Have you ever seen such a cutie? Baby girl is thinking about being an independent walker.... She took 4 steps yesterday by herself, and then crashed into my arms!
Friday, May 26, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Yucky old Virus!!!!!
Well, baby girl has been struck with a virus, while we were on a little escape to the beach no less. She had a fever for 3 days... and slept alot! While I felt bad for her, I kind of enjoyed the sleep (I'm a bad mommy, aren't I?) I was convinced that she had an ear infection, but the doctor rendered those horrible, awful, ear piercing words: It's just a virus, should be better in a few days, if not, come back. AAAARRRRGGGHHH!
You would have thought that baby girl was undergoing some terribly painful surgery without any pain relief when they were removing the wax from her ears... Friends of ours were in the room next door, when a nurse, the doctor, and myself had to hold her down, and she screamed and screamed and tried to get away. (the nurse commented on what strength she had for such a young child) Then they tried to look in her mouth at her throat, but she would not open her mouth, and the doctored feared she might crack the tongue depressor in half, so she gave up and took blood instead. All this just to look in her ears and throat???? And this came from the girl who didn't even cry when they gave her 4 shots at 6 months.
Anyway, we waited in the waiting room for the results of the blood test, and our friend came out and said "Man, did you hear that kid screaming?" To which I replied, "Yes, that was mine!"
So, 3 days later, she's fever free, and slept last night for 9 hours straight! There are 4 teeth lurking under those gums 2 poking through... I will not take those sleeping hours for granted!
And, to update you on dear husband....
We had a date on Monday night. The first part of the date consisted of me crying and telling him that I was so worried that he was always going to be a terrible listener, a selfish person, and that he would always be oblivious to his ways.
I actually got a bit of a response from him, and he "says" that he hears what I'm saying and that he wants to be a better husband. We'll see....
Well, baby girl has been struck with a virus, while we were on a little escape to the beach no less. She had a fever for 3 days... and slept alot! While I felt bad for her, I kind of enjoyed the sleep (I'm a bad mommy, aren't I?) I was convinced that she had an ear infection, but the doctor rendered those horrible, awful, ear piercing words: It's just a virus, should be better in a few days, if not, come back. AAAARRRRGGGHHH!
You would have thought that baby girl was undergoing some terribly painful surgery without any pain relief when they were removing the wax from her ears... Friends of ours were in the room next door, when a nurse, the doctor, and myself had to hold her down, and she screamed and screamed and tried to get away. (the nurse commented on what strength she had for such a young child) Then they tried to look in her mouth at her throat, but she would not open her mouth, and the doctored feared she might crack the tongue depressor in half, so she gave up and took blood instead. All this just to look in her ears and throat???? And this came from the girl who didn't even cry when they gave her 4 shots at 6 months.
Anyway, we waited in the waiting room for the results of the blood test, and our friend came out and said "Man, did you hear that kid screaming?" To which I replied, "Yes, that was mine!"
So, 3 days later, she's fever free, and slept last night for 9 hours straight! There are 4 teeth lurking under those gums 2 poking through... I will not take those sleeping hours for granted!
And, to update you on dear husband....
We had a date on Monday night. The first part of the date consisted of me crying and telling him that I was so worried that he was always going to be a terrible listener, a selfish person, and that he would always be oblivious to his ways.
I actually got a bit of a response from him, and he "says" that he hears what I'm saying and that he wants to be a better husband. We'll see....
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
What's wrong with him?????
My husband and I have had many ups and downs, recently more downs than ups. It seems that I may have married the most selfish, yet clueless man in the world. Now, I don't mean that he's not a good dad, nor do I mean that I don't believe that he can be a good guy. But, he has this way of only thinking of himself ALL of the time. I believe that he has some strong ADD tendencies, which sometimes may be a big part of the problem. But, it's so highly irritating that he behaves this way and seems unaware of it. Here is an example of the nonsense that I dealt with last night....
Husband: (8:59)Going to change the cat litter, cat's pooped on the floor.
