Leland Jay

Leland Jay

Born 10-13-10

11:15 p.m.

6lbs 8 oz

20 inches

Welcomed home by my brother Luke and his wife Mindi and big sister Clara.

Congratulations to them!

Camillia Mae

Meet Camillia Mae- my gorgeous niece born yesterday, 9-20-10 @ 7:52 p.m.

8 lbs. 13 oz

21 1/2 inches

The new little family.  How cute are they? 

It is hard to believe that my little brother is a dad. 

Congratulations Tony and Rami!

july 2010

Wow, the summer seems to be flying by.  I can't believe how quickly the days go by!  Lucy started fully walking on July 5th.  Now she is everywhere.  Tommy is working the midnight shift and a lot of weekends so that really limits what we can do.  We are making the best of things though. 



Above is a little video of Lucy feeding the fish at a lake near our house.  My mom and I took her out there a couple of weeks ago. 

She had Roseola two weeks ago.  She had a high fever for two days then she got a rash.  It was pretty rough on both of us.  Basically all she wanted was for me to hold her.  I was so glad when she got back to normal.  Sick babies are no fun.  Especially when there is nothing you can do to make them feel better but wait it out. 

Ever since I stopped nursing her she has had troubles sleeping all night in her crib.  Until now she has always slept in her own bed without any problems.  Right around her first birthday she was sick with a cold.  She had a really hard time breathing and could not sleep.  I laid with her in my bed trying to keep her comfortable and trying to get some sleep myself.  That was one of the first times she slept with me pretty much all night.  Shortly after that is when we stopped nursing.  Since then there has only been a few times when she actually slept in her own bed all night.  Generally she will go down and then wake up at either 10:30 or 3:30 and call out, "Mom. Momma. Mommy." When I pick her up she puts her little arms around my neck and gives me a big hug.  Then she turns towards the doorway and points letting me know that she wants to go to my bed.  I have tried everything to keep her in her bed.  One can only handle so much crying at 3:30am, especially when you have to get up to get ready for work in a few hours.  Long story short, I am doing what I swore I would NEVER do, let my little girl sleep in my bed.  It really hasn't been all that bad.  Like I said before, Tommy is working midnights now so he is not here.  On the weekends we just deal with it.  Last night she actually stayed in her own bed all night. 

One night this week she actually fell out of my bed.  I woke up and realized that she was not there.  It took me a second to remember if she was supposed to be.  I keep my snoogle body/pregnancy pillow on Tommy's side of the bed to (I thought) keep her from rolling out.  Anyway, once I realized that both her and the pillow were no longer on the bed I peered over the side.  She was fast asleep on Barbie's pillow on the floor.  We keep an extra bed pillow on the floor right by the bed for Barbie to sleep on.  I guess when she rolled out she fell right on it and it didn't even wake her up.  Crazy!  I scooped her back up and put her back in bed. 

Parenthood is an adventure.  We are enjoying all the ups and downs and Lucy continues to amaze us each day.  What a joy she is.  Sounds like she just woke up from her afternoon nap, guess I better wrap this up!

baby steps

Monday Lucy took her first steps. At lunch I walked into the sitter's house to find my little girl standing unassisted in the middle of the living room. She had a look of fear on her face and was kind of crying. I didn't move a muscle. I stood there in the doorway with the door still open. Her sitter had a ball in her hands and was encouraging Lucy to walk towards her. She took five steps towards her. I had to hold back the tears. She has taken more steps since then but pretty much only when encouraged by one of us. I know it won't be long before I'm chasing her all over the place!!

big girls don't need booby milk

Tommorrow morning will be the week mark for Lucy being completely weaned.  She gave up the night feeding right after her birthday but we were still nursing in the morning.  Last Wednesday I was running very late for work so I decided to just not nurse her.  I was so nervous that I would be uncomfortable or that she would freak out.  Turns out that neither happened.  I did feel a little full but never too bad.  I'll admit I'm sad about being done with breastfeeding.  Is it weird to say that I really enjoyed it?  There were days in the beginning when I wondered how I would ever make it a whole year.  The early days were painful and tiring.  It would take forever to feed her.  I felt like that was all I did.  Probably because it was!  When I went back to work full time after 8 weeks and started pumping I really didn't know if I would be able to keep it up.  My two 15 minute breaks were spent hooked up to my pump.  I had a daily battle on my hands trying to keep up with Lucy's demands for milk.  With encouragement I stuck with it and I'm so glad I did.  I would not give up the time spent for anything. 

Earlier tonight I told Tommy that I really wanted to nurse her one last time.  He told that probably wasn't a good idea.  I'm just having a hard time with the fact that my baby does not need me in that way anymore.  He reassured me that she will always need me in one way or another.  I guess I just assumed that it would be Lucy who had to be convinced it was time to stop, not me!  Of course now that she is not nursed to sleep we have the issue of no bed time routine.  That is a whole other issue that I'm trying to work on.  Tonight she was actually in bed at a reasonable hour.  I know that change takes time so I'm just being patient and trying to see what is going to work for us.

I also wanted to put up an update on her Dr.'s appointment.  She weighs 18 lbs 2 oz and is 29 1/4 inches.  She is still in the low end for her weight and average height.  Her Dr. is not concered since she has been there all along.  She also did great with her immunizations.  I'm so glad that I can get them done at my office.  I feel so much more comfortable having someone I work with give them to her!