Emelia and I are having a crappy day thanks to our allergies! Both of us are all stuffy, sneezing like crazy, and miserable. Even after our medicine we are still having issues. This is one of the down sides of summer. And unfortunately my daughter had to inherit from me the one thing I prayed she didn't.
She is currently napping in her crib, which is wonderful! It is still a bit of a battle getting her to nap there, but it's getting a little better I think (hope)!! I set the date for July 1st to move to her crib at all times so we'll see if we do that. That is this Friday already. I don't know if I'm ready, but part of me is. It's not like she wakes up in the night a hundred times!
The past couple of days have gone better than the end of last week and the weekend. She has been less crabby, usually only when she's hungry or tired instead of all the time like it was on Saturday. She's back to sleeping at night, too. I'm not sure what was going on, but I'm glad it didn't last.
We have today and tomorrow off and we're just being bums for the most part. I'm scared to go outside where the pollen counts are definitely higher than in our house. We are going to pick up her pictures at JC Penny's later this afternoon. I can't wait to see them, she was so good and cute! :)
Well, she's been asleep for 15 minutes and I am going to zip downstairs quick and start her laundry, which has gotten put off and forgotten the past few days. Hopefully she gets a good nap in! :)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Shopping
Apparently, and scary enough, the key to Emelia's good mood includes a dose of shopping every once in a while! :)
I needed a few things this weekend, including bags to store my breast milk in, and didn't go yesterday because of Emelia's TERRIBLE mood. So we went today.
Before shopping, we went to church. Emelia is growing to not like church as much as she used to. She gets stir crazy and doesn't like sitting for so long! She still is pretty good compared to many of the other babies there.
When we got home, we were all a little tired and crabby. Emelia was up at 2 am last night again and the only way to get her back to sleep was for me to lay with her snuggled right into my chest. It was like she was scared I would leave. John and I think she maybe had a nightmare?
So Emelia and I took a nap then afterwards decided to go do our errand running. John offered to come with, so the three off us hopped in the car. It was actually quite nice. The weather was decent and John and I enjoyed chatting in the car. We shopped at a few stores and ate at a restaraunt together. Emelia sat in the high chair the whole time and did great! She wasn't sure what to think of the tapioca pudding, though!!
John insisted on buying Emelia a doll. She has recently taken an interest in dolls and we had discussed her having one. This was something he wanted to do today. We found a cute one at Target and she just loves it!
So I have come to realize that Emelia just needs a little retail therapy once in a while! Her mood after we got home was wonderful! She has been smiley and playful. She even played in the living room with daddy while I did some puttering around in the kitchen! Who would have thought!? :)
She's all tucked into bed now and I am on my way there shortly as well! Let's hope the little "Monster" sleeps better tonight!
I needed a few things this weekend, including bags to store my breast milk in, and didn't go yesterday because of Emelia's TERRIBLE mood. So we went today.
Before shopping, we went to church. Emelia is growing to not like church as much as she used to. She gets stir crazy and doesn't like sitting for so long! She still is pretty good compared to many of the other babies there.
When we got home, we were all a little tired and crabby. Emelia was up at 2 am last night again and the only way to get her back to sleep was for me to lay with her snuggled right into my chest. It was like she was scared I would leave. John and I think she maybe had a nightmare?
So Emelia and I took a nap then afterwards decided to go do our errand running. John offered to come with, so the three off us hopped in the car. It was actually quite nice. The weather was decent and John and I enjoyed chatting in the car. We shopped at a few stores and ate at a restaraunt together. Emelia sat in the high chair the whole time and did great! She wasn't sure what to think of the tapioca pudding, though!!
John insisted on buying Emelia a doll. She has recently taken an interest in dolls and we had discussed her having one. This was something he wanted to do today. We found a cute one at Target and she just loves it!
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| Emelia playing with her first doll! |
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| Pretty interested in this "baby" :) |
She's all tucked into bed now and I am on my way there shortly as well! Let's hope the little "Monster" sleeps better tonight!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
What a week!
Emelia has been testing me this week for sure! It has been a long one!
Every day seems like a fight with her lately. She has been so crabby at home. Especially on days she had been at daycare. The biggest issue we're having at the moment is that she will NOT take naps! Part of the issue I believe is that we are trying to do naps in her crib. I don't know if it has to do with her being a little scared or intimidated in her room or if she just knows it's bringing her one step closer to not being in ours.
