Tuesday during the day we didn't do much. Lila was sick and I wasn't feel well either. Around the time I started working on dinner, I turned the radio on and was surprised to hear Christmas music! Lila liked listening and dancing to it, but I think it's too early! Lila understands some things about Christmas... she says "Christmas" whenever we see decorations at stores, and she says "Santa Claus" and knows that he says "Ho ho ho!" She had fun, anyway.
The Christmas music kind of reminded me that it's coming! Jared's official theme song is "All I Want For Christmas is You." He's my baby, and all I want is him. And we still have so much to do. We bought Lila's paint on Friday night, and it wasn't looking like we would be able to drop Lila off anywhere soon... but I asked Jake if he'd be willing to help me that night, and he said yes. I said even if we could get just one wall of edging done, I'd be happy to at least be doing something. Well, we got the whole room painted! It took 4-5 hours, but it didn't feel like that long. Mike came over to help watch Lila; they video chatted with Cassandra a lot. That was very helpful and I really appreciate it. I do like the color we chose a lot (Golden Waffle by Benjamin Moore) and glad we went with that instead of gray. It's warm and happy and soft. Lila had to sleep the whole night in our room because we weren't finished with her room when she went to bed, and we wouldn't want her in there while it was drying anyway. Jake didn't get to bed till almost 1am because he was drilling new holes in Lila's headboard, and he ended up sleeping in the guest room because Lila was hogging the bed.
Feels so good to have that done! Next is Jared's room, and once his room is done, I will feel REALLY good. We'll drop Lila off at Alicia's sometime soon.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
On Parenthood
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/on-parenthood.html
"There's no better way to understand just how amazing humans are than the front row seat a child gives you to observe it all unfold from scratch each and every day, from literal square zero. Children give the first four years of your life back to you."
"There's no better way to understand just how amazing humans are than the front row seat a child gives you to observe it all unfold from scratch each and every day, from literal square zero. Children give the first four years of your life back to you."
To Do Before Jared is Born (updated 11/10)
Sell e-bay and Craigslist items (stereo, stove hood, leaf blower)We're going to put these in a garage sale in the spring instead.Set up basement office, unpack drums, set up bookshelvesBuy bed and frame from JenJake doesn't like the bed after all, so we're not going to buy it.Buy end tables for master bedroomPaint guest bathroomPaint master bathroomPaint master bedroomBuy dresser for master bedroom- Buy headboard for guest room
Buy a generatorJake's parents are giving us their old one! Woohoo!- Complete 3 month food storage
- Make freezer meals
- Set up carseats
Put away Lila's outgrown clothesOrganize Jared's clothesFinish Jared's baby blanketThe pattern is no longer available for free online. Not going to make one after all.Make (or buy) curtains andpillowsfor living room- Make Lila's baby book: letters and pictures
Put pedals on lawn mower (Jake)He's decided to do this after Jared's born, next spring.- Make crib skirt
Paint Lila's room- Paint Jared's room
- Thank you notes from baby shower
- Judy Fowler
- Alicia
- Kasey
- Jen Randall
- Buy diapers and wipes
- Pack hospital bag
- Make sure fridge and pantry are stocked with good foods/snacks for our homecoming
- Decorate for Christmas (keep simple)
- Make sure I have recovery items ready for homecoming (pain killers, medicine, etc)
- Put together games/crafts for Lila to do over the winter
Trip to Sam's Club
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Lila's 19-month check-up, New Dresser, Jake
Lila woke up an hour after she went to bed on Sunday night coughing and crying. Sounded painful. So she stayed up with us till 11 and then slept all through the night, which was great. Mike dropped off our Camry during that time; he sold his VW and hasn't gotten a replacement yet, so he took our car to Canada to visit Cassandra. They still don't have a wedding date. They need to wait until they hear back from the First Presidency anyway, but they're still not sure. Mike wants to get married ASAP, of course, but especially in 2011 so they can get the tax break... but Cassandra wants to wait till January so she can get a dress custom made or something. It's kind of complicated, like most things in their relationship. I'm voting for January so that we can go :)
Monday morning at 8:30, Lila had her 18-month appointment. Even though she's over 19 months old. (Our schedule got off when Jake started working at Maestro in January, because our new insurance didn't kick in until mid-February.) We saw a Nurse Practitioner named Michelle Jepsen; I like her a lot and plan on going to her in the future. She's who we saw at Lila's one-year appointment and she referred us to the OT. She's very warm and friendly and good at explaining things. She determined that Lila has croup. Poor girl. But since it's a viral infection, there's not much that can be done except wait. So hopefully Lila will be feeling better by the end of the week. Symptoms of croup: a "barky" cough, stridor, gets worse at night, fever. So we didn't do her immunizations that day, we scheduled an appointment for a few weeks so she'll be better. But she did get weighed and measured. She weighs 27 lbs 6 oz (81%) and is 33 1/2 (84%) inches tall. Her growth is starting to slow down! She's been in the 97th percentile up until now. She weighs the same as she did at 11 months old but is over 2 inches taller.
