Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sometimes life just happens
Isn't it funny how I get so motivated about doing this thing again and then my writer's block comes flying back in and I disappear for a month? Well, what can I say? I'm a busy mom to a very demanding child and I think it's safe to say that if the option is sitting here with a cup of coffee and blogging about this life that I love or making my baby smile, she wins every time. :) It's been about a month since I've been here(I think. I'm too lazy to check). I promise I'll try to do better. :)
My, how she's grown!
A week from tomorrow, Sophi will be 8 months old. I can't believe how fast time is moving now and I just want it to slow down. I love to look at all of the pictures that we take of her (which is a lot...about 500ish a month) and see how much she changes even just over the period of a month. See?
Taken Sept 4th (7 month b-day):
Taken last night:
Crazy, right? She is pretty much sleeping through the night now (Thank You JESUS!). This has been so great for me. The waking up every two hours at night to nurse and go back to sleep thing was killing me. Now, she goes down about 7:30 and sleeps until 5:00, wakes up to eat and then back down until between 7:00-8:00. This is awesome. I'm no doctor but I'm guessing that this is due to the fact that she has finally doubled her birth weight and is eating 3 meals a day with a snack or two in between. Plus, we play hard during the day. She is trying so hard to get mobile so we do a lot of encouraging her to try and crawl, which usually results in a belly flop and a swimming motion or her pushing herself backwards and then getting mad that she can't go forward to me. We also do a lot of holding her hands and letting her walk. She's really learning how to get those knees up and move her feet as long as we are there to guide her top half but she hasn't quite figured out how to trail the furniture yet. I'm sure it won't be long. We were given her cousin's old (to him) dinosaur ride/walk toy and the Monkey loves that thing! It's mane (what is this really called for dinos? Does it really matter?) lights up and it sings little tunes. She loves to be pushed around on it, to try and pull up on it or even just to sit and play with it. See?
My next mission is to find a park that has baby swings. If the sun ever decides to come back out here in Jacksonville, I think that the Monkey would really enjoy swinging and sliding and other fun park stuff. The weather has been pretty craptastic here lately, though so we haven't hit the swings yet. Maybe it will clear up one day this week. Also, why are there not see-saws anymore?? For whatever reason, I want the Monkey to experience one of those so bad! I think she would have so much fun on one. I get the safety risk, I do, but it's not like I would throw her on one side all by herself and then go flinging her around. I just have this awesome picture in my head of Daddy on one side and Mommy on the other and Sophi with one or the other of us and having a see-saw good time!! I told Mitch that since our new house comes with a nice workshop, there is no excuse. We want a see-saw darn it!
I wish I could say that we've had more (away from home) adventures to tell about but things have been pretty tight around here lately with Mitch's mother living with us and trying to get closed on our new home. I know that it will pay off in the end and really, I think Sophi likes being here at home and I look so forward to being in our new home and being able to swing on the back porch and play in the sandbox with her. At the new house, I'll feel more confident about taking her out and walking around the neighborhood. Maybe we can even get a wagon! I would like to take her to the zoo again soon, though. We went when she was barely 5 months old and she hardly left her stroller. She is much more curious now though and I'm sure will really be into it. I need to rally up some of my girlfriends with kids and plan a get together or something.