She was also up super early this morning screaming and crying. It was 3:30! Nothing I did helped her and I felt so bad for her. It was obvious she was hurting somewhere, but of course I couldn't figure it out because she can't talk. I think that's the hardest part of this whole situation! I tried tylenol, diaper change, leg exercises (for gas), oragel (for teeth)! Nothing helped and she was so tired! We cuddled, rocked, swayed.... Poor little baby!
It doesn't help things that her nose is so stuffy and runny. When she went to bed last night, she was clear as a bell thanks to Benadryl, but when she woke up she was so stuffed!
Drool is picking up, also, and I think the issue at hand is TEETHING! Ugh, it's awful! But, they say they can have cold signs and symptoms when they are teething. It's hard to say, but I feel so bad for her.
Today we stayed home and vegged out and cuddled. We took a nice long nap, too, which she fought to the bitter end, but we both needed it! She woke up nice and happy afterwards, thankfully! She's eating now, with daddy, and not doing so well so I suppose it's Mommy to the rescue! It's getting close to her bedtime, too.
Hopefully the next post is a bit happier!! :)
Every day seems like a fight with her lately. She has been so crabby at home. Especially on days she had been at daycare. The biggest issue we're having at the moment is that she will NOT take naps! Part of the issue I believe is that we are trying to do naps in her crib. I don't know if it has to do with her being a little scared or intimidated in her room or if she just knows it's bringing her one step closer to not being in ours.
She was also up super early this morning screaming and crying. It was 3:30! Nothing I did helped her and I felt so bad for her. It was obvious she was hurting somewhere, but of course I couldn't figure it out because she can't talk. I think that's the hardest part of this whole situation! I tried tylenol, diaper change, leg exercises (for gas), oragel (for teeth)! Nothing helped and she was so tired! We cuddled, rocked, swayed.... Poor little baby!
It doesn't help things that her nose is so stuffy and runny. When she went to bed last night, she was clear as a bell thanks to Benadryl, but when she woke up she was so stuffed!
Drool is picking up, also, and I think the issue at hand is TEETHING! Ugh, it's awful! But, they say they can have cold signs and symptoms when they are teething. It's hard to say, but I feel so bad for her.
Today we stayed home and vegged out and cuddled. We took a nice long nap, too, which she fought to the bitter end, but we both needed it! She woke up nice and happy afterwards, thankfully! She's eating now, with daddy, and not doing so well so I suppose it's Mommy to the rescue! It's getting close to her bedtime, too.
Hopefully the next post is a bit happier!! :)
Monday, June 20, 2011
Bad Mommy
Today I feel rotten.
My day at work was a little hectic... nothing too crazy but just enough to test my patience and wear me thin. Emelia, as usual, hardly napped at daycare at all making for a crabby baby. Of course she was hungry when we got home so I tried to get her to nap. YEAH RIGHT!
I knew the longer she went before falling asleep, the worse it was going to get to GET her to sleep.
And I was right!
She finally got mad enough to want to eat again and most likely take a nap... she had the tired cry and was rubbing her eyes. She got just about asleep when she lost interest in eating, which is fine, so I laid her down while silently praying to God to let her sleep.
Yeah, well, wishful thinking. She immediately started screaming bloody murder. I walked out of her room, which sometimes is all it takes for her to quit fussing and roll over to sleep. Not today. She screamed and screamed. Meanwhile, there sits my husband, who is always saying "Just lay her down and walk away, she'll fall asleep, she does for me." (I'm so tired of people telling me "she does for me").
She continued to scream at the top of her lungs and I couldn't take it anymore. I snapped! I got up from the couch, went outside, and sat in my car. Eventually, John came out to see what the heck I was doing and he just didn't understand that I couldn't take it anymore.
When I finally came in, he had her in the living room and she immediately started screaming when she saw me. I lost it, started bawling myself....
Ugh, she WAS asleep, screaming now.... that was a short ass nap :(
This is one hell of a day that will never end. And do I ever feel like a bad mommy today for being so short and impatient with everyone. Emelia deserves better, I know that, but I am just at my wit's end and spread so damn thin I feel like I'm not even me.
I suppose this is all part of it, but I am hating these kinds of days and it's these kinds of days that make having more kids out of the question. The hardest part is getting John to understand that. He is currently going somewhere to do something... all by himself. Something I haven't done in a very, very long time.
I suppose I've complained enough and Emelia has not fallen back asleep so I best get off of here. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for us all.
My day at work was a little hectic... nothing too crazy but just enough to test my patience and wear me thin. Emelia, as usual, hardly napped at daycare at all making for a crabby baby. Of course she was hungry when we got home so I tried to get her to nap. YEAH RIGHT!