Took her to the grocery store after that. She likes to walk instead of sit in the cart now, but she did last in the cart for the first half. (Right now Lila is sitting in her little rocking chair in the living room talking about Brig. She's saying, "Give Briggy a hug. Briggy guitar shirt. Cute." Because on Saturday Brig had a guitar shirt on. I'm surprised that she remembers that!) She's actually pretty good at staying right by me and following me around, so that's good. It sure is a work out, that grocery shopping.
After we got home, Tracy and Emma Boggs came by for a bit. They brought us Panera for lunch :) They were in town with Rich, who was at a conference here. It was nice visiting with them; she's Lori's best friend. Talked mostly about labor and delivery and how cute Lila is.
Lila took a 2 1/2 hour nap, which was great. She woke up coughing once, but thankfully fell back asleep.
After dinner, we picked up a dresser I found on Craigslist. Wasn't even really looking for anything specific, but it's a really great dresser, good/fashionable design, solid wood. $75. We'll put it in Jared's room--which is nice because he wasn't going to have a dresser, just a closet. It has 9 drawers so I can put things like burp cloths and blankets in them, even. Yay. And then we went to Sam's Club.
Came home, and Jake got Lila all hyper playing with her and giving her a bath. So she wasn't in bed till 10 again. Oy. But, she slept for 10 hours straight, which is a record for her... at least in her toddlerhood. Jake and I stayed up too late watching Once Upon a Time on Hulu. Past midnight. I'm tired today.
Jake's been doing well. He's such a good dad and husband. Last night after Lila was in bed--after we'd been chasing her around and had gone grocery shopping--this was the gist of our conversation:
Jake: Wow. I'm worn out.
Rudi: Yeah. That's what I do all day.
Jake: Well, I work all day too you know.
Rudi: Yeah, but that's not physical work.
Jake: But my work is very stressful.
Rudi: Well, you don't tell me that so I don't know that. You always say work is fine.
Jake: In the future, when I say that work is fine, it means that it's very stressful.
Rudi: Uh, no! If work is very stressful, you need to say that it's very stressful, Mr. Words Mean Things.
Jake: Uh...
Rudi: What message is that sending to our kids? That when we say fine we mean that we're really stressed--
Jake: Ok! You're right! I get it!
Just teasing Jake a little bit. He's always saying that we need to mean what we say because Words Mean Things! :)
Another conversation we've had recently -- Jake heard a story/study on the radio about how children are most impressionable when they're Jr. High age. That's when they really don't have strong opinions about anything and are most teachable. I thought that's interesting. We talked about that time in our lives. Jr. High was pretty hard for me... it was just a very intense time period for me. Trying to fit in, because in elementary school I had been bullied... so I just wanted to fit in and be popular... trying to navigate my way through what seemed to be a very complex social structure. And I don't think it would've been so difficult if I'd had more guidance from my parents. They would tell me who they thought I shouldn't be friends with... like they thought some people were a bad influence... but I don't remember them really explaining why. I don't remember them explaining a lot of things, even in high school. I really hope that I'm able to provide my children the guidance they need to feel confident.
Jake also was telling me how grateful he was for our marriage and how he thinks it's really solid. It means a lot to me to hear things like that from him. I really am so thankful that he is a partner that I can rely on, that we're in this together, that we're a team. I can't imagining trying to raise our family without him. I love him.
Monday morning at 8:30, Lila had her 18-month appointment. Even though she's over 19 months old. (Our schedule got off when Jake started working at Maestro in January, because our new insurance didn't kick in until mid-February.) We saw a Nurse Practitioner named Michelle Jepsen; I like her a lot and plan on going to her in the future. She's who we saw at Lila's one-year appointment and she referred us to the OT. She's very warm and friendly and good at explaining things. She determined that Lila has croup. Poor girl. But since it's a viral infection, there's not much that can be done except wait. So hopefully Lila will be feeling better by the end of the week. Symptoms of croup: a "barky" cough, stridor, gets worse at night, fever. So we didn't do her immunizations that day, we scheduled an appointment for a few weeks so she'll be better. But she did get weighed and measured. She weighs 27 lbs 6 oz (81%) and is 33 1/2 (84%) inches tall. Her growth is starting to slow down! She's been in the 97th percentile up until now. She weighs the same as she did at 11 months old but is over 2 inches taller.
Took her to the grocery store after that. She likes to walk instead of sit in the cart now, but she did last in the cart for the first half. (Right now Lila is sitting in her little rocking chair in the living room talking about Brig. She's saying, "Give Briggy a hug. Briggy guitar shirt. Cute." Because on Saturday Brig had a guitar shirt on. I'm surprised that she remembers that!) She's actually pretty good at staying right by me and following me around, so that's good. It sure is a work out, that grocery shopping.
After we got home, Tracy and Emma Boggs came by for a bit. They brought us Panera for lunch :) They were in town with Rich, who was at a conference here. It was nice visiting with them; she's Lori's best friend. Talked mostly about labor and delivery and how cute Lila is.
