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)

you could set a clock by her!

May 17, 2009

Seriously -- there must be a little clock in her head or something. Cause every night, right at 9 pm, she puts herself to bed. Last night Jimmy had her and was trying to get her to go to sleep, since I was cooking dinner. It was like 8:45 and you could tell she was sleepy. Then his phone rang and he had to run to our neighbor's for something, so I took her. And, at 9 on the dot, she closed her eyes and went to sleep. And tonight? Same thing -- awake, awake, awake, 9 pm comes and she's out cold. It's nice to at least know when she's going to go to sleep. And she sleeps pretty well at night too, which it nice. Only wakes up to eat (about every 4 hours, sometimes as much as 6) and then goes right back to sleep.

She's such a good baby.

May 18, 2009

So yesterday was one of Daddy's days off, after working three hard days in a row, and he was up very very late Saturday playing with the boys, so Lil Miss and I let him sleep. We went grocery shopping early and then Momma cleaned and did some work that I brought home with me when Lil Miss napped and when she didn't? Well, we played and read. And walked (and walked and walked and walked -- I am getting payback for making Momma and Daddy walk me so much when I was a baby!). So basically yesterday was just a lazy day for all of us.

Out cold on Mommy's shoulder. It must be 9 o'clock.

Today was a bit longer of a day. Both Daddy and I worked. Charles is still out of town (gets back tomorrow), but Lil Miss and I went down to check the mail and the messages and get a couple of things done, as well as finish up some filing. We also made her 2 month check up appointment (next Wednesday) and an appointment to see the WIC nutritionist about switching her formula checks to soy formula (this Wednesday - -and while I'm there I need to see how to get her an appointment for her first immunizations; it's at the same place. THAT'S not something I'm looking forward to). Then we had to run to the grocery for a few things I forgot and then take the bus home and then do laundry up at the laundry mat. Which means Lil Miss got loaded in and out of her car seat and toted around on errands most of the day and did not really get a nap.

Which made her a bit of a grumpy butt which, honestly, I can understand.

So when we got back from taking the laundry out of the dryers, it was about 6 and Lil Miss decided it was "love and cuddle on Lil Miss" time. Meaning that the laundry sat and waited to be folded for three hours while I loved on and cuddled with Lil Miss. So after she went to bed, Mommy got to fold clothes.

That little one has a LOT of clothes. Seriously.

Napping in her pack and play.

I'm trying to prepare her for sleeping through the night by only putting her in the bassinet when she puts herself to bed -- I put her in the crib for naps and such. Is that okay? Do you think it will help? She seems to like sleeping in the crib just fine. Also, I want to make sure she's used to it because that's the bed that will most likely go with us when we do travel with her (since it folds up and travels much better than the bassinets would).

Now I've had about an hour of "Mommy time" to eat and update the blog. So I'm gonna finish my dinner and then go get some sleep. I sleep a lot it seems, but then again, I don't sleep well, cause everytime she starts mumbling in her sleep, I wake up, even if she doesn't. And, of course, getting up to feed her and such. And then she gets me up up sometime between 6 and 7. So Mommy? Yeah, Mommy is going to bed earlier than she used to. She's sleepy.

And now? Finish dinner, book and sleep.

cutting the hairs and watching history

May 16, 2009

I wish you could hear the sound that goes with the above picture. It's this adorable little cooing sound that's just the absolute cutest thing in the whole world. I love that sound -- I think it's one of my new favorite sounds in the world (that and her "dinosaur" sound).

It was a pretty good day. Lil Miss was very good. We went and got my hairs cut this morning (yep -- it's pretty short. If this tells you anything -- I donated to Locks of Love, meaning I cut at least 10 inches off -- dry). Jimmy hates it. Mainly because he doesn't like short hair on girls. He's actually a little upset with me because he told me he didn't want me cutting it all off, but I thought he meant all off, like pixie cut all off. That wouldn't look good on me, so I'd never do that. It's right about my jaw line. But that's apparently too short. So he's grumpy that I cut it after he told me not to, but I keep saying he'll get used to it.

I like it.

At the Vandenburg.

After getting the hairs cut we run a couple of errands and then headed into Old Town to check the mail and messages for work (since we were there already) but most importantly to get Moo Cow. After that, we had about forty five minutes to kill before our bus came through, so we walked down to the Truman Waterfront. There's this big old retired military ship, the U.S.S. Vandenburg, there. They're going to sink it off the coast of Key West and make it an artificial reef where people can dive and stuff. I realized that this is a bit of Key West history that Lil Miss is alive for, but won't remember. So I got some of the tourists down there to take a picture of me and Lil Miss so I could prove to her that she did get to see the Vandenburg when it was above water -- even if she doesn't remember it!

After we got home, Lil Miss took a small nap (long enough for Mommy to do the dishes and clean up a little bit) and then got up to be played with and cuddled all afternoon. The switch to soy formula seems to be going well. She seems to like it enough and I don't think it upsets her tummy as much. She has a much easier time with her messy diapers and doesn't seem to be as gassy. So this may be the trick.

