Dear Vivian,
Man it's crazy how time flies! You're already 6 weeks old!
At your 4 week check up you were 9 lbs, 1 ounce- same as Teagan was at his 4 week appointment!! You were also 21 & 3/4 inches long!
You're really chunking up these days! Those thighs are getting quite rolly!!
I asked the dr about your spitting up and she said she thinks its from not burping well, which you don't. You don't spit up as much with a bottle, and that's because daddy stops you every ounce to make you burp, whereas when I nurse you, I just wait until you let go to burp you. So now that I'm trying to make you burp more you seem to be less pukey! Thank goodness because you have so many cute clothes we were covering up with bibs!
But the last week nada yesterday morning you puked bright yellow. It really made me nervous. And two days in a row at about the same time you projectile vomited a lot on me. I think that was from eggs maybe? That's the only thing I ate both days in a row.
I was reading my blog from the early days with Teagan and it seems as though he had issues when I ate eggs as well. Reading about him changes things a bit. I thought you were more difficult with the crying and spitting up and all that, big I guess we went through the same stuff with him.
I go back to work a week from tomorrow. I'm looking forward to getting out of the house and feeling productive again, but things are bound to get crazy at home. Oh well, tis life. I'm hoping you get held enough at daycare. I'm worried for you because you're not on a very good eating schedule at home. You don't eat every 3 hours on the dot like your brother did. You just kind of graze all day. So I'm wondering how she's going to know when you're hungry and when you're just fussing.
You've started smiling for us now. You're particularly fond of your daddy. Everyday when he gets home you're full of big smiles for him. We have somewhat of a nightly routine going on. I lay with Teagan either in my bed or on the couch and you lay with daddy. Usually I got to bed and fall asleep and he gets your pjs on you and will either give you a bottle if its time or just put you to bed.
We still haven't even started on your room. I ordered the changing table cover and decided I liked it so I ordered the sheet & diaper stacker to match. We still need to get a crib mattress though! It won't fit in my car though so I need daddy to get it with his truck! Once we have all the stuff then I'll pick a paint color and we'll really make you a nice room!
You had a great first Christmas! You got tons of new clothes and a few new little toys and dolls. Santa brought you a fancy new play at for you to lay on and play. It has a light up musical mobile and lots of various toys dangling. Teagan likes to lay on it with you and show you all the toys.
Well I'm going to get a quick shower before you are hungry again.
I love you to the moon and back baby girl!
Love,
Mommy
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Two Kids..
Dear Kids:
Wow. I never imagined having two kids would be this hard. I've heard going from one to two was the hardest, but phew. Sooo tiring.
Teagan, the first few weeks was so rough for the both of us. Vivian needed me to feed her and you just wanted my attention. I felt so bad. One night we ate really late because we had company and you ate while I fed Vivian. You were done and were sitting in your highchair wanting to get down. You wanted me to get you down and not daddy. You asked me to hold you. I said I would as soon as I was done eating my dinner. I knew you were tired and wanted me to just hold you as I always do before bed. So when I got you down you climbed up on the couch to watch TV while you waited for me to get done eating. Halfway through my meal I looked over and you were sleeping. I felt horrible. I got done eating and told daddy to go change Vivian and get her pjs on. I picked you up and just held you. I felt so bad. All you wanted was for me to just hold you. I sat there with you in my arms and cried. I was just so overwhelmed by how needy Vivian was and how it seemed as though she was taking up all of my time. I felt like I wasn't being a good mom to you. It's gotten better, but it's still very trying at times. I think once I go back to work and you're back at daycare full time things will get easier. Everyone will be in a routine and life will run smoothly again. I think dinner will be the hardest time. When we get home it'll be time for Vivian to eat and it'll be hard to get dinner on the table in a timely manner.
You've been going to daycare twice a week. I get up and take you and daddy picks you up. It's a good break for me to get things done around the house and bond with Vivian and you get away from me. You don't nap for me at home. Just last week you wouldn't nap and you were just being crazy and I just needed a few minutes to myself. I heard you yelling from my bedroom saying you peed....on my bed. I went in and got you and brought you to your bathroom. I sat on the bathroom floor and cried. I told you I was upset. You felt bad and hugged me. After being home with me all day you don't want daddy to come home. You say things like "I don't like my daddy. I want my daddy to go to work." It's heartbreaking for him I'm sure. You want me to do everything for you. You won't let daddy take you potty or get you dressed. It's frustating when I'm busy doing something and you have to go potty.
Vivian, for the first few weeks your dad and I were pretty much convinced you didn't like us. You cried all the time & were just all around a miserable baby. We couldn't figure out what was wrong with you!
I'd like to apologize to both of you. We were all adjusting, myself included. Teagan, I'm sorry I couldn't give you as much attention as you were used to. I'm also sorry for being so short with you. Vivian, I'm sorry for being so impatient and frustrated with you.
I hope neither of you stopped feeling my love for you. I love you both to the moon and back, always. There will be plenty more times I get upset, frustrated and downright cranky with you guys, but never ever doubt my love for you.
Love,
Mommy
Wow. I never imagined having two kids would be this hard. I've heard going from one to two was the hardest, but phew. Sooo tiring.
Teagan, the first few weeks was so rough for the both of us. Vivian needed me to feed her and you just wanted my attention. I felt so bad. One night we ate really late because we had company and you ate while I fed Vivian. You were done and were sitting in your highchair wanting to get down. You wanted me to get you down and not daddy. You asked me to hold you. I said I would as soon as I was done eating my dinner. I knew you were tired and wanted me to just hold you as I always do before bed. So when I got you down you climbed up on the couch to watch TV while you waited for me to get done eating. Halfway through my meal I looked over and you were sleeping. I felt horrible. I got done eating and told daddy to go change Vivian and get her pjs on. I picked you up and just held you. I felt so bad. All you wanted was for me to just hold you. I sat there with you in my arms and cried. I was just so overwhelmed by how needy Vivian was and how it seemed as though she was taking up all of my time. I felt like I wasn't being a good mom to you. It's gotten better, but it's still very trying at times. I think once I go back to work and you're back at daycare full time things will get easier. Everyone will be in a routine and life will run smoothly again. I think dinner will be the hardest time. When we get home it'll be time for Vivian to eat and it'll be hard to get dinner on the table in a timely manner.
You've been going to daycare twice a week. I get up and take you and daddy picks you up. It's a good break for me to get things done around the house and bond with Vivian and you get away from me. You don't nap for me at home. Just last week you wouldn't nap and you were just being crazy and I just needed a few minutes to myself. I heard you yelling from my bedroom saying you peed....on my bed. I went in and got you and brought you to your bathroom. I sat on the bathroom floor and cried. I told you I was upset. You felt bad and hugged me. After being home with me all day you don't want daddy to come home. You say things like "I don't like my daddy. I want my daddy to go to work." It's heartbreaking for him I'm sure. You want me to do everything for you. You won't let daddy take you potty or get you dressed. It's frustating when I'm busy doing something and you have to go potty.
Vivian, for the first few weeks your dad and I were pretty much convinced you didn't like us. You cried all the time & were just all around a miserable baby. We couldn't figure out what was wrong with you!
I'd like to apologize to both of you. We were all adjusting, myself included. Teagan, I'm sorry I couldn't give you as much attention as you were used to. I'm also sorry for being so short with you. Vivian, I'm sorry for being so impatient and frustrated with you.
I hope neither of you stopped feeling my love for you. I love you both to the moon and back, always. There will be plenty more times I get upset, frustrated and downright cranky with you guys, but never ever doubt my love for you.
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Your Birth Story
Dear Vivian:
Yay! You're finally here!!! And you're a girl!!
So we never forget, here is your birth story.
On Thursday afternoon while I say at my desk after my appointment I started to get very crampy and was having some uncomfortable contractions. I tries to time them but I was busy trying to get stuff done for work. I timed a few and they seemed to be about 7-8 minutes apart. But once I left work I didn't notice them too much. I chalked it up to just irritation from the exam.
I went about my normal business that night. We had french toast & then Teagan & I snuggled. I took a shower before bed. During the night I was having some contractions. I got up and bounced on my ball to see if I could really get them going and so I could time them. Again, they were about 7-7:30 mins apart. I went back to bed and tried to see. I did get some rest, but by 5-6am, I was havin some pretty painful ones. Dad woke up & heard me grumbling about them and he decided not to go to work. I thought for sure once I got up and moving around that they'd pick up & become regular. Well, just the opposite happened instead, they slowed down & fizzled out.
I told aunt Erin to come over for a walk, we were gonna get this baby out! So we walked about 3 or more miles. It was tiring and I didn't have a single contraction while we were on our walk. We came home and I started making us some grilled cheese (last meal I ate before your brother was born too). I had a few contractions here and there but they didn't hurt really. After lunch I bounced on my ball some more and had a few more contractions. Nothing would just get consistent!!! After aunt Erin left I decided to take a bath to help me relax. Then I went in the bedroom around 3 to lay down with Teagan and try to get a nap in. As I was trying to doze off, he kept rolling around and giggling and he'd hit my belly and I was having contractions that seemed to be about 5 minutes apart. I didn't say anything to daddy because I figured as soon as I fell asleep or got up and walked around they'd go away.
Around 3:30 daddy came in and said he was going hunting. He noticed I seemed to be in pain but I told him to go anyway. He took the day off and nothing happened with him home so he may as well go and I could see if anything happened. I asked him to take Teagan to nana's so I could be alone. It was too much trying to run around after him and entertain him while I was hurting. After they left I paced the house. Contractions picked up the more I walked. I just kept doing laps around the house, stopping every few contractions that were really bad. I went to the bathroom around 4:15 and noticed I was losing my plug. I knew that labor was near. I text daddy and told him about it. Contractions were starting to get more intense. I tried to call my dr but they close at 3:30 on Fridays. So I just paced more . Any time I sat down my contractions slow right down & spaced out. I didn't understand. So I was second guessing whether or not I was in labor. I decided I should just keep walking. At 5 I text daddy and told him he needed to come home. I knew he'd need to shower and that we'd need to go soon. I was starting to cry through a few contractions. They were about 3:30 minutes apart. I had packed Teagan's bag earlier and I grabbed his bin of trains. We went over and dropped them off to him at Nana's. At first he was saying he didn't want to go home but once he realized we were leaving for the night he was upset.
Around 6:15 I called the on call number and they put me through to my dr. I told him I was ready to have my baby now. He asked what was going on and then said that usually contractions need to be 3 mins apart for about 2 hours before going in but I could go get checked if I felt like I really needed to. It was a bit discouraging to hear that. I started to wonder if they'd just send me home.
Once we got there we had to stand at the nurses station while I filled out an insurance form since I switch insurances since I sent in my preregistration packet.
When I was finished they took me down to a room WITH ANOTHER COUPLE! I was so irritated I was having to share a room with someone else who was in labor! Apparently all the labor & delivery rooms were full and we'd have to wait. My nurse checked me and I was 3 cm dilated. I heard the lady on the other side of the curtain talking to her nurse and her nurse told her the next available room had a jacuzzi tub but she wouldn't be able to use it because she'd be on Pitocin. So that made me even more irritated knowing she was there to be induced and was going to get the first room with a tub that she couldn't even use!!
Then there was a shift change and the first nurse that had my preregistration packet left, so my new nurse made me full it out again....all 6 pages!!
And to top it off, I was starving and those people went and ordered a damn pizza!! Ooooh sooo annoying! I could smell it throughout the room and I just wanted some! And daddy said the lady over there kept farting.
My nurse called my dr and he decided to keep me. They then said I would get the available room because I was in active labor and the other lady wasn't. So down the hall we went. My room was directly across from the nurses station. They hooked me up to the monitors and said my dr wanted me to have a 1/2 bag of fluids and that once they got them going I could get into the tub. So in I went. Oh man was it heavenly. I got in around 8:45 I think and my nurse said I had to be out by 10 to get checked again. I ended up getting out around 9:45. The water was making me way too hot and I felt like I needed to be up and moving during contractions. I got on all 4s during one contraction and daddy was scared I'd drown. So I got out and started pacing my room waving my gown around because I was so hot. At 10:10 grandma & grandpa got there with some food for daddy. Right after they got there I had to be checked again and get hooked back up to the monitors.
This time I was at 7cm. She said she was going to call my dr now.
My dr got there about 10:30. He could hear my grumbling with every contraction from the nurses station right across the hall. He came in and asked if I wanted anything for pain. I told him I liked to endure the pain. He thought I was nuts. He said he'd break my water. Within about 10-15 minutes of him doing so I was about 8-9cm.
Aunt Erin and aunt Lindsey got there just before 11.
At 11:05 he came back in and said "Let's have a baby!" "Right now?" I asked. He said I could wait until tomorrow if I wanted to. I told him no. So he suited up and grandpa and aunt Lindsey left the room. At 11:08 I started pushing. Daddy said maybe the baby would come at 11:16 on 11/16 if I hurried. My dr said "I'm not going to be here another 8 minutes." and I gave about 3 pushes and out you came at 11:11pm on 11/16. I was so shocked that you were a girl. I couldn't believe it. The baby girl that I dreamed of having!!
Daddy cut the cord & called nana to tell her. Grandma went out and got grandpa & aunt Lynnie...who hadn't even made it to the end of the hall to the waiting room. Dr Dodard delivered the afterbirth and we passed you around the room.
