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wow... sometimes time goes by rather quickly.
we are up to 3 meals a day and down to nursing about 5 times a day. we have some semblence of a schedule, too! we still sleep through the night (thank goodness), and we have mastered rolling around. sometimes we even get up on our hands and knees and rock back and forth.
we love elmo. he's so funny! and we still love stupid songs. our favorite: "cuz she loves stupid songs, and we sing stupid songs, she's a stupid-song-loving baby!" oh yeah, that's right.
enjoy the pix.
i am so confused. i went to syren's blog today and saw she's pissed at cygnus. he commented something on her blog and it upset her. i feel what he said was weird, and kind of stupid, but didn't really think it warranted the onslaught of horrid response it received.
i'm guessing there's more to it that i don't know about. as it reads, there's hypocrisy. but giving benefit of the doubt makes me feel better about people i have typically respected for their open-mindedness not appearing so open-minded in this scenario.
baby pix to follow.
hello there... we have no pix to post as we were too lazy to take any, but we met up with a bunch of OTers and if you check out THEIR blogs and such, you might see a cq and an alex. :)we had a great time... wish we could've hung around more, but you know... drinking in a hotel room isn't really for babies. lol! we would've gone to the zoo, though! we didn't know about it! :( oh, well. we still got to meet up with everyone and that was great fun. i hope everyone had a good time and i look forward to the next peep meet!
today, i am totally hating on breastfeeding.bad idea. never should've done it.the benefits can't possibly outweigh the bad.alex won't take a bottle at all. and my current plan (plan b) is to just let her scream her head off all day when she goes to daycare in september. not my problem. i don't have to listen to it. i just have to suffer all night long as she makes up for lost time during the days. whatever. sounds easier than plan a, which was to try easing her into a bottle. i feel like breastfeeding was a big huge idiotic mistake. i wasn't breastfed. nobody i know was breastfed, in fact, and they're all fine. what's the point of this? all it has done so far is put tons and tons of the responsibility on my shoulders. responsibility to eat right, keep not smoking, not drink alcohol, etc. responsibility to get up with her at night the first three months. responsibility to be the one she looks for whever she's hungry (which feels like it's a million times a day).sure, it's convenient. no need to carry anything with us. i usually throw a diaper in my purse and that's about it. but come ON. this isn't fair.and now that we've already ruined it (she *used* to take a bottle when she was 2 months, and now just refuses), it's too late. i'm stuck breastfeeding because she won't eat otherwise. and we have no plan because i absolutely MUST work come september. i can't just stay home with her or else i would. and i wouldn't even care about this breastfeeding issue.i get no help, here, either. J's ridiculous excuse for not giving her a bottle up until now was that he just wanted to hold her, not hold her for a *purpose*. now his excuse is that she won't ever need a bottle during the day, and that's the only time he's home to do it. whatever. she won't take it from me, and he's no help, so any future kids are very likely just not going to be breastfed at all. i can't do *everything* all by myself.
The best good big brother holds his sister for the first time. We all went to the zoo earlier that day, 3 adults, two children. It was very nice to be in the same place at the same time, but also to get along and act like friends. What a day! Will wanted to show Alex all of the animals, but she mostly slept. Her first trip to the zoo and she didn't see a single animal! But we had fun, and Will is going to start spending the night next week! Alex adores Will... gets all excited and kicks when he talks to her... and Will loves babies. He's been asking his mom if they can have a baby at their house, too. LOL!
Alex asleep Memorial Day weekend at a BBQ by the Erie Canal. Yup, she rocks. This picture was posted specifically with the intent to feed weltek's "maybe I do want one" inner child. {eg}
Alex is 3 months old today! And has now been sleeping through the night for over a week! :)
i know this post is going to be a total jinx, but i'm so happy i have to brag! my little girl has slept 3 nights in a row all night long! 7 - 8 hours! it's so beautiful to sleep all night without being woken up for feedings... yay! here's a sleepy baby pic just to celebrate!
not me. alex. i worked thursday night (i was gone a total of 4 hours. i subbed a 3-hour SAT class.) and alex basically starved herself until she couldn't stand it any more, and then =finally= caved in to the bottle.so J says we should alternate breast and bottle because she was so bad at taking the bottle. (weird... about a month ago I left her with a bottle for even longer and she was absolutely fine)so i'm sitting down to the hockey game. she is getting fussy and probably hungry. i make her a bottle.she *hates* it. she gagged on it and spit it out for half an hour before I finally gave up and just nursed her.HOW am I supposed to believe this kid is ever going to be ready to go to daycare all day in another three months?and now, back to watching the highlights of that sweet ass sabres win. wow.
everybody loves the bathtub picture...
tagged by puffy...Reveal six weird facts/things/habits about yourself...1. I still have flannel sheets on my bed.2. In kindergarten, my IQ was 156.3. I lock the baby in the car when I pump gas.4. I wanted to be a pediatrician when I grew up.5. I don't like pets.6. I make lists for everything.
so alex, J, and I drove 6 hours sunday morning to be at my parents' for a palm sunday gathering. my mom's aunt and uncle and cousins were there. the latter also had their kids in tow. a total of 5 between the 2 of them.it was nice. everyone was good... their kids got so big! we inherited six bags of clothes and two bags of shoes since the youngest girl is almost 2 now (and they're not having any more children --> tubes tied). i sorted through the clothes and put most of them away in my mom's attic for later. everyone of course loved alex. i'm not sure if she's moved into a stage of being more awake, or if she was just in unfamiliar surrounding, but she barely slept while everyone was around. even after having slept all day in the car and being awake all evening, she had a pretty good night. she slept with us in the guest room bed. she didn't want my mom's pack n play (leftover from my younger sister), so we just let her sleep with us. she got up twice, which was normal, and went back to sleep right after each feeding.on the way back, yesterday (that's right... we drove down and spent one night. we left at noon to come home), she slept the entire way again. good baby. i mean we woke her up halfway each trip to change and feed her, but other than that, she just slept.now i want to live in the car. it seems to make babies sleep very well. so maybe i'll move out there each night so she will sleep the whole night.
wow... sometimes time goes by rather quickly.