Me: (9:05) come on sweet girl, time for a quick shower ( hurry, mommy really wants to watch the season finale of Grey's anatomy)
9:10 husband still not returning, oops, look at the time, he's in the basement watching his weekly fix of 24. Always watches, every monday night, too violent for any little children to watch with him, so he scores an average of 1 1/2 hours of complete and alone, quiet time.
Me:(9:20) Okay, your turn baby girl, time for bath. splash, cry, scream, dry off, try to put diaper on, scream some more, jammies on...
Me:(9:30) Okay, baby girl and sweet girl, lets play and read books while mommy reads the close captioning on the screen, picks out your clothes, feeds one of you a bottle, gives one of you a bed time snack, listens to you sing and dance (in front of the screen which I am reading words off of), one of you jump on me repeatedly, and I still remain calm...
Me:(10:05) where's daddy? his show and peace and quiet should be over now....
Me:(10:10) HUSBAND!!!!!!! What are you doing?
Husband(10:11): Oh, George Bush talked too long in his speech, shows still on for a few more minutes.
Me: Well, take one of them... I deserve some peace and quiet please
Sweet Girl: I can't watch daddy's show, it's to violent.
Husband: Oh I can take baby girl, no problem.
Then I proceeded to watch the last half of Grey's anatomy being interrupted every few minutes with requests, questions, ect...
Not the peaceful time I had expected or wanted.
When all shows are off, he comes around hinting at compliments for doing something that he had to be asked to do. And then has the audacity to get pissed off at me for not agreeing that he is compliment worthy. And decides to argue with me about it (totally not in his character.... usually the most uncommunicative person I know)!
After all arguements are on the table, dear husband says, guess I just can't watch my show anymore.... What an idiot! This is where I question does he have an attention issue so strong that he can't even follow the real issue at hand, or is he really smart and knows exactly how to manipulate me????
My husband and I have had many ups and downs, recently more downs than ups. It seems that I may have married the most selfish, yet clueless man in the world. Now, I don't mean that he's not a good dad, nor do I mean that I don't believe that he can be a good guy. But, he has this way of only thinking of himself ALL of the time. I believe that he has some strong ADD tendencies, which sometimes may be a big part of the problem. But, it's so highly irritating that he behaves this way and seems unaware of it. Here is an example of the nonsense that I dealt with last night....
Husband: (8:59)Going to change the cat litter, cat's pooped on the floor.
Me: (9:05) come on sweet girl, time for a quick shower ( hurry, mommy really wants to watch the season finale of Grey's anatomy)
9:10 husband still not returning, oops, look at the time, he's in the basement watching his weekly fix of 24. Always watches, every monday night, too violent for any little children to watch with him, so he scores an average of 1 1/2 hours of complete and alone, quiet time.
Me:(9:20) Okay, your turn baby girl, time for bath. splash, cry, scream, dry off, try to put diaper on, scream some more, jammies on...
Me:(9:30) Okay, baby girl and sweet girl, lets play and read books while mommy reads the close captioning on the screen, picks out your clothes, feeds one of you a bottle, gives one of you a bed time snack, listens to you sing and dance (in front of the screen which I am reading words off of), one of you jump on me repeatedly, and I still remain calm...
Me:(10:05) where's daddy? his show and peace and quiet should be over now....
Me:(10:10) HUSBAND!!!!!!! What are you doing?
Husband(10:11): Oh, George Bush talked too long in his speech, shows still on for a few more minutes.
Me: Well, take one of them... I deserve some peace and quiet please
Sweet Girl: I can't watch daddy's show, it's to violent.
Husband: Oh I can take baby girl, no problem.
Then I proceeded to watch the last half of Grey's anatomy being interrupted every few minutes with requests, questions, ect...
Not the peaceful time I had expected or wanted.
When all shows are off, he comes around hinting at compliments for doing something that he had to be asked to do. And then has the audacity to get pissed off at me for not agreeing that he is compliment worthy. And decides to argue with me about it (totally not in his character.... usually the most uncommunicative person I know)!
After all arguements are on the table, dear husband says, guess I just can't watch my show anymore.... What an idiot! This is where I question does he have an attention issue so strong that he can't even follow the real issue at hand, or is he really smart and knows exactly how to manipulate me????