You weighed in at 8 pounds even. Perfect in every way possible!
Grandpa & grandma left the hospital around 12:15 when it was time for me to move down to the post partum rooms. I got the last single room! Pheww no sharing with anyone thank god!
Aunt Erin & aunt Lynnie went and got me some McDonalds and came back around 12:45am. They had you in the nursery cleaning you up. Your aunts waited to see you again and then left a little after 1.
This whole experience was 110 times different than your brothers birth. It was way easier, shorter & I felt way better after you were out. I felt human again. I could walk and move around. It was great!
I love you to the moon and back baby girl.
Love,
Mommy
Yay! You're finally here!!! And you're a girl!!
So we never forget, here is your birth story.
On Thursday afternoon while I say at my desk after my appointment I started to get very crampy and was having some uncomfortable contractions. I tries to time them but I was busy trying to get stuff done for work. I timed a few and they seemed to be about 7-8 minutes apart. But once I left work I didn't notice them too much. I chalked it up to just irritation from the exam.
I went about my normal business that night. We had french toast & then Teagan & I snuggled. I took a shower before bed. During the night I was having some contractions. I got up and bounced on my ball to see if I could really get them going and so I could time them. Again, they were about 7-7:30 mins apart. I went back to bed and tried to see. I did get some rest, but by 5-6am, I was havin some pretty painful ones. Dad woke up & heard me grumbling about them and he decided not to go to work. I thought for sure once I got up and moving around that they'd pick up & become regular. Well, just the opposite happened instead, they slowed down & fizzled out.
I told aunt Erin to come over for a walk, we were gonna get this baby out! So we walked about 3 or more miles. It was tiring and I didn't have a single contraction while we were on our walk. We came home and I started making us some grilled cheese (last meal I ate before your brother was born too). I had a few contractions here and there but they didn't hurt really. After lunch I bounced on my ball some more and had a few more contractions. Nothing would just get consistent!!! After aunt Erin left I decided to take a bath to help me relax. Then I went in the bedroom around 3 to lay down with Teagan and try to get a nap in. As I was trying to doze off, he kept rolling around and giggling and he'd hit my belly and I was having contractions that seemed to be about 5 minutes apart. I didn't say anything to daddy because I figured as soon as I fell asleep or got up and walked around they'd go away.
Around 3:30 daddy came in and said he was going hunting. He noticed I seemed to be in pain but I told him to go anyway. He took the day off and nothing happened with him home so he may as well go and I could see if anything happened. I asked him to take Teagan to nana's so I could be alone. It was too much trying to run around after him and entertain him while I was hurting. After they left I paced the house. Contractions picked up the more I walked. I just kept doing laps around the house, stopping every few contractions that were really bad. I went to the bathroom around 4:15 and noticed I was losing my plug. I knew that labor was near. I text daddy and told him about it. Contractions were starting to get more intense. I tried to call my dr but they close at 3:30 on Fridays. So I just paced more . Any time I sat down my contractions slow right down & spaced out. I didn't understand. So I was second guessing whether or not I was in labor. I decided I should just keep walking. At 5 I text daddy and told him he needed to come home. I knew he'd need to shower and that we'd need to go soon. I was starting to cry through a few contractions. They were about 3:30 minutes apart. I had packed Teagan's bag earlier and I grabbed his bin of trains. We went over and dropped them off to him at Nana's. At first he was saying he didn't want to go home but once he realized we were leaving for the night he was upset.
Around 6:15 I called the on call number and they put me through to my dr. I told him I was ready to have my baby now. He asked what was going on and then said that usually contractions need to be 3 mins apart for about 2 hours before going in but I could go get checked if I felt like I really needed to. It was a bit discouraging to hear that. I started to wonder if they'd just send me home.
Once we got there we had to stand at the nurses station while I filled out an insurance form since I switch insurances since I sent in my preregistration packet.
When I was finished they took me down to a room WITH ANOTHER COUPLE! I was so irritated I was having to share a room with someone else who was in labor! Apparently all the labor & delivery rooms were full and we'd have to wait. My nurse checked me and I was 3 cm dilated. I heard the lady on the other side of the curtain talking to her nurse and her nurse told her the next available room had a jacuzzi tub but she wouldn't be able to use it because she'd be on Pitocin. So that made me even more irritated knowing she was there to be induced and was going to get the first room with a tub that she couldn't even use!!
Then there was a shift change and the first nurse that had my preregistration packet left, so my new nurse made me full it out again....all 6 pages!!
And to top it off, I was starving and those people went and ordered a damn pizza!! Ooooh sooo annoying! I could smell it throughout the room and I just wanted some! And daddy said the lady over there kept farting.
My nurse called my dr and he decided to keep me. They then said I would get the available room because I was in active labor and the other lady wasn't. So down the hall we went. My room was directly across from the nurses station. They hooked me up to the monitors and said my dr wanted me to have a 1/2 bag of fluids and that once they got them going I could get into the tub. So in I went. Oh man was it heavenly. I got in around 8:45 I think and my nurse said I had to be out by 10 to get checked again. I ended up getting out around 9:45. The water was making me way too hot and I felt like I needed to be up and moving during contractions. I got on all 4s during one contraction and daddy was scared I'd drown. So I got out and started pacing my room waving my gown around because I was so hot. At 10:10 grandma & grandpa got there with some food for daddy. Right after they got there I had to be checked again and get hooked back up to the monitors.
This time I was at 7cm. She said she was going to call my dr now.
My dr got there about 10:30. He could hear my grumbling with every contraction from the nurses station right across the hall. He came in and asked if I wanted anything for pain. I told him I liked to endure the pain. He thought I was nuts. He said he'd break my water. Within about 10-15 minutes of him doing so I was about 8-9cm.
Aunt Erin and aunt Lindsey got there just before 11.
At 11:05 he came back in and said "Let's have a baby!" "Right now?" I asked. He said I could wait until tomorrow if I wanted to. I told him no. So he suited up and grandpa and aunt Lindsey left the room. At 11:08 I started pushing. Daddy said maybe the baby would come at 11:16 on 11/16 if I hurried. My dr said "I'm not going to be here another 8 minutes." and I gave about 3 pushes and out you came at 11:11pm on 11/16. I was so shocked that you were a girl. I couldn't believe it. The baby girl that I dreamed of having!!
Daddy cut the cord & called nana to tell her. Grandma went out and got grandpa & aunt Lynnie...who hadn't even made it to the end of the hall to the waiting room. Dr Dodard delivered the afterbirth and we passed you around the room.
You weighed in at 8 pounds even. Perfect in every way possible!
Grandpa & grandma left the hospital around 12:15 when it was time for me to move down to the post partum rooms. I got the last single room! Pheww no sharing with anyone thank god!
Aunt Erin & aunt Lynnie went and got me some McDonalds and came back around 12:45am. They had you in the nursery cleaning you up. Your aunts waited to see you again and then left a little after 1.
This whole experience was 110 times different than your brothers birth. It was way easier, shorter & I felt way better after you were out. I felt human again. I could walk and move around. It was great!
I love you to the moon and back baby girl.
Love,
Mommy
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Happy Due Date To Me!
Dear Sprout:
Where are you? Well obviously still in my belly!
I had my 40 week appointment today and was still only a fingertip dilated. :-/
He asked if we wanted to talk about inducing and I said no and he was cool with that. I scheduled another appointment for next Wednesday. I really reallly dont want to have to go to that one!!
He did try to loosen the membranes and stimulate my cervix again in hope that would help get things moving.
I sure hope so! I want to meet you soon!!
I love you to the moon and back baby!!
Love,
Mommy
Where are you? Well obviously still in my belly!
I had my 40 week appointment today and was still only a fingertip dilated. :-/
He asked if we wanted to talk about inducing and I said no and he was cool with that. I scheduled another appointment for next Wednesday. I really reallly dont want to have to go to that one!!
He did try to loosen the membranes and stimulate my cervix again in hope that would help get things moving.
I sure hope so! I want to meet you soon!!
I love you to the moon and back baby!!
Love,
Mommy
Friday, November 9, 2012
6 Days Left (Hopefully Less)
Dear Sprout:
Well, there are 6 days left until your due date. I will probably cry if by then you aren't in my arms yet. On Halloween I had my 38 week appointment although I was only 37 weeks and 6 days, but I had a busy day on Thursday so I couldn't go right at 38 weeks. I was anticipating getting an exam and being checked for dilation, but when the nurse had me go in the room she said he wouldn't check me until 38 weeks. I was kind of irritated because I was curious to know what was happening down there!
Then that night on the way to pick up your brother from daycare and to get ready for trick or treating I was having some crampy Braxton Hicks contractions and a few were 5-7 minutes apart. I was a bit concerned but ignored them since we had a full night ahead of us! By the time we were done trick or treating with your brother, we had some dinner at grandmas and I just felt extremely tired out and my stomach was upset and I was still getting the contractions.
I went home, took a hot shower, drank some water and went to sleep. It all stopped then.
So life went on as normal. I am bouncing on the ball all the time. Grandma came over last Saturday and shampooed the carpet in our bedroom and your bedroom and helped get a few things organized for me.
Daddy FINALLY got down the pack and play, swing and bouncey seat, so I got all those cleaned up and ready to go. Well, not the pack and play, but maybe I'll do that this weekend. I got your carseat Bundle Me insert all in there and it hooked to the base so daddy just has to grab it and get it in his truck when it's time for us to come home.
All that I really have left to do is sterilize bottles & pump parts and buy new bottle nipples. I need to get you a crib mattress & mattress pad still, but that can be done anytime. I plan to redo your room depending on what you are. If you are a boy then we will do a sports theme and if you're a girl we will do an owl theme. I have everything I want for both all saved in my cart on Amazon ready to be ordered. Then I'll need someone to help paint your room. I don't want to keep it yellow.
I've been buying a few boy items and a few girl items here and there. I did buy a Thanksgiving outfit for you that can work for a boy or girl and then I bought a girl Christmas outfit since by the time you get here and I get around to shopping all the Christmas outfits will be picked over. And I bought you a boy onesie that matches your brother's shirt and then a boy fleexe sleeper and a girl fleece sleeper and a girl outfit. So we'll see what we get to keep and what needs to be returned!!
I had my 39 week appointment yesterday. I was eager to get an exam. I thought for sure all those crampy Braxton Hicks last week did something! So Dr. Dodard came in and did the exam. He said that my cervix wasn't doing much of anything and I was maybe a fingertip dilated. Then he did some swooshing around in there and said it would hurt a little but he was trying to help things along. I've heard of Drs "stimulating" the cervix to help release a hormone that will make you dilate....so hopefully that works. I expected to be crampy or maybe have a little something afterwards, but I didn't.
I have thought for a while now that you would be bigger than Teagan (7.13) so I asked the dr to take a guess at what he thought you might weigh. He felt around and decided that you'd probably weighed about 7.5-7.6 right now and that you definitely wouldn't be tipping the 8lb mark. So that was good to hear. I told him how I thought you felt bigger and he said it could be the way you're positioned. Your head is down, but you're still pretty high up.
We have a big weekend planned. Tonight I do my last Passion Party, well last one until after you're born and we're settled and I get back into things. Then tomorrow me, Teagan, grandma, Aunt Linny & Aunt Erin are all going down to Syracuse shopping all day. So that'll be a whole day on my feet. Which at this point that's what I need. Then Sunday I'm going to make a big pot of chicken noodle soup for daddy and Teagan to live off of while we're in the hospital next week (hopefully) and we're going to Great Grandma Cole's for an early Thanksgiving dinner celebration since Uncle Rocky is home visiting from Alaska. Then I intend to work a 1/2 day on Monday and afterward go get a pedicure and maybe a massage and then pick up any last minute things I need still. Then I hope to go into labor Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
That's the plan, so let's follow suit little Sprout! :-)
And in case this plan falls through, then I need to use my next 15 minutes of work today to get everything wrapped up...you never know, you could decide to come this weekend!
I love you to the moon and back and I can't wait to meet you!
Love,
Mommy
Well, there are 6 days left until your due date. I will probably cry if by then you aren't in my arms yet. On Halloween I had my 38 week appointment although I was only 37 weeks and 6 days, but I had a busy day on Thursday so I couldn't go right at 38 weeks. I was anticipating getting an exam and being checked for dilation, but when the nurse had me go in the room she said he wouldn't check me until 38 weeks. I was kind of irritated because I was curious to know what was happening down there!
Then that night on the way to pick up your brother from daycare and to get ready for trick or treating I was having some crampy Braxton Hicks contractions and a few were 5-7 minutes apart. I was a bit concerned but ignored them since we had a full night ahead of us! By the time we were done trick or treating with your brother, we had some dinner at grandmas and I just felt extremely tired out and my stomach was upset and I was still getting the contractions.
I went home, took a hot shower, drank some water and went to sleep. It all stopped then.
So life went on as normal. I am bouncing on the ball all the time. Grandma came over last Saturday and shampooed the carpet in our bedroom and your bedroom and helped get a few things organized for me.
Daddy FINALLY got down the pack and play, swing and bouncey seat, so I got all those cleaned up and ready to go. Well, not the pack and play, but maybe I'll do that this weekend. I got your carseat Bundle Me insert all in there and it hooked to the base so daddy just has to grab it and get it in his truck when it's time for us to come home.
