she's practically perfect in every way

May 27, 2009

But, of course, we already knew that!

We had her two month check up early this afternoon. Her doctor says she's doing really good -- he says she's "perfect" -- and that she's a little ahead of where he would expect her to be in some developmental things. Jimmy swears she's a genius, but I think he's biased, but her doctor confirmed that she's a little ahead of herself and I'm sure she's going to be a very very smart little girl.

She was in the 25th percentile in everything at her two week appointment (7 lbs 4 oz, 19 inches and I forgot head circumference). She's now 11 lbs 2 oz (no clothes and a dry diaper -- so real weight) and 22 inches long with a head circumference of 15 and a third inches. She's in the 50th percentile for her age. So she's growing fast and proportionally. He says he would not be surprised if she's more than double her birth weight at six months (which is what is average). I am no longer worried that she's not getting enough food.

He said whatever it is we're doing seems to be working and to just keep doing it. She goes back for another well check up in two months.

Trying to eat her burp cloth -- that child LOVES to eat. She's NOT like her Mommy in that department.

Today was not a shots appointment because shots are done by the Health Department at the Community Health Center. They won't be for another couple of weeks because I didn't realize I had to go to a different place (my fault completely) and they're really busy. If they get a cancellation sooner, they'll call me, but that's not usual. But her doctor said she'll be alright and to just be sure to make her appointment for her next shots while I'm there anyway. I'm not looking forward to that day. Her doctor suggested giving her some baby tylenol about a half hour before her appointment to help with keeping any fever and symptoms down, but also said I could wait until after and see if any symptoms show up.

I'm not looking forward to the needles OR the thought of my poor little munchikin being sick. I don't like that. Jimmy's already said that he doesn't want to go to that appointment cause he knows he won't be able to handle it if she starts crying. So Mommy gets to be the bad guy.

But I'd expected and prepared myself for that anyway.

Sleeping in her bouncer -- she loves that thing! If you put her in it if she's at all tired, she's out old within just a few minutes.

Other than the doctor's appointment it was a rather uneventful day, as Lil Miss had another sleepy day, so she cat napped a lot. I'm pretty sure that's because she was awake last night from four am until about eight thirty this morning. We walked, she played in her bouncy chair while Mommy tried to cat nap on the bean bag chair next to her and we watched Mike and Mike in the Morning. She's a good little baby, she just apparently likes to be awake early in the morning (which means Mommy is going to bed very soon). And we got all the way through another bath with absolutely no tears. I think she's finally gotten completely used to it!

I have the best baby ever and I love her to pieces.

On another note -- send some good thoughts down this way for the next few weeks. The attorney I work for is retiring this summer, so I'm job hunting for something full time. There's a few possibilities right now and, if those don't work out, I'll just keep looking. But I could use some good thoughts. The job market here isn't great and I really want something with a steadier paycheck than waiting tables.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

mocking birds to rover -- didn't need any of them today

May 25, 2009

TOLD you I'd get you pictures from yesterday. (c:

Today wasn't bad. She was a sleepy baby today -- slept most of the afternoon when we were at work and actually slept for awhile this morning as well. She was awake from about five am until eight thirty, but then slept from then until about ten thirty. She fell asleep on the bus down to work at noon and slept for a good part of the afternoon.

And when she was awake, she was perfectly happy chewing on her hand and slobbering all over her Moo Cow while sitting in her car seat and letting Mommy work.

May 26, 2009

Yes, she is hiding behind her Moo Cow in the above picture. She does that alot -- plays peek-a-boo without knowing what peek-a-boo is. She'll pull her burp cloth over her face or pull her bib up or duck behind her Moo Cow or her Pooh Bear blanket. It's very very cute. I haven't been able to manage to get a video of it yet, but believe me -- I'm trying!!

(Check out of the video on the right that's all her in the blue dress -- the second one down. The first sound she makes is one of her adorable coos. I love that sound!)

She's finally longer than her big brother!

