Three babies!
Emily with Molly (born July 2nd), Me with Vera (born September 17th), and Fuf with James (born July 24th). This was taken at Molly’s baptism party. Fun!!
Oct 19
Oct 16
Excuse me while I kiss this guy...
So, up until today, every time I heard the song Maggie by Rod Stewart, I always thought he said “steal my daddy’s cue and make a living out of playing fool.” The grammar never made sense, but I didn’t really give it that much thought. Today, as I was driving out of the Target parking lot, listening to that song on the radio, it hit me. Duh! It’s “playing pool.” Wow. Whoops!
Spotted in Target!!
If I weren’t SURE this would accentuate my post-partum body in all the wrong places, I totally would have bought it.
Oct 15
Vera is 4 weeks old today! When I weighed her at Emily’s on Sunday, she was 9lbs, 2oz. She’s already grown out of the outfit she wore home from the hospital, and a few others. She’s eating well, and sleeps for 4 hour stretches at night (a lot of the time), which is fabulous!
Court suggested I put a little card in this picture that said “4 weeks,” but I couldn’t get it together in time (and thank goodness I didn’t wait any longer than I did to take the pic, because little did I know while I was posing her for these pictures, that she had a diaper explosion up her back - we would have had to find a new outfit!).
We had a 4 week birthday celebration lunch with Emily, Alletia, and Fuf (ha ha), which was fun. She slept through the whole thing - it’s ok, I ate her cupcake.
Anyway, things are going well. Right now, I am listening to her cry, because I just put her down for a nap, and it’s torture, but I realize it’s necessary to let her cry herself to sleep sometimes; it’s just really hard!! I turned the video portion of the monitor off, so I wouldn’t drive myself crazy.
Oct 12
I can’t tell if she’s flipping me off because the bath is over, or because I bathed her in the first place. ;)
» I am ordering this!
Two nights ago, I was awake at 3:00am, trying to figure out how to put Vera in bed with a pacifier and get sleep (two things that don’t happen at the same time because she consistently drops the pacifier, then gets really upset when she can’t get it back in her mouth, which keeps her awake longer). Anyway, I like using the pacifier because it gets us through her bad gas episodes. The problem is, unless I hold her until she falls asleep, then take it out, she’ll need the pacifier to sleep once I’ve given it to her. (Sometimes, she wakes up if I take it out, so that’s not a reliable method either).
ANYWAY, I was googling “what to do when your baby can’t hold a pacifier” and I found the above link on a message board. I can’t wait to try it!! A few people have suggested wubbanubs, and I tried one, but she doesn’t like the nipple on those pacifiers. She’s used to Nuks.
I’ll keep you posted!
Oct 09
Cha cha cha changes
You know your life has changed when the highlight of your Friday night is clearing two baby nostrils successfully with the nasal aspirator. Go me! Vera didn’t even mind that much.
Oct 08
Two movies I strongly dislike:
Pinocchio and Weekend at Bernie’s
There are lots of movies to which I’m indifferent, but these are two movies I will not watch. Not sure what brought this up, but I just wanted to share it with the world.
Oct 07
I realize I'm a little (ok, a lot) late to the party
I just started watching The Office, (US version. I know, I know, I need to watch the original) and it’s absolutely hilarious. It makes me miss work.
I didn’t watch it before, because I had a scheduling conflict and a single tuner Tivo, but now we have one single and one double (I know-such decadence!) so it’s so longer a problem.
» I'm in a commercial...
Long story short, I am a part of an ad campaign for Woman’s Hospital. They are using a version of my baby blog for their website, and we’re on commercials and billboards in BR.
For the record, we don’t call ourselves “belly buddies;” they totally made that up, but it definitely got me made fun of around here. I look weird because I don’t have my glasses on. Anyway, here you go!
Vera’s GPOYW -It’s the I’m not really sure how she feels about NY edition…
(Thanks again, nudawn! We really do love the gift!)
i just found out that Vera does not in fact love NY.
haha! I actually did manage a picture after the fiasco. She’s sleeping, and clearly dreaming about her first trip to the ferris wheel in Times Square Toys R Us. I will post it later today. I’m at the Dr now.Either that, or she just doesnt like I <3 NY onsies.
Sheesh. Southerners.
Oct 02
Calling all Spiner-Femmes!
Brent Spiner is on an episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent. Ha!
Sep 30
Baby/Syd update:
Vera went to the Dr yesterday, and I went today. Good news at both visits! Vera is up to 8lbs (up from 7lbs 5oz last Tuesday), and I am down to 163lbs (26 lbs - woo!) Vera is waking up every 3-3 1/2 hours to eat, so that’s been nice. We think she has reflux though, so the Dr suggested putting her car seat in her crib at night, and letting her sleep in there. Should be interesting. She doesn’t throw up after every feeding, but almost. She’s been good though, and she gets cuter every day. We have family pictures this Friday, so that will be fun!
My Dr’s appt went ok. They found that I have an infection from being catheterized, which explains the lower back cramps that started yesterday. They gave me a prescription for antibiotics, and I have to go back next week. I still can’t drive for a couple of weeks, nor can I lift anything heavier than the baby, which is frustrating. We had a couple of errands to run after my Dr’s appt, and it was nice to get out of the house for a few hours. I spent most of the time in the car with the baby, but the weather is so nice, and the sunshine was refreshing. I think Vera and I will have to take another walk this afternoon (before it gets hot again).
