With Batman out of town this week at a conference, we are DETERMINED to work on this potty training thing!
So far, one accident this morning :( But try, try again right? We are going for the "panties only" approach. No pull ups. No clothes.
I've got her on a "try every 30 min" schedule so far. Other than that, I need any advice that worked from BTDT mamas!
Wish us luck! I think it's going to be a very long few days!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
18 weeks
I'm only almost 2 weeks late on this one... ugh! Hopefully my 20 week update will be on time.
Here we go:
first is baby bump #2 and second is bump #1 with Brynna
(once again my bump with B is blurry... must be because my camera sucked back then.) I think I'm definitely bigger this go 'round. Thoughts? If I can remember I'll do a bare belly pic (albeit properly "photoshopped) with my next update so I can compare a little better.
Pregnancy Highlights
How Far Along: 18 weeks, 5 days ( again when the pic was taken... today I'm actually 19 wks 4days)
Size of baby: Baby #2 is about 6 in long (about the size of a heirloom tomato) and weighs about 8.5 oz. (eek! half a pound!)
Total Weight Gain/Loss: I show I'm up almost 10 lbs overall. I really need to go back to healthy eating. The last couple weeks have been a total bust with Easter and then a crazy week.
Clothes: Maternity-I totally forgot to mention that one of the ladies that offered me her clothes really sent them! It was like Christmas getting such a fun package! And she has super cute taste :) I've already worn just about everything she sent at least one!
Gender: Soon! Appt is on the 23rd! I hope this week goes by super fast because I am ready to KNOW!
Movement: Still feeling movement, somedays more than others. This one seems to be pretty active in the morning and evenings.
Sleep: I've taken my doc's advice and been taking half a tab of uni.som (or the walg.reens version) just about every night. I do find I really DON'T sleep when I don't take it. :(
What I miss: Still missing a good cold cut sandwich.
Cravings: Not really any I can think of in the last few weeks. Then again, my house has been filled with candy so if I get the urge, I indulge in a small piece (or 6).
Symptoms: Itchies seem to have gone away for now. I never did try Ben.adryl though. For some reason my sniffer is in high gear and just smelling the trash can put me into dry heave mode. Not sure what that's all about?
Moment this week: Feeling more consistent movement. It's helped me get passt some of my anxiety.
What I'm looking forward to: April 23rd
Milestones: Less than 150 days!
Here we go:
first is baby bump #2 and second is bump #1 with Brynna
Pregnancy Highlights
How Far Along: 18 weeks, 5 days ( again when the pic was taken... today I'm actually 19 wks 4days)
Size of baby: Baby #2 is about 6 in long (about the size of a heirloom tomato) and weighs about 8.5 oz. (eek! half a pound!)
Total Weight Gain/Loss: I show I'm up almost 10 lbs overall. I really need to go back to healthy eating. The last couple weeks have been a total bust with Easter and then a crazy week.
Clothes: Maternity-I totally forgot to mention that one of the ladies that offered me her clothes really sent them! It was like Christmas getting such a fun package! And she has super cute taste :) I've already worn just about everything she sent at least one!
Gender: Soon! Appt is on the 23rd! I hope this week goes by super fast because I am ready to KNOW!
Movement: Still feeling movement, somedays more than others. This one seems to be pretty active in the morning and evenings.
Sleep: I've taken my doc's advice and been taking half a tab of uni.som (or the walg.reens version) just about every night. I do find I really DON'T sleep when I don't take it. :(
What I miss: Still missing a good cold cut sandwich.
Cravings: Not really any I can think of in the last few weeks. Then again, my house has been filled with candy so if I get the urge, I indulge in a small piece (or 6).
Symptoms: Itchies seem to have gone away for now. I never did try Ben.adryl though. For some reason my sniffer is in high gear and just smelling the trash can put me into dry heave mode. Not sure what that's all about?
Moment this week: Feeling more consistent movement. It's helped me get passt some of my anxiety.
What I'm looking forward to: April 23rd
Milestones: Less than 150 days!
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A Brynna Update
Now that she's 2.5, I figure I'm due for a Brynna update! I don't think I've done one of these since she turned 2, so it's about time, right?
So here's what's up with her:
She's currently 33.5 in tall and weighs 27 lbs (10% and 25% respectively) She's still in 2T in just about everything. We can get away with 18 mo dresses if we put some leggings underneath, which we do a lot for church. She's still in size 4 dipes when we just disposables.
And along that line, potty training is going nowhere. I *think* she'll be ready in a couple months as she has started now taking off her diaper almost anytime she is wet. Poo is still a mystery to me. She can sit in a poopy diaper indefinitely if I didn't smell it first. I'm hoping as the weather starts to get warmer, we can be outside more and I can just let her run around naked in the yard.