Mommy Stuff
I'm not sure if I blogged about this or not but at the Monkey's 6 month check up, I talked to her pedi about the fact that I was feeling pretty anti-climactic about life again. I was nervous that my PPD was creeping back in. It was different this time, though. Instead of having negative feelings about Sophi, I was really downing on myself. I felt like I was so far away from who I actually am. I miss working out and not having to worry about how many calories I get every day and going to get a haircut or a manicure whenever I want. I felt like a frumpy mom. I didn't feel pretty at all and I felt completely undesirable. [Let me say here that these feelings were all mine. Mitch is the most amazing man ever and makes it very well known every single day how beautiful and sexy he thinks I am and that he (very much) desires me.] Anyway, the doc wrote me another prescription for Zoloft and scheduled me an appointment to see the nutritionist on base to see if I could set up a plan with them that would allow me to work out again and try to rebuild my confidence. The Zoloft helped. My appointment with the nutritionist on base was a couple of weeks later. I was nervous going in but it turns out that there was nothing to be nervous about. The woman I met with was also a nursing mother and completely understood my concerns about working out and decreasing milk supply. After talking, she told me that it would be best if I did not start working out again until after I was done breast feeding because my supply is already so low that she wouldn't want me to risk it lowering anymore. Neither would I. So, my work outs now consist of pushing the Monkey around on her dinosaur or rolling around on the floor with her or going for a walk. I'm good with that. If it means that I get to breast feed my child until 12 months, I'm totally good with that. Buying some clothes that actually fit helped, too. ;)
Home Stuff
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE CLOSE ON OUR FIRST HOME IN A WEEK AND A HALF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....and we haven't even started packing yet. Oops!! Truth is, our lease isn't up in this house until the end of October so realistically, we have a little over a month to move. We do want to be living in our home within a week of closing, though. So today, I will (hopefully) be able to get some packing done so that we can get things moving along. Everything is going great with the house. The appraisal came back just over what we are paying for the house, the general inspection repairs are completed and the WDO repairs are in progress. Once we get a clean WDO report, we will be ready to close. I still can't believe that we are actually going to be home owners! We have been dreaming of this day for years and it's finally almost here! Just in time for the holidays!
Closing with some more Monkey business
Writing earlier about how much the Monkey has grown in just a few weeks made me remember that I wanted to post some more then and now pictures that I have of her. I can't believe how much she has grown/changed. She is still my little beauty and I love her more and more every second of every day!
5 months old:
7 months old:
What a difference just two months makes!!! Here are my favorites though:
9 days old:
7 months old (same pants, same chair):
And just for comedy sake
If you know our Monkey, you know that she is not always the easiest baby in the world to get along with. She has a serious attitude and a bad temper. She gets it right, though. Mommy and Daddy passed along equal parts of both. When the Monkey isn't getting what she wants, a tantrum ensues. So a couple of days ago, Mitch brought home something to help with the tantrums. Soundproof headsets from work. The kind that the guys wear out on the flight line. They're awesome. And completely hilarious. Here is Monkey trying them out:
And here is Daddy giving them a test run during a tantrum at dinner time. Clearly they worked well. Notice the smile on Mitch's face:
Follow my blog with Bloglovin
My, how she's grown!
A week from tomorrow, Sophi will be 8 months old. I can't believe how fast time is moving now and I just want it to slow down. I love to look at all of the pictures that we take of her (which is a lot...about 500ish a month) and see how much she changes even just over the period of a month. See?
Taken Sept 4th (7 month b-day):
Taken last night:
Crazy, right? She is pretty much sleeping through the night now (Thank You JESUS!). This has been so great for me. The waking up every two hours at night to nurse and go back to sleep thing was killing me. Now, she goes down about 7:30 and sleeps until 5:00, wakes up to eat and then back down until between 7:00-8:00. This is awesome. I'm no doctor but I'm guessing that this is due to the fact that she has finally doubled her birth weight and is eating 3 meals a day with a snack or two in between. Plus, we play hard during the day. She is trying so hard to get mobile so we do a lot of encouraging her to try and crawl, which usually results in a belly flop and a swimming motion or her pushing herself backwards and then getting mad that she can't go forward to me. We also do a lot of holding her hands and letting her walk. She's really learning how to get those knees up and move her feet as long as we are there to guide her top half but she hasn't quite figured out how to trail the furniture yet. I'm sure it won't be long. We were given her cousin's old (to him) dinosaur ride/walk toy and the Monkey loves that thing! It's mane (what is this really called for dinos? Does it really matter?) lights up and it sings little tunes. She loves to be pushed around on it, to try and pull up on it or even just to sit and play with it. See?
My next mission is to find a park that has baby swings. If the sun ever decides to come back out here in Jacksonville, I think that the Monkey would really enjoy swinging and sliding and other fun park stuff. The weather has been pretty craptastic here lately, though so we haven't hit the swings yet. Maybe it will clear up one day this week. Also, why are there not see-saws anymore?? For whatever reason, I want the Monkey to experience one of those so bad! I think she would have so much fun on one. I get the safety risk, I do, but it's not like I would throw her on one side all by herself and then go flinging her around. I just have this awesome picture in my head of Daddy on one side and Mommy on the other and Sophi with one or the other of us and having a see-saw good time!! I told Mitch that since our new house comes with a nice workshop, there is no excuse. We want a see-saw darn it!
