This post is for Kristina! I came across her 7th grade notebook in the kid coloring supplies. :-) Gotta love it!!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Cheeky Grin
22 months
Latest accomplishments:
- Puts herself down for a nap when she's tired (we won't talk about 'middle of the night' fits)
- Frequently puts 3-4 words together
- 32 inches long, 23 lbs 12 oz
- Takes her leggings and diaper off to go poopy by herself (as long as she doesn't have a onesie on)
A little about stinkerpoo #2:
We had our 36 week checkup last night.
Baby is head down but posterior. Hopefully she'll rotate or I will be experiencing back labor!
I'm not dilated at all but am very 'soft'. Our midwife could easily feel baby's head.
Heart rate was in the 150s
Friday, February 17, 2012
Tidbits
Hooray! Rhya slept through the night for the first time in WEEKS last night! I actually woke up in a panic at 3:30 wondering if she was okay. It was like that feeling that you have when your newborn sleeps through the night the first time.
I had to blow my nose but didn't want to wake her and wreck the accomplishment so I did my snot dispersal (excuse the disgusting mental picture) out in the garage. Is that paranoid? At least the cold air cleared me up.
When we finally achieved all night sleeping at 6 months I thought that nights would be clear sailing. Ha! Sleeping is such an art. It comes in all sorts of styles, depending on what's going on!!
We had chicken, potatoes, and corn bread for supper. Who do you think at the most? Me? Nope. My stomach is squished in some far away place behind the uterus. Nate? Probably. Rhya? Could very well be. She kept eating and eating and eating...and finally she did a HUGE deep breath, looked down at her tummy, and said, "tummy FULL". I don't know that she's had that much of a 'maxed out' belly feeling before. Hopefully that's another sign that she's on the mend.
I was reading my bible one morning when Rhya came in and pretended to give me something to drink. I figured out that she was trying to play meeting when she pretended to pick a piece off of her 'bread' and handed it to me. She's also been singing 'Tell Me the Story of Jesus' over and over. Her words aren't clear at all but she has the tune down pat.
This is a synopsis Rhya's activities while I was trying to make supper tonight:
- Open oven door. SLAM it shut - three times before she was told it was enough.
- Snag a stick of butter off of the counter. Unwrap it. I discover the project and put the stick on the counter. She proceeds to smear the wrapper all over the patio door and laugh her head off because Sakari is trying to lick it from the outside.
- Tell me that she HAS to go poopy ("poopy! poopy! poopy!"). I tell her to take her pants and diaper off and go do her business. A few minutes later I go to check on her. Cool! Poop in the potty chair! However, in her attempts to wipe her butt she unraveled the entire toilet paper roll. It had been almost full.
- Finds some straws and splashes around in the water bowl until Nate puts it outside.
- Sings various songs at the TOP of her lungs.
- Finds two pot lids and creates her own band. Then puts the lids underneath the rug and performs a balancing act on top of them.
- Runs to her bedroom on three separate occasions to get a Kleenex and blow her 'boogies' (which are in abundance). Later I see that she has emptied the whole box and dispersed the tissues on her bed.
Gotta love the 'borderline' activities. It's like she was trying to think up anything she could do to see our reaction. I'm just glad to have my bouncy kid back!
I realize that these posts are soon to become less 'Rhya' oriented. This makes me excited and sad at the same time...my baby won't be my baby anymore!! However, we couldn't be more excited to expand our hearts to another love bug. :-) We settled on a name this week! Sorry, no clues.
I had to blow my nose but didn't want to wake her and wreck the accomplishment so I did my snot dispersal (excuse the disgusting mental picture) out in the garage. Is that paranoid? At least the cold air cleared me up.
When we finally achieved all night sleeping at 6 months I thought that nights would be clear sailing. Ha! Sleeping is such an art. It comes in all sorts of styles, depending on what's going on!!
We had chicken, potatoes, and corn bread for supper. Who do you think at the most? Me? Nope. My stomach is squished in some far away place behind the uterus. Nate? Probably. Rhya? Could very well be. She kept eating and eating and eating...and finally she did a HUGE deep breath, looked down at her tummy, and said, "tummy FULL". I don't know that she's had that much of a 'maxed out' belly feeling before. Hopefully that's another sign that she's on the mend.
I was reading my bible one morning when Rhya came in and pretended to give me something to drink. I figured out that she was trying to play meeting when she pretended to pick a piece off of her 'bread' and handed it to me. She's also been singing 'Tell Me the Story of Jesus' over and over. Her words aren't clear at all but she has the tune down pat.
This is a synopsis Rhya's activities while I was trying to make supper tonight:
- Open oven door. SLAM it shut - three times before she was told it was enough.
- Snag a stick of butter off of the counter. Unwrap it. I discover the project and put the stick on the counter. She proceeds to smear the wrapper all over the patio door and laugh her head off because Sakari is trying to lick it from the outside.
- Tell me that she HAS to go poopy ("poopy! poopy! poopy!"). I tell her to take her pants and diaper off and go do her business. A few minutes later I go to check on her. Cool! Poop in the potty chair! However, in her attempts to wipe her butt she unraveled the entire toilet paper roll. It had been almost full.