She's such her own little person now! She's got quite the personality which people comment on all the time- usually with the word "firecracker." I'm not sure if that's supposed to be good or bad? LOL
She's definitely a 2 yr old, with full on whining and tantrums when she is frustrated or doesn't get her way. We've really been trying to curb these when we can, but I think it's just part of being 2 (or so people tell me).
Her favorite thing is to sing! Which means she does it all day long ;-) Anytime we are in the car she instists on "her songs" so she can sing- we have a CD that she got for Christmas that has lots of kid songs like "If You're Happy and You Know It," "B-I-N-G-O," "Oh Susannah," and "Campdown Races." I hardly ever get to listen to my country station anymore :( It's okay though. I'll take it to hear her sweet voice chiming in on the "doo dahs" ;-) Her favorite songs by far (although not on her CD) are "Twinkle Twinkle," "Jesus Loves Me," and "ABC's."
She LOVES to talk. Or maybe she's just a girl? LOL She is a non stop stream of words from the time she gets up, until the time she sleeps. Which includes her talking herself to sleep! Tell my why I was ever worried about her vocabulary? I was crazy! As I said above. She's her own person and speaks pretty clearly (aka- most people can understand most of what she's saying) although we do have to clarify on occasion.
She knows most of her letters by sight, but we are still working on number recognition. She can count to 13, but needs a little help getting to 20. She loves to count things though so I think I just need to up the amount lol.
Her favorite day of the week is Wednesday, which library day. One of the local libraries does a "music and movement" class where they sing and dance and read stories and at the end they hand out blocks and bubbles for free play. We were meeting a friend there every week, but he's now in preschool. She LOVES it though and looks forward to it!
She LOVES her daddy :) Every night when he comes home she gets a big grin on her face when he walks in the door and (usually) gives him a big hug. Then follows him around until he locks her out of the bathroom. And usually bangs on the door until he gets out ;-)
Speaking of locking her out, she has long since figured out how to open all the doors in the house except the front and back door (thank goodness!). Unfortunately this means that if she wakes up in the middle of the night she opens and shuts her door until we come and see what she needs. It's lovely.
And that's all I can think of... I'll do a picture dump in the next post if I can figure out how to do a collage ;-)
So here's what's up with her:
She's currently 33.5 in tall and weighs 27 lbs (10% and 25% respectively) She's still in 2T in just about everything. We can get away with 18 mo dresses if we put some leggings underneath, which we do a lot for church. She's still in size 4 dipes when we just disposables.
And along that line, potty training is going nowhere. I *think* she'll be ready in a couple months as she has started now taking off her diaper almost anytime she is wet. Poo is still a mystery to me. She can sit in a poopy diaper indefinitely if I didn't smell it first. I'm hoping as the weather starts to get warmer, we can be outside more and I can just let her run around naked in the yard.
She's such her own little person now! She's got quite the personality which people comment on all the time- usually with the word "firecracker." I'm not sure if that's supposed to be good or bad? LOL
She's definitely a 2 yr old, with full on whining and tantrums when she is frustrated or doesn't get her way. We've really been trying to curb these when we can, but I think it's just part of being 2 (or so people tell me).
Her favorite thing is to sing! Which means she does it all day long ;-) Anytime we are in the car she instists on "her songs" so she can sing- we have a CD that she got for Christmas that has lots of kid songs like "If You're Happy and You Know It," "B-I-N-G-O," "Oh Susannah," and "Campdown Races." I hardly ever get to listen to my country station anymore :( It's okay though. I'll take it to hear her sweet voice chiming in on the "doo dahs" ;-) Her favorite songs by far (although not on her CD) are "Twinkle Twinkle," "Jesus Loves Me," and "ABC's."
She LOVES to talk. Or maybe she's just a girl? LOL She is a non stop stream of words from the time she gets up, until the time she sleeps. Which includes her talking herself to sleep! Tell my why I was ever worried about her vocabulary? I was crazy! As I said above. She's her own person and speaks pretty clearly (aka- most people can understand most of what she's saying) although we do have to clarify on occasion.
She knows most of her letters by sight, but we are still working on number recognition. She can count to 13, but needs a little help getting to 20. She loves to count things though so I think I just need to up the amount lol.
Her favorite day of the week is Wednesday, which library day. One of the local libraries does a "music and movement" class where they sing and dance and read stories and at the end they hand out blocks and bubbles for free play. We were meeting a friend there every week, but he's now in preschool. She LOVES it though and looks forward to it!