I wish I could say that we've had more (away from home) adventures to tell about but things have been pretty tight around here lately with Mitch's mother living with us and trying to get closed on our new home. I know that it will pay off in the end and really, I think Sophi likes being here at home and I look so forward to being in our new home and being able to swing on the back porch and play in the sandbox with her. At the new house, I'll feel more confident about taking her out and walking around the neighborhood. Maybe we can even get a wagon! I would like to take her to the zoo again soon, though. We went when she was barely 5 months old and she hardly left her stroller. She is much more curious now though and I'm sure will really be into it. I need to rally up some of my girlfriends with kids and plan a get together or something.
Mommy Stuff
I'm not sure if I blogged about this or not but at the Monkey's 6 month check up, I talked to her pedi about the fact that I was feeling pretty anti-climactic about life again. I was nervous that my PPD was creeping back in. It was different this time, though. Instead of having negative feelings about Sophi, I was really downing on myself. I felt like I was so far away from who I actually am. I miss working out and not having to worry about how many calories I get every day and going to get a haircut or a manicure whenever I want. I felt like a frumpy mom. I didn't feel pretty at all and I felt completely undesirable. [Let me say here that these feelings were all mine. Mitch is the most amazing man ever and makes it very well known every single day how beautiful and sexy he thinks I am and that he (very much) desires me.] Anyway, the doc wrote me another prescription for Zoloft and scheduled me an appointment to see the nutritionist on base to see if I could set up a plan with them that would allow me to work out again and try to rebuild my confidence. The Zoloft helped. My appointment with the nutritionist on base was a couple of weeks later. I was nervous going in but it turns out that there was nothing to be nervous about. The woman I met with was also a nursing mother and completely understood my concerns about working out and decreasing milk supply. After talking, she told me that it would be best if I did not start working out again until after I was done breast feeding because my supply is already so low that she wouldn't want me to risk it lowering anymore. Neither would I. So, my work outs now consist of pushing the Monkey around on her dinosaur or rolling around on the floor with her or going for a walk. I'm good with that. If it means that I get to breast feed my child until 12 months, I'm totally good with that. Buying some clothes that actually fit helped, too. ;)
Home Stuff
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE CLOSE ON OUR FIRST HOME IN A WEEK AND A HALF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....and we haven't even started packing yet. Oops!! Truth is, our lease isn't up in this house until the end of October so realistically, we have a little over a month to move. We do want to be living in our home within a week of closing, though. So today, I will (hopefully) be able to get some packing done so that we can get things moving along. Everything is going great with the house. The appraisal came back just over what we are paying for the house, the general inspection repairs are completed and the WDO repairs are in progress. Once we get a clean WDO report, we will be ready to close. I still can't believe that we are actually going to be home owners! We have been dreaming of this day for years and it's finally almost here! Just in time for the holidays!
Closing with some more Monkey business
Writing earlier about how much the Monkey has grown in just a few weeks made me remember that I wanted to post some more then and now pictures that I have of her. I can't believe how much she has grown/changed. She is still my little beauty and I love her more and more every second of every day!
5 months old:
7 months old:
What a difference just two months makes!!! Here are my favorites though:
9 days old:
7 months old (same pants, same chair):
And just for comedy sake
If you know our Monkey, you know that she is not always the easiest baby in the world to get along with. She has a serious attitude and a bad temper. She gets it right, though. Mommy and Daddy passed along equal parts of both. When the Monkey isn't getting what she wants, a tantrum ensues. So a couple of days ago, Mitch brought home something to help with the tantrums. Soundproof headsets from work. The kind that the guys wear out on the flight line. They're awesome. And completely hilarious. Here is Monkey trying them out:
And here is Daddy giving them a test run during a tantrum at dinner time. Clearly they worked well. Notice the smile on Mitch's face:
Follow my blog with Bloglovin
Saturday, September 3, 2011
First Foods Friday....er....Saturday.
