eleven pounds of dead weight makes for a long weekend

May 23, 2009

It's been a long long weekend.

After Lil Miss' not sleepy at all Friday, I was expecting Saturday to be a day of naps. Haha, I was wrong -- she was a very SLEEPY baby on Saturday, but not a TIRED baby. Let's just say I had a grumpy butt ALL day on Saturday, who wanted to do nothing but fuss and nothing seemed to make her happy cause she was so sleepy but she refused to go to sleep.

Long day, cause Daddy was working (it's Memorial Day weekend -- long hours too) so Mommy had a fussy and screaming baby. Mommy was tired when she finally went to sleep.

May 24, 2009

Yesterday wasn't a whole lot better. She was actually tired, and wanted to sleep most of the day, but she refused to be put down. So Mommy got to carry around a sleeping baby -- meaning an over eleven pound dead weight -- all day long. Let me tell you how much my arms hurt when I finally got her out for the night and she let me put her down without screaming -- at ten thirty pm.

She was then awake again on this morning and was awake until almost five and then awake again at seven. Mommy is a sleepy sleepy girl.

I don't know what's going on with her. Is she maybe growing again? She is two months old today.

This is how my munchikin sleeps. It canNOT be good for her!

So yeah -- that is how my little one sleeps -- with her face directly against the side of her bassinet. No matter how many times I move her or straighten her back out, it's right back to this. I know she can breathe but it still worries me and I don't know how to stop it. Even when I use the little things that are supposed to keep her in place, she moves them til she's like this.

I don't know why she wants to sleep like that, but she is damn determined. And with me and Jimmy as parents? She's stubborn as a mule. She's going to sleep how she wants to sleep!

Trying to eat her hand. I'm not sure why. She wasn't hungry -- I tried to feed her, she spit it out and put her hand right back in.

Why does she do this? Anyone have any ideas? She tries to eat her hand on a daily basis. Not just her fingers (which she does too) but her whole fist. She can't fit it all in her mouth, but she tries damn hard. Again -- our daughter is a determined little baby. It is kinda funny to watch.

My sleepy sleepy attachmenty baby.

So yeah. I don't know how today is going to be. She's awake right now (she's playing in her bouncer) but I dunno if it's going to be a fussy day, a napping day or a normal day. I guess we'll see. I'll let y'all know tonight. Right now? I'm gonna go play with my munchkin -- and try not to think about how tired I am.

Her little monkey toys. They're so long! She can grip a finger with her toes almost as as with her hands!

my first mommy's day with the munchkin

May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day to all the women in my world again! I got to spend all day with my own little Mother's Day present and it was, of course, good. She was a little fussy at times but, hey, what baby isn't? She was also VERY cuddly for a good bit of the day, which is always nice.

Playing hide and seek with the camera.

Jimmy's still sick. I don't know what to do to fix it and I hate it. He's taking his medicine. He's not eating anything he shouldn't (he's really not eating anything). He drinking lots of liquids. And he's still sick.

I hate this.

It's stress that sets it off, I'm sure. His work stresses him out like crazy (not the work, but mainly the people he works with). So I talked to Charles today and he said he could come up with some more hours for me. And I'm still applying for other things and he's putting in a good word for me at one of the positions.

Basically, we're going to see what we can make work. I'm not sure Jimmy's going back to work and, if he does, it will not be as much, just a few days a week. He'll take care of Lil Miss during the day and I'll work as close to full time or more as I can.

Being a fussy little monkey.

Lil Miss is so good to me. She's so good at work -- she really is! Since I didn't get to work Thursday or Friday, and since Charles has a trial starting tomorrow, I worked yesterday and again today. Charles was there for awhile this morning and remarked on how good she is and how amazing it is that she just amuses herself (I always make sure to have Moo Cow and I take other toys too -- there's a drawer in my desk that has a few of her toys and such that I just leave there). She was perfect the whole time he was there. She's was perfect pretty much all day. She got a little fussy towards the end (when we'd been there for five and a half hours already) but that's to be expected and all that I had left to do was stuff I can do from home anyway.

She saved the being really fussy for when we got home.

We had a long evening -- I think she was gassy, so she was crying and fussy and just wanted to be held. I think it was part gassy, part hot (it's Key West in May -- it gets a bit warm), part sleepy (that she was fighting really hard) and I think part just grumpy/sad/had a long week and needed cuddle time. She did let me talk to Momma on Skype for awhile (so I could show off how big Lil Miss is getting!) but got really fussy after about fifteen minutes so we got off the phone. And I basically held, cuddled and bounced her for the next four hours.

But now she's sleeping and I think Mommy's going to head that way. I hope everyone had a good Mother's Day. Love you all!

Burying herself in Mommy's shoulder. I can't help but melt when she does that.

happy mommy day!

May 9, 2009

Yeah, yeah, I know that Mother's Day isn't until tomorrow, but most of you won't read this until the morning anyway, so I still maintain it's Happy Mother's Day to all my favorite mother's out there. And Lil Miss agrees -- see her little shirt? (c:

Yeah, I thought the Grandmas might appreciate that. Sorry she isn't smiling, but she was a bit of a grumpy butt at that moment.

Looking either contemplative, confused or just plain grumpy at work -- she has some of the CUTEST faces and poses!

Gramma and Laurie left today. )c: They came by this morning to see us before they headed back up the Keys. They had a lot of fun going out downtown last night, so that's good. They were showing me pictures this morning and they had some hilarious ones. Jimmy was feeling a little better. He's not really nauseous anymore, he just feels like crap. Probably because he hasn't really eaten much of, well, anything in like a week. I got him some chicken broth on my way home from work today, so hopefully he'll be able to eat that tomorrow. Right now, he took a Sominex to help him sleep and he's doing just that -- sleeping. Hopefully he'll be able to sleep well tonight -- he really didn't sleep all that well last night.

Lil Miss and I had an okay day. We got up pretty early and, after Gramma and Laurie headed out, went to work for awhile since I hadn't gone Thursday or Friday. We worked for about six hours (and I still have more I have to do tomorrow) before Lil Miss finally decided she was sick of work and wanted to go home already. So we did.

But when we got to work, there was a hand me down from Rae, the other woman that works in the office. A neighbor of hers had a little bouncy chair they were getting rid of and she took it and brought it to me. It's the chair Lil Miss is sitting in in that picture above. It's got a vibrating mode and also plays music if you want it to. Lil Miss seems to like it, so it's a good thing to have.

She gets some awesome hand-me-downs. We have the best family and friends in the world.

My little wiggle worm!

She is!! She is a complete wiggle worm. No matter how careful I am to put her directly in the center of her bassinet, straight, when I go in to pick her up cause she's awake or needs to be fed or changed, she's wiggled herself into some skewed and crazy position. At least she has better control of her head now and I'm not really worried about her getting stuck against the edge or suffocating herself, but seriously -- I've never seen someone move as much in their sleep as she does -- not even her Daddy, and he tosses and turns like crazy.

However, she doesn't do this when she's in bed with Mommy. Sometimes when she's restless and won't go back to sleep, I'll just lay her in bed next to me and curl around her. She either doesn't move or turns on her side and cuddles with me. It's very very sweet and I love it. But seriously, that's the ONLY time she doesn't move like a crazy little monkey when she's sleeping.

So yeah, tomorrow (well, technically today) is my "first" Mother's Day. Jimmy said the other day that he needed to get me something for Mother's Day. I told him not to, because I already have the only Mother's Day present I could want or need.

I have my Lil Miss.