And life is 5 times more fun.
Anna is happy today. She's very smiley and I got her to laugh a couple of times. She must know she's a month older. A special day for our special girl.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
5 Months Old!
2/26/09 - Anna is 5 months old!
And life is 5 times more fun.
Anna is happy today. She's very smiley and I got her to laugh a couple of times. She must know she's a month older. A special day for our special girl.
And life is 5 times more fun.
Anna is happy today. She's very smiley and I got her to laugh a couple of times. She must know she's a month older. A special day for our special girl.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Pacifier, anyone?
Yes please, pacifier. No thank you, pacifier. Anna can't seem to make up her mind! We do know that we never like the pacifier while she's awake, don't even bother. Sometimes she likes the pacifier to help her get to sleep. Today for instance, she took the pacifier twice. Once for a nap and just a few minutes ago to help her fall asleep. She finished her bottle and still needed something to soothe herself to sleep. Both times today she took it without hesitation and sucked heartily. But then, just before she falls alseep for good, she spits it out and wants nothing more to do with it. Poor used and abused pacifier. Today we had luck with the pacifier. Other days (and most days), if you give her the pacifier she makes a face that says, "What on earth?!" So, it's either "yes please" or "no please". And we'll keep trying, because you never know which one!
What about her thumb, you might ask? Opposite of the pacifier, she'll suck her thumb when she's awake, but never when she's sleepy. Some days she finds her thumb and will suck away. Then other days she seems to forget how again.
Self-soothing isn't one of Anna's strong points! Pacifier? Thumb? Maybe, or maybe not.
Tonight Anna wanted to be held extra long before I put her down to sleep. And I held her happily. Her eyes were shut so tight, so peaceful. I listened to her steady breathing and thought to myself...I will remember this moment. How beautiful my darling Anna was tonight. She's growing up so fast and when she's all grown up, I'll remember my little baby girl on this night. How I held her so close to me and how I thought a million thoughts of
"I love you". Sweet dreams, my Anna.
What about her thumb, you might ask? Opposite of the pacifier, she'll suck her thumb when she's awake, but never when she's sleepy. Some days she finds her thumb and will suck away. Then other days she seems to forget how again.
Self-soothing isn't one of Anna's strong points! Pacifier? Thumb? Maybe, or maybe not.
Tonight Anna wanted to be held extra long before I put her down to sleep. And I held her happily. Her eyes were shut so tight, so peaceful. I listened to her steady breathing and thought to myself...I will remember this moment. How beautiful my darling Anna was tonight. She's growing up so fast and when she's all grown up, I'll remember my little baby girl on this night. How I held her so close to me and how I thought a million thoughts of
"I love you". Sweet dreams, my Anna.
Our Tuesday Morning
Anna slept pretty good last night, up at 11:00pm and 1:00am. "Just a little hungry, Mama", she said. She woke up a little after 6:00am and said hi to Daddy before he left for work. She's not always awake before Brent leaves, so it was a treat this morning and she gave him some award-winning smiles. Back to bed at 7:00am. I watched the news for a few minutes and enjoyed my Honey Nut Cherrios. Then I fell asleep again, too, till my little alarm clock Anna woke up at 9:00am. We had some smiley time, she is so sweet in the morning! Then she sat in her high chair like a big girl for her rice cereal and bottle. We listened to her favorite CD - Puff the Magic Dragon - and she fell asleep for her nap. She's still snoozing. I've showered (yeah!!) and had my daily PB&J (so delicious). Quite a nice morning, I'd say!
I have to go in to work at 4:30 today for my annual evaluation. My job is kind of isolating - meaning there is only one of us on per shift, so I'm on my own. Plus, working weekends I don't see any of the other case managers or my bosses (which is really quite fine with me!!). So, I'll go in today and see how they think I'm doing - hope they like me! Maybe a raise??!!
I will drop off Anna to Brent at 4:00, when he gets off work. We'll meet in the parking lot at his school. They are having a book fair, so Anna may get to go in and see everybody. She'll like that. She likes most anything as long as she's with her Daddy!
Have a great day out there....
Love, Laura
I have to go in to work at 4:30 today for my annual evaluation. My job is kind of isolating - meaning there is only one of us on per shift, so I'm on my own. Plus, working weekends I don't see any of the other case managers or my bosses (which is really quite fine with me!!). So, I'll go in today and see how they think I'm doing - hope they like me! Maybe a raise??!!
I will drop off Anna to Brent at 4:00, when he gets off work. We'll meet in the parking lot at his school. They are having a book fair, so Anna may get to go in and see everybody. She'll like that. She likes most anything as long as she's with her Daddy!
Have a great day out there....