Ok, so I didn't get my Friday entry actually entered on Friday. I know that SO many of you look forward to watching my kid with food smeared all over her face! ;) So anyway, here it comes....along with some other things, too.
The next food on our "try" list was decided by Mitch. He wanted the Monkey to eat some zucchini. So, zucchini is what the Monkey had. Did she like it? Not in particular. It was tough getting that first meal of only zucchini in her. We learned quick that in order to make zucchini meal time fun, it had to be mixed with some most awesome sweet potatoes. After we started mixing them, those things went down without a problem! I don't know that we'll be doing much zucchini for a while.
That same night, we sauteed up some green beans for ourselves and I thought we would hand one to the Monkey to try, since she's been doing so great at feeding herself the Mum Mums every night after dinner. This did not go so well. She tried to stick the green bean too far back into her mouth and gagged a little, I freaked out and took the green bean and had a mini heart attack. She was fine, of course, and looked at me like I was crazy. Anyway, here is Monkey with her green bean for the short time that she had it:
Our next food up is something that I have been excited about since the day that I made it. Butternut squash. I just knew that the Monkey would love it. And she absolutely did! She was practically jumping over her tray to get to the bowl and another bite. She bangs on her tray and opens her mouth up so wide, that you can see the intensity all over her face. It's beyond cute! In the Sunday paper this week, I saw that Babies R Us has Earth's Best Organic baby food on sale 20 jars for $10. This is a seriously good deal for that food so I decided to go ahead and grab some jars of stuff that I normally would not make or would not think of mixing. One of the jars that I got was apples and butternut squash. I figured that since we have already tried apples, it would be safe. So we tried it, and the Monkey reeeeeaaaally loved it! So that's what we do now. One apple cube and one b.n. squash cube and we have one happy Monkey!
We took the Monkey to the Farmer's Market today. It was her first trip to such a big market! One of the vendors in the front of the market gave me a peach to try. I decided to give the Monkey a taste. She loved it. She loved it so much that I ended up, little by little, removing the skin off of almost the entire peach so that she could eat it. She would just chomp away on the sweet, juicy peach with her little gums and she was in peachy heaven! That baby was such a mess afterward, sticky and covered in fruit but man, was she happy!! We, undoubtedly, bought more peaches to bring home with us. I think I may just peel them and slice them for her to enjoy as finger foods since she did so well today. It was so much fun to watch her discover her first peach!
In other news...
Daddy took the Monkey outside for some air yesterday when she got a little cranky. She really enjoys being outside and I honestly, don't get her out often enough. Anyway, I went out a few minutes later to see what they were up to and here is what I saw:
Yep. Daddy had that Monkey propped up on his bike. At first I was like "omg whatareyoudoinggetheroffofthatthiiiiiiiing!" But then I saw what I good time she was having and quite frankly, how stinking cute she looked and I got over it....and took more pictures. :) Here are a couple of my two favorite people in the world:
Monkey and the bath tub saga
So if you recall, a couple of posts ago I was bragging about how the Monkey has moved over to the big girl tub and is having a blast and all that. Well, that has now changed. After only about a week and a half of being in the big tub, she has decided that she does not like it. In fact, our child who has always loved her bath time so much, started screeching as soon as we put her in the tub and was slamming her hands into the side of the tub until we took her out. Finally after a couple of nights of this behavior, we decided to try her back in her little tub in the sink. That Monkey could not be happier. She is a very strange child. I don't know what it was that made her not want the big tub anymore. Maybe the fact that she couldn't see us at eye level or, for that matter, see anything but the walls of the tub, or if it was something else. Either way, our little Monkey is content in her little tub for now so that is where we will keep her until she is too big for it or she shows signs of wanting to switch back over. Since moving back over to the sink, she has developed an obsession with the knob at the end of the faucet. She tries to eat it the entire time she's getting her bath. It's funny. Here are some pictures:
That's about it for now! Mitch has a 4 day weekend this and we are going to be celebrating the Monkey's first Labor Day with my family on Monday so look forward to more pictures soon of that day!