I knew the longer she went before falling asleep, the worse it was going to get to GET her to sleep.
And I was right!
She finally got mad enough to want to eat again and most likely take a nap... she had the tired cry and was rubbing her eyes. She got just about asleep when she lost interest in eating, which is fine, so I laid her down while silently praying to God to let her sleep.
Yeah, well, wishful thinking. She immediately started screaming bloody murder. I walked out of her room, which sometimes is all it takes for her to quit fussing and roll over to sleep. Not today. She screamed and screamed. Meanwhile, there sits my husband, who is always saying "Just lay her down and walk away, she'll fall asleep, she does for me." (I'm so tired of people telling me "she does for me").
She continued to scream at the top of her lungs and I couldn't take it anymore. I snapped! I got up from the couch, went outside, and sat in my car. Eventually, John came out to see what the heck I was doing and he just didn't understand that I couldn't take it anymore.
When I finally came in, he had her in the living room and she immediately started screaming when she saw me. I lost it, started bawling myself....
Ugh, she WAS asleep, screaming now.... that was a short ass nap :(
This is one hell of a day that will never end. And do I ever feel like a bad mommy today for being so short and impatient with everyone. Emelia deserves better, I know that, but I am just at my wit's end and spread so damn thin I feel like I'm not even me.
I suppose this is all part of it, but I am hating these kinds of days and it's these kinds of days that make having more kids out of the question. The hardest part is getting John to understand that. He is currently going somewhere to do something... all by himself. Something I haven't done in a very, very long time.
I suppose I've complained enough and Emelia has not fallen back asleep so I best get off of here. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for us all.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Swimming
After we swam for a long time, it was time to eat, so we sat outside. Emelia got to have turkey and peaches while the rest of us enjoyed sandwiches, fruit, salads, and cupcakes!
All in all, we had a great day! I was so happy Emelia didn't get scared out of her mind at the pool! I am even more excited for the rest of the summer now! :)
Here are a couple pictures from the day!
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| Swimming with Mommy! See the bright orange? That's the squid toy! |
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| After a full day and a full belly, Emelia fell asleep in her stroller watching the other kids! So cute! :) |
Tomorrow is also John's first Father's Day! Emelia and I both got him a card and Emelia got him a gift certificate to Gander Mountain and a special book about daddys for her and John to share together. I am excited for him to spend the morning with Emelia. Grandma Carol isn't coming until noon or so!
So now that's it is way late and I have to work in the morning, I'm signing off of here for some much needed sleep!! Wish I could sleep in the car like Emelia gets to! Hee hee!!!
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Summer Has Arrived
Today Emelia got to wear her swim suit and play in a pool!!
We filled the pool with warm water for her first time swimming. She loved it and really enjoyed being outside. She sat up on her own the whole time! And when she figured out how to splash, John and I both got a little bit of a bath!! :)
While Emelia enjoyed splashing and chasing her floating ducks around her pool, John and I enjoyed ourselves spraying the dogs and cat with water! And of course playing in the water with Emelia, also!!
The smile on her face was a nice change for me! Earlier in the day, we went shopping, and man oh man was Emelia CRABBY! I was about pulling my hair out! Thankfully she's taking a much needed NAP now, because holy smokes!
Saturday we are going swimming at a pool park! It's Emelia's 2nd cousins 2nd birthday party! I was supposed to work that day but thankfully got the day off! I am so super excited to take Emelia swimming! I hope she enjoys it as much as I think she will! If nothing else, she will enjoy watching all the other kids running around! My mom is coming, too, so she can always watch the baby a little for me so I can go down some of the water slides with my brother.
Summer has arrived and there are so many fun things to do! I can't wait to share them all with Emelia! I was thinking the other day that it will be sad to get through all of these "firsts"..... but then I thought that next year will all be a new set of firsts because she will be able to walk and run and maybe even sputter a few words! I look forward to every single day to come!!!
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| First time swimming!! |
While Emelia enjoyed splashing and chasing her floating ducks around her pool, John and I enjoyed ourselves spraying the dogs and cat with water! And of course playing in the water with Emelia, also!!
The smile on her face was a nice change for me! Earlier in the day, we went shopping, and man oh man was Emelia CRABBY! I was about pulling my hair out! Thankfully she's taking a much needed NAP now, because holy smokes!
Saturday we are going swimming at a pool park! It's Emelia's 2nd cousins 2nd birthday party! I was supposed to work that day but thankfully got the day off! I am so super excited to take Emelia swimming! I hope she enjoys it as much as I think she will! If nothing else, she will enjoy watching all the other kids running around! My mom is coming, too, so she can always watch the baby a little for me so I can go down some of the water slides with my brother.
