My little daughter accomplished two things in the past 24 hours. Last night, she cried her first tear... she had a tear run down her face to her ear, while I was using the nose sucker. She has had tears in the past, but they never left her eyes. She giggled tonight, a couple of times. I think she did last night too, but immediately got the hiccups. She got the hiccups again tonight when she giggled. Poor little one, we my mom nicknamed her Princess Hiccup at about a week old.
She laughed at 4 days old, but it was a fluke, I am certain. Her brother that was 3 years-old at the time, was flopping around on the couch and she let out a laugh. She also laughed in her sleep one evening while my sister was holding her. My sister laughed at a funny part of a show, I forget what we were watching, and then the baby just started laughing. Probably lasted for at least a minute, but I didn't time it.
I'm wondering if taking fiber while nursing is affecting her. It isn't really helping me too much, but she had one explosion out of the diaper tonight, and then a near explosion out of the diaper. It was contained, thankfully!
Do you ever have days when you lose complete track of what day it is?! Today I keep thinking it is Thursday. There really is no reason why I would think that, but I keep needing to remind myself it is Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Nose Sucker
My baby is not a big fan of it. I am not sure that she realizes what I am doing with it, until I put it in her nose and it starts doing its job. It isn't a job that anyone would want to do. I feel miserable when it makes her cry like she cries at no other time. She has been stuffed up and I had to use it tonight. She cried and cried. She even cried her first tear to come out of her eyes. It was really sad! It took a few minutes to calm her down once I was finished.
I am sure that once she can recognize the nose sucker and move on her own, she will run away, crawl away, or roll away. Whatever her mode of transportation is at that time!
I ran a mile today. It took a little under 12 minutes, I set the treadmill at 5.1 mph. It will be nice when I have the endurance that I used to have. It is crazy how a mile almost kills me. I am just going to be taking it easy til the mile or mile and a half is easy on me.
Hope you all had a great day!
I am sure that once she can recognize the nose sucker and move on her own, she will run away, crawl away, or roll away. Whatever her mode of transportation is at that time!
I ran a mile today. It took a little under 12 minutes, I set the treadmill at 5.1 mph. It will be nice when I have the endurance that I used to have. It is crazy how a mile almost kills me. I am just going to be taking it easy til the mile or mile and a half is easy on me.
Hope you all had a great day!
Monday, January 16, 2012
A Big Discovery
To be a little baby again! It is amazing to watch the little one as everything is new to her. She has been on earth for a little more than 3 months, I can hardly believe it has been that long. It is awe-inspiring to watch her.
The other day she had on a sleeper that had zebra faces for the feet. When she saw those, she couldn't take her eyes off of them. She just kept staring. I think it was the first time she realized that she had something down that low. The faces she would make at them would just make me laugh. She was so intrigued by whatever it was!
She has started to really check out her hands recently also. She will hold them in a fist and turn them back and forth. She will then open them and look at them again. It is funny that something so common to us can be so intriguing to a baby. It is amazing to watch a child grow!
Her swing has a little bar that goes across that has bears hanging down where she can see them. Yesterday we were going to record her looking at those bears. If you have ever seen a baby smile so big that you know she loves what she sees, then you know the smile she was giving those bears. She didn't want them to have any doubt about the way she feels for them. By the time the recorder was ready to start, she had moved on to looking at something else.
I look forward to when everyone in my family can meet the little one. So far, only my mother, my sister who lives with us, and my husband's brother has met her from the family. My other sister and her son will be visiting me in February, so the baby will get to meet them. I need to bring her over to meet my sister-in-law and her children. Once everyone is well I plan to do that. The baby has had the sniffles lately, and as I wrote the other day, my son has been sick too.
It is funny, I just looked down and she was sucking like crazy on her top lip. She gave up quickly, she must have realized that she wasn't getting any nourishment from it.
An update on my resolutions... I haven't been running like I planned to. It has been a couple weeks. I am going to start tomorrow... I know, the good ole tomorrow excuse, but I really am. I have been doing my push-ups daily. Yesterday I did 100 with my hands on the couch and the other 112 on the wall. I did 100 crunches and 40 leg lifts on each leg. Today, only 50 with my hands on the couch, other 162 on the wall. My shoulder is bothering me.
Hope it was a good Monday for everyone!
The other day she had on a sleeper that had zebra faces for the feet. When she saw those, she couldn't take her eyes off of them. She just kept staring. I think it was the first time she realized that she had something down that low. The faces she would make at them would just make me laugh. She was so intrigued by whatever it was!
She has started to really check out her hands recently also. She will hold them in a fist and turn them back and forth. She will then open them and look at them again. It is funny that something so common to us can be so intriguing to a baby. It is amazing to watch a child grow!
Her swing has a little bar that goes across that has bears hanging down where she can see them. Yesterday we were going to record her looking at those bears. If you have ever seen a baby smile so big that you know she loves what she sees, then you know the smile she was giving those bears. She didn't want them to have any doubt about the way she feels for them. By the time the recorder was ready to start, she had moved on to looking at something else.