All that I really have left to do is sterilize bottles & pump parts and buy new bottle nipples. I need to get you a crib mattress & mattress pad still, but that can be done anytime. I plan to redo your room depending on what you are. If you are a boy then we will do a sports theme and if you're a girl we will do an owl theme. I have everything I want for both all saved in my cart on Amazon ready to be ordered. Then I'll need someone to help paint your room. I don't want to keep it yellow.
I've been buying a few boy items and a few girl items here and there. I did buy a Thanksgiving outfit for you that can work for a boy or girl and then I bought a girl Christmas outfit since by the time you get here and I get around to shopping all the Christmas outfits will be picked over. And I bought you a boy onesie that matches your brother's shirt and then a boy fleexe sleeper and a girl fleece sleeper and a girl outfit. So we'll see what we get to keep and what needs to be returned!!
I had my 39 week appointment yesterday. I was eager to get an exam. I thought for sure all those crampy Braxton Hicks last week did something! So Dr. Dodard came in and did the exam. He said that my cervix wasn't doing much of anything and I was maybe a fingertip dilated. Then he did some swooshing around in there and said it would hurt a little but he was trying to help things along. I've heard of Drs "stimulating" the cervix to help release a hormone that will make you dilate....so hopefully that works. I expected to be crampy or maybe have a little something afterwards, but I didn't.
I have thought for a while now that you would be bigger than Teagan (7.13) so I asked the dr to take a guess at what he thought you might weigh. He felt around and decided that you'd probably weighed about 7.5-7.6 right now and that you definitely wouldn't be tipping the 8lb mark. So that was good to hear. I told him how I thought you felt bigger and he said it could be the way you're positioned. Your head is down, but you're still pretty high up.
We have a big weekend planned. Tonight I do my last Passion Party, well last one until after you're born and we're settled and I get back into things. Then tomorrow me, Teagan, grandma, Aunt Linny & Aunt Erin are all going down to Syracuse shopping all day. So that'll be a whole day on my feet. Which at this point that's what I need. Then Sunday I'm going to make a big pot of chicken noodle soup for daddy and Teagan to live off of while we're in the hospital next week (hopefully) and we're going to Great Grandma Cole's for an early Thanksgiving dinner celebration since Uncle Rocky is home visiting from Alaska. Then I intend to work a 1/2 day on Monday and afterward go get a pedicure and maybe a massage and then pick up any last minute things I need still. Then I hope to go into labor Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
That's the plan, so let's follow suit little Sprout! :-)
And in case this plan falls through, then I need to use my next 15 minutes of work today to get everything wrapped up...you never know, you could decide to come this weekend!
I love you to the moon and back and I can't wait to meet you!
Love,
Mommy
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Halloween Was Fun!
Dear Teagan:
Halloween was so much fun this year! We carved pumpkins with the whole family. You were yelling into the pumpkins face first. You didn't like touching too much of the pumpkin guts, but you would reach in and grab a seed or two.
Then 2 days before Halloween Jenn brought all your friends from daycare trick or treating around to visit everyone. You went to the hospital to see Brylee's mommy, then to my work, then to Aunt Erin & Gradma's work. You guys were all so cute! I felt bad though because you didn't want to leave me. You cried. :-(
Then on Halloween you got to go to Hannah's school & watch all the kids in the parade. You really enjoyed that. Then you guys had a Halloween party. I made some pudding cups for your party and Jenn made black and orange spaghetti & Donna made a bean bag toss game.
Then we went trick or treating. First we went to nanas. Then to grandma & grandpa Coles. Then to grandmas! Right as we were getting out of the car there were some trick or treaters leaving to go to the next house and you wanted to go down the road with them.
We went inside and got a goody bag from grandma and said hi to everyone and headed up the road. We only walked to 2 houses, but that was plenty. You were good about saying trick or treat and thanking people for the candy. You wanted to go in everyone's houses though. It was pretty funny.
Your Elmo costume was perfect! It was warm and fit you just right! It was kind of misting out so you wanted the "hat" on it to keep your ears nice and warm and dry!
It was a great Halloween! I can't wait to do it again!! And either can you! You keep asking if we're going trick or treating again.
I love you to the moon & back baby!
Love,
Mommy
Halloween was so much fun this year! We carved pumpkins with the whole family. You were yelling into the pumpkins face first. You didn't like touching too much of the pumpkin guts, but you would reach in and grab a seed or two.
Then 2 days before Halloween Jenn brought all your friends from daycare trick or treating around to visit everyone. You went to the hospital to see Brylee's mommy, then to my work, then to Aunt Erin & Gradma's work. You guys were all so cute! I felt bad though because you didn't want to leave me. You cried. :-(
Then on Halloween you got to go to Hannah's school & watch all the kids in the parade. You really enjoyed that. Then you guys had a Halloween party. I made some pudding cups for your party and Jenn made black and orange spaghetti & Donna made a bean bag toss game.
Then we went trick or treating. First we went to nanas. Then to grandma & grandpa Coles. Then to grandmas! Right as we were getting out of the car there were some trick or treaters leaving to go to the next house and you wanted to go down the road with them.
We went inside and got a goody bag from grandma and said hi to everyone and headed up the road. We only walked to 2 houses, but that was plenty. You were good about saying trick or treat and thanking people for the candy. You wanted to go in everyone's houses though. It was pretty funny.
Your Elmo costume was perfect! It was warm and fit you just right! It was kind of misting out so you wanted the "hat" on it to keep your ears nice and warm and dry!
It was a great Halloween! I can't wait to do it again!! And either can you! You keep asking if we're going trick or treating again.
I love you to the moon & back baby!
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
30 Days Left!
Dear Sprout:
I'm sooooo ready to meet you!!!
And your big brother is too. I think it's finally sinking in that you are real and you're going to come live with us. He talks about things he will and will not share with you. Mostly it's food he says he won't share, which is a good thing, I'd hate to be worried about him popping a goldfish or fruit snack in your mouth while I'm not looking.
Last weekend I went up in the attic and got down the bin of newborn to 3 month clothes, the baby bath and the infant carseat. Daddy didn't think it was necessary to get down the swing, bouncer or pack and play yet. So I went through the clothes to see what I could get washed that was either neutral colored or plain white onesies and socks or whatever. Apparently after 2 years in storage, stains that I didn't know existed come to surface. So there are some nice outfits that Teagan only wore a handful of times that are ruined. It made me mad.
Then this past weekend I took the carseat apart and got that all washed up, which again, there was some weird drool/spitup/whatever stain down the middle of it that I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed with Oxyclean that just wouldn't come out. Oh well, it's going to expire in two years anyway so you'll be the last one to use it. And I soaked the baby bath tub in Clorox for the day and then scrubbed that all up. It looks brand new!!
I opened a package of newborn diapers and oh my goodness they are soooo little!!
I can't even believe your butt is going to fit into them!! I compared them to Teagan's and it would take 3 of your newborn diapers to be the size of his!
I also got the whole changing table all cleaned up. It was a bit dusty and the bins were pretty disorganized, so I got those somewhat organized now. I had bought a few lotions and soaps when they were on sale and I had some different butt creams left over from Teagan that were still good. I'm still in need of more lotions and I really want an Exergen Temporal Themometer.
I feel like I'm not going to have enough time to do things! I pretty much don't get anything done on week nights aside from making/eating/cleaning up dinner and then getting Teagan ready for bed and my stuff ready for the following day. And then this weekend Saturday is completely filled up, so that leaves Sunday only to do stuff. Then the next weekend, Friday night & Saturday afternoon is booked up, so again, that leaves me with Sunday only. Then finally the weekend of November 3-4 we have completely free (so far) and then following weekend, which is the last weekend before you're due, I have a party Friday night and I feel like something else was going on as well that weekend, but I can't think. But regardless, that leaves me about 4-6 days to get everything done.
Which at this point isn't even really a lot. Just set up the pack and play to make sure we have all the parts we need and same with the swing. And I need to clean them both of course. Oh and I need to sterilize all my pump parts and bottles and fun stuff like that.
Okay, now time to get going home. Finally. It's been such a long day!
Keep on cooking in there. And drop down a bit would ya? You've been giving me heartburn all day today!!!
I love you to the moon and back babykins!
Love,
Mommy
I'm sooooo ready to meet you!!!
And your big brother is too. I think it's finally sinking in that you are real and you're going to come live with us. He talks about things he will and will not share with you. Mostly it's food he says he won't share, which is a good thing, I'd hate to be worried about him popping a goldfish or fruit snack in your mouth while I'm not looking.
Last weekend I went up in the attic and got down the bin of newborn to 3 month clothes, the baby bath and the infant carseat. Daddy didn't think it was necessary to get down the swing, bouncer or pack and play yet. So I went through the clothes to see what I could get washed that was either neutral colored or plain white onesies and socks or whatever. Apparently after 2 years in storage, stains that I didn't know existed come to surface. So there are some nice outfits that Teagan only wore a handful of times that are ruined. It made me mad.
Then this past weekend I took the carseat apart and got that all washed up, which again, there was some weird drool/spitup/whatever stain down the middle of it that I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed with Oxyclean that just wouldn't come out. Oh well, it's going to expire in two years anyway so you'll be the last one to use it. And I soaked the baby bath tub in Clorox for the day and then scrubbed that all up. It looks brand new!!
I opened a package of newborn diapers and oh my goodness they are soooo little!!
I can't even believe your butt is going to fit into them!! I compared them to Teagan's and it would take 3 of your newborn diapers to be the size of his!
I also got the whole changing table all cleaned up. It was a bit dusty and the bins were pretty disorganized, so I got those somewhat organized now. I had bought a few lotions and soaps when they were on sale and I had some different butt creams left over from Teagan that were still good. I'm still in need of more lotions and I really want an Exergen Temporal Themometer.
I feel like I'm not going to have enough time to do things! I pretty much don't get anything done on week nights aside from making/eating/cleaning up dinner and then getting Teagan ready for bed and my stuff ready for the following day. And then this weekend Saturday is completely filled up, so that leaves Sunday only to do stuff. Then the next weekend, Friday night & Saturday afternoon is booked up, so again, that leaves me with Sunday only. Then finally the weekend of November 3-4 we have completely free (so far) and then following weekend, which is the last weekend before you're due, I have a party Friday night and I feel like something else was going on as well that weekend, but I can't think. But regardless, that leaves me about 4-6 days to get everything done.
Which at this point isn't even really a lot. Just set up the pack and play to make sure we have all the parts we need and same with the swing. And I need to clean them both of course. Oh and I need to sterilize all my pump parts and bottles and fun stuff like that.
Okay, now time to get going home. Finally. It's been such a long day!
Keep on cooking in there. And drop down a bit would ya? You've been giving me heartburn all day today!!!
I love you to the moon and back babykins!
Love,
Mommy
Friday, October 5, 2012
Adventures in Sickness, Medicine Taking & Trains!
Dear Teagan:
You got sick again. Started out a running nose and 2 days later you were waking up in the middle of the night with the scary, croupy cough and gasping for air. I too was sick with lots of sinus pressure and was so tired. We were up from 1 til 3 in the living room with the couch and love seat pushed together watching the same 4 (10 minute) episodes of Thomas & Friends over and over. Then finally I couldn't do it anymore. So we headed to my bed and I turned on Nemo for you. I tried to doze off, but as soon as I did you were saying you wanted to get down. I was so tired and felt like crap and lost it. I started crying. I just wanted to sleep! So despite your cries for mommy, daddy got up watched more Thomas with you in the living room.
Finally you fell asleep for a few hours. Then off to the drs we went. Bronchitis and an ear infection. :-( They put you on augmentin...the thick, white, chalky kind.
The first dose went over just fine. The second, third, fourth and so on didn't. You would spit it out, cry, flail around, kick, try to hit, etc. It ended up a mess...for both of us, as well as the couch. I tried putting it in a little bit of strawberry milk, but as you drank it the first night you said "I dont like my medicine." And I told you you didnt have to take medicine, but then you kept bringing it up. And then the same thing happened the next morning. So finally we brought your medicine to Jenn's so you could take it with Haylee & Hannah at breakfast. They take their allergy medicine every morning and it's white so I figured maybe if you thought they were taking the same thing you'd take it. It worked! You took it with not too much complaining. Then that night daddy was about to take Nyquil with you when you took yours but I told him to put milk in his cup instead. You guys both sat there and kind of have a race to see who could drink theirs the fastest, while taking breaks to discuss how nasty it tasted. Daddy kept losing. After that you were really good about taking your medicine without a fight.
A friend of mine at work gave me a bunch of his kid's Thomas the Train toys. I assumed he'd give us like a grocery bag full or something. Oh no, we got 2 large tote bins filled with 3 different type tracks, about 30 trains and probably 20 or train carts/extenders. Our house has been train madness ever since. That's all you want to do. Watch Thomas, eat Thomas fruit snacks and play trains. For the first few days daddy was rearranging the track and making it super cool. But that got old and I was sick of trying to vacuum around it. We sent one kind of track and about 10 trains to Jenn's for everyone to play with and we kept the other 20 at home. You know all of their names and know when one is missing. You have started to build your own tracks now which is nice. The problem with these trains is they are loud and you like to just let them crash and fall off the track and keep running. So there will be about 12 trains crashed either on their side, into a wall, under the couch, etc. and you playing with probably 2 on the track. It starts to get a bit painful bending over all the time to turn them all off, especially when I try to do it without you noticing. You've had a few taken away here and there for sending them under the couch. I don't know why you think that's so cool. It drives us bonkers!
