Phamily Photo Phun!

Tuce has wanted to look at this picture that we took yesterday just about nonstop. She keeps saying "Daddy" and I know that she wants to look at the picture again. So, I pull it up for her to look at... well, the last time I pulled it up we had this conversation:

Me: Lucy, who is that? (pointing to Michael)
Tucy: Daddy
Me: And, who is that? (pointing to me)
Tucy: Mommy
Me: And, Lucy... who is that? (pointing to her)
Tucy: Coat

C'mon Little Doe-ggie!

Lucy has been crawling around lately with things in her mouth, like toys or her sippy cup. This morning it was a sock. It was a clean sock from the laundry basket that I had in the living room waiting to be folded.

Tucyisms

I haven't really updated about the things that Tucy has started to accomplish lately. So, here goes...

* I don't know why she thinks that she needs to throw her sippy cup on the floor after every drink. It doesn't matter how thirsty she is.
* She is now fluent in the following words: Uh-Oh, Daddy, Boo, Hi Daddy, Whoa, Oops, did I say Daddy? And as of today... Hello, except she says it like, Ello!
* A crawling maniac inside the house and on the sidewalk, but hates and I mean hates the grass, unless I force her to walk on it... then she's fine.
* Using everything like its a phone... toys, car seat buckle, everything... I guess I talk on the phone more than I thought I did.
* Picking up her books, opening them and reading to herself. Although I can't understand a word she's saying, I know that she can read perfectly and she's only 15 months.
* Standing up for a minute or two at a time... she was doing this more about a week ago, now she won't let go of my fingers when she is standing. I guess it comes and goes.
* Splashing in the bath tub I think is her favorite thing to do and she's really good at it.

That's about all that I can think of right now. I'll try to be better about updates of what shes doing and how shes developing. I said I'd try.

So Nleep Rof Me!

So, last night was the official first time that Tucy has been "up all night" with a sickness.

She had been fussy all afternoon and didn't want me to leave her sight. I thought that it was because one of her aunts came over and she can get kinda clingy when people come over that she isn't used to. She refused to take a nap in the afternoon and so, I finally got her ready for bed at about 7:00 and just put her down. She was still a little fussy after a couple minutes and I figured that it was her teeth bugging her, so I went back into her room and gave her some Tylenol. Then I went down in the basement at about 7:25 to eat my dinner and watched some tv. At about 7:45 she started to cry. I thought that she was just overly tired and so, I was trying to let her cry it out. Mikey came home about 20 minutes later and went in to get her. She had throw-up all over her bed, clothes, face, hair... everything.

How was I to know? I feel completely guilty for not checking on her and taking care of the puke right away, but how was I to know that she threw up?

I gave her a bath. Put her in clean clothes and put everything else in the washer. She has a couple blankets that she LOVES and cannot go to sleep without them. So, I had to wash them quickly so that she would go back to sleep. Mikey rocked her while cleaned everything up. We finally put her back down at about 9:00. She woke up again at midnight and I made her a bottle (which she rarely gets now, because she has just had a sippy cup for months) and Mikey gave her the bottle and was going to put her back down. Well, she threw-up the entire bottle.

So, I pulled her out of her soaked clothes, got her the other "favorite" blanket and some new jammies. Then I sent Mike to bed and I stayed in her room with her until almost 2am rocking her. I put her down, stumbled into bed, had a dream about seeing The Police in concert and was awakened again at 4:45 by her whimpering. Went back into her room and rocked her back to sleep. I went back to bed at almost 6:00 and was awakened again by the morning routine of Mikey.

I think that she is feeling a bit better now. She still hasn't eaten anything of substance yet, but I'm hoping that I can get her to eat this afternoon.

What a night!

"What do you see...

when you look in the mirror... Are you happy now?
Happy is when your mouth is smiling, c'mon show me how...
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Could it be surprise?
Open up your mouth real wide, same this with those eyes...
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Here is what I see...
Someone who is very special looking back at me!"

These are the lyrics to a song that plays on one of Tucy's toys... I find that this song has more meaning than most songs on the radio nowadays.

The first time I heard it I thought to myself "What DO I see when I look in the mirror?"

I don't really know where I was headed with this. All I know is that Tucy's toy seems to have it all figured out. Its sad that I was compelled to take a good look at myself from a song that a Fisher Price music toy plays. I guess whatever gets you there.

Happy 1st Year!

I guess it's good that I didn't kill her in the first year. Does that mean that I might know a teensy bit about raising a child? I'm still questioning that. All I know is that she had a wonderfully splendid Birthday party yesterday.

I created a slide show to show just how fun her first Birthday was... I hope that it makes sense. I tried to caption all the pictures, so it should make sense, but then again it might not.

Turning One

I can't believe that her first birthday is approaching so rapidly. (its less than a week away)

It went by much too fast.

There are things that I wanted to accomplish before this day came such as:

Fitting into my pre-pregnancy jeans

Thats pretty much it.

I can't believe that I ever fit into them at this point... BOO!

A Winter Wonderland

Her Grandparents gave her this sled for Christmas...

She is adorable I must say

Look at those cheeks!