Zeus is finally used to her I think. She's "petted" him a few times and will lay on the floor with him right beside her, and he seems fine with it. There are moments I think he might be a tiny bit jealous, simply because when Mommy's holding the baby, she can't be loving on the kitty, but we make sure he get plenty of loving when we're both home or when she's asleep. He hasn't really tried to bother her yet. So I think he's decided she can stay.

He does love to lay on her leaf when she's not using it though.

Oh! I forgot something yesterday! We had a REALLY big first -- we managed to get all the way through a bath (from getting undressed to bath to washing the hair to getting out to being dried off and then dressed again) without any tears! She even got water on her face and didn't cry!

I was really proud of her.

Two month check up is early tomorrow afternoon (though her shots aren't for a couple of weeks -- long story), so I'll let y'all know how it goes.

Contemplating on how difficult it is to be a baby.

my daughter is a munster!

May 19, 2009

I really hate to say it, but I think Jimmy may be right -- look at our daughter's hairline -- she looks like Eddie Munster!!!

So Jimmy had the day off today and the new UFC games came out as well. So he got up at 9:30 this morning and went down to the FYE to trade in some of the games he doesn't play much any more and get his UFC game.

And then, of course, he had to play it all day. (c: (It is pretty cool looking).

Lil Miss LOVES her reflection -- she is absolutely fascinated by that gorgeous baby in the mirror!

Lil Miss was a sleepy baby today. Maybe she's growing again? She's already at 22 inches (I measured her when she was sleeping this morning, when I was measuring her pack and play so I can make a mattress pad for it). She would wake up to eat and she was awake for maybe an hour total when we were at work this morning, maybe thirty minutes between when we got home at 3:30 and when she woke up at 6. Then she was awake from 6 until she fell asleep at 9 on the dot.

But all that time she wanted to be a snuggle bunny too -- she wanted to be held. I don't mind, o course, but she is getting rather heavy. I'm going to have to get the nutritionist to weigh her tomorrow -- she's got to be almost ten pounds now, if not over.

See? She's our little snuggle bug!

Lil Miss can't decide if she likes the bath. I'll have to get some pictures of her bath tomorrow night. She knows she likes the warm water, but she's not so sure about the whole washing the face and hair thing. She tends to look at me like I'm trying to drown her or something if any water gets poured on her face. It's actually kind of funny. She's cute when she comes out though, even if she does scream (though I can understand that -- it gets COLD all of a sudden when you get out of that warm water!)

Oh! We tried a new place for dinner tonight (cause I SO did not feel like cooking -- my arms are tired (and I'm tired in general) and I still think I'm a little sick). This new BBQ place that opened up. I was a little weary of it -- I have yet to have good BBQ down here (though, I will admit, I'm extremely picky), but a friend of Jimmy's said it was good, so we decided to give it a try. He had ribs, I had pulled pork.

It's not Loves or the BBQ from that place in Macon that we love (but I can't remember the name of), but it was pretty damn good. Especially for this little Southern girl who hasn't really had BBQ in probably about two years. It's going to have to go on our list of places to keep in mind. And they deliver, which is always nice.

Okay, I have a couple of things to do for work before Charles gets back from Philly tomorrow and then, Mommy's going to take a bath and read. (Once Lil Miss goes down at 9, she doesn't wake up to be fed before 1 am. Usually it's closer to 2 or even 3). And then? Sleeeeeeep.

Watching Daddy dress her after her bath (the green thing is one of her towels -- Jimmy loves it cause it's bright and obnoxious)

"i'm a rockstar!!"

April 29, 2009

Yes, Lil Miss has a mohawk. Yes, Mommy and Daddy are dorks. Our daughter is a rockstar and I love it. (c:

So, Lil Miss had her first bath in the new apartment tonight, in the bathtub. She seemed to like it. We filled it enough that there was some water above the very bottom of the seat so she was sitting in warm water. She liked that a good bit. But, she's a little wiggle worm so we have to be really careful. Cause she tries to wiggle her way out of the seat (not good!) or down in the seat (again, not good). Not good cause I don't want her getting her down in the water and, you know, going INTO the water. Bad bad bad, of course. So you have to keep one hand on her at all times.