I don't even know if you sleep at night. It's a hassle to get you to understand it's time to put the trains down and go to bed and then the first thing out of your mouth when you wake up is "I want to play trains mommy." And off you go to play trains. It's crazy! I'm kicking myself for not saving them until the new baby came so you'd have a cool new thing to play with while I was occupied with the baby. :-/ Oh well, I didn't think about it until after the fact of course. Hopefully the trains are just as exciting to you in another 6 weeks or so.
Time to get back to work so I can get out of here and home to you at a good time!
I love you to the moon and back, my sweet big boy.
Love,
Mommy
You got sick again. Started out a running nose and 2 days later you were waking up in the middle of the night with the scary, croupy cough and gasping for air. I too was sick with lots of sinus pressure and was so tired. We were up from 1 til 3 in the living room with the couch and love seat pushed together watching the same 4 (10 minute) episodes of Thomas & Friends over and over. Then finally I couldn't do it anymore. So we headed to my bed and I turned on Nemo for you. I tried to doze off, but as soon as I did you were saying you wanted to get down. I was so tired and felt like crap and lost it. I started crying. I just wanted to sleep! So despite your cries for mommy, daddy got up watched more Thomas with you in the living room.
Finally you fell asleep for a few hours. Then off to the drs we went. Bronchitis and an ear infection. :-( They put you on augmentin...the thick, white, chalky kind.
The first dose went over just fine. The second, third, fourth and so on didn't. You would spit it out, cry, flail around, kick, try to hit, etc. It ended up a mess...for both of us, as well as the couch. I tried putting it in a little bit of strawberry milk, but as you drank it the first night you said "I dont like my medicine." And I told you you didnt have to take medicine, but then you kept bringing it up. And then the same thing happened the next morning. So finally we brought your medicine to Jenn's so you could take it with Haylee & Hannah at breakfast. They take their allergy medicine every morning and it's white so I figured maybe if you thought they were taking the same thing you'd take it. It worked! You took it with not too much complaining. Then that night daddy was about to take Nyquil with you when you took yours but I told him to put milk in his cup instead. You guys both sat there and kind of have a race to see who could drink theirs the fastest, while taking breaks to discuss how nasty it tasted. Daddy kept losing. After that you were really good about taking your medicine without a fight.
A friend of mine at work gave me a bunch of his kid's Thomas the Train toys. I assumed he'd give us like a grocery bag full or something. Oh no, we got 2 large tote bins filled with 3 different type tracks, about 30 trains and probably 20 or train carts/extenders. Our house has been train madness ever since. That's all you want to do. Watch Thomas, eat Thomas fruit snacks and play trains. For the first few days daddy was rearranging the track and making it super cool. But that got old and I was sick of trying to vacuum around it. We sent one kind of track and about 10 trains to Jenn's for everyone to play with and we kept the other 20 at home. You know all of their names and know when one is missing. You have started to build your own tracks now which is nice. The problem with these trains is they are loud and you like to just let them crash and fall off the track and keep running. So there will be about 12 trains crashed either on their side, into a wall, under the couch, etc. and you playing with probably 2 on the track. It starts to get a bit painful bending over all the time to turn them all off, especially when I try to do it without you noticing. You've had a few taken away here and there for sending them under the couch. I don't know why you think that's so cool. It drives us bonkers!
I don't even know if you sleep at night. It's a hassle to get you to understand it's time to put the trains down and go to bed and then the first thing out of your mouth when you wake up is "I want to play trains mommy." And off you go to play trains. It's crazy! I'm kicking myself for not saving them until the new baby came so you'd have a cool new thing to play with while I was occupied with the baby. :-/ Oh well, I didn't think about it until after the fact of course. Hopefully the trains are just as exciting to you in another 6 weeks or so.
Time to get back to work so I can get out of here and home to you at a good time!
I love you to the moon and back, my sweet big boy.
Love,
Mommy
Friday, September 28, 2012
Crowding My Space
Dear Sprout:
Here we are at 33 weeks and you're really starting to crowd my space. Your big butt is way in my ribs and your head isn't down as far as it should be. I can tell you can't get comfy cozy in there because of the way you move and try to stretch all the time.
I started out thinking you were going to be smaller than your brother (7lbs, 13 ounces)just because my belly was so small and I didn't feel you move a whole lot. Well boy do I think I was wrong. I think you are going to be bigger than Teagan was. And now you move so much.
I've been having more and more Braxton Hicks contractions and some of them hurt! Not as in a contraction pain hurt, but in a they're squishing you into body parts that are already being squished too much kind of way.
I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET YOU!!!
I'm so excited! There's still so much to do to prepare though. I need to get the infant carseat down and washed, as well as the pack and play and the swing. I still need to buy all new bottle nipples and get the bottles and breast pump parts sterilized and I need to buy a new crib mattress and mattress pad for your crib.
Which the crib part doesn't really have to be done right away as you will be in our room for at least the first few weeks.
I'd really like to buy you a new crib set that isn't gender neutral, so there would be no point and getting your nursery all ready just to change it when you arrive.
I'm thinking a nautical theme if you are a boy and a zebra or owl theme if you are a girl. I really just want the crib skirt, diaper stacker and window valance. I don't need the crib quilt and bumper, as we never used those with Teagan.
I also want to get a lounger pillow for you. We used the Boppy pillow with Teagan all the time to lay him in, but he would end up slouching down in it, so I found this new pillow that's basically like a Boppy to lay you in so Teagan can read to you and talk to you on the floor and I'd feel better about it that way.
I'm finding it much harder this time, especially the closer we get to meeting you, to not think about what you are. I love the fact that you're a surprise and I will truely be surprised no matter what you are because I haven't a clue at all what I think! But it's so hard now with all the great sales and clearance items on summer clothes that if I knew I would be able to shop for next summer. Whereas with Teagan I never thought about that stuff and before I knew it the seasons were changing and he was outgrowing all his clothes left and right and I would have to spend a whole bunch of money at once on new clothes for him! So it would be easier to know. But Oh well, there will still be summer clearance leftover when you get here.
It's time for me to get going home to relieve your Aunt Erin from watching Teagan the menice. Your daddy is off fourwheeling with his friends and she's at our house with Teagan.
I love you to the moon and back baby and we can't wait to meet you!
Love,
Mommy
Here we are at 33 weeks and you're really starting to crowd my space. Your big butt is way in my ribs and your head isn't down as far as it should be. I can tell you can't get comfy cozy in there because of the way you move and try to stretch all the time.
I started out thinking you were going to be smaller than your brother (7lbs, 13 ounces)just because my belly was so small and I didn't feel you move a whole lot. Well boy do I think I was wrong. I think you are going to be bigger than Teagan was. And now you move so much.
I've been having more and more Braxton Hicks contractions and some of them hurt! Not as in a contraction pain hurt, but in a they're squishing you into body parts that are already being squished too much kind of way.
I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET YOU!!!
I'm so excited! There's still so much to do to prepare though. I need to get the infant carseat down and washed, as well as the pack and play and the swing. I still need to buy all new bottle nipples and get the bottles and breast pump parts sterilized and I need to buy a new crib mattress and mattress pad for your crib.
Which the crib part doesn't really have to be done right away as you will be in our room for at least the first few weeks.
I'd really like to buy you a new crib set that isn't gender neutral, so there would be no point and getting your nursery all ready just to change it when you arrive.
I'm thinking a nautical theme if you are a boy and a zebra or owl theme if you are a girl. I really just want the crib skirt, diaper stacker and window valance. I don't need the crib quilt and bumper, as we never used those with Teagan.
I also want to get a lounger pillow for you. We used the Boppy pillow with Teagan all the time to lay him in, but he would end up slouching down in it, so I found this new pillow that's basically like a Boppy to lay you in so Teagan can read to you and talk to you on the floor and I'd feel better about it that way.
I'm finding it much harder this time, especially the closer we get to meeting you, to not think about what you are. I love the fact that you're a surprise and I will truely be surprised no matter what you are because I haven't a clue at all what I think! But it's so hard now with all the great sales and clearance items on summer clothes that if I knew I would be able to shop for next summer. Whereas with Teagan I never thought about that stuff and before I knew it the seasons were changing and he was outgrowing all his clothes left and right and I would have to spend a whole bunch of money at once on new clothes for him! So it would be easier to know. But Oh well, there will still be summer clearance leftover when you get here.
It's time for me to get going home to relieve your Aunt Erin from watching Teagan the menice. Your daddy is off fourwheeling with his friends and she's at our house with Teagan.
I love you to the moon and back baby and we can't wait to meet you!
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Life of a 2 Year Old
Dear Teagan:
You are a big 2 year old now!! Your birthday party was fun. You were sick with a stupid virus the Friday before your birthday (Sunday)so by Sunday you still weren't 100% yourself, but you were better. We had an Elmo themed party. Your friends from daycare couldn't make it but Wyette & Willow came and so did Izzy. Kaylee & Paige were also sick, so they couldn't make it either. You got a ton of trucks and cars and all sorts of other fun things! You thought it was your birthday the entire week after too. You had your party on Sunday, then Monday you got presents from Haylee & Hannah at Jenn's, then Tuesday you got a present from Brylee at Jenn's then Wednesday more presents came from Owen in the mail. Then Thursday I took some of your birthday money and bought you the train track for your new train. I think that was it after that. You asked for a present every day though. It was funny.
Gymnastics is over now. You still ask to go, especially now that Brylee goes and talks about it.
You're starting to get very independent. You have to have and do things a certain way. It's fun, except when we're in a hurry. Your sentences are getting longer now and some of the stuff that comes out of your mouth is just hysterical!
You love your new big boy bed. It really helped that everyone that came to your party made such a big deal over it that now you really love it. At first I was having to lay in it with you until you fell asleep and boy was that uncomfortable! We tried sleeping in undies a few nights in a row, but everytime you peed the bed! So I went back to putting diapers on you and you don't pee in those in your bed! i
It's so weird!!
You now are allowed to sit forward facing in the car. Oh boy do you love that! You have an Elmo movie that teaches you shapes so you're really good with those. Now when we see a stop sign you yell out "Red ocgon!" which means octagon. Or a yield sign you say "yellow triangle!" you also know what each color of the lights mean so you're sure to tell me when to stop, go or slow down.
You are still a mamas boy through and through and I love every minute of it. You're so sweet and cuddly to me.
Just yesterday we were laying down to nap together and I was falling asleep before you and you kept leaning over and giving me kisses. It was the sweetest thing!
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
You are a big 2 year old now!! Your birthday party was fun. You were sick with a stupid virus the Friday before your birthday (Sunday)so by Sunday you still weren't 100% yourself, but you were better. We had an Elmo themed party. Your friends from daycare couldn't make it but Wyette & Willow came and so did Izzy. Kaylee & Paige were also sick, so they couldn't make it either. You got a ton of trucks and cars and all sorts of other fun things! You thought it was your birthday the entire week after too. You had your party on Sunday, then Monday you got presents from Haylee & Hannah at Jenn's, then Tuesday you got a present from Brylee at Jenn's then Wednesday more presents came from Owen in the mail. Then Thursday I took some of your birthday money and bought you the train track for your new train. I think that was it after that. You asked for a present every day though. It was funny.
Gymnastics is over now. You still ask to go, especially now that Brylee goes and talks about it.
You're starting to get very independent. You have to have and do things a certain way. It's fun, except when we're in a hurry. Your sentences are getting longer now and some of the stuff that comes out of your mouth is just hysterical!
You love your new big boy bed. It really helped that everyone that came to your party made such a big deal over it that now you really love it. At first I was having to lay in it with you until you fell asleep and boy was that uncomfortable! We tried sleeping in undies a few nights in a row, but everytime you peed the bed! So I went back to putting diapers on you and you don't pee in those in your bed! i
It's so weird!!
You now are allowed to sit forward facing in the car. Oh boy do you love that! You have an Elmo movie that teaches you shapes so you're really good with those. Now when we see a stop sign you yell out "Red ocgon!" which means octagon. Or a yield sign you say "yellow triangle!" you also know what each color of the lights mean so you're sure to tell me when to stop, go or slow down.
You are still a mamas boy through and through and I love every minute of it. You're so sweet and cuddly to me.
Just yesterday we were laying down to nap together and I was falling asleep before you and you kept leaning over and giving me kisses. It was the sweetest thing!
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Funny Boy
Dear Teagan:
We started Mom & Tot gymnastics last week! You seem to really enjoy it. Layken, Erica & Mike go, along with Callie & Isla and Peyton and her mom...which I forget her name, but we know them from parties at Lindsey Buckley's house.
You aren't a fan of the bars at all. I don't blame you, I never was when I did gymnastics either. You just don't want to hang with your feet dangling. You're okay on the smaller ones that you can touch the floor and lift your feet up though. You love thr touble track. It's a big long trampoline that you can run and jump down and at the end is a big huge mat you can jump on and a foam block pit to play in.
