My Little Lady is 6 months today! While it feels as if we've had her forever, I also can't believe how time has flown.
I remember holding her for the first time, just moments after she was born, and feeling like my family was complete. I have my husband, my beautiful, special son and my angelic daughter.
My mom often told me I was her pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or something equally sweet but cheesy. My mom had 4 kids, I was the last. Two of my older siblings were particularly challenging. According to my mom I rarely cried. I was easy going and just a pleasant baby and child. Well Little Lady is to me what I was to my mom.
Kind of.
Little Lady likes to be held. A LOT. She gets upset being put down. Not to mention she still isn't sleeping through the night regularly. But it is all worth it. Just looking at her can make me feel better.
And when I feel like I want another kid? Morning comes and the kids wake up and then I realize I couldn't handle another. But damnit I love the ones I have!
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Little Lady
I realize I've been talking about little Z a lot lately. So now it's Little Lady's turn!
Little Lady is 5 months today. It's so funny how time goes by. While I feel like she's been here forever it's also hard to imagine that it's been 5 months already.
Little Lady has been doing great. She was weighed about 2 weeks ago and she weighed about 12 1/2 pounds. She's still exclusively breastfed and petite.
She was rolling back and forth last night for the first time. It's so cute when she is on her tummy and she's trying so hard to crawl and get something, but she rolls over because she can't crawl. Normally once she rolls on her back she's stuck but last night she finally made it back to her tummy!
It is so amazing to watch the things that she does every day... Hell, every hour!
The other day she was playing fire trucks with her brother. He didn't really want to play with her, but he tolerated it. She couldn't do much more than kind of pull the fire truck back and forth and try to eat it, but she seemed to have fun playing with Z.
She is still sleeping in her bedside co-sleeper. Though she thinks that our bed is her bed. I've given up and let her take naps in our bed. Last night she didn't wake us up so she could eat and get in our bed. She has phases of sleeping through the night and not sleeping through the night.
Another cute little thing she is she seems to know that when I pull my boob out food is coming. Sometimes D will bring her to me when she's hungry, she'll see me pulling my boob out and stop crying. She'll just sit there and stare, as long as it doesn't take too long!
All in all she is happy and healthy and a complete joy. I just love having her! I can't believe it's only been 5 months.
Little Lady is 5 months today. It's so funny how time goes by. While I feel like she's been here forever it's also hard to imagine that it's been 5 months already.
Little Lady has been doing great. She was weighed about 2 weeks ago and she weighed about 12 1/2 pounds. She's still exclusively breastfed and petite.
She was rolling back and forth last night for the first time. It's so cute when she is on her tummy and she's trying so hard to crawl and get something, but she rolls over because she can't crawl. Normally once she rolls on her back she's stuck but last night she finally made it back to her tummy!
It is so amazing to watch the things that she does every day... Hell, every hour!
The other day she was playing fire trucks with her brother. He didn't really want to play with her, but he tolerated it. She couldn't do much more than kind of pull the fire truck back and forth and try to eat it, but she seemed to have fun playing with Z.
She is still sleeping in her bedside co-sleeper. Though she thinks that our bed is her bed. I've given up and let her take naps in our bed. Last night she didn't wake us up so she could eat and get in our bed. She has phases of sleeping through the night and not sleeping through the night.
Another cute little thing she is she seems to know that when I pull my boob out food is coming. Sometimes D will bring her to me when she's hungry, she'll see me pulling my boob out and stop crying. She'll just sit there and stare, as long as it doesn't take too long!
All in all she is happy and healthy and a complete joy. I just love having her! I can't believe it's only been 5 months.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Baby Carriers
I am obsessed with baby carriers. I have a bad back and when I had my son I was always in search of the perfect carrier. I had even given up on baby wearing for a few months after he was born. I tried many and FINALLY found one I was content with. The Beco Butterfly. I loved the carrier. I still love it, but I discovered a carrier called the Boba today and I'm not feeling so content anymore. I want a carrier that goes higher up in the back for my son. He is ALWAYS struggling. One day I had him on my back and my daughter in the Moby and a saleslady was so worried he was just going to flip over the top. While I was feeling like he wasn't going to, I did not like the struggling feeling.
I love my Beco for my daughter. Just stick her in the infant insert and I can wear her for hours. Same with the Moby. I need to remind myself how awesome the Beco is and how it will still work for my son. I feel like the Beco doesn't get much love. Everyone is all about the Ergo. I can't say I know too much about the Ergo. I only wore it once, but in my experience the Beco was better for my back. I liked that I didn't need a waist extension with the Beco (yep I'm a big girl). Plus it comes with the infant insert. No shelling out an extra $30 on top of the $110+. I also feel like the Beco insert is safer, but that's just my feeling. I like that the Beco is good for "new" carriers like myself. I don't have to worry about my son falling out if I unstrap the bottom. Which I do sometimes to distribute weight. I also like the ease of putting him on my back. No worrying he's going to fall. With the Boba I would have to learn to do all that. While the Beco isn't perfect I could sing it's praises all night. It got me back into baby wearing and I love carrying each and both of my children in it.
