Last day!

Today is the last day at the temp job. Yay! I'm so glad to be out of this place! One interview set up for tomorrow for a new job. Not holding out much hope for it, so I may be off work for the summer...

Cranky pants leads to no sleep

Argh. Today is one of those days that I wish I could crawl back into bed. Evie sleeps 11 hours at night...normally. I think she's got another ear infection (or two) and just didn't want to stay asleep last night. I was lucky to get 1 hr uninterrupted between wakings. Hopefully, after the Dr visit, she'll be feeling better today.

If she does have an ear infection, that will be two following teething episodes. Hmmm...cause and effect? We'll see. She's now officially got 5 teeth! Two on top and three on the bottom. She has also discovered how to grind her teeth, which is an awful noise. Anyone have any advice on how to get her to stop grinding her teeth together?

Update: No ear infections. Just pressure on the ear drums caused by the extremely stuffy nose caused by the teething. I'm really surprised it's not an ear infection. She's been tugging at the right ear all weekend. Treatment includes suctioning out the nose on a very frequent basis to lessen the pressure (and the risk it will turn into an infection). Oh, and she's over 20 lbs now!

Wordy Wednesday: Father's Day weekend

Practicing standing, and sticking out the tongue, with Daddy.

Boating with Grandpa.

Loving the watermelon!

Not quite loving the life jacket.

Waiting to see the bird show at the zoo with Daddy.

Goats!

Did not like the goat licking Daddy.

Loved the horses, didn't want to leave them. "Daddy, I want a pony for Christmas!"

Wanted to crawl into the pen with the real piglets, did NOT want to pose for a picture with the fake piglets.

Walking around the zoo with Grandpa.

Swimming in the new suit with Daddy.


This weekend was great. We mostly just spend the weekend as a family, hanging out in Forest Lake and at the Minnesota Zoo. Very relaxing!

Proof the teeth exist

I've talked about the fact that Evie has teeth, but some of you have yet to see that. Most of the time she smiles without showing them off. Yesterday I finally caught them on film! For your viewing pleasure, I give you TEETH:

Can anyone tell me...are we supposed to start brushing them now? Seems odd to be brushing the teeth of a 10 month old, but I guess they still need to be protected like any other teeth.

Wordless Wednesday: Swim time!

10 months old

Agh! Where has the time gone? Yes, I say this every time, I know. I was looking at Evie while she ate pancakes and strawberries for breakfast this morning and realized her highchair no longer swallows her up. She’s getting so big. We’re actually into size 4 diapers this week.

What she’s been up to developmentally:

Speaking of eating, she'll eat anything and everything (except fresh bananas). Most of the time I just give her smaller bites of whatever I'm having. She loves to feed herself. We're mostly off of baby food and she's at 4 bottles a day and 3 meals. Still can't get her to use a sippy cup, but we keep trying.

She’s still not crawling but we’re getting closer each day. She could scoot backwards forever and I’ve seen her go forward once. She can get herself onto hands and knees now, but doesn’t know what to do once she gets there. She’ll turn in circles and flip herself over, especially when she’s supposed to be sleeping. The crib seems to be the favorite place to practice any tummy techniques lately.

She’s still talking up a storm. Non-stop chatter most of the time she’s awake. In public places it takes her a bit to warm up, but once she’s comfortable off she’ll go. She’s saying Dada, Mama, Ya, No and infrequently throwing in Hi and Bye. Vigorous head shaking accompanies No and hand waving goes with Hi and Bye. She’s also sticking her tongue out (while blowing raspberries) and clicking her tongue.

She loves to clap and throw her hands up for ‘how big’. She’s learned to anticipate the praise for doing something and will start clapping for herself before you get a chance to do it. For example: You ask her how big she is and she’ll throw her hands in the air for .2 seconds then pull them down and start clapping while saying yay.

Last night was the first night of swim lessons for her. I was slightly worried about how this would go over. She’s been in the pool once before and she looked terrified. She was only happy clinging to me. But last night she did great. All smiles from the moment we hit the water until we got out. She was one of the youngest there and was the loudest, most splashing of the group. She was fearless. We did this thing where we threw balls a few feet in front of us and had the babies “swim” to get the ball. She laid out flat on her tummy, stretched out her hands, and kicked her feet until we got to the ball. Lol, the kid’s a natural. They also had these things they called torpedoes. Basically two noodles joined together with a bit of meshing between them. Evie laid belly down on the mesh, put her hands up on the noodles to keep her head mostly out of the water, and kicked her legs while we moved about the pool. She was even putting her face into the water from time to time. Can’t wait to go back next week!

Another round of teething

Looks like Evie is going to have another tooth break through any day now. I can see it off to the right of her front two teeth on the bottom. She's cranky as can be and started in with a fever this morning. Hopefully it's through soon!

Also, tonight is the start of swim lessons! Be prepared for a swim suit wordless Wednesday this week!

**I just realized the old blog background was covered in snowflakes! It was time to update, so I did :-)

24 weeks

The week of viability. I don't know why I worry so much about getting to this point but I do, and I'm glad it has come. The baby would have a 50% survival rate if born this week, and with each week more spent safely inside the survival rate jumps dramatically. Here's a belly pic taken yesterday:

Wordless Wednesday: Swingin'

My camera batteries died on this trip to the park so we only ended up with a few pictures, and sadly, I haven't recharged the camera batteries yet...I'll have to get on that today.

Rib pain

I have officially entered the rib expansion stage of pregnancy. This was one phase no one ever told me about and I just had to learn first hand with Evie. While I was pregnant with her my ribs expanded 4 inches over a fairly short period of time (I want to say around 2 weeks or less). During that time I was uncomfortable all day long, wishing somehow I could bind my ribs. A corset seemed like a good idea, lol. It got to the point where I did actually tie something around my ribs just to ease the expansion pain. I'm now officially there again this time around. Also doesn't help that this little one finds my ribs to be the perfect place for tap dancing!

Wordless Wednesday: Puppies and the park

22 weeks

Another appointment with Fern for me and the newest little one (still un-named). Weight gain in check, heart beat at 148, measuring right on. Appointments in the second trimester, aside from the ultrasound appointment, are fairly boring. Normally just includes a weight, blood pressure, fundal height, and baby's heart rate checks. Some time thrown in there for a little Q & A, then I'm out. Everything's still perfect and measuring right on. The next appointment is my 1-hour glucose test and my first cervix check this pregnancy. Until then, this yet to be named baby boy is kicking stronger and more frequently every day.

Only 4 months left!