You have a hard time staying focused on what they're telling you to do though. You're too busy checking out what everyone else is doing and you just wanted to run around and play on all the mats. So good thing it's only a 1/2 hour class! Especially since it's sooooo hot. I'm not even the one running around and I am sweating by the time we get done.
Sunday was Daddy's birthday. You were so funny. It started out Friday night when we were rushing home to wrap a present and get to a baby shower. You were all upset that it wasn't a present for you. Then Saturday morning we were getting another baby shower gift ready to give to Nana & Aunt Kim to take to a baby shower and you were getting mad that none of the stuff was for you!
We went to Wellesley for the day on Saturday where everyone was camping and Grandma & Grandpa had a gift for Daddy's birthday. You wanted to help him open it so you sat on his lap. Then when he started opening them you started singing "App birdday to - Daddy!" It was soooo cute! Then all day Sunday when it was Daddy's birthday you sang to him. You are the cutest sounding little singer.
Come Monday morning I was laying in bed and you were awake in your crib and I heard you singing "App Birdday to - Daddy!" I went in and got you and had to tell you it wasn't daddy's birthday anymore. Your response was "Teagan's birdday?" So then we had to talk about whose birthday was next (Grandma, Mommy THEN Teagan). It was funny.
Your bedding set came in. It's really nice! I'm happy with it. Now on to the cleaning out that bedroom so we can get going on it. This morning you told me you wanted to go to Grandma's so I think on Saturday she will come get you and Daddy and I will get started on doing the cleaning out of your room. Maybe we'll even get stuff painted. Then when we go pick you up, we can load up the furniture and drop that off at Aunt Erin's. My goal for this weekend is to clean the room out and get the walls painted. Then maybe next weekend or so Daddy can do the floor. Then the weekend before your birthday we'll get your bed all put together and everything in there the way it needs to be for your birthday. I really hope you like it!
Well, I need to get to work now.
I love you to the moon and back baby!
Love,
Mommy
We started Mom & Tot gymnastics last week! You seem to really enjoy it. Layken, Erica & Mike go, along with Callie & Isla and Peyton and her mom...which I forget her name, but we know them from parties at Lindsey Buckley's house.
You aren't a fan of the bars at all. I don't blame you, I never was when I did gymnastics either. You just don't want to hang with your feet dangling. You're okay on the smaller ones that you can touch the floor and lift your feet up though. You love thr touble track. It's a big long trampoline that you can run and jump down and at the end is a big huge mat you can jump on and a foam block pit to play in.
You have a hard time staying focused on what they're telling you to do though. You're too busy checking out what everyone else is doing and you just wanted to run around and play on all the mats. So good thing it's only a 1/2 hour class! Especially since it's sooooo hot. I'm not even the one running around and I am sweating by the time we get done.
Sunday was Daddy's birthday. You were so funny. It started out Friday night when we were rushing home to wrap a present and get to a baby shower. You were all upset that it wasn't a present for you. Then Saturday morning we were getting another baby shower gift ready to give to Nana & Aunt Kim to take to a baby shower and you were getting mad that none of the stuff was for you!
We went to Wellesley for the day on Saturday where everyone was camping and Grandma & Grandpa had a gift for Daddy's birthday. You wanted to help him open it so you sat on his lap. Then when he started opening them you started singing "App birdday to - Daddy!" It was soooo cute! Then all day Sunday when it was Daddy's birthday you sang to him. You are the cutest sounding little singer.
Come Monday morning I was laying in bed and you were awake in your crib and I heard you singing "App Birdday to - Daddy!" I went in and got you and had to tell you it wasn't daddy's birthday anymore. Your response was "Teagan's birdday?" So then we had to talk about whose birthday was next (Grandma, Mommy THEN Teagan). It was funny.
Your bedding set came in. It's really nice! I'm happy with it. Now on to the cleaning out that bedroom so we can get going on it. This morning you told me you wanted to go to Grandma's so I think on Saturday she will come get you and Daddy and I will get started on doing the cleaning out of your room. Maybe we'll even get stuff painted. Then when we go pick you up, we can load up the furniture and drop that off at Aunt Erin's. My goal for this weekend is to clean the room out and get the walls painted. Then maybe next weekend or so Daddy can do the floor. Then the weekend before your birthday we'll get your bed all put together and everything in there the way it needs to be for your birthday. I really hope you like it!
Well, I need to get to work now.
I love you to the moon and back baby!
Love,
Mommy
Friday, July 20, 2012
All Seems Well!
Dear Sprout:
Well I had my 22 week appointment and we went over my last ultrasound results. Everything they got to look at looked just fine. Your heartrate was 156 at this appointment. They scheduled me for another ultrasound for next week. When they called to make the appointment with the hospital they were asked why I needed it and what parts needed to be looked at so I heard the lady tell them that it was because you were shy and we needed pictures of your left ventricle, upper lip, stomach, bladder, spine, kidneys and umbilical insertion. They did say that you had a 3 vessel umbilical cord though, which is wonderful and normal. So we go back next Thursday and Daddy just told me today that he won't be able to make it because he'll be working up in Potsdam. That makes me sad, but at least we know all is well with you so the chances of getting bad news a really slim. I'll see if one of your aunts or grandma can go with me instead!
Right about at 21 weeks I started feeling you move. I love it. Now at 23 weeks I feel it more and more. You're super active at night. Whenever I wake up to pee and get back in bed you're a wiggle worm! I've tried to get daddy to feel, but he can't be patient enough to wait for it and he's not sure if he felt something or if it was just my belly rising with my breathing.
I compared how much weight I've gained with you and your brother. With Teagan at 22 weeks I had already gained 15 pounds and with you I've only gained 7!! Woohoo. And I eat all the time too, so it's not like I'm trying to not gain weight. I think it's a combination of being so sick in the begining with you that I lost weight and being so active with your brother. Also when I was in my first trimester with Teagan it was in the winter so I wasn't getting any exercise. But now I'm busy chasing around after him and lifting him all the time it's probably impossible to gain much weight. Not to mention I probably eat a lot healthier. I crave fruits usually and summer is full of fresh veggies and fruits. Also, I try to model good eating habits for Teag too.
This weekend we're going to try to get Teagan's room started on. I ordered his bedding set yesterday, so that should be here tomorrow. And little by little I'll order the rest of his bedroom stuff so we can get him into his new big boy room and I can start getting things ready for you.
I had some manufacterers coupons plus Target coupons for diapers, so I bought 2 packs for you. They were on sale too, so I got an awesome deal! I'm starting to stock up on supplies as I get coupons. I also decided I'm going to register at like Target, Burlington Baby Depot, Walmart & KMart even though I'm not having a baby shower and I don't need much. But whenever you register at these places, they give you coupons and free samples. And a % off coupon for anything left on your registry a month or so before your due date. So if I save the $ off coupons and wait for the % off coupons I could score big on diapers, wipes, lotions, breastfeeding supplies, etc. I'm trying to become a couponer, but not an extreme one like you'd see on TV. I just want to get better at using store coupons and manufacturers coupons.
Okay, I've got to get back to work now.
I love you to the moon and back baby!!!
Love,
Mommy
P.S. Sunday is daddy's birthday, give him a good kick to feel!! :-)
Well I had my 22 week appointment and we went over my last ultrasound results. Everything they got to look at looked just fine. Your heartrate was 156 at this appointment. They scheduled me for another ultrasound for next week. When they called to make the appointment with the hospital they were asked why I needed it and what parts needed to be looked at so I heard the lady tell them that it was because you were shy and we needed pictures of your left ventricle, upper lip, stomach, bladder, spine, kidneys and umbilical insertion. They did say that you had a 3 vessel umbilical cord though, which is wonderful and normal. So we go back next Thursday and Daddy just told me today that he won't be able to make it because he'll be working up in Potsdam. That makes me sad, but at least we know all is well with you so the chances of getting bad news a really slim. I'll see if one of your aunts or grandma can go with me instead!
Right about at 21 weeks I started feeling you move. I love it. Now at 23 weeks I feel it more and more. You're super active at night. Whenever I wake up to pee and get back in bed you're a wiggle worm! I've tried to get daddy to feel, but he can't be patient enough to wait for it and he's not sure if he felt something or if it was just my belly rising with my breathing.
I compared how much weight I've gained with you and your brother. With Teagan at 22 weeks I had already gained 15 pounds and with you I've only gained 7!! Woohoo. And I eat all the time too, so it's not like I'm trying to not gain weight. I think it's a combination of being so sick in the begining with you that I lost weight and being so active with your brother. Also when I was in my first trimester with Teagan it was in the winter so I wasn't getting any exercise. But now I'm busy chasing around after him and lifting him all the time it's probably impossible to gain much weight. Not to mention I probably eat a lot healthier. I crave fruits usually and summer is full of fresh veggies and fruits. Also, I try to model good eating habits for Teag too.
This weekend we're going to try to get Teagan's room started on. I ordered his bedding set yesterday, so that should be here tomorrow. And little by little I'll order the rest of his bedroom stuff so we can get him into his new big boy room and I can start getting things ready for you.
I had some manufacterers coupons plus Target coupons for diapers, so I bought 2 packs for you. They were on sale too, so I got an awesome deal! I'm starting to stock up on supplies as I get coupons. I also decided I'm going to register at like Target, Burlington Baby Depot, Walmart & KMart even though I'm not having a baby shower and I don't need much. But whenever you register at these places, they give you coupons and free samples. And a % off coupon for anything left on your registry a month or so before your due date. So if I save the $ off coupons and wait for the % off coupons I could score big on diapers, wipes, lotions, breastfeeding supplies, etc. I'm trying to become a couponer, but not an extreme one like you'd see on TV. I just want to get better at using store coupons and manufacturers coupons.
Okay, I've got to get back to work now.
I love you to the moon and back baby!!!
Love,
Mommy
P.S. Sunday is daddy's birthday, give him a good kick to feel!! :-)
Monday, July 2, 2012
Camping Was Fun!
Dear Teagan:
Well so much has happened in the past month. Our trip to North Carolina was so much fun! We had a rough start though- Our plane was delayed and we were supposed to be there by 2:30 and we didn't get there until 6pm! So that was annoying. But we made it safe and sound despite the fact that you kept saying we were going to fall.
We went shopping and to a park. I bought myself a Coach diaper bag for when the baby comes, so that was very exciting.
I think you started to just get homesick and tired out. You weren't very nice to Owen. You got mad and threw a toy at his head. I was very upset with you for that. Your routine was completely out of whack. You were sleeping with me and not going to bed until I was going to bed, you were waking up earlier than normal and not napping. So you were defintely ready to go home. You really missed your daddy.
Then this past weekend we went camping for 4th of July. Our site was right across the road from grandma and grandpa's and we spent most of our time over there. You had a blast!! You were so excited to go, you asked me every day last week if we were going camping with grandma yet. You loved being in the tent and you were such a good boy. The first night we didn't get you in bed until probably after 11pm which is wayyy late for you. And then we were up at 7am. You slept on the air mattress right in between daddy and I. And you actually slept pretty good. Usually if you sleep in bed with us you kick and roll over and cry randomly in your sleep. But none of that happened while we were camping...I think you were just too tired.
On Saturday we got up and went out on the boat. It was super choppy out and I don't think it was a very idea that I went. I had to hold my belly with 2 hands so it wasn't jiggling all over. But you loved it. You sat on grandpa's lap and "drove."
Then you played on your bike in the road. You thought that that was the coolest thing ever that you could ride in the middle of the road and it was okay. We borrowed the little tricycle bike from Nana and brought that with us. You had so much fun playing with the other kids that were camping. Finally we got you to take a nap. It was like 150 degrees in our tent and I thought you were going to die in there though. We had the rain fly practically off and the door wide open so you could get a breeze. While you slept we filled a ton of water balloons up. We filled your wagon plus a cooler full of them. And then we filled up this other cooler type thing and Janelle (Owen & Ava's mom) filled up more in that cooler thing. Once you woke up we had a water balloon fight. The older kids (Owen, Ava, Julian & Nyla) had one bin and the younger kids (You, Riley & Reagan) had the other bin. You guys had a blast.
You loved going down to the water and throwing rocks in for the dogs to go after. You also loved that you could just go over to the swings/sandbox area and play by yourself or with the other kids without mommy or daddy going with you. We could see you right from our campsite. I think you felt like such a big kid. Everyone keeps saying that they think you'd rather have an older brother or sister rather than a baby. I think so too. You just love being able to play with the older kids!
Then once it got dark out grandpa had brought glowsticks from work and all of you kids got to have one. You all ran around with your glowsticks waving them around. You didn't think that they were all that cool though. Later we sat by the fire and had s'mores. It didn't take long for you to fall asleep once daddy went and got "mop" for you to snuggle with.
Sunday morning we got up and hung out for a while. You wanted to ride down the road so we went down and visited Diane & Pat since they were awake. Diane had bought you a fishing pole and gave that to you. It's a Cars fishing pole and has a tire on the end instead of a hook so you can practice until you get the hang of it.
After breakfast we went out on the boat and you were starting to get cranky and you were mad at your life jacket so you took your sunglasses off and threw them into the lake. So no more sunglasses for you. They were your favorite pair too! So I'm sad about that! But on the way back in you were sitting on daddy's lap "driving" the boat and you fell asleep in his arms. So once we got off the boat I laid you down and changed your clothes while you were still sleeping and we headed home.
