thank goodness....

I feel really bad for what happened today. First, she actually slept in till 7! I was so happy because I worked evenings last night and didn't get home till midnight. So things started off pretty good. She ate well, etc. We played in the morning, and all was great. I changed her, and when I was done, she was playing. She looked like she had something in her mouth so I went over to see what she was munching on, and it was a pebble of POOP!! OMFG GROSS!! I don't know where she got it, it must have fallen out when I was changing her or something, I have no idea. SO grossed out. The good thing is that she didn't get much of it, because she wasn't overly impressed with the taste. OMG. Feel terrible! BUT: it gets worse.... then she was playing with the diaper cream container (like she always does). I turned away, and when I looked back, she had popped it open (no idea how) and was eating it!!!! I freaked out and said no no no no and went after it. Its really thick, so she didn't get much in her mouth, but it was hell getting it off of her face and hands, especially because she was having a temper tantrum at the same time... She threw her head on the floor and hit her forehead, then when I picked her up to get what she had't already wiped on me off of her fingers, she threw her head back and hit the table!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOO frustrating!!!!! Oh, but it gets better.... once I finally got her cleaned up, I started reading the diaper cream label to see if I needed to take her in or anything like that (I didn't have to). While I was doing that, she was playing, so I thought. I looked up, and she was at the table grabbing my coffee (Stone cold, thank-god) and I said NONONONONO and she threw it all over the floor. She got the table, the floor, under the couch, the blanket, you name it. At this time I was kinda pissed (ok really pissed) and threw the diaper cream on the floor as I ran over to get her out of the mess. How stupid am I that I left the coffee there? I had put it down in a hurry when she was eating the diaper cream.... Thank god it was like 3 hours old and stone cold. Well, I picked her up and put her down a few feet away while I grabbed a towel and started to clean it up. I told her "Bad." as I cleaned it up! I've never done that before. She cried. And I felt (and still feel) like shit. Big, fat, stinky pile of shit. Once everything was cleaned up, I tried to make up to her. We played for a bit, and she stood infront of me and spit up all over me..... I deserve that I guess. Then she freaked when I tried to clean her up. I wasn't surprised that she spit up, I could hear it in the works all morning, and then add a little diaper cream to it.... yeah. So I got that cleaned up and played a bit more. She was really cranky so I figured it was nap time. I cuddled her up and held her for a bit. She snuggled in. So I decided to sit in the rocking chair and rock her a bit, just to reconnect with her. Well, she started crying and going on again. So I gave her a kiss and put her in her crib. She didn't go to sleep right away, but she wasn't crying either, so I let her be. I think we both needed a break! Poor thing. She is sound asleep now. I'll have to get her up soon and feed her and get her into daycare before I head to work. So yeah, after today, I think she will be wanting Dada even more....

The theme of 2011: Sick again.

This time she was at daycare for 1 day before she started puking. The first time she threw up (this time) she had eaten a ton for supper, and when she threw up a few hours later, it looked exactly like what it did before it went in! She didn't chew her supper at all! She had no never (although she did for the two days before), so we sent her to daycare the next day. I had been off for a week already, I really couldn't take any more time.

When she threw up the first time (again, this time), she was sleeping. That's usually when she throws up. She will wake up, cough and puke. Then scream. Lucky for us, she ALWAYS sleeps on her belly. I was so upset. Seriously, AGAIN!?!?!?! I was feeling so bad. Here I have to send her off to the cesspool of life, everyday, and I have no choice. I am sending her off to be sick EVERYDAY. Its aweful. And when she woke up around 12am puking, I cried. I'm not that type, but I was just so stressed from all of the sickness, money issues, and hubby's gram dying, going back to work, etc. All of the crap that 2011 has brought us so far. It's not been fun. Dear 2011: smarten up. Good thing you still have a good amount of time to redeem yourself. Something great better be coming our way.