She has put herself on a schedule though, so she's a grumpy butt from about eight until she finally falls asleep, usually around nine. She fights sleep for almost an hour -- I guess she thinks she's going to miss something?

Sleeping in her pack n play.

So one of the many things we inherited from our neighbor Natalie was a pack and play for Lil Miss. Obviously she hasn't really used it yet, as she's not big enough to really need it yet. She still sleeps in the bassinet with us in our room. But when we got home this afternoon, I was doing some stuff in our room and didn't want to wake her, so I laid her in her room. I was going to put her in the second bassinet, but decided to see how she liked the crib.

She seems to like it. She slept just fine in it. Putting her in and getting her out is a little harder on Mommy's back, but it's not bad. And she seems comfortable so yay!

Yeah, again, don't feel like loading all the apartment photos. At some point, I really will put them up here.

Also, I'll try to get some photos of the hair cut tomorrow. I like it. I hope y'all do too. I'm sure Jimmy'll get used to it -- it's just very very different (I'm glad Lil Miss is too young to really freak out about Mommy looking so different!)

And now? Sleep.

i officially have the best baby ever

May 8, 2009

And another long day. Long couple of days. Heck, it's been a long long week.

Long story short: Gramma and Laurie have been here since Tuesday night and Jimmy has been sick most of it. He'll start to feel better, but then it all comes back and starts again and he's sick. He feels really bad right now because he feels like he's destroyed Gramma and Laurie's vacation, but they're still doing things because we're making them. No one is upset with him, obviously, but he's upset with himself and I don't know how to fix that. I also don't know how to make him not sick, which I HATE.

I do NOT like being helpless.

Lil Miss and Gramma -- all dressed up!

Lil Miss is officially the best baby ever. She spent most of the day in her car seat (I feel SO bad about that -- we were going to Theater of the Sea (hour and a half to two hour drive), Daddy got sick so we turned around when we got there and headed back, dropping him at the hospital in Marathon (hour and a half to two hours back), Mommy had to go pick up documents from work so I could work on them tonight (about thirty minutes in the car total) and then she and I went to pick him up when they released him (an hour each way). So all in all be spent eight to nine hours in her car seat in the car today. I feel like a horrible Mommy for that. )c: ) and she was so good the whole time! At one point, Gramma actually said she almost forgot the baby was even in the backseat because she was so quiet.

She is the best baby ever and we are incredibly spoiled. I joked today that I think she just wants a sibling, so she's being good so we won't swear off babies. (c: (But no -- no siblings any time soon).

Sleeping in her carseat during the long road trip.

I realized something last night that I hadn't really realized. It makes me incredibly anxious to be away from her. I don't like it. Even if I'm in our room and she's out in the living room with Daddy instead of in her bassinet next to me, I don't like it. It makes me anxious and upset. I want her with ME. I don't like leaving her or putting her down and I'm uncomfortable letting or asking other people to take care of her or help. Yes, it's making me tired. Yes, it's somewhat stressing me out. But I can't help it. It makes me so anxious I want to cry.

Seriously -- last night I was tired and stressed out to the point that I was about to cry and Jimmy wanted me to give her to Gramma and Laurie to hold for awhile while I tried to sleep and all I could think was "don't take my baby -- just don't take her. I want her here". She makes me feel better and not having her makes me feel worse.

Is this normal? It makes me feel slightly crazy!

(Sorry this is kinda short -- it's late, been a long week, I'm tired. I think I'm going to bed now.)

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.

brains.................brains..............

April 19, 2009

It was a pretty lazy day today. Daddy was off work, Mommy was off work, so we just hung around the house and had a lazy day. It was pretty fun, actually.

I went through and sorted (and found space for) all Lil Miss' clothes -- she has a lot of them! I think I've finally found a place for all her stuff. She also watched (well, listened to (c: ) her first musical, because I found Oklahoma! on TV and watched it while sorting and folding. Such a good movie. She also watched part of her first Miami Heat playoff game (though they didn't play so hot tonight. Bummer).

Watching the Heat play. If Daddy looks disgusted, it's cause they were playing pretty badly.

It's day two of "cow attachment". She still loves that thing. It was also a general attachment day -- she really didn't want to be put down most of the day. She just wanted to be held. We really can't complain. She cute and cuddly and it's hard not to just hold her when she wants to be held. Mommy is getting really good at making bottles and cooking and doing general every day things one handed and off balance with a baby in my arms. Talk about multitasking.

Also, because Daddy and I were talking about it today, our Lil Miss is, according to various and asundry people (including, sometimes, us) a: gremlin, bunny rabbit, porker, piglet, angel, princess, wide receiver, munchkin, fish, gnome, furby, grand dragon (LONG story), muppett, priss pot, cabbage patch kid, squeaky toy, grumpy butt, stinky butt, cuddle bug and, best of all, zombie.

Yep. We're weird. So are our friends.

See? Zombie. Definitely a zombie.