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| we are displeased |
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| Enjoying our tummy time |
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| Gera & Halley love Evie! |
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| sleeping on daddy |
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| sleeping on Peepa |
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| Bamma & Peepa |
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| Bamma and Evelyn |
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Mommy's Star!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Starting to get the Hang of Things
James and I are slowly figuring out parenthood. We have night-times down like you would not believe. Although Julia does go to bed around 8-9pm most nights, what can I say? Spending all day with a newborn is exhausting work, but I love it. We went to Target the other day and it was a success! Going to meet up with Daddy tomorrow for sushi lunch, fingers crossed Evelyn behaves. If not oh well. Seems lately we have been cursed with the diaper rash, but it is going away thankfully! Evelyn has also started to work on her pouty lip and her "I'm bored cry."
Totally had a new mom moment the other day and forgot to pack the formula to feed her, it was a difficult ride home as you can imagine.
The mornings are starting to get chilly but we still go on our morning walk even if it is a short one. Today we saw our hoarder neighbors getting raided by the police and code compliance people. I feel like such a gossipy neighbor saying that, but I totally get why stay at home moms are into everybody's business. You have nothing else to do!
Here are some photos of our little one, enjoy!
Totally had a new mom moment the other day and forgot to pack the formula to feed her, it was a difficult ride home as you can imagine.
The mornings are starting to get chilly but we still go on our morning walk even if it is a short one. Today we saw our hoarder neighbors getting raided by the police and code compliance people. I feel like such a gossipy neighbor saying that, but I totally get why stay at home moms are into everybody's business. You have nothing else to do!
Here are some photos of our little one, enjoy!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
PlayDate
Evelyn met Kyle this past week (my coworker Casey's daughter, they are almost 1 month apart to the date).
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| Miss Kyle (with Susan holding her) |
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| Mamma Casey holding Evie |
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| Pre-sneeze! |
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| 1 month! You can tell by the look on her face that Evelyn apparently does not like to age, just like her mom |
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| For her Aunties |
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| Chillin' on the couch with mom & dad |
Thursday, September 15, 2011
1 Month
Hard to believe baby girl is already 1 month old.
I am slowly starting to figure out her personality too. She does not like to sit still for long periods of time. She is an active girl just like her mamma. We like to lay on our back while on a blanket and just look around the nursery, we like frequent changes of scenery, we like morning walks, we LOVE it when mom walks up and down the stairs, again and again and again. James and I were just not meant to have one of those very quiet babies, I guess.
I still love how people ask about our schedule, we don't have one. I have a vage idea of when she will want to eat but then she likes to throw curve balls from time to time. Like last night when she ate but then wanted to be up for the next 2 hours! But what can you do sometimes?
Looks like baby girl is going to be a formula baby, but what a happy formula baby she will be! And she will have a very happy mamma too. I have made my peace, just not worth it to me to live by the pump/clock. I gave it my best shot, what more can I say.
Aight well Evelyn has decided to wake up from her morning nap, bet it is time for a lovely diaper change! (I love it when you change them and get the new diaper on and then before you can fasten it, they poop on the clean one!) Will try to put up some photos on shutterfly soon.
I am slowly starting to figure out her personality too. She does not like to sit still for long periods of time. She is an active girl just like her mamma. We like to lay on our back while on a blanket and just look around the nursery, we like frequent changes of scenery, we like morning walks, we LOVE it when mom walks up and down the stairs, again and again and again. James and I were just not meant to have one of those very quiet babies, I guess.
I still love how people ask about our schedule, we don't have one. I have a vage idea of when she will want to eat but then she likes to throw curve balls from time to time. Like last night when she ate but then wanted to be up for the next 2 hours! But what can you do sometimes?
Looks like baby girl is going to be a formula baby, but what a happy formula baby she will be! And she will have a very happy mamma too. I have made my peace, just not worth it to me to live by the pump/clock. I gave it my best shot, what more can I say.