Lila took a 2 1/2 hour nap, which was great. She woke up coughing once, but thankfully fell back asleep.
After dinner, we picked up a dresser I found on Craigslist. Wasn't even really looking for anything specific, but it's a really great dresser, good/fashionable design, solid wood. $75. We'll put it in Jared's room--which is nice because he wasn't going to have a dresser, just a closet. It has 9 drawers so I can put things like burp cloths and blankets in them, even. Yay. And then we went to Sam's Club.
Came home, and Jake got Lila all hyper playing with her and giving her a bath. So she wasn't in bed till 10 again. Oy. But, she slept for 10 hours straight, which is a record for her... at least in her toddlerhood. Jake and I stayed up too late watching Once Upon a Time on Hulu. Past midnight. I'm tired today.
Jake's been doing well. He's such a good dad and husband. Last night after Lila was in bed--after we'd been chasing her around and had gone grocery shopping--this was the gist of our conversation:
Jake: Wow. I'm worn out.
Rudi: Yeah. That's what I do all day.
Jake: Well, I work all day too you know.
Rudi: Yeah, but that's not physical work.
Jake: But my work is very stressful.
Rudi: Well, you don't tell me that so I don't know that. You always say work is fine.
Jake: In the future, when I say that work is fine, it means that it's very stressful.
Rudi: Uh, no! If work is very stressful, you need to say that it's very stressful, Mr. Words Mean Things.
Jake: Uh...
Rudi: What message is that sending to our kids? That when we say fine we mean that we're really stressed--
Jake: Ok! You're right! I get it!
Just teasing Jake a little bit. He's always saying that we need to mean what we say because Words Mean Things! :)
Another conversation we've had recently -- Jake heard a story/study on the radio about how children are most impressionable when they're Jr. High age. That's when they really don't have strong opinions about anything and are most teachable. I thought that's interesting. We talked about that time in our lives. Jr. High was pretty hard for me... it was just a very intense time period for me. Trying to fit in, because in elementary school I had been bullied... so I just wanted to fit in and be popular... trying to navigate my way through what seemed to be a very complex social structure. And I don't think it would've been so difficult if I'd had more guidance from my parents. They would tell me who they thought I shouldn't be friends with... like they thought some people were a bad influence... but I don't remember them really explaining why. I don't remember them explaining a lot of things, even in high school. I really hope that I'm able to provide my children the guidance they need to feel confident.
Jake also was telling me how grateful he was for our marriage and how he thinks it's really solid. It means a lot to me to hear things like that from him. I really am so thankful that he is a partner that I can rely on, that we're in this together, that we're a team. I can't imagining trying to raise our family without him. I love him.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Babysitting Brig, Sick Lila
After my midwife appointment, I took Lila to the Oshtemo library. We happened to drop in while they were having story time, so we did that and then Lila got to pick out some books and play with the toys there. She liked sitting at the little kid tables too.
After her nap, we sat in the living room for a few hours. She played on her own (mostly with my iPhone, which is her new favorite toy--she calls it "Mommy Phoney") while I read blogs. For dinner we went to Panera. I had a lame salad and she had mac & cheese. It's fun eating out just the two of us, except for when she climbs all over the place and wants to run around. We then went to the mall. I had a $10 off coupon for JC Penney (I bought her holiday dress that I may end up returning) and a $15 off coupon for Express (I bought Emily a t-shirt for $5 for Christmas). Lila got to walk around, which she loves. She also pooped twice, of course. The last time we right before we were going to leave, and it leaked through the diaper onto her pants. Yum.
Came home, got in our jammies, half-watched The Office while we Skyped with Jake. Jake was out walking the strip with Jen; they stopped at a magic store to buy presents for her sons. After Lila went to bed, I stayed up for an hour and talked to Jake a bit more. I started crying because I missed him, was really tired, and was jealous that he got to be out "partying" late in a new city while I had to stay at home. Poor me, I know. I love being a mom, but sometimes I get jealous of Jake's freedom.
Friday we laid low. In the afternoon Lila and I got some paint samples--one for her room and one for Jared's. Up until this week, I was planning on putting Lila in what used to be the office and putting Jared in her room, just so that he would be closer. But Lila has adjusted to her room and likes it there, so now I think we're going to keep her in there. It's not like Jared's room will be much longer of a walk... it's like 5 feet further down the hall. And then we went to Target, where she did not poop for once. :) I was proud. I bought a Halloween costume for her for next year on clearance (a little Eskimo girl... like her mother).
She fell asleep on the way home, which was good because she had only napped for a half hour that day. Jake got home shortly after that, and we were so happy to see him. :) Lila was pretty hyper for the rest of the evening, planing with Daddy. We had a quick dinner and then went back to Lowe's to buy a gallon of paint for her room. We planned on painting her room on Saturday.... but that didn't happen because we ended up watching Brig all day.