So we sent her off to daycare the next day because she kept her breakfast down, and really wasn't sick in any other way. 2pm I got a call from the DC telling me she threw up and needed to be picked up. Poor girl. When I got there, she was acting fine. I took her home and she puked in the car on the way. I kept going at first because I could hear her. But then she got quiet and I reached back, touched her head, and said her name, and she didn't make a noise or move. WELL talk about trying to find a place to pull over FAST. Of course, the road I turned down had literally 5 school buses in front and beside me.... Finally, I got to someone's driveway, pulled in, jumped out and got in the back. She was covered in puke, but fine. She looked at me like WTF mom? She was sleepy, but fine. So I got her home (what a nice 30 min drive with that smell in your car....) and put her fully clothed into the bathtub. She, again, was like WTF MOM? SO I took all of her puky clothes off, my coat, my clothes, and threw them all in the bath behind her haha. Got her all bathed up and went on our way. She was fine, but then in the middle of the night (12:50am), she was puking again. It was so weird. We kept her home on friday (Hubby stayed home with her) and she was a little sleepy and a little clingy, but no fever or anything! So strange. She hasn't puked since 2am friday morning, so I think we are on the mend now, until she starts daycare next week.... UGH! This flu bug didn't hit her as hard as the last one, so I am thankful for that. However, hubby has it now, and it hit him harder than the last one. The poor guy is pretty much never sick, and he has had the stomach flu twice in two weeks! I'm the only one left standing. I have just been tired as hell. Last night I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30! I got up at 10:30 and went to bed, and slept until 7am when the cat woke the baby up. She wasn't ready to be awake for the day though, because after we fed her and changed her, she was so cranky and sucking her thumb. She was back down for a nap around 8 and still is. We were supposed to go over to a family member's house for supper and a birthday celebration, but I don't think we will be.

On the upswing!

LO is feeling much better! Yay!

We had a few more ER visits since I last wrote though... Wed, Feb 3rd she got up around 3:30am and was hungry. She hadn't been drinking her juice and I was with-holding milk so that any fluid she did get was juice or water, just to keep her hydrated. So I gave her a 5oz bottle of juice-water mixture, and she downed it. We put her back to bed and when I got her up in the morning (about 3 hours later), there was still no wet diaper. So I decided to take her into ER. We didn't have to wait too long, about a half an hour. When we explained to Dr Best what was going on, he suggested I give her a milk bottle and wait for her to pee, because she didn't look dehydrated (she really didn't). You could tell he was really thinking about the situation and weighing the pros and cons. At this point, her diarrhea was pretty much water, and she poops through a few outfits a day. When he heard that, he was leaning towards blood work and IV hydration, but he wanted to see how this went. So after waiting forever for the bottle, I gave it to her and she downed it in a few seconds, and then went to sleep. She pretty much peed right away. He came in a bit later and spoke with me, letting me know that he thinks she'll be fine and that we can go home. I was dressed for work, and I said "But she shouldn't go to daycare yet" and he said "No, no she is not ready for daycare yet. You're dressed for work, do you need a doctor's note?" I thought about it and said "No, I don't think so..." He told me to bring her back if she wasn't peeing again. I really liked him. So I called work back (I had called earlier saying I'd be late for sure) and told them I wouldn't be in, and my boss was super nice about it and was asking how the baby was, and that if I didn't like what I was hearing, to demand to see the pediatrician, etc. etc. I asked her if I needed a dr's note and she almost seemed taken back by that, and said "No, but you will if you have to miss more than 3 days, but by then you'll have her back in if thats the case. Just worry about taking care of the baby!" So I was really happy about that. She asked me to call her later on in the day if I thought I wouldn't be in on thursday. That afternoon, I called her because LO still wasn't acting like herself. She had 8 or 9 diarrhea diapers, and no pee only diapers yet... So I called her and took thursday off. Thursday was much the same. No pee only diapers, and diarrhea so bad only water was coming out of her bum... it was terrible. At one point, she was pooping and I thought there was a rainstorm on tv.... eek.