- Finds some straws and splashes around in the water bowl until Nate puts it outside.
- Sings various songs at the TOP of her lungs.
- Finds two pot lids and creates her own band. Then puts the lids underneath the rug and performs a balancing act on top of them.
- Runs to her bedroom on three separate occasions to get a Kleenex and blow her 'boogies' (which are in abundance). Later I see that she has emptied the whole box and dispersed the tissues on her bed.
Gotta love the 'borderline' activities. It's like she was trying to think up anything she could do to see our reaction. I'm just glad to have my bouncy kid back!
I realize that these posts are soon to become less 'Rhya' oriented. This makes me excited and sad at the same time...my baby won't be my baby anymore!! However, we couldn't be more excited to expand our hearts to another love bug. :-) We settled on a name this week! Sorry, no clues.
Do you think she'll look anything like Rhya?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
What is healthy?
We've been trying to recall what 'healthy' means for the past three weeks.
-First the whole family got a cold the end of January
- Next Mommy got a horrible ear ache and tried to treat it herself for 3 days before giving in and getting put on antibiotics (gasp)
- Next Nate and Rhya had a flu/puke day (last Sat)
- Rhya has been waking up multiple times every night screaming in pain. Fevers are part of the problem. Tylenol has been a common word lately (gasp #2)
- Rhya has had diarrhea for weeks so the phrase 'butt hurts!!' is fairly common!
- Rhya still has a major runny nose and congested sounding cough
- Mommy got another cold last week which heightened to a fever and frequent bathroom runs yesterday
What to do?!?!? I went to the health food store last week and bought garlic ear drops for Rhya's ears and probiotics to try to ramp up her gut health.
I took her to the chiro today and thankfully she doesn't have any ear infection, just a little red in one ear drum and fluid in the other. Her lymph nodes are 'going crazy' as Dr Katy said.
Rhya loved the chiro. She laid on the various beds like a champ and let the Dr check her all over. She even was fine with a light adjustment!
When I woke up with a fever and 'other issues' (hee) yesterday, I told Rhya that she could play by herself in the living room while Mommy 'slept' on the couch. She took full advantage and was actually very happy to get into every possible thing she could. The living room was virtually trashed in the two hours that I was 'out of it'!!
I had to intervene on two separate occasions: The first was when I suddenly realized that I hadn't heard her for a while, so plodded into the dining room to see her eating scoop fulls of honey on the floor. She was even being nice and sharing with Sakari.
The second was when I again suddenly wondered what the quietness was about and opened my eyes to see her with the Vaseline (used on crusty noses) container open, smearing the stuff ALL over her face, hands, hair, and feet. She was grinning from ear to ear. That's when the daycare kids girls walked in......
So...here we are...Tuesday Feb 14. 35 weeks pregnant. Valentines Day!!! Have a LOVELY day!
-First the whole family got a cold the end of January
- Next Mommy got a horrible ear ache and tried to treat it herself for 3 days before giving in and getting put on antibiotics (gasp)
- Next Nate and Rhya had a flu/puke day (last Sat)
- Rhya has been waking up multiple times every night screaming in pain. Fevers are part of the problem. Tylenol has been a common word lately (gasp #2)
- Rhya has had diarrhea for weeks so the phrase 'butt hurts!!' is fairly common!
- Rhya still has a major runny nose and congested sounding cough
- Mommy got another cold last week which heightened to a fever and frequent bathroom runs yesterday
What to do?!?!? I went to the health food store last week and bought garlic ear drops for Rhya's ears and probiotics to try to ramp up her gut health.
I took her to the chiro today and thankfully she doesn't have any ear infection, just a little red in one ear drum and fluid in the other. Her lymph nodes are 'going crazy' as Dr Katy said.
Rhya loved the chiro. She laid on the various beds like a champ and let the Dr check her all over. She even was fine with a light adjustment!
When I woke up with a fever and 'other issues' (hee) yesterday, I told Rhya that she could play by herself in the living room while Mommy 'slept' on the couch. She took full advantage and was actually very happy to get into every possible thing she could. The living room was virtually trashed in the two hours that I was 'out of it'!!
I had to intervene on two separate occasions: The first was when I suddenly realized that I hadn't heard her for a while, so plodded into the dining room to see her eating scoop fulls of honey on the floor. She was even being nice and sharing with Sakari.
The second was when I again suddenly wondered what the quietness was about and opened my eyes to see her with the Vaseline (used on crusty noses) container open, smearing the stuff ALL over her face, hands, hair, and feet. She was grinning from ear to ear. That's when the daycare kids girls walked in......
So...here we are...Tuesday Feb 14. 35 weeks pregnant. Valentines Day!!! Have a LOVELY day!
I don't have any recent pics, but here's on of Rhya one year ago!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Lookout Ridge Indoor Playground
This place is in Woodbury. It's awesome!! It's way bigger than what I expected. I brought Rhya and Jordan, and they didn't feel the need to keep track of me. I kept busy hefting my pregnant self through tunnels, shutes, slides, climby things, etc...
We met Amanda and Kylie there, so she also got a workout and she's due in one month! It was so fun to get out of the house and let the kids burn off steam.
Of course we burnt so much energy that a trip to Panera was in order afterwards!
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