You were so glad to be home after you woke up from your nap. I thought that you'd be upset about waking up at home to find that you weren't camping anymore, but you seemed quite happy to be there. You were excited to play with all of your toys again and you had no qualms with going to bed either.
I can't wait to take you camping again. You're just so good and you love it so much. The next camping trip that grandpa & grandma have planned is to Welesley in a few weeks, but there won't be other little kids there. Aunt Erin needs to get on the baby making train. You need some more cousins to play with!!
Alright, I better get back to work.
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Well so much has happened in the past month. Our trip to North Carolina was so much fun! We had a rough start though- Our plane was delayed and we were supposed to be there by 2:30 and we didn't get there until 6pm! So that was annoying. But we made it safe and sound despite the fact that you kept saying we were going to fall.
We went shopping and to a park. I bought myself a Coach diaper bag for when the baby comes, so that was very exciting.
I think you started to just get homesick and tired out. You weren't very nice to Owen. You got mad and threw a toy at his head. I was very upset with you for that. Your routine was completely out of whack. You were sleeping with me and not going to bed until I was going to bed, you were waking up earlier than normal and not napping. So you were defintely ready to go home. You really missed your daddy.
Then this past weekend we went camping for 4th of July. Our site was right across the road from grandma and grandpa's and we spent most of our time over there. You had a blast!! You were so excited to go, you asked me every day last week if we were going camping with grandma yet. You loved being in the tent and you were such a good boy. The first night we didn't get you in bed until probably after 11pm which is wayyy late for you. And then we were up at 7am. You slept on the air mattress right in between daddy and I. And you actually slept pretty good. Usually if you sleep in bed with us you kick and roll over and cry randomly in your sleep. But none of that happened while we were camping...I think you were just too tired.
On Saturday we got up and went out on the boat. It was super choppy out and I don't think it was a very idea that I went. I had to hold my belly with 2 hands so it wasn't jiggling all over. But you loved it. You sat on grandpa's lap and "drove."
Then you played on your bike in the road. You thought that that was the coolest thing ever that you could ride in the middle of the road and it was okay. We borrowed the little tricycle bike from Nana and brought that with us. You had so much fun playing with the other kids that were camping. Finally we got you to take a nap. It was like 150 degrees in our tent and I thought you were going to die in there though. We had the rain fly practically off and the door wide open so you could get a breeze. While you slept we filled a ton of water balloons up. We filled your wagon plus a cooler full of them. And then we filled up this other cooler type thing and Janelle (Owen & Ava's mom) filled up more in that cooler thing. Once you woke up we had a water balloon fight. The older kids (Owen, Ava, Julian & Nyla) had one bin and the younger kids (You, Riley & Reagan) had the other bin. You guys had a blast.
You loved going down to the water and throwing rocks in for the dogs to go after. You also loved that you could just go over to the swings/sandbox area and play by yourself or with the other kids without mommy or daddy going with you. We could see you right from our campsite. I think you felt like such a big kid. Everyone keeps saying that they think you'd rather have an older brother or sister rather than a baby. I think so too. You just love being able to play with the older kids!
Then once it got dark out grandpa had brought glowsticks from work and all of you kids got to have one. You all ran around with your glowsticks waving them around. You didn't think that they were all that cool though. Later we sat by the fire and had s'mores. It didn't take long for you to fall asleep once daddy went and got "mop" for you to snuggle with.
Sunday morning we got up and hung out for a while. You wanted to ride down the road so we went down and visited Diane & Pat since they were awake. Diane had bought you a fishing pole and gave that to you. It's a Cars fishing pole and has a tire on the end instead of a hook so you can practice until you get the hang of it.
After breakfast we went out on the boat and you were starting to get cranky and you were mad at your life jacket so you took your sunglasses off and threw them into the lake. So no more sunglasses for you. They were your favorite pair too! So I'm sad about that! But on the way back in you were sitting on daddy's lap "driving" the boat and you fell asleep in his arms. So once we got off the boat I laid you down and changed your clothes while you were still sleeping and we headed home.
You were so glad to be home after you woke up from your nap. I thought that you'd be upset about waking up at home to find that you weren't camping anymore, but you seemed quite happy to be there. You were excited to play with all of your toys again and you had no qualms with going to bed either.
I can't wait to take you camping again. You're just so good and you love it so much. The next camping trip that grandpa & grandma have planned is to Welesley in a few weeks, but there won't be other little kids there. Aunt Erin needs to get on the baby making train. You need some more cousins to play with!!
Alright, I better get back to work.
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Stressing Me Out
Dear Sprout:
You're stressing me out!
We saw you at the ultrasound, but barely. You were very uncooperative for us. You had your back to us with your head between your knees and your arms up over your head. So we'll have to probably go back to get more pictures of you since you wouldn't move for anything!!
The ultrasound tech had me empty my bladder, lay on my side, lay back on my back, she pushed the wand into my belly and try jiggling it around, but nothing would make you move. You were just nice and comfy cozy in there and that was that! Your heartrate was 147 again and you were doing practice breathing movements. They did measure your heart which has 4 chambers and your brain has 2 lobes. But thats about all they could get. We did get a face shot, but it looks really creepy since your arm and hand is over you.
I found out that my placenta in the front again, so that's why I'm not feeling much movement. I feel things like tapping down real low from time to time and just in the past day I've felt what I assume is you rolling over. So that makes me feel better. I was a bit concerned that you weren't moving in the ultrasound and then I never was feeling you. But I keep telling myself if the placenta is blocking your movements from me feeling them and maybe you were just super tired when we went to see you.
Then from the ultrasound lady pushing down on your head with the wand, I've felt like a weird pain there ever since. It's also been accompanied by some pressure way down low. So I got thinking maybe it was a UTI or something and maybe I should be seen for it. So I called a nurse today and she said it all sounded normal and it could just have to do with the way that you're positioned in there as well as normal uterine stretching. She told me to really aim for drinking a gallon of water a day and to just try to rest more. (Okay lady, you try to rest with a rambunctious toddler in the house...)
I don't remember it being like this last time around, but then again, every pregnancy is different. I just want to see you again and to be assured that you are developing correctly from head to toe!
I love you to the moon and back and we can't wait to meet you baby!
Love,
Mommy
You're stressing me out!
We saw you at the ultrasound, but barely. You were very uncooperative for us. You had your back to us with your head between your knees and your arms up over your head. So we'll have to probably go back to get more pictures of you since you wouldn't move for anything!!
The ultrasound tech had me empty my bladder, lay on my side, lay back on my back, she pushed the wand into my belly and try jiggling it around, but nothing would make you move. You were just nice and comfy cozy in there and that was that! Your heartrate was 147 again and you were doing practice breathing movements. They did measure your heart which has 4 chambers and your brain has 2 lobes. But thats about all they could get. We did get a face shot, but it looks really creepy since your arm and hand is over you.
I found out that my placenta in the front again, so that's why I'm not feeling much movement. I feel things like tapping down real low from time to time and just in the past day I've felt what I assume is you rolling over. So that makes me feel better. I was a bit concerned that you weren't moving in the ultrasound and then I never was feeling you. But I keep telling myself if the placenta is blocking your movements from me feeling them and maybe you were just super tired when we went to see you.
Then from the ultrasound lady pushing down on your head with the wand, I've felt like a weird pain there ever since. It's also been accompanied by some pressure way down low. So I got thinking maybe it was a UTI or something and maybe I should be seen for it. So I called a nurse today and she said it all sounded normal and it could just have to do with the way that you're positioned in there as well as normal uterine stretching. She told me to really aim for drinking a gallon of water a day and to just try to rest more. (Okay lady, you try to rest with a rambunctious toddler in the house...)
I don't remember it being like this last time around, but then again, every pregnancy is different. I just want to see you again and to be assured that you are developing correctly from head to toe!
I love you to the moon and back and we can't wait to meet you baby!
Love,
Mommy
Thursday, June 21, 2012
See You This Afternoon!!
Dear Sprout:
Today I am 19 weeks pregnant! Today is also the day we get to see you at the anatomy scan! We have the opportunity to find out if you are a boy or a girl, but we won't!
I'm really nervous for it. Once it's over and done with I can relax for the next 20 weeks!
I declined all genetic screening, so if there are an abnormalities we would find out today. So that's why I'm nervous. But I have high hopes that all is well!!
I haven't felt you move much. The other day I did feel you twice and that was the first time I felt you and really knew it was you. But I have so much gas lately I can never tell if it's gas or you wiggling around in there! I'm ready for the strong kicks that daddy and your brother can feel!
Time to get ready to go see you.
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Today I am 19 weeks pregnant! Today is also the day we get to see you at the anatomy scan! We have the opportunity to find out if you are a boy or a girl, but we won't!
I'm really nervous for it. Once it's over and done with I can relax for the next 20 weeks!
I declined all genetic screening, so if there are an abnormalities we would find out today. So that's why I'm nervous. But I have high hopes that all is well!!
I haven't felt you move much. The other day I did feel you twice and that was the first time I felt you and really knew it was you. But I have so much gas lately I can never tell if it's gas or you wiggling around in there! I'm ready for the strong kicks that daddy and your brother can feel!
Time to get ready to go see you.
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Vacation!
Dear Teagan:
We leave in 2 days for vacation! We've been talking about this for a few weeks now- about going to see Dani and Owen. Everytime we talk about riding in the airplane you say "Airplane, fall!" So I'm not going to lie, it's totally creeping me out. I have no idea where you came up with such a thing! I'm really nervous about 1- Flying in general. 2- I haven't flown in year so I'm nervous about all those new rules with the TSA and if I'm going to do something incorrectly and 3- I'm totally scared about having a layover in LaGuardia. It's such a big airport and it's right in the city and it'll just be you and I. It just makes me really nervous. But we're going to have so much fun! Poor daddy isn't going to know what to do with himself at home!
I read that I need your birth certificate to travel and I also saw that I might need a letter of consent from daddy to take you out of the state. Then that got me thinking, when you were born, we weren't married, so your birth certificate states that your mom's name is Megan O'Connell and my license says that I am Megan Cole. So now I'm wondering...will I need our marriage license as well? I think I need to just call the airport and get this all straightened around before we run into trouble and end up missing our flight.
We're pretty much all packed up, minus the few things we still need tonight and tomorrow night. Grandpa is going to drive us down because he has an appointment in Syracuse Thursday morning anyway, so that worked out perfect! Then I think Aunt Lindsey will be picking us up on Monday morning, but we still have to double check.
You helped pick out Owen's birthday present, so we got that all ordered and shipped down there to them so we can wrap it when we get there and give it to him. Hopefully he likes it as much as you did by the pictures.
Well, time for me to get going to pick you up now.
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
We leave in 2 days for vacation! We've been talking about this for a few weeks now- about going to see Dani and Owen. Everytime we talk about riding in the airplane you say "Airplane, fall!" So I'm not going to lie, it's totally creeping me out. I have no idea where you came up with such a thing! I'm really nervous about 1- Flying in general. 2- I haven't flown in year so I'm nervous about all those new rules with the TSA and if I'm going to do something incorrectly and 3- I'm totally scared about having a layover in LaGuardia. It's such a big airport and it's right in the city and it'll just be you and I. It just makes me really nervous. But we're going to have so much fun! Poor daddy isn't going to know what to do with himself at home!
I read that I need your birth certificate to travel and I also saw that I might need a letter of consent from daddy to take you out of the state. Then that got me thinking, when you were born, we weren't married, so your birth certificate states that your mom's name is Megan O'Connell and my license says that I am Megan Cole. So now I'm wondering...will I need our marriage license as well? I think I need to just call the airport and get this all straightened around before we run into trouble and end up missing our flight.
We're pretty much all packed up, minus the few things we still need tonight and tomorrow night. Grandpa is going to drive us down because he has an appointment in Syracuse Thursday morning anyway, so that worked out perfect! Then I think Aunt Lindsey will be picking us up on Monday morning, but we still have to double check.
You helped pick out Owen's birthday present, so we got that all ordered and shipped down there to them so we can wrap it when we get there and give it to him. Hopefully he likes it as much as you did by the pictures.
Well, time for me to get going to pick you up now.
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Thursday, May 17, 2012
We Heard Your Heartbeat!
Dear Sprout:
Today I am 14 weeks and had a drs appointment. We got to hear your heartbeat with the Doppler. It was beating strong at 158 beats per minute. If I remember correctly, your brother's was always right around 150....so yours is higher. I'll have to double check that with his baby book though. Grandma says it's because you're a girl. As does Dani. They both would swear on it or put big bucks on it.
We have the chance to find out what you are on June 21, as that is when my anatomy scan is scheduled for. But we will decline to let them reveal it to us. It just bothers everyone so much that we don't want to find out. I love it though!
It seems like it's already going by so fast!
I mean the anatomy scan is done 1/2 way through the pregnancy, so in another 5-6ish weeks, we'll be 1/2 way there! It seems crazy!
My belly has really popped out this week. The past week it was buldging a little, but whoa! It really rounded out this week. This is exactly the same time it happened last time. I remember being between 13 & 14 weeks and one day it was like BAM! Big ole belly out there. It's cute for now though since I'm not super huge and its just a cute bump. I'm hoping to not gain as much weight this time around. We'll see how well that goes for me though.