Kasey Hunt dropped him off at 8am and off we went. Lila woke up with a fever; she'd caught Brig's cold earlier in the week. Bummer! Brig has had a cold for some time and has a cough still. But she had a lot of fun playing with Brig. Jake took them outside for a while to enjoy the nice fall weather we had this weekend. Aunt Gina came by for a while and so did her cousin's wife Linda. Linda is married to Greg Krause, son of Auntie Sis (my grandma's sister, so my mom's aunt) and Uncle Floyd. Uncle Floyd just passed away a few weeks ago, he was 91 years old. Greg lives in Mattawan, not too far from us. He's best friends with our realtor, Rich Kurth. Small world. Anyway, Linda wanted a copy of the Trotter Family Cook Book because the Krauses wanted to do something similar. So we visited for a while and it was nice.
Lila took a 3 hour nap that afternoon, which is almost unheard of 'round these parts. I'm so glad she was able to get good sleep. Brig took a good nap too. Jake got his hair cut. When the kids got up, we picked up a trailer from Brother Austed and headed to Battle Creek to buy a snow blower from an old man in the Battle Creek ward. That took a little while to sort out and the kids had fun running around in the yard. They were really good in the car for us. We had dinner at Culver's before Derek came to pick Brig up. Brig is the easiest kid in the world to watch. He has absolutely zero separation anxiety issues, and the only time he cried was when he and Lila fell off a cardboard box they were climbing on. He's very sweet and listens for the most part. Easy, easy. He's 3 months older than Lila, though, and doesn't really talk. So it was interesting trying to manage/"parent" a toddler who doesn't talk. Lila's a blabbermouth and gives a running commentary on just about everything we do.
So, we didn't get to paint Lila's room and I'm pretty bummed about that. In the next few weeks, we'll have to drop Lila off at Alicia's one evening or one Saturday so that we can do it. It should only take a few hours. We have to paint Jared's room too. We also wanted to go to Meijer and Sam's on Saturday, but didn't get to do those things either.
Lila slept pretty poorly last night. Woke up with a fever and coughing. The cold is in her chest, she has a tight/unproductive cough right now. Poor girl. She was in bed at 9:30 and up at 6:30 or so, but because of the time change it was 5:30. Jake stayed up with her for an hour and a half, and then he went back to bed till 10:00 while I played with her. I never understand how he's the one that gets to sleep in all the time! And how he gets all the back rubs around here. And how he usually manages to fall asleep laying on the living room floor while we're playing as a family. :) That guy.
It was a long day. We didn't go to church because of our sickie. She took a regular 90 minute nap. Acted pretty normal, for the most part, but was pretty cranky/sick after her nap. We took another long car ride to return the trailer and then buy a saw from Craigslist. Lila did great in the car again. Played with my iPhone for the last part of the ride, but then told us she was tired and wanted me to hold the phone. I told her to close her eyes and take a nap, so she closed her eyes but never actually fell asleep. It's funny; sometimes it's like she needs to be given permission to take a nap in the car.
Came home and by 4:30 it seemed like she was ready for bed. Darn time change. But after dinner she got a second wind and stayed up till 9. The time change is pretty great though, because she had been going to bed at 10 or sometimes later. 9:00 is more manageable for sure!
I'm happy to have Jake home. So happy. I just don't like being without him. It was a long week and I was pretty lonely, even though I made sure to see people and get out every day. Makes me grateful for all that he does for us when he's home with us.
I adore Lila. She is so sweet and so good. I've really enjoyed spending time with her lately. She's growing up. She's become a little more active these past few weeks... likes to run and gallop and hop around the house and to play games. Her favorite is playing "where'd Lila go?" as she hides in the closet and then peeks out over and over... or "where'd hand go?" or "where'd shoes go?" or "where'd mama go?" as she covers them/me with a blanket. She calls herself Yaya or Yiya. She's pretty sick tonight, losing her voice, but still as chatty as ever. I wish I could just videotape everything she does and says. She is so smart. Obsessed with computers and iPhones. "I want Daddy com-pooh-ter." "I want yopen it." One of my favorite things she says is "don-d'oh" for downstairs. She has a huge sweet tooth and likes to ask for "canny" (candy). When it's time for me to test my blood sugar, she says, "Mommy poke ee-self." Because I tell her that I have to poke myself. She scrunches up her face and says, "Owie. Bwood." And her newest thing is to make a big deal about stinky diapers. Every diaper change, not just poopy ones, she'll go on and on about her "stinky diaper" and she'll say things like blech, P.U., stinky!, plecha. She now throws diapers and wrappers and trash in the garbage can when I ask her to, and sometimes knows to do it on her own. When she's done eating something with a wrapper, she'll say, "I throw it away." She's just learning and growing so much every day. Getting taller and skinnier (still has a little baby chub though). Looking more and more like a little girl and less like a baby. She sure loves me, that kid. "I want Mommy. Where'd Mommy go? Mommy holdy! Mommy coming?" She says "I yuv ooh Mommy." She loves Daddy too though. They have so much fun playing together.