Thursday night after hubby came home, we took her in again because she was not peeing. I didn't want to take her in this time, I felt that it was going to be a waste of time, that they were just going to say feed her liquids and wait 7-10 days, and this was only day 6. Well, triage said we were fast tracked because of her symptoms and age, but we still waited over 2 hours with a cranky baby... and a cranky as hell mommy.... we got in, and it was Dr Gelo. I know how he is behind the scenes, but patients love him, so I thought ok, maybe this is ok.... but we explained the situation, and he basically ignored the fact that she wasn't peeing, and focused on the diarrhea. Then he said "well, you've been in 3 times so far, so academically, I'd do blood work." He made it sound like I was not happy with what Dr. Best had said, and that is simply not true. He also at one point asked me what I wanted him to do. Um, you're the dr, you make the $, you figure it out. UGH!!!! Anyways, he did do blood work. LO cried a bit, but not too bad considering. Then after that, he wanted her to drink some Isomil (sp?) formula, because it wouldn't be so bad on the stomach, and wouldn't irritate the diarrhea like the milk from the day before did. Well, it smells exactly like cat food, so LO didn't like it at all. Oh yeah, she had peed somewhere in the middle of all of this too....After all of this, while we were waiting for the results, LO gets extremely tired, and its past her bedtime. When she gets this tired, she SCREAMS. Seriously, its bloody murder screaming.... So away she goes, and when she stops only to take a breath to gear up for the next scream, I can hear people saying "woah!" and "There's the baby!" and "Poor thing!" Eek! She will do this until she falls asleep, and she doesn't like to sleep anywhere but the crib, carseat, or play pen at daycare, so this can take a while. So she finally went to sleep. Dr Gelo comes back in and says that her white blood cells are slightly elevated, but that's normal in this case. He talked about sending a stool sample away to see for sure what it was, but he didn't seem like he really wanted to do that. He felt strongly that it was Norwalk Virus that she picked up. But he kept asking me if I wanted to have the sample.... Again, YOU ARE THE DOCTOR. UGH. So I asked him if it would make any difference in the diagnoses, and he said no, he said "But you'd know exactly what it was that was making her sick." I finally said well I'm good if you're good, and he said he was pretty sure he knew what it was. There are a few babies in the town that have it. FIne. So he said we're just waiting on the results for the electrolytes and creatinine. That's what I was more interested in. But he took off before the results came! The nurse came in and gave them to us about an hour later. LO was still asleep and she told us we could go, everything was good. YAY!!! She said dr gelo would call in the morning. Yeah right.

So Friday, her diarrhea went WAY down and by nighttime, she was feeling much better. She only had 1 or 2 diarrheas that day, and they were thicker than the water she was pooping out the day before, so she was feeling much better. Sat and sunday she was cranky has hell, but otherwise back to normal. I will write later about why she was cranky has hell... all I can say is SIPPY CUP WARS. We are home today, only because the dr put me off until tomorrow to take care of her. Although in the dr's note, he put ME off for medical reasons.... not because my daughter was sick..... UGH. Not impressed with him. He did call on friday night just after we had her in bed. Well, he got a nurse to call, and then fired questions from the background.... After all of the questions were answered, he said that I was doing a good job. That helped a bit, but I am still not impressed with him. :D

Oh puke.