Friday, May 05, 2006
It's Friday!
It's been a quick week, you know one of those weeks when you just feel like you are going, going, going, and you never have a moment to yourself, and then you wake up and realize, wow! the weekend is here again.
My weeks have been going like this for awhile now, and while it's nice that the time passes quickly, it's sad because my little baby is growing up, and my sweet girl is growing up even more! I can't belive that in one week my baby, the last baby I will have, is going to be 11 months old. 11 months, that is one month short of 1 year! How is it that she has already passed so many milestones in what seems like such a short time.
She is battling the 2nd or 3rd cold that she has had in her lifetime. Having a nanny has many perks! By this time sweet girl had had atleast 6 ear infections or sore throat viruses and she was in a small daycare setting! Anyway, baby girl does not have a good handle on sleeping through the night. She likes her mommy, and loves to cuddle with her mommy in her mommy's arms, which usually turns into mommy's bed because mommy is so darn tired, and has to get up and go to work in a few hours and wants to sleep.
BUT, last night a little benedryl, helped aid the sleep cause! I acutally woke up at 6 and looked at the clock, then tiptoed to baby girl's doorway and watched to see if she was breathing. When will I stop worrying about that? I think never, I still check on sweet girl in the middle of the night sometimes.
Yesterday, baby girl demonstrated her ability to stand up on her own and balance for about a minute. She was quite proud of herself. Hubby commented on how it looked strange to see baby girl and sweet girl standing next to each other. I agreed. Then she went on to show off her newest trick, How big is sweet baby? and up her arms go with a big smile! That girl is so darn cute when she smiles. To bad she only has 2 settings, smiley happy and crying pissed off.
As I write this post, I'm thinking to myself, "You really need to just sit back and relax and enjoy the ride at least 2 days a week." All of the other stuff will still be there, and we may pay a few bills late, and we might not have the best dinners, and everything might not be clean and tidy, but you know what, I will have had some enjoyable moments, and so will my girls. And Daddy might even catch on and join in on the family fun!
It's been a quick week, you know one of those weeks when you just feel like you are going, going, going, and you never have a moment to yourself, and then you wake up and realize, wow! the weekend is here again.
My weeks have been going like this for awhile now, and while it's nice that the time passes quickly, it's sad because my little baby is growing up, and my sweet girl is growing up even more! I can't belive that in one week my baby, the last baby I will have, is going to be 11 months old. 11 months, that is one month short of 1 year! How is it that she has already passed so many milestones in what seems like such a short time.
She is battling the 2nd or 3rd cold that she has had in her lifetime. Having a nanny has many perks! By this time sweet girl had had atleast 6 ear infections or sore throat viruses and she was in a small daycare setting! Anyway, baby girl does not have a good handle on sleeping through the night. She likes her mommy, and loves to cuddle with her mommy in her mommy's arms, which usually turns into mommy's bed because mommy is so darn tired, and has to get up and go to work in a few hours and wants to sleep.
BUT, last night a little benedryl, helped aid the sleep cause! I acutally woke up at 6 and looked at the clock, then tiptoed to baby girl's doorway and watched to see if she was breathing. When will I stop worrying about that? I think never, I still check on sweet girl in the middle of the night sometimes.
Yesterday, baby girl demonstrated her ability to stand up on her own and balance for about a minute. She was quite proud of herself. Hubby commented on how it looked strange to see baby girl and sweet girl standing next to each other. I agreed. Then she went on to show off her newest trick, How big is sweet baby? and up her arms go with a big smile! That girl is so darn cute when she smiles. To bad she only has 2 settings, smiley happy and crying pissed off.
As I write this post, I'm thinking to myself, "You really need to just sit back and relax and enjoy the ride at least 2 days a week." All of the other stuff will still be there, and we may pay a few bills late, and we might not have the best dinners, and everything might not be clean and tidy, but you know what, I will have had some enjoyable moments, and so will my girls. And Daddy might even catch on and join in on the family fun!
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