Well, time to leave work and go get your brother.
I love you to the moon and back baby!!
Love,
Mommy
Today I am 14 weeks and had a drs appointment. We got to hear your heartbeat with the Doppler. It was beating strong at 158 beats per minute. If I remember correctly, your brother's was always right around 150....so yours is higher. I'll have to double check that with his baby book though. Grandma says it's because you're a girl. As does Dani. They both would swear on it or put big bucks on it.
We have the chance to find out what you are on June 21, as that is when my anatomy scan is scheduled for. But we will decline to let them reveal it to us. It just bothers everyone so much that we don't want to find out. I love it though!
It seems like it's already going by so fast!
I mean the anatomy scan is done 1/2 way through the pregnancy, so in another 5-6ish weeks, we'll be 1/2 way there! It seems crazy!
My belly has really popped out this week. The past week it was buldging a little, but whoa! It really rounded out this week. This is exactly the same time it happened last time. I remember being between 13 & 14 weeks and one day it was like BAM! Big ole belly out there. It's cute for now though since I'm not super huge and its just a cute bump. I'm hoping to not gain as much weight this time around. We'll see how well that goes for me though.
Well, time to leave work and go get your brother.
I love you to the moon and back baby!!
Love,
Mommy
Friday, May 4, 2012
Finally Feeling Better
Dear Sprout:
I'm 12 weeks and 1 day and I'm finally starting to feel better. I still have my days where I feel yucky in the morning or right before bed, but all in all, I can function like a normal human being.
My belly started to pop out this week. I'm trying my hardest to stay in normal clothes for as long as I can, but the thought of elastic comfiness is starting to consume me. Are yoga pants acceptable to wear everywhere? I mean people wear fleecey bunny pj pants out and about so surely yoga pants are okay, right?
We went for the ultrasound at 8 weeks and 4 days and you looked perfect. Of course you actually looked like a blob, but perfect to me! Your heartbeat was 153 and you were measuring right on track.
I went for my first OB appointment right at 10 weeks and they tried to find your heartbeat with the doppler but it was too early they said. So they just did an exam. Oh joy. I wasn't too worried about them not finding your heartbeat at that appointment. I checked my "Bump" book that I wrote in for your brother and I saw that they tried to find his right at 10 weeks as well and couldn't. So we'll wait another 2 weeks for my next appointment and hear it then!
Everyone is convinced that you are a girl. We'll see. I'm not convinced. But I really can't decided one way or another what you might be. A part of me thinks girl since things are so different, but then again another part of me says boy again just because. It's almost like now I can't really imagine having a baby girl.
In another 28 weeks or so we'll know!!
This time around it seems harder to not want to find out. But we won't. We'll wait for the surprise of our life.
I love you too the moon and back baby Sprout.
Love Always & Forever,
Mommy
I'm 12 weeks and 1 day and I'm finally starting to feel better. I still have my days where I feel yucky in the morning or right before bed, but all in all, I can function like a normal human being.
My belly started to pop out this week. I'm trying my hardest to stay in normal clothes for as long as I can, but the thought of elastic comfiness is starting to consume me. Are yoga pants acceptable to wear everywhere? I mean people wear fleecey bunny pj pants out and about so surely yoga pants are okay, right?
We went for the ultrasound at 8 weeks and 4 days and you looked perfect. Of course you actually looked like a blob, but perfect to me! Your heartbeat was 153 and you were measuring right on track.
I went for my first OB appointment right at 10 weeks and they tried to find your heartbeat with the doppler but it was too early they said. So they just did an exam. Oh joy. I wasn't too worried about them not finding your heartbeat at that appointment. I checked my "Bump" book that I wrote in for your brother and I saw that they tried to find his right at 10 weeks as well and couldn't. So we'll wait another 2 weeks for my next appointment and hear it then!
Everyone is convinced that you are a girl. We'll see. I'm not convinced. But I really can't decided one way or another what you might be. A part of me thinks girl since things are so different, but then again another part of me says boy again just because. It's almost like now I can't really imagine having a baby girl.
In another 28 weeks or so we'll know!!
This time around it seems harder to not want to find out. But we won't. We'll wait for the surprise of our life.
I love you too the moon and back baby Sprout.
Love Always & Forever,
Mommy
Monday, April 23, 2012
You're Too Grown Up
Dear Teagan:
You are too grown up for my liking these days! Well, I guess it's bittersweet. I don't like to think about you growing up so fast, but then again, it's such an exciting time!
You keep progressing with the potty training. We even bought you some big boy underwear! We have Cars, Mickey & Thomas (choochoos). The first time wearing them I put them on you with just a tee shirt on and told you that you had to tell me if you had to go potty.
Well apparently you wanted to test what would happen if you peed in your underwear. But, you were smart enough to pee in a bucket. It was so funny. I found your squating over the bucket peeing through your underwear.
Then we sent the underwear to daycare. You went until naptime after lunch with only one accident! I was so proud. You're so smart and just love to learn!
You know all of you colors now and you're doing really good with shapes. You know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown. You get brown and black mixed up and you like to think that pink is just red. But either way, I think you are the smartest kid around!
Oh and you're such an outdoor boy! All you ever want to do is play outside.
Last week it was super duper warm out and we caught toads from the pond. They were sitting on top of the weeds and so easy to catch just sitting there. So you and I went out and played by the pond with Buster and caught so many toads! You didn't want to touch them, but you wanted me to get as many as I could then you wanted them to go back in the pond. It was fun. And of course with daddy all you want to do is "wide, wide" (ride the fourwheeler). Then it's a huge hassle to get you to come back inside. You scream and cry and throw a fit and stand at the door yelling to go outside. It's sad, but it gets old after a while.
You've begun to be quite the helper in the kitchen. I try to let you stand on a chair and help as much as possible to keep you from getting into things while I'm busy. It works and you seem to really enjoy it. We made a pie yesterday and I taught you to stick your finger in it to taste....that was probably a mistake. Now you want to stick your fingers in everything we're making or eating.
Easter Sunday you got your first real big booboo. It was so, so sad. You ran straight into the door while I was holding it open for you. You fell right down and was screaming so much. By the time I bent down and picked you up, your head was swelled right out and black and blue. It was horrible. I was so scared for you. I thought something was seriously wrong. But by bedtime the swelling was almost gone and you were good as new acting. I think you were just clumsy from all that Easter candy and no nap! That aught to teach you!
I love you to the moon and back, baby.
Love,
Mommy
You are too grown up for my liking these days! Well, I guess it's bittersweet. I don't like to think about you growing up so fast, but then again, it's such an exciting time!
You keep progressing with the potty training. We even bought you some big boy underwear! We have Cars, Mickey & Thomas (choochoos). The first time wearing them I put them on you with just a tee shirt on and told you that you had to tell me if you had to go potty.
Well apparently you wanted to test what would happen if you peed in your underwear. But, you were smart enough to pee in a bucket. It was so funny. I found your squating over the bucket peeing through your underwear.
Then we sent the underwear to daycare. You went until naptime after lunch with only one accident! I was so proud. You're so smart and just love to learn!
You know all of you colors now and you're doing really good with shapes. You know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown. You get brown and black mixed up and you like to think that pink is just red. But either way, I think you are the smartest kid around!
Oh and you're such an outdoor boy! All you ever want to do is play outside.
Last week it was super duper warm out and we caught toads from the pond. They were sitting on top of the weeds and so easy to catch just sitting there. So you and I went out and played by the pond with Buster and caught so many toads! You didn't want to touch them, but you wanted me to get as many as I could then you wanted them to go back in the pond. It was fun. And of course with daddy all you want to do is "wide, wide" (ride the fourwheeler). Then it's a huge hassle to get you to come back inside. You scream and cry and throw a fit and stand at the door yelling to go outside. It's sad, but it gets old after a while.
You've begun to be quite the helper in the kitchen. I try to let you stand on a chair and help as much as possible to keep you from getting into things while I'm busy. It works and you seem to really enjoy it. We made a pie yesterday and I taught you to stick your finger in it to taste....that was probably a mistake. Now you want to stick your fingers in everything we're making or eating.
Easter Sunday you got your first real big booboo. It was so, so sad. You ran straight into the door while I was holding it open for you. You fell right down and was screaming so much. By the time I bent down and picked you up, your head was swelled right out and black and blue. It was horrible. I was so scared for you. I thought something was seriously wrong. But by bedtime the swelling was almost gone and you were good as new acting. I think you were just clumsy from all that Easter candy and no nap! That aught to teach you!
I love you to the moon and back, baby.
Love,
Mommy
Friday, April 6, 2012
You're Killing Me, Smalls!
Dear Sprout:
I am only 8 weeks and 1 day pregnant with you and you're causing me sooo much sickness.
It's been this way for 2 weeks to the day. Started out feeling just a little queasy like I was too full. Then it turned into just downright sicky feeling ALL DAY LONG! It doesn't matter what or when I eat, I still feel yucky. Some days are better than others though.
Like Wednesday I threw up three times. Once at home before work, once in a Walmart bathroom and then once on the side of Route 11. That was HORRIBLE!!
But then I have days like today and I'm pretty good.
I'm just ready for the sicky part to be over and for me to be feeling like a cute pregnant lady.
I loved being pregnant for your brother and I want to enjoy being pregnant for you too!! That's what I've told people. Last time I was pregnant I only had my thoughts on my due date, this time I said I would just embrace being pregnant. Well, so far I've done anything BUT that. And I feel bad.
Hopefully this sickness goes away within the next couple of weeks!
Next Monday, only 3 more days, and we get to see you on the ultrasound!! I'm so excited! Maybe there will be 2 in there! I have had two dreams about having twins! So maybe! That would be super neat! But also very crazy and stressful probably. Not to mention expensive. We shall see in 3 days though!! :-)
I can't wait to see you little Sprout!
I love you tons and tons already!
Love,
Mommy
I am only 8 weeks and 1 day pregnant with you and you're causing me sooo much sickness.
It's been this way for 2 weeks to the day. Started out feeling just a little queasy like I was too full. Then it turned into just downright sicky feeling ALL DAY LONG! It doesn't matter what or when I eat, I still feel yucky. Some days are better than others though.
Like Wednesday I threw up three times. Once at home before work, once in a Walmart bathroom and then once on the side of Route 11. That was HORRIBLE!!
But then I have days like today and I'm pretty good.
I'm just ready for the sicky part to be over and for me to be feeling like a cute pregnant lady.
I loved being pregnant for your brother and I want to enjoy being pregnant for you too!! That's what I've told people. Last time I was pregnant I only had my thoughts on my due date, this time I said I would just embrace being pregnant. Well, so far I've done anything BUT that. And I feel bad.
Hopefully this sickness goes away within the next couple of weeks!
Next Monday, only 3 more days, and we get to see you on the ultrasound!! I'm so excited! Maybe there will be 2 in there! I have had two dreams about having twins! So maybe! That would be super neat! But also very crazy and stressful probably. Not to mention expensive. We shall see in 3 days though!! :-)
I can't wait to see you little Sprout!
I love you tons and tons already!
Love,
Mommy
Monday, April 2, 2012
I'm Sorry
Dear Teagan:
I'm sorry I'm such a bad mommy lately.
I'm just so sick and tired all the time. I didn't cook dinner all last week. All I want to do is sleep and throw up. It's horrible.
It'll all be worth it though when you get your baby brother or sister home!
I just feel so bad because now that I know there's going to be another baby soon I feel like I need to be spending extra time with you right now while you're my one and only.
I also feel like you're going to be mad once Sprout comes along.
Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon.
I booked our flight to go down to North Carolina to see Dani, Jed & Owen today. I'm really excited. But I'm also really nervous about flying with you and being pregnant. It's not so much the flying part that scares me, its the layover part. I'm so scare you'll get kidnapped or something. I'm going to buy you one of those backpack leashes and make you wear that. Although I read today that a stroller is considered a carry on and I can bring that and not have to pay extra. So we'll see. I just feel like a leash would be easiest though so you can get up and stretch your legs and move freely. I don't want to have to be "that girl" that has troubles putting her stroller in the thing up above or have trouble folding or unfolding it. So we'll go with the backpack.
I'll be 17 weeks when we go. Hopefully I won't be too big by then that we'll be uncomfortable since you'll be riding on my lap.
We sure are going to miss Daddy. But we're going to have so much fun!!
You've been doing so so good on the potty lately. You will just randomly start saying "potty, potty" and when we ask if you have to go you either say yes or no. If you say yes then we run in to the potty and sit you down. Sometimes you pee, sometimes you poop, sometimes you just sit there and grunt because you think it's funny. But I'm so proud of you. You'll be using the big boy potty regularly in no time at all!!
Alright baby, its time for me to leave work and come pick you up.
I love you tons and tons and to the moon and back!
Love,
Mommy
I'm sorry I'm such a bad mommy lately.
I'm just so sick and tired all the time. I didn't cook dinner all last week. All I want to do is sleep and throw up. It's horrible.
It'll all be worth it though when you get your baby brother or sister home!
I just feel so bad because now that I know there's going to be another baby soon I feel like I need to be spending extra time with you right now while you're my one and only.