Aight well Evelyn has decided to wake up from her morning nap, bet it is time for a lovely diaper change! (I love it when you change them and get the new diaper on and then before you can fasten it, they poop on the clean one!) Will try to put up some photos on shutterfly soon.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Long Week It Seems
This week feels like it has been an emotional roller-coaster for me. Still grappling with the fact that no matter how much I work at it, my body does not seems to want to make oodles of the boob juice (aka breast milk). I have been working very hard at pumping, but when my little Evelyn does not want to get put down that makes it a little harder. Tears have been shed, not going to lie. It is a frustrating process and at what point do you just say enough is enough? Plus then I feel guilty that maybe I am not working or trying hard enough at it, which trust me, ask James I am. (This is kind of a weird thing to post about but honestly it consumes so much of my time and thoughts, it feels good to just write it all out.) I just never expected something that is so "natural" to be so much work. I have to keep reminding myself that if Evelyn only gets formula that is not the end of the world. I am not quite ready to give up but just wondering at what point I will be. I only get 3 months off with her and I want them to be the most enjoyable (even though you are totally sleep deprived) time they can be. I think a little part of me is super selfish and I think, if we only do formula then I do not have to stay up and pump, etc which could potentially mean more sleep. But then I laugh and think, nah something else will keep me up and sleep deprived. I have to give a big shout out to all those moms who do breastfeed b/c I know it is a ton of work. I give you major props.
Still pretty tearful about Kat being in Georgia. It is a 'sensitive subject' bring it up with me at your own risk. I guess I also thought all these hormones would have worked their way out of my system by now, but that does not appear to be the case. Anybody know when you get to return to 'normal'??!?!? This past month has certainly been a challenge, I love my daughter more than anything but parenthood is not exactly what I expected. Oh well. Such is life sometimes.
Aight it is now bath time and time to feed miss Evelyn. Off I go.
Still pretty tearful about Kat being in Georgia. It is a 'sensitive subject' bring it up with me at your own risk. I guess I also thought all these hormones would have worked their way out of my system by now, but that does not appear to be the case. Anybody know when you get to return to 'normal'??!?!? This past month has certainly been a challenge, I love my daughter more than anything but parenthood is not exactly what I expected. Oh well. Such is life sometimes.
Aight it is now bath time and time to feed miss Evelyn. Off I go.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
When it rains it pours, our hospital trifecta
Quick Update before my nap:
So last week I was not feeling up to par. I had a backache and fever, my doc thought I might have had mastitis so they started me on some antibiotics. Friday I seemed to feel even worse and slept most of the day. Then Friday night came, still feeling crummy and when James woke me up from my nap I could not talk in sentences. I knew what I wanted to say but could not verbalize it. I have no idea what I sounded like but needless to say I scared the crap out of James. I could not write either. I would start to write a word and then just seemed to write the same letters over and over again. Much tears were shed and I did not want to go to the hospital (again). James finally convinced me that if one of my nursing friends came over, checked me out and said I was fine we would not go to the hospital. Our dear friend Kimmy Pope came over and lets just say we went straight to the hospital. I ended up being admitted to the surgical (&neuro) ICU of my beloved Presby. Numerous tests were completed (head CT, head MRI/MRA, echo, labs, etc) which were all negative, thank the lord. The doctors think I had a atypical migraine with possible vasospasm related to pregnancy/hormones etc. Apparently these things are fairly common in pregnant and postpartum women they can be caused by hormones or the amount of fluid you have circulating in your body. (As a pregnant women you are pretty "filled up" with fluid and then you dump a lot of that fluid after you deliver.) They are still not 100% sure what happened but thankfully I was able to talk darn near perfectly Sunday morning. They decided to keep me until Monday morning to make sure I did not act up again, which I did not. It was really hard not to be with Evelyn and I have been working very hard to get us back on the breast feeding bandwagon but things are going well. Please do not ask me how Saturday was, I do not remember most of it. Although you can ask Kim, Chris, James, my parents or my nurses, apparently I what I thought I was saying was most definitely not what was I was actually saying. Some highlights, which I can kinda laugh at now, were: that my name was January, I have Alzheimer's, the date was January 16, 2007. I of course thought I was stating my name and the correct date, who knows about the Alzheimer's thing.
I can not say thank you enough to my family, friends and coworkers for helping out, praying for myself and our family and just being there. It was not my intention to scare the bejesus out of y'all I promise. James, Evelyn and I are some very lucky people.
Most of all I can not say thank you enough to James, for all his support and love through out the pregnancy, delivery and this past weekend. I can honestly say I am the luckiest women in the world to have him as my husband/friend and Evelyn is the luckiest girl in the world to have him as her father. He really had to man up and take care of our little girl when I could not while at the same time trying not to stress out about me. Not the easiest thing to do I am sure but it was such a relief to see him Sunday and be normal, I could see all the tension leave him and see the relief in his eyes. I love him more than anything in the world.