She LOVES her daddy :) Every night when he comes home she gets a big grin on her face when he walks in the door and (usually) gives him a big hug. Then follows him around until he locks her out of the bathroom. And usually bangs on the door until he gets out ;-)
Speaking of locking her out, she has long since figured out how to open all the doors in the house except the front and back door (thank goodness!). Unfortunately this means that if she wakes up in the middle of the night she opens and shuts her door until we come and see what she needs. It's lovely.
And that's all I can think of... I'll do a picture dump in the next post if I can figure out how to do a collage ;-)
Sunday, April 1, 2012
16 weeks
I'm only like a week late, right? Better late than never? Right?
So here we go. At this point I finally have consistent pics to compare to. So here's me at 16 wks 4dys with #2 and 16wks?dys with B:
It's a little blurry and I'm not sure why this is the only week I was standing the opposite way, but whatever. I'm definitely bigger this time around.
Pregnancy Highlights
How Far Along: 16 weeks, 4 days (based on the pic above... today I'm actually 17 wks 3days)
Size of baby: Baby #2 is about 4.6 in long (about the size of an avocado) and weighs about 3.5 oz.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: I'm still only up 6 lbs according to my scale. My appt last Monday I was up an additional 1.5lbs since my last appt, so by their calculations I'm up 8.5. Still sticking with my scale though ;-)
Clothes: Maternity- and I'll tell you a cute, funny story. For those of you that aren't friends with me on FB, I posted a tongue-in-cheek status a couple weeks ago asking someone to just give me their old maternity clothes since I don't really want to go out and buy a bunch of new stuff. Much to my surprise some lovely ladies took me seriuosly and offered me their maternity wardrobes. Isn't that just the nicest thing ever?! I'm not sure if they were serious or not, but to be honest, I don't care. They were just the SWEETEST offers ever! And totally made my whole week that someone would even offer :)
Gender: It's coming up quick! Only 3 weeks from tomorrow (sorry I switched to my current week) ;-) For some reason I'm leaning more and more towards girl, but I think a big part of that is because I secretly am hoping for one? But I would LOVE to have a boy equally as much!
Movement: Definitely feeling movement for sure, although there have been a few days of freak outs where I didn't feel like I felt any. I know that movement can be a bit sporadic this early, so I'm really *trying* to keep my anxiety in check.
Sleep: Pretty much non existent unless I take half a uni.som which my doc recommended. He also suggested bena.dryl, but sometimes that has the opposite effect, so I've kind of been afraid to try that. Even though I think it would help with the itchies.
What I miss: Sleep :( lunch meat (on the few occasions that I actually eat a ham sandwich)
Cravings: Still on the sweet stuff. It's being appeased a bit by 40 calorie fudgesicles ;-) Much better than half a dozen cookies or 3 slices of cake!
Symptoms: Feeling more energetic and my workouts seem to be getting easier for now. The itchiness is driving me. insane. seriously. Which is why I'd like to try the bena.dryl my doc suggested. But I'm afraid it will lead to even less sleep than I am currently getting.
Moment this week: Doc appt! Hearing the HB again (150) and knowing all is still looking well :)
What I'm looking forward to: April 23rd
Milestones: Movement! Finally looking preggo instead of just a little chunky. I actually had a couple people (who didn't know I was preggo) ask when I was due (dangerous, I know... part of me was REALLY tempted to tell them I wasn't LOL)! It was kind of nice knowing I look at least like I could be gestating.
Sorry the update's a bit late. It's been a little crazy around our house once again. And I've been a bit lazy on the computer checking/ updating. More to come this week!
So here we go. At this point I finally have consistent pics to compare to. So here's me at 16 wks 4dys with #2 and 16wks?dys with B:
It's a little blurry and I'm not sure why this is the only week I was standing the opposite way, but whatever. I'm definitely bigger this time around.
Pregnancy Highlights
How Far Along: 16 weeks, 4 days (based on the pic above... today I'm actually 17 wks 3days)
Size of baby: Baby #2 is about 4.6 in long (about the size of an avocado) and weighs about 3.5 oz.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: I'm still only up 6 lbs according to my scale. My appt last Monday I was up an additional 1.5lbs since my last appt, so by their calculations I'm up 8.5. Still sticking with my scale though ;-)
Clothes: Maternity- and I'll tell you a cute, funny story. For those of you that aren't friends with me on FB, I posted a tongue-in-cheek status a couple weeks ago asking someone to just give me their old maternity clothes since I don't really want to go out and buy a bunch of new stuff. Much to my surprise some lovely ladies took me seriuosly and offered me their maternity wardrobes. Isn't that just the nicest thing ever?! I'm not sure if they were serious or not, but to be honest, I don't care. They were just the SWEETEST offers ever! And totally made my whole week that someone would even offer :)
Gender: It's coming up quick! Only 3 weeks from tomorrow (sorry I switched to my current week) ;-) For some reason I'm leaning more and more towards girl, but I think a big part of that is because I secretly am hoping for one? But I would LOVE to have a boy equally as much!