Not a bad thing, not hard, it's just something we have to remember to do cause she's my little wiggle worm. But she likes the warm and the water and the feeling of being bathed. She doesn't even fuss when you pour water over he head. She just doesn't like the cold world once she's taken OUT of the water. (c:

Hence the fussiness in her cute little mohawk picture.

Pictures of her "faces". Clockwise from the top left: her "confused" face, her "grumpy" face, her "sleepy" face, her "happy" face, her "my-parents-are-crazy" face, her "yuck" face (the face she makes when she spits out her binky or pushes away a bottle cause she's done) and her "suprised" face.

Lil Miss makes some of the cutest faces. The above is compiled from just taking pictures rapidly over and over for about five minutes this afternoon at work. I have a video of her too; I'll try to get it up soon cause it's very cute. Her making her little faces and noises. They're awfully cute.

So we finished moving completely today. Everything is in the new apartment and the old apartment is clean. Almost everything is unpacked. I cleaned this morning while Daddy watched the baby (it was his day off again) and then Lil Miss and I went to work. She was actually awake most of the morning and a good bit of the afternoon. She's started staying awake a good bit. It's very cute and fun cause it means I actually get to play with her, which is cool.

She's also started being able to get herself back to sleep when she starts to wake up if she's not hungry or wet. That's nice too.

She's the cutest, sweetest little baby. She's so good and doesn't really have fits unless there's a really good reason. I know I've said this before, but we are very lucky and very very spoiled by this munchkin.

Also, I want to try and do a blessing for Lil Miss at some point this summer. I was talking to Anj about it because I was thinking of doing a baptism, but that's not exactly our thing, you know? That really wasn't what I wanted to do, but I couldn't think of what to call it. She suggested doing a "blessing" instead, that we can create how we want to.

So I want to try and do it. I'm not sure when or where, but I want as much of the family to be able to be there as possible, so my guess it, well, not here, but somewhere between the two families. Maybe this summer? I don't know, we'll see. Mainly it's just a heads up and I'll keep everyone in the loop. (c:

Now, I go watch Yes Man with Jimmy and then sleep. Love you all!

Lil Miss being her cute, adorable little self. HOW can you not just adore that baby?

and now back to our regularly scheduled programming!

April 27, 2009

I apologize that we missed a day yesterday. Yesterday was the day everything was getting transferred over to the new apartment -- cable, internet, all that good stuff -- and we were moving the rest of the stuff. Jimmy was working, but I took the day off so I could be here when the techs showed up and so I could move things and we could hopefully have just the big stuff remaining when Jimmy got home.

Didn't work exactly that way, but I had a lot of it. However, our internet company switched the service over, but they conveniently forgot to check their records and see if our new apartment was wired for internet and they just had it switch over instead of sending out a tech. Well, guess what?

Our new apartment wasn't wired for internet so it didn't work. I called last night to see why we still didn't have a signal and they couldn't figure it out so they sent out a tech this morning. He knew what the problem was in five minutes and was done in less than thirty. Really -- was that so hard? Why couldn't they have done that yesterday so I could have posted last night and I wouldn't have had a grumpy Daddy who couldn't play online with his boys? (c:

April 28, 2009

But all is good now. We have electric, water, cable and internet at the new apartment. All our stuff has been moved (almost all of it put away) and everything is out of the old apartment (including the kitty, who decided to get out and go MIA for about six hours yesterday. Not fun for a worried Mommy). We've cleaned the old apartment and we're going to clean it again tomorrow. We'll be out a day and a half early, since we're doing that in the morning (cause Lil Miss and I are going to work tomorrow afternoon). The new apartment is pretty much set up. Lil Miss has her own room (even if she's not sleeping in it yet) and there's plenty of room for all our stuff -- we can spread out some. And things are actually *arranged*. It's amazing -- it looks like a real home.