James we found out last night got poison ivy sometime this weekend that manifested itself on Tuesday, but thanks to carenow he is semi-cured.
Evelyn has been a peach and nothing is wrong with her :) Our little Bumble had a great 2 week check up and weighed in at a whopping 7.4lbs!
So fingers crossed no more hospital trips for this family, I think I covered it up with the hospital trifecta: got to go while pregnant (boo), then for delivery (yea), then for postpartum (boo). We are officially done and I think Presby should give me a payraise for all the money I have given them this year.
So next time I 1) feel achy anywhere 2) have a fever and 3) do not eat my Chipotle for dinner, then I know that something is seriously wrong with me (that is how I was hospitalized for the weird virus thing which ended up with me on bedrest and for this thing, freaky huh?); that is all.
So last week I was not feeling up to par. I had a backache and fever, my doc thought I might have had mastitis so they started me on some antibiotics. Friday I seemed to feel even worse and slept most of the day. Then Friday night came, still feeling crummy and when James woke me up from my nap I could not talk in sentences. I knew what I wanted to say but could not verbalize it. I have no idea what I sounded like but needless to say I scared the crap out of James. I could not write either. I would start to write a word and then just seemed to write the same letters over and over again. Much tears were shed and I did not want to go to the hospital (again). James finally convinced me that if one of my nursing friends came over, checked me out and said I was fine we would not go to the hospital. Our dear friend Kimmy Pope came over and lets just say we went straight to the hospital. I ended up being admitted to the surgical (&neuro) ICU of my beloved Presby. Numerous tests were completed (head CT, head MRI/MRA, echo, labs, etc) which were all negative, thank the lord. The doctors think I had a atypical migraine with possible vasospasm related to pregnancy/hormones etc. Apparently these things are fairly common in pregnant and postpartum women they can be caused by hormones or the amount of fluid you have circulating in your body. (As a pregnant women you are pretty "filled up" with fluid and then you dump a lot of that fluid after you deliver.) They are still not 100% sure what happened but thankfully I was able to talk darn near perfectly Sunday morning. They decided to keep me until Monday morning to make sure I did not act up again, which I did not. It was really hard not to be with Evelyn and I have been working very hard to get us back on the breast feeding bandwagon but things are going well. Please do not ask me how Saturday was, I do not remember most of it. Although you can ask Kim, Chris, James, my parents or my nurses, apparently I what I thought I was saying was most definitely not what was I was actually saying. Some highlights, which I can kinda laugh at now, were: that my name was January, I have Alzheimer's, the date was January 16, 2007. I of course thought I was stating my name and the correct date, who knows about the Alzheimer's thing.
I can not say thank you enough to my family, friends and coworkers for helping out, praying for myself and our family and just being there. It was not my intention to scare the bejesus out of y'all I promise. James, Evelyn and I are some very lucky people.
Most of all I can not say thank you enough to James, for all his support and love through out the pregnancy, delivery and this past weekend. I can honestly say I am the luckiest women in the world to have him as my husband/friend and Evelyn is the luckiest girl in the world to have him as her father. He really had to man up and take care of our little girl when I could not while at the same time trying not to stress out about me. Not the easiest thing to do I am sure but it was such a relief to see him Sunday and be normal, I could see all the tension leave him and see the relief in his eyes. I love him more than anything in the world.
James we found out last night got poison ivy sometime this weekend that manifested itself on Tuesday, but thanks to carenow he is semi-cured.
Evelyn has been a peach and nothing is wrong with her :) Our little Bumble had a great 2 week check up and weighed in at a whopping 7.4lbs!
So fingers crossed no more hospital trips for this family, I think I covered it up with the hospital trifecta: got to go while pregnant (boo), then for delivery (yea), then for postpartum (boo). We are officially done and I think Presby should give me a payraise for all the money I have given them this year.
So next time I 1) feel achy anywhere 2) have a fever and 3) do not eat my Chipotle for dinner, then I know that something is seriously wrong with me (that is how I was hospitalized for the weird virus thing which ended up with me on bedrest and for this thing, freaky huh?); that is all.
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