I look forward to when everyone in my family can meet the little one. So far, only my mother, my sister who lives with us, and my husband's brother has met her from the family. My other sister and her son will be visiting me in February, so the baby will get to meet them. I need to bring her over to meet my sister-in-law and her children. Once everyone is well I plan to do that. The baby has had the sniffles lately, and as I wrote the other day, my son has been sick too.
It is funny, I just looked down and she was sucking like crazy on her top lip. She gave up quickly, she must have realized that she wasn't getting any nourishment from it.
An update on my resolutions... I haven't been running like I planned to. It has been a couple weeks. I am going to start tomorrow... I know, the good ole tomorrow excuse, but I really am. I have been doing my push-ups daily. Yesterday I did 100 with my hands on the couch and the other 112 on the wall. I did 100 crunches and 40 leg lifts on each leg. Today, only 50 with my hands on the couch, other 162 on the wall. My shoulder is bothering me.
Hope it was a good Monday for everyone!
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Washington, D.C.
A few years ago, my brother lived about 45 minutes from Wasington, D.C., for a year. We made a trip down to his place about once a month, and they would make the trip up to NY about once a month. It was wonderful to be that close as a family for a year.
We would go into D.C. every time we went to visit. There was so much to see that it couldn't all be done in one trip. My children, especially my daughter, absolutely loved the Museum of Natural History. I think we would go to that one every time we went to D.C. It was fun to get to see the dinosaur bones and the mammal exhibit. We always enjoyed the saltwater fish exhibit as well. We would find Nemo and Dori. We also got to see the insect room and the Hope Diamond.
My mom and sisters would go to the National Archives to do some family history research. I didn't have a pass to get in. I would stay with the children while they did that.
There is so much to do in D.C. My daughter wrote as one of her resolutions for this year is to go back to D.C. I am not sure that will happen, but I guess we can give it our best try.
We would go into D.C. every time we went to visit. There was so much to see that it couldn't all be done in one trip. My children, especially my daughter, absolutely loved the Museum of Natural History. I think we would go to that one every time we went to D.C. It was fun to get to see the dinosaur bones and the mammal exhibit. We always enjoyed the saltwater fish exhibit as well. We would find Nemo and Dori. We also got to see the insect room and the Hope Diamond.
My mom and sisters would go to the National Archives to do some family history research. I didn't have a pass to get in. I would stay with the children while they did that.
There is so much to do in D.C. My daughter wrote as one of her resolutions for this year is to go back to D.C. I am not sure that will happen, but I guess we can give it our best try.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Old Family Pictures
I have been going through pictures today. It has been a lot of fun. I found a file with our first family pictures. I didn't know that Keith had saved them. It was him, me and my oldest son as an infant. It is absolutely adorable! It made me laugh seeing him that young again. He was a little, chunky fella. Now he is a slim child.
I enjoy going through pictures. It is such a blessing to live in an age when we can take pictures and if we don't like them, just delete them and take another. I remember the day of the old 35 mm film, when you could just hope and pray that the pictures turned out, at least, okay. Couldn't hope for everyone to look wonderful, but okay was good enough.
I need to get back into scrapbooking. It was always a lot of fun to put the memories on paper and journal the different photos. It is amazing seeing how much children change and how quickly it happens. Before I know it, my baby will be in school!
I enjoy going through pictures. It is such a blessing to live in an age when we can take pictures and if we don't like them, just delete them and take another. I remember the day of the old 35 mm film, when you could just hope and pray that the pictures turned out, at least, okay. Couldn't hope for everyone to look wonderful, but okay was good enough.
I need to get back into scrapbooking. It was always a lot of fun to put the memories on paper and journal the different photos. It is amazing seeing how much children change and how quickly it happens. Before I know it, my baby will be in school!
Cough, Cough, Hack, Hack Goes My 4 Year-old
My 4 year-old is sick. He started coughing on Wednesday, by Wednesday night I could tell that he wasn't feeling well at all. He started running a fever and by 1 in the morning I was running the nebulizer giving him a breathing treatment. He had a fever of almost 101. So, the meds started coming. Thankfully, he likes medicine.
I gave him cough medicine and ibuprofen. This was after the breathing treatment. We call it the cloud machine, it makes it a little more enjoyable than just sitting still with a piece in your mouth breathing. This is my child that had RSV at 3 weeks old. It has been almost exactly 4 years since that incident landed us in the hospital.
He was initially diagnosed with with RSV on Jan 6, 2008. He had stopped breathing long enough for the area around his mouth to turn blue. It wasn't very long, but it was long enough for me to call the ambulance. We spent several hours in the ER, just to have the doctor tell me had RSV. He sent me home with my 20 day old baby telling me to make sure that he kept breathing. Needless to say, I was a wreck. By the time I got to the doctor a few hours later, I had no sleep in more than 30 hours, been crying a lot, and had the hormones that go along with being postpartum working against me. His pediatrician immediately arranged for him to be admitted to the hospital, she said we both needed it. That he needed to be monitored and I needed to be able to sleep, knowing that he would be well taken care of. I miss his pediatrician... she was wonderful, but we moved 1900 miles west. He was well taken care of and discharged from the hospital the next day.