Can we go Inside now?!?!

The Essence of Fall

We took these pictures this weekend... Nuf said.

Mike is taking the computer with him again today so, I don't have nearly enough time to write my full post. He keeps taking it to work with him because he is using it for a film he has been working on... its too complicated to really explain. Just know that I have only had a computer for like 2 days out of the last month, which explains my lack of new posts. Anyway, enjoy the pictures, I know that I do.

She is Growing up so Fast

Tucy is just about sitting up on her own. She sits in the "tripod" position. She is rolling over like a pro and is inventing new noises every couple of days. She is getting so big I can't believe it! I put her in 6-12 month jeans the other day with an actual tee-shirt. This is huge, because she has been wearing onsies and elastic waist pants. I am having a hard time remembering just how little she used to be and that was only 6 1/2 months ago.

I took her to her 6 month check up about a week and a half ago and she was 14 lbs. 10 oz. and 25 inches long. She is just growing so fast it makes me a little sad, but happy too because she is growing so well. The Dr. said that she is growing like a normal 6 month old and she is developing the same. I guess that the preemie thing isn't a factor anymore, which makes me happy. I never wanted that to be something that she could use as a crutch... or I should say, that we could.

About once a day when I look at her I think to myself, "I can't believe that she is my little girl". It's really incredible how having her has truly changed everything for me and Mike. I knew things would change, but didn't think that it would be quite as hard as it has been. Like the working thing, I thought that it would be a breeze not working and just being mom at home. But, it has been quite difficult to find my groove here at home. I love spending time here with her and seeing everything progress step by step, but at the same time I miss working.

I especially miss the paycheck, duh! I will think that I have it all figured out and then I lose motivation again and am all of the sudden at step one again. This last week I finally cleaned my entire house (laundry and all) and can just maintain it. It relieves so much stress to just have to straighten up instead of blitz the house every time someone announces that they want to come by.

I haven't ever been a very good housekeeper, but staying at home has put this new responsibility on my shoulders... I am in charge of keeping up the house! Mike is working all day and my work is what?!?! You mean I am in charge of making sure that the house stays presentable?!?! I didn't sign up for this. Well, maybe I did... I can't remember... I was drugged at the time... I was on the moon, with Steve!

Fancy Foxy

I took Tucy to Kiddie Kandids with my sister-in-law today and got this picture taken of the little pipsqueek!
She fell asleep while we were waiting to have our turn and when she woke up she was very grumpy. This is one of the last ones they took and she was almost at her wits end. I think she is adorable, but then I have absolutely no bias at all!

HaPpy AnNivErsARy!

It was our 7 year Anniversary on Saturday. Mike and I did house/yard work all day that day and ended up taking Tucy with us to dinner. All in all it was sort of uneventful. We talked about it at dinner how having this kid has been such a change that we both don't quite know which end is up right now. We had intended to bring her to my Mom's to have her watch her while we went to dinner and a movie but the house/yard work took too long and we just ended up taking her with us. It was really fine. She slept the entire time we were there.

You see we blessed her yesterday and had to get the house and yard ready for all to invade on Sunday. The blessing went very well and Tucy looked beautiful. Here she is in her blessing dress (that I made, btw).So, next year we have decided that we are going to go away somewhere and leaving the little Bambino here with someone. Oh, Bambino... that reminds me. Mike is back from Mexico and he brought us some things... He brought me some Mexican Vanilla (YUMMY!) and he brought Tucy a baby sombrero! We took a picture of her wearing the sombrero yesterday as well... here she is in it, the little Bambino!She is our little squirt! The Sombrero is a little too big for her head, but she still looks dang cute in it!

My Little Bunny

Mike took some pictures of Tucy on Easter... I thought I would post a few since I haven't put up any new ones of her lately.




I bought her this bunny the night before Easter. I was going to get her one that was bigger than the one she is holding, but decided against it. I am glad now that I didn't go for the bigger bunny... I think it would have swallowed her whole. As you can see this bunny is just about as big as she is and it wasn't all that big to begin with. It is now displayed on top of her dresser in her room.

A Reason to get Back into SHAPE...

So, I am thinking about blogging about losing my pregnancy weight. I think that it would be real motivation knowing that you all will be checking in on my weight loss and then I think... will I humiliate myself by posting about how much weight I have not only lost, but gained?

I keep eating crap and I have only been walking a few times since I have had the little bambino. I haven't even reached the 6 week mark since she was born and I have plenty of time to lose the weight, this I know. I just want the weight to be gone like, yesterday. I am finding that I am even more anxious to lose this weight than I have been any other time. I have gained and lost weight lots of times (it's sad I know)... But this time seems to be quite different.

We are heading up to Snowbird the end of next month and I don't want to feel completely self conscious when we are up there. I love the eucalyptus steam room and I don't want to feel like people are looking at me like I am the chubby-bubby up there. I want to be the cute, skinny new mom... not the larger, some what attractive mom... I know, I know. I am vain. I can't help it.

Oh and her are a couple new pictures of Tucy (that's what my little niece calls her).

This one is from a couple of weeks ago...This is from today...