It's great. I love it.

"Look at me! I'm trying to stand up!" (You might not be able to tell, but she's pushing down with her feet, trying to push herself up)

Lil Miss has been as good as she can be through this whole moving process and I'm grateful for that. She was really good at work today -- she did some absolutely *adorable* cuddling with Moo Cow, but I forgot to take the camera with me, so I didn't get pictures of it, sadly. Oh well, I'm sure she'll do something just as cute tomorrow. She always does. She makes some of the cutest faces and noises. I really should try and get them on video to show her off.

I have, I think, the cutest baby in the universe.

Sitting up (almost) on her own

I think Lil Miss is doing really good developmentally. She holds her head up really well and for a long time. Her neck muscles are getting really strong. She's eating more at each feeding and she's being awake for longer and waking up for reasons other than just "I'm wet" or "I'm hungry". There are times now she really wants to play. She's trying to turn over too, though she can't exactly figure it out.

And she gives head butts. She doesn't do it on purpose and she has no *clue* what they are, but she does it anyway and I love it. Considering that Mommy head butts people (well, mainly, Daddy and Zeus) she fits right into the family that way.

Thumbs up! I think she likes her new apartment

So yeah, it's been a LONG week of little to no sleep trying to get everything moved and watch Lil Miss, but it's worth it. We have the new apartment and we love it. Oh and Mommy got to take a bath -- a real bath -- tonight. Daddy listened for the little one for awhile (she was (and still is) asleep) and Mommy got to sit in the nice hot bath I've been craving since last fall.

It was great. Definitely going to have to do that more often. I think Lil Miss is going to get her first bath in there tomorrow night after we get home from work.

All I have left to do is reorganize and put away all the clothes (we sent out a lot of laundry today -- though hopefully there will be a washer and dryer in our near future so *I* can do our laundry easily), hang the posters / prints / pictures that are going in our room, the nursery and the living room and unpack two boxes of "the leftovers" -- just little stuff that wasn't worth carrying over one by one. After that, everything will have a home in the new apartment and we'll be ready for Grandma Barbara to come visit next week. We can't wait. Daddy is ecstatic. And I know Lil Miss will be very happy.

I'm pretty excited too. (c:

Big Brother decided that Lil Miss needed to share her crib. Until we get a mat for it, he can sit there. Once we get a mat? No more.

nothing better than a clean baby

April 21, 2009

We had a pretty big first today -- it was Lil Miss Priss' first real bath. Obviously, she's been getting "sponge" (washcloth) baths either daily or every other day since she came home, but she got her first real bath bath today.

"Look at me! In the water! Nothing better than reclining in warm water -- just ask my Momma!"

Since our apartment is small and we have only a shower (no bathtub -- which made Mommy a sad sad panda when she was pregnant because she SO wanted a bath), we bathed her in the sink. Her Aunt Anjie had the forsight to send her a bathing chair for Christmas, so we set it up and put her in it. I had NO idea how she was going to react.

She didn't seem to mind it too much. I wouldn't say she necessarily LIKED it at first, but once she realized the water was, well, warm and felt good, she stopped threatening to cry. I covered her eyes when pouring water over her head, which I think she appreciated. By the end, I think she was deciding this might actually be okay, maybe this would be cool.

And then she was taken out of the bath and the world got cold. She didn't like that so much. So we bundled her in the ducky towel and dried her off then went ahead and put her in her sleeper (she sleeps in long sleeved footed pajamas since we keep the room cooler. During the day, its all short sleeves).

But let me tell you, there is nothing better than a clean and happy baby. She was all cuddly and cooing until she fell asleep just a little bit ago. Her soap smells like, well, soap, so now she smells like a mixture of formula, soap, baby wipes and a tiny bit of something that is just, well, baby.

Whoever thought that my favorite smell would become baby formula and soap?

Oh, and Lil Miss is definitely a zombie. She tried to eat Moo Cow today. (c:

My sleeping little angel (yep -- that's Moo Cow in the top corner. He has to always be close by)