Love, Laura
Friday, February 20, 2009
Baby, it's cold outside
Here we are February 20th and it's 21 degrees outside, windy and cold. I always think that winter should be on it's way out by February 20th. Apparently, I'm wrong. The weather man says we'll have a winter storm watch tomorrow from 5pm - 10pm with 5-8 inches of snow expected. I usually don't mind snow in the forecast, as long as we don't have to go anywhere. Tomorrow I'll be at work from 3pm - 11:30pm. Prime snow falling hours. Seems I'll be watching the snow fall from the hospital windows and will knee deep and brushing snow off the car in the wee hours of the night. So this time, I do mind the snow in the forecast.
If you read the previous blog entry, maybe you're wondering how we did on our shopping trip. You won't believe my luck!! It was raining and Anna took a long nap until 3:00. Brent got off work early about 3:30 and called home. He said he was running to Meijer and did we need anything? Did we need anything?! Yes, cat food from the pet store and my few things from Target turned into a few things from Meijer. So, tune in next time for Anna & Mommy's adventures. :o)
Today is Friday. Oh how I used to LOVE Fridays. Last day of work for the week and a whole weekend waiting to be enjoyed. Before Miss Anna came along, Brent and I used to meet at home after work and we always went out to dinner on Fridays. It was kind of our "thing". Dinner out on Fridays. We would order drinks and sometimes even dessert. We didn't care how long we waited for a table or what time we got home. We could sleep in the next morning, after all. We sometimes rented movies for the weekend. How different this Friday will be! We will be baking fish at home for dinner and mixing rice cereal for Miss Anna. There certainly won't be any movie watching, who has time for that? Maybe we'll make a quick trip to Babies R Us. But an evening with our darling girl ... that's better than dessert any day.
If you read the previous blog entry, maybe you're wondering how we did on our shopping trip. You won't believe my luck!! It was raining and Anna took a long nap until 3:00. Brent got off work early about 3:30 and called home. He said he was running to Meijer and did we need anything? Did we need anything?! Yes, cat food from the pet store and my few things from Target turned into a few things from Meijer. So, tune in next time for Anna & Mommy's adventures. :o)
Today is Friday. Oh how I used to LOVE Fridays. Last day of work for the week and a whole weekend waiting to be enjoyed. Before Miss Anna came along, Brent and I used to meet at home after work and we always went out to dinner on Fridays. It was kind of our "thing". Dinner out on Fridays. We would order drinks and sometimes even dessert. We didn't care how long we waited for a table or what time we got home. We could sleep in the next morning, after all. We sometimes rented movies for the weekend. How different this Friday will be! We will be baking fish at home for dinner and mixing rice cereal for Miss Anna. There certainly won't be any movie watching, who has time for that? Maybe we'll make a quick trip to Babies R Us. But an evening with our darling girl ... that's better than dessert any day.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Out and About
So, getting out of the house with Miss Anna Marie is a bit of a challenge. It's getting easier, though - 110% easier. There are moments when we're out that it's great and Anna is happy. These moments are so encouraging! For instance, our outing to Panera on Valentine's weekend and last night's trip to Kroger. Lovely little outings with a lovely little Anna. Then .... there are the other moments. Monday night we drove out to the mall, Partridge Creek, to get Brent another pair of pants for work. It takes about 20 minutes to get to this mall. So, as always, we were very strategic about when we left - Anna had just finished a bottle and her diaper was changed. All was well. And it was, she slept on the way there. She slept for a while and woke up in Eddie Bauer. She was happy and smiley and looked around. She was happy through Baby Gap. Then it was time to go and about 5 minutes into the drive home, she started crying and didn't stop. The kicker of the whole thing is .... as soon as she got into the house, she smiled. Stinker!! Anna is grounded from the mall until she is at least 3 years old.
I'm much braver about taking Anna out when I have Brent with me. He's so optimistic about things, he makes it much easier. (That's one of the hundred reasons why he's good for me.) When I'm by myself, I tend to only go out if we have to. Otherwise, we'll wait for Daddy.
Today is one of those days that we "have" to go out. Must go to the pet store for cat food. And to Target for a couple of things. So, when Anna wakes up from her nap, after she is fed and happy, we'll be headed out into the big bad world out there. :o) Wish us luck!!
I'm much braver about taking Anna out when I have Brent with me. He's so optimistic about things, he makes it much easier. (That's one of the hundred reasons why he's good for me.) When I'm by myself, I tend to only go out if we have to. Otherwise, we'll wait for Daddy.
Today is one of those days that we "have" to go out. Must go to the pet store for cat food. And to Target for a couple of things. So, when Anna wakes up from her nap, after she is fed and happy, we'll be headed out into the big bad world out there. :o) Wish us luck!!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Valentine Baby
Yesterday was Anna's 1st Valentine's Day! Happy Valentine's Day, little baby. This year our Valentine's Day was even sweeter!