The next food on our "try" list was decided by Mitch. He wanted the Monkey to eat some zucchini. So, zucchini is what the Monkey had. Did she like it? Not in particular. It was tough getting that first meal of only zucchini in her. We learned quick that in order to make zucchini meal time fun, it had to be mixed with some most awesome sweet potatoes. After we started mixing them, those things went down without a problem! I don't know that we'll be doing much zucchini for a while.
That same night, we sauteed up some green beans for ourselves and I thought we would hand one to the Monkey to try, since she's been doing so great at feeding herself the Mum Mums every night after dinner. This did not go so well. She tried to stick the green bean too far back into her mouth and gagged a little, I freaked out and took the green bean and had a mini heart attack. She was fine, of course, and looked at me like I was crazy. Anyway, here is Monkey with her green bean for the short time that she had it:
Our next food up is something that I have been excited about since the day that I made it. Butternut squash. I just knew that the Monkey would love it. And she absolutely did! She was practically jumping over her tray to get to the bowl and another bite. She bangs on her tray and opens her mouth up so wide, that you can see the intensity all over her face. It's beyond cute! In the Sunday paper this week, I saw that Babies R Us has Earth's Best Organic baby food on sale 20 jars for $10. This is a seriously good deal for that food so I decided to go ahead and grab some jars of stuff that I normally would not make or would not think of mixing. One of the jars that I got was apples and butternut squash. I figured that since we have already tried apples, it would be safe. So we tried it, and the Monkey reeeeeaaaally loved it! So that's what we do now. One apple cube and one b.n. squash cube and we have one happy Monkey!
We took the Monkey to the Farmer's Market today. It was her first trip to such a big market! One of the vendors in the front of the market gave me a peach to try. I decided to give the Monkey a taste. She loved it. She loved it so much that I ended up, little by little, removing the skin off of almost the entire peach so that she could eat it. She would just chomp away on the sweet, juicy peach with her little gums and she was in peachy heaven! That baby was such a mess afterward, sticky and covered in fruit but man, was she happy!! We, undoubtedly, bought more peaches to bring home with us. I think I may just peel them and slice them for her to enjoy as finger foods since she did so well today. It was so much fun to watch her discover her first peach!
In other news...
Daddy took the Monkey outside for some air yesterday when she got a little cranky. She really enjoys being outside and I honestly, don't get her out often enough. Anyway, I went out a few minutes later to see what they were up to and here is what I saw:
Yep. Daddy had that Monkey propped up on his bike. At first I was like "omg whatareyoudoinggetheroffofthatthiiiiiiiing!" But then I saw what I good time she was having and quite frankly, how stinking cute she looked and I got over it....and took more pictures. :) Here are a couple of my two favorite people in the world:
Monkey and the bath tub saga
So if you recall, a couple of posts ago I was bragging about how the Monkey has moved over to the big girl tub and is having a blast and all that. Well, that has now changed. After only about a week and a half of being in the big tub, she has decided that she does not like it. In fact, our child who has always loved her bath time so much, started screeching as soon as we put her in the tub and was slamming her hands into the side of the tub until we took her out. Finally after a couple of nights of this behavior, we decided to try her back in her little tub in the sink. That Monkey could not be happier. She is a very strange child. I don't know what it was that made her not want the big tub anymore. Maybe the fact that she couldn't see us at eye level or, for that matter, see anything but the walls of the tub, or if it was something else. Either way, our little Monkey is content in her little tub for now so that is where we will keep her until she is too big for it or she shows signs of wanting to switch back over. Since moving back over to the sink, she has developed an obsession with the knob at the end of the faucet. She tries to eat it the entire time she's getting her bath. It's funny. Here are some pictures:
That's about it for now! Mitch has a 4 day weekend this and we are going to be celebrating the Monkey's first Labor Day with my family on Monday so look forward to more pictures soon of that day!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Pictures of *THE* House!