I also feel like you're going to be mad once Sprout comes along.
Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon.
I booked our flight to go down to North Carolina to see Dani, Jed & Owen today. I'm really excited. But I'm also really nervous about flying with you and being pregnant. It's not so much the flying part that scares me, its the layover part. I'm so scare you'll get kidnapped or something. I'm going to buy you one of those backpack leashes and make you wear that. Although I read today that a stroller is considered a carry on and I can bring that and not have to pay extra. So we'll see. I just feel like a leash would be easiest though so you can get up and stretch your legs and move freely. I don't want to have to be "that girl" that has troubles putting her stroller in the thing up above or have trouble folding or unfolding it. So we'll go with the backpack.
I'll be 17 weeks when we go. Hopefully I won't be too big by then that we'll be uncomfortable since you'll be riding on my lap.
We sure are going to miss Daddy. But we're going to have so much fun!!
You've been doing so so good on the potty lately. You will just randomly start saying "potty, potty" and when we ask if you have to go you either say yes or no. If you say yes then we run in to the potty and sit you down. Sometimes you pee, sometimes you poop, sometimes you just sit there and grunt because you think it's funny. But I'm so proud of you. You'll be using the big boy potty regularly in no time at all!!
Alright baby, its time for me to leave work and come pick you up.
I love you tons and tons and to the moon and back!
Love,
Mommy
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Smarty Pants!
Dear Teagan:
You are just too smart! Your level of understanding is way beyond your age! And your vocabulary! Holy cow!! You are starting to form sentences now! Your favorite one is probably "Where are you???" You're always looking for something it seems.
You said your first swear word. It was a sad day. Especially since I know you learned it from me. Daddy was putting your snow pants on and got your legs in them, stood you up to pull them over your butt and they fell off. Your response- "Shit." I about died. It was funny to hear you say it, but then again not. You can never say the "shh" sound, but when it came to saying that, you had no problem!!
I've tried to make sure I have a filter at home now.
Well, we need to get some breakfast in us!
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love, Mommy
You are just too smart! Your level of understanding is way beyond your age! And your vocabulary! Holy cow!! You are starting to form sentences now! Your favorite one is probably "Where are you???" You're always looking for something it seems.
You said your first swear word. It was a sad day. Especially since I know you learned it from me. Daddy was putting your snow pants on and got your legs in them, stood you up to pull them over your butt and they fell off. Your response- "Shit." I about died. It was funny to hear you say it, but then again not. You can never say the "shh" sound, but when it came to saying that, you had no problem!!
I've tried to make sure I have a filter at home now.
Well, we need to get some breakfast in us!
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love, Mommy
Thursday, February 9, 2012
I Sooo Love You
Dear Teagan:
I love you so much it hurts. Your craziness, your smile, your laughing, your crying, your whining & screaming....everything about you. I would die over and over again if I had to for you.
My love for you is like no other. I listen to coworkers and friends and other people talk about their lives, but I don't hear them bringing up their child's name as much as I bring up yours. Sometimes I wonder if maybe its because other people have more of an outside life than I do. But I don't think so. I mean, yes, you've become my life, but I still do other things. I just know you are my number one. I love you more than anything in this world. I love all you crazy things you do. You howling like a coyote and your fake laugh you do and now you shake your head no or yes all the time.
Of course you test me, but not on purpose....or so I think. I know you sometimes mean it, but I like to think you don't!
I just love you more than anyone ever could. Except your daddy. He loves you just as much. You're so lucky to have a daddy that loves you this much. I've never known a daddy that is sooo involved in a child's life. He would do anything to make you happy. Even when I'm on the brink of losing it, daddy can always make it alright for both of us.
We have the best family.
I want you to know how awesome your life is.
I shouldn't have to tell you, you know too.
I love you to the moon and back.
Love,
Mommy
I love you so much it hurts. Your craziness, your smile, your laughing, your crying, your whining & screaming....everything about you. I would die over and over again if I had to for you.
My love for you is like no other. I listen to coworkers and friends and other people talk about their lives, but I don't hear them bringing up their child's name as much as I bring up yours. Sometimes I wonder if maybe its because other people have more of an outside life than I do. But I don't think so. I mean, yes, you've become my life, but I still do other things. I just know you are my number one. I love you more than anything in this world. I love all you crazy things you do. You howling like a coyote and your fake laugh you do and now you shake your head no or yes all the time.
Of course you test me, but not on purpose....or so I think. I know you sometimes mean it, but I like to think you don't!
I just love you more than anyone ever could. Except your daddy. He loves you just as much. You're so lucky to have a daddy that loves you this much. I've never known a daddy that is sooo involved in a child's life. He would do anything to make you happy. Even when I'm on the brink of losing it, daddy can always make it alright for both of us.
We have the best family.
I want you to know how awesome your life is.
I shouldn't have to tell you, you know too.
I love you to the moon and back.
Love,
Mommy
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Busy Body
Dear Teagan:
Holy cow you are a busy boy these days!! You're so curious of everything and you're also learning to test your limits.
We got rid of your binky last week.
Well, here's how it started.
You had a lingering cold and a cough I just didn't like. So I took you to the doctors the Friday before New Years. I asked if he had any recommendations for your rash around your mouth. He said it wouldn't go away until we took the binky away. Then he proceeded to tell me that I can either be a good mom or your friend and that I'll know I'm a good mom if you tell me at least once a week you hate me. Or I can be your friend and never hear that because I let you do whatever you want to do. So he told me to take you and your binkies down to the Oswegatchie River and give them to the baby fish.
So the plan was to ditch them on Monday since I had Monday off for the holiday. Well, that didn't work. So then Wednesday night on the way home from Jenns you had your binky. As soon as we got home I took it from you and hid it. Then you fell asleep with me on the couch and didn't have one. So when I put you in your crib I put one in with you. When I went to get you out the next morning you were standing up trying to reach over the rail and saying "binky? binky?" There wasn't one on the floor. They had all fallen between the crib and the wall. This is how our conversation went:
Me: Nope, no more binkies.
You: No binky?
Me: Nope, no more binkies.
You: Binky? No binky?
Me: Nope. It's lost. Binky, where are you?
You: Binky, where are you? (which sounded more like "beaky were ahhh oooooh?"
Me: Binky's lost. We have to go now.
You: Go?
Me: Yep, lets go.
You: Coat?
And you were on to getting your coat and hat on to leave. And you haven't had once since. You still ask for one every day, but I either ignore it or sometimes I'll remind you that you don't have one anymore by saying "No more binkies!"
You've done really good. Except Friday night come 1am you woke up frantic and needed one. Nothing would settle you down. I took you to the kitchen and got you some water and that seemed to work. I knew if I put you back in your crib you'd never sleep so I tucked you in between me and daddy. A little while later you woke up all mad about your socks being on because your feet were hot. Once we got those off you slept until 8 the next morning. Then Saturday night you just wouldn't sleep in your own bed. You woke up as soon as I laid you in there and screamed for almost a half hour before I went in to save you. So again, you slept with us.
I decided you always sleep like crap on the weekends. And I'm thinking its because we usually do baths in the morning instead of at night. So it kind of screws up your whole nightly routine.
So we'll go back to baths at night on weekends and see how that goes.
I love you to the moon and back baby. Forever and always.
Love,
Mommy
Holy cow you are a busy boy these days!! You're so curious of everything and you're also learning to test your limits.
We got rid of your binky last week.
Well, here's how it started.
You had a lingering cold and a cough I just didn't like. So I took you to the doctors the Friday before New Years. I asked if he had any recommendations for your rash around your mouth. He said it wouldn't go away until we took the binky away. Then he proceeded to tell me that I can either be a good mom or your friend and that I'll know I'm a good mom if you tell me at least once a week you hate me. Or I can be your friend and never hear that because I let you do whatever you want to do. So he told me to take you and your binkies down to the Oswegatchie River and give them to the baby fish.
So the plan was to ditch them on Monday since I had Monday off for the holiday. Well, that didn't work. So then Wednesday night on the way home from Jenns you had your binky. As soon as we got home I took it from you and hid it. Then you fell asleep with me on the couch and didn't have one. So when I put you in your crib I put one in with you. When I went to get you out the next morning you were standing up trying to reach over the rail and saying "binky? binky?" There wasn't one on the floor. They had all fallen between the crib and the wall. This is how our conversation went:
Me: Nope, no more binkies.
You: No binky?
Me: Nope, no more binkies.
You: Binky? No binky?
Me: Nope. It's lost. Binky, where are you?
You: Binky, where are you? (which sounded more like "beaky were ahhh oooooh?"
Me: Binky's lost. We have to go now.
You: Go?
Me: Yep, lets go.
You: Coat?
And you were on to getting your coat and hat on to leave. And you haven't had once since. You still ask for one every day, but I either ignore it or sometimes I'll remind you that you don't have one anymore by saying "No more binkies!"
You've done really good. Except Friday night come 1am you woke up frantic and needed one. Nothing would settle you down. I took you to the kitchen and got you some water and that seemed to work. I knew if I put you back in your crib you'd never sleep so I tucked you in between me and daddy. A little while later you woke up all mad about your socks being on because your feet were hot. Once we got those off you slept until 8 the next morning. Then Saturday night you just wouldn't sleep in your own bed. You woke up as soon as I laid you in there and screamed for almost a half hour before I went in to save you. So again, you slept with us.
I decided you always sleep like crap on the weekends. And I'm thinking its because we usually do baths in the morning instead of at night. So it kind of screws up your whole nightly routine.
So we'll go back to baths at night on weekends and see how that goes.
I love you to the moon and back baby. Forever and always.
Love,
Mommy
Monday, January 2, 2012
It's 2012!
Dear Teagan:
Well, the new year has begun.
Christmas was excellent!! We went to grandma's on christmas eve for their normal party. Then we came home & went to bed so Santa Claus could come. You were up at 6:30 so we got up to see what Santa brought! You didn't understand much, but once we showed you that finally you could touch the presents and rip them you got the hang of it. Problem was, you opened your stocking first and it was loaded with Elmo stuff so you didn't care about opening other stuff. But you finally did! You loved everything! You got the zoo talkers and pretty much all the animals for it, an Elmo that teaches you letters, an Elmo book, sippy cup, booboo buddy, toothbrush & toothpaste, a whole set of mini books, a Tag JR, an outfit, Mickey pjs, some interactive book things, a Mickey DVD and I think that's it. You and I made monkey bread together. It's going to be our Christmas morning tradition. Then we got showered as all ready to go and we headed to grandmas again. It was just craziness there! 8 adults & you and everyone exchanging gifts with everyone. Well there you got sooooo much stuff. Your big gifts were an awesome toy box & a 2 person radio flyer wagon. But you got clothes & books & pjs & an Elmo DVD & whoa- It was too much. You are one spoiled little boy! After we had brunch there you were tuckered out! You fell asleep in the car and we just took you, in your carseat still, to your room to sleep. Nana & papa were anxious to see us and get stuff going at their house, but we really needed to wait for your nap to be done. Finally I woke you up after a 2 hour nap and we headed next door. We opened more presents and had an early Christmas dinner. Then Uncle Greg, Aunt Kim and the kids came over and you played with them and your new toys. But you were just tuckered out again.
The New Years eve rolled arouna and daddy and I had plans to go to a party. You had a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpas. You had so much fun with them! On New Years day we went to Aunt Sheilas for a family get together. You hadn't napped all day and were a wild man. You're so entertaining!
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
Well, the new year has begun.
Christmas was excellent!! We went to grandma's on christmas eve for their normal party. Then we came home & went to bed so Santa Claus could come. You were up at 6:30 so we got up to see what Santa brought! You didn't understand much, but once we showed you that finally you could touch the presents and rip them you got the hang of it. Problem was, you opened your stocking first and it was loaded with Elmo stuff so you didn't care about opening other stuff. But you finally did! You loved everything! You got the zoo talkers and pretty much all the animals for it, an Elmo that teaches you letters, an Elmo book, sippy cup, booboo buddy, toothbrush & toothpaste, a whole set of mini books, a Tag JR, an outfit, Mickey pjs, some interactive book things, a Mickey DVD and I think that's it. You and I made monkey bread together. It's going to be our Christmas morning tradition. Then we got showered as all ready to go and we headed to grandmas again. It was just craziness there! 8 adults & you and everyone exchanging gifts with everyone. Well there you got sooooo much stuff. Your big gifts were an awesome toy box & a 2 person radio flyer wagon. But you got clothes & books & pjs & an Elmo DVD & whoa- It was too much. You are one spoiled little boy! After we had brunch there you were tuckered out! You fell asleep in the car and we just took you, in your carseat still, to your room to sleep. Nana & papa were anxious to see us and get stuff going at their house, but we really needed to wait for your nap to be done. Finally I woke you up after a 2 hour nap and we headed next door. We opened more presents and had an early Christmas dinner. Then Uncle Greg, Aunt Kim and the kids came over and you played with them and your new toys. But you were just tuckered out again.
The New Years eve rolled arouna and daddy and I had plans to go to a party. You had a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpas. You had so much fun with them! On New Years day we went to Aunt Sheilas for a family get together. You hadn't napped all day and were a wild man. You're so entertaining!
I love you to the moon and back baby.
Love,
Mommy
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