After her nap, we sat in the living room for a few hours. She played on her own (mostly with my iPhone, which is her new favorite toy--she calls it "Mommy Phoney") while I read blogs. For dinner we went to Panera. I had a lame salad and she had mac & cheese. It's fun eating out just the two of us, except for when she climbs all over the place and wants to run around. We then went to the mall. I had a $10 off coupon for JC Penney (I bought her holiday dress that I may end up returning) and a $15 off coupon for Express (I bought Emily a t-shirt for $5 for Christmas). Lila got to walk around, which she loves. She also pooped twice, of course. The last time we right before we were going to leave, and it leaked through the diaper onto her pants. Yum.
Came home, got in our jammies, half-watched The Office while we Skyped with Jake. Jake was out walking the strip with Jen; they stopped at a magic store to buy presents for her sons. After Lila went to bed, I stayed up for an hour and talked to Jake a bit more. I started crying because I missed him, was really tired, and was jealous that he got to be out "partying" late in a new city while I had to stay at home. Poor me, I know. I love being a mom, but sometimes I get jealous of Jake's freedom.
Friday we laid low. In the afternoon Lila and I got some paint samples--one for her room and one for Jared's. Up until this week, I was planning on putting Lila in what used to be the office and putting Jared in her room, just so that he would be closer. But Lila has adjusted to her room and likes it there, so now I think we're going to keep her in there. It's not like Jared's room will be much longer of a walk... it's like 5 feet further down the hall. And then we went to Target, where she did not poop for once. :) I was proud. I bought a Halloween costume for her for next year on clearance (a little Eskimo girl... like her mother).
She fell asleep on the way home, which was good because she had only napped for a half hour that day. Jake got home shortly after that, and we were so happy to see him. :) Lila was pretty hyper for the rest of the evening, planing with Daddy. We had a quick dinner and then went back to Lowe's to buy a gallon of paint for her room. We planned on painting her room on Saturday.... but that didn't happen because we ended up watching Brig all day.
Kasey Hunt dropped him off at 8am and off we went. Lila woke up with a fever; she'd caught Brig's cold earlier in the week. Bummer! Brig has had a cold for some time and has a cough still. But she had a lot of fun playing with Brig. Jake took them outside for a while to enjoy the nice fall weather we had this weekend. Aunt Gina came by for a while and so did her cousin's wife Linda. Linda is married to Greg Krause, son of Auntie Sis (my grandma's sister, so my mom's aunt) and Uncle Floyd. Uncle Floyd just passed away a few weeks ago, he was 91 years old. Greg lives in Mattawan, not too far from us. He's best friends with our realtor, Rich Kurth. Small world. Anyway, Linda wanted a copy of the Trotter Family Cook Book because the Krauses wanted to do something similar. So we visited for a while and it was nice.
Lila took a 3 hour nap that afternoon, which is almost unheard of 'round these parts. I'm so glad she was able to get good sleep. Brig took a good nap too. Jake got his hair cut. When the kids got up, we picked up a trailer from Brother Austed and headed to Battle Creek to buy a snow blower from an old man in the Battle Creek ward. That took a little while to sort out and the kids had fun running around in the yard. They were really good in the car for us. We had dinner at Culver's before Derek came to pick Brig up. Brig is the easiest kid in the world to watch. He has absolutely zero separation anxiety issues, and the only time he cried was when he and Lila fell off a cardboard box they were climbing on. He's very sweet and listens for the most part. Easy, easy. He's 3 months older than Lila, though, and doesn't really talk. So it was interesting trying to manage/"parent" a toddler who doesn't talk. Lila's a blabbermouth and gives a running commentary on just about everything we do.
So, we didn't get to paint Lila's room and I'm pretty bummed about that. In the next few weeks, we'll have to drop Lila off at Alicia's one evening or one Saturday so that we can do it. It should only take a few hours. We have to paint Jared's room too. We also wanted to go to Meijer and Sam's on Saturday, but didn't get to do those things either.
Lila slept pretty poorly last night. Woke up with a fever and coughing. The cold is in her chest, she has a tight/unproductive cough right now. Poor girl. She was in bed at 9:30 and up at 6:30 or so, but because of the time change it was 5:30. Jake stayed up with her for an hour and a half, and then he went back to bed till 10:00 while I played with her. I never understand how he's the one that gets to sleep in all the time! And how he gets all the back rubs around here. And how he usually manages to fall asleep laying on the living room floor while we're playing as a family. :) That guy.
It was a long day. We didn't go to church because of our sickie. She took a regular 90 minute nap. Acted pretty normal, for the most part, but was pretty cranky/sick after her nap. We took another long car ride to return the trailer and then buy a saw from Craigslist. Lila did great in the car again. Played with my iPhone for the last part of the ride, but then told us she was tired and wanted me to hold the phone. I told her to close her eyes and take a nap, so she closed her eyes but never actually fell asleep. It's funny; sometimes it's like she needs to be given permission to take a nap in the car.