I know that it's not official until we have the keys but I am giddy about the thought of this house being our very first home! Soooooo....I wanted to share some pictures that I snapped yesterday when we were having the home inspection done. The first two are from the MLS listing because I forgot to take pictures of the front but the rest are from me. :)
Front of the house:
Side of the house/garage:
Living Room from the front door:
Shot from front of living room looking up to the loft:
Dining Room:
Kitchen:
Hallway:
Master Bedroom:
Master Bath:
Sophi's Room:
Sophi's Bathroom:
Loft:
Sandra's Room (upstairs):
Sandra's Bathroom:
Backyard view from workshop:
Housing for firewood behind the workshop:
Sandbox!!!:
Daddy and Sophi on the porch with the workshop in the background:
I forgot to take a picture of the shower in the upstairs bathroom but it is newly remodeled and similar to the one in the master bedroom downstairs. Anyway, you get the gist of it! We are SOOOOO excited!! The inspection went very well yesterday. The inspector only found a few minor things that need repair. Next will be the appraisal and the WDO (Wood Destroying Organisms) inspection. We have asked the sellers to push our close date back to October 7th, instead of the 6th, so that we can skip having to pay the interest for the month of October and our first mortgage payment won't be until December! At the rate we got and the price, our mortgage payment is estimated to be almost $100 less than what we pay for rent! Yaaaaayy!!!
Monkey the Heavy Breather
On a not-so exciting note, the Monkey has come down with her very first cold. She woke up yesterday morning really congested and by yesterday afternoon, I was pumping Tylenol in her because she had a 100.8 degree fever. I know that's not really that high but it still freaks me out. She was not a very happy camper yesterday and she surely has made the aspirator her very worst enemy! I feel so bad for her because she can't breathe well through her nose and is practically panting to breathe. When she tries to nurse it's even worse. She'll try to eat as much as she can and then beaks latch and pulls back really quick and pants to catch her breath. Poor Monkey. She was highly fussy this morning and it took me almost an hour to get her to settle down and take a nap but since she's been awake, she seems much happier but is definitely still a heavy breather. Funny thing about all of this is, she actually helps me get the snot out by blowing her nose! When I come at her with the aspirator she sticks her tongue out with her mouth closed and blows, you know, "Pppplllffffpppp" and it in turn, causes the air to push out of her nose too. She cracks me up. Anyway, no fever so far today so we are hoping that she is back to her normal silly Monkey self very soon!
Front of the house:
Side of the house/garage:
Living Room from the front door:
Shot from front of living room looking up to the loft:
Dining Room:
Kitchen:
Hallway:
Master Bedroom:
Master Bath:
Sophi's Room:
Sophi's Bathroom:
Loft:
Sandra's Room (upstairs):
Sandra's Bathroom:
Backyard view from workshop:
Housing for firewood behind the workshop:
Sandbox!!!:
Daddy and Sophi on the porch with the workshop in the background:
I forgot to take a picture of the shower in the upstairs bathroom but it is newly remodeled and similar to the one in the master bedroom downstairs. Anyway, you get the gist of it! We are SOOOOO excited!! The inspection went very well yesterday. The inspector only found a few minor things that need repair. Next will be the appraisal and the WDO (Wood Destroying Organisms) inspection. We have asked the sellers to push our close date back to October 7th, instead of the 6th, so that we can skip having to pay the interest for the month of October and our first mortgage payment won't be until December! At the rate we got and the price, our mortgage payment is estimated to be almost $100 less than what we pay for rent! Yaaaaayy!!!
Monkey the Heavy Breather
On a not-so exciting note, the Monkey has come down with her very first cold. She woke up yesterday morning really congested and by yesterday afternoon, I was pumping Tylenol in her because she had a 100.8 degree fever. I know that's not really that high but it still freaks me out. She was not a very happy camper yesterday and she surely has made the aspirator her very worst enemy! I feel so bad for her because she can't breathe well through her nose and is practically panting to breathe. When she tries to nurse it's even worse. She'll try to eat as much as she can and then beaks latch and pulls back really quick and pants to catch her breath. Poor Monkey. She was highly fussy this morning and it took me almost an hour to get her to settle down and take a nap but since she's been awake, she seems much happier but is definitely still a heavy breather. Funny thing about all of this is, she actually helps me get the snot out by blowing her nose! When I come at her with the aspirator she sticks her tongue out with her mouth closed and blows, you know, "Pppplllffffpppp" and it in turn, causes the air to push out of her nose too. She cracks me up. Anyway, no fever so far today so we are hoping that she is back to her normal silly Monkey self very soon!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