Today he is doing much better. I know when he needs to have his breathing treatments. I keep them handy. I give it to him on an as needed basis. I give it to him when he starts developing a cough. I am still giving him allergy medicine (instead of cough medicine) and ibuprofen. His nose is running like crazy, but the medicine seems to help. He is still his cheerful self even when he is sick. He just gets agitated a lot easier.
I am thankful for healthy children. It is sad to me when they get sick. I worry about them a lot when they get sick. Thank goodness for cans of soup! They love to have soup and it gives them fluid as well as nutrition.
I gave him cough medicine and ibuprofen. This was after the breathing treatment. We call it the cloud machine, it makes it a little more enjoyable than just sitting still with a piece in your mouth breathing. This is my child that had RSV at 3 weeks old. It has been almost exactly 4 years since that incident landed us in the hospital.
He was initially diagnosed with with RSV on Jan 6, 2008. He had stopped breathing long enough for the area around his mouth to turn blue. It wasn't very long, but it was long enough for me to call the ambulance. We spent several hours in the ER, just to have the doctor tell me had RSV. He sent me home with my 20 day old baby telling me to make sure that he kept breathing. Needless to say, I was a wreck. By the time I got to the doctor a few hours later, I had no sleep in more than 30 hours, been crying a lot, and had the hormones that go along with being postpartum working against me. His pediatrician immediately arranged for him to be admitted to the hospital, she said we both needed it. That he needed to be monitored and I needed to be able to sleep, knowing that he would be well taken care of. I miss his pediatrician... she was wonderful, but we moved 1900 miles west. He was well taken care of and discharged from the hospital the next day.
Today he is doing much better. I know when he needs to have his breathing treatments. I keep them handy. I give it to him on an as needed basis. I give it to him when he starts developing a cough. I am still giving him allergy medicine (instead of cough medicine) and ibuprofen. His nose is running like crazy, but the medicine seems to help. He is still his cheerful self even when he is sick. He just gets agitated a lot easier.
I am thankful for healthy children. It is sad to me when they get sick. I worry about them a lot when they get sick. Thank goodness for cans of soup! They love to have soup and it gives them fluid as well as nutrition.
Friday, January 13, 2012
My 4 Year-old was the VIP at School
On Wednesday, my 4 year-old was the VIP of his preschool class. That is what they call the child that is having the birthday celebration. His birthday was Dec 20, but they were off school that week. My son got to do a poster of things that he likes. He was allowed to put pictures of family on it, cut out pictures from magazines, and draw on it. We traced his hand and I put the date on it. He put the most recent picture of his siblings and himself. He cut out some pictures from a magazine... he put a picture of some dogs, vitamins, toothbrush and toothpaste and Legos. He is a big fan of Legos. We taped an empty pack of gum to the poster and a Hot Wheels car.
He was so excited to get to school. I bought Whales which is a generic version of Goldfish. I think you get twice as many of them for the same price as you get Goldfish crackers for. He loves Goldfish, but I would have had to buy two packs of them in order for him to be able to share with his whole class. His older sister was very excited that there were some left after school.
When I picked him up from school, he was glowing. I could tell he had a wonderful celebration, and his teachers gave him a gift. He also had a Happy Birthday crown on his head. It is always nice to get to celebrate your birthday more than once. I know, I was born just after Christmas on the 29th, so thankfully, I have never been in school on my birthday.
He is such a fun little fellow. You could see the happiness in his eyes as we worked on his poster together. I took a picture of him and the poster, but I have no clue where the camera went, and my husband is sleeping. I will post a picture soon though. He was so proud of that poster. It is still at school. I think we will hang it on his wall when he brings it home.
Do you remember being the birthday child at school? I remember my mom bringing treats for the whole class. I always felt so special!
He was so excited to get to school. I bought Whales which is a generic version of Goldfish. I think you get twice as many of them for the same price as you get Goldfish crackers for. He loves Goldfish, but I would have had to buy two packs of them in order for him to be able to share with his whole class. His older sister was very excited that there were some left after school.
When I picked him up from school, he was glowing. I could tell he had a wonderful celebration, and his teachers gave him a gift. He also had a Happy Birthday crown on his head. It is always nice to get to celebrate your birthday more than once. I know, I was born just after Christmas on the 29th, so thankfully, I have never been in school on my birthday.
He is such a fun little fellow. You could see the happiness in his eyes as we worked on his poster together. I took a picture of him and the poster, but I have no clue where the camera went, and my husband is sleeping. I will post a picture soon though. He was so proud of that poster. It is still at school. I think we will hang it on his wall when he brings it home.
Do you remember being the birthday child at school? I remember my mom bringing treats for the whole class. I always felt so special!
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