Came home and by 4:30 it seemed like she was ready for bed. Darn time change. But after dinner she got a second wind and stayed up till 9. The time change is pretty great though, because she had been going to bed at 10 or sometimes later. 9:00 is more manageable for sure!
I'm happy to have Jake home. So happy. I just don't like being without him. It was a long week and I was pretty lonely, even though I made sure to see people and get out every day. Makes me grateful for all that he does for us when he's home with us.
I adore Lila. She is so sweet and so good. I've really enjoyed spending time with her lately. She's growing up. She's become a little more active these past few weeks... likes to run and gallop and hop around the house and to play games. Her favorite is playing "where'd Lila go?" as she hides in the closet and then peeks out over and over... or "where'd hand go?" or "where'd shoes go?" or "where'd mama go?" as she covers them/me with a blanket. She calls herself Yaya or Yiya. She's pretty sick tonight, losing her voice, but still as chatty as ever. I wish I could just videotape everything she does and says. She is so smart. Obsessed with computers and iPhones. "I want Daddy com-pooh-ter." "I want yopen it." One of my favorite things she says is "don-d'oh" for downstairs. She has a huge sweet tooth and likes to ask for "canny" (candy). When it's time for me to test my blood sugar, she says, "Mommy poke ee-self." Because I tell her that I have to poke myself. She scrunches up her face and says, "Owie. Bwood." And her newest thing is to make a big deal about stinky diapers. Every diaper change, not just poopy ones, she'll go on and on about her "stinky diaper" and she'll say things like blech, P.U., stinky!, plecha. She now throws diapers and wrappers and trash in the garbage can when I ask her to, and sometimes knows to do it on her own. When she's done eating something with a wrapper, she'll say, "I throw it away." She's just learning and growing so much every day. Getting taller and skinnier (still has a little baby chub though). Looking more and more like a little girl and less like a baby. She sure loves me, that kid. "I want Mommy. Where'd Mommy go? Mommy holdy! Mommy coming?" She says "I yuv ooh Mommy." She loves Daddy too though. They have so much fun playing together.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Made it to Friday (32w 1d)
We've made it to Friday! It's been a long week, but it went by faster than I thought it would... which is something I'd prayed for. Lila's been a good girl for me, thankfully. We've had some cranky moments, but for the most part she's done really well. She's gone to bed well and slept pretty well too. Two nights in a row, she slept through the night, but she's been waking up once per night the past few nights. Oh well.
I've been trying to keep busy and to get out of the house a lot. That's the key to survival.
Tuesday morning I went to Giselle Garcia's to take pictures of tamales. Yup. Her and Ann Walls have a tamale-making business and they wanted nice pictures to put on a website. Tuesday afternoon we were supposed to watch Jocelyn Burnham, but she was sick, so Terra didn't bring her over. I don't remember what we did instead. Jake spent the whole day at the airport. The evening was weird and stressful. After dinner, I packed everything up so we could go to Wal-Mart to check out all the Halloween clearance stuff. Before we left the house, I checked my diaper bag to make sure I had my wallet, and my wallet wasn't in there. I did a quick search of the house because Lila was strapped into the carseat already. Couldn't find it. Tried to remember the last time I'd used it, and I couldn't remember using it the whole weekend. I decided to drive to Jake's office to see if it was in his 4-Runner because I'd driven it the day before. It wasn't in there. So we headed home in the dark. Called my parents and asked them to pray that I'd find it, and Emily too. Jake was in the air, so I couldn't ask him for help, which was a bummer.
Finally, at 9:30 or so, Lila and I were sitting in my bedroom, and I decided to look in Jake's nightstand drawer. I thought about not looking because he never puts anything in there and that would be such a random place to put it, but there it was! Woohoo!
Wednesday morning was spent playing outside. We went for a long walk and I pushed Lila on the swing for a long time too. After her nap, I was planning on going to Sam's Club and had invited Kate. But while Lila was napping, Alicia Thompson called to see if I could watch Brig till 6pm because she and Quay were flying out to Idaho because her sister is in the ICU. Kasey Hunt was going to watch Brig till Derek comes home on Saturday night. Kate ended up not being able to go to Sam's, so I said sure and asked Alicia if it would be crazy to take Brig to Sam's Club with us. She said yes. So since it wasn't too terribly cold out, I took the kids to the park and we spent an hour playing there. I tried to push Brig like I push Lila on the swing (Lila likes to go high) and he got scared. They spent a lot of time walking up and down a hill. And then we went to McDonald's for chicken nuggets and fries. I felt like Super Mom herding around these two toddlers. And then we came home to play until Kasey picked him up.
After Kasey got Brig, Lila and I went to Aunt Gina's. We had a nice visit there. Went for another long walk. Aunt Gina's pretty hilarious. Lila liked walking in all the piles of leaves on the sides of the street. Aunt Gina laid down in them a few times and threw leaves all over herself. Lila was not impressed, lol. Lila doesn't like to make messes or get dirty.