Ok, so things haven't gotten much better yet. Sunday, LO started to act sick again. Lathargic, etc. Didn't think too much of it, but kept an eye on it. Took her to daycare on monday, and was thinking of calling, but was SO busy at work, I didn't get a chance. When I went to pick her up, she had puked on the worker and was on her second fever. They didn't call me! Then she told me that LO had NOTHING to eat all day. She said that she didn't even come to the table at lunch. Um, she's 1, you have to bring her to the table..... I was really mad when I saw that they didn't even open her food or yogurt. I was ready to have her switch daycares. I took her home, and fed her the yogurt, which she ate up gladly. I was really mad then. Until.....she barfed it all up, and then some, in her highchair...... Oh dear... So when hubby came home, we decided to take her in. We didn't know if we should go to the clinic or emerge, but we decided the clinic would probably be faster. So we get her out of her car seat and are taking her into the clinic when she started puking her guts out all over the walkway infront of the door..... :S I swung her around so her mouth was facing the ground, and let her go for it. She got my sleave, her coat, and then hubby's shoulder when he picked her up. So we turned around and took her to emerge, smelling really pretty..... ICK!! But we did get in almost right away because there was hardly anyone there, and we, um, smelled...."Sour." as the nurse said.... hehe. Doc said she was a little dehydrated but not enough to put her on the IV. He told us to give her small amounts of water (2 tbsp or less) every 10-15min and bring her back in if she didn't improve in 12-24 hours. She threw up the water at first, but slept all night. I took tues off of work, and she did nothing but sleep. She didn't want to play or walk around, which is so not like my LO. We put her to bed, and she got up around 10, and again at 3:30, both times because of diarrhea. At 3:30, she drank 5 oz of water/juice mix, so when I got her up at 6 and she still didn't pee, then I thought I should bring her in to the ER again. So I did, called work and said I'd be late. Went to ER and again, thankfully, there was no one there. Doc said she is still a bit dehydrated, but not too bad. Worried him that she didn't pee, and her diarrhea was very watery, but decided against IV hydration. He sent us to the quiet room and asked the nurse to bring us a bottle of milk, and I would feed it to her and wait until she voided. Thank goodness, it didn't take her long. She voided a bit about an hour and a half after we got there. YAY! So he sent us on our way, and said if she still has diarrhea in 7-10 days, or if there is blood in the diarrhea, to bring her back, or if she gets worse. 45 min after we left, she had puked (a very small amount) and pooped twice (once right through her clothes.... in the car....)Oh the joys. She is eating better now, but is still very clingy and doesn't want to move around at all :( I would like to keep her home one more day, but I don't want to miss work either. I called work to tell them I'd be late, and then called my boss back to say that the doctor wanted me to keep her home another day. She was totally fine with it. The doctor seen I was dressed for work and asked if I needed a dr's note. I didn't think so, but wasn't sure, so I asked my boss. She seemed a bit taken back by it and said No, we just need to write something in for your time. I said oh I guess it's vacation... and she said "well" and then I said "Not a fun vacation!" haha. I've only been back to work for a few weeks, and I have needed time off every week for either: sick child, child's appointments, wakes and a funeral. Oh Puke. 2011, you suck so far!!! I hope LO gets better soon, although I have to admit, I love cuddling her and watching home design shows on tv :)

Another yucky week. Its really time for things to lighted up!!!

So the week started out with LO great-grandmother passing away on monday night. :( I took wed afternoon off and went to the wakes with Hubby. I have never really been part of that kind of thing before. Honestly, the first funeral or wake I had ever been to was after I met hubby, and it was of someone I really didn't know. This was the first time I was "behind the scenes." It was tough to see hubby and his family so sad. :( The funeral ended up being on thursday, which was hubby's birthday! I can't think of a crappier way to spend your b-day. But he was great. He was so strong and never complained or felt sorry that it was on his birthday. He just said "**it happens." The day started out with LO being SOOO cranky! Couldn't figure out what was wrong with her as we tried to get her ready for daycare. I thought it was strange, but thought maybe she was picking up on our feelings, and she is rarely cranky, so I just thought she is allowed to have a cranky day. As we were trying to get her ready and trying to get ready for the funeral, the cat took a big pee on my boots! That set hubby off. :( But really, it wasn't her fault. With all of the crap going on, we forgot to scoop her.... eek! Then he couldn't find his tie, so we had to race around, get baby to daycare and run to the store to get a tie, and then make it down to the church on time. We did. After the funeral, we picked up LO from daycare to bring her down to meet some of the family who had flown in for the funeral. Daycare said she wouldn't sleep (VERY unlike her) and was quite cranky. They said that she was pulling on her ears, but we figured it was teething. So we took her down to the family, which I did not want to do because she was so unlike herself. Well, she pretty much cried the whole time and didn't want to walk, play or anything. She was so tired but wouldn't sleep. So we ended up taking her home. She slept a little in the car, but not much. And she continued to be unlike herself at home, so we took her to ER in a snow storm. Thank goodness, things worked out for us, and we were only waiting in ER for 10 min before we got in!!! UNHEARD OF!!! Turns out, she now has a double ear infection. Poor girl! DR said that the right ear (which was where her ear infection was two weeks ago) was either not cleared up or starting up again. Then he looked in the left ear and said that it was quite infected, bulging, had fluid behind it, etc. He said that's why she wouldn't sleep. When you lay her flat, the fluid would hit the swollen ear drum and would be quite painful. Poor baby girl! She never acted any different until that day! WOW. We got one dose of medication in her, and she was back to her normal self in the morning. Hubby stayed home with her just in case. We took her back to meet the family lastnight and had a nice meal and great conversation with them. She was still a little cranky, but nothing like she was the night before. Last night she was back to sleeping through the night. Ahh. I love my baby girl. She is so good. Even when she is sick, she is still a good baby. So hubby's birthday was not a great one: his grams funeral, taking a sick baby into ER, finding out that I was only getting paid for one week, not the full week we expected...and needed, etc. So I cancelled his birthday and we will celebrate it sometime next week, although not sure how, because we have no money! LOL Oh well. I'll figure it out.