My mom and dad were up this weekend. We had a lovely visit and they enjoyed Anna every minute. I had to work until 7:30 pm on Valentine's Day. Was so wonderful to come home to family - Brent, Anna, Mom & Dad. Anna went to bed about 9 pm and the "adults" had an awesome dinner and fun evening.
We all went to Panera Bread for lunch before my parents had to head home. Anna did so good on our outing. She's getting to be such a big girl! She's easier to take places now and is content just to look around and be held a while. She really liked to watch all the people at Panera. Such a different environment than at home - noisy and so many people to see. You wonder what she must be thinking!
Big news .... Today was the first time I took Anna into a public restroom to change her diaper. Most of you know that I'm sorta a germ-phobe. Not sorta .... I am one. I'll say it .... "I am a germ-phobe!" Proud of it? Not really. But I just can't help it. I can just see all the little germies crawling around laughing and waiting to invade my body. And not just my body anymore .... now they're after Anna! And how can I be a nurse and be a germ-phobe? I think that's why I'm a germ-phobe. Nursing has ruined how I look at lots of things .... but we won't go there or I'll ruin you, too! So anyway, back to my public restroom experience. I tell this story all in good fun, I'm not really as insane as I sound (or am I??). I had Anna and diaper bag in tow. We used the little pull-down changing table .... the germ filled and disgusting thing that it is. I put my own changing mat down for Anna to lay on. She's almost too long for it - what to do when she's too long for it? Then her feet will touch the yucky germie changing table! Horrors! I'll have to either use two changing mats or bring new socks for her. I changed her diaper as fast as I could. Meanwhile, I'm trying not to let Anna touch the sides of the germy table. If only she would fold her hands nicely and keep them on her belly, then we wouldn't have any problems. But no, she would rather touch everything including the laughing germs waiting to jump onto her hands. So after she's changed, I wiped off her hands with a wet wipe cursing any laughing germs. Back to our table we went and I wiped her hands again, just for good measure!
My mom says this too shall pass and I won't worry so much as time goes on. And I know she's right. I won't be able to protect her from every germ .... oh how I would love to, though. So, someday I'll give up my germ-phobe ways. Maybe not all of them, but I can't be wiping Anna's hands for the rest of her life. But what really scares me is when Anna will have to use a public toilet. Oh dear......
Hope you all had a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day to everyone out there that we love!
Love, Laura
My mom and dad were up this weekend. We had a lovely visit and they enjoyed Anna every minute. I had to work until 7:30 pm on Valentine's Day. Was so wonderful to come home to family - Brent, Anna, Mom & Dad. Anna went to bed about 9 pm and the "adults" had an awesome dinner and fun evening.
We all went to Panera Bread for lunch before my parents had to head home. Anna did so good on our outing. She's getting to be such a big girl! She's easier to take places now and is content just to look around and be held a while. She really liked to watch all the people at Panera. Such a different environment than at home - noisy and so many people to see. You wonder what she must be thinking!
Big news .... Today was the first time I took Anna into a public restroom to change her diaper. Most of you know that I'm sorta a germ-phobe. Not sorta .... I am one. I'll say it .... "I am a germ-phobe!" Proud of it? Not really. But I just can't help it. I can just see all the little germies crawling around laughing and waiting to invade my body. And not just my body anymore .... now they're after Anna! And how can I be a nurse and be a germ-phobe? I think that's why I'm a germ-phobe. Nursing has ruined how I look at lots of things .... but we won't go there or I'll ruin you, too! So anyway, back to my public restroom experience. I tell this story all in good fun, I'm not really as insane as I sound (or am I??). I had Anna and diaper bag in tow. We used the little pull-down changing table .... the germ filled and disgusting thing that it is. I put my own changing mat down for Anna to lay on. She's almost too long for it - what to do when she's too long for it? Then her feet will touch the yucky germie changing table! Horrors! I'll have to either use two changing mats or bring new socks for her. I changed her diaper as fast as I could. Meanwhile, I'm trying not to let Anna touch the sides of the germy table. If only she would fold her hands nicely and keep them on her belly, then we wouldn't have any problems. But no, she would rather touch everything including the laughing germs waiting to jump onto her hands. So after she's changed, I wiped off her hands with a wet wipe cursing any laughing germs. Back to our table we went and I wiped her hands again, just for good measure!
My mom says this too shall pass and I won't worry so much as time goes on. And I know she's right. I won't be able to protect her from every germ .... oh how I would love to, though. So, someday I'll give up my germ-phobe ways. Maybe not all of them, but I can't be wiping Anna's hands for the rest of her life. But what really scares me is when Anna will have to use a public toilet. Oh dear......
Hope you all had a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day to everyone out there that we love!
Love, Laura
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