Got home and had baths and got ready for bed, and I rocked Lila to sleep unintentionally. We sat down in her rocking chair to read a book, and she fell asleep looking at it. Must've been all that good exercise. I was extremely tired and had a bad headache, so I fell asleep. I was annoyed with Jake too because he was out on the strip "partying" and in a dinner meeting with a client or something and couldn't talk on the phone before bed.
Yesterday was ok but I was pretty down and emotional. We had a midwife appointment at 9:45 that we were 5 minutes late for. It's hard to get to those morning appointments on time with Lila. It was a pretty quick appointment. I only gained 1 pound, for a grand total of 132 lbs. Usually I gain a pound of week, but since I don't eat many sweets anymore (or food that I like) I guess that's slowed the weight gain down. Lila started crying when I pulled into the parking lot (funny) because she thought it was "skee-wee," but she did fine during the appointment. The first time she didn't cry when Heather measured me and listened to the heartbeat. So I actually got to hear my boy's heartbeat loud and clear! It was nice. I was measuring 33 weeks, and I'm only 32. I've gained 37 pounds so far. I just looked it up, and I had gained 38 pounds so far with my pregnancy with Lila, so I'm still gaining around the same amount of weight. But I weighed 142, so 10 pounds more. Yikes. Hopefully this means I'll lose the weight faster!
I've been trying to keep busy and to get out of the house a lot. That's the key to survival.
Tuesday morning I went to Giselle Garcia's to take pictures of tamales. Yup. Her and Ann Walls have a tamale-making business and they wanted nice pictures to put on a website. Tuesday afternoon we were supposed to watch Jocelyn Burnham, but she was sick, so Terra didn't bring her over. I don't remember what we did instead. Jake spent the whole day at the airport. The evening was weird and stressful. After dinner, I packed everything up so we could go to Wal-Mart to check out all the Halloween clearance stuff. Before we left the house, I checked my diaper bag to make sure I had my wallet, and my wallet wasn't in there. I did a quick search of the house because Lila was strapped into the carseat already. Couldn't find it. Tried to remember the last time I'd used it, and I couldn't remember using it the whole weekend. I decided to drive to Jake's office to see if it was in his 4-Runner because I'd driven it the day before. It wasn't in there. So we headed home in the dark. Called my parents and asked them to pray that I'd find it, and Emily too. Jake was in the air, so I couldn't ask him for help, which was a bummer.
Finally, at 9:30 or so, Lila and I were sitting in my bedroom, and I decided to look in Jake's nightstand drawer. I thought about not looking because he never puts anything in there and that would be such a random place to put it, but there it was! Woohoo!
Wednesday morning was spent playing outside. We went for a long walk and I pushed Lila on the swing for a long time too. After her nap, I was planning on going to Sam's Club and had invited Kate. But while Lila was napping, Alicia Thompson called to see if I could watch Brig till 6pm because she and Quay were flying out to Idaho because her sister is in the ICU. Kasey Hunt was going to watch Brig till Derek comes home on Saturday night. Kate ended up not being able to go to Sam's, so I said sure and asked Alicia if it would be crazy to take Brig to Sam's Club with us. She said yes. So since it wasn't too terribly cold out, I took the kids to the park and we spent an hour playing there. I tried to push Brig like I push Lila on the swing (Lila likes to go high) and he got scared. They spent a lot of time walking up and down a hill. And then we went to McDonald's for chicken nuggets and fries. I felt like Super Mom herding around these two toddlers. And then we came home to play until Kasey picked him up.
After Kasey got Brig, Lila and I went to Aunt Gina's. We had a nice visit there. Went for another long walk. Aunt Gina's pretty hilarious. Lila liked walking in all the piles of leaves on the sides of the street. Aunt Gina laid down in them a few times and threw leaves all over herself. Lila was not impressed, lol. Lila doesn't like to make messes or get dirty.
Got home and had baths and got ready for bed, and I rocked Lila to sleep unintentionally. We sat down in her rocking chair to read a book, and she fell asleep looking at it. Must've been all that good exercise. I was extremely tired and had a bad headache, so I fell asleep. I was annoyed with Jake too because he was out on the strip "partying" and in a dinner meeting with a client or something and couldn't talk on the phone before bed.
Yesterday was ok but I was pretty down and emotional. We had a midwife appointment at 9:45 that we were 5 minutes late for. It's hard to get to those morning appointments on time with Lila. It was a pretty quick appointment. I only gained 1 pound, for a grand total of 132 lbs. Usually I gain a pound of week, but since I don't eat many sweets anymore (or food that I like) I guess that's slowed the weight gain down. Lila started crying when I pulled into the parking lot (funny) because she thought it was "skee-wee," but she did fine during the appointment. The first time she didn't cry when Heather measured me and listened to the heartbeat. So I actually got to hear my boy's heartbeat loud and clear! It was nice. I was measuring 33 weeks, and I'm only 32. I've gained 37 pounds so far. I just looked it up, and I had gained 38 pounds so far with my pregnancy with Lila, so I'm still gaining around the same amount of weight. But I weighed 142, so 10 pounds more. Yikes. Hopefully this means I'll lose the weight faster!
