The past few weeks Emery has been getting up 3-5 times a night. At our 4 month visit Dr. Davis he told us she's old enough to make it through the night. So the last few days we've let her cry a bit at night. It's the worst. I cried with her. But she's been so happy during the day and i know it's for the best. She did great last night.
In other news, Erica was here! My good friend from N. VA was here the past few days with us. It was really great to see her. My mom had a pacemaker put in last week and is doing great. But she can't lift Emery for 8 weeks. So that sucks. Emery will go to my friend Sara's nanny 2 days a week until my mom is able to lift her again.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Mommy Must Haves
For weeks I've been wanted to blog about all the things you need as a mom and the billion you don't. Emery is now 4 months old and there are a few things we use every day.
1) the bouncy chair (we have one upstairs and one downstairs) the one upstairs I keep in our bathroom. It's perfect for her to sit in while i shower
2) the bebe chair (bumbo) She loves it and we can put her right on the table while we eat.
3) the around the world play mat. OMG she loves this thing
4) burp clothes - when i saw cloth diapers on my friend's baby registry i thought, what is going to do use pins for that? But they were for burp clothes and they work the best!
5) toys that play music and light up.
6) a mobile that goes over her crib. it really does help with nap time.
7) hats! I keep hats on her the entire time we're in the car to help with the sun. She can't pull them off yet so the theory is by the time she can she'll be used to them and won't.
8) and the this is the one I can't live without...my baby K'Tan. A sling that I can get on and off without anyone else's help. She can nap in it and we bring it everywhere with us.
That's all i got....for now
1) the bouncy chair (we have one upstairs and one downstairs) the one upstairs I keep in our bathroom. It's perfect for her to sit in while i shower
2) the bebe chair (bumbo) She loves it and we can put her right on the table while we eat.
3) the around the world play mat. OMG she loves this thing
4) burp clothes - when i saw cloth diapers on my friend's baby registry i thought, what is going to do use pins for that? But they were for burp clothes and they work the best!
5) toys that play music and light up.
6) a mobile that goes over her crib. it really does help with nap time.
7) hats! I keep hats on her the entire time we're in the car to help with the sun. She can't pull them off yet so the theory is by the time she can she'll be used to them and won't.
8) and the this is the one I can't live without...my baby K'Tan. A sling that I can get on and off without anyone else's help. She can nap in it and we bring it everywhere with us.
That's all i got....for now
Monday, August 23, 2010
A no good, very bad, horrible day
Today was Emery's 4 month doctor's visit. It SUCKED. It is so hard to watch them give her shots. It was 9AM this morning and she's still in pain. I gave her Tylenol but she looks up at me and just starts to cry. It's a different cry. A "i'm in pain" cry. The worst cry ever. She's sleeping in my lap right now, she looks peaceful. Besides the shot part, we got all good news. Emery is 13lbs 9ozs. She's in the 75% for head and length. i have it written down but it's in my diaper bag.
Over the weekend we went to visit my best friend Erin in Orlando. She was there visiting her new mother in law to do wedding stuff. Erin's dad and his wife also live there and that's who we stayed with, Jim and Babs. They couldn't have been sweeter. They completely took us in. gave us our own room, and made us breakfast. It was really amazing how nice everything was. I'm going to stay with them when we go out to the wedding in Denver b/c Dave won't be with me. Erin's mother stayed with Travis's mom. I felt really bad for Erin, she wanted help with her guest book, but T's mom wanted to do custom thank you cards...not what Erin' wanted to spend time on. She didn't want to upset T's mom so she went along with it and it ended up taking all of Saturday night which kinda sucked b/c we didn't get to spend as much time together. But she's in a tough spot. She doesn't want to make waves with her family but they have a lot of opinions they keep sharing....when they weren't asked for them. I love her and i just wish i could help take the stress out of all this planning.
Today was a wash work wise. I'd much rather be with Emery, but I stress out when i can't work. It's hard trying to work, take care of the house, and take care of Emery. I know what I'd rather do all day, but that's not an option.
ok done with my rant. :)
Over the weekend we went to visit my best friend Erin in Orlando. She was there visiting her new mother in law to do wedding stuff. Erin's dad and his wife also live there and that's who we stayed with, Jim and Babs. They couldn't have been sweeter. They completely took us in. gave us our own room, and made us breakfast. It was really amazing how nice everything was. I'm going to stay with them when we go out to the wedding in Denver b/c Dave won't be with me. Erin's mother stayed with Travis's mom. I felt really bad for Erin, she wanted help with her guest book, but T's mom wanted to do custom thank you cards...not what Erin' wanted to spend time on. She didn't want to upset T's mom so she went along with it and it ended up taking all of Saturday night which kinda sucked b/c we didn't get to spend as much time together. But she's in a tough spot. She doesn't want to make waves with her family but they have a lot of opinions they keep sharing....when they weren't asked for them. I love her and i just wish i could help take the stress out of all this planning.