Ahhhh.

It's been quite the week, again.... actually, its been quite the month! Sat the 15th was LO's first birthday! We took her over to her great grandma's house for supper and a family birthday party which she shared with her grampy! Grampy and grammy ordered a special cake for her. MICKEY! It was soooo cute! We put her in her highchair and put the whole cake in front of her.... I thought she might put her face in it, but she didn't. She put her hand in the yellow icing of mickey's shoe, made a weird face because it felt funny to her, and then ate the icing. MMMMMM! Then that was it, she kept scraping and eating the icing... yep, just like her mamma ;) We broke a piece of cake off for her and she ate it, but liked the icing more hehe! She liked her presents, but really liked some of the bags they came in hehe!

The next day was her baby party! We rented a meeting room at a hotel in town, and invited some of the girls and their babies that I have met since I had LO. There were 8 babies there under the age of 3 hehe! It was a blast. We brought toys in for them, layed a blanket out, moved some tables around and let them go for it! They seemed to have a good time. I was a bit worried what the moms would think of it, but it seemed to go over well.

Then I started a 7 day stretch at work, which went pretty well considering we had to take LO to the dr on thurs night because her diaper rash had turned into a yeast infection because of the antibiotics she was on for her ear infection....*sigh*
Wed was her baby well appointment and her shots. She did well with her shots. No reactions, and really didn't cry much at all, considering she had 4 of them! She hated being held the most. She was weighed at both appointments, and her dr said that she is in the 15 percentile for weight! And 40th percentile for height! Hehe she is a little peanut! He said that she is healthy though so its ok.

Also this week, LO great grandmother (Dada's gram) got sick and was admitted into the hospital. She has pneumonia and they gave her a one shot treatment. She had had a reaction from a simular treatment when she was younger, so it was quite the decision whether to give it to her or not, because it could kill her. But all went well with the initial treatment, however, they found out a day or so later, that the treatment is not working. So basically what they are saying is that she probably won't survive this infection, and if she does, she'll get another soon, and won't survive that one. So the family has been called in, and they are basically waiting.... My poor husband is so tired and stressed. :( He had to drive 5 hours out of town to pick up his relative and drive her 5 hours back lastnight. He got home around 2 am, and then got up at 6:30 for work! I'm off because I worked the weekend. What's even worse is that hubby's b-day is this week, and hopefully this is not the case, but he could end up going to a wake or funeral for his grandma on his birthday! That would be terrible. I'm hoping that doesn't happen....

As for LO, her ear infection is all better, her yeast infection is almost gone (THANK GOD!), but now she has a little cold.... ugh. Can't wait till the daycare sickness cycle is all done!

What a week.

Well, LO was healthy for a whole 4 days before she got sick again on sat, Jan 8th. I couldn't believe it. This time it was a runny nose and a fever, and a very cranky child. She did not sleep well sat night at all. Hubby and i were up with her most of the night. And then sunday night I didn't sleep well, because I was going to return to work on monday. LO didn't seem too sick monday so we sent her to daycare. Monday night she coughed all night. Tues night was the same, but daycare kept saying that she was doing fine there all day, not coughing at all. Then on wed when I came to pick her up, they said that she had been coughing a lot and even spit up her snack because she was coughing so bad. So we decided to take her in to her doctor, and it turns out, she has an ear infection! Of course THEN she started pulling on her ear, which she wasn't doing before..... I felt terrible. We decided to keep her home from daycare for a couple of days to get some rest. Hubby stayed home the first day, and I was able to take vacation for today, which I thought was really lucky.