Halloween + Getting to Vegas
Monday morning, Jake joined Lila and I for my follow-up diabetes appointment. We met with the diabetes counselor/nurse and the dietician. They gave me ideas about how to better manage my diet because some of my numbers were a little high, but they said it actually looked pretty good for the first week on the diet. But, if I can't control them better in the next few weeks, they may need to put me on medicine, which I really want to avoid. So I've been trying a lot harder since then, and so far my numbers have been good. They ran a lab test to see what my average blood sugar level has been for the past 2 months (pretty cool, huh?) and it was on the low end of normal, so they're pretty confident that this will go away once the baby is born. Phew.
Jake went back to work, and Lila took a late nap. She got up shortly before he got home from work. He came home early, at around 3pm, because I'd asked him to. :) He only did because he'd be gone for the rest of the week. So he got to play with Lila and he mopped the kitchen floor, because he's awesome.
Annette Shumway and baby Ruby came over to pass out candy with us. Lila's first time trick-or-treating went as well as I thought it would go. We went with the Caldwells but only went to maybe 5-10 houses. Lila was shy and didn't say trick-or-treat, but she did like the candy :) So we went down one side street and then came back to hand out candy. Our neighbors told us to buy a lot of candy, so we did (three big bags of it), but for some reason a lot of people skipped our house. I don't know if it's because the houses are a little farther apart on our side of the street, or if it's because it's longer of a walk to our front door, but we still had like half of our candy left. It was fun visiting with Annette though. She's pretty hilarious. Told us about her 31-year-old single sister who's been living in Utah since graduating high school. She had some sort of "mid-life" crisis... got a boob job! started being promiscuous, stopped going to church. But she's since met a good guy and is trying to get her life back in order. Pretty crazy. Boob job. Yikes.
Lila was pretty hyper for a while, from all the candy. But then crashed pretty well and slept through the night like a good girl! Jake and I stayed up late packing and visiting. We had a conversation about whether he should take his backpack or laptop case on the plane. We decided he should take the backpack... more flexibility and room. (This is important later on.)
He had to get up at 5 to leave for Chicago at 6. Kissed him goodbye. He came back home after leaving because he'd forgotten something. His coworker John was driving them to Chicago. And drove to Midway instead of O'Hare. So they had to race across the city and made it to the airport in time. Except Jake got stopped in security, because there were bullets in his backpack. That guy. He, of course, didn't know they were in there and don't know how they got in there, but they were for his pistol. Woops! So they had to call the police, who came in and had to fill out a report, and Jake missed the flight. His other three co-workers made it, but he didn't. And he didn't get to Las Vegas until after 1am our time! He had to wait till like 4pm to get on a flight to Los Angeles, and from there flew to Vegas. Crazy. Should've taken the laptop case.
Jake went back to work, and Lila took a late nap. She got up shortly before he got home from work. He came home early, at around 3pm, because I'd asked him to. :) He only did because he'd be gone for the rest of the week. So he got to play with Lila and he mopped the kitchen floor, because he's awesome.
Annette Shumway and baby Ruby came over to pass out candy with us. Lila's first time trick-or-treating went as well as I thought it would go. We went with the Caldwells but only went to maybe 5-10 houses. Lila was shy and didn't say trick-or-treat, but she did like the candy :) So we went down one side street and then came back to hand out candy. Our neighbors told us to buy a lot of candy, so we did (three big bags of it), but for some reason a lot of people skipped our house. I don't know if it's because the houses are a little farther apart on our side of the street, or if it's because it's longer of a walk to our front door, but we still had like half of our candy left. It was fun visiting with Annette though. She's pretty hilarious. Told us about her 31-year-old single sister who's been living in Utah since graduating high school. She had some sort of "mid-life" crisis... got a boob job! started being promiscuous, stopped going to church. But she's since met a good guy and is trying to get her life back in order. Pretty crazy. Boob job. Yikes.
Lila was pretty hyper for a while, from all the candy. But then crashed pretty well and slept through the night like a good girl! Jake and I stayed up late packing and visiting. We had a conversation about whether he should take his backpack or laptop case on the plane. We decided he should take the backpack... more flexibility and room. (This is important later on.)
He had to get up at 5 to leave for Chicago at 6. Kissed him goodbye. He came back home after leaving because he'd forgotten something. His coworker John was driving them to Chicago. And drove to Midway instead of O'Hare. So they had to race across the city and made it to the airport in time. Except Jake got stopped in security, because there were bullets in his backpack. That guy. He, of course, didn't know they were in there and don't know how they got in there, but they were for his pistol. Woops! So they had to call the police, who came in and had to fill out a report, and Jake missed the flight. His other three co-workers made it, but he didn't. And he didn't get to Las Vegas until after 1am our time! He had to wait till like 4pm to get on a flight to Los Angeles, and from there flew to Vegas. Crazy. Should've taken the laptop case.
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