Today was a wash work wise. I'd much rather be with Emery, but I stress out when i can't work. It's hard trying to work, take care of the house, and take care of Emery. I know what I'd rather do all day, but that's not an option.
ok done with my rant. :)
Friday, August 13, 2010
eating our feet
This past Wednesday Emery was 16 weeks. I know at some point I have to move to months.... but if I say 3 1/2 months that's not really right, b/c she'll be 4 months next week....so you see my delima. I re-designed my blog last week and promised myself i'd start adding more photos. so here we go...(if you want to see the clear shot, just click on the photo)
emery's 16 weeks photo shoot started with a smile..
got a little more serious..
and ended with her trying to crawl away...
Emery at 15 weeks... (i'll get better at this)
Emery has two new tricks. She can now grab both feet with her hands. This happens automatically as soon as you take her clothes off. She also does it while laying in her crib.
Step 1: get feet
Step 2: notice mom has black flashing thing pressed up against her face
Step 3: try and eat my hand.
Her second trick is she can now roll over from her back to her stomach...wait for it...and back to her back. I have yet to SEE her go from back to her back but i turned to get the camera and she flipped back back over....mind you she still can't sit up my herself and she's not 4 months yet! This is crazy. I have some video of her at http://www.youtube.com/user/melyjask but have yet to catch her doing a full roll over.
And just for fun her new outfit with her thug hat.
emery's 16 weeks photo shoot started with a smile..
got a little more serious..
and ended with her trying to crawl away...
Emery at 15 weeks... (i'll get better at this)
Emery has two new tricks. She can now grab both feet with her hands. This happens automatically as soon as you take her clothes off. She also does it while laying in her crib.
Step 1: get feet
Step 2: notice mom has black flashing thing pressed up against her face
Step 3: try and eat my hand.
Her second trick is she can now roll over from her back to her stomach...wait for it...and back to her back. I have yet to SEE her go from back to her back but i turned to get the camera and she flipped back back over....mind you she still can't sit up my herself and she's not 4 months yet! This is crazy. I have some video of her at http://www.youtube.com/user/melyjask but have yet to catch her doing a full roll over.
And just for fun her new outfit with her thug hat.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
flipping over
Every time I put her on her back today, she flips over to her stomach and starts to wiggly herself across the mat she's on. It's pretty impressive. She can't sit up by herself yet, but damn this girl can move.
So that whole sleeping through the night...lasted 2 nights. We're back to eating twice during the night and waking up at least one additional time. So we'll see. we're trying to stay on her schedule but sometimes she's not hungry when i try and feed her. we'll find our rhythm here at some point.
I was sick yesterday with some virus. My whole body hurt. But today I feel a lot better. My mom came over yesterday to take care of us.
So that whole sleeping through the night...lasted 2 nights. We're back to eating twice during the night and waking up at least one additional time. So we'll see. we're trying to stay on her schedule but sometimes she's not hungry when i try and feed her. we'll find our rhythm here at some point.
I was sick yesterday with some virus. My whole body hurt. But today I feel a lot better. My mom came over yesterday to take care of us.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Really??
So it's almost 5AM and i'm awake....and the irony is Emery is asleep. After just one day of a VERY strict schedule she's still asleep at 5AM. I, however, woke up at 4 and can't fall back asleep. I laid there for a while hoping i'd go back to bed, then spent a while thinking of all the things I could be doing, the laundry, mop the kitchen, clean off my desk.... This was all sparked by the fact that my left boob is about to explode. I think it was the pain that woke me up in the first place. My laziness is what is currently preventing me from going downstairs to pump.
So here is Emery's schedule (thank you to Brooke!)
7:30 AM feeding
9:00 AM nap
10:30 AM feeding
12:00 PM nap
1:30 PM feeding
3:00 PM nap
4:30 PM feeding
6:00 PM nap
7:30 PM feeding
9:00 PM bedtime
It was so nice to know when to do what. I always feel like i'm flying by the seat of my pants, and i don't always operate great like that.