So while the Boba would be nice for my son I don't have endless money to go out and buy one. So I MUST stay content with my Beco!
I love my Beco for my daughter. Just stick her in the infant insert and I can wear her for hours. Same with the Moby. I need to remind myself how awesome the Beco is and how it will still work for my son. I feel like the Beco doesn't get much love. Everyone is all about the Ergo. I can't say I know too much about the Ergo. I only wore it once, but in my experience the Beco was better for my back. I liked that I didn't need a waist extension with the Beco (yep I'm a big girl). Plus it comes with the infant insert. No shelling out an extra $30 on top of the $110+. I also feel like the Beco insert is safer, but that's just my feeling. I like that the Beco is good for "new" carriers like myself. I don't have to worry about my son falling out if I unstrap the bottom. Which I do sometimes to distribute weight. I also like the ease of putting him on my back. No worrying he's going to fall. With the Boba I would have to learn to do all that. While the Beco isn't perfect I could sing it's praises all night. It got me back into baby wearing and I love carrying each and both of my children in it.
So while the Boba would be nice for my son I don't have endless money to go out and buy one. So I MUST stay content with my Beco!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Cloth Diapering
So I got the brilliant idea when Little Miss was born that I wanted to cloth diaper. I had done some with my son, but stopped once he grew out of it. He used AIOs and at the time it was a lot of work and ickyness. I've always liked the idea of cloth diapering, but could never commit.
After looking into it more I decided I was going to give it a go. Okay, I wish I could say that's what really got me started. What REALLY got me started was finding Gro Baby diapers. I saw them on a blog and thought they were just the cutest things in the world. I HAD to have them, my little girl HAD to have them. I talked to the hubs about it and he was skeptical because he knows me and he knows I get really gung ho about something and then it is either a huge start up cost and I don't follow through, or I just don't follow through. Lucky for me he has a hard time saying no to me. I read a lot about cloth diapers, we both try to be as eco-minded as possible. For some reason we really love our disposables. We use the Seventh Generation, but we know it doesn't make up for space in the land fill. Mostly it's because of our son's skin. *Back to the point* I read more about diapers and really felt I needed to do this. We got a lot of different size disposables for my baby shower, so we finally decided that we would cloth diaper during the day and use her disposables on trips and overnight.
After all that we had to discuss how many we were going to get. We have a few AIOs left over from little boy, but they aren't one size and they won't fit her now. I was really set on the Gro Baby diapers. So we agreed to get the sample pack containing two and go from there. I knew that they two diapers wouldn't be enough for a day, but couldn't stand paying that much for diapers if we didn't like them. I had heard a lot about the Flip system and wanted to give that a go. So we decided to buy a day pack of Flip and a sample pack of the Gro Baby.
After all that they FINALLY got here. (I had ordered them 2 weeks ago.) I couldn't wait to try them out. But first I had to wash them a few times. Needless to say it took all day and I didn't get to try them until this morning.
It was the first diaper change I've ever been really excited for. So far I really like it. Little Miss seems to as well. Either that or she hates it. How can I tell? She normally only poops once a day, today it was thrice. I hope she loves them because I don't plan on stopping any time soon.
After looking into it more I decided I was going to give it a go. Okay, I wish I could say that's what really got me started. What REALLY got me started was finding Gro Baby diapers. I saw them on a blog and thought they were just the cutest things in the world. I HAD to have them, my little girl HAD to have them. I talked to the hubs about it and he was skeptical because he knows me and he knows I get really gung ho about something and then it is either a huge start up cost and I don't follow through, or I just don't follow through. Lucky for me he has a hard time saying no to me. I read a lot about cloth diapers, we both try to be as eco-minded as possible. For some reason we really love our disposables. We use the Seventh Generation, but we know it doesn't make up for space in the land fill. Mostly it's because of our son's skin. *Back to the point* I read more about diapers and really felt I needed to do this. We got a lot of different size disposables for my baby shower, so we finally decided that we would cloth diaper during the day and use her disposables on trips and overnight.
After all that we had to discuss how many we were going to get. We have a few AIOs left over from little boy, but they aren't one size and they won't fit her now. I was really set on the Gro Baby diapers. So we agreed to get the sample pack containing two and go from there. I knew that they two diapers wouldn't be enough for a day, but couldn't stand paying that much for diapers if we didn't like them. I had heard a lot about the Flip system and wanted to give that a go. So we decided to buy a day pack of Flip and a sample pack of the Gro Baby.
After all that they FINALLY got here. (I had ordered them 2 weeks ago.) I couldn't wait to try them out. But first I had to wash them a few times. Needless to say it took all day and I didn't get to try them until this morning.
It was the first diaper change I've ever been really excited for. So far I really like it. Little Miss seems to as well. Either that or she hates it. How can I tell? She normally only poops once a day, today it was thrice. I hope she loves them because I don't plan on stopping any time soon.
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