Movement: Definitely feeling movement for sure, although there have been a few days of freak outs where I didn't feel like I felt any. I know that movement can be a bit sporadic this early, so I'm really *trying* to keep my anxiety in check.
Sleep: Pretty much non existent unless I take half a uni.som which my doc recommended. He also suggested bena.dryl, but sometimes that has the opposite effect, so I've kind of been afraid to try that. Even though I think it would help with the itchies.
What I miss: Sleep :( lunch meat (on the few occasions that I actually eat a ham sandwich)
Cravings: Still on the sweet stuff. It's being appeased a bit by 40 calorie fudgesicles ;-) Much better than half a dozen cookies or 3 slices of cake!
Symptoms: Feeling more energetic and my workouts seem to be getting easier for now. The itchiness is driving me. insane. seriously. Which is why I'd like to try the bena.dryl my doc suggested. But I'm afraid it will lead to even less sleep than I am currently getting.
Moment this week: Doc appt! Hearing the HB again (150) and knowing all is still looking well :)
What I'm looking forward to: April 23rd
Milestones: Movement! Finally looking preggo instead of just a little chunky. I actually had a couple people (who didn't know I was preggo) ask when I was due (dangerous, I know... part of me was REALLY tempted to tell them I wasn't LOL)! It was kind of nice knowing I look at least like I could be gestating.
Sorry the update's a bit late. It's been a little crazy around our house once again. And I've been a bit lazy on the computer checking/ updating. More to come this week!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
She don't like cabbage
Last night I made some sauted cabbage for dinner with rice and vegetables. Batman and I are big fans and eat a lot of it over the summer when we are getting farm fresh (organic) cabbage from our farm. Last summer Little Miss seemed to have no problem eating it. She liked it even.
Last night, however, it was a big mistake. Dinner is usually hit or miss with her, as she is a grazer and snacks a bit during the day. She was doing fairly well last night, which surprised me. But then it came time to try a bite of the cabbage (she'd eaten a fair amount of just about everything else). She took one small bite (with my help) and proceeded to gag. And gag and gag. All the while saying "it yucky." I told her to simply spit it out or take it out of her mouth with her hand and place it on her tray.
At this point the entire contents of her stomach exploded all over her, her plate, and her booster tray. All of it. And she sat there smiling through it all.
Then she turns to me and says, "I not like cabbage."
We won't be making her eat cabbage for a long time. Then end.
Last night, however, it was a big mistake. Dinner is usually hit or miss with her, as she is a grazer and snacks a bit during the day. She was doing fairly well last night, which surprised me. But then it came time to try a bite of the cabbage (she'd eaten a fair amount of just about everything else). She took one small bite (with my help) and proceeded to gag. And gag and gag. All the while saying "it yucky." I told her to simply spit it out or take it out of her mouth with her hand and place it on her tray.
At this point the entire contents of her stomach exploded all over her, her plate, and her booster tray. All of it. And she sat there smiling through it all.
Then she turns to me and says, "I not like cabbage."
We won't be making her eat cabbage for a long time. Then end.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Bawling like a baby
I've been watching reruns of that show on Lifetime, Coming Home. Have you ever seen it?
If not, here's the general run down. They take a military family that has a dad/spouse/child coming home and go over the top with a surprise homecoming. They also showcase 3 or 4 other families that have sent in their own homecoming surprises.
First off, I almost always get teary watching these things. I've been there. I remember what it was like waiting for Batman to come home from Iraq and I "get" what they're feeling. And it's the kids that get me choked up the most. Those surprises are the best!
But add on to that, crazy pregnancy hormones? And O. M. G. It's a recipe for disaster. Or rather a recipe for some pretty incredible water works. Yall? I've been weeping. Weeping. Like full on ugly cry.
And yet, I can't. Stop. Watching.
I just hope I don't give myself a headache. Be warned.
If not, here's the general run down. They take a military family that has a dad/spouse/child coming home and go over the top with a surprise homecoming. They also showcase 3 or 4 other families that have sent in their own homecoming surprises.
First off, I almost always get teary watching these things. I've been there. I remember what it was like waiting for Batman to come home from Iraq and I "get" what they're feeling. And it's the kids that get me choked up the most. Those surprises are the best!
But add on to that, crazy pregnancy hormones? And O. M. G. It's a recipe for disaster. Or rather a recipe for some pretty incredible water works. Yall? I've been weeping. Weeping. Like full on ugly cry.
And yet, I can't. Stop. Watching.
I just hope I don't give myself a headache. Be warned.
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