Summer has arrived and there are so many fun things to do! I can't wait to share them all with Emelia! I was thinking the other day that it will be sad to get through all of these "firsts"..... but then I thought that next year will all be a new set of firsts because she will be able to walk and run and maybe even sputter a few words! I look forward to every single day to come!!!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Ouch!
I decided to add this to the blog so someday Emelia can read about this and get a good laugh.
Yesterday when we got home from work/daycare, we hadn't been in the house 10 minutes when John comes up to the patio door saying in a panicked voice "Honey! I need you!" I turned around and looked at him and I see bood running down his right arm. He comes in and I tell him to run it under cold water. I put Emelia down and went to take a peek. There was so much blood, dried and fresh, I couldn't tell what was going on. Eventually I was able to see John had cut his hand near the pointer finger where the finger meets the palm. Here's how it happened:
John was planting sweet corn with a small planter and his lawn mower. The arm of the planter had apparentlhy gotten slightly caught up in the barbed wire fence and John was attempting to get it freed. He was pulling on the planter arm with his left hand and didn't realize his right hand was holding onto the fence. When the plater arm finally got free it pulled on the fence therefore pulling the fence through a small part of his right hand.
I immediately thought he better go in and have stitches. At the time I looked at it, it looked fairly deep and meaty and there was a lot of blood. The cut itself is maybe 2 inches long. But then it started to clot and I thought, 'hmmm, maybe it's not as deep as I thought.' I still wanted him to go in.
We got to the clinic, who was great enough to squeeze us in and save us an ER trip to La Crosse, and the doctor finally came in and said he was gonig to stitch it. While we were waiting for the nurse to clean it off, John was talking to her and telling her about what happened. I come to find out that he didn't come into the house right away after it happened!!! He continued to plant the stupid corn with his hand gushing blood all over the lawn mower and him! No WONDER it had started to clot! It had been bleeding a while already! That STINKER of a husband!!
So in the end, John ended up with 4 stitches and no work for four days. Of course he's being a "man" about it and milking out this injury for all it's worth. He wanted me to put his socks on for him today!! Typical!
The neat part is that since I'm a nurse, I get to take the stitches out myself! I am super excited. I've done it before, but not THAT often, and those are the kinds of things that are the most fun!
And that was our day. We didn't get home until 7pm and we were all so tired! Emelia had only slept 3 hours all day since she had woken up at 4am! We went to bed early, to say the least!
Yesterday when we got home from work/daycare, we hadn't been in the house 10 minutes when John comes up to the patio door saying in a panicked voice "Honey! I need you!" I turned around and looked at him and I see bood running down his right arm. He comes in and I tell him to run it under cold water. I put Emelia down and went to take a peek. There was so much blood, dried and fresh, I couldn't tell what was going on. Eventually I was able to see John had cut his hand near the pointer finger where the finger meets the palm. Here's how it happened:
John was planting sweet corn with a small planter and his lawn mower. The arm of the planter had apparentlhy gotten slightly caught up in the barbed wire fence and John was attempting to get it freed. He was pulling on the planter arm with his left hand and didn't realize his right hand was holding onto the fence. When the plater arm finally got free it pulled on the fence therefore pulling the fence through a small part of his right hand.
I immediately thought he better go in and have stitches. At the time I looked at it, it looked fairly deep and meaty and there was a lot of blood. The cut itself is maybe 2 inches long. But then it started to clot and I thought, 'hmmm, maybe it's not as deep as I thought.' I still wanted him to go in.
We got to the clinic, who was great enough to squeeze us in and save us an ER trip to La Crosse, and the doctor finally came in and said he was gonig to stitch it. While we were waiting for the nurse to clean it off, John was talking to her and telling her about what happened. I come to find out that he didn't come into the house right away after it happened!!! He continued to plant the stupid corn with his hand gushing blood all over the lawn mower and him! No WONDER it had started to clot! It had been bleeding a while already! That STINKER of a husband!!
So in the end, John ended up with 4 stitches and no work for four days. Of course he's being a "man" about it and milking out this injury for all it's worth. He wanted me to put his socks on for him today!! Typical!
The neat part is that since I'm a nurse, I get to take the stitches out myself! I am super excited. I've done it before, but not THAT often, and those are the kinds of things that are the most fun!
And that was our day. We didn't get home until 7pm and we were all so tired! Emelia had only slept 3 hours all day since she had woken up at 4am! We went to bed early, to say the least!
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