She should be reason enough for me to want to lose the weight. I think though that I just need a little bit more motivation than that. Maybe I will feel differently once my incision doesn't hurt anymore. We'll just have to wait and see. In the mean time. Who thinks it's a good idea for me to blog about my weight loss? Don't feel obligated to respond... But, I am curious.

It's A Girl!!!Here she is!

Lucy Ellen
Born on Feb 19, 2007
10:13 am
5 lbs 5 oz
19 Inches long

We are so happy that she is here, even though it was four to five and a half weeks early. (The due date is debatable. Michael is convinced that I was 35 almost 36 weeks along, but the Dr.s at the hospital said I was 34 almost 35 weeks.) It doesn't really matter now, because she is here! She is up at the NICU and is doing well. We are hoping that she will be coming home within the week. I had to have a C-Section and I am recovering alright. I am just looking forward to having my sweet little one home.

Just Kill Me Now!

Why didn't anyone tell me how completely uncomfortable it gets this far along. I mean it's great that I am this far along (yay me!) but, c'mon! I woke up last night at 1:30AM and couldn't fall back to sleep. Finally at 4:00AM I just got up. I went downstairs and worked on the computer until about 5:30AM, then finally felt tired again. I went back to bed and didn't wake up again until 9:30AM.

This schedule is killing me! This is like the third time that has happened to me in the last couple of weeks. But once the kid gets here I'll be getting even less sleep than I am now, so I guess I shouldn't complain too loud.

Anyway, it's getting real, real close now. My Dr. told me last Tuesday that he would be surprised if I made it another 3 weeks. So, within the next two weeks I am expecting to have this kid. Hopefully it won't go beyond that... I don't know if I could take it. I am going to get a pedicure on Saturday with my sister and I am hoping that triggers something to make this kid come. Maybe, Maybe not. We'll see.



Oh... Happy Valentines Day everyone!

More changes afoot...

So, I have been training my replacement here at work the last two weeks. I think that she will be a really good fit once I can stop making her head spin every day. There is a lot to learn and she is basically starting from ground zero with all of it. I will be here with her up until I have the baby which is looking like another 4 to 8 weeks (if all goes well). Then, once I have the baby thats it... I am finished working completely. I am really looking forward to having this time with the wee one. Who knows if I will feel the same way once I get her home and actually have to take care of her 24/7? It freaks me out, really when I think about it.

I never thought that I would be the type that can only think and talk about having a kid once I got pregnant. But, look at me.. the last three posts that I have done have had something to do with my being pregnant. I just hope that I don't turn into the type that can only talk about their kid once it is born. Like every other interest that I once had is non-existent now. I really want my personality to stay in tact. Maybe if I draw attention to the fact that it bothers me when people leave their personalities at the nursery door then I won't be that way. I have seen it happen. There are people that survive and keep a sense of humor and even... a spark of who they were before they had a kid. I understand that having kids changes you. But, it doesn't have to change the core of you. Unless you want it to. I am done now... you can go back to your regularly scheduled program.

I feel the NEED...

I had a dream last night that I made a blanket for the baby. It was pink, green and yellow. Well, it just so happens that I have pink, green and yellow flannel at my house so I could indeed make a blanket. I think I am going to start on one tonight. Does this mean that I am officially nesting?

UPDATE: I finished the rag quilt. Here is a picture of it. I am working on another quilt right now, but don't know exactly when it will be finished. If I finish it before she is born than I will post a picture of it as well.

Happy New Year!

Its a new year and I have been thinking the last couple of weeks about how my life is changing in this new year. I am going to be someones Mommy, wow! That is HUGE!!! Mike and I went and bought a car seat on Saturday, can you believe it? A CAR SEAT!!! It was our first baby purchase. My mom called me on Saturday morning and said that she was at Big Lots and she saw that they had a couple of Eddie Bauer 3-in-1 car seats there for $100.00So, we went over there and bought this car seat. It looks just like the one above. I looked at Babies-R-Us online and they had the very same car seat for $180.00. I can't believe what a racket the baby market is. Stuff costs so freaking much its insane. We also decided to go over to Burlington Coat Factory and discovered that place is the Baby Mecca! They have a "Baby Depot" there. They have cribs, clothes, bedding, strollers, car seats, rockers... anything you can imagine there. Looking at all that stuff made me start to get excited about this little one coming. Then Mike and I made "the list" of what we need to accomplish before she gets here. It's kind of a long list and then we both realized that we only have 6 weekends left before we are in the danger zone. So, we have much to take care of within the next several weeks. I can't believe that this is all happening. I am freaking out a bit, but then I think... I'm not the first person to have had a baby, people do this every day. Don't sweat it.

We'll see how long that lasts.

Uncharted Territory

As of today I have been pregnant for the longest amount of time, ever! 15 weeks and 5 days... Here is an ultrasound picture...I know that most of you don't care to see a fuzzy black and white picture of what is supposed to be a baby, but I don't care! This ultrasound picture is from a few weeks ago, but you still get the gist of what is there. It's a baby. YAHOO! I am now going to experience things that I haven't ever experienced before and I am so excited!