There are some days where i'm a want-a-be stay at home mom. Since I work from home I feel like every moment i have free I should be working. A lot of things go by the waste side. It's so funny b/c I was told while I was pregnant that I'd be excited to go back to work b/c i'd be bored and lonely.... me?? come on. I make friends at the grocery store, and I could entertain myself all day. There are about 20 groups for mom's in Charleston and of my current friends alone I know at least 4 stay at home mom's. Not to mention all the ones i'd meet if i started going to these groups. Now there are other days (like when we get a new client) that I love working. And i do really love my industry. I've been into the web since 1996 when i created my first website. It consisted of a brown and pink poke-a-dots background and a photo of me and my high school boyfriend. Very advanced as you can picture.
Emery and I went over to our friends house last night Sara and Shawn. Dave went kayaking for a while before it started to rain. It's so weird that all our friends have kids. When we all met, there were no kids. In fact when i met this whole group no one was even pregnant. It's very strange, but totally awesome.
My mom and dad get back from their northward swing tomorrow. They did NOVA, NY - coldspring, Brooklyn, Cape May, and now they are coming home. In their travels they got to meet Hunt's (olivia's boyfriend) parents. I heard it went really great. Dad LOVED their farm, they have a bunch of animals and he was like a kid telling me about it.
ok off to mess with my blog design....again.
So here is Emery's schedule (thank you to Brooke!)
7:30 AM feeding
9:00 AM nap
10:30 AM feeding
12:00 PM nap
1:30 PM feeding
3:00 PM nap
4:30 PM feeding
6:00 PM nap
7:30 PM feeding
9:00 PM bedtime
It was so nice to know when to do what. I always feel like i'm flying by the seat of my pants, and i don't always operate great like that.
There are some days where i'm a want-a-be stay at home mom. Since I work from home I feel like every moment i have free I should be working. A lot of things go by the waste side. It's so funny b/c I was told while I was pregnant that I'd be excited to go back to work b/c i'd be bored and lonely.... me?? come on. I make friends at the grocery store, and I could entertain myself all day. There are about 20 groups for mom's in Charleston and of my current friends alone I know at least 4 stay at home mom's. Not to mention all the ones i'd meet if i started going to these groups. Now there are other days (like when we get a new client) that I love working. And i do really love my industry. I've been into the web since 1996 when i created my first website. It consisted of a brown and pink poke-a-dots background and a photo of me and my high school boyfriend. Very advanced as you can picture.
Emery and I went over to our friends house last night Sara and Shawn. Dave went kayaking for a while before it started to rain. It's so weird that all our friends have kids. When we all met, there were no kids. In fact when i met this whole group no one was even pregnant. It's very strange, but totally awesome.
My mom and dad get back from their northward swing tomorrow. They did NOVA, NY - coldspring, Brooklyn, Cape May, and now they are coming home. In their travels they got to meet Hunt's (olivia's boyfriend) parents. I heard it went really great. Dad LOVED their farm, they have a bunch of animals and he was like a kid telling me about it.
ok off to mess with my blog design....again.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Sleeping and Moving
She rolled over!! I put her on her back on the blanket behind me. I started checking my email and she started making noise (nothing unsual) then when i turned around she was on her stomach!! It was so cool. I yelled for Dave and flipped her back over but she didn't do it again.
She rolls from side to side a lot now when she's on her back. She talks to all the little animals on her baby play mat. full conversations of course.
The last few nights she's been a pill. She goes to bed just fine and then wakes up hourly. It's a blast. So today we started our new schedule. We're going on a 3 hour schedule so hopefully I can start functioning like a normal person. We went to boob club today. I do like the girls there, but they seem to think it's perfectly normal and encouraged to fed through the night. I really need to sleep. So we'll see how it goes. She's in her room now b/c she's doesn't fit in her bassinet anymore.
She rolls from side to side a lot now when she's on her back. She talks to all the little animals on her baby play mat. full conversations of course.
The last few nights she's been a pill. She goes to bed just fine and then wakes up hourly. It's a blast. So today we started our new schedule. We're going on a 3 hour schedule so hopefully I can start functioning like a normal person. We went to boob club today. I do like the girls there, but they seem to think it's perfectly normal and encouraged to fed through the night. I really need to sleep. So we'll see how it goes. She's in her room now b/c she's doesn't fit in her bassinet anymore.
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