So far work has been pretty good. I am surprised at what I remember and am getting used to the new changes (which are PLENTY). But I still do not love the hour long commute to and from work. That's terrible. I hardly have any time with LO anymore.

She is walking a lot now. She hardly ever crawls. She's a toddler now!!! ??? :S She will be a year old tomorrow. I can hardly believe it! I'm a little bummed that she is sick for her first birthday, but not surprised. Daycare has ruined Christmas and new years, why wouldn't it get her birthday too :( Poor LO! She is having 2 parties this weekend, so we are going to be super busy. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that hubby and I are both sick too.... It's been a pretty crappy week. I hope next week is better. The antibiotics are starting to kick in for LO I think, she was only up coughing once last night, and she put herself back to sleep. She is napping right now, although I thought I heard her a second ago.... now its quiet, so I am not sure.... She has been down for over 3 hours....!!!!! So I expect her up soon!

I feel like this post is all over the place and doesn't flow well, but hey, that's pretty much how my brain is working right now too. LOL Have a good weekend all!

Week one of daycare: IN.

Well, LO was sick until Jan 3rd or so. Just in time to start daycare on Jan. 4th. The night before her first day at daycare I found it hard to get to sleep. I even cried a little. I don't want to go back to work, and I don't want to send her to daycare. It didn't help that it was "that week" either....I sent her to daycare for a half a day on Jan 4th. She screamed as I left. I cried a bit, but not too bad. When I came back at lunch, they told me that she had a good day. She even napped, which I didn't think she'd do... The next day, she was up at 5am, and on and off again until I got up at 6 with her. She had 3 naps that day, and the daycare people said that she was great. She even interacted with the kids more, walked more, etc. They said that she has a little boyfriend that comes around and kisses her haha. Dada didn't love that too much HEHE. And when its naptime, they have to separate her and one of her little friends because the two of them chit chat and won't nap! LOL They were surprised that she doesn't like the music when she naps. But she doesn't even have a mobile at home, so I am not surprised. They also said that she headed down the hall to the office to visit hehe.

Then on the 6th, they said that she had only one nap, but when I looked at the chart, she had slept for 3 hours and got up at 1. NO WONDER she didn't have an afternoon nap! She had some tomato soup and bread for lunch! I love that because I wouldn't of thought of feeding her that because of my food limitations.... Its not something we usually eat, so I wouldn't think of it. She also had a marshmallow, but they said she only played with it hehe. Today she had 2 naps, and they said that she is doing very well for not being there for long. They said that it takes some kids a lot longer. They said she does a high pitched screach when they put her down for a nap. She does it 5 times, every time, and then stops and goes to sleep LOL.

We started her on half milk and half formula bottles on monday. Now she is on full milk bottles, and it hasn't affected her at all. We were thinking it might because of how she had such trouble with her formula when she was 3 weeks old. But I guess a lot of people in my family had the same problem and grew out of it by the time they were a year old. It looks like that has happened to her too, thank goodness!

She has terrible diaper rash and we are trying to get rid of it. We tried cream #3 tonight, so we'll see how that goes. Maybe corn starch tomorrow? They say thats good....

She got a new car seat on wed too. Its a graco Myride 65. So far, its great. She is not used to it yet, but as long as she has a blankie or toy, she is fine. She has formed quite the attachment to her blankies. She has quite a few different ones, and she just loves them. She will grab on to them and suck her thumb or curl up with them. Yesterday, I took her into the shop while we were waiting for hubby to finish work, and she put her blanket on the floor and curled up with it, right in the middle of the shop! I guess knocking over all of those suckers and trying to get the light bulbs really tired her out....

I am very glad that she is doing well at daycare, but I still wish I didn't have to go back to work. I spent this week cleaning, organizing, getting things done while she was at Daycare. By the time I get her, wait around for hubby to get off of work, and then get home, its time to make supper, eat, then bath, bottle, and bed. There is no time with her. I miss her! :( Oh well. Such is life from now on I guess.